I’m English and was in Moscow in 1987. What I remember was ‘trying’ to spend 48 Roubles! I had sold a pair of Levi jeans and U2 t-shirts. I ended up buying 6 bottles of Russian champagne in hotel’s rouble bar on the last night, just to get rid. An American guy in our hotel had 120 roubles in his possession. God only if he spent them in time. Probably treated half of Moscow to free ice cream or ended up binning the notes at Sheremetevo!…..
Ya even in the mid 90s you weren’t allowed to leave Russia with rubles. Most places at that time gladly accepted dollars. Basically you only exchanged what you needed
@@ivanexell-uz4mv that is just disinformation from the capitalist west. It was his team’s policies that ended hundreds of years of regular famines, plus sabotage, sanctions, destructions from the imperialist collective west (which included Japan) after 1917. The metrolines were built in the 30s, after backward Russia rose from the ashes of the civil war and the invasion of 14 powerful imperialist countries. Communism is “evil” one always has to do something to discredit it.
Then Soviet Architecture was also adapted in Modern Architecture due to it's minimalistic design and easily to build and one of the example is the modern house.
Quite a twist how it became quintessentially capitalist for a class that just needed something built cheaply for worker drones, while old capitalist class architecture felt owned and made a statement that was owned by owners through richly ornate facades and internal design. 1890s NYC v 2020s NYC. Broadstreet before and After on Ribbit.
I love documentaries from the old days, no matter the subject. I watched one last week about turpentine distillation in the 1950's. It was fascinating to see how they did it. I'm glad I found your channel, you seem to have a lot of very cool material like that. Cheers, friend! ✌️
A wonderful historical coverage video and valuable historical memories about (Moscow)in former Soviet prospective...(Mike Guardia) channel always sharing excellent documentaries....thank you for sharing ....
I guess the 80s was loved by everyone, even US and USSR would agree to that. Edit: woah after reading all of the comments. I was waaaay wrong. Sorry guys
Really a melancholy thing to watch. The USSR fell and any hope of improvement rather vanished. No reforms, no making right of the many, many past wrongs, just a bunch of bitter, still corrupt, impoverished former republics and a USA with no real pressure from anyone to hold back.
Russia improved greatly under Putin. Thanks to Western sanctions designed to cripple Russia, Russian economy is now the world's 4th largest on PPP terms.
The type of film/video tape, background music, narrators voice doesnt = 1988. More like 1978! I wonder if this was created in the 70s and released (or re released) in 1988???
@@studytime2570 Well that was my point. The whole tone of it felt like something from the 60s rather than the late 80s, as did the rather grainy and 'washed out' look of the video itself.
It's a thousand year tragedy. There's little to be proud of, mostly just things to be horrified at. The USSR was the golden age, but that's still not saying much.
the thumbnail to this is incredibly badass and does not faithfully represent the video. the video is a boring entry-level beginners guide for the everyday average 80s Joe who wants to know what the fuss is about this Russia character.
Gorbachev's soviet union should've stayed, he was starting to democratise it and make it more free but then yeltsin got rid of him and russia became a dictatorship again :(
Горбачев начал убивать весь смысл советской идиологии, сделал очень много ошибок, разорил страну, сделал ужасный дефицит, сильно разоружил страну, поддержал развал Варшавского договора, и это даже не половина. Ельцин тоже правил ужасно, так сказать пропил страну. Лучше жить в как вы называете "диктатуре" но с полными полками в магазинах, регулярными зарплатами, не мизирным ввп чем "демократии" когда товаров на полках нет, во власти одни бандиты, президент пропивает страну и зарпллаты не платят месяцами
That's the point , with the policies Gorbachev implement Soviet union was tend to break awak. People lose confidence in country because of exposure to prosperous west , otherwise they would have continued well rather then having a turmoil. (Pardon me if there's any mistake I am not native English speaker)@@NoxTheXelor
Introduces functions of capitalism and decreases beauracratic/security apparatus while engaged in a cold war. Collapses a few years later. Collapses so hard that the last leader ends up in a pizza hut commercial taking sponsorships from the US. The music is warped btw, not sure why either but contrary to the Western audience's beliefs during the late 1980s Russian music did not sound like horror music.
@otakardoubrava9679 You should add a note that says that. Viewers are going to assume people that lived in the East have a warped sense of musical taste.
Central planning had resulted in the USSR being stagnate industrially in the latter portion of its existence. The liberalization of the 80s was neither immediate nor comprehensive enough to compensate for the shortfalls of central planning. The USSR did not collapse because of (attempted) liberalization, it collapsed because the top-down method of economic coordination that it employed did not produce desirable results.
