1:10 Seeing these hater comments. Sheesh. I enjoy these videos. Sergei, I appreciate how you address these comments head on because I would have ignored the haters. I mean, why do people care so much about who Uncle Bill photographed in the 1970s, anyway? Keep up the good work, Comrade Cheeseburger. I’m a long-time fan/subscriber, but I still like sending you kudos in a comment every now and again.

agree that there is magazine quality here. a couple could benefit from a gentle crop, but that's slides. thanks for the showing!

You are your own economic engine. The complete statement.

America is not the economic engine of the world. You are.

I can honestly say I have never thought of Soviet porn but I'm surprised to see how anti-capitalist and sexy some of these devotchkas are

Great look back at the thoughts of an American in the USSR.

4:03 This photo was taken in Ukraine in 1947. Can you tell who is in the portrait in the upper left corner?

If Steinbeck stayed in a hotel in Moscow (likely) , he would have been listened to electronically and likely filmed secretly through mirrors etc. Team Canada, players and coaches, experienced this during the Canada/Russia summit series in the early 70’s.

I have not read the book, however the movie ( grapes of wrath ) stuck me as having a socialist theme. The poor are victims of the rich capitalist only saved in the end by the government who supply free food, shelter, safety and even flush toilets unseen before by at least the children. Now if only Russia can do the same the utopian paradise would become a reality. Like your work. Thanks.

I love how you present all this in terms of relative buying power. Economics that even I can understand.🤪

This book is on kindle for ten bucks.

HA! Trade school number 16 is clearly inferior to trade school number 69!

Omg , I remember watching these fairy tales in movie form back when I was a kid. I remember watching TV in my hotel in Moscow. Back in 1986. Don't leave your TV on or it will tell you to shut it off.

As a licensed amateur radio operator who's done emergency communications for various events I can tell you that this is genius. It goes up a lot faster than a metal mast antenna, and is a lot safer.

Excellent Comrade Sergei, you smashed it with the long form vid. Great balance of obscure historical facts and personal recollections in the content 👏 🇬🇧

15:05 "Wallace" the report is talking about is Henry A. Wallace. He was Vice-President during FDR's third term but was replaced by Truman during Roosevelt's fourth term. He then became Secretary of Commerce. Truman fired him as Secretary of Commerce in 1946 because of his pro-Soviet views. Wallace then ran against Truman in the 1948 Presidential election on the left-wing Progressive Party where he only received about 2.3% of the vote. Harold Wallace was definitely the President that the Soviet Union would have wanted, but as this report shows, they knew he wasn't going to win the election. "Stassen" is Harold Stassen. He was the former Governor of Minnesota who tried to run as the Republican candidate for President in 1948 but lost in the Republican Primary to Thomas E. Dewey. 16:38 The "stupid book" was probably Elliott Roosevelt's 1946 book "As He Saw It". It was about the meetings between Franklin Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. 16:55 "Priestley" was author J.B. Priestley, who in 1949 made it on George Orwell's list of people suspected of being Communist sympathizers.

Looks like "A Russian Journal" by John Steinback is available for reading on The Internet Archive, but not for downloading. The photographer Robert Capa was a famous photojournalist of WWII, so maybe the pictures are somewhere

I think Wallace was running for president against Truman at the point.

Just Like India , these places look soooooo much nicer and cleaner before everything got trashed with plastic and diesel

Did not know that Steinbook had written this book

Did you listen to the Lex Friedman podcast with KGB agent Jack Barsky?

I had the same surgery in 2010 took 30mins in and out just a couple small cuts on the heel and barely can see the scars sorry man we spoke before about the cerebral palsy thing I imagine why you had to go through that as well

Didn’t know that about him I remember reading his book of mice and men in high school is, he’s one of my favorite authors

Soviet agents are literally schizo-paranoid

That is the dumbest fucking thing I have ever seen

Market economics is your rags to riches story. The economics in a market is their money worth, and more of their money worth is profitable. How simple isn't it?

