Exclusive | inside a Russian Nuclear bunker | Cold War | This Week | 1991
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2018
- In a world exclusive, THIS WEEK reports from inside a Soviet ballistic missile base. As the United States and the Russians offer dramatic cuts in their nuclear arsenals, reporter Julian Manyon talks to the officers and men of a Soviet Nuclear Missile battalion deep in Siberia.
With unprecedented access, THIS WEEK filmed in the underground command bunker where Soviet troops sit poised, 24 hours a day, still ready to fire their Intercontinental missiles at five seconds notice.
First shown: 17/10/1991
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my left ear enjoyed the video.
@The MaD Patriot What?
Yo for real why is the sound only perceived through my left ear?!
Lmfaooo
my ring piece
didn't
Thank God I’m watching this without headphones
21:00 You can't help but feel really bad for Major Vladimir Klemiato, the poor guy was very optimistic about mutual disarmament and really wanted nothing more but to live a nuclear weapons free world at peace so that his grand kids could one day talk about how he worked the ancient job of "missile controller". Poor guy, you can only imagine how disappointed he is today.
He'll be proper upset a year on, eh? What a bloody world.
He was an idiott who believed the US. The US never disarmed its nuclear arsenal. It has more than it says it has. Russia had about 32000 whiles US had only 10000. They had to convince Russia to reduce just like they convinced them to sell alaska. Thank God Russia has someone like Putin now.
Every comment made by those soldiers was thoughtful, informed and balanced. They recognised the weight of responsbility of those weapons but also the need for caution that is the lesson of five centuries of Russian history.
Yeah it's quite refreshing in the age of internet where any idiot has an uninformed opinion on everything.
This tells me that they were the right pick for the job.
@@alienzardsketter.9076 I genuinely feel pity for you. good luck.
Its just well rehearsed lies for the cameras
Very level headed missile operators. They want to see the missiles gone regardless that In doing so they’d lose their jobs I hope that all of the other nuclear capable nations have similarly minded missile operators
Broadcast just 9 weeks before the end of the Soviet Union.
It’s interesting that the CIA wasn’t expecting the Union to collapse so quickly, but this journalist knew the end was in sight.
maybe because the guards were telling him about it falling apart...gee imagine that
Oh the CIA was expecting it. they made secret undercover agents. Cold War shit is real. You don’t know how many sleeper agents the KGB put here already and the ones CIA put over there. And they actually got captured interrogated and killed and disavowed. Mission impossible was inspired by these very secret like missions. The Americans wanted to take down Russia. And cripple her strength. By destroying them from the insides. Because if you can’t beat em join em and make them kill them selves that way they avoid a nuclear war. I mean USA and Russia can beat each other. It’s not who hits first or faster they can kill each other 1000x over with nukes. Nuclear warfare is serious shit.
Well, it looks like a lot of people expected the USSR to crumble, they were just not agreeing on if this was a matter of months or a matter of years.
@@nv_chino nuclear winter is.
I will not be able to sit there every day looking at that console,I will become so bored I'll push tje red button just to see what happens!
That is why its a two-man system.
6:58: Steve Martin?!? I knew he was also a great musician, but I had no idea Russia trusted him with their nukes.
Wow.
What a guy!
lol if you watch that closely the cable is not even connected too
7:00 that phone has cut cable 😂
Interesting . I've never seen what a nuclear bunker looks like inside before . Thanks for the video . This is one of the reasons why we should all try to get along . Scary stuff !
Watch BBC film " Threads " filmed in the 1980's , That's interesting and scary !
@@gpo746 Just watch when Finland tries to sign into n a t o. Thats going to be a scarier day for all humans.
the Berlin Wall will have nothing compared to what could be potentially about to happen???!!!
have you discovered -
on UA-cam-
Hole in the ground.
On the 8th day.
QED A guild to Armageddon
May sense and sensibility lead and prevail
Very, very interesting. It was refreshing to see the human face of (part of) the fabled Soviet military. I hope all these men have found peaceful occupation after their base closed.
