When East Meets West: The 1959 American Exhibit in Moscow I SLICE HISTORY | FULL DOCUMENTARY

[@pancakeking2467]

The dads enthusiasm for an instant photo with his daughter was adorable

[@TootTootUSA]

Kid before photo :( Kid after photo :)

[@DK-lr5yu]

And that father probably was in his late thirties. People in the soviet system used to get old very quickly.

[@timf2279]

I'm sure they had it as a family memento for many years.

[@josephnason8770]

What an incredible slice of history from the not too distant past. I was three years old. Thank you for posting this.

[@daffyduk77]

as was I, so I kind of missed that. Both had rationing, just for Americans it's by price

[@daffyduk77]

@@deanronson6331 You certainly attest to that assertion. A lot of the millions of basic but livable flats Kruschev had built - they became known as Kruschevka - a lot of poor Americans could have benefitted from. They even had proper places for kids to play. Instead of eradicating even footpaths etc. as in the US. But living space has typically been less of a problem for them, instead the cost of living, atrocious public transport, education, discrimination etc. A study of health outcomes contrasting Russians in the 60s vs. Americans would be an interesting one. I am not Russian.

[@brAmbedkarvadheemusalmaan]

I was in previous birth.

[@samparkerSAM]

This reminds me greatly of my father...

[@firstlastname7437]

I was two years old. I love watching how people dressed back then.

[@ace1776]

Drinks Pepsi: “does this strange drink get you drunk?” American: “Nah, but you can throw some vodka in there no problem”

[@joelwillems4081]

Hmmm, that was actually my first introduction to Vodka. But I'm not a drinker.

[@paradoxstudios6639]

Bourbon (American alcohol) is much better with Pepski drinsky.

[@xcalibertrekker6693]

No but it will give your heart disease and diabetes.

[@williampoole1742]

Dude 🤢 my friends and I did vodka and diet pepsi one time because that was our only choice for the night. Never again.

[@chrissimpletown9654]

I remember my 6th grade teacher back in 1971 talking about this. The thing he remembered was the kitchen exposition with Nixon and Khruschev. Nixon was showing off an electric can opener. Khrushev laughed and showed a hand operated can opener. He said "are Americans so weak that they can't turn a can opener?" It's 2024 and I still don't have an electric can opener. That one stuck with me.

[@dannyzero692]

I'm sure Soviet housewives would've loved an electric can opener, people love convenience.

[@janaj.8696]

@@dannyzero692 Také jej nemám. Nejím konzervy 🙂

[@NikovK]

The electric can opener is exactly the sort of thing you don't appreciate until arthritis, old age, or worrying about your widowed mother living alone hits you. Its like the electric wheelchair; easy to mock while your arms hold out or if you can afford a nurse to push you around.

[@Addo666]

I dont have any and i dont need it

[@dmitriglover4309]

@@NikovK well yeah but that’s like a somewhat rare case when you need that. In the 1950s-1970s these were being marketed to people that absolutely didn’t need them. My grandma had one from General Electric that she bought back in the day and 90% of the time we just used a hand operated one cause it was almost quicker and less bulky. I remember thinking it was stupid when I was like 5. Really seems like something most people only bought because of a good marketing plan or something. I definitely wouldn’t have shown that off to a foreign nation and they probably only did because GE or whoever paid them. It’s just asking to be mocked by Soviets either for toxic masculinity reasons or for Western decadence reasons.

[@oldsmobileman1403]

Hearing George and Tatiana ended up together is very great!

[@ponyboy481]

❤ same

[@harryshuman9637]

She just married him for the green card

[@GottaGoBoom]

@@harryshuman9637 i doubt she knew what a green card was lmao

[@harryshuman9637]

@@GottaGoBoom She was marrying for green card before it was mainstream.

[@User-ji4rn]

It is amazing, but then I ended up doing research and found out they got divorced later.

