Did the USSR Have Millionaires? (Short Animated Documentary)

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  • @Sulmor85
    @Sulmor85 3 роки тому +10275

    I fall for the "Just kidding" line every time

  • @pridelander06
    @pridelander06 3 роки тому +7060

    Stalin: "Sorry, babushka, I'm pretty strapped for cash!"
    Old woman: 😐

    • @lamotou4banana383
      @lamotou4banana383 3 роки тому +540

      Don't worry well get James Bissonnette

    • @thekaiseroftheeast3895
      @thekaiseroftheeast3895 3 роки тому +370

      That's not very cash money of you, comrade.

    • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
      @PremierCCGuyMMXVI 3 роки тому +278

      Bruh even the Soviet dictator was poor lol

    • @rockstepguy3524
      @rockstepguy3524 3 роки тому +348

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI More like "too rich to even bother about having money" lmao

    • @apalahartisebuahnama7684
      @apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 роки тому +112

      @@PremierCCGuyMMXVI in normal capitalistic democracy people bought power using their money to influence public election but in USSR only through the party you can elevate yourself.

  • @joermnyc
    @joermnyc 3 роки тому +4571

    Tarasov: “I’m a millionaire... in Rubles... time to flex on state TV... what could possibly go wrong?”

    • @RedLancerMoto
      @RedLancerMoto 3 роки тому +408

      In a communist country of all places...

    • @-argih
      @-argih 3 роки тому +316

      You can be a millionaire in Venezuela with ~ $5 usd right now

    • @shindari
      @shindari 3 роки тому +101

      @@-argih So I could literally take the thousand usd I have to my name, right now, and live like a freaking KING, in Venezuela??
      What am I waiting for?...

    • @AECcomputers
      @AECcomputers 3 роки тому +170

      @@shindari i cant tell if this is a joke or not

    • @TheFi0r3
      @TheFi0r3 3 роки тому +75

      @@shindari Nah, not any more as our prices have finally stabilized at around similar prices to first world countries, so 1000$ isn't going to make you live like a king, just a middle class dude in one of the most dangerous countries of the continent.
      However, given salaries are still single digits USDs a day or double digits a week, you could still get something like, an informal business up an running with that money (rent is also pretty cheap as real state is simply in shambles because most of the country is basically in ruins compared to a decade or two ago)

  • @hinababy624
    @hinababy624 3 роки тому +942

    You don’t have to be a millionaire to experience the life of the rich, you just need to have the right connections and everything will be handed down.

    • @pplayer666
      @pplayer666 3 роки тому +35

      The prime value in possessing wealth is the ability to have it inherited by the posterity.

    • @igorsmihailovs52
      @igorsmihailovs52 3 роки тому +5

      Mark Twain, "1M Pound Sterling Ticket". YASSS!

    • @angelb.823
      @angelb.823 Рік тому +17

      This is the realistic "power of frienship" in full effectiveness.

    • @thomasbravado
      @thomasbravado Рік тому

      Castro used to sleep with three new women per day. His soldiers would find them for him and bring them to him and he used to sleep with a new woman in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

    • @rapatacush3
      @rapatacush3 11 місяців тому +2

      Not the same

  • @NuggetInc
    @NuggetInc 3 роки тому +1092

    Stalin: " *helps old lady cross the road and wants to give her money but can't* "
    Also Stalin to his kid: "who?"

    • @Iason29
      @Iason29 3 роки тому +71

      Now we know why his daughter left him, she never got any pocket money

    • @ewadfe3705
      @ewadfe3705 3 роки тому +2

      @Igor Senkin the bourgeoise have neither of these 5 so shut up

    • @hrotha
      @hrotha 3 роки тому +10

      @Graf von Losinj Every single dog in a 200-mile radius is barking after reading this post

    • @LøvæFråNordn
      @LøvæFråNordn 3 роки тому +4

      The duality of man

    • @SouvenTudu1
      @SouvenTudu1 5 місяців тому

      😂

  • @Malvikins
    @Malvikins 3 роки тому +5103

    The disappearing of the minister during the credits is such a chilling touch.

    • @sail2byzantium
      @sail2byzantium 3 роки тому +261

      Stalin--greatest airbrusher of history ever!

    • @ellieadele3769
      @ellieadele3769 3 роки тому +173

      Well spotted I completely missed it.

    • @Kerriangel
      @Kerriangel 3 роки тому +142

      Comrade; I don’t feel so good...

    • @FirstNameLastName-ig2im
      @FirstNameLastName-ig2im 3 роки тому +208

      What minister? Where? What are you talking about?

    • @ellieadele3769
      @ellieadele3769 3 роки тому +12

      @@FirstNameLastName-ig2im rewatch the credits.

  • @Esure101
    @Esure101 3 роки тому +4487

    "And then fled to the UK"
    You said that like that'd be an issue for the KGB

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +330

      UK = Moscow West
      For the KGB & successors, it's just a longer commute.

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 роки тому +116

      There wasn’t much of a KGB left after there coup failed and the Union dissolved.

    • @_raresis5405
      @_raresis5405 3 роки тому +80

      after 89 it was out of reach, before 89 tho...

    • @kamanashiskar9203
      @kamanashiskar9203 3 роки тому +78

      @@CallieMasters5000 The UK is the millionaires' destination of their home country wants them in prison.

    • @resterdebout57
      @resterdebout57 3 роки тому +5

      Chepiga and Mishkin: well, no, but also yes

  • @DanielGalimidi
    @DanielGalimidi 3 роки тому +5051

    Everybody's saying how James Bisonette has so much money, but nobody's talking about the real oligarch here: Kelly Moneymaker.
    It's literally in the name, wake up sheeple!

    • @ecurewitz
      @ecurewitz 3 роки тому +241

      you mean it isn't Spinning Three Plates???

    • @somethingelse516
      @somethingelse516 3 роки тому +72

      The sheeple bit cracked me up

    • @davesy6969
      @davesy6969 3 роки тому +148

      It takes money to keep those 3 plates spinning.

    • @Killerbee4712
      @Killerbee4712 3 роки тому +55

      moe: exists

    • @ManfredBlasser
      @ManfredBlasser 3 роки тому +81

      they all conspired to get rid of Danny Maloney by "retiring" him

  • @samgamgee7384
    @samgamgee7384 3 роки тому +565

    One time Leonid Brezhnev's mother came to visit him in Moscow. He welcomed her into his fine apartments. He served her champagne and caviar. They rode about town in one of his Rolls Royces. He showed her his 100-car garage, all his cars, and all his masterpiece paintings. They took a Lamborghini to one of his many dachas outside the city. He invited her into the heated swimming pool, and then his chef served them a sumptuous gourmet dinner. As he tucked his beloved mother into a four-poster bed in a bedroom he had prepared just for her, she said, "But Leo, what if the communists come back?"

