Ordinary Life in the USSR 1961

Women and children in daily life of the USSR in 1961. Clips from A Visit to the Soviet Union, Part 1: Women of Russia (1962) by Harvey and Alice Richards. Available from the Harvey Richards Media Archive, at www.estuarypres...

[@realIBeliX]

I didnt live long in USSR, I was still very young, but my family always told me about USSR. When my parents were coming from school, their parents usually left apartment keys under doormat, my grandmother could simply put her bike unchained at tree near house, no one even tried stealing it. It is hard to describe life of USSR, because you have to live in it to know. Today in Russia and other EE countries, try putting bike unchained somewhere, it will be gone after 5 minutes.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

The US also used to be like that, people have just become morally bankrupt over the past 100 years. I think the Cold War actually did result in mutually assured destruction, just not with nuclear weapons.

[@oliverkundrat236]

Same here for my parents in Czechoslovakia.

[@republicadesanmarino4267]

@@oliverkundrat236 What did your parents think about communism I mean it was so bad or it was good??

[@oliverkundrat236]

@@republicadesanmarino4267, if we're talking about most of my family. All of them preferred Socialism, because they were able to get a stable job and stable income without needing to worry about the economy.

[@republicadesanmarino4267]

@@oliverkundrat236 Thanks for answering, but I have another question, did your parents live well, did you only have enough for what was vital or could you give yourself some little luxuries? Besides, they think about capitalism,they hate it or simply prefer socialism?

[@estuarypress]

The lives of ordinary people matter. When I posted this video clip a year ago, I had no idea it would be viewed by so many. It shows the importance of keeping these memories alive.

[@XiamaraTheToxicMu]

People that wanted to make the most out of their lives, started out in dorms until they had children and then applied for improvement of living conditions. not a bad system i guess. prefab flats in a single / few models means once you done a few, you did them fast. Even Pripyat was beautiful before the disaster... i watched a lot of real russia channel, ushanka show and Chernobyl documentaries as the Soviet era is fascinating.

[@МагжанСыдыков]

Thank you comrade!✊

[@jonathangasana]

Thanks Paul!!!

[@ian2971]

oh shut up commie

[@jimboonie9885]

@@ian2971 ok liberal

[@fengfrank5073]

As a Chinese, my elder relatives visited USSR often during 70 and 80 (at time China and USSR was hostile toward each other). When they recall the memory of their visiting, they said:"Compare to today's China, USSR surely don't have as much option (such as housing, food, drinks, different brands of clothes etc,), but they do not have any shortages."

[@fengfrank5073]

My relatives visited USSR many times, they saw no shortage of food, clothes etc, however, the choice was limited.

[@cannedstarfish6194]

Maybe they would soon have shortages,在戈地图上台以后。

[@ufodeath]

Only because of the Perestroika reforms of 1985 which completely ruined and contradicted the Soviet Planned Economy. Perestroika converted the entire economy into regional monopoly capitalism overnight. ofcourse there are going to be huge problems created by this. The Capitalist that became extremely wealthy during the perestroika era of 1985 to 1991, are the same billionaires that influence russian politics to this very day!

[@jennycampbell489]

Fane Frank im the mid 80s we had shortages

[@gamermapper]

Your country needs perestroyka. Your government kills uyguys, tiananmen Square (June 4 incident) and also denies the existence of Taiwan as a country.

[@estuarypress]

My experience in helping my parents make this film in the USSR in 1961 was very special and helped form my view of the world ever since. I appreciate all the comments, or at least most of them. I roamed the streets of Moscow and other cities at age 17. It was the first time I was not afraid to walk in the night. I grew up in Oakland, CA where you needed to be afraid to survive. You can interpret that any way you want.

[@edmundlubega9647]

Great clip. The haters will interpret it the following way: the people were afraid of KGB operatives akways lurking about in the shadows.

[@-xnnybimb-9398]

@@edmundlubega9647 or people will see that the diversity (Oakland was and is diverse) is dangerous. Any almost fully European city would be safe to walk at at night, especially in those days.

[@LINESTELECOMCORDEDTELEPHONES]

How are you now? Sir

[@puranabook]

Thank you for this video and kind words. I was born in the USSR in 1970 and I can say that my childhood was very happy. My parents lived very well, every year we traveled all over the country on vacation. A lot of lies have been told and are being told about the USSR and us. And yes, it was absolutely safe to live.

[@Dan4x2282]

Understand 1000%

[@HeftyIde]

I used to live in the USSR for years and I may say that the level of corruption there in 1961 was extremely low by modern standards and invisible to the Western authors of this video; to become a member of the Supreme Council you needed to be promoted by the workers of a facility, so you had to win the sympathies and meet their expectations; most worker deputies were democratic and could be easily appealed to. Also, there were no mass repressions, deportations and empty shops in 1961.

[@dakruise1]

Because everyone was purged by Stalin

[@pepu432]

@@dakruise1 that was more than 20 years ago, stupid

[@dakruise1]

@@pepu432 so

[@lucasworktv]

But still it was worse than in the west. Всё равно с западными странами не сравниться

[@ΓιώργοςΤσιορασίδης]

@@lucasworktv its not true look for example Colombia or Italy tοday or the fascist depression in Australia and everywhere and the poverty of capitalism.. except Iceland Cyprus Norway and 3-4 more countries of capitalism the west shacks

[@estuarypress]

Thanks for your kind words. Much appreciated. The remarkable thing is that this clip has receive so many views. I think many people are listening. Rude comments are everywhere on the internet, not just here. Under it all, people are seeking alternatives to the current state of things. I am glad of that.

[@sinekonata]

Do you have any other resource on this trip?

[@leonardpearlman4017]

I was raised in a torrent of anti-socialist propaganda, it still continues. It's not as strong now b/c it doesn't NEED to be, since generations of people have soaked it up, and tell it to each other, and it of course suits them! Then something like this peeks through for a few seconds!!! If I had seen this at the time the impact would have just been tremendous. It's very impressive now! Those microdistricts for example, I have read about them recently, in very specialized literature. We never had the LEAST idea of any of this at the time!

[@TrueSpace61]

Thanks for posting this. You are doing a great service to humanity, proving that the USSR was actually a great place to live.

[@estuarypress]

it was not acting. i was there and it was real just as it appears. Many happy people. safe streets too.

[@beedub93]

3 and 4 families in a single apartment - sounds swell. Propaganda, pure and simple.

[@estuarypress]

+beedub93 Not simple. Besides losing 20 million people some 20 years earlier in WWII, the Soviet Union lost a major portion of its housing. What they did to replace this lost housing was a modern miracle. The death and destruction from the war was a world historic disaster and they did all they could to overcome it. Read your history.

[@beedub93]

+Paul Richards Ah yes, smiles all around. If standing in line waiting for a loaf of bread is your idea of happiness, then good for you. Poor souls didn't know any better.

[@djoleyt]

+beedub93 Sorry man, but you don't know any better.. I lived in Yugoslavia, but I was visiting USSR.. That country was in crisis then, but people lived better then in Italy or Austria (for example). It was a modern country where people lived much better then today.

[@hawaiiguykailua6928]

+Đole Have you taken into account the NATO and Western toll that was put on the USSR, its plain to see for over 30 years the system worked as a whole. Bankrupting it from the outside was always the goal, and after so many years of an insane arms race, it finally happened. Now we have runaway capitalism(US EU) though and we will be unable to survive the fall from that 300 trillion dollar global western debt mountain when it collapses. Sad way to treat your citizens.

[@SuperKazulka]

Thank you for the truth. We miss our Motherland, destroed in 1991. Maybe we didn't have everything in the Soviet Union, but people had conscience, kindness and respect for each other and our state. Look, this film was made just 16 years after the devastating war. I am 54 years old. My childhood and youth in the Soviet Union were unforgettable. And I do not wish anyone to lose their Motherland.

[@antonijegrmusa4640]

Hello brother I also miss my motherland destroyed in 1991. Lots of fascist politicians destroyed my motherland Yugoslavia. Life back than when our president Tito was alive people were happy,kind and hard working but after his death everything started falling apart. Yugoslavia was a great country builded by brothership and unity between South Slavic people but it was like they forgot that all in 90's and started devestating civil war that led to creation of this poor small states controlled by western powers (unless of Serbia), every time when I think about that country and those great times I want to cry and get back to past.

[@Urm0mz]

@Confederate Kentucky well that's stupid and not comparable.

[@Zwia.]

Typical old people looking at the past with rose tinted glasses. You'd think the elderly would be wise enough to understand how nostalgia clouds your opinions. I can't fathom how people long to go back to a time when they were oppressed, sent to mental institutions or the gulag for minor infractions. A time when the media and information was controlled by the state. I mean you wouldn't even be allowed to access KZbin or even the internet. It angers me you people show reverence to that time by saying things like "motherland" when thousands were killed by it for no good reason.

[@hgv3666]

@@Urm0mz hahahahahah

[@hgv3666]

@@Zwia. and you know that by experience or rrading it lol

[@rachanaraizada]

Thanks! There's so much anti USSR / Russia propaganda thrown at us all the time. Nice to have a counter-balancing view.

