Planting and Harvesting Potatoes at a Soviet Collective Farm, Early 1970s

Soviet collective farm. Soviet kolhoz. Agriculture in the Soviet Union. Potato planting in the USSR.
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How the country of Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin was planting and harvesting potatoes. Everyday life of a Soviet collective farm worker. Soviet Kolkhoz explained: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHqsemyroa1jY6M My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971 and have lived in the USA since 1999. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories and recollections of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1688731325&sr=8-1 Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: BTC Donations: 3Byh3srdNuLE9pWrKAJEqbYrmuNtaaLrz3 Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show

[@NormAppleton]

Jazz and spuds, and you wonder why we love you.

[@NormAppleton]

BTW, that sounded like Oscar Peterson

[@xKynOx]

My mum was Irish her 1st job was picking potatoes she was a real spud picker.

[@primerye]

Loved the processing of the potatoes, although, there was this middle part where they were focusing on the machinery, but then got back into potatoes. Awesome accompanying music.

[@JamesBaranowski-l9k]

damn...reminds me....time to make some potato soup.....pepper, bay leaf, and milk after the spuds are dissolved...best food on a cold winter day....even in our rainy cool weather in Honduras

[@billsummy2412]

Future Vodka !

[@nickjones9278]

Farming in america 2024 -John Deer update fail. Can't plant crops for 2 weeks while we wait for the John Deer tech to come out to replace the tractors computer.

[@RandomDudeOne]

That's what God created lawyers for.

[@adamo1242]

Problem is, John Deer has much better lawyers than any framer ​could hire. They have whole ass teams @RandomDudeOne

[@jonathanfriedlander8563]

Get a Chinese machine and dont suffer that OVERPRICED yank crap !

[@GarethFairclough]

Wow, I've never been this early! Should be an interesting vid. Thanks for making it!

[@craigescapeddetroit5198]

Love that music. Wondeeful choice.

[@thomjarman]

Looks like the entire crop got circulated around a lot of machinery and then replanted pretty much one in one out!

[@JamesBaranowski-l9k]

a thing I miss, are canned "new potatos".....slice them in half and fry them in butter with parsley and pepper......wow...unique flavor......potatos.....kick ass...it's wild, but growing up Slavic, I think we had potatos in one form or another, almost every day. I suppose Ukraine and Russia as well

[@trappenweisseguy27]

“You can plant and harvest them comrade, but you’re not allowed to keep any of them “.

[@trappenweisseguy27]

And most of them are barely any bigger than pickled onions.

[@randallmunson2098]

Life was good in the Soviet Union. You worked and three people stood around you and watched you work !

[@yurikozhokin8348]

And most importantly - you all got paid the same.

[@jonathanfriedlander8563]

In newzealand I had eight bosses ! For twelve workers so the Soviets were efficient !😂😂

[@JamesBaranowski-l9k]

what I miss down here in central America, is Idaho potatos....they really are the best, especially for baked potatoes. They have these regular types that come from Guatemala...they are ok, but not that good. I tried to grow spuds here....can't do it. They need a colder climate. I think up it the mountains they would grow.

[@theotherohlourdespadua1131]

Potatoes can grow anywhere on any soil in any climate...

[@nickadams2451]

Love the video. Sergei, any chance on stickers for merch? I have wanted one to stick on my tablet. 😊

[@crimony3054]

High nutrition, long shelf life. You could build an entire national population on spuds, but then if a fungus attacked them, you would have a famine.

[@mrk45]

Just ask the Irish.

[@RandomDudeOne]

Ate a lot more potatoes the last few years because of the greedflation.

[@adamo1242]

​@@mrk45yeah, that wouldnt have been as much of a provlem if the Brittish didn't export so much food from Ireland. They were deliberately killed in the persuit of profit

[@vadim6385]

It's ironic that I get this on my KZbin recommendations after Nvidia stock crash

[@bettyswunghole3310]

The world would be a very different place without potatoes.

[@kge420]

Yea, just ask the Irish!

[@raymebrister9535]

I've dug potatoes on a farm in America

[@harrythedirty4256]

Now I’m hungry

[@shatnermohanty6678]

Soviet potato chips brand would be called Spudnik

[@UshankaShow]

Funny but there's a SPUDNIK company in the US, they make potato harvesters )) kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZnyvaIKofdB3l7ssi=2rNpO_hzhOZPcKcj

[@shatnermohanty6678]

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[@JamesEvans-ow1wc]

I always wondered what Soviets viewed about American potato. Americans ate far fewer 😮

[@MP15aug]

Some smiling in a soviet video.

[@FreeSpeech-q7v]

Did they bury most harvesting? What a waste of potatoes!

[@vadim6385]

That's how you grow potatoes - you bury a potato in the ground, wait several months for the plant to grow, then dig up many potatoes.

[@unclestoma4699]

Do you know how potatoes grow right?

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

Organic potato

[@jimohara]

Nice work if you could get it.

[@df289]

Grimm and vodka.

[@АндрейКорнеев-з3ш]

Да, всё было, но при этом ничего не было, парадокс 😏

[@jamesstuart3346]

Music sounds familiar. What is it?

[@lisamoran6742]

It’s in the description, there are 3 songs!

[@thermalsystemsaccount-re5nf]

communism tractor, awesome

[@diegomontoya796]

The state slaves, feeding your family. Gross.

[@UshankaShow]

My family grew our own potatoes. I believe 60% of Soviet potatoes were grown on the private lots and dachas. So nothing gross, comrade. Chill

[@jimohara]

As much fun as it is work

[@devopseng]

My grandmother worked from morning till night on collective farms for money in a Soviet concentration camp(SSSR). They could afford an earthen hut and a wood-burning stove, a toilet on the street. If you didn't work on the collective farm, you were put in prison for 2 years. And for finding an ear of wheat, you were shot under Stalin. And the very working and fertile land in Ukraine had 2 famines, when Russia took the entire harvest.