Why McDonald's Defeated The Soviet Union
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2024
- It wasn't the US or NATO that defeated the Soviet Union. It was McDonald's. Here's why.
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Everyone thought it was Ronald Reagan but it was really Ronald McDonald 😂.
Mr. Gorbachev! CHOW DOWN THAT BIG MAC!! 😅😅😅
People named Ronald are destroyers of communism
I thought it was Rocky balboa defeat Ivan drago that started the collapse of the ussr.
IMHO it was both. Communism was leading to economic collapse, as it always does, and McDonalds pushed that.
Reagan's contribution was making sure the demise of the U.S.S.R was peaceful. When an empire collapses there's a great temptation among its leaders to find an outside enemy and start a war, to unite the people. (See modern-day China.) But even the hardline Soviets knew Reagan was a strong leader, who wouldn't let them get away with that. We thus avoided WW III.
No - the soviet economy wasn't in shambles by the late 80's. It had been in shambles since the 30's.
Right. But as late as 1989 economics text books were still claiming it as an example of how planned economies can out perform free markets. Communists are great a lying to themselves and their fanboys in academia.
yep but by the 80's it had lost the hosts in which its economy is parasiting on
@@aljonserna5598Yeeeeup. Marxism works great until you run out of other peoples' money.
Propaganda
@@AshfaqurBF REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
This actually makes me cry. Those people were so deprived of human flourishing for so long. Something so simple, that we take for granted, was like magic for them. I cry watching Metallica play there for the first time too. Those kids were wound up like springs and you could see the sheer joy on their faces as they danced and sang along, even the soldiers that were there. It was truly an evil empire. And still there are people that think communism is the virtuous option.
Are you aware that the marxists leftist dems of the US are working everyday to turn the US into another version of the USSR with a different, or many different languages and much worse behaveior.
Same. I got emotional towards the end there. They finally got to experience something wonderful that they wanted and fought hard for. Something we think of as a simple combination of ingredients.
I loved watching Paul McCartney do a Russian concert tour, when The Beatles were a world sensation the only way people in the Soviet Union could hear Beatles music was through the black market and getting caught with just one of their records could get you sent to jail.
@@kenlompart9905 I don't know how much credit the Beatles deserve for the fall of the Soviet Union but I know they were a part of it. I've always thought that.
Freedom is sweet
Freedom is savory.
Freedom is spicy.
Until you get to taste the bitter part .
@@Silver_PrussianWhat's the bitter part of FREEDOM?
@@Fbarts the part that you taste on day to day basis and you dont even realise it. You see it everyday yet you dont think about it. That part
So now we see the opposite happening slowly to our country. Every regulation, or law that causes prices to increase or production to decrease sends us toward that lowly goal.
Well you heard what happened in Russia. McDonald's came in and the powers that be wanted to bring back communism. What stopped them? The people. Luckily America still has a strong tradition of freedom and free markets in its roots. Not saying it won't get rough (obviously it already is) but we have to stand up and give more attention to videos and channels like this.
True, but our problem is Constitutional ignorance and an irrational interpretation of it that has been accepted since 1936. Both Dems and Reps enjoy this interpretation because it gives them power.
So, soviet stores are opening in the USA making people want to accept communism?
One red flag with yellow adornments (USSR flag) taken down by another red flag with yellow adornments (McDonalds golden arches)
A little exaggerated, but definitely true. The way you explained it, it sounds more like a step towards the collapse rather than the reason.
I've actually eaten there back in 1996 when my wife and I went to Russia to adopt 22 month old twin boys.
And I ate there in August of 1991 with my 15-year-old Soviet born niece who lived in Moscow
Gosh, I feel ancient. I remember this🥴
“Mr.Gorvachev tear down that Big Mac”
"Tear down that wall.... and tear into a Big Mac."
I went to Russia many times on business between 2001 and 2019. I have eaten many times at the McDonalds on Arbat street directly across from the Foreign Ministry. Many Americans would be surprised to know that for a long time, McDonalds in Russia was in reality exactly how McDonald’s looked in the US commercials: clean, with well-groomed, polite employees, serving hot food that actually looked like the advertisements. McDonald’s was a place where adults went on dates! It bore little resemblance to the filthy, run-down restaurants we have here at home. They were worthy ambassadors of America. During my last visit, in December 2019, I walked passed the McDonald’s in Pushkin Square, but I did not eat there. Of course, after that, COVID, then the war, ended my business in Russia. It is so disheartening to see Russia descending back into isolationism and paranoid militarism.