[@TheHaydena76]

Around the 16 minute mark, that father and his boy getting their picture made me smile. Heartwarming :)

[@bingbong9844]

I remember my HS band teacher telling the story of going to the Soviet Union in High School back in the early 80’s. He said when it was the Americans turn to show the soviets their individual daily lives in America, non of the soviets believed that it was normal for every person in the family to have their own vehicle. Most families didn’t own a vehicle, and usually only a few individuals in a neighborhood had one. They could believe that a 16 year old kid would get their own car and be able to drive it. Then my teacher showed a video of his house and garage and they were left speechless.

[@loganstroganoff1284]

Reminds me of an account I once read about a meeting of a u.s. naval ship and it's sailors with a Soviet counterpart during glasnost. In Most countries the enlisted often come from the working class. In Soviet Russia that means poor, sometimes desperately poor by American standards. When they traded stories through an interpretor the Russians were amazed that working class American kids came from homes with cars, refrigerators, t.v.'s, etc. The Russian officers were apparently amazed at the sobriety on u.s. naval ships and that the sailors would carry out their duties with no corporal punishment needed as motivation for anyone. Glasnost was a fascinating process and yeah it opened the eyes of the Soviets to what they were up against. Not just material wealth but discipline, morale, enthusiasm, and level of skill they just could not achieve in their armed forces.

[@sophiaschier-hanson4163]

Wow! Ironically, it sounds like what Soviets in the ‘80s couldn’t believe America was really like is the same as what younger generations of Americans can’t believe their parents really were lucky enough to grow up with!

[@JackieChaun-o3w]

​@loganstroganoff1284 Yea. American quality of life was too high compared to almost anywhere else. In ww2, even the Japanese were shocked that the US navies casually have a ship wholly dedicated to ice cream for an entire fleet. That's something they could never dream of having

[@Сигизмунд-с2й]

Well, the communist idea was to develop a public transport.

[@nifigasebe]

Your teacher show them the video on his smartphone?

[@IcelanderUSer]

The quality of the images and videos is amazing.

[@Adonis-qb5ze]

Likely enhanced by AI

[@LordVader1094]

​@@Adonis-qb5zeIt's from 2017

[@MTTT1234]

15:29 'Are all these products really available in America?' And then a few decades later a certain Boris Jeltsin could have his answer in a supermarket in Houston, shattering his believe in the Soviet system by simply seeing for the first time in an uncensored manner the reality of American market-economy capitalism.

[@keithammleter3824]

The Soviet foreign minister under Gorbachev, Eduard Shevardnadze gave this as a major reason why communism collapsed: At that time, sufficient Russian diplomats, scientists attending international conferences, ballet dancers, sportsmen, and others had visited the West, and seen what was on sale in shops, that just about everybody in the USSR knew someone who had visited the West, or worked in a factory set up with Western help (eg Lada making Fiat copies),or had a grandfather who drove a lend lease truck in the War, etc tec, they just couldn't hide how much better the West ran, no matter how much bull was printed in Pravda ("Truth"), and the morale of their officials just collapsed. They just gave up.

[@badart3204]

@@keithammleter3824yeah, honestly that was the primary culprit of the collapse as dudes just weren’t willing to send in the tanks anymore or work hard to achieve the communist dream. People will get real gritty for stuff they believe in but otherwise wont

[@daffyduk77]

@@keithammleter3824 But Russia, from Kruschev onwards, was always better at satisfying *all* citizens' basic needs. It's something America still cannot do. Rationing by price instead of by allocation system. Look at the US health racket er "system" lol

[@keithammleter3824]

@@daffyduk77 It is true that the US, and other Western countries, has very small numbers of people homeless and living on the streets. And this was less of a problem in the USSR - or so we are told ..... The US is rather a special case in regard to medical care, due to their tradition of having employers pay the medical insurance of their employees. However, I know a number of people who have emigrated here from the USSR and its satellite states like Poland. They all say the West is and always has been, far better at supplying its people with their needs. One lady I know was a senior obstetrician (equivalent to clinical professor) at a large Soviet maternity hospital - something like 2000 beds. She had delivered thousands of babies there, and there won't be anything about delivering babies she doesn't know. But her Soviet obstetrics degrees are not recognised here, so she is not permitted to deliver babies here at all. She works as an ordinary GP. I said to her one time "It must be dissappointing for you, not being able to work in your own field." Her reply was that was true, but in terms of her lifestyle/standard of living she is infinitely better off here as a low paid basic GP than she was as a top-line specialist in the USSR.