[@estuarypress]

That was so true even then. Which is why my parents made the films in the first place.

[@JustM-wq9on]

@@estuarypress Im very happy to see such information being spread in western side,many have bad views,your parents are really great peoplle,and I thank you товарищ from heart. sorry for bad english,I my self lived in soviet union,it is a sad to see peoplle spiting propaganda and sayng that I just "miss the youth"

[@सुशांतमेनोन]

@@estuarypress why not you put more clips then

[@jeffp565]

Oh yes everyone loved the USSR. Especially the people who cleaned up the nuclear waste and starved to meet crop and manufacturing quotas

[@JustM-wq9on]

@@jeffp565 no one starved in USSR,thanks to socialism our country was saved from famines,from 1930's the chronical famines were solved and life quality only rose

[@NikolayMaksimov-j2t]

I was born in 1966 and I remember the 70s and 80s well. It was a fantastic time. No loans, no problems, no worries. And we had everything we needed. Anyone could have more than they needed. To do this, it was necessary to work more, but for what?)

[@puranabook]

Thank you for this video and kind words. I was born in the USSR in 1970 and I can say that my childhood was very happy. My parents lived very well, every year we traveled all over the country on vacation. A lot of lies have been told and are being told about the USSR and us. And yes, it was absolutely safe to live.

[@fashioncat333]

So you saying me if I was gay and feeling free in chosing whatever i want to work or I do not want to work at all, or say something against the dictator I will not be tortured, in jail or dead at that time?

[@Urm0mz]

@@fashioncat333 what's the difference in America? LGBTQ are NOT paid or treated equally. If you commit a high enough treason you go to prisons which are notoriously torturous. We ain't free, bruh. The people who were "granted" freedom still know this 7 generations later. Meanwhile ANYONE that can easily assimilate into middle class think they are free like the bird in that Nelly Furtado song

[@fashioncat333]

@@Urm0mz WE ARE NOT GETTING KILLED, SILENT OR TORTURED BY THE GOUVERNMENT IN USA! I WAS LIVING IN THE 90'S IN BULGARIA WHERE THERE WAS STILL PART OF COMMUNISM LEFT AND BELIEVE ME IN USA YOU LIVE LIKE GODS COMPARING TO RUSSIA OR ANY EAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ! IF YOU WANT PUTIN THEN GO LIVE IN RUSSIA TO SEE IF ITS BETTER OR NOT! IM ALSO AGAINST AMERICAN GOUVERNMENT BUT AFTER I SAW HOW PUTIN CAN TORTURE INNOCENT PPL WITH NO MERCY I AM GRATEFUL I LIVE IN HOLLAND WHERE IS FULL OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM! YES IT'S TRUE WE ARE NOT COMPLETELY FREE BUT AT LEAST OUR WILL, OUR OPINION AND OUR LIFE IS RESPECTED AND NOT THROWN LIKE TRASH AS PUTIN DO ! AND DONT FORGET THE SECRETS AND THE MANIPULATION BEHIND KREMLIN ! THE SECRETS IN KREMLIN ARE WAY MORE THAN IK USA! YOU JUST DONT KNOW AND I WISH YOU WILL NEVER KNOW HOW IS TO LIVE IN COUNTRY LIKE RUSSIA ! DONT SUPPORT A SICK PSYCHOPATH AND SOCIOPATH WHO OBVIOUSLY HAS A MENTAL ISSUE, HIDE SO MANY SZCRETS FROM HIS NATION AND MANIPULATE ZVERY SINGLE SECOND OF THEIR LIFE JUST DON'T ! YOU NEVER SAW A GRANDMA WHO WAS CRYING FROP HAPPINESS WHEN THE USSR WENT DOWN MY GRANDMA WAS LITERALLY IN TEARS BECAUSE WHEN SHE WAS YOUNG SHE WAS THROWN IN PRISON ONLY FROM WEARING A SHORT SKIRT!IN COMMUNISM THEY PUT THEM A STAMP AND THROW YOU IN PRISON IF YOU WEAR A SIMLPE SHORTS OR MINISKIRT ! PLEASE DON'T COMMENT ON TOPIC ABOUT THIS BECAUSE YOU NEVER ECPERIENCED THAT VERSION OF "1984" !

[@fashioncat333]

@@Urm0mz are you kidding me to ask whats the Difference lol like bruh nah ...here you were wrong all the way ! THE DIFFERENCE IS BIGGER THAN A SKYSCRAPER ! BETTER LIVE POOR BUT FREE, THAN WEALTHY AND FOLLOWED BY KGB OR THE GOUVERNMENT EVERY SECOND OF YOUR LIFE! NAH! ITS SHIT! I ( AND MILLIONS OF EAST EUROPEANS WHO ALREADY EXPERIENCED THOSE HORRIBLE TIMES) REALLY PREFER DEMOCRACY OVER COMMUNIST OR DICTATORSHIP TRASH! PERIODT

[@fashioncat333]

@@Urm0mz and believe me LGBTQ+ ppl are treated way more equally and are paid way more than in 20 century the change is really massive comparing to the 20s century !

[@DrillEntertainmentNetwork]

Most people think the ussr was a grey, depressing, hellhole, not this

[@arielkoren8072]

Most of Americans think so...

[@sooryan_1018]

Western Films be like -

[@sooryan_1018]

@Marcos Cárdenas yea

[@gary4423]

That's because Westerners consume nothing but westerner MSM and hollywood.

[@rondawg6961]

Cuba in 1961 rip

[@mohankumar9511]

I'm an indian it's really hurting me . During the 1971 war America got an angry and try to invade india but that time Soviet union blocked US warships in Indian Ocean and the US pull back their ships. Russia is always our great friend. 🇮🇳

[@ahadisgoat]

Ah yes, earned my respect!

[@shohj6600]

Not only Russia. Don't forget 15 other countries

[@MR.Fireblade1097]

@@shohj6600 you mean the soviet republics?

[@Farzaan-n5p]

Thank you indians for letting bangladesh exist,

[@prateeksharma2331]

And that thing still remains in my mind and make me think that Americans are just a bunch of diplomatic bluff

[@bakibaku1236]

It was a wonderful, and a beautiful era. Even though I was in my second year of high school before the USSR collapsed, the older people used to say how the people were living at that time. I used to see people from all part of Union in my hometown, Baku

[@Mehmet_Ergin]

Azeri misiniz

[@nikasamwkusvili9345]

gamarjoba

[@TrueSpace61]

It didn't collapse - it was dissolved by a few of the worst people in history. Other than that, you are correct.

[@abcdefg4119]

Thanks for fighting your position, friend. I was born and lived in the USSR for 35 years. Looking back now I can't believe how lucky I was. The possibility to read Solzhenitsyn's junk and to have "25 sorts of sausage" in the shops now is nothing comparing to freedoms I had under socialist system. Freedom not to be up to my neck in debt, freedom to keep my job, freedom not to read garbage in the paper, freedom not to worry about my son's future etc. These were real freedoms that I had.

[@SloppypapiBeefboi]

What’s a gulag nigga?

[@Nooobus_]

@@SloppypapiBeefboi a prison. We have plenty of those here in America and far more people in them than the USSR ever had.

[@Skrullx273]

Freedom to not think about your son’s future sounds like something an irresponsible father would say. Also you being neck deep in debt is your own doing lmao.

[@Nooobus_]

@@Skrullx273 “someone born and raised in a country without english being their first language isnt able to perfectly express their feelings in their non-native tongue” Its obvious they meant they had the freedom not to worry about their son’s future and financial stability after leaving the proverbial nest. You’re being a nitpicky fuck. You also have no idea how the capitalist economy works. It is built around debt.

[@如峻]

Dear comrade, The Soviet maybe on the wrong way, but Soviet ideal is not wrong. Red tide will come back one day, even in a thousand years!

[@karlmarx5944]

My heart hurts.

[@amdbz6302]

@phoenixkhost fuck you go to gulag !

[@averagesouthvietnamenjoyer6634]

phoenixkhost smells like gulag

[@Aone-oq8gp]

Capitalism is perfected communism

[@RSjs25]

L’ élu NO

[@suomalainenmekko6131]

@phoenixkhost Capitalism does not work. 80% of the world lives in poverty. The whole world is starving, wake up! Only Europe and North America live well, and the rest of more than 150 countries and 5 billion people live in shit. Capitalism is outdated, in the society of the future there simply cannot be the poor or the rich, it is the end of the past.

[@nata315m]

1961. I am 1 year old. My mother is young and beautiful. After 6 years, the state will give mom an apartment. Is free. I'll go to school- for free. Then I will become a student of the Moscow Veterinary Academy. And I will study for free. But all this will happen later...And now...I am one year old and I live in the most beautiful country in the world - the USSR.

[@elenaherwagen3529]

1961. I am 7 and I go to school, a 5 minute walk from home, all by myself. My little sister is at the daycare just across the schoolyard (7am-5pm, 4 meals a day, 10 rubles per month). My duty is to pick her up from the daycare and watch her until our parents come from work. We play at the playground or watch TV (often with the neighbor kids who don’t have such a luxury). On Sundays we drive to the country to pick mushrooms (yes, we own a car - another luxury). Isn’t it a happy life?

