How to Get Rich After Destroying the USSR

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  • @SideQuestYT
    @SideQuestYT  2 роки тому +101

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    • @LightxHeaven
      @LightxHeaven 2 роки тому +4

      Surely this very generous offer is only possible due to getting rich after destroying the USSR? :D

    • @Voloxim
      @Voloxim 2 роки тому +1

      I was literally waiting for you to upload today! Tysm!

    • @It_is_I_Rogal_Dorn
      @It_is_I_Rogal_Dorn 2 роки тому +1

      Nice to hear you back in your videos and not having the ad for Q playing

    • @robsonwilianwinchester9726
      @robsonwilianwinchester9726 2 роки тому

      #ideiasradicais #ancapsu #chinauncensored #serpentza #cmilk #中国人 #中国 #西经平 !!!!!

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 2 роки тому

      @@LightxHeaven when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

  • @tekuaniaakab2050
    @tekuaniaakab2050 2 роки тому +1779

    Gorbachev basically being an advertisement supermodel for companies trying to get into the eastern market is both surprising and not surprising at all

    • @julianusvictor327
      @julianusvictor327 2 роки тому +72

      Ikr that pizza hut ad was just, surreal.

    • @boomburst8031
      @boomburst8031 2 роки тому

      @@julianusvictor327 nah man, if anything can covince a commie it's a pizza.

    • @OrangeFawkes
      @OrangeFawkes 2 роки тому +13

      Heil Gorbachev!

    • @patrickshea5955
      @patrickshea5955 2 роки тому

      Well I mean what do you expect? Did you wanted to bring an end to the horrible century of communism.

    • @stevengreen9536
      @stevengreen9536 2 роки тому +4

      @tekuaniaakab Almost anything is better than being broke.

  • @TwoBears1325
    @TwoBears1325 2 роки тому +742

    There was a much more interesting story of getting rich in Russia like how Yeltsin stole 10% of the economy and gave it all to his friends under the guise of the „free market“

    • @firdausariff
      @firdausariff 2 роки тому +89

      I was expecting this particular story actually 😂

    • @Ttegegg
      @Ttegegg 2 роки тому +10

      @@firdausariff yea me too. Ecconomic explain that everyone (expect government officials) have no capital. You can see where this is going

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 2 роки тому

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

    • @Ghboy2
      @Ghboy2 2 роки тому

      The Mabetex affair was so drenched in corruption that even the Russian State Duma told Yeltsin to tone it.

    • @jakesmall8875
      @jakesmall8875 2 роки тому

      Putin stole half the economy

  • @tessat338
    @tessat338 2 роки тому +298

    I was taking a class at university called "Politics of the Soviet Union" in 1986 when everything started to crumble and there was a coup attempt against Gorbachev. We were assigned the roles of different members of the Politburo and had to research them and their careers. I was the editor of Pravda. On the day we were supposed to have our Party Congress, the guy portraying Gorbachev didn't show up for class. We were all wondering what was going on, if someone had taken things a little TOO seriously. He showed up in the last 10 minutes, very upset because he'd had car trouble and let down because there wasn't enough time for him to give his prepared speech.

    • @vanthomias5538
      @vanthomias5538 2 роки тому +16

      I am not a Conspiracy Theorist, but a "car trouble"...?

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 2 роки тому +28

      @@vanthomias5538 I know! That's how we all felt at the time! But it was a rainy day and he was coming to campus on the Beltway.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 2 роки тому +2

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

    • @vanthomias5538
      @vanthomias5538 2 роки тому +7

      @@carkawalakhatulistiwa what

    • @thomasdracup8403
      @thomasdracup8403 2 роки тому +9

      @@vanthomias5538 this guy keeps copy pasting this same comment under every comment thread. I honestly don’t understand what he’s saying.

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 2 роки тому +1995

    The people cheering for Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut commercial were all of the 0.5% who voted for him.

    • @tunahxushi4669
      @tunahxushi4669 2 роки тому +165

      Hey, that is still 1 million people... Enough to fill Pizza Hut.

    • @S_Warden
      @S_Warden 2 роки тому +34

      Also feels creepy asf

    • @josefstrauss9017
      @josefstrauss9017 2 роки тому +67

      @@S_Warden I thought it was hella funny ngl

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 2 роки тому +1

      Tankies and ultranationalists will have to cope. Boris Yelsin was more responsible for destroying Russian democracy and handing Russia to Putin, oligarchs, and corruption.

