Inside Russia's Difficult Transition to Capitalism

The Spirit of Survival (1999) - Yaroslavl’s struggling state-owned tyre factory turns into an unexpected success story.
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When the rouble collapsed its tyres were suddenly a quarter of the cost of their imported competition. With a touch of enterprising marketing from the new management Yaroslavl’s tyres are being bought and sold everywhere. The workers that used to get paid in inner tubes and food parcels are now getting regular pay-packets. There is even a factory hospital where employees and their families enjoy the most hi-tech equipment for miles around. But cold market principles do apply. Yevgenia, the hospital’s radiologist, has 30 years experience, yet she gets paid less than a cleaner. Like most people in Yaroslavl, she gave-up any hope of being rich along time ago. “At times we get more, but then they stop raising salaries… but we keep living and the hospital can still treat the patients, this is what matters.” In towns like Yaroslavl private citizens might just succeed where Governments have failed.
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[@JuanSanchez-rb4qu]

That old lady lived through the russian empire, the soviet union and the russian federation

[@koilamaoh4238]

@dirtroadie THey have not seen ultra radiated super babushkas , that live in chernobyl...

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

She’s likely dead now and if that’s the case, then she lived through 3 of the worlds bloodiest wars. WW1, WW2, Russian civil war.

[@annestevenson1913]

That's awful poor lady.

[@greeneast]

@@annestevenson1913 😂

[@veggiedisease123]

@@annestevenson1913 She saw her country go from being an agricultural backwater to one of the two most powerful countries to ever exist

[@allstardemon]

There's clearly a massive market for old documentaries

[@danielkurtovic9099]

It would be nice see documentary from Yaroslavo 20 years latter , let`s say from 2018. This was filmed in 1998. Or 2020-2021 would be even better.

[@christopherbatty3837]

Yes it is ...visited several times since 2000 to 2014.

[@danielkurtovic9099]

@@christopherbatty3837 - is it get worse or better ? Are there still poverty all around , abandon factorys or things go in better direction for ordenary people, wich I hope is the case ?

[@jseden]

"did you get your bonus?" "Yes! Eight tires" "Christmas will be wonderful this year!"

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Yes, meb need a Menshevik Revolution next time around?

[@MrXtenzion]

8.15. Sometimes there salary raises and something we they get lowered, but the most important is that the hospital can remain open and treat patients. What a great attitude :)

[@wach9191]

I assume that working with in place where rubber is melting would be very harmful and is a cause of death for like 50% of factory employees or more.

[@janparadowski4894]

Yeah, gotta admit this is an admirable attitude.

[@wolfgangsimonsiv9444]

attitude of a slave.

[@wolfgangamadeusjoshdephuta9371]

1:04 Anthony Hopkins: "what the hell am I doing here man?"

[@yura_darayev]

LOL he really does look like Hopkins

[@Whoa802]

Thought it looked more like Klaus Kinski.

[@TinTaBraSS777]

Wolfgang Amadeus Josh Deph Utah Anthoni Hip Hopkins )

[@jenniferrothfeld508]

Holy shit I thought the SAME THING!!!!

[@alexejgorodnicenko7295]

his lost brother

[@nomadum0]

Funny how western film gives everything different flavor

[@RudolphSmith]

Someone call Agent Clarice Starling, ASAP! Hannibal Lecter has been spotted in Yaroslavl, Russia. 1:02

[@SecureRepairAndSales]

I noticed that too .doppelganger

[@markvolker1145]

Anyone catch the date on the calendar at 8:00? 1998!!!

[@pedclarkemobile]

Documentary was released in 1999. It would have been filmed shortly before release. Good spot on the Calendar though, I only saw it after yr comment.

[@Britanny1000]

Yes, quite an old documentary but very interesting after all these years

[@serenalizinnqui8474]

1:35 Was not expecting Dance of the Knights here. I'm used to hearing it paired with Russian figure skating, but not with an industrial montage.

[@robertsontirado4478]

Good documentary many lessons.

[@MooseheadDrinker]

This documentary was produced in 1999!!! Let's see something more up to date!!

