Soviet Women You Should Know | Dusya Vinogradova

Soviet Women You Should Know #1
What if I made this a series?
I wanted to thank everyone because I reached my goal and have just received my book/document scanner!
I also wanted to mention that I hope to improve the video quality moving forward as I will finally be able to purchase a mic that works with my video camera I hadn't been using because, well my mic won't connect.
I've been using a phone thus far because I didn't want to sacrifice audio quality.
But thanks to Patreon I can get a proper mic set compatible to my canera this month! so InshaAllah look forward to that!
#soviethistory #ussr #SovietWomen
Timestamps:
00:00 A Larp of sorts
00:29 Real Intro
01:00 What Soviet Women do you know?
02:27 The Stakhonivite Movement / "Shock Workers"
03:47 Who was Dusya Vinogradova?
06:06 The pamphlet
07:10 Letters of admiration
12:32 The movie
12:59 Her own words
13:26 The Order of Lenin
16:14 Her future
18:46 Why she matters
20:09 Kitty Comrade Dusya 🐱
20:56 Outro + Updates!
Most of the info in this video is from the following pamphlet:
ladyizdihar.com/blogs/izdihar...
"Soviet Sketches #1 Miss USSR The Story of Dusya Vinogradova" By G. Friedrich 1936
Published by the Co-operative Publishing Society Of Foreign Workers in The USSR
(They made great pamphlets!)
Soviet Art & Culture:
soviet-art.ru/miss-ussr-famou...
And a lame source but I wanted to highlight and recommend ONLY as a jumping off source (as they have cited sources at the end) The RUSSIAN version of wiki if you just want simple basics about a person or event in the former USSR.
ru.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9...
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[@BloobFace]

It's really bittersweet to see how workers were viewed in the USSR versus in the US. It must have been incredible for ordinary people to really feel like they were part of the movement that was creating a new world with their own hands.

[@non-existent0373]

And some people still say that socialism makes people lazy, yet people like Dusya Vinogradova existed. Great video Lady lzdihar.

[@vadimk3484]

If we go all scientific about it, then alienation of labor makes people lazy - if you work 9 to 5 without seeing any tangible effect that your work yields to the society (and thus, to you as well), you naturally don't feel any desire to continue. Capitalism is always alienation. In the USSR thing varied in this regard, I'd say - while it was truly a people's state, governed for and by common folks, this insane enthusiasm was everywhere, because people actually saw first-hand that doing their part mattered. However, as the USSR degraded into a partocracy over the post-WW2 decades, the enthusiasm also mostly faded away, and sloppy unmotivated work slowly started becoming the norm. To me, it makes perfect sense - if you're both the one doing the actual work and the one who has a say in the planning of that work, as well as the distribution of the product, you're going to be directly interested in working hard. On the other hand, if you're only doing the shoveling, while some other dude decides everything for you, it's no wonder that motivation suffers.

[@lindalastname6306]

Even as a history student at the most "left leaning" (so still not very leftist) university of my country I never heard these kind of stories about the Soviet union (or women tbh), thank you so much for this!

[@LadyIzdihar]

I'm so happy to introduce these stories and bring a little humanization into how we view the Soviets!

[@VocalBear213]

Linda, do you study in the US?

[@lindalastname6306]

@@VocalBear213 fortunately not, I can only imagine that it would have been a lot worse then

[@VocalBear213]

@@lindalastname6306 hopefully, your education is applicable in the modern economy to some extent) Your comment got my attention, because "left-leaning" is such an empty term, especially for the USA.

[@qoriaparicio1328]

So hype for this series! The Soviet Union's treatment and portrayal of women has always been unique to it compared to the western mainstream and has gone under appreciated in modern times so I'm very glad you're sharing these stories! looking forward to more in the future

[@alexanderaugustus]

Lady Izdihar you are such a gem and a true comrade for making us more acquainted with such heroes of the Soviet Union! I love what you do

[@LadyIzdihar]

💖💖💖

[@jonirischx8925]

damn, if something happened in the soviet union, a pamphlet was made about it and you have it now...

[@LadyIzdihar]

I have a pamphlet problem

[@jonirischx8925]

@@LadyIzdihar and everybody else much appreciates your crippling pamphlet addiction. no need to stop just yet.

[@emperorspock3506]

11:37 Love that engineers are one of the default hero professions for the writer!

[@josemaria8177]

Thank you for this. Women are hidden from history and much more so of they are communists. If I might suggest a future protagonist for this series, I think that Grunya Sukhareva, a soviet psychiatrist and the first person to identify autism might be a good fit. Hans Asperger, the more famous discoverer (who was a fascist and sent thousands of childrens to their deaths) didn't quote her because she was a communist and because she was jewish

[@alexanderaugustus]

Absolutely, Sukhareva was much more advanced in reserching autism and many of her findings turn out to be true, even better than what Asperger achieved. She is a fantastic scientist. I agree that it would be great if you (Lady Izdihar) made a video about her work and life.

