Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris
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A Complete History Of The Soviet Union Through The Eyes Of A Humble Worker, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris.
Music by "Pig With The Face Of A Boy"
Written and performed by DONALD NEWHOLM and DAN WOODS, with MALCOLM GAYNER & ROBIN HARRIS
Photographed by TIM JORDAN
Costumes by LUCY NEWHOLM
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me: *Buys a snack*
the entire class: *THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE NOW BELONGS TO THE STATE*
Python ology its quite annoying
One time I gave a friend the small bag of chips and it ended up being the most packed
edit: jesus this comment jumped
Me: Opens Pack of Gum at School
Every Person At School: THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE NOW BELONGS TO THE STATE
Plate?
stupid
The tetris lore was deeper than I remembered it
Same
what's the point of it all when you're building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears?
@@emberhermin52 idk
@@emberhermin52 sir this is a Wendy's and you're making me rethink my political views.
This is only the beginning
"When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there"
Who would've thought that was gonna be the first line to become outdated?
Capitalism is so strong it won't even take that long for them to open again, just you wait
Damn...
It ain't out of love for ukraine. It's because they can say "look, we did good" while also not risking assets stored in a currency under sanction.
@@marcush4741 Agreed. And it's not like it's gonna hurt Putin. This is just gonna affect the citizens of Russia, not the government.
@@Silverwind87 it's true. As for me as a citizen of Russia I don't know how to live into the future. Have no f-ing idea... Have no appartunity to leave.
I love how it starts off as a funny and relatable parody and slowly gets more and more psychopathic and terrifying.
Yeah that's the point
Just like the USSR!
If you know history of Tsarist Russia, the beginning is actually fairly accurate
"we shall regain the georgian soil"
this is so eerie, and we know it was "georgian" mainly because it flows better in the song, it could very well have been "ukrainian"
@@malcolmreynolds4099 No, it's Georgian because there was a Russian-Georgian conflict in 2008
When you work at a store:
"I am the man who arranges the crocs"
I love you
@n8yboi well then, I'll delete my comment for ruining a comment
@@thegiantchocolatedinosaur3019 wait what did you say
@@TM-qk2yy I said another lyric. It was:
"That come upon me from in the back."
@@thegiantchocolatedinosaur3019 oh, that's not terrible.
"I promise I won't get political."
Not even three drinks later:
LMAO
LMFAO
i am 11 so it had to cost me some time to get it but lmoa
update: 12
update: 13
update: 14 (midway)
1 shot of strong vodka poured by a Russian immigrant
me when i'm sober:
I like how he goes from a socialist revolutionary, to a high ranking official, to an anticommunist, to a communist again
I think the communist in the post-USSR part is supposed to be someone else
@@kaydenhubert4085 I think the post part is his son or grandson
We meet once more.
@@petergriffinfunnies it seems we do Mr. Funnies
From a socialist Revolutionary to a caucassian anti stalinist revisionist in siberia to a general in the red army to a KGB Agent to a GDR citizen to a gorbachev fan
"Pointless work for pointless pay" really feeling that
Capitalism moment
@@thraexgladiator *communism
@@thraexgladiator well that doesn't capitalism it applies to every system
@@user-xw5cp4mo9p Moneyless systems tho?
@@thraexgladiator expect for a system to work it need some for compression to work
This is the story of a bricklayer who became a labor leader during the Revolution, became a Party apparatchik during the Civil War and its aftermath, overseeing construction and industry. He rose to prominence as a Party man experienced in logistics and construction, and as a result oversaw a large part of Stalin's First Five Year Plan. Poor supplies from Kazakh factories resulted in poor-quality buildings that were notoriously unstable, which almost led to this bricklayer's death in the Stalinist purges later in the decade. When WWII broke out, he was soon to be on Beria's list, but an old friend in the government from the Revolution days bailed him out and got him a position in the Army as a logistics officer. When the disaster of Barbarossa and its aftermath gutted the Red Army, the bricklayer saw himself catapulted to higher and higher offices - where he excelled as a logistical wizard. He would rise to the rank of Major General, and participated in the famous battle of Kursk. He took command of a tank detachment during the clash at Prokhorovka and helped blunt the German advance, later earning him a medal as a Hero of the Soviet Union. He would remain in the Soviet Army in the aftermath, seeing the start of the Cold War and the division of Germany. As a general in the logistical corps, he would go on to oversee the construction of missile bases and rocket test sites like Plokštinė, Kapustin Yar, and the Baikonur Cosmodrome. He would later record disillusionment with the Soviet regime throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and was one of the first Soviet officials to embrace the free market - leading to him becoming exceedingly wealthy in the real estate, construction, and oil businesses.
