How did the Soviets React to the Moon Landings? (Short Animated Documentary)
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What was the Soviet Reaction to the Moon Landings? They acknowledged the achievement but didn't make a fuss.
Isn't it funny that the Soviets admit that the Americans landed on the moon yet some Americans think the moon landing is a conspiracy
Keep being nasty to Russia they might spill the beans yet!
That's democracy for you. Or was.
Yeah Soviets in power admitted so. I'm sure a number of Soviet citizens thought it was faked to try and get an edge on the Soviet Union
Yeah, once they learned of the landings, the goal of the ill-fated Soviet moon program became to prove to the world that they were equal to the United States, rather than straight up better. Problem for them was that their flimsy N-1 rocket kept crashing. Like nearly everything else the Soviets built, it had problems because they didn't take the time to build stuff correctly.
Many non-Americans (especially from outside the Western bloc) are surprised that the hoax belief is even a thing. It should have been a moment of pride for Americans.
"Americans shamelessly invade Moon" that one got me lmao.
there might be oil
DID SOMEBODY SAY OIL
*_OIL ON THE MOON_*
A l l y o u r m o o n b e l o n g t o u s
"seize the moons of production"
A nice gesture was the medal Neil Armstrong left in the moon, which was a monument in honour of Yuri Gagarin. He died by the time and the apollo mission, or at least Armstrong, felt compelled to conmemorate fhe first human to ever be in space. So there is a US flag in the moon and a monument for the first cosmonaut.
Aahhh..
Yet-another instance which affirms why the US-NAZO RW going apeshit over "The First Man®" adaptation not showing the Star Spangled-Banner was as perfectly level-headed creative-licence and how they were right that they were honouring Late Sir Armstrong's worldview by not having that sequence in the final-cut of a film already infested with Star Spangled Banner everywhere: Keeps reflecting the warts of Human Civilisation.
2:23 State mandated fun
lmao
Holy crap its the stickman guy
Soviets when the USA lands on the moon
"nice job"
Americans when the USA land on the moon
"FAKE FAKE THIS IS SO FAKE"
Edit: damn the replies are just wars
And listen now to modern russians... They are ready to sell their own future to be convinced that it was faked.
That's depressing.
ImaginaryStranger like someone here cares about useless operation that happened half century ago.
It's a pretty convincing evidence to the legitimitacy of the moon landing, when even Soviet Union with their massive intelligence apparatus and an army of informants and spies, could not find even one spec of evidence questioning the truth. They admitted that the US beat them to the moon. Now, any idiot with an internet connection and Windows Moviemaker thinks they can unravel this "greatest lie of the century" with their poorly stiched conspiracy theory videos.
@@kirillstepanov3952 Это называется любопытство - штука которая превратила нас из мартышек в людей. Я слышал она полезна)
1957 American response to Sputnik: "Fuuuuuuuu..."
1969 Soviet response to Moon landing: "Cool. Whatever."
@Preston Hanson Soviets landed on the moon first with a rover.
@@VarietyGamerChannel Yes they did however, they did not get a person to actually land on it
@@VarietyGamerChannel too bad their space program is being beaten by every other countries
The Soviet response seemed more like "can we go home now?"
Felipe Jaquez Maybe Thats Because they don’t exist anymore?
Also space exploration is nothing more than a dick measuring contest.
Literally nothing useful comes out of it.
Even America saw how pointless it was.
In all it won’t matter unless se have the tech to stay... there. Other than that its an expensive road trip that has national ego’s behind it.
I would like to add something to the second part of the video, about how it was shown on television but not many people had television. Yet, what this video fails to mention, is that you can't measure how well it was known just from the number of televisions. I've talked to many older people in the Eastern Bloc who have seen the Moon landing on live TV, and MANY have seen it, because even though few people had television, when there was something interesting to watch, the whole neighborhood gathered at those who had a TV. I've heard many stories about interesting events (mainly football finals, but also the Moon landing) where the house of a TV owner was fully crowded by friends and neighbors and relatives who gathered specifically to watch that event.
Exacly!
Yes, I remember my 3rd grade teacher from more than 20 years ago telling our class this same thing, that back in the day people used to go to the houses of the few that had TVs and crowd around to watch something. Those bygone eras were a different world from today.
Nice.
My grandparents in Lebanon saw the moon landings on tv in a restaurant.
The whole neighbourhood was there all night long, as it happened during what for the Americas was prime time on the evening of July 20, but July 21 (as the video corectly states) for the rest of the world. In the case of Lebanon, the middle of the night.
I won't say they failed to mention it, they mentioned it as shortly as they can because they keeps their videos under five minutes.
The US Moon landing was broadcasted in Hungary. My father was in the military at the time (spending his 27 months consription) and he told that the soldiers were called into a room in the garrison to watch the Moon landing together.
"Marx my words"
That cracked me up so hard.
In the six day war he said "i swear to marx" that one really craked me up
Because you are dumb
Marc Magma had me dying loool
Ayn Rand collected Social Security, I'm a Marxist too, I do also. The Oilygarchists love to steal the money from the fund though.
@@robertrichard6107 I have to ask, how are they "stealing" money from the Social Security fund?
Trust me, if we faked the moon landing, these guys would be the first to shout it fro every mountain top
They didnt care, they knew we didnt go, they also knew that they couldnt go, Van allen belts prevent it until we find better shielding, many scientist have confirmed this.
