Similar to the accident there with the radiation source, we had a small radioactive capsule (Caesium-137) recently go missing near where I live. I am in Western Australia, and the capsule is used in mining. It (amazingly) fell of a truck whilst in transit from the mine to Perth, so it could have been anywhere along the 1,400km route. The Government agency actually found it only a few days later after they sent special vehicles equipped with radiation monitoring equipment to travel the entire length of the road. The capsule itself is tiny as well, maybe the size of a thumbnail. Everyone was surprised they found it so quickly. They did a really good job!
@@fugjewtube1822imagine being so lucky. No, they’re covering alright, but not their butts... it was the emus. The emus are back. And they’re trying to start round two with a bang. If the public knew what hell they live 5 seconds away from at any given moment, society would collapse and that’d be it. The birds would win. Then you have a thermonuclear armed continent of hostile wildlife, that’s how you get ww3 my friend. I mean you think those long neck’d sobs would stop there!? They’d emu step across the pacific, up the Yangtze at a cost of 500 million Chinese and pushing the US back to the Rockies before it’s even debatable if they might be halted. All while our poor brothers and sisters down under would be rounded up off to farms and ranches to be gawked at for their short necks and tiny eggs. No. Better we never know the truth.
@@DianaDeLuna Irradiated? They literally SLEPT on it. On a literally boiling-hot construction, melting ice around it with supernatural heat. And also it is not only one, there are MUCH MORE of these things, and not only RITEGS, and they are not only in georgia. Many of these are still lost everywhere where soviet union once was, be it russia, belarus, kazakstan or georgia.
Call it "confluence of incompetence." I just think the utter rot of the USSR brought about these terrible situations. Gosplan and the other central planning authorities never allocated enough for maintenance, and the resources they did dedicate to that were mostly stolen or done in a drunken manner.
Here in America, we promote people to highly visible positions for which they have no background but who are politically reliable in the name of diversity. Were they doing the same in the USSR at the time?
@@neilreynolds3858 I think that has merit. Although of course the USSR selected knuckleheads not out of "diversity" like over here, but mostly Party connections, I would guess. Same disastrous effects, though.
you could say that these incidences point to a broader demoralised population during the period; if workers with such important tasks were fooling around, what about the attitude of all the other workers?
It also showed the systemic failures of the USSR. In an open society the news wound have reported such incidents right away. There would then be an investigation, inquiry and recommendations on how to prevent it in future. But Soviet citizens were not told what happened and could not demand investigations and changes.
All workers didnt give a damn, were just trying to scrape by with doing the least, and getting as many benefits for themselves as possible. From the stories of my father, which worked in various forest work during the occupation years of Lithuania, if the logging trucks and tractors still had fuel in them, it means they didnt work enough, so they would just pour out dozens of liters of fuel into ditches so they wouldnt get pay cuts, but god forbid the authorities found dyed work fuel in your possesion - Gulag. The stories of equipment part stealing are as old as time, if a tractor broke down, you have two weeks of doing stuff by hand, because the spare one in the garrage, had no functioning parts left, and it would be faster to fix the tractor yourself than wait for a repairman with parts. Especially in the end of the USSR, after the post WW2 and cold war west hatred patriotism died out, it was a free for all, thats my take on the fall.
@@Ocinneade345 The United States. I know people like you probably like to insist the US is worse in every way, but its a simple fact that severe safety hazards are much harder to cover up in a country with a free press. Unlike in the USSR, a nuclear power plant can be shut down in the US if it has high public disapproval. People definitely would not tolerate an unsafe nuclear power plant in their community.
Combination of factors: 1) Brezhnev letting corruption free 2) Afghanistan war 3) Re-intensification of the Arms Race in the early 80s 4) Oil pricses collapsing in 1986: 5) Glasnost: You should not liberalize you political system while the economy is in decline. 6) Chernobyl disasters.
But this video shows wayyy more disasters as a result of the Soviet system. US Private enterprise and esp financial obligation to pay to victims via lawsuits prevents some of this, but at least compensates victims. Republicans keep wanting Tort reform, making fun of frivolous lawsuits, but then we would be living in 80's soviet union or modern china. Whether its the state or a billionaire profiting from your demise, a dystopia is a dystopia whether marxist or capitalist. Resist Billionaire funded initiatives. Financial Accountability to workers and public is how workers are safe, but also why head hits are penalized in the NFL. Cause the billionaires are liable for drooling middle aged ex players.
I am thinking what was the general mood of the people back then, as I recall the 1980s was not good for the USSR when oil price plugged and daily shortage was happening. That means the average life quality was decreasing for everyone. Maybe people felt hopeless about their life and their future, maybe heavy sense of apathy/nihilism sink in and people felt like working gets them nowhere so they careless about work. This also explains the extremely quickly collapse of the USSR
@@stevej71393 I would add one more thing. Glasnost has led, among other things, to the fact that the media suddenly discovered that the negative sells better than the positive. The Soviet, and then the Russian citizen, was stubbornly pumped up with negative information, pushing some positive news aside. I still remember that hopeless darkness that came from TV and newspapers already in the 1990s - endless murders, suicides, maniacs (oh, the press and TV loved to savor the details of how serial killers dealt with victims: "Look! Blood is everywhere! On the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling, on the refrigerator, on the cat!" and stuff like that), cannibals and other horror. All this was laid down precisely then - in the period 1987-1989, then it already went along the knurled path.
Honestly, I remember the 1980s as a kid and a lot of stuff blew up, went down in flames, or sank. Heysel, Bradford City, Hillsborough, Lockerbie, 1985 as the deadliest year for commercial aviation, Zeebrugge and Kings Cross, Piper Alpha... There was Bhopal in India, Three Mile Island, etc. My theory is that the 1980s were when commercial/public enterprise reached capacity -- that people were beginning to overwhelm the capacity of lax regulations and aging infrastructure. It was essentially a global stress test on things that people in the post-war era were just beginning to take for granted and becoming more accessible to the general public, but whose regulations and operations were not yet up to the standard we enjoy today. It was also when the mass media was beginning to run away with things -- the whole point with Chernobyl was that it happened in an area that wasn't deep in Siberia and therefore easily covered up, and the circulation of unauthorised media in the Eastern Bloc was only accelerating thanks to VCRs, cassette tapes, photocopiers and other means of reproducing media. Once the crack showed in the edifice of state, it all started going downhill. (Cassette tapes were used to disseminate Khomeini's speeches in Iran, leading to mass understanding of his toxic message from people who were disenfranchised by the Shah's regime. Social media did the same thing in the early 2010s but it's actually easier for repressive governments to control the internet than it was for them to control the spread of individual paper 'zines, discs, tapes, videos or USB sticks. With everything now streaming based, it's a lot easier for governments to smother debate and discussion.) Thanks to many of those accidents, lessons were learned, safety became more of a priority and capacity increased to meet demand. It seems like it was the tipping point for a lot of things and this is probably doubly true for the USSR.
@@advancetotabletop5328 Nice one! Some areas are a LOT safer -- commercial aviation in America at least hasn't suffered a fatal accident since 2009 -- but other fields are very different.
Greetings from America! I find it quite fascinating to learn about your history during the time of the USSR. It was all hidden behind a curtain for us Americans, especially the 70s and 80s. Even when the Wall fell, it just wasn't logical - every other American I've spoken with has said the same. They were shocked. The USSR is so fascinating, so thank you for making this video!
@knobjockey76 Same here. The Russian people deserve so much better than they tend to get. I'm praying that the downfall of Putin, when it comes, will finally give them freedom and justice. Ya tebya lyublyu, Rossiya.