Nice high quality shit post.
Good shitposting
Epic shitpost. You had me going until 1950, where I started going, "Wait, how old is this guy?"
> an old friend in the government from the Revolution days
Sorry, but no. Those had all been purged or rendered powerless in the 30's. There were no old revolutionaries in the government by the time the war began.
As far as age goes, he could've fit in well if he was born in exactly 1900. Having just started as bricklayer, for at least a job as a young adult?
i love the way there was a grand total of 2 actors
And only one of them did most of the acting.
Not 3?
I'm pretty sure its 3. there is the workers (the union)/people in line for a loaf of bread, the main actor, and the grandson (I think) at the end
@@therubbercop4590 I'm like 90% sure the TV fella at the end is the same guy who performs the workers and bread line folks.
firedude978 idk the ppl in line look different from the TV guy. But I could be the same, man we need a face recognition machine lol
To Moscow I came seeking fortune
But they’re making me work til I’m dead
The bourgeoisie have it so easy
The Tsar’s putting gold on his bread
The people of Moscow are hungry
But think what a feast there could be
If we could create a socialist state
That cared for the people like me:
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That descend upon me from up above.
They come down and I spin them around
Til they fit in the ground like hand in glove.
Sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine
And the lines will be formed as they fall -
Then I see that I have misjudged it!
I should not have nudged it after all.
Can I have a long one please?
Why must these infernal blocks tease?
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
Come Muscovite! Let the workers unite!
A collective regime of peace and love.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But the landlord and taxman bleed me dry
But the workers will rise! We will not compromise
For we know that the old regime must die.
Long live Lenin, kill the tsar!
We salute the sickle and star!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The food on your plate now belongs to the state
A collective regime of peace and love.
I have no choice in arranging the blocks
Under Bolshevik rule, what they say goes.
The rule of the game is we all are the same
And my blocks must create unbroken rows.
Long live Stalin! He loves you!
Sing these words, or you know what he’ll do...
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are made by the men in Kazakhstan.
They come two weeks late and they don’t tessellate
But we’re working to Stalin’s five year plan.
I am the man who arranges the tanks
That will make all the Nazis keep away
The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is Red!
Let us point all our guns at the USA.
We shall live forever more!
We can start a nuclear war!
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That are building a highly secret base.
Hip hip hurrah for the USSR!
We are sending our men to outer space.
I work so hard in arranging the blocks
But each night I go home to my wife in tears -
What’s the point of it all, when you’re building a wall
And in front of your eyes it disappears?
Pointless work for pointless pay
This is one game I shall not play.
I am the man who arranges the blocks!
But tomorrow I think I’ll stay in bed.
The winter is cold, I’ve got plenty of gold
And I’m standing in line for a loaf of bread
Maybe we’d be better off
If we brought down Gorbachev
I am the man who arranges the blocks
That continue to fall from up above.
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
The markets are free! So much money for me!
Tell me, why should I care for peace and love?
Peace and love, peace and love!
And now the wall is down, the Marxists frown
There’s foreign shops all over town
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
There’s Levi’s and McDonald’s there
The US gave us crystal meth
And Yeltsin drank himself to death
But now that Putin’s put the boot in,
Who’ll get in our way?
So we reject free enterprise
And once again the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled
For we’re seceding from the world:
We shall regain the Georgian soil
We shall obtain the Arctic oil
We shall arrange the blocks and toil
Forever and a day.
Game over.
Thank you 😊
You are a hero, thank you.
spaciba!! 🙏🏻✌🏻
I would normally ignore but there's no lyrics in the video so... liked.
Yeah
This has lived rent-free in my brain for over a decade.
13 years and still going strong.
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@@jimmyriba yo! I am here to tell you about Jesus and that he is the Jesus is the SON OF TRUE AND LIVING GOD FATHER he is not a prophet, friend! If you want to be Christian you can! And i just wanna say that Jesus is Son of God friend! He is messaiah! And the salvation he died on cross FOR YOU beacuse HE LOVES YOU and wants you to be in paradise with him! Please Remember that Remember Jesus loves you and wants you to live in heaven with him and satan hates you! Pray to Jesus friend if you wanna start praying and being Christian pray and talk with God for next 30 days!
If you have any questions Ask
Same, I come back and watch a couple times a year.
Woah woah woah woah wait.
This came out *_-NINE-_**_ TEN YEARS AGO???_*
Now its 10 years... Time sure flies.
@@slippynapkins4153 yea
An artifact of a simpler time.