[@alieseryds]

So we must skip out identities fuck them.☠️just women not soviey women👍every WOMAN is WOMAN 😎

[@alieseryds]

Every woman is heroins and heros ❤

[@alieseryds]

You cant overestimate the God unless you underestimate the so Called🧠😎🧠

[@patootien]

Dusya (Yevdokiya/Eudoxia) and Marusya (Maria) weren't sisters, they just happened to share the same surname. They would work in shifts, so they both worked on those record number machines. The constant increase of the number of machines was mainly inspired by the race the competing neighbouring factories would announce, that was why she said "if they take on 150 machines we will conquer 200" referring to her main rival Tasya Odintsova and that was an actual challenge and promise made in front of Stalin, so he declared "Let's see who wins." The initial increase in the number of machines was because the factory was actually doing worse and worse both in quantity and quality and rapid staff turnover. After they invested in improving the machines and staff qualifications, they got sets if 40 and 52 copying another factory near Moscow, and those were experimental at the time. Dusya was put on a set of 40, but when she demanded she to be put on a set of 52, her boss punished her to a set of 35. Dusya only got to work on the big set because Anastasia Boldyryova was getting more and more involved with her political activity so Dusya replaced her. The increase of the work volume per person that was created by the race of the Vinogradovy duo and Tasya actually resulted in job shortages and the factories had to add a third shift. Dusya was often referred to as an example of "the new man." She was very active as a kid, participating in the school plays, newspaper and gymnastics.

[@XXTRIAGexx]

She went viral before the internet was a thing

[@frosty6845]

Loving these videos about the early USSR, you make the optimism of the time palpable

[@LadyIzdihar]

I'm glad there's people who are willing to listen and learn!

[@stefanpavlovic4191]

I subscribed for Yugoslav flag! 😃Greetings from Serbia for Donauschwabe from Banat! 😊Great story, didn't know about Dusya.. Thank you for sharing it! 👍My granfather was in Tito's partizans and was even decorated for bravery!

[@LadyIzdihar]

Always happy when others know my people! Welcome ✊

[@Machine_Whisperer]

I'm happy to hear about the document scanner. Thank you for this video teaching me about a period in the history of the USSR that I had not known. It makes sense. I heard a phrase about the fall of the USSR "The end of the beginning". I look forward to a time in which the contradictions sharpen, capitalism is buried for good all around the world, and human dignity is restored.

[@antifascist7818]

Loving your videos of the great USSR, please keep it up.

[@LadyIzdihar]

Thank you ❣️

[@smitty560]

Looking forward to those scans...Fulfill Your Quota !!! You GO Comrade !!! Congrats on the Scanner !!!

[@LadyIzdihar]

I'm imagining the posters of me comically slouched over the scanner with motivating words already!

[@smitty560]

@@LadyIzdihar You Should do a Few Posters !!! After All You are a Great Resourse and Inspire the Rest of Us Whom Keep Soviet Households....We Need Posters...

[@nathaliabatista2945]

I think that just like Dusya you too is very inspirational and so very enthusiastic, your love for the soviet people and history is very contagious! Learning about communism and world injustices sometimes gives me an awful feeling of fatalism and anguish, but then I watch you and your joyful and enthusiastic videos and is like a ray of sunshine on a rainy day. Keep on with your incredible and so very informative work, I'm very happy to have people like you on our side, comrad.

[@elonmusksellssnakeoil1744]

I would love to see a whole series like this about the Night Witches.

[@TheReaper0101]

Don't give up! We desperately need more true Storys from the Soviet Union! God bless you.

[@glovesflared]

Would love a whole series on this! historical women always need more attention, especially from the Soviet era!

[@esraaltun7097]

if this a series, i can't wait for more! Thank you for all the work you do!

[@LucasZawacki]

Congrats on another wonderful video! This is such a fascinating theme and I'm looking forward for the next ones.

[@ismaeldahora]

You were discovered!

[@kak42]

Looking forward to this becoming a series

[@lisakeitel3957]

A hero and famous by doing good work. Not "good looks are most important for the market"[edited] work, but a productive one. Good.

[@LadyIzdihar]

You can compliment the good work of a woman without shaming others. Only a few years before Dusya's time many women had to engage in sex work for survival. I am not the kind to shame or judge.

[@lisakeitel3957]

@@LadyIzdihar I know what you mean. I'm shaming the social standard that makes heroes for the looks, and not for work or intelligence. For this time, I will carry that weight. And I will edit.

