How the USSR Collapsed on Soviet TV

[@i-dislike-handles]

"who you might know as the good guys in Rambo 3, or the bad guys in 9/11" I died there mate, good work!

[@chrispy2721]

Wait you died in 911?

[@matisssmidss1979]

@@chrispy2721 heheh

[@johnvelez3005]

Hahaha good one

[@i-dislike-handles]

@@chrispy2721 that was a poor choice of words on my part

[@rainz-wu3sx]

So u saying u got a past life?!

[@wetplant1748]

"Estonia is the only place in the USSR where you can pick up frequencies from Finnish stations" Finland: fucking over the Soviets since 1917

[@Bacony_Cakes]

It's what they do best, after being Squidward: The Nation.

[@maidenslayer]

Carelian

[@Bacony_Cakes]

@MR.random57 mmmh nah sounds like a pyramid scheme

[@chriswatson3464]

Since 1939.

[@jackspedicy2711]

kalevala culture is real good, i want it :(

[@vladimirvladimirovichputin1352]

Imagine a news reporter just getting news that their country isn’t communist anymore and 15 country’s just became independent 10 seconds ago

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

Hey! It's the Boris that's bringing down our country! y'alright mate? x

[@disillusionedrightest7313]

That Boris brought down the Soviet Union and now this Boris is tryna bring down the Soviet Union 2.0, the European Union. Keep up the good work!

[@anonymousbloke1]

The last 4 countries to leave were: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The other countries broke off days, months ago

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

@@anonymousbloke1 technically, in the last four days of it's juridical existence, Soviet Union consisted only of Kazakhstan

[@anonymousbloke1]

@@whoeverest_the_whateverest Yeah. Prolly cause they weren't sure on what kinda government they wanted. Since around half of their total population were non-Kazakhs

[@mikeor-]

My great-grandfather was born in 1919, three years before the Soviet Union was founded. He also lived to see the fall of the USSR, the rise of the Russian Federation (even though he lived in Belarus), and even the rise of Lukashenko and Putin. He truly outlived the country he was born in, as he lived to see the birth and death of the Soviet Union.

[@hans4120]

He must have seen so much.

[@DarkSideChess]

Not a lot of people survived during that whole span. Very interesting. I was born in Moscow in 1984, and now I live in the US. It will be interesting to tell people when I'm 60-70 that I lived in the USSR. It's like meeting someone now and them telling me that they lived in the Weimar Republic before WW2

[@ze_baronkrigler7611]

The Soviet Union was kinda founded in 1917, He barely saw the Russian Empire

[@blknmongl342]

Out of curiousity, what did he think of the Soviet Union?

[@mikeor-]

@@ze_baronkrigler7611 The Soviet Union was not founded until 1922. For the five years between 1917 and 1922, the state that existed was simply the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Therefore, my great grandfather was born before the Soviet Union.

[@SomeHarbourBastard]

Two Soviet men are standing in a liquor line for three hours. One says to his friend, hold my place, I’m going to kill Brezhnev”. Two hours later he returned, and his friend asked “So, did you kill him?”, he replied “No. the line there was longer than this one”.

[@jamesalexander3530]

Love it! 🤣

[@ebnertra0004]

Soviet political humor is top-notch! I guess when you've got that kind of material...

[@RealAGuy]

“Dark humor is like food, some people don’t get it” - Stalin.

[@hjalfi]

A Soviet man is standing in a queue for food. After a while he taps the person in front of him on the shoulder. "Excuse me, is this the queue for where there isn't any sausage?" "No, this is the queue for where there isn't any bread." "Damn it all!" he says, and storms off. "I've wasted my entire day!"

[@leifharmsen]

Two Russians are standing in an ATM line for three hours. One says to her friend, hold my place, I’m going to kill Putin”. Two hours later she returned, and her friend asked “So, did you kill him?”, she replied “No. the line there was longer than this one”.

[@joeytansey8466]

Ok now I understand why there is the stereotype of the Russian intellectual, their TV was super weird and boring so they read books and played chess instead

[@mrunseen3797]

Shame we have KZbin ... No intellectuals anymore in the world 😂

[@AmericanCaesarian]

I’m america it is because our school system is dominated by the dems who have no idea what they are doing in almost every position

[@HellishSpoon]

@@mrunseen3797 I learned alot from this youtube video You just have to know where to look.

[@xenoidaltu601]

@@AmericanCaesarian Ohh because you want bible to replace Science and Critical Thinking 🙄

[@AmericanCaesarian]

@@xenoidaltu601 lol you seem to be a brainwashed individual who defaults to the "you must be a Christian straight white gun nut republican" argument, which is meaningless. Ill have you know i am a libertarian who happens to be an agnostic, i am a bit of a gun nut but that's besides the point. Also, for someone who claims a want to replace science, I feel as if you support unscientific concepts like there being more then two genders and all that. I would guess that you are rather young too, considering your unintellectual response. I assume you support the dumbasscrats right? probably, go back to mindlessly consuming whatever CNbrainwashing tells you to. Throw sceince out the door and worship biden or something, its what CNN wants you to do lol.

[@Ididathing]

Man i want to buy that carpet

[@gustavofring9148]

Holy shit a channel with a million subs, nice

[@mindless1786]

Long live the USSR

[@joshuabarber2875]

Man you're leaving quite the bread trail of comments. First I saw you on Adam savages channel and now here. Still loving your content (:

[@junkiejackflash]

Holy shit. How ya goin?

[@MarsupialMason]

I died when i looked down at your comment and thought, "what carpet" .. and then the carpet ad came on, and i thoroughly agree hahahah

[@t2216]

Estonia was not satellite state it was in the USSR annexed by Russia. The TV-s in North Estonia would catch Finland television only if modified with hand made chips. My father knew how to make those and there was huge demand for it. When family friends come to visit us from Lithuania and Latvia one of the important things they wanted to see was the TV. Series like Dallas, Knight Rider, A-team, Santa Barbara were huge hits.

[@DarkenedXPlayZS]

my dad watched that

[@iammaybeabro4598]

The reason I think he called it a satellite state rather than part of the USSR was because it was, to an extent, an illegal occupation. Though he's British, here in America, the Baltics were still recognized and their own states throughout the time of the USSR.

[@triton7758]

​@@iammaybeabro4598 to an extent?!?!! Stop whitewashing

[@plyix]

@@triton7758the baltics are already white lmao

[@Hanabi3111]

"You know shit's getting real if Swan Lake is on TV" isn't something I expected to learn today but here we are.

[@TheHalflingLad]

Ushanka Show channel brings that up a lot. Essentially, whenever Soviet media weren't sure what they're allowed to report and waiting for instructions took too long, they'd plug air time with something perfectly inoffensive - classical music on radio, ballet on TV. That became kinda conspicuous after a while.

[@arizona_iced_out_boy]

Parents grew up during the collapse of the soviet union. They said it was the most eerily weirdest shit they every witnessed in their life. They knew the protests were raging, and something significant was underway, but the tv was only running ballet. They also said that on the same day, they were talking on the phone about possibly trying to leave the USSR and the telephone operator, out of fucking nowhere, interjected "You can't talk about that kind of stuff, you should be imprisoned". Obviously, nothing ended up happening since at the time, there probably were a lot of people talking about getting the fuck out. Also fun facts, despite both my parents having degrees (both in CS no less), their degrees were borderline worthless when they came to the US, since it's not really possible to get university records from a country that doesn't exist on a map. Another fun one, apparently if you had jeans, you were the hottest shit, since most of them were smuggled in.

[@BenjaminRonlund]

@@arizona_iced_out_boy If you ask me the operator was trying to help them without self-incriminating. You wouldn't say "don't talk about that, you'll go to jail" for obvious reasons.

[@duanerackham9567]

@@arizona_iced_out_boy Bruh if you had jeans on in the USSR that was the equivalent of having a Dodge Hellcat park outside of the trap house [Pikachu face] How did you know I trap!