Oh shit
Holy crap
wow, that worker had such a long lifespan
Ikr
Zyphon chill out with the comments you are reaching critical levels
dude lives to be over 100 at the end
also your more common to find than justin y, or owo
And he still looks young
That’s the beauty of communism comrade
Assuming he is 20 years old at the overthrow of Nicholas II, he was born in 1897. Yeltsin died in 2007 and Putins first term ended in 2008. The ending must take place between 4/27/2007 and 5/7/2008. He is between 110 and 111 years old in the final segment.
Putin couped Yeltsin NYE '99 though..
@@FirstLast-di5sr no he didn't Putin got elected to power, and Yeltsin died from drinking too much.
what kind of alternatives history is this?
@@FirstLast-di5sr the presidency of russia
@@FirstLast-di5sr doesn’t effect anything because yeltsin is already dead at the end
It actually must end at the earliest 7th of August 2008 because it mentions the invasion of Georgia.
"What's the point of it all, when your building a wall and in front of your eyes it disappears?" That is probably one of the most insightful statements I've ever heard.
+Octo Gone It fits both the subject material and Tetris, which I found clever.
One Nerd95 Indubitably.
Damn, now I'm thinking about all those hours wasted playing Tetris.
+Octo Gone The economist Milton Friedman paid a visit to China during Deng's reforms. He was taken on a tour of the country, and one of the sights he was shown was a construction site where workers were digging a canal. He saw them down on the site, digging with shovels, and asked Deng "Why aren't you using any heavy earth-moving equipment, like backhoes or bulldozers?" Deng replied "This is a jobs program." Friedman scoffed, then said "So why don't you have them digging with spoons? You'll create even more jobs."
+Phil H When was this?
When you work in a gun store: I am the man who arranges the glocks
*THIS IS AMERICA*
We are*
@Muffinconsumer4 That is not even funny
@Muffinconsumer4 I am not your child
@Muffinconsumer4 or i will put out the silencer
I showed this to my students years ago... it turned out to be amazingly prophetic. I had to show them Tetris for them to understand the theme. One of the most talented music videos ever.
How young are your students? I’m 14 and I’ve known what Tetris was since I can last remember.
You had to show them tetris? Did they never play games when they were younger?
I don't know a single person that doesn't know what Tetris is.
They didn't know Tetris?
I've never met anyone who didn't know tetris
Ive listened to this for 5 years and have only realised the tetris relation is referring to how the leaders of Russia have all tried to create something that is impossible: They want even full lines, but whenever you get one in it disappears.
In general, the idea of tetris is that successes disappear while failures sum up.
@@mvorotiloff That's.... melancholically profound...
Me: “Don’t worry, I won’t get all political.”
*three drinks later*
“THE FOOD ON YOUR PLATE IS NOW OWNED BY THE STATE!”
I am the Senate-er, Dictator.
you mean *our* plate
@Elijah Let me guess: Vodka!!!
im the 666th reply lmao.
GF: "what's your fav music genre?"
Me: "History"
*power metal intensifies*
sabaton : *bruh*
So sabaton basically?
Me: tetris
sabaton
Updated line for Feb 2022:
"I am the man who arranges the blocks that continue to fall from up above, we're marching today into eastern ukraine, and somehow the west will take the blame!"
Heyyy, that's pretty good.
This is actually REALLY artistic!
I was not expecting to see a decent or great update to the song 10/10
“We can’t regain Ukrainian soil,
The west is sanctioning our oil,
Can’t we arrange the blocks and toil,
Forever and a day?
GAME OVER!”
Well done. Leaving a comment to see how the rest of the verse finishes
Detail:
the Space Shuttle at 3:50 is the Soviet "Buran" shuttle built for the sole reason that the US was building one, so even though it seems useless there must be a use for it! (there wasn't)
I never knew there was a "victory" state for Tetris, I thought it went on forever... but it turns out the shuttle lauch is the victory screen.
it was used for spy satellites, but the soviet union ran out of money and could not continue with such an expensive rocket
It was actually BETTER than the American Space Shuttle, but the funds were vanishing, and the space race had already been lost 20 years previous, so there really was no purpose.
@@ahuman9100 It really wasn't better.
@@mzmadmike Energia could lift 100 Tonnes of payload instead of the Buran, and the Zenit side boosters were the cheapest launch vehicles on the market for some time.
To top it all off, Buran didn't carry the main engines for the stack, so it could lift substantially more payload then the shuttle.
Man I got to say that Tetris has some of the most interesting lore out of all games
Still a Better Love Story than Twilight
10/10 ING
And yet, Tetris is such a simple game.
Game Boy Tetris is set in the Russian Revolution in a factory along with Tetris 3D, colored Tetris set in modern day as building a house, real old black and white Tetris set in Yeltsin era.
The song of tetris is a russian folksong. Rather fitting.
