You Were NOT Allowed To Do This In The Soviet Union

[@alfyryan6949]

Singaporean here. Great video as usual. The ban you mentioned is not on the consumption of chewing gum per se, but rather the import and sale of it. The lead-up to the ban was persistent vandalism using used gum, but the straw that broke the camel's back was delays in train services due to used gum being left in the door edges. On the Malaysian ban, I have some familiarity of their culture; yellow is the colour of royalty there and therefore reserved to them. As far as I know, the ban is not actively enforced, but now that you mention it the colour does seem to be rare for clothing there.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

Don't you have pot plant police in Singapore, checking that you do not water your plants too much? And you get a fee if you do not flush after visiting the rest room? And I was told by people from Singapore you could get a fee if you crossed a street diagonally?

[@wrathofachilles]

@@doncarlodivargas5497 100% support the fine for not flushing, and I wish they would implement that where I live. Seriously people, how hard is it?

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

@@wrathofachilles - yes i have no problem, Singapore is doing it right as far as I am concerned, punishment solves most problems

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

Im from Denmark and my dad was beated by the school system for being left hande, so that one is more widespread than one would think

[@MCKevin289]

Yeah I grew up Catholic and I thought it was a Catholic thing tbh. My grandfather was a lefty and was beaten by priests and nuns for being “satanic”. It only made him more stubborn. Eventually, they just gave up on getting him to write righty. They beat him unofficially for using his left hand.

[@janjordy]

@@MCKevin289 i was born in 1989 and my father from bosnia made me use right hand for everything, bouse his son will not be a lefty... guess what now i have two useless hands and he has lefty grandson

[@MCKevin289]

@@janjordy My grandfather was a stubborn bastard so their beatings only made him more defiant. My dad was a lefty but switched to his right hand because his favorite baseball player was a righty.

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

It happened in Ireland too.

[@bushturkey798]

Happened in Australia too. Thankfully the practice ended not long before I attended, thank God.

[@Flint404]

For those that can't read cyrillic, here's a full list of banned foreign bands from 9:04 Some were very hard to decypher because of the horrible transliteration. 1. Sex Pistols 2. The B-52's 3. Madness 4. The Clash 5. The Stanglers 6. KISS 7. Krokus 8. Styx 9. Iron Maiden 10. Judas Priest 11. AC DC 12. Sparks 13. Black Sabbath 14. Alice Cooper 15. Nazareth 16. Scorpion 17. Dschinghis Khan 18. UFO 19. Pink Floyd 20. Talking Heads 21. Not sure, something spelled "Perron" 22. Hamilton Bohannon 23. The Originals 24. Donna Summer 25. Tina Turner 26. Junior English 27. Canned Heat (thanks Setarko) 28. Munich Machine 29. Ramones 30. Van Halen 31. Hullio Iglesias 32. Yazoo 33. Something spelled "Danich Mod". I can only assume they meant Depeche Mode. 34. Village People 35. 10cc 36. The Stooges 37. The Boys 38. Blondie

[@Setarko]

Thanks! You are correct for most of those, number 27 is Canned Heat probably. As for number 21 - I'm not sure either, there was a Kiev-based band called "Перрон" but I think they were founded later, in 1988. Also, there is a possibility this whole list is fake, but I still found it extremely funny and lots of bands were still forbidden, even if the list may be not 100% correct.

[@Flint404]

@@Setarko The fact that they don't include "the" makes it more guesswork, lol. Good that I know most of the bands. My dad had vynils of almost all of them in the 80s. Perks of living in Kaliningrad and working in customs I guess.

[@bartvanderoordt510]

@@Flint404 my father in law was stioned in poland he used a radioto pick up forign frequencies to listen to rock and put them tape. all of which not very apreciated

[@Patak1]

​@@Setarkohey and respect! I wanna ask how was the situation with the Autodiskoteka type music in 80s?(CC Catch, Modern Talking and similars) Were they allowed or they were not so legal like in my country? Because under every song i see many Russians loving those songs😄

[@Setarko]

@@Patak1 Well, I think it was legal because I definitely remember my parents having Modern Talking vinyl records and I've listened to them a lot when I was like 5-6 lol

[@FOLIPE]

The uniform and hair thing was also common in Brazil in the dictatorship era. Even now some schools forbid coloring hair or make-up, but its not as common as before, and we still use uniforms, generally speaking. Foreign music wasn't frowned upon (the government was of course very pro-western) but there was censorship and some national songs and singers were frowned upon or even censored.

[@Setarko]

Well, we have uniform in Russia nowadays, but only in some schools. It's not as strict more like suggestions - please wear a white top and black bottom.

[@FOLIPE]

​​@@Setarko No, we do still have uniforms in the vast majority of schools (I'd say all except some americanized upper class private schools). In most cases you might be sent back home if you are not wearing it depending on circumstances (especially if you do it a couple times and there's no "reasonable excuse"). For private schools the uniform model depends on the individual schools (generally it's similar to public schools but changing the city logo for school logo), while for public schools they'll be usually the same within each city or state depending on whether it's a city or state school. Generally you'll have some sort of bland color like blue or black pants plus white shirt with the city or state shield or some sort of government logo, plus you have the jacket you can use on top. Some schools do allow you to wear jean pants but its not that common. Some cities also have uniform shoes and socks but that's not usually mandatory (it's just given to students to make sure they have proper clothing to go to class regardless of income level). Some traditional schools (public and private) may have a more traditional-looking uniform but that's more uncommon.

