The last cosmonaut of the Soviet Union was actually in the Mir Space Station when the USSR collapsed. Basically, he went up there as a Soviet and came back as an Alien.
I remember that! I went to Q&A session about the NASP at a science museum during that; they had a retired astronaut there to answer questions- I asked if NASA was going to go save him!
Imagine what he said. "Hello comrades! So how is the soviet union?" The people:"Uhh this is russia USSR Collapsed 10 years ago..." "Haha nice joke!" The people:"No really" "Oh..."
Russia was always there. You were either a soviet Russian or a soviet Belarussian or a soviet Ukrainian or a ... The USSR was an union of 15 states, same as the USA is an union of 50 states. The leading soviet state of course has always been Russia.
@@freedomfighterletsgobrandonYes, but as someone who lives in Massachusetts, I'd sure be mighty surprised if the country I woke up in tomorrow was the Republic of Massachusetts and the President was Maura Healey. So yeah, Russia always existed during the Soviet Union, but it wasn't these people's country. That'd still be a huge change for anyone.
@@lackedpuppet9022Imagine that, imagine the United States collapsing over Joe Biden preferring chocolate chocolate chip over cookies and cream, and Trudeau and AMLO with him, accidentally collapsing the three all because of this oh wait why am i rambling about this
@@cruzgomes5660 we were the fourth richer state of the world, after the rise of united Germany and the new technologies discovered during the last 25 years we lost a lot. I think in cold war period, USA supported us more and viceversa, for Italy is convenient dealing with americans and either russians than the other eu countries.
I was with Ted Koppel in Gorbachev's office at the end of the Soviet Union. He called Bush and told him he was resigning and turning to nuclear codes over to Yeltsin who was down the hall drunk. I watched them take down the Soviet flag in the Kremlin and raise the Russian state flag. I shot the opening at 3A in Red Square with Ted and took his Gorbachev's last walk through the Kremlin with him. Show was called Gorabchev:The Final Hours. two hour show that won an Emmy.
@@fattaman777 It aired as a two hour special on ABC called Gorbachev The Final Hours. I have an Emmy nomination hanging on my wall plus a photo on myself and Gorbachev(with other Press also) taking his final walk through the Kremlin. All documented. Yes, I do have proof.
@Ann Nifödova every soviet leader was corrupt. It's literally what caused the stagnation because not being able to vote out people who suck is a bad way to run a country.
Look at Ted Koppel's objectivity. He speaks candidly, but quite objectively. Certainly very different from the anxiety inducing way of talking that we see today. Anchors today talk with aggressiveness, in an effort to sell. This man, Koppel, is impressive. He is calm, objective, informative, and certainly a product of an era where people were interested in information, not in tendencies. Look at news outlets today. There is no true news. It's all about creating biased agendas.
My dad, who was working overseas at the time, simply couldn't believe it. The existence of the Soviet Union was just a fact of life and everyone fully expected a war to happen betwen it and the NATO countries at some point.
@@zephyrus3554 NATO didn't do shit. Former Eastern Bloc countries applied to join NATO because even 20 years ago there were people who were concerned about Putin, and his aggressions only prove they were right to do so.
@@AmosNg555 What version of history have you been learning? The USSR and US were always enemies. Even during WW2 the western Allies were extremely reluctant to help the USSR against the Nazis and were extremely opportunistic.
Regardless of the Cold War. America saved the Soviet Union from collapsing of starvation and corrupted economy. The Soviet Union generals admitted themselves that if “it wasn’t for the American intervention of supplies, we would have suffered a lot worse than losing the war, how can we make tanks without steel? How can we make a ammo without copper and gun powder? In case anyone asked, FDR literally gave USSR 1.1 billion free credits to help the fight against the Nazi, this is why Stalin like FDR a lot more than Truman in office www.rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-american-supplies-aided-the-ussr-in-its-darkest-hour_575559 www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm
I remember this and am so happy someone uploaded it! I was 8 years old at the time and was the first serious thing my parents taught me about the world.
I love the old advertisements so much more than the ones we have now. Just because how the old adds get to the point. Instead of doing a long ass skit that has nothing to do with the product.
@@PhirePhlame they had a different anthem under the Yeltsin Presidency. Putin brought back the old Soviet Anthem, albeit with the new lyrics as it was a more familiar tune. It would be like the U.S. replacing the "Star Spangled Banner" with "Our Country 'Tis of Thee" knowing that the tune is the same as "God Save The King/Queen" in Great Britain (and in Canada, which is the Co-Official Anthem of the Dominion along with "O Canada").
The irony of the collapse is that, in hindsight, the world was a saner place with the two superpowers keeping everyone else, including each other, in check.
There were many empires that were larger or lasted longer. The largest in terms of land and population was the British Empire, which peaked in the early 20th century. (The term "the sun never sets on the British Empire" was meant to reference the fact that its territories spanned the globe and therefore some part of it was always in daylight). The Ottoman Empire lasted over 600 years, while some portion of the Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500.
Exactly man idk what is it but I feel cozy and quite seeing this as if i lived through it Love the old Christmas days and how everything was so much about family and togetherness, not everyone on their phones now don't give a shit about any tradition
Lol i remember sears. Yeah. Well to be honest if you move financially, you start buying more expensive things. Higher quality stores man. Macy's Bloomingdales, Guess, Polo Ralph Lauren. PEOPLE BETTER THEMSELVES AND WANT QUALITY STUFF. SAME WITH THE SOVIET UNION. ALL COUNTRIES GOT TIRED OF THAT SHIT
Gorbachev wasn't only "The Last President of the Soviet Union". Gorbachev was the *only* President of the Soviet Union. He created that post during his final year as General Secretary of the Communist Party.