I can't come up with a good username The theme song of Tetris both of them actually are soviet songs
"The Fuhrer is dead, and Europe is *RED!* Let us point all out guns at the USA!" best part imo
That Rynme thi
@@killdozer7062 yea lol
Gorbachov part is best imo
Or the part where the US gives them crystal meth!
Say what you want but it’s clearly “maybe we’d be better off, if we brought down 92)39>•{?{+|*>]=]>” (I don’t know how to spell anymore)
3:58 "what's the point of it all when you're building a wall but in front of your eyes it disappears" this line has so much meaning not just for the soviet union but as a metaphor for life. I just basically got completely alienated from everyone I had ever loved and cared about apart from a couple family members, and that this was planned all along just to poke fun at me, and tonight I came back to this because I can now truly understand what is meant by this. You are building up, putting so much care into and just putting all of your time, energy, joy, personality into everything just for it to get torn down almost instantly.
Hope you’re doing better bro
We all got separated and isolated, for the last 3 years
It is not the goal of tetris to build the wall, but the achieve the progress of completing a line. And so too is life. We cant hold on to all of our accomplishments like a chain on us. Each success, each new year is a little victory. So to keep having the wall built up and brought down, thats an achievement.
Though in context if the USSR the fallen rolls are actually a reference to the completely pointless building jobs issued by the state as a means of keeping the population working for their salaries
It was quite common for public works projects to be built just to be torn down later since work was required to maintain the system and a sea of the desiderata wasn’t required to artificially depress wages and automation wasn’t available to deal with every in order to institute UBI or abolish money in general
You know communist that stateless, classless, moneyless society
I think it might also be referencing the Berlin Wall.
This was so ahead of its time in terms of production quality and lyrical writing!
Damn right
There was a lot of high quality stuff back then, just a lot of it has been deleted, a lot of stuff by talented people used to get "licenced" by scammers like atomfilms and machinima who strictly licenced it to their site and channel and would pay them or promise them more views
So true
Did anyone else come here expecting a shitpost but was surprised by how good this sounds? Like the tetris theme fits PERFECTLY.
It was a dance song long before it was a video game track.
A shitpost from 9 years ago would be as good as this tho.
Hey who wants to start a cactus cult in 2057 near Lake Mead?
@@StabbySabby Me
I mean the tetris theme is based off a russian folk song to begin with...
Should have been "I am the man who arranges the stocks" 4:55
ha
Nice
He wants it related to tetris
Anthony Lee at 3:15 he says "I am the man who arranges the tanks"
Briefly misread your comment as "I am the man who arranges the Scots". Had a chuckle at that.
0:00 1914
0:52 1917-1922
2:25 1922-1924
2:55 1944
3:20 1945
3:26 1945-1948
3:29 1949
3:43 1953
3:51 1961-1984
He said at 2:00 that the landlord bled him dry so it’s clearly still before 1917. I think it starts in 1905 or so, not 1914
2:18 is probably 1917
2:55 was before 1940, more around 1936
4:55 1986-1991 5:18 1992-2000
@@oracle372 i thought he referred to the chechen and ingush deportations where Stalin deported our folk to siberia. Because gulags we're Made everywere Not just in siberia
Anybody remember those rumors about a possible Tetris movie being made? Now I don't know if it's true or even if they are thinking of making one, but I think I already found a Tetris movie.
A musical about the history of Russia using the long lived arcade video game Tetris as imagery to tell the story.
This in my opinion is all we need for our Tetris movie.
They are making a Tetris movie, but ut's gonna be about the hardships Nintendo faced in their quest to pry the licensing for it out of the paranoid grip of the collapsing Soviet Union.
@@ausmck56 Close enough.
There is now a movie announced about Tetris related to the engineer who made it, Nintendo wasn't mentioned.
Movie is out. I have watched it last night. The story is amazing, it captivated me from start to finish. You can also really feel the tension between East and West.
Apparently the movie has a lot of facts incorrect?
complete history of fascist italy to the theme song of mario bros pls
Funniculí Funniculá would be such a fun one for Italy
Do you mean the original arcade (whose theme is "a little night music" by Mozart) or _Super_ Mario Bros on Famicom and Famicom Disk System?
Moist Snail I chocked because of this comment
PLS PLS PLS
YES
I just realized that that complete history of the soviet union video also describes a game of tetris as well as its on the surface story.
The video starts off with the player being completely new to playing tetris, he's making mistakes and getting used to the gameplay, wondering why he cant "have a long one" to fit into that area. As Russia becomes communist, the player is getting more used to how to fit the blocks in perfectly, the game starts to get more intense as the pace increases, because the player is getting better overall and is able to fit the pieces in as he becomes more, like, autonomous with himself. As it get towards the 60s and 80s the player is getting more tired of it, it doesnt change much at all, and he doesnt feel theres a point to it. He has "plenty of gold" (high score), he decides to say "fuck it" and just goes apeshit (around 90s), as Russia gets more towards its greedy part the player is just laying down blocks haphazardly, leading to a game over.
