The Human Face of Soviet Russia (1984)

[@tibzig1]

As a child of the Cold War, I was a teenager in the mid to late 1970s and can relate to everything here. I was then living in my native country, Pakistan, and clearly remember the propaganda wars between the USA and USSR. There was a Soviet place in the city of Karachi called "The Friendship House." It was free and open to all. We kids would go there and watch free Soviet movies (mostly their own propaganda) but being that young, it was all entertainment to us. They also taught Russian if one wanted to learn, free of course. At times they also had "cultural functions" where they provided food. They would hand out free issues of "Pravda," the Soviet propaganda magazine, in the English versions. On the other end of the spectrum, the US embassy in the same city had similar "programs." You could access their library, learn English, watch movies and so forth. We used to listen to "Voice of America" and this was the US side of things! Us kids would take advantage of both places! LOL! It was just fun and free stuff to us! We were just too young and naive to understand the depth behind these opposing philosophies plus our own Islamic background kept us from getting "too close." How things have changed.

[@uglaegilsdottir]

That awkward moment you realize that everything said in "Pravda" is actually true!

[@tibzig1]

@@uglaegilsdottir At 65 now, I can say one thing with complete conviction. I now know how little I know! LOL! But as a young person I had all the answers. But another fact that I have observed which is absolutely true about the human animal: We are the top and worst and predator in nature because unlike other predators, we intentionally destroy everything around us including our mental health! I have no idea if anything in Pravda was true anymore than if all that is said about the so-called good life in the West is true.

[@pandos_bandos]

​@uglaegilsdottir In so called "Pravda"😁 for decades was told that USA 🇺🇸 will collapse any day. And somehow so called "USSR", but eventually that Empire of Evil COLLAPSED. Ha ha ha😁 You're just BRAINWASHED ruSSian Fascist-ruSShist Z-ZOMBIE as most of ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE population. RF is ZOMBIELAND🧟‍♂️📺🧟‍♀️📺🧟‍♀️📺🧟‍♀️ Instead of "Pravda" you got now ruSSian Fascist TV and other media to BRAINWASH ruSSian Fascist Occupants and send them to SOVEREIGN country of 🇺🇦 Ukraine with rusty "kalashnikov" against HIMARS to DIE for retarded Dictator Putin by nickname "Huylo". Over 230 THOUSAND DEAD ruSSian Fascist Occupants are at the Kabzon Concert and all together are waiting for "Collapse of USA" Aha ha ha👍🏻😁 You, guys forgot your own saying: "Do not dig a grave for your Neighbor. Because you going to fall into it yourself" And that's what happening for ruSSian Fascist Occupants in Ukraine. So, you're just ruSSian Fascist Z-ZOMBIE. Stop spreading your Kremlin's Propaganda POISON here. And at the end I'm going to repeat FAMOUS saying: ruSSian Fascist Warship "Moscow", idi na huy! 🚀 🚀🔥🔥🔥☠️☠️☠️

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

@@uglaegilsdottir АХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХАХА Именно поэтому союз и развалился. А США до сих пор живёт и здравствует. Ну, никто не мешает тебе дрочить на мертвый совок и марксизм дальше.

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

That's an interesting perspective. I'm pure blooded American. I'm not very happy with how my country is doing.

[@mwtrolle]

"A 1984 documentary chronicling everyday life in the USSR." From the perspective of mainly party members and controlled by propaganda commissaries.

[@mwtrolle]

Crazy that an Australian company would do propaganda for the USSR like this.

[@mjfan653]

In 1984 all footage exported from the ussr had to be reviewed by the kgb and approved. It was law. Also filming inside the ussr required approval from the kgb, unions and the party. So if the Australians wanted to do a documentary, the russians said “of course, I just happen to know a few well off people who have no complaints”

[@russrh]

He joined the waiting list and paid his $9000. I notice they didnt mention how long the wait was 🤣

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Probably till after he died.

[@Andrey198923]

if you talk about a appt people wait aproximetly 10 years (thay get it free of charge, you can not just buy appt even if you have money). cost of appt in modern price about 170 000 $ for 50 m2. If we talk about a car then everyone buy 2-3 years old car (buy a new one was imposible, only for gov and military forses bla bla). cost in modern money rate about 80 000 for chevy cobalt

[@stormywindmill]

He also probably got invited to an interview with a certain organization to explain where he got the $9000.

[@sorinbalanescu6819]

That answer is in one of Ronald Reagan jokes: “One of Reagan’s best Jokes. Soviet apparatchik: OK you can have a new car. Pay for it now and you can collect it in 10 years from today. Russian asks: Morning or afternoon. Soviet: why would that matter. Russian: the plumber is coming in the morning.”

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

Riiiiiiiiiiiight?!!

[@palpaladin315]

I remember this as a kid. A lot of my mates whom watched this, asked me if this was true? I said, its is, but like anywhere, the extent to which it is the same for all, is different; and Russia is huge, though its supposed to be the same for all. - This is what socialism, or rather 'social experimentalism', is; a permanent revolution of society (we term progressivism), that is ultimately unsustainable. The burden on the state was no joke, it was enormous. Listen carefully at whats being said, it very much sounds like wokeism, sure, but there are clues in there for those wondering what systemically forced the USSR to close its doors. - and I put it like that because, the nuts and bolts of it, really was like that. A massive corporation; and when a corpiration runs out of money, its curtains. So yes. The closure of the USSR was a great tragedy culturally. - however, anyone that wants to try this had better think twice; or have a lot more money stashed away all over the world. - because, for this to sustain itself it needs a lot of cooperation from other parts of the world. Which can't be guaranteed. Frankly, given recent events its not even guaranteed stashing money away all over the world is safe anymore.

[@markschade6951]

Exactly. If you only half pay attention it sounds great. Bus rides cost practically nothing. Telephone calls cost nothing. Healthcare costs nothing. Food is cheap. Great, right? Well where does it all come from? How is the infrastructure maintained? How are the costs for labor and materials paid? Well it doesn't matter the State centrally plans everything and it all goes perfectly! Until it doesn't anymore...

