Life In USSR, Elderly People Describe it |The Soviet Union NOSTALGIA |
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- In This Series Of Russia Public Interview We Make Street Interview With People In Moscow And In This Video We Asked Russian Elders About the USSR and How Life Was During the Soviet Union, How was it in the USSR?, Is there anything you miss and nostalgic about during the Soviet Union?, Would you like to return the USSR?
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Wtf
I love USSR but i hate stalin
@@franzliszt556 yup I agree with you
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Stalin: send this man to gulag
I love USSR but I love Stalin too.
I use to work with a Russian guy who was raised and lived in the USSR, and he had nothing but good things to say. They really feed us a lot of lies in the west.
Lalo Daniels is already more conscious of western propaganda than 90% of westeners
West propaganda and they bought the leader of USSR at the time he sold the country and left the leadership... the colapse of soviet Union was the worset thing that happened to Russia... And Putin had to bring it back... but again people will lie to you saying Putin is bad... But on paper you'll see how great Russia became with Putin after collapse !
@@Arty_McParty Gorbachev was a traitor, why else would he live most of the rest of his life in San Francisco running his billion dollar foundation. Yeltsin was obviously a drunk. Putin is better but, he should have nationalized the oligarchs assets.
@@lalodaniels1388 Yup you're correct , a Sell out a Drunk and Putin build from shit to what it is now, his not perfect no leader is perfect , you have to get your hands dirty to get a country where it is now...
Everyone knows this...
If you older then 20 you'd know that "HONOR" only last so long and then you die.. and only "Traitors and cowards" will write songs after a hero that died a hero death...
Good heart people easily manipulated and turned in to something their not... because their to honorable to do the same back!
We have actual notes of this heroes one of them is William Wallace , we all know how that turned...
Yeah they only talk about Stalin USSR
I was born in 1964, so I usually say that I lived the best phase in the USSR. American propaganda used to say that everything was dull, cold and hideous. But the US was also experiencing chaos in civil rights struggles. I was a member of the communist youth league, I remember leaving my parents' house at 11 years old to travel to summer camps, where we learned to farm in the fields, we swam in the river, we built things out of wood, they were amazing summers. There was the Youth Olympics! My father was a journalist, and my mother was a seamstress at a fabric store. We lived in a nice apartment surrounded by friends and had parties. I feel sad that my children cannot enjoy the country I grew up in.
Yeah but the kids couldnt refuse the summer camp. My aunt was sent back from the camp because of bad behavior which she instigated because she hated summer camp. My uncle hated summer camp too but nobody cared about what he wanted and since he did not behave bad he was drilled.
The USSR was not bad in general. But what is bad is that old people decide the future of young people instead of letting their past be gone Russia is a on a imperial revenge trip which will destroy the lives of their own children.
Мне так нравится, как немолодые личности бывшего союза пишут на английском, дабы привлечь западную аудиторию и говорят о "прекрасном совке" и "пропаганде запада", это правда так забавно смотриится😆
@@Name-xs2is Firstly, the English language comes from England. And as England colonized many countries, it is a larger language, just like Spanish. The video itself subtitles Russian people so that their reports can be interpreted by people in the West. I speak and write in English because I worked for the BBC as a correspondent in the 90s, translating texts during the Balkan crisis. However, even in the USSR, many people learned English, it was not prohibited! And as I reported, my father was a journalist and he was also fluent in English and German.
@@Name-xs2is In fact, I could return your provocation. Why did you write in Russian, if it was clear to me that it is not your native language.
@@midomen100 I understand. Yes, they didn't have much freedom, but the Soviet Union's concern, especially for children, was for us to be stronger, independent of our parents and create responsibility, always aiming for the value of work. Children in Russia today are very lazy and complaining. They need an adult for everything, and there are even young men aged 20 or over who have never worked in their lives out of laziness! The USSR worked on citizens from the day they were born. Always focusing on your talents and abilities at school, whether in science for the space program, or in sports for the Olympics. Today, both in Russia and in the West, you only have value after you turn 18. And many young people are lost, because they were abandoned by the government as children.
that one homie didn't care about capitalism or communism or whatever, he was just racist LMAO
Hold up, do I see a based pfp there ??
Ah yes an American says that, when you literally built a wall for migrants.
@Markie 47 yes that's the point buddy, the dude who is "racist" is talking about illegal immigrants.
@@aleksa280 more like non slavic and likely central Asian migrants lmao
Communism and fascism are painted by the same brush
Im not even Russian and I'm crying. I remember being shocked by the very common phrase in my youth "Kill a Commy for Mommy", it was American in origin but even in NZ I heard it, saw it on screen, T-Shirts. Even as a dumb kid I knew it was an unjustifiably hostile and violent slur. It jolted me into awareness that these people were being dehumanised and persecuted and that I was being mislead by the authorities I was expected to trust and follow.
only a dead communist is a good communist
@@filyapanzerman335 Israeli flag
@@filyapanzerman335 Jew pls.
@@Pork__Lover выпей стекломоя
@@filyapanzerman335 Only a dead Zionist is a good Zionist.
I'm an American and this counters the narrative we're taught in the United States. We all think the USSR was a squalid country collapsing without the foundation of capitalism. I would love to learn and know more.
In the ussr they had good education good health care and we were all equal with diffrent people the problem is America is a king it look bad even tho the people in the ussr was actually doing good like in East Germany they were richest in the Eastern block
These people are in Moscow, the one place where life was probably better. It would be like interviewing ruling class people from Washington DC 30 years after the USA collapsed and them missing 'the good old days'. The USSR didn't fail because it was attacked, it failed because its own citizens tore it apart. Think about that for a second.