Analytical
Ewan Edwards then he plays again. Like a fool in an eternal loop
One hundredth like
@@jime9017 sounds politically correct democratic and in tolerance way
oh shit that's deep
13 years ago?!?! AND the song is good
I know it crazy to think about that
"When in Red Square do not despair, there's Levi's and McDonald's there"
Russia in 2022: Yeah, about that...
Still there.
They just use a different name
@@GlobalOutcast in fact, this is a different brand, the money does not go to the company
@@copyright8291not anymore)
@@1_1__1_1 I mean, unless you are in Russia and can tell us otherwise. All the videos I see from Russians say it's the same company with just the logo removed
Wall Street be like
“I am the man who arranges the stocks”
you mean *stonks*
@@hellbeforebreakfast6304
Sir, Reddit is the next website over.
@@intergalactichumanempire9759 LMAO
Stonks meme:"I Am te men fho argandes te stonks"
@@hellbeforebreakfast6304
R/MurderedByWords
Can we simply point out that this still isn't dated, despite it being almost 10 years old already, as Putin still holds office in Russia? It's... impressive
The last part was actually added a few years ago
@@franchufranchu119 What? No, why would it be added? Putin first became president of the russian federation in 2000.
@Liam Connor so this video will still be relevant
last part is better as "We shall regain Ukrainian soil" nowdays. But the spirit is still intact.
@@franchufranchu119 look at the quality of the video
The way the last verse has remained relevant for the past 13 years 💀💀💀
Looking back on this as an adult and 13 years of video-making advancement later: this was an insane amount of work. Great job, and thank you for an earworm that persists well over a decade later.
Sequel Time.
It's evan sadder the second time!
Yeah it's time to update the song
American version...gas so high
It's now the worth of the ruble that falls from up above
I am the man who arranges the blocks
And shoots Ukrainian people in the face
The world’s against me because they all can see
Putin’s Russia’s become a big disgrace
So when the Soviet Union collapsed everyone got British accents?
+OneManArmy Of course! Don't you know that the Russians only speak Russian when there are Americans about? They speak British accented English otherwise
Don't you know that everyone including Romans speak with English accents?
+OneManArmy The Newscaster accent, considerably the most neutral and articulate of English accents.
yes
Actually, the reason why Russians speak English with a British accent is all of the films for their English language studies were made in the UK. No, really.
Watching this in honor of the kid who finally broke this legendary game.
Blu Scuti, yeah.
I am the man who arranges the blocks
But our leaders still bring hardships and pain
You’d think that we’d learn, taken a better turn,
But we’re sending our tanks into Ukraine
perfect
I am the man who arranges the b0mbs that will make the Kakhovka dam blow away. Now the farmland is gone and the flooding's begun, who cares about civilians anyway?
And the next 4 lines can just be the one they used for Stalin, except instead of Siberia it's a sniper at a window shooting
@@leeyenherngcalebpeircess6121 Nah in this day and age it's just a window with all the oligarchs "accidentally" falling out of them
Genius
I love how his facial expressions fluctuate back and forth between being a humble, friendly worker.... and a complete psychopath.
not even necessarily "psychopath" ... at times its more like "a poor, broken man"
Whote Shadow You are in false
You noticed that too?!
It’s the average moods of a true soviet
didnt notice that
When he said “I am the man who arranges the blocks” I really felt that
Takai05 I wonder what he arranges....
same
I two am confused on what he does
Takai05 i wanna like this but it’s at 469 likes and I can break it
*cant
Okay, but the shot of the Game Boy version's Buran launch, leading into the Vostok? I feel like more people should be talking about that, because it's magnificent.
это они решили убить 2-ух зайцев 1 выстрелом
Coming back to this after the Tetris trailer.
Where is my complete history of Nazi Germany to the melody of Megaman
+Reverend Anton Oh my god this is required now
+Reverend Anton What about complete history of china to mario
+PizzaSlaya Obviously it would be Imperial Japan to the tune of mario
+PizzaSlaya it would have to be italy
Hmm...I like it...
When you’re a gym teacher
“I am the man who arranges the jocks”
Yea
nice.
Works with a coach, too. Same with sports team manager.
Us army: I am the man who arranges the paratroopers that continue to fall from above
@@natospysanchez8938 too many syllables. Doesn't quite work
This aged like milk and fine wine at the same time.
one of the best pieces of music created by humanity. i find myself 13 years after it's creation still coming back to listen joyfully
This was so good that I did not even realize I was watching a 10 year old video with a max resolution of 480p.