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

Stashing money all over the world has never been safe. And it never will be. I have a deep hatred for a huge centralized state. Doesn't matter if it's the USSR, or the USA. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Human nature is what it is, regardless of the country. The powers that be are doing all they can to create chaos so they can concentrate all of the power into their own greedy, grubby hands.

[@dhbroussard89]

Keeping little sergey home from pre school was a way for mom and dad to make sure little Sergey did not become a Marxist

[@RB-bd5tz]

10:00 "These traditional songs and dances remind them of the strength and humour and the capacity for joy of the ordinary people ... of earlier times." Oof.

[@MiSt3300]

yeah I felt it too

[@Andrey198923]

There is more funny that is a Ukranian folk dance but narrator call it Russian (for me it is one brother nation, I still truly bilieve in that). But now all EU and USA news media told us that Ukranian not same to Russian and emphasaise it all the time. See how they change their mind 30 years later))))))

[@oleand14]

@@Andrey198923man, this video do not at all show real life in the soviet… the wast majority had huge economic hardship and the forced movement of entire villages was common. this is very much a late soviet propaganda video… a few years after this video there was a revolution after all

[@Дмитрий_Тихомиров]

​@@oleand14, what are the economic difficulties? It is now, under capitalism, economic difficulties, and in the USSR there were no economic difficulties. Now the payment for utilities is 1/2 - 1/4 of the salary, and in the USSR we paid 1/10 - 1/15 of the salary for utilities. What are the movements of entire villages? Do you mean the USA, when the Indians were driven off their land and driven into the reservations in which they still live? In the USSR, whole villages and towns were really resettled when these settlements fell into the flood zone during the construction of hydroelectric power plants. But this happened in the second half of the 20th century in all developed countries, both in Europe and in America. Only, unlike capitalist countries, the USSR did not get rid of people with monetary compensation for lost housing, but provided comfortable apartments to all relocated people, and if there were children in families, then these apartments were provided near schools and kindergartens. Какие экономические трудности? Это сейчас, при капитализме, экономические трудности, а в СССР не было никаких экономических трудностей. Сейчас плата за коммунальные услуги составляет 1/2 - 1/4 зарплаты, а в СССР мы платили за коммунальные услуги 1/10 - 1/15 зарплаты. Какие перемещения целых деревень? Это вы имеете в виду США, когда индейцев сгоняли с их земли и загоняли в резервации, в которых они живут до сих пор? В СССР действительно переселяли целые деревни и города, когда при строительстве ГЭС эти населённые пункты попадали в зону затопления. Но это во второй половине 20-го века происходило во всех развитых странах и в Европе, и в Америке. Только в отличие от капиталистических стран СССР не отделывался от людей денежной компенсацией за утраченное жильё, а предоставлял всем переселяемым людям благоустроенные квартиры, а если в семьях были дети, то эти квартиры предоставлялись вблизи школ и детских садов.

[@UnKnown-ur9fq]

@@Andrey198923 this is a myth that the Russians invented to hide their anger and hostility towards the Ukrainians! A Ukrainian is not the same as a Russian - I'm telling you as a Ukrainian. Ukrainians and Russians are completely different people - a different language, a different culture, mentality, thinking, values. today the Russians took off their masks and showed their true face - the whole essence of Russians is to drink vodka, kill someone and destroy something. Ukrainians are ready to die for their freedom, while Russians die for their slavery.

[@xaviert.123]

It wasn't perfect by any means, but set some standards that we've sadly strayed from these days.

[@-Egor-]

Nobody is perfect.

[@Daniel-OConnell]

I find it very difficult to consider this video as anything but propaganda. Example 1:07:00 Pot kettle black. Russia did the same in Poland in WW2 and use the same tactics today in Ukraine . If it was such a wonderful utopia , why did they do everything possible to prevent their citizens from emigrating. They also had an internal passport system , where people needed special permission to travel around the country.

[@freemanol]

It's not a utopia, but a place where people had safety nets. It's a meagre existence but nobody is homeless and die on the streets. Now, thousands of people die daily in the west as they're left behind by capitalism. Is that humane?

[@whyme760]

Welll...those days are gone.....free education, free health care, low rents, having fun for fun sake with friends....wholesome laughter....and kids enjoying school and life and job security.

[@W_H_K]

Free gulag.

[@gabrielferrer3205]

It's because of the neolibs like Reagan and Thatcher.

[@Ismdg]

@@W_H_KFree Gulags? Ok if you are so smart what are gulags and how did they affect the whole soviet population

[@thisoldgoat3927]

All that "freedom" comes at a cost.

[@realslimsh8y]

Outside of the big cities soviet russia looked like your average poor hood either run by the russian mafia or a bunch of angry commie soldiers that shoot u if you disagree with them

[@davidweston9115]

1:06:13 has the most poignant thought of the whole film; and very sad that it's no longer true.

[@sillyoldbastard3280]

Keep dreaming, austerity was Soviet Russia. Russians are far more prosperous now.

[@PiperTMTotalWar]

@@sillyoldbastard3280 Maybes this austerity will soon be felt again under Putin's regime.

[@arturallay8116]

@@PiperTMTotalWar another baby killer

[@simoncollins6529]

Yeah, the family is under attack in the West

[@PlaAwa]

20 mil dead was most poignant for me. it's easy to forget or not hear about the fact that the russian holocaust was at least 3 times greater than the jewish one. you can understand why some of them still have a bee in their bonnet. and why the allegations of nazism in the ukraine is really a stab at the west and germany. all of these rogue states have a history of being violated brutally

[@PolarChimes]

A really interesting glimpse into another time and place

[@shinonkim4814]

I would like to see a documentary a decade and a half later on the faces of the fall of the Soviet Union.

[@USBBenson]

There are lots. Just do a search

[@tomrobbins5242]

Women and children were certainly safer.,

[@rosemarybasha4591]

This video paints a rosy picture of life in the USSR. A few years after this video’s release, the USSR collapsed.

[@franklindrebin00]

And now the USA is collapsing.