[@daffyduk77]

@@keithammleter3824 medical staff salaries over there were always low. Whereas in the US, it's a licence to print money. Employer-funded scheme ? If it's a "good" job, and how much deductable & co-pays ? How many medical bankruptcies in the US due to bad accident/long-term illness/cancer. There are zero such bankruptcies where I live (not Eastern Europe/Russia). In USA you get the level of care you can afford, healthcare should not be based on your socioeconomic status. And people driving to Canada for the affordable insulin they need just to stay alive ... American advertising where consumers are programmed what medicines to request their doctors provide. No wonder the health business swipes so much of USA' GNP before everything else. With worse health outcomes. Truly sick. It's why a friend moved back here after 30 years over there. And I don't think many Americans will recognise your glowing characterisation of an American accommodation nirvana, with soaring rents, foreclosures, evictions.

[@sesaarinen]

This channel is absolutely my new favorite

[@PiousKerepia_69]

The end part of this documentary when finally George hooks up with Tatiana is the biggest victory!🎉🎉🎉

[@PiousKerepia_69]

And I was born in 1969!! 😂

[@helbent4]

I was thinking the same thing. "Way to go, George! You really walked the walk.:

[@Kurdish20226]

They got divorced later

[@tw8464]

Honey trap 😂

[@helbent4]

@@tw8464 Right, that's what it's called. I think the Russians called those agents "sparrows" or "swallows".

[@UncleLesterCam]

This was absolute art. What a beautiful and perfect length KZbin video. I learned a lot.

[@gazalazzz6989]

The child's smile at 16:21 reminds me of how much the two nations could achieve without conflict.🙂

[@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket]

It's a shame Russia chose violence and to end the good times but oh well.

[@alexanderscott2456]

A free country can live in peace with anybody. A totalitarian dictatorship cannot live in peace with anybody.

[@annmariedeignan2596]

@@GeorgeWashingtonLaserMusket What a misguided, inane comment to make. Please do tell us, what "violence" Russia has ever perpetrated agains the U.S. ? And who has been in the role of the aggressor for decades? I lived and worked in Russia for years, and in my role as a teacher, spent countless hours talking with people of all ages, from all walks of life. I also listened to the daily news, and many of the speeches made by government figures. I saw zero evidence to support your comment. If you are referring to the current situation in Ukraine, I suggest that you research the history of how that began, starting in 2014.

[@tolpiteeyeq5832]

I love Nixon’s smile at 9:20, man was probably thinking “it’ll be a cold day in hell before that happens” lmao

[@scottrobinson3281]

Glad I discovered this channel! The scene of the famous "Kitchen Debate". Nikita Khrushchev's son Sergei was there, and when interviewed about it after moving to the USA, said that to the Soviets, the Americans were like "aliens, first man from Mars". Before the end of the video, I thought of the U-2 incident. Khrushchev was understandably livid about that, and I wonder what the US reaction would have been had a Soviet spy plane been shot down over the USA.

[@marinagamm1951]

😮😮

[@koenkeep]

the reaction would most likely be like when the Chinese spy balloon was floating above the use

[@jrt818]

The same, it was no real surprise.

[@mr.notsonice]

Damn. I read U-2 and I immediately thought if that band had that much influence in the Soviet Union. Glad I was wrong

[@chachki24]

This is an amazing slice of life. Thank you for your work!!!!

[@surbon514]

Hooray for George and Tatyana! I guess love always finds a way, doesn't it? This program was absolutely enchanting, thanks so much for streaming it on KZbin!

[@kennethhuber3658]

Excellent video! Thank you for posting.

[@SLICEHistory]

Thank you for watching! ☺

[@zulubob5824]

Wow, just discovered this channel by accident today. Excellent!

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

The sign doesn’t say work in progress but no entry!

[@abc-hp1bf]

He’s confidently incorrect throughout lol

[@Т1000-м1и]

Freestyle translation it is

[@TheLoyalOfficer]

Probably the most impactful and yet underrated event of the Cold War. At Sokolvniki, Americans and Russians met each other for the first time. Not military men or politicians or a scientific exchange, but actual people. It was beautiful.

