Back in the USSR (1988) - Soviet Union in late 1980s
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- Опубликовано: 24 авг 2022
- This film follows the family of Jerry Schecter, Former Moscow bureau chief for Time magazine, as they return to the Soviet Union after twenty years. Talking to their Russian friends and acquaintances, they discover what the Russian people are thinking about the changes brought by Perestroika and Glasnost.
Produced by WGBH Educational Foundation.
#sovietunion #1980s #history 
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I lived in Moscow in 1993 and was there during the 2nd Coup. Lots of turmoil that year. Even though there wasn't freedom to do what you wanted during the USSR I believe life was more peaceful and families were closer than they are now.
People here filmed seem more proud and happy than today
(And smarter)
Thanks to the collapse of the USSR and strong Western propaganda, Russians started to believe that they are not capable of anything great. I am Russian, and I know what I am talking about. We are actually a great nation full of incredibly talented and smart people, and we are going to rebuild what we have lost.
Its 1988 people are happy that they can see that there is possibility of change and great hope the system is rotten and on the horizon is so many possibilities so everyone is excited not knowing that buncrup and Chechenya putin Kursk and mafia is behind the corner everyone can learn a lot from this documentary really a lot because our the fact that human nature is not so different Russians American black Asian…
it depends where you're from in the soviet union. the countries that have been occupied like moldova, the baltics are a lot happier now, being independent and being able to express themselves freely, without the fear of being punished. in moldova we were very poor and this regime was horrendous. thank god the USSR fell.
@@SIMONREMISH lol have you ever been to those countries while they were in the USSR? We lived worse than the “occupied” Baltic countries. Moldova is not the best place right now. They destroyed their production. All former republics did. The Baltics live only due to the EU. Ask Germans whether they want to invest in Latvia without real profit, just to create another anti-Russia, and you will understand everything.
At least I get to see life in the USSR. Aa a history nut, this is gold for me. Thanks for uploading it. 😊
Lol I can show you footage of rich Brazilians that doesn’t change the fact that most people are poor.
@@Homesteadfront I can show you thousands of fentanyl zombies crawling around US cities.
ok and? you Just proved my point LMAO. ussr, America, russia, etc all can look nice in selectively edited clips but in reality that are poopshoots@@user-bq4cv1dh1p
@@Homesteadfront Then show us footage of the streets full of zombies under animal tranquilizers from Russia. You won't find them.
@@alexanderwolf8766 Is there a high unemployment rate among young people in Russia, and will they become homeless if they lose their jobs
It's a bit weird that Americans don't film a single young person in the USSR. If you walk in any public place or street in Moscow you will see women who would easely get a job in a model's agency in a Western country, but not in US documentaries about the USSR.
there is but you will not find these in blockbuster hollywood films. They are all have propaganda in them subtle or open
it's about empathy, and the hegelian thing
In the 1980's those "model" women were probably doing back breaking labor down uranium mines. Ah good old Communism.
Babushkas are more photogenic than devushkas
@@sbansban actually I've seen more photogenic babushki than the ones shown at this video.
Honestly, I think the US and Russia were probably in a better state back in the late 80s. I miss those times. So much hope in both countries.
US is much more powerful though. Russia on the other hand is much weaker. NATO was only created because of the Soviet Union, but now it's gone, there isn't a former power balance between those. China is the new rival. It would had been quite interesting if the world power was, US, China and Soviet Union. A trio superpower. But I think a modern and powerful Soviet U would've been disastrous. Glad the next leaders after stalin were fairly weak.
A União Soviética causou muitas mortes e a fome aumentou exageradamente. Não desejo que a URSS volte nem um pouco.
@@VinnyUnion O português não soa feio, é um belo idioma. Apenas utilizei palavras mais ofensivas, pois é o que sinto. A URSS foi uma merda.
@@gustavocode try french bro
you don't need portuguese to be happy and civilized.
@@VinnyUnion I am already happy and civilized with Portuguese.
Those days just came to my mind from 1980s. I was a voracious reader of Soviet publications in 1980s. Through those publications I came to contact with Soviet literature, culture, art and technology. Those full page photographs of Soviet scenic beauty , sculpture and their life are still very clear in my mind. Missing those really valuable days. Thanks for uploading.
Russian reality is different now.
I share those feelings!!
@@sofiabessonova2214
Do you live in Russia? What's so different with it at the moment?
I vividly remember those days, there was so much hope and happiness in the world. Everybody thought it was the end of the darkest century of the world history, the communism was dead and good times lied ahead. Gorbachev was a hero, welcomed everywhere in the world. Now Gorbachev is dead and Russia turned into a fascist state. Never thought that could ever happen, not in my life time, but here we go.
@@USGrant21st а что плохого в коммунизме? Справедливое в экономическом и политическом смысле общество. Торжество науки и прогресса. У вас в США люди до сих пор в картонных коробках живут. В СССР все люди имели жилье работу, бесплатную медицину бесплатное образование. Назовите хоть одно преимущество вашего строя. Для простого рядового человека. А не чиновника или капиталиста?
Teachers and students remembering each other is a universal experience. I love it 😊
❤📚
communism is good? so why fall, because not work hehhe
Boy, those poor people had no idea they where about to experience 'the sweet taste of freedom'...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
You can visit transnistria for that authentic "waiting in a breadline at 5am" experience
@@Juzztas non come in USA
Freedom in the USA ? I think modern slavery ….
They lie that there were problems in the country. It's a lie. About Stalin's repressions, about economics. All lies.
Сколько улыбок тогда....
Да и сейчас есть улыбки, но безнадеги больше на лицах..
Мне одному кажется, что раньше у людей взгляд был более осмысленен?
They need to do another episode 35 years later. "Back Again to The USSR" See how much things have changed.
Yeah but there's no USSR to go back to bro.
