Do Russians want the USSR back?

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[@1420channel]

This probably our last video before we'll get back to USSR. It was nice experience, sorry for being dramatic 😂 Ummm.. Anyways, «‎What do Russians think now? 1 week in the war.»‎ - the next one.

[@MasuraoShirokouu]

I appreciate this genuine and altruistic effort for transparency and understanding. In a world where it's so easy to mistake government policy for the thoughts of the people, it's enlightening to see perspectives from everyday people in Russia. Thank you for your hard work. Peace to all~

[@MrMarina101000]

Hope you stay safe!

[@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527]

Ask us Romanias, what do we thinck about the Soviet Union and about Russia :)))

[@David_Tully]

Nice video. Solidarity and hope with the Russian people. Putin has to go.

[@gabrielmarmol4826]

Ask the russians If they prefer to be an Empire again pls!

[@Kbcqw]

The old guy who said “then i was 30, now im 70” is spot on lol, he cant answer that question objectively and he knows it because of course he will have romanticized memories of when he was young.

[@rgsxyz1105]

My uncle went to Soviet Union with an agriculture delegation and stayed at the "premium" Hotel Ukraine in central Moscow...this was 1978. There were rats and cockroaches in the room, the toilet didn't flush, no hot water.......and after the soup was served in the hotel dining room, the workers would pour the uneaten portions back into a big pot to be reheated for the next meal....my uncle said the people in the city looked disabled and like they had hook worm

[@FreedMordheim]

@@rgsxyz1105 my uncle went to that hotel as well and there were even KGBs torturing people in the next room. And also on the floor of the bathroom he found someone’s cut off arm laying casually!

[@rgsxyz1105]

@Владимир Do you know the Soviets would have starved if it wasn't for the west? Read the Article below....my uncle help negotiate the deal..... Huge Grain Sale To Soviet Union Approved by U.S. -- Washington Post By John M. Berry October 4, 1979 The United States agreed yesterday to allow the Soviet Union to make the biggest grain purchase in history. The Soviets can buy up to 25 million metric tons of wheat and corn during the next 12 months. In 1972, the Soviets secretly bought 18 million metric tons of wheat and corn, some of which was sold at prices subsidized by the U.S. government. That controversial sale, which led to major food price increases in the United States, resulted in an agreement under which Washington must give prior approval to purchases of more than 8 million tons in one year.

[@newsunderfoot]

@@rgsxyz1105 By posting such a comment, you have embarked on a path of risk called "Conspiracy Theories". One of these theories explains this decision of the US government as a payment for the silence of the authorities and specialists of the USSR about the fake flight of Americans to the Moon in 1969. Is it worth promoting topics and asking questions that we are unlikely to get answers to in the coming years?

[@DigitalPand3mic]

@@newsunderfoot yes

[@TheLEAX]

I'm from Slovakia and I see a repeating theme in some older people: they don't want the old regime, but they feel that life was better back then -- slower, less stressful, more of family meetings etc.

[@timothyprovost7573]

Same could be said for life in general. Older you get seem life gets more difficult.

[@ukguga]

Life was less stressful and calmer all around the world a couple of decades back

[@WilliamTurner86]

I'm in America and feel the same way and I'm only 36 years old. I don't think it's a communism thing, I blame it on social media and the internet. People just aren't as close as they used to be. And thanks to the internet news travels Superfast nowadays and nothing is slow anymore

[@LaszloVondracsek]

Krásné i ošklivé věci existují v každém věku, ale většina prožívá své mládí, které je nevratné a pak nostalgicky vzpominaji na minulost, což je normalní. Takže tihleto nemohou být objektivní..../Beautiful and ugly things exist at every age, but most of them live their youth, which is irreversible and then they think nostalgically of the past. It's normal, but these-ones can't be objective...

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

We had slower, less stressful lifes everywhere back in the day, without internet and phones everywhere.

[@rinsimon5467]

You can really see the generational divide between people who lived during and people born after the USSR

[@MrGrobster]

Still both of them are gutless slaves. No one is giving a single ... about what is going on in their and nearby countries.

[@EnergeticSpark63]

hello

[@guneykarakose2047]

Just because they are trying to destroy the USSR and Communism

[@AdanALW]

I suspect that at least one factor would be that older generations were taught pro-communist propaganda while later generations were indoctrinated with anti-communist propaganda.

[@davidmajor1508]

How so? The answers were quite mixed among those lived during the USSR. I suspect that the ones that remember it fondly were informants or otherwise had some sort of political power in the party. Those that didn’t have political power correctly remember the USSR as being a miserable place.

[@zalkkareita9017]

Notice how almost all the people who lived in the USSR said something positive about it and all the people who didn't live in the USSR didn't want it back

[@orylazy3087]

Of course the young generation has received thousands of tons of American propaganda while they don't know shit about USSR. For example there is this famine joke while in reality in many of CIA's report it was said that Russians were eating as much calories as Americans and ate healthier food! It's like the American propaganda about how French people are pussies after we didn't follow them in Iraq...

[@angelangel1]

And you know why? Because they were ALL younger back then and youth is priceless. I ask the same questions to old folks around here and they all feel nostalgic about the past when "everything was better" even if they were starving and had bombs falling on their heads. Old age sucks, even if you have money!

[@orylazy3087]

@@angelangel1 where you live was probably never bombed. My grandma is 85yo and lived in Normandy during ww2, she described it as the worst years of her life. Her sisters died because of deadly viruses there was because of the war. You don't know what is war style hunger. And even when somes of the few german soldiers offered them food her parents took it away, directly to the soldier's face.

[@marcushosack7830]

@@orylazy3087 gotta be the most monkey brain comment in history. Russia was never bombed or invaded the fact is human nature is that is glorifies your youth even if it was worse then your current situation due to remembering only the best parts say when you were with you family. obviously being bomb dropped will lead a bigger impression then say just living throughout extream poverty.

[@marcushosack7830]

Also before u bring up ww2 im going to remind u im talking only about the cold war you can also ask any rusians and I assure you that they do not want to live in ww2 since they were being bomb dropped and aniahleted

[@ice2k999]

I was most interested in the elderly who lived through it answers. The lady at the end who said "no because you don't remember it, thank God, and we do" really haunted me. It's strange because the guy before her praised the fact that you could travel to Crimea, everyone's experience is so different. No system of government is perfect and there will always be people who thrive or suffer.

[@9Rizla9]

Same idiotizm here in my former Yugoslavian country. Normal people want to go into the future, in peace, and on the other side you have brainwashed people that cry for old times. When you ask them for reasons, you just want to cry how stupid the answers are.

[@cegesh1459]

A lot of people that lived back then say it was better though

[@IonPerseus]

@@9Rizla9 it's not about brainwashing, it is just their experience. After collapse of soviet union economy and currency collapsed, crimes rates gone sky high, only to be replaced by rotting "stability" with constant chronical inflation, price grows and uncertainty in the future. So it was predicted that people want back their old cozy days.

[@nAcolz]

@@cegesh1459 it's just delusional nostalgia.. everoyne remembers their younger years as "better", compared to where they are now

[@Ocinneade345]

In a previous video people said they did

[@user-pc3hk3cg6n]

As a russian I can tell you that most of the population of the former USSR really have no idea about socialism/capitalism or left/right consepts though they all were taught marxism somehow. They just remember how they were young and had less problems. Actually there were many great things then like free summer camps or afterschool clubs for all soviet children so majority of the people born after 80s remember soviet union as a lost paradise.

[@Yuri_Rus]

Не надо говорить за всех, всё мы знали что такое социализм, коммунизм и про этот "распрекрасный" капитализм.

[@Sword_Master149]

Capitalists back then would weigh the consequences of their actions all over the world before oppressing the working class. Not matter how bad it was. It rose up as home to workers revolution. Never again in this world will we witness the moment when workers overthrew yoke of oppression. For the imperialist west and their capitalist masters Soviet union was red hydra. But it this red hydra that kept balance of the world, kept the greed and oppression of capitalism in check. It this red hydra under whose might Imperialists would tremble in fear. But it fell to its own internal problems and siege from so called free world.

[@billygoatgruff3536]

@@Sword_Master149 Doesn't sound like a very good hydra then.

[@Sword_Master149]

@@billygoatgruff3536 yeah it was not good for the west.

[@Sword_Master149]

@@billygoatgruff3536 after all this is done. Let's see who's gonna have the last laugh.

[@KrazyKatPosse]

A really good book on this subject is Blackshirts & Reds by Michael Parenti. In it, he details the disastrous effects of the Soviet Union’s demise on people throughout Russia and some of Eastern Europe. The explosion of crime, homelessness, poverty, alcoholism, and war in 1990s Russia makes the years of stagnation during the Brezhnev era look like a walk in the park. It’s understandable why so many older Russians long for the days of the Soviet Union - because, to put it bluntly, life was simply better for them.

