Though I was born in 1989 (so could not remember the USSR) I still feel some kind of nostalgia, I can't explain it, but really sense it! Many people I asked had the same feeling! It is like on gene level we feel, that our parents made a mistake in 1990s, letting the USSR collapse! Though a lot of people call the USSR an empire of evil, even all the banners in video are about peace, freedom, work, prosperity, life and friendship!
Juan Izquierda caca I mean just people and peoples relations inside! And yes, there never was comunism in the USSR, only socialism with shitish economy! But people were not so turned on money, that made tham kinder!
Who made a big country with their errors . That leader was Stalin, he was bad because he did not want zionists in the URSS power. So happened the zionists killed to Stalin with venenum in the food
If i am saying a lie, why did Trotsky go to México as an axilian? Who killed Trotsky was a Man called Ramon Mercadell was from my country Spain, he die in Cuba. I am socialist but i am not a social democratic same than PSOE here in my country, they say defeat to the worker and they do not defeat to the poor.
Im from Denmark everyone said that the USSR was a poor and bad Union! And i know why! We saw American TV and listened to American radio, they told all the bad things about USSR, but they had a lot of good thing to.
thank you for your comments my comrade! I am jealous me also, but you your old: -)) I am a nostalgic old man and you you are young, the future is for you! do not regret old times. thank you.
I don't care how you will take my words. Many Soviet people, me including have a normal happy life. We have everything we needed, we could be anyone we wanted. What there not to like. We have stable life, with low crime, with good health care, we have our own apartments, free very good schools, free high education. We also have a beautifull country with rivers, lakes sea. Paradise is not just palms, hot weather and martini. Paradise it's a happy childhood and stable future.
cont. As a Russian emigrant in Texas it warms my heart that you posted your comment. I travel between both countries every year and there are way too many dark stereotypes of each other your father has given me hope for the better. thank you.
Greetings comrade. Thank you for showing us the pictures from former SU, which were not seen before. Seeing the photographs, it looks like USSR had a distinct culture, distinct way of life and distinct society. What is today? Moscow and other cities look like as if those are American cities with kids in hoodies on their skateboards and girls in minis and shorts with a big McDonald's or Pizza Hut sign standing out from behind.
ever known? sir I am Soviet medal of merit since 1979, I crossed the USSR in car for 3 months, I did 25000 km, and you say I have never known the USSR? Do you? you're never left your country, you know that the capitalist propaganda, you're conditioning, you are poor in your brain yes!
KARL MARX yeah, I also think so comorade. Marx hiself supposed the first socialist state will be the US because it is and was the country where capitalism is/was really developed
KARL MARX of course comorade. WE NEED THE REVOLUTION, otherwise this planet will be destroyed and the workers will be slaves or they will be unemployed, like you already said. We never will stop fighting for a better world !! Long live the great ideology of communism !!!
KoivuTheHab Whatt makes you think there wont be a communist revolution ???? Are you really happy with the living conditions of poor people in this world ???? You are an idiot !!!!
Of course you think so, you belong to the dominant class. Doy ou the social development is completed ???? If there is injustice like that on the planet it isnt. The human is able to do anything and he will be able to build up a better system, communism. We learned from the mistakes of soviet communism and we will do it better next time. The revolution will come.The rich are getting richer the poor ones wont be able to survive under capitalsim soon. They will arrise. If you call the future of humanity like that you are a fool. (Iam poor but good educated, I worked hard for everything and I want everybody to have the same chance; I dont write anything: Iam reading the books of marx, engels and lenin, so I know what Iam talking about).
KoivuTheHab Communist failed? Please tell us were Communism was implemented and in what Society to start of! Lets look at the Reality here, you dont know what Communist even is! And i find this to be bouth funny and stupid! Because you talk about Something that you dont even know! And to start of Communism wasent even mplemented in any Society! And if you atleast knew the basic of the Communist ideology, something that you shod know to talk about this topic, you could see and tell this factor! But lets look here at your comments: Full with rage, frustration and cursings! You call others names while you are alooking as a desperate Troll, and you rage in yourt comments like you are histeric! And even the last point: ''Iam reading the books of marx, engels and lenin, so I know what Iam talking about'' Exactly, you are a brainwashed sheep that believes in anything." What shod you read about Communism in the first place? And oh, if you inform youself about something you are a brainwashed sheep that belives in anything? And we are all sure, if we want to know about Communism we must read what Mcarty and Gobbles wrote! Not what those how actualy bild the ideal from the peoples view and Struggle, explaining every point of it right? As you pruven youself to be a "free" emty mind,that dosent know what even he talks about! And i beg you, next time dont be so histeric, try to clan youself and try to stop your own blind anger! "Communism failed"? In what point? When Capitalism was first implemented it rezulted into a total failure and inhuman events rezulting after Genocides, crimes, histerias and milions of more that is called the dark ages, and that is Capitalism that we know! Not the first form of it, from the first known Empires of the world and later the Roman Empire! But when a Socierty that wasent even Communist, pulled the imppossibile under every standard known to man, did what Capittalism did in hundreds of years, in record time of decades, inovated the world that we see! Mas impruved the masses in any Standard known so far! And leaded the worlds inovation and creation for decades! That was a failure? Wasent the Roman Empire a failure? The dark ages? The British Imperialism? The Slave Industry? Penal colonies? Genocides? Crimes? And milions of moere? The Industrial ages were the people were treated like animals abnd progress was held from them? And the hole history of Capitalism?
