Soviet Education. First Steps of Becoming a Soviet Soldier

[@UshankaShow]

Hello, comrades! My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My book about arriving in America in 1995 is available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s?k=american+diaries+1995&ref=nb_sb_noss Please contact me at [e-mail] if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” You can support this project here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff with monthly donations Support for this channel via PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop If you are curious to try some of the Soviet-era candy and other foodstuffs, please use the link below. www.russiantable.com/imported-russian-chocolate-mishka-kosolapy__146-14.html?tracking=5a6933a9095f9 My FB: facebook.com/sergey.sputnikoff Twitter: twitter.com/ushankashow Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/The_Ushanka_Show/

[@mikecarone7320]

How do you feel about recruiters

[@caesarerelmacahilig2611]

hey can you do about pervertism in ussr

[@bangochupchup]

I enlisted in the US Marines in 1983. Before I got on the bus to go take my physical and all that, my father offered me some advice. He said the doctor might put his finger in my rear end. Dad said that if he put one hand on my shoulder while doing this not to worry but if he had his "finger" in my rear and both hands on my shoulders I had a problem! Thanks Pops, I'm nervous enough!! Dad had a good sense of humor.

[@tristanholland6445]

In the US this is called MEPS Military Entrance Processing Station pretty much the same process. In the US they also check if you're color blind and also depth perception. I remember doing the depth perception test because the optometrist refused to believe my first attempt and made another optometrist test me over. I asked the guy laughed and said that I had excellent depth perception and the first optometrist didn't believe the results.

[@johnniebee4328]

haha just posted this then saw you already did, I remember they thought I had too much wax in my ears so I had to sit there all morning waiting to get my ears cleaned out and then re-checked so I could finish the processing

[@free_at_last8141]

Comrade Doctor, my eyesight isn't good enough for Afghanistan. Don't worry Comrade Soldier, you never see the Afghans until it's too late anyways.

[@julierauthshaw8556]

This is the most hilarious video yet! I watched it at work on my lunch break. Glad there was no one else in the breakroom at the time....

[@Witnessmoo]

My parents did this, in Albania during communist times. My mum was a machine gunner.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

In Greece we still have conscription, but only for men- women serve only as career soldiers or volunteers 😉

[@camillomancini5619]

E gjeta dhe nje shqipetar tek komentet e ushanka show 😂

[@camillomancini5619]

@@Pavlos_Charalambous cool

[@clavichord]

There are some old propaganda films from Albania online. They portray the country under communism as very idylic and leader Enver Hoxha as some kind of a caring and gentle old grandfather figure... somehow one gets the feeling the film wasn't very truthful about real life in communist Albania

[@justdustino1371]

Awesome! Anyone else notice the SKS and Degtyaryov MG at 1:43 ?

[@tristanholland6445]

Yeah a DP-28 and Ppsh-41 I don't know if the Soviets or Russians do cadences but that's a big thing in the US military. Red Army drill instructor during WWII: Give me a D Red Army recruits: The Degtyaryov D? Drill instructor: That's right the Degtyaryov D Recuits: Deeeeee Drill instructor: What's that sound? Recuits: That's the Degtyaryov sound 46 rounds pass them around Drill instructor: I love that sound what dose that give me Recuits: Another fascist dead in the ground!! All: Urah,Urah,Urah!!!

[@chris999999999999]

Cool video. The US does something similar but only for people actually joining the military. There's a place called MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station) where they do both physical and aptitude testing. Registering for the draft is just sending in a postcard or going online.

[@vitorpaiva4001]

To this day, we still have something very similar going on in Brazil. Every male must draft and during the draft process you have to get naked. They don't ask you to pull your foreskin back, though. They wanna check for hernias. I found it to be quite an embarrassing experience, especially for someone shy like me.

[@prewettcr]

Awesome commentary on a fascinating country - I'm 65 now but growing up in central Florida (early 60's) we once practiced getting under our desks...my best friend told me Khrushchev was going to bomb us TOMORROW... second grade was somewhat more interesting that year.