[@yaya_is_real]

Good the whites won at the end

[@matthewthomasjames]

I was just a kid during this time, but as I remember Gorbachev was seemingly bringing the Soviet Union closer and closer to westernization.

[@vatnikvatokatovich8254]

Love it or hate it I dont give a f. Russia is my fav whatever is empire soviet or federation. So glad I borned here.

[@vgrepairs]

Love Russia. From San Diego!

[@zyou8er]

I got to visit Moscow, Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg and Sochi Recently, and I was amazed! I have never felt as safe as I did in those cities.

[@Aleksa_Lomako]

🤬💩🇷🇺

[@ingihrannar8781]

What a strange thing to take note of! Safety is a safely assumed thing in the European union

[@Aleksa_Lomako]

🇷🇺💩👎

[@Aleksa_Lomako]

You didn't get robbed by a methamphetamine addict ? 😂 You didn't get HIV AIDS from a street whore ? 😂 You didn't get robbed by a released colony prisoner ? 😂

[@tshandy1]

In the U.S. so much of the violence in our cities comes from the descendants of African slaves. We are perpetually punished for the sins of our ancestors.

[@johnarmstrong3140]

I was in Armenia recently. I heard a friend say to another Armenian friend that the USSR were “kind times” ( Добрые времена)

[@-Egor-]

As we say in Russia: "Before, the grass was greener, the sun was warmer, the snow was whiter, the air was cleaner and people were kinder." Friendly greetings from Russia.

[@rohitmishra9517]

World was better during that time due to the presence of two super powers

[@Nils.Minimalist]

No! There was the constant threat of nuclear war between the free world and the soviet dictatorship! Soviets at that time / Russians today can not deal with power, they fall through a corrupt government into a mafia state that threatens the whole world! This country has no right to exist!

[@sluxi]

Absolutely not. So many people were being oppressed by the USSR, either directly within the regime or within their "sphere of influence". So much suffering was caused by Stalin's purges and conquests during WW2. So much less had to be spent on military after it fell. Unfortunately Russia is now pushing those budgets up again but at least it is smaller than the USSR was.

[@meatpuppet5036]

@prestallar4339 not even close

[@sluxi]

@prestallar4339 nah, the usa is not sending millions to gulags, oppressing its own people or forcing governments around the world to poverty and similar oppression. The USA is nowhere close to as bad as the soviet union was or current Russia is.

[@MakersMark723]

@prestallar4339 The US might not be a perfect country, but at least we aren't oppressed by our own government and can essentially do whatever we want barring legality. We can say LITERALLY whatever we want about our government with our right to freedom of speech. If the Soviets/Russian citizens were to protest or slander the state and it's government, they would be killed, sent to gulags or at a minimum, arrested which is what we are seeing now for the protesters in Moscow against the war in Ukraine. They are performing peaceful protests and getting arrested which if the police were to do that in the US, they can be sued for violating our rights. With the two superpowers during the Cold War, the population of both countries were in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. Back then students would have to conduct nuclear disaster drills which aren't done in today's school.

[@xtrajently]

When I hear about the soviet "Free Healthcare", every time I remember my father going unconscious due to pain shock, while undergoing jaw surgery without anesthetics. During the 80s, I also had the pleasure of doing root canal(and some other dental procedures) with absolutely no pain lowering medications. I would love to share those sensations with anyone who is teary-eyed about the soviet Free Healthcare..

[@mikeb5372]

Where were you?

[@КороткийГеннадий]

You are right. This is why I was scared to go to the dantist in USSR.

[@Red_Lion2000]

sounds like yankee propaganda. im sure it would be better to go into life crippling debt for the dental work instead.

[@КороткийГеннадий]

@@Red_Lion2000 in Russia now the dantists are not so expensive as they are in USA.

[@tshandy1]

The wanna-be communists in the U.S. believe they can wish free healthcare to be different. And their believing is good enough for them.

[@onedaywewill]

This was a real eye-opener, thanks for posting.

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

Это лишь пропаганда, в реальности дела обстояли намного, намного хуже.

[@morningstararun6278]

​@@dmitriysmith.1672No it wasn't. USSR was far better than today's Russia.

[@rapid789]

The Russians are impressive.

[@theafricanobserver8785]

They love utopia, to be free is a concept that is hard for them to understand

[@afkfromk1]

@@theafricanobserver8785 go back to Start and try again

[@Andrey198923]

​@@theafricanobserver8785 you are free? If you think in canva what is narrated you from TV or Internet media of your country, it is not a freedom. You just accept someone point of view, point of view that is allow to you to accept, and think it is your choice. It is more sophisticated that it was in USSR? - yes! Does it freedom? - no!

[@Nils.Minimalist]

Impressive? 😂 The old Russians still can't handle their freedom, even after more than 30 years, that's why they wish their Soviet dictatorship back ... Vatniks ... they are like little children who need a parent to guide them in the most brutal way! A pathetic nation!

[@spingebill8551]

You mean Soviets. The Russians are just one group of several groups of people who all worked together as the Soviet peoples, although I wouldn’t say everything was so fine and dandy all the time for a lot of these other groups compared to the Russians.

[@petejames1326]

RENT WAS PEGGED AT 3-4% OF INCOME, amazing, if thats true, how can the arrogant USA say our system is so much better? im a cab driver in the west, about 30% of my income goes to rent, its a joke

[@fourtabsgod64]

Power of communism , they flood people with power

[@sorinbalanescu6819]

Communism is a joke, my dear cab driver. Would you like to live in a rented communist apartment, no hot water, no cooking gas, no electricity after 10:00 🕙 PM? Would you like to wait five years for your car, paid in full in advance? You are hilarious! If the system was that good, then why it crumbled like a sand castle? And don’t give me that excuse “it crumbled because of the evil West”. I trust you can judge better. All the best!

