How to Get Rich After Destroying the USSR

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We all know the story of the USSR's demise - Mikhail Gorbachev desperately tried to save the Soviet Union by reforming it, but ended up destroying it instead. But what did old Gorby do after this geopolitical fumble? That's what we'll explore in today's sidequest (spoiler alert: he made bank)!
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Further Reading:
“Gorbachev: His Life and Times” by William Taubman - books.google.c...

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[@LightxHeaven]

Surely this very generous offer is only possible due to getting rich after destroying the USSR? :D

[@Voloxim]

I was literally waiting for you to upload today! Tysm!

[@It_is_I_Rogal_Dorn]

Nice to hear you back in your videos and not having the ad for Q playing

[@robsonwilianwinchester9726]

#ideiasradicais #ancapsu #chinauncensored #serpentza #cmilk #中国人 #中国 #西经平 ！！！！！

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@LightxHeaven when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

[@tekuaniaakab2050]

Gorbachev basically being an advertisement supermodel for companies trying to get into the eastern market is both surprising and not surprising at all

[@julianusvictor327]

Ikr that pizza hut ad was just, surreal.

[@boomburst8031]

@@julianusvictor327 nah man, if anything can covince a commie it's a pizza.

[@OrangeFawkes]

Heil Gorbachev!

[@patrickshea5955]

Well I mean what do you expect? Did you wanted to bring an end to the horrible century of communism.

[@stevengreen9536]

@tekuaniaakab Almost anything is better than being broke.

[@TwoBears1325]

There was a much more interesting story of getting rich in Russia like how Yeltsin stole 10% of the economy and gave it all to his friends under the guise of the „free market“

[@firdausariff]

I was expecting this particular story actually 😂

[@Ttegegg]

@@firdausariff yea me too. Ecconomic explain that everyone (expect government officials) have no capital. You can see where this is going

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

[@Ghboy2]

The Mabetex affair was so drenched in corruption that even the Russian State Duma told Yeltsin to tone it.

[@jakesmall8875]

Putin stole half the economy

[@tessat338]

I was taking a class at university called "Politics of the Soviet Union" in 1986 when everything started to crumble and there was a coup attempt against Gorbachev. We were assigned the roles of different members of the Politburo and had to research them and their careers. I was the editor of Pravda. On the day we were supposed to have our Party Congress, the guy portraying Gorbachev didn't show up for class. We were all wondering what was going on, if someone had taken things a little TOO seriously. He showed up in the last 10 minutes, very upset because he'd had car trouble and let down because there wasn't enough time for him to give his prepared speech.

[@vanthomias5538]

I am not a Conspiracy Theorist, but a "car trouble"...?

[@tessat338]

@@vanthomias5538 I know! That's how we all felt at the time! But it was a rainy day and he was coming to campus on the Beltway.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

[@vanthomias5538]

@@carkawalakhatulistiwa what

[@thomasdracup8403]

@@vanthomias5538 this guy keeps copy pasting this same comment under every comment thread. I honestly don’t understand what he’s saying.

[@eujinvittoria1078]

I thought you we’re gonna talk about how the oligarchs pillaged the rest of the Soviet economy but it’s ok 👍

[@rafradeki]

If something belongs to everyone, it belongs to noone

[@missk1697]

@@rafradeki "Throwing buzzword proverbs is not an argument, m8" -Julius Caesar before the battle of Stalingrad

[@senpai8435]

Oligarchs were the vermin eating the remaining corpse, the one responsible for the corpse was gorba.

[@rafradeki]

@@missk1697 This was the train of thought of russian oligarchs after USSR collapsed

[@ernstschmidt4725]

How to Get even more Rich After Destroying the USSR

[@paleoph6168]

The people cheering for Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut commercial were all of the 0.5% who voted for him.

[@tunahxushi4669]

Hey, that is still 1 million people... Enough to fill Pizza Hut.

[@The_preserver_x16]

Also feels creepy asf

[@josefstrauss9017]

@@The_preserver_x16 I thought it was hella funny ngl

[@richardarriaga6271]

Tankies and ultranationalists will have to cope. Boris Yelsin was more responsible for destroying Russian democracy and handing Russia to Putin, oligarchs, and corruption.

[@goblinking9824]

80% of the population didn't want the Soviet Union to dissolve, but the Bougoise controlled the government and decided to dissolve it, sell the factories, and get rich while leaving the broken countries in shambles.