@@louiseogden1296 But there is just one problem...putin isnt the cause. He is a by-product of russia current existence, not the cause. When soviet union fell, not only state was broken, but the people too. And putin happened to be...a perfect fit for a position. When he will eventually leave, be it by window or good will, someone like him will reappear.
@@louiseogden1296what does russian freedom mean by you? A puppet of the west? A resource to be utilized just like undwr Boris Yeltsin by the west? Or a independent nation. Crimea should be Russian, especially if Kosovo can be albanian.
In my home town in the United States there was a gasoline pipeline explosion that was caused by a leak that the operators ignored. They just pumped more gas until it exploded. However it wasn't in an area that had a lot of people.
I watched when we got footage of Chernobyl in 1986. We destroyed our milk for several years after that. Milk harvested from cows mostly living around our Sellafield nuclear plant for some reason...
The Afghan invasion was a destabilising factor. When returning soldiers talked to friends and relatives, people learned a well-known truth (again): the state lies. Maybe it was the final straw.
The biggest disaster is Russia itself. Nevertheless wo is in charge, the normal people suffer. Since 1994 regions the size of New York State aand Connericut combined were completely isolated from classical Soviet government services like hospitals, transportation, electricity, road maintenance. Only to feed the large cities and calm the people down there.
15:22 it was considered cool among sailors to pass dangerously close to other ships, lmao, I thought only Americans did stupid death shit like subway surfing and playing chicken with vehicles. Subway surfing emerges every 7 years in my city until dead kids get on the news for tunnels to the forehead or falling off the Elevated train onto traffic. The next generation forgets the news its like clockwork. But Jeez we didn't know how terrible things were going in Soviets. Just avoidable disaster after disaster like walking blindfolded in a yard with 100 rakes.
I have a theory, based on talkning to a lot of ex-soviet academics who now work in the west: The Soviet union had a "highly skilled manpower shortage" due to rapid advances needed to keep up with the west..... and solved it by filling advanced jobs that in the west would require a degree and high vetting with "conscripts and randos". A lot of the "sexy projects" such as the missiles, fighterplanes, space-program, the new gas fields etc took so many "smart brains" away from other sectors that incompetent people got behind the wheel. I often meet ex-soviets in academia who for their conscription describe doing electronic warfare, air surveillance, metrology, surgery, signals, radiology... and joke that they were wildly overestimated just because they did well in school. Maybe the soviet system saw talent very fast? But then again a lot of other ex-soviet expat academics mention how they picked potatoes or fought invasive plants during conscription. But it would make sense that the soviets struggled to fill lower level demanding jobs given that the western pool of highly educated dwarfed the soviet one in many sectors.
Looks like a combination of demoralization, misaligned incentives, lack of accountability, tightening resources, and increasing complexity. Like the US these days.
Not in these days. It already happened. Around the same time as in soviet union. Now it is completely different story, that is same all across the globe.
Okay, so show us the US videos of these disasters. If you’re familiar with US history (and, a a bot, you wouldn’t be), we’ve had terrible disasters, mostly during the Industrial Revolution, such as the molasses destruction, locked door during a fire, tainted milk, and many other incidents that US regulation now prevents.
Depending on how heavily you weigh Chernobyl, china might have the USSR beat for most man-made disasters. Thanks to stuff like the Great Firewall, they have an impressive ability to censor catastrophes even in the digital age. Check out sources like China fact, chasers and China insider and compare their coverage of the flood disaster in Beijing and.Hubei province, with what news coverage you’ve seen, if any. Granted, some of their decisions were more obviously, stupid, like building flood, control, dams that can only handle a once in 60 years level flood, thanks to that, they’ve done control dam releases and flooded many towns, sometimes only giving a few hours notice for the residents to evacuate. they’ve also turned away volunteer rescue workers to avoid making what few official rescue workers there are look bad. Tofu drag construction kills who knows how many people. We might now be able to consider COVID China’s Chernobyl. The death, toll and global impact are certainly higher, even if people died from a virus and response instead of fall out, at least that was geographically contained, but both appear to be the result of negligence.
17:30 those explosives were detonators for Nuclear Weapons. Luckily, the Nuke part is separate from the detonation part until they're getting prepared for use.
Soviets engeering philosophy combined with trying to hide economic troubles by cutting back on the maintenance budget.Putting people in charge for political loyalty instead of competence didn't help. Neither did covering up accidents that prevented learning from mistakes.
Sabotage? No, even broken clock shows the right time twice a day, With the gigantic multitude of accidents and disasters in USSR as the society was rotting from inside, and caused by neglect, mismanagement, faulty designs and people's indifference the "conspiracies" were just the occurrences of broken clock showing permanent 12:00 occurring exactly at 12:00.
I can fully believe that all of the accidents mentioned in this video are the result of nothing more than negligence and a lack of maintanance purely based on a single statistic i saw in a different video about Aeroflot. In it's roughly 100 year history there have been more than 8000 casualties and dozens of planes lost in accidents. On the other hand you have the Australian Quantas, who's just as big and old as Aeroflot and never lost a single jet in their entire history. You can't explain that with deliberate sabotage.
Despite knowing most of these accidents since internet, quite entertaining. Nearly impartial. Only one thing, on you citing V.V. Putin on collapse of the USSR in apparent approval... As a Latvian who's family starting backwards from grandparents was mostly deported and /or imprisoned in far-east gulags - (ex.g. Blagoveshchensk where even my aunt was born and mum conceived) - i beg to differ.))
Well, I am not the biggest fan of the Soviet Union and I'm even a lesser fan of Vladimir Putin, but I actually kind of agree with him on that particular take. Not in a way that the collapse of the USSR was a terrible thing (its creation was an even worse thing in my opinion), but that it was a catastrophe for millions of people. The USSR was the third most populated country in the world, and in fact, in a couple of years, life for 300 million people has changed dramatically. Relatives found themselves in different countries, the usual supply chains of products were disrupted. Yes, gradually countries learned to live separately, and for some countries leaving the USSR was certainly a blessing (for the Baltic States, obviously). But for most other countries, the 90s was literally one of the worst decades in their history. Yes, they are quite happy to live independently now, but back then such a sudden change was a shock to a large number of people. I don't think the USSR was viable by 1990 and should have been kept intact. But the way in which this disintegration was executed may well be called a geopolitical catastrophe.
@@shauncameron8390 It was mostly problem of soviet-style economy. ALL soviet states very EXTREMELY close economically, so close in fact that they almost immediately collapsed after separation. Another big flaw of globalistation.
I fondly remember helping to deliver medical equipment, medications, chemotherapeutic agents, and 1,000 pounds of Slavic foods to the An-225 Mirya which landed at KPHL in 1991, in an effort to save radiation exposure victims from Chernobyl's meltdown. Destruction of the An-225 Mirya was senseless, as is this damn war... Slava Ukraini! My (then) wife visited Romania to assist with the orphanage scandal aftermath,. Upon her return to the US, she followed her patients until their 21st birthdays.