[@thegall7437]

Russians liked most the nice, non-communist built apartments that used to belong to people who were sent to Gulags for disagreeing with communists. They liked to be big shot colonizers on other peoples lands. People who were not allowed to go anywhere near the coast by Russian soldiers.

[@TrueSpace61]

Exactly.

[@Garmoniyamirai]

Стоматология в СССР, мы сидим в классе, идёт урок. Заходит зауч и говорит, 1 б, все в кабинет стоматолога ( у нас в школе был кабинет стоматолога и так во многих школах СССР) мы идём, нас 42 человека в классе, всех по очереди осматривает врач и записывает, кому что надо сделать, вырвать или поставить пломбу и прочее. И начинает лечить с этого дня, весь учебный сезон . И так всю школу. У кабинета стоматолога всегда небольшая очередь, детей заставляли лечить зубы, даже если они не хотели. БЕСПЛАТНО!!!! Если случай более сложный, то врач выписывал направление в стоматологическую поликлинику, к ортодонту или на рентген зуба. Там тоже все абсолютно бесплатно! Здоровье нации в СССР было приоритетом!

[@__OOO___]

Хорошему врачу можно и нужно платить, чтобы у него была мотивация. А бесплатно можно и сегодня делать зубы в поликлинике.

[@RadheKrishna-iu7vi]

I can't even explain how my heart started pounding after seeing this incredible video, my love Russia

[@andrejsokolov9431]

Когда живёшь в раю, то не слишком это ценишь. Спасибо за напоминание о моей прекрасной Родине, утраченной навсегда.

[@estuarypress]

Translation into English: When you live in paradise, you don't appreciate it too much. Thank you for the reminder of my beautiful homeland, lost forever. Thank you for this heartfelt comment.

[@andrejsokolov9431]

@@estuarypress Many thanks to your parents who made this video. Thank you so much for posting this video on KZbin.

[@АлмазХамитов-я8в]

не навсегда, товарищ, мы вернём его, обязательно

[@dylanbrowne4078]

@@АлмазХамитов-я8в You could try and bring Russia itself back into the USSR but the Baltics, Ukraine, Moldova and some Central Asian countries are gone forever

[@АлмазХамитов-я8в]

@@dylanbrowne4078 yeah, i kinda think the same, ukrainians and new gen kazakhs hate the USSR, and it's extremely sad to see my own men(kazakhs) believe in the nonsense called holodomor

[@mikeshinoda2806]

it looks peaceful there

[@elena79rus]

Yep. It was.

[@augustuss4073]

FREEDOM! Not everybody were sent to Gulags, you know this, right?

[@kazuhiramiller7491]

"Yeah but they could have brought back the gulags at anytime if they wanted to since the state had absolute power." Last time the state tried to do something stupid like bringing gulags back, USSR collapsed. "North Korea looks peaceful too but 1/3 of the population are in Prison Camps where horrific things happen, you should read about it. China has Laogai system." China is maoist. Maoism is not Marxism so Maoism is not communism. North Korea? Juche. Did Marx imply that you need to imprison your own people in the book? No.

[@kazuhiramiller7491]

Yeah you probably performed such a basic action probably with your ass because there is no such thing like that. If there ever was a thing, Lenin would've established them instead, and forced labor wouldn't be banned after de-stalinization, and forced labor has absolutely nothing to do with imprisoning the people of a nation.

[@Vincent-pd9vo]

yeah and if its not your entire family gets murdered or jailed by the secret agency

[@ankarules]

Wow i just took a couple of minutes to recall my home back in USSR Soviet Georgia. And yes we also lived outside the center on the capitol(in new Soviet blocks where all buildings looked the same:) My kindergarden was 2 min. from home,Russian school about 5 min,Georgian school 2min, medical clinic 5 min,apotheca 6min, gosh what else... grocery store 5-6 min, bus stop 3min, tram 2min,metro/subway 6min, police 6min, emergency/embulance 6min, library 10min.Wasn't too bad,in fact it was good!:))

[@ankarules]

What I miss the most is that my parents could walk me to any clinic or hospital or dentist without appointments, references, insurance cards &all that noncence that I have been going through in all other capitalist countries.And OMG it was freee!Mom had 4 very complicated surgeries done for free.We didn't have to worry that she could be out of work so we would loose home,car or can't pay for school,medical &my future university because all was free!!

[@TheEnder3]

I miss the ussr. It had its ups and downs , its strengths and weaknesses but it showed the world what it was capable of

[@asmrfoodieuk7965]

It cant have been that capable if it failed!

[@nikitag1376]

@@asmrfoodieuk7965 if u put a bomb in the car and blow it up its not gonna be very capable either

[@acktionjackson666]

Yeah capable bullshiting the entire world and collapsing in less than 50 years.

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

Country shouldn't be showing off to the world, but to its own people.

[@memelord6510]

I miss logical people

[@angelu7426]

Soviet constitution granted both racial and gender equality for all citizens. Unlike in the Western world, women and minorities were treated with dignity and as human beings

[@historyeditz8326]

@Ryan Alex well I can say the same About whole world.

[@synkronized]

@Черногорский истребитель racism has gotten way worse since the fall of the ussr. I saw polls and statistics that prove this, and before you call me american liberal, I am a russian socialist.

[@synkronized]

@Черногорский истребитель Ok, I'll take their word

[@Blank-km4qr]

Ah yes such a heaven well except for the 18 million people sent into slavery in Siberia oh and the 3 million killed in holodomor ah yes and who can forget the Red terror and great purges killing millions also. Just great

[@synkronized]

@Черногорский истребитель They never have any evidence. I've heard numbers from 3 million to 300 million.

[@Nifelheim1983]

At least they had not to be worried about a man was shooting from an hotel.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

lol back then ppl didnt even knew much about crimes, drugs and violence, tv, radio was filtered for good news, achievements in space and sports winnings, no internet and all this bad things that teach young generations of violence and capitalism unequality.... because of that ppl were happy cause there was no negative and fear all over media.

[@bugbeemaine]

+Jorge Hdez How many Soviet citizens were executed with a bullet in the back of the head and are buried all over the USSR in mass graves just because they were labeled "enemies of the people"?

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

bugbeemaine i think i mix it with nazies war crimes. Or maybe you talk about stalin regime in 40s 50s? Katyn massacre was was crime and no one justifies that. It was completely different after stalins death, yes soviets had death penalty like usa has, just it was shooting, not electric chair or injection. I think no need to discuss about crime rates in 60s-80s soviet union, and compare to todays massacres, that system worked and people felt safe if they didnt do crimes, that was actually no need, cause most things were free, and jobs were guaranteed. Enemies of the people were people who commit treason, spying, espionage against ussr, and even if that that strict to kill them, it worked, country was patriotic from begginings, and there will always be some bad people, so they did what they needed to do. is it better to have some murdeder or person who is danger to country be in some jail or camp, that he can go out after some years and do same? no one murdered for small crimes, it was capital punishment.

[@bugbeemaine]

+Nostalgic memories Even after Stalin's death, people lived in fear for decades after because of what they experienced during Stalin's time. Katyn was only one of the many mass killings carried out by the NKVD. Crime rates were low in the USSR, but that is true of most all totalitarian societies where people have no rights and are under constant surveillance, and live under threat of torture with no due process or rights for the accused. People were afraid to commit a crime because they knew how they would be punished, unlike in the west where people who commit crimes are let off easy.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

some things are right some not, maybe for 5 10 years after stalins death it was still scary, but 60s 70s trust me was almost utopic, not working was illegal, tons of schools, apartements and factories were built, also if crime rates are superlow, regime works, i lived during those times, and i know what it was like, ppl didnt even lock ther doors... Katyn was war crime and it never happened again after stalin, yes there was so called gulags, but it was jail in that time, they sent criminals to work in north for thier crimes, not like today they get internet and live like in resort. It wasnt perfect, but it was close to it

[@Dogukan737]

'met a teacher taking a years leave with her baby' My god. Such a thing wouldn't even be imaginable in modern day Russia.

[@Plenger25]

I am Russian and I am also interested in watching this video!) In 1961 I was not yet there, but it was the youth of my parents. They said it was a good time. Tsnk you for this video)

[@kaotikdreamer]

Thing is, I grew up in a socialist country and my father was Soviet. This is exactly what life was life. I guess those used to "democracy" can't fathom such freedom....

[@Jimbobasaur]

Democracy is an advanced form of medieval feudalism and nothing more. We're all duped into voting politicians who are supposedly working in someone’s interest besides their own but it’s a dictatorship from then onwards and we have no voice in affairs. Democracy is a con game designed to give the illusion of freedom. If voting actually changed anything they wouldn’t let us do it and in a truly free nation no one will tell you you’re free.

[@evagreen299]

This is what life was like in Moscow. I suppose you never actually looked around what was really going on eh?

[@kaotikdreamer]

Socialism is democracy. Capitalism is slavery. We have a say in government, we have no say in the private sector. Voting with currency is undemocratic, the rich have much more than us.

