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In many states, the largest city is the capital. Other American states, however, deliberately chose a smaller place as capital to prevent the total domination of the state government by a single population center. Capitals often moved before assuming the current position; Springfield was Illinois's third capital, after Kaskaskia and Vandalia. In some cases, a capital was overshadowed by the later growth of a newer town, as happened in Georgia, where the centrally located Milledgeville, which had replaced the colonial capital of Savannah, was in turn replaced by the booming commercial center, Atlanta; in some cases the capital remained in its original place. Some capitals were chosen because of a more central location than a larger city, like Dover in Delaware, or Lansing, Michigan. Jefferson City is roughly halfway between Missouri's two large cities, St. Louis and Kansas City. Florida's capital was chosen in 1824 because it was about halfway between Pensacola and St. Augustine, the two largest cities in the territory at the time. The most inconvenient capital is Juneau, Alaska, which can be reached only by air or sea -- no roads access it. In 1976 a vote was held to move it to a better location, but Alaskans have not yet been able to decide where! Honolulu is at least accessible to the island of Oahu, but other Hawaiian islands need air or sea connections, of course.
Great comment! I think the choice of capitals is illustrative to the power structures of each; the concentration/centralization of power in the USSR, vs the deliberately limited and decentralized power/government of the USA. People would be wise to remember that restraining power, including government and corporate, is a positive action (requires effort), while the consolidation of power and eventual tyranny is the natural state, the entropic end of human society.
I should have mentioned Connecticut, which had the peculiar situation of having TWO state capitals until 1875, when Hartford was named sole capital. The city of New Haven was co-capital until then. I remember having read that somewhere. I dont know the reason for the change, but since New Haven was (and still is) the largest city in the state, it may be another case of anti-big city bias, though Hartford, with its major industrial base (home of Colt, for one), was no sleepy village.
@@michelbeauloye4269 Well, there are two others, in Ohio and Missouri -- both named after the one in Illinois. There was even a Vandalia Railroad, 470 miles taken over by the Pennsylvania in 1917. (I had to look the date up -- I knew it was around 1920.) Springfield was more centrally located, and the young lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who lived there, actively promoted moving the capital. Still, consider Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia during the Civil War. It replaced Louisville, which was considered more centrally located than the colonial capital of Savannah. Milledgeville is even close to the center of Georgia, another example of a state capital created to be geographically centered. The growth of Atlanta, which was the terminus (it's original name) of several railroads made it more accessible and a major economic hub for Georgia, even before the War, so it was made capital in 1868.
Austin, TX, was chosen to slight the most prominent citizen in La Grange, which, as a ford town, was more important at the time, but Sam Houston had a feud with someone there. (Learned this doing research for a book.)
Very interesting information! I’m really glad you analysed actual footage. Most of the other videos on RUclips all talk about the same 3 Soviet cars. Lada, Moskvich, and Volga. You actually talk about delivery vans trucks and other cars like the ambulance. This channel deserves a lot more attention, keep up the great work!
I want a grill on my car with a Red Star! I think it would be a cool conversation piece. When I was a little boy in 1960's USA, our town had a little mom & pop market store called "Red Star". Believe it or not.
Thanks Sergei for another great video. I'm a huge car enthusiast and love all cars from all over the world. It's always great to learn about Soviet cars, they seem so obscure to an American. But I have Eastern European roots, my parents grew up in post-WWII Poland. So I remember being in Poland as a kid, seeing them on the streets there, along with the Trabants and Fiat 126's. If you make a part two about cars, you should look at the Lada's. The VAZ-2100's were in the Soviet Union in large numbers, although they were based on Fiats. The Lada Niva is an awesome Soviet SUV.
The ultimate reverse engineering has to be the Tupolev Tu-4. They literally took 4 interned B-29s that had emergency landed in Far Eastern Russia in 1944 and 45 and took them apart and completely reverse engineered the technology.
@@dzonikg At the same time the Soviets were seeking the same technical information so I am unsure what exactly your point is here. The original post was complementary. Reverse engineering technology is what an intelligent society dose when the need presents itself. The technology in Germany became the spoils of war in May 1945 and who got what depended upon what part of Germany said technology was and were the persons having this knowledge were in the summer of 1945.
@@tristanholland6445 I guess he read your comment as negative talk about Russia, even though that's wasn't the point at all. It was all one big race to seize technology and weapons.
@@BL44Trofl looking at his yt he has a lot of Yugoslavian stuff so I would say that he has an anti- American view for somewhat understandable reasons. Though the idea that modern Russia is the protector of all Slavs is the exact same thing as the most Imperialistic view one could place on the United States. Anyone that thinks that the US,Russia and China are not modern Imperialistic powers is definitely fooling themselves. And I served in the US military but do not have a naive attitude about how the US projects power nor Russian nor China.....non care about another nations freedom they care about projecting hegemony and countering the others it's that simple. And the US and Russia have a healthy military industrial complex and money to be made. And anyone's son will do unfortunately.