It even feels correct because of the video effects making it seem old fashioned.
-Dan
@@mikewong2440 who is dan
@@emperorofthecosmos4640 I think it him I don’t know
I think the old style is what makes it bearable
Vídeos from 10 years ago are not bad as many people think.
The fact that the camera quality changes throughout it was a great detail.
Oh nice! I noticed but never really noticed. 😄
Plus his overall look as well. At the start he has basic overalls and a shaved head, by the end, in the 90s fasion, he's got a leather jacket and a mollet.
Whoa I just noticed when i read this comment 😂
Oh I didn’t even realise!
I completely missed that lol
3:24 why does these moments keep playing in my head.
Not only you
I love the energy in "Europe is RED"
"What's the point of it all when your building a wall and in front of your eyes it dis-a-pears" that hit different
So, the story is as follows: a young peasant comes to Moscow and becomes a worker to make some money; however, horrible work conditions make him a supporter of Lenin, so he welcomes the Revolution. Under the Soviet rule, he keeps his old job and works extremely hard; he has second thoughts about Stalin's methods, but he keeps his doubts to himself, joins the Party and (at some point before WWII) becomes a Red Army senior officer in the Tank Troops. After the war he continues to hold high authority positions with access to secret bases and the space program, but, by 1970s, his faith in the Party is completely lost. In the 80s, the coming crisis assures him that Gorbachev's Perestroika can't give the country the much--needed change, so he (apparently) decides to use his Old Bolshevik influence to help Yeltsin's career. In the 90s, despite being very old, he uses his government position to make huge money and become an oligarch. However, his... grandson, I suppose, rejects his legacy during Putin's rule and becomes a communist once again.
His son is a fake comunis and an oligarch, and his grandson is a Tovarisch
Damn. Fair point.
Perfect
Wealth [and apparently life lessons] never survive three generations.
-Ancient Chinese proverb
@@auraguard0212 Fuck off
-Just coined it
I love how the artstyle is based on the ussr camera technology available at the time. For example it starts off with a grainy colourless video and ends with a colour tv.
Ooorrrrrr any nation's tech from the 30's to 2000's...?
@@odst_0054 Except it isn't in color until after the fall. Most video in the west was color by the 80's, but if you look up photos of Salyut 7 or Mir in its early days they are all in monochrome.
Coulor begins with Europe is red
*we
Though this is going far and beyond on effects already, I wish they would have made the camera more and more red until the colored part
"So we reject free enterprise,
and once again, the left will rise.
Prepare the flags to be unfurled,
cause we're seceding from the world.
We shall regain the Georgian soil,
we shall obtain the arctic oil,
we shall arrange the blocks that fall,
forever and a day."
What haunting and prophetic words these turned out to be...
only thing that doesnt fit is "the left will rise".
Anyone older than 40 could've told you this would happen eventually.
Except for the fact putin is definitely not a leftist
Just replace Georgian with Ukrainian
Been rewatching this every year for the past five at least, and this is the first time I noticed the dude at 2:04 dropping his hammer.
When you work at a clothing store
“I am the man who arranges the socks.”
Why is this not at the top
@@TheEnderLeader1 capitalism, comrade
The goose in front of the other geese
"I am the man who arranges the flocks"
ayyy
working at a sex shop putting away the dildos like
"I am the man who arranges the cocks"
working for a watchmaker like
"I am the man who arranges the clocks"
developers when explaining the lore "there's no lore, just a fun game"
theorists when explaining the lore
USSR lore
Late reply, but they're literally making a movie about it now. Yes, I'm serious.
@@cristyablad huh? about tetris?
@@tw0tr1ckp0nyficated Yes, really, about Tetris. I read about it today in Entertainment Weekly when somebody told me, and they're pretty reliable about movie news!
Tetris is basically the distillation of communism.
Your successes disappear immediately, but your failures pile up until you die.
Fun fact: did you know that when they taught AI how to play tetris, it deduced that its only possible recourse is to lose?
It went through every possible scenario until it realized that the only way this torture ends is by losing. It then decided to pile up the blocks to the top until the game ended.
We build a thinking machine, teach it nothing but how to play tetris, and it'd rather die.
And that's my argument against communism.
This has been perpetually playing in my head for the last 2 weeks
seems the game ain't over yet
"We salute the sickle and star"
Hammer: Am I a joke to you?
You mean the hammer?
@@tuckerpower4977 Sorry comrade WE messed up
The hammer is another great tool, but it's used to ban/censor anti-soviet propaganda from Poland.
The hammer was used before they mentioned communism, and hammer does not rhyme. That is the hard truth comrades
@@ArjunUK55555 sleep with your eyes open
He's slowly going insane over the course of the song.