    • @AntonDDimov
      @AntonDDimov 2 роки тому +23

      For real

    • @cageybee7221
      @cageybee7221 2 роки тому +48

      leonid brezhnev was in power in the 1970's. Rolls Royce did not begin building cars until 2003. cool story bro.

    • @winnienguyen4420
      @winnienguyen4420 2 роки тому +20

      @@cageybee7221 not sure if that's a joke or your just stupid. Rolls-Royce was created in 1904 in Manchester, England. In fact Rolls-Royce was the only car company to successfully withstand the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Secondly Brezhnev was leader of the Soviet union from the 60's to the early 80's.

    • @Gothic7876
      @Gothic7876 2 роки тому +180

      @@cageybee7221 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost not real then according to you? First produced in 1906.

    • @Lena-1312
      @Lena-1312 2 роки тому +28

      @@winnienguyen4420 its a JOKE for Lenin's sake

  • @grim_2000
    @grim_2000 2 роки тому +73

    Tarasov wrote a book about his life.
    It's a pretty fun read. There he talks about his early businesses, inner workings of Soviet system, etc. There's a chapter about that first million too. Basically, his enterprise made too much profit & they couldn't really use it. So Artyom assigned himself a million rouble salary, and then paid taxes from it accordingly. Technically, that legalized his million. They were audited like crazy after that TV stunt (the host didn't plan to reveal his name, but Artyom voluntarily turned to the camera & said "my name is Artyom Tarasov"). Funnily enough, their records were perfect & precise to the dime (or kopeck, in this case).
    Reason for that was simple: his accountant was getting super nervous at the large amounts of money they had & became super paranoid not to be off, cause she was thinking _Is that even legal?_ and was afraid that she's gonna get arrested any day. IIRC they were doing mostly import-export at the time. However, Tarasov was involved in many endeavors. For example, prior to that, one of their first startups, that didn't get to live long, was something of a matchmaking service that would help people to find potential spouses/partners.
    They got an overwhelming amount of clientele, but were soon shut down by the government with multiple accusations that were just a bit short of propagating prostitution (or something like that).
    I don't know, if his book is available in English, but I definitely recommend it, especially if you want to better understand the later period of USSR (before the collapse). It's called _Millionaire: confessions of Russia's First Millionaire_

    • @dday881
      @dday881 Рік тому +1

      Awesome man, ill look at it

    • @CoolManCoolMan123
      @CoolManCoolMan123 Рік тому

      So Soviet Union was the birth place of the idea for tinder?

    • @z1npk798
      @z1npk798 4 місяці тому

      @@CoolManCoolMan123if you read the history or watch like we just watched then yes but technically they wouldn’t say so unless u did the research like we did just now

    • @hufficag
      @hufficag 4 місяці тому

      Funny how matchmaking apps are advertised everywhere when you read news articles now, with approval from the communis party because they want people to have more sex. I live in China.

  • @elshan581
    @elshan581 3 роки тому +2479

    It certainly did. My gradfather was in charge of most of silk factories in USSR, their job was to produce the demanded amount of silk annually, and if you managed to outproduce the demand you would be left with bunch of materials that you can sell to government (indirectly and sometimes unofficially). And when other owners of silk factories weren't able to meet the demand( which in USSR meant that if you can't produce the demand you are corrupted and will be sentenced to jail) they would simply buy from my Grandfather. To hide the wealth he bought a lot of homes and cars but almost none of them were "officially" bought by him. And to not arouse suspicious the documents said that 1 mansion was owned by 3 or more people since at that time you were not allowed to own such a big home. He used to tell me stories about how KGB agents were bothering them every 2 weeks about why there is a such a big mansion in a small village and everytime they showed the documents of multiple people owning the mansion, they would eventually stop having suspicions. There were actually lots of tricks he told me but unfortunately I can't mention all of them

    • @thedwightguy
      @thedwightguy 3 роки тому +242

      Kind of like China when my mother-in-law was busy collecting "licensing fees" for her husbands' name on the idea. And the $$$ went to his friends in Japan. He did his eight years in labor re-education camp and met all his buddies.......there. When they got out?? Ka Ching!!!

    • @hugoflores5806
      @hugoflores5806 3 роки тому +50

      That makes me remember the thing with georgians buying the right for buying a car

    • @elshan581
      @elshan581 3 роки тому +204

      @@thedwightguy good one. But unfortunately for my Grandfather, after USSR got dissolved, the Nagorno Kabarakh war (1992-1994) broke out and he had to flee from his home place and all the mansions he built and cars he bought had been abondened and destroyed during the war. The worst part is after 2 years he became blind and couldn't continue his business anymore and had already spent all of his money on buying houses for his children so they won't live in refugee camps.

    • @GetToHellOut
      @GetToHellOut 3 роки тому +49

      He was not a millionaire, he was just rich. But, as you can see, you could not even legally own a huge mansion in USSR, so there could not be any real millionaires in USSR, or else they would've been found by KGB and sentensed to death. As your example shows, even being rich and having a huge house and some cars would resoult in living in a constant fear that the KGB may arrest you, and all of the property would have to be illegal registered on other people in order to not to raise suspition.
      Owning huge house and few cars is pathetic compared to any western or even modern Russian millionaire (if we say that millionare is a person who has more than 100 mil rus ruble). And keep in mind, that ruble exchange rate to dollar is 74:1.
      So was your grandfather a rich person, especially by USSR standarts? He sure was. Was he a millionaire or an oligarch? Not really.

    • @elshan581
      @elshan581 3 роки тому +154

      @@GetToHellOut it seems that you haven't experienced soviet times and don't know much about it. Your point on no one could own huge mansions is completely false. There were lots of ways to bypass the law and the most popular was via bribery. I myself have visitied one of the remains of my grandfather's mansion which consisted of 22 rooms when it was built

  • @FerKzrs
    @FerKzrs 3 роки тому +359

    I'm here for the "just kidding" transitions.

  • @R-H-B
    @R-H-B 3 роки тому +4220

    Yes. And the most prosperous Soviet millionaire was James Bisonette

  • @wildfood1
    @wildfood1 3 роки тому +114

    "Lengthy unemployment was against the law." People who didn't work were considered "social parasites" and jailed. Not only did property belong to the state, but labor too belonged to the state and you could not withhold it.

    • @TheTrex9000
      @TheTrex9000 2 роки тому +13

      and people seriously want this back 💀

    • @Cyborg_Lenin
      @Cyborg_Lenin Рік тому

      As opposed to capitalist countries, where you just starve on the streets if you dont work? Oh how truly brutal the USSR was.