Sorry to say but none of the tragic events surprises me, because, as we all should know, that complacency breads contempt, contempt for the rules of operation of trains,planes and ships has happened all over the world, not just in the Soviet Union/Russia but anywhere that is industrialised, however in the USSR/Russia the combination of communist repression, poor wages and living conditions, poorly manufactured and maintained industrial 🏭 production and facilities and inadequate safety standards and inspections, all of which combine to create a workforce that doesn’t give a Sh1t about their occupations, and that is unfortunately a very very poor situation for the USSR/Russia, or at least for ordinary citizens as they have born all of disasters whilst the governing elite are closeted from pain and anguish because they make the rules, any criticism of the state and the individuals were/are severely punished, and dissent from workers about working conditions,equipment shortages, safety standards to their direct supervisor (ie Chernobyl) is completely ignored because the “communist ideals” can’t be wrong. Obviously I don’t know if anything has changed since the USSR break up, but I suspect it has, but not quickly enough to rid themselves off tragic events like those shown here, I would bet my last Penny that somewhere in the former USSR countries there are disasters just waiting to spring a nasty surprise upon an unsuspecting population. Thanks for sharing these events with us all, very interesting and informative in a sad way, nonetheless I am glad that, at last, someone has been bold enough to reveal the truth about certain events, and simultaneously brought unheard of events, that were covered up for decades by the communist regime, into the light. Thanks again, subscribing and hopefully new insights will be added to the story of the USSRs Cold War past. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦. P.S Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has not been change to how Russia is governed, Vladimir Putin, in my opinion, is worse than “uncle Joe” Stalin in some respects, the criticism of his government and political allies is still as dangerous for the dissenters, he rules with an iron fist in a velvet glove, appearing to be a world leader on state media and loved by all, but behind the closed doors of the Kremlin he is just another tyrant, communism is alive and well under Vladimir Putin, and the oligarchy are rich by consent of him and the other high ranking government officials, but with the stroke of a pen that wealth could, and has been, made to disappear, just like the oligarch who was once attached to it. In my opinion Russia 🇷🇺 might in name be a democratic society but in reality it is still communist.
correction: Fukushima wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be by the anti-nuclear propaganda and was deliberately misclassified in a far higher category than it should have been. Kyshtym was far far worse. And was only one of several such incidents in the USSR. Yeltsin admitted it was an accident at a Sverdlovsk military facility, and then a few weeks later retracted that admission and reverted to the contaminated meat excuse. Chernobyl wasn't the first accident with an RBMK2 reactor. Several years earlier there had been a very similar accident at the Leningrad RBMK power station, where a meltdown was narrowly avoided. The other RBMK installations (like Chernobyl) were not notified of this and the processes and fixes that would have alleviated if not prevented what happened at Chernobyl because the entire incident was classified a state secret of the highest order and thus nothing of it could be mentioned to anyone.
Well, I think 1917-1953 cost the soviet union a lot more lifes than the incidents here. At it did not collapse back then. It looks more like "communism wih a human face" was doomed, and communism the Mao/ Stalin way was made for robots, not humans.
Soviet regime was never communism with human face. Maybe Khruschev tried something, but Brezhnev returned it back, without the Stalins cruelty. Brezhnev was leader of the stagnation, only he called it stability :-)
@@xsc1000 So the US has More people in prison today that the soviets ever did and more than any place in the world a shinning example of freedom? Who is full of propaganda here?
i thought i knew of a fair number of Soviet disasters, from the anthrax thing to Lake Karachi and everything but as always it’s even worse than i thought!
5:59 highly recommend The Dead Hand by David E Hoffman......if you thought Western doomsday/last-resort designs/concepts were crazy/dangerousAF, wait until you read about a system that decided for itself when to and only needed your finger for aborting........as long as you were alive and paying attention, otherwise 😳 If anyone's read or watched the doc Command and Control, this book is a loose Soviet analogue 👍 great read.
Thank you for the courage you have in exposing these shameful page of the history of the USSR... It is surreal how Russia managed to do an almost 180° turn back with this war in Ukraine... Only due to internet it's impossible to hide accidents, but the government always manages to blame someone else!!
Well the government is made of people of course.. so there's always going to be someone to blame.. and it's probably the gays trying to infect everyone with capitalism.. just waiting around the corner, in the closet, ready to strike with the power of unpatriotic anti-nationalist social poison...
There is something duplicitous about the whole tone of this. The author says that he does not support conspiracy theories, but then spends 23 minutes hinting at them. Of course senior Soviet or Russian official would like the population to belive in such theories - what a helpful distraction from their own historic incompetence and disregard for human life.
The Confucian heavenly mandate would suggest that a States legitimacy is tied with its ability to prevent or respond to disaster. This might make sabotage a seductive option but frankly scapegoating would also be for the other side, cover ups without such accusations are much more likely to be internal incompetence, and a corrupt institutional culture. To be clear the late ussr both had an extremely concerning level of petty corruption (just not bothering to fulfil their role or take basic measures as there was a culture of cover-up rather than punishment, basically if everyone was guilty why punish those who by bad luck happened to become involved with an unfortunate and unforeseeable situation) and lack out outside means of reform (things were state run and every organisation had a level of corruption). As such it was likely that this was just the culmination of a failing system. It should be noted that there is evidence of the early signs of the same in the West, affirmative action, the increasing prominence of unaccountable corporations funded by public pensions and with considerable lobbying power and lowering educational standards means that safety in many areas is deteriorating, accountability is decreasing and competence is focused overly much in a core of people close to retirement. As traditional standards of effectiveness are disparaged we will increasingly get the opportunity to face danger from people incapable of the role they have been given, they will however be diverse, well paid, young, enthusiastic and unaccountable.
It's both sad & worrying how similar the Soviet Union and China today are. The most obvious being the Government always putting way more effort in to covering up disasters than saving lives or making sure a situation doesn't get even worse. However, there's also the carelessness of People operating vital and/or dangerous things. The causes are probably the same.
Can't remember where I saw it, but a historian was making the point that Russia is an Asian country in that their approach is much like China's: very top down, no loss of face, authoritarian, not concerned for the individual, endemic corruption.
WOH WOH WOH Did You just say in 1986 on a passenger plane the captain bet the copilot he could NOT land the plane blindly. So they closed off the curtains and the guy tried to land blindly with the whole crew cheering him on and that led to him crashing the plane & 90 people dying. Did I hear that right? If I did that deserves a video on to itself that is a hell of a story.
Last I cheked, any Soviet pilot was required to be capable of landing a plane with just the machinery and no line of sight. Since he failed, it means he managed to graduate without that qualification.
The disaster in Kuibyshev is a vivid, simply the brightest example of when a really experienced pilot at some point came to the conclusion that he was so cool that, in principle, nothing bad could happen to him. "Hey, I'm a professional, I can get out of any situation (except for a flat spin)." It turned out to be more important for the aircraft commander to show the co-pilot his skills and win a bet than to deliver passengers safe and sound. By the way, he was initially given 15 years in prison (the maximum prison term under the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1960, only execution is higher), then the case was reviewed and the term was reduced to 6 years, and he was released in 1994.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the shoot-down of the Air Korea Flight 103 that a radar engineer told the military to shoot down, killing almost 300. Yuri Andropov apologized profusely and was trying to reassure the U.S. that it indeed was an accident.
Putin is right. The collapse of the USSR is the worst thing that happened in terms of geopolitics. It shifted the world into a unipolar US-led world, which did not bring about the "Kumbaya" world at all. Instead, it led to further US global meddling and neo-colonialism and financial imperialism.
Sometimes when things go "boom" its not an accident Especially considering the ussr was engaged in a "cold" war (Nothing cold about it from the perspective of Korea cambodia laos vietnam......)
I'm pretty sure we admitted to one of the pipeline booms.... Not sure if it's the one you were talking about, but.. I remember it being discussed as kind of a point of pride, on account of the ability to manipulate things electronically or something.. I would have to go find the material again and check for specifics, but I've heard the story more than once.. and it's definitely something that was a lot more official of the things that went on during the Reagan administration and the priority of escalating pressure on the Soviet Union.. snail mail electronics warfare sabotage was definitely a cherry on top.. Although I'm not sure if that was exactly what was involved in the pipeline explosion, but I do remember the attitude being something of hey well yeah of course we did that.. but those kind of official and unofficial things never really make the headlines like national scandal etc.. also there's a certain degree of operations that it won't make the headlines if they don't want them to, which also helps if the Soviet Union doesn't want the headline either.. it is always fascinating the dynamic shear under unadulterated probably drug addict incompetency of the CIA and their plans and goals.. and then there's that other little bit.. in between the poisoned milkshakes, and exploding seashells...