I applaud Gorbachev’s efforts, as ineffective as they were. He wasn’t an ideologue like Stalin, Brezhnev, and Chairman Mao. It’s not very often that career politicians put forth reforms that strip away their own power. That give political rights back to the people, that were once stripped away. Then walk away from power. Imagine if the US Congress enacted a law for congressional term limits. It would never happen. All governments face the same problem: Power attracts pathological personalities
Well Chairman Mao was of China , Brezhnev did introduce many reforms which made USSR prosper in the 70s , Stalin built the USSR a superpower , though I get why anyone would hate on Stalin tho , the dude was responsible for the death of millions And yes , you're right about Gorbachev , I'll give it to you for that But Yeltsin ruined it
Soviet Union: I go bye America: You will be back later? Soviet Union: Yes America: OK bye Soviet Union: Bye -_Soviet Union left the chat._ -_Russia joined the chat._
My parents who were from the Soviet Union but had moved out about a decade before it’s collapse told me they were shocked at the fall of the USSR and did not expect it to ever fall.
I was born in Lithuania, way after the fall of the USSR I know some stuff about how it was like back then, from people explaining it to me, and to me it feels obvious that a country like this would fall
It's so fun and unpleasant at the same time to hear Americans say about oppression of other nations and countries... The USSR has lost both in the economics and politics to the US and the NATO, but what's more sad is the death of socialism as a hope of people from the beginning of 20th century to live better lives and to build more sustainable future for everybody, it still wonders me, that the USSR could send people to space, develop massive industries, had accessible education and housing distribution, but couldn't provide simple consumer goods to everybody...
Many countries in Western Europe have a kind of mixed economy of socialism and capitalism - it isn't just one or the other - and seems to work pretty well.
@@ShatnerMethod first world economies, especially in Western Europe have social-democratic states, which provide people with social benefits, based on very developed economics of first class goods, but 3 world countries produce cheaper goods or raw resources, and their capitalism is still based on harsh exploitation of people, that makes that neocolonial dependence, that 3rd World countries can't compete with others in terms of more expensive sectors of economics. There are social states in Europe, but it's very far to the point, where they will appear all over the world
@@СергейАфанасенко-ъ5ш Like much of eastern Europe, Russia itself had opportunities to move toward a first world economy with its developed education system and natural resources but has become an authoritarian, and now, criminal state instead. Tragic and sad what Putin is doing not only to Ukraine but to his own country. Russia needs new and very different leadership that will stop blaming others for all of their own country's own outrageous mistakes and end the terrible killing and suffering that it is imposing on its neighbouring nation of Ukraine. What a terrible waste this war is and for what?
@@america692 he revive Russia from the ashes of Yeltsin disasterous rule. He bring Russia to become one of the world power again. Every russians should be thankfull to him that Russia is not a third world country rn
When the old empire died from economic problems, corruption, and sever factionalism the new country born from the ashes still has the problems of the old cursed with them as it would take a miracle to break out of and that miracle never came when the soviets were still united and I don’t think it will come now but we can always hope for that day
I wonder if Russia and Eastern Europe in general had received support from the West to help start their new lives (much like the Marshall Plan did for many Europeans after World War II) if the attitude would be significantly different. We can merely speculate today, but as an American the older I get the more I feel we should have done more.
This is another thing The Simpsons can be blamed for. Even the symbolic Moscow Monsters of Rock concert, which featured Highway to Hell performing AC/DC as headliners, came out too long after the Devil told Bart to listen heavy metal music in the January 1991 episode Bart Gets Hit By A Car. Bartmania was something the USSR could not contain, and historians need to recognize that more.
Despite what Russia has become in the last 30 or so years since this historical moment and his attempt to modernize and make the USSR a better place, Gorbachev left a legacy(if its small or complex at the same time). RIP
Yeah legacy of millions dying, millions being sold as prostitutes (including young girls and boys lol) and the extreme poverty without ANY hope for the better future for the next 30 years. What a great man, i wish your country had one just like him.
Gorbachev never understood that communism has no future in a free society. Communism only works with fear, terror, murder, blood and war. That's what Putin is doing now.
The spark would be placed much earlier: the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s. It damaged the legitimacy of the Soviet military, and caused a reform in internal affairs by introducing transparency, leading to growing public dissent against the Communist Party and bringing them their downfall.
This isn't something you'd usually see. Mighty empires, such as the size of the USSR would usually die in a flurry of gunshots and explosions. But the USSR ended on a somewhat light note.
USSR Collapsed. People of USSR: *panik* US Media: do you want to be a volunteer at the Mt. Juliet Community Center, or a deal in Sears, here watch a ad from General Electric about their deals with the Tokyo Electric Company
There is no more bizarre a juxtaposition nor fitting an allegory for American society than watching one of the most significant events of the 20th Century, sponsored by Sears, Chrysler, and GE.
On this day 30 years ago at approximately 12:00am, the Soviet Union completely ceased to exist as a sovereign state. Happy 30th anniversary to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and long live the motherland.
17:55 Yeah, but also the last leader the country ever had, he didn't resign because the Soviet government didn't want him anymore, he resigned because there wasn't a Soviet government to preside over.
I think Gorbachev didn't necessarily want the Union to fall apart, but moreover was the first leader of the USSR to feel sympathy for his people and the way they've been treated. We could sure use some of that again.
