The Soviet Newspaper for Americans 1930s
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- čas přidán 17. 11. 2022
- Just me overly excited about a newspaper and struggling to meet audio expectations.
#soviethistory #annalouisestrong #moscownews #ussr #vintage
Isn't it strange though, I'm a historian, yet to post videos you also have to know video editing and audio mixing? eh, I'll get better.
In 1930 The Moscow News was founded by American socialist, Journalist and the first American to visit much of the Soviet Union, Anna Louise Strong, who was also one of the leaders of the Seattle General Strike in 1919.
The paper was approved by the Communist leadership-at that time Joseph Stalin-in 1930 as an international newspaper with the purpose of spreading the ideas of socialism to international audiences and for a source of news for the English speaking foreign workers within the Soviet Union. The paper was soon published in many languages, including major world languages, such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hungarian, and Arabic, as well as languages of neighboring countries, such as Finnish.
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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
Yeah I agree they were probably the only nation to be unscathed by "The Great Depression "
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)
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*
19:17 Damn I didn't knew USSR is the first user of chad meme
Truly an innovative society, nothing is new these days 🤣
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.)
Thank you so much for explaining!
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.
Love your videos, very educational & love the great USSR 💖
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.
_самая очаровательная и наилучшая богиня 😍😍😍 спасибо за твои видеоролики, хочу больше и чаще 💕💕💕_
Moscow News was still there when I arrived in Moscow in 1991. I don't know whether it still exists today
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
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
Another Lady Izdihar video already? Hell yeaaahh
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. 💕
I'm no military expert, but my best Google Fu guess for 9:41 is a 76mm (3 inch) anti-aircraft gun.
Thanks for looking into it!
Absolute treat
8:38 good take, its a really nice hat
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.
A STURDY LAD
I believe it
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. 👍
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.
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.
Great videos, comrade! Always looking forward to more
Thank you for your work! Its great!
Those portraits are amazing!! 🥰🥰
@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.
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?
That music @ 0:16 is the same as The Marxist Project! Another one of my absolute fav channels (besides yours:)
That Chelyabinsk fact was so interesting I did not know that!
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..
I've been looking for that for years!!!! Thank you! where can I get a compilation? Library of Congress? Please advise.
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.
old.mn.ru/
I'm here for some greatness!
Also Salam!
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.
0:12 implying americans would've allowed women to work hahah
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.
Can you find these newspapers easily because this is beautiful?
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 ❤
Interesting to see the Red Army using (What I assume) are French Adrian helmets in one of the photos
Anyone else hear about a professor sokolov doing atomic research and have a momentary flashback to Metal Gear Solid 3?
Your preface was absolute perfection. I love you as much as any gay guy can love a woman he hasn't met.
Why do you always wear a headscarf?
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
All crack athletes you say? Are they cracked at fortnite?
The first article.... 1933 record crop yield.... that's the beginning of the 1933 ukraine famine.... lol
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.
Siberia lol. Just Asian Russia to me 😅