My babushka tells about her life in the Soviet Union
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- I asked my babushka about her life back in the USSR! (she was born in 1938, the Soviet Union dissolution was in 1991, so most part of her life was in the USSR)
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Eli: "I work for myself"
Babushka: *gazes in disgust*
Ego b i t ... she think
she(babushka) is like then what? live with who?
Babushka❤
Russian mothers do hard manual labour, so I don't know what you're thinking.
Lmao
From wooden plows to launching satellites in a single generation
6,000 years elapsed between 1917 and 1950? Wow, look at your math skills.
@@cartb3569 All of your incoherent rambling is entirely inconsequential. You try to look intelligent but can't even write. In 1917, the primary tool for administering agriculture was a wooden plow. Less then a fraction of 6,000 years later, the Soviet Union became the first space faring nation in human history.
@NORTHERNscreams Yet the pyramids and ships was made millions -billions of years ,with wood ,and various metals ,the first civilization on earth ,but yes ,let's talk about 1917 for your history 👏 bc you're such a scholar!
@@cartb3569 I will not be bothered to read that disgrace of basic grammar and syntax rules. I can't even understand what the points you try to make even are.
From almost no state murders to 20 million in a single generation!!! Comrad Stalin has his eyes on you. Big brother is watching
as a wise man once said, The nostalgia of the soviet people of the USSR is not the nostalgia towards the past but towards a future that is lost.
What a beautiful quote
Я думаю это ностальгия по своей молодости и хорошему отношению людей друг к другу.
Damn!
Beautifully written like a poetry.
Wao
My grandma says the same things, she even says times were better then. My American friends cannot wrap their heads around this mainly because there was a lot of fear of USSR back in that day. I show everyone my grandmas pics from the 40s, 50s, & 60s she traveled, went to the theatre, and was extremely happy in every picture you could tell. Every time people (Americans) see these pictures they are shocked about how life really was in the USSR.
Говорят , что в СССР голодали. 😅😂 Я показывала старые советские фото корейским родственникам моего мужа, где стол полон еды, где счастливые лица людей... Тоже в полном шоке. Пропаганда.
Я сама советская и думала ,чтобы США простые люди страшно страдают от богатых.
I miss USSR, my beloved country ❤
@@helloworld-ti5zs but somewhere there was hunger, unterminable lines for being able to receive the ratio of products & a lot of suffering prior to when it got somewhere... masses of deportations... good people dead at the ukaz of criminals like Stalin, one of the worst humans in our recent history!!!
@@helloworld-ti5zs они и страдают, как сейчас во всём мире. Только об этом особо не распространяются. Вон лучше на знаменитостей посмотрите, да обсудите детей в Африке, а собственные проблемы доверьте "сильным мира сего"
@@ApollonianShy18Stalin is one of the best rulers in history, and all your arguments are just complete nonsense, invented by propaganda.
We want a full interview from grandma about USSR time!!😊
Yes
Yes
Yes
Absolutely yes!!
да
Let babushka live long and healthy, hugs and may God hear her prayers!
She’s not babushka babushka is for Russian. They are called something else because she is tartar
@@mmassehs3251Soviet first all else second!❤
@@DaboiBurt that is Soviet sOviet means everyone
No place for God in communism.
@@mmassehs3251Soviet is a type of council but okay
What a lovely lady! She has a lot of wisdom and I believe she lived the USSR era with satisfaction. Current times are very different but her life is a very important testimony for us, because knowing where we come from we will build a better future. I wish health, peace and joy to your gracious grandmother.
Protect this babushka at all cost!! Blessings ❤❤❤
I’m not Russians, but I grew up in San Francisco where many Russians came after the fall of the Soviet Union and I’ve heard many of these stories from the old timers that told me so much God bless their souls .
I grew up to learn Russian and I’ve travelled to Moscow many times. Love u ppl and I love to love I’ve always been given by Russians❤❤
A communist is a communist. A republic constitution government is still the best. Capitalism allows one to live and support themselves. We have our rights given to us from God. Which a communist does not even believe in. She liked it I do not.
That is amazing!
Go back to Russia, keep your bogus USSR worship inside your cancer ridden brain
- those Russians must be disgusted what politicians have done to San Francisco today.
Спасибо 🙏🏻 ❤
I like kid in background 🤣 he wants his camera time
Good memory for him to look back on when he is old (if he makes it, life can be short).
She told him off lightly if your couldn’t tell
@@andrewnorris5415I wasn’t expecting such a depressing comment, wow lol
I can totally understand what she is trying to say. The people were united under one banner, achieving unbelievable things and striving to make the Soviet Union a super power. The First man in space was a Russian after all. Nowadays everyone is so greedy, selfish and vain
That was the case back then too, don’t worry it’s just nature
They are much more vain and shallow today. Thinking more of themselves and less for the good of all.
@@uituituituituituitno it's not
@@uituituituituituit it isn't human nature to be selfish, that's bullshit. you can't throw away morality because you think we are supposed to be selfish.
Greed and vain is normal according to the one of most evil economist Milton freedman
Her generation were heroic. Need to listen.
Yes, but as you listen, hear not just the pleasantries of nostalgia, remember the sounds of gunfire that led bullets into the backs of German civilians, gates of the labor camps as dissenters were left to be slaves until their deaths, the wails of those who's hunger grew while the communists ate meat and wine within the halls of the Kremlin, but most of all remember the sounds of the sirens as they stood ready to set the world ablaze in nuclear fire.
@@Sumschmuck bro when you have millions of people and trash agriculture of course people will die to make the nation great, also no fucking nukes of the soviet union where used on a country, the gulags were for traitors and those who wanted to overthrow the USSR, and you think the germans didnt do the same to soviet citizens, the soviet union was furious at the nazis and made them pay for everything the did to them. sad you fell into such stereotypes and misinformed
@@SumschmuckThe Germans deserved it. Far more military personnel were killed by the Soviets than civilians, compared to Germany killing far more civilians than military personnel
@@Sumschmuckno
@@SumschmuckUnited states
You know grandma had confirmed kills on the Eastern front.
While carrying 125 pound sacks on her back, over the Urals, with 6 children tagging along, keeping everyone fed, and fighting a war!
At 7 years old 😂
100%. Women served as snipers in the Red Army. Also served non-combat roles like nurses, supply truck drivers, and factory workers on the home front. A large amount of the dead of the Eastern Front was women, but that was because the Nazis specifically tried to eradicate the Soviet people. Over 1 million Soviet women were raped and gave birth to children of the German officers and soldiers. (While abortion on demand was legalised in 1917 after Lenin took power, it is unlikely it would’ve been accessible at this time - there were far bigger issues to deal with in this time of war.)