"Killing its own people" doesn't even describe post-Stalin Soviet Union, let alone modern Russia, which as of 2020 has a similar/lower homicide rate than the US. And Inb4 "muh journalists and 'dissidents'": How many have been killed since, say, 2008? Very few. In a country of 147 million people. Compare that to "democratic" Mexico, or Brazil or... Russia under Yeltsin... The point is: there's no "government sponsored conspiracy" behind any of them; just EXTREMELY selective reporting (i.e. propaganda). Politkovskaya and Nemtsov? Two nobodies, killed by Chechens. And again, that's two people in 15 years time in a country of 150 million. Litvinenko? He might have actually been killed due to anti-Putin oligarch infighting, but in any case he was literally and objectively a traitor to his country and he wasn't a civilian either. Same with Skripal. Navalny (who's popularity is 2% btw, despite being relatively well known)? Way too early to tell, but considering he's a civilian that would actually be a first lol. In any case, he has many enemies (other than the central government and the eviiiil Putler lol). Furthermore, according to state-owned pollsters, Putin's average popularity has been around 65%, i.e. the opposition to Putin is much larger than you imagine, though the "problem" (to the West) is that most are either communists or nationalists and they think Putin is too soft more than anything else. Your average Russian was and is more likely to die as a victim of homicide than Russian journalists per capita (because there's NO conspiracy and because they live in safer areas, obviously, just like in any other country) AND in 2020 an average Russian is no more likely to get murdered than an average American.
As an intellectual, you must surely understand the Communism leads only to suffering and death; over 120 million in the last 100 years. Capitalism is how we break our chains, and rise above the muck.
6:27 30-ish years later, many people are still suffering from the USSR's collapse, with their quality of life diminished greatly from the Soviet Union's better days. Increases in economic growth in MOST of the Soviet republics is good-but extremely uneven-and freedom of speech has indeed increased. But it’s not enough go make Gorby remembered among "the best Tsars", at least not at home.
@@artistwithouttalent well, although that's a major problem in the US, that disparity in development is sooooooo much worse in the former USSR than in America.
When you go to space as a Soviet, but you return to Earth as a Russian.
Well soviets are called russians as well i heard?
LC Eagle or commies
And it will be the last time when you go to space
Simone actually did that
Rusball
We*
The last cosmonaut of the Soviet Union was actually in the Mir Space Station when the USSR collapsed. Basically, he went up there as a Soviet and came back as an Alien.
He was still a citizen of his native country...
I remember that! I went to Q&A session about the NASP at a science museum during that; they had a retired astronaut there to answer questions- I asked if NASA was going to go save him!
😂😂
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Imagine what he said.
"Hello comrades! So how is the soviet union?"
The people:"Uhh this is russia USSR Collapsed 10 years ago..."
"Haha nice joke!"
The people:"No really"
"Oh..."
Soviet Union: “it’s getting late, I’m gonna head to bed”
The World: “Yeah bro same, goodnight, talk to you tomorrow”
*Last Online 29 Years Ago*
Give this man a like
Sad
Nah they just created another account on the same server
Stolen comment from USSR TV End of Day Sign-off
I was about to say you copied this comment, but this is our comment anyways
Imagine the person who went to sleep in the Soviet Union and slept through all of this and woke up in Russia.
Russia was always there. You were either a soviet Russian or a soviet Belarussian or a soviet Ukrainian or a ...
The USSR was an union of 15 states, same as the USA is an union of 50 states.
The leading soviet state of course has always been Russia.
The Russian detective in Citizen X
@@freedomfighterletsgobrandonYes, but as someone who lives in Massachusetts, I'd sure be mighty surprised if the country I woke up in tomorrow was the Republic of Massachusetts and the President was Maura Healey. So yeah, Russia always existed during the Soviet Union, but it wasn't these people's country. That'd still be a huge change for anyone.
@@lackedpuppet9022Imagine that, imagine the United States collapsing over Joe Biden preferring chocolate chocolate chip over cookies and cream, and Trudeau and AMLO with him, accidentally collapsing the three all because of this
oh wait why am i rambling about this
no one slept that night....some were sad and other western radicalized were happy
Kazakhstan is that one AFK guy in the zoom call who didn't realize the meeting is over and is the only one left in the call
Lol
@Mouge youtube commenters who see the same thing: first time?
RealLifeLore: (nervously sweating)
And then, Kazakhstan (formerly Kazakh SSR) Left the call delayed
Kazakhstan was the USSR for only 4 Days!
Everything about this news broadcast seems like it's from another universe. The world's changed so much since 1991.
I don't know about Russia but western world was better in the '90, especially my country: Italy
It was 30 years ago.
@@aleksandros6965 why Italy
@@cruzgomes5660 we were the fourth richer state of the world, after the rise of united Germany and the new technologies discovered during the last 25 years we lost a lot. I think in cold war period, USA supported us more and viceversa, for Italy is convenient dealing with americans and either russians than the other eu countries.
@@aleksandros6965 if only the west went fascist
At my first glance, I thought that was Donald Trump in the thumbnail.
I though I'm the only one
I did too
Nope, It’s Ted
They rock the same hair
Same.
The ad breaks gave me more of a greater impression on the passage of time than the actual topic of the broadcast
For real. My parents had a vacuum like the one in the ads, but colored cream and brown.
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People: The ussr dissolved because of an unstable economy.
The actual reason the ussr dissolved:
Gorbachev: I want McDonald's
No, he want Pizza Hut. So he became a star of pizza hut ad
@@khosyianthem And there he is(!): ua-cam.com/video/b0jaozRAKVw/v-deo.html
It dissolved bcoz of that drunk treacherous Boris!
No the real reason is that Gorbachev wanted the ussr to last 69 years
That is not the reason why,Gorbachev Was Just Too Lenient With Being Leader.
Imagine the guy who asked the end of USSR for christmas present as a joke.
Probably not as a joke
@@kapitan19969838 not joke for milions of russians who lost their jobs.
