Hoping you are OK as we haven't heard from you in a while if you know what I mean. Kind regards

Too much food

Hi Paul. I can't find that exact CCCP anywhere on the web. Can you help me buy one?.

Привет из Челябинска)))))))

"Афоня" и мой фаворит. Фильм о том к чему приводит коммунизм. Относительно личности.

только на пятой минуте понял что это Екат.

Con Colombia Casi Perdemos. Chile '62

🇨🇴 Colombia: 4 🇷🇺 Russia: 4

Excellent video. Hi from Wales

Far too many good films did not make this list.

Great video thank-you.

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I have watched 4 of these movies and now I have more to watch, thank you.

Yekaterinburg literally 10 years ago was a village that looked like a northern abandoned city. It was very ugly and no one wanted to live there. However, all this architecture and buildings were built and are being built during this time. Let's just say it's one of the fastest growing cities

I love Soviet movies. These are all great gems of Soviet cinema. But I guess you intentionally omit some best known ones: of Tarkovsky's (Andrei Rublev, Solaris), of early revolutionary period pioneer movies (B. Potemkin, New Babylon, The Man with the Movie Camera, Mr. West in the Land of Bolsheviks, Three Songs of Lenin) or later period's Come and See, Parajanov's (Color of Pomegranates, Shadow of Our Ancestors)... These are my top 10.

I've just started learning Russian and was wondering with my wife what films to watch. Literally a few hours later I stumbled across this video. Absolutely amazing. I am so grateful. Thank you so much. I can't wait to watch them. You even sent the links!!!!!!!

I'd say it's circa 70es, look at that fridge! Furniture! A tv set! Most urban apartments interiors looked rather modern and airy by mid 70es with these "Sputnik- style furniture, glass - cabinets and staple "stenka"- large, wall- sized cabinet- storage, sometimes imported from GDR, Chekhoslivakia, etc. I love that style❤. Great video, Paul.

Thanks for this Paul I”ll be checking these out

Never, never liked Nofelet - or pankratov-cherny. Too much of a perestroika vibe.

I’ve seen three of these, obviously irony of fate and Moscow doesn’t believe in tears and also station for two. Another one I really like is “office party”. I used to be totally indifferent to Soviet films but now they make me want to cry I get very moved by them . Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the list of movies. They all look interesting. It's nice that you have the links for them! I always wanted to watch some old russian movies, but didn't know which ones to watch. Don't know which one to start with, maybe I'll just go down the list. It will be fun just watching them to see how Russia looked in the past. I watch a good amount of old programs mainly to see the architecture and how people dressed/acted. A movie that I would recommend that maybe you haven't watched is an East German movie Die Flucht/The Flight. It really delves into the emotions of planning emigration to the west.

My favourite soviet movie is Moonzund (1987) despite the year of production, this is not a perestroika movie, showing the universal male virtues of honor and conscience in the contradictory situation of revolutionary Russia in 1917.

5:38 Thank you! :D (I've been once; I can't recognize the style of building or the food package; but I did recognize its Russian name because it was all over the news in 2022) The fact the USSR was doomed was foretold when all those Soviets made a line outside the first McDonalds that opened in Moscow. Such a well-read and intelligent nation was attracted by such a thing? Humanity is doomed. 9:07 As if they consulted us whether we want Ukraine in NATO or the EU! (we don't, in either - we don't want Georgia or Moldova either, and we didnt want the Baltic countries or Poland, but they never asked us anyway! If they had asked the Swedes in 2022 whether they want to join NATO and destroy their 200-yr old policy of "neutrality", they'd have answered "no"!)

I best remeber the comedy movie "Rette sich wer kann" (Полосатый рейс) from 1961. Tigers are breaking out from cages on a ship and are swimming to a coast. A woman on the strand shouts enthusiastically: "Oh, look, those muscular swimmers in the striped swimsuits!"

Thanks Paul, as always your videos are informative, entertaining and, er educational. Ooh wait, isn't that the bbc...?

I like Danelia's movies. From your list Afonya and Mimino are the best. Alsoo I am fan of Kin-Za-Za. The most strange thing with Danelia's movies is that you always find new fantastic episodes with any new watching. When I saw Afonya in my childhood, I found it long and boaring. When I watched it in age of 20 I laughed at great jokes. When i watched it in the age of 40, I thought that is a great movie about post-war generation of 50-70.

Napoleon could be added maybe, Sherlock Holmes was a TV series but can be added... /// Several eastern European films are pretty good When the cat comes, tank brigade, etc ...