@@cbrown9287it is there fewer land but people are more soviet than in 1980th
😅😅😅
On August,12-13th in 1989 there was a huge rock concert with Motley Crue, Ozzy, Scorpions, Skid Row, Bon Jovi, Cinderella in Moscow. Time was changed.
man that must’ve been a good concert. ozzy just announced today he won’t be on stage anymore
Billy Joel was in the Soviet Union during the summer of 1987.
I have seen a video of Metallica there to and the crowd is the biggest I have ever scene! 🎉
Now they have Shaman.
@@dracgotbandsSearched for Mirodrom Koncert Split 1985 .They are Aeodrom,Film,Denis Denis and grouphs like that .
This was so well made, a very interesting perspective from the 80s when there was so much hope for the future, just saddening to know now how some things have turned out tragically.
What turned tragic? Destroying of USSR was best what happened in 90-s. But it was not destroyed entirely - large peace in the name “russia” remained. But we are in process f destroying this shit
the collapse of this fake ass union was the best thing ever happened in my life. it was never a union anyway. occupation
giving russia to putin was the worst mistake ever made for russia itself.
@@ChickenMcThiccken i dont think so. Life has become much better.
@@ChickenMcThiccken It seems hard coded in Russian DNA to submit to authoritarian strongmen.
This documentary is excellent. Having people talk about their lives without a bunch of melodramatic music and leading questions is the best way to get to know people.
Millennials and younger can take note from this video on how people can all be in a room together, talking, being sociable, and just interacting. (as I sit behind a keyboard and type this).
At least you admitted your fault. Older people should take note
The oldest millennials are 40 years old lol we were alive before the internet took over
Dude, by the economic circumstances of today it is not like many can avoid it.
In mid-1986, nobody (or almost so) expected the USSR to collapse during the XXth century. In early 1988, everybody (or almost so) deemed it possible.
this is how the "Overton's window" works in real life..
Почему так грустно? мне было 2 года, все родные были со мной, радовался всему, жизнь только начиналась)
Да да да, те же мысли. Ностальгия... Грусть...
Подавитесь своим совком, он сдох в 1991-м году и находится на свалке истории, можете больше не упарываться! 🤣
@@user-sx9bl1sl2t Вы ещё от антисоветской пропаганды 90х не отошли
@@Max-io8hs вы ещё от совковой пропаганды 70-х не отошли? 🤣
@@user-sx9bl1sl2t то вам Путин ,то Ельцин ,то Жириновский ,никто понимаешь..не нравится! Ну сколько можно!(
All people are poor but look and talk more intelligent then now in Russia, it’s incredible.
because of the Capitalism makes people less thinker.
@@calaf1816 That makes no sense, but regardless, it's time and modern internet that has made people much more stupid. In capitalist societies, most people, even poor; would speak at a much more articulate level. I don't deny that these people aren't intelligent, but you make it out to seem that "capitalist nations dumb lol" when in reality they've created nearly all modern tech used.
@@ScriptedLinks
Wow created all the modern tech so great really wish they hadn't though. Their really should a control & discussion on technological development.
Liberalism/Capitalism & the Bourgeois Class won both World Wars & the Cold War but now what is Liberalism exactly? Yeah you could say freedom but Freedom to & from what exactly? I'll tell you want.
Liberalism seeks nothing but total atomization and alienation of the individual making him free from Family, Nation, Nature, and God and granting the Individual freedom to engage in all vices destroying any greater destiny for mankind as he competes to outdo his neighbors and exploit everyone underneath him well making shitty products and commercializing & desacralizing every aspect of society.
Under the chaotic direction of Liberalism intelligence has been lowering every year along with fertility and testosterone, pollution is at an all time high, deaths of despair are an all time high, sexual perversions are becoming normalized, etc. I piss on John Locke, the constitution, Freemasonry and capitalism from what I see none of the people today deserve the luxury we have.
Мне кажется сейчас наоборот идёт тенденция к прохожим, люди прохожими становятся, а в том времени все таки в обществе люди держались вместе, роднее были... Пусть были гнилые, подлые и хорошие, добрые, но люди роднее были
W Polsce to samo ,ludzie nie są teraz mili.🤗
люди были в страхе примерно как животные в колючей клетке за границу выезжали тщательно провереные люди с работниками кгб мир жил своей жизнью а нам досталось страшные конс лагеря и ужасные тюрмы почти все кто это прошол получили язву желудка вернетесь ещо хуже будет хорошенько выучите историю растрелы высылки искуственный голодо мор
I love these videos.
СССР это моя молодость. Всё было хорошо. Не было криминала, бандитизма, работа была у всех. Бездомных людей не было.
Горбачев целенаправленно уничтожал страну внутри страны. Русские люди в основном наивные и доверчивые. Обманули , что у нас будет светлое прекрасное будущее, но по сути потеряли всё и всё стало намного хуже.
"Не было криминала, бандитизма"
СССР развалил не Горбачев, а такие наглые вруны и лицемеры как вы!
Better dressed better cities than every city in the usa 2023
delusional take
and better looking women.
@@willdanger6833 name one
@@calaf1816 yes
And then came the nineties and all hell broke loose. Amazing.
Yes and suddenly all hope was lost.
Russia was booming right after USSR fell and opening business to the West (McDonald's, Starbucks, etc.). Though it's going backwards recently due to Putin. So it didn't come crashing in the 90's, standard of living was way higher due to opening up to the West, just like what happened in China when they tried it as an experiment.
Extraordinar, melodia de la inceputul reportajului, pe care ati ales-o este o DOINA romaneasca!👋
I also noticed, something like Moldavian melody. Americans just have no idea about russian folk .Hi from Belarus!