[@basedmod2139]

@@duanerackham9567 you don't trap

[@BuckeyeRutabaga]

When I was a kid living in the Soviet Union back in the 1980s, I used to watch nightly cartoons called something like "good night little kids" that aired every day at around 8pm. When Brezhnev died in 1982 I remember they cancelled the cartoons for that night. The teacher at our elementary school told us that we could only whisper and being kids we would get so caught up in our play that we'd frequently forget about the sadness that bestowed our country and our teacher would shout at us and then quietly whisper "be quiet, Brezhnev died" and we'd be like "oh, yeah, we're sorry ..." Anyways, back to "good night little kids" cancelled cartoons. When Brezhnev died, Andropov was appointed to lead the great old USSR and somehow he managed to be carried out of the Kremlin legs first just a few months later. And yes, you guessed it, they cancelled the nightly cartoons AGAIN! Chernenko was appointed in place of Andropov and I can vividly recall how fragile that old man was and how he could barely speak to journalists. Honestly, President Biden would look like a 18 year old fella, full of energy and ready to conquer the world compared to Chernenko. Needless to say, I was bracing for the nightly cartoons to be cancelled sometime soon... When Chernenko was pompously carried out of Kremlin just a few months into his rule and Mr. Gorbachev came to power, I was already conditioned to expect what seemed to be an utterly unavoidable an unfortunate cancellation of my favorite cartoon show sometime in a near future. I remember my mom laughing at me when I asked if she knew when Gorbachev would die so that I could prepare for the pain and suffering of missing my cartoon show. Years have gone by. Gorbachev never died and I am thankful to him as he kept my cartoons uninterrupted throughout my childhood starting from 1985. When I look back at the history, especially when I watch some history video related to those old soviet days, I always associate the rapid demise of several soviet leaders back in the early 80s with my frustration about those old nightly cartoons shows being cancelled.

[@user-wd1xr3zy6w]

Something I've always wanted to ask a middle aged russian: did u like the cccp or russia more?

[@deller5924]

@@user-wd1xr3zy6w Russia is Federal Reserve's colony, not a free country. What's to like about it?! And so is the USA, not a free country, either. How can a country be free without its own currency, and without its own military?! The USA being a country lacks both. Federal Reserve owns American currency, and the US being a corporation owns both the FRS and American military.

[@BuckeyeRutabaga]

@@user-wd1xr3zy6w Well, I wouldn't be the right person to ask as I've lived in USA for almost 20 years now and haven't been to Russia in a couple of decades, but I will share my limited experience. Keep in mind that I was only 13 when USSR fell apart so my understanding of it will be rather limited. First, there are of course pluses and minuses to just about anything. The good about the USSR was the overall safety and a lot of cool and fun things for kids to be involved in at almost no expense for parents. The safety part was pretty solid. I grew up in a town of about 50k people and never heard of any murders or rapes or anything violent like that. My dad was a cop so I would be the first one to know. He barely ever used his government issued pistol for target shooting, let alone in the line of duty. My parents would let me walk to pre-school which was about half a mile from where we lived when I was 5 and I had to cross several intersections just to get there and it would never occur to anyone that it wasn't safe. I went to music school when I was 8 and had to take a regular bus ride with a bunch of strangers several times a week just to get there and again I did it all by myself and no one ever thought that it would be unsafe. If I was short a couple pennies to get a pastry or something tasty at a grocery store while waiting on a bus I could (and did) approach any adult and I'd always get a couple pennies and no one ever thought of it as some pan handling thing to do. Adults just figured I was a kid and wanted something tasty lol. We had red pioneer camps every summer which were a ton of fun as well as all sorts of sports and other activities we could get involved in and it barely cost any $. So, growing up as a kid, USSR was pretty darn good and safe place. Of course there were negatives. We didn't have a whole lot of choices. I don't remember anyone starving or not being able to get basic necessities but the choices we had at grocery and department stores were very few. If you needed to get bread or milk you'd have maybe one or two choices at best compared to hundreds of choices we have here in US. However, I never worked and actually never experienced the soviet union as an adult so I wouldn't know how that went. I know my parents had jobs they liked and I don't know anyone who was oppressed in any way but again, throughout 70s and 80s, the USSR was pretty chill and the good old Gulag times were long gone. As far as I know, if you weren't involved in any politics or "illegal" commerce (pretty much any commerce was illegal) then you had nothing to worry about. One bad thing I remember was Afghanistan war in the 80s. Everyone hated it and hardly anyone was pro that war. Since military drafted young men at around 18 it was every mother's nightmare to have their young kid deployed to Afghanistan. I knew several veterans growing up and half of them were maimed or had other issues and there was almost zero coverage in the news about it. There was also a general sense of stagnation. People were conditioned to expect the government to take care of them. Most people out in the country, who were part of farming collectives, literally did not know what to do when USSR dissolved and many fell into heavy drinking and a lot of little country towns just disappeared overtime because there was simply nothing to do. However, back in the 70s and 80s, collective farm towns were pretty darn good to live and work in. I think that switching from one system to another in a very short period of time will always be associated with growing pains. The 90s were basically a total shit for most of the former USSR states but from what I am hearing from relatives and old friends now it's getting better. I am sure people have grown more and more familiar with free market demands and there's a lot more stability and entrepreneurship happening in both Russia and other former soviet republics. So to sum up. Soviet times were stagnant, very little choice when it comes to consumerism but it was sort of compensated by free education (which was actually pretty solid), free medical care (which was admittedly pretty shitty most of the time) and a ton of stuff for kids to be involved in (which was awesome) Now, people have more freedom to make whatever they want to make out of their lives and engage in all sorts commercial activities. From what I can tell things have changed and I think from the economic standpoint the change is for the better. Some people may argue that people were nicer back in the old days of USSR and I would agree with that but I don't believe it has anything to do with the USSR per se, it is more of a cultural shift that many countries experience.

[@BahKnee]

So interesting, all those events through the eyes of a child.

[@Yeowiepower]

@@BuckeyeRutabaga Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. May I ask where abouts did you live in Russia? Also very strange question but did any of the republics of the USSR have animosity towards eachtoher? i.e racial tensions, or frustations towars eachother like "you guys aren't pulling your weight" type of stuff? Considering it was a huge country that had many ethnicities. Russia itself is already extremley diverse so the USSR as a hole would be a melting pot for ethnic tensions and I feel the USSR being administred as 14 different states could have given those citizens a platform to fight with eachother.

[@the_ancient_library]

“The good guys from Rambo 3 and the bad guys from 9/11” top-quality line

[@prospoulify]

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” ― Henry Kissinger

[@ProfShibe]

@@prospoulify we ain't the ones who did 9/11 lol also as stated, that's literally every country. It's a dumb quote

[@prospoulify]

@jungmin lim My point exactly. Just with a single quote. I didn't say it doesn't apply to other countries aswell. And, yes, there's no morals in geopolitics.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Rambo 3 aged rather poorly. :D

[@dpj1]

Didn't James Bond ride into battle with those same folks too, in The Living Daylights?😂

[@mikeor-]

All four of my grandparents lived under Stalin. His death affected them in many different ways. When my paternal grandfather, who was eighteen years old when Stalin died, told me about it when I visited him for Thanksgiving. He said that when Joey Stalin died, his neighbor informed him about it. When my grandfather asked what it meant for the future of the Soviet Union, the neighbor said; ''Life has become better, Comrade. Life has become happier.''

[@alexgaelsotorodriguez3870]

He was reusing a famous Stalin quote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_has_become_better

[@user-cm1uu6zq3k]

Смерть Сталина, означало что жить станет хуже.Так и случилось. Сталина очень сильно уважали в СССР, это самый влиятельный и уважаемый человек того столетия. Вождь народов.

[@bostonrailfan2427]

@@user-cm1uu6zq3kyou confused fear with respect

[@grantmctaggart9942]

This didn’t happen so hard it unhappened things that did happen

[@Venislovas]

I remember when my late Grandpa said about day when Stalin died, teacher has told the class about his death and they all cheered (to horror of teacher) because it would be day off, and when his statues were being dismantled in my town one of drunks said "Joseph, hold on" and was detained for this comment.

[@mk-ultraviolence1760]

Is it just me or has Putin never changed his expression since he took that photo 40 or so years ago?

[@clochard4074]

A perk from working in the secret police, permanent poker face.

[@ButterDog42069]

If u watch some videos of him walking you will also notice that he barely ever lifts his right hand up and keeps in near his leg. It's called "gunslinger's walk" and was tought in KGB so whenever something dangerous happens he could draw his pistol and shoot instantly. Pretty neet little detail

[@vasvas8914]

@Feels Bad Vlad "The Gunslinger" Putin

[@bastianalsoknownasagoddamn3647]

He always had the slight smile

[@hauuagdbhshg3604]

What are you talking about? He's crying like every year or so on national TV. Pretending to be touched by "massive support" russian people give him.

[@Annafyz]

Hey, russian here. Here's a classic joke for ya: -Rabinovich, have you bought a ticket to general secretary's funeral yet? - No need to, i have a subscribtion to these events.

[@jhostmusic]

Hot damn, that's good.

[@edgarenriqueespana8013]

Killer joke! XD

[@IgoreandTorii]

I don't get it

[@user-pg7eh9vi9h]

впервые слышу эту шутку

[@edgarenriqueespana8013]

@@IgoreandTorii you must have subscription to get it XD

[@antonsavosin75]

As a Russian, I can't wait for another loop of the Swan Lake. Can't. Wait.