    • @taiwandxt6493
      @taiwandxt6493 Рік тому +31

      @@TheTrex9000 Because to many in Eastern Europe, it was much better than what they have now. It's said economically, many of the former Eastern Bloc and Soviet states need at least 50 more years of economic growth in order to even be comparable to the days of communism. Most people's gripes with the Soviet system had more to do with the authoritarianism, not with the communist system itself.

    • @sympathiser_of_Germans_in_40s
      @sympathiser_of_Germans_in_40s Рік тому

      @@taiwandxt6493 then why don't they go back to being communist again?
      Certainly seems to be cool these days

    • @taiwandxt6493
      @taiwandxt6493 Рік тому

      @V Well, because a lot of these countries' governments are autocratic dictatorships or flawed democracies. And as well, some of these countries literally ban communist symbols and activities, so it's kinda hard for the people to go back.

  • @iamsheel
    @iamsheel 3 роки тому +15

    2:13 that banner really made my day. Thanks

  • @looinrims
    @looinrims 3 роки тому +365

    I cried when there wasn’t a glass shatter sound at the USSR

  • @timfortune9
    @timfortune9 3 роки тому +4006

    "Everything the Soviets ever told us about communism was a lie. Unfortunately, everything they told us about capitalism was true." - Russian joke

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 3 роки тому +244

      Sounds about right.

    • @andrewmoore7014
      @andrewmoore7014 3 роки тому +1128

      Another: "What did capitalism do in one year that communism couldn't do in 70? Make communism look good."

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 3 роки тому +76

      @@andrewmoore7014 Seems legit.

    • @F22onblockland
      @F22onblockland 3 роки тому +763

      When go from an authoritarian monarchy to an authoritarian communist regime to an authoritarian capitalist regime
      Everything changed and nothing changed.

    • @concept5631
      @concept5631 3 роки тому +321

      @@F22onblockland A good way of describing the last 2 centuries of Chinese history.

  • @aleidius192
    @aleidius192 3 роки тому +1816

    Commissar: "We are taking all of your money for...uhh...the people..."

    • @LibertarianLeninistRants
      @LibertarianLeninistRants 3 роки тому +28

      wdym "his money", he got it by cheating the system so basically he stole it from the people

    • @brandonlyon730
      @brandonlyon730 3 роки тому +68

      Worker: say can we actually control the factories or businesses for once? I mean that was what Karl Marx wanted for us and you keep quoting him and his works in your propaganda?
      Government: Absolute nonsense, stop complaining and get back to work!

    • @RenzoM2811
      @RenzoM2811 3 роки тому +12

      Commissar: Kulak, we're in the middle of a drought, don't burn your crops and kill your animals.
      Kulak: How about I do, anyway?

    • @RenzoM2811
      @RenzoM2811 3 роки тому +10

      @@brandonlyon730 Read State and Revolution by Lenin

    • @duo496
      @duo496 3 роки тому +20

      I don't believe in private property, now gimme your house

  • @loveglas3580
    @loveglas3580 3 роки тому +10

    Short and simple video explaining everything it set out to do. Great work, no dragged out 12 minutes of blabbering and instead straight to the point. Great content

  • @PhantomFelix211164
    @PhantomFelix211164 3 роки тому +192

    I laughed when Trotsky was jumping around in the background while Stalin was helping the old lady cross the street

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 3 роки тому +9

      How do you know he's Trotsky, and he might of been jumping like that to get away from the Assassins.

    • @Jacob-lv6zy
      @Jacob-lv6zy 3 роки тому +24

      I think that is kaganovich... he seemed weirdly happy about the fact they could not help that woman, I guess he must have had the time of his life in the ukraine then.....

    • @sooryan_1018
      @sooryan_1018 3 роки тому +4

      @@slewone4905 dodging from sniper fire be like

    • @lashlarue7924
      @lashlarue7924 3 роки тому +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂🏖🤣🤣🙊🙊🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂. Aghhaaahhhhaaaaahhgsaaaaaa, IM DEAD !!!! AAAASSAHHHHHAA🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂

    • @ezefinkielman4672
      @ezefinkielman4672 2 роки тому +1

      Definitely Kaganovich since he was bald and had a mustache.

  • @frozengansit0
    @frozengansit0 3 роки тому +878

    Gorbachev: ok a little bit of capitalism
    Tarasov: IM A MILLIONAIRE
    Gorbachev: NOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT
    Tarasov: I'm the monster you created >:)

    • @DanielGalimidi
      @DanielGalimidi 3 роки тому +71

      I like to imagine that Tarasov paid Gorbachev to appear in that Pizza Hut ad.

    • @jackilotl
      @jackilotl 3 роки тому +5

      nice

    • @urmumgae4245
      @urmumgae4245 3 роки тому +6

      Nice

    • @icecold1805
      @icecold1805 3 роки тому +4

      Nice

    • @motianton
      @motianton 3 роки тому +11

      @White Wolf "the progressive left stand for capitalism" ??

  • @jorgeh.r9879
    @jorgeh.r9879 3 роки тому +538

    Suggestions:
    -Why didn't Bulgaria join Yugoslavia?
    -Reactions in places like Persia, Afghanistan, Mongolia, Thailand (in WW1), Nepal, Buthan and Latin America to both world wars
    -Yugoslav wars
    -Lybian civil war
    Click like if you agree so he'll see this and add something if you want

    • @mikklustmets4239
      @mikklustmets4239 3 роки тому +33

      What happened to natives in Australia/ New Zealand?

    • @Toonrick12
      @Toonrick12 3 роки тому +18

      To answer the first question, because Stalin. Also, Bulgarians and Serbians don't have the best relationship which each other.

    • @archimedes5172
      @archimedes5172 3 роки тому

      I didn't even think about what south america thought about the world wars nice suggestions.👍

    • @hueylongdong347
      @hueylongdong347 3 роки тому +12

      Bulgaria probably didn't join Yugoslavia because it and Serbia, the country most determined and able to form it, were on opposite sides ever since the Second Balkan War.

    • @r7ahtesham885
      @r7ahtesham885 3 роки тому +14

      Bangladesh: I have been forgotten in the list of the forgotten.
      Oh hey, I just made a new meme template

  • @bennutter3341
    @bennutter3341 3 роки тому +812

    Me: trying to find valid comments
    Comments: JaMeS BiSSOnEtTe

    • @steelbear2063
      @steelbear2063 3 роки тому +12

      Ironic.

    • @mankytoes
      @mankytoes 3 роки тому +35

      You know who can find comments? James Bissonette because he has moneys!

