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.
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.
@@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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
@@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.
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
@@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...
"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!"
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.
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.
My parents lived in Soviet period. All they said about USSR ( Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan)are mostly positive. As a history enthusiast I would definitely say that communism really broke the chains of religion in Azərbaijan though the country was commonly religious prior to Soviet Union, they created education system by force which I found excellent job. Now capital city is plagued by narcotics, ill education and corruption and brutal inequality, brainwashing, fake patriotism, religious cults, unemployment. Of course life standards were extremely low compared to developed western countries particularly USA but ideology itself was really humanistic.
"life standards were extremely low compared to developed western countries particularly USA" That's not even true. Only prosperous suburban whites lived good quality of life in USA, if you were black or immigrant or not rich white then you surely wouldn't have lived a good life.
@@princekrazie Ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Look at how well modern African immigrants do in the US - almost 60% of Nigerian Americans have college degrees.
@@princekrazie actually I am texting this comment from an apartment which was given by Soviet government to my factory employee granny without paying any penny. I didn't compare the ideology I just tried to compare the actual practice. As far as I know U.S.A citizens lead proper, peaceful life with sufficient health care and education system
@@fridabbasov4792 unfortunately not necessarily true. Sufficient healthcare *if you can afford it* its becomming increasingly expensive, along with college/university education. there is much here we wish we had, but much we take for granted
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
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 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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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.
Rest In Peace Lenin. If he remained in power maybe he could have turned communism into a democracy, what it was made to be with rights for any class or civillian
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The Soviet Union fell because it literally ran out of money. Decades of incompetence had led to government financing spending using oil profits, which evaporated in the wake of the First Iraq War. The Soviet government faced a population drain as Hungary opened its borders. The Soviet economy depended on a captive population. They literally ran out of money.
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.
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."
Although it may be frightening - The best thing that could happen for the world would be for Putin to actually use a tactical nuclear weapon, ending with the total defeat of the Russian army. That would rid the Russian people of the gangsters now ruling them, and a brighter future for everyone.
Feedback: I think you should include an explicit and clear statement in every video that you have a link to your sources in the description. Also related to sources: please show them with a footnote in both the video and the document. I trust you, but that would make it easier for people who don’t to fact-check your claims
@@crook7493 you have to remember that we live in a Era where the internet have some false information that's not entirely accurate even though its the only quick and easy way to find Information
@@crook7493 it was more in general, not about this or any other specific video. Furthermore, I already stated that this is not about me. I already use a lot of different sources for information. Just look at how many channels I have subscribed to…
There always is a link to the sources in the description of their videos, dude. Plus, you can also fact-check most things that they say with a quick Google search. Like, I thought the same thing when I first started watching their videos, but instead of writing a comment about what they can improve, I just checked the description, cuz I realised that they have probably thought of this already. One love ❤ P.S. There are times when their sources ain't from a very respectable places, but even then the sources of their sources are usually something good.
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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.
@@Кипящийразум 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?
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.
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
This channel alone somehow taps into history that I’ve recalled hearing in lectures!
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
It was Rocky's speech that brought down the Soviet Union. "If I can change, then you can change!"
"If he dies, he dies."
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
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.
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
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.
Is the Cold War between US and Russia happening Every 60 Years or So?
Doing some Research on our Animation channel.
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...
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...
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.
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!!"
Another masterpiece to watch by the infographics show, can't wait to finish it!
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
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.
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.
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
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
Very good job guys 👍 we appreciate you and all the hard work you do 💗
This was a major win for the planet
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.
Can you make the music a little louder I can still hear you?
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
@@Snowfang00 why didnt you name any of those countries?
@@rickmorgan1441 did you even watch this video?
@@Snowfang00 why didnt you answer my question? answer that first and I'll answer yours
"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
PS Much love to the infographics crew. Keep up the awesome work everyone!
This Is Very Informational
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
The music is epic and amazing! Could you name the track, please?
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
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.
You know this channel is good when it explained entire lifetime of a superpower and the 83 years in the future joke.
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.
11:03 "I am sure they won't make the same mistake 83 years in the future"
that's a good one
The soviet union may have fallen but it remains in the hearts of every worker on the planet
Do you think Putin wants to reclaim the Soviet Union.
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.
My parents lived in Soviet period. All they said about USSR ( Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan)are mostly positive. As a history enthusiast I would definitely say that communism really broke the chains of religion in Azərbaijan though the country was commonly religious prior to Soviet Union, they created education system by force which I found excellent job. Now capital city is plagued by narcotics, ill education and corruption and brutal inequality, brainwashing, fake patriotism, religious cults, unemployment. Of course life standards were extremely low compared to developed western countries particularly USA but ideology itself was really humanistic.
"life standards were extremely low compared to developed western countries particularly USA" That's not even true. Only prosperous suburban whites lived good quality of life in USA, if you were black or immigrant or not rich white then you surely wouldn't have lived a good life.
@@princekrazie Ethnicity has nothing to do with it. Look at how well modern African immigrants do in the US - almost 60% of Nigerian Americans have college degrees.
