101 Facts About The Soviet Union

We're Back in the USSR with this video, all about one of its key players - The Soviet Union. The history of Lenin, Stalin, the KGB and co is a bloody but interesting one so, er, strap in as we delve deep into their archives with 101 Facts About The Soviet Union.
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[@gussneighbour8140]

Longest coastline? Yup USSR Longest frontiers on the planet? Yup USSR Most memed? Yup USSR

[@blankblank5409]

I’m too lazy to make a creative reply so here is a eggplant 🍆

[@darkblade4340]

No that last one's Botswana

[@aoaoaaoaoao889]

@@darkblade4340 no, not really

[@bloodyuseless7677]

@@blankblank5409 haha thx

[@billyjoellivealbums8654]

Longest coastline? Hell no that's chlie

[@gimicio.talloni]

If they were to reunite today could we call it the Soviet Re-Union?!?

[@TheNobleShark]

yeah

[@duanehastrich1460]

Probably so! Lol.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Gimicio Talloni #JustMonika

[@TheM16NdPregnant]

That’s pretty good

[@BrowncoatInABox]

Get out

[@gavinhennigan3083]

Good timing because you did this on Leon Trotsky's birthday.

[@stanislavkos3723]

Ehm, and October revolution happened on 6/7th of November. Russian calendar these days was... weird.

[@robertbogert]

@@stanislavkos3723 very weird.

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Gavin Hennigan #JustMonika

[@hhappyduck]

Oh yeah, THAT'S why it's good timing. Lmao

[@flabbycabbage7543]

@@stanislavkos3723 its not weird. Just at the time Russia didn't use the gregorian Callander

[@hudbudmudsud]

Leon Trotsky looks like depressed russian Connel Sanders

[@dylanstewart8118]

No bad ........ But it’s true 😅😅😅

[@leonv7716]

got that right

[@hakeemsd70m]

Why is this so on point? 😱😁😂

[@HoleMan22]

The last time I was this early the Tsar was still in power

[@TheM16NdPregnant]

Which Tsar

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

yeah stupid anti-germanism

[@me3333]

Yeah well the last time I was this early the Tsar hadn't even been built :)

[@SilusValeriusVT]

The tsar IS in power, and he will not leave the throne

[@Perririri]

The last time I was this early, the Trump Train was still connected to the Lolita Express

[@SilusValeriusVT]

Fun fact, when NATO was formed predating the Warsaw pact, the Soviets tried to join

[@thebandit0256]

Hi Grandpa can I drive your tank

[@lichkinggamer5708]

Sir Lenin it’s good to see you again

[@Ash-oj3ur]

Fun fact the USSR tried to propose an anti fascist pack in 1930 and the western allies declined

[@salim5394]

@@Ash-oj3ur why would they not?

[@rizzospastis]

@@salim5394 because fascism and any other right ideology produces criminality and doesnt work in any way. Its the worse ideology of all. Yet for the allies, fascism was better than socialism

[@francescapatti2934]

I love how a lot of people seem to not understand that it makes sense to first discuss the instances that LED to the creation of the USSR and not just jump into it.

[@IceCat1k]

Fun fact: after all the soviet Republics including Russia declared independence, Kazakhstan was still communist and become the whole soviet union for 4 days

[@Shazistic]

Random fact A dead body can make noises that sound like moans and groans, especially if the person received emergency medical care prior to their death. -Shazistic

[@mingfanzhang4600]

Shazistic #JustMonika

[@itsvmmc]

Thanks, I could have lived without ever reading this information

[@TheM16NdPregnant]

102 facts

[@nicolasdryden5393]

Johnny Bolt omg that comment made my year!!:) thank you!!!

[@blankblank5409]

Fist me

[@Clean97gti]

#15 widespread famine in 1901. Oh, so 16 years before the USSR actually existed. Got it.

[@sijdnsd6460]

It was one of the events that sparked the movement. However, Lenin’s brother was NOT killed for killing Alexander III. He was killed for killing Alexander II.

[@rexruther4864]

it was just the background

[@UnchainedAmerica]

The famine did birth the rise of revolutions which lead the rise of the Soviet Union (officially) in 1922.