    • @augustuscaesar8287
      @augustuscaesar8287 3 роки тому +28

      *Plot twist*
      The original commenter in his strenuous search for valid comments, ending up dismayed and disgruntled by the James Bissonnette comments, ends up making an invalid James Bissonnette comment. 🤦🏼‍♂️

    • @db3536
      @db3536 3 роки тому +3

      Why Mo only get 4th mention?

    • @colltonrighem
      @colltonrighem 3 роки тому +5

      Rob Waterhouse is better anyway

  • @salavat294
    @salavat294 3 роки тому +289

    Well, this video only covered the “legitimate” business millionaires. It completely overlooked the “black marketeers”. The example of Armenian shoe manufacturers springs to mind. During the “stagnation of the 1970’s” shoes were a deficit item, particularly fashionable women’s shoes. Several, enterprising Armenian shoe-factory directors created a secret additional shift that specialized in the manufacturing of the deficit shoes. Selling the shoes at exorbitantly obscene profits (by Soviet standards) on the black market. These factory-directors had villas, vacation properties, vineyards, and several automobiles. However, if they got caught it would, surely, be a automatic firing squad for them. But, then again, he, who, does not risk, does not drink Champagne.

    • @salavat294
      @salavat294 2 роки тому +16

      @@kristopherjames1742 : Ya, but that was one of the best known and easy examples. In fact, during “stagnant 1970’s”, if you had a skilled trade (tailor, carpenter, cabinetmaker, butcher, baker, etc), and were talented at it, you could potentially make ten times the salary of an engineer. The catch was DON’T GET CAUGHT. But, it’s the gulag (if you are lucky), or a firing squad, if caught.

    • @idotso
      @idotso 2 роки тому

      He means millionaire in a traditional and working sense.

    • @salavat294
      @salavat294 2 роки тому +15

      @@idotso : The answer is a categorical YES. Soviet era millionaires had to be discreet, so as not earn the hatred/envy of their neighbors, or peek the interest of Soviet Union’s various “alphabet” law enforcement agencies (KGB, MVD etc.). To become a Soviet era millionaire through legitimate legal means, was virtually impossible. So, there were usually some sort of machinations involved (bribery, theft, fraud, corruption, etc)

    • @idotso
      @idotso 2 роки тому

      @@salavat294 idc

    • @salavat294
      @salavat294 2 роки тому +4

      @@idotso : Well then, I don’t care that you don’t care!

  • @krealyesitisbeta5642
    @krealyesitisbeta5642 2 роки тому +18

    Tarasov: "I'm rich!"
    KGB: "That isn't how you're supposed to play the game."

  • @ToadComrades
    @ToadComrades 3 роки тому +21

    This is in my opinion your best video yet. The stalin helping an old lady cross the road by carrying her with was hilarious. The just kidding they were pissed line was great and the just kidding line gets me all the time in your videos. And the part where you were reading the patrons and the 2 men standing next to stalin were erased was amazing. Great work as always!

  • @107suhas
    @107suhas 3 роки тому +1140

    Did the USSR Have Millionaires? Well yes, but actually no.

  • @MonsieurDean
    @MonsieurDean 3 роки тому +788

    Yuri: How many Kalashnikovs do you have?
    Uncle Dimitri: Forty thousand.
    Yuri: [Glancing at the paper on Uncle Dimitri's clipboard] Is that a four? Doesn't look like a four to me. Looks more like a one.
    Uncle Dimitri: No, it's a four.
    Yuri: It's whatever we say it is, because no one else will know the difference. Ten thousand Kalashnikovs for a battalion... your stocks are badly depleted, Dimitri. You should order more from the factory.
    Uncle Dimitri: Someone will work it out. What happens then?
    Yuri Orlov: We'll cut them in.

    • @centazo7569
      @centazo7569 3 роки тому +15

      Only 5 minutes ago? Nice

    • @MonsieurDean
      @MonsieurDean 3 роки тому +31

      @@centazo7569 Early bird catches the worm.

    • @dismantledhenry5006
      @dismantledhenry5006 3 роки тому

      Damn you fast

    • @myles3856
      @myles3856 3 роки тому

      True

    • @aaronhpa
      @aaronhpa 3 роки тому +9

      If only the democratic system that stalin vouched for in 1936 hadn't been stopped by the wars in spain and the military plots :( He was harsh but he was wanting to reduce corruption :(

  • @alexconti7932
    @alexconti7932 3 роки тому +8

    That last bit with the history cleaning is just gold.

  • @jonathanherring2113
    @jonathanherring2113 2 місяці тому +3

    The credits animation with the guy in the photograph being erased was really smart 2:42

  • @johantoreld3419
    @johantoreld3419 3 роки тому +1895

    James Bisonette did not live in the USSR so no millionaires, sorry.

    • @bakthihapuarachchi3447
      @bakthihapuarachchi3447 3 роки тому +200

      Kelly moneymaker did though

    • @romanrocha7532
      @romanrocha7532 3 роки тому +11

      @@bakthihapuarachchi3447 💀💀💀💀

    • @HontounoShiramizu
      @HontounoShiramizu 3 роки тому +7

      Plenty of millionaires actually, just the ones that were in the party. I personally know of a man who "bought" (was in fact given, but formalities) multiple flats with a combined value of over 2 million (modern rate) for his party loyalty. These cases were never allowed to go public though.

    • @MirzaAhmed89
      @MirzaAhmed89 2 роки тому

      How do you know he didn't?

    • @ThePikminCaptain
      @ThePikminCaptain 2 роки тому +4

      @@HontounoShiramizu thanks for ruining the joke

  • @epicgamerzfail4575
    @epicgamerzfail4575 3 роки тому +633

    If I had a dollar for every james bisonette comment, I'd be a millionaire too

    • @poke-champ4256
      @poke-champ4256 3 роки тому +9

      youd make jeff bezos jealous

    • @heysiritellmeacoolprofilen7296
      @heysiritellmeacoolprofilen7296 3 роки тому +5

      i’d have 2 dollars then

    • @Dayvit78
      @Dayvit78 3 роки тому +1

      From the looks of it, you'd actually be the richest man on Earth.

    • @warrenlehmkuhleii8472
      @warrenlehmkuhleii8472 3 роки тому +5

      Considering this counts as a James Bisonette comment, you are contributing to your hypothetical wealth.
      You are big brain.

  • @spaceyote7174
    @spaceyote7174 3 роки тому +620

    I find the idea of Stalin, a guy who killed millions of people and was a massive abusive asshole to his family and colleagues, taking time out to help an old lady across the road extremely and inherently funny

    • @rolandojragbayani4285
      @rolandojragbayani4285 2 роки тому +41

      i mean he still has a heart and even wanted to give her money but didnt have any

    • @preyhunter4179
      @preyhunter4179 2 роки тому +103

      All the worst people/dictators do that. Hitler for example strictly outlawed cigarettes.

