Why You Wouldn't Survive in Russia

[@NuttyProductionsOfficial]

Imagine living in Siberia with sub zero temperatures and you have no food to eat. Your only two options are hunt a wild bear or wait in a 4 hour line for a piece of bread. What do you choose?

[@Anon-greyman]

You have a voice that could almost be a good fit for a (better then what we got) forensic files reboot

[@Hanzered]

Thanks to commies my grandparents and parents didnt have a choice.

[@AstarionWifey]

I’ll risk it with the bear 🐻

[@kristianbritton5435]

I was raised in Siberia for the first 5 years of my life, though sadly I have no memory of it

[@darthsilversith667]

Bread lines are good!! - Bernie Sanders

[@tonypopondopoulo5169]

I was born in the Soviet Union, I was just a kid when it collapsed but I remember what it was like. Parents had to go stand in line for bread at 4am. Dad was the only one working and sometimes wouldn’t get paid for months because his bosses didn’t have any cash to give.Luckily, he worked on ships and was able to bring home frozen blocks of fish to feed us. Power and water outages were very common and would last for weeks. My parents sold everything they owned and fled to the US via green card with just the clothes on our back and $5000 in cash.Most of our family and friends also fled to western countries, Greece, Germany, Canada and so on, so we are all scattered all over the world now. I remember seeing Russian troops and tanks in our town during the Armenian/Azerbaijani conflict in the early 90s and me and my brother would go around collecting shell casings from tanks afterwards. What a crazy childhood 😂. Makes me appreciate the US so much.

[@silviuvisan505]

My father was given a good job and an apartment and could provide for all the family.

[@παυροεπής]

Lines for bread; u r exaggerating. Not for bread since last hunger in 1947.

[@jasonmontgomery8393]

Thank you for sharing this, it's just a good reminder for some of us to stay humble.

[@yassine3978]

You speak Russian still or lost it over time in USA?

[@tonypopondopoulo5169]

@@yassine3978 yes, I still speak it but I’m forgetting how to read and write it.

[@stevoplex]

As a political refugee from Communist Czechoslovakiai 1968, I was a Defensive Contractor for the US Airforce when the Soviet Union collapsed. I was totally awestruck by the surreal nature of what I was seeing on the news. I had no idea that such a thing was possible.

[@VickyShawcooksalot]

How do you feel about the Democratic party trying to push fascist ideals down Americans throats now?

[@Greg-yu4ij]

Got to be even weirder for you to see the collapse of the United States. The CCP revived the old active measures programs and put them into overdrive

[@EdwardSnortin]

And now you'll be witnessing the collapse of the US in your lifetime as well

[@dtaylor10chuckufarle]

I'm an American who lived through the Cold War and never thought I'd see the Berlin Wall fall. Fast forward to the mid 90s and I actually walked through the Brandenburg gate... it was a surreal experience. I'm glad you made it out, Stevo!

[@Vanessa-bl7cp]

I love reading people’s story in the comments and learn how they got through this dark period. The resiliency that some people show is insane. I hope all of you are now living better lives.

[@afookingarcher7195]

I survived it. My mother did as well. Life is not nearly as good for her as it is for me, as I am no longer in Russia.

[@stargatis]

I met a man who served in the USSR army! He was a customer at my bank and I was amazed ❤

[@dsxa918]

Did you fight him? Did he rob the .....

[@dsxa918]

I mean that in curiosity, not to imply anything. It's nice to interpret that it's nice that it doesn't sound bad.

[@PickleRick65]

I hate the titles to these. OBVIOUSLY 10s of MILLIONS of people survived the collapse of the Soviet Union. 10s of MILLIONS. And, they didn't leave. Most stayed right where they were.

[@Meight50five]

Most didn't have an ability or option to leave, or they would have. Stop trying to downplay tithe seriousness and suffering that people went through then.

[@PickleRick65]

@@Meight50five - Horse crap. The largest departure from Russia just happened earlier this year when almost 2 Million people left all at once. The largest departure since WW2. This is disinformation. And the title is stupid. I'm not trying to downplay Anything. You're just a simpleton.