[@unfairfight3625]

The guy that drank the water,, that was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Starphot]

My preparation for the US Navy was similar to your's except the foreskin. Ours was held at the major recruiting depot here in town. All of the US armed forces were represented there. I was examined when I signed up with the major exam a few weeks later before the sent us out to boot camp. About 99% of US boys in 1971 were circumcised. A lot of us didn't know that until later when we read "What you want to know about sex but were afraid to ask"! The group rectal exam was the same as yours plus turn your head and cough! This is where the joke "Bend down and spread your cheeks!" came from when talking about corporate management decisions.

[@jarikinnunen1718]

The war never ended in the Soviet Union. It was constantly preparing to continue. That's why the children were also recruited. When war came with Afghanistan, the Soviet economy collapsed and peoples not believed in its power anymore.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Conscription in most countries has to do more like teaching a good precedence of the population a certain way of thinking/ acting than the actual fighting capability of the army it self Also note that in Afghanistan the Soviets wasn't military defeated, their country collapsed from internal problems and had to withdraw, with the irony being that the communist government of Afghanistan actually surviving 2 or 3 years if I remember correctly after the Soviet union's collapse..

[@phils473]

Another hilarious one! My wife watched it 2 times and couldn't stop laughing (me too!) Don't worry, you are not a d***. Almost as good as when you learned about that one car trick a long time ago 😂

[@UshankaShow]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@GeorgeSemel]

Well, I had that prostate exam on a number of occasions. Now getting to play with ppsh-41 is something I could endorse while in high school. It looks like a normal draft kind of thing. I still have my draft card. And I did go thru the physical for the Marine Corp back in the late 1970's bad feet and with bad eyesight, later fixed I was unsuitable for service. And Since I am Teaching myself Russian I know What HET means my problem my in my whole life I had a hard time ever say HET, I am to much of a Da person.

[@eursiaameria9393]

So pretty much the mandatory 9th and 10th grade military classes in the Soviet Union is like the American equivalent of ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps)

[@caligulaaugustus2977]

This is the best podcast ever.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

Great video, laughed more than I should with the anecdotes, and they reminded me my medical examination the first day in the Greek army ( drafting in Greece is more like a bureaucratic procession than anything else- the real thing starts ones you are at the training camp) So we entered a huge room something like 50 men ,they put as in two rows and then a female doctor in camouflage and very bad mood order as " get naked and close your eyes!!" I was like wtf?? But I did it, after a while an other doctor tell me " open your eyes " and then he asks me -how many testicles do you have? - how many should I have? I answer back - well some guys have 3 some have 1.. - I have two and they always arguing - how that? - the one is a leftist and the other right winger - ok show me to verify After some questions and checking next stop is for psychological evaluation So I enter a room ,at the table a doctor He looks at me without saying anything A look at him After 5 minutes staring each other He asks me my name, where am from all the typical and in some point he asks me: - what the difference between a airplane and a bird? - the airplane has turbines ! I replied He looks at me without saying anything again.. Ok! Next!!

[@flyifri]

Very interesting and informative. Thank you with thumbs up.! Can you please add your store unfo to the description below. I had a hard time hearing where to find.! thanks again...!

[@nab-rk4ob]

I think everybody learned something today. ;)

[@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.]

I didn’t want to laugh but I had to.

[@bernardobiritiki]

Step one be a soviet citizen

[@lifeontheX]

In Soviet Russia you don't fork the road, the road forks you!

[@rossbryan6102]

IN MY HOME TOWN , ONE DAY 4 OF US HAD TO GET OUR DRAFT PHYSICAL EXAM. UNFORTUNATELY I PASSED AN ANOTHER GUY PASSED, BUT 2 OF US FAILED! MANY YEARS LATER I GOT CURIOUS WHY THEY FLUNKED! I ASKED THE FIRST ONE AND HE SAID IT WAS KIDNEY PROBLEMS! THE SECOND GUY SAID HE TOLD THEM HE HAD EPILEPSY!! WHEN HE TOLD THEM THEY SAID GET OUT, GO HOME! I THEN ASKED HIM "DO YOU HAVE IT??" HE SAID NO, AND THEY NEVER CHECKED HIM ANY FURTHER!!