[@arknewman]

To see so many intimate moments so well documented is humbling. My heart goes out to the documenter!

[@3mate1]

"75 students picked by the State Department from all the universities in the country." The agency loves those University students, it's a running theme all throughout the cold war and on until today...

[@marvwatkins7029]

We were closer to Russia in that summer than now, that's for sure.

[@track1949]

It was the USSR then.

[@dmitripazlov491]

​@track1949 yes, but still was Russia pulling the strings. Just another empire with a different set of rules and logo

[@FromRussiawithvideo]

Blame was 50-50 back then though.

[@scottbivins4758]

​@@track1949that's not the reason why. The reason why is because NATO wasn't encroaching on the Russian territory. NATO wasn't moving closer to Russia I like it has done over the past few decades now. If NATO wouldn't moved to the east any we would still have a good relationship with Russia. Not to mention Putin try to join NATO in the 2000s but NATO said no. Globalist don't want us to get along with Russia. Because it's bad for their pockets they make money off of sending people to go die but what they don't realize is that money don't mean a damn thing when two Nations that certainly got nuclear capabilities go head to head. NATO needs to just stop moving closer to Russia.

[@annmariedeignan2596]

Sure, if you're talking about governments and poiltics. However, many thousands of us have connections to Russia, in the form of friends, family, colleagues, happy memories from our time there, or simply fascination with the culture. These bonds remain entirely unaffected by geopolitics.

[@Hortifox_the_gardener]

Wow. What a marvellous documentary! Thanks so much for it!

[@RaquelFoster]

It's not a documentary. It's a charming fantasy based on the guy's photos - they 0:49 "reconstructed his thoughts"

[@lucasworktv]

Capitalism is an unequal distribution of wealth. Communism is an equal distribution of poverty.

[@JD-jc8gp]

International communism is what helped lift capitalist societies, because it pushed leaders in capitalist societies to enact social programs. That's what the race between the capitalist West and communist East was all about. Now without communism, living standards in capitalism societies have been falling. The only incentive driving the rich is building more wealth, rather than building a better society. Without communism, the world is on its path to ruin.

[@christianweibrecht6555]

Informative and entertaining

[@madmanmapper]

16:53 Kruschev's face after first time drinking Pepsi "oh god I think I like this."

[@icemule]

I was genuinely happy when I heard George and Tatianna finally got married.

[@FromRussiawithvideo]

10 years. That's patience. Would anyone wait today?

[@chris2pher44]

Thanks for upload, I enjoyed it.

[@kate2create738]

So glad that George was able to marry Tatiana, hope they ended up living happily together.

[@NCVBflo]

I have one of those 1959 USSR exhibition pamphlets.

[@dannyzero692]

So sad that the hope for a peaceful future between the two countries fell apart after this exhibition.

[@jeffwilson3527]

My grandparents fled the Soviet Union in 1948, not the fond memories they had.

[@maryvalentine9090]

I’ll bet!

[@iamcleaver6854]

Why did they flee?

[@SMGJohn]

1948? If they left for Europe they would only find ruins.

[@theenclave4981]

​@SMGJohn Most of Europe wasn't ruins in 1948. Sure the former Axis countries like Germany but most of W. Europe was intact.

[@magicmonkeyking4137]

​@@deanronson6331that's what history class is for.

[@thecarl168]

very well made incredible

[@sweetwater156]

At 4:25 in the video, I actually have the brochure on the right. I found it in a dusty corner of a used ephemera and book shop. It’s a fascinating booklet.

[@shooth100]

Awesome!! I could watch hours of this.

[@tracyjamieson362]

Me, too.

[@jeffdahlman8581]

REALLY wonderfully done - Thankyou

[@gregk.6723]

Just imagine, this is only 14 years after WW2.

[@spiritualhumanist]

I was just going to say that.

[@torbenlarsen331]

Awesome 😊

[@JohnWilson-wg4gk]

The Soviet Union got MTV in March, 1991. The Soviet Union collapsed in December, 1991. Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam brought down the evil empire...