Isn't the point of the song?
No shit, Sherlock.
Dave Hoffman we’re*
Yep
@bogdanserban3792 fun fact genius, lots of people don't notice this.
This has aged really well considering that it's over 13 years old.
It's because this vid was published not long after the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008. Fast forward to 2014 and we have the annexing of Crimea and then the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Also funny because all the companies that opened up in Russia, that were shown in this video have all left the country again
fr, the tape effect makes it look like so high quality, when the max quality is 480P
That last part - it's amazing how prophetic a song from 13 years ago is.
6 year old me at the park: I am the man who arranges the rocks
Considering I have to do gardening, at 18 years of age- I am the man who arranges the rocks.
One time my classmate was stacking rocks in science, at 13 years of age- he is the man who arranges the rocks
>When you go order in Civ 5.
ha
then its allout WW when order fites autocracy :)
Lol true
*finds that Russia has a lot of oil*
TIME TO DELIVER SOME FREEDOM
To defeat Russia, USA needs to send the whole NATO and that would be impossible since Russia has much stronger allies.
He is the man that arranges the blocks
Now I am ready for the Tetris movie.
Playing Tetris99, still hearing these lyrics, even after years.
I thought I was the only one, holy shit.
i cant help but sing it... can i have a long one please.....
I can probably sing this word word.
same
lel
dont mind me FBI, just learning russian history
Wait a second ...
Ok Rommel
*The Gestapo would like to know your location.*
Hey can I see that briefcase?
@@casualtaco2154
**The Gestapo already know your location.*
Thirteen years and this still lives in my brain. What a great piece of art!
Hollywood missed the opportunity to use your song as closing credits for the TETRIS movie.
I don't know if you guys heard, but he's the man who arranges the blocks.
Ya don’t say
no kidding!
Nice Easter Egg.
but where do the blocks come from?
dontlikemath -.- I would have to guess they are from the men in Kazakhstan
0:00 Appalling working conditions and widespread poverty among the lower classes create unrest
1:57 Possibly the revolution of 1905
2:26 February Revolution of 1917; Tzar Nicholas II is overthrown
2:39 Collectivization and transfer of ownership of private property to the state
2:50 October Revolution of 1917; Bolsheviks in power
2:57 Stalin assumes power after exiling Trotsky; creates an authoritarian regime- the Siberia sign represents the gulag
3:16 Stalin's Five Year Plans entailed the rapid industrialization of the Soviet Union
3:22 After Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, it becomes engulfed in the Second World War, a.k.a the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union.
3:24 The Soviets and other Allies win the war, and the Soviet Union's sphere of influence stretches across Eastern Europe.
3:27 The Cold War begins between the USSR and the USA.
3:35 The Soviet Union pursues a nuclear program and develops nuclear weapons.
3:49 The Soviet Union launches cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin into space, becoming the first country in the world to send a human into space.
4:20 Rationing of necessities was commonplace in the Soviet Union.
4:51 The 1991 coup by the Communist Party attempts to seize power from Gorbachev but fails to do so.
4:56 The Soviet Union dissolves, and post-Soviet Russia begins to privatize many state-owned enterprises. Russian oligarchs seize the opportunity to create fortunes.
5:22 The news report covers the fall of the Berlin Wall, the appearance of foreign companies in Russia, and Putin's control of Russia. The history of the Soviet Union ends here.
“Tzar!” Its spelled Tsar.
thanks 4 the work~~~
@@backtothefutureman1 it's spelled in a bunch of different ways. Both tzar/tsar are ok. So is czar.
Underrated comment. Thanks for explaining this!
this man knows his goddamn history
12 years later and this still slaps
it's been a hot minute since i watched this. the trombone part was so much more impressive than i ever noticed before. incredible arrangement.
This, no joke, helped me on my history exam.
Same here!
Same here!
XD I already knew all this and I'm only 14
it's strange, because are three obvious mistakes there:
1. USA and Britain declared the Cold War, not USSR.
2. Under Stalin, the people received high salaries, but was deficit products.
3. With Gorbachev was on the contrary, a lot of products but no money.
This propaganda video.
Your teacher is very biased.
Supreme Troll ;m;
The guy who was playing the accordion needs a raise. Absolutely perfect.
BleedOutBlender -
No everybody should get the some amount of money
Accordion or Balalaika?
yknow what can give him that raise? marxism
@@skywantsanacc we don't raise income. We give the missing income, which they deserve!
Give him a raise because that's good capitalism
When in Red Square, don't despair, there's Lev's and Tasty Period there
Words fail me. I honestly don't know how to describe my infinite admiration for this... masterpiece. Lyrics, melody, vocals, the video itself, the SYMBOLISM OH MY GOD. THIS IS GENUINELY FLAWLESS. Thank you so much for this work of art. It really means a lot to me.
