" IRON CURTAIN LANDS " 1959 POST-STALIN ERA SOVIET UNION & EASTERN EUROPE EDUCATIONAL FILM 89754
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- Iron Curtain lands. Post-Stalin Period. Copyright MCMLIX. Educational Supervision: Michael Boro Petrovich, PhD. Associate Professor of History, The University of Wisconsin. Photographed & directed by filmmaker and author Charles Dee Sharp. This 1959, color movie presents a cross-section of life in the lands considered to be behind the iron curtain after the rule of Joseph Stalin. It is a profile of the communist society. It takes us a step closer to understanding these lands ruled by an atheistic aristocracy. The movie opens with peasant women walking down the road. The camera pans around a plaza with churches in the background 1:12. Women kiss the paintings in a church 1:40. Three women sit on a bench and smile for the camera 1:53. A map of the Soviet Union is shown 2:14. A map shows the plains of Russia are riddled with river systems 2:35. A footbridge is shown 2:46. In rural Russia, peasants live much as they did hundreds of years ago 3:23. Man sharpens and axe 3:43. A woman tends to chickens 4:10. A woman loads hay onto a truck with a pitchfork 4:33. A propaganda sign is shown 4:49. A country dance is held and a man drinks a beer 5:20. Russian Orthodox Churches are seen in the distance 5:47. Cannon that were left after Napoleon’s invasion in 1812 6:09. Moscow is a modern city with wide streets 6:32. GUM, the state-owned department store, 6:42. The small shops that surround GUM are seen by 7:05. The abacus is used as a cash register 7:20. The subways are the pride of Russia today 7:48. The Moskva, or Moscow River, is important to the city 8:02. The trains are modern 8:20. An animated map shows the linkages of the rail systems 8:32. Modern Russian jets are shown 8:43. Buses, trucks, and other automobiles are displayed in great halls, not to sell, but to show the public how much the government has achieved 9:15. The world’s largest Ferris wheel 9:28. The world’s largest cannon 9:30. The largest bell ever cast 9:38. A dog and her puppies sit by a fence 9:57. Russia’s cities are riddled with slums 10:10. A construction crew is building a home 10:52. Pioneer camps entertain and educate children 11:22. Children eat together in uniform 11:55. The University of Moscow 12:04. Mass communications are controlled 100% by the state; PRAVDA 12:50. Gorky Park has several amusements for children and adults alike 13:13. Artists work in sculpture 13:30. The Bolshoi Theater 13:44. A woman and a man perform a beautiful ballet 14:00. Jews are allowed to worship in temples and Protestants in churches 14:25. Throngs march toward Red Square 14:46. An animated map shows how countries west of Moscow have all been affected by the policies of the Kremlin 15:26. Warsaw, Poland 15:40. The Poles worship openly 16:05. Man plays a trumpet and young people dance 16:27. Prague, Czechoslovakia 16:38. Statue of Stalin 17:25. Dignitaries exit an airplane onto the tarmac 17:40. Khrushchev shakes hands with the dignitaries assembled 18:00. Khrushchev continues to shake the hands of everyone assembled 18:32. The Mausoleum for Russian leaders in Red Square 18:50. A Grover-Jennings Production.
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Very interesting, and apparently a fair effort of objectivity was made.
16:36 In 1946 Prague was a relatively gay city
That's gay.
He really says that
i still can't beliveits real. he could have sayd "pussin'" or "no cap"
🤣🤣🤣
The word "gay" has been perverted (what hasn't) by modern society. In this context it means lively, fun and happy.
peacefully, cheerfully and safely - I was lucky to be born in such a time
Is that why the Soviet Union fell apart?
@@juicyfruit4378 no. it broke up for a completely different reason
@@PabloPopova explain
@@juicyfruit4378 google is your friend!
@@rjc9 and common sense isn’t yours - I could give you 2 magnets and you still couldn’t make ends meet. I made the comment in response to Pablo who claimed such nice times during the Soviet Union - if it were so “nice,” then why did it fall apart? As a doctor, history buff and former intelligence officer for 10 years in Europe, I know exactly how the USSR disintegrated - please challenge me so I can rip you apart faster than Flo-Jo on a track field.
