Soviet Motherhood Medals 🎖️

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Lady Izdihar

Жыл бұрын

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@iam8401 Жыл бұрын

"Mother-heroine" is included in the list of the highest titles in Russia. In the same row - "Hero of Russia" and "Hero of Labor". The holders of these titles enjoy preferential medical care, free treatment in sanatoriums, preferential prosthetics and the provision of medicines.

@daniels0376 11 ай бұрын

In America you get shamed for having the audacity to have multiple kids without being rich.

@faeriequeen401 9 ай бұрын

that's so beautiful. It truly shows how much the soviet union honoured and cared for women.

@FieserMoep 6 ай бұрын

It mostly showes that the State wanted Kids to grow and use. Nazi Germany did the same to replenish losses.

@iam8401 Жыл бұрын

After 1973, it became possible to reward women who adopted orphans during and after the war. In particular, the order was received by Bahri Akramova, who adopted 15 children - she did not have her own. Some women received the title posthumously, such as Alexandra Derevskaya.

@jmagowan12 Жыл бұрын

We communists just love badges. XD

@noviceThelizard 6 ай бұрын

there should be a badge for having 5 other badge

@KozelPraiseGOELRO 6 ай бұрын

More valuable than money, easy to transport, made purely for recognition of effort, colectionable, RED. It is obvious why.

@vaniitas8403 2 ай бұрын

As the good dogs you are

@jmagowan12 2 ай бұрын

@@vaniitas8403 What dogs have badges!? 🤩

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

@@vaniitas8403 hey, at least we have a recognized way to FLEX our deeds, not mere boasting...

@artsyfartsy1998 Жыл бұрын

what a cool piece of history i would never have learned otherwise :^) ty

@iam8401 Жыл бұрын

Heroine mothers were entitled to priority free housing and free public transport.

@Ijasahammed-ev6mq 11 ай бұрын

My grandma had 9 kids but she was not in the soviet union😅.i wish i could have got her one.. May allah bless her with these medals in jannah.

@sizor3ds 9 ай бұрын

Time for someone to recognize the mostly unpaid labour women and mothers contribute to society. We should totally bring back medals for workers, and mothers too. Since they often do the most thankless work.

@liasonlee1248 7 ай бұрын

Capitalist societies will never appreciate mothers, mothers are a detriment to their wealth accumulation practices.

@RedArrow808 7 ай бұрын

This is fantastic. A lot of mothers and grandmothers deserve medals for real pillars of families.

@hereisalsu5513 6 ай бұрын

My grandma had one of these medals. She had 9 children. Her name was Nuraniya. She has lived all her life in the countryside. She was ethnically Tatar. Very hardworking woman. She worked all her life on a collective farm. Remembering her, I think, how people in the past had so much strength and energy to work at such a hard job and still raise a lot of children? I have one child, and sometimes I get so tired. One child is not easy, but 9... 😮

@keatonwastaken 7 ай бұрын

Real life achievement system was one of the best parts of the Soviet Union lol.

@SinbathSparrow 3 ай бұрын

Female world war 2 veterans must have had so many medals 😅

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

@@SinbathSparrow imagine a woman who fought from Stalingrad to Berlin... She would not have space in her chest for the medals...

@tonttu7979 Жыл бұрын

The song in the background giving me major nostalgia. There's a finnish cover and it was sang a lot when i was in kindergarten

@se7enei8htnin97 11 ай бұрын

Lol wish my grandma got a pension increase and a medal for raising 10 kids in the US

@NhatMinhNguyen-zx1jd 6 ай бұрын

Wow, they are beautiful. I wanna see them directly.

@deannatroiofthemyscira8558 11 ай бұрын

i am so conflicted about this. 10 children is a serious health hazard, meaning that a woman should be given care instead of being held up as an example for other women to follow. but also i love that reproductive labour is being acknowledged and valued. i hope all the receivers got to live a healthy life, where they were cared for and respected by their closest people.

@morningstararun6278 7 ай бұрын

There was a severe population crisis in USSR immediately after the world war. So it is understandable.

@doodle3984 6 ай бұрын

Adoption was also included

@SinbathSparrow 3 ай бұрын

They were given care though, day care took most of the burden away

@bertbaker7067 7 ай бұрын

Giving more money to people having kids is a good idea

@Comrade_Uraqi 9 ай бұрын

Well-deserved Taking part in raising 2 kids was difficult enough, I can't imagine 10 locals heroes whose names are lost to history

@thefoolonthehill8394 Жыл бұрын

500 000 woman times at least 10 children each !!!

@bob-lk5et Жыл бұрын

are there any sources on how cultural attitudes or norms had changed after such a drastic reduction in population from WW2?, like it shouldn't be expected that people think of family or relationships as the same after 1/6th of the population is taken away, yet we never really hear of what their perspectives are, at least in the west

@theaconite1400 Жыл бұрын

I don't know of any sources but it's an interesting question. My knowledge of WWII is limited so I could easily be wrong about this but I get the impression that most of the Soviet people who died were Ukrainian and Polish (because geography). So changes to cultural attitudes due to exposure to death might have only existed in the western parts of the USSR. Although the effects to the economy I'm sure affected cultural attitudes across the country.