[@frisianmouve]

I thought this was going to be about a few oligarchs cheaply buying up the majority of previously state owned industry

[@crazydinosaur8945]

same

[@Pancasilaist8752]

With the Russian oligarchs so influential in Russian politics today, I am surprised that there are still many communists who support Russia.

[@richardarriaga6271]

@@Pancasilaist8752 They don't have political influence. They are subject to Putin's whims.

[@Haijwsyz51846]

He means how Gorby destroyed ussr then to become rich.

[@kierangorman3052]

@@Pancasilaist8752 A lot of authoritarian leftists just like anything that opposes the US, plus Putin manages to keep the communist party of Russia on side as controlled opposition through Kremlin-funding and giving them a few Provinces to govern. There's also the Russian Federation's alliance with China to consider, which many Leninists and Maoists view as the legitimate leader of the global left, making the former country appear at least tolerant of communism in the eyes of some.

[@MietoK]

Small detail that surely doesn’t matter that much but didn’t Yeltsin sign the dissolution (Belovezh Accords)? Gorbachev just ceded power as the Russia and other countries had already left at that time so he was “King Nothing” with no power at all.

[@advisorynotice]

Not a small detail. You're right.

[@TheEnergeticPanda]

@@advisorynotice it is a small detail really. Yeltsin may have signed the paper but it was Gorbachev's pen. Gorbachev was effectively the one who signed it due to his actions, even if he wasn't literally the one who signed it

[@ADogNamedStay]

@@TheEnergeticPanda no, they were the heads of two different principalities one just a teir above the other. Ussr is comparable to Canada, US, and Mexico forming a union under the same principles that the United States is.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

[@locomotivefaox]

Becoming an oligarch was the best decision I ever had in the 90s. Among... other... things.

[@tylerclayton6081]

I decided to become an oligarch in the 2010’s. Great decision. 10/10 would recommend

[@georgyekimov4577]

@@tylerclayton6081 nah bro being one in the 90s was different now you can sit at the table but cant take stuff home

[@nexor7809]

the other best decision you mean was becoming a furry?

[@onecertainesquire486]

Thank you for this helpful guide. I will now reform and later destroy the Soviet Union in order to make this dream a reality

[@richardarriaga6271]

USSR system was doomed. Too hard to change and wrong incentives to succeed. There is a reason Russian has a word for lying and you both know you're lying and accept it.

[@SiPakRubah]

This video gave a good reason why USSR was doomed in the first place. They probably should've follow what China did without dissolving their country kzbin.info/www/bejne/amTTpat8rZJ2iK8

[@sebastienholmes548]

Based

[@BlakeTheDrake]

The self-own at 2:27 was funny enough that I feel compelled to forgive the channel for actually making me *buy* one of those silly things, literally days before the big scandal broke. No, really - it was that add in the 'How to Become a Medieval Aristocrat' video that convinced me that a noble title would make an amusing gift for my nephew... Ah well, I managed to get a refund, and a spot of humorous self-awareness goes a long way, so have a Like as a token of reconciliation!

[@darksu6947]

That's a sweet looking dragon in your pfp. What do you think of my idea to have a pet dragon that spews out a raging blizzard instead of fire?

[@chrissmith3587]

@@darksu6947 you may struggle to find that pet If you’re writing a story you should consider some of the physical constraints. (Don’t need to flaunt them in the story) Energy is not destroyed therefore heat must be conserved, this means that blizzard or freezing breath requires heat be removed from the gas to be exhaled. Unlike a chemical reaction this must occur internally due to taking more time (fire breathing dragons should have fire begin externally) This should make the dragon warmer than normal with cold patches where the blizzard is produced, this could involve systems a radiating refine and ridges to lose heat, less insulation or a colder climate (though colder climate animals it’d hunt would be more resistant to the cold) Hope these are some interesting design considerations for you

[@mortified776]

@@chrissmith3587 What about an exhalation of compressed air from a cavity in a deep muscular chest? That produces both a powerful blast effect and temperatures cold enough to instantaneously freeze flesh. I can attest to that first hand. Specifically, my left hand.

