RUSSIAN Reacts to Metallica - Enter Sandman Live Moscow 1991

That was crazy! It's hard to imagine so many people in one place, especially in the USSR! How did they pull this off?? Metallica definetely did an insane job, and I know this event wasn't just a Metallica concert, but a collaboration between many bands, but anyway..
Crazy.
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[@ZangieffReacts]

That was crazy! It's hard to imagine so many people in one place, especially in the USSR! How did they pull this off?? Metallica definetely did an insane job, and I know this event wasn't just a Metallica concert, but a collaboration between many bands, but anyway.. Crazy. I hope you enjoyed the video:) Please leave you comment and subscribe if you would like to see more! You can support me and the channel, if you feel it: www.paypal.com/paypalme/zangieffrus Join me in Instagram for more content & communication: instagram.com/zangieff_/ Thank you very much! Zangieff Your Russian Mate From Russia Main channel about Russia / my life: kzbin.info

[@MjC7192]

Hello....and yes it really is loud way back I went to the '91 Monsters of Rock tour at Rhein Main air force base in Genmay like that concert in Russia was on an air base it sucks for seeing anything cuz it's flat bur still a good show

[@chb2551]

Actually, that was the full on USSR military, not just the militia. The helicopters were a mix of news and military ones. This free concert/festival was a kind of thanks from the USSR government for the youth citizens who helped stop the attempted coup just days earlier. This concert is very important in history because Gorbachev allowed western music to be performed in the country for the first time ever. That's one of reasons for the high energy of the crowd. The concert was just months before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The government expected 100k-200k people. They stopped counting at 500k. The rest were estimated. Over 10k military personnel were brought in because of how large the crowd was. There are no records, that I have found online, of how many of the soldiers were injured. They didn't have to go very far to get the personnel, at least, since it was on a military airfield. Some got injured by the military due to their nervousness after that attempted coup, besides ones needing attention due to the weather and pressing crowd. I believe that it's considered to be the 3rd largest concert crowd in world history.

[@heidelstrescog.]

GIVE SOME RESPECT TO PANTERA THEY 2 WERE THERE 💋

[@mr.salvatorejpluchino8467]

❤❤❤🇺🇸🇮🇹🇺🇸🇮🇹🇺🇸🇮🇹 WE ARE WITH YOU MY BROTHER, GENERATION XRS HERE , WISH YOU WERE THERE GREAT 👍🏻 GENERATION

[@christinaerwin7144]

Not only did 1.6 million people attend but Metallica is the ONLY band to perform on all 7 continents and they did it in 1 year!

[@VadersRage]

As a Metallica fan, you should give Creeping Death and Harvester Of Sorrow a listen. Absolutely amazing performance. The energy level 31 years ago is STILL felt in the videos. This concert was in late September.

[@joshuahalsell5152]

I didn't know 1.6 million attended! I imagine that is a record crowd for a concert! I am amazed so many people in Russia/Soviet Union knew of Metallica in that time!

[@PV1230]

there must have been an expansive music black market in the Soviet Union.

[@scrappingirl318]

Actually it was more than 1.6 million. They stopped counting at 1.6 million. It did set a record for the biggest crowd for sure.

[@mikaelandersson4519]

@@scrappingirl318 no one know how many it was. It was a free consert and the band think it was beteende 600.000 and 1 million.

[@aaronclair4301]

The record is 3.5 million set by 2 people. Jean Jarre and Rod Stewart

[@danm2144]

the band was surprised how many knew and sang along with their music. It had been smuggled into the Soviet Union for years.

[@stansmith3509]

After preforming for this many people and to have them "rock the #### out".... Bro, the rush. How could ever experience this feeling again? Drugs wouldn't even compare. 🤘 And, special shout out to dude at 6:28. That guy always make me smile.