@@tania-iw6kz not moldavian music region, BANAT region folklore
@@THEPITZU ok, I mean they are very similar
daca aud melodia asta chiar vâd carpați în minte, cu brazi, poiane cu oi, vârfuri în nori, pârâuri reci, caprioare ...
daca ma uit afara geamul vâd tot carpați, cei reali, dar multe ori sunt prea leneș sa parasesc oraș și ma duc la munți ... din pacate.
Definitely Romanian song ;) Nice documentary.
Soviet Union, unique, ideal, charming, utopic state. Soviet people were naive from the point of view of modern person, who's only wish is eating, dominating and making sex. Soviet people were flying in the ideal world. They red books, attended theaters, listened classical music. Soviet state was very mild, you could work 4-5 hours daily, drink tea during working time. You got apartment from state free of charge, you got free healthcare, free education in universities, free recreation in sanatoriums. This all has gone and will never come back. Please, don't say it is a lie or propaganda. What I have said, is my personal experience. Western media hated USSR, because it was a challenge to Western billioners elite and their paradigma. Media always lied about positive side of Soviet life. People in the West had opinion, that Soviet people worked hard in misery and feared KGB. The reality was different. I have never in my life seen any KGB. Soviet people were happy, though they were not conscious about it. The USSR was the first and the last, single state, where people thought not only of earning money, eating, dominating and making sex, like animals.
What about treatment of the other republics that weren't Russian? Are they treated like Soviets or "minorities"?
@@CoffeeSuccubus there were better than in РСФСР
Yes, this was the U.S propaganda's fault, and it's still running. So sad, I'm tired to argue with people about that matter.
Yep, for the most part the so called satellites were enjoying same or better benefits
So sex was boring in USSR?
I love this. It demonstrates very well the change in humanity in the past 40 years.
its same russiza you fool..how about show occupied countries at that time? its totally different from this nonsense
А что ты темный тогда?
@@Theactivebob он цвет не выбирал, а вот ты геем стал по своему выбору😂 Видимо, негры тебя выебали
Расскажи это американцам, которые бомбили гражданские дома Ирака и Белграда
That means you are still living 40 years back. 🤔
Фильм полный бред и пропаганда того, что в СССР все плохо, все бедные, не умеют друг с другом общаться, голод, разруха и т.д.! Даже не стал досматривать эту пропаганду! Горбачева ненавидели раньше и ненавидят сейчас! Развал СССР это большая ошибка!
величайшая геополитическая трагедия 20 века
Que te pasa la URSS ERA QUERIDA POR SU PUEBLO
This documentary was not like that
Someone didn’t really watch the documentary
@@Whatthellisthisthing I know. This video portrayed the Russian people in an extremely favorable light. Friendly educated idealistic people
Little did they know that their country would no longer exist three years later.
They knew it from gorbachev
Little did they know that their country would descend into fascism just a couple decades later.
@@USGrant21st gotta remember that there is no fascism in US-backed Ukraine raised on purpose as an anti-Russian buffer state, haha
@@UppedOne dumb russian propaganda for feebleminded
@@USGrant21st what is propaganda in this one? Neo-nazi Ukrainian soldiers and enforcers? Anti-Russian nationalism? Ukraine being rigged with Western NGOs and money and purposely weaponized? Care to elaborate?
People tend to look back on old days and remember only the good. Obviously in the soviet union there were people who lived comfortable lives. But the heart of the soviet union communist system was evil. Millions died and lived in terror. Thousands disappeared and were sent to concentration camps where they lived in miserable harsh conditions. Many didn't survive. Needless to say the suffering of the people under communism was immense.
Exactly, people just trying to remember the good without the bad
Помню эти времена, ностальгия по детству.
нОстАльгия
@@genrihk164
А "Генрих" разве так пишется?! 🤣🤦♂️
@@kissthis5361 В русской фонетике - так.
@@genrihk164
🙂
@@kissthis5361 Чего смешного? Если я пишу по-английски "Антон", то я пишу "Anton", а не "Antony" либо "Матвей" - Matvei, а не Мэтью. С Генрихом тот же случай.
I dont know how much people are interrested by the USSR but its really fascinating
Советский Союз!!! 👍👍👍👍
I wish kids in America would clean their classrooms after school day is over. I tell my son stories about going to school in Ukraine. We used to stay after school and wash the classroom floors. I think it is a good practice.
This is an episode of Frontline, a PBS current affair documentary, broadcast on March 29, 1988 (season six).
The newest one is a turn up on propaganda for US. We've wronged those people and bullied them
People miss those times. More social cohesion, better social services, families closer etc. I guess you can buy 40 kinds of pop tarts now.
Beautiful times, so many happy, peaceful, normal, sincere people in this documentary. There's so much hope in the air. I was a kid during the '80s growing up in socialist Yugoslavia, those kids at school were at my age then. I reminded of those times how similar my childhood was and how people got close together. Present times are so much more depressive and sterile, young people are sterile, we are now living in technological dictatorship, staring in our phones, distant from each other, in a capitalist rar race and inequality and everything is artificial and wrapped in silicone. Modern taste for beauty is disgusting, women start to look like zombies with this pumped lips and breasts. I prefer those times as more close to human nature that today. As how much people didn't have, their hearts were happy, we will never have those ideal times again. Now our stores are full, our wallets are half full, but the hearts and souls of people are more and more empty.
Better than your globalist life.
@CI_b0y hmm that is a rhetorical question. It depends, life in communism was not the same in every country. Also there were periods where the dictatorship methods were more opressive, there were times when people have been given more rights and the life in general was lighter. In the Soviet Union for example there was a difference between life under Stalin and life under Brezhnev. The only thing these periods had in common is that the public welfare was guaranteed for everyone, workers had more rights than today, public health care was of good quality and nobody was left over if he didn't have money for the health insurance. But at the same time the government had tight hand, there was a censorship over the media, so to criticize the government publicly it was something you should be aware, that if you start picking your nose into these matters too much, the secret police or the regular police will pick you up in their headquarters for interrogation.