[@Baamthe25th]

Oh, so that's why Brazilians like to dye their hair so much ? Always surprised me when I see the Brazilian National Team (neymar, etc) or even MMA champion Charles Oliveira turn blonde

[@3dcomrade]

In Indonesia. Every schools has uniforms lol, the hair thing is also still here. This is more of a legacy of the dictatorship era too

[@cloroxbleach9222]

​​@@3dcomrade I don't think it has anything to do with the Suharto era, a lot of Asian countries in general are just pretty strict about uniformity. I'm from Singapore and from primary to secondary school, hair dye, make up and altering of uniform is banned. Girls with long hair must tie it up into a ponytail and guys must keep their hair short. It's the same with other democratic countries like Malaysia, Japan, maybe Korea too but I'm not sure.

[@glebbak19]

Nowadays in Russia a school uniform is a sign of a rather fancier school. Technically all schools have it but only few enforce it. I went to the top public school of my region and if you came to school without wearing the school’s tie (it was the ugliest piece of clothing in all of the universe: it had disgusting yellow colour and school’s name written many times in the ugliest blue font) you were sent home to get it if you didn’t have it with you. Once I came to school in torn jeans and a hoodie and met the principal. Next week I was brought to a school meeting with a local police officer. Right before me they were expelling two guys for a fight in a corridor. The officer couldn’t help laughing when they said that he had to tell me off for not wearing the uniform. In 2020 during the lockdown I met him near my house. He remembered me as « the most dangerous criminal he’s ever seen »

[@universalflamethrower6342]

It is good thing you got punished. Your post reeks of rebelliousness.

[@glebbak19]

@@universalflamethrower6342 yeah, I am a danger for society😂

[@kittypeanut4102]

​@@universalflamethrower6342 yikes, people like you are the ones that actually worry me. "oOoOh sOmEoNe DoEsN't WaNt To FoLlOw A rUlE, ThEy DeSeRvE pUnIsHmEnT", enforcers of status quo and rules (as if they were a fricking religion) make me sick 🤢

[@mariusd8649]

​@@glebbak19I suppose you don't dare to say Slava Ukraina in public, do you??

[@ImtheHitcher]

This is something weirdly unique in authoritarian countries. I spent a lot of my younger years in Cuba and I vividly remember all of the 'rules' you could ignore and all of the unspoken rules you HAD to follow

[@mittim804]

The US has more active laws than any other country in history. If this video were done on the US it would be hours long

[@257796]

I like the way you put that

[@marcobonesi6794]

the right hand thing at school was also enforced (not as strongly) in italy until the early 70s.

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

in general, left-handedness was a sign of something unholy, so it was strongly frowned upon till the recent era. i guess you could argue that they are the true oppressed people...

[@scotttatertot69]

Same with the school outfits. Very common in other countries at the time.

[@jameslawrie3807]

@@scotttatertot69 School uniforms are still enforced in a lot of Australia. The reasoning is that it stops rich kids looking better than poor kids and developing advantageous development.

[@kittypeanut4102]

​@@scotttatertot69 that's still enforced in Peru, in my school for example

[@johanneskuhrt146]

My colleagues told me that in the 80s in East Germany a nurse apprentice had the audacity to show up to work having pink dyed hair, she had to go back home, dye her hair a "proper" colour, come back to work and make up for the lost time.

[@milanbikics3144]

Your videos are excellent, I've been binge watching them for a few days! Having grown up in 1980s Hungary I can relate to many of the things you describe. Harsh laws but lenient execution was the order of the day, just like in the SU in its last decades. Keep up the great work!

[@BeesKneesBenjamin]

The right hand thing reminds me a lot of the stories of my grandma from her childhood. She went to a girls school in the Netherlands in the late 1930s to late 1940s. She had a classmate who was left handed, she wasn't allowed to write with your left hand, so she regularly got her fingers whooped with a wooden ruler by one of the nuns to the point it hurt enough that she was forced to use her right hand instead.

[@jakedill1304]

I mean if you don't get on that at a early age next thing you know you've got... Semetics.... They just sprout up out of nowhere, it starts with the left hand and next thing you know another one's been lost to levitical school! I'm totally sure that's how that works.. and I'm actually wouldn't be surprised if.. like I actually wouldn't be surprised if there was a non-zero amount of nuns that actually thought that depending on what era.

[@thefattymcgee5801]

Bro a lot of what you said about growing up in the Soviet Union was the same for my parents in the United States. Hair skirts, public affection. Kinda makes you think about that time period as a whole.

[@qunituabastard1754]

Odd that he's not mentioning these and paint the USSR as an evil Empire

[@DavidWestwater-vq6qy]

​@@qunituabastard1754what's odd about it's pretty obvious he thinks the USSR was evil. I think it was evil too but then again I was actually in the country unlike you

[@DavidWestwater-vq6qy]

no your parents life was nothing like that of a Soviet citizen in terms of public affection. People in the United States routinely kissed in public.

[@qunituabastard1754]

@@DavidWestwater-vq6qy bro what, I don't live in the USA if u think I do

[@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74]

​@@DavidWestwater-vq6qy a lot of places in the US it was actually highly looked down upon to show such affections by religious communities. Also we still had a lot of towns regions of the country that had one company owning the place of work, the stores, people's homes and payong people in a "company currency" only redeemable at that specific company store in that town that wasnt redeemable at a different store in a different town owned by the same company. Those were crazy times.