@@billc2198 The Soviet Union poured a fortune into the space race. You're saying they didn't care about losing it and being seen to be behind the West? Then why did they try to beat the US to the moon? And which scientists have said that the Van Allen belt would prevent humans going to the moon? Is this like the biologists who claim evolution is false, but turn out not to be biologists at all?
@@georgebailey8179 They learned that the van allen belt radiation killed their animals, so it was pretty much game over, thats why we are not there today, the shielding needed makes the craft to heavy, a lightweight solution has not been developed, when it happens, we will have observatory's, bases, mining facility's and more on the moon.
@@billc2198 The answer to the Van Allen belt wasn't heavy shielding, but flying through it at great speed to minimise the exposure time. And you still haven't explained why you think the Soviet Union poured a fortune into winning the space race, only to go along with a lie that made them appear to have lost.
@@georgebailey8179 those comie had literally the most reason to say the moon landing is faked. So please answer us or you gonna say American government is also communist
As a Russian, I think that the fact of an American landing on the Moon was widely accepted in the USSR without trying to say that it was somehow "staged", because the Soviets thought of the space race as basically won by the USSR after sending the first man to space and bringing him back
"the Soviets thought of the space race as basically won by the USSR after sending the first man to space and bringing him back"
LOL
That's a bit like saying some sailor in 1400 was the first to circumnavigate the globe when he proved that he could sail around an island. Putting a man into orbit was not that much of an accomplishment, since it didn't do anything that couldn't've been done just as well with automation. What did Gagarin actually _do?_ He was essentially a passive sightseer on a trip that lasted less than 2 hours. (Also, technically, he didn't actually have a spaceflight, according to the FAI rules that required that a pilot must land *with* the spacecraft to be considered an official spaceflight. It was admitted decades later that he had jumped out of the capsule with his own parachute, and landed separately from it.)
And it's worth pointing out that at the time of Gagarin's launch, the Russians had attempted 24 launches, *12* of which had ended in failure -- some of them catastrophically, like the Nedelin Disaster in 1960, which killed 126 people on the ground (and was, of course, completely hushed-up).
They were the first people to put a human into orbit outside the planet, not the same as the analogy you offered. Trying to down play one of the most significant events in human history that's the real LOL 🙄 They also landed on Venus and Mars first, do they "win" now?
@@bricology Again, all I'm saying is that the fact that the USSR didn't doubt the Moon landing wasn't surprising. I don't really understand the question about what Gagarin did. Sitting in a spacecraft is just as small of a thing for a man as taking a step. But technical implications are useful. Once again, for the Soviets (not necessarily for me, and not necessarily for anyone else) Gararin's flight was something to celebrate and be proud of
First man in space is definitely something to be proud of
Which is interesting, since the Moon landing was a far more complex and ambitious task than sending a man into orbit. I guess itt depended on what the objectives of the space race were defined as for each nation, for the Soviets it seemed to be a way to prove their technological might as well as prove their ability to launch ballistic missiles around the Earth as a deterrent. For the Americans it was also a way to prove our technological might but also to achieve things that humans had dreamed about since the beginning of time
My father saw the moon landing on live TV in Czechoslovakia as a kid. It certainly wasn't overshadowed by "commemorating 20 years of communist rule". After all the 20 years anniversary was in February 68, while moon landing happened in July 69.
What is most failable than soviet moonlanding rover?
Westerner tries to depict Ussr as dark in every circumstance. And if they can't, at least grey. But it ended bad
Wish to rephrase your point, please - Mr "@@gabrieleguerrisi4335"?
@@gabrieleguerrisi4335 Yeah because they were dark, remember Stalin killed over 10 million soviets
"Do space stuff."
Hard to argue with that hard hitting science.
Khrushchev also demonstrated his intellect with his agrarian policy: "Do more corn."
@@MrZebeda He was not the brightest but he was certainly my favourite Soviet leader. The shoe-banging at the UN was just the cherry on top of his career.
@@mbogucki1 My faves are his many blunders that came from hard-to-translate Russian or Ukrainian expressions. Like the "Kuzka's mother" or the "We will bury you!" incidents.
But yeah the shoe-banging was pretty funny. Gotta love the Kukuruznik.
science.??
You just rat in compared wit Krushev.
The landing was actually transmitted on Polish television. My dad, a teenager at the time, watched it with his grandfather.
My dad recalls his grandfather telling him that if he could have told his buddies from the Polish Army who died in 1920 defending Warsaw against a Soviet invasion that he would be looking at a wooden box showing a man on the Moon, they would have told him to have his dumb bald head examined by a doctor... :)
Wow, truly sad
your great grandfather fought for poland against the Soviets, that's just badass
AdrianAtGaming what did you mean in the polish soviet war the poles were aggressors trying to expand there borders against a vulnerable newly created USSR
@@sachinshah931 don't blame the soldiers blame the politician. Beside his great grandfather is defending Warsaw not marching to Moscow
@@sachinshah931 Utter horseshit. Trotsky and Lenin tried to march to the Atlantic.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Soviet "Luna" missions, which eventually successfully returned lunar soil samples using un-manned systems. Very interesting missions for anyone who is curious.
He is selling Russian phobia.. so he won't
My wife lived in a remote village in Roumania at that time. There weren’t many televisions in the neighbourhood but every home with one was full of folk to watch the first lunar landing. The same probably applied in many other countries.
"State-mandated fun" You must party, can't kill the party but the party can
Avery the Cuban-American the best fun is getting Officer Sanchez 2
Ain't no party like a Communist party, because a Communist party is mandatory.