@@quakeknight9680 You mean the unnecessary, parasitic, socialist bureaucrats?
I threw a penny in a wishing well five years before this happened.
@@kapitan19969838 Yes, but also millions of people lost their jobs and resorted to crime because of instability
December 24th, 1991
We're Soviet!
December 25th, 1991
We're Russian!
Not just Russian but 15 other races
@@davyboywilliams nationalities! Absolutely right though, it involved more than just Russia.
Merry Christmas
December 25th* December 26th
@Jericho Oban im Armenian this post-soviet nation but humans say or USSR that s Russia no Soviet UNION its UNION but not russian country
I was with Ted Koppel in Gorbachev's office at the end of the Soviet Union. He called Bush and told him he was resigning and turning to nuclear codes over to Yeltsin who was down the hall drunk. I watched them take down the Soviet flag in the Kremlin and raise the Russian state flag. I shot the opening at 3A in Red Square with Ted and took his Gorbachev's last walk through the Kremlin with him. Show was called Gorabchev:The Final Hours. two hour show that won an Emmy.
I bet it was very emotional for all present.
Incredible...
You have to understand some would see this claim with some doubt. Have you any proof, friend?
@@fattaman777 It aired as a two hour special on ABC called Gorbachev The Final Hours. I have an Emmy nomination hanging on my wall plus a photo on myself and
Gorbachev(with other Press also) taking his final walk through the Kremlin. All documented. Yes, I do have proof.
Wow. You were there? Unbelievable. I wish I was alive at the time. I'm only 17. Almost an adult
December 24 1991
Soviet Union: my last Christmas is my downfall
Mean bean Machine
In Post-Soviet counties Christmas celebrate at 7 January no 25 December
@@exe4036 You mean Russia and most Slavic countries? I'm from Lithuania, a post-Soviet country, and we celebrate on the 25th of December.
Montgomery I mean Russia and most Slavic countries+ Georgia
@@exe4036 Not necessarily Post-Soviet countries. Mostly Orthodox countries celebrate it on January 7th.
@@Montgomeryyy doesnt your country have alot of catholic people
U.S: Finally, my rival is gone. Now i can relax.
China: Hello there
U.S: Bruh just give me a break already!!
@Imtron_ 180 Afghanistan to the rest of the world: Bruh just give me a break already
@@MasterCalensk planet earth: broooo just give me a Break
North Korea: are u sure abt that
@@megatron9183 Russia: “time for round two”
"I just wanted a Pizza Hut and I ruined everything"
-Mikhail Gorbachev
@Ann Nifödova every soviet leader was corrupt. It's literally what caused the stagnation because not being able to vote out people who suck is a bad way to run a country.
@@JainaKeria it was more because communism doesn't work economically,but ok
He didn't ruin everything,HE MADE IT BETTER!
@@kaparg it did, which is why it became a super power u idiot
@@solidslfy2879 no,no it didn't,do i seriously have to say this in 2020? Or is this 1969?
Look at Ted Koppel's objectivity. He speaks candidly, but quite objectively. Certainly very different from the anxiety inducing way of talking that we see today. Anchors today talk with aggressiveness, in an effort to sell. This man, Koppel, is impressive. He is calm, objective, informative, and certainly a product of an era where people were interested in information, not in tendencies. Look at news outlets today. There is no true news. It's all about creating biased agendas.
My dad, who was working overseas at the time, simply couldn't believe it.
The existence of the Soviet Union was just a fact of life and everyone fully expected a war to happen betwen it and the NATO countries at some point.
Good news!
yeah, about that...
@@DamianDurruty aged like a fine wine
Nato just had to keep pushing closer and piss Putin off, and now look where we are.
@@zephyrus3554 NATO didn't do shit. Former Eastern Bloc countries applied to join NATO because even 20 years ago there were people who were concerned about Putin, and his aggressions only prove they were right to do so.
USSR: I guess it's time for me to go.
US: Take care of yourself.
US later: HAHAHA HAHA USSR collapsed! HAHAHHAHAH
@@amalayperson7208 US: *Hugs USSR* I'll remember you brother!
USSR: Don't forget, we're Allies!
@@AmosNg555 What version of history have you been learning? The USSR and US were always enemies. Even during WW2 the western Allies were extremely reluctant to help the USSR against the Nazis and were extremely opportunistic.
amosng 350 “threatened the whole world”. Ah yes hug
Regardless of the Cold War. America saved the Soviet Union from collapsing of starvation and corrupted economy. The Soviet Union generals admitted themselves that if “it wasn’t for the American intervention of supplies, we would have suffered a lot worse than losing the war, how can we make tanks without steel? How can we make a ammo without copper and gun powder?
In case anyone asked, FDR literally gave USSR 1.1 billion free credits to help the fight against the Nazi, this is why Stalin like FDR a lot more than Truman in office
www.rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-american-supplies-aided-the-ussr-in-its-darkest-hour_575559
www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm
The sort of sad thing is that Gorbachev was apparently 20 minutes late to the USSR flag falling. I dont know if this is true
He stopped at the Pizza Hut and got lost
He probably couldn’t care less. Not every Soviet liked living in it.
Imagine being late to the collapse of your own country
I really believe its also hard for him to see the flag lowered
ACTUALLY GOOD THING COZ HES A COMMUNIST & HATES SEEING IT HAPPEN
I remember this and am so happy someone uploaded it! I was 8 years old at the time and was the first serious thing my parents taught me about the world.
I was 12 and remember it very similarly.
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This has to be the weirdest and least funny comment section I've ever seen
Either you run into someone who makes a joke or someone who fully supports communism
Yep, full of 13 year old redditors who are going through their rebellious phases.