[@HistoryisAwesome163]

@@sijdnsd6460 Lenin's brother didn't kill him either. It was an attempted assassination on Alexander III that failed. He was given the opportunity to survive by repentance, but refused

[@Ash-oj3ur]

1927: Stalin requests if he can step down, the people refuse 1928: The same happens again 1929: The same happens again 1952: The same happens again For someone who wanted an iron grip on power he did try to resign an awful lot

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

For sure

[@jamesgornall5731]

How to replace him? We're still waiting

[@withintheshyness]

Actually I think it was a power trip, like to show how much power he had over the people and how brainwashed he had the population.

[@garycarpenter2980]

Now IF Putin would step down...... and find someone else

[@TheHoagie13]

#30: The reason why the _"October Revolution"_ occurred in November is due to Russia still following the *Julian Calendar; the rest of the world followed the Gregorian Calendar......*

[@TheHoagie13]

Julian: Oct-25 Gregorian: Nov-7........,.......

[@frobrid3420]

I have been waiting for this comrade.

[@LeeByrne316]

I serve the Soviet Union

[@thatonetroll1059]

I serve the US

[@aoaoaaoaoao889]

I serve the Ice Cream

[@SilusValeriusVT]

I serve the people

[@Aura96968]

We serve Soviet union

[@josephstalin5833]

Thank you, comrade Sam

[@mohdadeeb1829]

Russian Empire > Soviet Union

[@josephstalin5833]

@@mohdadeeb1829 good joke. Now go to 40 years of gulag

[@James-ru7nz]

@@josephstalin5833 please Stalin no gulag

[@tyykthunder]

Nice to see comrade Stalin

[@mohdadeeb1829]

@@josephstalin5833 xaxaxa I can pierce through your shield.

[@Jacob-eq4ld]

the 11.5 hour work day was PRE-revolution, post-rev the working day was 8 hours

[@shabizgabich]

#important

[@friendlydispatch6283]

at around 5:30 he also mentions a famine in 1901 (pre-revolution)

[@darknessviking]

lol "owned by everyone not just rich people" aha there it was 3 minutes into the video, lol

[@mikerentiers]

Not but a minute later - the political system was authoritarian with the economy under state control. Yea, sorta rips the bloom right off that poor people rose. No worker ever benefited under the USSR.

[@anasain6590]

@@mikerentiers a lot of my extended family would like to disagree? Life in the Soviet union wasn't perfect, you had to be careful about what you said, there were occasionally shortages in rural areas due to geography. However you were guaranteed a roof to live under, a doctor to fix you at the cost of nothing if you get hurt or sick, a job where you had more say, labour unions with support and minorities had better rights and were treated as equal. And education was free and accessible at all levels. It wasn't the most ideal life, with things such as limited free speech and lacking infrastructure in remote populations but to say no one benefited is a fallacy.

[@sungod1384]

@@mikerentiers People forget that people in the ussr could vote and fire their managers. Their workplaces were a lot more democratic than whatever the hell we got here. There was very little wealth inequality. You didnt have people making bezos money. preview.redd.it/ml19lei9wso61.jpg?auto=webp&s=59e5639a38adbf187bb7e2d0302c8d8a9a69d585 There was no money in politics. In fact if you tried to lobby you would be killed. Rightfully so. So people had influence on the economy. It wasnt perfect but it was way more economically democratic than whats going on in the west.

[@rakiahbaker5589]

They should do 101 facts about Andorra, Monaco or Liechtenstein!

[@deckuofm]

In the west, sometimes you have to wait a whole day to see a doctor in a hospital. Pregnant women come to give birth like to see a dentist for a few hours. The one giving birth can be driven by authorities in 30 degrees frost and deep snow drifts at night. In the USSR, even patients with the flu were taken to the hospital in an ambulance with comfort and kept there for weeks, intensively feeding until the patient went on a hunger strike to be released. The pregnant women were hospitalized for months.

[@GinoGualtieri]

Yes daddy indoctrinate me through relatable media

[@Qazwsxedcrfff]

Every time I introduce myself they think I'm a communist until I tell them how to spell it.