[@evagreen299]

Whatever you say dude. The soviets took everything away from my family. If you hate America so much, feel free to leave. I will never support communism or socialism because capitalism is the solution. Everyone has a chance, but in a socialist/communist society everyone is degraded. You may have had all the financial security you needed under communism, but you sure as hell had no personal freedoms. Oh and lastly, the United States is not a democracy. It's a constitutional republic. The founding fathers hated democracy because it meant that the 51% could take away the rights of the 49%. This system is meant to protect the people with unpopular views... Something your pea sized brain can't seem to comprehend.

[@Jimbobasaur]

Anika Pasilis Actually capitalism is being eclisped by the collaborative commons, The Third Industrial Revolution. People will continue moving more sectors of their life over to the commons, like we are participating in right now. This is the real, lateral democratic system. The social sector is the fastest growing sector. The vertically integrated Fortune 500 companies have one third of global GDP. The growth rate of these entities is much lower than laterally integrated internet of things, collaborators, co-operatives or the commons. Between 2000 and 2010 the social commons has been growing much faster than the private enterprise market, its revenue has grown at 42% vs 16% for the GDP and the private sector. Some contradictions of capitalism: technological unemployment, aging population, internet of things, additive manufcaturing (production by the masses), near zero marginal cost. "...but you sure as hell had no personal freedoms." Actually, libertarianism and anrchism was traditionally anti-capitalist, hence anti-heirarchy as your freedom in the market is dependent on limiting the freedom of others via competetive edge. "China is currently engaged in transitioning its economy into the Third Industrial Revolution. Premier Li Keqiang, who was elected by the 12th National People's Congress in 2013, is a fan of Jeremy Rifkin and read The Third Industrial Revolution book.[10][11] Premier Li told his state scholars to pay close attention to The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World.[10] Vice Premier Wang Yang has also endorsed the Third Industrial Revolution vision and economic development plan.” ~Wikipedia

[@irinakantt]

Thank you for uploading this on here. It’s a gem

[@FOX-XOF]

Сперва было подумал - очередная звездно-полосатая пропаганда, ан нет... Автору огромный респект, как гвоорится, что показал, как оно было на самом деле

[@БубликПомидорович]

Тогдаб ыли другие американцы.

[@innafox6784]

I'll tell you one fact about life in the USSR. My grandmother lived more than 3000 km away from us. Every summer vacation we lived with her for 3 months. One year our parents couldn't go and my sister and I went on our own. I was 11 and my sister was 8. We had to travel more than 2 days (3 days and 2 nights) with transfers. Now I am a grandmother myself and it horrifies me, but then it did not surprise a single person we met.

[@FlamingAnimation]

Every USSR related video has comments that are just pure cancer

[@D3ltrus]

+The Ghastly Varangian Including yours :D

[@robertpond4919]

+The Ghastly Varangian We can't all be Patricians like you.

[@RikkiSan1]

The Ghastly Varangian I find the fact that so many people thumbs up these videos and are speaking of Communism like it is perfect...disturbing.

[@dmitriysokolov9460]

"Communists killed 20 trillion innocent babies" *looks at 1960 death rate in USSR and sees that it's lower than the US at that time lool.

[@KM-uk2rt]

+Dmitriy Sokolov that's false communism led by a totalitarian leader but not Lenins orig plan

[@beatsbydanzy1459]

literally parents in ussr let their childs go alone to school and go out with friends from a very young age because no one even dared to steal a child etc so it were much happier times, all the american horror and killing movies were filtered out so the children didnt know what "evil" truly meant until the soviet union fell, yall can say whatcha want but id be happy to be born there in that era!

[@daysunny6078]

Maintaining the operation of a giant Utopia is actually very difficult. I admire that the ussr has done it for a short time. I hope to have a better social system in the future, overcome the problems encountered by ussr and replace the current society.

[@beatsbydanzy1459]

@@daysunny6078 yes but actually it isnt the bad aspects of the union woch desstroyed it but rather the fact that humans are evil and the soviet union lost its form of purity as more corrupt people came to power and ultimately gorbachev was a us sponsored leader to destroy the biggest threat to us andn now that us controls all media pretty much theyve brainwashed the ppl on internet into hw muc hgorbachev was a heroe nd stuff

[@АнастасияАлександровна-т1в]

Я родилась в 1961 году , в Москве и всю свою жизнь прожила в ней , и я счастлива .

[@ramentaco9179]

It’s shocking to realize how biased of a view I’ve been given about the USSR my whole life, because this feels shocking to me. Just...average people living average lives. I think a lot of Americans would be shocked to see something like this.

[@СергейКарташков-э9ъ]

Но и сейчас та же история.

[@vladd8948]

Mis mas sinceros respetos por usted y por todos los involucrados en grabar este audiovisual, muchas gracias por mantener estos recuerdos sobre una nación que ya no existe pero que se mantiene viva en el recuerdo historico y en su legado, un saludo y todos mis respectos nuevamente. Gracias.

[@asforemita]

My point is that they started from zero in 1917 and in 80 years they developed themselves more than any other nation in history has ever done. They did that with focus on life in comunity, and as an arquitect student is incredible to me what i see on this video, a programation for life in comunity.

[@СергейКарташков-э9ъ]

И если бы не роковой отказ от проекта ОГАС / Киберсин, СССР не только не погиб бы, но стал светочем мира навсегда.

[@teekey1754]

If you have zero homes and you buy one, it is 100% improvement.

[@asforemita]

@@teekey1754 You speak about a society who defeated nazi, put man on space, had equal rights for man and women and had sucess against drugs... All that in a few decades. Name another nation who did any of those in all of its existance?

[@teekey1754]

@@asforemita Defeated Nazi: helped (secretly) , Hitler to develop their tanks and tactics, training his airman when Germany were not allowed to do that, Stalin congratulated Hitler for defeating France in 1940, signed Ribbentrop - Molotow pact, didn't believe even his own intelligence about plan Barbarossa. Equal rights: still no women in government like in States. 1917 experiment fizzled out after 70 years. Put a man in space ? Whole nation paid with a lower standard of living. Lost WWI to Germans so they could sent their armies to the western front. Success ? Sent millions to gulags (not necessarily their own citizens), relocated several minorities. And now Putin.

[@asforemita]

@@teekey1754 U r just out of context to make your points valid, we are talking about URSS progress as a society and not about its sins as a nation or about Russia today. You canot undo good things they did by listing the bad ones. Its childish.

[@oyuk4618]

Can’t believe my grandpa used to study in Moscow in the 1960’s. This is what he saw and lived through.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

And what does he say?

[@StayBasedJesus]

Lucky

[@oyuk4618]

@@Anonymous-qj3sf He's from Mongolia and he went to Moscow on a train when he was 18 with no exposure to the Russian language and culture. He spent a few years there and went back to Mongolia after graduating. His Russian is still pretty solid now and he said that he supports Russia no matter what.

[@SoydeCubaCompay]

a great country!. in 1960. 20 years after a devastating war and they were already going up the hill. in education, public health, engineering... ❤ ☭

[@САШКАСЕРАГОВ-ч4ш]

Twenty-two million square kilometers without a single McDonald's and not a single Coca-Cola advertisement. This is true science fiction!

[@piero17y65]

Lol

[@vikulya78]

I have to admit that this is a very honest account of what it was like back then....My parents' photographs (who were young people at the time) look exactly the same. I was born a lot later than the time shown in this video but can relate to almost everything that is being mentioned here. Thanks a lot!

[@anabolti682]

A place without phones, where children played outside. I remember those good old days

[@PartyComrade]

USSR: Exists as a normal country Cold War Propaganda: I'm gonna end this man's whole career

[@sontubanerjee9949]

Is USSR a country??

[@myDickbiG]

@@sontubanerjee9949 yes since 1920-1991

[@sontubanerjee9949]

@@myDickbiG I mean it comprised of several republics.

[@hemprope4326]

@@sontubanerjee9949 The Republics were like different states of the USSR.

[@sontubanerjee9949]

@@hemprope4326 Oooo

[@sdd1514]

This video made me realize how everything in our world is transient, yet humans are always unsatisfied with what they have. Life goes on, before and after:)

[@asforemita]

They had one of the best education and health programs in the world. Coletive transport like trains were better than the richiest captalist nations. They made progress in areas like phisics, chemestry and aerospacial. The corruption broght them down, they invested in military because it was the only way the west would respect them.

[@MrRight-fu1gf]

The Soviets wanted to de colonize the world. The West had many colonies such as in Cuba and Vietnam. So of course there would be tension. The west is like you messin with my money! Soviets like why are you stealing from people that can’t fight back. The West was like White supremacy bitch!

[@Diego-lt4wm]

Yes, the US pushed the USSR to heavily invest in their military

[@MalleusImperiorum]

In the early 60's, life standards in the USSR were on par with those in the US.

[@Sonder831]

This is how it will be more correct - In the early 60's, life standards for the soviet people were on par with the life standarts in the US... for pigs.