@user-gy1bu9gf8l This is factually incorrect on a multitude of levels. First off a capitalistic economy is naturally going to prioritize the economy itself, and all forms in which it is measured. Up until the 70s the Soviets were directly competing with US GDP growth rates and were outpacing ppp. Secondly the Soviets did reach some form of liberalization as they had been transitioning to a mixed economy, the following decades after making the efforts to implement this, living standards in the former USSR states plummeted below 19th century levels. How do you suppose macroeconomics caused their collapse? Please expand on this. This is a minimal effort response, one could as easily comment and say, "their downfall was directly attributed to not maintaining a command economy, allowing privatized business to take advantage of low risk, non competitive markets" Didn't work because "it didn't produce desirable results" Do you know what's also not conducive to economic growth and QoL, coups in your country, and allowing the private sector to supersede the economy and control basic services and goods that would always have high demand but now doesn't have regulation or even price capping.
@@user-rg6ix2iz6z > Up until the 70s the Soviets were directly competing with US GDP growth rates and were outpacing Of course the Soviets matched the US in terms of growth (never mind that the quality of the growth in the USSR was lower) as the complexity of their economy was lower than the US' to begin with. Another factor behind this growth was oil prices, which propped up the otherwise stagnate Soviet economy. > ppp ppp is a useless metric for a planned economy. Nice try though. > transitioning to a mixed economy Words have meanings. You are using the word "mixed" incorrectly here. At no point (aside from the 20s) was the Soviet economy ever "mixed". > living standards in the former USSR states plummeted below 19th century levels. What you say is laughably false. The only time when the Soviets made any sort of serious attempt at a mixed economy was in the 20s, which resulted in economic stabilization after Lenin's disastrous policy of nationalization left the economy in ruin. > How do you suppose macroeconomics caused their collapse? Very simply the economic situation increasingly become more unsatisfactory for the populace, and so the suppression of their freedoms became all the more glaring (such is beginning to happen in China). > allowing the private sector to supersede the economy and control basic services and goods that would always have high demand but now doesn't have regulation or even price capping. Worked in Poland and the Baltic states where they made a much more comprehensive attempt at liberalization than Russia.
@@thedictationofallahno tf they weren’t, you can talk to anyone who’s been there in the 80s ( that didn’t visit just moscow) and they will tell you it’s not a pleasant place. i’m pretty sure your the one falling for propaganda.
Just to correct it a bit Moscow was taken by Kingdom of Poland, and was under Polish rule for about year long before Napoleon or Hitler failed attempts..btw Today's Russia have 1 of national Bank Holidays dates on ocasion to get rid of Polish occupational forces from Moscow..
LOL, you paid for this occupation of Moscow with your state. Sections of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth go brrrr. But you continue to enjoy the two-year occupation of Moscow ;)
It's hard to tell. Mausoleum not guarded anymore. There's alot political parties, but only one really rules everything. And that party not forbids, but forces all the hell of religions instead and suppress atheism. Army is no longer that important for government as it was. Governmant is not that easy on simple people. But stores and supermarkets are full of food and clothes. No queues.
@@FedotDaNeTodYou can say that there is only one party in Russia,cause others are either too weak to give any competition to United Russia,or are just puppets of United Russia.
@@user-zv9zc9bc2y kinda both. Other parties were supressed in early 00's. And now they just pretending they are real parties because they even stopped to send most strong/famous candidates to presidential election. This was actually started in Yeltsin times, when he fabricated results of 1996 election. So this "President" just improved practice of his predecessor. United Russia isn't real party as well. It's just bunch of persons the dragging any law that President wants through the parliament. United Russia also don't send their candidate on election. Putin always goes as independent candidate.
I don't wonder why this "documentary" seems to only show areas of Moscow that were the prerogative of the privileged few or their family and underlings.