I think me and you must look at a lot of the same videos because I just read your comment on America uncovered
wtf i just saw you in potantial history new video you are slowly invading every comment section in history videos lol.
"Party or we ship you off to the gulag."
I still give massive props to the Soviets for landing on Venus, that crap is hard to do.
Yes, but in fairness, they were aiming for the moon at the time.
*clap clap*
Definitely not
U n i n t e n t i o n a l .
But still,
*clap clap*
i'd say they did better than the Americans. i mean, they got most "firsts", even landing on the moon first (although it was using a probe).
@@aureavita8653 that was intentional-crashing to be honest - there wasnt any landing gear or anything, and in the plan it was known the probe would be basically desintegrated after impact
but yea they put 1st object on the moon, and 1st object on moon orbit (?)
@@unbuiltarcher4646 what are you talking about? im saying that soviets didnt land on the moon before americans, because they were just crashing. i never said anything about venus
and moon doesnt have high temperature/pressure - the thing was that there wasnt technology to slow down the probe
Actually in my country (Romania, one of the "puppets") the first moon landing was broadcasted live on state TV and everybody was quiet excited about the event. Also in science books years afterwards the moon landings where a recurrent and very discussed subject.
You are still a ;puppet.
It was a puppet, I don't know why you put it in quotations
@@F.R.E.D.D2986 Because not putting it in quotations would be superficial. Things were not that simplistic as using a single word to define the relations the communist states had with USSR.
@@F.R.E.D.D2986 Ceauşescu was not a puppet but was a national-socialist tyrant who aimed to make Romania self-sufficient.
He stayed in the Warsaw Pact but did not take orders from Moscow beyond that.
He was basically an inept Franco. (A horrifically inept Franco.)
So basically,the response was like:
"Did you hear about the moon landing?"
"What? No. Did we finally get up there?"
"No, the Americans did."
"Oh. Wow. Huh. Good for them I guess."
"Yeah."
And American responses to Sputnik , we are all gonna diee aaahahahaha
And when they got there the aliens told them to get off and stay off the moon because it’s theirs 😂
@@KT79 can’t say I blame them. at that time they tension was probably higher and most Americans probably thought they would get nuked from space.
@@KT79 Its both sad but also understandable. Moon landing itself wouldn't have any military implication. But a orbiting object would (ICBM or space bombardment in general). I might be wrong, but I don't think there was as strong of a reaction to the Soviets being the first to send a man to space, first to have a space station, or conduct a space walk.
@@neurofiedyamato8763ol I'm trying very hard not to be mean but that's VERY fucking wrong. It's a known fact how jealous and incredibly furious and even TERRIFIED the whole country was, the Nazis in NASA, and especially our elites😂😂
Just imagining what a joint Soviet-American moon mission would’ve been like & done for Cold War tensions.
Kennedy actually offered krushchev the opportunity the combine both nation's lunar programs and krushchev was willing to accept it.
That's the history in Prey 2017
@@gamenerd808 I guess the assasination of Kennedy killed that proposal?
2010 movie?
@@alexanderchristopher6237 yeah unfortunately.
Apparently according to Khrushchev's son after the Cuban missile crisis, JFK and Khrushchev both wanted the US and the USSR to work together on their space programs as a way of bringing the two sides together.
But JFK was shot and Khrushchev was ousted shortly after the event.
I always wonder what the world could have been like if this had been achieved and could this have brought the two sides together.
@@deisk2707 Nice conspiracy theory you have there.
Kruschev was overthrown during the Voskhod 2 mission, and nobody told the cosmonauts. They came down and got the standard meet and greet with the leader, and only then discovered it was no longer Kruschev.
And yet, U2 crisis came up after that
@@yannikoloff7659 No it didn't. the U2 Crisis occurred in 1960, before Kennedy was even elected.
Now the Americans are fighting with the Russians cos of liberal party running USA
0:35 i like how buzz seems unbothered about neil just carelessly floating away
Tim Curry: "I'm escaping to the ONE place that hasn't been corrupted by Capitalism... SPACE!!"
NASA: "Well yes but actually no."
"Printed in English for some reason" Sci-fi creators everytime thay have to show Aliens communicating with humans
I read a story once where humanity meets aliens and we tried to communicate using binary language.
It was fucking boring.
@@Handlesaredumbm8 We would've have purged those aliens and try to force our religion into them.
And yes, in that order
@@ls200076 I feel like that Is a reference to something
Most shows or movies I’ve seen with humans and aliens interacting usually have a believable explanation for it. Like in Star Wars, instead of “English” it’s called “Galactic Basic” And is used as a universal base language for any form of interspecies/interplanetary communication.
Or in most other shows/movies, the aliens have some sort of advanced tech that translates everything anybody in the vicinity says instantly, so both groups hear whatever they understand (or something of the sort)
@@inserisciunnome the crusade (I am pretty sure that's what he is referencing)
Cool factoid: During the Apollo 13 mission, the USSR ordered their military and also their... *allied countries* to stop using radar and communications in the radio bands Apollo used to communicate with ground control to minimize the interference with Apollo 13's low power communications. They also did a lot of 'how can we help' brainstorming on their side, but given the time window involved even if they had some ability to help in some way, they could not have launched with the short prep time.
As far as keeping it secret; Soviet people had short wave radios, and there were specific short wave stations pointed into the Eastern Block to disseminate 'good democracy info'.