[@JohnGalt916]

If youre in America January 21st after biden "falls down stairs"

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

So the rumor that Putin's health is failing isn't a rumor after all?

[@thanakonpraepanich4284]

@@JohnGalt916 That requires Kamala, Pelosi, Hillary and Schumer to immediately turn on each other saying ' the deal is off' and the brawl start. They know this could be the last Democrat administration for the next 12 years right? With Hispanic and Asian driven away from Democrats thanks to BLM and Antifa fiasco.

[@antonsavosin75]

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 there's no way of telling. Once a year he disappears from the screens to show up later with a swollen face and a very unhealthy pace. One thing's for sure, he's getting older. So, fingers crossed.

[@JohnSmith-wx9wj]

Things can always get worse.

[@richtygart6855]

In the seventh grade in 1983 during the second most dangerous time in the Cold War I had a social studies teacher whose family had escaped from East Berlin. For six months of the school year the only thing we studied was the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Revolution. I had to learn every insignificant detail you could think of. I even learned how many washing machines and refrigerators Russian people had compared to America. It was a bizarre class. As I got older I realized that they were probably teaching us that just in case we lost we better know a lot about our new nationality 😂

[@timnor4803]

Maybe he just didn't know what a syllabus is....

[@brianstabile165]

Maybe he didn’t like communism

[@abook945]

I would love to hear all of that honestly. I have a fascination with the totally mundane parts of history.

[@jmjedi923]

I had a similar experience, except it was with the JFK assassination. We had to do a whole project on it for some reason. The reason? The teacher had a crush on him. She even had a cardboard cutout of him in her classroom

[@escapefr0mslender]

@@jmjedi923An Actual cardboard cutout????

[@ljubomirgoronja8014]

"Its strange to outlive the country you are born into" Laughs in Balkans. (4 different states from 1990 to 2006)

[@DacLMK]

Crna Gora (Montenegro)?

[@meowdudefr]

my dad is older than croatia

[@flyingdutchman4794]

My generation of United-Statians may yet live to see the same thing. As Leon Russell said, "It's a strange world we're a-livin' in...."

[@paul8158]

@@flyingdutchman4794 Pretty soon maybe. The Soviet Union collapsed within two years after the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan. So when exactly is Nato out?

[@wuffiousmaximus4808]

Laughs in Confederate States of America

[@mikesiciliano210]

"Some American pervert" is probably the funniest and most accurate description of Bill Clinton that I have ever heard

[@ixlnxs]

A very different president came to mind, actually. The one who digs his own daughter. "Bigly."

[@awddfg]

*_Aren't those most americans?_*

[@KentuckyFriedChildren]

@@awddfg As an American I can confirm this is true

[@CarlosXPhone]

It is. Didn't like Clinton. 😕 I do have a question - I was recommended this channel by YT so forgive me. I watch a lot of "Hate CCP" vids. I know the CCP is dangerous... But my question is... what were the Soviet's perception of China then, compared to now? I know they are allies now, but what was Russia's perception of China in general? On either side - government and its residents (erm, citizens)?

[@Campeon99]

@@CarlosXPhone if I remember correctly from a video I had watched, there was a split. They both had different ideologies, the USSR had stalinism and the Chinese maoism. That led to them splitting up

[@theRealtensigh]

The worst thing I learned after watching this video is that adverts existed in the Soviet Union. One of the things I thought might have existed in the USSR was a country without ads.

[@gorzealion7119]

Ads in the modern sense are just privatized propaganda. They'll always exist as long as the act of propaganda proves to manipulate successful.

[@chotabomjvonychi3485]

Estonia used to be a pretty privileged part of USSR compared to the rest of the soviet republics. Such things wouldn't be common in the Soviet Union.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

There are many things that are and were not as you think under communism.

[@theRealtensigh]

@@TheBcoolGuy That's true, and I'm quite satisfied to not know what things were like under communism. The reviews are pretty awful.

[@user-si3gu8pm6j]

Ironically, watching the ‘72 Hockey Summit Series footage and there are no board ads in the Canadian arenas but there many in Luzhniki 🤔

[@GhostlyWhiteGuy]

This is probably one of the most unique history based videos I’ve ever seen, I love it, keep it up!!

[@1337karm]

“The great gulag in the sky” is how I’m going to refer to the afterlife until the end of times. I wish I was that clever.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

That was just from the USSR мелодия pressing of 'Dark Side of the Moon'...

[@Gamerguy826]

Both Heaven and Hell have walls, gates and armed guards. That can't be a coincidence.

[@Thicc_Cheese_Dip]

It sounds like the Russified interpretation of the Greek afterlife.

[@beamal111]

Work (In the Factory) Economy Damage Rubles

[@MoonatikYT]

Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev are all travelling together in a railway carriage. Unexpectedly, the train stops. Lenin suggests: "Perhaps we should announce a subbotnik, so that workers and peasants will fix the problem." Stalin puts his head out of the window and shouts, "If the train does not start moving, the driver should be shot!" Khrushchev then shouts, "No, let's take the rails from behind the train and use them to lay the tracks in front!" None of these attempts get the train moving, and then Brezhnev says, "Comrades, Comrades, calm yourselves! Let's draw the curtains, turn on the gramophone and pretend we're moving."

[@quiahjohnson5871]

An analogy of the Soviet Union?

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

As much as it's fun to knock the Soviet Union, I can reliably report that current Ukrainian trains, although built about 60-80 years ago and often barely refurbished since that time, are more reliable than UK trains x

[@anonymousbloke1]

@@SamHarrisonMusic tell that to everyone who's had the dubious pleasure of riding with UkrZaliznycja t. Ukrainian

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

@Toori Gooner I've never been on a 'Never ending journey' whatever that's supposed to mean, but living and travelling in Ukraine I've met some of the nicest and most hospitable people I've ever met. Don't trust the propagandised version we're taught about this part of the world, just like everywhere, good people trying to get by. Soviet engineering wasn't made by creeps and murderers, it was ordinary people just doing their everyday jobs - crediting those engineers is not endorsing dictatorship.

[@charlesramirez587]

@@SamHarrisonMusic I'd say the reason why they were reliable was likely a defense reason since train cars were essential to the logistics of the wartime economy during the second world war. The joke works as an analogy to how the soviets had tried to apply different but overall dogmatically communist principles towards situations, for straightforward things like war and other heavy industries of raw materials, roads, rails do fine. As it interlinks to other sections of the economy we'll see inefficiencies, stagnation, and corruption.

[@TripleAlfafa]

You missed an opportunity to point out how wild west the 90's Russia was, but otherwise good work.

[@OrdinaryThings]

true. gotta leave room for the sequel tho

[@TripleAlfafa]

@@OrdinaryThings Fair. Though, you should ask for some stories from that time because it made whatever low point a lot of countries have had look fairly tame. The murder-rate even managed to double itself from what was already a fairly high level.

[@eye-5779]

How Russia's TV is under Putin. Looking forward to this

[@hubbletrubble7875]

Wild East*

[@dan-ry8vw]

@Swamp Henly equally what was done to them by boris yeltsin and the former kgb

[@sprthrwwychnnl73]

Gorbachev died today. When I heard one of the first things I though was “his head was covered with new ideas.” But I am still sad. I do think he was one of the good guys.

[@_UberEats_]

He was

[@retineyzer1670]

Dude he literally destroyed our country and made all the mess we, as Russians, now supposed to clean up. Millions died, progress of humanity slowerd down (we could've already have colonies on mars). Now, there is no good communists, now, EVERYONE in the world doomed to become fascists through degradation of capitalism.

[@wilsonwheeler6147]

danke gorbi

[@josephschultz3301]

There'll always be complications, like the mess in Afghanistan that he inherited from Brezhnev, but that (specific example) really wasn't his fault. I think Gorbachev legitimately tried to make the Soviet Union a better place for its people, but too many members of the CPSU wanted the _exact opposite._ Still, he tried, and that's a lot, LOT more than any of his predecessors _or_ next gen Russian leaders did. RIP, Gorbe. You seemed to actually care.

[@Mystician]

"All the potatoes I could possibly drink." - You sir are a genius with words.

[@ascendedbro1828]

I don't get a joke.. Can you explain please?

[@Melheck]

​@@ascendedbro1828 potatoes are an ingredient for vodka

[@davidfreeman3083]

I heard that sugar also works... Just a little too unhealthy I guess?

[@dazednconfusedrn]

@@davidfreeman3083 and way more expensive if I had to guess

[@TheCheaterFromBibleman]

Disappointed that the Russian Federation was not called the Soviet Union 2: Electric Boogaloo.