@@slooob23 my family was not in Moscow and there lives was simple and OK
@@Strongnurgling where did they live?, what sort of work did they do? I'm very curious about Russia, I want to learn as much as I can. I'm from New Zealand
@@slooob23 archetec and I will not say location for private reasons
If you just work you be fine
In fact, it's all about the material issue. In the USSR, people at the age of 25 received an apartment for free if they had a child. The rent was purely symbolic. Free kindergartens, schools, universities treatment. Much cheaper trips by public transport and planes. Now in Moscow, the salary at McDonald's is 150 rubles per hour. the cost of a one-room apartment in Moscow is 10000000 rubles. All services are very expensive. Even hardworking, non-smokers, non-drinkers cannot afford to have a family and children. - Draw conclusions. That is why more and more young people are looking towards the USSR, because they understand that they have no prospects under capitalism. Many are happy with the current situation. For example, because their parents privatized the property of the USSR, or corrupt officials, or simply inherited apartments in Moscow.
Much needed clarification for outside world
@@azimkhan4805 If you have any questions about the current situation in Russia or the history of the USSR, you are welcome.
Or they look to fascism
No, No one has received any apartments in 25 years . And only if a child is born, you can get in line and stand there for 20 years
Тут пишут русские боты по английски???
It's almost like the USSR had better material conditions for people than life under capitalism. Who woulda guessed people value things like low rent, free healthcare, free education, etc over getting to buy a new pair of blue jeans every year or a new Iphone every 3 years but every month you have anxiety of whether or not you can pay rent and buy food.
no they didnt
@Hunter Anderson I don't know if you ever thought of this but there are lots of different factors in people's lives. Depending on where you live the cost of living is different. Some people have kids, some people, have medical expenses, if you're making min wage or barely above it i really doubt you're in as good a shape financially as you let on unless there are some circumstances you're not saying.
In the west those who study & work hard live like kings . And unlike in USSR, there are no shortages of every basic product. And all that free stuff was facilitated by robbing the people of nearly their entire salaries , which is partly why USSR’s living standards were so far below capitalist ones
@@bigmedge in America you steal in the ussr were equal both governments has flaws but both of them make good points of the modern age
@@rgsxyz1105 As opposed to the millions in the US who had no access to dental or health care at all. What gets me is that when people compare the US and the USSR they act like there wasn't a huge amount of poverty in the US. Millions of US citizens lacked access to even the most basic services and health care. They assume the experience of the US middle class is universal and completely ignore the tremendous poverty that exists in the US.
I think the people who are currently doing fine /are rich/ came out of the Soviet Union okay/better don't want to return to Soviet Union, but those who came out of the Soviet Union poor or are currently poor or not living very good lives miss or would like the Soviet model back and hence miss it.
And for every Russian who became rich after the fall of the USSR, there’s thousands who lost their healthcare, housing, educational opportunities, etc. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.
@@100Mmore ussr should comeback
@@100Mmore Exactly
@@100Mmore I agree.
@@Strongnurgling agreed.
The thing that struck Russians who went to live in the West was how much they took for granted. Excellent education completely free for example
That is my situation right now. I was a huge fan of America and Europe growing up and always trash talked where I was. 20 years later I feel a bit of regret for the things I said
"I did not see anything GOOD about the USSR"
"I'm tired of the migrant workers in Moscow"
Of course it's gotta be the racist guy.
He didnt even mention race?
Yes, he hate not USSR or Russia or migrants. He hate life basically
It has nothing to do with racism.Migrant workers in Russia, specially those coming from countries south of Russia are a big problem
@@Rus-bw2oq Do you mean "a big problem" in a sense that they have been displaced to be converted as cheap labor due to factors related to neoliberal policies and globalization, or are they "a big problem" because they have difficulty integrating themselves? Because if it's the latter it has SOMETHING to do with racism bro I'm sorry.
@@danielvictor3262 preach my guy!
I find this truly fascinanting, despite the lack of variety and private corporations this system was truly something for the normal civilian.
You don't need ten different kinds of tomato sauce.
@@filipmac5577 No truer words
@@filipmac5577 whats ten different tomato sauce? I shop at Aldi.
Cuba still has some of those values, but slowly losing them due to the influx of capitalism little by little. People used to callthemselves " compañero", " hermano" ( partner-brother.-comrade ) just a couple of years ago. And despite the economic embargo, as a whole, they are happier and with no homeless cities, drug problems, drug cartels or people shooting at people randomly for no reason lke their neighbors. No McDonald´s though.
What is so normal civilian about private corporations
if you ask any country former ussr citizens this, vast majority would say similar things, here in lithuania that has extreme rusophobia and sovietophobia in new generation and government, bans most thing related to our past, just recently destroyed few famous writters statues who were communists ... another one soon be demolished too... we have few independent youtube channels where similar themed questions were asked of our parents and grandparents, i would say 95% said good things, few months later it was banned by our gov... says a lot.
Can you link me those CZcams channel please, i would love to see other people's opinion from different former SSRs, Sorry for asking this question 5 month late..
@@sillycommunist1766 yeah you are too late bro, most are deleted by our gov, i really dont have time to research again ;\
@@NostalgicMem0ries well that's unfortunate..but thanks anyway for letting me know.
@@NostalgicMem0ries and btw, i want to know your opinion about life in the USSR, the good the bad, cuz western media always taught me that soviet people's were "oppressed" especially in the baltic States, of course i agree that there's a lot of Soviet people's were infact oppressed during Stalin era because Stalin was a tyrant monster who only care about himself but the thing is they didn't talk about the good stuff that Stalin brought, building roads,strong economy, hospital and school were everywhere and they're free he dragged the USSR into the 20th century and eventually making the USSR into a superpower, but the one thing i didn't get is why did the western media only talk about oppressive Stalin era even though there's a lot more era that comes after Stalin (Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev,etc).
