Why did the Soviet Union Collapse?
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Why did the Soviet Union Collapse?
As the Iron Curtain fell, over a dozen nations were finally freed from the heavy-handed grasp of the once-powerful U.S.S.R. From its foundation in 1922 until its final demise in 1991, the Soviet Union and its allies made up an incredibly significant portion of Europe - essentially filling out the entire Eastern side of the continent. A global superpower at its peak, the U.S.S.R. somehow only lasted a short 70 years. How is this possible? And why, exactly, did the Soviet Union collapse?...
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Knowledgia please make a video on the collapse of British raj
You really need the money eh
As a person from the post soviet state, I can surely say that corruption destroys any country.
That what happen one you give so much power to a single man
What ?
@@alonfizi4213 or corporations
No,no it doesnt.
@@taavi948 where are you from?
"Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within"
The people rise up
I have always hated the west’s leftover fears of the Cold War and the lack of real information and not nationalistic propaganda. I find Russian people to be strong, committed to family. Honorable citizens trying to live in peace. Chernobyl makes me bawl.
lets hope thats true for US. the most violent, barbaric, powerful empire in human history
The what is going to happen to empire of the US of the A
@@raaid85 no it is not
The real reason why:
Gorbachev wanted Pizza Hut
AMEN KEEP PREACHING
100% correct. Dallas and Dynasty were TV shows Soviets could get access to. They were amazed at the extent of wealth in the US. Even in news reports of protests and rioting in down trodden black neighborhoods, the Soviets were looking at the store shelves and how much the poor people in America could buy.
But why? He already had McDonald's
He's a fool
@@derekhajos3555 Yes, the Russians read between the lines in their propaganda news. "Hey, why can't WE loot a TV or a stereo like those Black gentlemen?"
Romanians revolted because it was a kind of cottage industry to watch Western movies dubbed into Romanian with the voice of only one woman, on VHS cassettes, often recopied to the point of static.
There's no comparison, Communism is BAD NEWS. Kids today are brainwashed by teachers trained in education departments run by Marxist professors. Kids hardly get any anti-Communist education.
One remark, Yugoslavia was never part of Warsaw Pact, nor was considered as Soviet satellite
One of only two European countries who defied Stalin and got away with it.
@@johnh.tuomala4379 The other one? Finland?
@@KAD010900 Yes.
@@KAD010900 I though it was Albania, another communist country, but refusing to take orders from Moscow? But given that Finland was allied to Germany in WW2, it was very luck to have got off with not being invaded by the USSR come the end of the war. I think Finland made a deal something along the lines of 'we won't join NATO or host foreign troops, and always vote with the USSR in the UN, and never do anything to upset you, and in return we don't get invaded'. And the USSR, busy with occupying 1/2 Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, 1/4 Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungry, Latvia & Lithuania, said 'OK, deal.'
@@dromankass8655 Enver Hoxha was a Stalin fanboy and did not split with Moscow until Khrushchev began the era of de-Stalinization. Albania was in step with the Soviet Union until Stalin died, and the invasion of Hungary in ‘56 was their cop out to leave the Warsaw Pact.
I lived in USSR until 1985. From what I understand that was happening around me, the majority of population no longer believed the Communist ideals leading them to a more prosperous and just society. They looked at the West, and wondered why their own society was so far behind. The old excuse that "we're still rebuilding after WW2" was no longer convincing - WW2 was far too long ago at that point. Then came Gorbachev, and his opening-up policies, even if limited, allowed people to raise their heads and push for radical change - the republics split off, and mainland Russia threw off the Communist Party. Many say it wasn't his intention - but it surely was the result!
Specific events like Chernobyl, or the Afghan war, surely played their part. However they weren't the underlying cause, but rather - catalysts to the inevitable.
Well, yes, and then democracy came in the 90s, and everything bloomed and smelled.
Don't powder people's heads. 70% supported keeping the Soviet Union in the vote.
@@ratelarmonter4736 what vote was that?
@@ratelarmonter4736 Soviet says how they felt in USSR.
Westerner: Actually here is how you all felt!
@@jongxina3595
You can describe the whole situation in two sentences: If in the USSR children were treated for deadly diseases for free, now they are trying to collect money for treatment via SMS from all over the country.
P.S. We do not consider this an acceptable life, I don’t know about you, I can’t say anything, but our citizens do not think that they are filibusters and they need luck to survive in the country, so pro-communist sentiments in the country only grow over time.
the soviet union's liberalisation just exposed all the problems it had
Communism and fascism only survive by either brute force or massive propaganda. They both have laughable flaws in their ideology that creates massive problems even if they dont have near limitless corruption (which they always do). Communism makes trickle down economics seem amazing by comparison. As soon as people can see how others actually live they demand change or flee, and that's why they have to rely on non stop aggression and repression to survive
@@arthas640 So what's the laughable problem in fascism? I am pretty sure all economies under it were fine if not much better
@@arthas640 true
@@arthas640 even under heavy sacntions and military threat, there are many communist nations that are thriving and even better on many aspects compared to capitalistic ones, examples being cuba, china and vietnam.
@@Jack-he8jv Pfft, Cuba is the only true example you gave. Vietnam, and China, are under no sanctions, and to call those countries communist, who have by now embraced much capitalist economies, is laughable.
The Soviet Union collapsed because of Raid Shadow Legends.
I know I sure did
Very smart
It collapse because it created cold war , it murdered and annexed many countries forcing them to be communists
Thats a shlrter explaining than a 14 mins video
Funy
Do one about Byzantine and its importance to Russia's rise.
+1!!!
Yes!
Please.