[@z_ed]

​@@Meight50fiveImo, Rick is not. He is stating that millions did, in fact, survive it 😐...how dense can one be?

[@Meight50five]

@z Ed you tell me? How dense are you? WHY is he even pointing it out? Just the same way you're attempting to explain what he meant as "obvious" and my reply unnecessary, as was it being obvious the video was not implying that and his original comment unnecessary. But the reality is he's being a low key apologist for a regime that was at least as bad as, if not worse than, the 3rd Reich. So really, how dense can you be? Or are you defending a fellow apologist?

[@nixxsaxx8681]

Take away the AI generator from the editor that was terrible

[@buriedtoodeep1508]

Love the term 'kleptocracy'. Perfect way to describe the politicians and their minions in Australia.

[@ferengiprofiteer9145]

And all the Democrat party and a lot of the Republican party here in the USA.

[@BarryKoostachin]

Don't forget the Canadian liberal Party

[@GoldenBoar]

Don't know who that nuttyhistory sounding gentle man is but loving this new format

[@Anon-greyman]

Nutty History is SO GOOD its almost nostalgic as though i grew up watching it on history channel, but i didnt! This is too good for history channel! Thanks for the Info-tainment

[@GruntProof]

Coming soon to America. Reference: California

[@brianticas7671]

Unfortunately yes. Greed has gotten to USA. Also did you know that California is not American owned anymore. All of downtown building 🏢 are Chinese and Japanese owners.

[@Sylacs]

Your overdoing it with the AI content in your videos, quantity is not more important than quality.

[@renesagahon4477]

Eventually he might see the light ……when he starts losing subscribers

[@lilacrosesandthemoon]

Your videos are close to perfection. I always learn something new watching them. Thank you.

[@rogerdavies6226]

This is the second of your programs I have watch....Well Done

[@matthewadams333]

Thank you for making this well researched and easy to follow documentary

[@Ulvdronning]

So many not seeing the US so close to the same thing

[@DukeCannon]

But I did, I was in West Germany at the time. 😉

[@lucasmcqueen7815]

🛑🧢

[@meejinhuang]

They survived by leaving the USSR.

[@danielvictor3262]

Those child prostitutes and drug traffickers gotta be so thankful for the US giving the USSR economic shock therapy huh

[@tiggie_96]

@@fuckdoicare you’re better off in the Gulag than LA nowadays

[@darthsilversith667]

Right. What these socialists ignore is that you never see people risking life and limb to leave America or other western countries.. but you certainly see people risking it all to leave socialist countries alllll the time. That right there should tell you everything you need to know about socialism.

[@Anarkitty420]

@@tiggie_96 you must be extremely privileged to even be able to think that

[@Anarkitty420]

@@darthsilversith667 there have only been shitty socialist countries, but socialism doesn’t have to be Leninist or Stanilist. Sadly it has never been tried.

[@garretgonzales]

STOP THE CGI

[@toughbutsweet1]

I hope the long-suffering people of the former Eastern Block nations have better lives today, but I'm not sure they do.😞

[@QualityPen]

My father grew up in the Soviet Union and says the standard of living in Russia is the highest it has ever been. Even our relatives in Crimea are doing well, much better than when I visited them in 2012. Crimea has gone from a backwater back to a thriving region over the last 8 years. Most of the eastern block nations are doing much better now. The westernmost ones got US and EU funding to rebuild their economies, but the eastern ones (in Asia) still have a ways to go since they had to rebuild their economies without any help.

[@afookingarcher7195]

​@@QualityPen my family is still in Kaliningrad, and although you are correct the standard of living is the highest it has ever been, it is nothing compared to the prosperity many nations have enjoyed. As my mother once told me "You get to live, I must survive."

[@renesagahon4477]

They don’t. 🥴!