I feel life in USSR was very simple and relaxed. The government lays a path for you to live your life and your job is to just live it out. Free education and medical care, no unemployement. In other words, people had an element of certainity in their lives...each person knew how much he would earn tomorrow, 5 years or 10 years from now. It definitely is not a life of extravagence, but your basic needs are met. In short, communism is about certainity and security, capitalism is about opportunity
I am a child of the cold war American borned and raised. We were brought up to fear the Russians and communism as an evil empire. BUT as an adult struggling in the evil that is capitalism, I am trying to learn everything I can about what life was really like in the USSR. As at heart I agree with socialism. I seek the truth. Not what propoganda both of our governments fed us.
***** I know the USSR locked its borders. You would find that most communists, including me, think Stalin was a tyrant and don't agree with him politically. :/
***** Look I'm genuinely sorry that you and many other people suffered under communism and that you took issue with my comment. I don't deny that communism isn't perfect. Also, in my second comment I assumed you were Brazilian because I only moused over your profile thumbnail for like 3 seconds and didn't see that it actually said 'Brazilian music fanatic'. Again, apologies. Hope you understand.
Я Люксембу́ргский Коммунист и борюсь за Русского коммунизма! я стал участвовать участвовал в коммунистическом движении в России. я сделал конкретный выбор и вступил в ряды КПРФ. Для вступления в КПРФ мне дали отличные рекомендации Николай Губенко и один из московских товарищей - Ким Владимирович Ковалёв. Я четырежды был удостоен памятных медалей ЦК КПРФ как интернационалист за неоднократно проявляемое чувство советского патриотизма. Почему меня называют "Советский патриот"? Это потому, что я принимал участие в ваших митингах, раздавал партийные газеты и участвовал в пикетах. Я практически изъездил весь СССР, кроме Средний Азии. Побывал в Прибалтике, Украине, Молдове, Калининграде и в других местах. Hо когда мне исполнилось 16 лет, я оставил учебу, чтобы приехать в Россию. Я влюбился Русскую революцию и стал ее молодим романтиком. Позднее я понял, почему Ленину и Сталину надо было быть твёрдыми с врагами. Ленин нам показал, что делать, а Сталин строил и защищал молодую советскую страну - всё по теории Маркса и Энгельса. Я прочитал весь "Капитал", "Что делать" и многое другое.... :-) Я хочу, чтобы Россия была сильная, чтобы она ещё раз подняла трудящих всех стран, чтобы опять она нам показывала ЧТО ДЕЛАТЬ !!
@radiateur93 Thank you for all of your videos. They make us all realize what a great country we have lost! In present Russia people live in fear of tomorrow, desperately trying to make the ends meet under the cruel capitalist economy. In the USSR people lived in peace, there was no hunger and injustice, no violence, high crime and ethnic hatred as in today's "free" capitalist Russia.
Compañero, tengo 25 años, me hubiera encantado estar en Moscu, hace 40 años, ver la Plaza Roja, los adoquines, a Gagarin venir del cielo, con una flor que arranco a las estrellas, tengo mucha nostalgia, por algo que no vivi, como la URSS o la RDA... Saludos desde Perú, y bellas las musicas de sus videos.....
I'm so glad to here the tolerance and acceptance from American people it warms my heart. One of my favorite quotes was "Everyone feared Russia because they were different not just different but because they were white if they were any other race they would have had a completely different appearance." A lot of people don't see the discrimination and hostilities to the Russians post Cold war, and if they do they over look it because we are the same race.
I spoke to an old Russian lady who told me about shopping day in her part of Russia "First we take train for 6 hours. Then we stand in line for 6 hours and pick out item. Then we stand in other line for 3 hours to get ticket. Then we go back to other line and hope thing still there. If is, we stand in nother line to pay." Imagine the DMV x10
not really.. it was pretty realistic for the late 80s (looks like). It wasn't a nightmare to live in but was still extremely poor compared to all sorts of things you could have in the West.