[@HBr-j7c]

Perhaps as McDonalds might have done had they got a foot in the door in 1960 ??

[@DavidSusiloUnscripted]

Amazing essay!

[@ericmoore571]

That was very interesting!

[@janaj.8696]

Velmi zajímavé.

[@ronaldsmith6829]

Loved this. I heard about this as a child. Some of this footage was used, as I recall. Thanks For remembering to mention George and Tatiana had a happy ending.

[@TianDiener]

The Soviets looking at the exhibition and thinking to themselves “Why are we living like peasants?”

[@geigertec5921]

American in the 1950's: House, car, free public education, high paying job at capitalist factory, social security, plentiful food, democratically elected president who loves his country and people. USSR in the 1950's: Cramped appartment, no car (only the political elite have cars), no education (only the political elite have an education), job at state owned factory, no social security, no food, ruled by a dictator named Stalin who un-alives thousands of his countrymen for selfish reasons.

[@drsivaprasadbabujuturi7937]

Informative video. I lived a few years in Moscow and also in the USA. A Pediatrician from India.

[@BasedFrequency]

That was amazing thanks for sharing

[@AC-ih7jc]

I remember an old book called "Who's In Charge Here?" that would take (then) press photos and add humorous speech balloons to the subjects. One was the still at 8:55 Nixon was given the following speech balloon: "Sure, Tide is good, but Cheer gives a much whiter white." And when I asked my mom about it, _that_ was how I first learned about the Kitchen Debate.

[@7cuchulain]

Very cool! Thank you

[@wilpetre]

great doc

[@gunnergoz]

Very glad to see this bit of history shared with today's audience, lest it be lost and forgotten altogether. I was 11 when this happened and still have a dim memory of the impact it had on Americans, even us kids.

[@dancemunki]

@14:52 timestamp that joke is priceless. Legend has it Russians still visiting the mausoleum.

[@TootTootUSA]

"Because in my country we have that right." Wow remember unions and strikes? Two very American things that afforded the common man a living wage and kept the standard of living high?

[@zachhoward9099]

Most people in the US barely have an idea of what a strike is

[@trinleywangmo]

@@zachhoward9099 Unions are the TRUE trickle down economics...

[@timf2279]

Always keeping the communication open is the key.

[@MGBandit75]

Beautiful photos. Everyone look so happy and excited. I’m glad George’s Romeo and Juliet story got a happy ending.

[@sviat9729]

The Congressional resolution Slobin calls stupid a number of times was the annual resolultion declared Captive Nations Week in July. It was a declaration of solidarity of freedom loving Americans with some 20 nations that were held enslaved by Russian communists. Slobin's grandmother left the Russian empire before the Bolshevik takeover. Her people, both those that left and those that stayed, were generally supportive of the communists. Nations such as Ukrainian, Poles, Belorussians, Lithuanians, etc.simply didn't exist for them. They favored the preservation of the empire, no matter what system it took on, since this was convenient for their trading activities. Slobin remained a leftist professor though his academic speciality was the psychology of language. It was interesting that he could travel many times to Uman which at the time was a closed city.

[@spiritualhumanist]

Black Americans too ?

[@MrDagosti]

He should have listened more to his brunette Maria while she was always talking politics.

[@internetowo]

Потом было еще три выставки и на всех были километровые очереди. А Хрущев, конечно, мог держать покерфейс и нахваливать советский строй. "Нашему начальству хорошо, у них нет конкретной работы", - как сказал когда-то папаша Мюллер. P.S. Нужно было приходить в последний день, тогда можно было что-то отхватить, все раздавалось.

[@buzzz241]

You didn’t report on the most significant event that happened during this time! The “Great Kitchen Debate!” 😊

[@SunriseLAW]

Triggered memories of the Russian Pavillion at the 1973 Spokane World's Fair. I don't think they have world fairs anymore, they were once a big deal.

[@trinleywangmo]

We have the internet and don't need to leave our cells, ehrm... rooms.

[@FromRussiawithvideo]

They still do but yeah they don't have the same impact. It's in Japan next year.

