BBC 2 Messengers from Moscow 12th March 1995
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- Last of a four-part documentary series on Soviet power during the Cold War. Centre. In the mid-70s, the Soviet
Union was confident that victory in the Cold War was possible, with the US weakened by maladministration and the backlash against the war in Vietnam. From that position of ascendancy, the Soviet empire fell in a startlingly short period to its present state of chaos. Leonid Brezhnev is shown to have been an ineffective leader debilitated by an addiction to tranquillisers, while the cost of the country's vast military machine crippled the economy by swallowing 70 per cent of industrial production.
The series comes to an end with Gorbachev's perestroika initiative, explaining why it was undertaken and how the weakened structure of the republic then came crashing down.
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In the American televised version MESSANGERS FROM MOSCOW there were no subtitles.
You are partially correct. In the American version, in scenes where there are "talking head" interviews (a person speaking themselves) the text translation was replaced with a voiceover. But in scenes where the speaker was a news announcer, or scenes where Brezhnev is speaking, or scenes such as the one with the singer at the beginning singing "Do Russians Want War?", there were subtitles.
@@compazine In the American television version they had translators speaking the words from German, Russian, Chinese and Spanish.
I don't think it was old age that killed Leonid Brezhnev in 1982; he was only 75. It was drugs and alcohol that did the trick. Brezhnev was only one month shy of his 76th birthday when he died. Too bad.
0:54 that black man is probably from Angola who after winning independence from in Portugal in 1975 became a communist or Marxist country with the help of Soviet and Cuban aid.
amazing upload! do you happen to have the rest in such amazing quality? I'm a fellow VHS Ripper BTW
Hi Andrew this is the only one from the series Ive come across. If I find anymore Ill let you know. Good luck with the VHS rips :-)
@@vhsarchives357 Ok sounds good, the other three episodes are on youtube already but they don't look anywhere near as good as this one does.. it's pretty serendipitous that you uploaded the only missing episode. if you look at that comment section everyone is screaming for this episode czcams.com/video/qigVdoEEPxE/video.html&ab_channel=batrachious
@@andrewdeen1 Thanks for the info. I'll reply to some of the comments with the link to this episode.Its pure luck and the condition of the tapes and thus teh quality on screen. I have a mix of great, good and terrible quality tapes!
43:49 that's Gorbachev in the gray coat and gray astrakhan hat.
Personally, I am NOT at all impressed with the TV documentary series of the four-part "Messengers from Moscow." It was nothing but pure propaganda with a Western viewpoint!
While it's good this documentary is on You Tube there's no introduction.
16:25-16:40 that doesn't sound Leonid Brezhnev.
43:08 Gorbachev fifth from left.