@SuperUspeh : Thank you! I'm sorry, I speak very little Russian and my English is bad. Thanks. Greetings from Luxembourg. (Your country is beautiful and your people too). please accept my best regards :-)
@Igor707 What was so great with the USSR?? I visited in 1975, and was amazed by the low standards and the lack of basiq goods, was this a superpower????????
Soviet Union was a paradise. There was a high social security for everyone, free appartments, free shool, free high education. There are always was a job for everyone, the only jobless people where the people, who didn't wanted to work. The work was "MUST" in USSR. There are also was low crime, drugs where almost non existent. I would not say there where no problems at all. Some people drunk too much, some people have bad luck. But they all knew there is better tomorrow.
You can't believe it, but I as a child drank pepsi-cola almost everyday in 1980th in the USSR! And for me PEPSI-COLA always will stay like "PEPSI-COLA" but not just "PEPSI" as they say nowadays. At the end of 1980th also appeared both Coca-cola and Fanta though USSR was still alive.
Твои фотографы--очень хорошо!!! Мне нравится большее!! У меня интерес со историям советского союза и в пути народы живёли свои жизни. Извини, мой русский-плохи потому что я ученик.
Nice video :-) .......enjoyed watching it.......I believe in freedom and all that but basic necessities come first...like health shelter food...at least that was well covered in USSR..........present day capitalist system, even if democratic, has simply too much political and income inequality.......lets see what future holds for us. Nice video once again
I was born and I lived in ussr till it collapsed. Life in ussr was awful. There were no good food neither in stores nor in canteens. Vegetable shops sold rot only. Shoes and clothes were very poor quality and even for such there were huge queues. There were huge queues to buy any product. Cheese has never been sold in my city (Kharkov). In other cities(like Kursk), sausages were not sold, and so on. There was no edible meat anywhere. Only very expensive on the farmer market. Home electronics cost a lot of money and broke down all the time. In early 80-s 24-inch color TV cost about 1000$ at the official curency exchange rate. Average salary was 125-180$. The queue for furniture for six months or a year. Clean drinking water was not available at all. Many drank and cooked with rusty tap water. Clean water could only be collected from a spring and carried in the hands of 5-10 km. Most did not have time for this. People spent most of their free time in queue lines. Some people (like my parents) have been queuing up to get an apartment all their lives. The car was unattainable for the majority and, again, the queue - at least 10 years. With medicine, things were not the best way. For many, there was no way to buy good medicines. The hospitals did not have electronic ultrasound, artificial blood circulation systems, laparoscopy and other things. Child mortality was off the charts. Disposable syringes were not available until the late 1980s. There were no interesting books on sale, only communist agitation and a small number of "correct" writers. Normal food, books, medicine, cars were available for the communist elite. But in general, they also lived poorly, just a little better than the rest. Only very high-ranking communists lived richly. You can't even imagine what a nightmare it was!
I say give them some slack. It's bad luck to rejoice in your "enemy's" undoing, they have enough misery without anyone piling on, no? I learned this in Sunday school. I think the One above will take care of us all, anyway. They told me He smiles when we show compassion.
These descriptions are one off or localized incidents very pervertly highlighted. USSR had developed self supporting complete independent new cities with very well planned layout (that was easy in a centralized planning system) where people led very comfortable life. I am talking of new cities built around space centers, engg centers, large industrial hubs and so on. American system could not have promoted such things rapidly. Equality of living conditions may have been still better in America
26127 человек, сторонников и противников потянуло окунуться в атмосферу нашего социалистического прошлого! Ведь наша страна была единственной! Лишь у нас был спокойный и размеренный ритм жизни! Лишь у нас была уверенность в завтрашнем дне! Лишь у нас была натуральная продукция! Лишь у нас ценили трудового человека! Наша культура была лучшей! Дух нашего народа был сильнее! Мы были державой! Нам было чем гордиться!
I lived in Russia for 6 years til 2007 but looking at these pictures and for what people told me, hope I could lived at that time. Maybe there were poverty, that's true, but most of the people had values, and you can't buy that with money.
0:24 is definetly not USSR, selling pepsi and other western products in the public was against the law, USSR had everything made in USSR, and we were proud and happy for it!
The only payback for free education was, that students where assign to some place in USSR, where they would start their work. They where sent there for 2 or 3 years and than, they where free to go anywhere they wanted, because they already paid their dues. With the job, they also got a place to live. They also got an experience, which they needed. Why do you think so many people where heart broken, when USSR was ruined. People have good life without troubles, no they have just troubles.
