Real Reason Why The Soviet Union Collapsed
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2022
- It was one of the most powerful regimes to ever exist on earth, and the only nation capable of going toe to toe with the might American military - but it went up in smoke in just a few short years. Check out today's epic new video to find out the real reason the Soviet Union collapsed.
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If the Soviet Union comes back. It should be called the Soviet Reunion.
ah yes
yeah i think too! It would be funny though
Nice
That would be perfect
Touché 🤣
Mikhail Gorbachov deserves more credit than he actually does for allowing the USSR dissolve peacefully (for the most part) instead of trying to hold the state together through force. He knew he’d be a martyr, but he also understood the human cost well.
He made the right decision not the popular one
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept : for I had longed to see him hanged.
@@user-ld9hx7eh8b Not the russian nationalist
The fact is that he was too late to stop it thanks to the kgb
@@christiantripepi9909 It is foolish to expect from the West an objective assessment of a traitor to Russia. For you, he is a "Hero". For us, he is "Judas"
I'd like to highlight an important factor before the USSR disbanded, the leaders of Russia (Yeltsin) and many others within the Soviet Union had a meeting, in a forrest going off memory, and came to a decision to dissolve the Soviet Union. Just an important side note.
Forest* we aren’t talking about Forrest Gump we’re talking about a forest, right?
11:03 "Yeah, I'm sure they won't make literally this exact same mistake 83 years in the future." Hahahahaha nice one
I find is as an unnecessary and aggressive joke.
@@harshitrawat811 I find it as a necessary and indeed aggressive joke, but a good one.
@qkezy yep, no-one ever joked about afganistan or iraq. Simply didn't happen, you were instantly canceled. 🙄
Scrolled to find this comment!
Maybe the worship people just like dictatorship no matter what government they live under
Grigori Zinoviev wasn’t exiled. He was tried and shot. Trotsky did go into exile, in Mexico, and was assassinated there.
And had an affair with Frida Kahlo
@@cub1ko I had a farm in Africa. I had a farm in Africa. I had a farm in...
Now I really wanna know if you wanna be my mother. Be my mother. Be my mother.
It was Rocky's speech that brought down the Soviet Union. "If I can change, then you can change!"
"If he dies, he dies."
This video can be renamed to “comprehensive history of Soviet Union”
This is more simplified then the oversimplified version check it out even better then this .
Sure. My 5 years of undergraduate degrees in international relations and economics during the cold war early 1980s, and years in the State Dept preventing proxy wars late 1980s .
A few minutes comprehensive history study never replaces hundreds of years of tragedy in north east Asia.
It's under 20 minutes...
One word: Economy.
They couldn't sustain the economy.
@@robertalaverdov8147 yh thank you for the correction its been edited now.
@@123dan165 did you actually f**k up one word? God I wish I would’ve been here that’s funny
The Soviet economy was fine up until it became a more capitalist mode of production economy.
@@americancountryball2077 yh it was a typo. I wrote could instead of couldn't.
@@volyavolkov4251 Do you mind expanding on that please? Not being rude just asking you to explain yourself and as someone who takes an interest in history especially soviet history.
To be honest you are one of the best history explaining channels.
"Im sure they wont make the same mistake 83 years in the future" @11:04 😂😂
NJ
You should look into Simon Whistler sometime if you haven’t on RUclips!(:
They're great, but they do get things wrong. It's good to use more than one source for your information. Infographics is fun history, but not always historically correct.
Unfortunately if you want the full historical value of an event you need to read numerous books on said event rather than rely on one source.
The best tbh
This channel alone somehow taps into history that I’ve recalled hearing in lectures!
There is a movie about the last Tsar and the fall of the Russian Empire called "Nicholas and Alexandra", which did a magnificent job showing the last years of the Romanov dynasty and how they went from living in enormous luxury and respect to living in misery and being mistreated by those who once were their commoners. The final scene where the family is executed is really terrifying and leaves you completely shattered.
Kind of brought it on themselves, I don't think many common Russians shed any tears for them. I feel a bit sorry for the kids though, didn't really deserve what happened to them.
