Same here. I was born in 1982, so I definitely grew up during the Cold War, albeit more of the tail end. But I wasn't even 10 by the time the USSR collapsed, so I really didn't understand what "Communists" or "Soviets" were... and its collapse by 1992 didn't give me much to really experience. What I do remember though was that the "bad guys" were actually becoming the "good guys" now, and TV and movies were starting to reflect this in various ways... either treating the USSR as our new friends and our friendship will last to the 21st Century and beyond _(like with the movie 2010 or references to Leningrad and the USSR in Star Trek IV and TNG)_ , or reminding us to not be swayed by the Soviet's turn to the "good side" because they're still dirty Commies and this friendly schtick is just a trick _(like with the movie "Red Dawn")_ . But what's the most fascinating to me is that _no one_ expected the USSR to implode in just 5 years time, asnd yet I get to see all these people acting so sure and confident about the future of the Soviet Union. I mean, at this point there's no reason to believe otherwise! And yet we have the benefit of hindsight to know otherwise... so it's like, I can't tell if the part that fascinates me the most about all this is the hubris of everyone involved for assuming the USSR could survive... or the idea that we're looking into a world that no longer exists, a world that is forever out of reach, and yet isn't something that is relegated to dusty history books, but is very much alive in film movies like this. In any case, the idea that we can see things from "the other side" like this... it really puts a lot of what I experienced as a child into sharper focus.
@@AustinMichael Look pretty auto-generated translation to me. THe grammar and phrasing is way too weird to be a human translator. Looks like it's Google translate direct from the Russian without modification.
@Buranasiri - Where the so-called "reforms" of Gorbachev, and perhaps Yeltsin as well, only ended in total disaster for the Soviet Union after a few years along with the Cold War, which I regard as the BIGGEST JOKE in history, that ended with a THUD! #ColdWarSucks
I think the narrator is Igor Kirillov, the most famous Soviet news anchor, who just passed away yesterday at the age of 89.
American, but, Russian and Soviet history fascinates me.
Same here. I was born in 1982, so I definitely grew up during the Cold War, albeit more of the tail end. But I wasn't even 10 by the time the USSR collapsed, so I really didn't understand what "Communists" or "Soviets" were... and its collapse by 1992 didn't give me much to really experience. What I do remember though was that the "bad guys" were actually becoming the "good guys" now, and TV and movies were starting to reflect this in various ways... either treating the USSR as our new friends and our friendship will last to the 21st Century and beyond _(like with the movie 2010 or references to Leningrad and the USSR in Star Trek IV and TNG)_ , or reminding us to not be swayed by the Soviet's turn to the "good side" because they're still dirty Commies and this friendly schtick is just a trick _(like with the movie "Red Dawn")_ .
But what's the most fascinating to me is that _no one_ expected the USSR to implode in just 5 years time, asnd yet I get to see all these people acting so sure and confident about the future of the Soviet Union. I mean, at this point there's no reason to believe otherwise! And yet we have the benefit of hindsight to know otherwise... so it's like, I can't tell if the part that fascinates me the most about all this is the hubris of everyone involved for assuming the USSR could survive... or the idea that we're looking into a world that no longer exists, a world that is forever out of reach, and yet isn't something that is relegated to dusty history books, but is very much alive in film movies like this. In any case, the idea that we can see things from "the other side" like this... it really puts a lot of what I experienced as a child into sharper focus.
@@nickfifteen do you think the United States is becoming soviet ?
Does Unated States has public ownership of the means of production? Seems like not. In US a private property.
So the answer for yor question is no.
2:56 Boris Yeltsin in the background
Hey, the translator in 'settings' works pretty well!
It's because someone translated it. You can upload captions to youtube videos, it isn't auto translated by the computer
@@AustinMichael Look pretty auto-generated translation to me. THe grammar and phrasing is way too weird to be a human translator. Looks like it's Google translate direct from the Russian without modification.
The good old times :)
What was particularly "good"?
@@neemapaxima6116 standards of living in some parts of the former USSR are still lower than they were thirty odd years ago now. Did you know that?
English subtitles anywhere?
Try using the "translate auto-captions/subtitles" feature in the Video Settings
This Took Place about 2 Months Before Chernobyl.
like January or February
In February/March 1986.
8:34 old meatballs
so many medals fastened on the suit
Hey, some of them killed a lot of Nazis back in the day... they kinda earned those medals!
Крутой перелом в жизни страны???! На фига???
Farewell President Gorbachev😢
Your deeds will always be chored in our hearts
Absolutely not! He was a corrupt weak traitor who brought capitalism and the end of the Soviet Union
Горбачёв - предатель и ревизионист. Отдал СССР буржуазии и отдал народа голоду и бедности
И Бориска сидит с недовольным видом)
Начало конца ссср.
Anyone come here after reading chapter one of Chernobyl : History of a Tragedy
11/11/2021 às 02:32
Just noticed yeltsin at 3 minute. Wonder if he was fond of communism back in 86 😝
Perestroika & Glasnost began
@Buranasiri - Where the so-called "reforms" of Gorbachev, and perhaps Yeltsin as well, only ended in total disaster for the Soviet Union after a few years along with the Cold War, which I regard as the BIGGEST JOKE in history, that ended with a THUD! #ColdWarSucks
6:52 aggressive plans
苏联开会可以啊。我们还是没学到精髓
What!?
@@KAPIPATOP_ wut?
@@meritamaki8850 what you say? Eblan
Артём Танчаров just saying the soviet congress is so similar to the Chinese one.
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You see how long they applauded? Never the be first to stop clapping or else you may be incarcerated!
You was lived in soviet union?
@@donsapient729 I was born there
They pronounced the word democracy several times...thats so funny and rather spooky.🙄
Si porque democracia = multipartidismo ¿Verdad?
The Soviet Union was more Democratic than the West today.
@@macintoshse3023 And so you are a machine...that's very interesting 😒
Much more of a Democratic society than today's Russia, imo.
bruh actually soviet were more free after stalin death until gorby rule but its goin down aftet the fall of the ussr and 1993 crisis.