[@blankblank5409]

tsinummoc

[@Qazwsxedcrfff]

@@blankblank5409 uhhhh.....what?

[@yugomapper5851]

@@Qazwsxedcrfff communist but backwards

[@rogueraven1333]

I spell communist AND socialist as NAZI. Same thing lol

[@aoaoaaoaoao889]

@@rogueraven1333 far from but alright

[@water8097]

The band kids are going to love this video.

[@blankblank5409]

Let me drink u

[@deckuofm]

In the west, in order not to be fired, you have to kiss the bosses' ass. And in the USSR it was possible to argue with the authorities. Of course, both bosses are not a gift, but at least in the USSR they did not hold on to their places so much, fearing layoffs as in the West, and although reluctantly, allowed the initiative. In the West, any initiative is nipped in the bud.

[@okemabrockington7430]

We need a 101 of the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[@Iamtheliquor]

Yeeeesssss

[@patrickaycock3655]

Soviet russian has 101 facts about you.

[@bubassvaba6221]

You mean KGB has.... but CIA isn't lacking facts

[@justaname2400]

I love my country ✨❤️ And it’s true That(almost)no one is speaking English in Russia Im half Russian and half German btw.

[@reginamiano8172]

you have east germany ancestors then

[@caingregory9446]

I’m looking forward to 101 facts about 2020

[@DeadnWoon]

I always respect the good work, good job and its authors. You definitely deserve a thank you for your work. Given that, though, I must admit that it is obvious from the material in the video that you have not lived in the USSR yourself. Not that there's something terribly erroneous - simply, the tone, the style, the shades make it evident, for you the USSR is a very distant and exotic animal.

[@Jedi450]

I have never been to Russia. However, I did live through the 80's and 90's. You're right. The tone for this and the Cold War episode (not sure which came first) makes it seem like Sam and the people that make this series look at the USSR as benevolent dictators (especially with all the derisive remarks about capitalism and implied or sometimes blatant praise for communism). Let's not forget, in the USSR you could not speak out against The Party or find yourself in a Gulag. Your rights were not inherent to you but granted to you by the State (read as Communist Party). And anything the Government grants to you can also be taken by that same government.

[@dima6042]

In first 6 minutes most “facts” are about Russian empire not Soviet Union. You keep talking about food shortages in early 1900s. I mean dude, common...

[@SilusValeriusVT]

You have to understand something to support it

[@jamesdorpinghaus3294]

There actually was a food shortage during the early days of the Soviet Union. In 1923, Lenin convinced people to go after farmers who were deemed as the Bourgeoisie. These were people who'd been lifted out of serfdom and were able to do well enough for themselves that they werw able to hire people to help them. The proletariat would go to these farms and kill the farmers, take their food and send it back to Moscow. The rules about food were so extreme that if a mother went out to a field that had been harvested to find food so she could feed her starving children, and not report that she'd found food she and her children could be punished by death. If you really want to know what the soviet union was like, read the book "The Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

[@rzgrimes]

Common does not mean come on

[@UnchainedAmerica]

Those facts were the build up to the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922. Pre-soviet history was pretty complex.

[@jamesdorpinghaus3294]

@@UnchainedAmerica history is complicated in general. If only people knew history, they'd understand what's going on with the socialist movements in the West.

[@JBryc3]

The early russian Revolutions are certainly factors in formation of the USSR , but I wouldn't them count as USSR facts

[@CliffCardi]

101 facts about 4chan I dare you.

[@matej_bosnjak]

Can we get Yugoslavia too?

[@huyendang6731]

I have been waiting for this comrade.

[@TheWedabest]

Which one?

[@anasain6590]

**flashbacks**

[@angelvalle9094]

Mom during an argument: *Insert communist buggs bunny* Mom when cleaning the house: *Insert buggs bunny with a cowboy hat*

[@Zoliqa]

Eastern europe didnt just "oh join the ussr", the russians invaded those countries and whiped out the germans. In 1956 hungarians started an uprise against ussr (mostly against Rakosi) but got beat down. After this the ussr got a little bit scared and thats why hungary became the "happiest barrack". Even Elvis Presley mentioned this uprise. As an honor we have an Elvis Presley Park in Budapest.