@@dzonikg Not only did we take and use German technology following the end of WWII (much like the Soviets did too), we also took some of the finest German engineers and scientists to the U.S. Former German and Nazi V-2 rocket scientist Wernher von Braun is probably the best example of a German who came to the U.S. and was very instrumental in the creation of the U.S. space program known as NASA.
Perfect timing Comrade.....I went for a roadtrip outside Vitebsk Belarus today. In the village we visited sat a GAZ series 3, thanks to your video I can identify it. I wanted to attempt fitting it in my suitcase to take home to USA.😁 They still build LADA cars too. Pulled up behind on at a stop sign. It's not a Soviet LADA eather.... very modern design SUV type thing. 😀
In the early 1930's Henry Ford got himself a $40 million deal with Stalin to have the T-model produced in Russia.A plant had to be built from scratch.Not much came of it.Almost all models failed mechanically due to poor training of workers. The details can be read in a book by Tim Tzouliadis "The Forsaken - An American Tragedy In Stalin's Russia".
Ladas used to be quite popular in Finland even though Finland was a capitalist country. I guess they were cheap due to the trade deals with the USSR. You can find some 70s Lada commercials from Finland on RUclips, I'm sure not many countries actually had Lada tv-commercials.. :) Other Soviet brands were rare in Finland.
I'm new to your channel but loving the history. I grew up during the height of the Cold War from the middle 1960's thru the early 1980's. Good job, keep the videos coming. As far as the state capitals....most of the US state capitals are in the city most centrally located within the state. The reason for this goes back to the colonial days when the mode of travel was by horse & buggy. It made it fair for state and local representatives as well as citizens from around the state to travel a similar distance to reach the capital. In the early days of the USA, many states did have the capital in the highest populated city at the time. For instance, the original capital of Indiana was Vincennes, however this was before it was a state and stilled called the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1800. When Indiana officially became a state in 1816 the capital was Corydon, which is in the far Southern part of the state near the Ohio River...which was where major trade took place. The capital was moved to the centrally located part of the state in Indianapolis in 1825. Long winded I realize, but there's a mini history lesson.
The main reason of the differences of size of capitals in the US versus the USSR comes down to centralized government Soviet union they owned everything they were the main employer so everything that makes the country or the region works is based through government versus the US or capitalist you got private industry etc. and government is not centralized and is the number one employer but I think you probably already know that and keep up the great work I love these videos and learning
Hi Sergei, I just stumbled upon your channel from your interviews with “The Cold War”. Great stuff! I really enjoy the perspective of life in the USSR. I haven’t watched too many of your videos yet so you may have explained this already at some point, but do you have a connection to MI other than your uncle? I just found it interesting you pointed out Detroit and Lansing (where I live). Thanks! Can’t wait to watch and learn more.
USHANKA SHOW thanks for the reply! Since I made this comment I’ve watched dozens of “long boring videos” about life in the USSR 😆 Comrade Cheeseburger 🍔 didn’t even exist 6 months ago, how the world has changed.
The reason American state capitals are often not the biggest city in a state is because back before modern forms of transit they would try to pick the most centrally located and easiest to access position for each capital and when many states were formed there weren't many real big cities, with a balance between industrial and rural influence, it was a strategic and political choice. The country was mostly rural then and many cities eventually grew bigger and faster than the capitals since a capital might be in the middle of nowhere in a bad area for growth. Only in 17 of the 50 states, like Massachusetts, the capital is the biggest city.
Location had a lot to do with which City became the Capital of Michigan. When they were deciding Calumet, Marshal and Detroit were also on the list of potential capitals of Michigan.
for those who may have found a particular interest in soviet cars, your "Christine" might be "Black lightning" the film was out in 2009 and among other films that I cant remember fully remember when netflix wasn't trying to make money off of any-second you breathed.
I heard an interesting story. When the movie The Grapes of Wrath came out the government in the USSR allowed it be showed in theaters there because it showed how workers were exploited in the US. But they stopped showing it because what the audience saw was that even the poorest Americans could afford a vehicle.
Great background information on long gone Soviet highway vehicles! That Ukrainian blue and white bus with the fin on the rear roof at 20:17 looks a bit similar to a 1950s American Flxible ("e" is deliberately left out) Clipper/Visicoach passenger intercity bus that had a characteristic air scoop on its rear roof.
A lot of people claim that the USSR just copied what ever car or truck they happened to like, but a lot of re-engineering had to go into the designs mostly because of the trouble they had with the roads, or lack there of. A lot of the early models were fine in and around the capital but on extended trips the suspension would get ripped out from underneath them. With the size of the country and how much of it freezes and thaws the road commission ain’t got a chance! A guy could loose a Lada in one of those “bomb craters” and you don’t dare go in after it, it gets pretty dark about five feet down and there might be a bear lying in wait! LoL! It’s no wonder that they made so many of those six ton trucks, even at 180hp it’s still enough to get you where you are going, and enough ground clearance to get you through the creek/river. Those trucks kind of looked like an old Dodge to me.