At last, I have found my people
Hello
@skinfullofdoom pretty good this week, next week's gonna be my semester finals haha
0:00 ironically the first three words of the Soviet Anthem are "The Unbreakable, Union..."
Don’t label something with the prefix “Un”
Can confirm with the “Unsinkable” titanic.
And the tape drops for a second at that part lmaoao
@@VPZealouZ the breakable ion
@@ZEEROXCD-izzywhy do you have e-girl vibes
@@garryhowes7274 Can confirm, ION is the only TV channel that I get on my antenna with a perfect signal.
Gorbachev: "Our people will live in a prosperous and democratic society
_10 years later_
*Putin has joined the server*
Well modern russia Is a piece of shit, but Putin Is not a bad president.
@@issacnuri5924 He's not bad, but he's not exactly good either
@@yamiart6149 not good? I give you the president of my country if you want
The first president of Russia is Boris Yeltsin
Isn't Russia suffering from really bad corruption?
Gorbachev is still alive at 90 years old. Pretty cool
He outlived all the hardliners who tried to oust him in a coup, as well as his de facto successor Yeltsin.
gorbachev is basically russia's version of queen elizabeth ii,queen lizzybeth ii saw the end of the british empire,gorbachov saw the end of ussr.
Yeah I Know Mikhail Gorbachev is still alive
That sellout
Satan is afraid that Gorbachev will spoil everything even in the underworld. The man who destroyed the greatest state in history.
Am I the only one who thinks the reporter looks like Donald Trump?
Yeah
No.
@@dasmodem887 no
Nope
No
I love the old advertisements so much more than the ones we have now. Just because how the old adds get to the point. Instead of doing a long ass skit that has nothing to do with the product.
Commercials now be like:
"When the drip is drippy"
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It has ended but even on the last day, that anthem sounds just as epic.
Enough so that the Russian Federation kept the melody and simply changed the lyrics
@@PhirePhlame Yep and I loved that they have done that it’s far better than the anthem that they had between 1991 to 2000
@@PhirePhlame they had a different anthem under the Yeltsin Presidency. Putin brought back the old Soviet Anthem, albeit with the new lyrics as it was a more familiar tune. It would be like the U.S. replacing the "Star Spangled Banner" with "Our Country 'Tis of Thee" knowing that the tune is the same as "God Save The King/Queen" in Great Britain (and in Canada, which is the Co-Official Anthem of the Dominion along with "O Canada").
It's not ended yet. Everything is ahead.)
Socialism will win
Concerning Gorbachev's rule... "They were the best, and the worst years of my life". What a great quote!
"Equally constructive basis with his successors"
The world : Well that was a fucking lie
I mean, Clinton and Yeltsin got along decently
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The irony of the collapse is that, in hindsight, the world was a saner place with the two superpowers keeping everyone else, including each other, in check.
US actually decreased a lot as a world superpower after the URSS collapse
@@guifdcanalli How? It is the only superpower in the world and is still growing!
You clearly don't know how it was to live under soviet occupation, there was nothing "sane" about that wicked system.
@@05KAR and u are the one who does, right? XD
@@figurefiguras4104 Right. I was born in Poland in 1981, a day before soviet puppet gen. Jaruzelski introduced martial law.
28:03 No matter how big a empire is, it will always fall down to the ground
There were many empires that were larger or lasted longer. The largest in terms of land and population was the British Empire, which peaked in the early 20th century. (The term "the sun never sets on the British Empire" was meant to reference the fact that its territories spanned the globe and therefore some part of it was always in daylight).
The Ottoman Empire lasted over 600 years, while some portion of the Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500.
@@toddsmitts if you add Russian empire it lasted 3 centuries
I wasn't born this early in the 90's, but watching the commercials in between feels so cozy and nostalgic. ☺️
Cringe
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Exactly man idk what is it but I feel cozy and quite seeing this as if i lived through it
Love the old Christmas days and how everything was so much about family and togetherness, not everyone on their phones now don't give a shit about any tradition
28:05 last words of USSR
28:23 USSR has left the server
28:24 Russia has joined the server
Last online 32 years ago
@@callenvlogs5989 last seen 25 dec 1991
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Russians watch this and feel nostalgic for their empire
Americans watch this and feel nostalgic for Sears
Lol i remember sears. Yeah. Well to be honest if you move financially, you start buying more expensive things. Higher quality stores man. Macy's Bloomingdales, Guess, Polo Ralph Lauren. PEOPLE BETTER THEMSELVES AND WANT QUALITY STUFF. SAME WITH THE SOVIET UNION. ALL COUNTRIES GOT TIRED OF THAT SHIT
nooooo sears
USSR was not empire.
sears has 12 stores left period
Latin Americans watch this with indiference honestly
Thank you so much for keeping the ads in, this video is perfect time capsule
You're very welcome, Miroo! (I thought so too.)
@@ShatnerMethod where did you find out this?
Fun fact: A Soviet-Russian cosmonaut had little chance on returning home before this happened
USSR: Collapses
Gorbachev’s Daughter: 18:59
LOL😂😭
@@Rain-rm3ky Y e s
Had a capitalist addiction
@@blahblahblahbros Lol
nah gorbachev was probably happy
Who was here watching exactly 30 years after the fall happened?
this year is 33
Russia is has never been so strong since the Soviet Union.
In Russia, the government decides itself when to change it's government.
Imagine going to a store in the Soviet Union, but coming back home in the Russian Federation.
Imagine the comment section when *Soviet Union Restarts*
SOFTWARE MASTER ah fuck LARRY WE GOT A TIME TRAVELER
SOFTWARE MASTER soviet reunion
Nice
More communisim
@@Georges_IV our reunion
Gorbachev wasn't only "The Last President of the Soviet Union". Gorbachev was the *only* President of the Soviet Union. He created that post during his final year as General Secretary of the Communist Party.