[@javiermartinezjr8849]

​@@afookingarcher7195 wow ty for that,your mother is a poet ,that sentence captured the emotions of millions in my mind

[@simonh6371]

Eastern Bloc nations implies the former Warsaw Pact nations not in the USSR, i.e. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary etc. The EU funding given to Poland alone is the biggest transfer of wealth ever, more than the Marshall Plan, and that was to rebuild all of Western Europe. Politicians there have admitted they literally don't know what to spend the money on. There are brand spanking new motorways funded by the EU in remote areas, with hardly any cars using them, while the German Autobahns have roadworks and tailbacks every few miles, the days of no speed limits are long gone. Small towns in Eastern Europe have tram and underground networks, which only a couple of cities have access to in Western European countries. I was in Ostrava, a small town in Czechia, a few years back and in the early hours of the morning thought I heard a tram passing but told myself I must have dreamt it as in Western Europe trams don't run after midnight normally, a few minutes later I heard it again, looked out of the window to see an empty tram passing, they run 24/7 there. After communism fell, the state which formerly owned all property disappeared, and people bought houses and flats for peanuts. Even now young Eastern Europeans are able to outright buy or have new properties built after working 5 years in the UK or other Western European countries. Don't feel sorry for them. I used to feel sorry for some Polish alcoholics who looked like they were homeless in the Netherlands, until one of them showed me a photo of his - not his family's but his own personal - 3 story house with large garden back in Poland, which he had been given by a relative, which was empty. A lot of them have flats or houses in cities which they rent out while they come to work or not even work in Western Europe. Most of them have less worries than West Europeans and North Americans now. The boot is on the other foot now.

[@sergantd204]

15:15 face palm Soviet Union existed for 70 years. What time period are you talking about?

[@patrickscahillii9365]

Great video though, I thoroughly enjoy history and you do a great job retelling it.

[@dirtyoldbroad7583]

Yet the Canadian youth feel this is the ideal way to live.

[@yaoiis4life]

Yea they didn't do communism right 😆

[@dirtyoldbroad7583]

@@yaoiis4life has anyone in the history of ever, actually “done communism right”?

[@yaoiis4life]

@@dirtyoldbroad7583 nope, some say only ten percent of humans can think like that cause we are all super selfish compared to communist ideas

[@debbylou5729]

I was sitting next to a guy from Russia on a flight. He was from Siberia and was flying home to his wife. She was from Siberia. They met in a bar in Seattle

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Hey, maybe if Stalin got to drink as much coke as he wanted, he would've been a nicer guy.

[@Hobbsdad]

Or got diabetes and died young. Win, win either way

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

@@Hobbsdad Hahahahaha!

[@ronaldneal387]

Great channel great video you are a great presenter

[@hellraiser8783]

The 1000th like! Also Living in the Soviet Union during the Stalin Era or as I call it, the Devil's Era you had nothing but the Grim Reaper breathing down your neck every single day.

[@guycrew3973]

Yeah no wonder after his death the USSR immediately went into a de stalinzation period

[@2smokey69]

I never thought you would look how you do, good suprise tho your the goat the infographics show wishes

[@PrivateUsername]

Joke's on you. I did.

[@garlandgarrison3739]

Impossible......

[@ounzarine5487]

I have no link to the Soviet Union but students of my country. They used to go to deepen their studies there! I remember one of them, returning from the Soviet Union, reporting to me that the wears there were expensive and nobody could buy them. He reported me too, that all the years studying in Moscow, he and other students, were provided only with milk and chicken, all long he was there! He got married with a russian woman, and lived in the appartment of her parents, because a couple has to wait years, before obtaining an appartment! 😥👀 It was at the beginning of the 80s!

[@guycrew3973]

You know the sad part couples having to wait years before being able to get an apartment is becoming the norm

[@SovietMOB]

My family survived it from beginning to end. 2 World Wars and the collapse! Now in the USA.

[@DragonDude321]

nice videos but cut the AI

[@renesagahon4477]

Yes. Sorry to say

[@FlameLegend100]

Another awesome history.😁👍.

[@evilscorpio1981]

Can you do a video about the very first insurrection in the US that happened in 1807

[@Whitehorse_crimefighter]

I'd say the number one reason I couldn't exist there is I don't speak the local language and everyone is terrible

[@TranscendianIntendor]

great illustrations

[@ThreeBeingOne]

Thank you good sir 🙏🏾

[@richgrullon]

Please, do not tattoo Stalin nor Coca Cola on your body.