@@sillycommunist1766 could i ask where you from? ill reply to your question tommorow when i have time, but its interesting who is so interested about ussr and baltic states
Just remember I as a Lebanese Muslim (as well as other Lebanese Muslims, Lebanese Druze, Palestinian refugees regardless of their religion, and you could argue Lebanese orthodox christians) am only alive and not a part of an ethnosate version of Lebanon because the USSR intervened and helped the vulnerabe Shias and Druze in the Lebanese 1958 war. While America would fund a party which would later go on to be the infamous phalange (a fundamentalist Maronite Catholic extremist group) who would camp out near Shia neighborhoods to mark their homes (much like Daesh does to Iraqi Shias) and camp near Palestinian refugee camps in hopes of shooting them. They would later go on to commit one of the most underreported massacres by an American proxy Sabra and Shatila massacre. It is so funny because this would be part one of America funding extremist terrorists to counteract what they called "Soviet Influence". Oh btw if you ever wanted to know why Central Asia and Azerbaijan does not have a problem with extremism it is because them being apart of the USSR gave them protection from Western backed propogation of wahhabist ideology.
Мои дедушка с бабушкой были сиротами, при этом они вполне неплохо жили в СССР, бабушка работала швеей и получала 600р, а дедушка 300р при том что он состоял в партии. Они могли себе позволить на выходные полететь в Москву, а в воскресенье вечером вернуться домой. Бабушке ее фабрика выдала мотоцикл Иж, который они поменяли на машину, также от своей фабрики она получила дом к рождению моего дяди, который затем они поменяли на квартиру в центре города. Голода по крайней мере в моем городе не было, холодильники у всех были набиты едой. При этом они объективно оценивают свою жизнь в СССР, так как осознают, что тогда была их молодость.
Объективно нельзя оценивать СССР в молодость. Тогда был сплошной дефецит
совок сосал соки из всех республик чтобы русачки жили хорошо
@@creepquest бред, дефицит был только в начале 1920 вследствие начала существования страны и восстановление после революции и гражданской войны, 1941-1947 вследствие войны и восстановления после неё, 1960 вследствие изуродованния плановой экономики, и вторую половину 1985 вследствие крушения страны. То есть мы можем смело понять, что дефицит - это следствие каких либо кризисов, в стабильные времена плановая экономика отлично справлялась с обеспечением людей продуктами, более того общеизвестно, что во время так называемого "застоя" плановая экономика была сверх эффективна и даже сформировала в СССР культ потребления.
@@super-3123 But China's development started after it abandoned the soviet style economy and adopted some capitalism. Also, North Korean has been a soviet style country in the past 70 years, and see what it's like today. How to explain all these? I am Chinese, so I think I can comment.
@@William_Fei Planned economy
it is incredibly difficult to build, the most important problem is to nationalize the previously private economy, even in the USSR it took 20 years to transition to socialism. To one degree or another, every socialist country needs a certain period of time where socialism and capitalism will be combined. But the USSR artificially slowed down this process in almost all countries of the socialist bloc, because it wanted to control the economies of all countries so that they would not begin to threaten the USSR itself. countries such as Cuba and North Korea were already ready to move to a full-fledged planned economy, but unfortunately only in 1980, which turned out to be useless because the USSR collapsed, and they simply did not have time to make their economies on their own, they had to roll back to combining socialism and capitalism. In countries such as Vietnam and China, it was not possible to carry out nationalization, but they did not want to be dependent on the USSR, so immediately after their failure they carried out tough capitalist reforms. Perhaps the only countries that managed to build a full-fledged planned economy in parallel with the USSR are Yugoslavia and the GDR, so we can already clearly see that they were ruined not by the economic crisis, but by the political one, because they also suffered because of the collapse of the USSR, lost their main military ally. In the end, do not forget that there are just very bad socialist leaders like Half a Sweat.
crazy that the people that ACTUALLY lived in the ussr have overwhelming positive views. i would trust these people rather than some idiot online who thinks the ussr was terrible because he read a fox news article.
Towards the end of the video, I miss THE USSR as well and I'm not even Russian
@Dan Beowulf move to brazil
@Dan Beowulf North Korea isn’t socialist, and is far more authoritarian.
I am Brazilian, Brazil is a facist country not socialist.
🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡
@Dan Beowulf move to Venezuela.
@3:50 It's interesting to see that in both Russia and the US, guys who complain about immigrants wear the same type of sunglasses.
Here in Brazil is easy to identify a Bolsonaro voter because of this types of glasses to!
That is good, its easier to detect an idiot😂
When I was in the womb I prayed to be born in Soviet Union. Now I have to make Soviet Union.
That's the spirit. Join your local Marxist-Leninist party!
benbella ? are you a descendant of the moroccan-algerian socialist leader ahmed ben bella ?
4:21 "I went to a NATO station..."
LOL no...
"I used to visit a Station of Young Explorers of Nature"
When I was a kid people usually told me that life under a communist regime or living in the USSR was like living in hell and people starved and were mass murdered by the party. I will remember this
That’s because it did happen.
1930-1933: around 5.7-8.7 million people die due to famine, a significant amount of that caused by the Holodomor.
In 1947, hundreds of thousands of people died due to starvation.
Over 10 million people entered Gulags, forced labour camps, and around 1.2-1.7 million of them died in the camps.
This was all before the 60s, though. From there, lesser but still present struggles were the issue.
@@lewisjones284 This is based on what source?
@@giasifman9050 Do I seriously need to send you sources for you to accept that the Holodomor, gulags, and famines happened?
@@giasifman9050literally every source ever that isn't Stalinist propaganda.
@@giasifman9050I live in former Soviet republic so i can confirm its true. And dont forget about genocide that stalin committed in ukraine. Millions died and cannibalism was common cuz there was no food to eat.
In my life, when I still lived with my real motherland (Ussr), I thought I could have the whole love in my hands. But now, when she has gone, all I have is a void in my heart that I don't know what to do.
🫂
My ex was czech. She told me that her father, who was a teacher, would never get promoted and was often harrassed because he would not join the Communist party. He did say it was a peaceful time and they never went without, but you had to be careful about what you said, especially to criticise the party or the system. I have also met others from Czech republic, who say communism was good for them
kind of like if you are not woke now
@@Pauli650yes I had been thinking the same thing
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@@Pauli650Yes this is cultural marxism. Extremist in-group enclosure. Yet my friend's great uncle was an advent member of the Communist party in 1930s Germany. When you know who took power nothing happened to this man. He lived peacefully in the third reich, continuing his work as a postal man. This lead my friend to question things he was taught about fascism in general from mainstream academic institutions/propaganda.