[@roninoutcast5148]

The collapse of the soviet union not only had adverse effects on the russian and eastern european people but also its effects spilt over the entire world in terms of cultural,political, and economical deterioration. Post soviet era has been full of proxy wars in the middle east and the world is now left in a state of flux as capitalism is running rampant spoiling everything on its way. The world needs to get back to the state of political balance that it used to be in before the soviet union fell

[@wbsees]

It’s true. But why can’t there be a system that isn’t authoritarian but has the benefits of collectivization?

[@Grimeyhoob]

Lord Putin we bow down 🙇‍♂️ to you. We kiss your boot 👢 we pray 🙏🏻 to you. We sniff your holy gases you release from your godly behind. We worship 🤲 you my lord. We people of Russia worship you 24 hours a day

[@KrazyKatPosse]

@@Grimeyhoob Oh my god, shut up.

[@laika6661]

@@wbsees Many revolutionaries knew the world dominated by capitalism would see any socialist country as a threat and they did. Still do to an extent with coups, sanctions and embargos. This threat allowed authoritarianism to become an accepted and necessary force in these socialist nations for the purpose of self preservation. Billions of dollars of resources from all over the western world is going towards destabilizing and threatening socialist nations.

[@ryanfinnerty6239]

To those rightly talking of the elders nostalgia, you must remember on the flip side a revisionist historical view, one that can be both wholly bad or wholly good and thus lack balance. The young adults in this video will have been taught a west-based history around the USSR - one that is quick to pin point it’s flaws and terror; yet blind to the many pros of discipline, health care, education, urban planning and housing stability.

[@dannypipewrench533]

The Soviet Union definitely was very good at developing technology. I was just thinking about this last night. I decided that, politics aside, the United States and the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War were probably in the best condition of any countries that have ever existed.

[@name-yn6vu]

@@dannypipewrench533 in fact, I would say that the soviet union was better than the US, since even though the average person had a lower quality of life, everyone was guaranteed a minimum standard, not just those who could afford it

[@dannypipewrench533]

@@name-yn6vu Well, I could see why that might be appealing to some, but I personally do not agree.

[@Deapcrash101]

@@name-yn6vu The average homeless person in America has smart phone.

[@name-yn6vu]

@@Deapcrash101 but not a house. Sell them consumer products even when they're suffering.

[@23952AAB]

This was really good. The "why" questions brings really good quality answers that let us know what the people there think. Thanks a lot! Great job!

[@Ash-so2sr]

They didn't give thoughtful answers just feelings most of them don't even know their own history.

[@23952AAB]

@@Ash-so2sr I mean, compared to the interviews from days ago of binary yes/no answers, this one is much better. Maybe Europeans are more rational in politics, I live in Brazil and I can't say for all countries, but from what I noticed here is that most vote based on ideology and feelings. I would guess most 3rd world countries are the same. But from those answer we can see people who are lukewarm about politics, or if passionate about their ideology.

[@laserraiset3300]

nobody speak about soviet crimes ? millions civilians, kids, women were killed during this regime and mass oppresion kgb agents for anything what's not in the system

[@Ash-so2sr]

@@laserraiset3300 propaganda lies, hae you even investigated properly about this e supposed accusations?

[@laserraiset3300]

@@Ash-so2sr i was born in soviet union

[@chill_nrg5349]

i love the Russian people's sincerity and how the older folks blushed and how their expressions would light up when you asked them your question. Thanks once again for your video.

[@meksi1124]

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[@Plethorality]

it was more about remembering their own youth.

[@chill_nrg5349]

@@Plethorality apparently.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

@@Plethorality Nonsense. They gave real arguments in favor of the fact that life was better in the USSR: "a stable ruble, free medicine, education, apartments, spa treatment, people lived in abundance, the absence of corruption and crime". These are concrete arguments and not just "well ... Hmm, I just had a better life ... Because I was young ..."

[@Plethorality]

@@Anonymous-qj3sfhi : ) i said "more". i did not say "only".

[@benjaminjeraj8212]

Its similar to asking balkan people if they want yugoslavia back and many want it back with same reasons as here. The brotherhood and unity

[@dann5480]

As a 76 year old Russian, I would absolutely love to be able to go back to the olden times.

[@marvinduval]

As someone who deals with research in day to day work, I would really like these questionnaires to take place in various parts of the country. Not just Moscow and St. Petersburg etc.

[@ludwigvonn9889]

Yeah go out and ask them yourself. You wont have a chance anytime soon as the iron curtain is coming up again.

[@yeshuaislord6880]

Yeah do that in the middle of the country invading a neighbouring country

[@user-jc1vy9rw9r]

@@ludwigvonn9889 Don't care about the curtain. Russians who do not live in big cities spend their summers on the nearest lake or river.

[@Anno_Nymouse]

@@ludwigvonn9889 There won't be an iron curtain in the way it existed 30 years ago. It's more like a economical iron curtain. Russians will be still able to get out of Russia. It has too many connections abroad. China, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi-Arabia and many many more. While these nations are also partners of western countries there is always a way out of Russia. Russia knows that pretty well , that's why they can't just close the borders to stop Russians leaving. On the other hand it's better for Russia's dictatorship when obstacles are leaving as fast as possible.

[@kgb4973]

@@ludwigvonn9889 we don't care about "curtain" we don't even have money to go abroad lmao, only the rich do

[@bushy9780]

If you ask Americans if they want to go back 40+ years, they would also say yes. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug and your resistance to it decreases the older you get.

[@bushy9780]

And yes, I realize that most of these people said no, I'm just trying to justify the yes's

[@dec13666]

@@bushy9780 Indeed 👍

[@cisium1184]

That's like saying your "resistance" to putting dishes on the top shelf "decreases" as you get taller. You've got it backwards. Older people remember 40+ years ago fondly because it's _possible_ to remember it, not because of some change in how they think as they age. Younger people don't remember 40 years ago simply because they weren't there in the first place, so they are not remembering at all but rather thinking about it in the abstract. All people, regardless of age, tend to remember the good in their experiences and forget or sugarcoat the bad; it's human nature, and probably necessary our human sanity. People who live with bad memories are perpetually tormented. Age per se is merely incidental. Bottom line: the fact that so many older people said No is far more telling than the fact that so many young people said No.

[@sbespn3820]

I'd love to go back to the 90's in the U.S.

[@happyramsey5668]

American culture 40+ was really good in my opinion, all those good movies they made, I can understand why old people like these times. And now they have marvel, soy boys and pregnant women parkouring on the roofs and fighting with a gangs of big guys

[@T4SelNiNO]

The Levada Centre polled Russians a few years ago above the age of 40 and if I remember correctly around 70% said life was better then mostly due to costs being low, job/housing security and people being kinder towards one and other due the government in stilling a sense of comradeship.

[@Broodjemetbeleg]

Has nothing to do with communism though, everywhere it’s more expensive lol

[@leguy5662]

Hehehehe you have a red star

[@lucasrosario1796]

This was USSR propaganda at the time, in real life things were not like that. Not to mention that the generation of the 50s, etc., was too young to understand how terrifying that time was for them.

[@user-pp9zi5qe1k]

​@@lucasrosario1796 What was terrifying? And russian propaganda is almost anticommunist now.

[@MaRaX93]

@@lucasrosario1796 People who are 80 now were 30 in the 70s. They were not too young to understand

[@gonzaloruz1600]

older people have a more developed opinion of why they agree or disagree. The younger ones can barely give a clear argument as to why they disagree or not, and their opinions are very similar, while the older ones who lived during the USSR have more diverse opinions. It seems that being born in a democracy is not enough to be a citizen with historical and critical thinking. Perhaps the educational system of each era can be a determining factor.

[@jordanwardle11]

It's almost as if people with more experience on a subject have a better opinion then that of those who have only heard of it

[@uhe3431]

It's almost as if communism was very unsupported in the soviet union itself

[@russianoverkill3715]

​@@uhe3431source? Asking for a friend.

[@hugossg7908]

It may not be enough, but is enough to eliminate the conditioning and well spreaded I guess you can call them lies that the Soviet Union gave about the status of the country, ignoring the multiple violations to basic freedoms of the people that have stayed with Putin's government

[@lucasrosario1796]

The URSS was not a Democracy, never was.

[@richsmith7200]

I'm an American veteran, my friends and I have always had respect for the Russian people. They're a tough lot, been through hardships. In the army, we had no ill feelings towards the Soviets, it was just the political climate at the time. I'd love to visit someday.

[@silentimage515]

actually same I wanted to visit in a few years sad to see they're probably gonna be closed off from the world

[@yeshuaislord6880]

@@silentimage515 Why not go there now? It's never too late

[@QWERTY-gp8fd]

@@yeshuaislord6880 because war is happening and there is huge chance he can get killed as foreign spy.

[@lucatoni4509]

you mean Soviet people

[@richsmith7200]

@@lucatoni4509 in my 'Army period', they were referred to as 'Soviets'. Cold War Era was a little different. Funny, one of my my heroes was 'Guennedy Moiseev', an army captain racing a KTM for the Soviet team.