Manners cost nothing but mean everything
You do it; we will sub to you
This was purely ideological..By the time Russia has recovered it's independence from Tatar Golden Horde(1480) Byzantine was already extinct(since 1452)..but Russian ruler Ivan III who now represented the only independent Orthodox power yet needed Imperial ideology to cement his newly independent Muscovy to serve both as center of Orthodoxy and "beacon" to oppressed Christians..so he positioned Muscovy as "heir" to Byzantine to "legitimize" his claim to "Third Rome" Ivan married the niece of last Byzantine Emperor Sophie Paleolog and adopted Byzantine double-headed Eagle as new Russian State Emblem..it's still valid..if we bar Soviet period 1918-91..
It’s crazy that Gorbachev is still alive
And jimmy carter
The Soviet Union will go down in history as one of the few societies that prevented people from leaving the nation, most countries have to build to a wall to keep people out, the USSR had to build walls to keep people in.
@@rgsxyz1105 and other of the societies that prevent or prevented people from leaving the country have had some form of Marxism.
@@rgsxyz1105 Very untrue czcams.com/video/Xej1FRgrtVo/video.html
@Joseph Norm
History has shown that Marxism just doesn’t work
Actually Lithuania was the first to declare it's independence way before the fall of Soviet Union. It caused a "domino effect" and undermined M. Gorbachev’s prestige and his reforms, which resulted in other countries wanting to regain their independence and put an end to these horrible events
Also Gorbachev refused to enforce the Brezhnev doctrine and instead let the vassal states go their own way.
But the United States and the Soviet Union had so much in common! After all, what two other nations both had a state called GEORGIA?! lol
That's a true fact lol
Did the Reds (the Soviets, not the baseball team) have a Midnight Train to their Georgia? :D
@@JohnSmith-zw8vp More importantly, did the Devil go down to the right Georgia? Or did he mix up his destinations?
I was born in Georgia.
@@jacob4920 the devil came from Georgia and his name was Joseph stalin
Many of the soviet satellite states were heavily subsidized, and the military cost an enormous amount of money to run...the US recognized that the USSR was critically low on hard currency, most of which was obtained in oil trade on the open market. Recently declassified info shows that GHW Bush asked Saudia Arabia to drop the price of the OPEC oil to drive the USSR bankrupt...it had the desired effect...and this folks is why, regardless of their internal policies, that Saudia Arabia has the US as a long term ally.
Never mind the USA will be next, have you seen the division in that country? Too many stupid people running around with guns and they are allowed to vote.
The arms race also did them in, Regan spent them into oblivion with Star Wars. They were basically bankrupt but I can tell you living through that time I was more worried than during the cold war. People celebrated and thought the cold war was over but even as a kid I realized what happens to the nukes in those satellite states? Who's running the government? We knew the Soviets didn't want a nuclear war but now Gorby is gone. I was afraid of the unknown more than the enemy I knew.
Never knew this. Fascinating. Thanks!
@@venomad77 . The video clearly stated that USSR cut back on their military so Regan's military spending had nothing to do with USSR's collapse.
@@MrSupernova111 I'm telling you from experience, I was born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s. I lived through this and remember very well what was going on through the news and my parent's conversations.
This video leaves out a rather important fact - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania considered themselves illegally occupied sovereign states and they did not per se "declare independence from the USSR", but eventually declared the illegal Soviet occupation to have ended. This view of international law is supported by several prominent international organizations as well as by most sovereign states that exist since 1940.
Then you may consider that Soviet union illegally occupied Russian Empire or something. That is true but makes no sense.
@@Admin-gm3lc that's rather an internal thing. The Baltics were fully recognized sovereign states and the USSR occupied them in a clear breach of international law.
@@eksiarvamus who cares about international suggestions.
@@lagartoverdebr6176 What?
I don’t know, the continuing line of the current government is shouting about the Soviet occupation, if you trust the state line and their actions, then there is at least some point in relying on what they say, if you don’t trust, therefore why listen to all this.
10:17
The Soviet flag was lowered at the top of the Kremlin Senate, not the Spasskaya clock tower, though I understand why you chose the tower since it's more recognizable. And the Russian tricolor during that time had a lighter shade of blue
Bruh
Yeltsin is the best proof that the fall of socialism was a bigger tyranny than socialism - he disbanded the russian parliament, disbanded every other elected representated body, abolished Russia's constitutional court, banned labour unions from political activities, outlawed parties and attacked the parliament building killing 2000 people. Yeltsins popularity rating before the 1996 elections had fallen to only 8%, the US had to rig elections to ensure his victory (super ironic considering Trumps elections were claimed to be rigged by russians).
@@meganoobbg3387 Never forget Black October 1993.
@@meganoobbg3387 Which makes sense as to why Putin bombed the apartment buildings to gain power.
@@user-qu6cz2ss8m By the way, propagandists like to forget about this event
What surprised me was the fact Gorbachev still lived after getting ousted. There was a time The Soviets were so scary with their KGB's insidious activities
Its shocking since the Russians even today arent shy about killing citizens for embarrassing the nation or hurting their autocratic regimes and Gorbachev did both.
The US 'Democratic Party' welcomed all defectors, with open arms. Witness, 'Exhibit A' : The Biden Administration.
There where no reason to kill him after he lost his political power, no thread anymore
Yea the bastard eventually moved to california.
Do you think Gorbachev would overtake Putin?
Soviet Union collapsed after watching Delta Force starring Chuck Norris !
Also, nations splitting off from the USSR was also inevitable. The Soviet Union's borders were basically those of the Russian Empire, making it somewhat of a remnant of the old European Empires, so there were a lot of larger ethnic groups and former countries engulfed in it. And it was _huge._ And like all Empires, countries breaking away and people wanting Independence is inevitable, especially since this is now the 1980's and not the 18th century. So that on top of everything going on with the Soviet government at the time essentially doomed it. As things in government deteriorated, the more nations broke away, until it was just Russia and Kazakhstan left.