    • @dieptrieu6564
      @dieptrieu6564 2 роки тому +145

      Humans are complicated. You rarely see someone who full on evil in real life

    • @xiijinpingthesupremeleader1349
      @xiijinpingthesupremeleader1349 2 роки тому +57

      @@preyhunter4179 and loved animals too

    • @someoldytaccount
      @someoldytaccount 2 роки тому +22

      @@xiijinpingthesupremeleader1349 Right! Although, I don't think using a frog as fishing bait is equal to being sent to a concentration camp, Hitler certainly was an Animal Rights' supporter.

  • @player1641
    @player1641 3 роки тому +27

    1:05 Wow, Stalin was such a nice guy

    • @CcpCcp-sk6dt
      @CcpCcp-sk6dt 9 місяців тому +3

      Wow, he is so nice

    • @gegecry
      @gegecry 9 місяців тому +4

      He's so nice that He even gave all the people He didn't Like new Houses...in siberia.

  • @Ynhockey
    @Ynhockey 3 роки тому +43

    There were stories of some Soviet citizens who were able to get their hands on a lot of cash through shady deals, and become millionaires. They couldn't display their wealth though. In fact, one of the most famous Russian novels in the early Soviet Union is precisely about a situation like this: The Little Golden Calf, by Ilf and Petrov.

  • @Cestuasa7
    @Cestuasa7 3 роки тому +45

    When i think to ussr i imagine bald and bankrupt saying: "this thing is so soviet".

  • @roguenetwork27
    @roguenetwork27 3 роки тому +5

    I gotta say:
    1. You pick the best topics
    2. That just kidding was the funniest thing I saw all day

  • @_vallee_5190
    @_vallee_5190 3 роки тому +109

    Yes my family lived in the Soviet block (Romania), bureaucrats and party members were essentially billionaires. If you wanted to climb the ladder you went through the party, ironically these were the same people buying up companies when the soviet block fell.

    • @freppie_
      @freppie_ 2 роки тому +22

      in the west we have that too, but the rich pretend to give us the idea we are in control and can become or must become rich too.

    • @hienable6933
      @hienable6933 2 роки тому

      "Ironically" because as communists, they weren't supposed to have the money to buy.
      But also unironically because it was expected that the people in power would continue to stay in power

    • @rapatacush3
      @rapatacush3 11 місяців тому

      ​@@freppie_you can if you're not a lazy ass cry baby.

    • @soybasedjeremy3653
      @soybasedjeremy3653 11 місяців тому +1

      ​@@freppie_I think he's saying Socialism is inherently harsh and full of hypocrisy.

    • @spacecommie7447
      @spacecommie7447 11 місяців тому +1

      Not billionaires, but millionaires yes. At least regular people were provided decent salaries, blocks to live in, free education and health care, food, fuel utilities at subsidised prices and cheap holidays to go on. Infrastructure and cultural projects were also launched to benefit the nation, not capitalists.
      Și da după mulți din CC, alături de securiștii mari, cei din import-export și infractori mai dibaci proapsăt ieșiți de la facultate au devenit ăi mai mari bogătani ai țării.
      I do hope you understand our native tongue since you speak so authoritatively on it.

  • @Stormy_Boi
    @Stormy_Boi 3 роки тому +8

    I really love these videos you make. There some of the few things I can watch over and over again and still be entertained. There informative and have so much interesting knowledge while still having plenty of humour and fun in them too. I hope you keep up the this great work.
    Also the little phrases on the signs in every video will always make my day

  • @fogareuaquelecaradaportari3386
    @fogareuaquelecaradaportari3386 3 роки тому +487

    Stalin: Murders 30 million people
    Also Stalin: Helps an old lady cross the Road

    • @nematolvajkergetok5104
      @nematolvajkergetok5104 3 роки тому +72

      But only because it's not sportsmanlike to shoot at a target that close.

    • @philthefinadelphian4830
      @philthefinadelphian4830 3 роки тому +137

      If you read on Stalin a bit you can find some rather wholesome moments, like his dog and how he genuienly felt defeated when learning his country was being invaded, isolating himself for days at one point cause of the turmoil. Also by any metric I don't think people would claim Truman to have killed millions of Japanese from the bombings or Churchill for his neglecting the Bengali famine. The correct stat would be 5 million, but really everyone in the 20th century fucked up.

    • @SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms
      @SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms 3 роки тому +90

      That number is a Cold War era propaganda myth.

    • @SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms
      @SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms 3 роки тому +52

      @@philthefinadelphian4830 true, but even 5 million is too high because that number number includes the famine of 32-33 which we haven’t found any evidence to have been ordered or engineered. After the archives opened up they found documents showing that the Soviet government knew about it and were trying to alleviate it, only problem is that the only thing they can export was grain so they didn’t fully stop exporting, but decreased it about 300% Stalin is responsible for the victims of his cutthroat politics and purges

    • @nematolvajkergetok5104
      @nematolvajkergetok5104 3 роки тому +17

      @@SkyguyFilmsZooruvfilms Indeed. The amount of old ladies Stalin helped to cross the road is actually zero.

  • @Blackstormeagle
    @Blackstormeagle 3 роки тому +133

    USSR: Okay, we can have a little bit of Capitalism to make the government lots of money
    Citizens: Starts making lots of money
    USSR: Wait, that's illegal

    • @billbuffalino6741
      @billbuffalino6741 3 роки тому +18

      Yeah...it’s the citizens making loads of money. Definitely not the oligarchs.

    • @Kyle-gw6qp
      @Kyle-gw6qp 3 роки тому +30

      "citizens" did not make money. A few wankers made money and screwed everyone over.

    • @hugoflores5806
      @hugoflores5806 3 роки тому

      That would be for the georgians buying lada, mozcovich and even ZAZ tickets

    • @carso1500
      @carso1500 3 роки тому +5

      @@billbuffalino6741 yeah because everyone nows those arent people they are eldritch abominations that eat puppies

    • @abduking.
      @abduking. 4 місяці тому

      @@billbuffalino6741 the oligarchs didnt exist yet...... they started to rise from the capitalist transition. If you mean high members in the party BECAME oligarches then you'd be correct

  • @user-fi7tb1xz3d
    @user-fi7tb1xz3d 3 роки тому +296

    This Stalin guy sound like a very kind person hope he will do more good things

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +30

      Hitler was a vegetarian.
      Look how that turned out!