Fantastic perspective from ordinary people that may have never been interviewed about this topic before! Спасибо, молодец
Much appreciated!
ask non-russians about it, we will see what was ''the great time of ussr''
@@nodather I am from Tashkent. Our family still has a hanging portrait of Comrade Stalin.
Sure, sure. The inhabitants of the large cities are the most nostalgic as they had everything for them, while the rest of Russia lived hand to mouth.
@@ciprianpopa1503so still the same? Cause Russia just in general sucks at distributing resources (kinda ironic as socialism first took over in Russian Empire and its main value was of equal distribution of resources).
Glory of the USSR lives in the memory of its old citizens.. ❤️
Only for Russians, those who were occupied hate it, you would never hear anything like this in the baltics, we consider them worse than nazis. Also it wasnt anything gloriuos, people still worked shitty industrial jobs for shity salaries like in the west, while observing insane corruption of the politicians, or so called nomenclature. The only difference with the west was that you could not buy shit with your shitty salary and you could go to jail for selling buying foreign products as you could not travel abroad. Also KGB was on entirely different level of surveilance. It was worse, thats just a reality srr to break it to you, i dont see how USSR was special in any way.
@@pppLT19 the richest country in the ussr at that time was estonia.. not russia mate!
@@aymen_ghodhbani Yeah, yet in Estonia communist symbols are banned and again, people would have very different opinions, it has nothing to do with money. For balts it was, occupation, repressions.
@Matricx700 I am a balt. Literally nothing i said is wrong. That is what our laws are and it is what we learn in our history lessons, occupation, repressions, it is what our parents and grandparents speak about when asked, negatives, plus bunch of jokes about the absurdity of the system too.
@Matricx700 As a Lithuanian its fun how you judge an entire nation on some crazy dude you met😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I just love the Soviet Union from all these narratives,' free water why do we need to buy it, everyone needs it'. That is the basic humanity of course. I am from India and as always Indians love Russia. Hearing this, I think I should have had the luck of going to the USSR at least once. Hoping to go to Russia and seeing its most interesting and just history of revolutions and humanity.
As an indian .. You share on of my dreams too 👍🏻
You know you don’t pay for water in the us right
@@gabrielmecenas2075 Nestle disagrees.
@@gabrielmecenas2075 Ever heard of a water bill?
@@moemoe7082
Jesus fucking Christ, you don’t pay for water, you pay for the water to be cleaned and transported to your home
These old people that lived in USSR seem to have keen mind.
Education was taken very seriously. I remember a western academic saying that he could have deeper conversations with a Soviet taxi driver than with most of his collegues in western academia.
@@mikkykyluc5804 I guess thats what happens when teachers arent treated like shit and get actual annual vacations.
I spent more than 10 years in Moscow and around a year in one other former Soviet Republic in Central Asia. I'd argue people's opinions and reflections of the Soviet period are influenced by where they lived during that time and, in many cases from my experience, what their status was in that system Keep in mind Moscow didn't have it nearly as bad with shortages and things of that nature. The housing construction was generally better there than in other parts of the country. There are a lot of nuances that have to be taken into consideration when you ask someone that grew up in the Soviet Union questions about their lives then and now. On a side note, I miss Russia and Moscow very much.
That is definitely worth contemplating. Ask the people in Czechoslovakia or Ukraine or Chechnya, ask 60% of people from everywhere. Then you'll get your answer.
The 'shortages' are in the West as of the last 6 years and they seem to be headed to Leninism ; ) K
Just like when you ask someone from Wyomyng or Nebraska about federal infrastructure to a New Yorker, Californian, etc.
Every country has poor states and cities, and the truth is the USSR gave an overall better quality life to citizens than the countries separately (including Russia)
Also worth noting its hard to seperate people's perspectives of their current lives from when they were children and young people. people everywhere tend to have nostalgia for their youth, you see everywhere and in all times people complaining about the younger generations and how things have gotten worse.
Of course when they are children or younger people they are less aware iof the problems, and have their lives ahead of them so this is natural for manyn people
Except that there are interviews of people in rural areas who say similar things about ussr. It maybe that people lived better during ussr.
Not only were people living in prosperity in the USSR, other countries in other continents were also benefiting it, Ethiopia, Somalia, Cuba, etc, free education, free healthcare, military training etc.
Vietnam too
Gulags 🇬🇪🇺🇦
@@ALLmattersALLmatters You find prisoners used for labor in modern day “democracy countries” as well. Where do you think a place like California makes their license plates for cars, look up for prison laborers. No difference.
@@ahmedhassan129 there is a difference and it is political.
🇬🇪❤️🇺🇦
@@ALLmattersALLmatters Like Kamala harris refusing to let prisoners out so they can be used to fight fires?
From speaking to Russians and Ukrainians, the impression that I've gotten is that during the time that the USSR existed, there was a common sense of solidarity, if not total equality. The Ukrainians I've known seemed to be less nostalgic than the Russians (before the war, of course), but overall the feeling seems to be that it was okay for everyone in the USSR, but really great for very few people.
i think it was better than their wester counter part, for th majority of ppl remember they were the first to introduce paid holidays gender equality maternity leave, good working conditions since 1936. as for great for very few ppl that is true in the west also and is not an argumnt SU was socialist, class will still exist unders that system
СССР это лучшее что было в мире
Because Russians where the big profiteers of the USSR. It was all centered around Russians and Moscow. Ukraine did neither profit well nor did it lose much. So they got stringed along. But the Central Asian parts of the USSR where the big losers. They lived in incredibly poor regions and conditions. Nobody cared about them and their resources got stolen to the max.