I was born in Estonian Soviet Republic. I’ve been to Moscow once in 2007. It was nice actually. Drinking alcohol and smoking was not a problem for us the children. City was many times bigger than my home country. It’s funny how we grew apart over the years. We made new friends with the other countries and Russia became the villain. Nowadays I would not go to the place again. I’ve got no love for these people and their government. Disappointing bunch of liars and traitors. Collective guilt is what they have for all those people they have killed and dreams they have destroyed. One day they fall. Better sooner rather than later
@@dingus6317 the Soviet Union was illegally and undemocratically dismantled by capitalists, the many citizens of all republics democratically voted for the Union to remain, however; Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and many other capitalists influenced by, mainly, Washington D.C., dismantled the Union bringing about the worst period of economic crisis since the civil war - what the western media called "market's springing up due to natures call for the free market" was families selling their entire lives away because they now couldn't afford to live due to the major economic crisis cause by "shock therapy" where essentials to life were now privatized, where all industries were privatized and sold off to whom are now oligarchs in an economic model built for Russia by the US themselves - and with this economic model of profits above all, we have seen the; Russian invasion of Georgia. Russian invasion and meddling in Ukraine. Russian meddling and halting protests in Kazakhstan. Russian paramilitaries influencing right-wing coups. Russia banning the LGBT and left-leaning ideals. Russia has gone far-right much to the appraisal of US companies and government whom WANTED this to happen to justify excessive military spending and the opening of foreign markets to exploit the people of more nations. What you call "strong people" we call "strong government who silence the voices of the working class". Do not comment on us if you don't want to hear the voices of the people you claim to know.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ TROLL BOT WARNING. The Soviet Union was so great, all of its states and those of the Warsaw Pact ran into the arms of NATO to ensure Russia would never be able to enslave them again.
Kind of ironic ..there was more freedom in 1988 Moscow than 2023.....anyone imagine Putin out in red square chatting to everyday people like Gorbachev did....its sad to see what Russia has become, and what might of been.
Yeah, and it lead to total destruction and 2 decades of unimaginable suffering for most people in USSR, not just physical but also spiritual and mental, loss of identity, loss of community, loss of meaning of life. Putin is the direct consequence of these mindlessly dogmatic policies and actions that didn't account for the actual human needs and favored theoretical ideologies about what must work
Мужик, тут люди яйца себе на красной площади прибивают к брусчатке, где ты видишь какую то жуткую несвободу? Если она для тебя измеряется тем, что какой то мужик из власти должен выходить на улицу с кем то поболтать, то мне очень грустно за то, как у тебя нагажено в голове
@@paul_ko It was still better than modern day Russia. At least in USSR a person feels hope for the wonderous future. In oligarchic Russia, there's only hope that the corrupt government and even more corrupt oligarchs all magically disappear in one day, with people who actually care for the common folk take charge of the country.
Shoigu is Tuva ingigenous person, the mayor of Moscow Sobianin is Hanty from Siberia, Lavrov is half Armenian, to name the least, most current Russian tycoons and generals belong to many ethnical minorities. Just because you segregate in your own country it should not be so overseas.
The arms race with the U.S. certainly was a factor. However, the Soviet economy was being asked to prop up many satellite states like Cuba, which put a burden on the already struggling economy. The cost of the war in Afghanistan and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were a factors as well. Mostly, people just wanted out of the communist system. They weren't blind. They could see the economic successes of western European nations and wondered why they also didn't have such luxuries.
@@texaswunderkind not the people but the elite. people barely knew what capitalism is due to iron curtain. but elite wanted to bring capitalism and live like western elite.
Cold war problems, pretty much a war of idealism to see who will dominate the planet, that until the 80s cool down abit so I guess the 80s was awesome for everyone
>clueless of what is going to happen in 3 years
what
@@rgcbeamng guess
@@dominikpapryka4042 idk
@@rgcbeamng google „what happened to the ussr in 1991” and you’ll get the answer.
@@rgcbeamngbreak up of Soviet union
I’m English and was in Moscow in 1987. What I remember was ‘trying’ to spend 48 Roubles! I had sold a pair of Levi jeans and U2 t-shirts. I ended up buying 6 bottles of Russian champagne in hotel’s rouble bar on the last night, just to get rid. An American guy in our hotel had 120 roubles in his possession. God only if he spent them in time. Probably treated half of Moscow to free ice cream or ended up binning the notes at Sheremetevo!…..
@@garyfoley946 it is how USA and American cheat all world and humankind ! You manipulate with currency and cheat rest of all world
Ya even in the mid 90s you weren’t allowed to leave Russia with rubles. Most places at that time gladly accepted dollars.
Basically you only exchanged what you needed
Moscow Metro Design until now is remarkable.
Stalin and the team’s work
@@minhng7208off the backs of hungry and tired workers
@@ivanexell-uz4mv that is just disinformation from the capitalist west. It was his team’s policies that ended hundreds of years of regular famines, plus sabotage, sanctions, destructions from the imperialist collective west (which included Japan) after 1917. The metrolines were built in the 30s, after backward Russia rose from the ashes of the civil war and the invasion of 14 powerful imperialist countries. Communism is “evil” one always has to do something to discredit it.