@@sanjeeva311076 Maybe Nicholas, and even his wife, deserved to be ex*cuted, but what they did to their children was completely disgusting and inhuman. They were just a sick kid that couldn't bleed without putting his life in danger a three teenage girls that only wanted to marry a handsome man and enjoy the World they were living in. They didn't have anything to do with their father's cruelty. Most russians knew that and felt really bad for the children despite spending all their life hating the Tsar. It's a shame how not only them, but also many other children of tyrants (like Caligula's infant daughter Julia Drusilla) ended up paying with death for their parents' sins
@@sanjeeva311076 Russians didn't feel bad for the Tsars?
@@plotarmour1471 I really doubt it...
I feel sorry for the women cause they had taken all their jewelry onto the clothes and so had the most expensiv bullet prof armor on (must have hurt)
I have a Russian friend who's a sound technician
And a Czech one too.
A Czech one too.
"Is this thing on !!!"
Come on, this should've gotten more likes
Brb, czeching and Slovaking
Bravo!
Czeck one two three
impressive job on explaining soviet history in 20 min
I think they should have a recap at the end of the video like this what happened and these were the steps that led to x y and z cause some people might forget what even happened in the video just think it would be a good refresher
I hope there's a remake of 1917/91 with Putin's regime
Except the end is completely wrong. Gorby resigned on Christmas 1991 and the Soviet Union formally dissolved the next day.
Is it possible to do a video on what life was like for Soviet Satellite States? I’m currently living in Russia and my new grandmother claims life was better for those states than it was for actual Russians during the time of the Soviet Union. In this video it seems that the satellite states wished immediately to be free of the Soviet Union, but it would be nice to have some more background on what life was like for these peoples! Please and thank you!
I and my family live in Slovakia. Ex Czechoslovakia. From what they used to say, it wasn't all that different. Sure, you couldn't go to school in jeans, you couldn't have long hair if you are a guy and stuff like that, but on the other hand, everyone had a job and stuff. It was actually quite fine until 1968 when Russian army came and started shooting at everyone (to prevent a building up rebellion). Then it was a little harsher.
Slowly the situation calmed down.
To further show the difference between now and then. Most people didn't travel cause they couldn't (outside the union) and now most people doesn't go behind the border of the ex union cause it is expensive. The amount of people who was able to travel far west is comparable even. But it is growing nowadays so this soon won't be true.
HHGJ
Probably it will be a case by case situation. Romania's national treasure that was in Russia for "safe keeping" was never returned. It was appropriated by the soviets and Romania's gold was used to feed the failing poor soviet states. Political rivals were murdered alongside all the intelectual class all throughout the soviet union.
They did enjoy a higher standard of living. As far as I know (and this is a big caveat, lol), she's correct, which isn't exactly surprising lol.
@@JulioAbel90 I think this applies most to the Baltic states.
There were large parts of the USSR without electricity in 1931, especially in Central Asia and the more remote regions of Siberia.
@Grand Duke of the North not entirely true
It was even true in the 80s.
@Grand Duke of the North only in the recent history, Asia has always been the more advanced civilization
Lol, dude, my grandparent in the Neatherlands didn't have electricity in 1931. Electricity wasn't common back then actually.
@Grand Duke of the North the mid east aswell
So..... Its safe to say, Lenin wouldve been turning in his grave if he saw what stalin became.
I can almost hear Lenin saying "told ya so"
Lenin want to get rid of stalin but die too soon to do it. The other competitor lose to stalin so there it is.
Well but lenin himself was not applying proper communist ideals of anti-capitalism, so if he would not have died he would have become unpopular among hard-line communist Party members.
And Trotsky saying: "HA! I Told YOU SO! I TOLD YOU SO!! Trotsky was RIGHT, and the oh-so-great Lenin was WRONG!!"
Very good job guys 👍 we appreciate you and all the hard work you do 💗
PS Much love to the infographics crew. Keep up the awesome work everyone!
Thank you Infographics Show when you mentioned Finland and Winter War in your video 😀
Absolutely incredible content this week. Lovely work from the team! Thanks for the free educational content
Real life lore: nebula explains instablility of countrys and other essential details of diffrent situations and is at high risk of getting demonitized but still yes infographics is great
@@Eleitores_Desinformados You could literally say that about anyone presenting history if how something went.
Another masterpiece to watch by the infographics show, can't wait to finish it!