@@socire72This was very sad. My sympathy to those women in and before 1917. 🙏🏻
@@socire72agree with you on that one.👍 since recently in the Kherson region Russian army field examiners have unearthed bullets the Reich of then would have used next to several women near a hill if I remember correctly.. the later waves of soviets did plenty of havoc onto the Germans aswell. and the fact we resorted to 2 ariel fly overs on Japans people, indiscriminately fire flaming Dresden with other non strategic cities help describe the initial motives for fighting being to pit us against each other.. remember how they'll call it his-story>history. 1984 style
My grandparents, parents, and myself were born in the USSR, present day Azerbaijan. My grandparents and parents grew up there; I have no memory of this time cause I was a baby (born in '91, right before it fell), but my grandma speaks very fondly of those times and tells me very similar stories like these about the Soviet Union - unfortunately they'll never teach you this perspective in schools, especially not in the U.S.
Yes. Here in my country, they don’t even mention it being the USSR. They just call it ‘Russia’, and try to avoid it most as possible
Over a bottle of vodka one night with the father of my now ex-girlfriend, I listened to Igor (her father) praise the USSR and "communism." It all sounded nice, but I couldn't refrain from asking him that if the USSR was so great, why did he have to escape from it as a "Christian refugee?"
Nahh when yuo have that type of profile pic yuo cant be called a real azeri will have their flag in their pic not some jpg image i dont accept yuo ass are real azeri
Probably because the US and most democratic countries sees communism as a crappy deal for the people that are in it. Not saying the people weren’t happy and enjoyed their lives but without freedom. Without the ability to leave their country to travel. Not enough food. You were told where yo work and live and how much food you were going to get. Ask your grandparents how they felt about not being allowed to travel. I’m sure nobody could afford too but why would a govt not allow travel outside the country? Sounds like a prison. I’m happy the Soviet Union is now somewhat free and the people can make choices. If it was so great, why did your family leave?
Maybe because it killed millions on its own people 😂
Babushkas are there to be respected, listened to, taken care of and loved. ❤
I have a lot of respect for this generation
The generation that invaded Poland with Germany? The generation that starved to death? The generation that was raped by beria?
I have zero respect for people who says that "gulag wasn't real"
@@cyriljanda2609 ok
@@cyriljanda2609 Gulag was actually about reform. American prisons put them to shame brutality wise.
@@RedArrow808you going to try and claim there were no poor also? They were all poor!
Grandmother was proud of her soviet heritage. Good for her and her pride.
I'm convinced it wasn't as bad as the west made it out to be.
@@RUTHLESSambition5 western propaganda is world class, everything we think we know we should question...the Anthrax was from Iraq right,oops from an US Army lab
Yea, she's a slave that would have never thought of running away.. and I'm sure the spawns of Satan are also proud of their demon heritage and Hell homeland.
@@RUTHLESSambition5it collapsed for a reason
@@caocacao-y7lFun Fact: the dissolution of the Soviet Union was illegal. And the last leader resigned rather than stop Boris Yeltsin.
From this, I understand both sides of the coin. She had everything she wanted. We have everything that advertisements tell us we want. She didn't know any different and now we have so much at our fingertips, we want what we have and what everyone else has too or we feel we cannot be happy. I do miss the simpler times.
Spot on.
Now people are chasing the "dreams" that they don't even need.
People were just happy and united back then
Silly take. Americans live off stealing from poorer and weaker nations. USSR HELPED poor nations. I know because I'm from such a nation the US destroyed.
@@StrongRespectNeighbor feuds resulted in snitching and accusations. The veneer of unity is a result of regimentation.
I do not have the things they show in advertisements XD
She probably didn’t have everything she wanted because there was no upwards mobility in society. Also, she was lucky: INSANE amounts of people were killed as a direct result of Communist ideology for doing nothing wrong, merely believing in a different system of government. You might think a capitalist country such as the U.S.A. has the same outcomes, but it does not. Never has there been mass killings of U.S. citizens on the same scale as Stalin, Pol Pot, or Mao.
Бабушка говорит правду. Большинство пожилых людей вспоминают с любовью и благодарностью СССР.
Да, деменция никого не щадит
@@79keydet, уважаемый, многие, как и я, выросшие и закончившие школу в СССР, вспоминаем те времена с любовью. Нам от 45 лет и у нас деменции нет)))
@@НатальяЛаврентьева-о1рнууу...
@@НатальяЛаврентьева-о1р "многие", это обычно немногочисленные детишки партэлиты или вертухаев. большинство помнит, какой голодный и нищенский песдец был в совке.
@@79keydet , хорошо) Скажу за себя. Родилась в 1975 в многочисленном рабочем поселке, где была больница на несколько корпусов. Получила отличное образование в сельской школе, которую закончили и мои родители. Отец работал мастером связи, мама учителем в вечерней школе. Жили в квартире, полученной от ненавистного Вам совка))) Каждый год меня возили на море: Черное, Каспийское, потом к бабушке, которая переехала в Запорожскую область, на Азовское. Сами родители ездили за границу по путевкам: Румыния, Югославия, Болгария, Чехословакия, ГДР... в Прибалтику. Да, это было не на одну зарплату. Отец был пчеловодом, охотником, рыболовом + много денег делали на обычных березовых вениках. В совке можно было заработать. Кто хотел - тот и жил. Все по-разному, но в целом это было не заметно.
Сейчас вроде все то же самое, да не то...
Где больница? Даже корпуса снесли...
Как с образованием? В школе, где было 3 учителя математики и 5 учителей русского и литературы, учитель истории преподает химию.
Как с работой? Почему мои родители не подались в город, как сейчас вся молодежь поголовно?
Население поселка в треть от прежнего: в большинстве пенсионеры, дачники, немногочисленные бюджетники и предприниматели... Ну и алкашни полно... В совке они тоже были, но в меньшинстве в основной благополучной массе.
Ну да, в 90е разруха, где-то нищета...
Но почему бы сейчас, в прекрасное по-вашему время, все не восстановить? Но нет, элита элите рознь. Это именно сейчас "правительство живет на другой планете, родной" (С)
Пы. Сы. ...а 90е я даже не заметила: у нас было всё: свои овощи, фрукты, мясо ( кролики, свинина), рыба.
Деньги только пропали на книжках, и не маленькие... Но это, оказалось, дело наживное)))
Общаясь со сверстниками (45 и старше), вспоминаем "совок" с теплой грустью. Это мой опыт)))
Ваш, наверное, другой... или Вы помоложе)))
Much love and respect to your grandmother.
Thank you , спасибо!! 🙏🏻
@@ElifromRussia oligarchs existed back then also. People called them party leaders or some other term. Now, wealth is displayed, back then people hid them in offshore banks.