@@ivanexell-uz4mvnah that’s just any capitalist contry
@@ivanexell-uz4mv они всё равно жили лучше чем до этого, и лучше чем некоторых индустриальных странах того времени
I was living in Moscow in 1988 , I miss it so much .
Even now…?
@@glengamble526 even now
even now?
ruzzian pig?@pocaujmniewdupepocaujmniew5128
It's just as much a dictatorship as it was then. Nothing to miss.
balalaika bear haunts my nightmares
he wants to share his vodka with you
Нет он никогда не отдаст свою водку@@manochromestudios8810
Lmao
My granma visited this when she was still an economic director here in the Philippines. I am fascinated with anything Russian. Hoping to visit it too
Then Soviet Architecture was also adapted in Modern Architecture due to it's minimalistic design and easily to build and one of the example is the modern house.
Quite a twist how it became quintessentially capitalist for a class that just needed something built cheaply for worker drones, while old capitalist class architecture felt owned and made a statement that was owned by owners through richly ornate facades and internal design. 1890s NYC v 2020s NYC. Broadstreet before and After on Ribbit.
I'm fairly certain that Brezhnev-era apartments (unofficially referred to as Brezhnevki) are still built in Russia all the time.
The pitch bend is crazy! I love it.
I love documentaries from the old days, no matter the subject.
I watched one last week about turpentine distillation in the 1950's. It was fascinating to see how they did it.
I'm glad I found your channel, you seem to have a lot of very cool material like that.
Cheers, friend! ✌️
A wonderful historical coverage video and valuable historical memories about (Moscow)in former Soviet prospective...(Mike Guardia) channel always sharing excellent documentaries....thank you for sharing ....
Good video Mike 👍
I guess the 80s was loved by everyone, even US and USSR would agree to that.
Edit: woah after reading all of the comments. I was waaaay wrong. Sorry guys
Massive unemployment in parts of the UK. Things began to improve in the second half of the 1990s.
@@stuartwray6175Here in Brazil the 80s were known as the lost decade. Transition to democracy, debts, economic crisis, hyperinflation etc.
@@stuartwray6175 things began to fail in Asia in late 90s
@@oooshafiqooo 1997 Asian financial crisis
@@stuartwray6175 exactly
looks like a fever dream
it was and it has ended
0:53, the only man in the US that knows how to name the Anglicised version of 'Moscow'.
Absolutely 😅😂
What does this mean?
@@Herner_Werzogthe real Russian name of Moscow is Moskva
@@Davvvogg_ But- Moscow is already an anglicized version.
@@Herner_Werzogi think he meant romanized. москва -> moskva
What an amazing city Moscow was. This video is time capsule.
what entire world think russia is 0:13
Не хватает водки и пятидесятиградусного мороза
Уес, му амегысаи ьготнег, ьо уоц шаит то Ьгыик соме Водка?
@@Rusich15335 ЙЕС МА АМЕРИКАН ФРОЙНД Ю ФЫНК РАЙТ
@@Rusich15335ues mu amyegysai 'gotnyeg 'o uots shait to 'gyik somye vodka
Really a melancholy thing to watch.
The USSR fell and any hope of improvement rather vanished. No reforms, no making right of the many, many past wrongs, just a bunch of bitter, still corrupt, impoverished former republics and a USA with no real pressure from anyone to hold back.
Russia improved greatly under Putin. Thanks to Western sanctions designed to cripple Russia, Russian economy is now the world's 4th largest on PPP terms.
I’m American but I really want to visit Russia someday
Не надо, пожалуйста.
@@Tollphys, поч
Всегда рады гостям !
@@Tollphysочередной либерашка?
@@Tollphyswhy? I’ve always been fascinated by former eastern block countries, especially Russia.
wow this country seems very peaceful and powerful, surely it will remain intact and preserve it's superpower status
Where do you find these videos?
The type of film/video tape, background music, narrators voice doesnt = 1988. More like 1978! I wonder if this was created in the 70s and released (or re released) in 1988???
is the existance of gorbachev a joke for you? keep in mind that ussr in general was underdeveloped as hell
@oleksiikulahin5983 I seen other videos of Moscow from mid and late 1980s. This video/production, the clothes and styles of the people are much older.
What background music? And how does an 80s voice sound compared to the 70s? Are you tripping?