[@karlilisson5449]

Big love from Estonia, love youre videos.

[@jennyskeen3826]

Mikhail Gorbachev had a "port wine" birthmark.

[@Commissar_4735]

it's 2023 and cold war propaganda still prevail

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

Hey, I DID survive it! My mental health got messed up though.

[@afookingarcher7195]

Same! I got orphaned for it.

[@guycrew3973]

@@afookingarcher7195damn what happened?

[@Mrboomer135]

Russia is as weird/wild as it is intriguing.

[@KitKat-kg4ku]

How can nationality be wiped out? Citizenship, yes. But nationality stays with you until death.

[@rickyhurtt5568]

Great video. I was about 16 when it happened but didn't pay enuff attention. I learned alot

[@stevenlynch7477]

I love the way you're doing your videos now

[@pauldog]

That first sentence kinda reminds me of the UK ATM... Revolution probably coming soon if things don't improve.

[@matthewbzdawka1232]

Has Coke not kill millions?

[@uglaegilsdottir]

Sounds and feels like a Western propaganda piece. Their own people live 1 salary/payment away from homelessness, and they blame the Soviet Union for it! I would love to be given a free apartment like they did in the old Soviet Union. I have worked in the US for 20 years, and I have certainly earned one.

[@cmikhail7289]

Soviet citizens survived fine but yeah my parents moved to the Philippines in 1985. Apparently was wrong timing as month later the EDSA Revolution happened and partially helped by the local communists.

[@NotoriousNator]

I lived in the Soviet Union, in Feodosiya, Ukraine. I remember the paper money became so worthless people used it as wallpaper. Bread was valuable and we never had meat. Every now and then we’d have stewed goose necks.

[@ahuddleston6512]

Gorbachev did a Pizza Hut commercial. Pepsi sold their drink for an aircraft carrier. Russia preferred Pepsi! 😊

[@evelynzlon9492]

Suddenly I have a taste for Pizza Hut. I almost forgot how rich and buttery their pizza crust is. They say the Russian Communist Party was a puppet for the Christian Church all along anyway. Amongst other similarities they cried poverty but in fact enjoyed abundance and luxury like the Catholic clergy. I personally know this guy who's a professional singer/songwriter but served as an unofficial German diplomat to China as far back as the '80's. I'm pretty sure he was a fake poor fake garage band leader too. Plus he told me to my face that he was a redneck. Coca-Cola in particular stole all the water from a lake near their Mexican production plant. This placed the Mexicans under additional survival stress and all Hell unraveled including a booming illegal slave trade across the US border. They still do stuff to blacks too.

[@Shadow298460]

Thank you.

[@stanbasov42]

Well I actually did 😂

[@mateonoworries665]

10:40 says he says 1891

[@ThirtytwoJ]

...are we that sure coke hasnt ended more people than stalin?

[@senorwhiskers2010]

I was impressed that you pronounced Yeltsin correctly given your history of criminal pronunciations and then...Yelstin. Very entertaining though.

[@vincentvargas5740]

I learn a lot of things in Nutty History. Would one survive in present North Korea?

[@kylehammond8091]

Considering they are eating lawn clippings, I’d say no. 😕

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

How you survive is you steal and barter.

[@sreckovuksic9389]

Bio 3 puta u doba socijalizma i sve je stvarnost i navikli na takav život

[@genoinjian7729]

Good history/ autobiography shows what communism does to a country. It’s called Forgive Me Natasha by Sergi Kourdakov and has another title called The Persecuter. It’s about an orphan boy who loses his whole family during Stalin purges and purges after Stalin died. He became #1 communist youth leader, worked for secret police, & eventually defected to Canada

[@scifugitive2]

Please, please stop with the creepy talking pictures. It stops your momentum in its tracks.

[@michaelborror4399]

I'd put a pitchfork and club, and horse and plow symbol on my sub and put it in a forest paintball field by my forge probably, while some doctors like to do underwater therapy and things. I'm not sure if a singing revolution and not getting run over by tanks would work as well these days though, or at least not my favorite way of winning independance anyway?