    • @goblinking9824
      @goblinking9824 2 роки тому +1

      80% of the population didn't want the Soviet Union to dissolve, but the Bougoise controlled the government and decided to dissolve it, sell the factories, and get rich while leaving the broken countries in shambles.

  • @eujinvittoria1078
    @eujinvittoria1078 2 роки тому +1048

    I thought you we’re gonna talk about how the oligarchs pillaged the rest of the Soviet economy but it’s ok 👍

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki 2 роки тому +30

      If something belongs to everyone, it belongs to noone

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 2 роки тому +244

      @@rafradeki "Throwing buzzword proverbs is not an argument, m8"
      -Julius Caesar before the battle of Stalingrad

    • @senpai8435
      @senpai8435 2 роки тому +57

      Oligarchs were the vermin eating the remaining corpse, the one responsible for the corpse was gorba.

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki 2 роки тому +8

      @@missk1697 This was the train of thought of russian oligarchs after USSR collapsed

    • @ernstschmidt4725
      @ernstschmidt4725 2 роки тому +1

      How to Get even more Rich After Destroying the USSR

  • @frisianmouve
    @frisianmouve 2 роки тому +572

    I thought this was going to be about a few oligarchs cheaply buying up the majority of previously state owned industry

    • @crazydinosaur8945
      @crazydinosaur8945 2 роки тому +21

      same

    • @Pancasilaist8752
      @Pancasilaist8752 2 роки тому +56

      With the Russian oligarchs so influential in Russian politics today, I am surprised that there are still many communists who support Russia.

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 2 роки тому

      @@Pancasilaist8752 They don't have political influence. They are subject to Putin's whims.

    • @userwsyz
      @userwsyz 2 роки тому

      He means how Gorby destroyed ussr then to become rich.

    • @kierangorman3052
      @kierangorman3052 2 роки тому

      @@Pancasilaist8752 A lot of authoritarian leftists just like anything that opposes the US, plus Putin manages to keep the communist party of Russia on side as controlled opposition through Kremlin-funding and giving them a few Provinces to govern. There's also the Russian Federation's alliance with China to consider, which many Leninists and Maoists view as the legitimate leader of the global left, making the former country appear at least tolerant of communism in the eyes of some.

  • @MietoK
    @MietoK 2 роки тому +161

    Small detail that surely doesn’t matter that much but didn’t Yeltsin sign the dissolution (Belovezh Accords)? Gorbachev just ceded power as the Russia and other countries had already left at that time so he was “King Nothing” with no power at all.

    • @advisorynotice
      @advisorynotice 2 роки тому +24

      Not a small detail. You're right.

    • @TheEnergeticPanda
      @TheEnergeticPanda 2 роки тому +4

      @@advisorynotice it is a small detail really. Yeltsin may have signed the paper but it was Gorbachev's pen. Gorbachev was effectively the one who signed it due to his actions, even if he wasn't literally the one who signed it

    • @ADogNamedStay
      @ADogNamedStay 2 роки тому +6

      @@TheEnergeticPanda no, they were the heads of two different principalities one just a teir above the other. Ussr is comparable to Canada, US, and Mexico forming a union under the same principles that the United States is.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 2 роки тому

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

  • @locomotivefaox
    @locomotivefaox 2 роки тому +171

    Becoming an oligarch was the best decision I ever had in the 90s.
    Among... other... things.

    • @tylerclayton6081
      @tylerclayton6081 2 роки тому +12

      I decided to become an oligarch in the 2010’s. Great decision. 10/10 would recommend

    • @georgyekimov4577
      @georgyekimov4577 Рік тому

      @@tylerclayton6081 nah bro being one in the 90s was different
      now you can sit at the table but cant take stuff home

    • @nexor7809
      @nexor7809 Рік тому

      the other best decision you mean was becoming a furry?

  • @cocacola4blood365
    @cocacola4blood365 2 роки тому +193

    When a ruler of a nation has to look for work once they retire, you know things are bad.

    • @silverdeathgamer2907
      @silverdeathgamer2907 2 роки тому

      I mean usually they do paid speeches, lobbying, just get paid to attend functions, hang around with elites etc. Like Boris Johnson for example recently got paid very well for doing a few speeches, Obama did the same once his second term ended.