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@@praga2967 I have no clue what you decided to share with me but if you want me (and others) to know, use Google Translate to get an English translation. Thank you. 😊
@@praga2967источник?
Thing about soviet and now russian equipment, the west always measures it by their standards and says old and dated with dials etc, but that = simple and robust with less that can go wrong and durable and reliant and it works. Russian gear is like a good old diesel, it will just keep going.
The Chernobyl incident shows that within the Soviet Union, their equipment and construction quality did not always measure up to the same standards as those in the West.
@@alexandermelbaus2351 It was not bad equipment that failed, it was an initial design flaw and poor training, there is a distinct difference. The Three Mile Island accident in the US on the other hand was caused by equipment malfunction and I dont think people realise that cleanup took 14 years. Also if we talk technology flaws and failures, just look at the Boeing 737 - Max series, still grounded. That had all the cutting edge and design technology of one of the biggest tech companies in the world in Boeing and it flew and killed people because of its MCAS system. My comment was about longevity and robustness of Soviet/Russian equipment versus its aesthetics...that argument being it may not look pretty but it is durable and rugged. Another example the M1 Abras tank...great in Europe and North America, yet massive problems in the Gulf as it has a gas turbine engine that sucks in massive amounts of air to run and also in that environment, massive amounts of fine sand!!..they had massive issues with breakdown, loss of power, engine damage etc as a result...so be objective when making generalist statements as some gear in the West has massive flaws..don't even start me on the JSF!!
It's also worth pointing out that the USA's Titan II missile silos were equally as dated until their decomissioning in the early-mid 80's. But the tech was very reliable. Titan II missiles were very dangerous and fragile however. Keeping liquid-fueled systems underground was always a managed risk.
@@bobdole4694 Agree
@@alexandermelbaus2351 What about Fukushima with such great holy american/japan techs? Thanks God, that Fukushima atomic plant was on shore so they can permanently polute ocean with radiation for decades.
Nice job of reporting. Amazing, actually.
The missile base housed a UR-100K sego which had three MRV warheads they are not separately targeted but realased around a single target
The elimination of short range, some bomber forces and a few ground base ICBMs through treaty and obsolescence during the 1990s was very positive step. The recent talks about bringing some of those forces back is disappointing. I believe the missilers from both sides would be very grateful for these weapons to disappear because we are aware of the dangers involved not only in their impact but also the difficulty in controlling them every minute of every day for every month for decades.
Out of curiousity, if you were ordered to press the button, would you?
@@Diabetic_Chicken69 - When you take the job and oath you take on that responsibility , so in those days the answer would be yes. Machines we know malfunction, people make mistakes, procedures fail to cover every contingency should give everyone reason to pause. I gave my missile badge to a Russian kindergartner in a treaty visit and I was done.
@@justdad53 jesus, I guess I'll make sure I won't ask for that AFSC thats twisted.
1:02 reminds me of the Lars’ farm on Tatooine
Even though we were enemies for decades and I served in the US Army specifically to resist the USSR, I feel badly for these men. They went though an enormous change that they weren’t prepared for. We should be friends somehow.
Amerikans are not even friends of the west.!
USA is actually the evil side, USSR wants to join their alliance after WW2 and USA rejected them resulting a Cold War, and in early 1990s after the disintegrated of USSR, Russia wants to join NATO and again USA reject them, so we can say the US don't want a peace, they're some how looking for an enemies because they get so much money from weapons and countries who afraid of future Great War (so they can buy weapons from the US)
32 years later bet this wouldn’t be allowed sad days again in the world 🌍
The vitrified concrete on the bunker is something ive never seen before 😮 good God the heat and energy there!
My left ear enjoyed this.
Both of my ears did enjoy.
because communism is so far left your right ear can't hear it
My right ear is still speechless...
“By western standards this is dated”
Uhm I think that’s a lot of the same tech we are using today!