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It was a horrible anime. Its good they cancelled it.
@@_loss_ U WOT M8?
@@_loss_ Indeed
@Zap That's in my top 10 animes of all time
@David Ion My list, my rules. 💲💲💲🎩
100 years since founded, 31 years and 5 days since dissolved.
US in 1991: I got one less problem without ya
China in 21st century: You're gonna hear me roarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
US: Oh oh trouble trouble trouble
US: But I'm not gonna Fall, bitch. Don't Fall on my faith.
Leonardo Paine Well China is a paper tiger
Well it’s quite different in this case. There are arguments between China and the US, but these two can’t live without each other
China will be the next USSR.
Russia: *I'm back*
Dude, it's the most fateful moment in history, I don't know how those who accompanied this moment felt
They felt happy
@@Forestake Not all, many people lost their jobs, and had their lives turned upside down. It went both ways.
@@robocatro fair point like Russia during Yeltsin wasn’t the best place to live.
But still life in the USSR did suck
@@Forestake it was better than life todays post soviet
Boris during Christmas 1991: VADIM BLYAT
Exactly :D
@Stuff by Zibib it's a joke dude relax
@Stuff by Zibib He meant Boris Yeltsin
Gulag Christmas
VADIM BLYAT
RIP Mikhail.
You changed the world with Ronald Reagan
For the worse
@@prajwaldatta1912 🤦♂️
@@prajwaldatta1912 indian detected opinion rejected
@@prajwaldatta1912 no
@@prajwaldatta1912 tankie detected
I applaud Gorbachev’s efforts, as ineffective as they were. He wasn’t an ideologue like Stalin, Brezhnev, and Chairman Mao.
It’s not very often that career politicians put forth reforms that strip away their own power. That give political rights back to the people, that were once stripped away. Then walk away from power.
Imagine if the US Congress enacted a law for congressional term limits. It would never happen.
All governments face the same problem: Power attracts pathological personalities
Wonderfully said.
@@daddy_1453 Th..They were a communist dictatorship...
Well Chairman Mao was of China , Brezhnev did introduce many reforms which made USSR prosper in the 70s , Stalin built the USSR a superpower , though I get why anyone would hate on Stalin tho , the dude was responsible for the death of millions
And yes , you're right about Gorbachev , I'll give it to you for that
But Yeltsin ruined it
@@shubhsiddhartha9409 I hate Mao Zedong more than I hate Hitler or Churchill
@@salahabdalla368 he stopped a totalitarian dictatorship from existing and gave the rights back to the people, what’s wrong about that?
Soviet Union: I go bye
America: You will be back later?
Soviet Union: Yes
America: OK bye
Soviet Union: Bye
-_Soviet Union left the chat._
-_Russia joined the chat._
What about other states?
@@BurgerTankCoach afk
You also from countryhuman fandom?
@@brianiskandar9917 no
The saddest video on youtube
It was 68 years and 361 days
We were so close
Super close
No kazakhistan stayed for 4 more days when Russia left the union.
So yeah it's exact 69 years
@@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai As sad as the decolonization of Africa? I mean Mother Russia's chief is a KGB agent. Why do they need subordinates?
@@jussim.konttinen4981 did you actually mean to reply to me?
@@Rawhen_Rajew-aka-Rajubhai It's not a reply, but a question.
My parents who were from the Soviet Union but had moved out about a decade before it’s collapse told me they were shocked at the fall of the USSR and did not expect it to ever fall.
So your parents moved around December of '81?
(Bans math)that, -10 years from collapse)
@@北川幻汲
Obviously that’s not supposed to be taken too literally. I just mean approximately a decade before it’s collapse.
@@TheAurelianProject It's around that time.
@@北川幻汲
Well yeah
I was born in Lithuania, way after the fall of the USSR
I know some stuff about how it was like back then, from people explaining it to me, and to me it feels obvious that a country like this would fall
Ussr: bye
Me: bye comrade
Last talked: 26 years ago
😢
You stole this comment (-_-)
@@azaryaendrayustiawan5618 this is *OUR* comment section r u a Capitalist?
@@estiandcountryhumansdiscon4320 O_o
@@azaryaendrayustiawan5618 you are 100% Capitalist
I'm not crying.
WE'RE ALL crying
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I’m not crying i’m glad soviet ended
Baltic, Ukrainian, Eastern eruopean, turkic and siberian people certainly didn't cry
I'm *HAPPY!*
All crying cause it was great day
The kid that has born 10 minutes after the dissolution: F I WANTED TO BE SOVIET BOI
But he was born in kazakhstan 😎
Boi: I'm soviet for 3 days!
This is underrated
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It's so fun and unpleasant at the same time to hear Americans say about oppression of other nations and countries... The USSR has lost both in the economics and politics to the US and the NATO, but what's more sad is the death of socialism as a hope of people from the beginning of 20th century to live better lives and to build more sustainable future for everybody, it still wonders me, that the USSR could send people to space, develop massive industries, had accessible education and housing distribution, but couldn't provide simple consumer goods to everybody...
Many countries in Western Europe have a kind of mixed economy of socialism and capitalism - it isn't just one or the other - and seems to work pretty well.