[@MalleusImperiorum]

@@Sonder831 Oh, tell us more about your life as a pig. It should be most entertaining.

[@fun_ghoul]

@@Sonder831 I mean, you are qualified to talk about pigs... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpqbgXeBgLKFqMk

[@fun_ghoul]

@@Sonder831 I mean, you are qualified to talk about pigs... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpqbgXeBgLKFqMk

[@fun_ghoul]

@Marcos Cárdenas The tenor of your comment suggests that you didn't read, or didn't understand, that Dmitry fuck's comment.

[@maxushka.2529]

My parents were ussr citizens in Uzbekistan and this is true

[@eb7446]

Russia still organized residential areas like this - it's very efficient - with a kindergarten, a pharmacy, grocery store right next to a bunch of apartment blocks.

[@НатальяЛевашина-с2д]

I am 30 years old, and I am still trying to justify the act of my parents, why they allowed this to happen, ruined the Soviet Union .... we are children, we reap the fruits of our parents, I am afraid for the future of my children.

[@joebidet2050]

Not your parents Gorbachev

[@kenetickups6146]

@@joebidet2050 Gorbachev was the second best leader the soviets had you tankies hate him because he dodn't kill enough

[@sid2112]

Because the world didn't want to be a cog in your Soviet meat grinder. Your parents are heroes for helping rid the world of communists.

[@nikasamwkusvili9345]

@@kenetickups6146 im sory can you pls explaine im from gergia a former republic of ussr wher ar you from

[@tymaldo]

Имея не ценим - теряя плачем. Кто бы что не говорил но социализм ещё поднимет голову.

[@Garmoniyamirai]

Социализм - это будущее человечества, если конечно оно будет прогрессировать. Это лучший сценарий человечества.

[@Григорий-ю6й5ш]

Проблема социализма в человеческой природе. Этому строю нужно инертное пассивное большинство, не стремящееся чего-то добиться, но послушно идущее за некой лидирующей верхушкой. И вот этому всегда будет мешать гормональный фон.

[@benedettobruno1669]

March 2021. KZbin videos like these are finally showing me that what we Italians were led to believe in the 1970s and the 1980s about daily life in the European Communist countries was a bunch of lies.

[@estuarypress]

Hard to answer big questions in a few words. My view is that the capitalist world surrounded the USSR with hostility and war. That is the context of the undoing of the Soviet Union. Why did it go down without a huge war? It was not a capitalist country. That is a lesson we all need to ponder. A unique event in all of history. Thanks for subscribing.

[@jessemiller6318]

Here are some rules we should follow before commenting on videos like these: 1. State where you were born 2. State when you were born 3. After 1&2, state your experience in the USSR. The Soviet Union, just like every other nation has its own eras and was not perfect.

[@jessemiller6318]

1. West Germany 2. 1989 3. The USSR fell like 5 months after I was born, so I'm just here to listen. I'm just tired of anecdotes though.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

agree, cause it feels like comments are comming mostly from ppl who never lived in soviet union, and was affected by strong western propaganda.

[@ezrathegreatconqueror]

Jesse Miller actually the USSR fell about 2 years after you were born

[@fun_ghoul]

@@ezrathegreatconqueror He probably meant DDR.

[@mikhailalmaz]

@@NostalgicMem0ries true

[@7graywolf7]

One thing a lot of western people don't know about the Soviet Union is that they were a nation made almost entirely of engineers and skilled tradesmen/women. It's obvious of course, but well, there's a reason they made the best equipment on the planet with the second or third best technology. Their government itself consisted exclusively of technical specialists earning it a bit of a technocratic flavor. How many of our politicians can say they know how to design engine components?

[@cxidp]

I learned the 1960's, the first post-Stalin decade, was the height of Soviet civilization. In the giant nation Stalin built and fought for quality of life became good and lifespan even slightly surpassed American lifespan by at least a year. So the Western "anticommunist" era ironically came when life in the Soviet Union was not a time of misery but a time of flourishing.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

@Dmitri Patronov sure cause ussr were just staling..what a cancer you are.

[@TPDManiacXC626]

Despite the corruption in the government during and after Stalin, it seems like daily life in the USSR was much better than what it's like in America right now.

[@pvigil1995]

I hope you all realize that everything you saw in the video was what the Soviet government allowed to be shown, most likely a product of deluded Soviet-sympathetic Westerners. The USSR and other communist countries were notorious for letting visitors see only what they wanted them to see. For example, you won't see any gulags or forced labor camps or shortages of basic goods and services frequent in Soviet times that would be considered impossible in capitalist countries. I seriously hope you're joking when you say "better than America right now".

[@TPDManiacXC626]

I was joking. Though I'm going through college now and I don't have enough money for essentials like foods and college books and fun stuff like DVDs, comic books, and new video games. Plus it's a no-brainer the U.S.A. economy is down the toilet. And more importantly, how did you reply to that comment? Tell me how to reply to other people's comments and rate those comments. I would love to have the help please.

[@dustyhatkins]

Pedro Vigil and the US government isn't going to let you see inside guantanamo bay or whatever's been going on in area 51. not many governments will allow much transparency, especially not the US government.

[@pvigil1995]

We're talking about general living standards of these countries, not status of prisoners of war. Russia probably has worse than Guantanamo Bay anyways considering its long history as a police state. Area 51 is a secret base where they tested American U-2 spy planes. It was recently made public that the supposed UFO sightings were actually U-2's being tested in the area. Evidence for aliens is laughable. But let's not go into aliens since that's another unrelated subject. The point is, the average American has it much better than the average Soviet/Russian citizen. In some cases, even the poorest American has it better.

[@dustyhatkins]

Pedro Vigil well your first comment to which I replied mostly talked about transparency, you arguing that we only see what they want us to see, which i agree is true, is also true to a certain extent for the us. yes area 52 is a base where they tested planes, what tells us there are no convicts sent there to serve as test subjects for experiments of any kinds? MKultra did exist after all, and probably not everything has or will be released. I haven'T even mentioned aliens. and the last argument is terrible, I would argue that you know nothing about russia, know no russians and are over nationalist, but it would probably be useless. I encourage you to learn more about what you say before saying dumb things like "even the poorest American has it better.", even to learn much more about your own country, of which 1\6 people live in poverty. dosvedania.

[@Dew2Much]

I’d love to go back to those times and live there

[@madcat789]

Gotta admit, having everything in walking distance just sounds nice.

[@алекс-о9щ7р]

Спасибо, за ваши отзывы о СССР. Вспоминаю о Дин Рид ,Анджела Дэвис ,Саманта Смит. Мы не были богатые материально,но были богатые душой, как и вы.

[@TheMADC999]

1:49 1 year maternal leave is definitely unheard of at that era in capitalist nations. Even today not many countries provide that benefit to new parents.

[@obama-bin_laden]

Maximum 6 months I've heard

[@thepeoplescommissaroflabor2399]

Thank you for posting such valuable and infomative content.

[@freddie9546]

Many of my ancestors were killed or brought to gulags for no reason they knew about. Any day, anything from their farms could be taken away. Life was very poor, the same goes for the society. If you weren't a lover of communism the best thing that could result is that you would get treated horribly. Especially in Hungary were my grandfather lost his job and his sport career because of the Soviets. I could add that it was worse in Ukraine. The Soviets took almost everything they had so they could provide their puppets. It says a lot considering that the puppets was already very poor. Do not ever show support the Soviet Union. No matter what you are told. A majority of the people found themselves in a horrible dystopian society. All of us should learn how to prevent these things so that no one needs to experience what my ancestors did. Let's start with seeing the truth.

[@thepeoplescommissaroflabor2399]

@@freddie9546 nahhhh. I'm gonna be honest with you chief, I don't care about any Kulaks. By 1954, 2,369,220 people had been sent to gulags in the Soviet union. Today in the US there is over 3 million more people in jail than there were in Soviet gulags by 1954. And there are also declassified CIA documents in which they reveal the truth about the Soviet Prison system. The conditions in soviet prisons were decent, prisoners were supplied food, material benefits/ payment for working, 8-10 hour work days (like anyone else in the country) Read for yourself: (stalinistkatyusha.wixsite.com/stalinist-katyusha/single-post/2018/10/04/The-Truth-about-the-Soviet-Gulag---Surprisingly-Revealed-by-the-CIA) Like any society there were issues and mistakes, but to paint the Soviet Union like some dystopian evil place is dishonest of you and plain untrue.

[@crowrequiem3934]

Thank you sir for bringing us this piece of history. My country had a complicated relationship with the USSR, good and bad, but we are still grateful for its past contributions to our development. One must know history to learn from it, and to understand who or what can be trusted, what works and what does not, the death of USSR has taught us a memoriable lesson indeed.

[@estuarypress]

Well put. Thanks for the comment. I wish more people understood what you are saying.