"I want to sign up for the waiting list for a car. How long is it?" / "Precisely ten years from today." / "Morning or evening?" / "Why, what difference does it make?" / "The plumber's due in the morning".
if you look carfully nowadays you can still find these vehicles in operation thats what I do whenever i visit moscow and plenty of times ive found these on moscow strreets today
Why did all of these cars have so little horsepower? Was it an attempt at efficiency, another way to limit what people could do, or maybe both? I remember how surprised I was in an older video about big trucks. The main one you talked about had, I think, 118 horses? I know a number of the Soviet-era vehicles from outside the USSR and I've always wondered about the HP
Just one slight correction: at 18:21 that's probably the BMW factory in Eisenach, that was bombed in WW2, and the GDR have made the EMW, IFA and Wartburg cars there later.
The biggest city is usually the capital, but not always. There are some exceptions. Off the top of my head, I can think of: Canada (Ottawa, not Toronto), Switzerland (Bern, not Zurich), West Germany (before reunification: Bonn, not Hamburg), Australia (Canberra, not Sydney), India (New Delhi, not Mumbai), Brazil (Brasilia, not Sao Paolo or Rio), South Africa (Cape Town/Pretoria/Bloemfontein, not Johannesburg), Nigeria (Abuja, not Lagos), and Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro, not Abidjan). There may be others. I just can't think of them.
When I was in Ukraine, I saw those trucks everywhere. I kept thinking the cab looked like a 1956 Ford truck cab. I read somewhere that Ford used to sell its tooling for discontinued models to a Soviet factory in Leningrad. I think the Model A became a Soviet car after Ford dropped the Model A in the US. Also I liked the old Niva (combine) and the new Lada Niva (post Soviet?) "Niva" in Russian means "field" or "farm"?
I suspect the Volga 24 was inspired by the Vauxhall Cresta PC, a large executive car produced by General Motors at the Vauxhall works in Luton, England in the 1960s. (coincidentally, the brand, Vauxhall, is the origin for the Russian word for "train station").
Great video! Hope we will see more of your father in law's uncle! I'm sure there are more interesting things to come out of his travels to the USSR... Or Soviet countries...?
The more modern Volga looks like a mid 60's Ford Falcon. My uncle had a new '65 red Falcon. I always liked the styling of that car. That last car is a '73 Oldsmobile. Those had a 455 cu/in engine. A friend of mine had one, same color.
Здарова Сергей!) Я недавно нашла Ваш канал и мне очень интересно, у Вас отличная память. Мне 32 и не могла бы рассказать истории из детства как Вы)) Я американка и просто хотела объяснять почему наши столицы маленькие города) иногда это было просто потому что этот город был в центре штатов или рядом с какой то промышленностей и теперь тот промышленность больше не существует, на пример Сакраменто было недавно добычей золоти) но теперь Сакраменто совсем бесполезно и далеко от всего) окей! спасибо за видео и надеюсь что бы все понимаешь, мой русский не очень в эти дни))) как Видите) ууфф я вижу что несколько людей уже ответили и объяснили) ну и ну) оставлю)
As far as cars go, the most right wing car guy, Henry Ford, made deals with the Soviet gov't., the Model A was made in the USSR. until 1955. Big Soviet cars were Packards& Buicks. The about 1941 Packard Clipper/180 was reverse engineered. Some say president Roosevelt forced Packard motor co. to give the tools for the 180 to the Soviets around 1942. Soviet luxury tastes reflected American ones, delayed a few years. Brezhnev famously preferred Cadillacs, and owned a few. Opels were actually G.M. cars, and the company was nationalized by Nazis, like the German Fords. Then these factory's, in the Soviet zones were nationalized, what was left of them
One thing to keep in mind bud is when those cities were made the capital of those states they were the biggest cities in those states they just didn't grow as fast or to be as large in the passing years but yes the idea was that the largest cities would be the capital but you see what time does
Were used cars available to buy? Did Soviet Russa have auto racing?( like US NASCAR) Are cars inspected for safety.? How much do they cost for licensing a car? Did the drivers have to have insurance?
The New Volga (car #2) is definitely based off the Ford Taunus M20, I know this because my Grandfather had that model, and the moment I saw that picture, I knew it was a copy of the M20.
That deer hood ornament was really neat id like to have one of those are they rare/expensive? Just ornament by the way not the whole car, im in the US and have a whole familial line of mechanics back to the 20's/30's I believe up to now where my fathers side who I live with own our own auto garage at our house and I've always loved old school car decorations like those you don't really see put on anymore
@@UshankaShow thank you so much for responding with that i was looking through them, im a viewer from Kentucky so not far from Michigan, I love the channel ever since I saw you on the cold war channel I've been watching and liking a ton of your videos especially on the Russian/Putin situation, keep up the good work!
OK, here goes nothing...я учу Русский язык на четыре месяца. Мне очень нравитца ваша видио. Я заказала вашу книгу. That's all I've got. I hope it was legible.
Have you ever heard of Belarus tractors? They where tractors made at the Minsk tractor factory and sold in the US under the name Belarus. My uncle had a few back the 80's and now they are popular at least in this region of the US with guys that collect and restore tractors. I don't think they sold that many but apparently they were sold in the US in the 80's and were fairly reliable. I used to drive one with a Bush hog to help mow my uncles farm.
Of course, those tractors were in every collective farm! My friends in Michigan took me once to show Belarus dealer. I didn't know prior those were imported to the US.