Used to live in the USSR. It had it's pros and cons. First of all, if we're talking about the 60-80s, it was uncomparebly safer time than Stalin/Lenin era. One had to express his anti communist views very actively and intentionally to become of interest of KGB. None of my parents or grandparents were members of KPSS, although repeatedly advised to by the authorities. I lived in the 70-80s USSR where everyone around listened to the Voice of America, BBC or Svododa radio, had children baptised and had access to the Western literature and music. Sure, it wasn't the freedom of speech, but it wasn't so strict and opressive one might imagine. My father had many reasons for a strong dislike of the Communism and expressed it rather openly. The irony is he reconsidered his opinion on Comminist Russia when we finally had a chance to meet Capitalism in it's ugliest form during the 90s.
Back in the USSR everything was cheap. Housing, hot water, heating in winter, telephone communications, medicine were 100% free. Public transport, electricity, entertainment tickets, vacations cost practically nothing. No homeless and unemployment.
Not to mention, people were much more open and supportive to each other back then.
Bad things are well known - deficit of goods and food, quees, censorship and limited access to the foreign fashion, music and movies are just some of them.
Мне 34 и я бы хотела вернуть СССР! Там было весело и дружно
И стабильно
@@oliviao3686 ето точно
Вернули ж
Free education, affordable housing. Damn this hits hard as a millennial 🥲. At best I will be able to pay these off when I am 50 if nothing goes wrong.
@deliverence Yeh and engineers do a lot of work? All of the companies I have worked at were easy AF. Half of the time we're just procrastinating. Speaking about academia - every physics professor (already paid poorly), does it because they love what they do. They are the people who make useful research that companies reap the benefits of this publicly funded research.
Also your entire premise is false. Do you think factory workers are unnecessary? Do you think that the goal of communism isn't to replace the worker with automation to allow him freedom? This is issue at the core of communism!
@deliverence Your entire argument is about corruption. Also bribes are the most capitalist thing ever! Do you think capitalist systems are not corrupt? Take a 1 good look at the World!
Do you think I am in some sort of power? Hell no I am just a regular engineer.
Trying to be real here:
Look, I understand your argument. It relies on the premise that corruption is inherent to socialism/communism. This is an incorrect premise. Corruption is inherent to a dictatorship. (CGP grey has a good video on it).
@deliverence That's not an intelligent argument. That's just name calling. Grow up.
That is completely false.
The "free" part. Not the paying off part.
As a young Chinese, we all know that: Once we were young, we have a big brother, he taught us a lot, he gave us the essential industry that we can survive and not bullied by others in the world. And he lead us to a path, a red path, he told us, at the end of the path, there will be the most beautiful things in the human world. Although we have fight each other when we were drunk, but we know he is my big brother forever! One day, he died, with his flag in his hand, his head towards the end of the path. Now, i am taking the red flag and walking on the path, although all the enemies laugh at us and slander us, but we will keep walking, walking towards the end of the path, not just for me , but for my big brother! For the most great country in human history!
You are an inspiration to all the TRULY Free people of the world and I wish you all encouragement on your journey. Good Fortune and Fair prosperity to you Brother. FromNZ.
china is probably what ussr would have become, such a futuristic and powerful country, you are lucky you were born there, for most who support communism or socialism ideas chinese language is major barrier that dont let us move to china and live united.
CZcams is blocked in china.
people can use vpn and many other programs to reach any site they want. But chinese idea of blocking some sites for example facebook or instagram is better for people, cause its only bad news, many propaganda from various other countries, not just that but also major time waste and leads to mental problems.
@@focus6657 tech savvy Chinese don’t care about the great firewall, they use vpns and such
*Very interesting video.*
С интересом полушал мнения необременённых Знаниями людей.
Thank's.
SPrangER.
thank you for posting this, It brings a different perspective on how some people saw things back then, not just the tiring boring propaganda that repeats itself over and over.
Its just Russia tho. Countries which were occupied by USSr hate its guts, you would never hear similar answers in the baltics. Here soviet symbolics are equal to nazi under the law and it is a general notion that both Stalin and Hitler were equally bad (Stalin for sure was worse for us).
@@pppLT19 I see, Things are very complicated, I came from a family of socialists and communists and they hate capitalism with all their guts, some try to show reasons to why it sucks, others only hate whithout really knowing why.
@@lmLee178 I personally am pro scandinavian social democracy and their welfare state, as someone from a post soviet country i dont even think it was something very special, people did industrial jobs for shity salaries with constant deficites of things, government was also incredibly corrupt at all levels, maybe more so than in the west. Trying to get to the communism doesnt impress me, but i also do think that capitalism in the US got too far, education and healthcare should be universal and available to all
@@pppLT19 Hitler wanted to exterminate Baltic nations as "subhuman", while Stalin saved the Baltic people from extermination and enslavement.
@@glebperch7585 Liberators liberate, not liberate, then occupy, deport hundreds of thousands, kill, torture, provoke the longest partisan war in history of europe etc.. This argument is completely nulified by occupation and represions.
The Soviet Union had many failings, but I would argue it did not actually fail at all, it simply didn't get everything right which is expected for such a radical new form of government at the time.
Socialism did not ruin the Soviet Union, central planning in the economy did, however China inherited the lessons from the Soviet Union and found that a regulated mixed market economy is the way to bring it all together under Deng Xiaoping.
I do think for Russia it would be impossible to ever go back to USSR, but like the one lady said, take the best elements and go forward with it in your own time period, I believe Russia has an enormous amount of untapped human capital and the number one priority should be the full development of the poorer parts of the country, maybe everyone cannot have the exact same wealth as people in Moscow but there should be plenty of room for a larger middle class in the undeveloped regions.
The real question is what comes after President Putin? he did a magnificent job of saving Russia, but can he choose a worthy successor when his time is finally over? that will be crucial for the future.
nope, central planning didn't kill it. Central planning was a key to it's effectiveness. Since implementing rapidly some "free market reforms" USSR started going downhill. This started in the 70's. Nowadays Russia is purely capitalistic state, zero similarities with the soviets. Putin is just a traitor, he did nothing for the russian ppl. Ppl like Putin would be decapitated if Lenin was still alive. Also, China doesn't have a "regulated mixed market economy" nor does it have any effectiveness with it. Maybe it did when Xiaoping was around, but nowadays China is 90% capitalism, 10% fake comunism cover, and all that behind a wall of separate internet. Even purely capitalistic US has more socialism in it than China.