Complacency kills, it is often a cause of many accidents and making accidents worse. I suspect a poor work ethic caused by the lack of rewards and punishments for doing a good/bad job.
Is it just an inherent dedication to efficiency, that for some reason whenever Russia has a plane crash or something.. they don't just lose a few random people here and there.. but like the entire West Pacific fleet admiralty.. or the entire soccer team in one go..
As an american I have two thoughts. 1) The parallels between the indifference/negligence of USSR and USA today are just so on the nose. We really are more alike than we want to credit ourselves with. 2) There's no such thing as coincidence when the CIA exists
Bruh. Where you asleep for few decades around same time as all of this was happening in ussr as well as in us and woke up only now? These parallels are straight up wrong, two similar symptoms of absolutely different problems.
As a russian, I often hear my parents and grandparents expressing nostalgia for the past days of the USSR but all of them say it's a lot better now. Although one could argue it's gotten worse for scientists and researchers but apart from that I'm thankful not to live through the 20th century in Russia/USSR
Not that I condone anything Putin is doing now, but I hear that, in his early years, the Russian economy and life improved. Now, only Moscow and St. Petersburg benefit. ):
I caused my mother to make a million-dollar mistake by running a crane into the side of a new 747 because I had to keep her up all night arguing while drunk.
In short, the USSR ended because of the country's ruling class, which became unable to face the challenges that reality imposed on the USSR. The soviet economic model, which was a clone of the fordist model of production, began to decline at the same pace as fordism in the US also began to decline in the 70s, at the same time that a new technological paradigm emerged in Japan and new production models also. The political inability of their leaders to observe these changes happening around the world and deliver solutions and changes to soviet society would be one of the reasons. The difference is that the USA, which there was no economic planning by estate, managed to adapt quickly to these changes since the administration of the economy was done by the decisions of the companies, and not by the estate. I would say that the Soviet Union, along with the other countries in its model, implemented a system that was too "advanced". In foul language, he took a step bigger than his legs. What I mean by this? The explanation comes from looking at China, which needed to take a step back, return to predominantly capitalist economic structures, to develop its economy and reach the levels of the world powers, thereafter, socialize the means of production (something they can do with a strong economy). The USSR did not go through the process of modernizing its productive capabilities (which only capitalism was able to bring about, led by Japan) and ended up sinking into a 5y economic plans that was impossible to achieve within a political and social 80's crisis (and spending trillions on Chernobyl accelerated the process of disruption).
Seems like a pretty good take. If you look at US news they’ve been angsting about a collapse of their society continuously since at least Vietnam, but it hasn’t happened. People were worried about Japan during the 80’s, but they’ve been stuck in crisis since then and America developed the internet and changed the world. Probably the benefit of a fundamentally open society is the ability to reinevent itself so often.
@@joshuabanner3675 Yes, capitalism has its advantages and disadvantages, one of which is exactly that, quickly reinventing itself in the face of changes in society's behavior and social revolutions.The Soviet leaders, once controlling the all means of soviet production, should to observe the changes and artificially promote adaptations in society since this decision was not up to the companies, China and the US did it very well since 70's.
5 years plannning was defunct even in 50s, in early 60s Czechoslovak economy got into huge crisis, there was total difference between planned and needed. So for 2 years they had to stop large scale projects, because there were no money for them and also start light industry to serve people. In late 60s there were attemps to change economy model, but USSR with Brezhnev took it as direct thread to socialism and made invasion to Czechoslovakia. It caused 20 years of stagnation, which directly led to collapse of the regime.
another disaster I thought was interesting was the 1984 Tornado outbreak which included two F4's and killed somewhere between 70 and 400 people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
sorry it was me
No it was me, It was my fault and not his
@@palmgameboy fake news you must be western spy
We hereby grant you the Medal of Honor
Thanks vodka
It was me I did it, stolen valor much pal?
Similar to the accident there with the radiation source, we had a small radioactive capsule (Caesium-137) recently go missing near where I live. I am in Western Australia, and the capsule is used in mining. It (amazingly) fell of a truck whilst in transit from the mine to Perth, so it could have been anywhere along the 1,400km route. The Government agency actually found it only a few days later after they sent special vehicles equipped with radiation monitoring equipment to travel the entire length of the road. The capsule itself is tiny as well, maybe the size of a thumbnail. Everyone was surprised they found it so quickly. They did a really good job!
Imagine beliving that they found it and not covering shit...
You’re lame bro
@@fugjewtube1822imagine being so lucky. No, they’re covering alright, but not their butts... it was the emus. The emus are back. And they’re trying to start round two with a bang. If the public knew what hell they live 5 seconds away from at any given moment, society would collapse and that’d be it. The birds would win. Then you have a thermonuclear armed continent of hostile wildlife, that’s how you get ww3 my friend. I mean you think those long neck’d sobs would stop there!? They’d emu step across the pacific, up the Yangtze at a cost of 500 million Chinese and pushing the US back to the Rockies before it’s even debatable if they might be halted. All while our poor brothers and sisters down under would be rounded up off to farms and ranches to be gawked at for their short necks and tiny eggs. No. Better we never know the truth.
Meanwhile in post-Soviet Georgia, big-ass orphaned sources were left steaming in the snow for years before some poor bros got irradiated by it.
@@DianaDeLuna Irradiated? They literally SLEPT on it. On a literally boiling-hot construction, melting ice around it with supernatural heat. And also it is not only one, there are MUCH MORE of these things, and not only RITEGS, and they are not only in georgia. Many of these are still lost everywhere where soviet union once was, be it russia, belarus, kazakstan or georgia.
Call it "confluence of incompetence." I just think the utter rot of the USSR brought about these terrible situations. Gosplan and the other central planning authorities never allocated enough for maintenance, and the resources they did dedicate to that were mostly stolen or done in a drunken manner.
Here in America, we promote people to highly visible positions for which they have no background but who are politically reliable in the name of diversity. Were they doing the same in the USSR at the time?
@@neilreynolds3858 I think that has merit. Although of course the USSR selected knuckleheads not out of "diversity" like over here, but mostly Party connections, I would guess. Same disastrous effects, though.
@@baronvonslambertoh just you wait
@@baronvonslambert Agreed. Prior post kinda sounded like a racist dog whistle.
@@extragoogleaccount6061 It could be said the other way round by the other side, and ime would still be a load of bull.
you could say that these incidences point to a broader demoralised population during the period; if workers with such important tasks were fooling around, what about the attitude of all the other workers?
It also showed the systemic failures of the USSR. In an open society the news wound have reported such incidents right away. There would then be an investigation, inquiry and recommendations on how to prevent it in future. But Soviet citizens were not told what happened and could not demand investigations and changes.
All workers didnt give a damn, were just trying to scrape by with doing the least, and getting as many benefits for themselves as possible. From the stories of my father, which worked in various forest work during the occupation years of Lithuania, if the logging trucks and tractors still had fuel in them, it means they didnt work enough, so they would just pour out dozens of liters of fuel into ditches so they wouldnt get pay cuts, but god forbid the authorities found dyed work fuel in your possesion - Gulag. The stories of equipment part stealing are as old as time, if a tractor broke down, you have two weeks of doing stuff by hand, because the spare one in the garrage, had no functioning parts left, and it would be faster to fix the tractor yourself than wait for a repairman with parts. Especially in the end of the USSR, after the post WW2 and cold war west hatred patriotism died out, it was a free for all, thats my take on the fall.