Как же точно Вы всё сказали.
@@yuriyfedoskin Спасибо ! 🙂✌️
Mate I think you have depression. You remind me my depressed grandad who always talks about his youth as the best time ever😂
Куда ушли те времена? Где ответ?
В СССР мы ЖИЛИ!!! А сейчас нет!
Кто "мы", чучело? Партийная элита, торгаши?
Народ хуй с солью доедал +/- в зависимости от периода.
Reminds me of when I first went to the US. I could not get over the open poverty and homelessness. The USSR was the dream that did not become reality, the US is the reality that is the nightmare.
was no homelessness in the ussr because it was illegal, homless people were simply locked away.
@@yang8244 They had a job in the USSR. Reagan tossed all the mentally ill out into the streets for budget cuts. There are no go areas in US cities, and that is considered normal. Its not working Yan. I visited 21 states in the US and it was shocking compared with Europe.
U.S. is the real empire of Evil. Soon it will fall.
At least in US there is Food
@@galactic_mapper I gave a homeless person a dollar in New Orleans and he complained it was not enough. I asked for it back.
Love the maps, them songs of the channel. Wish I could've born and lived at that time.
Beautifully made, amazing cinematography for the time.
Definitely don’t miss the smoking of the 1980s… musty have been even worse in the USSR than in America back then… both my parents smoked like chimneys and I despised every second of the smoking…
Old people who lived in soviet union always nostalgic about old times.
It was a good times where people was more united even tho live wasn't easy.
Now we live in times were people doesn't care about each other.
Best movies, cartoons was made in USSR.
Now it's robbers in charge, mafia.
Да да сейчас сплошные грабители) хочу напомнить что именно при ссср всю партийную верхушку постепенно растреляли за измены и прочие политические статьи. А сталин грабил дилижансы с золотом принадлежавшие российской империи
@John Silver мм то есть заработанное ты считаешь награбленным? интересная логика тупого коммуниста) если человек зарабатывает пусть делает что хочет а вот ты любитель считать чужие деньги держись подальше. а то однажды увидишь как я трачу деньги на удовольствия недоступные рабочему классу и возжелаешь совершить революцию отняв у умных людей всё что они нажили своими мозгами)
Old people get nostalgic, some of them, sometimes.
people didnt care about each other back then either.
a happy society where people treat each other well requires freedom.
If human interactions are through force and coercion as oppose to free trade, nobody has incentives to care about others.
Russia made a quick transition from communism to fascism. The period of perestroyka and glastnost was a brief aberration. You start to wonder if there is something genetic in Russian population that they always choose oppression and death.
Какие люди спокойные и счастливые! У людей появились права свободы выбирать самим , что и как им хочется делkrть и как им хочется жить. В то же время у них есть советские надежные рабочие места и все, что построили их советские дедушки и советские родители для их достойной комфортной жизни.
Еда натуральная свежая без пальмового масла! Все поля под Ленинградом полны коров и коз , и вся молочка самая натуральная. Хлеб с утра горячий и свежеиспечённый...
Все женщины прекрасно причёсаны, и хорошо модно одеты! Пожалуй лучше, чем сейчас. Советские квартиры у всех не нужно покупать, они заработаны на предприятиях. Есть возможность летом съездить на море в самый сезон. На дачах растят вкусную свежую клубнику и яблоки и ягоды и цветы...
Все спокойно с улыбкой рассуждают разговаривают о внутренней политике от детей до любых людей и на улицах и профессионалы ... никто не заявляет, что «политикой не интересуется»
Они ещё не знают что их ждёт. Я только родился
Выкинь свою методичку
"Спасибо" Москвичам за 91 год...
Совок был преступным эксплуататорским государством и тоталитарной сектой пропагандирующей террор и экстремизм и ксенофобию!
@@user-sx9bl1sl2t обоснуйте.
Россияне столь открыты , при том, что говорят о себе, что секреты должны быть засекречены. Они воспринимают этих "посланцев", как друзей...Какая страна выдержала бы все то, что происходило в России? Невероятно... Абсолютно уникальная страна , абсолютно невероятные люди! Сегодня все видится иначе. Нежность, гордость и любовь теплой волной накрывает меня , когда я смотрю кадры этого фильма...Живи и процветай , великая Россия!🙏❤️
Сказочник ты. Россия никогда не процветала, плелась в хвосте развития цивилизации. Но понтов всегда было много. А сейчас тем более процветать не будет, в такой ситуации как Россия сейчас никогда не была, даже при совке. Жить Россия возможно и будет, но с таким народом вряд ли, скорее всего точка не возврата пройдена, в современный мир Россия не вписывается никак.
@@dkmcdk724 Я- сказочница? Да мне...пофиг, что вы думаете , подросток. Чао.
Великая и большая страна!!!
которую все эти люди добровольно просрали через 3 года в погоне за "200 сортами колбасы", джинсами, жвачкой и чтобы жить "как у них там на Западе". Результат того предательства и отсутствия критического мышления у масс мы пожинаем до сих пор.
США!
Такая великая что в друзьях только северная Корея и талибы😂
@@ilyalyanov2473 открой голосование в ООН и увидешь кто Россию поддержал😄. Но что-то мне подсказывает что ты английского не знаешь и не умеешь пользоваться нормально интернетом как и весь Путинский электорат😉
@@rayglover США не великая страна , а госудаство терорист
From 04:50 you know that it was filmed during the autumn, in October.
Empty streets. People were at work and they were happy. And they were confident in their future. And naïve. The future came with the deceit of the Party... Anyhow there was a great culture, great science and (even) great industry. Not so great agriculture. As for "Jerry Schecter" etc., what can he possibly know or feel! He was from the other side of the mirror.