True facts
Will see
We were trying to build new model of society. The USSR had tree epochs: 1924-1953 Stalin (civil war, WW2, Gulag), after that raising period, and after that Swamp period, Brejnev-Gorbatchov. These times are very different, but during the sum of them the percentage of people who can read and write grown from 3% to 100% and we becfme tye 2th nation of the quantity of graduates from universities of the world. Kindly ask to excuse my English, I have been learnt French in the school. The first women voting in the world was in USSR. The first artificial satellite, the first flight in Space, the first women astronaut and the first exit of astronaut into outer space were did by USSR. Also we helped all postcolonial countries like Angola, Egypt, India, China, Vietnam, N Korea, Cuba, Sirya and many others. We spent all. We constructed 16 atomic reactors in Ukraine, we built new Minsk in Belorussia (it was a flat place after Germans). It was a great project. Greatest.
Respects to your very enlightened guests. 👍
The Soviet man will rise again
No
Hell no
Hell yes with the help of the chinese salvdos desde honduras
yes, equality prevail!
The US education system says the USSR was a dirt poor country that was somehow a superpower that collapsed due to communism
in reality the #1 reason for the collapse was incompetent leadership after Stalin, the Soivet Afghan war and Gorbacheuv
Some people loved it some people hated it, it depends on the person
Soviet Union produced 20% of global goods. A portion of those were gifted to “newborn” socialist countries around the world.
True
The sunglasses guy really was oblivious to Soviet propaganda, since he missed all the internationalist feeling as a whole
“I saw nothing good in USSR”
then
“Muh poor immigrants bad, crimes, ooga booga.”
Classic conservative.
Excellent video.
One of my best friends grew up and worked in the socialist soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and has nothing but positive things to say about the soviet days.
With time, people are nostalgic about the "good old times“ when you were younger and everything seemed to work and was easier than today. That same phenomenon also exist in Germany, where people who lived in the GDR (East Germany) say that their live there was way better than today and everything was cheaper and more beautiful.
about the 90s, hardly anyone in Russia will say that this is a good time.
@@SavanecAI it wasn't the USSR in 90's
@@Hunter_J_Biden the 90s were the result of USSR continuous failure to do anything right. It was always second in a one runner contest.
This is an interesting channel. I am learning russian and it would be wonderful to have russian subtitles.
Me too
Keep going 💜👍
Good to see people still remember my good work
People remembered Nikita and Lenin not u 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@hopelfreyamikaelson9348 Nah Stalin is the best
@@hopelfreyamikaelson9348 LONG LIVE COMRADE STALIN
@@bt-rw1cu yep Stalin do remember but for massacre and worst dictator
@@hopelfreyamikaelson9348 Who did he massacre?
May i ask what camera do you use because it has very good quality?
And thanks for the video, it is very interesting:)
Canon m50)
I have a Canon EOS M50 camera just bought it very handy what microphone you use for interviews Sennheiser and what settings you film in
@@yankeestani6722 comica cvm-w550 (H)
1080 60fps
Respect for the lady quoting Lenin and Kissinger!
Yes how ironic. Kissinger spent a lot of time bombing places like Cambodia literally to put it back to the stone age or overthrowing the elected government in Chile 1973 all in the name of defeating communism. Who knew after all that he had a soft spot for the Soviet Union.
I was born in sukhumi abxazia and a came in Greece at 3 years old.
My parents said sssr was something special. It was a dream
Никто не сказал главного!.Потеряли мы Советскую Конституцию , а значит все! Мы старые как нибудь дотянем до могилы, а вот молодежь действительно жалко,они даже не будут знать что возможна другая жизнь.
Да, им повезло
должен сказать нам молодым повезло
Да слава богу то и другой жизни не будет :) слава Богу сейчас царит демократия. Сейчас есть Свобода не только Свобода слова но и свобода всего. Теперь человек может выбирать для себя религию. И больше нет смертельных казней
@@vashe_velichestvo441 Первый мужик детскими лагерями восхищается! Как ??? Как можно хотеть сука в лагеря? Вот кого знал в детстве никого не помню чтоб в лагеря хотели.
@@vashe_velichestvo441 Выбор религии это еще не свобода,да и кроме свободы должны быть обязательства в том числе государства перед человеком.
"Residents of another time," I feel you. I made more good decisions than bad when I was younger, so I don't envy anybody else today👩💼🇺🇲🛠️🇷🇺
USSR the best period i hope it will return
Interesting video ))
i wish someday to god will be back again soviat union and rescue other country and philippines ❤❤❤
Sana nga, po. Nahihirapan ang ating lahi dahil sa systemang Capitalisma. Much love from California.
You'd better wish to god your neurons can connect with each other.
LOL! Soviet Union was officially an Atheist country! And even if USSR existed today, they wouldn't have come to rescue Philippine. They would have made your country their Satellite state & given power to a man who would have run the country being the puppet of Soviet.
@@navaarunbhattacherjee4720 its not important if its atheists or not. Whats important is what effect did it have for the people it was for.
@@navaarunbhattacherjee4720 atheism>religion
So sad. These fine working people. A tragedy.
When talking about freedom, never forget to ask yourself "for whom?"
Soviet people had a lot of rights, especially in comparison to the modern Russia
Some problems with translation in the subtitles.
4:21 "I went to a NATO station" -> "I went to the natural studies section" - YunNat stands for 'yoónnyi natooraleést' - they were school sections for studies of nature and the basics of natural science.
5:00 "started working as a locksmish at GorGaz" -> "started working as a fitter for natural gas destributor" - slésar' is more like a 'fitter' or a 'machinist'. Obviously when you work for the city's natural gas distributor you do not need to pick locks - you probably fit the gas pipes together, check the system for leaks etc.