[@vladgreene5274]

my mother grew up in the CCCP and she didn't mind it at all. security of a job, government provides healthcare and housing and so on. She loved those aspects. however she did agree that liberties were very limited. Also, her family was slightly privileged, Her uncle was a government official and drove a big Russian Cadillac (provided by the government of course), if you will. that kind of goes with "everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others." So overall her family was better off than some described in these comments I suppose. she did say; however, that they had a quite lengthy vacation each year provided by the government (duh) I'm not sure how long exactly, but about a week to a month long. So I guess my point is that socialism and capitalism are both flawed but at the same time have their benefits. In capitalism, you own what you make (supposedly) but in socialism your well being is pretty much guaranteed. The problem with socialism like in the CCCP is that it discourages innovation that could lead to new goods that could help the economy circulate and help the standard of living in increase. Capitalism encourages such innovations. I mean look at China or India. they were much more poor before capitalism. still lots of poverty don't get me wrong, but are definitely better than before. the CCCP was also very corrupt. it was a great idea but no one is truely equal. the U.S. is also very corrupt. our founding fathers would be highly disappointed. it depends on leadership too. if the USSR allowed small businesses and allowed more liberties, it wouldn't have fallen. the economy wouldn't have tanked like it did. Gorby was good in what he did. but it was too late. you can't have a strictly capitalist society or a strictly socialist society. there needs to be a blend. Otherwise capitalism would be feudalism and socialism would provide no growth. in the U.S. capitalism is regulated. no monopolies are allowed, and minimum wage is protected under law. that's regulation of the economy which is an element of socialism. as for those that say the U.S. and capitalism has too much poverty, they're right! however people have to be willing to work themselves up in capitalism. in the U.S. you'll hear many stories of people who had nothing but now live very well. people come here with nothing, but then become well off thanks to hard work. in socialism, you'll be at the same place in life no matter what. no chance to do anything more with your life. idk I'm just blabbling now. both systems in the end have their flaws, and it depends on leadership too. but I personally believe capitalism is a better system than socialism when it comes to economical growth and standard of living.

[@unity20000]

***** aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. you are THAT guy, who is bullshitting in ALL ussr related youtube videos with contradictory and conflicting 'life stories in ussr'. the fake soviet.

[@lukebruce5234]

***** You are forgetting something. Russia peaked in the 60s. The standard of living was lower than in every western country, however it could compare way better to the west than it can now or than it could in the Imperial days. HDI shows Russia way lower now than it did back in the day. In the 60s it was around no.20 in the world, now it is ranked 57th. You are not putting it into context. Russia was always poorer than Switzerland, Germany or the USA. It was not the communist party who made it poor.

[@lukebruce5234]

***** Statistics are being misinterpreted everywhere. However though, HDI is not a communist statistic and the GDP numbers are generally taken from western statisticians. There is enough known about the USSR, it is not that only you hold the undisprovable truth and every number out there that disagrees, no matter if the research was done by westerners, is fake. What is your point? That life in the Russian empire with the life expectancy of 32 (while the USA had 54 and Sweden 59) and 70% illiteracy was great and now in RF is again great and it is only the Soviet Russia which is there to be blamed for everything?

[@lukebruce5234]

***** No. We were talking about HDI, to which you replied that it was a communist statistic which means a false one and to prove your point you mentioned the suppression of the 1937 census. I replied that suppression and misinterpretation of information happens everywhere. For example we have the unemployment statistic, which is being counted differently than in the past to make unemployment look lower. Now that I cleared this lets go back to the HDI!

[@umbertocantoro1786]

You are right when you say capitalism is better in improving technology and productive forces in general and this because of the interest of the capitalists in making profits..but if you had red Marx you would know that this is just the natural limit of the capitalist accumulation..Too much capital and goods accumulated,less rate of profit can be extracted by industrial production,increasing unemplyment due to the use of machineries,decay of cunsumption and crisis of overproduction..destroy the environment to produce useless goods is not really smart for me..

[@yuriiavanisian3154]

Вооруженные силы СССР. Смотря на эти кадры, просыпается давно забытое чувство гордости за свою страну.

[@elementone9454]

гордиться надо высоким уровнем жизни, высокими зарплатами, то что твои дети ни в чем не нуждаются, а вы гордитесь арминей, войной и смертями, вот поэтмоу вы и развалились

[@belaruspatriot8309]

I will tell you what I know, I come from Belarus, from the capital Minsk. Now I live in the Netherlands. I never lived in the USSR, but i found it always interesting. In school they tell about the horros of the soviet union. About how people were executed and there wasnt enough food and people were dying on the ground. Butt schoolbooks are often based on what the goverment wants you to believe. So I asked my familie about the soviet union, my mom, my dad, grandparents, uncels and ants. And I will tell you how they lived in the soviet union. My mom was a student, and they really didnt care about politics and economy. Every weekend she did go to the club, she studiet hard, in University. She often goed swimming in the pool. She did what she wanted and nobody really care. Even on the day that Breznev died (communist leader) she goes to the club. She told me that live was really good, there was enough food, nobody cared about drugs, there was almost no criminallity, if you came drunk from the club you could hire a cab, but most students just go to a police car and asked if they could bring them home. And often the police did it. My mom worked the last days of the soviet union in a sort of restaurant (stalovaja) they had many thing to offer, different kinds of meat, pastas, potatoes, different kinds of salads. There was even for people who were allergic or were on dieet a special meal. Thats in short how mu mom lived. Ky father, I dont really talked much with him about it, but he trades snickers and other west candies on the playground. My grandpa was a communist, he was high rancked, but after he found out about the horrors the party did in stalins time, he left the party. And because he was high ranked and the communist prty didnt want him to open his mouth, they gave him a job as a truck driver between soviet union and the west. He got a mercedes and traveled many time between soviet union and netherland and france. On the way back he took candy with him that my father sold on the playground. My grandma have even now haveDutch Gulden( dutch currency at the time). Thats a little bit of mu fathers live. With my grandma I have the most interessting conversation. She told me: in times of SU people werent rich, but everyone has enough. There was stabillity, you knew that the next day you have a house, you have a income, you know that this is the price of bread. And that a year later it will be still the same price. Also most people think that every salary in communism is the same. Thats wrong, your salary come from how high educated you are and how hard your job is. The mother of my uncle wasnt smart but she worked hard. She worked in a farm and was cleaning the poop of the cows from the barn. Thats work nobody wants to do so it paid very well. 600roubles a month. My granpa worked as the manager of Minsk tractor works and he worked as a ordinarybworker at the same time and earnd around 400 roubles. Also there wasnt a house problem. My grandparant worked hard and earned enough to buy a big second house. So they had a appartment and a house outside the city. Also my granpa buy a car. A car at the time was more expensive than a house. I can tell mich more and with more details about everything. But I am already typed enough I think.

[@estuarypress]

Thanks for your info. Real experiences are good to know about. Please add more whenever you have time.

[@sergeynemir]

"We pretend that we are working,and they pretend that they paying us!" That was the private motto of nearly every Soviet Citizen. I know, I was one!

[@bloodynight1384]

No work no food, this is still a fact in Socialism and in a central panned economy this unproductivity can be controlled by splitting the business that no one works and send the ones that do NOT work to other more productive businesses in order to get to a productive climate, my uncle went to university in USSR and he studied photography

[@GamesNestful]

Кстати, в нынешней капиталистической России это даже более актуально.

[@bloodynight1384]

@Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicolvocanoconiosis well... No, under capitalism those who pay you take away all the wealth you produce and they give you a part of it in order for you to survive and have the ability to produce more wealth for them, and they use all this wealth that they collect in order to make their companies more competitive, if they don't, their companies will close, so in order for their companies to survive they have to take more wealth from you, for their profits, so they cut more money from your wage, the only way for the employees to have a little more of their wealth back, is by starting a Strike and stop the production, then the boss has to give them what they want, but the market makes him treat again in that way to his employees, so what's the solution to this problem? The solution is Socialism, the employees ALL TOGETHER must control the production according their needs, with no competitivism and all the wealth returning to the people

[@bloodynight1384]

@Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicolvocanoconiosis look, a fact is that workers under capitalism are not unproductive, they are forced to give all their energy to their work in order to keep their job, because the boss replaces the with machines and more and more people are getting unemployed, so they have to compete with each other in order to keep their jobs, but technology is not the problem, the problem is it's use, under Socialism technology would be used to make working hours less and the workers will have more free time, under Socialism we will fight unproductivity in two ways, the first is for those who choose not to work, to not getting paid and the rise of technology that makes production want less human work. Because we live in 2020 and the technology has so much progress, the conditions in order to make Socialism to work are way much better than in 1917, but the problem is that people are still afraid, they prefer to live in poverty because the age of Social Democracy, made them believe that capitalism works, but this lie is collapsing, wages are falling, healthcare and education become a benefit of the rich, these conditions are awful and Capitalism has nothing to give anymore to the humanity, it is a dead and toxic system, the Capitalists cannot hold it anymore, the poor are becoming more poor, thay pay all the taxes of the State and all their money is going for police and army, in order to beat every poor who protests for a little bit better wage, what has to give this system to us, to the poor exept for violence, war and poverty? It has nothing, we have nothing, only our chains, the only way for a better future is Socialism, it is Revolution, to take our wealth back and use it for our needs, it's our right to have free and total education, its our right to have free healthcare, transportation, housing, access to the art, to sports, to entertainment, this is the real freedom and it's beautiful

[@bloodynight1384]

@Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicolvocanoconiosis well, with the common logic if no one works no one eats, Socialism has three roles before Communism, the first is to win the other ideologies through education, the second is to win worldwide and the third and the most difficult is to make people have the logic to work according to their abilities and consume according to their needs, unproduvtivity is not a problem if someone don't have the ability to produce as much as he must, it is a problem when someone chooses to not work, this type of thinking is what Socialist Education will destroy. And exept from that, under Socialism, technology will still be developing and used for people's needs what that means? That we will have new more productive machines and it will need less time for employees to work in order to produce enough to cover their needs and less work means more free time, so they will have more time to educate themselves, to come in touch with the Art, that has as a result a more educated Society, a Society that Democracy an work perfect, but in USSR there was a huge problem, there was not enough political education, that's why people didn't know their rights and they didn't used the Soviet Democratic system to change their opportunist leadership (after Stalin's death), who gave more abilities to the directors of the State companies and created a new Capitalist class

[@paolomargari]

An amazing world!