[@babauranai]

see it for what i is. Its an historical footage of the transition captured in the eyes of the people from 1999. You people seem to hate history

[@be2Gee]

This video could just as well had been from 2019. Nothing has changed, except from the wealthy in Putin's oligarchy has gotten wealthier. 90% still live in the same old ruins from the Soviet era drinking themselves to naglyukatsya with babushka.

[@50centgotshot9times]

@@be2Gee You have clearly never been to Russia. Things are much different. Average Russians have nice apartments and drive 2 cars now. Things have greatly changed. Putin is respected for a reason. Why do you think Yeltsin was hated so much? His drunk arse sold out Russia to the U.S which allowed criminals to take over. Yes, Putin spilled blood but such is the way of life in Russian Leadership. Stop fooling yourself that America is somehow better. I feel more sorry for the average American than the average Russian. Your own doctors are legal drug dealers that prescribe terrible opiates that completely destroy families and lives. The unemployment rate in the U.S? How is it acceptable to be called a 1st world country? Wake up.

[@shadysheep1984]

@Степан Гончаренко oh look a fucking khokhol; most things have changed. its like you blew in from stupid town or something

[@TheBucketSkill]

@@50centgotshot9times He sold out to USA?? More like he sold out to Russian oligarchs lol.

[@jereuter01]

See The New Russia: Transition Gone Awry by Lawrence Klein (Editor), Marshall Pomer (Editor), Mikhail Gorbachev (Foreword by), Published 2-1-2002.

[@exstazius]

The doctor has a beautiful attitude. Bless her

[@krimozaki9494]

Russia in 90s = Germany in the 20s

[@Novusod]

The music at the beginning of the clip is called "Dance of the Knights", by Sergueï Prokofiev. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eobQomSZpciaorM (Full instrumental)

[@the_bane_of_all_anti_furry]

i appreciate yours comments and for aid along that there is another song called "from live with russia" that sound somewhat really similar to prokofiev piece

[@dansysoman3391]

Elizaveta andher mother are so joyful despite having to experience such difficult times.

[@quakeknight9680]

Also the 1st song is called march of enthusiatists.

[@andromedaturnbull3512]

Could any kind music lovers with knowledge of Russian repertoire please help me out with the name and composer of the truly stunning piece of orchestral music played between 8:52 to 9:54? Thank you so much. ♥️

[@andromedaturnbull3512]

@m.o Thank you so much!!!

[@ladallance12]

As we can see this is a very recent documentary of Russia, from last year.

[@landz2228]

i feel like i have just come off a time machine. this is why i love journeyman pctrs.

[@kummitus100]

name the music that was playing in the beginning of this video`?

[@MooseheadDrinker]

darude - sandstorm

[@maspez4368]

dance of the knights

[@datruthsetufree298]

The 90’s was rough was everyone 😂

[@Britanny1000]

Filmed in December of 1998, see 8.22

[@tomasinacovell4293]

Yes, here on 05.04.2022, things haven't been improved, Menshevik Revolution next time around?

[@nafjam4260]

What’s the music called 1:35 ?

[@SocialCredit100]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mHPWfKOil5d4bLM

[@pouritenne8996]

хорошее видео, не злое

[@NapoleonBonaparde]

1:02 Anotoly Hopkinsky

[@quantumofhate]

yeah at 1:02 ........why it's Hannibal the cannibal

[@user-yj8qd5qk5u]

NAME OF SONG AT 1:48 PLS

[@johnarnehansen9574]

"Why can't they just try out market socilaism?".

[@maxim9280]

lol its funny how the west condemned the Soviet Unioun, and then when it collapsed they that soviet union are golden times and modern Russia is struggling. lol

[@hornypervert3781]

максим карандашев USSR was glorious

[@janparadowski4894]

Yeah the USSR was much better and in the end it was still an authoritarian state While Poland's transformation was mediocre we still could have screwed up the way Russia did

[@glebsokolov9959]

It was struggling due to years of neglect from the Soviet authorities and socialist regime. Socialism never worked and never will. USSR was no better than Nazi Germany.

[@6idangle]

@@glebsokolov9959 that’s not a fair comparison the Soviet Union defeated nazism and did 85% of the fighting and would never have started that war. It modernized a backwater, and had a constitution that banned race discrimination and gave women unprecedented rights well ahead of their time. Furthermore, it provided for everyone a degree of certainty. Did mostly Stalin commit terrible crimes, yes, but the ussr was no nazi Germany.