You apparently lost your damn mind - and I’ll help you find it - I assure you - how about it?
I feel like the USSR and USA are kind of similar inverses of each other. Like if the USSR was capitalist it would be like the USA and the USA if it was communist would be like the USSR. There are many similarities between the nations- both are large and cover multiple time zones/climates/landscapes, both have had imperialist/empire periods, both have modern technology but still basic survival problems for some of the population. Both were global super powers.
the ussr and usa are not the same
@@lebbraumman of course. I’m just saying the countries have things in common.
even though as a follower of Soviet ancestors i cannot be happy about such film, but in comparison to other col war propaganda pieces it seems like film wasn't trying to hide all achievements Soviets managed to accomllish in exceptionally hard conditions like iron curtain of west, no sympathy towards, getting thorugh biggest collapses in human historry one after another - WWI, Russian Civil War and then WWII to overshadow all that completelty... and this with overcoming and fightinhg biggest internal enemy of themselves - lack of good organistion.
And gives much better understanding of life of simple people, not trying to demonise them but rather evaluate and present, and some points of neigbouring of contradicting things like soviet symbolism and orthodox churches - actually very interesting. So it better works towards humaniosation of Russians/Soviets as it's just a naton trying to survive and live better with all basic human needs as any other
10:50 🤦♀ it's 2022 and I'm lying in my bed in one of these houses and it's still perfect, didn't crumble a bit
Really, still "perfect"? Your full of shit. What happens when you turn on the A/C? Nothing?
These days, it feels just a little cringe to refer to the USSR as "Russia". Most people in the successor states to the 14 SSRs do NOT like being called Russians, and one of them is at war with Russia at the moment.
Back then they all were Russians. It is only now that ridiculous Ukrainization has taken the brains of all people.
Remember 1959 American propaganda
i missed those times
5:16 Anyone know the lyrics of this song ? Как эта песня называется?
Yes, someone does.
google it, and it is there many times over
@@TWOCOWS1 I finally found it alone.
@@ciziazyke4380 Fantastic!
Sounds like commecial.
Here are lot of true but it is a look from one side only.
Everybody happy in San Marino
I love all of the Gen Z communists on here telling us how great things were. Here are some dates for you: 1956 and 1968. Not everyone was happy behind the Iron Curtain, and force was used to keep them in line when necessary. None of the communist true believers could ever explain to me WHY it was necessary to prevent free travel outside of the Soviet colonies or censor incoming media if they were such glorious workers' paradises on earth. If they had actually worked as claimed, obviously the Soviets and the communist nations of the Eastern Bloc would've wanted to show off what they had to the capitalists and let them see for themselves and join in voluntarily as part of this superior system. But that definitely never happened.
Are you from former eastern bloc?
@@PabloPopova I'm old enough to have visited right at the time of the fall of the Iron Curtain when I was still fairly young, so I saw first-hand the aftermath. And I still have several close friends who grew up in countries there. They don't miss most of the communist system.
@@julianhermanubis6800 and whatwas (and still is) the first-aftermath after the fall of IC?
@@PabloPopova I'm not going to undertake a description of everything that has happened there for the past 30 years, but I will describe what I saw at the time. Basically, while no one was starving certainly, there were shortages of some basic goods and queueing was fairly common. I was curious about whether this had been ongoing for a while (i.e., before the communist collapse) and was told it had been. In general, consumer goods were in shorter supply than in the West, e.g., there were fewer motor vehicles on the road, consumer electronics were in shorter supply and seemed inferior or outdated compared to what was available in the West. Housing in the country I was in was treated as a command commodity by the government, so, for young couples, there was a waiting list for apartments or other housing that could stretch out even a few years. The general overall look of the cities I visited was somewhat shabby overall compared to the major cities of Western Europe. There was a mix of vintage buildings falling into decay and newer ones that were fairly utilitarian but the maintenance seemed hit or miss. A number of my friends from there had had close relatives who'd been political prisoners in earlier decades and some were still considered suspect by the communist government before it fell. The people whom I spoke to (through translators mostly although some were bilingual) were very curious about the outside world because it was becoming obvious to them that the news they had received in the past had been selective or censored. Some were still a bit nervous about speaking in public about politics because they weren't sure what was going to happen and whether the governmental change was permanent or not. I also met some religious people who had explained to me about how religion had been a hindrance in terms of your career or social advancement. Again, it wasn't like the worst days of Stalin in the USSR, but religious people were still regarded as somewhat suspect by the former government and public religious observances not encouraged. My general impressions were that: (a) the former communist government had been very autocratic in the past but, while not as bad in more recent years, was still somewhat repressive and not a democracy in the Western sense; and (b) the overall material standard of living was definitely lower than in the West, although not Third World either. Generally, when I met Eastern Europeans abroad at that time, they were fairly negative about communism once it fell. Most of them had not been in the West before the fall of the Iron Curtain so it was all new to them. My impression of communism (or its newly dead corpse and its legacy) was that it had produced inferior results economically compared to the West.