The Soviet Union is proof enough that the Moon landing wasn't fake. If the US tried to fake it, the Soviets would have known, and boy would they have made the US out as a laughing stock, for faking a Moon landing.
Copper Hamster just out of curiosity where did you get that from?
@@mrbisshie in fact, the Soviet Union studied and verified the moon landing independently.
@@rockthered8706 I'll see if I can remember exactly but it was a book on the space race in general. I remember that there were only a few notes on Apollo 13 as it said the subject had been covered in more completeness in other author's books.
@@mrbisshie Tinfoil wearing neckbeard: Aha! But you see, it makes perfect sense it is fake since the entire world is run by illuminaty free masons that want to sacrifice our babies to Satan
This is actually really cool how they responded. No significant anger or whatever - nice to see some humanity every once in a while.
Well, there was nothing to be angry about. It's not as though it came as a surprise. The Moon landing had been established as a national goal in 1961, and it had been very clear since at least 1967 that, barring disaster, we were going to do it. The Soviet leadership had kept their Moon program a big secret so that, when disaster did happen in the form of their Moon rocket blowing up, no one knew about it. They had plenty of time to prepare their response and decide how they wanted the story to be told to their people.
@@odysseusrex5908 I think the point was that the idea that one country are the good guys, and other bad, is a bit reductive.
@@Hexon66 Read the writings of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or other victims of Communism, or The Black Book of Communism, and decide who the good and bad guys were. Russians were no more the bad guys than Germans were in World War II. It was not the people, it was the ideology and the Party under which they were enslaved.
@@odysseusrex5908True, but it wasn’t as systematic and also claiming the entire nation was evil theough and trough is reductive of every state. There are billionaires in the USA, doesn’t make everyone else rich. There are hookers, drug addicts, mass murderers and starving people in the US too, doesn’t make it a third world nation
To be honest, both sides claim victory with the same level of zest and national pride. The Soviets claim they won the space race because they were the first to put a man into space, and it was a space race not a moon race. Which is factually correct. The Americans claim they won because they were the first to put a man on the moon, because the space race was all about sending missions to other planets. Which is also factually correct.
If you compare the education history curriculum of both nations, neither one denies the achievement of the other - they just hype their own to be the 'bigger achievement of the two'.
Sending missions to other planets seems like a creative post hoc narrative.
Americans or at least American textbooks don’t claim America won the space race, the line goes that ‘the USA wanted to be the first to the moon in order to overshadow the USSR’s space achievements’ at least in my public school textbooks
My grandma lived in Moscow at the time Americans landed on the moon. She said, she was excited because of the landing and told her grandmother that people are walking on the moon.
Her grandmother was old and uneducated so she responded "People are telling fairytales and you believe them, you silly"
Lol.
If we could go far back in time and tell people about today's technology most of them would hear a story about magic. Same if we could go far to the far future. From our perspective we are gonna meet god or gods.
Unfortunately, many Americans are like your great great grandmother who believes the moon landing to be hoax.
Her grandmother was smart. Dont believe everything what somebody tells.
@@botcontador3286 Just wait until the Singularity hits.
I read an interview with Alexei Leonov. He said he had a mix of jealousy and respect. He’d rather have been there, but he was still proud the US was.
He should not have Regret it.
I really miss the longer videos please bring them back!!
2:16 West Berlin is not shaded red. That’s nice attention to detail.
look Caucasus :(
As far as I know the Moon landing was huge in Romania. It wasn't ignored at all, it ran on TV, many discussions about it, huge articles in all the newspapers. Even the US embassy organized stuff. It was treated like a celebration of human achievement.
Ceauşescu Crater 😛
that's interesting, honestly would be better if it was treated more like a celebration of human achievement and not just one side of an ideological cold war getting something first.
Because it was. It simply just couldn't be faked, and I wasn't. People here in tbe U.S are being ignorant.
@@bboi1489 I'm sure there are British who believe we faked the Moon landings. Idiots exist across all nationalities, after all.
@@Cjnw You are onto something here.
Ceauşescu - head of state since 1967 - did keep his nation inside the Warsaw Pact. He was after all surrounded on most sides by Soviet sycophants, esp. Bulgaria.
But he deliberately kept his country autarkic. He didn't care for whatever was coming out of Moscow; he was running his own propaganda-regime, and if it annoyed the Russians, that was fine for Romanians.
you're pretty generous with the quantity of hair you gave to khrushchev
Hail Lobster
0:40 could you image Neil and Buzz just walking outside and seeing that crash to ground and then realizing who that was 😂
I love your channel keep up the great stuff!
It was actually broadcast in Poland. My dad was 10 years old at the time and talks about how people gathered in his apartment complex gathered around the one TV to watch it and how impressed everyone was.
It may depend on region - for instance, my dad told me that he and his family heard it, but no one really cared.
Poland under commie occupation sounds like a blissful existence.
Any person regardless of their nationality should be in awe of the old Soviet space program. These cosmonauts had the "right stuff" and deserve equal admiration in the exploration of space.
Yup. First ever living thing and then woman in space
The leader of the program was both a scientific and administrative genius.
Sergei Pavlovich Korolev
We shouldn't forget the human cost of these missions however. The USSR had far less scruples in sending men to their deaths, you can actually find audio on the internet of cosmonauts dying in re-entry and blaming their government for how unsafe the programs were
Another great video!
Actually, it’s easy to know reactions in the Soviet space program. Two of the bigwigs at the time, TsKBEM chief Vasily Mishin and head of cosmonaut training Nikolai Kamanin, both sold their journals at the fall of the Soviet Union.