[@Zoliqa]

@Burleon yeah it was cool from him. We believed US gonna help us but they had other things in mind first, so Elvis did the duty kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGiUqpKDh5eonqs

[@danielkron2513]

Fun fact: projecting their power thats what superpowers do. Sad but inevitable

[@sungod1384]

Many people think that Hungary was fighting socialism. They werent. Imre Nagy was a staunch marxist leninist and much popular than maytas rakosi. What imre nagy was doing was constructing a multi party socialist democracy. A coalition government of the communist party and the workers party of hungary. They just didnt like the ussr and stalinst policies f repression. The ussr called them reformist and crushed the revolution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demands_of_Hungarian_Revolutionaries_of_1956 I find it funny how khruschev dennounced stalin but put a stalinst leader in hungary.

[@voigt8902]

I feel this was more about Soviet History than 101 Facts. I know history is often filled with "facts," but this seemed more historical than the other nation videos. I was hoping this would be more fun facts or interesting facts. A lot of this video was general knowledge or material covered in high school education.

[@coolgirl1744]

Honestly find it hilarious how this video came out the day Joe Biden got elected as President here in the us lol

[@blankblank5409]

E

[@CxDubxU]

We need to fight back against the socialist scum trying to take over this country

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

As we watch our own country fall to socialism

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

@memes memes his healthcare plan is socialism.

[@mountaingalhomemaker4179]

@memes memes the less fortunate got healthcare under Obamacare?

[@EmoFemboyHunter69]

Joey really said “Yeetus deletus”

[@latoyaweston9990]

Thank you Comrade for such kindness

[@liamstobbs485]

ive been waiting soooooo long

[@galladesamurai2380]

22:55 Bruh,that gun

[@EmoFemboyHunter69]

gallade samurai Yes we have those in Russia

[@Ibisko]

Watching from Azerbaijan!

[@Ibisko]

@Soviet Union HELL NAW

[@Ibisko]

@Soviet Union NOO. WE WILL FIGHT BACK

[@mattyvonlong-schlong4433]

Fun fact about the Tsar bomba It was suppose to be 100 megatons, but they were worried about it 🤔

[@will-qw1tk]

This isn’t 101 facts about the Soviet Union this is OUR facts about the soviet onion.

[@m.t.o.9035]

Why? Cuz it existed in layers?

[@me3333]

So that's why this video stunk...

[@captainretro373]

All the stuff he said about stuff before 1922, wasn’t even about the Soviet Union

[@bethdibartolomeo2042]

Thank you PBS for your show Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego in the early 90s that helped me know most of the names off the top of my head of the countries of the former Soviet Republic (after season one).

[@minecrafter0502]

Everyone! Remember that Sam’s birthday is the day after Christmas!

[@EmoFemboyHunter69]

Minecrafter 0 which was also the day that the USSR collapsed *why did you remind me?!*

[@snbrinewehr3203]

Stalin: *collectivizes agriculture* Peasants: *kill their livestock and burn their crops as a protest* Stalin: "wtf?" USSR: *gets a famine* Peasants: "omg why would Stalin do that, he is such a bad bad man, he started a famine" ....I love history

[@ShellShock11C]

Perhaps he shouldn't be stealing large swaths of their crops then?

[@nobbynobnob4637]

There’s a difference between stealing and the people themselves destroying their own stuff

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

Why blame Papi Stalin, it wasn't all his fault.

[@anasain6590]

Stalin did have some fault in it but not intentionally so. The Holodomor is a lot more nuanced than "muh bad Stalin stealing crops and killing people!!!!!!!" And "the peasants burning crops!!!!!", It was a number of factors that can't just be pinned on one thing.

[@sungod1384]

@@ShellShock11C Collectivization. It helps industrialize. Turning a country from a agrarian society to an indutrialized one it makes sense to restructure production. The issue with landloard is that they may not use the land. here in the usa many rich dudes own massive farmland and dont farm anything on it.