@@Sorcerers_Apprenticewhere is this open society
@@Ocinneade345 The United States. I know people like you probably like to insist the US is worse in every way, but its a simple fact that severe safety hazards are much harder to cover up in a country with a free press. Unlike in the USSR, a nuclear power plant can be shut down in the US if it has high public disapproval. People definitely would not tolerate an unsafe nuclear power plant in their community.
@@Ocinneade345 Not in Russia, that much is certain
If I had a ruble for every doofus going "hurr durr🤓 just like America these days" then I could have afforded to keep the USSR afloat back in '91.
True. About same things were happening in the US around same times. But where is ussr now?
I like how he uses Joe Rogan as the personification of conspiracy theories.
Alex Jones would've been more appropriate.
@@zerocool5395Rogan is more relevant these days
Whole demoncratic party is conspiracy theory
@@zerocool5395alex jones has been right too many times
Combination of factors:
1) Brezhnev letting corruption free
2) Afghanistan war
3) Re-intensification of the Arms Race in the early 80s
4) Oil pricses collapsing in 1986:
5) Glasnost: You should not liberalize you political system while the economy is in decline.
6) Chernobyl disasters.
7) Wodka
@@Agramsch Its russian constant value :-)
But this video shows wayyy more disasters as a result of the Soviet system. US Private enterprise and esp financial obligation to pay to victims via lawsuits prevents some of this, but at least compensates victims. Republicans keep wanting Tort reform, making fun of frivolous lawsuits, but then we would be living in 80's soviet union or modern china. Whether its the state or a billionaire profiting from your demise, a dystopia is a dystopia whether marxist or capitalist. Resist Billionaire funded initiatives. Financial Accountability to workers and public is how workers are safe, but also why head hits are penalized in the NFL. Cause the billionaires are liable for drooling middle aged ex players.
Solid list
Definetly not Afghanistan. That one had no influence on it.
I am thinking what was the general mood of the people back then, as I recall the 1980s was not good for the USSR when oil price plugged and daily shortage was happening. That means the average life quality was decreasing for everyone. Maybe people felt hopeless about their life and their future, maybe heavy sense of apathy/nihilism sink in and people felt like working gets them nowhere so they careless about work.
This also explains the extremely quickly collapse of the USSR
The 1980s were kinda chaos all around the world. Most noticeable in the USSR though cause they were fighting in Afghanistan "the graveyard of umpires"
General mood of worker in socialistic country was something like this: State pretend that it pay me, so I pretend that I work.
@@stevej71393 I would add one more thing. Glasnost has led, among other things, to the fact that the media suddenly discovered that the negative sells better than the positive. The Soviet, and then the Russian citizen, was stubbornly pumped up with negative information, pushing some positive news aside. I still remember that hopeless darkness that came from TV and newspapers already in the 1990s - endless murders, suicides, maniacs (oh, the press and TV loved to savor the details of how serial killers dealt with victims: "Look! Blood is everywhere! On the floor, on the walls, on the ceiling, on the refrigerator, on the cat!" and stuff like that), cannibals and other horror. All this was laid down precisely then - in the period 1987-1989, then it already went along the knurled path.
Soviet and Russian mentality in a nutshell:
"Njet problem. Normal catastrof".
Honestly, I remember the 1980s as a kid and a lot of stuff blew up, went down in flames, or sank. Heysel, Bradford City, Hillsborough, Lockerbie, 1985 as the deadliest year for commercial aviation, Zeebrugge and Kings Cross, Piper Alpha... There was Bhopal in India, Three Mile Island, etc.
My theory is that the 1980s were when commercial/public enterprise reached capacity -- that people were beginning to overwhelm the capacity of lax regulations and aging infrastructure. It was essentially a global stress test on things that people in the post-war era were just beginning to take for granted and becoming more accessible to the general public, but whose regulations and operations were not yet up to the standard we enjoy today. It was also when the mass media was beginning to run away with things -- the whole point with Chernobyl was that it happened in an area that wasn't deep in Siberia and therefore easily covered up, and the circulation of unauthorised media in the Eastern Bloc was only accelerating thanks to VCRs, cassette tapes, photocopiers and other means of reproducing media. Once the crack showed in the edifice of state, it all started going downhill.
(Cassette tapes were used to disseminate Khomeini's speeches in Iran, leading to mass understanding of his toxic message from people who were disenfranchised by the Shah's regime. Social media did the same thing in the early 2010s but it's actually easier for repressive governments to control the internet than it was for them to control the spread of individual paper 'zines, discs, tapes, videos or USB sticks. With everything now streaming based, it's a lot easier for governments to smother debate and discussion.)
Thanks to many of those accidents, lessons were learned, safety became more of a priority and capacity increased to meet demand. It seems like it was the tipping point for a lot of things and this is probably doubly true for the USSR.
The Space Shuttle Challenger blew up on national tv. Pretty much every classroom had tuned in.
Good thesis! Unfortunately, it only takes a generation to forget the mistakes of the past. I don‘t mind going green, but I do mind *glowing* green.
@@advancetotabletop5328 Nice one! Some areas are a LOT safer -- commercial aviation in America at least hasn't suffered a fatal accident since 2009 -- but other fields are very different.
Greetings from America! I find it quite fascinating to learn about your history during the time of the USSR. It was all hidden behind a curtain for us Americans, especially the 70s and 80s. Even when the Wall fell, it just wasn't logical - every other American I've spoken with has said the same. They were shocked. The USSR is so fascinating, so thank you for making this video!
@knobjockey76 Same here. The Russian people deserve so much better than they tend to get. I'm praying that the downfall of Putin, when it comes, will finally give them freedom and justice. Ya tebya lyublyu, Rossiya.
@@louiseogden1296 But there is just one problem...putin isnt the cause. He is a by-product of russia current existence, not the cause. When soviet union fell, not only state was broken, but the people too. And putin happened to be...a perfect fit for a position. When he will eventually leave, be it by window or good will, someone like him will reappear.
@@louiseogden1296what does russian freedom mean by you?
A puppet of the west?
A resource to be utilized just like undwr Boris Yeltsin by the west?
Or a independent nation.
Crimea should be Russian, especially if Kosovo can be albanian.
In my home town in the United States there was a gasoline pipeline explosion that was caused by a leak that the operators ignored. They just pumped more gas until it exploded. However it wasn't in an area that had a lot of people.
I watched when we got footage of Chernobyl in 1986. We destroyed our milk for several years after that. Milk harvested from cows mostly living around our Sellafield nuclear plant for some reason...
The Afghan invasion was a destabilising factor. When returning soldiers talked to friends and relatives, people learned a well-known truth (again): the state lies. Maybe it was the final straw.
1986: Chernobyl and two cases of "watch this!"
The biggest disaster is Russia itself. Nevertheless wo is in charge, the normal people suffer. Since 1994 regions the size of New York State aand Connericut combined were completely isolated from classical Soviet government services like hospitals, transportation, electricity, road maintenance. Only to feed the large cities and calm the people down there.
15:22 it was considered cool among sailors to pass dangerously close to other ships, lmao, I thought only Americans did stupid death shit like subway surfing and playing chicken with vehicles. Subway surfing emerges every 7 years in my city until dead kids get on the news for tunnels to the forehead or falling off the Elevated train onto traffic. The next generation forgets the news its like clockwork. But Jeez we didn't know how terrible things were going in Soviets. Just avoidable disaster after disaster like walking blindfolded in a yard with 100 rakes.