    • @kavky
      @kavky 2 роки тому +41

      No, that is how things should be. Why should we be paying outrageously high pensions for bureaucrats who aren't working anymore?

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 2 роки тому +38

      @@kavky Because you don't want sale of the government to become and income stream like with Yelsin and Putin. And the US had a ex-President live in poverty before the pension system was set up.

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT 2 роки тому

      @@kavky Because they have immense influence and power and could be easily bought to sponsor your favouriteTM dictator?

    • @Hangman11
      @Hangman11 2 роки тому

      @@richardarriaga6271 The number one thing against corruption is paying the politicians whether they're corrupt or not lol. Fucked up world

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 2 роки тому +429

    Thank you for this helpful guide. I will now reform and later destroy the Soviet Union in order to make this dream a reality

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 2 роки тому +7

      USSR system was doomed. Too hard to change and wrong incentives to succeed. There is a reason Russian has a word for lying and you both know you're lying and accept it.

    • @SiPakRubah
      @SiPakRubah 2 роки тому +1

      This video gave a good reason why USSR was doomed in the first place. They probably should've follow what China did without dissolving their country
      ua-cam.com/video/43ptxFx-CRM/v-deo.html

    • @sebastienholmes548
      @sebastienholmes548 2 роки тому

      Based

  • @BlakeTheDrake
    @BlakeTheDrake 2 роки тому +270

    The self-own at 2:27 was funny enough that I feel compelled to forgive the channel for actually making me *buy* one of those silly things, literally days before the big scandal broke. No, really - it was that add in the 'How to Become a Medieval Aristocrat' video that convinced me that a noble title would make an amusing gift for my nephew...
    Ah well, I managed to get a refund, and a spot of humorous self-awareness goes a long way, so have a Like as a token of reconciliation!

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 2 роки тому +2

      That's a sweet looking dragon in your pfp. What do you think of my idea to have a pet dragon that spews out a raging blizzard instead of fire?

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 2 роки тому +5

      @@darksu6947 you may struggle to find that pet
      If you’re writing a story you should consider some of the physical constraints. (Don’t need to flaunt them in the story)
      Energy is not destroyed therefore heat must be conserved, this means that blizzard or freezing breath requires heat be removed from the gas to be exhaled. Unlike a chemical reaction this must occur internally due to taking more time (fire breathing dragons should have fire begin externally)
      This should make the dragon warmer than normal with cold patches where the blizzard is produced, this could involve systems a radiating refine and ridges to lose heat, less insulation or a colder climate (though colder climate animals it’d hunt would be more resistant to the cold)
      Hope these are some interesting design considerations for you

    • @mortified776
      @mortified776 2 роки тому

      @@chrissmith3587 What about an exhalation of compressed air from a cavity in a deep muscular chest? That produces both a powerful blast effect and temperatures cold enough to instantaneously freeze flesh. I can attest to that first hand. Specifically, my left hand.

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 2 роки тому

      @@mortified776 ouch sounds painful
      That would work as a reason why the breath is cold, this would require compression in the body which would still produce heat, although you would only notice cold spots after the exhalation
      Compression often uses multiple compressors to improve efficiency, this could be translated into your dragon through a multi chamber storage and compression system with potentially up to 3 chambers (one storage, one low to medium pressure, one medium to high pressure)
      This would allow for differences between species as some dragons could lack chambers reducing functionality
      As temperature and pressure drops across across a choke this is effectively what occurs at the point of exhalation.
      Edit/correction : had to remove initial conclusions as think I was wrong
      This would increase the velocity and therefore kinetic energy. I believe the colder (more choked) strike would hit harder assuming striking at one point.
      A good place to look at from here is convergent divergent nozzles in rocket engine and how you could design your dragons to use this
      Basically thermodynamics is really hard and you get away with a lot if you base the designs and power levels on existing equipment
      If you want any other dragon ideas look at how vortexes can carry light materials, there’s a few aggressive possible uses for that

  • @sirnikkel6746
    @sirnikkel6746 2 роки тому +195

    From being sponsored by the scam of Established Titles to admitting what you have done at 2:26 is a golden move.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX 2 роки тому +14

      i mean its like jake tran, they know its a scam, just doing the sigma grind set and doesn't bother to hide anything
      Id say still more respectable than those so called "scam" advisor youtubers like fucking mudahar who constantly claims moral high ground and still does exact things like this, just hypocrites.