@@ShatnerMethod first world economies, especially in Western Europe have social-democratic states, which provide people with social benefits, based on very developed economics of first class goods, but 3 world countries produce cheaper goods or raw resources, and their capitalism is still based on harsh exploitation of people, that makes that neocolonial dependence, that 3rd World countries can't compete with others in terms of more expensive sectors of economics. There are social states in Europe, but it's very far to the point, where they will appear all over the world
@@СергейАфанасенко-ъ5ш Like much of eastern Europe, Russia itself had opportunities to move toward a first world economy with its developed education system and natural resources but has become an authoritarian, and now, criminal state instead. Tragic and sad what Putin is doing not only to Ukraine but to his own country. Russia needs new and very different leadership that will stop blaming others for all of their own country's own outrageous mistakes and end the terrible killing and suffering that it is imposing on its neighbouring nation of Ukraine. What a terrible waste this war is and for what?
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That anthem actually made me sad
It's sad to see the flag fall with that anthem. The death of a dream. Especially considering what followed.
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The news anchor looks like he just came from a Star Trek shoot.
It was a sad day. Santa didn't deliver the PC game I was hoping for.
santa was sad about USSR dissolve
Nah he was happy. He could now dilevever presents in the Soviet Union.
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RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
1931-2022
Yeah, rest in piss. A traitor and someone who wrought misery upon millions because of his actions. May he rub elbows with Judas for all time.
He tried.
@@TheMrPeteChannelafter all he did.. and putin throws it away
@@america692 he revive Russia from the ashes of Yeltsin disasterous rule. He bring Russia to become one of the world power again. Every russians should be thankfull to him that Russia is not a third world country rn
he will reincarnate in 2831
When the old empire died from economic problems, corruption, and sever factionalism the new country born from the ashes still has the problems of the old cursed with them as it would take a miracle to break out of and that miracle never came when the soviets were still united and I don’t think it will come now but we can always hope for that day
You probably are autistic and a virgin
@@AsmodeusVRC virgin islands
literally the only reason it died was corruption when yeltsin ignored the referendum in 1991
@@azael2078 Just like USA.
I recognize you Sarge
Her:Ugh he’s probably cheating on me right now
Me and the boys:
“Few of the people mourned as they lived their live under the flag”. I “few” is a cheap way to downplay the sadness a majority of Russians still face
Heavy understatement.
I wonder if Russia and Eastern Europe in general had received support from the West to help start their new lives (much like the Marshall Plan did for many Europeans after World War II) if the attitude would be significantly different. We can merely speculate today, but as an American the older I get the more I feel we should have done more.
jokes, memes, history apart, what a solid piece of TV journalism
USSR: its time for me to go
USSR: was i a good blyat?
lenin: no
lenin: *i was told you were the best*
If Lenin had seen the state of the USSR from 1956 to 1991 he would have puked.
Lenin would have puked since his death to 1991
I really don't think Lenin would have liked what the USSR had become
@@TheButterMinecart1 you realise that Lenin actually wrote a letter , called Lenin's testament, where he urged to not let stalin in power
@@suhas6508 but then hes the one who let Stalin be the secretary
my goodness. this makes me have goosebumps and feel emotional
Kazakhstan: Yo guys! Christmas vacation was awesome, went to Japan, ate some ramen and.......yo where is everybody?
Me: your the only one who left as the USSR
Imagine falling asleep in the USSR and waking up in Russia
My dad, if he admits it or not... Misses the Soviet Union.
I miss it to :c
@@FluhFoxYT Are you Ukrainian?
Same
your dad is an idiot
Loser
Did anyone not mention anything about those old schooled ads?
I found your comment! LMAO
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This is another thing The Simpsons can be blamed for. Even the symbolic Moscow Monsters of Rock concert, which featured Highway to Hell performing AC/DC as headliners, came out too long after the Devil told Bart to listen heavy metal music in the January 1991 episode Bart Gets Hit By A Car. Bartmania was something the USSR could not contain, and historians need to recognize that more.
Despite what Russia has become in the last 30 or so years since this historical moment and his attempt to modernize and make the USSR a better place, Gorbachev left a legacy(if its small or complex at the same time). RIP
Yeah legacy of millions dying, millions being sold as prostitutes (including young girls and boys lol) and the extreme poverty without ANY hope for the better future for the next 30 years. What a great man, i wish your country had one just like him.
He was a hack and a pussy coward. Fuck him
Gorbachev never understood that communism has no future in a free society. Communism only works with fear, terror, murder, blood and war. That's what Putin is doing now.
It all went to shit precisely because of him. Everything started back then.
@@Solaire_au_FrohmageTrue.
Girls: I can't believe he didn't cry during Titanic. Do men even have feelings?
Boys at 28:17: *Cries*
Cries of joy
@comrades Nguyen no I’m laughing that that evil empire is gone
@@PegasusTenma1 you're country is getting nuked by me now
@@GSquid92 *sadness
@@PegasusTenma1 The USA still existed mate
Chernobyl was the spark that started it all.
The spark would be placed much earlier: the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s. It damaged the legitimacy of the Soviet military, and caused a reform in internal affairs by introducing transparency, leading to growing public dissent against the Communist Party and bringing them their downfall.
@@Perehenaa I think after Stalin died, that's when it started falling apart slowly
@@ultimatespidybawlz2198 nah after Brezhnev came to power the economy just went into a stalemate and it started slowly collapsing
Tomilica yeah
The 1980 Polish Crisis was the beginning of cracks being formed in the eastern bloc
'When he say, The hammer and sickle is lowered for the last time and "An era comes to an end"
My eyes fullfil of tears
ok ear
It is " An era came to an end" not eat.
@@moonknight1359 i said "ear" not "eat". Read his comment again
Oh looking at your English I got to know you're indian
Everyone! That was a mistake -_-
i cant explain the expression of that man lowering the soviet flag, if i only know his feelings i would be sad
"Союз Нерушимый"
Are you sure about that?
Didn’t Patrick Swayze get you in red dawn???