They could have gotten thousands of lumberjacks to cut a giant "MEH" into the Siberian forest.
If the Chinese did that, there would be…
CoViD-69
*clap clap*
If the swedish did that, there would be..
I hAtE IKEA
English "MEH" would just look like "men" for russians and it wouldn't mean anything
@@thechto-to3151 the thought of chopping a load of trees down to spell "men" really tickled me.
@@BigyetiTechnologies men moment
Soviet's big problem was that their leader spacecraft designer died and they had to look for new constructors. Also they had smaller engines than the americans so they had to use multiple of them which multiplied a chance of failure, and then asimetric thrust which would lead to a crash.
The thing you did not mention, was that Luna program actually succeded and Russians were first to land on the moon with an unmanned ship.
Also fun fact, Americans had taken a small soviet flag on the first moon landing, then after they returned they gave that flag to the soviets. Now it is displayed in the Cosmonautics mMuseum in Moscow
Good vid as always, cheers
The Soviets, I saw this mentioned on tv here in the US, had great first stage boosters. The US had great upper stages. The Saturn V changed that.
I'm pretty sure if the Americans actually wanted to put a lifeless object on the moon they'd beat the soviets 😅😅😅 - it's a pretty cheap thing to do...
Compared to putting a live human being AND objects on the moon *AND BACK* in one try, which they focused all their resources, tests, and runs on.
@Complexus the American test flights were also manned. US astronauts orbited the moon and even descended a Lunar Lander most of the way without landing prior to the mission that actually landed.
As an example that the Soviet lunar rocket, named N-1, and its 30-engines first stage was a very complex mechanism, every single of the test launches failed. Mostly because the rocket's computer, and soviet computer science in general, was behind the western block's computer science. With the last one, the third or fourth, I don't exactly remember which one it was, following an engine problem that shouldn't lead to that outcome, the computer ordered the emergency shutdown of all but two of the engines, shortly after launch. When the rocket fell back, it obliterated the launch installations, with one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions of recorded history. This wasn't that long before Appollo 11 was launched.
But the engines themelves were the opposite of the computer, as, over 20 years after the end of the soviet lunar program, having survived recycling by being disguised as scrap and hidden by the man who conceived and perfected them, they were sold to someone in the USA, and still were impressive to those who studied them.
Soviet big problem was that Korolev never wanted to go to the Moon after the successful and orbital mission and EVAs. SU had space station program actively going on, but after JFK announced the moon race plan they had to change their plans and try to catch up, while lagging 2 to 3 years behind (the time Saturn was in the development already). So they did what they could, invented the most reliable space craft, closed cycle engines, and guidance systems that later were used in space station program. But N1 design failed, yes.
0:58 quite possibly my favorite frame out of all your videos.
The event had great coverage in Romania. My father still talks about it and how it overshadowed the communism anniversary celebrations.
Is it just me, or does a joint Soviet and American space-landing sound strangely wholesome?
well at least they did that with space station. in the earliest days it was only USA and Russians, other countries joined later, and these 2 still play a major role there.
There was a joint docking of Soyuz-Appolo crafts and also Russia created ISS which is a modernized variant of Mir station.
@@user-bn1zd3us5l NASA created ISS with help of various agencies around the world like RosCosmos (Russia) ESA (Europe) and many others.
NASA and Russia were the biggest contributors. but russians didnt make it, they just added a lot of modules. tho USA made the 1st one
All of MIR Space Stations were destroyed
It' wholesome 💯
@@wojtekpolska1013 Yeah. The former rivals are the biggest contributors to the space race, and used their experience to build together in space.
(Technically, the first module was supposed to be the US's Unity docking node, but the Russians launched the Zarya module first. The two were then connected once Unity joined up.)
Here's an interesting one : What does Vietnam think about the Vietnam war and how do the Vietnamese feel about it to this day ?
It split the country. A lot of South Vietnamese fled the country in the years following the end of the war. Almost 800,000 by any means between 1975 and 1995 (Wiki).
Also there are still tons of unexploded bombs that kill people pretty much every week and compared to other nations a lot of Vietnamese babies are born deformed caused by all the toxins US dumped on their lands
The Vietnamese, currently, depends on the generation. Younger people see it as something that happened a long time ago. They care about it in the same way a young American cares about WW2.
Also, while an American will say that the Vietnam War was for communism, if you ask any Vietnamese, young or old, he will reply that the Vietnam War was their war of independence. To them, the Vietnam War was their 1776.
I currently live in Vietnam as an America. No Vietnamese are not still angry about it. You will occasionaly meet some older Vietnamese that are suspicious of you, but a majority of the time the reaction to being America is either indifference or admiration. Most Vietnamese these days hate their governemnt more than any other and will constantly express a desire to move to the UK, Canada or America. Yes there is still the problem of unexploded bombs and deformities from chemicals Americans use. The undenonated bombs are mostly in the country side and hills. Nobody calls it the "Resistance war Against America" 90% of the time it's called the either the Independance war or Civil War.
My understanding is that there was a huge shift in opinions over the last few decades because of China. Vietnam has become an American ally and neighboring China fought a series of skirmishes with Vietnam over disputed pieces of border from 1979 up until the early 90's. Naturally Vietnam began to cozy up to America because we were good counterweight to Chinese aggression. Today, the Vietnamese people have an overwhelmingly positive view of America.