Кофе я пил ещё при советском союзе, и в зёрнах молотый, и растворимый.

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Great video ❤

Fascinating upload, many thanks for posting. I've only been to Moscow, Volgograd and St. Petersburg but these videos are the real Russia. The local bakery I use here in Galway, Ireland employs a girl originally from Tobolsk, Russia. She's a long way from home.

Great video again! The cinemas are really nice and I like that you actually filmed the movies playing! The Sochi one was the was breathtaking! Loved the font on the one in Kasli. The one in Karabash kind of looks like they were trying to make a cheap recreation of 13th century castle! Liked the Yerkeny curved hallway with the repeating windows. Liked the booties. I was just discussing with a friend that in the US you don't wear booties in hospitals and doctors/nurses don't change into their scrubs at work for the most part they drive to and from work with them on. Nothing like going through the newspaper and finding a movie you like and then seeing what movie theatre it is in! Used to do that in Prague in the early 90s with my sister, but there they weren't their own building, but just in regular 5 story city buildings as is/was the style in a lot of europe. The US still has quite a lot of old stand alone theatres in smaller towns and suburbs. A good amount of them have the original large theatre subdivided into 2 or 3 theatres, but the buildings are still original and one good thing about the US is that if they don't tear it down they usually don't update it as drastically as they do in Europe. I was in one in Chicago where it still had the original looking 1920s bathroom. Bathrooms aren't actually a bad thing to update (lol), but it was still fun to see. It had the old cotton rag on a roll that would roll out as you pulled on it instead of paper towels or blowers.

The cinema in Sotchi looked really stunning What a shame to destroy these kind of buildings

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Many our small towns also beautiful, country changed with every day, become better and better, despite sanctions. Thank you western govts for sanctions, its real gift for Russia, bc for us its mean independence and even more development.

나는 후르시쵸프 전 공산당 서기장이 탄광엔지니어로서 최초의 지하철시스템을 개발해 최초의 승선자가 되었다는 것을 배웠다. 서방사람들은 지하수십 미터에 궁전같은 터널이 핵전쟁과 같은 유사시에 시민들에게 얼마나 확실한 피난처가 되는지 이해 못한다. 😊

Really interesting, thank you.

Tram is indeed authentic 86 piece. They were retrofitted of course to a bit more modern motors and controllers, but hull is still from USSR (well, Czechoslovakia. Thanks to comrades from Tatra).

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There was a time when it was said Russia didn't throw away anything, not sure I like the modernization of building around the world big clunky glass buildings. We really do have some hideous eyesores these days all the name of progress. I much prefer the pre 1970s architecture when buildings were made to please the eye and minds with art and acoustic sounds if you've been in St Paul's Cathedral or the dome of Union station you'll know what I mean.

Very interesting Paul.some of these buildings were classics and still are. Technology has destroyed the cinama all over world. Pity as its a great experience watching a film on the big screen with others.

Classic KZbin stuff! Loved it.

And again -kudos to you! Wow. You might be interesred in looking into some recent cinema conversion projects in moscow (the likes of кинотеатр первомайский). I dont know what came out of it, but it was a multimillion dollar project a decade or two ago, the idea being that cinemas played a central part in sovietnhrban planning, which gave them a prime lication - so it only makes sense to convert them to shopping malls/entertainment/cultural gravitation centers.

Paul, you make some really, really cool videos. Даже шутки отличные! As to asbestos proper - I'm sure someone must have already commented, but there are two types of asbestos, and one of them is banned pretty much globally, and the other kind is still used, primarily in industrial applications.

yeah, right 🤔

Hi Richard, Russia is full of contrasts! They actually rejected your email? Or just directed it into my spam box? (Did it include attachments? Write a new comment on any video to explain, as I only recieve notifications about new comments, not ones i've already replied to) I'll check to see if it's there. I guess the problem is emailing from outside of Russia, but I wasn't aware that they were not accepting them. Maybe I can try to create a google email account for the channel too. Look out for that then try again soon. I don't use VK/Telegram, I'm such a dinosaur it's a miracle I only use KZbin! Hello Paul, yes I did write you a comment earlier but did not see any response. My email gave me a message saying your yandex server had rejected my email as potential spam. It was an undeliverable message so I assume it did not go to your spam folder, just got refused.

One thing everyone forgets is that the GenSec said "in order to build something back, you must first destroy it". This is common in most of Russian history. They'd burn Moscow & rebuild it in the days of the Tsar's.

Excellent video

An other great video! I m jealous about the hotels book!