[@rebralhunter6069]

My father had the left-handed-ness beat out of him growing up in communist Poland. I'm left handed myself and by the time I was born no one cared anymore. I always wondered why his handwriting was so awful until I put two and two together. That was a pretty common thing back in the day not just in Communist bloc countries but even in the west. Maybe just not quite as harshly enforced in the west. We truly are one of the most oppressed minorities 😔😔😔

[@mariusd8649]

Same in Romania until 1990. Never understood the reason!

[@dtheguy]

“Greetings, senp” was a very professional way to reference your April 1 madness. Good rest of video

[@borisselbstadler3209]

The left handed thing is not just a soviet thing, ironically it stems from christianity.

[@kaiserchaoui6143]

And Islam too Forbidden to eat with your left hand 😂

[@luisjorge110]

In Portugal, kids would also be beaten with rulers if they wrote with their left hand instead of right until some decades ago.

[@zariqmohdali5779]

Im from Malaysia, yes yellow is the royal colour and usually avoided at official gatherings where royal family members are in attendance, but its absolutely not illegal to wear yellow.

[@danielkelly2210]

The USSR was so great they made it illegal to leave.

[@kucingcat8687]

Ain't westerners leaving the west into Soviets/"Communist" countries were also frowned upon?

[@deivydasjuonys6487]

Nothing it was great about Soviet Union. Good that this evil empire is dead as it should be.

[@DMlTREl]

​@@deivydasjuonys6487You should work 10 hours as before if you don't like it

[@johnfox2975]

​@@deivydasjuonys6487 based western

[@mariusd8649]

​@@kucingcat8687some did. But also many returned to the west. A few, like spies, remained in CCCP.

[@kalatapie]

11:30 Living in Bulgaria i once worked as a delivery driver at a warehouse. My manager was an old guy who has obviously spent most of his time living in the Soviet era. I was once, just once, literally 5 minutes late for work. Walking through the door, he confronted me angrily about my tardiness. I was confused because the clock on my car read 7:00 when i arrived and then he showed me his phone. The clock read 7:05. My shift started at 7:00. I was so pissed off from the fact he was making such a fuss over 5 minutes (even though i was regularly expected to work up to 20 minutes past the official end of my shift) that i told him off and proceeded with my duties. Now i know where his mentality stems from. Thank you, Setarko, for revealing the mysteries of the older generations.

[@lichtsignale2]

From where I'm sitting in France, 2023 I'm going to be totally honest, the threat of the deprivation of fundamental liberties including the freedom to circulate, free expression, the freedom from arbitrary arrest or state interventions in matters of person and property... Doesn't hit the way it used to.

[@joebidet1330]

You could not travel to other countries? That's not true. Here in kyrgyzstan my neighbor went on holiday abroad for 2 years . 1987 to 1989. He visited Kabul Helmand other lovely places. Sometimes they would even give him food like potatoes And today they pay him for being afghantsi 6000 soms a month About 70 dollars

[@mariusd8649]

He was probably in the military, that guy.

[@RK-cj4oc]

The central Asian border was alot more porous than the western border.

[@arosnett]

Here in Norway, the reasons for banning rollerskates and skateboards were just as ridiculous as much of what happended in USSR😂

[@Itried20takennames]

Nothing encourages something among teens and ya’s like the older generation discouraging and banning it, but not making hugely illegal. Now not only did you kind of like the foreign trends, but if the government didn’t like it, you were instantly a cool back-row desperado.

[@vorynrosethorn903]

It might be mentioned that in earlier times restrictions on Christians were very harsh indeed and to say many were killed would be an understatement, this continued even to Khrushchev who though less violent in his repression had many of the surviving churches torn down or blown up.

[@Setarko]

Yeah, I've talked about it at length in my earlier video about Religion in the USSR. Added a card with a link to that video to this one, thanks!

[@Sohave]

Great video, it has some first chapter of the Gulag Archipelag vibes. I recognize some of the paragraphs of the criminal code.

[@jessiebarnes4671]

is that a movie or book? I am interested to find out more

[@ogpu1]

Really informative and entertaining insight into how people lived in the USSR. Appreciate your efforts! Thankyou

[@alanfike]

9:14 No objection. Tina Turner did promote sex.

[@angrypidgeon1714]

what!? not feed pidgeons in Venice!? such tyrants!

[@ThatsMyChad]

Another winner of a video! I saw the Vermin Supreme reference and had a good laugh!

[@Koopastomper]

Thank you for providing a window into Russia and giving us a better understanding of the history and culture of it. It's fascinating to learn about!

[@taterkaze9428]

American public schools were anti-lefthanded into the 1960s. I think the rationale was the quality of handwriting. In Catholic schools, it was a savagery of nuns.

[@universalflamethrower6342]

Dude it was common throughout the West, I am betting not only the West

[@thebogangamer1]

it is a religious thing, left handedness is a sign of the devil.

[@autophyte]

I believe there was a soviet saying, "We pretend to work, and they pretend to pay us".

[@jessiebarnes4671]

funny how that applies to the American work force now lol

[@AkiZivojin]

This is so interesting to watch. I guess i never knew about half of these strange rules

[@OranjeSchildpad]

Thank you for this good job ! I am a 'westerner' fascinated by Russia and the former SSR. I hope i will be able to visit some places one day

[@tdt0108]

Really informative and humorous as always. Super!

[@jannetteberends8730]

It must have been very problematic for people with adhd.

[@mariusd8649]

They were not allowed in public schools. There were special schools for them.