[@chrissmith3587]

@@mortified776 ouch sounds painful That would work as a reason why the breath is cold, this would require compression in the body which would still produce heat, although you would only notice cold spots after the exhalation Compression often uses multiple compressors to improve efficiency, this could be translated into your dragon through a multi chamber storage and compression system with potentially up to 3 chambers (one storage, one low to medium pressure, one medium to high pressure) This would allow for differences between species as some dragons could lack chambers reducing functionality As temperature and pressure drops across across a choke this is effectively what occurs at the point of exhalation. Edit/correction : had to remove initial conclusions as think I was wrong This would increase the velocity and therefore kinetic energy. I believe the colder (more choked) strike would hit harder assuming striking at one point. A good place to look at from here is convergent divergent nozzles in rocket engine and how you could design your dragons to use this Basically thermodynamics is really hard and you get away with a lot if you base the designs and power levels on existing equipment If you want any other dragon ideas look at how vortexes can carry light materials, there’s a few aggressive possible uses for that

[@cocacola4blood365]

When a ruler of a nation has to look for work once they retire, you know things are bad.

[@silverdeathgamer2907]

I mean usually they do paid speeches, lobbying, just get paid to attend functions, hang around with elites etc. Like Boris Johnson for example recently got paid very well for doing a few speeches, Obama did the same once his second term ended.

[@kavky]

No, that is how things should be. Why should we be paying outrageously high pensions for bureaucrats who aren't working anymore?

[@richardarriaga6271]

@@kavky Because you don't want sale of the government to become and income stream like with Yelsin and Putin. And the US had a ex-President live in poverty before the pension system was set up.

[@RazorsharpLT]

@@kavky Because they have immense influence and power and could be easily bought to sponsor your favouriteTM dictator?

[@Hangman11]

@@richardarriaga6271 The number one thing against corruption is paying the politicians whether they're corrupt or not lol. Fucked up world

[@sirnikkel6746]

From being sponsored by the scam of Established Titles to admitting what you have done at 2:26 is a golden move.

[@NeostormXLMAX]

i mean its like jake tran, they know its a scam, just doing the sigma grind set and doesn't bother to hide anything Id say still more respectable than those so called "scam" advisor youtubers like fucking mudahar who constantly claims moral high ground and still does exact things like this, just hypocrites.

[@Novaerian]

It's not a scam, see here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHrNnHR5d5eLp80&ab_channel=FactFiend

[@tunahxushi4669]

How much does the scam of Established Titles pay? Some of these channels reach hundreds of thousands of people just curious what the rate is for selling snake oil these days...

[@sirnikkel6746]

@@tunahxushi4669 400 ShillBucks

[@Hideyoshi1991]

@@NeostormXLMAX its a gag gift with some misleading advertising, the only seriously questionable claim they made was that you'd be recognized as a lord in Scotland.

[@xanderbg1]

And here I am sitting and thinking that this would be a video about curruption, currupted privatization, oligarchs in the making, Russian mafia and its former-USSR-state / KGB background.

[@annach109]

I thought this video would cover how western companies and the west in general made bank on the dissolution of the USSR.

[@Seraph.G]

The way the USSR was destroyed really makes you understand why many people who lived under it before the dissolution remain so loyal to it

[@bruhbruh-us6gl]

And why they're so loyal to Putin, for that matter.

[@sebastienholmes548]

Stockholm syndrome is a powerful thing.

[@tamalepapi4692]

That’s what happens when you have a shitty economic system to begin with

[@ricechido1089]

Same reason why many individuals in America's are so loyal to officials whom run to enrich themselves while on backs of their constituents

[@russiannatcon]

As a resident of Russia, I can say that the USSR was a terrible, disgusting cesspool that collapsed due to a whole range of reasons not mentioned in this video.

[@the_inquisitive_inquisitor]

That feeling when your computer says you have a 50Mb/s Internet connection, but can't load a KZbin video....

[@JamesTM]

The self-deprecating dig at Established Titles was a phenomenal touch. A actually laughed out loud. And good on you for acknowledging that mistake. I hope you find some great (ethical) sponsors going forward and make lots of money for producing your excellent content!

[@DatcleanMochaJo]

If you genuinely thought Established titles was not a scam before everyone started calling it one you aren't any brighter

[@vylbird8014]

VPN companies are a bit better. Their product is at least genuine, though many resort to scare tactics and blatant lies in their advertising. Buy our product or the hackers will get you!

[@ryuunosuk3]

Betterhelp.

[@JamesTM]

@@ryuunosuk3 Yeah. They did not, in fact, find ethical sponsors going forward. :(

[@mathy4605]

lol that Established Titles reference

[@ianchristmas]

Same here. I laughed out loud at that bit.

[@pre0wned]

Loved the self poke on the check at 2:27!

[@grandcommander1140]

Truly; this is a criminally underrated Channel . . . You deserve at least a mil or two subs Best of luck too you friend !