Нет...?
Yes, he's Donald Trump
Да здравствуйте
This isn't something you'd usually see. Mighty empires, such as the size of the USSR would usually die in a flurry of gunshots and explosions. But the USSR ended on a somewhat light note.
Imagine a situation in which you fall asleep in one country and wake up in another one...
USSR Collapsed.
People of USSR: *panik*
US Media: do you want to be a volunteer at the Mt. Juliet Community Center, or a deal in Sears, here watch a ad from General Electric about their deals with the Tokyo Electric Company
This is almost 30 years old now. I was born 3 years after the USSR collapse on November 22nd 1994.
USSR: *collapsing*
ABC: 17:58
Wtf
Lmao
There is no more bizarre a juxtaposition nor fitting an allegory for American society than watching one of the most significant events of the 20th Century, sponsored by Sears, Chrysler, and GE.
As of today, Mikahail Gorbachev has died.
August 30th/31st, 2022
Final General Secretary of the USSR
the dictator
On this day 30 years ago at approximately 12:00am, the Soviet Union completely ceased to exist as a sovereign state. Happy 30th anniversary to the dissolution of the Soviet Union and long live the motherland.
@joshlee5863 - Your comment is way too amusing and pathetic! What a load of crap that you said about the Soviet Union's unfortunate demise!
Santa Claus: Merry Christmas USSR! I have something to give to you as a present!
USSR: Oh boy! What is it??
Santa Claus: *The end of the Soviet Union*
idk if starving is a good gift
17:55 Yeah, but also the last leader the country ever had, he didn't resign because the Soviet government didn't want him anymore, he resigned because there wasn't a Soviet government to preside over.
I think Gorbachev didn't necessarily want the Union to fall apart, but moreover was the first leader of the USSR to feel sympathy for his people and the way they've been treated. We could sure use some of that again.
Every union that was apart of ussr:IM FREE!
Kazakhstan: *BORAT*
Not funny👎🏻
Ayonima meme this meme is not funny
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I thought thats Donald Trump on the thumbnail!!
Lol
Excalty 😂😂
That's how much you guys think about the man? Lol, I hope it isn't TDS you're suffering from!
@@hasselnttper3730 His hat looked like trump's blonde hair. I don't blame him I always have the same assumption at first.
I’m not crying, WE are.
Today marks the 30th year since the fall of the Union
Unbelievable....
Sweet so be it
I never though i would cry for the country that i dont even live in
Russians: Sad for the fall
Americans:Happy for the fall
The rest of the world: happy for the fall
Internet users: MEMES
Goodbye Comrade Mikhail ✊😔
Comrade ??????😂
Today we lost a comrade.
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev
Traitor
Rip bozo
You will not be missed.
1:24 he literally described modern Russia
I absolutely agree.
"Killing its own people" doesn't even describe post-Stalin Soviet Union, let alone modern Russia, which as of 2020 has a similar/lower homicide rate than the US. And Inb4 "muh journalists and 'dissidents'": How many have been killed since, say, 2008? Very few. In a country of 147 million people. Compare that to "democratic" Mexico, or Brazil or... Russia under Yeltsin... The point is: there's no "government sponsored conspiracy" behind any of them; just EXTREMELY selective reporting (i.e. propaganda). Politkovskaya and Nemtsov? Two nobodies, killed by Chechens. And again, that's two people in 15 years time in a country of 150 million. Litvinenko? He might have actually been killed due to anti-Putin oligarch infighting, but in any case he was literally and objectively a traitor to his country and he wasn't a civilian either. Same with Skripal. Navalny (who's popularity is 2% btw, despite being relatively well known)? Way too early to tell, but considering he's a civilian that would actually be a first lol. In any case, he has many enemies (other than the central government and the eviiiil Putler lol). Furthermore, according to state-owned pollsters, Putin's average popularity has been around 65%, i.e. the opposition to Putin is much larger than you imagine, though the "problem" (to the West) is that most are either communists or nationalists and they think Putin is too soft more than anything else. Your average Russian was and is more likely to die as a victim of homicide than Russian journalists per capita (because there's NO conspiracy and because they live in safer areas, obviously, just like in any other country) AND in 2020 an average Russian is no more likely to get murdered than an average American.
@@mynthon0 it has nothing to do, but okay
Normal people: *cry because of a friend dying*
Me, an intellectual:
This is literaly the most likes i have ever got
As an intellectual, you must surely understand the Communism leads only to suffering and death; over 120 million in the last 100 years. Capitalism is how we break our chains, and rise above the muck.
Me, a galaxy brain guy: *whips on the champagne and celebrates*
@@declannewton2556 no you are a selfish nationalist...would you Like to see your own country go? As a " Galaxy brain guy" you must say no.
@@tylerbrennon4023 don't you know capitalism is as bad as communism? Massacres were never included as part of communist ideology.
6:27 30-ish years later, many people are still suffering from the USSR's collapse, with their quality of life diminished greatly from the Soviet Union's better days. Increases in economic growth in MOST of the Soviet republics is good-but extremely uneven-and freedom of speech has indeed increased. But it’s not enough go make Gorby remembered among "the best Tsars", at least not at home.
I think the problem is much the same as in America: there has been tremendous growth, but only those who already have are able to benefit.
@@artistwithouttalent well, although that's a major problem in the US, that disparity in development is sooooooo much worse in the former USSR than in America.
Democracy was always overrated at all, Freedom of speech is just a slogan
If there is not free press = not democracy
@@Charles-hy6gp Russia certainly does not have a free press.
@@eriknewland3686 Neither US
"An era has come to an end"... not yet, aparently.
10:53 "Brought to you by General Electric"