Was pretty certain things in the USSR weren’t going smoothly throughout the 80s and then Chernobyl happened and when they tried covering it up it backfired and suddenly more civilians knew they couldn’t trust those who had lied to em a thousand times
Yeah unfortunately it takes 100 years or so for them to get to the point of revolt 😒
Ultimately, the reason the USSR fell was because of Gorbachev's reforms. The whole thing was glued together by force and repression. Without that, it was cooked. It would have fallen even without Chernobyl.
@@bsadewitz well you can also say that it fell because of it's Faulty structure, as you said, if the structured was glued together with repression and force, it had to fall one time or another.
And then the Chernobyl incident scared the left from ever wanting nuclear power again!
@@scientchahming5 as well as everyone else unfortunately. So instead they decided to pipe gas from Russia, I wonder how that turned out...
This was a major win for the planet
Absolutely love your channel! Very in depth and obvious research. Soothing voice and well spoken
Man between this channel and oversimplified I’m learning so much more about history than I ever did in school
I would have not trusted this channel too much, it makes big mistakes sometime. But i agree about Oversimplified, he's a very cool dude
Roman Empire: "We have the most pathetic downfall in the history of world powers"
Soviet Union: "Hold our vodkas"
The next ones gonna hold cheeseburgers and the ones after that chopsticks
@@chivasroco1752 cheese burgers...pffftttt......freedom fries brother!!!
@@chivasroco1752 good one.
Soviet Union: "Hold our means of production"
Considering the fact that the Roman Empire died literally because of Germanic tribes I say it again TRIBES which were not even united is kinda embarrassing imagine being a world superpower just to get destroyed by literal tribes
The "Real" Reason the Soviet Union collapsed. Proceeds to give the well known and agreed upon reasons of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
I guess calling it “the general history of Russia and the Soviet Union” didn’t have the same punch.
Salute to you guys amd what you do with this show. Brilliant!!!!!!
Let’s take a moment to appreciate The Infographics Show and his hard work, especially during times like these. Bravo Sir 🙏🏽
Lies again? American Education Soccer United
@@NazriB hypocrite
prretty sure it's all AI
This Is Very Informational
Very good summary, it matches every aspect I experienced or heard about.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
I learned more from this channel than I ever did in college
On this channel you only learn CIA propaganda
That's more a reflection on your school than the channel
@@veljkocvjetkovic5812 I don't see how, considering it seemed to grandiose how great communism was before Stalin ruined it... unless the CIA is now communist...
@@veljkocvjetkovic5812 what do you learn on RT lol
11:03 XD their joke writer deserves a raise
This video was very entertaining
Thanks 👍
I was wondering when The Infographics Show was going to do their own video of "The fall of The Soviet Union." I was dying to see one from them since I LOVEEEE! their videos.
After watching this I realized that every time in Russia a new political system is implemented as a better alternative to the previous it ends up not working out in the end and is turned into an oppressive authoritarian regime first there was Lenin and the Bolsheviks but he died too soon and on his death bed he actually said don’t let Stalin come to power but it was too late then years later when the ussr fell yeltsin came to power but now he’s dead and Putin was able to create an authoritarian regime just like Stalin did
1776...
Ultimately, the reason the USSR fell, I think, was because of Gorbachev's reforms. The whole thing was glued together by force and repression, and he dialled back on that with Glasnost and Perestroika. When individual Soviets started leaving the union, he basically let them go, and that was that.
The duopoly has similar control. Similar agendas. Were the mirror but with a stronger economy.
@@bsadewitz Gorbachev dialed back on the repression was due to the undeniable fact that the USSR's economy literally could no longer afford to 'force' the system together. The USSR effectively ran out of money, but at that point the leadership was delusional enough to believe their own lies about the Soviet Union being a 'willing union' of Socialist states and not what really was. The Russian Empire with a red banner instead of a Tsar.
Lenin wanted to make Communism work, but I honestly think he would have wound up turning into Stalin. The ideology is unworkable in reality, Lenin would have either been forced to become an absolute tyrant, or killed by one of his underlings who was more willing to seize power.
The music is epic and amazing! Could you name the track, please?
If infographics was our history teacher everyone would get full marks
You mean full Marx.
you would fail so hard the teacher might get fired by firing squad
The song at the beginning of the video is so good, got me hyped up
"The Soviet Union will be pleased to offer amnesty to your wayward vessel.
Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up.