As soon as the door opened,my friend Igor got the heck out of Russia,came to America and built a good life for himself,he just didn't like living under communist,he said you had to watch everything you said.
Elegant and beautiful life was in the Soviet Union !!!!!!!!!!!!!! More opportunities in sport and music! West - a beautiful facade and all ! Money and only money - The main criterion of the West
Soviet system had produced good productivity (not consumer goods), breakthrough technologies, & environment was largely taken care of. That can't come from 'forced at gunpoint' culture. Higher education was free, & the system ensured job for everyone. So some tensions taken away, some happiness and motivation certainly. Let us at least believe in referendums of today. today's internet world brings all news/history to ex-soviets. Most yet votes that "Living conditions were good in Soviet system".
In the late 80's they made a law about cooperatives, which let some people to open joint business, but it was not the same as private business and it was already too late. If USSR did the same, what China did, it would be still alive. But they didn't, they where afraid of changes and changes came anyway.You would be very surprised, if you know, that for 15 years I have my small private legal business. I was a good Tailor and I made clothes and sold them on the market.
Agree, the way someone shoots off an incident as though he has truly met someone, or had interacted for a while. All false claims. Must have read it somewhere in internet. I fully agree with your observations.
i doubt world will have better times than 60s-70s soviet union... more equal, more natural, more happy than those times... absolute utopic life, and only appreciated when we lost it...
I completely agree with you. Socialism by very definition is democratic and free. It seems to me that most people don't really have any idea about what socialism really is, other than a vague mental connection to the Soviet Union and a James Bond bad guy with a funny accent. They immediately associate it with tyrrany. All too often, people forget the good socialists - people like Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan.
No not fall of the sky. USSR was a huge country. There was all minerals from periodic table, gas, oil, diamons, gold. Govermant sold this minerals, oil, gas and diamonds with gold and put money in budget.
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Though I was born in 1989 (so could not remember the USSR) I still feel some kind of nostalgia, I can't explain it, but really sense it! Many people I asked had the same feeling! It is like on gene level we feel, that our parents made a mistake in 1990s, letting the USSR collapse! Though a lot of people call the USSR an empire of evil, even all the banners in video are about peace, freedom, work, prosperity, life and friendship!
Depend what kind of comunism is peace and love
Comunism or socialism
Juan Izquierda caca I mean just people and peoples relations inside! And yes, there never was comunism in the USSR, only socialism with shitish economy! But people were not so turned on money, that made tham kinder!
Who made a big country with their errors . That leader was Stalin, he was bad because he did not want zionists in the URSS power. So happened the zionists killed to Stalin with venenum in the food
If i am saying a lie, why did Trotsky go to México as an axilian? Who killed Trotsky was a Man called Ramon Mercadell was from my country Spain, he die in Cuba. I am socialist but i am not a social democratic same than PSOE here in my country, they say defeat to the worker and they do not defeat to the poor.
Im from Denmark everyone said that the USSR was a poor and bad Union!
And i know why!
We saw American TV and listened to American radio, they told all the bad things about USSR, but they had a lot of good thing to.
Mark you are absolutely brainwashed fool. Enjoy life.
I just say you that there were no toilet paper in ussr sold . At all.
welcome stop talking bullshit).
To save trees people but newspaoers rrady Them and use for house good use including that you talking baut.
@@doghammer1 that is not bullshit but reality. Or u will argue that common toilet paper was freely in soviet markets and stores sold?
I was on sale, there still needles and handkerchiefs were on sale.
0% unemployment, No poverty.. Huge Future.... people look much happier at that point!!!
На 5 минут я вернулся в детство. Это ностальгия не только по молодости, но и по СССР.
thank you for your comments my comrade!
I am jealous me also, but you your old: -))
I am a nostalgic old man and you you are young, the future is for you!
do not regret old times.
thank you.
My granparents said soviet union before gorbachev was a paradise
I don't care how you will take my words. Many Soviet people, me including have a normal happy life. We have everything we needed, we could be anyone we wanted. What there not to like. We have stable life, with low crime, with good health care, we have our own apartments, free very good schools, free high education. We also have a beautifull country with rivers, lakes sea. Paradise is not just palms, hot weather and martini. Paradise it's a happy childhood and stable future.
cont. As a Russian emigrant in Texas it warms my heart that you posted your comment. I travel between both countries every year and there are way too many dark stereotypes of each other your father has given me hope for the better. thank you.