[@mikeb5372]

You can always move to Venezuela to experience how nice socialism is

[@petejames1326]

@@mikeb5372 ok you got me bro, I'll just stay in the west and be a modern day slave, working till I drop dead one day from exhaustion

[@mikeb5372]

@@petejames1326 Sure. Why? Because you're lazy and don't know what work is? In 1984 I made what is the equivalent of $35 an hour today and I was only 20 years old. People that were willing to work for it could live very well. If you don't work in cement or something of equal difficulty then you don't have much room to complain. It's called earning a living and no one said it was supposed to be easy

[@Earth098]

Thanks for uploading!!

[@marius1004]

Like, Like, like. How beautiful.

[@nikogrujic6807]

Greetings to the Russian brothers FROM Serbia 🇷🇸

[@sergeypopov8279]

Hello brother from Russia!❤

[@tshandy1]

The "collective" concept is appealing in some ways, but only if everyone is of equal ability and willingness to work toward the common good. In truth, some people aren't smart and some people are just plain lazy. Also, these collectives were protected from economic reality with heavy government subsidies, and when the USSR could no longer afford those subsidies, the collective idea started to fall apart.

[@tshandy1]

But I will add the Russian people are beautiful -- inside and out. A fantastic culture and history. We can never allow the West to drag us into a war against them.

[@dkamphaus43]

That's why socialism fails. It's an attractive idea but it doesn't match up with reality.

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

@@tshandy1 зато Путину позволим)))

[@stinyg]

When this was happening, Putin was in east germany catching snitches.

[@katalinkiss120]

Putin was a lawyer

[@stinyg]

@@katalinkiss120 Putin was KGB colnel stationed in East Germany.

[@scotty20040]

You can see why a lot of the older generation say that miss the USSR, times were better.

[@petejames1326]

i agree 100% in the USSR everyone had a job and had an apartment and rents did not go up every year like here, here in the west now you have freedom yes, but we are slaves to the system, i work 80hrs a week driving a cab for what? to pay rent and bills and eat and sleep, yes i have freedom but freedom does not pay the bills does it, in the USSR you didnt have to worry about getting kicked out of your apartment because the rent stayed the same mostly, there was no luxury yes, but there was stability

[@ChrisTian-lf2oh]

@@petejames1326 No offence, but are you by any means an American? 80 hours a week is not normal by any means, in Europe.

[@alaska3300]

@@ChrisTian-lf2oh40 hrs a week is a normal work week in America. Anything over that is over time

[@alaska3300]

@@petejames1326Educate yourself you fool! You don’t have a clue what communism would be like. Go to a communist country and see how long you last before you run back to freedom!

[@agffans5725]

@@petejames1326.. Denmark here, I'm a home owner, of a 95 m2 = 1,022.5 sq. ft. house in the outskirts of the 2nd largest city in Denmark. Partly renovated in late 2021 (new 3-layer/triple pane windows, new doors, new red tile roof). The house mortgage is just around $450 a month + a $212 private homeowners cooperative community association fee (which include property taxes, a homeowners' insurance, outdoor/external maintenance and renovations, including, windows, roof, private community roads and sidewalks, snow plowing and salt spreading service, trash & garbage disposal service) My electricity bill is around $34 a month, while the hot water/heating bill is around $71 a month in fixed monthly installments (got around $70 back at the end of last year), but my suppliers neither use oil or gas, only renewables. So $662 a month all included + $140 a month for water, electricity and heating Internet, 2 phones, an extra large TV package = $145 a month Food and all the other stuff you would need = $290 a month So all included I spend around $1,237 a month to pay for all the basic necessities. I earn around $245 to $360 a day, depending on the hours and day of the week, and my present part-time job as a night watch with no degree required (though I do have one) is nothing fancy. My income taxes are around 25% when you consider all the deductibles and that the first around $7,000 you earn a year is totally tax free in Denmark. So in principle I only need to work 7 days a month on average for all the basic necessities to be paid for. In comparison a security guard with 4-5 years experience like me, earn 23,400 rubles = around $256 a month in Russia and an apartment (3 bedrooms) in the outskirts of Saint Petersburg is 52,447 rubles = around $575 a month.

[@billbailey1620]

a lot of the older people who can remember the ussr are realy pissed at what happened to there country and like Americans who remember when America was 90 oercent white dont like what they see now

[@Izannaziza]

America was never white in he first place.

[@katalinkiss120]

You mean after they genocided the Native Americans?

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

American here. I don't give a crap about skin color. I care about the content of character. And communists have infected the cultural centers. McCarthy was apparently correct. We were being overrun by commies. Now, 80 years into it, they have destroyed the blessings of faith and freedom with their satanic, trash ideaologies.

[@robertplatte5700]

An Australian commentator, how good is that

[@thedolphin5428]

Sounds like a young Mike Willisee.

[@davidcopperfield2278]

good times create weak men...

[@paulbucklebuckle4921]

Russia largest country , slim people , America largest people , slim culture.

[@Julioalexlipa]

I am from peru in southamerica, My brother received a scholarship to study medicine in the Crimea university, when I was just 1 year born, I grew up seeing his photos of Soviet culture, books with magnificent illustrations, wonderful music, all souvenirs that he sent from the Soviet Union, he got married there and returned after finishing his studies. a few years later the soviet union fell. Many years later, he found out that the family that housed him in his youth had to flee Odessa during the Maydan coup. the current war has destroyed a beautiful country, nato is the bloodiest terrorist organization that rusia has suffered since the nazis For my part, I feel that I love Russia, I know some people and soon I will travel there and settle in Vladyvostok.

[@pellepopcorn6129]

Russia have quite many neonazis of their own. Why would they want a Peruvian neonazi? The Russians aren’t pro-putlerism if you haven’t noticed ))) Walk in any park and hear the political talks the Russians have with each other and read what the young generation writes on walls and benches )) No support for mr Putler there. But for the moment, he’s the neonazi dictator.

[@Bill-oy7jy]

No se le haría mas fácil simplemente mudándose a Cuba? Lastima que Perú no tuvo su propio Pinochet.

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

I'm a pure blooded American. I hate NATO. I want it dissolved. I want my country to stop being the world police and I'd prefer us to be a lot more isolationist. But that won't happen, sadly.