This may be 1988 but the video has the look & feel of something from the 1960s.
that's because the standards of living of an average USSR citizen was 20 years behind the West
Not Really. You may feel that from the nature of presentation.
@@NexusLoreisn't that an american documentary? the quality of the audio and the quality of the camera aren't better either to be honest
@@studytime2570 Well that was my point. The whole tone of it felt like something from the 60s rather than the late 80s, as did the rather grainy and 'washed out' look of the video itself.
This is because after Lenin and Stalin the USSR was led by idiots
My grandma was in Moscow on 1988😊
Your grandma is 36?
@@jdmgang6684No, she WAS in Moscow not born in 1988
@@KitiShow0 I misread that
Hallo from Italy...in russian... spasibo
who tf was using 16mm prints in 1988
Excelente video Crack. 👏👏💪💪
Me gusto crack 🫨😬😬
The USSR had been bleeding since 1956. Two years after this video was shot, it died.
The music sounds absolutely insane.
เรื่องแบบนี้มันต้องอดทนสมัยก่อนนักการเมืองก็โดนประชาชนตำหนิเรื่องงบประมาณไปสร้างถนนมากมายไม่มีรถสักคันวิ่ง ทุกวันนี้ไปที่ไหนก็มีแต่รถยนต์วิ่ง
As a Russian, I am proud of my country's past. 👍
Гордиться особо нечем. Спасибо, что живые
@@Triceraton Кто рот открывать разрешал?
@@ЭЛТ конституция
@@Triceratonвсегда есть куда расти, когда-нибудь у тебя получится любить, что имеешь.
It's a thousand year tragedy. There's little to be proud of, mostly just things to be horrified at. The USSR was the golden age, but that's still not saying much.
the thumbnail to this is incredibly badass and does not faithfully represent the video. the video is a boring entry-level beginners guide for the everyday average 80s Joe who wants to know what the fuss is about this Russia character.
My parents from the us went to Moscow in late 1990
As a foreigner it was safeer to visit Moscow back then than today.
наверное, именно поэтому, сейчас Москву посещают раз в 100 больше иностранцев, чем в 80-х. С логикой утебя не очень.
@@mishaten5548 Travel was less accessible back then
@@mishaten5548 Russian propaganda account
Anyone know what the thing at 1:18 is? Waterslide?
Ski jumps
They forgot to mention that the USSR lost the finale of the UEFA Europen Football Champinship from the Netherlands in 1988.
Футбол самое глупое о чём люди думают
@@CannelRu Соглашусь
Cry about it @@CannelRu
Gorbachev's soviet union should've stayed, he was starting to democratise it and make it more free but then yeltsin got rid of him and russia became a dictatorship again :(
Горбачев начал убивать весь смысл советской идиологии, сделал очень много ошибок, разорил страну, сделал ужасный дефицит, сильно разоружил страну, поддержал развал Варшавского договора, и это даже не половина. Ельцин тоже правил ужасно, так сказать пропил страну.
Лучше жить в как вы называете "диктатуре" но с полными полками в магазинах, регулярными зарплатами, не мизирным ввп чем "демократии" когда товаров на полках нет, во власти одни бандиты, президент пропивает страну и зарпллаты не платят месяцами
That's the point , with the policies Gorbachev implement Soviet union was tend to break awak. People lose confidence in country because of exposure to prosperous west , otherwise they would have continued well rather then having a turmoil. (Pardon me if there's any mistake I am not native English speaker)@@NoxTheXelor
Modern Russia economy is smaller then south Korea. Russia not doing well. @@NoxTheXelor
@@NoxTheXelor Есть ли шанс на то, что произойдет вторая революция? Существуют ли группы, которые все еще пытаются мобилизовать рабочий класс? 1:30
@@politicalchannel66 we are most definitely doing pretty good.
Can you post "Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Homecoming" 1995 Frontline documentary?
Качество звука настолько ужасное, что у меня мурашки по телу пошли и какое-то странное ощущения страха появилось
В фильме Астрал, по-моему, была сцена, где "по ту сторону" играл патефон похожим звучанием. Там еще, черт с красной мордой был.
Особенно в начале
ощущение, что сейчас аналоговый хоррор начнется, съемка располагает к этому)
This is more like 1968, than 1988.
Wow the subway looks similar in style to the DPRK subway in Pyongyang.