Nyet! That's what we wanted you to think, hahahahahaha!"
Simpsons lol
Those who forget history end up repeating it 😔
forget? they never looked at it or rewrote it lol
@@rickmorgan1441 some countries want to create what the Soviet Union was
@@Snowfang00andco why didnt you name any of those countries?
@@rickmorgan1441 did you even watch this video?
@@Snowfang00andco why didnt you answer my question? answer that first and I'll answer yours
Whoever did that background music knows what they were doing. It's amazing to hear that right next to this history.
You know this channel is good when it explained entire lifetime of a superpower and the 83 years in the future joke.
Based on the title I was looking for a deep dive into the collapse, not a shallow overview of the entire history of the USSR.
What do you expect from a US source YT channel.
@@divyeshpatel1539 Then get off this U.S. source website.
It fell because Boris Yeltsin wanted to have some ice cream, but Gorbachev said he could only have a spoonfull to which Boris then pulled out a comically large spoon that caused a shock effect throughout the Soviet Union and caused it to collapse
This backing track is awesome
Interesting timing.
What about the Chernobyl disaster? Both Afghanistan and the incident played a very important in the collapse of the Soviet Union
Gotta love that meme in the winter war section of the video.
thank you man
"I'm sure they won't make this exact mistake in 83 years"
83 years later Russia is running on steam against Ukraine
There isn't really one main reason it collapsed in my opinion you can find different problems all over the USSR for why it happened.
You can point to a lot of internal sabotage and them making Liberal reforms that also caused a lot of corruption and even more CIA infiltration.
Gorbachev was a huge factor as well he should have stepped down instead of dooming Eastern Europeans to the horrible lives they now currently live in.
Yeah, but those problems were kept in check at gunpoint.
No more executions, no more slav bodies to plug the sinking ship.
Yes didn´t have democracy and was Socialist, then it was doomed
what is the background music. I really like it.
10:52 when your animation programming autocorrects the word “die” into “fly” XD
Okay… Chernobyl had A LOT to do with it… yet it’s not even mentioned in the video…
@INFOGRAPHICS
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The first one is a joke right ? Lol
@@Yesimlexx He wants to see batman take out a gang lol
@@WyldWolfDragon facts 🤣🤷🏾♂️
ouuu rise of walt disney sounds interesting
Dude, they’ll make a video about every subject you can ever imagine, some time soon. Have you seen how fast they upload?
I enjoy this channel very much, but it could really benefit from a good editor. See, for instance, Finland's "ceasing" of territory as opposed to "ceding" or "cession."
What is the name of the background music 🔥🔥🔥
It's always severely old men who are pointed to power.
I feel like we got to see more of the writers personal opinions in this video than any other.
Thanks again!
yo whats this audio. where's that song from? i can make a mix that slaps out of this
Ι needed this
11:03 "I am sure they won't make the same mistake 83 years in the future"
that's a good one
"I'm sure they won't make this exact same mistake 83 years in the future!"
🤣😂
This channel is so much fun
Amazing work but the music needs a click lower because you fight with the distraction it gives you to understand the rapid fire reading of information
This video was a nice history lesson on Russia through the decades.
Bro this is funny
Except the ending was all wrong. Gorby resigned on Christmas Day 1991, not in August.
I wonder if humanity will make it to 2030?
I personally hope we do.
Most of us hope too.
Humanity has a habit of being more resilient than this cruel yet beautiful world
yall really made this video a day after my test
Watching this channel has made me more confident in taking college history
You forgot one key factor that made the USSR collapse that was the invasion of Afghanistan the war lasted 10 years more than 15000 Soviet soldiers died. This contributed significantly to the USSR's collapse.
Charlie Wilson baby!!
1) USSR invasion of Afghanistan
2) Chernobyl Disaster
3) Military-first Policy
4) Food Shortage
5) Consumer Goods Shortage
6) Funding Foreign Wars
7) Invasions of Hungary (1956) and Czechoslovakia (1968) (Promoted Anti Communist sentiments)
8) Brezhnev era Stagnation and Corruption
9) Massive KGB repressions, Alcoholism
10) Worthless Currency
11) Over Reliance on Oil
@@10man10 9/11 moment
That many have likely died in Ukraine already
1) he mentioned it and 2) what about the disastrous attempt to defend Iran from invasion when Americans attacked it under OPERATION DESERT STORM despite Iran being a USSR ally at the time
Every dictator falls in the same trap.