[@jessiebarnes4671]

oh really? come to think of it, there were no "abnormal" kids in my school (early 1990s) @@mariusd8649

[@rigifali]

I remember my grandma told me girls with longer hair had to have hair in ponytail at school and could not wear anything fancy either and she was one of the left-handed who has been re-trained to write right hand too...

[@Itried20takennames]

So weird that Russia/USSR went from official atheism and wanting no overt religiosity, to now cos-playing some version of Christianity as a “whatever we do, God is on our side” tactic.

[@annasolovyeva1013]

Swings.

[@phaedonv.3870]

That's a very interesting topic for discussion or for a video. I think at some point they realized that they could not make people leave christianity and that priests and people of church had extreme power and wealth in their hands, so it was very difficult to go against them. As a result they compromised. Not because they were religious, but as a tactic.

[@imperskiikulak446]

So it seems to you in the West that Orthodoxy was completely destroyed in the USSR, but this is not the case.All my grandparents born in the 30s of the 20th century were baptized, even Stalin allowed some priests to work at the front during World War II.

[@BleedingSnow]

Being gay = counter revolutionary at first made me laugh, interesdting video =)

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

its incredible how being gay was condemned in the West as moral decay or some shit like that, while in the East it was seen as a disease originating from the West...

[@jameslawrie3807]

Although a lot of it seemed aimed at rape, but that's always the excuse everywhere.

[@natasastanojevic]

Speaking from former Yugoslavia, communist regime here had clauses in criminal code against homosexuality called "protivprirodni blud" (counter-natural lust), but it was never applied for what it was nominally against. Yugoslavia had famous people who were more or less open members of LGBT community. It was aimed at dissidents against Tito, as a cover story. It heavily relied on the idea that if one betrayed someone or something, they would be referred to as "peder" (slur for gay man), so being arrested for being a "peder" meant you betrayed Yugoslavia...

[@BleedingSnow]

@@natasastanojevic Thanks for the insight, that's quite interesting.

[@Vofbye]

In this moment, we lives there in Chile.

[@Lyndione]

Thank you for information about what you can do and cannot do in Soviet Russia. Would be useful for time travellers one day.

[@cynicalahole7131]

Wasn't Lee Harvey Oswald Married to an Belorussian girl in the late 50's?

[@jessiebarnes4671]

I was a kid in the USSR... had a great childhood... came here to the US in 1996... when the USSR fell apart the country fell into chaos until the 2000s. I find it funny that when things were banned and punishment was enforced the society was actually better for it (except the moving restrictions and stuff like that). I mean look at the Divided states of America now, where everything is allowed lol

[@HotelMari0Maker]

Thanks for sharing! Some believe in having a “dictatorship of the proletariat”, and while I can see how that can be beneficial in some ways, like what you described, I feel like it can also turn the whole state into a prison like North Korea. I also understand that In the US we have a “democracy” but not really because the people we elect don’t actually represent us. So sometimes I think we *would* be better off with a government that is a dictatorship, but has humanity’s best interest in mind. Idk… I’m just so conflicted about politics lately 😅 again it’s interesting to hear your perspective!

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Very interesting video, thanks!

[@galvk]

You will be surprised but there were no school uniform in the Soviet Union in 1970-1990.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

Yes, they were. There are plenty of photos of that period. You are a liar.

[@gladiatordude3723]

The thing about rock and hippie Music makes me wonder about Funk music and rap music in the USSR

[@snuggery6486]

0:12 Remember Natalia Poklonskaya? This is her now. Feel old yet

[@darcgibson5099]

Almost all of these things were the same in the UK at the time, some of them still.

[@simonkorica9467]

The anime still lingers in him...

[@manchagojohnsonmanchago6367]

Do a video on the social structure of russian and soviet prisons

[@lilmonix]

As a person living in Vietnam, I can confirm this is true. April 17, 2023 9:53PM

[@julianmahler2388]

As someone who has been in Vietnam on vacation, I can confirm it is a beautiful country with lovely people

[@Setarko]

As someone who once saw a Vietnam person - 100% true

[@GeorgeTheDinoGuy]

As someone who has not been to Vietnam. I can confirm it is a country.

[@lilmonix]

@@Setarko Seriously, Vietnam is a poorer Soviet Union. Both countries are totalitarian communist regimes, but the Soviets have always had more food than the Vietnamese. At least the Soviets never ate sorghum. April 17, 2023 10:08PM

[@kittypeanut4102]

​@@lilmonix hey, just a question, why do you put the date of the day you write your comments?

[@dameanvil]

00:48 🚫 Unspoken restrictions in the Soviet Union discouraged individuality, influencing everything from clothing to public displays of affection, creating societal norms that were enforced socially rather than legally. 02:44 👗 The Soviet Union heavily regulated appearance, dictating hairstyles, makeup, and attire, enforcing uniformity in schools and workplaces. 04:34 ✈ Travel abroad for Soviet citizens was not explicitly forbidden, but it required extensive approvals, limiting personal freedoms and often tied to official reasons like work or specialized events. 05:28 ⛪ The USSR restricted religious activities, affecting career prospects for those practicing, though physical persecution was less common. 06:24 🏢 Job placement in the USSR was determined by the state, with graduates obliged to work in designated locations for a set period, impacting personal life choices. 07:42 💍 Moving residences within the USSR was highly regulated, requiring permissions or alternative routes like fictitious marriages to relocate. 08:36 🎥 Cultural censorship in the USSR banned certain Hollywood movies, books, and music, particularly those depicting America favorably or perceived as corrupting youth. 09:58 ⚖ Soviet laws from different eras had severe penalties for various actions, including tardiness at work, unearned income, speculation, and refusal to return from trips abroad, demonstrating a tight legal framework and strict societal control. 13:16 🏛 The Soviet Union maintained stringent laws even during peacetime, penalizing unemployment or living on unearned income, impacting creative individuals like poets or musicians. 16:00 🥊 Bodybuilding, karate, and certain sports were banned at different times, perceived as Western influences conflicting with the Soviet work ethic. 17:21 🏳‍🌈 Homosexuality was criminalized in the USSR, punishable by imprisonment, reflecting societal norms and government attitudes toward non-traditional sexual orientations. 17:50 🍸 The Soviet Union had bans on moonshine brewing, criticism of the Soviet system, and anti-Soviet activities, demonstrating stringent control over dissent or acts against the state.