Well the country architecture was taken inspiration by Russian communist style arts
СССР помог там в строительстве метро
Эти вагоны из метро сейчас в Новосибирском метро катаются. Пиздец просто :(
они и в москве остались, всё нормально
хорошие вагоны, дверьми можно корову перерубить
@@Timsturbs удобно
Вчера видел их на Сокольнической линии, ездят вперемешку с Русичами и Москвой-2020, все с ними нормально
that looks like a dream
Some of those tanks in the military parade are probably in Ukraine right now
Love Moscow.
Wow and flutter in the audio is out of hand.
I noticed 2 different types of wow & flutter here. First on the ambience / music recordings (very heavily) and second one on the final videotape.
They are good.
It was all fun until some drunk guy ruined it
Moscow Morning Madness.
@3:09 Even the great? Who is this Even?
He is pronouncing Ivan the Great, just in a really weird way.
In the west he’s known as Even Almighty
Where is the Misha magazine
I grew up reading Misha! It was the best for learning English. :3
A different planet.
Even the bear was a model citizen.
The one shredding the flying V guitar looked a lot happier than the one with the muzzle carrying things.
roblox oof sound @ 3:37
Yagoda Superevent thumbnail
What the hell is that music
Moscow 1988 is the LAST place u wanna BE.
Introduces functions of capitalism and decreases beauracratic/security apparatus while engaged in a cold war.
Collapses a few years later.
Collapses so hard that the last leader ends up in a pizza hut commercial taking sponsorships from the US.
The music is warped btw, not sure why either but contrary to the Western audience's beliefs during the late 1980s Russian music did not sound like horror music.
The warped music is probably just a bad recording.
@otakardoubrava9679 You should add a note that says that. Viewers are going to assume people that lived in the East have a warped sense of musical taste.
Central planning had resulted in the USSR being stagnate industrially in the latter portion of its existence. The liberalization of the 80s was neither immediate nor comprehensive enough to compensate for the shortfalls of central planning. The USSR did not collapse because of (attempted) liberalization, it collapsed because the top-down method of economic coordination that it employed did not produce desirable results.
@user-gy1bu9gf8l This is factually incorrect on a multitude of levels. First off a capitalistic economy is naturally going to prioritize the economy itself, and all forms in which it is measured. Up until the 70s the Soviets were directly competing with US GDP growth rates and were outpacing ppp. Secondly the Soviets did reach some form of liberalization as they had been transitioning to a mixed economy, the following decades after making the efforts to implement this, living standards in the former USSR states plummeted below 19th century levels.
How do you suppose macroeconomics caused their collapse? Please expand on this. This is a minimal effort response, one could as easily comment and say, "their downfall was directly attributed to not maintaining a command economy, allowing privatized business to take advantage of low risk, non competitive markets"
Didn't work because "it didn't produce desirable results"
Do you know what's also not conducive to economic growth and QoL, coups in your country, and allowing the private sector to supersede the economy and control basic services and goods that would always have high demand but now doesn't have regulation or even price capping.
@@user-rg6ix2iz6z > Up until the 70s the Soviets were directly competing with US GDP growth rates and were outpacing
Of course the Soviets matched the US in terms of growth (never mind that the quality of the growth in the USSR was lower) as the complexity of their economy was lower than the US' to begin with. Another factor behind this growth was oil prices, which propped up the otherwise stagnate Soviet economy.
> ppp
ppp is a useless metric for a planned economy. Nice try though.
> transitioning to a mixed economy
Words have meanings. You are using the word "mixed" incorrectly here. At no point (aside from the 20s) was the Soviet economy ever "mixed".
> living standards in the former USSR states plummeted below 19th century levels.
What you say is laughably false. The only time when the Soviets made any sort of serious attempt at a mixed economy was in the 20s, which resulted in economic stabilization after Lenin's disastrous policy of nationalization left the economy in ruin.
> How do you suppose macroeconomics caused their collapse?
Very simply the economic situation increasingly become more unsatisfactory for the populace, and so the suppression of their freedoms became all the more glaring (such is beginning to happen in China).
> allowing the private sector to supersede the economy and control basic services and goods that would always have high demand but now doesn't have regulation or even price capping.
Worked in Poland and the Baltic states where they made a much more comprehensive attempt at liberalization than Russia.
4:38 Soviet Union being a superpower
4 years later: collapse
7:25 I don’t think that plan worked too well
and the same going to happen to the USA and a lot worse.
the USSR was illegally dismantled by Capitalists, it didn't "collapse"
Moscow never sleeps
Lore of Moscow in 1988 momentum 100
Those people really oppressed
You are the oppressed one brainwashed by propaganda. The people look happy
@@thedictationofallahno tf they weren’t, you can talk to anyone who’s been there in the 80s ( that didn’t visit just moscow) and they will tell you it’s not a pleasant place. i’m pretty sure your the one falling for propaganda.