[@haywoodjablomi2526]

Please react to Pantera ‘domination’ live from Moscow - this whole concert was insane

[@RockyPondProductions]

Nice same thought I had

[@JoshRiffMonster]

I was going to suggest that too

[@scarletred8888]

No optical illusion / 1.6 million is massive ! This must have been an incredible moment for the people there - something they remembered for the rest of their lives - just before everything changed

[@baileybowman2449]

If you haven’t watched it already, you must react to “Creeping Death” from the same concert 🔥🔥🔥

[@jeffbreezee]

I was US Marine in the first Persian Gulf Lwar when that tune came out. We would rock on it to get ready for missions.

[@suefantastic4584]

❤

[@kevynbrownell719]

This was the first western concert in Russia, and it was free.

[@funnydylan9834]

I love that video of Metallica live in Moscow. Enter sandman is my ultimate favorite of their music. And I didn’t know it was that many! 1.6 million! I honestly thought it was like 50,000 or something like that. Crazy. 😝👍🏻🇺🇸♥️🇷🇺

[@christypriest30]

After growing up in a military family in the 80s, it’s so amazing that we can now sit here and have contact with someone like you from Russia!

[@Anonlb]

я люблю смотреть, как русские люди реагируют на это

[@TsmithJustin]

I love watching people discover new things via reaction channels. I'd like to request some, any, tool music. Much love from the US

[@summergivens242]

The concert wasn't just Metallica. Pantera, The Black Crowes, and other bands attended.

[@normlee6566]

I would guess the multiple towers you see set up around the airfield were speakers. I don"t think there were huge monitors so people in the back could see the stage, but i imagine they could hear the performance through the speakers. And metallica was one of several bands that performed in the monsters of rock festival, but they were arguably the biggest band in 1991.

[@saltmason]

I promise everyone was able to hear the music. One day after work I went for a walk in my neighborhood. I heard music. I thought someone had a small party in their yard with a band. But everywhere I walked the music wasn't louder or quieter. Then I remembered that Mettalica was having a concert in the city a mile away😆

[@localmusicearthentertainme4361]

Great reaction. When they show the massive crowd, you can see the structure stacks all over. Those structure stacks are the PA systems. So everyone can hear. So, It isn't just the stage PA delivering sound to that massive audience.

[@localmusicearthentertainme4361]

Tragically, 51 people sadly lost their lives at this event. Drug overdoses, trampling & also there were some military personnel beating people. That can be seen in Pantera videos from this same event.

[@NatashaAvtonomova]

Концерт Монстры Рока был крут 🔥🌹👏🇷🇺!

[@lesterine77]

The helicopter was there to keep the air flowing so the masses could breathe. I was only 10 at this time and had no way of knowing about this, but if i had, i would have begged my father to take me. He would have refused, but I would have wanted to be there.

[@tinapenix1025]

Those are speaker towers in the back a d throughout the crowd .the one in the center is sound engineering. Helicopter is cooling off the crowd with blades. Another copter protecting the band in case of needed extraction.

[@ferrariguy8278]

I vaugely remember news on this happening. It was a great very hopeful time. Glasnost seemed to be making things much better and safer for all. I wasn't a Metallica fan at the time (high school) but I've grown to love their music.

[@boysrback5690]

Creeping Death and Harvester of Sorrow are epic as well from this concert.

[@OfficialFinalGirl]

Didn't know you were a fan of metal Zangieff! Rock on dude 🤘

[@ZangieffReacts]

Add some modern stuff like Avenged Sevenfold and Bring Me the Horizon)

[@OfficialFinalGirl]

@@ZangieffReacts ahhh good choices! BMTH especially has some great stuff.

[@ZangieffReacts]

Especially this one haha kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5K3n3afmsyhp8k

[@OfficialFinalGirl]

If you get a chance to react to slaughter to prevail, too, since they're Russian that would be interesting

[@OfficialFinalGirl]

OMG 😂😂😂😂😂

[@FatAmericanMantittys]

Dyers eve and blackened!!! Good song choices my friend!! Fade to black and battery are also amongst my favorites

[@royaleksandar]

Brings back memories! As a youngster I have been listening this “black album” over and over! What a crowd! So many people to entertain for. That’s even for themselves insane! Thanks for sharing Zangieff!