[@RUTHLESSACADEMY]

Gorbachev wasn't a premier of USSR, he was the last general secretary of KPSS and the first ever president of USSR.

[@KuldarJ]

SideQuest could you make a video how to get/make a Tardis at home, so we could actually try these "history tips" out

[@Eques2749]

Oligarchs are the ones who were close to the leaders then, so when the privatisation was taking place they were (oligarchs) a priority..

[@Redpilled_Retribution]

Abramovich was a nobody in the beginning

[@Ocelot835]

Well, It was Gorbachev poorly managed economical reforms that created them in the first place. Yeltsin only cemented their power over politics with his "shock therapy"

[@figgehn_]

In sweden we have a microwave pierogi called gorby, named after Gorby... and a Pan pizza called Billys, named after clinton

[@igorlech9922]

As eastern european I can confirm this is one of many reasons why we love Gorbachev

[@silesiaball9505]

ZA GARBACZOWA!

[@snomcultist189]

Itsa Gorbachev! -random Russian Pizza Hut enjoyer

[@beburs]

@@silesiaball9505 he destroyed you,living standards used to be higher before him,this is a statistical fact.

[@silesiaball9505]

@@beburs I'm not Russian XD

[@beburs]

@@silesiaball9505 your country was destroyed more than Russia though,look at the data of your country’s population and manufacturing,they both collapsed

[@josephlieberman8295]

Ah yes, show a tone deaf ad for Pizza Hut followed immediately by a tone deaf ad read for a VPN. The system works.

[@moralfuxery]

Holy shit. Is that Pizza Hit commercial real? That feels like a glitch in the matrix.

[@Jumbotroner]

Yes

[@herzog1857]

That Pizza Hut ad is all the worst of Soviet Russia and the US rolled into one.

[@bobbyferg9173]

For some reason I thought Gorbachev died awhile ago, not the summer of this year. I guess that goes to show that the decline from final leader of the Soviet Union to Pizza Hut commercials to now was a pretty significant decline

[@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462]

No he didn't died a while ago, just everything he worked towards.

[@stuartkirkbride7363]

Finally a how-to that I can actually incorporate into my daily life

[@jakubLonghorn]

That pivot to the advertisement was a master class

[@escapingmediocrityhub]

Thank you for sharing your thoughtful content…for putting it out there with the passion that many of us need and strive for. I'm starting to listen to you almost every morning. Your voice and words feels real and genuine. I am grateful to have your channel as a source for having a better relationship with myself and the world around me.❤️❤️💥

[@stomostudios6718]

Thanks for reminding me of the March of the 8th Guards Panfilov Division. (which played in the background the entire video)

[@seangleason260]

It had to be incredibly soul crushing to go from the head of the USSR to shilling for pizza hut

[@mrabintom]

One of the best KZbin channels that puts out the best content. Barely recognised by anyone.

[@YagoStecher]

Too bad they didn't address the scam sponsor they promoted until their last video

[@YagoStecher]

@@jmoger yeah no, I was thinking something in the lines of "we made a mistake" and "don't buy from them" and more importantly "sorry we uploaded that sponsor, here's a reupload of the original video without the endorsement, so you don't fall into a scam like we did"

[@mangogo44]

I'm from Russia and I've never even HEARD of Gorbachiov making ads. Wow

[@wederMaxim]

Не верю. Просто не верю. Особенно в свете последних событий.

[@Indlovu402]

Gorby's skull has the same his distinctive birthmark😂

[@maksiksq]

4:32 as a Ukrainian when they started saying "за Горбачова" I started laughing so hard that my brother thought I started choking

[@hudsondeweerd3910]

What does it mean? American here.

[@christianheikkonen]

@@hudsondeweerd3910”For Gorbachov”

[@hudsondeweerd3910]

@@christianheikkonen thanks.

[@maksiksq]

@@hudsondeweerd3910 hail Gorbachev

[@hudsondeweerd3910]

@@maksiksq thanks

[@maruku4445]

As soon as you said Pizza Hut, I bursted out laughing. 🤣

[@jbthestoner5504]

That pizza hut commercial had to be one of the best I've ever seen

[@DinoWinoSaur]

Love this channel. Glad you're finally getting sponsorship!

[@YagoStecher]

Too bad they didn't remove the Established Titles scam sponsor from the last video, or address the bluder at all. Shame on SideQuest.