Agreed, also those sound like cool experiences
I ate at the Moscow McDonald's and toured the McDonald's prep factory in 1991. It was wildly popular at the time.
Love the Why Minutes!!
I had the pleasure of eating at that McDonald's near Pushkin Square twice. It's a hysterically vast fast food location on the inside. It's so sad they changed the name to "Tasty and Period." The place is a piece of history.
I've lived in US for 18years now and after trying all the McDonald's meals, there's only 2 things that I would repeat taste wise. So if McDonald's was able to have so much influence over Russia, I can only imagine how bad Russian food tastes.
A chess master once told me that Garry Kasparov was in Switzerland for a tournament, and got into an argument about chocolate. He loudly insisted that Russian chocolate was the world's best. Finally, one of the other contestants went out and bought some Swiss chocolate and basically dared him to try it.
Kasparov ended up throwing away all his Russian chocolate and buying a crate of Swiss to take home.
If you're THROWING AWAY chocolate, it must be bad.
@jayfloramusic Your ignorance is showing.
Exceptional video!
One could argue, that it started with the Beatles koncert at the Red Square...
First time since the Russian Revolution? What about the New Economic Policy from 1921 to 1928?
If President Trump opens a Donalds Coffee shop franchise it will be the end of Starbucks & Soy beans industrial complex, Make Coffee Great Again.
True, but another major factor was the mistakenly dropped Iron Curtain in November 1989, which allowed 1000's of people from Soviet states to flood into the west for a time. I know because I was there and a young Sgt. in the U.S. Army at the time.
The popularity of McDonald's was also because there were severe food shortages in stores in the USSR. McDonald's was the only place the average Soviet citizen knew the chances of getting food after standing in a long line all day were 1000%
Please tell this man he needs to run for President.
In 1972 Pepsi was traded for Stolichnaya
why is Romania included in the Soviet Union in the beginning
Under the Soviet sphere of influence. Close enough.
Part of Romania known as Bessarabia, not all Romania, but was part of the The Warsaw Pact.
I think the importance of McD's was greatly overblown. The fall of the Berlin Wall and spending a high rate of the GDP on the military were far more impactful.
Stalin would have [REDACTED] Yeltsin and the other leaders of the Russian Federation and saved the Soviet Union. Gorbachev simply did not have that iron in him. In fact, Gorbachev could've done a Tiananmen 1989.
Gorbacheb was not far from saving the union. But then Eltsine...
Gorbachev loves pizza. what can you do man.
That kicks ass lol
Too bad McDonalds isn't fun anymore.
Nick for president
And they did it without McFlurries!
I thought Adidas had reached Soviet citizens before Mcdonalds.
I went to the Soviet Union the first time in June of 1985 and I remember Coca-Cola being there
And then there was the Rock concert! 🤘🏼😆🤘🏼
Weren't Levi's jeans a big thing with the Russians? I was in high school in 1990 and I vaguely remember hearing that around the time. Or maybe it was one of those rumors you always heard about the Soviets.
Jeans in general were very popular in USSR. At that time there was already an underground market for western goods. Levi's was the probably the best brand, or the most famous at least.
Search for "Soviet Denim Smuggling - The History of Jeans Behind the Iron Curtain"
It's not gonna work a second time.
but then came yelzin and messed everything up made a couple oligarchs insanely rich at the cost of everyone else in russia
Soviets were used to waiting in the cold for hours for their food. At least McDonalds was more worth it.
Pepsi also made a deal with the Russian government, that's why there is lots of Pepsi in Russia and in the USA many people know Stolichnaya Vodka - the cheap booze of the working class.
N.B. old USSR was all about total CONTROL. CONTROL was the problem not the solution 😮 . Just as in personal relationships, CONTROL doesn't work. A person needs freedom to try to succeed and/or fail and learn something or not learn.
As always, great video. 👍👍👍
The coup was not failed because of public backlash, even if their was resistance. It was because of the CIA, who told Eltsine about the coup, Elstine who after that conviced some who wasn’t sure about if they should support the coup.