[@matsutsuav]

lol yes the toilet situation

[@trickyd46290]

"A fist thew at my father so my fist threw back" 🤜🤛 Respect

[@HBKCommish]

Pretty sure I've watched this reaction before. Says it was posted a year ago and that's also the last time this guy posted. I hope he's still alive. :/

[@magicextremer]

Tht wasnt just a gig man... its part of your liberation.. that's why so many people go...

[@CalleseAlaVerga]

Legend Says there is still people stuckd in traffic

[@ZangieffReacts]

😂

[@jamesamelia2812]

This is a part of your country's history. 1.6 million of your countrymen! Cherish it!

[@joeunis318]

I just got home from this concert lol

[@loriannepraznovsky2164]

This is awesome. Great job!

[@jeffbreezee]

Due a reaction to the very first Soviet metal concert at the 1989 Moscow Peace festival. That one had Motley Crue, Skid Row, Cinderella and Ozzy Osborne

[@KLT-id9nm]

That is an insane number of people at one concert! There's just a special feeling to these old concert videos. I still have old vhs tapes of Queensryche, Alice Cooper, and Mr Big concerts from the 80's and 90's and they're still tons of fun to watch.

[@mpgrenda]

Wow, I had not seen that concert video before. Crazy!!

[@TLYJ13]

Love you bro he is just in to it

[@ironwoodworkman4917]

Yes, No problem hearing the music. Do you see the speaker towers and the control tower. You can hear it for kilometres/miles. The reason for the towers spaced out like this is so you do not blowout peoples eardrums. I do think Pantera should have used better crowed control. ( But they were a young band ) This was a very safe concert for the massive size of about 2 million people. (Give or take on the size. No-one knows for sure of the size.) The fact that not very many people died, shows how great the Russian people are. ( This concert gave me one more reason to like Russian people.) That being said, does not mean that their was not a large amount of violence. ( Back in the 1990's concerts like this were bloody and violent but not deadly. It is how we let off steam and relaxed. ) Check out the cover on " Various - Punk-O-Rama 4 (Straight Outta The Pit) " A photo is worth a thousand word. Lol ) ) ) The violence between the Army and the Russian people is what I find interesting. They started out trying to control everything (Got a few fat-lips and black-eyes ) Then they relaxed and enjoyed themselves. ( I think. ) I'm sure this was all very new to them. I do not think they trained for this. :-) Here is some more video if you would like to learn and see more. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aX7Xmp-gZ8x-sJI

[@AlexandraMiddleton]

At 6:28 that guy in the crowd will become the bands future bass player Rob Trujillo.

[@metalmellie4371]

Dude, what do you think those towers out in the crowd are? They're speakers so everyone can here!!!

[@patriciahopkins99]

May I suggest Lynyrd Skynyrd “free bird” at the Oakland coliseum.

[@metalwolf6317]

The helicopter flew there and back to cool a huge mass of people.The organism was in danger of overheating.

[@tallycahamuhlhetru26]

Huh???

[@akshay5295]

Exactly

[@davidday2373]

👍 James Hetfield grew up in the same area I grew up (nearby city) 🤘

[@rayrayray7494]

speaking on your point of logistic 54 people is reported to have lost their lives at that concert theres a reason they dont do these big crowds although this was not planned people just kept showing up considering that western rock music was ilegal in the soviet union prior it spoke volume

[@mrlatenightdrinker3962]

saw them in Philly in 1988 and i thought 70k people was a huge crowd

[@jmoney6900]

They stopped counting at 1.6 million, it’s estimated that between 2 and 2.2 million was there by the end of their set.

[@JorgeSanchez-fs7mm]

Dont talk no more please. Please🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟

[@terrycarter1137]

from what i hear it was 1.5 million people there. from the reports i remember some people were beaten.