[@Glassandcandy]

"We kept all the worst aspects, but got rid of the few good ones. Thanks, Reagan!"

[@Fede_uyz]

"Capitlaist boogaloo"

[@stevenunivers2624]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/imasf4mFqbyjsKc

[@apsifox5874]

Russia now is a pathetic waste of space with degradating education science and welfare services.

[@daseapickleofjustice7231]

@Lee Ruan wait are you saying they will call it that until Stalin gives them gulag? What? But I do agree we need Stalin back

[@BigBrezzy]

Looks like Russia is long overdue for another Swan Lake marathon.

[@TheMGSlow]

Well one network put on Swan Lake today as all the staff walked out in protest of the war. So it begins.

[@Xpwnxage]

@@TheMGSlow That's reassuring

[@Makujah_]

We have bit more sophisticated propaganda machine now. Too bad for it that free internet still exists in some capacity yet

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Russian: *Turns on TV, nothing but Swan Lake marathon*......who died this time?

[@wormcatman8652]

@@Tadicuslegion78 7000-15000 Russian troops and a lot of officers.

[@thedallas1]

Nearly two years later and this has aged like fine radioactive wine. Cheers, comrade.

[@kaiserschlachtfelder]

5 hours ago damn

[@TheManinBlack9054]

How???

[@mangur5293]

I’m a Estonian and you gave my flashback of that stupid chicken commercial. Hear are the meaning Kana=chicken and hakkliha=meat

[@karhu7581]

It's just as funny if you're finnish, too.

[@sandermesila4904]

Hakkliha = minced meat but alas. Atleast you got nostalgia

[@sirhideki2473]

The idea of a russian seeing an ad yelling "KANAAAA HAKKLIHAA YEE BOII"

[@karhu7581]

@famous austrian painter bro what

[@abusaloh8564]

Have you ever seen ‘Ahvatluste Tund’

[@Exurb1a]

"And plus his hairline was comforting as it was proof that something was recessing worse than our economy." Well I died. (Also, amazing work as always.)

[@OrdinaryThings]

ah thanks dude!

[@dollenpollen2460]

I-Is it truly you? Our tortoise overlord?

[@rudolf895]

Yo what you doing here. Upload more

[@julipazos1146]

Exurb?! omg I missed you ❤❤❤

[@julipazos1146]

@@rudolf895 for real, please do q.q

[@Monsuco]

Two Soviet women are at the back of a bread line. One says to the other "this bread line is so long." The other replies "you should consider yourself lucky. I've heard in the capitalist countries they don't even have bread lines."

[@uingaeoc3905]

A fanatical old commie I knew back then i Liverpool came back from a visit to Moscow - Well? I said - how is life in USSR ? He responded - "Fantastic, the workers are so wealthy they have to queue outside the shops to get in and spend their money". Self delusional to the end!"

[@HeathenDance]

@@uingaeoc3905 To be honest, such comparisons were always unfair. From an historical point of view. Before the Soviet Revolution, the Russian Empire was pretty much a medieval, gloomy realm. 75 % of its people couldn't even read or write. And serfdom was still a reality. True, they had some factories, recently built, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But overall... And then, they had a bloody civil war. And then, a couple of decades later, they lose 20 million lives, and half of their developing new country is destroyed, because of World War 2. Again... they had to rebuild everything from scratch. A few years later they had a man and a woman cruising around the Cosmos. I don't give a fuck about Communism, but I wonder how life would be, in the U.S.A., which was already an industrialized country in the 19th century, if they had to put up with all the shit that the Soviet Union had to. Nevertheless, to this day, poverty in the USA is enormous. 10 million homeless people. Only the rich can get in the super-awesome Universities, etc. Hey, just trying to be objective. It's like you and me are running a marathon against each other. But you start in the middle of the road, and I'm forced to run the whole thing. Of course I will be mocked upon arrival, because you will arrive a LOT earlier, obviously.

[@HeathenDance]

@@Topcat6103 Even so, there's no turn around. It's still a huge number. Not to mention lack of life's perspectives, endemic poverty, even among people who are working, etc. The U.S.A. is the wealthiest nation on the planet. They consume 50 % of the world's resources. You can't just look at two separate blocks and compare them just like that, without understanding the backgrounds. It's plain stupidity.

[@dutchkosmonaut7257]

I mean, they do, they just call them "food banks"

[@Official2Shitty]

It’s funny because breadlines were popularized and most commonly used during the Great Depression......in *america*

[@sketchytwin113]

Well, Gorbi just died, so I guess they'll be marathoning Swan lake today

[@dreggon1406]

When I was a kid I always thought USSR means "United states of Soviet Russia"

[@somerandommen]

Nah, Russia was a state

[@Heliocentric]

Public school?

[@Francisco-oz8yb]

@@somerandommen i aways trough Soviet Union was Russia

[@leomduffy794]

@The running man Yes correct but Russia ruled all the countrys.

[@PhilippensTube]

Which isn't very far from what it actually meant, isn't it? You can nipick about the exact terms, but it's the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; what's a state other than a republic in the sense of the Soviet Union? Every Republic had it's own (marionet) gouvernement, but the Central Committee was the great leader of all. It's obviously not like the United States literaly, but it's what it comes down to.

[@TranscendentalAirwaves]

I've seen a saying thrown around apparently from russia that goes: "The government lied about everything except Western Capitalism." lol

[@ApexRevolution]

Its almost like Russia went from an authoritarian state with a bunch of rich oligarchs to an authoritarian state with a bunch of rich oligarchs 🤔🤔🤔

[@tubester4567]

When the Russians could get western TV shows and see video of western countries they realized they were being duped. The government knew the gig was up. NKorea executes people who watch South Korean or western TVS shows, but its getting harder to keep people isolated and ignorant. China still tries very hard to demonize the west but people will wake up there too.

[@Coastfog]

@@tubester4567 If you think China is gonna fail in the next couple of decades, I have bad news for you...

[@disillusionedrightest7313]

@@Coastfog No they will. Most large countries will probably U.S. the European Union, China etc. The Neo liberal world order is burning and farther right and left groups are forming.

[@KikogamerJ2]

@@ApexRevolution nah in 80s it was pretty good welthy and mostly democratic it wasn't a democracy like other western country but you could join the party and go up the ranks

[@ItsSpecialHands]

"adverts for speedboats I could never afford" Well, I guess we always had more in common with the USSR than we previously thought

[@daseapickleofjustice7231]

Yes of course advertising luxury products is one of the most capitalist things

[@ixlnxs]

"adverts for cars and speedboats I could never afford" Don't tell me you can afford any car you see adverts for.

[@magemega4262]

When the state is run by corporate capitalists the culture is what they dictate. It's no different. We in the west like to act superior but we're honestly not that much different. I'm an ancom and I fucking hate tankie soviet-bolsh nonsense... But in my eyes capitalism is the true enemy and far more carcinogenic to our planet.

[@Perc_angle30]

“The Flag is different but methods are same” -victor reznov

[@FelipeJaquez]

Probably could during the 60s

[@notme7728]

This is one of them videos no matter how many times it's thrown on my recommended, I'm re-watching. This is one of them video's, it's special. Talking about the USSR in 3rd person like you were apart of it is one of the unique and funny parts about your channel and this video specifically. Love it.

[@peika8324]

That moment when you realize North Korea resident are still watching similar types of tv commercial.

[@user-fd8vt1cc9o]

Weeaboo

[@somethingsomething9008]

Weeb

[@NatsukiMogiIsBestGirl]

haachama chama~

[@cyntdestroyer69xd]

Tbh, I'd rather watch this meta modern, than the same "our toothpaste recommend by 9 out of 10 doctors"-like commercials

[@branthebrave]

Like they have TV

[@roarlisfang2860]

"Brezhnev got really old and died and was replaced by this guy who got really old and died and he was replaced by this guy who got really old and died" Now I know who were those two guys. Thanks!

[@DarkElfDiva]

Gotta love OverSimplified.

[@youraveragemorononyoutube4435]

But then was replaced by mikhail gorbachev

[@joshb2907]

I see you're a man of culture

[@DAWesome_]

OverSimplified gang

[@dinosolder6454]

Big head

[@capn_shawn]

"Its strange to outlive the country you are born into" Someday, sitting around the campfire, these words will come back to your mind.

[@chompythebeast]

Lord willing. Or rather, people willing...

[@cerebrospinal87]

*America The Brave plays somberly in the background*

[@aleksapetrovic6519]

I am 25 and already outlived 2 countries with 3 different regimes. My parents outlived 3 countries with 4 different regimes.