[@stanislavpetrov5955]

51:53 The early days of glastnost and Ronald Reagan during his goodwill tour of the country.😄😄

[@mtokurow]

1984 - it's one year before.

[@daddygrasshopper]

Underrated comment hahaha

[@myhoose90]

Its amazing and sad at the same time how many people think Russia and its population are from another planet....... try actually getting to know them for a change instead of hating them like we are being constantly told to do!...... you might learn they are no different to the rest of us humans

[@pellepopcorn6129]

No one hates Russians ))) But not a single decent man likes a neonazi dictator-kleptoman. Come to Moscow and visit all the great, fantastic places, but also listen to what common Russians in Moscow think. No support there for nor the dictator or for the war. Never ever has anyone told me to “hate Russians” ))) How silly.

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

А кто тебе говорит ненавидеть их? Правительство и народ это разные вещи.

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

That's generally true of most people groups. It's always those assholes in power that fu$k everything up. And the lap dogs that protect the psychopaths.

[@elchavo3372]

Where did you got that bottle of vodka cost $15 in former USSR. It was essential to keep people high. Cheapest vodka cost 3 rubles 62 kopeks per 0.5 liter bottle of vodka , a bit better vodka 4.12 . official exchange rate was around 90 kopeks for dollar, unofficial 8 rubles per Dollar. So, 0.5 liter was cheaper than 50 cents.

[@stormywindmill]

Correct, I spotted his way-out price of vodka, Vodka was dirt cheap because staying drunk was the way of getting through a miserable existence for most Russians, I lived and worked there from 1984--86. Russia was a giant prison camp full of unhappy people, tatty and falling to bits. Who could have guessed in 1984 the inefficient bankrupt Communist system had only six more years to live.

[@Mercmad]

I am sure this documentary was made by Channel 10 in Australia. I was there just after the fall of the USSR and it was almost the same as this doco portrays ,especially the Trolley .I saw lots of them which had flowers and potted plants in the drivers space. 😁😁A vodka was damned cheap although I knew people who made their own .

[@Getoffmycloud53]

@@stormywindmillRussia is still there, Rhodesia is not.

[@pauliewalnuts240]

The girl in the thumbnail image is dressed the same as all the trendy girls do now, with the baggy vintage clothes look. Too funny

[@yc__]

Apparently, she's an 18-year-old prostitute named Katya, photographed by Peter Turnley in 1991.

[@gabrielferrer3205]

Hakim must be delighted to see this video. Where's the long slow queue on stores in this video? Oh wait that only happened when Gorbachev introduced Capitalism in USSR..

[@ivanmihaelmatkovic2464]

There were always long lines for basics like bread, especially in the morning. It worsened after Hrushchov's policies by using corn meal, which made bread last less. The free market is superior to a command economy, which makes your argument not have sense. Besides, capitalism was never introduced in the Soviet Union, the transition to capitalism was annulled half way during the 500 day program.

[@brandonholsather2171]

The USA and Russia both have way many poor people. The two both have double digits poverty rates. I would say there is many nations still worse to live in then both. The majority of African countrys are insanely poor and some southeast country's are bad living quliry worse then USA and Russia.

[@Dark-7070]

And we know now the collective was a fail, taking away the spirt and the creative initiative of the individual never ends well.

[@mtokurow]

13:15 - I have a question: 600$ (~360 rub.) for a dock worker was it a lot or a little in contemporary (it means of 1984) UK, France, USA or other Western country?

[@vgrepairs]

A typical house in 1984 in the USA would cost about $75,000

[@vgrepairs]

Minimum wage was $120 a week in the USA in 1984. Federal income Taxes were about 15% then you had state income taxes of an extra percentage and also extra fees from local governments. So you went home with about $100 a week.

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

@@vgrepairs и всё равно это гораздо, гораздо больше чем в СССР. Средняя зарплата в СССР была меньше 100₽. 100₽ в месяц! А не 360₽. И надо учитывать, что курс по отношению к доллару был рисованым, ибо рубль был неконтролируемой валютой по факту. На чёрном, реальном рынке рубль стоил в разы меньше официального.

[@wegder]

The good old days of total censorship.

[@realslimsh8y]

😂😂😂

[@dusanpantic792]

😂

[@enzotanzi2609]

this doc is about how life in the Soviet Union could have been without the kgb

[@pseudonymname5941]

What a pile of propaganda hilarity. Everything's great. Just wait 10 years for a car. So much "money" but nothing to buy.

[@GHAWBBA]

THE GOLDEN ERA

[@dmitriysmith.1672]

Дерьмовая эра

[@jamesmitch9792]

meanwhile Capitalist Central America: EXISTENCE IS PAIN

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

Uhh, central America.. capitalist? That's funny. Good joke man.

[@jamesmitch9792]

@@XXNerdzillaXX it is what do you think they are? communist? like the Soviets who had nukes? and they cannot even build schools.

[@mauricior8550]

hahahhahaha , Soviet propganda at is best

[@RonsRareRecords]

The singer at 1:06:45 is Nina Matviyenko.

[@PolarChimes]

Do you happen to know the song? Thanks

[@bigdogzone3177]

A bottle of vodka was 2 to 4 roubles in that period not 15 $. Had someone made the vodka that expennive back then they would hava started another revolution. This is not accurate at all prices wise furthermore it gives a fall impression in 1984 USSr is already colapsing and black market is prosperring finding every day items to buy or even food results in long queues .

[@puenoune9316]

never mix the common folk with their governments..... We are the same everywhere. How we achieve those goals is how it makes us different.

[@davidovicc]

they know what gander they are.

[@danielsmith7023]

I am a goose.

[@Houthiandtheblowfish]

the lexus and vovan videos told us what people really are are doing

[@katalinkiss120]

Made by Film Australia when documentaries were just that

[@speakyourmind2984]

Australian Narrator for sure 😂

[@billyjohnesterhuizen6340]

SUCH A POOR POPULATION. SEEMS LIKE THEY WERE FIFTY YEARS BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD.

[@redsamson5185]

the bride breaks a glass like the hatan groom does.