9:51 "constant content of such useless neighbors" - he literally said 'carrying the suitcases without handles': it is a saying in Russian used when something is 'impossible to carry and yet would be a pity to just drop and leave'. It actually works in English as well and would have sounded more witty than 'containing' the neighbours even though I see the translator's thought here and can somewhat agree.
Shows how biased all that we are taught in the West is. In the end there are advantages and disadvantages with any system. It would have been really interesting to try to live there or in a similar country for a while to see how it really was/is, unfortunately we cannot time travel but if we could so...
yeah i mean the gulaga system in Siberia must be nice.
sunglasses guy like "this interview is not racist enough for me, sorry"
my eyes are glowing with tears :')
I am seeing the for the first time, and it’s really interesting. I’m an American living in the Czech Republic, and I visited Ukraine in 1996. I still remember when I arrived in Kiev; my host, who was Russian, said to me that he wished he could be saying welcome to the USSR, instead of welcome to Ukraine. I have Ukrainian friends here in the Czech Republic, as well as friends from Russia. I still think of these countries as part of the Soviet Union, because that’s how they were when I was growing up and my early adulthood. Loved this video and I am going to subscribe to your channel. Thanks 👍
Try not to feel that please
The Czech Republic was never part of the Soviet Union!
@@philipcantossiemers So, what’s your point? I didn’t say it was part of the Soviet Union. I was talking about my trip to Ukraine and my Ukrainian and Russian friends here in the Czech Republic.
Ukrainians saying they love Soviet Union? THAT WAS AN ACTUAL THING?!?!!?! Damn
🤣
Конечно настольгически. Ключ от квартиры под ковриком лежал. Сейчас везде решетки заборы сейфовые двери, как в тюрьме.
А в квартире было шаром покати
I'm very grateful, that I have my grandfather, who lived in USSR (we live in Russia). And although I'm an opponent of communism, I get a very truthful and good insights about the past with a genuine human interaction. He opens up a whole new perspective for me, and I'm becoming more understanding towards USSR and communism as a whole. I think it's good, when you family member have an opposite political view on a world, because you a trying to actually understand other position without hate, biases, miscommunication and arragance. I very interested in learning more about USSR, I love the aesthetic, that it was a Golden Age for my country and we are the first non-Western country, that truly challenged the West. Peace. 🦋
It seems many older people of the former USSR miss especially the group feeling and taking care of each other. I traveled through most of Eastern Europe and. This seems to be the main thing besides free healthcare and schooling etc. I think it wouldn't work in places like Western Europe because people are too individualistic. The people in the west (who are pro-communism) mostly don't see/know the negative points of it that many people are poor and that there isn't a true possibility to be different.
The genuine friendliness is why I love the eastern part of Europe though :)
Russia's future lies in the East and Central Asia. Not in Western Europe.
Ваши предки не из нквд?
I think about that. Usa and ussr been hating each other for so long. Should have fought long ago. Whats stauling
That's wonderful Anomalien. When you study the ideas from Marx and Lenin, a lot of it actually makes a lot of sense. The eastern bloc might not have achieved perfection, but at least it dared to dream and try. They achieved incredible feats (and of course also made some mistakes) and sparked hope around the world. Maybe next time, it'll work even better!
I like this video! I am a Chinese living in the West. Of all the countries in the world, the USSR fascinate me the most. The Soviet anthem is my favourite. Sadly, I can never visit it. But I was born in the 1980s, so I remember the USSR well when I was growing up. I haven't been to Russia yet, but I feel USSR was more exciting. I am already aware that there is a huge amount of nostalgia for the Communist past in all former Communist countries (including East Germany, Yugoslavia, etc.). So I am not surprised at the answers here. I find the perspective of older Russians interesting. They are the people who lived under both systems, saw both sides of the world, and they are the only people who are qualified to judge which system is better. If one day someone invents a time machine, the first thing I'll do is travel back to the 1960s or 1970s and see what the USSR looked like under Khrushchev and Brezhnev (I believe this was the best period for the Soviet Union when it was at peak strength versus the rest of the world).
Go to 1950-60
I was born in the USSR in 1978. I assure you, there was nothing special about it. Modern China is a much smarter country, although lately they are starting to go backwards again and it's very stupid, and scary for the rest of the world
@@antikokalis They are revisionists
@@alfamale6429 Sorry, i don't understand what you mean
@@antikokalis When socialist county, uses market economy they are called revisionists. This term invented by Mao
Brilliant
It would have been good if you asked where these people grew up. Moscow is sure to have the best standards in the Soviet Union, and probably many of them grew up there as it is where you are filming.
where did you grow up?
that's the same for western countries as well, rural areas always have it worse
All over the ussr it's the same unlike the dprk they all had equal lives what I mean is yiu can move there without rankings like north Korea
My grandpa lived in the Polish Soviet Union and he was doing great! He had 4 jobs (not forced jobs, jobs he liked to do) and was very happy with his life! He died 2 months before the Soviet Union died..
@@jebpvpw.dgaster.3662 My parents were living happykves in the ussr not forced but just work
ask about Russia 90s with U$A DemonCrazy at home !
People need to know!
I’m from China, my parents has exactly same thinking. Even now they become richer than before, the ppl seems lose faith nowadays.
China is not communist! Communist china is a joke!
Russians during USSR: 😄
Annexed states during USSR: 🗿
Bruh what annexed states
If u talk about other republics, they were all subsidized (except Ukrainian SSR after 1950-1960). They could not be independent to support at least the same standard of living, many people moved to neighbor republics to build new free houses, factories and other typical soviet infrastructure
@@meetthespy3398
I'm talking about Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and Romania.
And maybe I used a wrong word, these were the satellite states, not annexed. But still USSR did a lot of shit there
@@SzymChud maybe. But real shit started when USSR collapsed, should I describe why?
"you don't miss USSR you miss being young"
- me
Not long ago i bought a skirt i dont wear very often and my mom asked if she can “wear my pioneer skirt” 😂 i was reminded by that one lady talking about it
What I think people see is that Soviet times were more stable and some things were more affordable (albeit a lot less was actually available, so much less possibility to be jealous of a fancy car). With that said, Russian people would be living much better lives if country's wealth was invested in the ordinary Russian people and not in building imperialism.
you can not just abandon imperialism in capitalistic world.