@@cmanlovespancakes I saw that looking at Belarus photos.I am talking about the old Soviet era ones. The new ones are probably just a basic shell and engine with a particular paint style like most smaller brands today. The old school made in USSR Belarus were unique. Actually they were easy to fix when they broke too. I remember my uncle would say "there's my shop figure it out yourself".
@@UshankaShow My understanding was they sold them from the 70's through 80's here in the US. I don't know how widely they were distributed but they are not uncommon here in Kentucky. A good condition one is rare because they got worked hard and you have to be a true mechanic because the parts are long gone.
Yes, there were Belarus tractors sold in USA late 70s early 80s. I personally saw them in a JOHN DEERE DEALERS LOT IN DURANT IOWA. I'm not talking about a trade in eather. The whole lot was full of new Belarus tractors. Even with other witnesses, our local 2 cylinder club denies that ever happened. So does the dealership. Just like the" All wheel drive tractor with a 4 cylinder engine" they denied existence of. The Supreme Court had to make the Company confess it was theirs, before they finally accepted it. John Deere has a history. I assure you Old Founder John would not be happy with many things about the company that uses his Name.
Bad ass we always scratch our heads about how the F did they buy cars? when you buy in USSR car does your passport get updated? Do they put your job and schedule in your passport can you drive anywhere you want?
Scott Larson Blin, my '79 Ford has 85 horsepower motivating almost two tons! It's not much better. However, like most Russian cars, she can be repaired with hand tools and generic parts. Wouldn't trade her for anything. Except maybe a Lada with a manual choke.
Scott Larson Most I've had was a '70s land yacht with 212hp with a respectable 342ft/lbs. That was back in the early aughts and it cost $100 to fill the tank. I've never known cheap gas LOL.
@@Whammytap Some guys had late 60's Mustangs. I thought they had 289hp engines, but like I said I don't know anything about cars. I know there were Ford Galaxies with engines over 400hp.
Hablar del tráfico de un país, sin tener en cuenta el contexto en el cual se vivía, es un error, puesto que todo se basaba en el transporte público de hecho en cuanto a ómnibus se refiere los soviéticos innovaron muchísimo más que el resto del mundo!!!! Y porque esa foto no puede d Ser un fin de semana aunque haya un camión recolector de basura?
Awesome! "Car Culture" has actually had some negative effects on the USA. Before WW2 most Americans lived in cities and towns, within walking distance of their jobs, shopping, etc. Larger cities had public transportation. So most Americans did not own cars. During the war people worked in war production, made lots of money but couldn't spend it under wartime rationing. So after WW2, the auto factories switched back to peacetime production, and cheap cars flooded the market! With that, city people left for the suburbs and small town people for rural areas. So now, we are spread out, cars and fuel prices are rising, wages are dropping, but you must have a car! We are dependent on them! So if you are poor living 5,10, or 20 miles from where you work, losing your car or having it break down is catastrophic. And I largely blame car ownership for destroying the dream of home ownership for our younger generations. They get trapped into buying a new car at a young age and get stuck in the renters trap. So, for any young folk reading this. Move close to your job, and shopping. Keep a low debt to income ratio, drive old used cars, and put home ownership #1!
@Fred Smurf Yeah but a lack of money and good credit to buy a house is often related to poor decisions made in one's youth. Pissing money away on fancy new vehicles that quickly devalue is a bad idea!
Hear, hear! I drive a 41-year-old economy car that is inexpensive to stable. I couldn't get by without her. She is well taken care of, but someday she will rust away in the winter salt and I don't know what I'll do then.
I agree with this...when i am in new town i always first want to go center off town which is almost everywhere pedestrian zone..so when i was in US first time its same thing i wanted..but they sad " there is no pedestrian zone" ..how in the world city where millions live dont have pedestrian zone ..so i ts just endless streets with cars ...yes great for driving everywhere but for walking and enjoying not so much ...but US is not only one ...also Dubai ..look great on pictures but you are really there you see that whole city is just for cars
Physical mobility is directly correlated with economic mobility. Having a car means massively more employment opportunities from a given house (that is, job shed). It would actually be cheaper to supply each public transit dependent household in most parts of the US with a car, maintenance, and fuel than it is to continue public transit subsidies, and the result would be significantly greater household income within a few years. I love the IDEA of transit because I like playing little dictator as much as anyone. But after having ridden the best systems in the world (Tokyo, Guangzhou, Hong Kong) and done the calculations, I've realized there is literally no way to make it compare to individualized transportation. When most cars are self driving, the parking lots and garages will disappear, and cities will be once again designed at a human scale. :) Best of both worlds.
Btw, you are wildly wrong about car ownership destroying the home ownership dream. Literally the opposite. The cities with the highest sprawl measurements and car dependency have the cheapest houses. It's a pretty tight correlation.
My God: The ugliest, worst performing vehicles on the entire planet…and people couldn’t afford them and had to get on a wait list to buy them. What kind of culture and society could find themselves a hundred years beyond the rest of the world’s automotive industries? Hell… Even Yugoslavia’s YUGO was more dependable than the rest of this garbage. Must really suck to be Soviet, which explains a lot. I had a new 1974 Camaro in 1974 when I was 17, paid for with a part time job!!!