Good for you, but i dont want that life!
@@romulodecastrodasilva5863 Just you wait! There would be either that life or no life at all. The middle class is disappearing everywhere.
it's about time, i do not like communism either but the planet is collapsing in many fronts (water resources and food), and China still exist to do slap in the face to crony capitalism system, to restart and protect the middle class again, the fall of USSR byte us in the form of derogate laws against usury, both system were playing who manage to do more happy people-worker, soviet system colapse and now we have drugs, lazy people, Billonaires paying penauts to they employees.
@@BubuMarimba which industries?
industry was complete garbage. it was backwards which is why it collapsed the moment it had to compete with western and asian industry.
In the late 1980s, Gorbachev led the political and economic reforms of the Soviet Union. Unfortunately, all failed in the end. The Christmas of the Gods in 1991, the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Hey, I was in the Soviet Union in 1988, just for two weeks, though. It was weird! Of course we had no idea what would happen over the next 3-4 years. I'm glad I went, it feels like I'm a little part of history.
Hi there, I was in the USSR in 88 also for a couple weeks APR-MAY, it was part of a school trip. I was just curious why you were there? Where did you go?
@@Spectre11B I was going on the Trans-Siberian Railway to China with my good friend, Sep. 1988. First we took a regular train from Europe to Moscow. In Moscow we were told that our Trans-Sib tickets had been 'postponed' so we had to stay 3 extra days in Moscow (Intourist paid). I have vivid memories. Supermarkets were practically empty, the big department store GUM had nothing on the shelves, we saw a woman exiting a shoe store with a box of shoes getting mobbed by passersby, wanting to see her shoes. We were scrambling to find vodka, but Gorbachev had limited sales. We were approached a black market guy who wanted to buy my friend's wrist watch (a cheap plastic watch he'd gotten in a gift bag) and we spent an entire evening with this guy running around town trying to find vodka in exchange for the watch. He never found vodka, but it was a fun night. We eventually were able to buy vodka from our hotel restaurant the last night there.
My friend and I were 21 at the time.
@@Spectre11Bpart of a school trip? from america...?
@@chronicillz1879 No I was living in Germany but it was an American school.
Interesting info at the very end of this show about the US military and toxic waste. I was exposed to toxic waste in the USMC in the 1970's and am now part of a study as a result. I never knew about this until around 2012 when they contacted me.
Yeah! We were exposed to toxins in the last wars. Wonder if they'll pay us. Naw! I'm joking. They won't.
I hope you’re ok.
They showed us Moscow so we must believe the whole country was like this
Wrong, moscow was as good as it gets, life was very different in the peripheries and colonized neighbour countries. The USSR was a fake image of egaliterian internationality, when in reality it was taking more from the colonized countries and not giving back the same, but i do believe that in particulary russia with it's centralized policies lived pretty decently
I was kid and visit Moscow with my mother in 1988. Maybe I saw the film crew on the Red Square. It was big black guy with big Betacam. He filmed the mausoleum's guards and after that put the camera down on me. I remember it because it was very unusual for me - kid from Siberia.
Какие же люди на видео добрые, отзывчивые, образованные, не то что ныне при капиталистах.
И не только и небо голубее и трава зеленее была что не помните
@@urbanstepper и бабки моложе, и пломбир вкуснее
И ебаться в попку было веселеее
Так и скажи, что у тебя стоял во времена совка 😁
Эх, где мои 90- 00вые. Самые лучшие времена, не то что нынче при совкодрочерах)
80s Yugoslavia was super comfy like that as well
🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation:
00:08 📺 The video discusses the changes happening in the late 1980s Soviet Union.
01:18 🇷🇺 Mikhail Gorbachev's leadership promises openness and economic change in the Soviet Union.
02:10 🎥 The video provides an intimate look at the lives of Soviet citizens and their thoughts on the changes.
04:53 📚 An American family, the Schecters, lived in the Soviet Union 20 years ago and returns to see if things have changed.
05:33 👨👩👧👦 The Schecter family sent their children to Russian schools during their previous stay in the Soviet Union.
09:55 🗣️ Opinions on Americans and Russians have changed, with more openness and communication between the two.
12:36 🌍 Gorbachev's perestroika and glasnost are discussed, leading to more openness and economic changes.
15:43 🇺🇸 Americans express their freedom and mobility, which differs from life in the Soviet Union.
17:06 🏫 Some Soviet schools still promote anti-American sentiments, causing concern.
19:54 📜 The video highlights the struggle of dissidents and those who oppose the government's ideology.
21:33 💼 Economic challenges and housing distribution issues are discussed.
25:53 🏙️ The Soviet system limits mobility, especially in terms of housing.
27:08 🔄 The video mentions the desire for fundamental changes in society.
30:02 🧠 A change in mentality among the younger generation is noted.
32:08 🖌️ The video discusses the impact of the generation that grew up during Khrushchev's time.
35:56 🇺🇸 Refuseniks, Soviet Jews who were denied exit permits, face difficult choices.
38:17 🇷🇺 There's excitement and a sense of national renewal in the Soviet Union despite challenges.
38:35 🎭 Gorbachev's loyal allies, including thinkers, writers, and dreamers, risk their positions if he falls.
39:20 🎭 A group called Theater 2, known for pushing boundaries, satirizes political corruption and government lies.
41:52 🎤 A dissident historian explains that high-ranking officials knew they could be shot if they disagreed with the government.
45:44 🕊️ Human rights activists like Yuri are released from prison but still face restrictions, showing the struggle for change.
48:29 📚 Soviet society grapples with its past as plays, books, and movies from the censor shelf become accessible.
49:03 🎥 The film "Repentance" forces the audience to question if Stalin was solely responsible or if the system played a role.