Greetings comrade. Thank you for showing us the pictures from former SU, which were not seen before. Seeing the photographs, it looks like USSR had a distinct culture, distinct way of life and distinct society. What is today? Moscow and other cities look like as if those are American cities with kids in hoodies on their skateboards and girls in minis and shorts with a big McDonald's or Pizza Hut sign standing out from behind.
These photos are amazing. I would have loved to have visited.
At that time you wouldn't be able to travel freely. They told you where you can go.
ever known? sir I am Soviet medal of merit since 1979, I crossed the USSR in car for 3 months, I did 25000 km, and you say I have never known the USSR? Do you? you're never left your country, you know that the capitalist propaganda, you're conditioning, you are poor in your brain yes!
I believe there are also many people who want these times back.
Most old people want the old times back, regardless of economic system. They want their youth back.
Come back my beloved Union of the people and rise as you never did before from the asses of the Capitalist States!
KARL MARX yeah, I also think so comorade. Marx hiself supposed the first socialist state will be the US because it is and was the country where capitalism is/was really developed
KARL MARX of course comorade. WE NEED THE REVOLUTION, otherwise this planet will be destroyed and the workers will be slaves or they will be unemployed, like you already said.
We never will stop fighting for a better world !!
Long live the great ideology of communism !!!
KoivuTheHab Whatt makes you think there wont be a communist revolution ????
Are you really happy with the living conditions of poor people in this world ????
You are an idiot !!!!
Of course you think so, you belong to the dominant class. Doy ou the social development is completed ????
If there is injustice like that on the planet it isnt.
The human is able to do anything and he will be able to build up a better system, communism.
We learned from the mistakes of soviet communism and we will do it better next time.
The revolution will come.The rich are getting richer the poor ones wont be able to survive under capitalsim soon. They will arrise.
If you call the future of humanity like that you are a fool.
(Iam poor but good educated, I worked hard for everything and I want everybody to have the same chance; I dont write anything: Iam reading the books of marx, engels and lenin, so I know what Iam talking about).
KoivuTheHab Communist failed? Please tell us were Communism was implemented and in what Society to start of!
Lets look at the Reality here, you dont know what Communist even is! And i find this to be bouth funny and stupid! Because you talk about Something that you dont even know!
And to start of Communism wasent even mplemented in any Society! And if you atleast knew the basic of the Communist ideology, something that you shod know to talk about this topic, you could see and tell this factor!
But lets look here at your comments: Full with rage, frustration and cursings! You call others names while you are alooking as a desperate Troll, and you rage in yourt comments like you are histeric!
And even the last point:
''Iam reading the books of marx, engels and lenin, so I know what Iam talking about''
Exactly, you are a brainwashed sheep that believes in anything."
What shod you read about Communism in the first place? And oh, if you inform youself about something you are a brainwashed sheep that belives in anything? And we are all sure, if we want to know about Communism we must read what Mcarty and Gobbles wrote! Not what those how actualy bild the ideal from the peoples view and Struggle, explaining every point of it right?
As you pruven youself to be a "free" emty mind,that dosent know what even he talks about! And i beg you, next time dont be so histeric, try to clan youself and try to stop your own blind anger!
"Communism failed"? In what point?
When Capitalism was first implemented it rezulted into a total failure and inhuman events rezulting after Genocides, crimes, histerias and milions of more that is called the dark ages, and that is Capitalism that we know! Not the first form of it, from the first known Empires of the world and later the Roman Empire!
But when a Socierty that wasent even Communist, pulled the imppossibile under every standard known to man, did what Capittalism did in hundreds of years, in record time of decades, inovated the world that we see! Mas impruved the masses in any Standard known so far! And leaded the worlds inovation and creation for decades! That was a failure?
Wasent the Roman Empire a failure? The dark ages? The British Imperialism? The Slave Industry? Penal colonies? Genocides? Crimes? And milions of moere? The Industrial ages were the people were treated like animals abnd progress was held from them? And the hole history of Capitalism?
I feel life in USSR was very simple and relaxed. The government lays a path for you to live your life and your job is to just live it out. Free education and medical care, no unemployement. In other words, people had an element of certainity in their lives...each person knew how much he would earn tomorrow, 5 years or 10 years from now. It definitely is not a life of extravagence, but your basic needs are met. In short, communism is about certainity and security, capitalism is about opportunity
Хочу в СССР! Хочу гордиться великой страной.
Exactly!! Igor707 says the truth!
thank you for your comment!
Nostalgia..
Спасибо Товариш
Sooo schöne Bilder. Es wirkt alles nicht so überhastet.
Ein Stück großer Vergangenheit! Schön, dass Du
das alles sehen konntest, Frederyk. Danke
What is this music? Fits the video perfectly!
It's 'La 7ème Cible' by Vladimir Cosma.