[@AshenTiger]

"He'd give them a wave as the USSR overtook them" 32 years later...

[@allison2242]

20 min in and it seems he has clearly not having a torn heart any longer! Maria!😊

[@yanikkunitsin1466]

That was beautiful

[@Senor_Penor]

Oh what could have been, if only friendship prevailed in this world.

[@metalextras]

Tatiana were in love with the US way of living...

[@happyjohn354]

I remember hearing the USSR would trade vodka for Pepsi and the Pepsi company would later sell the vodka. Then sometime after toward the end of the USSR they started trading naval vessels for Pepsi.

[@MatAK49]

EXCELLENT

[@DoubleMrE]

I was born on the date of The Kitchen Debate (July 24, 1959). 😉

[@olir6910]

Amazing story

[@Curmudgeon2]

Now I know why Pepsi was first into Russia.

[@specularverzide9972]

Smol note: the Soviet union did not have the technology for toilet paper until 1965. Also Tatayana got into all sort of troubles xD. P.S.: i was 78% sure the guy is going to be jewish, like proper rabbi material. I wasn't wrong.

[@xwiirastusx]

"like proper rabbi material". But he ended up morphing into Richard Dreyfuss instead😆

[@davidmonk8494]

In a student dorm in Leningrad in 1969, toilet stalls had small sheets of thin, crisp paper hung on a nail next to the toilet. They were also useful as airmail stationery. (Back then, airmail postage was expensive, so lightweight writing paper was desirable.)

[@randacnam7321]

Their first TP factory was built in 1969. The whole production line for it was imported from England.

[@richardhighsmith]

They had the technology for tissue paper. It just wasn’t a priority in the planned economy, at least it wasn’t as much of a priority as rockets and tanks.

[@davidpoole5595]

India has shown you if you have a left hand then you don't need toilet paper....

[@Jeroen4]

This is very well done.

[@lolita19711]

the soviets lived very poorly compared to americans

[@SMGJohn]

Yup, avg Soviet citizen did not have mansions and golf courses with private yachts. But they also did not have slums and gang wars so there is that.

[@lolita19711]

@@SMGJohn wdy they didnt have slums? most industrial places or non city center places did have slums the ussr had plenty of sobering centers where drunks were being cured places all around these were awful.there was always gangs back then just they did not have guns.

[@lolita19711]

@@SMGJohn p.s im from vilnius and in the soviet days a small distric here in the old town called paupis in the soviet days was an abandoned slums where drunks used to hang out.now its a expensive place to live

[@SMGJohn]

@@lolita19711 Your "idea" of what a slum is, is frankly hilarious. "Abandoned places with drunk people in them" imao, dude, you never been in an actual slum, you never seen a picture of one. Yet you claim to be an expert already, thats interesting to me, because slums are essentially dense towns built out of shacks and other cheap materials with extreme poverty and usually these places are lawless or have gangs running zones. If you want a good example of a slum, you can look no further than South Kore, Guryong Village, or if you want something closer to home, any village in Russian Federation, specially worst are the shack towns of Vladivostok. Perestroika era does not even count since thats when the Capitalist restoration happened in USSR. Thanks Gorbachev, friend of the US.

[@lolita19711]

@SMGJohn its weird why your denying my version,the oitskirts of russia were like skums ppl in huts no roads or plumbing,and big problem with alcohol.Gangs were a thing.Here in vilnius paupis distric a city centre in vilnius was abandoned and a real slum

[@sixmax11]

i'm an american and this expo was the year i was born. however, my grandfather was born in russia, just outside moscow, he moved to the u.s. in 1910, where he met my polish grandmother.

[@HuckBuddies]

@6:22 I am also torn, Always! 😂😂😂

[@gregp7379]

"Caught with a prostitute in the bushes"

[@baikushex0et682]

18:50 nice 😂 Natasha

[@zk1919]

There is no "better Russia".

[@MrAMandTM]

20:29 I gotta remember that one.

[@CharlesFlato-wn2qf]

I was 14 years old. I remember it. And that the Russians wished they had what we did.

[@claymore-san6926]

4:17 "demonstration of force" lmao tbh would love to see a movie in which architects from the two countries race for the best project title on both sides.