    • @Novaerian
      @Novaerian 2 роки тому

      It's not a scam, see here: ua-cam.com/video/nIjkACB2Xqk/v-deo.html&ab_channel=FactFiend

    • @tunahxushi4669
      @tunahxushi4669 2 роки тому +1

      How much does the scam of Established Titles pay? Some of these channels reach hundreds of thousands of people just curious what the rate is for selling snake oil these days...

    • @sirnikkel6746
      @sirnikkel6746 2 роки тому +3

      @@tunahxushi4669 400 ShillBucks

    • @Hideyoshi1991
      @Hideyoshi1991 2 роки тому +14

      @@NeostormXLMAX its a gag gift with some misleading advertising, the only seriously questionable claim they made was that you'd be recognized as a lord in Scotland.

  • @Seraph.G
    @Seraph.G 2 роки тому +58

    The way the USSR was destroyed really makes you understand why many people who lived under it before the dissolution remain so loyal to it

    • @bruhbruh-us6gl
      @bruhbruh-us6gl 2 роки тому +9

      And why they're so loyal to Putin, for that matter.

    • @sebastienholmes548
      @sebastienholmes548 2 роки тому +2

      Stockholm syndrome is a powerful thing.

    • @tamalepapi4692
      @tamalepapi4692 Рік тому

      That’s what happens when you have a shitty economic system to begin with

    • @ricechido1089
      @ricechido1089 Рік тому

      Same reason why many individuals in America's are so loyal to officials whom run to enrich themselves while on backs of their constituents

    • @russiannatcon
      @russiannatcon 11 місяців тому +4

      As a resident of Russia, I can say that the USSR was a terrible, disgusting cesspool that collapsed due to a whole range of reasons not mentioned in this video.

  • @xanderbg1
    @xanderbg1 2 роки тому +22

    And here I am sitting and thinking that this would be a video about curruption, currupted privatization, oligarchs in the making, Russian mafia and its former-USSR-state / KGB background.

  • @Stop_Gooning
    @Stop_Gooning 2 роки тому +11

    That feeling when your computer says you have a 50Mb/s Internet connection, but can't load a UA-cam video....

  • @JamesTM
    @JamesTM 2 роки тому +93

    The self-deprecating dig at Established Titles was a phenomenal touch. A actually laughed out loud.
    And good on you for acknowledging that mistake. I hope you find some great (ethical) sponsors going forward and make lots of money for producing your excellent content!

    • @DatcleanMochaJo
      @DatcleanMochaJo 2 роки тому +6

      If you genuinely thought Established titles was not a scam before everyone started calling it one you aren't any brighter

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 2 роки тому +12

      VPN companies are a bit better. Their product is at least genuine, though many resort to scare tactics and blatant lies in their advertising. Buy our product or the hackers will get you!

    • @ryuunosuk3
      @ryuunosuk3 5 місяців тому

      Betterhelp.

    • @JamesTM
      @JamesTM 5 місяців тому

      @@ryuunosuk3 Yeah. They did not, in fact, find ethical sponsors going forward. :(

  • @pre0wned
    @pre0wned 2 роки тому +10

    Loved the self poke on the check at 2:27!

  • @annach109
    @annach109 2 роки тому +44

    I thought this video would cover how western companies and the west in general made bank on the dissolution of the USSR.

  • @igorlech9922
    @igorlech9922 2 роки тому +251

    As eastern european I can confirm this is one of many reasons why we love Gorbachev

    • @silesiaball9505
      @silesiaball9505 2 роки тому +10

      ZA GARBACZOWA!

    • @snomcultist189
      @snomcultist189 2 роки тому +16

      Itsa Gorbachev!
      -random Russian Pizza Hut enjoyer

    • @beburs
      @beburs 2 роки тому

      @@silesiaball9505 he destroyed you,living standards used to be higher before him,this is a statistical fact.

    • @silesiaball9505
      @silesiaball9505 2 роки тому +1

      @@beburs I'm not Russian XD

    • @beburs
      @beburs 2 роки тому +15

      @@silesiaball9505 your country was destroyed more than Russia though,look at the data of your country’s population and manufacturing,they both collapsed

  • @josephlieberman8295
    @josephlieberman8295 2 роки тому +5

    Ah yes, show a tone deaf ad for Pizza Hut followed immediately by a tone deaf ad read for a VPN. The system works.