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Do they teach English in Russia ...or USSR ?
The S in Illinois is silent
@@tstocker6926 Not in Russian
@@mr.waffentrager4400 Yes, we were taught English from the 4the grade
@@UshankaShow I live in Illinois , I know it's tough to get the subtitles of a new language
The third car has some Ford Falcon-esque features but I can also see some Chrysler in it, too. Kind of a mutt.
In many states, the largest city is the capital. Other American states, however, deliberately chose a smaller place as capital to prevent the total domination of the state government by a single population center. Capitals often moved before assuming the current position; Springfield was Illinois's third capital, after Kaskaskia and Vandalia. In some cases, a capital was overshadowed by the later growth of a newer town, as happened in Georgia, where the centrally located Milledgeville, which had replaced the colonial capital of Savannah, was in turn replaced by the booming commercial center, Atlanta; in some cases the capital remained in its original place. Some capitals were chosen because of a more central location than a larger city, like Dover in Delaware, or Lansing, Michigan. Jefferson City is roughly halfway between Missouri's two large cities, St. Louis and Kansas City. Florida's capital was chosen in 1824 because it was about halfway between Pensacola and St. Augustine, the two largest cities in the territory at the time.
The most inconvenient capital is Juneau, Alaska, which can be reached only by air or sea -- no roads access it. In 1976 a vote was held to move it to a better location, but Alaskans have not yet been able to decide where!
Honolulu is at least accessible to the island of Oahu, but other Hawaiian islands need air or sea connections, of course.
Great comment! I think the choice of capitals is illustrative to the power structures of each; the concentration/centralization of power in the USSR, vs the deliberately limited and decentralized power/government of the USA. People would be wise to remember that restraining power, including government and corporate, is a positive action (requires effort), while the consolidation of power and eventual tyranny is the natural state, the entropic end of human society.
I should have mentioned Connecticut, which had the peculiar situation of having TWO state capitals until 1875, when Hartford was named sole capital. The city of New Haven was co-capital until then. I remember having read that somewhere. I dont know the reason for the change, but since New Haven was (and still is) the largest city in the state, it may be another case of anti-big city bias, though Hartford, with its major industrial base (home of Colt, for one), was no sleepy village.
A state capital city called VANDALIA would have been too much!
@@michelbeauloye4269 Well, there are two others, in Ohio and Missouri -- both named after the one in Illinois. There was even a Vandalia Railroad, 470 miles taken over by the Pennsylvania in 1917. (I had to look the date up -- I knew it was around 1920.) Springfield was more centrally located, and the young lawyer Abraham Lincoln, who lived there, actively promoted moving the capital.
Still, consider Milledgeville, the capital of Georgia during the Civil War. It replaced Louisville, which was considered more centrally located than the colonial capital of Savannah. Milledgeville is even close to the center of Georgia, another example of a state capital created to be geographically centered. The growth of Atlanta, which was the terminus (it's original name) of several railroads made it more accessible and a major economic hub for Georgia, even before the War, so it was made capital in 1868.
Austin, TX, was chosen to slight the most prominent citizen in La Grange, which, as a ford town, was more important at the time, but Sam Houston had a feud with someone there. (Learned this doing research for a book.)
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Very interesting information! I’m really glad you analysed actual footage. Most of the other videos on RUclips all talk about the same 3 Soviet cars. Lada, Moskvich, and Volga. You actually talk about delivery vans trucks and other cars like the ambulance. This channel deserves a lot more attention, keep up the great work!
Thank you!
Capitols in US states are centrally located.
I love Soviet Trucks.
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I want a grill on my car with a Red Star! I think it would be a cool conversation piece.
When I was a little boy in 1960's USA, our town had a little mom & pop market store called "Red Star". Believe it or not.
Thanks Sergei for another great video. I'm a huge car enthusiast and love all cars from all over the world. It's always great to learn about Soviet cars, they seem so obscure to an American. But I have Eastern European roots, my parents grew up in post-WWII Poland. So I remember being in Poland as a kid, seeing them on the streets there, along with the Trabants and Fiat 126's. If you make a part two about cars, you should look at the Lada's. The VAZ-2100's were in the Soviet Union in large numbers, although they were based on Fiats. The Lada Niva is an awesome Soviet SUV.
The ultimate reverse engineering has to be the Tupolev Tu-4. They literally took 4 interned B-29s that had emergency landed in Far Eastern Russia in 1944 and 45 and took them apart and completely reverse engineered the technology.
US were stealing in 1945 from Germans left and right
@@dzonikg At the same time the Soviets were seeking the same technical information so I am unsure what exactly your point is here. The original post was complementary. Reverse engineering technology is what an intelligent society dose when the need presents itself.
The technology in Germany became the spoils of war in May 1945 and who got what depended upon what part of Germany said technology was and were the persons having this knowledge were in the summer of 1945.
@@tristanholland6445 I guess he read your comment as negative talk about Russia, even though that's wasn't the point at all. It was all one big race to seize technology and weapons.