50:40 📖 Writers like Anatoly Pristovkin become historians, sharing the untold tragedies of the Soviet era.
54:26 🌟 Friends gather for a farewell party, signaling changing times and uncertainty about the future in the Soviet Union.
Could at least give credit to the AI you used for that.
It wasn't all bad as some Westerners like to believe. Every system has it's pros and cons.
The Swiss and Nordic countries have some of the best social services in the world.
its so wholesome to see them go back to their old school
Russian women are just beautiful
They are scum
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@@ann7753 are you single? 😁
Lol
@Lewis C well if your dumb enough to get scammed that's on you dude. Ukrainian women are good and bad like every other country. They are old fashioned who still conform to old fashioned ideals and expect their husband's to be the bread winner. Much different than here in Canada but very refreshing. Maybe less American kids would stop shooting up schools if they had a parent at home to raise them and teach them values. Our way of life sucks and is not something to be emulated.
Reminded me of former Yugoslavia, the best country in the world. Why would anyone think that something was wrong with socialism/ communism of that era and that model..
It active great to see how much passion people had without phones. And USSR life doesn’t look that bad
More ppl reading books and poetry and novels. Reading the Russian classics and discussing them in book clubs with tea and sweets every month or every two weeks. Workers had little money but had plenty of leisure time to read and pursue hobbies, etc. My grandparents lived this way.
If they had a phone, they’d be using it.
zoomer retards blame this on phones. but everything was a fucking hassle. now I pay my bills with my phone instead of going to a fucking post office
@@ledeyabaklykovain America we work ourselves to death for material things. Having grown up in Europe (primarily Germany), before it became more like America, it was very nice with community and leisure time. In America many people don’t know what a vacation is now, and people are very isolated.
It’s very sad, actually.
This is propaganda, ussr life in fact, most of the part, didnt look like that.
Не , такую , свободу , мы хотели, не такую!!!!!
А какую хотели?
@@thanksread5192 враг хитёр и коварен , светлые души учатся распознавать все приемы темных , светлый человек всегда верит в добро, по другому не может , поэтому вырабатываем иммунитет на шесть , коварство и т. д.
If this trend continued without the economic collapse and Yeltsin's corruption, Russians would have embraced democracy, just like other eastern European countries. The Yeltsin's chaotic 90s made Russians favor authoritarian governance once more, and ultimately gave rise to Putin.
It always had to collapse. The command economy is inferior- it might work in certain areas but not to power the whole country.
I’m from Poland and we went through exactly the same- shock therapy, hyperinflation etc. Difference is people’s mentality- Russians never really tasted democracy and freedom- from tsars to Putin- they only know dictatorship; small period of Yeltsin could not undone the damage done.
It’s our dream in Poland that Russia will become normal, democratic country that doesn’t have imperialistic ambitions, but we are also realistic because we know what Russian occupation means.
From my side- my great grandfather was murdered by Russians in Ostaszkow camp. He was shot in the back of his head, whilst his hands were tied behind his back, then he was buried in mass grave with thousands other Polish officers and soldiers.
People who committed that crime were never punished, they were allocated to well paid jobs in Russia.
@@natalias50 Interesting to here your view. But, Poland wasn't ruled by a crazy and corrupt leader like Yeltsin, who were drunk most of the time. That made Poland embrace democracy despite difficulties. Just like Russians embraced freedom under Gorberchev, despite economic difficulties. With regards to past experience, Poland also had not experienced democracy prior to WW2 either. Democracy is a relatively new concept and real democratic governments began to form only after WW2.
Earth+, speak about what you know, man... I knew Russia in the 1990ies, Putin was the best thing that could happen to Russia. Yet his ending is being infamous. There's no good and evil in history. That is "manichaeism". There are victors. And these victors define what is good and what is evil, as they're the ones who write history. Actually your sentence makes no sense at all.
@@jackbarhillel1065 You haven't read my comment. I was refereeing to 90s chaos when I said about Yeltsing. And I never said there is good and evil either. I was merely explaining why Russians came to dislike democracy, because they were given a rotten version of democracy to taste (in 90s). Please read carefully before making judgements.
I do not agree. Apart from domestic affairs, Yeltsin was the best ally US could ever find. They misused him, ignored him, did nit listen to him about new pan EU security foundation. He gave them the hand, the west took away his arm. The west arrogance ruled by the US brought Putin in power.
Бойтесь Данайцев дары приносящие!!!!!!!!!
The power of western propaganda is truly incredible.
This is sovjet propaganda!
@@ES-pt3mr American Iq 😂
Western propaganda is when life is horrible inside of collapsing country
@@StayBasedJesus soviet fan found,opinion rejected
в чем тут пропаганда? это все правда, дай мне пруфы что это американская пропаганда
Люди замечательные, ещё неиспорченные, простые, дружелюбные, образованные. Много интеллигенции.
Ой, да хватит. Серость, в магазинах ничего нет, тоска и вранье.
@@vutsereteli вот сейчас нет этого, особенно вранья
@@vutsereteli На фронте особо тоскливо, съезди, расскажи
@@dont.try.to_search ,я с этой страной 24 года не имею ничего общего. А теперь еще и презираю
@@vutsereteli да мне насрать на тебя и твое вранье))
What a pronunciation!❤
Compare of today its seem like a paradise. We know what we lost, we don’t know what will be.
Gorbachev was stuck between a hammer and a sickle. Blaming others or stealing is easier I guess.
The mass transportation system in the USSR was really good and fare prices were good. I wish the US had a good mass transit system like they had.
They also had propiska, you couldn't leave your job and travel to a new job or region without authorisation
"fare prices" were because of basically slave workforce.
Would you give up almost all the cars for the mass transit system?