I agree, it does fit well with the video.
Fantastic emotions!!! Thank you for posting!!!
I am a child of the cold war American borned and raised. We were brought up to fear the Russians and communism as an evil empire. BUT as an adult struggling in the evil that is capitalism, I am trying to learn everything I can about what life was really like in the USSR.
As at heart I agree with socialism.
I seek the truth. Not what propoganda both of our governments fed us.
Super video 👍I was born 1979 in Hungary 🇭🇺
Uncle Vlad everywhere,
Meanwhile
Uncle Jo
"Was I a joke to all of You " ?
I will be Happy when I a brought home to Russia to see and learn about the ART and History!
Всё изменилось)))
Beautifull video Comrade.
I did not vist Russia to 2008,my biggest regret was not going in Soviet times,but I was too young.
Thanks for sharing!
this looks freaking awesome actually.
a excellent video ,nice photos, nice music, what more can i say
I live in Russia. And I'll tell you again, that the majority of Russians evaluate positively the USSR.
This was beautiful. Long live Lenin. ❤️
***** Please don't pretend you care about Russians just for the sake of an argument. :)
***** I know the USSR locked its borders. You would find that most communists, including me, think Stalin was a tyrant and don't agree with him politically. :/
***** Was your mother in law from Ukraine?
***** Look I'm genuinely sorry that you and many other people suffered under communism and that you took issue with my comment. I don't deny that communism isn't perfect. Also, in my second comment I assumed you were Brazilian because I only moused over your profile thumbnail for like 3 seconds and didn't see that it actually said 'Brazilian music fanatic'. Again, apologies. Hope you understand.
And lol at that mistake about Ukraine. It was 1:00 in the morning when I wrote it. Sorry.
Я Люксембу́ргский Коммунист и борюсь за Русского коммунизма! я стал участвовать участвовал в коммунистическом движении в России. я сделал конкретный выбор и вступил в ряды КПРФ. Для вступления в КПРФ мне дали отличные рекомендации Николай Губенко и один из московских товарищей - Ким Владимирович Ковалёв. Я четырежды был удостоен памятных медалей ЦК КПРФ как интернационалист за неоднократно проявляемое чувство советского патриотизма.
Почему меня называют "Советский патриот"? Это потому, что я принимал участие в ваших митингах, раздавал партийные газеты и участвовал в пикетах. Я практически изъездил весь СССР, кроме Средний Азии. Побывал в Прибалтике, Украине, Молдове, Калининграде и в других местах. Hо когда мне исполнилось 16 лет, я оставил учебу, чтобы приехать в Россию. Я влюбился Русскую революцию и стал ее молодим романтиком. Позднее я понял, почему Ленину и Сталину надо было быть твёрдыми с врагами. Ленин нам показал, что делать, а Сталин строил и защищал молодую советскую страну - всё по теории Маркса и Энгельса. Я прочитал весь "Капитал", "Что делать" и многое другое.... :-)
Я хочу, чтобы Россия была сильная, чтобы она ещё раз подняла трудящих всех стран, чтобы опять она нам показывала ЧТО ДЕЛАТЬ !!
КПРФ не коммунистическая партия, а мелкобуржуазная. Не ведитесь на уловки Зюганова
Fascinating photographs. A lost world but not a lost paradise by any stretch of the imagination, as far as I'm concerned...
Очень понравилось. Одно из лучших видео такого плана
Спасибо.
you have the best combination of music for all of your videos. Please, tell me, who performs the music in your videos???
@radiateur93 Thank you for all of your videos. They make us all realize what a great country we have lost! In present Russia people live in fear of tomorrow, desperately trying to make the ends meet under the cruel capitalist economy. In the USSR people lived in peace, there was no hunger and injustice, no violence, high crime and ethnic hatred as in today's "free" capitalist Russia.
Compañero, tengo 25 años, me hubiera encantado estar en Moscu, hace 40 años, ver la Plaza Roja, los adoquines, a Gagarin venir del cielo, con una flor que arranco a las estrellas, tengo mucha nostalgia, por algo que no vivi, como la URSS o la RDA...
Saludos desde Perú, y bellas las musicas de sus videos.....
I'm so glad to here the tolerance and acceptance from American people it warms my heart. One of my favorite quotes was "Everyone feared Russia because they were different not just different but because they were white if they were any other race they would have had a completely different appearance." A lot of people don't see the discrimination and hostilities to the Russians post Cold war, and if they do they over look it because we are the same race.
Socialism doesn't fail. Corruption ruins governments.
amazing song, nice video!
What is the name of the music used in this video?
I would have refused of any kind of treasures if only I could come back home to USSR!