That's why it was a union and not an empire, every ethnic group you mentioned had their own Soviet Republic, so break up based on ethnic identity was never inherent or inevitable, infact many even want it back. You have to remember that's how civilizations always were anyhow, expansive empires covering atleast a few significant ethnic minorities here and there, the modern concept of a "Nation State" is a fairly recent one, and people thinking it to be inherently desirable is rather a tragedy.
Oddly enough it was just Kazakhstan for a view days, and than it finally died.
@@lagartoverdebr6176 while true, they did get their own states, it should be noted many of them were merely puppet states, and existed for the reason of giving the USSR a bigger voice in international affairs, and some Republics were certainly treated better than others. In particular the Baltic states and Ukraine suffered quite a bit, which would explain the huge Anti Russian and Socialist feelings amongst the population within those countries today. And it’s not like Russia today is doing anything to repair those relations. Also, at least when Stalin was in charge, he definitely did try to make those nations more and more Russian by sending many Russians to those republics, by the time they got their independence, on a little over half the population within the Baltic states spoke their native tongue, and had a large Russian minority.
@@Godslayer5656 Yeah Russia and Kazakhstan broke away. Then when when Gorbachev resigned it officially ended.
@@Jiji-the-cat5425 Kazakhstan didn't break away, Russia did when the elected president basically told Gorbachev "Y'know what? You can't boss me around, suck it"
Another factor in the demise of the USSR was the collapse of oil prices around 1979, which adversely affected the economy. The CEO of the oil company I worked at back then felt it was a deliberate action to damage the USSR, but ended up doing the same worldwide.
It damaged the USSR, because it had no real backup to compensate for all the revenues lost by the oil price collapse.
Russia's main export is oil. President Reagan asked the Saudis to increase oil production. When the Saudis complied, this lowered the price of oil and resulted in less revenue for the Soviet Union. It could not afford to do what it was doing.
@@rogerevans9666 no brother,not saudi arabia,,iran revolation in1979
Beautiful, concise summary for someone trying to learn about this. This will make other documentaries a lot easier for me to follow I feel. Thanks very much mate.
Who else is here trying to better understand the Russia-Ukraine war?
if you want everything simplified: US successfully beat Soviet Union's peace by destroying its economy and working inside to divide the nation, since it was US's biggest enemy.
US wants to control the world believe or not.
@@HassaanALal whatever you say “Hassaan”
@@HassaanALal do go on ?
@@HassaanALal LOL what a bunch of bullshit Usa is money hungry state but Soviet union was a fucking atrocious state where people didnt have anything to eat ffs and no freedom of speech. Grow up "hassan"
Me… but not sure I understand it any more after seeing the video
"This is the best video I have ever seen"
-Every person from ex-soviet country
except russia , still accurate comment , hi from Ukraine
exept Russia, because many russians are salty that their russian dominated union collapsed
@@gamer228r Hello from Lithuania
Some actually really like the USSR
Nah, as always - too many lies.
once the soviets began giving people freedom, everyone wanted to leave now that its problems were obvious
Agreed
They allways had a right to leave. If didn't know the ones, who wished to leave was not the people of USSR, it was national elites, who now owns what is left of soviet infrastructure and who made alot of money out of it. General puplic was not into the separation of USSR, but new liberal dimocratic states was not interested in what the general public wants
One could argue Stalin is the reason the USSR collapsed. It cannot be overstated enough how utterly devastating his rule was to his own people. The effects of his rule are still felt in former Soviet nations to this day.
Stalins popularity rating is about 60% in modern day Russia. Higher than putin
@@diabetusultrainstinct7737 Which is just sad. So they like a Georgian who was likely the cause of death to at least one relative(likely more) of most current Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians over an actual Russian who hasn't done even remotely close to the amount of damage domestically. Man, Tsardom/Communism really fucked up the Russian people forever.
@@alexhennigh5242 i dont know ow many people you think were caught in the terror, but i dont think its as many as you think. to a lot of russians he represents the system that made thir country go from a backwards semi fedual power to a space age one. thats just one explanation to the height of the current popularity though
@@diabetusultrainstinct7737 That is a fair assessment. You're probably right but enough people were affected between the purges, world wars, genocides etc I imagine I'm not too far off. However, that last part makes too much sense.
@@alexhennigh5242 well in fairness, the world war was held off for as long as possible with the infamous molotov ribbentrop pact, and even before that pact was signed the ussr requested britain and france to form an alliance to stop the growing nazi germany
Its impossible to survive when half of world is against u and 14 countey wants independent.
No matter how strong are u
What kind of independence are we talking about? It's just that the countries were socialist, now they are capitalist. This is all done by hand.
@@ratelarmonter4736 that's independecedo what u want but dont damage other countries
@@sabakvetenadze6546 It's quite impressive how long the USSR lasted with all the odds stacked against it. In 1992 the neo-liberal new world order started but class consciousness is starting to rise again especially in the USA the heart of the imperialist world.
What it really comes down to us this....are the Russian people better off now then they were in the 1980s? I would say overall yes.
@@ericg4915 who knows?
I think one of the biggest factors for the collapse of the Soviet Union, which you didn't mention, was the power struggle between Gorbachev and Yeltsin
Or the fact that soviets where the biggest tards that ever existed? They lasted 70 years because they were incompetent simpletons. They lacked decorum, culture, skill, thought, God, humanity. They sunk to the lowest depths humans could sink to. Why did they exist in the first place? Bavarians fought their British brothers. Could have teamed up, and melted Stalin and every single one of his followers into gold.