@@BL44Trofl looking at his yt he has a lot of Yugoslavian stuff so I would say that he has an anti- American view for somewhat understandable reasons. Though the idea that modern Russia is the protector of all Slavs is the exact same thing as the most Imperialistic view one could place on the United States.
Anyone that thinks that the US,Russia and China are not modern Imperialistic powers is definitely fooling themselves. And I served in the US military but do not have a naive attitude about how the US projects power nor Russian nor China.....non care about another nations freedom they care about projecting hegemony and countering the others it's that simple. And the US and Russia have a healthy military industrial complex and money to be made. And anyone's son will do unfortunately.
@@dzonikg Not only did we take and use German technology following the end of WWII (much like the Soviets did too), we also took some of the finest German engineers and scientists to the U.S. Former German and Nazi V-2 rocket scientist Wernher von Braun is probably the best example of a German who came to the U.S. and was very instrumental in the creation of the U.S. space program known as NASA.
Perfect timing Comrade.....I went for a roadtrip outside Vitebsk Belarus today.
In the village we visited sat a GAZ series 3, thanks to your video I can identify it.
I wanted to attempt fitting it in my suitcase to take home to USA.😁
They still build LADA cars too. Pulled up behind on at a stop sign. It's not a Soviet LADA eather.... very modern design SUV type thing. 😀
In the early 1930's Henry Ford got himself a $40 million deal with Stalin to have the T-model produced in Russia.A plant had to be built from scratch.Not much came of it.Almost all models failed mechanically due to poor training of workers.
The details can be read in a book by Tim Tzouliadis "The Forsaken - An American Tragedy In Stalin's Russia".
Yep, I've got that book, didn't have a chance to read it yet
They started out alright but kept Stalin. 🤪
As a guy who has worked in the US auto industry for some years, I really enjoyed this video. Thanks for making this one.
Awesome slides! I really enjoyed this video and your presentation!
Great video! I'm fascinated by all things Russia / USSR.... and I'm also a car guy!
Ladas used to be quite popular in Finland even though Finland was a capitalist country. I guess they were cheap due to the trade deals with the USSR. You can find some 70s Lada commercials from Finland on RUclips, I'm sure not many countries actually had Lada tv-commercials.. :) Other Soviet brands were rare in Finland.
They didn't appreciate the "grills" in "Fin"land 🤪
Very nice episode
Always
Awesome episode!
This brings up nostalgia. Volga was my favorite.
I'm new to your channel but loving the history. I grew up during the height of the Cold War from the middle 1960's thru the early 1980's. Good job, keep the videos coming.
As far as the state capitals....most of the US state capitals are in the city most centrally located within the state.
The reason for this goes back to the colonial days when the mode of travel was by horse & buggy. It made it fair for state and local representatives as well as citizens from around the state to travel a similar distance to reach the capital.
In the early days of the USA, many states did have the capital in the highest populated city at the time. For instance, the original capital of Indiana was Vincennes, however this was before it was a state and stilled called the Northwest Territory from 1787 to 1800. When Indiana officially became a state in 1816 the capital was Corydon, which is in the far Southern part of the state near the Ohio River...which was where major trade took place. The capital was moved to the centrally located part of the state in Indianapolis in 1825.
Long winded I realize, but there's a mini history lesson.
Very interesting, thank you!
Survival Russia brought me here. Subscribed.
The main reason of the differences of size of capitals in the US versus the USSR comes down to centralized government Soviet union they owned everything they were the main employer so everything that makes the country or the region works is based through government versus the US or capitalist you got private industry etc. and government is not centralized and is the number one employer but I think you probably already know that and keep up the great work I love these videos and learning
I’m in!!! Lars from survival Russia suggested your channel, I like it!
Thanks for another neat vid!
Hi Sergei, I just stumbled upon your channel from your interviews with “The Cold War”. Great stuff! I really enjoy the perspective of life in the USSR.
I haven’t watched too many of your videos yet so you may have explained this already at some point, but do you have a connection to MI other than your uncle? I just found it interesting you pointed out Detroit and Lansing (where I live). Thanks! Can’t wait to watch and learn more.
Better late than never... I had no connection to Michigan. Just by chance I got a job in a Michigan summer camp back in 1995.
USHANKA SHOW thanks for the reply! Since I made this comment I’ve watched dozens of “long boring videos” about life in the USSR 😆 Comrade Cheeseburger 🍔 didn’t even exist 6 months ago, how the world has changed.
The reason American state capitals are often not the biggest city in a state is because back before modern forms of transit they would try to pick the most centrally located and easiest to access position for each capital and when many states were formed there weren't many real big cities, with a balance between industrial and rural influence, it was a strategic and political choice. The country was mostly rural then and many cities eventually grew bigger and faster than the capitals since a capital might be in the middle of nowhere in a bad area for growth. Only in 17 of the 50 states, like Massachusetts, the capital is the biggest city.
I realy like the soviet era cars. So cool :)
Location had a lot to do with which City became the Capital of Michigan. When they were deciding Calumet, Marshal and Detroit were also on the list of potential capitals of Michigan.
Thanks!
