19:17 *Average Reddit anti-communists ranting about liberals, communism, leftist, and degeneracy VS Average Babushka grandma recounting the absolute good life under Soviet Union during its heyday*
@FriscoFlame2 жыл бұрын
Something that fascinates me with this particular era of the Soviet Union is how much the rest of the world isolating them worked to their benefit when every other currency collapsed and businesses and workers flooded into the USSR
@luyandzabavukiledlamini46932 жыл бұрын
Yeah I agree they were probably the only nation to be unscathed by "The Great Depression "
@tonttu79792 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this stuff. My grandparents were in the finnish communist party so naturally they have a lot of really old books from the ussr printed in finnish, my grandmother gave a lot of them to me and the oldest are from the 30s aswell. Its such a lovely but also kind of melancholy feeling reading through them. Like a glass time machine you cant climb out of. Seeing people go about their daily life on the streets of Leningrad nearly a hundred years ago. You can wave all you want but they wont see (Also the audio sounded great to me)
@tm3m Жыл бұрын
what a beautiful paper. it just seems like every page feels like it contains clues on what a better world could look like, with a wholesomeness that melts through all the lies we were taught growing up in America. i hope we can all read the news like this again some day.
@madmedoed2 жыл бұрын
At 25:30 you ask about bonds. It appears to be "Government Loan Bonds" (I'm not sure if the translation is correct). The government wanted to raise more money for big projects (like industrialization, etc.). To do this, they sold bonds to people. Sometimes, in the hardest years, they would just give away part of your paycheck with Bonds instead of money. Bonds were different. With some you could later buy rare commodities. Some didn't give you an advantage, but you could win big or small amounts of money (that is, a bond was also a lottery ticket). But the most common were regular interest bonds. You bought it, conventionally, for 100 rubles. And then you would get 1 ruble every month for 110 months. (I made up these prices and percentages myself; in reality, they were always different.)
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for explaining!
@Woow_Dude2 жыл бұрын
19:17 Damn I didn't knew USSR is the first user of chad meme
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
Truly an innovative society, nothing is new these days 🤣
@marius-cd2np2 жыл бұрын
_самая очаровательная и наилучшая богиня 😍😍😍 спасибо за твои видеоролики, хочу больше и чаще 💕💕💕_
@antifascist78182 жыл бұрын
Love your videos, very educational & love the great USSR 💖
@luyandzabavukiledlamini46932 жыл бұрын
Love your video and content!It's great that you're bringing a positive and human side to the history of the Soviet Union which is than today's biased media
@slipknotboy5552 жыл бұрын
22:20 I don't blame you at all for having trouble with his name! Heh, but fun fact: Ordjonikidze* was a friend of Stalin's from a pretty good way back. He was also from the Caucasus (I believe Georgian, as well). *Also spelled Ordzhonikidze, as shown in the paper. That seems to be common with Georgian names represented in English; it can be a "j" or "zh." Good video! And btw, I'd say ignore people who post annoying comments. Even just delete them/ban them if you want, or they do it repeatedly. This is your channel, and you're not obligated to give them a platform. Plus, we deal with anticommunist garbage enough as it is anyway, heh.
@das812 жыл бұрын
Thanks God there were also publications in spanish.. I have a Cuban translation of a Breznev speech from 1969, for example. Tought you have quite the collection XD
@mynamejeff35452 жыл бұрын
Ngl I was completely nerding out at all the science articles. Makes me miss the time when scientific breakthroughs, or even the "lull" in between breakthroughs as scientists make endless series of imperfect prototypes and grapple with concepts not yet completely understood, got multiple big articles in the paper, and scientists as well as workers were regarded as heroes, men as well as women.
@AmoralJackal2 жыл бұрын
Another Lady Izdihar video already? Hell yeaaahh
@edmundlubega96472 жыл бұрын
Moscow News was still there when I arrived in Moscow in 1991. I don't know whether it still exists today
@kokomi.912 жыл бұрын
The art is so nice, thank you for taking the time to show us this kind of information, I wouldn't able to find or know this where I live. 💕
@TheMoistestNugget Жыл бұрын
8:38 good take, its a really nice hat
@fun_ghoul2 жыл бұрын
I'm no military expert, but my best Google Fu guess for 9:41 is a 76mm (3 inch) anti-aircraft gun.
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for looking into it!
@psy2mentor2 жыл бұрын
@21:45 In less than a decade, that same tractor factory would be the site of some of the fiercest, most intense fighting in the battle of Stalingrad, and by extension, all of World War II.