@@brinjoness3386 легко можно уволится с работы. при переезде в паспортном столе меняется прописка. а если меняешь регион, то нужно разрешение, в евро союзе примерно та же система.
Feels like everything was planned back then ,no chaos and the most important people were nice talking no matter what the problems were .
Вопрос американцам, почему в вашей демократичной и свободной стране более 2 миллионов заключенных?
потому что они совершают преступления, условия лучше, многие не прочь вернуться. черных и мексов много, преступность вот и высокая
По твоему преступников нужно отпускать?
@Lewis C how America was called before colonists came?I know was long time ago,and different tribes live in different part of the country.But do you have name for what’s today US?
вы не понимаете это другое
Potomu chto bol'shoye kolichestvo naseleniya eto chorniye obez'yani i tak nazivayemii belii musor.
This is so interesting since I have been learning about Russia since 1983 when I was in high school! I have learned so much! UTube is like a library of knowledge! Don Los Angeles California
Самые простые люди в прекрасные времена спокойно могли лакомиться чёрной икрой!
Я помню моя бабушка на праздники все обязательно ставила на праздничный стол чёрную икру в том числе. Поэтому я не считала это чем то особенным, на том же ряду с какой нибудь шубой с селёдкой или курицей табака. Иногда чёрную укру бабушка и к завтраку ставила обычному, и мне не хотелось даже ее есть, и она уговаривала.
А сейчас чёрная икра не часть стола у обычных россиян даже к празднику. Потому что стоимость килограмма чёрной икры ещё лет 6 назад была 120000 долларов! Это в районе 7,5 миллионов рублей за кг даже по этому заниженному курсу
Простому россиянину теперь не по карману даже раз в 10 лет на праздник поставить банку икры на стол.
В мире на первом месте рекордсмены по потреблению чёрной икры - это Кремлевская кухня. Госбюджет покрывает траты на любые банкеты и любое количество свежей чёрной икры.
Херню не неси!!
бред какой. мы может в разных странах с вами жили? достать черную игру было не реально. это как раз сейчас в любом магазине можно купить. дорого, но не сказать, что недоступно
@@masterizvladimira разные регионы скорее, в моей семье тоже почти постоянно была чёрная икра, правда она никогда мне не нравилась😅
19:09 what an adorable child.
More humanity, less materialism in the 1980s
Maybe in Moscow, definitely not in the United States. In the 1980's the entire U.S. maxed out its credit keeping up with the Joneses at the local mall.
Все близки друг другу как ни когда
Although I am not Russian, I will say that this video shows the desire of Western journalists to show Russia in the darkest possible light.
And why do you think so, not-Russian?
This is from late 80's. It was pretty dark back in the day under USSR. After USSR fell, Russia got much better after opening up business to the West.
Unlike the USSR, we can say whatever we think freely in the USA. For example, we can say that the lives of blacks matter, we can kiss their feet and ask for forgiveness on our knees. We also have democracy, which is when you always choose one president out of two, even if one of them is the son of a former president. But do not confuse it with the monarchy, because the English Queen does not have real power, and the American president can claim that he bombed Yugoslavia, he bombed Iraq. And we also have independent media, although they dismiss those whose opinion does not coincide with Washington's opinion. And of course, as a great and free country, we help other countries... by supplying weapons, ammunition, and giving a lot of freshly printed money to hire soldiers of fortune. It is good that this dark USSR has finally collapsed and the new democratic republics... began to drown in blood, on the basis of national enmity and territorial conflicts. This is the whole strength of democracy, because whoever has more guns and dollars is right.
Все тоже самое, что и в России, но вместо негров нацмены, вместо монархии пожизненный президент, вместо Ирака и Югославии Украина
Funny atleast alot of blacks in USSR are not being oppressed and no segregation there compared to a democratic country like US
We were there from 2001 to2005 it was shocking at first we got used to it we did bring back 4 awesome children
It's too bad they no longer speak Russian as they did when they attended that school decades ago.
This is the most capitalism- and US-positive documentary I've seen in a long time. And it does this without seeming too much like an ideological movie! Brilliant film makers
Как у советского человека, может быть много американских друзей?
Почему не говорят о том, как процветала СССР во время Великой депрессии в США?
Почему смеются с того, что "якобы Америка может сбросить ядерную бомбу", учитывая то, что у США и Великобритании был разработан план " Немыслемое" по уничтожению СССР ядерным оружием?
Все просто. Вы сейчас увидели американскую пропаганду.
CCCR did not prosper, it was busy killing millions of its own people after stalin took power in 1928.
Фантазер
Да ну нафиг! В холодную-то войну и пропаганда? быть не может!
Excellent.
Perestroika dayz.
There is also a good Soviet film called "The courier". Which was made about these times of change in the Soviet Union. I do recommend it.
This is incredibly interesting and well made, but I will note the lack of any mention of the many minority nationalities of the Soviet Union. My understanding is that Russians were genuinely surprised by the resentment from Lithuanians, Ukrainians, etc. over Russian suppression of their nationhood. It was something they never thought about. Nationalism the main reason the Union broke apart as fast as it did. If you went back in time and tried to explain to them that in 34 years Russians would be bombing Ukrainians and their soldiers would be slaughtering each other, they would laugh in disbelief.
You are badly brainwashed. Ppl in USSR lived in peace and respect to other nationalities unlike west segregating everyone who is not local. You have a long way to go to learn how to live in truly international county. The collapse was due to wests disgusting ‘diplomatic’ agreement to stop harassing Russians with your military bases, the promise was obviously broken by morally corrupt thieves in DC.
Развели неискушенных людей
do not show only Moscow. Petersburg and Moscow is a total different Russia than orther republics. There were a lot of poor people who did not have anything to eat, most people were like slaves, work all day, back to home only to sleep and work again.