@@ElifromRussiaWhat's funny is that most of those who lived under Ceaușescu's communism in Romania miss it too, and that's because there was order and discipline, everyone had a job and a home, and Romania's assets belonged to Romanians, not foreigners! The part with standing in line for food was only a few years towards the end (and only in the city, in the country side people ate very well anything at any time from their household, and many in the city had relatives in the country side) to achieve the impossible: pay off all the debts, which happened (Romania being the only country in the world and in history that has achieved such a thing), and for that Ceaușescu received a bullet in the head! And the country is now rotten with corruption and is skinned from all sides: Austria is cutting down our forests and taking away our gas, human trafficking has wreaked havoc and filled Europe with Romanian prostitutes, missing children, parents are abroad for work and children alone at home without a reference in life, the food is all imported, the capital has moved to Brussels, the birth rate drops dramatically, woe is us!
@@ElifromRussia she reminds me of my Бабушка Она Очень красивая
@@2HN. The difference between real modern oligarchs, who have inadequate wealth that they are not able to spend in a lifetime, and those "party leaders" who were just somewhat richer than the rest and had access to imported goods is so huge that it is not clear how you could come up with such an "argument". Any worker could afford to travel to resorts or buy a car.
Prekrasno ,prekrasno ,prekrasno babushka je divna !! Volimo vas !!🇷🇸♥️🇷🇺♥️
Ive heard those stories a lot, i was born right after ussr collapse in Poland.
That is great, Polshi all from what I hear dislike the socialism they had. I know Poland wasnt very stable at the time but I always thought that being indebted to Germany and a dog of America today must be worse than the socialist Poland.
@@daseapickleofjustice7231no, life is better now, at least we have freedom! I can shit on my government, protest and not go to jail. I don’t have rations. I don’t stand in line for 3h to buy bread. People with kids with disability are not hiding them because they are ashamed they are “different”. I don’t have to work 6 days a week and I can go for vacation abroad, because I am allowed to have a passport. The only people who miss communism in Poland are people who were connected to the party and had special benefits, everyone else had a shitty poor life, so yes as the “babushka” said we were all equal, because we were all poor! 😂😂😂😂 no one from my family misses communism, because nobody in my family betrayed their country to get special benefits. Also maybe now we are a “dog” to USA (which we chose ourselves), but back then we were a “bitch” of Russia and that was worse. Honestly, NO ONE in Poland wants russian occupation back. I know lots of people who were poor as kids and now have good money thanks to hard work. in communism it would be impossible.
@@daseapickleofjustice7231 not worse just different vassaldom
@@sportsfisher9677 I mean statistically worse by a lot but if Poland had been a vassal of the CCCP Poland wouldnt have had political crisis during the 80s
@@daseapickleofjustice7231why would you think so? I am curious
Many won't understand what she menas with "we were like people". Today we're not treated like humans beings, we're not treated even as a living thing. Sad that babushka had to die seeing the world the way it is.
Saying that this nasty regime treated people like people is the biggest lie ever. No, they most certainly didn't. Unless you were high in certain positions. You as an individual had no saying in anything, even what you're going to do after school. Where you'll work or live, even which potato you'll buy in a shop. If there are any potatoes.
I'm not sure the millions of displaced people , those who went to Gulags, those of starved to death would agree with you. older generations that survived idealize the Soviet era because they have forgot what was bad about these era just like boomers in the west think it was better before .
@@Zvaigzdute14 have you lived in that system and experienced it first hand?
no lmfao
@@someguy4512 my parents have experienced full "joy" of it. I know full well what im talking about. Persecutions, horrible treatment of the individuals, horrible health care, propaganda, lack of basic things in the shops etc.
@@Zvaigzdute14 can you tell me which decade? 1930's isn't 1960's onward to over generalise this is just pure rubbish not gonna lie.
and based on ur name i will assume your latvian, which is interesting . . .
I cannot fail to leave a comment to this gracious grandmother who, with her testimony, which is monumental for all of us, has struck me deeply.
I've heard many people who lived through the Soviet period say the same things about your grandmother.
I respect this grandmother and give her my best regards and hugs.
Thank you so much for these warmest words, I am so touched 🥹🙏🏻
Your grandmother is very tender and I feel from the bottom of my heart that she deserves appreciation. 🫂
Ive watched quite a bit of Bald and Bankrupt's videos as well and he travels all around former soviet union places and the vast majorities of older people he asks similar questions too also really liked it better when it was all the soviet union.
Its really rough seeing how many of them feel much worse off now
No, before now, I didn't know this youtuber who, out of curiosity, took a tour of his channel and noticed that he travels a lot too. Surely her contents are also very informative, however, if I also watch her videos I will necessarily have to stop watching Elina's channel. 😜😎
Surely all the elderly of the world, who have reached senility, see the world changed and, in some respects, for the worse; we will see it too. But in Russia the change is particular because the change that is taking place all over the world in this historical period is strange and ambiguous and in Russia there is more than a degree of sensitivity to this change almost to bear an anguish because of the fact that too much change is being made from one excess to another which is never good.
The elderly have a much deeper way of seeing and try to warn us that we are doing something wrong. We should listen more to our elders and perhaps make real guides out of their knowledge.
@@Frranc1s Because everything they built in their lifetime went to several people. A couple hundred people became very rich, and the elderly plunged into poverty. Supporters of capitalism consider this the norm.
Спасибо этой уважаемой женщине за правду.
Your Grandma is Right ❤ best wishes for wise Women.
Except they weren't all equal at all.
Lots of respect for your Babushka, from Singapore 🙏
I truly feel her joy for her СССР days. I wish her a peacefilled life with excellent health and true happiness.
Great days.....I mean not for Ukrainians starving to death due to holodomor, not for Estonian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Germans etc deported and killed in gulag to replace them with russians in their own countries...but aside from that, what a wonderful time
Wut??
Singapore 🇸🇬 is the Cccp and USSR combined you live in a one party state ruled by the people’s action party pap and controlled by the yew family there is no democracy !!!!! No wonder we Australians fly over that place to England and the USA, we don’t have stop for jet ✈️ fuel anymore!!!!!
Ussr was like heaven for everyone 😂😂😂😂😂 uraaaaa uraaaa uraaa
Here comes the alien from mars…sorry Singapore
my grandma told me the same things, she was living in Communist Hungary and she said that life was a lot easier and slower. You worked, ate and had fun at life, no complicated things to worry about. People were simply equal ordinary humans, having lot better communities than today, people came together everyday and played, talked and simply enjoyed life
Not everyone was equal though. People who were friends with people in the ruling party were more equal than others, while people with different ideas and criticism on the ruling party were MUCH LESS equal than others.
@@birgerbaert6175 True, but that also sounds exactly like the world today lmao
Ordinary humans= work drones, bots, NPCs...
You couldnt travel, you couldnt have your dreams... Exactly as you said. You could only sleep,eat,work, repeat.
Thats not a life.
@@birgerbaert6175So basically, what every capitalist country was doing? Nepotism and cronyism was rife not only in the ussr but was actually felt to a higher extent in other countries
We’re talking about the masses however.