[@kaboon3489]

Wow, this story makes me emotional a little. Imagine actually liking your job? Imagine working hard for your people because you want to? It's so unreal it's crazy. I wanna go back in time.

[@snehbtre]

It would also help if you could do a video on Russian feminists and their work. Often when universities teach theories and waves of feminism, it’s very constricted to just white women and their contribution and I only came to know about 1-2 feminist scholars through some random thread online

[@combrade-t]

I love your videos, and I think that making this a series would be great. Also, your new cat is very cute. I'm sure she will live up to her name.

[@plumetheum7017]

Thank you for your work. I first heard about you on The Deprogram podcast. It's good to see people bringing forth the truth about the USSR. That it was a place that brought immense good, but also made terrible mistakes. It was a nation, not a Looney Toons character.

[@sebastianpeady5850]

As always, thanks for the great video!

[@Hbomb13291]

Great video!

[@358sotos]

Yaaaaay! It's gonna be a great series!

[@realsouljaboy3927]

Great video as always

[@TractorJack]

When I work hard and effectively I just make work harder for others and drive down wages. I have never gotten a raise, but have taken pay cuts. I am very angry with the culture I have been raised in.

[@maxjahnke]

Nice video. Thanks for recording it!

[@MaximusOverOverdrive]

Simply wonderful!

[@laurenz840]

i woud love these series!! thank you for this, can't wait for more!

I love your work, thank you very much, comrade!

[@wisteria6656]

love love loooove this video😍

[@andrejmucic5003]

Thanks!

[@astralseaslug546]

Not sure I agree with the romanticization of overwork & stakhanovism lol, but I'm excited to see the rest of this series!

[@WesternCommie]

Great video.

[@person-yu8cu]

I think this is your best video, at least of the ones I've seen. This material is very educational, based on facts and very inspiring.

[@user-ir4jv6tz1v]

Great video! Hope to see more about Soviet women

[@WillyRahmannanoff]

Fantastic ❤

[@tsumugijohnson3220]

I love that with every story you tell you always have at least one neat little pamphlet to read from. Also, more generally, I want to say that it's these sorts of stories that give me hope that a better world is possible. I know, revolutionary optimism and all that, but it gets a little easier through these stories

[@TheMjsanty]

Love this series!

[@ceres568]

yes please make this a series

[@SWAPNESH23]

love it

[@RB939393]

Your voice is so pleasant and relaxing. Soviet educational asmr

[@qkranarchist3015]

Really appreciated this episode and look forward to the addl series. I had named my cat Koshka way back in the day. Now decades later finally have another and she's The Cat (full name is The Cat who shares her home with humans).

[@AJ-lo5dr]

Thanks :)

[@ringotheflamingo6900]

crapitalists be like b-but....I thought everyone was lazy in the soviet union....human nature....

[@Salsmachev]

If you point this out they pivot and say "B-but the few hard workers got the same as everyone else so they were carrying the lazy majority on their coattails" which is funny, because workers were actually paid according to the quality and quantity of their work.

[@redvelvetunderground]

please make this a series! our comrades must know of such heroes!

[@toinpituba6590]

🥰 Super Dusya❣❣❣

[@alvarocastilho8189]

Came here on the recommendation of the Brazilian communist collective Soberana "hasta la victoria siempre" comrade !!!!! PS: I loved the video, your speech is very cauma so even though I have difficulty with the language I can understand the video ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Julia-gl7zu]

can u do one on krupskaya :) i love her shes my research focus

[@damian9k]

I want to know more soviet women! ;___; I loved this video!

[@RedHoosier]

Excellent video! ☭

[@InsertNameHere95]

Very nice and informative video, thank you very much! I am wondering though how people who couldn't over perform and struggled to meet their plan were treated and viewed by the public. Does anyone know something about that perchance?

[@sedanwheel4146]

She's Inspiring. Even after all those years.

[@Battker]

One day Lady Izdihar will be able to simultaneously operate 100 document scanners!

[@LadyIzdihar]

InshaAllah 📜

[@das81]

Can I recommend a vídeo about the history of one of the most underrated and interesting water sport? Yeah, the origin of finswimming in the old Soviet Unión.

[@jessl1934]

Please tell me that you're going to cover Grunya Sukhareva in this series! 🙏

[@Broccolilover]

im learning to sew and wish to be a seamstress. shes such an inspiration! i would love to learn about soviet photographers and photography as a whole in the ussr. anyone know of where i can find information (good books preferably)

[@RedMachineCCCP]

What's the name of the song from the outro music? I've heard the Marxist Project use it but they never linked the original. Excellent job with the video, thank you for all the hard work you put in!