Wow, thank you very much for your support! Glad you like my work.
for those who may have found a particular interest in soviet cars, your "Christine" might be "Black lightning" the film was out in 2009 and among other films that I cant remember fully remember when netflix wasn't trying to make money off of any-second you breathed.
the Volga Gaz 24 looks just like a 1963 Ford Falcon. The Dump truck looks like a 1956 ford Truck.
I heard an interesting story. When the movie The Grapes of Wrath came out the government in the USSR allowed it be showed in theaters there because it showed how workers were exploited in the US. But they stopped showing it because what the audience saw was that even the poorest Americans could afford a vehicle.
6 people are still waiting on the delivery of their new Volga.
Loved this video! Keep it up. Always, always, you have the most interesting content.
Great background information on long gone Soviet highway vehicles! That Ukrainian blue and white bus with the fin on the rear roof at 20:17 looks a bit similar to a 1950s American Flxible ("e" is deliberately left out) Clipper/Visicoach passenger intercity bus that had a characteristic air scoop on its rear roof.
The Volga 24 looks very similar to the first car I ever rode in, which was my Dad's 1966 Vauxhall Victor 101 Deluxe 👍
Lars from survival Russia gave you a shout out I'm here to check out your channel I can't wait to see what you have to offer
A lot of people claim that the USSR just copied what ever car or truck they happened to like, but a lot of re-engineering had to go into the designs mostly because of the trouble they had with the roads, or lack there of. A lot of the early models were fine in and around the capital but on extended trips the suspension would get ripped out from underneath them. With the size of the country and how much of it freezes and thaws the road commission ain’t got a chance! A guy could loose a Lada in one of those “bomb craters” and you don’t dare go in after it, it gets pretty dark about five feet down and there might be a bear lying in wait! LoL! It’s no wonder that they made so many of those six ton trucks, even at 180hp it’s still enough to get you where you are going, and enough ground clearance to get you through the creek/river. Those trucks kind of looked like an old Dodge to me.
"I want to sign up for the waiting list for a car. How long is it?" / "Precisely ten years from today." / "Morning or evening?" / "Why, what difference does it make?" / "The plumber's due in the morning".
if you look carfully nowadays you can still find these vehicles in operation thats what I do whenever i visit moscow and plenty of times ive found these on moscow strreets today
Sergei glad you were able to scape the workers “Paradise”
God bless my beloved America.
Long live FREEDOM!
Beautiful Russia, much respect to the Orthodox Christians. God bless you. Z!!! All the way!!!!!
Hello from Maine in the USA! Survival Russia mentioned your channel so here I am!
Why did all of these cars have so little horsepower? Was it an attempt at efficiency, another way to limit what people could do, or maybe both? I remember how surprised I was in an older video about big trucks. The main one you talked about had, I think, 118 horses? I know a number of the Soviet-era vehicles from outside the USSR and I've always wondered about the HP
Have you seen the dashcam videos from over there ? They can't help it cuz they're Russian
Springfield, Illinois...I believe
Just one slight correction: at 18:21 that's probably the BMW factory in Eisenach, that was bombed in WW2, and the GDR have made the EMW, IFA and Wartburg cars there later.
I'm offended that my city, Madison, is over by Milwaukee on that map. Nyet!
When you showed those pictures of moscow, its like the before and after. If you look at roads now its packed now.
The biggest city is usually the capital, but not always. There are some exceptions. Off the top of my head, I can think of: Canada (Ottawa, not Toronto), Switzerland (Bern, not Zurich), West Germany (before reunification: Bonn, not Hamburg), Australia (Canberra, not Sydney), India (New Delhi, not Mumbai), Brazil (Brasilia, not Sao Paolo or Rio), South Africa (Cape Town/Pretoria/Bloemfontein, not Johannesburg), Nigeria (Abuja, not Lagos), and Ivory Coast (Yamoussoukro, not Abidjan). There may be others. I just can't think of them.
hi there can you a video on soviet era motorcycles
When I was in Ukraine, I saw those trucks everywhere. I kept thinking the cab looked like a 1956 Ford truck cab. I read somewhere that Ford used to sell its tooling for discontinued models to a Soviet factory in Leningrad. I think the Model A became a Soviet car after Ford dropped the Model A in the US. Also I liked the old Niva (combine) and the new Lada Niva (post Soviet?) "Niva" in Russian means "field" or "farm"?
a field where wheat grows
I suspect the Volga 24 was inspired by the Vauxhall Cresta PC, a large executive car produced by General Motors at the Vauxhall works in Luton, England in the 1960s. (coincidentally, the brand, Vauxhall, is the origin for the Russian word for "train station").
I recognise the truck because of Spintires.
Great video!
Hope we will see more of your father in law's uncle!
I'm sure there are more interesting things to come out of his travels to the USSR... Or Soviet countries...?
The more modern Volga looks like a mid 60's Ford Falcon. My uncle had a new '65 red Falcon. I always liked the styling of that car. That last car is a '73 Oldsmobile. Those had a 455 cu/in engine. A friend of mine had one, same color.