  • @mathy4605
    @mathy4605 2 роки тому +27

    lol that Established Titles reference

    • @ianchristmas
      @ianchristmas 2 роки тому +1

      Same here. I laughed out loud at that bit.

  • @grandcommander1140
    @grandcommander1140 2 роки тому +16

    Truly; this is a criminally underrated Channel . . . You deserve at least a mil or two subs
    Best of luck too you friend !

  • @herzog1857
    @herzog1857 2 роки тому +7

    That Pizza Hut ad is all the worst of Soviet Russia and the US rolled into one.

  • @Purdé2749
    @Purdé2749 2 роки тому +30

    Oligarchs are the ones who were close to the leaders then, so when the privatisation was taking place they were (oligarchs) a priority..

    • @Redpilled_Retribution
      @Redpilled_Retribution 2 роки тому +2

      Abramovich was a nobody in the beginning

    • @Ocelot835
      @Ocelot835 2 роки тому

      Well, It was Gorbachev poorly managed economical reforms that created them in the first place. Yeltsin only cemented their power over politics with his "shock therapy"

  • @RUTHLESSACADEMY
    @RUTHLESSACADEMY 2 роки тому +6

    Gorbachev wasn't a premier of USSR, he was the last general secretary of KPSS and the first ever president of USSR.

  • @stuartkirkbride7363
    @stuartkirkbride7363 2 роки тому +40

    Finally a how-to that I can actually incorporate into my daily life

  • @KuldarJ
    @KuldarJ 2 роки тому +29

    SideQuest could you make a video how to get/make a Tardis at home, so we could actually try these "history tips" out

  • @figgehn_
    @figgehn_ Рік тому +1

    In sweden we have a microwave pierogi called gorby, named after Gorby... and a Pan pizza called Billys, named after clinton

  • @maksiksq
    @maksiksq 2 роки тому +76

    4:32 as a Ukrainian when they started saying "за Горбачова" I started laughing so hard that my brother thought I started choking

  • @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil
    @RepublicaSindicalista_doBrasil 2 дні тому +2

    5:19. Dammit. I actually want to know why he could criticise the government.

  • @jakubLonghorn
    @jakubLonghorn Рік тому +1

    That pivot to the advertisement was a master class

  • @bobbyferg9173
    @bobbyferg9173 2 роки тому +12

    For some reason I thought Gorbachev died awhile ago, not the summer of this year.
    I guess that goes to show that the decline from final leader of the Soviet Union to Pizza Hut commercials to now was a pretty significant decline

  • @nyguesswho
    @nyguesswho День тому

    A lot of people don’t realize, that commercial was where oversimplified got the “all hail Gorbachev!” bit from. I can’t tell you how many times someone’s made the “hail Gorbachev” comment out in the wild, and someone will reply “oh yeah, haha, I saw that oversimplified episode, too!”

  • @moralfuxery
    @moralfuxery 2 роки тому +19

    Holy shit. Is that Pizza Hit commercial real? That feels like a glitch in the matrix.

  • @seangleason260
    @seangleason260 Рік тому +16

    It had to be incredibly soul crushing to go from the head of the USSR to shilling for pizza hut

  • @mangogo44
    @mangogo44 2 роки тому +4

    I'm from Russia and I've never even HEARD of Gorbachiov making ads. Wow

    • @wederMaxim
      @wederMaxim 2 роки тому

      Не верю. Просто не верю. Особенно в свете последних событий.

  • @mrabintom
    @mrabintom 2 роки тому +12

    One of the best UA-cam channels that puts out the best content. Barely recognised by anyone.

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher 2 роки тому +1

      Too bad they didn't address the scam sponsor they promoted until their last video

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher 2 роки тому

      @@jmoger yeah no, I was thinking something in the lines of "we made a mistake" and "don't buy from them" and more importantly "sorry we uploaded that sponsor, here's a reupload of the original video without the endorsement, so you don't fall into a scam like we did"

  • @midge_gender_solek3314
    @midge_gender_solek3314 2 роки тому +16

    He did a lot of bad stuff (ask Armenians or Lithuanians) but was unusually genuine and straightforward not just for a Central Comitee member, but for any major global politician of that era.