[@glebsokolov9959]

@@6idangle Defeated Nazism and replaced it with something objectively worse. Instead of a limited amount of people being killed for being jews, everyone was killed and the ones who were not lived in terrible poverty. In Nazi Germany, most citizens had a very decent quality of life. Russia is not a multiracial society. We only have whites and a small percent of indigenous people who are Asian. USSR didn't care about preserving any ethnicity inside the union and came close to actually mixing us all together. Thank god it collapsed before technology allowed that to happen. Unfortunately, the culture of most ethnicities was still compromised. This applies to most former Soviet Republics. Everyone in USSR lived in fear of being punished for any "wrong" views about the government. During Stalin times, innocent people were taken to the Gulag or shot by, practically, a lottery. I would take Nazi Germany or Putin's Russia any day over a piece of garbage called the USSR. It was a country even worse than Nazi Germany, with an even crazier ideology. The cost of human life in that country was 0.

[@mattiaswidegren2242]

00:35.. sorry were you saying something?

[@mamahey6298]

Im sorry but what's the main problem in this video

[@zeusvalentine]

Now they have capitalism. A few rich, a few middle class and many poor. The jobs that were plentiful in communism are probably gone. I have grown up in capitalism, but I have to admit there are pros and cons to each system. In Capitalism we have an over abundance of products and services where as communism has a lot of scarcity. Yet, everyone had a home in communism and in the West we have tent cities for the poor...Both system suck.

[@ellis2500]

There is a Lot of vacant homes in américa yet also a Lot of homeless people Also, that is the Beauty of capitalism and the existence of the landlord scum

[@dkeith45]

@@ellis2500 Landlord scum 'eh? Well, it depends on the situation. I can see the anger toward LLs in large cities, but in small towns, there are many people who have a small apt. building, or a few houses they rent out, and they only profit about what they'd make if they worked a minimum wage job overall. I bet there are more LL's like that than the rich ones in large cities that own hundreds of units.

[@mattysav4627]

Learn about these things under socialism there was 100% employment 0 homelessness and it had same calorie intake of usa but it didn’t have as many consumer goods but that was a relic of Stalin

[@brinjoness3386]

They had capitalism, and communism (?), russians like to be ruled by dictators so they are back to normal now.

[@mattysav4627]

@@brinjoness3386 Russians don’t they will have anthor workers revolution

[@saukrates420]

If you want the truth about "shock therapy" read Stephen F. Cohen's 'Failed Crusade'

[@seomahazuri8999]

*7 years ago*

[@fredrickshorten5466]

using this video for my social justice project, thank you or the information

[@milekrizman]

1:02 Anthony Hopkins

[@arjunvsharma]

I hope Russia will overcome these hard days ... Like how USA uses China as their manufacturing hub Russia should use India

[@HHHPPP8]

This film released in 1999. You can guess how much time has passed since then, today?

[@Niklez7]

overcomes hard times? Russia dosent know good times

[@HHHPPP8]

***** Simply put, these sanctions had not the serious consequences that the West had hoped. In the '90s we lived much worse.

[@HHHPPP8]

Talk sense.

[@2011blueman]

Arjun Sharma this video is from the 1999. SInce then Russia's GDP has gone up over 300%.

[@craigtomkinson8766]

It's a pity for the World and Russia that Gorbachev stepped down to let Yeltsin become President he would have reformed the Soviet union and perhaps we wouldn't be heading towards another cold war situation.

[@dungeon_masster.]

наивный. Горбачев был тормозом реформ

[@brinjoness3386]

I will never understand the hatred Gorbachev got from russians. Compared to yeltsin and the dark ghost he seemed a decent chap.

[@xbox_cheeto5338]

@@brinjoness3386 The argument is that if Gorbachev didn't lead, then neither would have Yeltsin. So Gorbachev caused Yeltsin.