[@attila840702]

The Soviet Union today would be totally different from what it was 40 years ago. I was a child in Eastern Europe in the 80's, and to be honest I too feel a bit nostalgic about those times. There was no internet, social media, video games, people had a much more active lifestyle, had a lot of fun, less traffic, neighborhoods were safer, etc. Everything from the West was super impressive. But there was a dark side. Government agents spied on literally everyone, there was less freedom, people who didn't like the system disappeared. There was extreme poverty, especially in villages, where most people didn't have a car, telephone, many people got their water from wells, the houses were not connected to a sewer system. Many people didn't have a toilet inside their houses. It's crazy to think that this was all just a couple of decades ago.

[@prettyraveboy74]

A lot of people in Russia who live in villages still don't have a toilet inside their house

[@tulenik71]

@@prettyraveboy74 not only in Russia :D

[@stadionistiid5016]

Soviet union will end up like china. Cheap labour, no permanent jobs (means that you could get fired anytime you loose your working standard), work 13-14 hours per day

[@marethyu31]

As someone who lives in a post-communist country I can say no-one in the right mind would want a regime back. Maybe only some old people who benefited from it or couldn't adapt to the changes might miss it.

[@martinhorvath4117]

@@marethyu31 As a Hungarian, I whole heartedly agree... it's just that majority of people are old in my country, and they were benefitting from it. The normal not inhumane people already left.

[@armandom.s.1844]

I like how older people points of view had a better reasoning behind, like they had a better understanding of geopolitics and how power works, while younger people usually took the argument of "I'm pro democracy whatever it means".

[@Sun-Tzu-]

It's the same everywhere. People complain about freedom and democracy without ever thinking once about what any of those words mean.

[@xandermoore6485]

i’d rather live in a dictatorship under gorbachev than putin

[@zweihanderu]

@@xandermoore6485gorbachev was a traitor

[@seventh-hydra]

​@@zweihanderu And Putin is an actual Nazi. That word is thrown around a lot by people who don't know anything. But his policies of racial supremacy, expansionism, imperialism, alternate history, domination, and survival of the fittest. They are one in the same. At least the USSR believed in a union between people of all races, working towards a greater goal of equality and brotherhood.

[@alflerran3536]

@@zweihanderu gorbachov was a hero. He freed millions of people and saved their lifes. He is the greatest hero of my life. It makes me always very disappointed, sad and even angry that Russians are unable to see what a great and noble human he was. It makes also clear how much Russians were happy about enslaving whole eastern Europe in the past. How much they actually look down on the former soviet satelite countries like mine.

[@therealmafiosi]

Дядька на 2:09 очень ёмко ответил, большинство людей поколения 50+ воспринимают этот вопрос как "хотели ли бы вы снова стать молодыми", отсюда и такие ответы

[@P.H.H.A]

i from china,i pro capitalism .my point is inappropriate to describe a country as young, unless it is not born for a long time, but obviously most countries have a certain history

[@ozd6603]

@@P.H.H.A?

[@P.H.H.A]

@@ozd6603 i reply the wrong person

[@balmashev93]

Многие кстати ответили все равно нет, что показательно

[@user-qw5uc7fr6m]

​@@P.H.H.Alol isn't it dangerous? I had a Chinese friend but haven't heard from him in years, possible he is censored? And why did Jack Ma disappear?

[@filipmac5577]

You should have asked individuals from smaller poorer towns. The responses would have been quite different.

[@horiagabriel8730]

Russian people: stop Russian invasion in Ukraine! Army is murdering women and children!

[@RafaelMarques01]

People fotget that the ussr went broke so around 1991 the “jobs” and all the “stability” would vanish anyways

[@Daniel-iu7ob]

@@RafaelMarques01 URSS was a parasitic system.

[@spacepeing9936]

@@Daniel-iu7ob and capitalism dont? Look at the class diversity in the US 13.4% is living in third world country conditions

[@RafaelMarques01]

@@Daniel-iu7ob yes, I know. I am saying that the idea that stability would last forever there is a lie

[@ASharedFate]

This has been one of my fav videos. The varied demographics of people you got to speak was really nice.

[@YoungGagarin]

I was born in Moscow in 1964, and I usually say that it was the best years of the USSR. Yes, we didn't have voting democracy, but it was the Cold War. At that time there was no democracy anywhere in the world. However, I studied in good schools, we traveled to summer camps, where we swam in waterfalls and learned how to farm in rural areas of the country. We participated in the youth Olympics, there were music festivals... I can't speak for all Russians, but I was happy!

[@georgespaceagency9894]

Ah that's good then, in my country it was a bit different. From my grandma's story, during the height of the communist party (note it never became the ruling party but did become the largest non ruling one in the world), schools became strict, stopping students to check hair more often, getting angry at everything due to strict rules

[@YoungGagarin]

@@georgespaceagency9894 What country?

[@georgespaceagency9894]

@@YoungGagarin Indonesia. Around a year after those strict rules suddenly the party decided to conduct a movement to affirm more control by kidnapping and interrogating the generals of the army (which are their only competition), harmlessly. but because of miscommunication with a colonel which led the kidnapping part of the movement, it ended with harm and the generals were killed and stuffed into an abandoned well, found 3 days later. The party was banned and the largest killing happened in the country, 1.65m people died, most of those were innocent. Ironically the person who led the killing of associates of the communist party soon became the president and put up a dictatorship.

[@YoungGagarin]

@@georgespaceagency9894 I thought Indonesia had been a French colony. When I was a child, this country was under a Military Dictatorship. In fact, in the 60s, a huge number of communists died in that country. When did this event happen?

[@georgespaceagency9894]

@@YoungGagarin Indonesia had been a Dutch colony for 200 years, and only with the french for a year or two. The killing of the communists started in late 1965 2 months after the movement , even then, it was still quite tame since Soekarno (the first president and is a leftist) was still in power. However a year or two after that a document was signed called the Supersemar which effectively gave power to the minister of defense called Soeharto (he was a new minister since the original one was one of the seven victims of the communist movement in 30th September, yes, tomorrow is a commemoration day for Indonesia to remember the victims of the "communist atheists"). Soeharto rule was bloody in the 1960s as the killings are now widespread. After that, as you know, a dictatorship was put up by him which eventually tamed in 1980s as freedom continued to spread across the world and finally in 1999 a crisis happened, and a small group of student protested from my father's university, 3 students were shot dead under the leadership of the current candidate for the 2024 presidential election Called Prabowo, which effectively triggered a city wide Protest in Jakarta, Bandung, and Jogja causing the downfall of soeharto

[@themeat8624]

It’s interesting to hear what people would give up just for the idea of safety and relative order.

[@Mikreen]

The old lady at the end has a clear point. We are nostalgic of past times but if u really remember it u will know its wasnt so good, u just miss it.

[@paudelamarianaoancea3761]

i liked her answer also

[@pllpsy665]

What was interesting is the people old enough to only have been children or teens during the last phase(45 to 55) were nostalgic.It's normal to have a good memories of youth. The older people 60+ and the young people had a better understanding of the nasty side.

[@thomas.thomas]

@@pllpsy665 idk, the one at 2:49 was also nostalgic and she seems old

[@rockybalboa5298]

@@thomas.thomas naah she is like 55

[@levoyageur9981]

You like her answer because you want to like it.

[@inguunenkhtaivan9146]

3:06 Yeah, that was true. Every factory was working until all of them gets privatized, then got decayed. Same in Mongolia (I'm Mongolian)

[@gaara13756]

проблема не совсем в приватизации, а в том, что единая страна развалилась и все цепочки и связи утратили силу. Т.е. завод в Монголии что-то делал для завода в РСФСР, завод РСФСР работал для УССР и так далее. Поэтому это была самая большая глупость - развал СССР. Нужен был иной формат отношений республик, но никак не развал. Формат ЕС или просто СССР с капитализмом)

[@Viktor_Pomytkin]

@@gaara13756 плевать на страну, проблема именно в приватизации, мне пофиг на само государство, мне не пофиг на плановую экономику, советскую власть (до 1936, после 1936 никакой советской власти не было) народ, остальное - ничего

[@monsieurmctroll5600]

You should try asking the same question in Siberia.

[@alba-br1el]

What they will answer?

[@Mabbdaa]

@@alba-br1el what do you think

[@alba-br1el]

@@Mabbdaa idk😔

[@wdhtpdominic]

everything in siberia was just leftovers from western russia. Whatever west russians didn’t buy or eat was given to siberia and other countries like ukraine, poland, etc. Thats why people from Moscow liked the USSR while no one else did.

[@losingmyfavoritegame8752]

It's so cold looking! I love hearing the language. Such a distinctive accent. I love it!

[@rachelgibson1858]

Interesting to see that those who lived in the Soviet Union have such differing opinions. Some say it was the best of time, others say it was the worse of times.