@@ultimateguy7641 ehat you say is very simplistic and full of propaganda brainwashing.
After all havent you hread about Bolshoi ballet?
And there are also people who say from their experience that in comparison to what came later in those areas , even though the state was in very big economic slump and would require to fontinue what it started and do similar change to what China did , that schools were better, wports trainings and aftivities were great, and people had some stuff. although this would still be far from satisfactory and would require to do what it started so to use market economy.
@@innosanto It really isn't, worst empire of all time. 70 years wasn't even a single generation. So bad. Mongolian empire, Chinese, Roman, Persian, British, French, Holy Roman Empire. Hell these guys last YEARS. Soviets? Damn, so bad.
@@ultimateguy7641 it wasnt an empire, in fact it brought Empires down
Soviet union fell on deepest shit during Brezhnev, hardly anyone could recover the country after it...dude just made nukes..
I'm from Poland and I remember when my mom told me that she was tought in school in 70's that she should be proud that the name of Soviet alliance is "Warsaw pact". Why did the Soviet Union Collapse? Because we all deserve something far better.
Did they teach about pre-communist Poland's history of conflict with Russia? Or did Russia order Poland to exclude that from the history books?
@@carlramirez6339 As far as I know it was excluded; the narrative was that our countries were best buddies since always, and people could get in serious trouble for talking (not even teaching) about things like Partitions of Poland
Being a puppet of the USA is better?
@@iumbo1234
It sure beats being a Soviet puppet. Notice how many Soviet puppet states never recovered once the Soviet Union stopped supporting them? Cuba? Somalia? Ethiopia? Mongolia? North Korea? East Germany?
@@shauncameron8390 What do you think would happen to the puppets of the USA if they fall tomorrow? All our economies are bond to the Dolar. Japan and South Korea for example would literally die of hunger for not being able to import food.
Wow! Hard to find videos as good as this one. Not biased, precise, and consice. Excellent work! Well done!
Wonderful presentation. Very structured with great commentary.
You should do a video on Napoleon's Conquest Of Europe
Probably not if major factors isn't mentioned.
Napoleon did NOT "conquer" Europe. That concept is a perversion of history.....of truth.......written into the books by the victor's who often write the history we're taught. Remember what had happened......France.....England's arch enemy and chief competitor on the world stage...... became a democracy......George III......England's king.... had just lost what were formerly his colonies.....who became the United States...... to democracy. He and his minister's began a years long campaign to crush democracy in Europe.....fearing the same fate as France's monarchy....to his own. In the ensuing 20 odd year period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars....England induced the other European monarchies to war against now democratic France. No less than 7 coalitions were formed against France largely financed by England.....breaking many peace treaties in the process. While France/Napoleon fought across Europe.....France did not administer control of most of the area's that are said to be "the French Empire" in history books. That is one of the biggest lies still prevalent and taught today.
Why? Epic History already did a phenomenal job, and they're still churning out Napoleonic content as we speak
@@stephenmichalski2643 calm the heck down, you said everything yet nothing
@@stephenmichalski2643 not to sound rude or anything but an essay wasn't that necessary
When speaking of Chernobyl one needs to be clear that it was NOT a nuclear explosion that happened there. It was a steam explosion as in a boiler blowing up due to excessive pressure. Yes that is still a very bad thing but not on the scale of a nuclear explosion, which is actually an impossibility in a reactor.
Not helpful.
The fall didn't kill him. It was the rapid deceleration.
Don't be dense.
@@frankherthem1794 Look dummy...It's like this, a lot of people "think" that a nuclear explosion is a possibility in a commercial nuclear reactor. It's not and the video producer didn't specifically state that.
Steam explosion with a healthy helping of Uranium & the radionuclides.
Remember all of that radiation was detected all the way to Sweden & other western European countries.
@@frankherthem1794if it was a nuclear explosion there won't be an Europe union in existence today. Don't believe everything you read. Steam explosion carrying radioactive material to atmosphere is not nuclear explosion 🤦
Reactor 4 core did explode. The lid flew off about 10 feet.
This is really, really well made and objective. Wonderfully made, Knowledgia!
Thank you so much! I am glad that you liked it :)
Excellent and so very accurate in both depiction and information. 1985 -1990. Very accurate. Thank you for this production. Subscribed w/ notification.
Great content!
Excellent video. I worked in Czechoslovakia in the early 1990's helping privatize companies. I saw firsthand the results of communism - hugely inefficient factories (with about ten times the workforce for a comparable US factory), tremendous bureaucracy, and a pervasive decay due to lack of individual ownership and market incentives. For the USSR, the seeds of its collapse were laid in the beginning with its choice of a government controlled economy and major repression to enforce the system.
It's bureaucracy failed it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that Yugoslavia split from the Soviets in 1948 and was not a satellite state
Correct. It was marked socialism but independent that's why it was member of third world club.
@@ShubhamMishrabro how can I join the third world club, that sounds fun. I want america to join. We have socialists here too now!!
@@ericg4915 huh it was a group during cold war. I think most countries today are in third club or non alignment
it was never a real country
@@ericg4915 The Third world is a Group of countries that look at the Two Super power dominated Earth and go "THIS IS HORSE ****!"
And who also refuse to partake in Global politics.
People need to relay on something greater than themselves to keep hope and the moral strong when everything fails.
A secular society lacks of such thing.
Relying on God does nothing for people especially if they use "his name" to commit atrocities and ostracize others for their beliefs. Believing in fairy tales and praying to some nonexistent concept won't save humanity or magically make the world a better place than it already is. Only man, his mind, his morals and technology can do such a thing.