I can't help but think everyone is hammered
Those soldiers look great and professional despite the pending collapse. I guess this would be where the money was spent tho and it’s not like this was a surprise visit by the camera crew and the Soviets selected the best one to be on camera I’m sure. Still, I’m impressed.
They probably don’t even work now
I love his job, seat and wait
Such optimism at the start. I remember Glastnos.
21:14: We all did. The only nukes I want to see are cooperatively controlled by the UN Security Counsel, and pointed at space.
The good old 90's
My left ear really enjoyed this video
By western standart the equipment is dated. Well take a look at an american icbm silo, same old hardware. Turns out that the market for icmb operating computer systems is somewhat small, and also very exclusive.
i just want to know what song private nikonov was singing in the little barracks 😔 something about cowboys
No birthmark on the portrait of Gorby
No smallpox marks on Stalin either.
lol that changing of the guard fake routine, they know damn well they just walk in and sit down. that guy was sitting at that desk looking so damn bored so quickly.
Anyone watching this March 2022?
Holy shit man! Now it's so scary as it's never been...
In what ways does the missile determine the firing target ? I saw that there was no screen or digital map to lock the target 🗺 when the center of the commander ordered the launch 🚀
Programed in the missile guidence system i guess. Soldiers arent supposed to know what they are firing upon
Do you think they will show everything on screen?
The reporter mention how the Russian force guys covered sensitive areas of the room before the interview
6:30.. "One of the most secure parts of the base...." opens an unlocked gate with a huge gap underneath then nearly forgets to close it, then picks up a telephone which has a cut cord connected to nothing and pretends to talk to someone who isn't there !! 🤭🤣😂🤣
@Too'`'\/ Yeah got to feel sorry for them :)
@Greg Grimer 6:57 You can see there is no connection at all. :)
Actually, playing back you might be right, you just see a bit of wire going back :D Still for a location can wipe out the world it's a bit rough :)
Yeah it's definitely a splice job. But it's just a field telephone. It is better to have a system so basic it can be repaired like that in a pinch. These were the China-facing missile silos and control centres. Not as important so last in line for very scarce replacement parts and equipment at the time.
Also worth pointing out that gate is there mostly as an anti-vehicle barrier and the troops have to stay on a very narrow path through the landmined route so are constantly covered by defensive positions that could setup machine guns if required.
Now I wonder, if US and other Nuclear nation
ICBM operators are just as educated, level headed and interested in peace rather than war like the men in this video.
18:42-19:00 future views on Donbass and war is East Ukraine
cool time-capsule piece.
Don't worry about the bunkers worry about the submerge ones way out at sea 🌊. The submarines of today are so deadly.
Most of the US missle subs have had a few of their silos converted into cruise missle launchers, non-nuclear capable silos. Make love not war! Peace!
@@Native_loveonly like 4 of them had that done to them. And they can still launch smaller, nuclear armed cruise missiles.
General Ourumov at 0:40
you cant win
So, Ourumov survived the shootout in Arcebio... Who would've known!
Use the bumper, that's what it's for!
Hold your fire. You'll blow the gas tanks!
8:46 “Gosh that Italian family at the next table sure is quiet”
wish the mono was not just on the left ear :(
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@@petercampbell2270 What?
@@petercampbell2270 Repeat again pls ....
@@petercampbell2270 wtf is this about
@@edwin3928ohd its a code for sleeper agents, as is parts of this video, if sleeper reads even 1/10 of it or see the emotes (colours) he will remember everything he been recruted for. My dad was CIA agent back in 90s.
18:19
Prophetic
:40 it’s Ourumov from Goldeneye!! 😆
Why are the L & R audio channels 180 degrees out of phase?
Glorious nation of Kazakhstan.
Borat must've been 6 years old when this aired assuming he is the same age as me. I was 6 in 1991.
Borat wasn’t real
@@adventureguy4119 Really... Well what a revelation. Congratulate yourself pal.
Why the odd audio phasing?
i wonder if americans or british showed inside their own command bunker?