[@deckuofm]

In the west, many people regularly rummage through spattered bins and trash cans, with restaurants on every corner in the background. In the USSR, restaurants were clearly more modest, but it was difficult to imagine that a Soviet person would want to climb into the trash can, despite the more modest average salary of the population.

[@rogueraven1333]

You said USSR was biggest country in the world yet failed to mention that the Russian empire was larger 🤣

[@soulplexis]

what about the uk

[@rogueraven1333]

@@soulplexis yes

[@tristanreimers423]

thats because the Soviet Union was a country, the Russian Empire was an empire, thereby not a country yes they're different things wikidiff.com/empire/country

[@AatiNiiranen]

I am really sorry that i have to tell this. But the soviet union only lasted 68 years and 357 days. Sorry men im sorry

[@tacocat1714]

But 1 year= 365.24 days

[@Daniel-sq1eh]

it still counts as it was 8 days off, we don't talk about those days

[@shortleader0958]

@@Daniel-sq1eh those were dark times

[@radiomanreal]

We shall clap for this man on his hard work

[@DresdenMedia]

in America you watch video in Soviet Russia video watch you

[@m.t.o.9035]

I'm not so sure you don't have that reversed.

[@marvinbush7304]

I can't believe that this video was made without at least playing a portion of Russia's beautiful and inspiring National Anthem.

[@redtigergaming1467]

I don't know why but this video is so entertaining!

[@starleigh6680]

the 69 year fact should have been at number 69

[@sasukeuchiha961]

Yeah.

[@heem_cat5140]

I thought gulag was "kulak" but messed up spelling, not a different word entirely

[@michaelarmstrong9722]

"Plays Black Ops Cold War theme music"

[@brewkavlogs7502]

I do want to point out that the Soviet Union did not follow because of his communism they fell because of his authoritarianism if we would have allowed people to have freedoms and get rid of authoritarianism the USSR would exist today

[@PhilipCripe]

The economic policies would be part of what would be different?

[@timteichmann6830]

@@PhilipCripe if people were allowed to openly criticize their government and the government would be forced to reform the economy to win reflection they would have done a lot more safe the economy.

[@PhilipCripe]

I forgot to add that most countries that broke away in the 1990s would never have joined the USSR without force and authoritarian and imperialistic conquest by the bolsheviks. Communism and authoritarianism are indistinguishable.

[@timteichmann6830]

@@PhilipCripe even in the soviet "empire" more representation could be possible

[@sungod1384]

Lol. such platitudes. "freedom"authoritarianism". The dissolution is very complex. For one, the policy of perestroika which led to what we know as russian oligarchs. That was liberalization of the economy. The rise of nationalism due to political decay against the cpsu. Also shortages caused by blockades of trade from the west in which people saw the western life as more shiny. So a jealousy. Soviet people lived modestly but had needs met. When they switched to capitalism they got the shiny shit like jeans but no needsmet.

[@flashkingbro8704]

Can you do 101 facts about Pennsylvania

[@3Infinity]

Soviet union didnt even existed in 1901 5:12

[@donaldjanaway9579]

About time

[@MrBoyce1000]

Thanks now got the Boney M. Song stuck in my head.

[@kgb2647]

Remember, *WE* the KGB is always watching.

[@timoilonen1926]

"101 facts about the German Reich" next?

[@tylerbozinovski4624]

Second Reich?

[@timoilonen1926]

@@tylerbozinovski4624 Yes

[@timoilonen1926]

@@tylerbozinovski4624 Or third

[@Saiko0001]

Mein Furher von Deutschland!!!

[@MANISHA-cy4vy]

Love Soviet Union Frm Bangladesh😐💕❤️🇧🇩🇧🇩

[@Lipitoarea]

The way you say Moldova is very pleasing sir!

[@devingiles6597]

Hey, Sam. Can you please do 101 facts about Hungary?

[@Darwizzy2700]

Yesss ive been waiting for this

[@ClipMonkey678]

Mate these are so Interesting well done from me

[@hereticslayer5721]

Tannu Tuva do be mad right now.