[@2natree854]

I Thank the Lord, I wasn't born in Russia!

[@hozeb87]

the first minute kind of describes the usa in some places 🤣

[@Zebra_Cakes]

Why you wouldn’t survive in the Soviet Union: Cold 🥶 lol I would be dead sooner than everyone. Can’t do cold weather 😂

[@blueduck9409]

It dont take much time to figure out that capitalists would not survive very long in Russia. Thats my 2 pennies.

[@robwood8201]

The first 20 second's sound's like the America I live in now at least the direction it's heading 🤦🤦🤷🤷

[@johnpick8336]

Nikita Khruschev while speaking at the UN told the US "We Will Bury You". Look around?

[@nixxsaxx8681]

That intro sounds familiar 🤔

[@patrickscahillii9365]

Was anyone else paying attention when he said 1891?😂😂

[@JKM395]

Russia in the 90s and no mention of the Russian mob?

[@Thurston86]

Wow. Finally seeing the narrator is _weird._ 😂

[@debbralehrman5957]

Wow this was a good video. I think I will send it to my daughter who doesn't quite get why I am not big on even Socialism. She was born in 99' no big surprise. I am glad KZbin brought you up.👍🏼💐

[@debbylou5729]

It won’t matter….I’ve seen members of that age group argue with actual refugees

[@Honeybeerose88]

What was happening in the USSR wasn’t the true ideals of communism or socialism, it was totalitarian communism which is a different and much more dangerous form of government. Capitalism isn’t safe either though and our two party system and elites in government is becoming frightening here.

[@rickyhurtt5568]

Dammit senor Gorbachev. Tear down that wall. Yall no its over

[@brendadube4920]

Just wanted to let the Channel or someone know that in the video at about 10:21 mins it says "1891" instead of "1991". Seems a bit of a difference 😘

[@CYCLONE4499]

I wouldve never been there. The USSR was suckiness level 1000.

[@miisu111]

I was born also in Soviet Union and Im pretty much alive

[@HawkRider304]

I hate to break it to you but I am over 50. I did live survive through the collapse of the soviet union.

[@Canarka1]

What is with you old folks and completely missing the point? Does your brain fall out of your skull as you age?

[@Greg-yu4ij]

Lol 90,000 stazi informants. Sound familiar? We don’t need to dismantle the FBI, just call them as they are, Stazi

[@masjuggalo]

I wanna say i did survive it but i was safely in the states

[@railgap]

Why you wouldn't survive in the projects... imagine living in a concrete jungle with subzero temperatures and you have no food to eat.

[@alain86]

It should be titled “ The collapse of the Soviet Union”.

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Remember all of this.

[@KristubeYT]

the era you couldn't survive is the stalin era

[@ToudaHell]

I am a bisexual intellectual who don't know when to shut up and am physically weak. I wouldn't be able to survive the Chinese cultural revolution much less the Soviet gulags.

[@theviking2877]

The collapsed was due to the being bankrupted by the arms race. The things you mentioned are the effects and not the causes

[@natehorsfall8379]

Good video, ditch the AI. It sucks and brings an otherwise well put together work, down.

[@astrumt]

But I did survive and so is my wife.

[@RainbowLovingRainbow]

Now, Putin is falling back on his autocratic tendencies in Russia.

[@petercoleslanguages]

That AI content needs some improving

[@russell2910]

Fun fact. The Soviet union was the biggest country. You could fit ten thousand suns in the Soviet union.

[@michaelpiwcewicz1412]

ITS COLD

[@artistjim114]

If I survived New jersey and Atlanta, I can survive the u s s r

[@JustinDanielDunn]

Did he say August 1891 instead of 1991😮? 10:39

[@LaMorenitaDivina]

Because I’m a gigantic wuss. Next question.

[@wlgeiger]

Why did Stalin sound like a cowboy?

[@andeeharry]

To be fair...you wouldn't survive anywhere in any time period

[@andreideac3962]

Communism/socialism works so well that it needs to be enforced on people! A true paradise,indeed!!