[@fifi3649]

I know I should act mature and everything, but I couldn't help but laughing at the jokes! 🤣

[@willynthepoorboys2]

So now we know how snipers are chosen in Russia. Who could have guessed it. LOL

[@markhillary7402]

Sands Maybe that’s how they picked them in the 80s, but they couldn’t have been doing it all along because many ofthe Red Army’s greatest snipers duuring the Great Patriotic War were women.

[@willynthepoorboys2]

@@markhillary7402 That is true.

[@pricelessppp]

Cool video.

[@paulmears5330]

Sniper story for the win!😆

[@Asian19981]

Hello Sergei i love your videos and i love your Soviet culture uniqueness and i have a question if you’re American migrant to Soviet country ( I don’t know whether you can migrate into Soviet or not) but if you want to join soviet military, can you sign up at their headquarters? If you can. Are there any exception from ordinary Soviet people?

[@ArtisticDazzler]

Those jokes had me😂

[@ericgoingoverseas5064]

Well Comrade, I can understand why they checked like they did. We were young ounce too. Some of us played in fields we shouldn't have.😉

[@Notta_Mechanic]

He’s gonna be a sniper hahah, that one got me

[@Johnny53kgb-nsa]

Most of that I didn't need to know😀

[@scottmacleod6301]

Sounds pretty much identical to MEPS.😆

[@josh656]

Kids get Krinks? Best high school class ever!

[@wooderdsaunders6801]

Very funny anidotes . I wonder if they were urban legends?

[@tristanholland6445]

Obviously the Afghanistan sniper one is a funny story. Based on the truth of an awkward situation.

[@jesuschrist138]

Doesn't sound that different from MEPS here in the U.S.

[@gregkramarz8871]

The sniper was great! Sooo I'm a massage therapist ALSO IN MICHIGAN! Did the USSR citizens ever get a massage or like a spa day?

[@UshankaShow]

Only medical massage at the treatment facilities or sanatoriums by the Black Sea

[@UshankaShow]

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[@gregkramarz8871]

@UshankaShow I haven't watched the soviet vacation vid yet, if not covered in there, maybe a good topic? 🤔

[@UshankaShow]

@@gregkramarz8871 I will add it to my list.

[@shelby3822]

3:30 iphone tucked in his undies

[@m.a.t.a.s]

That's an ID

[@shelby3822]

@@m.a.t.a.s you're fun at parties

[@UshankaShow]

Salami most likely. A glass of cold water would help

[@adventureguy4119]

Shout out to the doctor that got shot in the eye

[@jeremymurphy7320]

4:40 aaaannnndddd demonetized again

[@doncarlin9081]

Yeah it does sound like military medical exams were the same in the US and the former USSR. And Islam also has a requirement for circumcision.

[@GUNROCKS1990]

Shit this story very interesting to hear and too pornhub jokes.

[@pumpkinsdontcry]

In the Ukraine you can own non fully automatic rifles and shotguns.

[@UshankaShow]

In Eastern Ukraine you can own a tank or BUK missile launch

[@Coinbro]

Back in good old days when guns in school was acceptable before everyone became scum gangsters and druggies

[@jamallabarge2665]

At 1:40 that's a Degtyarov machine gun. Ancient. Also see a PPSh-41. The latter was so good that the Nazis would put them to work, even rebarrelled them to German ammunition. Here in the US we are cautioned that the PPSh-41 barrels will rupture under sustained fire. They were probably designed for short bursts. Three or four rounds per Nazi.

[@davidhudson5452]

Blindness is not good enough,flat head youll do