[@zm1786]

Yes we destroyed civilization, but for a brief moment , no one could call us sexist or racist

[@Xanderboof]

I hate that you’re probably not wrong

[@hallamhal]

We may be seeing that ballet on Russian TV again soon

[@alphawolf2993]

the craziest part of this is that after 3 general secretaries dying within a yearish of each other, gorbachev is still alive 30 years later.

[@esraeloh8681]

I know, I fuckin love it. But, if he lives in Russia, now, with the economey tumbling & this seriously crushing the public & civilian population first. I mean he needs help getting around, if he bcomes unable to afford that, he's not going to have a fun last few months. I reallky feel for the guy, he actually tried to do something good, out of all the spinless selfish bastards who'd take up that mantle. He's the only 1 who tried too do some good for the world & his people. I just cannot believe he is still, alilve & kicking, what, a sad, shit show, he has had to witness his country go through with Putin, knowing that coup, Decades ago drove all of it. The poor bastard had to suffer a birthday through this war on the 2nd of March

[@TheManinBlack9054]

@@esraeloh8681 there's a joke in Russia that the hell doesn't want it as it will collapse it too.

[@indecipherable22]

Ohhhh shit

[@Halestem]

Not anymore

[@Birdbrian_]

RIP the homie, most based soviet leader

[@subrezon]

The "Oh, just you wait!" animated series is actually fucking epic. I loved it as a child, and I still love it now.

[@SamHarrisonMusic]

I've seen it! I can confirm it's awesome :) also капитошка!

[@Samlolol]

Oh heck yeah. The circus episode was legendary.

[@megamix5403]

Wasn't it called Nu Pogodi? or something like that? (Idk I don't speak Russian)

[@subrezon]

@@megamix5403 yes, that is the transliteration of the name, "Ну, Погоди!". It means "Oh, just you wait"

[@megamix5403]

@@subrezon Ah, okay then. Spasibo

[@chazlomack8662]

"We were the first country to suffocate a dog in geocentric orbit" This is the first video of yours that i've ever seen and you just got me to subscribe 20 seconds in. Nice work comrade!

[@OrdinaryThings]

thanks comrade, welcome to the party (the ordinary one, not the communist one)

[@bunglebutts3163]

yes

[@TheBroz]

Same here

[@ponysoftonline4533]

if thats the line that made you subscribe I'm scared to know what kind of person you are...

[@chazlomack8662]

@@ponysoftonline4533 😂😂😂😂👍🏾

[@loganb7059]

“You can solve anything by throwing enough helicopters and human suffering at it.” Accidental 40K quote

[@wave5377]

Yeah tell that one to Vietnam vets

[@dantesk8]

as an estonian russian this is fucking golden i remember all the stories my grandma told me about getting together with friends and family on a saturday sauna evening to watch illegal television from finland haha

[@RmsTitanic59]

Im finnish And yes i learned that

[@retineyzer1670]

Illegal things were only illegal on paper, everyone in USSR had access to the 'black market', which were one of the reasons Soviet Union fell.

[@Tespri]

As Finnish man... I found the notion of "illegal television from Finland" as outlandish.

[@Tespri]

@@retineyzer1670 It made them realize that everything they were told about the west was a lie.

[@dantesk8]

@@Tespri i dont even understand what you are saying

[@richardmangelmann4975]

When the wall fell in Germany my parents had just fled to the west around 3 months before taking the route through Hungary. She, to this day, is very frustrated about that fact and I understand why🤣

[@paul8158]

To come late in history is not good, but to be such early is disastrous.

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

:D. They didn´t appreciate that road trip, did they? My uncle paid off his engineer title and allegedly legally emigrated to BDR from Czechoslovakia in 1987. He could also wait for two years :) But I don´t think he regretted it. Edit: His father was an Evangelic priest. He was probably considered not trustworthy as son of his. At least not enough, so he could study medicine like he always wanted. But fortunately he could study at all. Few years prior that it could be a bigger issue

[@stev3548]

"...well fuck."

[@KRDecade2009]

@@Martina-Kosicanka I think the issue for them was they spent so much time, and money, to secretly get out of the Soviet Union (cause death was the punishment if you were caught) that when the wall was taken down all the time and planning they had spent was basically for nothing. They probably told their childhood friends that they might never see each other again only for the wall to fall and the doors the union basically wide open

[@Martina-Kosicanka]

@@KRDecade2009 The uploader is a German I believe. He is talking about his parents emigrating from East Germany (GDR) to West Germany (BRD) via Hungary. Such a road is really a roundabout, when you look into a map. Hungary isn't even bordering Germany. It was usually done by traveling via Czechoslovakia to Hungary and asking for asylum at BRD embassy there, I believe. 2. Leaving USSR and Eastern block countries wasn't punishable by death, when you got caught, but by some years of prison time. Usually a singular digit. But you could be stopped on the borders by shooting or land mines, if you refused to stop otherwise. By the way, political prisoners weren't executed for their activities after 1950's. When the regime wanted to get rid off you later, they could sentence you to hard labour in uranian mines (bad for your health in the long run) or even expell you to the West and cancel your passport.

[@ThZuao]

I should mention that Gorbachev's plan was never to destroy the USSR, but to reform it the way China did. Though the Free Trade agreement like Nixon did in 1972 with China never came. And the USSR didn't have literally half a billion peasants they could pay peanuts to work themselves to death on foreign built factories. Gorbachev's plan was almost purely economical, but ended up being largely political in nature. When ussr nations started to jump ship, Gorbachev even sent troops there to "protect russian nationals". Yeah, the Crimean Excuse wasn't invented in 2013. First one was Lithuania and it ended up with 14 protesters shot dead and one russian armed forces guy in a friendly fire incident. Since the soviet media didn't hold as tight a grasp on information as they once did, word got out and it made people FURIOUS. Other nations soon followed Lithuania's steps and the Soviet Union started to tear itself apart, with Gorbachev too scared of the bad PR of another Bloody January to mantain the union by force. It all culminated when hardline communists saw their power slipping and attempted to kidnap Gorbachev in August 20th 1991, which is where all those tanks came from. The day of the coup/kidnap, a tank brigade betrayed the conspirators and sided with the reformists. One of their tanks was the one Yeltsin climbed on that speech. Meanwhile, a column of BTR-90s filled with Spetsnaz was moving in to do the actual kidnaping. They met protestors, ran over one, shot dead other two and fled in horror at killing their own people, betraying the coup. By December 23, the Supreme Court of the USSR ruled the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic illegal thanks to that coup attempt. Two days Later, Gorbachev announced the end. He didn't want to, but there wasn't anything he could do. What soon followed was that all the black market bosses dealing in contraband of western goods, that had already turned into a mafia with ties to the Party itself, seized the initiative and went legit, becoming olygopolistic businessmen. Some made fortunes raiding the cold war stockpiles of weapons and selling them to drug lords, guerrillas and petty dictators the world over. The fall of the USSR was the greatest pillaging in history.

[@juliantheapostate8295]

Well that's poetic justice I think - the Bolsheviks got a taste of what they did to Kerensky's provisional government

[@mattkennedy6115]

The movie Lord of War with Nicholas Cage touches on the whole gun running thing

[@JohnSmith-wx9wj]

Fell as it rose... with pillaging and other forms of turpitude. And the tankies forever want revenge.

[@maximrukinov3101]

That's actually on of the best explanations of that situation. Thank you.

[@alexanderfretheim5720]

Maybe, but to be frank, he was no Deng Xiaoping. Russia couldn't have done EXACTLY what China did, no, but I think Gorbachev could have done well. For one thing, Russia had a lot of aircraft-building capacity in those days, and nearly all Russian aircraft factories had large enough runways to fly out an airliner. They had good designs, and advanced capabilities, they even had a supersonic airliner before we did, all they were missing was a Western-grade Quality system to ensure airworthiness up to international expectations. Given what was at stake with the Cold War, one phone call to Ronald Reagan and Gorby would have had every Quality Engineering expert from Navair AND the Air Force & Army equivalents on the ground in Kiev within the month helping Russia turn swords in to plowshares, put Airbus out of business and give Boeing and McDonell Douglas a run for its money. And frankly, that would have produced more prosperity more quickly than what China did with cheap manufacturing, and certainly enough for a country of only 225 milion people.

[@endofspecies7575]

I miss living in the USSR. It was so much easier to live when you were told that you were happy.