[@mchobbit2951]

Children can walk to school in 5 minutes without crossing streets, school teachers can take a one year off work with their baby, proper neighbourhoods and parks?? That sounds a lot better than modern America.

[@insus100]

Then go to a socialist country where you earn $10 a month and you're lucky to find some food in the supermarkets.

[@acutechicken5798]

@@insus100 The Soviet Union doesn't exist anymore, troglodyte.

[@insus100]

@@acutechicken5798 I never said it does my friend. There's no need to insult. Go to Venezuela or Cuba, start from 0 there then you comment back.

[@Maperator]

FBI want your location

[@acutechicken5798]

@@insus100 He said Soviet Union was better. Doesn't mean he wants to go to socialist Cuba or capitalist Venezuela.

[@elperrodelautumo7511]

The Ushanka show truly shows a former soviet Ukrainians historical perspective of the later era of the USSR. Truly a nostalgic story worth the tell.

[@luxurywavesceylon1563]

♥ this!

[@estuarypress]

Thank you!

[@MedardKrzisnik]

It's good to see the movies the people shot themselves like this one, depicting the ordinary life. It is very different, beautiful.

[@sohrb]

it was like watching footage from the 50s in america. they looked really similar.

[@Admin-gm3lc]

Не было тогда дефицита и повальной коррупции, и достойный труд вознаграждался. В те времена мой прадед-фронтовик в нашем мухосранске за несколько лет с рабочего дошел до нач цеха, ему гос-во дало газ-21, квартиру, садовый участок, притом что он из кулаков был. И простым рабочим тоже много чего давали. Да даже народ был дружнее и помогал друг другу, потому что пили заметно меньше. Конечно не было бананов и еще многого, но для хорошей жизни хватало.

[@AlexMoonXXI]

Был чудовищный дефицит. Люди толкались в очередях днями "занимая" в разных магазинах, чтобы хоть что-то "достать". И коррупция была тотальная. Называлась она "блат". Партийные боссы, торгаши, всякие директора СТО и прочая шваль имела всё, а честные труженики толкались в очередях. А достойный труд вознаграждался копейками. Авторы многомиллионных изобретений награждались... грамотами. Алкаши-рабочие с завода зарабатывали больше, чем моя мама - врач 1-й категории, 6 лет проучившаяся + ординатура + много лет бессонной работы в Скорой. Так что не надо розовых соплей!

[@HeftyIde]

Yes, that was what we once enjoyed. The difference is noticeable also in the mentality of the people; compare the older generation of our compatriots with younger ones, they have absolutely different value systems: the latter became so much less humane and responsive in comparison with our peers, it's striking. We were raised in an entirely different spirit and therefore enjoyed living in a far less dangerous and corrupted society not based on the law of the jungle.

[@Катюша-щ5ю]

The problem with most of the world is that they can't see the beauty and simplicity of life without wealth

[@pandequeso9740]

Every time I hear my father whining about the soviet union, I like to remember this video, and to know that many of the bad things said about it, was just cold war american propaganda.

[@stalker4474]

America, South Africa in the 20 century: apartheids, racism, crimes, poverty USSR:

[@hannahmonize1436]

Stalker 44 And just a few million of their own people DEAD due to man made famines and in Prison camps.

[@litteraire25]

Hannah Monize Oh Hannah, Hannah, Hannah... repeat after me: Russian famines stopped after 1947. Stopped after 1947. After 1947 ! And those deads were no innocents either. Not killing enough people for instance costed Tito’s Yugoslavia to crumble. The divisive nationalists he left alive ruined that beautiful country of his after his death... so, for USSR to survive until Gorbachev’s incompetence and Yeltsin’s coup was a miracle. You wealthy westerners always blame socialism but what about Tito ? Brezhnev ? Ho Chi Minh ? If socialism was a failure, then tell me how such a poor miserable shithole country was able to rival USA, send a man into space, lower child mortality, supported black activists in Murica (Rosa Parks and MLK), create the most powerful atom bomb to this day and extend life expectancy ? Meanwhile Europe and Amerikkka are still fucking up the world from centuries ago to this day (Liberia, Libya, Sudan, Yugoslavia, Iran, Yemen, Congo, Native Americans, Haitians, Hawaiians, Aborigenous, Aztecs...). You know what ? The West is the greatest murderer in history. Not socialism, Hannah.

[@hemprope4326]

@@hannahmonize1436 Yeah. And a century prior the US had killed hundreds of thousands of black people with slavery.

[@nicolopiva2811]

@@hannahmonize1436 ehm no but ok.

[@nicolopiva2811]

@Ion well no they were 1,053,849 according to historians J Arch Getty, Gabor T Rittersporm and Viktor N Zemskov, who studied the soviet archives. Also according to historian Austin Murphy "only" 160.000 were killed, but the other died because of natural conditions.

[@trumands5244]

0:10 US be like: Folks starving in the beach in the Soviet regime

[@Aymcana]

But USSR actually had deficits. Its like North Korea now, these videos show only the good stuff. Poverty was a big thing in the Soviet Union

[@PC42190]

Source: Radio Free Europe

[@pygmalion8952]

@@Aymcana poverty was not a big thing in the ussr. ussr under stalin suffered from famines because he is a fucking psychopath and tried to change scientific knowledge with his beloved biologist lysenko. ussr's life expectancy grew every year, working hours got shorter and shorter etc. not to mention that country fought intensely with his new economy to fight the nazis. but you are right that, whenever poverty *did* occur in some region, it was downplayed and ignored. poeple, still to this day, want to go back to USSR days. and i am not even a state socialist (although i am a socialist [i am for free association, economic democracy, municipal direct democracy,) and i don't advocate for state ownership or command economy but you gotta give that russia today is fucked and you shouldn't eat up american propaganda. if you want to criticize it criticize this way: ussr was authoritarian, it destroyed an elite class to create their own elite class, it was ineffective on many consumer goods, ineffective as a political system (ussr tried to invent internet but blocked itself by, you guessed it, politics) ineffective on workers (the main subject) autonomy, ineffective on democracy, ineffective on checks and balances etc. you can't criticize a country with lies. there is whole lotta thing to criticize and be disgusted about ussr but 'people were hungry' is not that. russia under tsar was fucked on that, not ussr. that is why there was a revolution.

[@PC42190]

@@Aymcana according to the World Bank, the USSR had a poverty rate of 2% in the 80’s. Meanwhile, my country Chile, a neoliberal “””success”””, could only dream to have that povery rate.

[@Aymcana]

@@PC42190 if you use the poverty line definition of the USA, then the USSR had 90% of people living in poverty. NorthKorea also claims to have 4% living under poverty line

[@KidMalone]

Love this. Nice to see one of many, massive social projects. They worked very hard to sort things out, shame they ultimately failed.

[@timsummers870]

Nice piece of history. Kudos to the makers of this film and thank you for posting it.

[@ElieserPinto-v3k]

adorei parece São Paulo nos seus tempos antigos camaradas

[@alexxxXXXrus]

live was not so easy, but there was no homeless, unemploee and hungry. every one had possibilities to high-education, sport, health etc we havent free to abroad travel, business, being gay amd politics. And thats all! As example, we have no idea about drugs, crimes was soo rare, many doors just had no locks. Death in on the screen was showed only in a war movies. There was not so bad place to live for ordinary human. But for NOTordinary there was a real hell, no doubt.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

*because you can orchestrate a drought*

[@ascendedbro1828]

Omega Guy First - 2,5 millions dead because of hunger caused by drought. Second 1,2 million in Ukraine. Third noone needed to orchestrate killing of your own people. Your own human resources.

[@anybodynoname8767]

Why was life hard then? I thought people only had to work for like 5-6 hours a day there...

[@chatnoir1224]

In many cases it was opposed: in rural areas people had their own gardens and animal farms. They always had fruits, vegetables, eggs, chicken meat.

[@NostalgicMem0ries]

you are talking about post ww2 times and stalin regime. It wasnt like that when stalin died, in 60s-70s early 80s life was very calm and smoove, ppl had what they needed, not like today tons of crap around but we cant buy it cause of low wages, in past many stuff was free and limited, but at least ppl didnt get cancer and various other diseases from bad food like today.