I have a theory, based on talkning to a lot of ex-soviet academics who now work in the west: The Soviet union had a "highly skilled manpower shortage" due to rapid advances needed to keep up with the west..... and solved it by filling advanced jobs that in the west would require a degree and high vetting with "conscripts and randos". A lot of the "sexy projects" such as the missiles, fighterplanes, space-program, the new gas fields etc took so many "smart brains" away from other sectors that incompetent people got behind the wheel. I often meet ex-soviets in academia who for their conscription describe doing electronic warfare, air surveillance, metrology, surgery, signals, radiology... and joke that they were wildly overestimated just because they did well in school. Maybe the soviet system saw talent very fast? But then again a lot of other ex-soviet expat academics mention how they picked potatoes or fought invasive plants during conscription. But it would make sense that the soviets struggled to fill lower level demanding jobs given that the western pool of highly educated dwarfed the soviet one in many sectors.
Looks like a combination of demoralization, misaligned incentives, lack of accountability, tightening resources, and increasing complexity. Like the US these days.
Not in these days. It already happened. Around the same time as in soviet union. Now it is completely different story, that is same all across the globe.
Okay, so show us the US videos of these disasters. If you’re familiar with US history (and, a a bot, you wouldn’t be), we’ve had terrible disasters, mostly during the Industrial Revolution, such as the molasses destruction, locked door during a fire, tainted milk, and many other incidents that US regulation now prevents.
The more I learn about Russia & Russians, the more it reminds me of Australia & Australians.
Coronavirus has completely wrecked my opinion Australian people
@@KKTR3
It destroyed my belief in 99% of the human population.
Depending on how heavily you weigh Chernobyl, china might have the USSR beat for most man-made disasters. Thanks to stuff like the Great Firewall, they have an impressive ability to censor catastrophes even in the digital age. Check out sources like China fact, chasers and China insider and compare their coverage of the flood disaster in Beijing and.Hubei province, with what news coverage you’ve seen, if any. Granted, some of their decisions were more obviously, stupid, like building flood, control, dams that can only handle a once in 60 years level flood, thanks to that, they’ve done control dam releases and flooded many towns, sometimes only giving a few hours notice for the residents to evacuate. they’ve also turned away volunteer rescue workers to avoid making what few official rescue workers there are look bad. Tofu drag construction kills who knows how many people. We might now be able to consider COVID China’s Chernobyl. The death, toll and global impact are certainly higher, even if people died from a virus and response instead of fall out, at least that was geographically contained, but both appear to be the result of negligence.
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i like how you made it look like the bear said "greetings comrade" 🥰
Comrade vodka and comrade radioactive disaster
17:30 those explosives were detonators for Nuclear Weapons. Luckily, the Nuke part is separate from the detonation part until they're getting prepared for use.
Frightening. Modern society depends on responsibility and careful attention to details.
Tries landing a plane blind
Crashes it
Surives
Goes to jail for 6 years
Refuses to elaborate further
Its far before the 80s, but I always think of the Nedelin Disaster when i think of Soviet accidents/incidents. Being vaporized is pretty hardcore.
was kinda hoping brezhnev's eyebrows would make it on this list (even if they *do* fit his face eerily well)
Soviets engeering philosophy combined with trying to hide economic troubles by cutting back on the maintenance budget.Putting people in charge for political loyalty instead of competence didn't help. Neither did covering up accidents that prevented learning from mistakes.
The road to ruin is paved with good intentions. Gorbachev paved that road but that didn't mean they weren't already far down that road to begin with.
Sabotage? No, even broken clock shows the right time twice a day, With the gigantic multitude of accidents and disasters in USSR as the society was rotting from inside, and caused by neglect, mismanagement, faulty designs and people's indifference the "conspiracies" were just the occurrences of broken clock showing permanent 12:00 occurring exactly at 12:00.
Ah sweet, man made horrors within my comprehension!
15:40 ....these maneuvers are still popular to this day. Sucks to be a drone 😬
I can fully believe that all of the accidents mentioned in this video are the result of nothing more than negligence and a lack of maintanance purely based on a single statistic i saw in a different video about Aeroflot. In it's roughly 100 year history there have been more than 8000 casualties and dozens of planes lost in accidents. On the other hand you have the Australian Quantas, who's just as big and old as Aeroflot and never lost a single jet in their entire history.
You can't explain that with deliberate sabotage.
Despite knowing most of these accidents since internet, quite entertaining. Nearly impartial.
Only one thing, on you citing V.V. Putin on collapse of the USSR in apparent approval... As a Latvian who's family starting backwards from grandparents was mostly deported and /or imprisoned in far-east gulags - (ex.g. Blagoveshchensk where even my aunt was born and mum conceived) - i beg to differ.))
Well, I am not the biggest fan of the Soviet Union and I'm even a lesser fan of Vladimir Putin, but I actually kind of agree with him on that particular take. Not in a way that the collapse of the USSR was a terrible thing (its creation was an even worse thing in my opinion), but that it was a catastrophe for millions of people. The USSR was the third most populated country in the world, and in fact, in a couple of years, life for 300 million people has changed dramatically. Relatives found themselves in different countries, the usual supply chains of products were disrupted. Yes, gradually countries learned to live separately, and for some countries leaving the USSR was certainly a blessing (for the Baltic States, obviously). But for most other countries, the 90s was literally one of the worst decades in their history. Yes, they are quite happy to live independently now, but back then such a sudden change was a shock to a large number of people.
I don't think the USSR was viable by 1990 and should have been kept intact. But the way in which this disintegration was executed may well be called a geopolitical catastrophe.
@@Setarko
Mostly for countries that lost their Soviet aid to compensate for the economies that were either underdeveloped or mismanaged.
@@shauncameron8390 It was mostly problem of soviet-style economy. ALL soviet states very EXTREMELY close economically, so close in fact that they almost immediately collapsed after separation. Another big flaw of globalistation.
I fondly remember helping to deliver medical equipment, medications, chemotherapeutic agents, and 1,000 pounds of Slavic foods to the An-225 Mirya which landed at KPHL in 1991, in an effort to save radiation exposure victims from Chernobyl's meltdown.
Destruction of the An-225 Mirya was senseless, as is this damn war... Slava Ukraini!
My (then) wife visited Romania to assist with the orphanage scandal aftermath,. Upon her return to the US, she followed her patients until their 21st birthdays.
Sorry to say but none of the tragic events surprises me, because, as we all should know, that complacency breads contempt, contempt for the rules of operation of trains,planes and ships has happened all over the world, not just in the Soviet Union/Russia but anywhere that is industrialised, however in the USSR/Russia the combination of communist repression, poor wages and living conditions, poorly manufactured and maintained industrial 🏭 production and facilities and inadequate safety standards and inspections, all of which combine to create a workforce that doesn’t give a Sh1t about their occupations, and that is unfortunately a very very poor situation for the USSR/Russia, or at least for ordinary citizens as they have born all of disasters whilst the governing elite are closeted from pain and anguish because they make the rules, any criticism of the state and the individuals were/are severely punished, and dissent from workers about working conditions,equipment shortages, safety standards to their direct supervisor (ie Chernobyl) is completely ignored because the “communist ideals” can’t be wrong.
Obviously I don’t know if anything has changed since the USSR break up, but I suspect it has, but not quickly enough to rid themselves off tragic events like those shown here, I would bet my last Penny that somewhere in the former USSR countries there are disasters just waiting to spring a nasty surprise upon an unsuspecting population.
Thanks for sharing these events with us all, very interesting and informative in a sad way, nonetheless I am glad that, at last, someone has been bold enough to reveal the truth about certain events, and simultaneously brought unheard of events, that were covered up for decades by the communist regime, into the light. Thanks again, subscribing and hopefully new insights will be added to the story of the USSRs Cold War past. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴 🇷🇺 🇺🇦.