[@DestroyTheTyrants]

1:00 new mix tape from drake y'all

[@chickenvasquez78]

A NU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE

[@alexejgorodnicenko7295]

cheeki khuiki, go work

[@terryboivin9173]

This was seven years ago, is it any better?? Such hard working and hopeful people! I hope their lives have improved over time...

[@veggiedisease123]

This was 23 years ago

[@ByCrom]

7:45 look closely at the year of the colander!

[@sergey3533]

Much better. I was only 6 at the time. But I remember the 2000s. Most of the people were very poor. Many drank. Economic change has been very slow. p.s. This plant is still in operation. Thought it was already closed.

[@runoflife87]

2nd worst time for Russia (after 1992 Gaidar reforms).

[@dungeon_masster.]

крепостное право, гражданская война, 30е годы и застой, дада пошли мы нах*й

[@runoflife87]

@@dungeon_masster. специально для тупых либертариев: крепостное право аж в 1861 году отменили. А твои прыжки на советский период еще раз показывают необразованность.

[@dungeon_masster.]

@@runoflife87 зависимость от помещика отменили в 1861. до 1871 крестьяне не имели право отказаться от навязанных им оверпрайснутых выкупных платежей, которые отменили только 1905. а т.к во время КП можно было еще сбежать от помещика, совковое время было еще хуже, т.к помесчиком и рабовладельцем было государство. учи историю затупок

[@runoflife87]

@@dungeon_masster. примеры помещичества и рабовладения в советское время можно? А то вот даже официальная история этого не знает. Блеа, а кто там царям проталкивал кабалу для крестьян? Правильно, самые лучшие друзья либерах.

[@dungeon_masster.]

@@runoflife87 в совке было принуждение к труду и статья за тунеядство, а это уже равносильно рабству. кабалу для крестьян проталкивали аристократы и монархисты. либералам такая дренная реформа никогда не нравилась, т.к она тормозила развитие капитализма на радость погрязшим в долгах помещикам. те страны которые провели реформу по либеральному принципу, стали великими промышленными державами, а Россия из самой сильной в начале 19 века державы, осталась отсталой аграрной помойкой. спасибо царю батюшке

[@SirianSoul]

hahahhah his russian is so funny ............

[@MrEdHasibuan1996]

I thought Russia already had capitalism, by that I mean State Capitalism, where government instead of people own the means of production.

[@kienwenchang7108]

How Many Russians Marry Chinese? I am OC, Handsome and Fat.

[@hornypervert3781]

Cant do capitalism with a socialistic nation.

[@DeandreSteven]

Other way around. You need private enterprise inorder to generate tax dollars that socialsts need

[@greenbrickbox3392]

@@DeandreSteven not really, China proves that's not really true and state capitalism in many socialist nations was crucial to developing industries without being subject to foreign takeover by more developed economies or private firms.

[@wanglei91]

@@greenbrickbox3392 China follows state socialism + market.

[@vladimirlenin4570]

Communism: Russia your doing it wrong.

[@SP00FCAKE]

+Vladimir Lenin New economic policy = capitalism light. Lenin your doing it wrong. Социализм победит над капитализмом

[@TinTaBraSS777]

Vladimir Lenin владимир не ошибается )

[@FreeAimDog]

mmmm chocolate bonbons and vanilla cupcakes

[@I-DIG-IT-CT]

no need to watch, nothing informative

[@paulwood128]

muslims

[@patrickshea5955]

Tbh it took America over 200 years to achieve such prosperity. Whoever said it would just appear after socialism fails is over excited

[@mr.gorillaz8449]

america is mostly benefitting on history and on other countries, their central bank and the lowest of their society

[@patrickshea5955]

@@mr.gorillaz8449 um no its actually benefited the most from its system of free enterprise. My dad did 15 years in federal prison, got out with nothing but the $200 the state gave him, and started a roofing company and now 10 years later when adding all of his assets up its well over a million dollars. Tbh our economy wasn't built by the banana Republics, those only made three companies wealthie, life is good in America for those that are willing to work smart and make the right moves

[@patrickshea5955]

@@mr.gorillaz8449 but you need to not be a sucker, like not only is no one going to tell you what moves you need to make, they most likely are going to derail you, either out of jealously or because they can't see the value in it and just think it's a waste of time. But if you pick yourself up and try again every time you fail, you'll end up being successful. They average entrepreneur in America failed 7 times before they become successful

[@mr.gorillaz8449]

You are right, but a lot of people do not know what to do. So more central planning would actually benefit them. A lot of people do not have 1 million dollars but maybe nothing or a small amount and are stuck in their lives.