@@mishka5706 there was no "president" in the soviet union. There were many factors that led to the collapse. I study Marxist thought and I don't agree with many things done in the union but I see its many achievements in science, industry, war and endeavors like its space race. The approach to kulaks and the planning of agricultural could of been way better than just shooting every one of them and siezing the wheat. While I agree I revolution can't happen I white gloves or or a change in the system can't be sugar-coated, complete purges on the scale of Stalin was crazy and unjustifiable
A great work as always, i swear i did learn more things on your Chanel compared to school !!! Keep Going on
A short 70 years? More like an eternity for the poor suffering people
*first 20 years, my parents were from USSR and they said they had everything, medicine, schools, jobs etc. Streets were safe and people were prospering. Altough it was only on the big citys and after Stalins massacre, but other than that life wasnt bad at the USSR not until collapse
@@GoofyCheeks
Criminality was down played by government?
I've heard that late Prigozhin robbed a woman, beat her and even took her boots to sell.
Awesome as always
No mention of the 1991 January events in Lithuania? These are very important events that people should be aware of, and majorly contributed towards the collapse of the Soviets.
Love your videos, keep up the good work.
Thank you so much for your support!
@@Knowledgia dude. You deserve it. You give so much content, you give your best, and you've never gived up. You are one of the if not THE best CZcamsr I've ever seen. And I'm proud for you that you kept this going for 4 powerful years.
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Nicely explained.
Well-balanced and thoughtful explanation worthy of leaving to posterity.
I hope there will be more videos about world history and Vietnam. Thank you team, every video is good 👏🏻
9:56 Worst Christmas ever!
I've heard so much about "The August Coup" where Mikhail Gorbatjov got surrounded by soldiers around his summerhouse in Crimea, while hardliners tried to retake control. My parents said that he made a video and sent it to Europe showing he was surrounded etc. But i cant find that specific video, is it really true that he made it? I mean... It might be available to watch somewhere?..
@Rollo37 Yes the video is true. There was an attempted coup but Gorbechev was saved by Boris Yeltsin.
@@ald1050 And i know that much already, but me who wanna study history are very interested into seeing the video. But i cant find it anywhere...
@@Rollo37 Ok I understand. You might see the clip maybe in a bbc documentary series on the fall of the USSR from memory.
@@ald1050 yep and with boris being anti-soviet, he did something that was the death nail to the Soviets....he made Gorbachev outlaw the Soviet party, which is where all Gorbachevs power rested.
@@seansimms8503 Yep he sadly did. Then Boris dissolved the Soviet Union and formed the CIS which was a big mistake.
Enjoyed the video that played in between the ads
Informative!
I remember a different reason for the breakup. I do not contest all the problems, but the final nail was the elections. For the first time the president of the USSR was different than that of Russia. Gorbatjov became the president of the USSR, but Yeltsin became the president of Russia. Yeltsin then went to the other countries and plotted the breakup leaving Gorbatjov in the dust.
On december 8, 1991 The Alcoholicus Eltsin plotted Conspiracy along with two other traitors and some sort of narcomans : Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarus) and Leonid Kravchuk (Ukraine) !..They third of them, together signted the dissolving the UUSR, in the Belarus-Poland Border , on Belovezhka Wood Forests .
it is interesting that all the troll saying they lived in the urss never, never absolutely never mention the part where the exfuncionarios turned in oligarchs
I grew up during the time of the soviet union and collapse of it. The #1 reason it collapsed was because of starvation of it's citizens. The failed economy, the failed military and Government, were partners in this disaster, but not getting food for your family and seeing the other side with so much plenty destroyed the people's will to support their country.
@@dudebros6122 I visited the Czech Republic and the tour guide who grew up in the country (before it broke from the USSR) said that they used to use the Soviet propaganda newspapers to wipe their asses because there was no toilet paper. They could get fruits like one pineapple per person and two bananas per person at the store during the holidays, so you had better bring everybody in your family to stock up as much as you could get from what otherwise were empty shelves. Around 1970 a Latvian family moved next door to our house-moving from Minnesota but they came originally from Latvia. God only knows how they got out. The father clearly had at least PTSD &was paranoid, if not full out psychotic- God only knows what happened to him. it was a very stressed family & I think he was abusing his son- his arm was constantly in a cast and he cried easily. the parents eventually got a divorce.And I agree the Baltic states were absorbed against their by the Soviet Union when they had the opportunity to do that to small countries that had no real way of holding them off. I mean, Austria allowed itself to be annexed by Germany, rather than fight against Hitler and the Nazis. Now there was quite a bit of sympathy towards Hitler Who grew up in Austria, but they didn’t even put up a fight As the government was overthrown in a coup. Another friend of mine grew up in West Berlin before the wall fell and he reported that the East Germans who came after the fall were, after only 35 years of separation, were like hillbilly cousins so different from the modern Germans of West Berlin they would go to the grocery stores with jaws dropped open 😮 by the abundance they were seeing, were very simple dressed from another era, and had difficulty integrating with modern Germany. However, Angela Markel clearly did not. I find it ironic that she and Putin were both in Communist Germany at the fall of the wall and later became the leaders of their two countries. She developed a phobia to military dogs; he to large crowds & mob protests.
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@@pbohearn sounds harsh. I complain about my childhood all the time. Abusive stepfather and i didnt get as spoiled as i could have been but that story sounds a bit worse than my childhood. Even if i got beat up by my stepdad. But my mom bought me nice fancy clothes and i was able to travel to 2 countries. She also bought me a few cars in my 20s. So yeah. That story sounds bad.