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING 2 роки тому +4

      What did he do to Armenians and Lithuanians?

    • @sztypettto
      @sztypettto 2 роки тому +4

      Here we go .... before someone pulls up the victim card they need to speak about their own actions first. A world where the police are shamed and defunded for arresting a person committing a crime is a world on a downward trajectory.

    • @gagamba9198
      @gagamba9198 2 роки тому +8

      @@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Sent in the troops and massacred protestors.

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING 2 роки тому +3

      @@sztypettto preach brother

    • @sztypettto
      @sztypettto 2 роки тому +4

      @@gagamba9198 , were those protestors destroying public property, breaking any laws, causing public disturbance, or inciting an environment for crime?

  • @thecrazymoon6578
    @thecrazymoon6578 2 роки тому +29

    Amazing. Super funny jokes 😂
    This is definitely quality over quantity.
    Keep up the great work!

  • @gunterxvoices4101
    @gunterxvoices4101 2 роки тому +14

    Thank you for making this video.

  • @vagpaithe3570
    @vagpaithe3570 2 роки тому +1

    great video as always

  • @escapingmediocrityhub
    @escapingmediocrityhub 2 роки тому +3

    Thank you for sharing your thoughtful content…for putting it out there with the passion that many of us need and strive for. I'm starting to listen to you almost every morning. Your voice and words feels real and genuine.
    I am grateful to have your channel as a source for having a better relationship with myself and the world around me.❤️❤️💥

  • @Vandal_Savage
    @Vandal_Savage 2 роки тому +5

    @3:57 they've got Mark Novack in the Pizza Hut advert! Well, he did say he wasn't always a gunsmith...

  • @maruku4445
    @maruku4445 2 роки тому +9

    As soon as you said Pizza Hut, I bursted out laughing. 🤣

  • @danlei88
    @danlei88 2 роки тому +6

    I appreciate the jab at Established titles sponsorship. This channel was the only place I even heard about it before it became youtube drama. Some channels have decided to donate all the sponsorship money to conservation/tree planting charities and I highly encourage you to consider this as well, if you really want to undo it in a sense.

  • @stomostudios6718
    @stomostudios6718 Рік тому

    Thanks for reminding me of the March of the 8th Guards Panfilov Division. (which played in the background the entire video)

  • @jbthestoner5504
    @jbthestoner5504 Рік тому +5

    That pizza hut commercial had to be one of the best I've ever seen

  • @DinoWinoSaur
    @DinoWinoSaur 2 роки тому +2

    Love this channel. Glad you're finally getting sponsorship!

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher 2 роки тому

      Too bad they didn't remove the Established Titles scam sponsor from the last video, or address the bluder at all. Shame on SideQuest.

    • @RelayXl
      @RelayXl Рік тому

      @@YagoStecher they did somewhat address it 2:27

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher Рік тому

      @@RelayXl yeah that's not addressing it. They should say: hey we dropped the ball, didn't check our sponsor, don't buy drom them, and also reupload the sponsored video having removed the sponsorship. The video is still there! People can still fall for it!

    • @RelayXl
      @RelayXl Рік тому

      @@YagoStecher yeah but Established titles are pulling out the sponsorship Link : ua-cam.com/video/dxLc8u7L2L4/v-deo.html

  • @martinmillar9116
    @martinmillar9116 Рік тому

    This channel doesnt release videos fast enough! Lol. They are brilliant.

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl 2 роки тому +6

    Thanks! This is just the instructional video we needed.

  • @Indlovu402
    @Indlovu402 8 місяців тому

    Gorby's skull has the same his distinctive birthmark😂

  • @Pravculear
    @Pravculear 2 роки тому +1

    hi sidequest!

  • @Divano-qw2sb
    @Divano-qw2sb 7 місяців тому

    He forgot the part about selling weapons from soviet arsenals to various dictators and warlords across the globe (every on is too busy to notice some missing kalashnikovs)

  • @TheCDGguy
    @TheCDGguy 11 місяців тому

    Bro went from controlling nukes to advertising pizza

  • @bantenglewat9799
    @bantenglewat9799 2 роки тому +40

    Hate him or love him but he always be a legend comrade no matter what you believe he always be the legend

    • @revolter7094
      @revolter7094 2 роки тому +2

      He is a legend for people who were the enemies of the post-USSR and for people who didn't live there. For people who lived after the collapse of the USSR ,he is the worst human being in their history and should be burning in hell.