    • @hoffwell
      @hoffwell 3 роки тому +25

      @@CallieMasters5000 Urban myth, the vegatarian thing. He loved liver and dumplings.

    • @teatimegaming971
      @teatimegaming971 3 роки тому +2

      @@hoffwell “ oh yeah, I love animals, I’m vegetarian, what do I have on my plate? Oh it’s just liver”

    • @vocesdelrioriourbano7236
      @vocesdelrioriourbano7236 3 роки тому +18

      @@hoffwell Actually Hitler was a vegetarian and he loved animals. He will fit in with the current Twitter crowd.

    • @anonymouscausewhynot
      @anonymouscausewhynot 3 роки тому +10

      @@hoffwell he still made laws against animal cruelty.

  • @raceris7309
    @raceris7309 3 роки тому +11

    I remember I was told stories on how Lithuanians managed to earn money when USSR had collapsed. Most people drove to Poland to get various items (I am talking pretty much anything - sweets, CDs, electronics, kitchen utensils, toys and so on) and would re-sell those items on car bonnets at a higher price. This craze is what exactly laid foundations to still popular shopping centre in Lithuania - "Gariūnai". I still go there to find some cheap Playstation 2 games, as they are pretty difficult to find elsewhere these days.

  • @Dragoon77
    @Dragoon77 3 роки тому +13

    1:17 Zavyalov Island: I'm freeeee!

  • @Mortebianca
    @Mortebianca 3 роки тому +46

    Jamez Bisonette was one of them apparently

  • @tf2664
    @tf2664 3 роки тому +23

    Russian Billionaire: Yes, I’m a billionaire. Yes, I live in the USSR.
    USSR: not for long

  • @lancegideondiokno1774
    @lancegideondiokno1774 3 роки тому +53

    Does the USSR have millionaires
    Answer?: *Yesn't*

  • @erraticonteuse
    @erraticonteuse 3 роки тому +13

    I always think about the time Garry Kasparov won some fancy car in a chess match and he says everyone was mad at him for keeping it.

  • @JPDuval-xy4yy
    @JPDuval-xy4yy 3 роки тому +11

    The 'just kidding' transition is undeniably this channels' staple. I anticipate it every time I watch these videos

  • @jamesfreeman4884
    @jamesfreeman4884 3 роки тому +2

    Why are you actually so good at what you do? It's admirable. :)

  • @cerberus6996
    @cerberus6996 3 роки тому +75

    Everyone there were equals but some were more equals than others

    • @bushi_joelgamster9614
      @bushi_joelgamster9614 3 роки тому +5

      They were equal to the other milionares

    • @annaclarafenyo8185
      @annaclarafenyo8185 3 роки тому +12

      That quip of Orwell's isn't about millionaires, it's about who gets to have decision-making power. It's about politics. There simply were no wealthy people in the USSR.

    • @lubu2960
      @lubu2960 3 роки тому

      What the fuck does that mean lol

    • @magdavillafuerte505
      @magdavillafuerte505 3 роки тому +1

      @@annaclarafenyo8185 you're ignoring the nomenklatura, a lot of people had made clear in the past that they were an oligarchy and as such they could be considered wealthy as thay had more benefits and better life conditions in conparison to the working class of the ussr.

    • @annaclarafenyo8185
      @annaclarafenyo8185 3 роки тому +1

      @@magdavillafuerte505 They had only SLIGHTLY better conditions, they were not wealthy in any Western sense of the word.

  • @semotari311
    @semotari311 3 роки тому +10

    Gorbachev: ok you can make private companies
    Tarasov: *makes very successful company*
    Gorbachev: *you weren’t supposed to do that*

  • @zap3231
    @zap3231 3 роки тому +47

    1:02 That's the sweetest thing I've ever seen Stalin do...

    • @YourLocalMairaaboo
      @YourLocalMairaaboo 3 роки тому +21

      One thing to remember is that his atrocities were not done out of hunger for power, but paranoia. Like, *EXTREME* paranoia.
      He tried to resign multiple times.

    • @YourLocalMairaaboo
      @YourLocalMairaaboo 3 роки тому +1

      @Collin Champagne don't remember right now.

    • @guagualon1436
      @guagualon1436 3 роки тому +15

      @Collin Champagne The Central Committee rejecting it. He tried to resign 4 times.

    • @3st3st77
      @3st3st77 3 роки тому +9

      @@guagualon1436 Oh, sure. You know, Caesar also rejected 3 times to be crowned as king.. after setting this event up, of course.

    • @guagualon1436
      @guagualon1436 3 роки тому +2

      @@3st3st77 I mean, that could be argued. I do think, as Anthony Beevor, that Stalin could well have been sincere in his intentions.

  • @altanenbaum7708
    @altanenbaum7708 7 місяців тому

    Thanks!

  • @tommo7645
    @tommo7645 3 роки тому +1

    One of the most succinct and entertaining episodes to date. I learnt a lot in a very short space of time. Nice one.

  • @Wenving
    @Wenving 3 роки тому +240

    "Did the USSR have Millionaires?" Well yes, but tecnically no

  • @CallieMasters5000
    @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +12

    On the Ushanka Show, he talked about people who were able to amass huge fortunes doing illegal things like taking bribes & kickbacks, running side businesses at work, and stolen goods. Their problem was they couldn't put the money in a bank, it was all in cash, they couldn't get it into hard currency, and they really couldn't buy anything, so in the end some people were caught with huge amounts of rubles in cash at home with no way to spend it.

    • @090giver090
      @090giver090 3 роки тому +1

      And having this much of amassed wealth effectively removed from economy is another reason why soviet economy collapses.

  • @baronDioxid
    @baronDioxid 3 роки тому +14

    >Stalin helps an old woman cross a road
    Ohhh, what a nice guy!

  • @Vincent.Morreale
    @Vincent.Morreale 3 роки тому +1

    THE END CREDIT !!!! I love this channel sooo much haha

  • @LesPauloCaster
    @LesPauloCaster 2 роки тому

    I enjoy these 3 minutes videos so much, I’ve been binging for a week now. Worth becoming a patreon.
    Listing your patreons sups at the end is such a flex, for such a short video.

  • @r3dum877
    @r3dum877 3 роки тому +7

    The Little Golden Calf (Золотой телёнок, Zolotoy telyonok) is a satirical novel by Soviet authors Ilf and Petro is about underground Soviet Millionaire

  • @ARIXANDRE
    @ARIXANDRE 3 роки тому +32

    -How did the Soviet people react?
    -Well, they all congratulated Karasov and...
    ...I'm just kidding, they were outraged. " 😂😂😂

  • @BobBob-cy9cu
    @BobBob-cy9cu 3 роки тому +4

    These are types of questions I had no idea I needed answers to.