I love the realistic bouncing effect on the moon in 1:25
My understanding is that U.S. and Soviet scientists personally didn't care that much for the Cold War or ideological differences, they just wanted to do space stuff and often worked with each other.
I've even heard they helped each other at times.
Interesting. I've always thought it strange that the Soviets didn't engage in denialism or any sort of informational suppression with respect to the American "win." Seems like the circumstances were such that by that time, they simply didn't care, running the space race but really just wanting to get home to play some classic Wow
It was impossible to suppress information about such an event. "No big deal" was the best response in such a situation.
jurisprudens their people probably wouldn’t have known until the final of the USSR tho
YTS Man, I am Russian, I know what was and was not possible in the USSR. It was not North Korea. It allowed foreign tourists in. It could not hide reality from its people to that extent
They had plenty of things on their record, which was especially impressive given that the country just a quarter century before was ravaged by Fascist Europe, was just 16 years before led by a megalomaniac known as Stalin (who by the time the Moon landings happened, was not as liked as he was before with Khrushchev's denouncement of him), and who two generations ago, had almost no industry of any kind. Getting the first probe, man, woman, and dog in space, probes to the Moon, probes on Venus even, and later, the first space station (Mir, the Russian word for Peace), that was already plenty for anyone who worked on those projects to be rightly proud of.
Robert Jarman Don’t get me wrong, I am Russian and I give my country lots of credit where it belongs, but all those cliches should not be exaggerated. Russia has a lot of industry already before the revolution. The WWII harmed the civilian population and the infrastructure greatly; however, the industrial capacity of the country during the war increased rather than decreased: we had hell a lot of resources. Finally, sending first man to space was a big feat, but I don’t think sending first dog or first woman in space counts as a big scientific achievement per se
The Soviets didn't mind, they were just waiting
In Soviet Russia, Moon comes to you
TheBlueHavoc9 Hopefully it comes in the morning.
@TheBlueHavoc9 Exactly.
Fucking world just blows up
Except it actually moves away from Earth for several cm a year, if I remember correctly.
*END OF FIRST DAY*
0:25 France and UK are busy with there problems with Egypt lol😅😅😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
0:01
Neil Armstrong: EAT IT, COMMIES!
My family, which lived in Communist Poland at the time remembers the landing as something big, with nearly everyone watching the event, possibly with family or neighbours if one didn't own a TV. While it may have or may have not been well covered on the news, it was broadcasted and people DID care. It was something huge even, or especially for the people of the eastern block (or at least urban Poland).
Soviets: puts an object in orbit
Americans: *YOU DIRTY COMMIES!*
Americans: puts a man on the moon
Soviets: good job guys
That's the difference between taking up a challenge, and admitting defeat.
Odysseus Rex At least they’re being good sport about it.
Yeah, they were good sports. All those in the gulags and those at the bottom of the sea felt their soviet overlords magnanimity.
@@jacklynch3333 there were no gulags after 1954. Almost all innocent prisoners were rehabilitated under Khrushchev leadership.
@@robotko_ruslan Bullshit, the gulags continued to operate in official capacity until 1987. They were filled with political prisoners arrested and convicted of being democratic activists or not being communist enough.
My Dad was working for the US Department of Energy and had occasion to give a talk at Dubna, the Soviet's main nuclear lab, in the fall of 1969 -- as gifts be brought along a big stack of the commemorative edition of LIFE magazine put out right after Apollo 11 (as well as a big stack of glossies from the landing). These were very well received by his hosts, as you can imagine, who had seen some footage and a few stills but nothing like you got in that one.
The US Department of Energy was not created until 1977.
@@jokeblowerand for anyone that reads this, this is why I never believe anything I read on the internet.
To be fair, the American response to Sputnik was kind of understandable. In an era of fears of a potential rain of nuclear warheads on one's country, suddenly realizing your rival could drop nukes on you (in theory) from orbit when you hadn't even stood up a space program would be pretty terrifying.
By contrast, the Soviets had already been in space many times by the moon landing, and the moon isn't exactly close enough for an effective first strike or retaliatory nuclear salvo, per se, and at that point, spaceflight was over 10 years old and they had gotten there first.
And don't forget the Cuban Missile Crisis had already occurred in the intervening years. And after Cuba/Turkey nuclear missiles had been removed, it's understandable how missiles from the moon were a bit less of a concern. After all, common knowledge at the time was that the moon was slightly farther away than Turkey to the USSR or Cuba to the US mainland. :)
Agreed. The key difference is the ability to put a payload in orbit shows they have or are close to having the ability to launch ICBMs; landing on the Moon is more difficult but not a demonstration of a threat.
We landed on the Moon before the Americans. The Moon’s cheese belongs to the Hermit Kingdom
ok jong
Supreme Leader 🙌🏻
Kim Jong-un what you do if your son took power and let South Korea annex the north?
(We will pretend the people like it, there is no way south is better)
@@randomidiot9890 If his son got that far he would most certainly be in a lot of trouble
The Marionettes were first, see Fireball XL-5.
How you know the moon landing was real: the Soviets didn't even consider calling it a hoax.
Soviets were bought by the States for Soviet silence about Statian fraud of Moon landings.
@@Symon_Kupala did you wear a tin foil hat when you are typing that?
@@spartan1503, why did I need a tin foil hat?
Isn't that the conspiracy Theoriest starter pack?