    • @bantenglewat9799
      @bantenglewat9799 2 роки тому

      @@revolter7094 yes for the Russian people he is the one who sell their identity to the west for sure

    • @Tyrannitus
      @Tyrannitus 2 роки тому +10

      No

    • @randomguy2052
      @randomguy2052 2 роки тому +1

      Yes

    • @coolbasedgigachad6820
      @coolbasedgigachad6820 2 роки тому +10

      No

  • @florenmage
    @florenmage 2 роки тому +1

    That pizza hut commercial is hilarious.

  • @gagamba9198
    @gagamba9198 2 роки тому +1

    The failure was a feature. Some things take a while to reveal themselves. In the USSR's case, bankruptcy arrived in the late 1950s. Soviet workers were required to spend 1/12th of their annual income buying state bonds. In 1957, the state realised repayment of bonds coming due in the early 1960s would cost the state more than it would receive in mandatory bond purchases. Khrushchev decided a good idea would be for the Soviet workers to decline repayment as a display of patriotic gratitude. Hocus pocus, debt gone. Other leaders were uncertain. 'We'd better pitch this proposal to some actual workers to see what they think of it.' This was done. Workers hated it. They had been compelled to buy these bonds and they expected repayment. Oh-oh.
    Repayment was not cancelled. Instead, it was _postponed_ . The government stated repayment would resume in about 20 years. During which time no interest would be paid on this debt. New bonds would no longer be required to be bought.
    But without the income from the mandatory purchase of these bonds, there would be a shortfall of the funds the government needed. What to do?
    Gambling! The government re-introduced a lottery. Due to the gov't created consumer goods deficit, winners wanted overpriced yet tough to get items like cars rather than cash. It was wildly popular. And it allowed the government to kick the can down the road for a few more decades. Let someone else deal with the problem.

    • @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044
      @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Рік тому

      Kicking the can like the US $ debt ceiling that will have to be addressed
      It's usually economics that break nations, empires and individuals

  • @pogchimp3783
    @pogchimp3783 2 роки тому

    The day he died I put an online order to pizza hut with his name on the receipt, I still have a picture of it

  • @zachareeeee
    @zachareeeee Рік тому

    Is that Semeon Tchernetsky playing in the background?

  • @felixnilsson2440
    @felixnilsson2440 2 роки тому

    Two ads in a 7 minute long video -- well played sir, well played...

  • @CactusJackIV
    @CactusJackIV 2 роки тому +1

    Amazing videos! Keep up the kick ass work!!

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro 2 роки тому +1

      Shuv it man

    • @CactusJackIV
      @CactusJackIV 2 роки тому +1

      @@ShubhamMishrabro Slow Down Mark.

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro 2 роки тому +1

      @@CactusJackIV a wild slap nuts appears

    • @CactusJackIV
      @CactusJackIV 2 роки тому

      @@ShubhamMishrabro That's it, Mr User-yh4lt4cs4w, I'm goin' to go to North Carolina and tell my stoner friend Shannon all about you Mr User-man.

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro 2 роки тому +1

      @@CactusJackIV and I'm going to meet Jimmy rave so we can party

  • @BTNMNKI
    @BTNMNKI 2 роки тому

    Good stuff as always, but please lower the background music.

  • @blaine8197
    @blaine8197 8 місяців тому

    What’s the background song name?

  • @Aunuto
    @Aunuto 2 роки тому +1

    “Ferb! I know what we’re gonna do today!”

  • @visassess8607
    @visassess8607 2 роки тому

    Thanks, I needed this advice

  • @jakelynch5113
    @jakelynch5113 Рік тому

    that ad was pretty much "did somebody say KFC?"

  • @overlordupchuck
    @overlordupchuck 2 роки тому +1

    this video tied perfectly with history matters' channel's video today, like literally perfectly back to back viewing

  • @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
    @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan 2 роки тому +3

    Seriously though, how DID he survive?

  • @rext4607
    @rext4607 2 роки тому +2

    The self own makes you legendary

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Рік тому +1

    They probably tracked down the few people who voted for Gorbachev in 1996 and filled that pizza hut restaurant with them 😂

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 2 роки тому +16

    I am somewhat amazed that he did not just sold some secrets or old weapons to another country for some private cash.