[@AlexRojas-db6yd]

Trip to the sea but only if your the best Man this makes me feel very grateful for my life. Where I come from (Florida) a "trip to the sea" is what you do when you have no money or success and cannot really affords to go anywhere else. See: Spending 8 dollars on beer and reading a book or some shit under a tree by the waves. The fact that this kind of experience was considered a privlidged one is crazy considering like what....70% of our planet is oceans?

[@Vladynko1]

In Czechoslovakia it was similar, albeit in a milder form. Of course, repressions changed over time, and their effects on the common man were mostly not as brutal as in the USSR. The USSR was our great model, a worker's paradise on earth. And thanks to this great video, the younger generation will at least get a little familiar with the fact that cheap housing and guaranteed employment were paid dearly by restricting the most basic human rights. I apologize for any grammatical errors, as I translated the text through google translator.

[@waltonsmith7210]

Ok. Cheap housing and guaranteed employment are still good things that society should have. Also capitalism,capitalist governments and capitalists violate human rights all the time.

[@bobbyokeefe4285]

Julio Iglesias promoting Neo-fascism,nearly made me fall out of my chair lol...

[@kabardinka1]

Julio Iglesias' father was a close associate of Francisco Franco.

[@bobbyokeefe4285]

@@kabardinka1 Perhaps but there is nothing that promotes fascism in his music,it's quite apolitical,secondly Franco was not a fascist,most fascists consider him an opportunist who after the civil war betrayed the Falange the real fascist group in Spain.

[@mariusd8649]

​@@kabardinka1and...?

[@transitmallproductions1063]

"Gorbachev's dry law is considered by many to be one of the main reasons for the collapse of the USSR" -- As a westerner I have to agree. The law asked people to conform to ideology more than ever before. Millions died fighting for the USSR, but many would say they died for their country and not for the system. Gorbachev's dry law, on the other hand, forced compliance to a system of morality to which most did not belong. If America's dry law was religious in motive, what religion was the state forcing people to follow? The state finally crossed the line in violating people's natural rights.

[@deivydasjuonys6487]

Especially for travelling aborad.

[@marqsee7948]

really? It's good to know more. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_consumption_in_Russia

[@driver76fan]

Would access to guns be considered inaccessible?

[@Setarko]

Depends on time period. Since 1924 common people were allowed to have only smoothbore hunting rifles, while party members were allowed pistols. During WW2 all weapons were to be given to the army immediately. In ~1960s there was another change: registration with the hunting society was required to own a gun. And still only hunting rifles.

[@driver76fan]

@@Setarko Were guns as expensive as well?

[@Brick-Life]

Awesome rules of the USSR!

[@marqsee7948]

sarcasm doesn't work in print.

[@mariusd8649]

"Awesome", indeed😮

[@shelbyspeaks3287]

Where is my SETARKOCHAN!!!!?

[@Setarko]

She is in the better world...in the 2D world

[@CFRTrainSpotter]

y'all mfs misbehaved and Setarko-chan is now gone

[@zersky495]

Dead and buried (hopefully 🙏)

[@EireHammer]

Buried next to the fur suit.

[@spmoran4703]

Britain and Ireland had andstill have so many silly restrictions. I cannot name them.

[@juanDE1703]

I love these videos

[@szariq7338]

Speaking of foreign currency, if for some reason a relative living in the foreign country (maybe socialist brothers like Poland, but more likely from capitalist ones like Finland) wanted to send some of their own money to me, what would happen? In Poland there were special currency stamps given for cash with a very unfavourable rate (and mandatory to receive in this case), which then could be used at so called "Internal Export Enterprises" (Pewex in original), where you could buy foreign goods like clothing and even alcohol.

[@Setarko]

I am pretty sure vneshposyltorg checks were used for that in the USSR, the same currency that was used in Beryozka stores for diplomats and other people working abroad

[@mariusd8649]

At a very high price, probably

[@magicalmagnus2]

good to see you back ~!

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

Can you Made video Soviet microdistrict vs USA Suburbia. And 15 minutes city

[@petarkraev3896]

Wow the soviets banned Julio Iglesias on the basis that his music promoted neo-fascism. And im not commenting for the others artist's bann reason.

[@Donaldperson7]

They want to body build work for a concrete company moving 100 or 50 pound bags of croncrete!

[@R3troguy]

THEY BANNED DEPECHE MODE????

[@Tallidais]

I'm left handed, born in the late nighties in the west, I was made to write with my right hand also so I guess it's not that archaic of a practice.

[@driver76fan]

Separate question about fashion in the USSR: Were you still allowed to wear the "French" uniform (AKA What Stalin and 1930s people wore, similar to Chinese Zhongshan suit) at any given time period?