[@RelayXl]

@@YagoStecher they did somewhat address it 2:27

[@YagoStecher]

@@RelayXl yeah that's not addressing it. They should say: hey we dropped the ball, didn't check our sponsor, don't buy drom them, and also reupload the sponsored video having removed the sponsorship. The video is still there! People can still fall for it!

[@RelayXl]

@@YagoStecher yeah but Established titles are pulling out the sponsorship Link : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqmvlGurbLFlgpY

[@midge_gender_solek3314]

He did a lot of bad stuff (ask Armenians or Lithuanians) but was unusually genuine and straightforward not just for a Central Comitee member, but for any major global politician of that era.

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

What did he do to Armenians and Lithuanians?

[@sztypettto]

Here we go .... before someone pulls up the victim card they need to speak about their own actions first. A world where the police are shamed and defunded for arresting a person committing a crime is a world on a downward trajectory.

[@gagamba9198]

@@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Sent in the troops and massacred protestors.

[@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING]

@@sztypettto preach brother

[@sztypettto]

@@gagamba9198 , were those protestors destroying public property, breaking any laws, causing public disturbance, or inciting an environment for crime?

[@thecrazymoon6578]

Amazing. Super funny jokes 😂 This is definitely quality over quantity. Keep up the great work!

[@gunterxvoices4101]

Thank you for making this video.

[@danlei88]

I appreciate the jab at Established titles sponsorship. This channel was the only place I even heard about it before it became youtube drama. Some channels have decided to donate all the sponsorship money to conservation/tree planting charities and I highly encourage you to consider this as well, if you really want to undo it in a sense.

[@vagpaithe3570]

great video as always

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

Thanks! This is just the instructional video we needed.

[@Vandal_Savage]

@3:57 they've got Mark Novack in the Pizza Hut advert! Well, he did say he wasn't always a gunsmith...

[@Divano-qw2sb]

He forgot the part about selling weapons from soviet arsenals to various dictators and warlords across the globe (every on is too busy to notice some missing kalashnikovs)

[@florenmage]

That pizza hut commercial is hilarious.

[@martinmillar9116]

This channel doesnt release videos fast enough! Lol. They are brilliant.

[@raymanadventuresgameplay6700]

Bro went from controlling nukes to advertising pizza

[@gagamba9198]

The failure was a feature. Some things take a while to reveal themselves. In the USSR's case, bankruptcy arrived in the late 1950s. Soviet workers were required to spend 1/12th of their annual income buying state bonds. In 1957, the state realised repayment of bonds coming due in the early 1960s would cost the state more than it would receive in mandatory bond purchases. Khrushchev decided a good idea would be for the Soviet workers to decline repayment as a display of patriotic gratitude. Hocus pocus, debt gone. Other leaders were uncertain. 'We'd better pitch this proposal to some actual workers to see what they think of it.' This was done. Workers hated it. They had been compelled to buy these bonds and they expected repayment. Oh-oh. Repayment was not cancelled. Instead, it was _postponed_ . The government stated repayment would resume in about 20 years. During which time no interest would be paid on this debt. New bonds would no longer be required to be bought. But without the income from the mandatory purchase of these bonds, there would be a shortfall of the funds the government needed. What to do? Gambling! The government re-introduced a lottery. Due to the gov't created consumer goods deficit, winners wanted overpriced yet tough to get items like cars rather than cash. It was wildly popular. And it allowed the government to kick the can down the road for a few more decades. Let someone else deal with the problem.

[@charlesburgoyne-probyn6044]

Kicking the can like the US $ debt ceiling that will have to be addressed It's usually economics that break nations, empires and individuals

[@BTNMNKI]

Good stuff as always, but please lower the background music.

[@Pravculear]

hi sidequest!

[@pogchimp3783]

The day he died I put an online order to pizza hut with his name on the receipt, I still have a picture of it

[@jquest3329]

2-minute ad in a 7.5min video? y'all are getting out-of-hand

[@overlordupchuck]

this video tied perfectly with history matters' channel's video today, like literally perfectly back to back viewing

[@rext4607]

The self own makes you legendary

[@Aunuto]

“Ferb! I know what we’re gonna do today!”

[@jakelynch5113]

that ad was pretty much "did somebody say KFC?"

[@CactusJackIV]

Amazing videos! Keep up the kick ass work!!

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

Shuv it man

[@CactusJackIV]

@@ShubhamMishrabro Slow Down Mark.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@CactusJackIV a wild slap nuts appears

[@CactusJackIV]

@@ShubhamMishrabro That's it, Mr User-yh4lt4cs4w, I'm goin' to go to North Carolina and tell my stoner friend Shannon all about you Mr User-man.