@@julianhermanubis6800 I do not agree with everything, but about this dichotomy is a certain distortion of the gaze. that glorious west of yours that you glorify so well against the poor and backward east .. so the main difference between the starting level of these two blocks was the level of wealth. a west that built its prosperity on the colonial slavery lof people in South America, India, Africa, and so on. So if I have to admit you are right: yes in the East it was richer, more developed but on the skulls and severed hands of third world slaves.
it is obvious that people are attracted by prosperity and comfort, I do not say that there were no people who wanted to escape and live as colorful as the you were. Remember that the goods always comes from a labour. it is impossible to have anything for free. the west and the people living there they seem to think that this high-level life came out of nothing. Well, this standard of living would be impossible if it were not for the resources from the riches stolen by blood and the exploitation of someone else's slave labor
Satelite countries were meant all , except the Baltic states which were too occupied by USSR
they were not occupied. Their people mainly wanted the unification in 1940
These are great days for us comrades
🖕😠👎
Comrade tRump his master Putin.
Mm
….I’m watching this so I can learn what to do/act when we officially switch to be commie. I don’t wanna end up in a camp….
Are you on drugs boi ?
@@bwset69 no, we are in Russia
Better dead than red.
soviet union at its high point
May its leaders and advocates rot in eternal hell.
@@Chilly_Billy ask anyone who lives in Eastern Europe and is old enough to experience the USSR and they will tell you the USSR was better
@@proudtitanicdenier4300 That is total BS. I've worked with a lot of elderly Ukrainian and Romania people at my job and they said the USSR was awful.
@@tropicalpalmtree I'm ukrainian
@@proudtitanicdenier4300 You're not fooling me. Not with a meme as a pfp.
A horrible existence.
not at all, these people actually living their lives, with their families, outside experiencing life. Unlike someone like you, leading their pathetic existence crying about the past
@@proudtitanicdenier4300 👈🏼Liar from Hell
@@20alphabet i can tell you live an extremely sad and pathetic life, i pity you.
@@proudtitanicdenier4300
You can't tell what time it is without a screen in front of you.
@@proudtitanicdenier4300 солидарен с тобой
How arrogant!
Read some Solzhenitsyn.
One doesn't so much read it, as have it shouted, at you?...
I can see how people would fall for this propaganda, if I didn't have access to a knowledge database like the internet i can see myself falling for stuff like then as anyone then would
I was born behind the Iron Curtain. Believe me, nobody but nobody fell for any of that shit. I noticed they ignored Hungary, the inventors of Gulash Communism. Our way of saying screw you to Moscow.
@@woodrat2296 I'm talking about the other side, the American propoganda
@@Snottco No, you were referencing East Europeans. "i can see myself falling for stuff like then as anyone then would." Like I said, we didn't fall for the propaganda. Communism was foisted on us by the force of arms and we were abandonment by the West.
@@woodrat2296 I can't believe you're telling me what my words meant. I was talking about the fear mongering posed in these American propaganda films as well as some of the things they've said which are just outlandishly silly if they were said today
@Awawawa CM Sorry?
Russia bad...
Very bad.
@@arunaspaulionis8350 вовсе нет
Hello from the future where the Russian president has threatened the world with nuclear war!
@@user-ko2gg9eh4p шиZоидам слова не давали.