Anand NY their goverment had just collapsed. If it didn’t they wouldnt have shown it and by the way you can get guided tours at some missle site in the USA. They had lost the war those missles were meant to win; there was no point to keep the same standard of secrecy they had before.
*YMCA playing*😂
in utah county USA you can visit nuclear bomb facility for 10 dollars. it is like museum lol
GenerationOfTrueSeekers ...it’s cheaper to visit the former Soviet bases in Lithuania. I went last year. It was the very first ICBM site in the USSR, commissioned in 1966. Fascinating.
There are all kinds of film available taken inside American bunkers. Don't be a complete dumbass.
truly lovely people
At about 7min 46sec when there in the command bunker there's a map in the top left hand corner. Looks like the western portion of the usa?
where are you seeing that ?
You’re seeing things. No such thing as the western part of USA anywhere in that room. Stop thinking stupid.
16:57: I take this to mean that the mobile intermediate range ballistic missiles (see the movie, Spies Like Us) never went offline.
Spies Like Us, eh? Superb source. Very reliable. (I loved that movie :)
ludocrat Ya gotta check your sources if you want to make your point heard....lol
19:18, did they just stand there while the base was overrun? doesn't make me feel safe
This video have 30 years, nothing happened to this day. Its pretty much safe, even then. Mine fields, bunkers and a lot soldiers out of camera view...
@6:58 look at the phone cord...
19:10 yeahhhh and it sure looks like the cream of the crop right there defending those nukes! Lmao
They’re very young conscripts. There is no reason to show their enemies the real strength.
460kt is roughly 30x the yield of the Hiroshima bomb, not 300.
Perhaps one day..........
The Soviet Union is gone. No.
@@michaelcerda5514 china india pakistan israel british france n.korea and russia can play this 🚀
6:57 The telephone cable isn't even connected to anything
GenAfterNextTactics 😂😂😂
lol, I saw that too, made me lol 😂😂😂😂
Look closely it is joined
@@shawnpierre6799 Yes, it is joined.
Now the situation is different we’re almost in ww3. But it hasn’t been escalated yet.
It's not going to happen. H bombs are fictitious. The Cold War was a big boasting contest. Fission bombs are plausible but their yields are miniscule compared to the of thermonuclear (H) bombs.
It's like trying to start an old car. Good luck getting machinery that old started:)
It will get done
joseph gilliand keep it simple and it will always work 😉
Russian Always make it work
Russian engineering always makes things works.It may look "outdated" but I'd bet the so called "old and outdated" Russian tech would be the only thing working if apocalypse were to happen
ICBM shown was a ur-100
left ear 🔈
Here we are in 2023 and nuclear war is now extremely likely 😢
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In Kazakhstan our Lamas operate the nuclear plant! Smart lamas aye!?
They seem really smart and balanced. It is pity they aren't in charge because if they were we might actually get rid of these hideous weapons.
those selected conscripts look like a bunch of high school / college kids, no older than 20 years old
What would be easier, convincing a child to press a button that wipes out most of humanity or convincing a veteran soldier?
@@kurdaitcha5806 good point!
@@kurdaitcha5806 The easiest is convincing a veteran soldier who has been conditioned to think a certain way since he was a child.
I thought hydrogen bombs weren't radioactive and such didn't give off any radiation when detonated. Why are they detecting radiation in that area?
Decades later, more and much Powerful ICBM's joins the arsenals of US and Russia
Pretty sure a new ICBM hasn’t been made since like the 80s. We COULD make new ICBMs but there’s no point when you already have thousands.
@@jerrell1169 Russia developed topol-m
India, Pakistan, Israel, RSA, China, North Korea, France, UK, Russia, USA... If every country had the nuclear weapons, would peace in the world became guaranteed?
@@Weisior India has thermonuclear weapons.
The US has not introduced a new ICBM since Trident II in 1990. Russia, however, has continued to develop new ICBMs and associated technology. The latest generation of Russian tech is on par or better than US tech.