Soviets were part of the masonic establishment, wake up
Thanks for making this video 3 minutes instead of 20 like most others would have. I don't get the obsession with making 20-minute videos to explain fairly simple things.
great vid
This guy never has midroll ads. You have no idea how much I appreciate that
Apollo 11 was one of those few moments in time when the whole world came together to witness and celebrate an astonishing feat by human kind. Unfortunately i was only 1 yr old at the time. Would have loved to watch it live on tv as it happened.
I watched it on live TV. I was 9. I'm hoping to be part of a small group of people to witness both a Moon landing and Mars landing. Would be pretty cool.
One of tthe biggest reasons I believe we landed on the moon is because the Soviets didn't deny or challenge the fact that we got there.
Close. The biggest reason we landed on the moon is because Nazi scientists were rescued from Germany by the US and brought back to the US to create NASA.
USA : *"We landed on Moon!"*
USSR / СССР : *"You mean **_OUR_** MOON !!!"*
USSR: And *we* landed on the moon
USSR: And it’s *our* victory!
Do people still laugh this?
@@cantutmez8854 To The GULag!!!
I think their muted response makes sense, though. Compared to the American response to sputnik. By this point, the USSR had a variety of successes to fall back on. They got to space first and all in all made the most scientific contributions up to that point, all be it narrowly. They clearly weren't lame ducks in the space race. The USA getting to the moon first just wasn't as much of an embarrassment for the USSR as Sputnik was for the USA.
In the video it's pointed out that the space race was all about military posturing. By the time the Americans landed on the moon. The USSR had already proven that they were indeed capable of striking anywhere on the globe.
"In the video it's pointed out that the space race was all about military posturing. By the time the Americans landed on the moon. The USSR had already proven that they were indeed capable of striking anywhere on the globe."
USSR: **Collapses**
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no well yeah. But not till decades after the moon landings. They were certainly threatening at the time is all I mean .
@@lordundeadrat "They were certainly threatening at the time is all I mean."
USSR: **Holodomor, Famines, Resource Shortages and an Economy fully dependent on two natural resources instead of trade & commerce**
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no You know the Soviet Union too poorly ...
@@KevinJohnson-cv2no bruh, despite all that s*, they still are threatening, like, they still have one of the biggest army in the world, still able to project their influence internationally, and also one of the biggest nuclear arsenal in the world
Even the Soviets admitted that it was real and there are still people who claim it is fake. It's so sad really
This. If you think Moon Landing was fake, they you either 1) deny that the Cold War and basically all of Post-War History happened, or you really didn't think your position through to the end.
Cool short vid
"Marx My Words"
I love it. 😂
When are you going to do your Orthodox Church during the Protestant Reformation
Orthodox: Well at least they're not sending more crusades against us.
@Vagtam democracy killed more people,than communism.
Fuck all religions.
It was pointless. The big atraction for political leaders (dukes, kings, counts, princeps, etc.) to push the protestant reformation was seizing of catholic goods like churches and monasteries.
The orthodox churches already were pretty much nationalised, every king or emperor was adept to one orthodox archipatriarch.
So without the support of a German Prince and his army, any reformant Preacher got lost.
@@redditoscor9040 Democracy and communism are both egalitarian political religions.
Claiming victory by reaching the moon in a SPACE RACE seems kind of like claiming victory on mile 50 of a marathon, after having already lost the race back at the finish line.
The winner of the race is the first one to cross the finish line, not the first out of the blocks.
@@odysseusrex5908 so why does the finish has to be man landing on the Moon, and not for example on the Mars or man in open space or just landing on the Moon/Mars (not man) etc.?
@@aldebenevmg Because that was the defined contest at the time.
@@odysseusrex5908 I agree it was a fair race to the moon and the Americans actually won it. But why call it the Space Race? Its extremely misleading when you hear that Americans won the Space race which then you assume they were the first to space, which I assumed myself when I heard about it. The Lunar Race is a much better title imo, or even Moon Race if we're feeling lazy.
@@unlimited8410 It's the space race because the race was in space.
Thank you.👍
If it was a "Space Race" then the Soviets kinda won didn't they? First in space, first orbit, first man in space, first woman in space, first to throw a doggy n monkey into space (RIP).
If they called it "The Moon Race" then yeah I guess the Americans won it. Either way, both sides helped egg each other on to great feats of science and engineering.
The diffrence is, it came with the added cost of stuff dying in space. US mainly avoided deaths in space, closest being Apollo 13. Which is one major factor to why they were only first to land on the moon and nothing else.
Not to mention the Soviets lost intrest in the space race around the time, they were wanting to land a person on the moon eventually, but never came around to it.
Its true when they said the Soviets were Engineers and the US were scientists.
Slight correction: the US did have some rocket disasters in the 1980s.
America is the guy who changes a best of 1 to a best of 3 when they lose.
@toaritok who decided it was a 3 laps race?
They also got the first robots on the moon and on Venus, the latter ones being the source of the only photos we have of that planet's surface. And later on they would build the first space station.
If you go by a point system where every accomplishment is worth exactly one point, no matter how difficult or complicated it is, then you could say the Soviets won.
0:59 no one's gonna talk about this newspaper?
Alexei Leonov was a skilled artist and an impressive cosmonaut. He was not only a tribute to his country, but to space exploration as a whole.
It's beautiful that many scientists had a more positive reaction.
Soviet Union after the US lands on the moon: Hey, nice job!
US when the USSR went to space first: COMMIE BASTARDS AHHHHH
The animation during the first 0:02 of this video itself should get you an Oscar.
So great to see that one of the singers from 80s dance-pop group Exposě is a big supporter of this channel
Meanwhile American citizens “ Muuun landing fake! Hurr durr”
The USA: WE LANDED ON THE MOON!