[@LadyIzdihar]

It's Russian dance from the KZbin audio library. Think it's like the only thing that shows up when typing "Russian" 💀

[@0D_D0]

okay please, I need to know. HOW IS THE BACKGROUND MUSIC CALLED

[@BobHawksley2]

Giving economic aid to hard working comrades, who work on our behalf, is a virtue. It is also in our own self-interest.

[@Watashiwadeus]

It's pretty bittersweet to hear and read about such optimistic attitudes knowing how cynical and disenchanted the public would be much later in the 80's

[@LadyIzdihar]

Indeed :( But I like focusing on that positive and what could have been. There's still a lot to learn and be Inspired from in that time frame!

[@seanpol9863]

Didn't the USSR transition from a planned economy to a market economy? I believe this started with Khrushchev and the Kosygin reforms of 1965. Market reforms, I understand, undermined the work of the planned economy by reintroducing capitalist arrangements. The expanding influence of the market and the abolition of the state monopoly on foreign trade, I hear, also led to the fact that the bulk of the goods, which were produced primarily for the satisfaction of domestic consumption under the planned economy, were then, under the market reforms, exported at higher prices for the generation of profit, depriving citizens of their basic necessities. So, I guess it's not surprising people became cynical and disenchanted.

[@seanpol9863]

I'm probably oversimplifying things, though maybe you could expand on this.

[@redvelvetunderground]

i also named one of my cats after comrade dusya!!

[@TheDoubleBee]

This is a genuinely brilliant idea for a series - humanization of people who made USSR the pinnacle of humanity

[@MarStoryTime]

Hi, comrade! If you add a 00:00 timestamp to your description, then it'll break up the video into nice little chapters. 👍

[@soegrassairsoft5016]

Hey! She died in younger age than average people now, but had more productive and meaningful life 🦋

[@chaoctic7278]

I absolutely love your aesthetic I wish there was more neo soviet lady’s sorry if that term is derogatory

[@TundraTrash]

I'd like to say I can't believe YouTub slapped a Tuttle Twins ad right in the middle of this, but unfortunately I really can.

[@nikitachaykin6774]

I do not remember Vinogradov movement but i do remember movie inspired by it, and i have to say that real Dusya is much more alive and interesting than bronze character played by Orlova.

[@user-wm4if8md3y]

I’m sure Dusya would be proud

[@Tovarish_Lenin1922]

very cute siberian cat 😺 :3

[@Focke42]

Wow thats great to glorify a worker of such "basic job". To make the foundation of our civilization a hero instead of any random millionaire is so much more, ahm, inspiring, i think. I'm not sure which word describes my feelings best.

[@LadyIzdihar]

It's definitely something we don't see, at least not genuinely or without ulterior motives.

[@ignacio3460]

[Engagement!]

[@gelirt]

Up

[@nicholassullivan8752]

My cats name is Iskra.

[@phrajilman]

Alisa Rosenbaum is another interesting soviet woman I'm sure you would love (this is a joke btw)

[@andrejmucic5003]

Find Moscow Daily News from the 30's, expat newspaper, Strong may have been involved

[@mat_j]

love the cosplay

[@gianlucamattos8684]

The cats shall rise as the dominant class, why ???, cause i like cats that's why

[@KozelPraiseGOELRO]

10:18 RED SIMP ALERT

[@barislovescats]

Pls kiss kitty comrade Dusya for me. I had a cat named Heval which means comrade in Kurdish.

[@rakkatytam]

Yo, it's so fucking sick that people in the soviet union became famous just for being good at their jobs...and here in the US you become famous for not needing a job :(

[@alieseryds]

We even as turks cant hear even stories just lies they say

[@oranggilatv1328]

I love your hijab/scarf mom,are u have a make video for u scarf collection mom,review Sorry and thanks mom 🙏🙏😊😊

[@lightenough]

Simps in the ussr 1917. Lul. Love your videos.

[@El_Guapo98]

not the Yugoslavian flag noooooooooooooo lmao

[@Sapphos_daughter]

Alright, I think it's been about 15 minutes since the video finished... It's hard to tell through all the tears lol... not to mention type! Damn you comrade - in the nicest possible way *grin* This is my first video of yours and it's unleashed a tidal wave of emotion... such a sense of loss and sadness, of what is gone, of what might have been, the yet to come. Damn it.. still getting waves of tears lol There is joy too... In your work, what you are creating here... shit I'm going to have to stop soon.. the emotional overload is getting too much... What you are creating ... artistically, intellectually is so beautiful ... and hopeful, I'm 67 and finding your work gives me at least some hope lol. Thank you - Oh, and I subscribed 😇 🤘Ӝ⚢Ӝ🏳‍🌈🦘

[@BenjiD1987]

Thanks!