Distorted in more than one way
Just to correct it a bit Moscow was taken by Kingdom of Poland, and was under Polish rule for about year long before Napoleon or Hitler failed attempts..btw Today's Russia have 1 of national Bank Holidays dates on ocasion to get rid of Polish occupational forces from Moscow..
czcams.com/video/JwYpeZ0fJjw/video.html
That's how Polish made it to Moscow 👍
стоит уточнить при каких условиях это произошло.
Least nationalist polish guy,forgot warsaw was in russian hands for 300 years xD
LOL, you paid for this occupation of Moscow with your state. Sections of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth go brrrr. But you continue to enjoy the two-year occupation of Moscow ;)
Poles trying to claim Lithuanian glory
Not much has changed it seems.
It's no more glasnost' here
It's hard to tell. Mausoleum not guarded anymore. There's alot political parties, but only one really rules everything. And that party not forbids, but forces all the hell of religions instead and suppress atheism. Army is no longer that important for government as it was. Governmant is not that easy on simple people. But stores and supermarkets are full of food and clothes. No queues.
@@FedotDaNeTodYou can say that there is only one party in Russia,cause others are either too weak to give any competition to United Russia,or are just puppets of United Russia.
@@user-zv9zc9bc2y kinda both. Other parties were supressed in early 00's. And now they just pretending they are real parties because they even stopped to send most strong/famous candidates to presidential election. This was actually started in Yeltsin times, when he fabricated results of 1996 election. So this "President" just improved practice of his predecessor. United Russia isn't real party as well. It's just bunch of persons the dragging any law that President wants through the parliament. United Russia also don't send their candidate on election. Putin always goes as independent candidate.
1:31 что с финляндией?
Жизнь потрепала
Пропенетрировали
💀
Американская география ☕
Это жопа мира 👍
8:43 broski is NOT the thinker
Wow, very modern and no poverty on the streets.
People were not rich, but had a stable, simple and mostly happy life ?
They still take dumps in a hole in the ground, can’t even imagine how backwards the sewer system and hygiene was back then.
I ❤ Russia
Lenin ❤
I don't wonder why this "documentary" seems to only show areas of Moscow that were the prerogative of the privileged few or their family and underlings.
I was born in Estonian Soviet Republic. I’ve been to Moscow once in 2007. It was nice actually. Drinking alcohol and smoking was not a problem for us the children. City was many times bigger than my home country.
It’s funny how we grew apart over the years. We made new friends with the other countries and Russia became the villain. Nowadays I would not go to the place again. I’ve got no love for these people and their government. Disappointing bunch of liars and traitors. Collective guilt is what they have for all those people they have killed and dreams they have destroyed. One day they fall. Better sooner rather than later
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I love Moscow the Soviet Union of USSR do you mean is the best❤❤🎉
Poland was occupying Moscow too.3:37.
All is well but the distorted music keeps killing me
The bear in the circus was very symbolic of the state of their fragile union
The alliance was strong, but Yeltsin and Gorbachev destroyed it
@@user-xy6eg2dd8t The people much like the bear are stronger than they know
@@dingus6317
the Soviet Union was illegally and undemocratically dismantled by capitalists, the many citizens of all republics democratically voted for the Union to remain, however; Gorbachev, Yeltsin, and many other capitalists influenced by, mainly, Washington D.C., dismantled the Union bringing about the worst period of economic crisis since the civil war - what the western media called "market's springing up due to natures call for the free market" was families selling their entire lives away because they now couldn't afford to live due to the major economic crisis cause by "shock therapy" where essentials to life were now privatized, where all industries were privatized and sold off to whom are now oligarchs in an economic model built for Russia by the US themselves - and with this economic model of profits above all, we have seen the;
Russian invasion of Georgia.
Russian invasion and meddling in Ukraine.
Russian meddling and halting protests in Kazakhstan.
Russian paramilitaries influencing right-wing coups.
Russia banning the LGBT and left-leaning ideals.
Russia has gone far-right much to the appraisal of US companies and government whom WANTED this to happen to justify excessive military spending and the opening of foreign markets to exploit the people of more nations.
What you call "strong people" we call "strong government who silence the voices of the working class". Do not comment on us if you don't want to hear the voices of the people you claim to know.
Viva la URRSS
Great old video,but I really hate these youtube commenters below.they should get rid of the comments section.