[@PolarChimes]

Does anyone know the name of the song starting at 1:06:45?

[@anthonyacevedo5869]

Don´t be fooled in thinking that marxist-comunism was a benign regime.Socialist-marxism or comunism was the most terrible and satanic regime ever imposed on mankind. At the time,when this movie was made,the Soviet Union was no more comunist,and that´s why we see a happy and free people.Also,at that time Communist China party members,called the Soviet Union,a fascist state ,not a communist state,and on account of that,they stop and closed all political and economic relations with the Soviet Union. Today Russians say,that these were the golden times of the Soviet Union.

[@giritharjeevasuba5206]

Lovely❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😍

[@perry3556]

What is the purpose of this movie? Talk about sugar-coating the former Soviet Union. I just find it totally depressing.

[@johnrhodes3350]

’New lies for old’ Anatoliy Golitsyn

[@blackwolf_365]

THIS IS NOT RUSSIA - THIS IS UKRAINE

[@yaya_is_real]

It's a document about the Soviet union you bandera retard

[@jdhawkins8500]

Very informative, Thank you.

[@W_H_K]

In Soviet Russia student disassemble AK-47. In Capitalist USA AK-47 disassemble student.

[@realslimsh8y]

😂😂😂

[@realslimsh8y]

In the 60s us student dissasembled a hunting rifle tho, but your not wrong

[@W_H_K]

@@realslimsh8y true.

[@XXNerdzillaXX]

That's only because your shitty ideology (communism) infected America and those ravenous, murderous twats took over the cultural centers. They're actively doing everything they can to dismantle the land of freedom.

[@ziblot1235]

150 rubles, free medical, nio deductions on checks!!It sounds like heaven. And the females!!I fell in love 100 times. I like the idea of everybody gets a job that suits them. Instead of getting stuck in a deadend jo that was all you could get because you couldnt afford college. 2 yrs military, thats OK. I joined during VietNam and they stuck me in a job I hated The people looked happy! unlike what we were told. U cant trust the news.

[@slowgaffle]

Yes and every vacation you know exactly where you will go, what your room will look like, and what they will serve for breakfast. Your job is steady and you do just a little worse every year and money buys a little less. Your grandparents were murdered by Stalin and you get to sing songs about him. Your neighbors’ young daughter was kidnapped by the kgb and you hide your Christmas tree from the window. Life is orderly and you get to cruise around in a BMP in Afghanistan. Food is decent because your your family grew it and cooked it themselves, but grocery store shelves are empty.

[@jeffbreezee]

I think you're a Russian bot. No US Vietnam vet would talk like you and if you joined the US military during the Vietnam War Era you would be eligible for the G. I. Bill. So, your college expenses would be paid for.

[@daddygrasshopper]

You can't trust the news, but I wouldn't trust this a gospel either...

[@sethlogee]

Rent 3-4% of your income 😱

[@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq]

8:10, now, in 2023, singers from Ukraine, that sounds surreal.

[@katalinkiss120]

Ukraine has historically been a region of Russia - the Ukraine translates as - the Borderlands

[@berzengi1]

soviet russia was renamed in a soviet union in 1922

[@guyfoucher4805]

reportage mericain pour moi, aucun iintetet , faites un reportage sur la drogue à Philadelphie

[@UnKnown-ur9fq]

The film is full of lies and propaganda. in 1984 it was the Soviet Union, not Russia. Russia is large, but industrially and economically undeveloped (in our time, Russia cannot even produce nails itself). the power of the USSR is the merit of other countries, not Russia! especially the power of the USSR is the merit of Ukraine - thousands of plants for the production of tanks, aircraft, missiles, spacecraft, trucks. 80% of the film is Ukrainian national costumes, traditions and songs. as history has shown, Russia without Ukraine is not able to win wars

[@yaya_is_real]

LMAOOOO yeah sure bro. Ukraine was a province of the Russian empire for 99% of it's history

[@nelotharen8599]

looks better than modern day briton/russia

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

The rents for housing were also fixed by the state in USSR. The State Price Commission set prices in the USSR. Each Warsaw Pact country also had a State Prize Commission. To compensate for the lack of freedom, there was all-round care for the citizens. In the USSR and the Warsaw Pact, there were never people who were unemployed. There was pointless work, for some, because there was a legal obligation to work. Full employment for all citizens existed because the world of work was not nearly as automatized as in the West. On the other hand, the factories of the socialist countries were far from being competitive on the world market. In principle, there were no enterprises that were privately organized, since all enterprises were people's property, but in practice they were state property. No enterprise was allowed to decide for itself how much to produce; that was dictated by the state planning commission. The plans were valid for between 2 and 5 years.

[@dsadawrware]

Yes everything was nciely planned, you got a house and a job, but the country had no exports and couldnt pay its debts, everyone in Romania and other soviet bloc countries would wait for hours if not days in line to get a fucking orange or banana and to buy a shitty soviet car you were put on a waiting list of 5 years for the priviledge, and you had 0 freedom to travel freely. Big failure, I still remember the poverty and misery of the 1990s in the wake of the old system.

[@-kruz]

Но, это не совсем правда, так как советские фотоаппараты хорошо продавались, автомобили возможно из-за дешевизны, возможно трамваи, тепловозы, если в стране производилось практически всё и качество было относительно нынешних дешёвых китайских товаров отличное, то наверняка пользовалось спросом, дефицит в последние годы возможно был связан с продажей товаров заграницу и желанием разбогатеть поздних руководителей советских предприятий, которые имели свои коррективы, свой бизнес, уже тогда зародилась мафия. И последние годы СССР это и рэкет и кооперативы, и огромные доходы у шоу-бизнеса, плановая экономика уже не справилась с полукапитализмом.

[@-kruz]

А Горбачёв наверное хотел развалить СССР, сначала он развалил Восточный блок, вывел войска из Афганистана. Способствовал объединению Германии. Простые граждане не понимали, что СССР движется к развалу. А Горбачёв подготовил союзный договор, плюс внутри СССР начались вооружённые конфликты, что очень странно, откуда у простых людей оружие, и против армии простые люди бессильны.