[@sdmoparmaninsd6713]

For those interested, you can google maps this man's home in Detroit to see what its like :) 2974 Collingwood St

[@tomb7942]

The house on Collingwood is still there and in good shape. You might say big deal, but its Detroit, it kind of is a big deal.

[@guidostahl2139]

Interesting how the US / west was the role model for the world

[@barron8006]

We had dreams in the 20th Century. Now nightmares and extinction, yet not nuclear.

[@RaquelFoster]

LOL obviously you didn't live through the 50s/60s/70s/80s when the whole time the US thought it could be nuked by the USSR at any moment. School children had drills of what to do when a nuke went off. Fallout shelters were everywhere.

[@marcellooo69]

What happened to George and Tatyana? Where are they now?

[@Dmitriy_Pivko]

Интересно было послушать про те далекие времена. Пропаганда и показуха была всегда. Спасибо за ваш труд.

[@trinleywangmo]

You're using the word "propaganda" very loosely. That's not what it actually means. But, sure, bragging, showing off, that's what Americans do best, because we "gots the goods"!

[@valyshknee4203]

"millions" you mean around 100,000 moskovians that visited which lived the best out of the whole country?, love how this documentary praises it as a great achievement, but most if not all of those visitors likely lost memory of it, and the USSR continued up to 1991

[@koroisaucomics]

🎉 Gosh... my parents were still 6 year olds at that time? 😢😢😢

[@xxxxxx-tq4mw]

I was in the 5th grade at this time, not really up on, or interested in, current events but i do remember our country being gob smacked because of Sputnik a couple of years earlier, Nixon’s kitchen debate with Krushchev at this event, and then in 1960, Francis Gary Powers being shot down in his U-2, which was huge, being constantly in the news, really messing up our diplomacy with Russia.

[@lkmetro8223]

9:20 " he would give the later a wave when the ussr overtook them" Couldnt help but laugh, with their 5 total cars produced each year im sure they got close 😅

[@FromRussiawithvideo]

They caught up a lot over next 20 years and predictions were they were going to pass the US. Then oil collapse and information revolution saw another huge divergence.

[@cry2love]

8:47, Khrushev ridiculing the more advanced kitchen, 9:15 makes faces while saying that everything is better in the USSR, he reminds me of my soviet dad born in 1950. Me as someone who lived whole my life in russia and ukraine, I can tell you that this mentality is always been there in soviet people, mostly older, my dad kinda acts like Khruschev when he denies and ridicules more advanced things or something he does not have, even when I get something new, tech or anything he acts similarly - I don't need a fancy thing, I have a strength of spirit, all I have is enought for me and you are spoiled and you buy things you don't need, haha. Yeah dad, all I did is just showed you the new thing I got, my friends are curious and happy for me but only you acts like I am attacking you🤣 soviet born kid, even he says about soviet union famous saying - I don't need anything and the thing is - you don't have to have anything either. (meaning if I am poor, I will do the same to you if you won't share, I either steal or destroy. The same way USSR stole all the technologies from the USA and other places)

[@NickJaime]

He may have spoken the language but he probably had an American accent. He would always be looked as an outsider. I would know I'm treated similar with my own. They either think i can't speak the language or my complexion makes them go the other way. I have turned it into a positive since people talk freely when they think you can't understand, lol.

[@janwitts2688]

Consider how far Russia has fallen since then

[@BlueRoom275]

So what happened to Marie???

[@baikushex0et682]

20:27 No The difference between capitalism and communism is... In communism women trade their bodies for a pair of levis jeans And in capitalism they trade their bodies for expensive french purses 😂😂😂

[@johnhungerford3814]

Both ways the human race has opportunity to continue 😂

[@natdmc85]

Khrushchev would be happy to know the closest thing we have to a " food pushing machine" is called a KFC "famous bowl"

[@ALEakaKorwin]

Fix subtitles please.

[@xbcrcx]

Whar ever happened with Maria?

[@zachhoward9099]

Doesn’t really sound like Maria was into him the way he was into her so by the end it sounds like he had accepted it

[@Amitavzone]

what happed to maria????