There were no famines in the USSR after 1947. There were shortages of certain _kinds_ of food in the USSR, but even according to the CIA, caloric intake in the USSR was on par with the US at the time. People in socialist countries have a better quality of life than people in capitalist countries with similar levels of economic development. Sources below.
In the US, the lines for food banks a year ago stretched for miles, and 20% (1 in 5) children in the US are food insecure. 700 children die of poverty EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY under our current capitalist system. The majority of Russians believe that the USSR was the height of Russian civilization, and are nostalgic for what most considered better times. Russians went from being poor but having enough to eat, guaranteed employment, and affordable, high quality housing under the USSR, to being poor and having nothing guaranteed under the Russian federation and capitalism.
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United States Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Reports (1964) A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the U.S. A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the U.S. (CIA/RR ER 64-1)
Congressional Research Services (1981, August 17) Consumption in the USSR: an International Comparison. Joint Economic Committee. (CRS Report No. 76-408-O)
Cereseto, S., & Waitzkin, H. (1986). Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life. International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, 16(4), 643-658.
www.cia dot gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf
imgur dot com/a/2DTpqxh
Very interesting summary. I now understand better all the info from almost 10 h (😱) of videos watched about Russia, USSR and Ukraine's history. Thank you 👍
Great video comrade
Please do videos longer that are minimum 14 minutes! We love to hear it but it ends wayyyy to quick!
The video focuses heavily on what caused the USSR to collapse at that precise moment, rather than what caused it to collapse. For example, suggesting Glasnost was a factor because it paved the way for Chernobyl to be uncovered and the military to speak out might be correct when looking at what caused the USSR to collapse in 1991. However, any govt that lacks transparency has a shelf life. Equally, suggesting the withdrawal from Afghanistan and others was a factor again only focuses on why at that point not why. The video almost implies that if the USSR had not done these things it wouldn’t have collapsed (I do recognise the side note on Glasnost). That would be an incorrect deduction.
Think Jenga. Why did the tower fall. Was it the last few blocks that were removed or the faulty structure. The last few blocks determine the precise moment of collapse but not why.
I heard there was somewhat of a "free market" in the soviet even under Stalin. They were known as cooperatives and people could sell the usual products like clothes, cooking ware, food and sometimes rarer items that would immediately be snagged. It was canned under khrushchev's reforms and that sad dreary boring planned economic side of the ussr.......that's where it comes from. Imagine if that was never removed and it had further reform like markets under China today
Its because of democracy
I remember that coup d'état. The west was holding its breath back then and feared a retaliation of an authoritarian Soviet regime.
Very good and informative video. Just what I have been looking for, a detailed historical overview!
I remembered that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, a lot of my countrymen celebrated its fall. We were oppressed by the same regime from 1945 to 1989, undergone a string of censorship and even food was hard to get. My late grandma was one of them.
@ozymandias nero nulifidian No. But my mom is. She was born in Russia though.
Sad to think that there are legions of western fools, born outside of Eastern Europe and well after the fall, who would argue the virtues of the Soviet Union.
@ozymandias nero nulifidian Because we're discussing the Soviet Union specifically. As for your second statement, the Soviets did not liberate anyone, rather they reconquered what was ceded to the Germans in the Great Patriotic War, as well as attempted to overthrow legitimate governments (Afghanistan) to spread their communist ideals (not unlike the USA, of course). As well, free nations like Poland were brought under the iron curtain and reshaped (eastern poland given to ukraine and the polish inhabitants forced to migrate or die, Karelia conquered from the Finns, half of Germany conquered and made communist).
Those who attempted socialism light (Prague Spring) were stomped out by the Warsaw Pact, and other formerly free countries were horribly oppressed by their communist regimes (East Germany and even Russians, in particular - berlin wall, secret police, gulags, etc.).
As for successful communist nations, Cuba is the only one that actually lasted as predominantly communist. China and much of Indochina adopted a strange hybrid of communist social policy and capitalist markets, Yugoslavia splintered and fell into civil war after Tito died, Venezuela is a mess, and the list goes on.
Let me know if I missed anything, it's been a good while since I aced my World Wars, Soviet Russia, and Cold War courses back in University. Though I am enjoying the russian book, 'We Stormed the Reichstag,' so don't discount me as purely biased. I just call it like it is.
@ozymandias nero nulifidian Your argument makes very little sense and sounds less like a debate and more like a defensive rant.
For one, you're misinterpreting just about everything I've said. I never said Cuba was a failure, but I did say Yugoslavia collapsed into war due to Tito's death. To clarify, this was more due to longstanding ethnic tensions that Tito kept in check (my mother is Serbian), but the social situation of the former Yugoslavia was never brought up, nor is it even relevant. We're not having a capitalism vs communism debate.
Finally, you have no idea how many books I've read, to whom I've spoken with in my career as a journalist and historian, or the extent of my education. However, you come off as exceptionally ignorant and biased since you blatantly ignore my statements such as that there's no defending the USA for doing exactly the same imperialism as the former USSR did with Afghanistan. The USA government is extremely corrupt and anyone who defends it is a bloody fool. Don't mistake knowledge of history as defense of an ideology you dislike. The job of a historian is to be objective, not recklessly opinionated.
Now read both of my comments several times so you completely understand what I've written.
@ozymandias nero nulifidian Oh yeah, the evil USA is the reason behind all of their failures. Not their crappy form of government. Cuba, Libya, and Iraq...yeah those are on us. Although Cuba had it coming. But Afghanistan was even more fucked when we arrived...because of the Soviets of course. Yugoslavia was a ticking time bomb due to its multitude of different peoples and faiths inside of it. Tito was all that held it together. The US didn’t destroy it, we actually liked them and had very good relations with them ffs.