  • @modoesstuff
    @modoesstuff 3 роки тому

    this channel is everything i feel i've ever wanted out of UA-cam.
    learn something.
    be entertained.
    & do it around 5 min. or less.
    i just...luv this channel. 😅

  • @lahabitaciondelatrapado4621
    @lahabitaciondelatrapado4621 3 роки тому +15

    1:10 Got Squat? Meaning?

  • @emucitizen5892
    @emucitizen5892 3 роки тому +10

    The outro is hillarious the guy with stalin gets erased

  • @calragnarok
    @calragnarok 3 роки тому +6

    "Well most people congratulated Taras.............just kidding they were outraged!" Genuinely LOL'D 🤣🤣

  • @coloneldoggo
    @coloneldoggo 3 роки тому +8

    Future Video Idea: What did Napoleon do in Exile

  • @manueldesousa5054
    @manueldesousa5054 3 роки тому +5

    "Pravda. Printed in English for some reason."
    Oh god, this guy is the best xD

  • @onanthebarbarian9883
    @onanthebarbarian9883 3 роки тому +6

    I always laugh at the "run through the daisies" bit.
    Always.

  • @kainaluhikalea4641
    @kainaluhikalea4641 3 роки тому +51

    Stalin helping old ladies cross the road thats a first

    • @thiccluigi6906
      @thiccluigi6906 3 роки тому +8

      That surprised me too. I didn't know him like that.

    • @davidrenton
      @davidrenton 3 роки тому +5

      @@thiccluigi6906 she was crossing the road to visit her family who Beria was interrogating at the time.

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +4

      She was supposed to be building the road at the time.

    • @command_unit7792
      @command_unit7792 3 роки тому +10

      They where not hearless monsters...They where Monsters with a heart...

    • @apalahartisebuahnama7684
      @apalahartisebuahnama7684 3 роки тому +1

      Is that true or just fictional anecdote?

  • @MDMAx
    @MDMAx 2 роки тому +8

    1:46 not yearly but monthly*

  • @rickynoodles2816
    @rickynoodles2816 3 роки тому +6

    I would really love if you made a peak mug for Italy encompassing her former borders as Rome

  • @KennyMcCormick99
    @KennyMcCormick99 3 роки тому +1

    Love these videos!!
    Keep it up!!

  • @dirtyvinyl8817
    @dirtyvinyl8817 2 роки тому

    Even when I know the answer I still watch the videos because you always manage to find a way to teach me something new.

  • @ingsnaut_7006
    @ingsnaut_7006 3 роки тому +12

    Hey do you think you could do a video on Montenegro? It’s a country rarely talked about but it has some interesting history.

    • @williamtheconqueror7807
      @williamtheconqueror7807 3 роки тому +5

      Why is Montenegro?

    • @robertlakay88
      @robertlakay88 3 роки тому +2

      Is that where all the Soviet millionaires are?

    • @r8rgtrs
      @r8rgtrs 3 роки тому +1

      I agree! I would like to learn why Montenegro exists (and is not Serbia)

    • @drug_radovanovic
      @drug_radovanovic 3 роки тому +2

      @@r8rgtrs You see, when Serbia fell under Ottoman rule, Serbs migrated literally everywhere and many of them went to the mountains by the south Adriatic coast, which they referred to as "Crna Gora" - meaning "Black Mountain" in Serbian. "Montenegro" also means the same thing but in Italian. And the Ottomans could never really directly conquer Montenegro due to its mountainous and fortified nature so Montenegro became a kind of a vassal state. It still paid some tax to the Ottoman Empire, but they did their own thing in the mountains. Fast forward to the Berlin Congress in 1878, Montenegro and Serbia get their independence and Serbia gets a territorial expansion southwards. But the southernmost parts like Kosovo and today's border with Montenegro were still under Ottoman rule. This eventually led to another series of wars, the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) where Serbia, Montenegro (now a kingdom ruled by Nikola I, the first and last king of Montenegro), Greece and Bulgaria created an alliance to fight against the Ottomans. They had tons of success but the alliance with Bulgaria was short-lived as there was a disagreement between Serbia and Bulgaria over who gets to control Macedonia. Montenegro and Greece backed Serbia and so they united against Bulgaria and pushed them back. Near the end of the war Romania and Ottomans also went against Bulgaria. At the peace treaty, Serbia got its southern territories and Macedonia, Montenegro expanded eastwards forming a border with Serbia, Greece got (also) Macedonia and Chalkidiki, Romania got Dobruja and Ottomans got Edirne back from Bulgaria. This treaty also created an independent Albanian state under the pressure of Austria-Hungary. Now there were some ideas of uniting Serbia and Montenegro after this but both countries had to shift their attention to a different problem: World War I. You probably know how that went and after Montenegro's capitulation, King Nikola I went to Italy. After WW1 Montenegro was given a choice: remain and independent kingdom or join the newly founded Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. And they chose the latter. After WW2 they became a part of the SFRY. Fast forward to 1991 and I'm probably gonna fast forward over that too cause I cannot even try to begin to explain what happened in the 90s in a youtube comment. Long story short, Montenegro was the only one who remained in Yugoslavia all until 2006. As for why Serbia and Montenegro split in 2006, that's a question you have to ask the EU, NATO and their puppets like Milo Djukanovic who orchestrated the "independence" "referendum" "results". So in conclusion the reason why Serbia and Montenegro aren't united today are the general instability of the Balkans, corrupt politicians and EU/NATO. Cheers!

    • @r8rgtrs
      @r8rgtrs 3 роки тому

      @@drug_radovanovic thank you very much! Do the Montenegrins nowadays see themselves as Montenegrin, or Serbian, or both? I recall they used to have a flag that was like Serbia's, but nowadays Montenegro has a most un-Serbian flag, and they're introducing their own alphabet, too. Is it a genuine desire from the Montenegrin people to differentiate themselves from the Serbs or was it just a ploy from politicians who got to rule their own little country?

  • @secret5816
    @secret5816 3 роки тому +9

    2:26 Seriously? Again? No glass splintering sound when the USSR collapses? Come on...

  • @scanida5070
    @scanida5070 3 роки тому +64

    0:30 So toilet paper was regulated? The Soviets seem to have predicted the future...

    • @soulmorf12
      @soulmorf12 3 роки тому +7

      Toilet paper was a luxury, most people used newspapers for you know what, and only limited toilet paper was around.

    • @annaclarafenyo8185
      @annaclarafenyo8185 3 роки тому +10

      @@soulmorf12 This is a Western myth. Toilet paper was available until the very late 80s.