[@estuarypress]

Thanks for this comment. The reality of ordinary life means alot for how history will view socialism. I experienced that friendliness during my visit in 1961 and it has stayed with me all the years since. It matters to me.

[@robertacuna2358]

SEE!!! THEY'RE JUST REGULAR PEOPLE!!!

[@sabribeser2268]

İt was the golden age of Soviet Union until it ended

[@cagtay.]

Wilhelm Der Kaiser But you‘re probably from Germany. The leadership in Germany was way different than in USSR. I would recommend you to research more about this, it’s very interesting

[@sooryan_1018]

@Wilhelm Der Kaiser well, still not quite in Russia

[@jimboonie9885]

@Wilhelm Der Kaiser So it wasn’t russia 🤫

[@tatunevalainen2347]

@@jimboonie9885 what do you mean by "it wasn't russia"🤔lithuania was literally part of the soviet union

[@adkjani1]

A true workers paradise!

[@ltprojects856]

More like nightmere. Only those who had god conections benefited of soviet society.

[@Indrius]

LOL I hope you end up and get stuck in one of such "paradises".

[@Indrius]

Says "Joe Mattock", a westerner leftist idiot who has never experienced in his whole life what's it like to live under an oppressive communist regime. Everybody has jobs in North Korea too.

[@secularataturkist4674]

+Indrius I'm part Russian myself and my relatives and family lived in the USSR. you have no right to speak idiot.

[@Indrius]

Too bad you have never lived in the USSR yourself. I have a misfortune to have been born there. Case closed.

[@nrkapa]

Wow such a horrific dictatorship where there are horrible atrocities being commited everyday and there is one year of parental leave, poor parents.

[@estuarypress]

Thank you Mr. Kuznetsov for your calm voice of reason.

[@GabrielGarcia-km2ou]

"We have defeated the wrong enemy"

[@jacobmcboyle9800]

Patton was talking about the Germans lol

[@Charles-hy6gp]

The real enemy is Israel

[@GabrielGarcia-km2ou]

@@jacobmcboyle9800 i was talking about the stupid world that made the USSR collapse but not the USA

[@GabrielGarcia-km2ou]

@Черногорский истребитель I hope we will

[@mriggs596]

Why would you take a quote about destroying the USSR being the right course of action and then spin it as the exact opposite...

[@BVargas78]

Ever noticed that our current era of globalisation and factory jobs being off shored to poorer countries only began after the soviet union fell?

[@valerija.legasov548]

Thank You for this amazing footage, great insight in to the life in the Soviet union... Staly healthy and be safe! All the best from the Czech republic :-)

[@vladd8948]

What was life like in socialist Czechoslovakia?

[@valerija.legasov548]

I was born in The Czechoslovakia in 1985, exactly 4 years before The Velvet revolution begun, on the 17th November 1989. I could not remember real life under the "one party" much, my memoirs are only fragments, mainly from The late 1989, people were ringing with keyes, had baners with wide variety of points of view about the old garniture, Com. party of The Czechoslovakia, short funny verses. Others carried Czechoslovak flag, screamed: "The end of the reign of one party!", "Havel, Havel, Havel!", "the last ringing!", "It is here, now!", people were singing the national anthen. I remember how has been V. Havel elected to president by the federal representatives. The situation was unsure, people could not know, what the hard - core central commitee members of The Com. party of The CS would like to do, forced militia, police, army to go agains their ovn fellow citizens, even children and so on. I know, Michael Sergejevic Gorbacov was not ideal, but these changes were supported by Gorbacov himself openly, when he stated! "It is Your turn" and ordered to The Soviet armed forces located in The CS afther the authum 1968, that The Army of The USSR is not authorised to fight with Czechoslovak army, even use weapons agains people! They had to step back and do nothing by his command, even stated, The Soviet army protect Czechoslovak people, in the case of emergency! Yes, hard core Stalinists were elsewhere, incl. The Central commitee. They realised, there will be no Soviet intervention to support regime, that Gorbacov and his government, Central commitee and the Politbiro of The CPSU definitely rejected so called "Breznev doctrine" and also therefore realised, better will be to cooperate and negotiate with The Citizens forum" and sayd: "Good bye", that is only few details about The Velvet revolution. There are a lot of footages, documentary, no comment broadcast etc. You can find sources in Russian, English and learn new details about the changes in my motherland. It is not well known, The Perestrojka had to be so horrible, that these high - ranked comrades ordered to State secret security to censore TV and radio broadcast with Gorbacov, Riskov, Scerbina and others. Is not it funny? They ordered to censore such Soviet high - ranked officials, just because they were affraid about The Perestrojka and possible consequenses! There is not well known fact, that Gorbacov and company clearly and openly declared, Soviet army is authorised to help and protect people. This fact is not widely known in my motherland and I think, people should know, Soviets were not only occupants.

[@vladd8948]

@@valerija.legasov548 Thanks, beautiful story

[@valerija.legasov548]

@@vladd8948 About the life under socialisum in The CS? Honestly, I really do not want to confuse You with possible wrong facts by my side, just because of I was only 4, when the regime colapsed. I am highly interested in the real life behind The Iron curtain, mainly in The CS and The USSR as well. I would like to answer Your question as the best as I am able to do. We should pay attention to the fact, that the Communist regime lasted for over 40 years. In the 50s was the regime extremly different, than in 80s, there were the 60s and The socialisum with human face by A. Dubcek, than was the normalisation regime established - 70s and less hard - core regime in the 1st half of 80s and the last stage was so called Perestrojka or Gorbacov period and it is not hard to guess, the regime did not want to leave, but they had no support by The USSR and the last high - ranked comrades were competent, like I am the balerine. These party men simply could not make the rebuild right, to establish The Socialisum with human face ala Dubcek. I would like to recommend You resources, both in The KZbin as well as in public domain databases, free of charge e - books, what are highly accurate, awaylable in Russian and English, of course. Hope, it helps...

[@vladd8948]

@@valerija.legasov548 I would be very grateful for the bibliographic references you mention :-)

[@SpookyASMR]

такое умиротворение от этих кадров...🥺

[@stochasticwhistles]

It also depends where you lived in USSR, not only when. I was born in Karelia in 1978. In 80s we had problems with various foods. People travelled to Leningrad to buy ie sausages, sweets, fruits, etc. My parents told me that difficulties like that were common place in Karelia even earlier in 70s. In Karelia we had plenty of bread, cabbage, beads and potatoes. Other products like chicken were brought to stores, but you had to know when and had to be there on time. People bought it all off from the shelves. State stores didn't have market prices. So, we were never hungry, but we didn't have as much. Because there was no competition, no one advertised anything. So products looked kind of dull. Ie on soap it just read 'soap 200g' .

[@stochasticwhistles]

Education was free in USSR, all of it. Even highest doctorate degree. You had to compete for most desired places in universities. Everybody were queueing for FREE apartments. Some got them faster than others, it depended of what kind of job you had or achievements you had. You have to understand, USSR had different priorities. It had a strict top down structure.

[@stochasticwhistles]

About foods, there were common market places. Anybody could sell there their "backyards" produce, like honey, apples etc. Prices in markets were always higher than in state stores. They were closer to market prices. Then there was a small black market, where people sold forbidden stuff, like smuggled LPs from west, jeans, etc. Prices for those were astronomical. Pair of jeans could cost 10 monthly salaries of an ordinary worker.

[@angkarbasil]

@@stochasticwhistles so life in USSR was average even in rural parts, just some problems with meat and stuff like that?

[@DilpreetSingh-sw3ei]

This looks and sound a much more civilised, peaceful, happy and police-corruption free society. It’s much better than living in Indian capital.

[@nuttyknowledge17]

Salute to USSR from India.It was the biggest ally we ever had.We suffered a major shock when our dear friend vanished.Still we consider all the soviet nations our brothers!

[@reggiekrager5411]

Utsav MANDAL You were allied with a SHITTY CRIMINAL nation ! You were an enemy of my country Romania!

[@redfront6707]

Most beautiful country in history

[@rehnedojankekyakarloge5384]

Khrushchev definitely deserves credits.

[@joekim3307]

What a great country :)

[@m.w.6526]

Life in the USSR in the 60s was bliss. If only my grandpa and I changed lives

[@m.w.6526]

***** My family did not have the perception of being locked up by any means. You can ask any of them.

[@reggiekrager5411]

Max Werner Because they were manipulated! That's why!

[@jooj4171]

Costin Pitulice what? My grandparents lived in Soviet tajikistan, and east Germany and lived pretty much like everyone else in the world. Stop with the american propaganda it’s honestly sad

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

>the government had to close the borders to keep people from leaving. >they manipulated the people to not want to leave Pick one.

[@ДаниилЗахарченко-м3т]

Yes. USSR is hell for people. Prison of peoples. My mother 10 years waited her apartament by soviet. All this time she lived in dormitory.

[@HHH-so9ro]

At 2:00, the little girl was laughing innocently and shyly.