@radiateur93 - How appropriate that your Renault was red! :)) Awesome pictures and experience. Would have loved to do that during that era myself!
Thank you. Really good photos..
@sputnikburan : My car (Renault4) was an element of curiosity in the USSR!
I think I was the first on the roads of the USSR with a Renault . ;-)
love the music btw, could you tell me what it is? Certainly at the start.
I spoke to an old Russian lady who told me about shopping day in her part of Russia
"First we take train for 6 hours. Then we stand in line for 6 hours and pick out item. Then we stand in other line for 3 hours to get ticket. Then we go back to other line and hope thing still there. If is, we stand in nother line to pay." Imagine the DMV x10
having a ziguli or a colour tv was a luxury a pure luxury
"I use it, because you use it" QED.
Looks fine to me
They only showed things they wanted you to see...
not really.. it was pretty realistic for the late 80s (looks like). It wasn't a nightmare to live in but was still extremely poor compared to all sorts of things you could have in the West.
@SuperUspeh : Thank you! I'm sorry, I speak very little Russian and my English is bad. Thanks. Greetings from Luxembourg. (Your country is beautiful and your people too). please accept my best regards :-)
Western Propaganda only says negative things about the USSR, most being fake. The pictures in this video shows the true USSR.
@Igor707 What was so great with the USSR?? I visited in 1975, and was amazed by the low standards and the lack of basiq goods, was this a superpower????????
Ahhh...Those Were The DAYS!
I love their boxy little cars
hey, what did you all visit? I visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, Velikki Novgorod, Jaroslavl, Suzdal, Tver, Kostrama & Velikii Rostov.
Soviet Union was a paradise. There was a high social security for everyone, free appartments, free shool, free high education. There are always was a job for everyone, the only jobless people where the people, who didn't wanted to work. The work was "MUST" in USSR. There are also was low crime, drugs where almost non existent. I would not say there where no problems at all. Some people drunk too much, some people have bad luck. But they all knew there is better tomorrow.
You can't believe it, but I as a child drank pepsi-cola almost everyday in 1980th in the USSR! And for me PEPSI-COLA always will stay like "PEPSI-COLA" but not just "PEPSI" as they say nowadays. At the end of 1980th also appeared both Coca-cola and Fanta though USSR was still alive.
Твои фотографы--очень хорошо!!! Мне нравится большее!! У меня интерес со историям советского союза и в пути народы живёли свои жизни. Извини, мой русский-плохи потому что я ученик.
Nice video :-) .......enjoyed watching it.......I believe in freedom and all that but basic necessities come first...like health shelter food...at least that was well covered in USSR..........present day capitalist system, even if democratic, has simply too much political and income inequality.......lets see what future holds for us. Nice video once again
Magnifique.Emouvant.
Thanks big for video... The Main advantage of that time in this country is fair, decent people...
I was born and I lived in ussr till it collapsed. Life in ussr was awful.
There were no good food neither in stores nor in canteens. Vegetable shops sold rot only. Shoes and clothes were very poor quality and even for such there were huge queues. There were huge queues to buy any product. Cheese has never been sold in my city (Kharkov). In other cities(like Kursk), sausages were not sold, and so on. There was no edible meat anywhere. Only very expensive on the farmer market.
Home electronics cost a lot of money and broke down all the time. In early 80-s 24-inch color TV cost about 1000$ at the official curency exchange rate. Average salary was 125-180$.
The queue for furniture for six months or a year.
Clean drinking water was not available at all. Many drank and cooked with rusty tap water. Clean water could only be collected from a spring and carried in the hands of 5-10 km. Most did not have time for this.
People spent most of their free time in queue lines. Some people (like my parents) have been queuing up to get an apartment all their lives. The car was unattainable for the majority and, again, the queue - at least 10 years.
With medicine, things were not the best way. For many, there was no way to buy good medicines. The hospitals did not have electronic ultrasound, artificial blood circulation systems, laparoscopy and other things. Child mortality was off the charts. Disposable syringes were not available until the late 1980s.
There were no interesting books on sale, only communist agitation and a small number of "correct" writers.
Normal food, books, medicine, cars were available for the communist elite. But in general, they also lived poorly, just a little better than the rest. Only very high-ranking communists lived richly.
You can't even imagine what a nightmare it was!
FED poster detected
Comrade, what is this wanderful song? Great composition.
thanks !!!
camarada, de donde sacaste las imagenes??
@STALKER1918
Pepsi WAS sold in the USSR since the 70's. All Pepsi products were made in the USSR though.
it really looked like a nice place :)
Where are the close-ups of food shops? Did you happen to see any jeans, sneakers, do you know the single store where one could buy Fanta?