4:49 says 1985 not 1988
for some reason it feels like this video is AI generated, don't know why but it does
I don't see any of the bad things American propaganda told us about socialism.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ TROLL BOT WARNING.
The Soviet Union was so great, all of its states and those of the Warsaw Pact ran into the arms of NATO to ensure Russia would never be able to enslave them again.
To learn about America, I recommend the show 'Diff'rent Strokes'.
@@TwoPyramid I love this show, I used to watch it on "Nick at night".
La miniatura bro☠️☠️☠️
Es lo mejor
Kind of ironic ..there was more freedom in 1988 Moscow than 2023.....anyone imagine Putin out in red square chatting to everyday people like Gorbachev did....its sad to see what Russia has become, and what might of been.
Both Gorbachev and Yeltsin are the most Hated leaders in Russia. Both these guys were out of touch of reality. Just ask anyone in Russia 😂😂😂
Yeah, and it lead to total destruction and 2 decades of unimaginable suffering for most people in USSR, not just physical but also spiritual and mental, loss of identity, loss of community, loss of meaning of life. Putin is the direct consequence of these mindlessly dogmatic policies and actions that didn't account for the actual human needs and favored theoretical ideologies about what must work
Из Грузии капчуешь?
Мужик, тут люди яйца себе на красной площади прибивают к брусчатке, где ты видишь какую то жуткую несвободу? Если она для тебя измеряется тем, что какой то мужик из власти должен выходить на улицу с кем то поболтать, то мне очень грустно за то, как у тебя нагажено в голове
@@dipayanroy8300 and Putin is faithful follower of Gorby and Boris. He just fobids to hate him oficially.
It's good for people that the USSR exists no more but i kind of feel bad.
It was bad for the poor good for the rich even in communism there are rich and poor you are fooled people
@@jedifuture_x8080 i prefer socialist structure which is actually most countries trying to adopt.
It was the best country in the world.
How is it "good" lol
@@paul_ko It was still better than modern day Russia. At least in USSR a person feels hope for the wonderous future. In oligarchic Russia, there's only hope that the corrupt government and even more corrupt oligarchs all magically disappear in one day, with people who actually care for the common folk take charge of the country.
Glory to the empire
Indigenous people in Russian territories like to dance bc dancing is the only thing they are expected to do by the govt
Shoigu is Tuva ingigenous person, the mayor of Moscow Sobianin is Hanty from Siberia, Lavrov is half Armenian, to name the least, most current Russian tycoons and generals belong to many ethnical minorities. Just because you segregate in your own country it should not be so overseas.
@@liubaayna9559 oh sht up. where else did the East Asian communists learn the phrase 少數民族載歌載舞? You should know better
@@NUSORCA I am myself minority and I feel happy in my own country, BTW if you want to be understood use common language.
@@liubaayna9559 plz keep believing so. Don’t even give it a second thought
Gorbachev was a great leader.
Bro dissolved a powerful country into 15 different countries and caused many wars
He was American puppet.
Нет. В России его ненавидит буквально весь народ. Когда он недавно умер, куча народа радовалась.
who destroyed soviet union
I would rather live in 80s USSR than Putins Russia.
Both are hell, believe me.
I blame the dancing men with balalaikas, their mediocre performance has ruined the union.
America literally Ruined USSR😢...
The arms race with the U.S. certainly was a factor. However, the Soviet economy was being asked to prop up many satellite states like Cuba, which put a burden on the already struggling economy. The cost of the war in Afghanistan and the nuclear accident at Chernobyl were a factors as well. Mostly, people just wanted out of the communist system. They weren't blind. They could see the economic successes of western European nations and wondered why they also didn't have such luxuries.
@@texaswunderkind not the people but the elite. people barely knew what capitalism is due to iron curtain. but elite wanted to bring capitalism and live like western elite.
"the videos were taken by a young agent from Leningrad his name is Vladimir Putin"
Russia is the best 🇷🇺
Hi
GIANT RICH EUROPEAN NORTH KOREA
Such a huge country why cant they leave their neighbors alone?
Cold war problems, pretty much a war of idealism to see who will dominate the planet, that until the 80s cool down abit so I guess the 80s was awesome for everyone
You have been brainwashed, peaceful neighbors feel calm and safe...
ЭТО СОСЕДИ ОТ НАС НИКАК НЕ ОТСТАНУТ.....
Usa invaded Canada, Mexico, Grenada, Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Panama etc😊
At that time Ukraine was a part of this huge country, not a neighbor. Hence there was peace