Babushka is absolutely right: THEY HAD A PURPOSE IN LIFE.
What purpose exactly
😅😅😅
All Russians were drunk during the Soviet era. No purpose.
Now they simply can't afford it. Because they'll starve to death.
What purpose of life of ppl who were in Gulag?
@@cyriljanda253 She was not in the gulag same as the mass majority of russian people. You do not know what are you talking about. Stop propaganda.
@@ComboMusteraccording to official statistics around 18 million people passes through the Gulag. It’s insane amount of human lives destroyed
@@justVernezi At the beginning yes, those were turbulent times, civil war, new social system, chaos, famine, paranoia, etc those were times never seen in world history. Those times always create innocent victims and it is not particular to Russia. Babushka never lived those times, she refers after. Not all of those died.
Her babushka is now OUR babushka
Edit:mommy im famous
OUR
@@DemocraticRepublicOfAmericaп2тп2лщ
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@@Donny-eb8hrAs a tatar, I can confirm
Im a russian
Здоровья и долголетия бабушке!
Babushka reminded me in the old good days when I was in Romania. God bless her with good health.
Rural babushkas in Eastern Europe Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria,Romania and so on are very much alike.they seem to have the same dress code😂
@@EdReddish184 I'm Romanian & that's exactly what I was thinking. 😂 She looks like my grandma
Our family made a swift exit from Romania when the dictator started knocking down swaths of Bucharest to build a palace for himself and food/heat was not easy to come by. Communism sucks
She made a mistake, should be no rich only poor
@@dyawr universal East European rural vibes.
Long Live your grand Mother ,God bless her.
Grandma dropping the truth bombs. I love how she just ignores what you say/ask and keeps going. 😂
She doesn't know of all the intellectuals and dissidents being murdered or sent to camps for a slow painful death. She's a product of life long propaganda.
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
based Grandma 🗿
@@ishredder4006huh
@@ishredder4006nothing about communism is based. She remembers it well because it was good for her and her people at first. Just like how many old Germans would look back at the Third Reich and talk so fondly about it because they were looking at it through a nostalgic lense. The soviets and the nazis have done amazing things for their own community but both spread terror and misery in other communities.
Thank you documenting this. It's important to get the perspective of people who actually lived in history rather that only getting the point of view from history books.
Well, you can’t really get the perspective of any dissenters because they’re all dead.
@@tickbrick1except that’s clearly not true
@@Bobsaget121 Except it clearly is
Grandma has Alzheimer's! Maybe you should learn about the Holodomor or "The Chekist" first. Solshenizyn's "adventures" during his 8 years in Gulag will haunt you in your dreams.
@@atheistfromaustriaThe “Holodomor” is a made-up term. I believe you’re referring to the 1932 famine. Which was caused by bad weather and Kulak sabotage. The Soviet government immediately closed the borders of the republics affected (Kazakhstan mainly - the border closing might not be understood until you realise it stops food export), and aid was sent to affected areas.
Chekists were a product of the chaos of their time and didn’t kill enough.
Solzhenitsyn is a fiction writer and has been discredited not only by all historians but also by his own wife. He called Andrey Vlasov, famed Holocaust collaborator and Nazi general, a “hero”
Grandmother clearly doesn’t have Alzheimer’s, I know people who do and she shows 0 signs. She speaks well and doesn’t get confused.
What she is saying is precious. She’s trying to explain equality which we don’t have now.
She was brainwashed and she is still living in that false reality.
Equality in being nothing
There was never true equality. Probably less disparity than today, but the politically connected lived lavishly, She just wouldn't have seen it because they didn't mingle in working class circles. Communism is fine for smaller scale communities. Unless we can fundamentally alter human nature it just doesn't work at a large scale. Eventually have to centralize power to be able to effectively run a country, and eventually power corrupts.
You can see the inequality now where the poor minorities and prisoners go to the cannon fodder brigades and the better off in big cities don’t.
@@GeraldBeagan-ee6se You are stuck at (the country) where you live. If you look around in other Countries you’ll find how deadly capitalism turned out for them.
Your Grandma are so damn right! Thank you very much for the clip!❤❤❤ All the best to you and your family. Cheers from Dresden, former GDR.
Eli ...she meant to say that your richness will be the richness of your community.the happiness was spread evenly among the rest.The que in the shops was at the last days 80s & 90s .ты ее не перебивай. (respect)
wtf that's MY NAME TALK STALKER
Nobody was happy in USSR. I remember it well. This rewriting of history is sad. You would not enjoy going to the dentist without them using anesthetics and you would not enjoy wiping your butt with newspaper because in USSR we had no toilet paper.
Everyone WASNT poor. You just didn't see the rich.
You missed her point. There were no poor. Everyone had their needs met.
@@rinas6550no they didn’t many starved to death ever heard of the holodamor. That’s what happens when you give the government to much unchecked power.
@@rinas6550 Hahaha tell that to the Ukranians during the Holodomor famine (and yes, they were part of the USSR). Isn't history fun? Cheers from my 2 story American house.
No, they werent poor...they had everything... Hollywood manipulated you hard
@@rinas6550Ah yes the famously prosperous soviet union, just ignore all the Genocides and Starvation.
My mother was born in '63 and grew up in Kazakhstan... In '95 we moved to Germany.
She often told me how life was simple in the USSR and that she had a happy, stable life and didnt miss much... Everyone had work and if you didnt like a workplace you could easily find something else... Food, water, electricity, housing was really cheap and education was for free (Soviet universities had high standards, though of course technology-wise they were behind the west)... Her family (grandparents and her siblings) wasnt rich, but we werent poor either... It's true, you couldnt drink Cocal Cola evry day or go to Paris... But some people dont even want that.
Yeah, right, happy and stable life, what a pile of bullshit. 25 milliions died in gulags, empty stores, communist terror, domestic migration restrictions, occupation of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia.... Seriously? Never heard of that? 1968 Prague invasion by soviet troops, come on.... Your mother must have lived in some other country, not USSR..... She was just younger, prettier and healthier, THATS IT.
Coca Cola - full of Sugar
Paris - full of Riots..
So you were of German ancestry??
My father in law was perfectly happy building his soviet dacha, growing fruit and vegetables, and making samogon from potatoes 🙂 He never travelled overseas, even after perestroika. Mother in law was totally different and travelled many times to Europe and the UK.
Did your mother or grandmother told you about Aşarşılıq in 1932-1933 in Kazakhstan. It was hunger caused by Stalin when half of the population of Kazakhstan died.
Great ussr, but not for 4 mln of Kazakhs who died in that time. Yeah?