@vadimk3484 Жыл бұрын

One thing that was definitely there, was a pathological phobia of war throughout the whole nation. Arguably, this post-traumatic mindset was a factor in letting the Soviet partocracy usurp power and ultimately restore capitalism - people were so traumatized by the war that they just didn't have any more will to fight, neither domestic counter-revolutionaries nor foreign imperialism. From a more practical perspective, there was the massive demographic pit created by the war, which can be traced even to this day (however, the pit caused by the dissolution of the USSR is just as massive as the one from the Nazi invasion)

@anon-san3975 7 ай бұрын

@@theaconite1400 you're partially correct - the most suffered republic was belorussian where 1/3 of all population was destroyed, russian and ukranian ssr also suffered casualties in millions, there even saying that "every returned to a house with someone missing", and that only at best, many had nowhere and noone to return to at all.

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

From one not-till-the-moment-reliable source, it is said that entire villages just had no men in marriageable age left, and the losses of male soldiers were staggering to the point that Russia have a gender imbalance to this day (there is more woman then men in Russia), so Stalin decided to "gift" soldiers without families and single, housing and jobs in those places, and told them to "do their duty for the Motherland", and because there was less man than woman in those places, you can reach the conclusion of this...

@roadman_hanzi Жыл бұрын

My mom made 6 kids... my grandfather first wife made 11 ,..., MAN I WISH I WAS MARRIED AND HAD 10 KIDS AT LEAST XD,in capitalism...kids are a hassle economically ,

@grimtakla7666 6 ай бұрын

My grandmas mother haf 15 kids but she never got medals

@CanadianMemorials Жыл бұрын

Very nice Video and great information

@Richard-cv8kg 11 ай бұрын

Loved the way you told us about History... subscribing, not gonna forget this time

@orion10x10 Жыл бұрын

This is so cool

@Tito_michi 2 ай бұрын

Two of my grandmothers had it:) one raised 8 children (10 were born, 2 died), the other - 6 (8 in total, 2 died). In early Soviet Union infancy death was still a problem left by tsarism, but the situation kept improving, of course.

@kayvahn2141 11 ай бұрын

the 10 children under soviet times would have had access to healthcare, education, food- everything they needed to build a decent life for themselves and their children. anyone going for that 10-child medal in modern russia has to be some sort of super villain just trying to create as much suffering as possible.

@liasonlee1248 7 ай бұрын

those basic necessities and life improvements are available all across soviet union, not only for the 10 children families. And ask your mom how much pain she have to endure to have an inconsiderate child like you.

@sylvann7501 4 күн бұрын

"I have one! A medal, not a child" lol

@odehTV 11 ай бұрын

Assalamualaikum sister. Love your channel keep the history alive!

@SupraGamingMk4 7 ай бұрын

Free Palestine🇵🇸❤🇷🇺

@felipejose8834 Жыл бұрын

A mulher é uma máquina mesmo, no USA, na terra dos Klansman "Levando a palavra"

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

Maluco, 10 CRIAS? Agora dá pra entender os Espartanos - só recebiam uma lápide os soldados que morriam em batalha e mulheres que morriam DANDO A LUZ!

@shadyshrimp6208 3 ай бұрын

My great grandmother got the 10 children reward, so yeah, big family Edit: spelling

@romanticsharksmut 9 ай бұрын

10 children? Oh my!

@John-mf6ky 4 ай бұрын

Damn, I could actually read "mother" on the medal after spending so much time learning about the ruso-ukrainian war.

@ZhuoAo Жыл бұрын

Can't believe your cat doesn't count.

@katia9192 3 ай бұрын

wow can’t believe they had competitive mothering

@liasonlee1248 7 ай бұрын

Don't know about this, thank you. Maybe I should create more badges to commend my comrades here.

@lolexplosions4214 7 ай бұрын

I learn something new just saying they need it soldiers.

@_jfk 10 ай бұрын

where do you get your medals

@CT-045 Ай бұрын

Service and Honor

@michaelharrison8036 25 күн бұрын

Communist Romania also awarded a similar decoration. Yours looks like a very beautiful, pristine ecample. 👍👍

@patootien Жыл бұрын

My freat grandmother was supposed to get this award but two of her daughters passed in infancy. Also, is the song about birthdays intentional?

@LadyIzdihar Жыл бұрын

It's intentional! I also love the melody regardless

@patootien Жыл бұрын

@@LadyIzdihar neat!

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

10 CHILDREN? Ooof... now I get the Spartans - the only ones who get a headstone in a cemetary were soldiers who died in battle, and WOMAN WHO DIED IN CHILDBIRTH. But anyway, that is in fact a great idea - giving birth to 10 children is a no small feat, only a HEROINE could do this, indeed...

@NEOGEO1966 10 ай бұрын

May Allah (SWT) bless you with many many children, Ameen,

@aadhavanbalachandran7164 7 ай бұрын

Is the background music the birthday song from Gena the Crocodile ?

@theww2girl141 Жыл бұрын

The Germans did the same thing in WW2.