    • @soulmorf12
      @soulmorf12 3 роки тому +11

      @@annaclarafenyo8185 western myth ha, I was born in Latvia, right after the soviet collapse. Maybe I did not had all the soviet cliches, but the one thing, all of our elders told us - no toilet paper, no problem, use newspapers "because we didn't have any back in the day"

    • @CallieMasters5000
      @CallieMasters5000 3 роки тому +3

      Toilet paper wasn't made at all in the USSR until the 1960s, I heard. Until then, just newspapers. Check out the Ushanka Show video on this.

    • @annaclarafenyo8185
      @annaclarafenyo8185 3 роки тому +1

      @@CallieMasters5000 I don't know anyone that old. People I met said there was plenty of toilet paper until 1990.

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 2 роки тому

    I love your channel keep up the great stuff!

  • @stevemc01
    @stevemc01 2 роки тому +2

    Tarasov: "Hey guys! I'M A MILLIONAIRE"
    Soviet High Command: *opening coffin* "Ok get in."

  • @RackHasAttacked
    @RackHasAttacked 3 роки тому +56

    Yeh their names were:
    James bissonette

  • @crit-c4637
    @crit-c4637 Рік тому +6

    0:58 I've found no record of this annecdote and it sounds a lot like counter-propoganda (which is still propoganda). Is their a written source for this that anyone knows of?

  • @FilmSkylar
    @FilmSkylar 3 роки тому +34

    We all know that James Bissonnette is our millionaire here.

    • @Muhammed552
      @Muhammed552 3 роки тому +1

      *So it Seems ... So it seems*

    • @Nimish204
      @Nimish204 3 роки тому +1

      He can put Jeff Bezos to shame

  • @NotaTechGuy177
    @NotaTechGuy177 3 роки тому

    Loved the anecdote in this episode! I hope to see more in the future!

  • @pedroharres
    @pedroharres Рік тому +1

    Interesting topic. Please make a video about who bought big state companies when the whole USSR economy had to be privatized

  • @wilkescude5682
    @wilkescude5682 3 роки тому +6

    Stalin: *Helps an on lady cross the street
    “Just because you are bad guy does not mean you are bad guy”

  • @2prize
    @2prize 3 роки тому +67

    USSR: Riots over millionaires
    USA: Worships billionaires

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 3 роки тому +5

      I guess one worships being poor and the other worships being rich? xD

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 3 роки тому +18

      @@stephenjenkins7971 one worships a normal life, other worships a delusion of "temporarily embarrassed millionaire" mentality

    • @stephenjenkins7971
      @stephenjenkins7971 3 роки тому +5

      @@missk1697 I guess only the Russian mentality settles for having their elites smushing their faces into the dirt. Americans must be made of sterner stuff.

    • @alexb9969
      @alexb9969 3 роки тому +6

      @@missk1697 the USSR is your model for reasoning? lol

    • @sooryan_1018
      @sooryan_1018 3 роки тому +3

      @@alexb9969 why not :p

  • @Неопознанный3950
    @Неопознанный3950 3 роки тому +21

    Is it me or the Baltic states looks like a German flag 2:35

  • @taylormanes5492
    @taylormanes5492 3 роки тому +1

    I wish these videos were on a regular release schedule

  • @archerdark7524
    @archerdark7524 3 роки тому +1

    2:26 I missed the "cracking glass" sound effect

  • @taylorlee2147
    @taylorlee2147 3 роки тому +101

    *Things are getting worse, it's so bad that having a job doesn't mean financial security*

    • @logansmith9152
      @logansmith9152 3 роки тому +4

      Several intelligent people are terrible investors because they face the market with untrained psychology and untamed emotions. . You need to keep raw, irrational emotion under control.

    • @schimdtbouchard5484
      @schimdtbouchard5484 3 роки тому +1

      Really wish I knew what I know now several years ago in my early 20's.
      Investing today is priceless because tomorrow isn't promised, trading bit-coins, gold, silver and crypto secures a better future financially.

    • @moorejane4527
      @moorejane4527 3 роки тому +7

      @@schimdtbouchard5484 This is very true.
      How many wealthy people or billionaires became wealthy by wages and salaries or by saving in a bank account? You don't even know one right?

    • @michaeladam3220
      @michaeladam3220 3 роки тому +1

      Yeah I agree with you, I think the best time is now .

    • @dorozhkaanatoly677
      @dorozhkaanatoly677 3 роки тому

      @@schimdtbouchard5484 funny enough they don't know how the fiat money keeps losing value.
      Our global economic value just keeps declining. Dollar will soon not be the safe haven.

  • @LibertarianLeninistRants
    @LibertarianLeninistRants 3 роки тому +7

    1:26 "Fixing Things"? Perestroika killed the Soviet Union, it created the first shortages of food since the second world war because shop owners could hoard it

    • @TheJuanTrueKaiser
      @TheJuanTrueKaiser 3 роки тому +2

      This guy strikes me as an "enlightened centrists". Most of this guys audience are anti communist liberals or reactionaries.

    • @jackreilly1182
      @jackreilly1182 3 роки тому

      Its sarcastic

  • @haciendaddy
    @haciendaddy 3 роки тому +14

    Our boy James Bisonette owns most of the tracksuit and vodka outlets there.

  • @SMR3663
    @SMR3663 2 роки тому +1

    I just started to watch this channel
    The more I watch the more I like !

  • @carloscampo9119
    @carloscampo9119 3 роки тому

    Amazing job as always

  • @dave9308
    @dave9308 3 роки тому +5

    I was genuinely surprised when I heard that Stalin helped an old lady to cross the street.

    • @jeandos1371
      @jeandos1371 2 роки тому

      Yeah its always more complexe than propaganda

  • @Mitjitsu
    @Mitjitsu 3 роки тому +4

    I find it interesting that ever since the breakup of the Soviet Union. Majority of the richest people in places like Bulgaria are former top communists or are closely related to one.

    • @soggmeisterlasagnagarfield
      @soggmeisterlasagnagarfield Рік тому

      They were some of the few people able to buy up state assets in exclusive auctions with western billionaires at the collapse. Somehow private property continues to establish itself in its grossest form even after the revolution.

  • @HighPeakMapping
    @HighPeakMapping 3 роки тому +28

    Of course, James Bizonette is a Soviet millionaire 🤑

  • @allaware1971
    @allaware1971 Місяць тому +1

    1:51 for real, like if the annual wage was on average 1500 rubbels,who the hell puts out a commercial saying "hey guess what, I'm the first guy worth millions of rubbels!"
    That's like literally giving the people a massive middle finger in the middle of their Soviet bloc appartments.

  • @lukesalazar9283
    @lukesalazar9283 3 роки тому +1

    I like the touch at the end of the vid