This is so odd. All my grandparents from the soviet union talk about it like any other country, like, "oh, back in the soviet union, your father fell off a tree and broke his arm", but when asked tp describe it's differences, it is clear they like the country they emigrated to better.
my parents and my grandma say the same. I was in born in 1985 and I got to see a bit of ussr life and it was amazing, remember how we used to have a big family, relatives, friends who always met at my grandma house and it was a special atmosphere back then. Cost-Free education for everyone, medical services for free, unemployment close none and no one made you go through countless interviews. Life was stable and you were sure in tomorrow. My other grandma received a three flat room for free as a present from the factory she worked for
Some grandparents got free apartments, my grandparents had their homes burned by soviet soldiers lol. I don't know what kind of soviet union this old babushka is talking about, it's definutely not what my family lived through.
@@jailejeu Were your Grandparents selfishly hiding Grain?
Collaborating with Nazis?
Rich Assholes?
aww poor you
@@jailejeu If they had their houses burned, they obviously did something bad. Most likely trying to build wealth, or being religious, or some other type of thing.
@@jailejeu where are you from?
@@kjbrandman grandparents were Lemko
well said. my grandmother has the same thoughts. the great generation
BS
@@marekniedzwiecki7663🤡
@@marekniedzwiecki7663Did you single-handedly defeat the most evil country in history? Didn’t think so
то, что она сказала, это абсолютная правда, она такая честная и мудрая женщина.
No. She is not.
she spoked Tatar at some point. we're the Tatars ethnically cleansed from their lands, dicriminated against by the state?
@@Zvaigzdute14 Yes, she is.
@@gabidiac3285 you do know that the Tatars try to conquer Russia. Nowadays they live like all the other Russians.
Why always look in the past?
Бабушка с обычной советской прошивкой
Yes ......life was far better in USSR Era.....i felt it...... although I have never been there.....I am 57 yrs old...... love and respect to former Soviet union and to Russia now......🌺🌿🌹🌷💐🥀🪷🌸🏵️🌸🌿🌱🌾🍁🪻....from India 🇷🇺🇮🇳
Now she's ✨OUR✨ Babushka 🇮🇳❤️🇷🇺
Russia is not Soviet Union. We need to come out of this mindset!
❤ LISTEN TO YOUR MOTHER
Lmao yeah better not invite her over your place cause im pretty sure you'll make she your germs also become hers through your famed indian "food".
@@aaradhyarawat7589what's wrong with that mindset? And no-one is being delusional, just being nostalgic.
Yes please. A full interview with your grandma about her life in the USSR
Been watching videos from Russia for years and have never seen one Soviet era citizen say they didn't like the Soviet days. Capitalism destroyed their towns and villages, and reduced everyone to absolute poverty.
I have seen some people from the Eastern bloc and some gusanos (“Cubans” from Florida) say that, but after talking with them (not gusanos, they’ll never change) they seem to offer a nuanced perspective, most didn’t even live when it was actually good, and only lived in the bad times.
Hundred percent right 👍
@@socire72In Germany the former GDR gets really demonised, but despite that many residents of the East to this day have nostalgia for their communist past. We call that "Ostalgie"
@@Yingele it’s almost like putting up a big wall and killing anyone that tries to escape is worthy of demonizing. Ohh yeah, don’t forget the stasi who would lock you up for thought crimes. There’s also the fact that west Germany ended up being miles ahead of east Germany and is still far ahead of it to this day. Wow, I never thought a country that had to put up a wall to keep people in might be a country worth leaving. How many people were also nostalgic of the mustached man after ww2? People were also nostalgic of slavery and Jim Crow. Just because people are nostalgic doesn’t mean their feelings have any objective validity. Jesus Christ, I don’t get how that’s such a hard concept to grasp. I’m sure if North Korea fell and reunification happened tomorrow that there’d be people nostalgic for the Kim regime. Does that mean it was in any way redeemable?
Soviet soldiers burned the villages of my Rusyn ancestors to a crisp and forcibly displaced their entire community. They were Lemko Rusyn, feel free to look up what happened to the community under Soviet rule. Then find some survivors of the Holodomor and ask them what they think of the Soviet Empire.
It’s nice that your grandmother lives with you, altogether- no gets ‘thrown away’.
My grandmother would probably have said the same, as she also lived in soviet time. She passed away, long time ago, so please Elina give a very big hug and kiss from me to your grandma.❤❤❤
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
My mum also loved in the Soviet Union and she says it was a pretty great time…
Great, nice to meet you, Bolshevik
Because they were young and bolshevik. And they liked their assignments
@@juanantonio3487 my mum was like, 30 when the Soviet Union fell and she was really smart in these types of things. But I agree
@@kittyaya3425 Try to like soviet union in Czechia, were 2% of the population was forced to be an py for the government. Or in Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan, were most of the population was forced to work in cotton fields for minimum wage for 14 hours.
Or being a georgian in mafiosi Kutaisi.
Or an armenian in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) where they were getting fucked in their own historical territory by both, russians and turk azeris.
Or try to be a Christian anywhere.
Or try to be an artist that the regime wouldn't like
Or try to earn some money for you and your future without the likes of the CP
Try to move yourself from a shitty assignment
And I won't talk what could happen to you if you fell sick, therefore a rare or complicated disease. In the western capitalist countries would say to you "pay for your shit", in the socialists would say "we will provide you whatever you need, but we are going to ruin your tax outcome for coverage", in Soviet times was "blyat, sorry brat, medical aid is "free", but we can't help you here and we are not allowed to send you to Moscow, unless you are famous or a foreign country pays a lot of money to still get you attended poorly".
Now she is not your mom
She is our mom
Masha'Allah may God give you and your family health and happiness.
@@AmritDillonnot true. Christians had it worse then Muslims but it was not banned it was just suppressed
@maxwolf8055there is no place for Religion in communism
Alhamdulillah, God have mercy on you and I
@maxwolf8055 do not cover your wife and sisters and mother from now on! The faith is not what you force people to wear👍💖💪🇮🇱🙏🕊️
@maxwolf8055 MuhamMAD was a baptized Jew , people his people did not accept him, Do he invented the moon and star to worshiper whom hide under ground like Rate only to come out to kill 1400 innocent people. 💖💪🇮🇱🙏
Tu abuelita es una joya...y sus recuerdos valiosísimos, muchos mirábamos a la URRS de lejos con admiración, soñando con ese modelo, para tener más justicia en nuestros pueblos.... saludos desde México ❤
such a beautiful moment. Thanks
My greatest salute to the Great Soviet people! 🙏
From the Philippines.
Only Socialism is the answer to Philippine poverty
Soviet people doesn't exist and never did, only russians who cry about the lost empire. And you are not from Philippines, you are from Spain Empire. Same logic, you are a Spanish subordinate.
Your grandma is so nice! Take care of her
Thank you, I will!
какая бабушка милая ,дай Боже ей здоровья ❤
You can see all the older folk were proud of the soviet union. It obviously had many problems, but it was a force to be reckoned with.