So we are far behind.

The USSR is a union of neighboring countries occupied by Muscovy. Such an empire is not unique in the world. But, if other empires have evolved and given more rights and benefits to their slaves, Muscovy is still there. When we see the queues at the border to it, then it will be possible to talk about some kind of "greatness". There has always been racism and moronism, and words ending in -ism can be continued endlessly. Muscovites for some reason decided that everyone envies them, wants to attack, and betrays them, but in reality everything is exactly the opposite. Regarding the fact that the emigrant does not speak the local language well and the humor from this - it is really funny, because this emigrant, at least, learns a second language, and the accusation that the emigrant is taking your job generally indicates how undeveloped you are, that a person without a language and your rights takes your workplace. 😮

The USSR is a union of neighboring countries occupied by Muscovy. Such an empire is not unique in the world. But, if other empires have evolved and given more rights and benefits to their slaves, Muscovy is still there. When we see the queues at the border to it, then it will be possible to talk about some kind of "greatness". There has always been racism and moronism, and words ending in -ism can be continued endlessly. Muscovites for some reason decided that everyone envies them, wants to attack, and betrays them, but in reality everything is exactly the opposite. Regarding the fact that the emigrant does not speak the local language well and the humor from this - it is really funny, because this emigrant, at least, learns a second language, and the accusation that the emigrant is taking your job generally indicates how undeveloped you are, that a person without a language and your rights takes your workplace. 😮

The USSR is a union of neighboring countries occupied by Muscovy. Such an empire is not unique in the world. But, if other empires have evolved and given more rights and benefits to their slaves, Muscovy is still there. When we see the queues at the border to it, then it will be possible to talk about some kind of "greatness". There has always been racism and moronism, and words ending in -ism can be continued endlessly. Muscovites for some reason decided that everyone envies them, wants to attack, and betrays them, but in reality everything is exactly the opposite. Regarding the fact that the emigrant does not speak the local language well and the humor from this - it is really funny, because this emigrant, at least, learns a second language, and the accusation that the emigrant is taking your job generally indicates how undeveloped you are, that a person without a language and your rights takes your workplace. 😮

The USSR is a union of neighboring countries occupied by Muscovy. Such an empire is not unique in the world. But, if other empires have evolved and given more rights and benefits to their slaves, Muscovy is still there. When we see the queues at the border to it, then it will be possible to talk about some kind of "greatness". There has always been racism and moronism, and words ending in -ism can be continued endlessly. Muscovites for some reason decided that everyone envies them, wants to attack, and betrays them, but in reality everything is exactly the opposite. Regarding the fact that the emigrant does not speak the local language well and the humor from this - it is really funny, because this emigrant, at least, learns a second language, and the accusation that the emigrant is taking your job generally indicates how undeveloped you are, that a person without a language and your rights takes your workplace. 😮

Interesting direction you are taking this "show." What a constant cover up. Those assisting had to realize the "dog & pony" they were assigned with. My dad (missionary) in Japan hooked Chinese sailors up with merican G I's just to play basketball game & both sides "brass" tried to turn it into a spy novel.

Wow! Sergei, you still got it. This episode blew my mind a bit. I remembered the authors name but didn't put the grapes of wrath connection together till you did. Or anything about his trip to USSR. Keep up the good work. Never even heard of this book. The declassified documents are so cool.

They are all smiling because they know that they have taken enough to keep from starving. Socialism works really well.

Lols, Russians are "Woke" when it comes to native land acknowledgements and "Hippies" when it comes to GMO foods.

Well, free in your enterprise is that Adrew Carnegie went from the Bessemer to the open heart furnace for the same quality but cheaper price. When the two become as one is Genesis 2:25. I can tell what happen to that over here but not there

Supply what is demanded, but if the money is the dole, you will find a way. All us caputalist dogs are all alike.

Круть!!

Very interesting.

To be fair, lots of American kids like drawing tanks as well. I'm a Canadian and i drew tanks.