[@YAe71]

the same as for someone half-empty or half-filled glass

[@orionlavinmartinez3186]

It may also depend on which social class they belong to. People who were of a lower class in the Soviet Union probably had a better standard of living conpared to now, whereas the higher class may have a better standard of living now compared to then (I have no idea, just a guess, so correct me if I'm wrong)

[@somethingclever2]

@@YAe71 nope just depends on social status

[@YAe71]

ten years ago, when I was 40, I did not remember the USSR, now nostalgia. These are memories not only of a calm and antidepressive life with confidence in a secure future, but also of the level of society, he was morally healthier, cleaner, friendlier, everyone went to visit each other without invitation or warning, joint holidays, feasts. Politics and empty shops are another matter.

[@elaineburnett5230]

That does sound like a perfect beginning of a book🤔🤨😉

[@watchmedo635]

I wasn't prepared for the burger king crown at 4:48

[@AzeroReborn]

Russian Burger King man: the return

[@Island_Line_Rail_Productions]

same

[@TheCandiceWang]

Right??)?)???? Best part

[@TakoGoksadze]

Thanks for doing this , I wish you’d recorded more people , though 😅but I do understand that’s enough for KZbin

[@sleezi4136]

“Cause you don’t remember it, thank God. We remember it.” wow

[@PianoJams]

Thank you for bringing these discussions to us. Some very wise answers

[@Ocinneade345]

In a previous video asking the same questions most said yes. The older folks in Bald and Bankrupts videos wish for it to be the case

[@masterbulgokov]

It's cool that you can find just intelligent, thoughtful and historically well-informed people just wandering around on the street.

[@ulrichsrebellionroom]

It's not like smart people live in an ivory tower

[@shawnmurray9964]

@@user-jj1bp3es3j ok what’s your beef with the channel. You’ve made two derogatory remarks now that are based on nothing. Care to elaborate?

[@shawnmurray9964]

@@user-jj1bp3es3j “light food for foreign consumers” What’s the agenda?

[@suqma7828]

maybe he just try to find people willingly want to be recorded and express their opinions, and find people that are generally older

[@kairon5249]

@@shawnmurray9964 maybe htey mean that this channel cherrypicks interviews?

[@Elza.27]

В СССР действительно было много хорошего, но люди с необъективной точкой зрения, люди с промытыми мозгами, никогда этого не поймут. Помню, как я совсем маленькой летала с бабушкой из ее деревни в Абакан к ее подругам, за копейки. Из деревни, Карл! В Абакан! За копейки! Просто небольшая зарисовка из детства.

[@user-ot3yc1tk6j]

если все было так хорошо, то почему же все развалилось?)

[@Elza.27]

@@user-ot3yc1tk6j в полной мере сейчас никто не сможет ответить на этот вопрос. Лично мое мнение, сыграла роль совокупность факторов - ошибки руководства и предательство верхушек. Не все было идеально, но это не был ужас-ужасный.

[@badfyrepytweed3374]

Смерть и голод были, это даа, капец как хорошо

[@badfyrepytweed3374]

@@Elza.27 Советую в Северную Корею переехать

[@Elza.27]

@@badfyrepytweed3374 ну искрометный юмор:) да запросто бы переехала, только корейского не знаю, да и вряд ли они меня там ждут в Корее.

[@wedas67]

Virtually all those who lived in USSR want it back in this Video 😳

[@finthechat9264]

Im always surprised by the very well thought of and intelligent responses. Youd expect just people saying "yes" or "no" wherever you go.

[@War4Skills]

Bro, I personally did not think most response were that intelligent... 'you need at least 300 million people for a developed society' is one of the most random ass arguments I have heard in a while

[@finthechat9264]

@@War4Skills It wasnt specifically for this video but in general

[@War4Skills]

@@finthechat9264 fair enough, I agree with that

[@kanakubatov5508]

@@War4Skills The territory of Russia is too sparsely populated, Russia is highly centralized, so small towns and villages are empty. The figures that he called desirable for the development of the vast uninhabited lands of Russia.

[@War4Skills]

@@kanakubatov5508 it is still an extremely weird thing to say. Like… what does it mean? So we should just invade other countries to get more citizens for a ‘developed society’? Or should we force people to get more babies. It is just a weird statement linking it to the soviet union. Also this 300 million number just comes out of thin air.

[@alexsyritsyn6307]

Я полжизни прожил в СССР. Да, это была молодость с её безбашенностью и верой в прекрасное. Ностальгии нету. В одну воду не войдешь дважды. И тогда, и сейчас был и есть позитив и негатив в сравнении. Восстановление СССР в России так же невозможно, как восстановление на территории Италии в частности и ЕС в целом - Римской империи. Я стар, но всё же прошу не оглядываться в прошлое, а жить сейчас и смотреть в будущее - какое бы оно ни было.

[@Gee5425]

Very good explanation!

[@robsmithadventures1537]

Wise words.

[@CarolineWolterHall]

Hitler came pretty close to restoring the Roman Empire.

[@JDSilverTobaccoPipes]

Translation: I lived half my life in the USSR. Yes, it was youth with its recklessness and faith in beauty. There is no nostalgia. You cannot step into the same water twice. And then, and now there was and is positive and negative in comparison. The restoration of the USSR in Russia is just as impossible as the restoration of the Roman Empire in Italy in particular and the EU as a whole. I am old, but still I ask you not to look back to the past, but to live now and look to the future - whatever it may be.

[@alexsyritsyn6307]

@Bmylxtr You welkome😀

[@netizen8171]

the answers of the younger people are so dismissive and negative . Very telling . I enjoy that the older people - the ones who actually lived in the USSR - are so calm and open to discuss a political question

[@slash3905]

Asking that question to young people is just pointless. They dont have the experience and are probably full of anti communist bias.

[@eltorpedo67]

One thing that struck me was the ability of everyone, young and old to express themselves intelligently. If you ask random Americans on the street today about their opinion on anything beyond pop culture, you get nonsensical answers, as if you're talking to children.

[@richarddixon146]

imagine the American capability if people werent so complacent

[@thesharinganknight9859]

I swear we live in foreigners heads RENT FREE. Why do y'all bash America, but never want to/ or haven't visited?🤦🏾‍♂️

[@DandinXY]

"Bruh"

[@eltorpedo67]

@@thesharinganknight9859 I've been all over America. From NYC to LA, from Detroit to New Orleans, Orlando to Philly, Pittsburgh to Kansas City, and on and on. I've probably been to more cities/states than the average US citizen. I love the US, but what I said is true. I suppose my comment could actually apply to most of Western society, not just the US. We're getting dumber.

[@mirelion5328]

Because most people are badly educated

[@hastekulvaati9681]

I can see why some Russians would feel sentimental towards the Soviet Union. When it fell apart their lives went to shit. The stagnation the 1970’s and 80’s must seem like calm time compared to the wars and chaos of the 1990’s. There is a fantastic book on the subject called “Secondhand Time: the Last of the Soviets” by Svetlana Alexievich. Grim reading but a really fascinating document of what people went through as the USSR was formed, stagnated, collapsed and was reborn as 15 independent countries.

[@stefanoparlatore7141]

They have also been very unlucky because in the 90s commodities Russia exports were very cheap, and prices increased a lot since Putin took power, so people who lived through these years have really bad memories of democracy and give credit to their president for their improved conditions while actually was mostly timing.

[@keiralum1797]

Alexievich - a 'decent' source 🤦‍♂️

[@user-cr6vx6by1k]

in Russia no one has heard of Svetlana Alekseevich. Once again I am convinced how difficult it is for you in the West to obtain reliable information. nightmare

[@cruzgomes5660]

@@keiralum1797 is there an issue?

[@louisrobitaille5810]

"When it fell apart, their lives went to shit." Because they weren't already shit 😬? What kind of history lessons did you take?

[@oofmanlarge9237]

Just shows that people who experienced it liked it and would rather go back

[@LIZArd_2001]

Some older russians might look back rather fondly at the USSR because they clearly remember the contrast between the USSR and its collapse in the 90s (also called "peristroyka"). My Russian mother left her country during that time for my west european dad. Her family encouraged her to go have a better life cause cicumstances were so hard at the time. People were selling themselves, lots of drunk fighting people in the streets, lots of crime. No system is ideal, but the collapse of the system was a shock for many russians. My mom always says "we were poor, but we were happy, in the soviet union". I dont think she really wants to go back to USSR, and she really doesnt like authoritarianism. I do think however, that some people might sometimes want to go back, purely as a longing for simpler times.

[@barnred8887]

Hi~ I would like to inquire what you mean by “we were poor, but we were happy”. I am really intrigued by the core tenets of Socialist thinking, and would like to find any justification for it.