Fanta sucks though
I say give them some slack. It's bad luck to rejoice in your "enemy's" undoing, they have enough misery without anyone piling on, no?
I learned this in Sunday school. I think the One above will take care of us all, anyway.
They told me He smiles when we show compassion.
Hello! This video´s music is really fantastic.who is the compositor? I will be gratefull if you can aswer, please! VIVA LENIN
the cat seems happy
These descriptions are one off or localized incidents very pervertly highlighted. USSR had developed self supporting complete independent new cities with very well planned layout (that was easy in a centralized planning system) where people led very comfortable life. I am talking of new cities built around space centers, engg centers, large industrial hubs and so on. American system could not have promoted such things rapidly. Equality of living conditions may have been still better in America
26127 человек, сторонников и противников потянуло окунуться в атмосферу нашего социалистического прошлого! Ведь наша страна была единственной! Лишь у нас был спокойный и размеренный ритм жизни! Лишь у нас была уверенность в завтрашнем дне! Лишь у нас была натуральная продукция! Лишь у нас ценили трудового человека! Наша культура была лучшей! Дух нашего народа был сильнее! Мы были державой! Нам было чем гордиться!
I lived in Russia for 6 years til 2007 but looking at these pictures and for what people told me, hope I could lived at that time. Maybe there were poverty, that's true, but most of the people had values, and you can't buy that with money.
"It was all paid from government budget."
Ofcourse. And who was financing the government budget? Or did that budget just fall out of sky?
0:24 is definetly not USSR, selling pepsi and other western products in the public was against the law, USSR had everything made in USSR, and we were proud and happy for it!
Dream Spirit there were some western products
What is the name of the song? It is beautiful. :)
The only payback for free education was, that students where assign to some place in USSR, where they would start their work. They where sent there for 2 or 3 years and than, they where free to go anywhere they wanted, because they already paid their dues. With the job, they also got a place to live. They also got an experience, which they needed. Why do you think so many people where heart broken, when USSR was ruined. People have good life without troubles, no they have just troubles.
As soon as the door opened,my friend Igor got the heck out of Russia,came to America and built a good life for himself,he just didn't like living under communist,he said you had to watch everything you said.
Well I am living in a country where there are too many socialists
Elegant and beautiful life was in the Soviet Union !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
More opportunities in sport and music!
West - a beautiful facade and all !
Money and only money - The main criterion of the West
....здравствуй, Родина....
A very readable reportage, thanks
Whats the name of this beautifull sentimental song?
Soviet system had produced good productivity (not consumer goods), breakthrough technologies, & environment was largely taken care of. That can't come from 'forced at gunpoint' culture. Higher education was free, & the system ensured job for everyone. So some tensions taken away, some happiness and motivation certainly. Let us at least believe in referendums of today. today's internet world brings all news/history to ex-soviets. Most yet votes that "Living conditions were good in Soviet system".
Que de nostalgie !
@cbohar84
The Black Sea Coast in the Russian Sochi area has a very mild almost Mediterranean climate. I would guess the picture was taken there.
In the late 80's they made a law about cooperatives, which let some people to open joint business, but it was not the same as private business and it was already too late. If USSR did the same, what China did, it would be still alive. But they didn't, they where afraid of changes and changes came anyway.You would be very surprised, if you know, that for 15 years I have my small private legal business. I was a good Tailor and I made clothes and sold them on the market.
Beautiful! What is the name of the music in the video?
I love the union soviet
даздраствует ссср ето наше прошлое вспомним с трепитом с пасибо за воспоминание
nicely done
Agree, the way someone shoots off an incident as though he has truly met someone, or had interacted for a while. All false claims. Must have read it somewhere in internet. I fully agree with your observations.
Have you read any act of the soviets? Do you know how many eletions (is that word in English?) were in the whole history of the Union?
I've always wanted to see the USSR, too late.
i doubt world will have better times than 60s-70s soviet union... more equal, more natural, more happy than those times... absolute utopic life, and only appreciated when we lost it...
I completely agree with you. Socialism by very definition is democratic and free.
It seems to me that most people don't really have any idea about what socialism really is, other than a vague mental connection to the Soviet Union and a James Bond bad guy with a funny accent. They immediately associate it with tyrrany.
All too often, people forget the good socialists - people like Clement Attlee, Aneurin Bevan.
What is the title of the song ??? And who is it from ???
long life to red army
No not fall of the sky. USSR was a huge country. There was all minerals from periodic table, gas, oil, diamons, gold. Govermant sold this minerals, oil, gas and diamonds with gold and put money in budget.