[@DungeonNumber5]

9:23 "Cult of strong personality" as a reason to ban Krokus... that's some layered hooey

[@gerberjoanne266]

My God! Soviet citizens were apparently little better than slaves, well-cared-for slaves, but still slaves. And I don't see the difference between the residents of agricultural communes and the Russian serfs of the 19th century. The latter also couldn't leave the land they were working on.

[@antonlevkovsky1667]

It wasn't so bad. 3 out of 4 grandparents of mine were from rural areas. They all relocated as they saw fit. One of them got problems with some local thugs in rural northern Russia and moved to Ukraine to escape trouble. 2 others from rural Ukraine moved from village to a small town, built a house there. All in 1940-s 1950-s when Stalin was still around. So obviously it was possible, maybe some purely bureaucratic obstacles.

[@Proletarian-ud8du]

I can understand writing harsh laws for currency, sabotage, counter-revolution, bad behavior abroad. Even laws against vagrancy and unemployment (provided that USSR actually supported people in finding work). However laws against sodomy and all the bans on sports and music sound are not reasonable.

[@sergeymanakov6267]

In fact, one of the first decrees of the communists, back in 1918, was the legalization of sodomy. It was banned again only in the mid-thirties, when Stalin began to tighten the screws. Most likely it was simply a matter of the conservative culture of the second generation of Bolsheviks, the Leninists were educated city dwellers, and the Stalinists were newly incorporated semi-literate peasants. It was also not clear with rock music. At first they did not pay attention to it and even published it a little as “proletarian art.” The first lobbyists for the Beatles ban were Soviet composers - the richest people in the USSR. The popularity of rock began to noticeably threaten their income. Karate was banned because it was believed that it promoted Buddhism, and the USSR was an aggressively anti-religious state (not as violent as in the 20-30s, but still quite).

[@petermgruhn]

Well they always say that under communism you can be a poet in the morning and a dock worker in the afternoon. So the Soviet Russians got pretty close. You can be a poet really early in the morning if you think you can get by without the sleep then you have to be a dock worker in the afternoon. And morning. And Saturday. So it's pretty close to the ideal.

[@toomaskotkas4467]

If you are an American under capitalism, you can be homeless and without health insurance all day long. Great success!

[@rhodanjones5155]

Me when I spread misinformation on the internet

About people not working, I am very curious concerning people having long term diseases or being disabled. How did it work in the Soviet Union?

[@Setarko]

Ah, the story of disabled people in the USSR is a really controversial one. "Stalin's Samovars" is not something people really want to talk about. Let's just say that the disabled really weren't forced to work and were paid some kind of allowance. There were even some interesting projects like village Rusinovo in Kaluga Region - a settlement that was specially designed for blind people. But overall I would say that the USSR could have done much more to take care of the disabled.

@@Setarko thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I follow you with interest and hope to see a video from you on this subject one day, if it is not inappropriate. Take care!

[@jessiebarnes4671]

they were locked up in institutions or carted away from the public so not to "embarrass the USSR image" so no one would ever really see them

[@HEKVT]

Labeling Tsoi as a social parasite was the USSR's biggest mistake, probably the reason it collapsed too.

[@Setarko]

The lad did it single-handedly!

[@loona_mew]

biggest L of the uss

[@youtbe999]

Watch and learn. No totalitarian regime can survive without implementing these things.

[@KekusMagnus]

totalitarianism is a made up liberal fantasy. Quit being a child

[@ItsMikeLearns]

I am a left handed writer...

[@galvk]

Another thing you probably don't know that the Soviet education and healthcare were the number 1 in the world. The "awful" KGB never interfered in everyday life of people. Soviet people enjoyed 42 hour working week with two holidays (Saturday and Sunday). Pregnant woman received 100% paid 1.5 year leave to care for baby. Education and university study were 100% free. Soviet state was a mild, gentle state actually. The working day was controlled strictly only in 1941-1945 during WW2. What I have seen in this video is a compilation of myths. One more thing. Every Soviet citizen travelled lot, though within the immense Soviet Union. Sanatoriums for adults and children were 100% free of charge and accessible for everyone. There were some shortages of consumer goods during 1990th when transition to market began. What we have now, with free market no healthcare, no free education, long labour hours. Some people can visit Pacific isles, but the majority cannot afford this, though they are free to go anywhere.

[@Setarko]

Well, I don't see how exactly that contradicts all my points. Yes, the university education was great AND free. This does not negate the fact that there was a job distribution system after that. Yes, soviet sanatorium system and pioneer camps system were great, I have two videos describing them. This does not negate the fact that you could not travel to any country you wanted. I don't set myself the task of finding only the bad in the USSR. When there's something good - I talk about that. When there's something bad - I talk about that too. Unfortunately, I really don't see anything good in banning certain music, sports or some other things. Also, I would be glad if you could point out exactly what these "myths" are, where exactly I was wrong in my video. In most cases I specified either a period of time when something was prohibited or a specific article of the penal code.

[@Maoismus1917]

@@Setarko i hope you also realize that literally every point you make in this video also exists/existed in every single country in world at the time lmfaooo have you ever been outside of your rotten room

[@rebralhunter6069]

@@Setarko the guy just really really likes the USSR and would rather ignore the downsides.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

@@Setarko plise Made video about Soviet microdistrict vs USA Suburbia

[@deivydasjuonys6487]

@galvk I disagree when Soviet Union existed You could not easily travel to Australia. Long life independent and sovereign Baltic States:Estonia,Latvia,Lithuania and independent sovereign Ukraine,Moldova and etc.