Lmao, all old people throughout the world are the same; nostalgia is a powerful thing.
Usually the younger someone is the more he/she hates the Soviet Union… most of old people I’ve met tells good about it.
@@SCARRIOR Time changes quick and history is constantly rewritten ,and the young and old are always played out since Television is invented . The two most important groups in human society are the kids and the old , they deserve the most care and Respect so they won,t make the same mistakes again and again . And governments dont like that they love to control that part , that why family and unity Is the most important , And love this Babuska Peace from Amsterdam
Its a hard one to judge. Everyone remembers history their way because it uniquely happened to them. It. My life history is no one else's etc...
It is funny though. I went to Laos a few years back and they are just becoming a capitalist market inside a communist system of governance.
And *im being 100% serious when. I say outside of taxi drivers trying to scam extra money from tourists. The mindset of the people is very versatile honest. The things I bought and places I ate at and stayed people thought it was strange if I offered to pay extra or tip or give some money for some trip tips and things... they had a very humble but proud of each other helping each other mindset and that carried through, even in the stall pop up markets. It was EVERYONE helping everyone type thing.
You don't really get that community mindset in modern capitalist nations at all.
That life was all they knew.
Man older generation is a different cut of cloth from us. I mean it in a good way. They seem to value the good things than the negative things. I'm sure their were some not so good things during the USSR, but she just remembered the good times.
Ye only a few tens of millions of people died of famine and a couple were sent to the gulags
It was ALL she knew! To suddenly have so many changes & choices, must have been overwhelming for many. Lots of chaos and adjusting, too. Takes time for the change to be adapted.🤷♀️
Look at the united states , it is dead and falling down around me , my country is dead but walks like a zombie
lol keep coping
@@uituituituituituit no bro 10000 million ded in famin
Eli, I can understand the last words your grandma said 😱 I am Turkish. Lots of kisses to her ❤
WONDERFUL TATARS. WONDERFUL RUSSIAN PEOPLE
She is tatar
Working people of the world: unite!
😆 communism is slavery.
Yes give ur money and time to the ruling elite in Moscow and St. Petersburg and die in a wunderschönen war for imperial expansion!
🤡🤡🤡
@@ChichaGad🤡🤡🤡
Let’s go. Love the USSR, they helped my country
Maximum respect to Comrade Babushka! ☭
Я тебя люблю, бабушка !❤ seriously she is fantastic . I love your channel. I’ve been learning Russian since the 1st lockdown . I’ve always wanted to come visit . Now even more so.
Эля, может, ты не замечаешь, но ты создаёшь и определенный образ страны, то есть работаешь на страну тоже. И надо сказать, делаешь это хорошо)
Бабушка говорит о том, что деньги и богатство не были определяющей целью, мы были прежде всего людьми и ценились человеческие качества. Это похоже на то, когда ты чувствуешь субъективную оценку заграницей, когда тебя оценивают не потому, какой ты человек, а потому откуда ты и что у тебя есть, «взвешивают» тебя ;)
А это не всегда приятно ;)
Если кратко, то люди в Союзе были настоящими, было намного меньше фальши, сейчас слишком много «наносного»…
Привет бабушке, красавица)
What I think she's trying to tell you is that ppl may not have had material wealth/variety but they had a stronger sense of community and everyone supported each other more
Edit: my comment is merely a reflection of how she seems to describe the Soviet Union. But... seems like there's some ppl here that like to pop up like a whack-a-mole and say "YeS bY sNyTcHiNg EaCh OtHeR".
I really don't care what you think about what I just said, but if you wanna waste your time and mine with those type of pointless replies - be my guest, it's not getting under my skin and it's your freetime wasted.
Нет, моему отцу и моей матери в СССР дали квартиры в Москве, сейчас они стоят каждая около 2 миллиона долларов, им дали потому что они просто работали, всегда была еда, всё было по одной цене
@@Ivan_Polyak Her next two stories talk about the time the police wouldn't let her mother leave the collective farm to feed her baby who ended up dying... and her main diet consisting of nettle plant
It's all lies, though. The entire premise to communism is total obliteration of what came before. So much blood was shed trying to get rid of Russia Orthodox Christianity, but all attempts failed. Let's not forget that commies invented gulags which housed unwanted people that were used as the backbone to industrialize Russia. Slavery built the USSR, whether people like this woman can acknowledge it or not.
Ohh yes they supported each other so much that snitching to the secret police and getting people sent to the gulag wasn’t uncommon. How many millions died bc of this “stronger sense of community”?
@@blankface5052 I don't actually know what it was like to grow up in the Soviet Union, I just said what I perceived from the old woman, so calm your damn tits... besides,
look at all the upvotes I got! It must be true then
Your grandmother is wonderful. Please pass her my best wishes.
Also in my home country, Poland ,the situation was very similar. Shop lines, food stamps, buying a car or an apartment was a miracle you had been waiting for 4 several years!
Shes so cute. Very wise woman
Following this video, Germans can show their grandmothers saying how good they were under Hitler.
Masha Allah ❤ grand maa is still strong , looks like my mom
You can choose what you want on the market only if you have money to buy it and that's what everyone who lived in the URSS always says. Today some can buy airplanes, while others can't buy food and don't have a house.
I can’t compare with a personal experience if it was better back then or now but one thing I am sure about is that we will all say that it was better when we were young: we are full of energy, excited about life and for anyone being young it feels better than when you barely move and don’t have exciting plans. Imho 🙌🏻😊
@@ElifromRussiaну на улицах определенно не было столько матерящихся школьников и вообще неуважительного отношения друг к другу в обществе.
@@ElifromRussia i think the average russian are more wealthy than back then, but like your grandma say, the old system seemed to have some stress free advantage...
Trabajar en occidente no te basta para tener una casa propia y eso sin contar las facturas y el coche, una persona que no puede tener un hogar trabajando es muestra de que no hay libertad
@@gizel4376Not true actually. In 1985 (before Gorbachev ruined the economy) the USSR was the largest economy in the world, and the wealth was evenly spread too. Now, Russia by itself isn’t even close, most countries haven’t grown at all that were in the USSR for example Ukraine.
Listen to your grandmother! She knows what she is talking about!
I agree with your grandma
I have heard the same from others in that generation I have asked, it was a simpler time with less income inequality like today. In America, my grandparents generation also had much more community and pride in their country than we have today. It is very different. Thank you for sharing your beautiful family with us
Yes, back then everybody on a certain peice of land was more or less very similar to each other, which is what creates the strong tribal bond we call community.
@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013Russia was an incredibly diverse country. Even the people in the video are not ethnic Russians, but Tatars.
The US too was insanely diverse compared to basically any other country in the world. The bloodiest wars are always between similar people.
And criminals and tyrants tend to target people from their ethnicity.
Lovely lady! Gosh, she has seen so much.