@@Ne3ek1t Exactly. The US government just spends money on military, bureaucratic infrastructure and nigtmarish highways with infinite traffic. Everything else is provided by private companies that offer services that people pay with the money other companies that provide other services give to them as salary
@@Diego-lt4wm I was talking about Russia, cuz it's clearly a capitalistic state atm
one of the victory of soviet system was... Free vacation for a month or 3 weeks in a year for working class. Also known by forced vacation, but who doesnt love vacation?
We have this thing in europe, scandinavians have longer vacations and werent occupied by USSR💁♀️
Вынужденных отпусков не было. Откуда это взяли? Был обязательный оплачиваемый отпуск.
You wrote nonsense. There was an annual paid vacation. Payment according to the average wage. The length of the leave depended on the profession. Teachers, researchers, people working in hazardous conditions had longer vacations.
Now employers are also obliged to provide paid leave to employees.
So The only problem that people faced were they didn't earn enough & there was a limit as to what and how much you can own! Rest everything was beautiful!
Besplatno zdravstvo, restorani u firmama, odmarališta, to su privilegije na Zapadu, a mi smo to imali besplatno, naša greška bili smo povodljivi
I really want to see video of what soviet values ( those positive ones ) are still impacting Russian society today. Are there any values that transitioned from USSR to Russian Federation at all?
I think no. Russia took all the worst from the USSR and the worst from capitalism.
нет. сожри или будь сожранным. все советские ценности лишь слабость что мешают на пути к богатству.
Money trumps all values. Even for the West.
No! Russia is completely different , Russian people hate Soviet Union , Russian government critiques the Soviet Union and it's leaders , heck Russians don't even think like the Soviets , their opinions even are completely different
For ex -
Soviets : USA is bad country , Chinese communism is different from us and India is our best friend
Russians : USA looks like a great country and Chinese language is great
And heck half of the current generation of Russians don't even know what is Soviet Union lmao , and if they do , they probably know from the communism memes
Bro just let Russia be communist except the post soviet states or if they do want to join...
So not the Warsaw Pact countries... Right?
@@sooryan_1018 n o. I think they don’t want it back. Romania is anti-communist now even Yugoslavia can still unite...
@@dannelleabajar4703 that's kinda what I said you know....
@@sooryan_1018 Romania anti-communist ? 54% of Romanians say they lived better under socialism. In Hungary,72% of them say that life got worse after the fall of the eastern block.In east Germany,57% of the people see life better under communism.A poll by Gallup said that the majority of post-soviet countries see more harm from break up.So no,people did not hate socialism.
@@josephstalin6315 Romania was profoundly anti-communist ever since communism was invented, only old people and boomers miss it, as most people would want to relive the era of their youth
What is the NATO station she was talking about where she did sports?
Every child thinks life was better everywhere
Great video, looking forward to the aliens episode!
Good info, ive asked the same questions to babushkas and dedushkas, they all said it was a good era
They just didn’t know anything better, that’s why they liked it
Finally the truth abt the ussr it was paradise the west ruined it by starving them of the things that a nation needs
"Theres nothing that motivated you",I believe that feeling is not limitated to the present Russian federation.
My mind: starts playing the USSR anthem.
GuLaG
OUR MIND
@@MrReddish your mind is propaganda
@@coelho7156 bro , we are literally using memes here
I admit the cccp had one of the most amazing anthems ever written!
I really think this is just reminiscing. I say these types of things to my kids often. That the pace of life was calmer/slower and there was not so much ‘crap’ going on! Things were easier for us to do, eg, renting, getting a job, saving money, etc.!
person: hope it comes back
me: well by this rate ur gonna get ur wish
6:15 Она прям так и ждала момента когда она сможет использовать эту цитату из Одноклассников в реальной жизни
Like all nations in the world, blame the foreigners (foreign workers) for all their problems. Maybe it's true? In France, there was a huge problem with street prostitutes. I asked my friend for his opinion. He replied, Mon Dieu non! they are not French girls, they are foreign North Africans and Eastern Europeans.
I'm honestly saddened about the post soviet world, And now the spread of fascism is in the east. It'd sad to see a humanitarian dream collapse. Yes it had its problems, But doesn't every country have its problems. And yes I know the whole oh you live in the United States so you don't have the experience to know how communism, socialism and other leftist ideologys are like, but how can I experience these ideas if most of the countries that were following these ideologys collapsed. Either or I dream of a true humanitarian country, let's hope the EU brings this.
🌹USSR
Everyone of all generations in all countries look at the past in a nostalgic way of better times with less problems.. Incl the US and europe
The guy at 0:57 when he says somethig was missing,this feeling is called greed.
Having enough is never enough to be happy for some people,that makes me sad,I rather not have a 1% shot or less to live a very luxurious life if all my brothers and sisters can have a decent,confortable life without without starving.
I had to eat from trashcans at some point,it is something I never wish upon my worst enemy.
@Artur Bruen Rosin Capitalismo tá funcionando bem no Brasil, gente comendo resto de ossos de um lado e billionarios comendo caviar do outro.
I hope life treats you better Elaine. If not, then I hope things get better soon. You deserve a dignified life, and society should be there for you.
"People who lived under socialism hated it"
People who lived under socialism:
*Upper class
God Bless Us All We Need It
I would like to make a movie or short film at least about the other side of the Soviet Union. We get fed so many bad things here in the west and yes I know they did happen. Let’s also take in account that the west wasn’t a saint either. I think if the film of the other side of the Soviet Union will open the eyes of many and give those people who grew up in it a bit of nostalgia. Time will tell, but it would be nice
Ask how it was for all the other Satélite nations if it was good?
Nostalgia only focuses on good times. Also, nothing is free.
Бывает, люди в ссср работали за бесплатно , за фантики , которые потом сгорели в банках . Так же и жизнь человека в ссср ничего не стоила