[@aldyhabibie9717]

I cant imagine having to go to school without wearing the uniform but its probably because i'm an Indonesian and our school always have uniform. I agree that we must have school uniform because this way we can tell which guys are skipping school or engaging in other illegal acitivities and we can tell exactly from which school he is from and thus damaging the school reputation since it will clearly shows that the school was unable to discipline their kids. There are strict rules regarding the uniform but it wont make your life miserable because after all School uniform is provided by the school, all you need to do is just wear it and dont alter it, you should be fine. Strict hair codes are: for guys hair lenght must not touch your collar and for girls.. Well, just dont dye your hair. Officially there is no rule regarding hair lenght or style for the girls but they are not allowed to wear too many hair accessories that maybe distracting other students like wearing too many shiny stuff on your hair during class (I mean come on, your average classmate only wanted to get by this class just as much as you do so please dont bother them). Not officially but kind of the direction we are heading toward for now is girls of muslim religion should wear hijab(headscarf) in school. The rule is not absolute since it is not written in the school rule, because the school rule only stated that muslim girls must wear white hijab only on friday but lately i have seen teachers sort of scolding muslim students who did not wore hijab at school even though it was not Friday and there were no religious study on our schedule on that day. Not gonna lie, although i am a muslim i cant agree with where they are heading with this hijab rule. It is bullshit.

[@kittypeanut4102]

Yikes comment

[@mariusd8649]

Some would throw some stones at you for talking like that. But it's great to see that not all muslims are into religion.

[@Muonium1]

I like the channel as much as ever and the content remains engrossing, but good lord you have GOT to ditch those setarko-chan remnant text sound effects.

[@mourdebars]

Great, how long does it take you making one video? You're allowed you to use commercial videos (soviet or imperialist, like Rambo)? Superb job! PS. Karate and Bodybuilding start gaining popularity in Poland since mid 1950. No restrictions. We think, that pre-Baseball called herein "palant", was actually created in XVI Polish Commonwealth, and made his way up to America with polish carpenters and boat builders in fallowing century.

[@Setarko]

Well, usually around 2 weeks. You can use commercial videos as long as it's fair use (you are using them with your own spin and using only small parts of them). As for the soviet ones - I mostly use versions from state archives.

[@MrCmon113]

USSR were the first "functional" bros.

[@marqsee7948]

definitely in quotations, what with all the chronic dysfunction.

[@carkawalakhatulistiwa]

China🇨🇳 has a residence permit like the Soviet Union, but after economic liberalization, residence permits are easy to get, with the condition that you only have to own property in that place. that will cause a property bubble in china. During China's booming economy (1990-2020) . explosion in the housing market prices.recently capitalized into the free market. people from the village work 3 jobs to get a house in the city. while young people born in the city have to struggle in order to get property and compete with immigrants from the village . in 1995 only 30% of china's population lived in cities by 2010 that was 50% within 15 years 300 million people moved from villages to cities this brings the property sector to 30% china gdp.prevent slum housing. and make people work harder. because by living in the city you can get access to better public services than the city. This makes the price of property in China's big capital very high and unreasonable. In many Chinese cities, the price-to-income ratio for buying a house is between 20:1 and 35:1. To put this in perspective, in most areas of the U.S., the price-to-income ratio for buying a house ranges from as little as 0.5:1 to 3:1.(Jan 19, 2015)

[@melone3113]

Epik video setarko chan

[@semarugaijin9451]

I am confused, You said in another video that there were foreign currency stores in the USSR for citizens who had foreign currency, But in this video you said it was illegal for Soviet citizens to have foreign currency.

[@Setarko]

Yes, I guess I should've clarified it. There were stores for people working abroad, yes. If you were working abroad you were getting paid in foreign currency obviously but you HAD to exchange it to a special parallel currency - "Vneshposyltorg checks" (or Vneshtorgbank checks for sailors) either right there in an embassy or right after the return to the USSR. This currency could be used in these special stores. Possession of foreign currency was still illegal.

[@Sakh10]

Можно было иметь валюту, если ты заработал ее легально. Мой отец работал нефтяником во Вьетнаме и получал часть зарплаты в долларах, они хранились на счету Советского Банка и он мог ими распоряжаться. Запрещена была незаконная торговля валютой, но за то что у тебя есть доллары, никто тебя не посадит и даже не накажет.

[@mariusd8649]

​@@Sakh10but was he allowed to withdraw some of those dollars? Like in cash??

[@petermgruhn]

"It describes exactly what you cannot do." Maybe where you live.

[@vitalybilo]

Life in the Union was hell Gorbachev is a hero!

[@harleyquinn8202]

Give us an example how bad it was for you in USSR

[@vitalybilo]

@@harleyquinn8202 Open air prison. You can't leave. EVER.

[@harleyquinn8202]

@@vitalybilo Anyone who really want to leave left. Any other examples how bad it was for you in USSR?

[@vitalybilo]

@@harleyquinn8202 Left😂🫡 Anyone who wanted to leave and was cought trying was arrested and tried for "treason against the homeland" and sentenced to prison. No freedom of speech no freedom at all, even BODYBUILDING WAS OUTLAWED. You couldn't open a business you couldn't travel ,not working was a criminal offense ,you couldn't criticize the regime you'd be sent to mental institution at best gulag at worst. No alternative parties were allowed.. .