Nice video. From Denmark cph 🇩🇰🇷🇺
Lots of respect to her. People should be proud of their country and take care of each other like good friends.
Should the British be proud of the British Empire? What about the Germans? Japanese? French? Why should she be proud of the last Imperialist empire in history, and yes, the Soviets were the most recently to Imperialize, even more recently than China in Tibet, with their conquests into Hungary during the Hungarian Revolution. Why look at the Soviet Empire positively when it colonized all of Eastern Europe and Central Asia while the US just liberated, it was the 20th century, and the Soviets talked about how evil colonialism was yet they were the only last colonialists of the 2nd half of the 20th.
The French and the British dismantled their empires before the Russians did. That's a fact.
Russians kept their empire til the 90s.
Brits/French broke it down way before that.
America ended our empire in 1945 with the liberation of Philippines, and stopped conquering in 1900.
If you think the French should be proud of conquering Africa, then I guess you are consistent, but if not, then you are hypocritical. If the Soviets are proud of their evil empire, then the French should be proud of their less evil but still evil empire.
@b.ballooon9225, Hahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahhaahhaahhahahaahahhahahah
@@b.ballooon9225Hungary was not imperialism, it was meddling in foreign affairs, like the USA does today. The USSR did not colonise Europe, these areas have similar cultures and have been together a long time, likeUkraine Russia and Belarus. UK and France’s empires are still going, I’m living in a place colonised by the British, they had death squads here to murder our people for being the opposite religion. The USA is literally 100% colonised. The Native Americans are the only people that helped us during the British genocide of us, so I think they deserve their land back.
@@b.ballooon9225 US liberates?? 😂
@@adk5997 yes, the US choose to liberate Philippines in 45 rather than reconquer it. Every other society in history would have conquered it. But US choose to do the unprecedented. What no other had done before. The US choose global self determination for all.
As a Vietnamese, I think I needn't say anything to show out how we respect and love СССР❤
Rip from ex-Soviet citizen. ❤
I admire your bravery and courage. Small thin Vietnamese won Americans... You are great !!!
You should do a full interview with your grandma, it would be amazing.
What a load of bullcrap, my parents and grandparents lived in Poland which at the time was russian puppet. There was no equality, people with high position in the government and some celebrities which were less than 1 percent of popularion were Rich and everybody else was very poor. My mom Lived with her 5 sibling, her parents, her grandparents, and grand grand parents in small house. At winter it was cold, shelves in stores vere empty, inflation was skyrocketing. Dont be fooled with this russian propaganda!
Bless this old lady. She must have so much history to share.
Your Grandma is adorable, and she makes very good points. The USSR wasn’t without its problems like any other nation. But the ideals of social collectivism, everybody equal and working towards the betterment of their society for the benefit of all - that is to be admired.
Love your vids as always Eli ❤
There is a old saying that the Communist system will actually work if every human being is as pure and full of goodless as Jesus! too bad most of us is sinner so a system against human nature/instinct will never ever work on this planet! that is my opinion only of course
Yeah. I feel bad for those who lost their country to oligarchy. What happened after the dissolution was the greatest theft of the 20th century
I would just like to point out respectfully, that the colonies of the Soviet Empire, do not have the same positive view of it as the colonizers.
Hungarians. Estonians. Ukrainians. Poles. Latvians. Lithuanians. Czechs. They do not have a very happy memory of the Soviet Empire because it wasn't their ethnicity on top of it, it was the Russians, with the Warsaw Colonies and SSR Provinces being annexed colonies/Imperial buffers for the Moscow centric Empire. From 18 million sent to gulags which reduced the populations of Eastern Europe and carved the way for the high Russian populations you see in Estonia and Ukraine and Moldova today. Ethnic cleansings under Stalin including Baltic peoples and Tatars from Crimea.
For most outside of the direct benefit of the Kremlin (So basically non-Russians and non-Georgians) the Soviet Empire was a nightmare, not a time of nostalgia. Feeling nostalgia for the Soviet Empire is a lot like feeling nostalgia for the French Empire or German Empire or Japanese Empire, they don't miss the government, they miss being on top of the world, being able to tell other smaller groups of people what they can and cannot do. The only people who tend to feel nostalgia for these empires are the ones who directly benefitted off of it. The only superpower in history other smaller powers have benefited off of is the USA, as the US has used its power to allow smaller nations to engage in trade without directly submitting themselves to the US, something unprecedented in human history. In the past, if you wanted a navy to protect your trade, you needed to be part of some massive empire, nowadays, America does it for the entire world for free. So as Superpowers go, America is a weird exception, but most superpowers just conquered and abused, Soviets were the same, and those who got abused by them and dominated and colonized tend not to feel positive about said empire.
America has done some Imperialism in the past, but not recently, not in the last 120 years. While the Soviets literally annexed Eastern Europe while the US liberated the West. My point is that Empires that solely built themselves on conquest and abusing smaller nations (rather then helping them and working with them and pursuing trade/diplomatic victory like the US has), which sadly most empires do, conquering smaller nations, tend not to be popular to those who got conquered.
@@b.ballooon9225 Except over 70% of the soviet population as a whole voted to keep the country together
@@ZORGIN Uh cause of the majority Russians and the brainwashed Central Asians (who sadly have yet to break free of Russian Ethnat Communist brainwashing). You cannot just only count the Russians and ignore the numbers from everyone else.
But the Hungarians? They fought a revolution, you cannot possibly argue they wanted to stay in the Soviet Empire when Viktor Orban was one of the men who led the charge against Communism and the Soviet Empire and for Hungarian Independence. Why he loves Putin today is unclear (I know why he dislikes Brussels, they are too woke, fair enough, but why not be like Poland, anti-woke and anti-Russian Imperialism). But yah, Hungarians fought a revolution and Orban helped led the charge against Kremlin rule in Eastern Europe.
Poles had revolts, and actually blackmailed the US into getting into NATO, meaning the US didn't expand NATO into Eastern Europe, Eastern Europe pressured NATO to expand, opposite of the Russian narrative. Eastern Europe was about to march on Moscow if Gorbachev didn't let the go free, similar to the Indians and the British, if the British didn't' let them go free, the Indians would have kicked them out by force. Same goes for Eastern Europe. If Gorbachev wasn't smart enough to let them go free, the Warsaw Colonies and SSR provinces would have marched on Moscow and freed themselves.
Among most of the colonies it was vastly unpopular.
As I said. The colonized do not love the empire, only the colonizers love it (Russians/Georgians).
Nobody else in the Soviet Empire actually had a good time, the Central Asians are just led by puppet dictators who ruthlessly suppress and brainwash them, the Eastern Europeans luckily had enough of a memory of their past history to recognize that what they had in the Soviet Empire was slavery and vassalage.