[@DamaThamaCrazyDave]

I've been waiting for this

[@French-Empire]

United forever in friendship and labour Our mighty Republics will ever endure The great soviet Union will live through the ages The dream of the people tgeir fortress secure!

[@katerinaivanovska4855]

Please do one about Yugoslavia!

[@antniomanso]

ironically the ad i got in the beginning was the rise of kingdom as where the guy wants to get rome but gets siberia instead

[@deckuofm]

Competition hinders innovation because competitors hide technological secrets from each other. And without competition, you can collaborate and exchange ideas. Under capitalism, each firm writes its own software, and under socialism, you can go to another firm and rewrite everything there for free or take a standard one from a common database.

[@SaurEditsYT]

0:52 Nice

[@babyabdool8731]

People who don't know there history (Aka people who think USSR anthem funny) but the whole "sharing" thing failed and was a great failure which killed about 7.8-11 million

[@purpleldv966]

Interesting as in appalling!

[@Dianasaurthemelonlord7777]

How...

[@nolifenerd2750]

101 facts about F1?

[@Iamtheliquor]

Watch my vids

[@carinamurillo2150]

26 December is your birthday 😮 I was suppose to have been born then too 😔

[@ivankaloqnov949]

do one for bulgaria

[@rufusmb7680]

No one talking how I got a smernof ad

[@Historelic]

I am waiting for scientists to resurrect Lenin so people can settle some scores

[@duanehastrich1460]

Another great video of mother factoring goodness. Always worth the wait 🙂.

[@sangenan1]

Happy birthday Leon

[@MP-vc4nu]

101 Facts about Soviet Union: 1) Lenin 2) Stalin 3) Stalin 4) Stalin . . . . 101) Stalin

[@garycarpenter2980]

Need to do a 101 on that dummy Putin including the war in Ukraine

[@CrimsonRedstone]

The only fact you need to know about soviet country that it is GLORIOUS

[@notevenrandomroblox9216]

1:18 Lemme fix this for u 101 facts USSR had about 100,000 KM of coastline Meanwhile at the same time when USSR existed, Canada has 243,000 KM of coastline Just to say that I searched it up on google. Compare Canada's coastline of 243,000 Km from Indonesia, Norway, Russia, and Philippines, the 4 countries behind Canada. The 4 countries have a total of 231158 KM That"s how long Canada's coastline is!

[@deckuofm]

Socialism can invest in technology incomparably more funds than capitalism, and thus much faster to bring the super-technological future closer. Suffice it to recall the nuclear and space projects in the USSR. This is possible thanks to public ownership, resources of working time and the absence of negative temptations. In addition, capitalism has a number of reasons to be against progress, and the last 40 years of technological stagnation have confirmed this. Socialism is also good in global disasters because it has a stockpile of public property, work force and warranties.

[@ethancarbajal8496]

I've been waiting for this for a long time

[@Sam-uo9ep]

I saw ur little stranger things Easter egg with the whole ussr opening the upside-down

[@darthbob8428]

This is our favourite of our videos so far

[@bryantgomez7135]

22:08 Here for this!

[@doomi4055]

Sam Can You Do Holy Roman Empire???

[@Ghetto187Murda]

I had to turn on the closed captions for a bit because I thought Sam kept saying Trumpski lol

[@noahgutierrez-cruz7556]

0:50 Nice 😎

[@JAY1892]

The longest coastline is in Canada.

[@kommandantgalileo]

Good job commrade

[@exohead1]

The means of production were never under community or worker ownership in the USSR, they were under the control of the state making the USSR a State Capitalist system not a Communist system

[@rexruther4864]

Complete state ownership of the means of production isn’t state capitalism

[@exohead1]

@@rexruther4864 Yes, that’s literally the definition of state capitalism

[@rexruther4864]

@@exohead1 then Marxist Leninism is state capitalism

[@exohead1]

@@rexruther4864 Yes and no

[@rexruther4864]

@@exohead1 I mean that’s basically what Lenin set up

[@ohyeahbonsai]

Nice

[@carenzadealey8290]

Can you do 101 facts about ed and lorraine warren and the crown please