P.S Since the fall of the Soviet Union there has not been change to how Russia is governed, Vladimir Putin, in my opinion, is worse than “uncle Joe” Stalin in some respects, the criticism of his government and political allies is still as dangerous for the dissenters, he rules with an iron fist in a velvet glove, appearing to be a world leader on state media and loved by all, but behind the closed doors of the Kremlin he is just another tyrant, communism is alive and well under Vladimir Putin, and the oligarchy are rich by consent of him and the other high ranking government officials, but with the stroke of a pen that wealth could, and has been, made to disappear, just like the oligarch who was once attached to it. In my opinion Russia 🇷🇺 might in name be a democratic society but in reality it is still communist.
Thank you for your extremly interesting & honest videos! You put so much work in them!
Pushkin Crash & Nedelin Disaster: 2 textbook examples of arrogant Russian Generals in action. There must be a 3rd I forgot.
correction: Fukushima wasn't nearly as bad as it was made out to be by the anti-nuclear propaganda and was deliberately misclassified in a far higher category than it should have been.
Kyshtym was far far worse. And was only one of several such incidents in the USSR.
Yeltsin admitted it was an accident at a Sverdlovsk military facility, and then a few weeks later retracted that admission and reverted to the contaminated meat excuse.
Chernobyl wasn't the first accident with an RBMK2 reactor. Several years earlier there had been a very similar accident at the Leningrad RBMK power station, where a meltdown was narrowly avoided.
The other RBMK installations (like Chernobyl) were not notified of this and the processes and fixes that would have alleviated if not prevented what happened at Chernobyl because the entire incident was classified a state secret of the highest order and thus nothing of it could be mentioned to anyone.
Well, I think 1917-1953 cost the soviet union a lot more lifes than the incidents here. At it did not collapse back then. It looks more like "communism wih a human face" was doomed, and communism the Mao/ Stalin way was made for robots, not humans.
Soviet regime was never communism with human face. Maybe Khruschev tried something, but Brezhnev returned it back, without the Stalins cruelty. Brezhnev was leader of the stagnation, only he called it stability :-)
First world capitalist feeling their system is more humane is like a child thinking the world is a fair place because his teddy bears is repaired
@@ShinigamiInuyasha777 Its funny propaganda lie. It was communist regime who developed gulags and closed borders to forbid own people leave.
@@xsc1000
So the US has More people in prison today that the soviets ever did and more than any place in the world a shinning example of freedom?
Who is full of propaganda here?
Great work comrade! I like to discover new stories that I never heard about, the editing and archive footage are fantastic
i thought i knew of a fair number of Soviet disasters, from the anthrax thing to Lake Karachi and everything but as always it’s even worse than i thought!
1980's USSR People :
Current Objective : Survive
The major cause of all the negligence and incompetence in Russia is and always will be VODCA!
I think the anthrax outbreak you mentioned was one of Stephen King's inspirations for his novel THE STAND.
Such a chain of disasters has never been seen before of since... me: *looks at china on a regular thursday*
These days at which the railway catastrophies happened... were these work days, or holidays?
I was born in Dniprodzerzhynsk and never heard of the plane crash
5:59 highly recommend The Dead Hand by David E Hoffman......if you thought Western doomsday/last-resort designs/concepts were crazy/dangerousAF, wait until you read about a system that decided for itself when to and only needed your finger for aborting........as long as you were alive and paying attention, otherwise 😳
If anyone's read or watched the doc Command and Control, this book is a loose Soviet analogue 👍 great read.
Well now that you mentioned conspiracy theories we gonna need a video on russian and soviet conspiracies
I really love your intonation - which varies between cycnical and incredulous
Thank you for the courage you have in exposing these shameful page of the history of the USSR... It is surreal how Russia managed to do an almost 180° turn back with this war in Ukraine... Only due to internet it's impossible to hide accidents, but the government always manages to blame someone else!!
Oh yes, because the West doesnt' have this sort of shit. Like trains crashing, cruisers sinking or nuclear disasters.... oh wait!
Well the government is made of people of course.. so there's always going to be someone to blame.. and it's probably the gays trying to infect everyone with capitalism.. just waiting around the corner, in the closet, ready to strike with the power of unpatriotic anti-nationalist social poison...
There is something duplicitous about the whole tone of this. The author says that he does not support conspiracy theories, but then spends 23 minutes hinting at them. Of course senior Soviet or Russian official would like the population to belive in such theories - what a helpful distraction from their own historic incompetence and disregard for human life.
The Confucian heavenly mandate would suggest that a States legitimacy is tied with its ability to prevent or respond to disaster. This might make sabotage a seductive option but frankly scapegoating would also be for the other side, cover ups without such accusations are much more likely to be internal incompetence, and a corrupt institutional culture. To be clear the late ussr both had an extremely concerning level of petty corruption (just not bothering to fulfil their role or take basic measures as there was a culture of cover-up rather than punishment, basically if everyone was guilty why punish those who by bad luck happened to become involved with an unfortunate and unforeseeable situation) and lack out outside means of reform (things were state run and every organisation had a level of corruption). As such it was likely that this was just the culmination of a failing system.
It should be noted that there is evidence of the early signs of the same in the West, affirmative action, the increasing prominence of unaccountable corporations funded by public pensions and with considerable lobbying power and lowering educational standards means that safety in many areas is deteriorating, accountability is decreasing and competence is focused overly much in a core of people close to retirement. As traditional standards of effectiveness are disparaged we will increasingly get the opportunity to face danger from people incapable of the role they have been given, they will however be diverse, well paid, young, enthusiastic and unaccountable.
Pre conditions IE the county's that made the USSR hated Russia Wallsawpact is now largely in NATO
The URSS had more minoirites in power that any western power have, yet is appearently pro Russian, lol
This is truly unbelievable. I had no idea all of these disasters occurred.
Love your work brother, every time I get drunk my immediate instinct is to watch one of your videos
It's both sad & worrying how similar the Soviet Union
and China today are.
The most obvious being the Government always putting way more effort
in to covering up disasters than saving lives or making sure
a situation doesn't get even worse.
However, there's also the carelessness of People operating vital
and/or dangerous things.
The causes are probably the same.
Can't remember where I saw it, but a historian was making the point that Russia is an Asian country in that their approach is much like China's: very top down, no loss of face, authoritarian, not concerned for the individual, endemic corruption.
When you're more worried about avoiding embarrassment and boosting your current perception rather than actually improving your country
The SS Admiral Nakhimov was more like the SS Andrea Doria than the RMS Titanic.😑
WOH WOH WOH Did You just say in 1986 on a passenger plane the captain bet the copilot he could NOT land the plane blindly.
So they closed off the curtains and the guy tried to land blindly with the whole crew cheering him on and that led to him crashing the plane & 90 people dying.
Did I hear that right?
If I did that deserves a video on to itself that is a hell of a story.
Seems like my commwnt got deleted, so I will write it again
Yes, he was right. Google Flight 6502.
Last I cheked, any Soviet pilot was required to be capable of landing a plane with just the machinery and no line of sight. Since he failed, it means he managed to graduate without that qualification.
@@dwarow2508 additionally I'm sure they didn't do the original test on an active flight with a bunch of innocent passengers onboard.
The disaster in Kuibyshev is a vivid, simply the brightest example of when a really experienced pilot at some point came to the conclusion that he was so cool that, in principle, nothing bad could happen to him. "Hey, I'm a professional, I can get out of any situation (except for a flat spin)." It turned out to be more important for the aircraft commander to show the co-pilot his skills and win a bet than to deliver passengers safe and sound. By the way, he was initially given 15 years in prison (the maximum prison term under the Criminal Code of the RSFSR of 1960, only execution is higher), then the case was reviewed and the term was reduced to 6 years, and he was released in 1994.