You have got to admire the soviets for giving up in late 1991 instead of letti g their country plunge into another civi war. Imagine a civi war in a nuclear super power... Any fool can take control of a nuclear facility with half a regiment
BaHaEzZz There are plans to circumvent entrance even under such times. Trust me, they are guarded more than you’d think.
@@AldoSchmedack Soldiers are loyal until their salaries and supplies stop
The training scenes almost look like something out of a Wes Anderson film.
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Meows
This was made before the USSR broken up ?
Apparently, only mere months before the USSR officially ended. Air date says October 17th, 1991. Gorbachev resigned as President of the Soviet Union on December 25th, 1991 (according to Wikipedia). It's evident in this video that the USSR was in the process of breaking up.
1:07 Battle buss
Where's Borat?
that was not old bus...
The other side was doing the same too
On the other side we're placing nukes next to Russian borders
The people pushing the buttons are some ordinary chaps 9/10 would happily get along .. war is mad
Why only left ear??
Take it there is a trident misile for every one of these.
"Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country and former Soviet republic, extends from the Caspian Sea in the west to the Altai Mountains at its eastern border with China and Russia. Its largest metropolis, Almaty, is a long-standing trading hub whose landmarks include Ascension Cathedral, a tsarist-era Russian Orthodox church, and the Central State Museum of Kazakhstan, displaying thousands of Kazakh artifacts."
This is No longer Russia.
Верно говоришь кавбой👍😏Россия больше
Diese russischen Soldaten machen durchweg einen guten Eindruck. Sie sprechen überlegt und besonnen. Das alles hat gute europäische Wurzeln und ich finde das sehr beruhigend.
NYC PATTOM
There was no USSR, no Soviet Union, in 1991.
After December 25 1991 it collapsed but not all at once Kazakhstan was the last to leave the Soviet Union
I think in today's world there is no need of war .by working to gather humans can get rid of theses kind of extremely dangerous thing's but theses soldier's will become job less but they can be given other jobs if fear of war or all conflicts should be finish on table talk and finish theses dangerous thing which can finish human race .- kamran tony .
Today we have millions of people living in tents & Automobiles, in America
very interesting but, from what we know now it would be insane for Russia to give up even one asset in the face of British treachery or American/Israeli duplicity.
11:57 what did the russian rocket force commander say? unfortunately there are a lot of people with pacifist ideas these days...."UNFORTUNATELY" !!??? hmm.
1990
They would die in 1 month if a real situation happened
So would their target
The equipment might be old but it WORKS....! If it's not broken don't fix it, from what I have seen it looks analog, that's durability and reliability, Old doesn't mean no good. Brilliant journalism volumes was really low.
Ok so I happened to notice the first fence worse than the one between the US and mexico
Hmmm I don't know Joe, ive seen some pretty shitty fences on the border.😁
...yeah, but back then you wouldn’t even get close to Chita without being accompanied by an official team. It’s not like those sites are easily accessible by metro just outside Moscow, and a helicopter full of commandos would never have crossed the Soviet airspace, so it’s all a bit irrelevant. The US needs tighter perimeter defence at its military facilities because virtually anyone could enter the country and freely travel. Not so in the USSR, even in 1991 there were many, many closed cities.
А забор на границе с мексикой убивает если подойти к нему на 3 метра? 😂😂😂
How can you have "a bus provided by the soviet army" and a "soviet general" ...."of what was once the soviet union" ???
That's 30 times not 300 times Hiroshima.
2022
6:57 Russian Steve Martin
People seem to have been so naively optimistic back then about the future... Sadly, it all seems to have started all over again.
Just a bit than 2 months later than it's aired... USSR will be gone.
Given the state of Europe today, and the condition of the Russian Federation's conventional forces while fighting Ukraine, I fear now that the Russians will NEVER eliminate their nuclear warhead stockpile. The Russians believe it is the main military deterrent left to them against invasion from outside forces.
9:30 🤣🤔
They probably have this still today. It wouldn't surprise me with Russians.
Interesting how they brought up conflict with an independent Ukraine.