@daniels0376 11 ай бұрын

In the Soviet Union the medal was about ensuring the survival of the struggle for the People's Liberation. In fascist Germany it was about making pure race nordic babies to one day fill up your armies which will anihilate all other "subhumans"

@SinbathSparrow 3 ай бұрын

They also designated young girls as breeders

@anacondafilms Жыл бұрын

Is this an original example?

@martinvatanka7709 9 ай бұрын

Nope

@nevimproctodelam0 11 ай бұрын

i dont have one, but my grandpa gave me some of his medals and those medals were made in the communist eras

@___.51 6 ай бұрын

Something about this disturbs me deeply actually

@ljpurdy5124 5 ай бұрын

Maternity would look great with u

@0D_D0 Жыл бұрын

bombowo

@hgp2461 Жыл бұрын

Did others who see women with the pin think highly of them

@theaconite1400 Жыл бұрын

I get the impression that they did. They probably would have seen it as doing their part to help rebuild society from the devastation of WWII.

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

As a men, I would - she is a warrior!

@lohitroy5938 5 ай бұрын

I personally thing this is blatantly sexist. Does it not imply that a woman’s worth can be measured in the number of children she produces. It answers the question, who is a good or virtuous mother/provider/female citizen? By highlighting her ability to reproduce life and labour.

@SinbathSparrow 3 ай бұрын

The Soviets didn't have the Atomic Family model. Women had a very solid role in society

@north9810 Ай бұрын

I don't believe this is blatantly sexist. Women had access to other paths of success and recognition. The Soviet union handed out awards for all kinds of stuff, such as a pin for being a master of hemp production. Women in the USSR had greater opportunities to pursue academia and athletics as opposed to their western counterparts where in they'd have the opportunity to get awards and medals in academia, athletics, their workplaces etc. Additionally the tremendous amount of effort it takes to raise a single child let alone SEVEN children is worth celebration. Women who choose to undertake the path of motherhood should have their incredible contributions to society celebrated just as one would be celebrated for advancing science, medicine, art, etc.

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

*read this in a Russian accent* In Soviet Union, woman are not treated as only housewife - she can be soldier, factory worker, scientist, astronaut, and mother. It is all a matter of choice. And if she choose to be mother of Red Army batallion, who are you to question her?

@zachary8491 11 ай бұрын

3rd reich had something similar too. I like collecting these women medals.

@zacherybishop7710 Жыл бұрын

10?!

@jakobsmith4046 Жыл бұрын

In modern Russia it wouldnt surprise me if they lower your pension for having children

@vadimk3484 Жыл бұрын

Nah, they just gradually take pensions away from everyone

@chancekahle2214 Жыл бұрын

Rebuilding the population or not, ten children from one mother is excessive.

@fabianmiron2782 Жыл бұрын

thats the point of the medal it was a special accomplishment also having 10 children was for a long time a lot but still not completely unknown so i dont know why you think its excessive

@ndvs4391 Жыл бұрын

My Breton grandparents each belonged to a family of 11, or close to it. It's a pretty normal level before contraception and the fall in infant mortality (+ 1 generation, as there's a bit of a lag in the adaptation of human behaviour, given that one's level of scarcity in childhood seems to be what dictates the goal for the number of children one will have). In the case of the Soviet Union we're precisely in that +1 generation gap, and of course the War had created an important demographic deficit, so that would have sounded perfectly normal at the time. Interestingly, in France, which had its demographic transition very early during the XIXth century, some regions were still outliers and there was the rivalry with Prussia and later Germany, which led to the tradition (in order to encourage natality) that the 14th child (and the following ones) can have the President of the Republic as their godfather. This was still in use by the 1970s.

@lif6737 Жыл бұрын

I mean my grandma was born in 1937, Netherlands and became the eldest of 11 other siblings. Considering the medal was established in the 1940s, such a large family was far from unheard of, and it was heavily encouraged as a means to recover from the devastation of the Second World War. We live in a different time today no doubt, but I’m not too shocked by these medals

@michaelslowmin Жыл бұрын

Yeah my current American brain is like hell tf no, but it was a very different time and place lmao

@goturmatau 5 ай бұрын

We will win comrades ✊✊

@DillyDallyLove Жыл бұрын

Awesome 😎 Fight money with badges! Fight money with badges!

@martinvatanka7709 6 ай бұрын

Good you got a repro. The real ones can get pretty expensive.

@adinagershon240 6 ай бұрын

What happened to SIDS or young child deaths? How old does a child have to me to be considered "raised"

@Jamhael1 Ай бұрын

Well, healthcare was granted to all in Soviet Russia, so the problem of STDs was greatly diminished. And the raised part... well, now you got me...

@IREQUIREFLESH Ай бұрын

The Nazis did too.

@lordjav1320 Ай бұрын

The Nazis also ran ran histories first major anti smoking campaign. Doesn't change the fact their Nazis you need to look at the reason not just the action. The Germans wanted to make my Aryans to get the population high enough to deal with an eventual race war with Asia. The soviets lost twenty million people and needed to recover. You could not do it in the Soviet Union and become a doctor or scientist you couldn't do that in Germany.