The Soviet Union: A New Look (1978)

[@josephstalin6647]

who the hell came up with this nightmare soundtrack?

[@LachezarFilchev]

😂😂😂 I thought the same 🤣🤣🤣

[@zizizi3891]

the music is warpped to get around youtube detection, this is a copyrighted documentary that our guy is sharing for the ad money after all.

[@jaybobdoodles]

Welcome to the USSR

[@josejotafernandez9913]

The audio track is fluttering because it comes from an old tape

[@poshemuuu]

@@zizizi3891 I thinlk the spoiled music was just Soviet anthem, not more

[@nervechews6781]

That oboe intro was bitchin.

[@RextheDragon881]

Killer jam.really shows the joy of the soviet experience

[@sanjitbolina7481]

Who would of thought at the time that the colossus would fall a mere 13 years later. Absolutely remarkable how the procession of history is full of unforeseen events that alter entire civilisations.

[@micahw83]

Makes one wonder about the future of our own society.

[@TinLeadHammer]

* would HAVE thought

[@sanjitbolina7481]

@@micahw83 yes it indeed does, particularly the United States and the West in general. I have always admired the US, the idealistic and enlightened notions that gave birth to the American republic, which at the same time confronted the reality of the human condition. Yet that idealism and enlightenment values are the bedrock of the American nation indeed the US is the product of the enlightenment. However as we see today neo Marxism and the desire for the collective to outweigh the rights of the individual are all too apparent. Enlightenment values which are the cornerstone of modern western civilisation are being attacked by the far left in the form of cancel culture, the need for self censorship, political correctness and so on. It is a clash between authoritarianism/ collectivism and enlightenment values. It is also an economic clash that seeks to subvert the gains made by capitalism in the name of “social democracy.” One would hope that ultimately enlightenment values are able to overcome this period of incessant attack, since if the far left are successful in completely altering the foundational values of the west, then ultimately stagnation and decline are the likely conclusion or even a new dark age where reason is completely done away with.

[@gencreeper6476]

@@sanjitbolina7481 Collective vs individual in humans is the same answer as to meat vs plant. The answer really lies somewhere in the middle. Capitalism and Communism both got most things wrong in their own ways. Most of human history is groups competing with other groups. My biggest problem with the modern US is it just claims to be a republic of free individuals but the American reality is more like a state sponsored aristocracy.

[@KingSizzle21]

@@sanjitbolina7481 Do you think capitalism, which is only about 250 years old, will last forever? Obviously it won’t since no other system before it did not. So, what do you think will come next and why?

[@RedTail1-1]

Hey, Mike. If you do see this somehow, I just wanted to say thank you. I've bought and read a couple of your books and am reading through a few more. I recently found you have this KZbin channel just full of awesome military documentaries and it's like a treasure trove to me. I really just want to say thank you. Thank you for sharing your passion with everyone. Thank you for all the hard work you do. I also wanted to extend my gratitude as a fellow Army Veteran and say, Thank You For Your Service. Please keep sharing your love for the military with us.

[@tng2057]

At Leningrad a young man just finished his KGB training and started spying for the state including watching and recording the street production of this video. His name is V V Putin.

[@gencreeper6476]

Wait so Putin himself actually shadowed the making of this specific film as a KGB agent? I cant find anything to confirm this.

[@piratizaslobodu]

This video was produced in New York, dummy.

[@gabrielef8564]

He has also a bad side

[@yabgu26]

@@gabrielef8564 yeah bad to you

[@seltzerwater7894]

Is the music altered for copyright or was the tape warped? That sounds wild.

[@sofiaflorina]

As far as I know, many old films have opening music like that, mostly from 1970s

[@ultimatescapebro]

This is the same voice as the guy who did Forensic Files. A guy I worked with (he was in his 60s) when I was a bank teller in 2016 told me this guy also did the voice for Richard Nixons Campaign Ads.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

I thought I'd recognized it from somewhere!

[@jmcasas17]

He's name is Peter Thomas.

[@ultimatescapebro]

@@jmcasas17 yeah that’s what your mother calls out every night as she pleasures herself.