The USSR: Damn that's crazy bro but did I ask?
You sound so supportive of the Soviet Union!
@@scottydu81 It was just satire. I'm actually reading the Gulag Arcepelago (may have spelt that wrong) right now and the Soviet government was a corrupt and evil entity.
@@zmanawsome I shouldn’t have been so accusatory. Historical dudebro discourse ftw
@@scottydu81 dude you are copying and pasting that comment on every thread get a life
@@zmanawsome I mean, wasn't the Gulags like normal prison post war and after Stalin's death.
"That's no Moon. It's a space station."
And you have summed up the first book from Empire from the Ashes
Romania also had the event live on television. Pretty exciting in the words of people who saw it.
Good to see how much has changed now that, with the ISS, they're working so closely together.
Really cool you guys also focus on lesser known topics of perspectives in history!
I would have loved to see a joint USA and USSR moon landing
Watch the movie "Armageddon" that's as close as you're gonna get I'm afraid
@@TheFlyingCougar well, the closest thing to that is the US-Russia space agency cooperation in the ISS, whether in joint missions or resupply missions.
@@alexanderchristopher6237 USA and USSR worked together in the Apollo Soyuz program, they docked two space modules in space and cosmonauts from both countries joined together in space. Also, in the movie Superman II (1980) there are cosmonauts from USA and USSR working on the moon.
Until 1 sabotages it and blames the other and the nukes come out
Russia was also at a great disadvantage because of location. Their launch facility was much further north than ours. This means it is 'traveling' at a slower speed than ours, which is much closer to the equator. This loss of initial launch speed means it's much harder to reach 25K MPH needed to reach the moon. You need bigger engines and more fuel, both of which add weight....which means even more fuel to carry the fuel to speed. I read somewhere they would have needed 2 extra engines and 1 1/2 more Saturn 5 stages to accomplish the same thing we did. Not sure my numbers are exact, but you get the picture.
The best part of this video is the angry man walking in stage right with a sign that says “How Much?”
The USSR went from a peasant society to putting the first satellite in orbit and first man in space in only 35 years
All Big Empires can do that
ASIAN AMERICAN PATRIOT Lol name one other
@@vuducanh2k5 "all big empires can"
What
just saying ;)
And it only cost millions of lives!
Many forget that the Soviets and the Chinese were going at it in a minor conflict in August 69, a dust up that could have gone major, even nuclear.
Many forget that NASA was created by the Nazi scientists that the US brought back from Germany after the war... the same scientists that committed horrible atrocities on the Jewish people.
The fact that the USSR confirmed that it happened to me is the best evidence that we actually landed on the moon.
As far as I know, in Hungary, part of the moon landing event was broadcast live on television, they even had an expert on TV narrating it. However, because of timezone differences and because it took longer to get there than planned, the actual landing was broadcast the next day, instead.
>Soviets launch Sputnik
USA: *ohshitohfuckohshitohfuckohshitohfuck*
>Americans go on the Moon
USSR: gj i guess
Britain had the first dog on the moon, landing in 1989. The mission was not repeated, due to the moon cheese tasting nothing like Wensleydale.
Joke's on them, moon cheese shares started soaring soon after.
Fun fact: Poland in its history sent one man in space, Mirosław Hermaszewski, in 1978 as part of ,,Interkosmos" Soviet project. It also turned out to be so expensive, that 1st Secretary of Central Committee of Polish United Workers' Party (KC PZPR for short), Comrade Edward Gierek, had got a heart attack as soon as he saw a bill.
Despite the limited number of televisions, the moon landing was very popular as a hole street (or village) could gather around a single TV set. Everyone was so impressed and it was a popular subject for decades! Someone said he could never again look at the Moon in same way.
Don't diminish the effect of the Moon landing on Warsaw Pact countries. What Americans did was was so amazing that anyone could praised it without fear - it was a humanity achievement.
The USSR: First man in space, first woman in space, first moonwalk, first animal in space, first craft on the moon, first craft on venus, first spacecraft on mars, first space station
USA: First man on the moon
USA: Yep looks like I won guys🥳🥳
2:40 south Caucasus not colored as part of the USSR
Viva Armenia!
good catch
In 1969, TVs were quite widespread though, at least in urban areas.
What part of the USSR did you live in?
I remember TVs being a symbol of wealth even in the early 90s in my town in Poland.
Kurtownia not even asian countries in the 90’s were that poor
Well my town was a shithole, admittedly.
Lol poor Poland, in USSR anywhere was a TV black-white.But in 1980 started made colorful TV.
I'm gonna shamelessly plug For all Mankind here, since it posits a world where the Soviets got there first. The opening scene is great.
The stuffing was knocked out of the Soviet Moon effort when their homegrown rocket genius Sergei Korolev died. Given his very existence was a state secret, the USA didn’t find out about it until much, much later -- after they had already successfully landed on the Moon.
The fact that Korolev had had his health fatally weakened by being in one of Stalin’s Gulags was of course a factor.
Next video: World's reaction to North Korean astronaut landing on the Sun lol
Landing on the Sun would be a _very_ impressive achievement TBF.
@@darryljones3009 It's just important to remember to go there during the night.
@@jeanvonestling7408
Yeah otherwise your skin would get dark if you land on sun during the day.
I saw that too lol
@@darryljones3009 Not by itself, if they could prove he was still alive before the corona or solar winds destroyed the ship it would be impressive.