[@LIZArd_2001]

@@barnred8887 (Warning: very long paragraph ahead) Well as I understand it, it stems from a believe that people do not need more than they need, material possesions are not that important for a human being when they have a sense of community and basic needs instead. The state was the main caregiver of the people, in a society where everyone was participating equally (in theory offcourse). This alone brought along a very communal feeling of being together and working together for a greater cause. And not to mention that the feeling of community within the society was heavily promoted within the soviet union, in the form of many traditions, activities and big nationwide celebrations that were held quite often. When looking at a more western system, one of the main parts is individuals competing with each other to get higher up themselves. This is a stark contrast with the communal environment russians lived in at the time. Competition/individualism in their eyes brought about selfisness and greed, this moralistic belief was also heavily installed by the use of propaganda material. Russians werent used to anything other than living their poor lives, they didn't have much, but they did have each other, and a sense of purpose. It was not that exiting, but it was peacefull for them. In a simplified way it can be compared to a rich kid who has everything he wants but does not have a family, and a poor kid who has a big family that he sees often. In this case the poor kid might feel better and more supported in general, in contrast to the rich kid who is left to tend to his own needs. I think this is the core belief people in the soviet union were taught, that community was more fuffilling that individualism. It is more nuanced than this, and I am not saying this is what we should do as a society, but it is as I understand it, the core believe of it all.

[@emanueledionisi9359]

It would be enough to have a communist party that participates in democracy to have a better life without authoritarianism

[@hezarfen777]

@@barnred8887 The poverty was not abject poverty, just lack of consumer goods, and there was basic social security and services and next to no crime. Life expectancy and productivity crashed after the end of communism, so poverty became much worse after that for those who didn't make it i the new robber baron everyone fend for themselves economy. And nobody was very rich in USSR times, so no envy or stress that you had less than others.

[@ernestkhalimov9368]

That line. "America will become the Soviet Union." It's like. "I have become the very thing I swore to destroy."

[@Calvin704704]

or "Either you die as a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

[@Calvin704704]

@@MICHAEL-yd3yj tru, they r only heroes in their comic books and Holywood films

[@bryandw061]

You're only saying that because you don't know what the alternatives would look like. If you don't like your circumstances, only you have the power to change them.

[@ColaSpandex]

And yet... America is nothing like the USSR. He's basically just saying that he doesn't like America.

[@nicolasheredia956]

@@MICHAEL-yd3yj I think it enters more the Anti-hero class, it HAS done good things before, like all their material support during WWII, but they also have done horrible things

[@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757]

"No" "Why" "Because I'm pro democracy and pro freedom" Off camera, he was shot

[@samuelsontraining]

He was liberated

[@Gentamoru]

@@samuelsontraining Putin could not have said it better himself

[@resiefan3258]

Exactly has he forgotten where he's standing 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@fr0xk]

TBH, both democracy and socialism has brutal flaws

[@noobyt3559]

@@fr0xk that is true but democracy is the lesser evil

[@BroReallyFarted]

0:31 bro thinks he’s living in a democracy lmao

[@Surokkh]

That's not what he said, though. He didn't say he likes the current regime, just that he wouldn't go back to the old one.

[@babyvanillas]

he's so fine omg

[@muhammadrifkiridhani874]

At least better than Sovyet regime

[@notmyname8750]

You know whats even funnier and hilarious? We American think we live in a representative republic that our politicians call a democracy but we are neither bc no one gives a F about Americans even in America.

[@OmPrakash-pc1ec]

refer to the lady at the end "вы не помните a мы помним" it is good and wise to remain quiet if you know little than to act as the smartest person alive by knowing lil

[@skylar8280]

Soviet union: These idiots I was defending?

[@knightlord368]

Correction stalin

[@brucemcnair2]

Thank you for showing us the real people of Russia. We all just need peace and respect.

[@slavic_bog_warlock]

Interesting how most of the Young People said that "no" they don't want it to return, while more of the older people had better things to say. It would be interesting to see what people outside of the big cities think though. I know that most of them tend to really miss the Soviet Union cause nothing works in those poor towns anymore.

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

Actually I think the small towns would be even worse. The Soviets were notoriously favoring the factory workers and urban centers. Early on, rural farmers and landlords were either neutral or even hateful of the Soviets. The Soviets did not like land owners. And many rural peasants owned land. They were still peasants so having land taken away is even worse. Collective farming was also unpopular and starved many of the rural peasants in order to feed the urban factory workers. After destalinization, the rural areas never received as much development as urban centers. Basic utilities were rare by comparison. And pollution in rural areas are often less of a concern. All in all, rural areas are treated more as second class citizens, even well after Stalin had died.

[@JohnDoe-pt7ru]

People who look fondly on the Soviet era were either party members or communist workers who were part of the kulak killings or supported them. The lady at the end basically had a great mic drop moment.

[@TasmaniaIsAHole]

​@neurofiedyamato8763 Most of the Stalin era factories were east of the Urals, regions that were known to be the poorest regions of the USSR before WW2. Those factories drove development and employment in these areas. The best comparison to make is that these areas essentially became like post-boom Detroit after 1991 and haven't really recovered since. Unsurprisingly they're also the areas where people hold the former USSR in higher regard. Which isn't the case in wealthy cities in the west like Moscow and St Petersburg where the standard of living has only improved since.

[@TasmaniaIsAHole]

​@neurofiedyamato8763 Most of the Stalin era factories were east of the Urals, regions that were known to be the poorest regions of the USSR before WW2. Those factories drove development and employment in these areas. The best comparison to make is that these areas essentially became like post-boom Detroit after 1991 and haven't really recovered since. Unsurprisingly they're also the areas where people hold the former USSR in higher regard. Which isn't the case in wealthy cities in the west like Moscow and St Petersburg where the standard of living has only improved since.

[@sjlbean]

It's always important to listen to the stories old people have to tell

[@dbcooper030]

Very interesting! And that very last comment from the lady was, to me, the most powerful.

[@cookieslarue3023]

Interesting how most of the ones who seemed to have the harshest words for the USSR weren’t even old enough to walk when it was dissolved.

[@newfaith912]

Because they saw USSR for what it is from books and history. Old ppl were not educated and had their mind washed up. Some of them even 30 years after dont understand how much suffering that system bring to a lot of ppl in world. Its called ignorance.

[@mandelorean6243]

Books, ...gulag. The genocide of anyone with a farm or business.. Killing of starving farm owners for scraping loose grain the ground to try to keep their kids from dying...the few grains the people stole and didn't pick up

[@ronijr4918]

@@newfaith912 Like democrats and BIDEN AND KAMO RUNNING OUR COUNTRY AND BURNING IT DOWN. Yes they also do a great job at brainwashing.

[@newfaith912]

@@ronijr4918 you clearly dont understand what burning it down means. Anyway how did u end up in USA lmao This is USSR topic.

[@cookieslarue3023]

@@newfaith912 sorry, so if everyone who, according to you all, knew what “really” happened died or is illiterate who wrote these history books ?

[@saint_alucardwarthunder759]

As a Russian, I don't know if there's bias of any sort in those vids, but they tend to show that people "liked that time because of age". The real thing that elderly ( those who lived there at least for 20-30 years) people say about USSR is that you've always had a job, you never had to pay for healthcare or education (it was never the privilage of the rich) and you've always had money for life. The shortcoming was that you didn't have the variety of goods and couldn't hang around Warsaw pact countries as a tourist. The rest is just personal bias that has nothing to do with the system. I have a grandma from Eastern Ukraine, who remembers 1930s as best times she has ever witnessed in her life, not even 1970s could match because every weekend was as a holiday. Maybe, because miners of Lughansk were valued. The other grandma, who lived in more northern parts of USSR somewhere in the region of Leningrad, remembers 1930s-1940s as a Hell on Earth notvonly because of war, but because of pre-war and mostly post-war conditions. So it mostly depends on the region and a social status/work of a person. Ukraine was one of the most prosperous regions of USSR, whereas some northern regions always suffered and they still do today for whatever reasons, sometimes I even think that system has nothing to do with it.

[@memenchance1747]

They don't wanna hear that. USSR = EVIL BAD. If you think otherwise, you're a russian bot.

[@Stine_Smiley]

@@memenchance1747 Most funny that many of them think that the fact they consider USSR as EVIL BAD means that they have non-standard mind and critical thinking and that they never could believe propaganda cause propaganda is for soviets.:D

[@anthonyfarias5076]

What about young people who study about the ussr, what do they say? Also very well made and elaborate comment.

[@rochitgurung9090]

@@memenchance1747 oh no logic less comment

[@jameswoods832]

the fact that your grandmother who lived in Ukraine liked the years 1930~1940 seems to me very strange because I learned at school that at that time there was a great famine there

[@elpanarodolfo7791]

Cool video man

[@machhinne7024]

4:48 hey king 🏅

[@looseandjanglingproductions]

It seems that the older folks remembered the good times the way folks in the U.S. remembered the 60s and 70s...a simpler time, money went farther, our respective countries actually produced products, etc. If I think about it deeply, I had a hard time in the 70s, but when I compare those days to now I'd love to go back and stay.