P.S. It doesn't end well.
How I yearn for the 3 mile queue just to get some stale bread. The good old days 🤗
I want this background music. It's epic
"Soviet Union you all know and love"
Now hold on there. Love is a...strong word
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That was surprisingly nuanced
what is the name of the music in background?
"I'm sure that they won't make the same mistake 83 years later" XD
Nice video. There was a lot of conflict in the world back then, I can only imagine what it would have been like if they had the kind of weaponry we have today, including nuclear warheads that can level entire cities.
You think they didn't have nukes in the 80's?
Yo ever heard of Hiroshima or Nagasaki? That was 1945
They were more asking what would the hundred years war, or the American civil war be like with tanks, machine guns, and nuclear warheads
@@nekolu WWII?
@E Van I was born in 1984 and I know more about WW2, cold war etc' than people who are baby boomers, don't mistake idiots with age.
Thank you.
You are just the best in what u you do and how you do it
10:55 This is why you actually have to watch the Infographics and not just listen to it and do other stuff.
Is the Cold War between US and Russia happening Every 60 Years or So?
Doing some Research on our Animation channel.
Can you make the music a little louder I can still hear you?
The song in this is fire
Well done! Especially on the distinction between Communism and Stalinism. You are absolutely correct saying that many critics don't grasp it,and it's misleading and saddening.
I don't think it's that people don't get the difference. It's just that they think that this is the natural progression every time a country turns communist. To be honest I'm not sure that they are wrong it seems to go that way not that America's capitalism is working that well either.
Could you make a video about what it was like to be a soviet soldier during WWII?
Absolutely horrible. Sent to your certain death cuz Stalin killed every Soviet in the country that was a competent military leader out of paranoia
Dude, they’ll make a video about every subject you can ever imagine, some time soon. Have you seen how fast they upload?
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 the English was worser they used hang their close ones if they fear they are sell out 😂
@@walalo2762 the soviet union industrialized killing their own citizens
@@ballsonyourmomschin1781 Ireland is a beautiful place 😍the North needs to come home now 😉
Just imagine if we could all get along n have transparency
I feel like Gorbachev should have won a Nobel peace prize for how he handled the fall of the ussr
No, the fall of the soviet union was a disaster. He did political freedom instead of economic freedom. all of the republics were far better off during the soviet era. soo many people died from the fall of the soviet union, and its reprecussions.
The Ruso-Japanese war is the boiling point.
Just to correct you it’s Russo-Japanese War not Ruso-Japanese War
I like how this video glosses over the atrocities under Lenin's rule, such as execution of Farmers that did not sell their wheat at the price he set, which was too low for the farmers to live on, pretty much a precursor to what Stalin would do; or how it was under his leadership that the USSR did perform aggressive actions to spread Communism to the rest of Europe in the early 1920s.
Or talk about Stalin's purges like it also didn't have some reasoning to also get rid of old officers or even more incompetent ones that didn't really have a place in the USSRs rearming programs; not too different from what the US and Germany did with Their Officer Corp, just less killing in the US case.
11:02 accurate hahaha
Finally somebody explained in full detail..Thank You
I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos. Keep it up! 👍
"After the demise of the Soviet Union, we had many problems of our own for which no one was responsible but ourselves: the economic downfall, the collapse of the welfare system, the separatism, and of course the terror attacks that shook our country. In this respect, we do not have to look for guilty parties abroad." - Vladimir Putin
if only he'd actually done something about them instead of doubling down on being an imperialist petrostate. Yeltsin left a disaster, but Putin could have put Russia in a much better position than it is now.
@@user-cx9nc4pj8w Expecting an ex KGB officer to improve a country would be like expecting Epstein to properly run a kindergarten.
@@Scriptorification He only said that because the fault still lay somewhere other than with him. It is always just about him.
@@Scriptorification The EU doesn't 'need' Putin to justify rearming, it HAS Putin to justify it.
@@Scriptorification Appreciate an honest exchange.
Your the best history channel
14:52 uh i think you mean the Virtuous Mission was undertaken followed by Operation Snake Eater and the United States traded the honor of the greatest soldier who ever lived for salvation from a new nuclear threat
The Tetris game was also a big part 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