[@Kaiser_Wilhelm_ll]

The USSR banned religion, speaking against government, kept you inside the country, restricting everypart of your life, bad regime, bad economy. YEAH its a GREAT country😃

[@jovanlopez5284]

​@Kaiser_Wilhelm_ll like how North korea is right now

[@mateusnogueira7340]

@@Kaiser_Wilhelm_ll Wtf you talking about? The USSR didnt ban religion, they were free to believe in any religion they want, it was only discourage it in contrary to western countries. Speaking against the country?Where did you read your info, CNN? You could talk shit and criticize the government freely. What you couldnt do was try to sabotage or actively try to change the socialist system to capitalist, just like the USA does but vice versa. They become the second biggest world power, how the fuck their economy were bad? Only when they started adding capitalism by the end of the union, that everything went to shit

[@rino65vc]

in Estonia back in USSR days the whole place was poor and you could barely afford a home not even talking about a TV.

[@JonathanElmer]

in all fairness to capitalism; I'm also bombarded by adverts for things I can't afford either :P

[@olivercuenca4109]

I was gonna say, I felt that one.

[@steelcityking7316]

Like the buy one choose one at McDonald's.

[@peanutskill007]

yeah but this difference with capitalism is you’ll have cheaper alternatives that you probably could afford. and u know, the freedom to change ur career and income whenever you want lol.

[@nguerra1117]

@@peanutskill007 i suggest you check out more videos on this channel

[@yvesremy7096]

False dilemma: can you afford them - or do you really need them? 95% of ads I see I don't care about 'cause it's useless shit. By coincidence the remaining 5% should probably match the threshold at which marketers consider a promotion to be a success. What a waste of time, energy, and money...

[@brianm7836]

Why did I get this recommended right after watching thicc Putin walking.

[@mvnd5652]

I remember my dad telling me about that show with the chain-smoking wolf, it was his only kids show he saw in the USSR and he loved it and thought it was weird tv characters didn't smoke here

[@AgentDanielCross]

That stopped around the 80s. Before then, characters like Lucky Luke would often smoke on television

[@coolperson962]

Nu, Pugodi!

[@weeardguy]

@@AgentDanielCross And continued into the 90's. I vividly remember some Animaniacs episode featuring a character smoking, even promoting a fake-brand of cigarettes. If I remember it right, Secret Squirrel also featured the main character as a pipe-smoker.

[@cyborgthorney]

that was my moms favorite show, nu pogodi was awesome according to my mom who lived in 1986 soviet union.

[@kidkangaroo5213]

@@cyborgthorney My mom showed it to me on VHS tapes. To my early 2000s sensibilities it was entertaining enough

[@walleye364]

Sounds like the U.S now. I get to sit and watch commercials of cars and boats I will never be able to afford.

[@fullmetaltheorist]

"It's 1978" "Things are going great" "And we were the first to suffocate" *Eminem been real quiet since this dropped*

[@hoodzzeee]

yeah, don't validate or procrastinate.......

[@anawesomepet]

Oh crap, I'm late.

[@phattjohnson]

Say wot mate?

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

AND HE'S O R A N G E

[@royalyeen2845]

SUS

[@rbnl1304]

‘I hope nothing ever changes’ Well, that aged badly

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Like milk it did!

[@RabbiHerschel]

Slava Rus!

[@MyVanir]

It didn't age though.

[@fedeonio555]

@@RabbiHerschel find your own slogan nazi

[@Usual_User]

​@@RabbiHerschel death*

[@tsarfox3462]

"When the USSR triumphantly retreated from Afghanistan" Every other country who tried it: Sucks doesn't it? Don't worry, we're an ever growing club.

[@raymondkravitz2001]

No one can stand in Afghanistan. Except the Afghans.

[@maarten1115]

@@raymondkravitz2001 Not even the Afghans themselfs. Those incompetent morons lost half their country in the last 2 months.

[@DeathSt1x]

@@maarten1115 and now their entire country

[@BillLaBrie]

China’s up next. Have at it, comrades!

[@tsarfox3462]

@@BillLaBrie I sincerely doubt it. China is playing a different game. They're seeking an iron fist at home to cultivate economic superiority. All the while they will build their military for the sole purpose of deterring overt aggression. They aren't the wrong mix of powerful and cocky to invade Afghanistan right now. No, their death will come from their iron fist choking innovation and their dependence on the West to innovate things for them to steal. Besides, their population is unable to sustain itself due to its absurd proportion of males to females. They have potential but, they are in a very precarious position and need the rest of the world for their own survival. Only time will tell if they adapt or collapse under their gaping flaws.

[@maleficent3333]

The ending line "i hope nothing ever changes" have whole different meaning now... I understand originally it implied nothing changed for average Russian as they are still poor. Now meaning is more, ironic XD

[@yootooooooob]

Just finished your video with the Internet Historian. It was amazeballs

[@OrdinaryThings]

ah thanks dude!

[@skunkrat01]

Seconded!

[@jaksonvipper2273]

Same glad it brought me here looks like a good channel

[@skunkrat01]

jakson vipper Ikr! I’m already subscribed. Should’ve known IH would never steer us wrong

[@M-Soares]

@@OrdinaryThings You guys should totally do a podcast, if you haven't yet!

[@SnakePlissken25]

I was in that McDonald's queue, on the first day, as a kid with my mom.

[@UltraNyan]

That first day was probably the whole day.

[@michaelmiller5771]

Are you texting from Russia? If so that's cool

[@johnmorrison9758]

I've been in that McDonalds when I visited Moscow. Had to quickly figure out how to order, but managed it.

[@chadghostall5648]

yeah me too

[@SnakePlissken25]

@@michaelmiller5771 We left Russia a few years after, when I was 11. Haven't been there since.

[@hammerpants11c54]

"Someome armed those extremists with a bargain bucket of anit-aircraft missiles" laughs in late August 2021

[@samdherring]

Lol ironic to say the least.

[@nineballmk2]

@@samdherring gota love how things go full circle!

[@sparklesparklesparkle6318]

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

[@BamfIamone]

Good thing a lot of it was demilitarized and they have no way of repairing any of it.

[@BorderlinePathetic]

I see the state of the art (back then) Stinger missile, I see they got put to good use spreading democracy.

[@shivamchaudhry5959]

I think gorbechov was actually the only leader who actually wished well for the people

[@paulhimmel4204]

lenin

[@shivamchaudhry5959]

@@paulhimmel4204 nope.

[@thatbritishmallard]

​@@shivamchaudhry5959 I believe he WANTED to, but after he got power he didn't want to give it up. STALIN, HOWEVER-

[@robertdragan2333]

Well, Lenin had fixed principles that he didn t want to compromise on. He saw the Menshevics as cooperating with the burgioase ( he was right) and didn t want to give powers to them right after his coup

[@essexclass8168]

@@paulhimmel4204 He wished well for the proletariat In an agrarian country *cue 1921*

[@andrew2353]

4:28 Correction: Satellite state refers to a nominally independent state that's under constant heavy influence from an overlord state, e.g. East Germany and Poland were Soviet satellites. Estonia wasn't a satellite state, It was a fully integrated member republic of the USSR proper, kinda like how Wales or Northern Ireland are in the U.K.

[@TheCoffeybeans]

I wouldn't call northern Ireland fully integrated

[@jozopako]

Or as Philippines or Japan were once satellites of USA. Or Vietnam as satellite of France.

[@brandonlyon730]

It was also along with Lithuania and Lativa were forcibly conquered by the red army, so they never voluntary joined the union, they were forced into it.

[@TYsdrawkcaB]

@@jozopako or Israel

[@bno6156]

@@TheCoffeybeans it is. No matter what south Irish people think.

[@buffaloaf8205]

When the 80s russian ads are more interesting than the youtube ads playing

[@OttKaselaan]

Buffaloaf estonian ads.

[@killermon117]

Miran MIRan MIRAANAAAAAAAN

[@pablothecat1405]

@@OttKaselaan KANA HAKLIHA

[@ZealotOfSteal]

I'm from an ex-Soviet satellite state and people did have money to buy things like TVs, cars and even houses. Problem was that you couldn't really buy them, because they weren't available. For example, to get a car you had to get on a waiting list for a year or five (depending on how corrupt the official was and how many bribes he got to put people forward on the list). Food in my country wasn't scarce, except for right after WWII. But food was scarce all over the world at that time. By the 80s and 90s we were producing massive amounts of food and other goods. A lot of which was exported to the USSR, mostly Russia, in return for oil, raw materials and goods we didn't have much production in.

[@juliantheapostate8295]

Excellent comment. Nominal wages in the Soviet Union were actually quite high, for most of the people. The problem was because there was no price system or capitalist economy the producers never knew how much was required of each good. Hence huge shortages or wasted surpluses. Ludwig Von Mises wrote about this at length. Also you are right about food shortages during WW2, Britain only ended rationing in 1953! And we had plenty of money for imports! In fact the oil and food crisis is probably the main thing which brought down Germany (they were forced to invade the USSR because they were desperate for oil - thanks to the Royal Navy blockade) Look up TIK's channel for videos about this

[@UnleashthePhury]

“All the potatoes you can drink” is a damn good line.