Realistically it was a ton of different factors but the failure of their economy might have been the biggest one. I've heard that as far back as the late-70's Yuri Andropov and other KGB higher-ups had secretly accepted that the Communist experiement was doomed and wanted to gradually reform the command economy to a free(r) market like China did. Gorbachev tried to do this but while China maintained authoritarian control and policies as it reformed economically, brutally repressing any opposition, the USSR abandoned their old brutal ways. As soon as the Eastern Bloc countries realized that Moscow wouldn't be sending any armies into their countries to keep the communist governments in power, as they used to do whenever a place like Czechoslovakia or Hungary displeased them, they saw their chance to break away. When that started happening the Soviet people stopped fearing their government and the individual ethnic republics started to want to break away too.
Interesting. Thank you.
Amazing channel.
I was 6 when all of this happened, I kinda wish I'd been more aware of the world around me back then, at least enough to know that one of the largest and most powerful nations in history had disappeared.
It would be interesting if they made a video about Germany hyperinflation in 1920 (maybe)
this explained it perfectly, my AP Euro exam is next week :)
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I think failing economy and corruption is the causes. Investing in your own nation is more important than anything.
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Great job! As a person who was born and still living in a former USSR country (Kazakhstan), I'm happy not to witness the USSR existence. Of course, Kazakhstan is far from being called a modern democratic country as we have an autocratic regime and decaying economy. However, the situation and living conditions are way better than that of the USSR period. Hope to leave this country forever and never come back.
No hope for Belt and Road initiative? One of my best college friends was Kazahh, he's doing well in Germany.
Why do you say that? What is it that you'd deny security and prosperity under a Soviet Union solely because it is the Soviet Union? It is irrational.
In Kazakhstan, thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants and Khrushchev buildings were built only under the USSR, of course without the USSR you will live worse, enjoy capitalism and democracy.
I was a foreign student in the ex URSS between 1986 ( 3 months after Chernobyl) and 1989 ( Just before the Berlin wall's collapse) .. And while we students would go for a walk in the city on Sunday, we would tell that something was going to happen and eventually the unthinkable. I remember, I was only 19/20 year-old at that time..
Do you think that perhaps President Reagan's "star wars" initiative could have had anything to do with the fall of the SU? This represented a shift from the idea of nuclear mutually assured destruction that kept the cold war going and the SU and US in check, and would enable the US to defend itself from an attack -- that way the US could prevail in a war. The SU economy was in the tank, they realized that they couldn't keep up with the US, and for many of the reasons discussed in this video the SU collapsed.
1991 was a crazy year, for me personally, and for the rest of the world, it was oddly anti climatic for the great Soviet Union to fall on Christmas day, the "Evil Empire" that I was trained to hate for the previous 21 years of my life, who had enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, so we were told anyway, just disappeared on a day when we were pre occupied with presents and Turkey dinners....
The problem was not that the USSR collapsed, but the manner in which it did. Gorbachev was enacting plans for the USSR to dissolve into a confederation of _Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics_ by democratic means.
The 3 Baltic States, Moldova, Armenia and Georgia were intent on moving towards full independence and boycotted this process, but a referendum in the other 9 republics including each of the 3 Slavic states, the 5 Central Asian states and Azerbaijan yielded positive votes in favour of this proposal.
If this had gone ahead, the 6 republics that boycotted this, would've become independent anyway, but the 9 republics would've maintained an EU style trading bloc which would've greatly benefited the people in each country as they transitioned together to liberal democracy. Sadly, this wasn't to be and the economies and societies of many of these nations collapsed, even descending to civil strife and mass poverty.
The Soviet Union as it was, was on its way out anyway. The collapse could have happened in a much worse manner, involving large scale civil war. However, it could have been a lot better, with far better managed long term relations between Russia and Ukraine and for each of these states to become modern prosperous European liberal democracies.
USSR promoted nationalism in republics but NOT in Russia. So republics thought that they are "feeding" the Russia. Very bad planning
How did you come to this conclusion
@@Admin-gm3lc Don't be delusional, the whole Russian (proper term is Soviet not Russian) economy was built around that its other occupied states would work for their demands.
@@user-fm7xv5pk5z Yeah lol thats what they said but after they got independence it was obvious who worked for who as they became many times poorer. How you can still believe in this myth lol
@@Admin-gm3lc Lmao you have to be westoid or a vatnik coping. Obviously Eastern Europe was gonna start out poor, because they to rebuild the whole economy. Everything soviets built was outdated and could not compete in a western modern market. Eastern Europe is still recovering from the disaster that is socialist economy but it is by far richer under capitalism. Soviet Union had poor civilian industry.
Interesting aside here, but Kazakhstan was actually the last member of the Soviet Union. Ironically Russia wasn't the last to withdraw from the union.
This is why we bigfoots don't try to build brutal dictatorship empires out here in the wilderness
Oh shit its Bigfoot!
Let me get my 1mp camera
"a country that collapsed outside can still rise but the ones from within?thats dead"
Important topic!
I remember the sadness from the faces of eastern Bloc Breadlines, as across the iron curtain, Reagan was talking about lasers in space. I imagine they were thinking how such technology could only be a product from a system which had magnificent bread cooking ovens .
"I remember the sadness from the faces of eastern Bloc Breadlines" (c) -
Jake Dailey (news) - Typical soviet citizen.
"I imagine they were thinking how such technology could only be a product from a system which had magnificent bread cooking ovens" - or magnificent stoves for burning people, well, right, where is the Soviet Union to these technologies that brought the first man into space. Poor Western id*ots were brainwashed so badly that they did not even hear about the splitting of the peaceful atom or the creation of computers in the USSR. Apparently, this propaganda was needed so that against the background of this propaganda, residents in the West would feel relatively better.