[@kenlompart9905]

Most people remember their youth as the good old days no matter how good or bad they were. I was born in 1964 so I think of the 70s and 80s as the best time in history, my parents always told us how great the 50s were and I don't know how many times I've heard people who lived in the 60s talk about peace and love or Woodstock and how everyone loved each other even though there were race riots and anti Vietnam war protests going on not to mention a lot of young men being killed over there. We all like to remember the good times and forget the bad.

[@looseandjanglingproductions]

@@kenlompart9905 Yes indeed. I'm from '64 as well, and I agree. We learned from Altamont that Woodstock wasn't a viable template.

[@harshmnr]

Yeah, every time period has good and bad aspects. And there are a lot of factors that go into it; for example I don't know if a white child would remember the 50s the same as a black child. But then again everyone's individual experience is different. ~:~

[@SunIsLost]

I guess 2010s was kinda okayish, then came the 2020s and...

[@sainte7406]

Also the USSR raised standards of living at a record pace despite being attacked by 13 countries at its formation and surviving two world wars. The USSR’s falling was a tragedy because of the future socialist world it could have ushered its people into. It’s impossible to compare it to the US in the 70s because that was entirely built off slavery and imperialism. Meanwhile the USSR went from a backwater feudal third world country to a successful & healthy socialist nation (but still firmly a part of the third world due to its oppression from the Global North, which leads us to the current NATO aggressions against Russia) Long live the USSR. As a Native American all my people have seen in the US is genocide and cultural desert. Scientific Socialist countries with revolutions that install the dictatorship of the proletariat protect and save indigenous people, while under capitalism our blood is used to water the gears of production.

[@StraightEdgeSieghart]

60s - 70s was the golden age of the former Soviet Union. The Soviets lived with free healthcare, education and housing. They felt their life secured because of the necessities provided by the state. Life was pretty much simple yet more stable than other countries.

[@nilon5327]

Yeah, but it wasn't sustainable. My mother grew up in the German Democratic Republic and she was born in 1970. This of course wasn't the same country, but I think it will be somewhat comparable. While she says that many things were free, she also gave me the example that while tap water was free and paid by the state, when she and her siblings brushed their teeth that they never bothered to close the water tap, just because no one taught them to save resources and it didn't come with no costs. If you take this kind of wastefullness and think of how many fields there had to be where similar things happened, it is no wonder that the system collapsed, even though it was great for a couple of years as everything seemed to be free. The actual cost had to be paid by the later generations.

[@DMG380]

There is no such thing a free lunch. It's the same with older people in my country. They say that everything is better under the communist regime. I ask them? Why did the regime ceasesd to exist then? If it was superior, why did it collapse? The truth is that they were robbed. They worked their whole lives for nothing and had nothing. They would wait for years to by a car or have a phone line installed. They would have some goods (e.g. organes) only once a year. They would have one TV station and most won't even have a color TV. Howver, they did not know what they were missing and they were happier because of it.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

@@nilon5327 In the USSR itself, life was 10 times better than in the Soviet satellites, like the GDR, Poland or Czechoslovakia

[@lucatoni4509]

west don't want see success of this system of life - socialism, coz ordinary people ask their goverments - why we must work so hard and wests destroyed SU

[@neurofiedyamato8763]

@@nilon5327 Water conservation isn't much of a thing in developed countries back then in the first place. And I think government advertisement campaigns should deal with this adequately. Or limit free water to a certain volume before charging. The problem with USSR wasn't sustainability but lack of economic growth. The luxuries of the 60s and 70s was thanks to the reforms from the 50s. But during the golden age, the USSR was actually starting to stagnate. Quality of life and scientific achievements often lag behind the economy so people didn't feel this stagnation immediately. So while the people enjoyed themselves, their economy was failing and setting the stage for the turmoil in the 80s.

[@BengalGecko]

4:47 ; of course his answer is no, there would be no Burger King! Burger King is a capitalist creation after all

[@TreySiemers-pn8es]

It’s so clean there

[@KazmirRunik]

I think going to work and then just going to your friend's house isn't a casualty of the Soviet Union, but rather a casualty of advancing technology, because people lament the very same thing in the US.

[@jeffbenton6183]

I think you'd like the book "bowling alone" about how Americans in the 21st century seem to hang out with friends less than Americans in the past.

[@nicolajohnson1887]

I love in spain and it's very family orientated here, you don't see people on their phones all the time, and we are a liberal democracy and while not perfect, who is after all, spain is a great place to live, apart from the current insane sand storms hitting us but they are rare.

[@Bialy_1]

@@nicolajohnson1887 World Happiness Report 2022: (1.) Finland (=) (2.) Denmark (=) (3.) Iceland (+1) (4.) Switzerland (-1) (5.) The Netherlands (=) (6.) Luxembourg (+2) (7.) Sweden (=) (8.) Norway (-2) (9.) Israel (+3) (10.) New Zealand (-1) (11.) Austria (-1) (12.) Australia (-1) (13.) Ireland (+2) (14.) Germany (-1) (15.) Canada (-1) (16.) United States (+3) (17.) United Kingdom (=) (18.) Czech Republic (=) (19.) Belgium (+1) (20.) France (new entrant) Spain is on 27th place... so Spanish people do not feel as happy as you sugest in your comment...

[@kugel96]

@@Bialy_1 where is Russia on this list ? I think every european country is very close to each other on this list. The most happy countries according to this list are the ones who dont have too many inhabitants. Luxemburg for example is a great place to live, i live 5 km off the boarder in Germany. But thats only realisable on such a small scale.

[@yeshuaislord6880]

@@jeffbenton6183 Yeah well you probably don't need a book to show how fudged up we are as a society

[@johnmaholick4991]

I find you ordinary street interviews with the different generations fascinating. I think it is valuable for those of us who have not lived under the “Soviet System” to listen to those who have…thanks for your content.

[@ShayNoMore1]

Those who have didn't say it was good They just said it was nostalgic since they were younger It's the difference between people educated in the Soviet propaganda schools, and those born after with the access of all information possible

[@tkmangt5826]

@@ShayNoMore1 well most americans doesnt even know their country killed so many innocent iraqis without a reason

[@ShayNoMore1]

@@tkmangt5826 every one knows us invaded Iraq But what does tht have to do with this? Whataboutism?

[@yazuki1185]

@@ShayNoMore1 The US also use the Brainwash machine, everybody knows, but they don't know the real reason behind. and there tons and thousands of dark things the US doesn't teach

[@ShayNoMore1]

@@yazuki1185 whataboutism again? " But but Murica "

[@user-hi5ph8pb1x]

You show people that express your point of view. I have relatives in Russia and know people there and trust me 95% of them just curse capitalism.

[@hermes48]

That's the spirit comrade :)

[@dixonpinfold2582]

And are they Muscovites?

[@vladimirlenin665]

Ναι

[@samratshahi4445]

Urrrraaa

[@TakoGoksadze]

But don’t curse annexation or occupation of other nations , right ? Such high values ...

[@dixgun]

Please more of this question? Most of us understand the USSR era about as well as we understand the Tsars era.

[@linhyue1101]

American: covid 19 takes Russia back 40 years Russian: hooray!!!Back 40 years

[@ssno4203]

Bruh how do you reach 10k without uploading any videos???

[@GM53946]

COVID would have never been allowed to kill more than a million Russians during the times of the USSR.

[@dandelion935]

As Putin once said: “You can’t recall about USSR without nostalgia, but bringing it back is stupid”

[@user-qc6qe9pc5l]

he said about the fact that it is stupid to return in its previous form

[@vadimlutskov500]

Now he recreate little USSR :(

[@dandelion935]

@@user-qc6qe9pc5l yeah that’s the point lol, USSR IS coming back whether people want it or not it’s just a matter of a time

[@user-su3ld8xp1n]

@@dandelion935 вы забывайте, что СССР это в первую очередь путь к социализму, а не захват территория.

[@muhbintang_34]

@@dandelion935 greeting from indonesia uraaa

[@JackSparrow-rv3cc]

1:08 Didn't expect Princess Leia to be hiding in Russia.

[@RinneIsan]

3:10 That oldhead might not be so crazy after all...

[@paolagrando5079]

I think that, unless you really suffered or you had seen or known people suffering, the older generation (not just the Russian) will always look back with pink tinted glasses. My mothernal grandma had to work so hard with 5 kids and, first a husband working abroad, then becoming a widow at a young age. But she remembered only the good things about the past, not the bad ones. I'm assuming that is a way that our mind works so to live better.