[@hananokuni2580]

​@@-kruz In the West, Soviet-made goods were often considered to be inferior in quality, even if this was not necessarily true.

[@Дмитрий_Тихомиров]

There was no unemployment in the USSR because labor was less automated than in the West? So you think that unemployment exists because labor is too automated? 😂😂😂 And what about unemployment in the 19th - early 20th century? In those days, why was there unemployment? After all, there was no automation then. It's just that unemployment is a necessary element of the market system. The capitalist needs a labor market. Under capitalism, everything is for sale, including labor. Labor is a commodity. If there is a labor market, then there is unemployment, and if there is no market, there is no unemployment. В СССР не было безработицы потому что труд был менее автоматизирован, чем на западе?То есть вы полагаете, что безработица существует потому, что труд слишком автоматизирован? 😂😂😂 А как на счёт безработицы в 19м - начале 20го века? В те времена отчего была безработица? Ведь тогда не было автоматизации. Просто безработица - это необходимый элемент рыночной системы. Капиталисту нужен рынок труда. При капитализме всё продаётся, в том числе и труд. Труд является товаром. Если есть рынок труда, то есть и безработица, а при отсутствии рынка безработицы нет.

[@lapplandsjagare]

Hello from Sweden 🇸🇪

[@bartomiejtudryk5649]

go back to your non-go muslim gang zones

[@deenixon3225]

Propaganda like a mofo.

[@placeswelive5388]

Or, they could have made a film that at least somewhat resembled real life.

[@djdrack4681]

From US. Where did these videos come from. Some of them are quite amazing in content and what they knowingly or unknowingly reveal about Soviet life. Where did they come from? Are these USSR propaganda films, or independent documentaries? Cuz if the latter, how? Being communist I'd expect that such things as documentaries werent' really possibly....lack of freedoms of speech/press and such. I've heard of kino runners back in day that would smuggle movies into, and other stuff out of Soviet Rus. But I've never heard of a 'Soviet Film Industry' back in day.

[@typedef_]

song starting 9:03 🔥tho

[@itheuserfirst3186]

Utterly depressing. A stifling of the human spirit.

[@jamesmitch9792]

not as depressing as Haiti.

[@amraceway]

Far better to be sleeping under a bridge with no future.

[@loneranger4469]

Yeah...we see plenty soaring human spirit amongst the homeless on the streets of US cities.

[@arturallay8116]

Homelessness, open concentration camps

[@ioanmarianbalau8762]

you re right. as for the guys commenting it may not be good for many in america but sovietism and communism in general is not the answer. When you have to kill millions to have this kind of heaven something is wrong.

[@ilyatsukanov8707]

Why did this video get an "inapprоpriаte for sоme viеwers" rаting? Did the CIА, Zеlеnsky and Russian оligаrchs complain? 😂

[@charlesschwartz4681]

What a wonderful video of the true life of the Russian people and how they live , work, play and down to earth goodness...If the government people would spend less time fighting in the world and spend more time loving their families , we would be so much ahead!! But greed , money and power leads to whatwe have today!!

[@davidwarm6799]

Great communists propaganda film. Well staged, never showing the downside or speaking directly to non party members.

[@antoniobonvecchio8351]

No Zeleky No Meloni

[@marksteven6116]

good old days

[@worthit5064]

Good for the people of the USSR that it broke up. Although the world faced bad effects due to the USSR break up.

[@SegzWithTedCruz]

You had me at free healthcare and 4 weeks paid vacation

[@martthesling]

The USSR had gulags and concentration camps. Dictatorship is awesome.

[@tomasfuk8439]

@@martthesling they had a very good education, great culture and no Gulags when this movie was shot :) I guess you can talk about dictatorship from your personal experience today too :)))

[@martthesling]

@@tomasfuk8439 If you tried to defect in the Communist world you were shot. Berlin wall.

[@martthesling]

@@tomasfuk8439 no free speech. dictatorship. no democracy. prison if you disagreed with the system. murder. 10x less pay than in the democratic west. less medical technology. shall I go on? if you think the evil empire of the Soviet Union and eastern communist block was great, why were so many people trying yo flee west? why did they have to put up a wall to keep people in?

[@codered4422]

Never trust Soviets. Yes it was free, but it was not a decent healthcare. Yes you had a 4-week vacation, but the pay was meagre and, much worse yet, they won't let you out of the country.

[@None22820]

I miss these good times

[@dr.lennartlichtenstein4298]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/paiXmaRpZbmYo68 = BundesWehr

[@jamesmitch9792]

not a single drug addict unlike in the US where you can find them more often than a mcdonalds.

[@Daculaboy]

Because they will killed and thrown in prison 😂

[@evimba]

oh sure there was a drug addicts. people used to drink technical spirits, sniffed glue, anti-frost liquids, etc.. even getting high from shoe creme, Afghan marijuana and opiates, there was a plenty of improvised ways to... Also this is just a softening propaganda film, they never mentioned that soviets/communist party are responsible about at least 62 millions killed people - not counting the ones killed during the ww2. Moscow was a closest ally with Hitlers Germany for a long time, but they lasted much longer and so there numbers of killed people are insanely huge.

[@dominicestebanrice7460]

So alcoholism isn't an addiction?

[@mikeb5372]

And this was 1984 genius

[@jamesmitch9792]

@@mikeb5372 there was a drug epidemic in the USA 1980's as well.