[@marxthesocialist5231]

As an Estonian its wierd to see soviet commercials that arent in russian.

[@hhelina]

"outrageous ear-rape sequence" me: it's going to be the kana hakkliha one, isn't it?

[@blob5907]

maybe watch youtube videos in your own language then

[@hhelina]

@@blob5907 ?

[@blob5907]

@@hhelina ?

[@kalx007]

why? all soviet commercials were made in estonia, and also aired here in estonian...

[@geshazhmib]

As a person who lives in Russia i can say that from 2000(when Putin became the president) nothing really changed. Well, our currency is like trash, and you can now go to jail because of a post on the internet. Thank you for a video, you somehow managed to give information more understandable than my history teacher

[@dannypipewrench533]

Yes, because your history teacher loads it up with propaganda.

[@DarthVader-2737]

damn that sucks

[@Wheagg]

Yeah, it's sad that there was such a great opportunity for you guys and they ended up corrupting again. Hopefully whenever you get a new minister he will try to take things in a new way.

[@user-fm7xv5pk5z]

Not like the Russians wanted change, you could say nothing changed since 1993.

[@progunjack5556]

Seems like it's the same here in Indonesia ☹️☹️☹️

[@RamenHutt]

"Greetings fellow capitalist pigs". Made me laugh so much.

[@pinetrees92]

9:18 bro just described every middle aged russian

[@ILLREVIEWANYTHING]

Is it bad I'm old enough to remember the Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial?

[@quiahjohnson5871]

Maybe

[@dano8902]

Damn...me too

[@sonofsanto]

not at all

[@00calvinlee00]

Look up Wendy's Commercial. "Is next, evening wear. Is next, Swim wear."

[@gigabrother458]

Gorbachev was a good man. I think he knew that in post-Chernobyl USSR the propaganda could no longer be maintained. I had the pleasure of shaking his hand when I was a kid. He did what he could--he shut it down and resigned after a number of republics called it quits. So many could have died violently if he didn't act the way he did.

[@M1chlos]

He is still alive, tho.

[@RustyisGreat5]

My dad thinks to this day Gorbachev deserves a Nobel Prize for his work dissolving the Soviet Union

[@gigabrother458]

@@M1chlos I think that Gorbachev is the only guy in history to be held hostage by warships in the 20th century.

[@basedfloppa3728]

@@RustyisGreat5 There is a reason that Russians hate Gorbachev and even the people from his town want him dead.

[@ShadowSumac]

@@basedfloppa3728 Russian people are known for being ungrateful.

[@boriszakharin3189]

I lived in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) for the first 11 years of my life, roughly the period in this video, and don't remember any advertisements on Soviet TV, at least as we know them in the west. The closest I remember were more like televised classified ad, and toward the end there were "a word from our sponsor" segments in some shows, but they were literally sponsors appearing on the show and talking about their products.

[@deniskosian2934]

There were no advertisements on TV at the time St. Petrburg was called Leningrad.

[@XDAliyaXD]

that's why I don't really like how this video is presented. They are showing ads in Estonian language that clearly couldn't be broadcasted across the USSR

[@gmodplayerxd6886]

One time my great grandfather was in the USSR in the navy and when he was on a battleship and right then, Sputnik 1 was re-entering the atmosphere, ten times the speed of sound. And he got hit on the head by it. I love him.

[@hizzlemobizzle]

I remember that! your grandfather was Yuri Bangnogginoff? Awesome.

[@m_lt7597]

I cannot believe someone got hit by Sputnik. Must've been an honor.

[@grumpy_hedgehog]

Ah yes, Boris Yeltsin, going from bravely condemning a coup in front of the Parliament Building to orchestrating one himself and shelling that same building with tanks only two years later. Russian politics is fucking wild.

[@ataphelicopter5734]

Didn’t.. didn’t Trump do the same, minus the Tank bit?

[@scr8846]

@@ataphelicopter5734 time is a flat circle.

[@nefigushki]

a coup is only considered a coup if it fails. Otherwise it's a righteous movement.

[@metaparalysis3441]

@@nefigushki a coup ditat is only a coup if it fails, otherwise it's a revolution

[@nefigushki]

@@metaparalysis3441, was there a revolution in Russia in 1993?

[@prestonjobe]

I'm on a USSR history deep-dive right now. This is the best, most passive-aggressive video I've ever seen

[@lightningfun6486]

Cool

[@HD-dh1cw]

“Are currency might be worthless but we’re pumping dinosaur sauce out of Siberia😂”I died at this point

[@HD-dh1cw]

Sorry that I left out a part

[@bachibak]

"and guns of the coast of liberia"

[@samirflima]

Our

[@MrAmercia]

Man this is one of the best KZbin videos I’ve ever seen

[@bbenjoe]

Awesome, one thing I missed is the case of that crazy German pilot who landed on the Red Square, making a fool of the Soviet Army in front of everyone. - Gorbachev used this as a pretext to sack many of his opponents from their position.

[@davidrenton]

i remember that i was around 10 at the time. The thing is it busts the invincibility of despotic regimes. Prior to that you had film's like Clint Eastwood's Firefox , the Soviet Airspace was impenetrable , then you had this young German guy fly a Cessna into Red Square and no one the wiser. Likewise you see it with Hussain, Gaddaffi and the same with China, N Korea. These regimes exist on an illusion, they are inherently weak. A slight bit of wind and they will fall. Hopefully one day the people of N Korea will drag that Fat Teletubby out on his arse and do a Ceausescu on him.

[@GeorgeSemel]

Not really, that guy stole somebody's property. A 172, I got about 6000 hours in one, is small and well true's out at around 90 knots. You can get lost in the ground clutter. The radars at the time they had would have had real problems seeing it. It was stupid on his part, there is some fellow that took a serious financial loss of the aircraft, flight schools work on very thin margins, I know I owned one for a time. But it was the perception.

[@davidhimmelsbach557]

In the USSR that act was known as: "The vertical stroke." Everyone in the chain of command is canned.

[@Anon26535]

Is it really a pretext if they're genuinely incompetent, though?

[@DavidCurryFilms]

Matthias Rust

[@vajs6312]

The October revolution parade is held in November because of the difference between calendars (by the Julian calendar used by the Russians it was October, but by the Gregorian calendar used in the west, it was November).

[@loyaltonotredame2160]

ummmmmmmm i was born on the october revolution (if you mean the julian calendar)

[@kimberlyoldschool]

Every Estonian on KZbin showing up to comment on how they remember these commercials is making my year. I just love the idea of people from all over congregating over cozy nostalgia on this channel, of all places.

[@karlfey9616]

Your whole channel (and this absolute banger, especially) is my comfort viewing.

[@PaddingtonBear4]

Congratulations! Your video is more historically accurate than National Geographic, Discovery, or History Channel. The only thing you got wrong is the way you said Komitet Gossudarstvennoy Bezobasnosti. The rest is exactly as I saw it in my childhood on Soviet TV. Congratulations!

[@ladedalounge]

and today

[@todisagreeitsokay1837]

i mean those channels are not the best... let's be honest here... after all the nazi-documentary marathons they have been puting on for the last 70+ years they are missing out on the contemporary stuff bigtime! kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3LWkJmqpq90hdE slawa hroshi 🎁

[@ApophisNow_]

This comment is oozing with sarcasm.

[@PaddingtonBear4]

@@ApophisNow_ No sarcasm meant. This is actually how live in late USSR was. Some (hopeful of reform and Soviet collapse) took it with a grain of hope, others (imperialist conservatives) took it with increasing hatred to everything western. This video is presented in an easy going manner, so that modern audiences can find it interesting. Yet, if you ignore this minor detail, it depicts the events and the general atmosphere of the late USSR very accurately, better than most documentaries.

[@Zapberry]

Bro paddington is russian?

[@sharpkniveinlatvian1746]

"Well, since the Union has collapsed and the Federation has taken control, I'm sure the 90s will be a fantastic decade for the Russian people! Wait, what the hell are they doing over in Chechnya?"

[@LiveForever1994]

90s in the West : THE 90s WAS MAGIC! 90s in Russia : *No*

[@linassp3]

@@LiveForever1994 No, Magic played in the 80s. You're thinking about Jordan.

[@tiddyfard4517]

@@thinkingboi9508 basically the 2000's were the 90's for Russians

[@StarxLolita]

this video is trippy to watch as an american lmao, we're going down the same route. all our politicians are geriatric, only a matter of time.