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki 2 роки тому +11

      If not him, then someone else probably did it

    • @maple1234567890321
      @maple1234567890321 2 роки тому +9

      @@s0rtaananym nor biden

    • @organicleaf
      @organicleaf 2 роки тому +2

      or they got the scientists like with germany and the us after ww2

  • @kooolainebulger8117
    @kooolainebulger8117 Рік тому

    honestly didn't know he was still alive for so long

  • @michaelrae9599
    @michaelrae9599 2 роки тому +6

    Good to know that Gorbachev had a proactive web identity plan.

  • @silesiaball9505
    @silesiaball9505 2 роки тому +1

    Great video as always :)

  • @terranceaddison4599
    @terranceaddison4599 Рік тому

    That's one high quality commercial

  • @christianhumer3084
    @christianhumer3084 2 роки тому

    Russian Guys go from President to Showmen
    American Guys go from Showmen to President lol

  • @dannydacheedo1592
    @dannydacheedo1592 2 роки тому +1

    This channel answers the question I never knew I wanted to know.

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile 2 роки тому +3

    Now that’s how they Putin themselves in the right place.

  • @zengids
    @zengids 2 роки тому

    What is the backround music?

  • @jquest3329
    @jquest3329 Рік тому +1

    2-minute ad in a 7.5min video? y'all are getting out-of-hand

  • @whatsup3519
    @whatsup3519 2 роки тому +2

    please make a video about Counter culture of 60s,and the reason behind it?Why did it deviate towards free love ,LSD? What does this have to do with anti war protest?

  • @noytelinu
    @noytelinu 2 роки тому

    Yep. I remember the Pizza Hut ad. Back when I had optimism.

  • @zlatkaivanova265
    @zlatkaivanova265 2 роки тому

    Brilliant!

  • @ryanbaird2110
    @ryanbaird2110 2 роки тому +4

    Love your videos thank you for letting me vibe over a blunt listening too history

  • @eedobee
    @eedobee 5 днів тому

    2:13 Heggymoney??
    Hejemonie!

  • @persimmon93
    @persimmon93 2 роки тому +1

    Russia liberalized in 1991
    Kazakhstan: Look at me. I am the Soviet Union now.

  • @LLLeonn
    @LLLeonn 2 роки тому

    Nice video

  • @real9270
    @real9270 Рік тому

    I really want to know if he's seen the Youjo Senki movie

  • @meemstar2333
    @meemstar2333 2 роки тому +1

    i thought this one was going to be about russian oligarchs buying up all soviet state-owned enterprizes

  • @crossfire7474
    @crossfire7474 2 роки тому

    How to get rich after Pizza Hut destroyed itself? Move on to SnR New York Style Pizza.

  • @fridolfstor
    @fridolfstor Рік тому

    I noticed your voice is in a commercial for a card game

  • @aleattorium
    @aleattorium 2 роки тому

    This ad is implying that the VPN helped Gorbachev and that if is a safe product, even though for truly protection of privacy it is not safe at all

  • @Morskoy_Velican
    @Morskoy_Velican 2 роки тому +4

    You will love a man who, by mismanaging the country, erased your main competitor from the maps. For me, it's a bastard who ruined the country for which my great-grandfather died.

  • @Etelvinicius
    @Etelvinicius 2 роки тому

    A two minute ad on a seven minute video. Nice!

  • @stulog
    @stulog 2 роки тому +2

    Didn't he do a McDonald's ad too?

  • @raihly4048
    @raihly4048 2 роки тому

    How did he made 2 ads in one video?

  • @yaelgarcia459
    @yaelgarcia459 2 роки тому

    I had no idea he did commercials 🤣🤣

  • @killerroyale-_-5123
    @killerroyale-_-5123 2 роки тому +2

    You guys have amazing animation, great voice
    narration, the only issue I see with your videos is that
    the topics you make videos on are not really that
    exciting. I love the vibe the videos give but if you guys
    had more exiting major events or something fun like
    why did hitler use drugs in ww2, you too could have
    millions and millions of views . I would enjoy to see
    something maybe medieval like the Iron Maiden or the
    brass bull, something more edgy more exiting.

  • @AnAppleWithEyes
    @AnAppleWithEyes 2 роки тому +11

    You should do a piece on Henry Kissinger (who is 99, still alive, and just met with Putin)