[@assassin3003]

The fact that she was a window at a young age and had 5 kids possibly has nothing to do with Russia being a soviet union back then, my grandparents from both sides all had over 5 kids, father side had 6 kids and mothers side 12 + because my grandfather was kind of a player went around everywhere during his truck driving days, anyway they weren't rich probably more like low class citizens and struggled a lot with money and things like that they were simple people especially from my father's side with 6 kids, they struggled a lot had the eldest brother die young, and my father and his 2 remaining brother quit school and all 3 had to support the family working at the age of 11, all this in Portugal... many Russians especially young Russians look at Europe but don't realise that since the Europeans Union many countries have lost a lot of power and wealth, the main country benefiting from the E.U is Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, and France to a certain extent, I just went to my country portugal for holidays 2 weeks ago and everything is super expensive, travel is more than 2 times more expensive than in England, food is more expensive went to multiple supermarkets and kept looking at the expiry dates of foods I wanted to buy and the entire area with portuguese sausages and meats are out of date by several months because it's too expensive and no one is buying, I told the lady serving and she tried to give an excuse but then said very sorry we I will communicate about this mistake tomorrow morning to the rest of the team... she didn't 2 days later everything else was still there, but anyway the people are being fooled every day with the CNN and SiC news channel propaganda so they always vote for the same evil people every single year, people have become good sheep

[@EddyLeeKhane]

In fact our mind works to focus in the bad things, so when person only remembers the good parts they have a good mindset of are fanatics Sometimes both 😂

[@altar7885]

I guess most are just confused by the fact that life was nicer when they were young. If they had been young in a normal democracy they'd probably miss that more, but they've never known proper democracy.

[@ohboi2119]

One word: modern technology.

[@paolagrando5079]

@@assassin3003 Re-read what I wrote. I'm talking about the older generations in general, I even specify in brackets that it isn't just the Russians. My grandma wasn't Russian, I just used her life as an example. We are likely to end up doing the same thing.

[@vegacolony]

This is very interesting to hear, direct form the people.

[@CyclicMac]

The last lady hit the nail on the head

[@PolarManki]

I'm a Russian living in a nordic country. I feel like most of the Russians would love a social democratic country but I fear it's never going to be possible in Russia.

[@kxenia7852]

Где

[@nitishsaxena1372]

Why would it never be possible?

[@user-cl6ho6js5p]

Ну не скажи, не скажи

[@Tausendsasser]

@Deadline ok you got the social part, but what about the democratic part. Russia is nowhere near to be a democracy. btw. if you go by the democracy index, there are only 23 full democracies in the world. Such few.. its sad. Power should never be in the hands of a select few.

[@theredreceivers]

@@Tausendsasser Not very social either. Russia doesn't have progressive taxation, just a flat tax of 13%, even for the wealthiest oligarchs.

[@Wilhelm8e]

My friend and I are Chinese living in Western Europe. Before the pandemic, we used to do the former soviet state tours. We have been to Moldova and Georgia. We did this primarily for nostalgia. Many places reminded us of China in the 90s that could not be found anymore. For us, it was nice but for the locals, it was desperate because it seems that parts of these countries have not developed much or even withered since the fall of the Soviet Union. So yeah, for some of the locals, Soviet Union might just be better than their current status.

[@eljefeamericano4308]

Chinese, living in Europe, and typing a comment in flawless English. The vast majority of my American coworkers can't pull off this level of cohesion in a two-sentence email.

[@ScrammyDeeds]

@@eljefeamericano4308 umm if they can travel across different countries they must know English though. Asians especially are really good at written English anyways. It's the accent that's funny

[@eljefeamericano4308]

@@ScrammyDeeds I'm just saying that I, living in the US where everyone should be fluent in English, regularly encounter the language written less coherently.

[@Chafflives]

@@eljefeamericano4308 Neither can the 🍊🤡. Makes you wonder why they are living in Europe. Is there something wrong with living in Chi-na.

[@user-nv4uu1dk8l]

@@eljefeamericano4308 the U.S is a very diverse nation people speak Spanish and other people others etc ,Not to mention immigrants are flooding the nation.I’m not from the U.S myself I’m from Chechnya.We speak Chechen but ofcourse we must know Russian to get around im currently living in germany

[@oh-yt9ug]

I hope none of these ppl got in trouble

[@MrThecomdey]

THE OLDER PEOPLE ARE THE ONES YOU SHOULD LISTEN TOO, They lived through it

[@k-rup4772]

no

[@DTKCEKDRK]

@@k-rup4772 why not? they lived through it so they will have more logical and reasonable answers

[@OSTARAEB4]

As an American, I visited the USSR in May, June of 1991 before they officially imploded December of that year. I've always found the country fascinating despite only one visit. I've wanted to go back but now that probably won't happen. You could see the country was essentially on her knees then. Drab clothes, cars, housing block buildings that looked rundown and the smell of oil permeated the air in Moscow. The people looked older than I expected they actually were. A proud and resilient people given what they've endured in what we refer to as WW2. At that time, I sensed a palpable lingering disdain for the Germans but no anti-Americanism. There was really nothing to buy and to walk about the Kremlin grounds for what they permitted a tourist to do was amazing. Saint Petersburg, then Leningrad had a more Russian soul feel to it. They don't smile much and seem rather brusque. However, these videos seem the average Russian is much more approachable than an American today. Society has really lost something with all this technology.

[@bipslone8880]

@kain marker This question kind of reminds me of an old guy (Putin) yearning for an old sweetheart that has moved on and she (Ukraine) only remembers an abusive relationship. Putin is trying to force her to love him again.

[@cicik57]

yo, bro. Unfortinately, huge time for this world will be lost, until people come to the idea about living in the better formation. Ideas are obfuscated and only strawman or worce is told about it. See how Russia have degenerated now. Old guys have warned about capitalists, what would not stop before nothing if they see profit

[@skdfdjkdfjkd]

@@bipslone8880 well if he doesn't, her new and potentially dangerous boyfriend will move into his house. ;)

[@RsRj-qd2cg]

It was always like that. Always on the brink of collapse. Communism doesn't work. It only works when trade with capitalist/democratic socialist countries props it up.

[@cicik57]

@@RsRj-qd2cg dont you think that this is strawman and speculations in this statements, because capitalist economy also works only with trade with rich and developed countires. As a counterexample, imagive a purest capitalistic country what has sanctions to the developed countries- would its economy work?

[@dannabanana6554]

Удивительно, как люди одной возрастной категории дают разные ответы, исходя из своего жизненного опыта. Что для одного ад, для другого - рай. Это не оставляет равнодушным.

[@andeleandelesimplon2615]

а что здесь удивительного?

[@dariusibragimus832]

Дело не в режиме, дело не в союзе, те кто говорят что хотят скорее всего просто пережили свои лучшие моменты жизни именно там, соответственно есть и противоположность.

[@ferrum7165]

@Девочка на шаре грязи слово не давали

[@bromvius]

Просто работать нужно было

[@bromvius]

@@andeleandelesimplon2615 согласен,тот кто трудиться для того рай

[@__-ql9cg]

0:33, Спрашивать людей, которые даже там не жили, гениально.

[@astralonagram7853]

Не обязательно жить в третьем рейхе, чтобы знать, насколько ужасным было это государство.

[@maxooooon]

Просто все коммунисты в это время в школе были

[@jeantoor7103]

The main problem with this kind of question is the fact the acronym USSR now is the symbol of something immobile, persistent, constant. Most of the time, when someone says "Soviet Union" these words serve as symbol, euphemism of idea rather than actual representation of state. USSR did exist for 70 years, that's a huge amount of time, many internal processes and changes had their place. There is no simple "yes-no" answer.

[@SunIsLost]

Yea

[@SunIsLost]

But it was bad because of violation of human rights

[@faustosar6151]

Socialism: 💩💩💩 Simple answer.

[@realm69]

@@faustosar6151 Shut up, Socialism saved yo ass!

[@user-xz4all]

Indeed so. There was a different Soviet Union - Lenin's revolutionary, Stalin's pre-war, Stalin's during WW-2, Stalin's post-war (atomic), Khrushchev's before the Caribbean crisis, Brezhnev's before Czechoslovakia '68, Brezhnev's before oil '74, Brezhnev's before '79 (Afghanistan), Threefold death of the General Secretaries of the CPSU, Gorbachev with Perestroika. And all these breaks in History are called by one single word. It's primitive.

[@alpatec2555]

Can we all take a step to appreciate the man with the burger King crown

[@j.jwhitty5861]

@TILEN FABE haha, he'll be unemployed next week

[@galinana-berlin]

With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russians lost stability. But some russians don't lost soviet thinking. That's the main problem.

[@nullsatyr]

who says its a problem?

[@ismail91210]

4:47 love this man

[@Elkathinka]

just a quick compliment: I really like your format !!

[@diliscollective9743]

guy with burger king crown said no, what a surprise

[@MrAurelien75015]

I think they just miss a world without phones and social medias…

[@isabelleforget8202]

Thank you so much for what you are doing! What is happening is soooo sad!

[@ShangDi_became_Jesus]

Everyone knows for most elders in Russia the best era was during the Soviet Union. This was their golden years. Very hopeful for the future, prosperous economy, lucrative job markets, family amenities were being built everywhere… unity was strong. It was an absolute great time to be a Russian during the SU era.

[@Miron444]

What a joke about Russia. Other members like Poland had to sens food to Russia for Russian wellness.