Nice joke, love it
@@user-ee6nb9ec6v i guess you are from moscow
Russia seems in a far better state in 1988 than 2022, more press freedom, more freedom of thought, more artistic freedom, more outward looking...
It's tragic, the young people there in 1988 seem so fed up with authoritarian rule, they want to express themselves, they want to think for themselves, they want to travel.....now its all unravelling there.
What a nice family too (Schecter) in this documentary, so friendly and genuine and inquisitive. Seeing them meeting young Soviet adults was great with the country at a crossroads or the older guys debating ideas openly, freethought is so important to life.
Have you been there?
Are you kidding?
@@user-hr9mp8ek2r He is a fine product of brainwashing from media. I can only imagine what else they think. RUclips Education..
Засуньте свои свободы поглубже в ваши американские задницы. Россия возрождается!
And huuuuge queues for anything you wanna buy 😂 More freedom lol. Of course not! I am Russian
Великая страна !
кусок г_на был, если честно.
США.
Израиль!
@@user-sx9bl1sl2t Израиль пустое место без США
@@rayglover Была когда то.
Holy cow! Mikhail Efremov (currently serving an 8-year sentence for vehicular homicide after a long film and stage career and a simultaneous descent into alcoholism) 39:23
serves him right
And cocainism...
You have made an enormous change for the better. It's been 40 years now. Just because we are a greedy nation and afraid of you, can never alter the truth especially since 1999. You're a beautiful nation and this document is only a perspective and mild propaganda.
Only one year before the world changed forever, especially among the ex-USSR states. Wild!
It’s 1988.USSR collapsed in 1991,not in 1989
@@InquisitorDoska The Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989 which was the defining moment of the collapse of the whole Soviet Union.
In just a few years life would get so much worse for the people of Eastern Europe
@@redfront6707 You mean better, because first of all Baltic countries got freedom from Soviet Union occupation and repressions which happened under secret protocols of Molotov-Ribbentrop pact aka Nazi Germany-Soviet Union friendship pact in 1939. We living better by any measurements and statistics. My great grandparents, grandparents and parents lived under it and many other family members, and no-one wants any of what Soviet Union offered back. Soviet Union and their Imperialism brought pain and suffering in these lands, my family members when shoved in crammed cattle wagons without any toilet or beds and sent thousands of km to Kazakhstan Gulag Camps where they suffered and died from extreme cold, starvation and slave labour. But you tankies especially in the West, can't understand that, because of lack of experience of such brutality.
@@JaySlay69 USSR collapsed because of the failed 1991 coup. Otherwise it would have only lost the Baltic and caucus republics
The music is…beautiful Romanian Folklore!
I was 3 years old back in Soviet Georgia at that time.
I remember talking to some Russian fishermen after the fall of the Soviet Union. The one comment that stuck with me is, paraphrasing after all this time, "Freedom is fine but you can't eat it, live in it or pay your bills with it"
The west deliberately threw the Russian people to the ravenous capitalist wolves as part of the wider geopolitical strategy. If you're old enough you'll remember...
You can in the US. And there was plenty of famine in the USSR. No shock you are from Seattle. Get out of my country, commie.
At that time, Russian people believed that they could change their lives for the better, but through time, they lost this faith and went back to a time of fear, hate, and despair.
It's funny at about 13 minutes in it talks about how we in America can talk about anything we want and no one gets mad even if the president doesn't agree lol not anymore, we are not allowed to have a different opinion these days, our thoughts get fact checked by the thought police nowadays.. Not like how it use to be in the 80s, wow how times have changed.. Free country lol
America was never free, they were just better at propaganda. You can look up the many thousands US socialist that the government disappeared during this time.
Propaganda in this is super strong. If you look at approval of Gorbachev in Russia now, it's abysmal. The idea pushed in this documentary is "if only they could be like the US" and "the US is so much more prosperous". No better than Russian propaganda.
as much as America sucks they wouldn't be wrong in thinking that
I mean at the time America was a good deal better. Although media bias, media sensationalism, government corruption in the economy and military was corrupting with time. And there were some pretty sus events in American history (entry into WWI).
But I'd rather live in 80's America than 80's Russia.
Also Russian propaganda at the time, and now is and was so much more shameful compared to what American media did then. Because Russian media has even in just this war with Ukraine, filmed "Dead British Pilots who were acting as saboteurs". And you can see the Russian actors standing up and laughing at the end of the video, as if they didnt expect you to watch that far. And Russian state media at the time would always play Classical Music or Opera on the TV when a government "change of power" occured. And then when it came back on, you had a new face on the TV.
America has fallen pretty far, with outright story fabrication being admitted by the CEO of CNN. And in this very story there is emotional, propagandistic, and storytelling elements. But thats more so because this is more about the book these Americans were writing, and at that it shows a good window into both the moods at the time, for Russia and America.
@@I_like_big_bombs fair enough. I would say the same wrt 80's America vs 80's Russia, but I'm also saying that from 20/20 hindsight. The 90's were a terrible time in Russia
@@I_like_big_bombs
Better for who? Certainly not for the grotesque homeless encampment in every major city, or the people living in the hollowed out inner cities deprived of industrial jobs, and the 2 million Americans in prison. The standard of living and life expectancy went down in russia after the USSR dissolved. Unfortunately, the Russian people were sold a total fantasy about what life is like here in the states. Their intellectuals only interacted with educated upscale affluent American visitors, like the white collar family featured in this video
СОВЕТ СОЮЗ РЕСПУБЛИКА СССР
Лучшие времена. Мне было в 80х 5 лет. Я ребенок СССР. Россия, лучшая страна на свете! Мира всем!!! Горбачев предатель родины, вместе с Ельциным.
With or Without Putin, Russia is always gonna be Russia.
Yes it’s true like a speaker of this language.
Yes, russia will always be a piece of cheeeet