- 🤓🤓🤓
@@mcdonaldscook L
@@yolosnazzy4175 - 🤓🤓🤓
@@mcdonaldscook how dare you
@@yolosnazzy4175 - 🤓🤓🤓
Anyone else here because I kinda like the song??
Not to debate about Communisim and other stuff.
No, I am with you.
No, I'm here because I like the song.
The Vodka Mastarr same here
I don't want to debate!
I'm with you, I like this song.
My history teacher actually showed us this while we were learning about the Russian Revolution, it was great
@Hi last name she was a great teacher
That’s actually weird. Because there are some mistakes in this video. I hope that your teacher explained it to you.
@@armenianrussian everyone is always trying to change history and we get no detailer answers
@@MadChristoph but still. Lenin didn't kill the Tsar (actually he was the Emperor, but in English, it's always Tsar, I don't know why). Maybe it wasn't even after his order. But... okay. I just don't like it when in good song or musical (Hamilton, I'm looking at you) the author is changing history. Especially Russian history. Because it's the history of my motherland... sorry again. I shouldn't tell all of this. But I wanted. So I did. Thank you for your attention.
@@armenianrussian look I clearly don't remember what I learned in History class, this was before quarantine, but I'll take your word for it
0:52 is where the melody begins
12 years later and still a banger
This is bloody incredible. The facial expressions of the singing worker compared to the stoicism of the other, uniform workers show the private face behind the public one, the anxiety and stress during the Stalinist years, while pretending to be part of the uniform majority. Great song and tune and focus matter. Bloody great.
Funny how all the workers besides Dan is a bunch of Donalds
@@supaplayer what do you mean
Jaden Pelate The workers are all the same exact guy
@@supaplayer I just never heard the expression " a bunch of Donald's".
It’s because the actor’s name is Donald Newholm
I like the detail that the guy gets better at English during the video. Possibly showing the switch to globalization.
wait for real?
@@dcritelli11 I certainly noticed it. From "hand in glove" in the beginning to well, the English-spoken guy at the end
I didn’t notice that, but now that you mention it...this may be the best video I’ve ever seen. It was already up there, but holy hell is that genius.
@@Wextraa a but late but also "sometimes it seems that to move blocks is fine"
I just noticed that
This needs way more recognition after the release of the Tetris 2023 movie
13 years and this still gets stuck in my head all the time
Same.
so many people don't realise that while this video IS criticising the USSR it's also criticising Capitalism
like, that last part makes it very obvious "the markets are free, so much money for ME, why should I care for peace and love?"
Because it’s easier oversimplify and act as though economics can be solved with with “communism bad = capitalism good” despite the fact that shit like economics isn’t black and white
say what you want but I am not giving up capitalism without a better option that communism isn't
Unknown but y’all should stop demonizing socialism! Many parts of socialism like free health care and education are good and can be integrated into the capitalist governments
@@russhu4265 yeah but that is no socialism, that's just a capitalist country with free healthcare and education, we can all agree that's not what people dont like about socialism
Woke up this morning, read the news, and have had this song caught in my head ever since. Time to add another verse, I guess.
PUTINS PUT THE BOOT IN/
BUT HE WENT INSANE/
Same here
Same here as well
It surprisingly aged extremely well, especially from around 3 minutes on.
When in Red Square, well don’t despair
No Levi’s and McDonald’s there
☆Ahhhh the music of my peaple☆
Shit
haha how it feels to be destroyed by urself
I literally came across this by accident. I typed "complete history" intending to look for a totally different video, yet this popped up. Very amusing for what it was.
Same here lol, was tryna study for history. (Don’t get me wrong, this helped a lot haha!)
I just realized this is almost 10 years old. Dang the quality looked like it was made in 2016
Supreme commander Drak wait until you realize the video is only at 480p
@@emperorofthecosmos4640 man he used those pixels well
2020*
Emperor of the cosmos I mean, that doesn’t really matter all that much considering the camera quality is matched to the camera quality in the time period the song is in. I can’t really imagine Soviet era cameras having that much of a quality increase with 1080p or 4K
Capitalists be like:
"I am the man who arranges the stocks"
Not anymore
@@hankl8168 true
@@dinarichyperborean1455 I am the man who buys Game Stop stocks
that continue to rise!
We are the hive mind who arranges the blocks
Meme man be like
I am The man who arranges the stonks
Когда впервые услышал эту песню, я подумал что она появилась недавно, но она очень хорошо сохранилась
Every so often i come back to this video for my late night existential wonderings. Coming back to it now the last section hits especially hard