[@jurgnobs1308]

they were piss poor and millions got murdered. "great time" my ass

[@daivdsmith3746]

"Prosperous economy", maybe from a macro level but not for the individual as communism is all about sharing the wealth regardless of the level of effort put into one's own work. "Lucrative job markets" once again not for the individual as income was typically a fixed rate and in the cases, it wasn't there was a lot of corruption involved rather than actual output of goods or services. "Unity was strong" for whom? Not the satellite nations included in the Soviet Union. Hence why we see so many former Soviet Union countries joining the EU (nearly every country East of the iron curtain) rather than trying to reform the "glory days" of their fallen empire.

[@taxthesocialist2602]

The piles of dead bodies in countless European countries and in Russia caused by commies tells a very different story. Communism caused the largest genocide in human history. Those who fellow the cult need to be dealt with harshly. Communism IS a death cult! Marx never condemned murder in his cult manifesto.

[@dappster7656]

What about the countless innocent Russians that were either on a KGB kill list or hauled away into the gulags?

[@DiegoHernandez-yl4ow]

Majority of old Russian people prefers the old lifestyle of the former Soviet Union, and they want it to happen again, but the youngest simply doesn’t like that idea because of communism and socialism, it’s very hard to see how much difference is between a young and old society

[@random-rh1tm]

Short answer we do want it back at least most of us and yes im a proud russian who is gonna move back to russia because i just hate living here in the west especially america

[@TheFrewah]

What is it you don’t like?

[@random-rh1tm]

@@TheFrewah the west what else here in the west is good huh? The health care sucks taxes suck inflation sucks even foods have a but loaf of chemicals inside them one even made me sick from food poisoning and no it wasn’t spoiled

[@eligrillo9475]

@@random-rh1tmdude stop bombing ukraine

[@fifthgear93]

1:42 "At least 300mln people in a developed society for the state to develop" - That's such an arbitrary number and is not the problem at hand. The problem is the demographic crisis in Russia and all of eastern europe in places like Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, etc. Due to a huge economic crisis most young people are leaving these countries because of lack of prospects the young who stay don't have enough children, so the fertility rate in those places is way below replacement, so in fact there is an aging population without enough young people to work and contribute to society putting a huge strain on the social security/pension and medical systems of those countries. Replacement fertility rate is 2.1 childern for every woman, meaning this is the rate a country needs for its polulation to stay stable. At many of those countries the rate was down to 1.2 childern for every woman, which was dead last in the world. Eastern europe does in fact have a shrinking population due to this demographic and economic crisis. Same goes for nations like Japan who are also experiencing this phenomenon but for different reasons. So to conclude, Russia does not "need 300mln people" in order to develop. It needs a stable population, whatever that may be. The actual number is irrelevant.

[@Bultizar]

I would not include Romania in that list, been there a few times, those folks are fine. Also the friend I visited earns as well as others in IE: Italy. Also they have a lot of international corps opening shop there. Also their economy is growing constantly. Probably those people that work for the state are not doing that great, but the private sector is well underway. PS: Got an office there. PPS: Agree on the rest mentioned

[@sweetcandysugaarmy8480]

No wonder China progressed so quickly: their population is 1.4 Billion people.

[@Sunkishy]

@@sweetcandysugaarmy8480 what about india?

[@nunnie768]

@@Sunkishy I think they picked 300mil because america

[@giggoty4926]

romania and bulgaria are not suffering an economic crisis at all, but a slow but stable economic growth

[@tiagosilva9152]

Interesting how most of the people who said 'no' are quite young, and probably haven't witnessed the end of the Soviet Union. I think that the older people have a better idea of what It was like to live in the Soviet Union

[@ktopfield145]

Aye, and the older people should know better. Time goldens the memories.

[@complex_variation]

yes, I was about to comment on that. It seems the younger generation reflect what we mostly can learn from the USSR from media and history, yet that doesn't include all aspects of life. Sometimes I wish to have a simple life, without worries of money and "how to pay for stuff" just work visit friends and live.

[@chapayev6787]

This is one of the features of Russian society. Often the older generation, who lived in the Soviet period, has a positive attitude towards the USSR - the attitude of young people is contradictory.

[@kuchitsu4]

"Sometimes I wish to have a simple life, without worries of money" You would hate the USSR then

[@audaciapromurohabetur7362]

Half of older people in video told that they don't want it. So what your point then?

[@joeydepalmer4457]

why ask people 40 and under when they where either to little or not born and do not really know the soviet union

[@mmh7980]

I think that not only Westerners do not know how to differentiate between what is state capitalism and what is communism, it happens to many former Soviets as well. Deep down we are very much alike.

[@sgtstull]

Thanks for this, it's more important than ever to understand eachother across borders

[@gardini100]

I'm from Norway and just find this action so sad, it is only going to hurt the normal working-class people both in Russia and all over the world, I do not hate the Russians, what I hate is the lack of communication among our leaders and the need to show that they are so strong, but in the end, it is only us on the floor that going to suffer for real and why Ukraine they are your brothers and sisters it is just not so easy to understand

[@sollte1239]

Norway will not suffer a lot

[@gardini100]

@@sollte1239 well fuel will be super expensive, food will be super expensive, electric bills will be expensive and expensive compared to today's standard, and the fact the interest rent on a property loan will be really high since people can handle the loan and must sell their homes and the house value goes down

[@sollte1239]

@@gardini100 I thought Norway produces their own engine and has its own oil and own farmers for food.

[@leifandersson8754]

@@gardini100 I think you are complaining quite a lot coming from one of the richest countries in the world. Sweden are not up to the Norway standard but I am not complaining because the sanctions are required to stop madman Putin.

[@98Zai]

You're right, the attack on Ukraine is an attack on everyone. In the end, Russians will suffer the most.. it's a very very sad thing. Klem.

[@edwardcole4623]

1:03 yeah well if you forget history then it -will- is doomed to repeat itself

[@darktrooper7591]

Although I’m not from Russia and was born 4 years after the collapse. I wish the USSR returned. Back then everyone worked, health care was free, education too was free also. Guaranteed jobs. Medical care, schooling, housing, daycare, subsidized utilities, maternity leave paid, paid vacations, even crime levels back then was extremely low. Had amazing culture etc Innovation in the USSR was massive, the Space program, it’s military and nuclear power too. You could say the Soviet Union was the most technological and at its highest during its time till the collapse of 91. However it did have its negatives.

[@nawarasaf9872]

Ah yes the good old days where you get killed from having a religion and destroying sites for praying also killing 20 million in the way

[@Aldighievski]

Comrade

[@lcdream4213]

Based

[@Erik_Ochoa013]

You have no freedom. That’s the biggest negative. Yuri Bezmenov can explain that perfectly.

[@barnred8887]

⁠​⁠@@Erik_Ochoa013what freedom are you referring to? Is it the freedom to do the job that you want? I can’t understand the counter-point that you are posing as it is embarrassingly vague. The original comment mentioned heavily subsidised healthcare and education, mentioned an non-exhaustive list of other pros, and you think you can nullify that with “but no freedom~” and a half-assed mention of a far-rightist claiming that the whole populace of the Soviet Union has been brainwashed? If you were serious about engaging in a debate that would actually be insightful into our beliefs and values then you would form a cohesive argument… Anyways I would very much like to know your views, as a person who is interested in Socialist ideology.

[@ivanredinger969]

As one guy mentioned, "The Ruble could buy so much." While that was true, the issue was not having Rubles, but having a place to spend your Rubles. The Ruble lost so much value across the lifespan of the Soviet Union, but the inflation was restrained until the end of the USSR. As that historian said, the USSR lands have a long history of empires rising and falling. Atm we see Russia falling hard as they still haven't recovered their loss of population after WW2, and now they are losing many more while also distancing themselves from nearly every other country and lowering the chances of migration to their country. From the little I know, I'd say that Russia is flickering wick on a candle as it burns faster then the wax can melt.

[@bca-biciclindcuaxel7527]

After they invaded Ukraine , they will buy with rubles Pi-Z-dets much :)))

[@user-em7vi8ip7p]

Depends on period of time in USSR, there was a signifficant econimical crisis at some point even though the exact year just flew out of my head xd

[@98Zai]

In the video on this channel about Lenin, there was a lady who said "I'm 80 years old, just wait a few more years before you tear down his Mausoleum". I think she is right in many ways, and I'm not just talking about Lenin. I hope the younger generation sticks around, cause they will be needed, but I can't blame them for attempting to leave.

[@MrAkaacer]

Well.... Russia is a weird place. It's surprising that it's one nation considering how many different ethnic groups there are with very different cultural values.

[@theodoremacewko7757]

@@98Zaican you say to that lady replace lenen with "? saint" rasputin and move lenin's place to siberea . What would you do if I told you that tsar nicholas had secret grandchildren and I decended from nicholas? Support an EASTERN EUROPEAN UNION under myself including ukraine and russia and kazakhstan and bellorussia