It sounds like McDonald's filled the demand for cheap food in Russia. The American charm probably helped, but it sounds like they left in droves to find a decent meal not connected to the black market.
I shook hands with both Ronald’s; Reagan and McDonald’s!
It's disgusting how Gorbachev was seen in Russia afterwards
He said they were “lovin it” I see what you did there 😂
“Moshcow’s Pushkin Shquare”
I think Nick gives the Soviet citizens way too much credit for contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union. The economy was lagging and the West enjoyed more political freedoms, but there were referenda done in the USSR around this time asking people whether they wanted to dissolve the USSR into its 15 constituent republics. Everywhere except in the Baltics, the answer was no. Ultimately, the push to dissolve was spearheaded by Yeltsin and other communist party members not the common Soviet citizen. If anything, it's Yeltsin and company who fell in love with free-market capitalism, not the average Ivan.
The Soviet Union came to an end on December 25, 1991, not December 26.
Great work Nick! Scooby snacks for you.
Praying for Israel and the entire Middle East.
My allegiance is to Liberty, the Repubic and Democracy.
Is this the premonition for US?
0:00 - Romania was not part of sowiet union.
Ronald McReagan
Imagine how less of a threat the USSR might have been to America if 1) We had have actual economic freedom and 2) We didn't send them any foreign aid to appease them. It's true that evil is impotent and can only exists by virtuous people providing them the means to live.
I used to wonder about that as a kid -- why are we sending money and food to our enemy?
People told me "the Russian people aren't the enemy, just the government". I replied "maybe if they get hungry enough, they'll overthrow that government like we did with the British."
As an adult, of course, I learned that it was all about making money for politicians -- the only enemy on that level is people who try to stop you taking bribes.
@@stevenscott2136 yeah, but the politicians only are in that position because we (not me) vote them in. Their constituents do in fact want to send them foreign aid. It's the power of altruism. Just look at the conflict in the middle east right now. America is sending aid to both sides of the conflict. America has been incoherent at least since WW2 ended. You can ask people and they will tell you the same thing they told you when you were a kid. I asked the same after the attack on the twin towers. "Why are we sending aid to the middle east?" I was 6, and the adults around me told me the exact same thing they told you about Russia.
Coolio
If that was what McDonald's could do to the USSR, just imagine what "In N Out Burgers" could do for the World! There wouldn't be a socialist left anywhere on the planet!
Residents of CA & NV know what I'm talking about.
Increased heart disease in an already struggling population is never a good thing!
Unfortunately Russia seems like it's going back to its old ways. It hasn't really learned anything.
Beard Wednesday!
Least clicked bait video on youtube
The USSR was already crumbling, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. Nice click bait.
You know you live under a terrible government when you think McDonalds is good food.
USA isn't what I'd call free with Guantanamo Bay detention camp & the USA scores as a flawed democracy on the global index which is below my kingdom with a parliamentary monarchy.
I don't consider the UK a democracy as it hasn't been in decades but the USA is no such thing.
Scandinavian nations Netherlands, Iceland, Taiwan & the Isle of Manx are the only 7 democracies that still remain in my mind with a score over 9/10 though New zealand & Australia could scape in barely.
only 24 & 1/2 nations score above an 8/10 on this index as Chile bounces from 7.78 to 8.28 depending on it's administration or the moment.
The USA pays more then any other nation indirectly & unannounced sums to the democratic index yet even then they get 7.8 score on average which I would put at 6.5 or slightly less personally.
The USA is not a Hybrid regime but it is not far off as flawed democracy on my observations by the 60 indicators for what makes a democracy.
The USA is a Syndicate & not a senate even if they call it such!
Corporate Syndicate is how I see the USA.
The UK is even more confusing as really each branch of government is gradually changing system of governance for the Civil service at present is filled with Communists while the crown are monarchists, the church is theocracy with limited power & the house of lords are an aristocracy though the common people get a sham vote for a house of globalist/socialists/woke that the public despise.
Britain is only barely a democracy as the branches of leadership are so often at each others throats that they can't focus most of their attention on the British common/public.
I can guarantee that no nations governance e is as confusing as the UK that relies on a system of balances & checks.