@@StazherEzhov I cannot believe there has not been anybody on any of the disaster channels that I watch who talked about this particular incident.
Those first 10 seconds... you're kidding, right?.. Right?
I think due to the large size of the USSR in them times, the accidents looked numerically worse than they were.
I'm surprised that you didn't mention the shoot-down of the Air Korea Flight 103 that a radar engineer told the military to shoot down, killing almost 300. Yuri Andropov apologized profusely and was trying to reassure the U.S. that it indeed was an accident.
Putin is right. The collapse of the USSR is the worst thing that happened in terms of geopolitics.
It shifted the world into a unipolar US-led world, which did not bring about the "Kumbaya" world at all. Instead, it led to further US global meddling and neo-colonialism and financial imperialism.
As someone who visited the USSR five or six years before it collapsed. Good riddance.
Early Soviet Union: Crushes Tsarism & Nazism, becomes global superpower
Late Soviet Union: 'Look Ma, No Hands!'
Sometimes when things go "boom" its not an accident
Especially considering the ussr was engaged in a "cold" war
(Nothing cold about it from the perspective of Korea cambodia laos vietnam......)
I'm pretty sure we admitted to one of the pipeline booms.... Not sure if it's the one you were talking about, but.. I remember it being discussed as kind of a point of pride, on account of the ability to manipulate things electronically or something.. I would have to go find the material again and check for specifics, but I've heard the story more than once.. and it's definitely something that was a lot more official of the things that went on during the Reagan administration and the priority of escalating pressure on the Soviet Union.. snail mail electronics warfare sabotage was definitely a cherry on top..
Although I'm not sure if that was exactly what was involved in the pipeline explosion, but I do remember the attitude being something of hey well yeah of course we did that.. but those kind of official and unofficial things never really make the headlines like national scandal etc.. also there's a certain degree of operations that it won't make the headlines if they don't want them to, which also helps if the Soviet Union doesn't want the headline either.. it is always fascinating the dynamic shear under unadulterated probably drug addict incompetency of the CIA and their plans and goals.. and then there's that other little bit.. in between the poisoned milkshakes, and exploding seashells...
I was in West Germany in 1986,, the USSR really Screwed up,, but I do find my 3rd arm useful,,,😂
Complacency kills, it is often a cause of many accidents and making accidents worse. I suspect a poor work ethic caused by the lack of rewards and punishments for doing a good/bad job.
"bet you I can land this passenger plane blind"
"Want to see how close I can get to the other ship?"
These are some very Russian-sounding disasters
Is it just an inherent dedication to efficiency, that for some reason whenever Russia has a plane crash or something.. they don't just lose a few random people here and there.. but like the entire West Pacific fleet admiralty.. or the entire soccer team in one go..
Thank you for another banger video-- Bolshoye spasiba! :)
Greetings from America, I think this is one of the best channels on UA-cam. 👍👍
I really hope you don’t live anywhere near Russia currently…Putin’s likely to polonium you if you do.
" The dickade" 😂 sorry I have the maturity of a child...nah I. Just a dickade lol
Your videos are always very good. I really appreciate them.
Ah yes, the various forms and shapes of razpizdajstvo...
As an american I have two thoughts. 1) The parallels between the indifference/negligence of USSR and USA today are just so on the nose. We really are more alike than we want to credit ourselves with. 2) There's no such thing as coincidence when the CIA exists
1) indifference/negligence are everywhere. 2) The CIA isn't.
The cia is in fact everywhere@@HauntedXXXPancake
Ridiculous to even suggest CIA is behind this
In the US incidents like these are a lot harder to hide nowadays and easier to prosecute. Also the CIA isn’t as competent as you think.
Bruh. Where you asleep for few decades around same time as all of this was happening in ussr as well as in us and woke up only now? These parallels are straight up wrong, two similar symptoms of absolutely different problems.
14:51 dude said hold my vodka im bout to land this bih with my eyes closed 😭
Would you say that life was better for the average citizen during the peak of Soviet power or at any point post collapse?
As a russian, I often hear my parents and grandparents expressing nostalgia for the past days of the USSR but all of them say it's a lot better now. Although one could argue it's gotten worse for scientists and researchers but apart from that I'm thankful not to live through the 20th century in Russia/USSR
Not that I condone anything Putin is doing now, but I hear that, in his early years, the Russian economy and life improved. Now, only Moscow and St. Petersburg benefit. ):
I do not believe in conspiracies too, CCCP was already having warmer relations with west. But nice video, half of these accidents were unknown for me
I caused my mother to make a million-dollar mistake by running a crane into the side of a new 747 because I had to keep her up all night arguing while drunk.
A sad time for the USSR!
In short, the USSR ended because of the country's ruling class, which became unable to face the challenges that reality imposed on the USSR. The soviet economic model, which was a clone of the fordist model of production, began to decline at the same pace as fordism in the US also began to decline in the 70s, at the same time that a new technological paradigm emerged in Japan and new production models also. The political inability of their leaders to observe these changes happening around the world and deliver solutions and changes to soviet society would be one of the reasons. The difference is that the USA, which there was no economic planning by estate, managed to adapt quickly to these changes since the administration of the economy was done by the decisions of the companies, and not by the estate. I would say that the Soviet Union, along with the other countries in its model, implemented a system that was too "advanced". In foul language, he took a step bigger than his legs. What I mean by this? The explanation comes from looking at China, which needed to take a step back, return to predominantly capitalist economic structures, to develop its economy and reach the levels of the world powers, thereafter, socialize the means of production (something they can do with a strong economy). The USSR did not go through the process of modernizing its productive capabilities (which only capitalism was able to bring about, led by Japan) and ended up sinking into a 5y economic plans that was impossible to achieve within a political and social 80's crisis (and spending trillions on Chernobyl accelerated the process of disruption).
Seems like a pretty good take. If you look at US news they’ve been angsting about a collapse of their society continuously since at least Vietnam, but it hasn’t happened. People were worried about Japan during the 80’s, but they’ve been stuck in crisis since then and America developed the internet and changed the world. Probably the benefit of a fundamentally open society is the ability to reinevent itself so often.
@@joshuabanner3675 Yes, capitalism has its advantages and disadvantages, one of which is exactly that, quickly reinventing itself in the face of changes in society's behavior and social revolutions.The Soviet leaders, once controlling the all means of soviet production, should to observe the changes and artificially promote adaptations in society since this decision was not up to the companies, China and the US did it very well since 70's.
5 years plannning was defunct even in 50s, in early 60s Czechoslovak economy got into huge crisis, there was total difference between planned and needed. So for 2 years they had to stop large scale projects, because there were no money for them and also start light industry to serve people. In late 60s there were attemps to change economy model, but USSR with Brezhnev took it as direct thread to socialism and made invasion to Czechoslovakia. It caused 20 years of stagnation, which directly led to collapse of the regime.
@@xsc1000 Yes, no soviet leader was competent after Stalin, economically speaking.
@@araujofi Stalin wasnt competent at all...
another disaster I thought was interesting was the 1984 Tornado outbreak which included two F4's and killed somewhere between 70 and 400 people in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia.
Why do people pine over this again?
Clearly it's Brezhnev.
Not to manshin the 1500 exsoviet RTGs some of them may still be arund.
Straight up not a good time for the people.
Ther needed to be more democracy
The Soviet Union was never “great.” 🤣
Nothing was and ever be. Soviet union was a decent state unlike china at least.
Excellent video, I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Interesting
fantastic video. subscribed
Luck is the residue of design.
finally i am early for a video!
Great video Setarko!
Video about romania?