[@RockyPondProductions]

Pantera opened for Metallica during this show. I am not a big fan of them now but they were very influential for alot of the music I listen to today. The video of Pantera performing "Domination" at this show is good though and I like it better than the Enter Sandman performance. This whole show in general was definitely symbolic for the USSR. It was a few months before the fall and it is almost like the precursor to the craziness that followed.

[@ManOWarPrecisionArms]

To put it in context.....first actual Metal Concert in the USSR in history. It was a time where you could become an oligarch by selling American jeans in the country. You could not own a Metallica record.....but then they came.....and the rest is history

[@rickclay]

You must see "creeping death" same concert 👍

[@wwdoctorwwdoctor]

Эй бро мы русские и нас никто никогда не победит

[@tlee717]

That many people hate being told what to do

[@trodat07]

Please some day react to the best parts of Rocky IV including the after fight speech.

[@tinapenix1025]

It was at an old Russian Air field.

[@Fievelavie]

🤘😎👌

[@no_triggerwarning9953]

This concert took place the month after the failed coup d’état in the Soviet Union. I am surprised that it was able to go ahead with the unstable political situation. With the Soviet Union being closed to western entertainment until the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 it amazes me that there were such a large number of Soviet citizens that had heard and embraced contemporary western music.

[@kevinsmith4429]

Most American music then was banned & illegal to possess. A friend of mine went to Moscow in 1980 for a soccer tournament. He sold 4 pair of real Levi's for $500.00 plus got a real soldier's hat. Everyone had a "dealer" of anything western,especially music. Just like drug dealers.

[@jujudu13013uu]

1,6M of people

[@maryslack6169]

I wouldn't have cared I'm sitting here going sing it out I know you want to. I am big on singing even off key

[@xdarockstar2560]

You should react to motley Crue in Russia

[@Cairol58]

Well, a 1.6 million audience is quite an impressive number, no doubt and I never knew about it before. Heavy metal is definitely not my cup of tea. Although Metallica‘s ‚Nothing Else Matters’ played life together with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra together with Rammstein’s ‚Mein Herz brennt!‘ are on my top 10 list for pop music. They have a special place in my heart. The rest I don‘t care about. Nor, with the exception of one, have I been to a pop concert and I don’t regret it. Same goes for sports events and other stuff. Simply too many people there cramped in one place!

[@froglick28]

Need to send them back to Russia as a piece tour

[@eddielawson6653]

🤘👍👍🤘ed

[@richardvail3840]

The helicopter was to circulate some air to make it cooler for the fans. Thats why so low

[@dianecomly6132]

Celebrating the first taste of Western freedom in 1991

[@joaniewaller6504]

Russia Knows how to Party!

[@PV1230]

9:35 "head banging"

[@hughjoelcock7145]

50 something people died. Either from beatings by the military or trampling.

[@ZangieffReacts]

crazy

[@mikerowley1189]

There were 1.6 million at the concert…..

[@vinfluenza]

Думаю, там определенно несколько людей погибли в давке или просто от впечатлений, но это обычное дело, когда полтора ляма людей собирается в одном месте. Насчет сортиров тоже интересно, но это, в общем-то, было банально поле - Аэропорт Тушино - выходи куда-то за толпу (если повезет выбраться живым) и там справляй свои нужды. Концерт был бесплатный, как ты наверное уже налуркал, и там была куча групп, поэтому столько народу и пришло, собсна. Я думаю, на тот момент, это было величайшее событие, которое должно было объединить давно враждующие страны и положить конец холодной войне. Но в итоге чекисты у нас захватили власть и случилось то, что мы имеем сейчас, увы. Чекни ещё выступления Пантеры с него же, как тебе посоветовали интуристы ниже в каментах)

[@PV1230]

are those "militia" called OMON? or is that different?