@@princekrazie actually I am texting this comment from an apartment which was given by Soviet government to my factory employee granny without paying any penny. I didn't compare the ideology I just tried to compare the actual practice. As far as I know U.S.A citizens lead proper, peaceful life with sufficient health care and education system
@@fridabbasov4792 unfortunately not necessarily true. Sufficient healthcare *if you can afford it* its becomming increasingly expensive, along with college/university education. there is much here we wish we had, but much we take for granted
@@Kilonovae I really want to know what are the best advantages of living in USA?
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
Interesting timing.
"I'm sure they won't make this exact mistake in 83 years"
83 years later Russia is running on steam against Ukraine
This video was very entertaining
Thanks 👍
Absolutely love your channel! Very in depth and obvious research. Soothing voice and well spoken
Very good summary, it matches every aspect I experienced or heard about.
11:03 XD their joke writer deserves a raise
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 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.
@@雷-t3j 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.
Thank you Infographics Show when you mentioned Finland and Winter War in your video 😀
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
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
Okay… Chernobyl had A LOT to do with it… yet it’s not even mentioned in the video…
@INFOGRAPHICS
Here’s some topic suggestions
1. Batman vs. A neighborhood of Bloods and Crips
2. Phoenix Jones the real life super hero in Seattle Washington
3. The open water movie about the couple and the sharks
4. Hernan Cortez and the Aztecs
5. Btk killer in Wichita Kansas
6. Golden Age Italian-American mafia vs. Today’s Italian-American mafia
7. How a bank robber could use 20 year old money that he dug up after his prison sentence
8. The rise of rockstar games with Sam and Dan Houser
9. The rise of Walt Disney
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?
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.
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
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
It's always severely old men who are pointed to power.
What about the Chernobyl disaster? Both Afghanistan and the incident played a very important in the collapse of the Soviet Union
That was surprisingly nuanced
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.
I feel like we got to see more of the writers personal opinions in this video than any other.
Thanks again!
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
This backing track is awesome
Rest In Peace Lenin. If he remained in power maybe he could have turned communism into a democracy, what it was made to be with rights for any class or civillian
Watching this channel has made me more confident in taking college history
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The song at the beginning of the video is so good, got me hyped up
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 😉
Your the best history channel
The Ruso-Japanese war is the boiling point.
Just to correct you it’s Russo-Japanese War not Ruso-Japanese War
The Soviet Union fell because it literally ran out of money. Decades of incompetence had led to government financing spending using oil profits, which evaporated in the wake of the First Iraq War. The Soviet government faced a population drain as Hungary opened its borders. The Soviet economy depended on a captive population.
They literally ran out of money.
10:55 This is why you actually have to watch the Infographics and not just listen to it and do other stuff.
This channel is so much fun
"Soviet Union you all know and love"
Now hold on there. Love is a...strong word
Stalin taking power instead of Trotsky was probably the worst thing that could have happened to pretty much everyone
Meh. Trotsky was even more of a nutjob.
"I'm sure they won't make this exact same mistake 83 years in the future!"
🤣😂
Salute to you guys amd what you do with this show. Brilliant!!!!!!
"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.
Whoever did that background music knows what they were doing. It's amazing to hear that right next to this history.
Every dictator falls in the same trap.
P.S. It doesn't end well.
yall really made this video a day after my test
Loved the “…won’t make literally this exact same mistake 83 years in the future!” at 11:02 😂
What is the name of the background music 🔥🔥🔥
I'm honestly impressed by the time and effort you put into these videos. Keep it up! 👍
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."
We can all agree this is better than school right?
Definitely
Yes
Although it may be frightening - The best thing that could happen for the world would be for Putin to actually use a tactical nuclear weapon, ending with the total defeat of the Russian army. That would rid the Russian people of the gangsters now ruling them, and a brighter future for everyone.
14yr olds when they read the title: Pepsi, PizzaHut, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s - FINAL ANSWER!
It collapsed because they’re bad guys in every video game.
not every Video game
The song in this is fire
No wonder Putin won’t back down, considering the treatment Krushchev got under even more heated circumstances.
Should I be concerned with the fast upload speed of infographics?
Remember when you thought Russia was not gonna invade anymore? Pepperidge Farms remembers
Russia was always an invader. Remember Ukraine, the Baltics, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Iran, Afghanistan and Finland?
what is the background music. I really like it.
Feedback: I think you should include an explicit and clear statement in every video that you have a link to your sources in the description. Also related to sources: please show them with a footnote in both the video and the document. I trust you, but that would make it easier for people who don’t to fact-check your claims
this is history, you can find this information anywhere
@@crook7493 you have to remember that we live in a Era where the internet have some false information that's not entirely accurate even though its the only quick and easy way to find Information
@@crook7493 it was more in general, not about this or any other specific video. Furthermore, I already stated that this is not about me. I already use a lot of different sources for information. Just look at how many channels I have subscribed to…
@@LeanAndMean44 thats understandable.
There always is a link to the sources in the description of their videos, dude. Plus, you can also fact-check most things that they say with a quick Google search. Like, I thought the same thing when I first started watching their videos, but instead of writing a comment about what they can improve, I just checked the description, cuz I realised that they have probably thought of this already.
One love ❤
P.S. There are times when their sources ain't from a very respectable places, but even then the sources of their sources are usually something good.
The Tetris game was also a big part 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
“Watch what if Russia invades Ukraine “ uhhhh what if????? Hate to break it to you but ….