[@ShubhamMishrabro]

@@CactusJackIV and I'm going to meet Jimmy rave so we can party

[@terranceaddison4599]

That's one high quality commercial

[@felixnilsson2440]

Two ads in a 7 minute long video -- well played sir, well played...

[@boulderbash19700209]

Gorbachev got undeserved blame for the collapse of Soviet Union. The empire was already at its last gasps since the final days of Brezhnev, and Gorbachev made a gamble in desperate attempt to revitalize it. It didn't go as planned because of two thing, the hardcore communist who viewed his glasnost and perestroika as a betrayal to communist principle decided to launch a coup d'etat, and Yeltsin, who in his fear of being purged if the hardcore's coup d'etat succeeded, managed to rally people support and outshone Gorbachev.

[@visassess8607]

Thanks, I needed this advice

[@masterimbecile]

Now that’s how they Putin themselves in the right place.

[@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan]

Seriously though, how DID he survive?

[@zachareeeee]

Is that Semeon Tchernetsky playing in the background?

[@noytelinu]

Yep. I remember the Pizza Hut ad. Back when I had optimism.

[@richardarriaga6271]

When Pizza Hut was still good

[@fridolfstor]

I noticed your voice is in a commercial for a card game

[@michaelrae9599]

Good to know that Gorbachev had a proactive web identity plan.

[@CoffeenSpice]

Gorbachev was never the premier of Soviet union. Premier was head of government. Gorbachev was the general secretary, a head of state.

[@blaine8197]

What’s the background song name?

[@bantenglewat9799]

Hate him or love him but he always be a legend comrade no matter what you believe he always be the legend

[@revolter7094]

He is a legend for people who were the enemies of the post-USSR and for people who didn't live there. For people who lived after the collapse of the USSR ,he is the worst human being in their history and should be burning in hell.

[@bantenglewat9799]

@@revolter7094 yes for the Russian people he is the one who sell their identity to the west for sure

[@Tyrannitus]

No

[@randomguy2052]

Yes

[@coolbasedgigachad6820]

No

[@kooolainebulger8117]

honestly didn't know he was still alive for so long

[@RasVoja]

Gotta love the side quest Pytons style UK humor: vote (counted by the very non-corrupt RU gov of course)

[@dannydacheedo1592]

This channel answers the question I never knew I wanted to know.

[@meemstar2333]

i thought this one was going to be about russian oligarchs buying up all soviet state-owned enterprizes

[@yaelgarcia459]

I had no idea he did commercials 🤣🤣

[@christianhumer3084]

Russian Guys go from President to Showmen American Guys go from Showmen to President lol

[@oliversherman2414]

They probably tracked down the few people who voted for Gorbachev in 1996 and filled that pizza hut restaurant with them 😂

[@silesiaball9505]

Great video as always :)

[@stulog]

Didn't he do a McDonald's ad too?

[@aleattorium]

This ad is implying that the VPN helped Gorbachev and that if is a safe product, even though for truly protection of privacy it is not safe at all

[@whatsup3519]

please make a video about Counter culture of 60s,and the reason behind it?Why did it deviate towards free love ,LSD? What does this have to do with anti war protest?

[@mino1]

Nice video

[@ryanbaird2110]

Love your videos thank you for letting me vibe over a blunt listening too history

[@Stick1034]

Seriously 50% of the this video is an AD, wtf sidequest..

[@WanderTheNomad]

*23% Which comes out to... 1 minute and 41 seconds

[@Morskoy_Velican]

You will love a man who, by mismanaging the country, erased your main competitor from the maps. For me, it's a bastard who ruined the country for which my great-grandfather died.

[@Etelvinicius]

A two minute ad on a seven minute video. Nice!

[@persimmon93]

Russia liberalized in 1991 Kazakhstan: Look at me. I am the Soviet Union now.

[@azuaraikrezeul1677]

Belarus: No! I am the soviet union now.

[@raihly4048]

How did he made 2 ads in one video?

[@darthsyphilis6008]

"Russian opposition leaders would not have been murdered or imprisoned and tortured that often if they had used todays sponsor" is not your greatest take.

[@gaudiummundi8412]

What's about "How get rich after destroying the Twin Towers"???

[@bronkobjama3154]

Babe shut up side quest just posted

[@Shmug_]

I thought Gorbachev was popular because of “Glasnost”.

[@thewilltheway]

Have my algorithm points.

[@timezerohour8864]

Man the 90s where wild.