[@marria01]

I can't be the only one that recognised his voice from Paul Hardcastle's 1980s hit "19".

[@celebrityrog]

@@jmcasas17 Sadly he died a while back, which is one reason Forensic Files never made the comeback it had planned, because Peter could deliver emotion through his voice without being emotional, just neutral. It wouldn't be the same without him and it wasn't. Someone else named Peter who's taken over in narration in a lot of historical political ads and documentaries is Peter Coyote.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

mike its good to see you posting Zimmermann videos

[@aaroncornerslicegaming]

The cartoon at th beginning reminds me of Eastern Europe's favorite cat and mouse team, Worker and Parasite

[@MichaelDeMersLA]

Lol bruh I was just thinking that...with the weird-ass music in the background too

[@aaroncornerslicegaming]

@@MichaelDeMersLA kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJnIZKmJmpKgo9k

[@danielrudolf5441]

In real life, Eastern European cartoons were absolutely awesome. Great animation, entertaining stories, adorable and fun characters, and they were much less violent than most US cartoons. You should check out some of them.

[@aaroncornerslicegaming]

@@danielrudolf5441 true Simpsons is a US cartoon so one of the bad things about a lot of US media is it is very biased and usually portrays Eastern Europe in a negative light because of the Cold War One of my fav cartoons from Eastern Europe is The Mézga Family. It's really good! It's actually better than the SImpsons but not as many people got to see it but it's really good. kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4nLfWSilqifj80

[@MichaelDeMersLA]

@@danielrudolf5441 my favorite Eastern European cartoon is the "Meg goes to Chelyabinsk" episode of Family Guy

[@karljensen893]

I believe the only thing Carlson got right .. shopping carts have breaks on them 😂😂😂 and black sea shores sure are warm .. like splintering warm.

[@tenorly]

15:40 : As Russians liked to say: "There is no Pravda (Truth) in Izvestia (News), and no Izvestia in Pravda."

[@Sebman1113]

I’m glad to see the way things were in the Soviet Union.

[@budsfan1970]

Sounds like this is the roadmap that Trudeau is following for Canada today.

[@BrokenCircle1]

'Clothes only for work not style'...why does America seem this way now? Everything is centered around work. No family. No church. No hobbies. No freedom.

[@pmaitrasm]

@15:15, There is no free press in the US either.

[@ivor-ql6iq]

What lovely and uplifting music.

[@celebrityrog]

Jesus Christ the music to this is like some kid learned how to play an 80s electronic keyboard with near dead batteries while recording it onto a cassette tape on a portable tape deck with near dead batteries as well, then replayed back on the same near dead battery recorder. MY GOD THAT WAS TERRIFYING.

[@67nairb]

I saw this exact film in school when I was a kid.

[@BrokenCircle1]

Man all this stuff from a time where much if it in the US wasn't the case just goes to show how far we've fallen. Women expected to do everything. Work, shop, deal with the kids. Both parents working...crazy to think this was alien to the US under 100 years ago.

[@axnyslie]

14:42 "Russians are used to winter ad enjoy it" well it's not like they have a choice, in anything in their lives in this era.

[@h4a2z0e]

This is the same video from when I watched the history channel back in the day😂

[@alexandersedov9896]

Was it of the same terrible quality?

[@wordscapes5690]

Sad

[@willmont8258]

Who is the narrator? His voice sounds familiar.

[@BobRodhamClinton]

Burt Reynolds half brother Carl Ray

[@Sheboobellach]

Oh my god that music is atrocious. That intro was a nightmare to get through lmao

[@newtonwhatevs]

Whoever thought that theme tune would be clever?

[@dompit9535]

haha this intro

[@jjhonecker7644]

CCCP YPA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@JohnAsmith-rw6uo]

So how did it work out in the end still a nation of slaves.

[@67nairb]

This was produced in 1978, in the waning years of detente between the USSR and the USA and already the Soviet government was violating human rights against dissidents like Andrei Sakharov. And in 1979, one year after this documentary was produced, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan ending detente thusly.