[@teddtarr]

The choppers may have been trying to blow some fresh air down to the crowd who, given their numbers & their frenzied state, must have been consuming & depleting oxygen at an extremely high rate. 🥶🥶🥶

[@jamesm7624]

1.6 million people,, 54 people died.

[@Boodieman72]

It's a couple million people.

[@Stefan_Iho]

russian people freedom started there

[@razrhiannaspiers8506]

If you want to react to a song, I recommend the artist Aesthetic Perfection with their song Gods & Gold

[@ellengrace4647]

they used the helicopters to cool the fans down there was 1.6 million

[@emirkanackgoz8503]

Please react Metallica All Nightmare Long with song video.

[@ezekiel5687]

Battery was good.

[@leftbehind4030]

Dont you wish you still had hair?Im not a Metallica fan but the crowd where waiting for change & they got it.I imagine prior to that gig western music was bootlegged & not mainstream so yeah this was going kick & yeah it did.

[@sammurphy3343]

It was a free concert.

[@user-ip6dc2cq8f]

Too bad Кино couldn’t do this.

[@ZangieffReacts]

Кино was indeed popular, but I cannot imagine them having an event like this..

[@user-ip6dc2cq8f]

@@ZangieffReacts Cannot believe them being “allowed” to do that!

[@ZangieffReacts]

Them you mean Кино? Why?

[@user-ip6dc2cq8f]

@@ZangieffReacts Yeah Кино. I wouldn’t say their lyrics were very “establishment” friendly. Is that incorrect?

[@bobdicecco4511]

50 people died. There was 1.6millon people

[@zevynozevyn4102]

Metallica played Moscow in 1991 in front of 1.6 million people.

[@brandonhinrichs4393]

The Russian government had to have been scared shitless. I know that they were pretty heavy-handed at the time but in this situation the people were in complete control that anything they wanted to do they could have done there those police officers and army soldiers they were not going to do a goddamn thing if shit went sideways there lol

[@HistoryNerd8765]

Sorry to ruin everyone's day, but I feel like I have to say this. Regarding Ukraine, I hope war can be avoided. All war does is steal sons and daughters from their mothers and fathers. I hope we can all live in peace.

[@ZangieffReacts]

You said an absolutely good thing. No war = good.

[@hhholly]

Iron Maiden in Moscow !!!

[@BMeet-Creations]

Uraa 🇷🇺

[@SimoExMachina2]

The only scenario I could imagine something like this could happen again, was if and when Putin and his old Soviet world leader buddies lose their power, release their grib on the Russian people, young liberal Russians assuming power and then the rest of the world once again assuming good relations with Russia via the renewed hope that reason has finally permuated the air in Russia and peace has once again been made possible.

[@tinapenix1025]

Creeping Death live in Moscow is ten times better!!!!!

[@CjJohns1776]

1500 Soviet soldiers- one was Vladimir Putin, 1.6 million people (50K paid admission, rest were free) 57 deaths.

[@jovicanedeljkovic1885]

The people of the West are unfortunately not united and as they are seen at concerts. The people of the eastern and southern states are much more united.

[@user-ti4hm1dd1w]

policeman funny mor

[@pierreblomgren6927]

You are partly right it was a few months before the Soviet Union was crushed in the audience from all over the world was 1.6 million people. But then you got Putin Tstar time. You are always under preference. Russia will lose in Urakina, it is a question of whether Russia will use nuclear weapons or biological weapons. Russia loses big soldiers suffer double losses, Ukraine will not stop. Russia's big problem is NATO, oil, gas.

[@espenvippen]

Not your fault and I don't know what you're thinking... But Slava Ukraini. Greetings from Norway.

[@victornixon5503]

🤦 P"R"O"M"O"S"M!!!

[@espenbakke1584]

Sláva Ukrayíni

[@jasonolson3133]

This is what Russia needs now. Plz get rid of Putin

[@JorgeSanchez-fs7mm]

Takl all the one. No more 😮