@@ratelarmonter4736 I'm sure if you ask people who are actually interested in history no one would deny soviet achievements. But the fact that it was a communist country didn't helped them to be innovators. Communism lacks competition and therefore creativity, which means they never had a chance (in the long run) in the 1st place. Not to mention the ability to finance such undertaking as a space program etc. Capitalism is simply superior. But one has to admit Soviet contributions in science for example.
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In the USSR, there was competition, but not in what would make more money on its own citizens. Space was financed, rockets and related equipment were created. It's ridiculous for me to hear when people try to describe what they have no idea about.
Lasers in space was completely made up technology by some sconfo authors. The Americans wanted to scare the USSR.
The Communist regimes in the Eastern Europe collapsed because the USSR explicitly told them that it will not support them. In 1988, Gorbachev made a speech in front of the UN, where he suggested he will not support them, and will withdraw troops. Without Soviet support, there was no point in continuing for the regimes, and all they were now concerned was how to transfer power without ending up like Caucescu.
Was i the only one that noticed Latvia draw on the berlin wall?
I saw that too, but maybe it was Austria, I'm not sure
It was Latvia
What's that song in the beginning??
A video explaining the rise of the USSR would be cool!
The Germans built the soviet union. During ww1 while fighting russia they financed lenin's coup that toppled the Russian czar and formed the soviet union and they did it with the ideology of a German intellectual Karl marx. The soviets didn't truly become a superpower until after ww2 and obviously we wouldn't have had ww2 without germany. I blame the Germans for the soviets lol. Thats not tbe official text book explanation but its true.
Using voice recorder to type all of this down: "Grasp USSR Ally Garbage"
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there are some considerable issues with this video:
- 3:58: the ppl of the USSR aleady knew about the corruption going on since like... Breshnev. They knew about it beause that was the only way to get certain consumer goods in acceptable time, like a car within a year instead of 5-10 yrs. It started waaaaay before chernobyl or Gorbachev.
- 5:37: the economy of the USSR was never successful... It alwys focused on miliary, not consumption. The things they achived during Stalin was from slave labor and western 'donations', durnig Hruschev it was okayish, during Breshnev it was from western loans... Okay, everyone had a job and 'got' a apartment for free, but did everyone really work for it?
- 6:42: Yugoslavia was never a satelite state of the USSR. Tito broke the ties with them quite early, and Yug was not even a member of the Warsaw pact. Yug was a bit like Romania: not commie, not 1st world, only balancing in the middle (i mean politically).
It is the dependencies of states on center & vise versa which hold the bonding togetherness. If any of the dependants didn't need other halve it will break apart .(it is the new opportunities which is the reasons & blames are coverup ).
Ruler should know that they put hope into peoples for future , their , all , joined . People can survive hard time but lost control over in when their objectives are fulfill .
Hi, you left Star Wars, telecommunications, and John Paul II out of the equation. Your analysis is good but not only internal factors played a role in the dissolution of the USSR, there were too the external factors aforementioned. Thank you for your work.
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Love your videos, their only foult is getting into Afghanistan, the military they needed in other places were being ainalted in Afghanistan
The USSR was doomed since the late 60s because the country stopped focusing on military and cared more on the citizens (which was good for the soviet people the brejnev era is considered the best era in the soviet union) therefore the economy stagnated Brejnev did the opposite of what stalin did caring about his nation than the people (he turned the USSR into 2nd superpower in 5 years by industrialising )
the war just made the economy worsen
Gorbachev was an original member of the club of Rome,it’s amazing how members and their adherents fill the upper levels of every government of the world
Corruption only works when you have a strong economy
I’m from the USA and this is still interesting to watch!
Sup USA guy :)
@@ttwwoo22 you should be in the us too! And don’t say guy that’s weird!
@@robloxiangamer2.013 oh okay sorry merican boiii 😳
@@ttwwoo22 ok your not from the USA and you spelled American wrong! Do you have to go to spelling school? LOL!
@@robloxiangamer2.013 I was just joking my friend :)
The reason why the Soviet Union had collapse is because of... *RAID SHADOW LEGENDS*
Dispite the strong and harsh ban of any national symbols, flags, folklore, ... by Soviets, the natonal movement within (now) post-soviet countries were strong. I still hear a lot of stories how families were keeping their flags secretly or how they celebrated Christmas with windows closed, so noone could see.
With all this I want to say that, despite the desperate attempts to assimilate or oppress any opposition Soviets had in their own country they failed and that itself was a huge factor IMO.
You should reupload the video with an ending phrase saying: "And now... it happens again".
Thank goodness present-day Russia has the openness that the old Soviet Union. In that Putin's shirt is often open.
@Michael Thomas indeed! It's not a problem these days for Russian citizens to travel outside the country - for tourism or for work. In Soviet days such things were impossible - the vast majority of citizens never saw what was outside their borders.
I still know what the shouted when the berlin wall fell, we are the people !
man its still inprinted in my soul, up to this day...
The night the Berlin wall fell, I was asleep (I was only like 9 years old, and Germany was about seven hours ahead on the timezone chart). I remember waking up the morning after, and being told that the Berlin Wall had been torn down. And my reaction, even as a little kid, was like: "Oh man! How did I miss this?!"
Even back then I knew I was living through big history.
Yes, then this veil of euphoria quickly subsided.
Don't u miss the glory of east Germany?
I wonder what would've happened had Gorbachev instead of trying to cover up Chernobyl. "What if" instead he announced it immediately and didn't even try to hide the scale of the disaster from the regular people. What would've been the end results?
It would have still failed. The soviet union was weak. The only way empires succeed is with strength.
Can you dp about the rise and fall of Dacia?