[@АскарНагимов-э4у]

Хорошие кадры, но много явной лжи про советскую действительность

[@cuzthatshoweyroll]

What lies did you hear?

[@АскарНагимов-э4у]

@@cuzthatshoweyroll там есть момент "детей заставляют учить, а не мыслить". Любая школа мира, но точно не советская пользовалась этим способом. Был эксперимент с американским и советским школьниками, сравнение уровня образования. Этот эксперимент доказал превосходство советского образования не только в точных, но и гуманитарных направлениях. Не хочу сказать, что советское образование идеальное, но точно не такое, каким оно представлено в этом фильме

[@alexandersedov9896]

@@АскарНагимов-э4у да, в фильме много шаблонов.

[@scepticalbeliever]

Имеется в виду, что только одна идеология, против которой нельзя было идти.

[@АскарНагимов-э4у]

@@scepticalbeliever в их случае в этом нет ничего плохого, собственно мало кто действительно этого хотел. Люди в войне отстояли эту идеологию, с чего бы от неё отказываться?

[@nciuper]

Dances at min 8:35 are Ukrainian. Peace for Ukraine

[@AntonioLopez8888]

Не любят американцы светлых русских, нет и все. Чем темнее, тем лучше. Почему..

[@manuvanhaeskolo]

Thank you for the upload. I'm very fond of your videos about the soviet union, they are extremely interesting.

[@Laj-t9k]

Agreed. The Soviet uploads are my favorite.

[@trueKENTUCKY]

lukashenko

[@manuvanhaeskolo]

@@trueKENTUCKY what about him?

[@danielalvarez-galan3702]

@@trueKENTUCKYI agree Lukashenko. He was a major in the Soviet army and sort of maintains some Marxist Leninist values however he’s not a Marxist.

[@gencreeper6476]

One thing that the video got wrong is that even though there was only one candidate per election the candidates werent always elected. After Stalin the party used the "elections" as a performance indicator for local officials. If the majority of people in the area didnt vote for an official the party was actually most likely to replace that candidate with someone else and run the election again.

[@ja-is2lf]

They started putting this film together in 1978... and just got finished in 2024. Right on schedule in Red Russia. Editing film by committee can be a slow process.

[@KyleLarsen-bw5hw]

Second that- these videos feel under discovered to me when it comes to the history algorithms n such. Especially the Soviet Union docs

[@Keithrrr]

Soundtrack provided by the band Caroliner

[@ashish_p_sasi]

RUSSIANS 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@Keithrrr]

Tom Morello and Zac would love to be part of this system 🎸

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

Who is leading that orchestra? Alfred Hitchcock?

[@67nairb]

the Romanov Dynasty lasted for 300 years not 400.

[@NormanF62]

Russia is still the largest country in the world after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Much of what was filmed in 1978 has continuity and permanence in the face of sweeping and turbulent change. Behind the distinct facade of various regimes, Eternal Russia is still with us.

[@rizmid]

Wow and flutter!! The sound is bad. Can't it be fixed? Thank you.

[@parkmallbaby]

Dang they can use that intro soundtrack as a Hearts of Iron TNO anthem.

[@导演文森吴]

It would be great if you could name sources of footages you upload especially if you just take uploads of other yt channels and reupload them

[@theashapeshift]

Who made the intro 💀

[@MatthewThompson-z8j]

Nobody smiles in Russia especially the children

[@memezoffuckery3207]

Based 🗿

[@arttrade2311]

@@memezoffuckery3207 Ну ну, у нас даже Сталин был достаточно веселым человеком. Погуглите улыбка Сталина

[@Mr15095]

it was truly paradise on earth compared to colombia

[@German-hv9nv]

The Soviet Union was the best country in human history. Unfortunately it was betrayed by elite in the leadership.

[@aweirdredguy3885]

"Schools controled by the state",as if that's not the case under capitalism,the difference is,school under capitalism just lies to you about so called " freedom of the individual" you are not truly free,you entirely depend on your boss

[@Crabby303]

What on earth are you talking about?

[@franklindorrell4755]

I am not sure why the other person didn't understand your comment. It is in English and quite true.