[@alexfeder9328]

​@@harleyquinn8202hit your head lately?

[@umlowiec]

interesting

[@julianmahler2388]

I want to point out that many (especially young) people in the West seriously think that people in socialist countries lived a freer life than under the burden of capitalism. I see "Freedom or capitalism" graffiti on a daily basis. And each time I want to add, yeah.. let's hope that one fine day we will be as free as the people in the former USSR.

[@jannetteberends8730]

You can’t call the USSR socialistic. It was an authoritarian dictatorship.

[@ketelin4285]

There is some truth . In eastern europe a majority regrets the commie times . While we have twice the purchasing power having free homes and very cheap basic amenities like water and power was quite nice .Also free education and good support from state for kids made a healthy social environment . But back then there wasn't the specter of dwindling resources - the real reason for today's distopia

[@xsc1000]

@@ketelin4285 Its lie, purchasing power were much lower compared to now.

[@ketelin4285]

@@xsc1000 Same average salary of 3000 , then bread was 4.75 , now 1.7 , power is 0.8 per kwh then 0.6 , water was practically free , and i can buy the same number of smokes . ofc you would not found the stuff you wanted

[@ketelin4285]

@@xsc1000 and the rent was practically zero .Add all into the mix - it's far from what GDP per capita ppp says . The poorer one ppl is the better the commie times were and for a 2000 pensioner its a no brainer that the old times were better

[@petermgruhn]

That bit about "fake news" etc. was eerily familiar.

[@jakedill1304]

But let's say.. let's say in theory.. like potentially.. you had already bought the vodka.. or perhaps even found it.. could you still drink it on the new year, if you did so in a non celebratory matter? Would this be canceled out if the next day.. you then celebrated the new year, having drunk your vodka the day before non celebratoraly (medicinally) and now.. found yourself as a proud Soviet citizen, theoretically still sober as you only have the one vodka 3 hours before.. and like you wanted to you know celebrate the new year and... I mean what better way to pay tribute to the Communist party then to have a party! But you didn't technically drink the vodka on the new year.. that was 3 hours ago.. possibly even six or seven maybe.. I mean who knows what is the time even..? For some reason throughout this, there's a thought in my head where I know that there was a true believer in this bureaucratic mess, that was like absolutely.. these are wrong! We must make them better! But at a certain point.. I kind of get this impression that this was a job in order to come up with bureaucracy and laws and guidelines etc.. and it was more of a numbers game at that point? And it was just like well.. I got quotas let's just start the day with readjusting all the basics slightly and will we could use the dart board for some of these and.. hey Petrov.. what's the single most thing that's pissing you off today. it's a it's a we're doing it we're doing it we're going to make the quarter the bureaucratic quarter! This whole print face is going to get allocated! Of course it's not double-sided are you kidding me.. no one's going to actually look at the other side.. and it looks bigger when when you just do the one page.. man I hear in America they have machines that just make the font bigger as you go along you just hit a button.. and you double space it I bet they got giant tones for all of their patriotic cultural guidelines and correctional betterness and prosperity shenanigans! Speaking of which.. I'm seeing that that import law that might need a little adjusting maybe? Also, we're going to roll back the New year thing but.. we got a twist in this time.. no drinking.. it's it'll be like the same thing basically.. and we might get some extra points from upstairs.. plus... We got to get back at the fifth floor for all of those office supply regulations.. Should we specify if they already bought the booze? Or just leave it kind of ambiguous so people are just like.. less inclined to come up with surefire workarounds? Or maybe we could if.. someone allowed our ink ribbon orders lol.. suck it fifth floor!

[@Man-of-Steel674]

Stalin gradually becoming my favourite historical charactor.

[@Didntwanttomakeauser]

Action banned in Putin's Russia. To stand on the street holding a blank sheet of paper.

[@annasolovyeva1013]

Our government (not without reasons) sees crowds as a dangerous emergency alike a fire or a flood that threatens lives and health of people and has to be handled appropriately. Our law actually is, that to organise a "meeting" - any form of political manifestation, marching or picketing - or a mass event such as a festival, concert or a game of football- you have to warn the local police in advance and make an agreement to them to make sure they prepare the venue, and go to handle the crowd to provide safety. Unauthorized organisation of a "meeting" is a crime, punished with a fine if nothing bad else happens.

[@nektariosorfanoudakis2270]

I'd also ban clickbait; and even gaming in general, since it's clearly invented by the Bourgeoisie so that the working class is distracted by its actual matters at hand, i.e. class struggle. Even if gaming was allowed stuff like Hero Wars ads would have to go. Nothing they advertise has anything to do with the actual game.😂 (A friend thrice removed who tried it told me, I of course don't engage in any such anti-soviet activities 🙄)

[@jessiebarnes4671]

that is the point... to distract

[@wederMaxim]

5:20 ахаххахах. Сталин по вашему КГБ клонировал ? Гениально.

[@threestars7561]

But why was B52 banned🤔

[@stargamerest612]

What's the name of the background song at 13:20, I know it was a popular song in the 30s but I can't find it for some reason.

[@Setarko]

It's this one, but I used a choir version kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGG7m2Sjfp6ZbLM

[@stargamerest612]

@@Setarko Thanks 😇😇😇

[@stonedwalljackson5806]

Sounds like modern America

[@danielkelly2210]

Yeah, pretty much exactly.

[@frejafan]

Not even close

[@Неототалист]

And who can teach us this better than some american guy?

[@zz3690]

Pretty much like China in 2023