[@OrdinaryThings]

you ain't wrong there. wild times

[@leradmuiel7634]

oh they're trying but they messed up with pissing off half the country.

[@StarxLolita]

@@leradmuiel7634 What are you trying to say? Both parties are wildly geriatric and each half of the country still clings to either party. Trump was the oldest ever president until Joe, who is even older. And if Trump follows through with attempting a coup like many of the people around him suggest he does (his ex attorney literally just said Trump should declare martial law and should have the military oversee a new election), it'll just speed up the fall of our country. I think regardless it's definitely happening. The US probably won't be a global superpower in 5 years. I can't imagine we'll even get out of COVID19 well because of the amount of people who are antivax or can't afford a vaccine.

[@leradmuiel7634]

@@StarxLolita way too many instances of impropriety with no transparency from the democrats and what's worse they are actively fighting against transparency. what do you think it's gonna happen? Also Coup? everything he's doing atm is constitutionally legal. It's limited martial law too on the conditions that judges and governors aren't following the rule of law in their decision making which in PA and WI are doing.

[@leradmuiel7634]

@@StarxLolita i don't like the establishment the Demorats or the rhinos btw but I aint blind and im following all this crap. The govs are actively telling us yeah the Act77 law is unconstitutional but we'll fix it next time. You think that's gonna fly with 70+million?

[@alterego480]

This is your best video. Your sense of humor goes really well with the topic.

[@LinusE]

"I hope nothing ever changes" *Russia invades Ukraine*

[@todisagreeitsokay1837]

In other news: Euro flees Ukraine kzbin.info/www/bejne/r3LWkJmqpq90hdE slawa hroshi 🎁

[@justinp910]

I heard the opening chord to the Soviet anthem when I read that second line lmao

[@CakePrincessCelestia]

Well, that aged like milk...

[@nomiguda]

@@shrubees to a Russian the invasion is going to have much longer lasting consequences than mask wearing and three total injections

[@RiggsBF]

Time for another 4 hour loop of swan lake.

[@mitchellalexander9162]

7:40 And when they claimed that the 'Foreign reports of the Death count were greatly exaggerated' a Few Good Men had a Question pop into their Heads: 'What are the Foreign Death Counts?'

[@axel6269]

The upper bound given by peer-review studies, after analyzing the subsequent falloff, and using a conservative linear no-threshold model, is 4000 deaths caused by the accident: www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/05/09/the-reason-they-fictionalize-nuclear-disasters-like-chernobyl-is-because-they-kill-so-few-people By comparison, German coal alone kills a couple thousand Europeans every year: www.wwf.de/fileadmin/fm-wwf/Publikationen-PDF/Europes_dark_cloud_report_2016.pdf Coal's total yearly death count globally amounts to about a million. Turns out that Soviet shoddy reactor paste is pretty nasty, but dinosaur juice and ancient dead trees are way better at killing random people.

[@Cheerful_Ox]

The death count is exaggerated

[@sharefactor]

@@Cheerful_Ox First and foremost: nuclear energy is relatively very clean and safe. That being said, only counting the people that died from acute radiation poisoning as dead count is scientifically very dishonest. Chernobyl accident lead to tens/hundreds of thousands premature deaths (long term).

[@TheBulkingBalkan]

Say what you want about the Soviets. They did make great hats.

[@somethingsomething9008]

George bush was a good painter

[@What-Kind-Of-Idiot-Is-This]

And music

[@ytytiuiu2590]

@@What-Kind-Of-Idiot-Is-This Boos music .

[@Smellslikenarcspirit]

And big machines whit a lot of noise and low efficiency but they could not break . For example , the dutch trains are out of duty if a few leaves are on the track , but soviet train plows trough meters of snow 😂. Another example lada cars . They where damn hiddious cars but was build like russian tank , after an accident it was mostly the other cars taking the most damage but Lada cars 😑😑😑😑.

[@rrj697]

I am from Estonia and it's true: we heard the Finnish radio news and saw the Finnish television channels. My grandpa worked as a electrician and fixed TVs so you could see Finnish channels, my other grandpa worked as a coal miner in Kohtla-Järve which was a city for workers. (it still exist today and is 5 city in population) In 1991 Estonia got it's independence from USSR, but peacefully. In Latvia and Lithuania many people died in riots, meanwhile Estonia had no deaths. What's intresting in Estonia is that the bordercity Narva (Estonia and Russia border), there's much more Russians than Estonians.

[@n1msu]

Brechnev looked more alive at his funeral than the time he was alive 3 weeks prior. Almost sure he was attached to strings and wood to animate him...

[@billygoatguy3960]

Morticians do miracle work

[@shawnhorning2125]

Once McDonald’s opened in Moscow it was over 😆🇺🇸🇺🇸🍔🍟🥤

[@OrdinaryThings]

facts

[@hodarov1564]

@@OrdinaryThings more facts

[@drdiabeetus4419]

No shit, it's common knowledge that every McDonalds outside of the US doubles as an Embassy/Consulate, a military base, Nuclear missile launching site, Fallout shelter, and spy agency

[@mahogany7712]

@@drdiabeetus4419 The All Powerful Golden Arches.

[@HellShredder713]

@@drdiabeetus4419 that reminded me of the movie War Inc, lol.

[@SamuelfisherSC]

Hmmmm, I wonder what that former KGB guy you mentioned is up to right now on the 25th of February 2022.

[@Xpwnxage]

I'm sure he's a reasonable man who supports liberal democracies and their sovereignty

[@johnwicked1132]

@@Xpwnxage Probably, atleast he's not doing stupid soviet things like invading countries and failing spectacularily

[@freeman10000]

I am sure this former KGB guy is helping gay refugees or something else completely alturistic.

[@johnwicked1132]

@@freeman10000 Yea, probs

[@krink6]

literally a ten second announcement about chernobyl saying 'everything is being taken care of'. really puts into perspective how little the KGB wanted the people to know

[@newbienoobframebyframe4108]

*turns on t.v. and see's ballerinas* "Oh hell, what happened now..."

[@williambarwick8730]

“Who ever does not miss the soviet union has no heart, whoever wants it back has no brain” - Vladimir Putin

[@valence6023]

"Brian"

[@Predator20357]

@@valence6023 I miss Brian, I don’t have one

[@BigBodyBiggolo]

Whos Brian?

[@LordOfPanzers]

Who is Brian?

[@williambarwick8730]

Omg hahaahhahahaha sorry thats my shit spelling

[@TastyBaconBitz]

my father was in the airforce during the cold-war as a nuclear warhead technician and had to escort some Russian personnel when they did the periodic checks on the silos and got to know some of them pretty well and was given some artifacts such as soviet fur hats, insignia, and even a Makarov pistol. He has all kinds of stories from that time

[@MisterCasket]

I was doingthe transiberian back in 2006 and started in St Petersburg. I got lost somewhere and a young police officer not only showed me the way back but escorted me throughout the day showing landmarks and such. When I got on board the train, he gave me a salute! I'll never forget that guy.

[@Rpg_enthusiast]

this might just be one of the most well put together video ever

[@craigcook9715]

I was in Russia to learn Russian in 2003, and for about two months, I lived near the Ostankino tower. I remember hearing that the TV broadcast from it were an important factor in the failure of the attempted coup a few years before. The Ostankino tower is near a Soviet-era exhibition center, with buildings which represented the various republics of the Soviet Union. By 2003 when I was there, there was a small convention center in the back, but most of the buildings had been turned over to commerce, selling electronics, jeans, etc. I really liked the Ukraine pavilion, with neat tiles on the outside featuring the republic's industry and agriculture. The Karelia pavilion was also cool, built in a rustic timber style (like I presume was common in that republic which borders Finland). The Metro stop near Ostankino was named for the exhibition center, VDNKh was named for the center. Alas, I'm still not fluent in Russian, and the country is less welcoming to Americans than it was in 2003.

[@cameronspence4977]

That is so fucking sad to see how far russia has fallen from that time...just look at them now

[@Mousy677]

I'm obsessed with the phrase Gremlin In The Kremlin

[@johndillermand4053]

Me too man, it's like "rumble in the jungle" or "there's a fungus among us"

[@DLBBALL]

@@johndillermand4053 among us

[@redtexan7053]

Therapist: “Big Eyes Stalin isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.” Big Eyes Stalin:

[@kinder_egg01]

0:00

[@gabork5055]

Kawaii Stalin. Or Iosif Vissarionovich Pugashvili.

[@primesuspect8567]

Jesus christ, I genuinely cannot tell if you're a bot automatically filling and posting meme templates or you're just that unfunny. "It cant hurt you" jokes are a comedy graveyard