[@captaintoyota3171]

Wonder how closly they where monitored filming this. They onviously had well off citizens chosen. Meanwhile in 1984 plenty of suffering on ussr in places, plenty still in gulaugs. Just seems like if u went to usa in 84 u could find well off workong class but alot of poverty too. Only difference in usa u can choose your profession pretty much. Ussr not so much

[@speterj]

In 1989 Russian president Boris Yeltsin's wide-eyed trip to a Clear Lake grocery store led to the downfall of communism. Yeltsin, then 58, "roamed the aisles of Randall's nodding his head in amazement," wrote Asin. He told his fellow Russians in his entourage that if their people, who often must wait in line for most goods, saw the conditions of U.S. supermarkets, "there would be a revolution." Yeltsin asked customers about what they were buying and how much it cost, later asking the store manager if one needed a special education to manage a store. In the Chronicle photos, you can see him marveling at the produce section, the fresh fish market, and the checkout counter. He looked especially excited about frozen pudding pops. "Even the Politburo doesn't have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev," he said. When he was told through his interpreter that there were thousands of items in the store for sale he didn't believe it. He had even thought that the store was staged, a show for him. Little did he know there countless stores just like it all over the country, some with even more things than the Randall's he visited. The fact that stores like these were on nearly every street corner in America amazed him. They even offered him free cheese samples. Yeah the Soviet Union and Russia has always been full of shit.

[@Swellington_]

@@speterj Nikita Kruschov had a similar experience in the late 50's or early 60's,him and his entourage that were also from glorious Soviet Russia were blown away at something as simple as walking into countless stores,mostly mom and pop stores,and having so many different items for sale and in abundance

[@stanislavpetrov5955]

@@speterj I read about the same account from Victor Belenko, a Soviet mig pilot who defected to the West; the first time he went into an American supermarket he was just blown away by how much food there was, and the variety.

[@borno5692]

It wasnt that bad.

[@angelalmeyda6052]

But the gulags no longer existed in the 1980s, formally disbanding in the 1960s.

[@canerguener8664]

Dollar for Wodka? Sure..

[@hardware199]

1:09:09 truly apocalyptic

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

There is big mistake because Odessa is also in Ukraine.

[@sergeyvyatkin]

You need to do some homework. Read about Odessa's history.

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

@@sergeyvyatkin Look on a map, you will see that Odessa is in Ukraine. That was also the case at the time of The Ukrainian SSR. I didn't have to do my homework because I know for a fact that I'm right. This is a TV documentary from the 1980s, and there was also Odessa in Ukraine. What was 200 years ago was not the issue.

[@sergeyvyatkin]

@@Fabian-Wenzel yeah, dude... as well as Crimea... lol Crimea was a part of Russia (RSFSR) until 1954. Odessa and all "Southern Ukraine" was a part of historical Russia until 1917. 106 years ago, not 200. My great-grandmother was born before that in 1912 (my ancestors were Cossacks).

[@Fabian-Wenzel]

@@sergeyvyatkin The 200 years was meant figuratively. You should take rhetoric lessons.

[@realslimsh8y]

ukraine was part of russia until 1991

[@KellyKelly-qd7my]

Yeah, sure.....it was a face that you were looking at 😁

[@TheHassanalgadi]

USSR was one of the best history

[@Nils.Minimalist]

They were always criminals! They have stolen other people's lives by occupying their countries!

[@meatpuppet5036]

Literally one of the worst

[@ridhobaihaqi144]

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[@sr-gc6vh]

In 1994 the whole thing collapsed.

[@johnvlahidis_google]

🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@nathanaramco6813]

What minute mark is the photo found at?

[@CuttySobz]

Creep.

[@MikhailANKIR]

You really want that tits do ya?

[@bartomiejtudryk5649]

@@CuttySobz creep is the author of this vid who put this foto upfront

[@CuttySobz]

@@bartomiejtudryk5649 and the one who looks for it

[@uglaegilsdottir]

Живи, родная Россия! Ты прекрасна! Россия была, есть и будет! 🤍💙❤

[@infinitelp7796]

There is only hell for orcs

[@mrnewcoolbro3759]

@@infinitelp7796спок хохлонацик

[@gekopedro7073]

As an American this feels illegal to watch

[@NorceCodine]

The Brezhnev years were the height of life in the Soviet Union. Life was really good, people enjoyed the enormous resources and safety of living in the Soviet Union, practically everything was almost free, obviously there was no such thing as unemployment or homelessness. In the west probably only countries like Holland or West Germany could compare for quality of life for working people, while Italy, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland were suffering from debilitating poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and lack of education, and America was a quasi apartheid state with black folks in the south not allowed into shopping malls and restaurants, and the slums of big cities like New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C. no-go zones for the white population.

[@billbailey1620]

you'd like Los Angeles now,it us fully inclusive and a dump thanks to diversity.calfornia we t from 90 percent white in 1965 to 27 percent today and it looks like a cross between south Africa and the Spanish third world.theres not some kind of magic dirt that makes white countries self sufficient and safe,high crime areas and poverty aren't caused by some kind of racial cast system ,just like no one makes east Asians do the best in schools every time and blacks do the worst every time,in every country on earth.mongolians still live In huts but have an average IQ higher than whites.and the biggest factor in crime or poverty is iq specificly low iq.and if russia had a violent minority that only made up 10 percent of the population but committed 60 percent of homicides 80 percent of aggravated assaults and 90 percent of attacks on other races and used 650 billion dollars a year more than they payed in it would have crippled the whole ussr

[@Metal0sopher]

Nice of you to ignore the slave labor and robbing of the conquered satellites states to feed the Russians and give them such a cheap and comfortable life. In my country all our produce, meat, coal, gold, went to Russia for free, while we suffered. Plus this propaganda pieces only shows Moscow and Sochi, but none of the rest of Russia, where there was no paved roads, no electricity, and work was equal to slave labor.

[@johnhatchel9681]

That was absolute nonsense.

[@Andrey198923]

@@wqsuuhhdrvjj all living pritty much the same, purpose was control that territory not withdraw the money from them. Many as you say colony living lot better than Russia. Mostly it is why USSR was so popular. It is asking only for the loyalty (some times with usage of guns) not money

[@mikeb5372]

What fantasy land are you living in? I know a lot of people from the former soviet union and I can assure you their quality of life was anything but nice. The enormous disparity between the US and soviet union is grossly understated due to the fact that every bad thing about the US was open and well known because of free speech and freedom of the press. In the soviet union people weren't allowed to speak a bad word of their government for fear of going to prison or the gulag. Obviously you weren't from the soviet union