@S.A._Brady2 жыл бұрын
Absolute treat
@bb1televator2 жыл бұрын
Great videos, comrade! Always looking forward to more
@Ben_Ilic_562 жыл бұрын
I only recently found your channel and I am really enjoying the videos, and taking a lot from them. I think we share a love of pin badges - I liked the Moscow News one so much I actually paused the video and went to eBay looking for one! Don't worry about the audio, it's all good. 👍
@jarednorris10932 жыл бұрын
Those portraits are amazing!! 🥰🥰
@faithkerns16262 жыл бұрын
A STURDY LAD
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
I believe it
@barabashkacash38782 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your work! Its great!
@alanhorton73002 жыл бұрын
Calling the budenovka a "helmet" was an understandable mistake I think, seeing as the design is based on medieval Slavic helmets and was originally called "bogatyrka" which seems to mean something like "knight-errant's cap" or "paladin's cap." I love that there were medievalist nerds designing 1st gen. Soviet uniforms.
@SMorales8512 жыл бұрын
0:12 implying americans would've allowed women to work hahah
@ASuyan-vv5bu2 жыл бұрын
Hi Izdihar! I saw your video about a Soviet book haul. Do you have a list of commonly-available book recommendations for those interested in Soviet history, especially from a socialist or working class perspective? I am really interested in learning more about the Soviet Union.
@rayman175782 жыл бұрын
That Chelyabinsk fact was so interesting I did not know that!
@pjweiner87002 жыл бұрын
That music @ 0:16 is the same as The Marxist Project! Another one of my absolute fav channels (besides yours:)
@Zaur20052 жыл бұрын
At minute 17, you talk about how you didn't like the way that article was written. Indeed, in the 1930s the speech was... noticeably more direct and crude. The Bolsheviks always spoke directly. They might well have said that some people were three hundred years behind in development. But they were just as direct in saying that they themselves were ten or a hundred years behind in something. Considering that they were always trying to help everyone get over that lag, but of the direct and coarse words don't look so bad. They had nothing to be ashamed of.
@andrejmucic50032 жыл бұрын
I've been looking for that for years!!!! Thank you! where can I get a compilation? Library of Congress? Please advise.
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
I can talk more about the paper in the future. Right now the only archive that holds it does not allow individuals to access it (even me they've denied me 3 times) the archive can only be accessed if you are local library or university/institution as a partnership with "East View" but there's a really cool Russian website that goes over the highlights from the newspaper at least from the 1930s that they use in Russian classrooms to educate students.
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
old.mn.ru/
@Ebrahim_172 жыл бұрын
I'm here for some greatness! Also Salam!
@toffee39442 жыл бұрын
Interesting to see the Red Army using (What I assume) are French Adrian helmets in one of the photos
@lloyd49562 жыл бұрын
I actually have a pdf version of Soviet Photo 📸 magazine. And I love it. I love just going through the black and white photos of life in the USSR..
@rosaconnolly34852 жыл бұрын
Yeah that’s one thing that’s frustrating. A lot of people living in the capitalist west are completely blind to their biases and the fact that every country has propaganda. It’s so juvenile Came in strong with amazing mechanical illustrations with the old philosophers have only interpreted the world the point is to change it ❤
@boodleboy2 жыл бұрын
Regarding the article "From Stone Age to Socialism" - I tried reading it but the letters were illegible even with 1080p video resolution. Are you positive that the framing was disparaging towards the community in question, and not simply describing the material conditions they lived in?
@Hopperton2 жыл бұрын
Can you find these newspapers easily because this is beautiful?
@OtseisRagnarok2 жыл бұрын
Anyone else hear about a professor sokolov doing atomic research and have a momentary flashback to Metal Gear Solid 3?
@justinwatson15102 жыл бұрын
Your preface was absolute perfection. I love you as much as any gay guy can love a woman he hasn't met.
@patootien Жыл бұрын
Crazy to think how red army soldiers had to go through subbotniks some 90 years ago. Hated subbotniks with burning passion during my school and uni years.
@thomaswhite30592 жыл бұрын
All crack athletes you say? Are they cracked at fortnite?
@Binstone2 жыл бұрын
The first article.... 1933 record crop yield.... that's the beginning of the 1933 ukraine famine.... lol
@fun_ghoul2 жыл бұрын
No. That was 1932. Also, lol-ing at a famine is something a sociopath might do. At least you didn't call it H.......r, tho. Ouf.
@不知雾雨2 жыл бұрын
Why do you always wear a headscarf?
@LadyIzdihar2 жыл бұрын
Because I personally adhere to a certain level of Islamic modesty that includes covering my head. Just where I'm at in my life and how I feel comfortable dressing