[@patrickshea5955]

@@mr.gorillaz8449 naw your only stuck if you choose to be stuck. My dad was violent felon that Noone would hire and he literally only had $200 when he started his business when he was released from prison

[@VLADIMIR007ISH]

And them Putin arrived and rise the country again , God bless Putin and its people

[@dungeon_masster.]

god bless rising oil prices!

[@infori0]

☭

[@jedibattlemasterkos]

💲

[@TinTaBraSS777]

оптимизм это разновидность шизофрении )

[@MichaelOBrien71]

It collapsed but nobody was burning cities. If it happens in America it’s over. The rural areas will survive but cities will be gone

[@mrocean8139]

Whatever makes you feel better.

[@ZOGGYDOGGY]

The wage system was never abolished in Russia therefore, capitalism was never abolished.

[@mozambique9113]

wasnt wage system is what basically replaced sIavery?

[@mattysav4627]

Wage slavery is not capatlism private property and ussually a free market economy is capatlist there was wage labour under feudalism and will be under the transitionary faze under socialism probably wage labour to

[@be2Gee]

20 years later, nothing has changed. If Russia had just opened up to new opportunities, changes and integration with the rest of the economic world, like several other former Soviet republics did, as well as East Asia and most recently Southeast Asia, and not alienating themselves, the Russians outcome would've looked very different. Both Russia and China is going back to its 50's roots again, which is a shame, at least from a western perspective seing how resourceful they really are. Building a country around the control and ideas of just a handful of people isn't sustainable. It's like it's purposefully built to conflict the next generation of power for their own personal gain. It's a recipe for disaster and again its the people who they will drag down with them. Anyway, I wish the Russians all well but I don't see how Putin can feed anyone outside his greedy ring of oligarchs if he wants to keep the power. Putin is powerful, but only because he has the support from powerful friends.

[@michaelfaglier3180]

@Michael Andrew given recent events China will now go back to the 50s

[@WiLDCATZ]

Opened up to new opportunities? What are you smoking? Yeah it's called the 90s and Russian wealth and industry was plundered by western "investors" and speculators. The Oligarchs were just a symptom of that system which was corrupt after overnight privatization of state assets robbing the people of their livelihoods. Russia tried this for nearly a generation, if they had stayed the course, mind you at great cost to the people in this video, it would have fallen into full blown civil war and a failed state. But that's what the West wanted then and now. Putin inevitably took advantage of this. A system that was created by that drunk loser before him, not Putin.

[@brinjoness3386]

2 years later, and your comment has aged like fine wine, unfortunately.

[@princessmydear]

Ahh now russians have much salary by capitalits lol.... another propaganda video

[@scipioafricanus2]

they should have transitioned into distributism and syndicalism as all countries should. capitalism is almost as bad as communism.

[@nou7401]

you could'nt be any wringer captalism is leaps and bounds better

[@MichaelOBrien71]

Did your professor tell u that 🤣🤣

[@Averrois.]

Capitalism leads to rapid growth that humans can't handle it

[@huymammin5915]

что то все выглядит вполне окей. по сути этому не хватало косметического ремонта, новая плитка, панорамные окна хебе шибе везде, приятная мебель из искусственной алькантары, светильники тиффани местами, новая шпаклевка и редизайн недорогой продукции и все. это бы был рай на земле. и вспоминается на сколько тогда был ШИКАРНЫЙ макдональдс, по видео "красотка" "путешествие в америку(с эл дди мерфи)", "алладдин" и тд. я лет в 9 хранил коробочку от биг мак чтобы ее нюхать😂 она чем то пахла, вкусным. сейчас у меня есть все что нужно, порши, японские аудиосистемы, огромные джакуззи и тд, в общем я живу лучше царей средневековья точно, но такого кайфа конечно нет, как ни крути😊 в ссср было прикольно, именно не ссср, а стремление к западу чтоли, хз. 😊