The only people who look fondly upon those times are the Imperialist Russians who benefitted from it. All the colonized people from Estonia to Poland to Hungry do not love that time. I'm half-Hungarian. I'm telling you. Even though many do not support Ukraine, they HATE the Soviet Empire too. They may not support Ukraine (Many do, but some do not, heavily due to the language discrimination minority Hungarians and Romanians face, hopefully on July 12th this gets dealt with and Biden strongarms Zelensky into letting the Hungarians and Romanians teach their languages in schools in their regions)> Basically that is the reason they do not support Ukraine, nothing to do with loving the Soviets.
I don't know where you get your stats from. But I can promise you, that 70% is probably of Russians and Georgians. 70% of Russians/Georgians miss the Soviet Empire.
Maybe not even Georgians, as you pissed a lot of them off with your annexation of their land.
But I would say at least 80% of the rest of Eastern Europe, so the SSRs and the Warsaw Colonies, all despise the Soviet Empire.
I can promise you that while Hungarians may have some beef with Ukraine, and Turks beef with Finns/Swedes, at the end of the day, we all have way more beef with the Russians than each other. Y'all shouldn't have invaded all of your neighbors, now they all distrust your Kremlin and its Imperialism (as they should), from Finland to Turkey to Persia (Sure, they have a common enemy with you now, but historically you are enemies, and soon you will be again), even China wants Manchuria back and will take it from you when the time is right.
Russia has no allies left, just a few vassals in Belarus, Syria, and Central Asia, which are also being stolen by China.
I promise you, most of Russia's neighbors do NOT like Russia, this is because you have constantly abused them throughout history, this is why NATO "expanded", because Eastern Europeans saw that you were going to start reconquests again (which you did) and wanted to pre-emptively secure safety by joining NATO. Poland blackmailed the US into getting into NATO, not the other way around. Search it up. Most of these nations desperately wanted into NATO cause they knew every time Russia collapses they come back and try to conquer Eastern Europe again. This time you're having some trouble thanks to NATO.
NATO is not a threat to Russia, NATO is a threat to Russian Imperialism. And I LOVE IT!
Eastern Europe is done with Russian domination and Imperialism, done with being colonies and buffer states for the Kremlin. They want to be free. You need to accept that. Stop telling yourself lies to justify Imperialism. The Chinese tell themselves the same thing. They actually tell themselves that Japan is a colony and therefore conquering Japan is justified to "liberate them". Yah....China, who lost tens of millions, wants to go out of their way to "Liberate" Japan. But that's the narrative, that's what they claim. Nah man, they want to conquer and take all their women, just like your Russian Ethnat Ultranationalists want to do to Ukraine. You aren't liberating, you're annexing. Pretty obvious. Ukraine wants to be part of EU/NATO, not a Russian colony. Taiwan and Japan and Korea want to be independent democracies, not provinces of the new CCP Dynasty. You guys need to get over this idea that the areas around you belong to you. They do not. They belong to the nations that control them. Taiwan belongs to Taiwan. Ukraine belongs to Ukraine. Estonia belongs to Estonia. Japan belongs to Japan.
You need to get that through your heads. They are self-determining independent nations and they can ally with WHOEVER they want. You are allied with Cuba and Venezuela, do you see America invading either of them? And even if we did, would we try to annex them? The answer to both is no. The US doesn't forcefully annex people, and we need more of a casus belli than "Ally" to try to even invade someone, let alone conquer them like Russia is attempting. Japan, Ukraine, Korea, Taiwan, India, THEY ARE ALL FREE TO JOIN WHATEVER ALLIANCE THEY WANT.
Какая милая Бабушка 💚♡❤ Автору благодарность Респект подписка
We Never Forget Soviet Union, from VietNam with love
Hope Vietnam stays socialist and communist for generations..
Keep this filthy communism. We broke free from this nasty system and are absolutely happy we did.
@@sk-dr8zuthey have a healthy mix of capitalism and socialism
Long live brave Vietnamese people❤
@@9iht6ihgt43rzhijj nothing about socialism is healthy.
Бабушке здоровья , все правильно говорит 👍
I think there's one thing we can all agree on - the Soviet National Anthem is by far - the greatest national anthem ever written.
You never been to America then
@@jimcatanzaro7808 Dude I'm american our national anthem is the gayest.
@@jimcatanzaro7808 As a combat veteran of the US Army who was born in raised in America - I can tell you - you are wrong. Thanks.
@@vgrepairsmade my day
Azerbaijan trust me
Слава Советской Родине!
Gotta understand that after WW2 countries around the world were terrified of another Nazi style invasion 😔❤ Blessings to Ya'll
Мой папа таджик, мама русская, папа очень любил СССР, он говорит, что он советский человек, что было очень хорошо, дружили, любили, работали, люди были честные. Он сейчас живут в Таджикистане и вспоминает те времена с любовью.
Спасибо, что поделились!🙏🏻🤍
🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭🌹🌹🕊️
Интересно, знают ли ваши родители, любители СССР, что Сталин убил больше людей, чем Гитлер? знают ли они, что голодание целых наций, смешение наций через депортации, нацистские лагеря для военнопленных, геноцид были частью этого режима? они знают что советский союз начал 2 мировую войну как агрессор и союзник гитлера?
Я родилась в Таджикистане 😊
God bless your Grandmother Elina. 'hope you're all getting along without your father.
I can see the true patriotism in her life when she says that they work for their country and everything is fine and no one is left behind ❤❤❤
No one left behind when everyone is sitting at the bottom 😂
Какая очаровательная бабушка! Долгих лет жизни !
Happy for your grandma. The reply for you about " I work for myself " speaks perfectly about our generation.
😢❤ Здоровья бабушке и долгих лет жизни!
I find that grandparents of previous generation often long for the good old days, no matter what government was. They forget the bad, and remember the good times, when they were young and vibrant and full of life.
Based grandma 🗿❤️
"I work for myself"
"We work for our comrades our brothers our mothers our fathers our family (the ussr) "
we were very happy and that feeling cannot be explained , friends meant a lot and so much creativity . Thinking about profession for life , not a job ...
Protect her at all times! Great lady with a big heart!
Lots of older Russians look at memories of the old Soviet Union quite fondly. Thanks for sharing
@@krasihristov1066 indeed, they were freshly fed propaganda and hidden away from the evils behind the iron curtain
@@krasihristov1066I seriously doubt people who were young in late 90s Russia remember that time fondly.
@@cristianobrogna1225late 90s Russia was capitalist not communist.
I’m not even a commie and I know that.
@@neotralize9110 that's what I meant. People here claim old people are nostalgic for the USSR because they were young during that period, but most of the people who were young in the 90s aren't nostalgic of those times at all.
Many people simply enjoyed the USSR
There were no rich or poor ❌️
There were no rich only poor ✅️
Wow, people that lived in Yugoslavia in the 70s and 80s would give the same answer. Word for word.
To give wisdom to the young is beauty.