The HMRC are a mic of Bureaucrat & technics that generally support the democratic process & the courts only support democratic values when it is to their benefit just like the corporations like the banks do most often.
I do not like how much influence the Banks & corporation have on public policy via lobbying or back room deals with politician being mainly MP's in power.
Nepotism & cronyism is rampant.
The US is supposed to be a republic, not a democracy. But I agree on the "corporate syndicate" part.
@@stevenscott2136 Republic in archaic English before it was revised by the USA & France as ''meant any state that is except of tyranny in rule''.
So near synonymous with a democracy or fair monarch which the USA is neither.
Rebulic came directly from the Latin phrase (res publica= thing, public=public matter/thing.
If all matters are not decided by the public it cannot be a republic!
Your leadership tricked you yanks as you are semi illiterate in English let alone Latin.
Being Fluent in both, the courts hate me for I can read the horrid mess that is British law which is still not as terrible as most nations arbitration declared law.
Britain's problem is since Blair government the new out number the old by a dozen fold.
Hoe in 3 decades can you make more laws then was present over 900years since England inception that inherited some laws from the Anglican kingdoms prior.
The Uk's problem is the Eu laws that contradict common law & yank academia since your nation went to pot infiltrating our academia.
Not a personal blame against you my fellow but you yanks should try to get your house in order as it would make it much easier for us Blights & Limeys such as myself.
I don't understand why you lot don't use force after making your points clear to your so representatives since your nation was founded as a revolution like France.
Such cannot be done in Britain as our nation was formed through conquest & monarchy.
That is not how matters are done here for the grounds for civil war have a higher bar to be met like the reformation issues caused in the English civil war of the 17th century till we returned from republic to monarchy as under a republic England killed a 1/4 of the Irish like the plague at the time due to Cromwell.
Republic & Britain do not mix for our commoner/public are radio rental.
@@stevenscott2136 Republic in archaic English before it was revised by the USA & France as ''meant any state that is except of tyranny in rule''.
So near synonymous with a democracy or a fair monarch which the USA is neither.
Rebulic came directly from the Latin phrase (res publica= thing, public=public matter/thing.
If all matters are not decided by the public it cannot be a republic!
Your leadership tricked you yanks as most are not literate in English in England let alone the USA let alone Latin.
Being Fluent in both, the courts hate me for I can read the horrid mess that is British law which is still not as terrible as most nations arbitrations that they declared law.
Britain's problem is since Blair government the new out number the old by a dozen fold.
How it is possible in 3 decades that any government can make more laws then was present over 900 years since England's inception which inherited some laws from the Anglican kingdoms prior is ridiculous.
The Uk's problem is the Eu laws that contradict common law & yank academia since your nation went to pot infiltrating our academia.
Not a personal blame against you my fellow but you yanks should try to get your house in order as it would make it much easier for us Blights & Limeys such as myself.
I don't understand why you lot don't use force after making your points clear to your so representatives since your nation was founded as a revolution like France.
Such cannot be done in Britain as our nation was formed through conquest & monarchy.
That is not how matters are done here for the grounds for civil war have a higher bar to be met like the reformation issues caused that caused the English civil war/wars of the 17th century till we returned from a brief stint as a republic to monarchy as under a republic England killed a 1/4 of the Irish like the plague at the time due to Cromwell seeing it as god's will.
Being puritan, Oliver Cromwell took the bible quite literal in every sense.
Republic & Britain do not mix for our common/public are radio rental wen that happens.
USA is not a Democracy but idiots keep calling it a Democracy.
America will not win abroad with tanks and missiles. But rather fast food, cars and music.
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You’re kidding me, right?
@@jmrgamer8473 No it's for real. Tap Newest on the comment section and scroll all the way to the end.
@@jmrgamer8473Bro's just jealous 😂
Dear God what silly oversimplification!
If you cannot explain something to a 7 year old, then you dont understand it your self.
Albert Einstein.
What's with the "Dear God" ? If you've got a point to be made, don't bring in your virtue signaling into it.
@@rabby-u its an expression lol
@@hi-tech_soldier2558 Words matter lol
@@rabby-u It's a figure of speech. Sheesh.
see guys?
this is why blue jeans will be the downfall of NK 🫥