Здарова Сергей!) Я недавно нашла Ваш канал и мне очень интересно, у Вас отличная память. Мне 32 и не могла бы рассказать истории из детства как Вы)) Я американка и просто хотела объяснять почему наши столицы маленькие города) иногда это было просто потому что этот город был в центре штатов или рядом с какой то промышленностей и теперь тот промышленность больше не существует, на пример Сакраменто было недавно добычей золоти) но теперь Сакраменто совсем бесполезно и далеко от всего) окей! спасибо за видео и надеюсь что бы все понимаешь, мой русский не очень в эти дни))) как Видите)
ууфф я вижу что несколько людей уже ответили и объяснили) ну и ну) оставлю)
Looks like a Ford Falcon. I actually like the Volga
If im correct some of these may not be built anymore but parts are still built for those still operating today
As far as cars go, the most right wing car guy, Henry Ford, made deals with the Soviet gov't., the Model A was made in the USSR. until 1955. Big Soviet cars were Packards& Buicks. The about 1941 Packard Clipper/180 was reverse engineered. Some say president Roosevelt forced Packard motor co. to give the tools for the 180 to the Soviets around 1942. Soviet luxury tastes reflected American ones, delayed a few years. Brezhnev famously preferred Cadillacs, and owned a few. Opels were actually G.M. cars, and the company was nationalized by Nazis, like the German Fords. Then these factory's, in the Soviet zones were nationalized, what was left of them
I heard a little bit about the V8 powered Volga sedans the KGB agents drove. I would like learn more about those
3:50 Springfield. Springfield Illinois.
One thing to keep in mind bud is when those cities were made the capital of those states they were the biggest cities in those states they just didn't grow as fast or to be as large in the passing years but yes the idea was that the largest cities would be the capital but you see what time does
FORD FALCON.
Were used cars available to buy?
Did Soviet Russa have auto racing?( like US NASCAR)
Are cars inspected for safety.? How much do they cost for licensing a car? Did the drivers have to have insurance?
What about the Soviet Limousines of the Politburo?
The New Volga (car #2) is definitely based off the Ford Taunus M20, I know this because my Grandfather had that model, and the moment I saw that picture, I knew it was a copy of the M20.
Спасибо за информацию
@23:47 I don't know very much Russian but I can tell the letters are facing backwards!
My Mossi ⬅️ 408 IE is also from 1972. Like I am.
Nice job Sergei I cant believe with all the pic's of the hot babes someone gave you a thumbs down.
Washington is capital of dc and biggest city!
That deer hood ornament was really neat id like to have one of those are they rare/expensive? Just ornament by the way not the whole car, im in the US and have a whole familial line of mechanics back to the 20's/30's I believe up to now where my fathers side who I live with own our own auto garage at our house and I've always loved old school car decorations like those you don't really see put on anymore
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@@UshankaShow thank you so much for responding with that i was looking through them, im a viewer from Kentucky so not far from Michigan, I love the channel ever since I saw you on the cold war channel I've been watching and liking a ton of your videos especially on the Russian/Putin situation, keep up the good work!
were there police chases?
Lars brought me here....
Same here
Same
I would say the biggest city = capital is true for entire Middle Europe and Western Europe.
It's all very good
Nice
nice
At 21:28 all the vehicles have windshield wipers. Just wondering cause in the country and less chance of theft?
Probably, the picture was taken right after the rain.
OK, here goes nothing...я учу Русский язык на четыре месяца. Мне очень нравитца ваша видио. Я заказала вашу книгу. That's all I've got. I hope it was legible.
Мне очень нравятся ваши видео. Good job!
USHANKA SHOW спасибо! 😁
When you do get a better scanner, you might want to consider uploading all the images to archive.org
I like the gaz Volga 21
Back when humans built things....
Did that bus have the "Space Force" logo on it?
Have you ever heard of Belarus tractors? They where tractors made at the Minsk tractor factory and sold in the US under the name Belarus. My uncle had a few back the 80's and now they are popular at least in this region of the US with guys that collect and restore tractors. I don't think they sold that many but apparently they were sold in the US in the 80's and were fairly reliable. I used to drive one with a Bush hog to help mow my uncles farm.
I believe they are being imported into the US under the MTZ name.
Of course, those tractors were in every collective farm! My friends in Michigan took me once to show Belarus dealer. I didn't know prior those were imported to the US.
@@cmanlovespancakes I saw that looking at Belarus photos.I am talking about the old Soviet era ones. The new ones are probably just a basic shell and engine with a particular paint style like most smaller brands today. The old school made in USSR Belarus were unique. Actually they were easy to fix when they broke too. I remember my uncle would say "there's my shop figure it out yourself".
@@UshankaShow My understanding was they sold them from the 70's through 80's here in the US. I don't know how widely they were distributed but they are not uncommon here in Kentucky. A good condition one is rare because they got worked hard and you have to be a true mechanic because the parts are long gone.
Yes, there were Belarus tractors sold in USA late 70s early 80s. I personally saw them in a JOHN DEERE DEALERS LOT IN DURANT IOWA.
I'm not talking about a trade in eather. The whole lot was full of new Belarus tractors.
Even with other witnesses, our local 2 cylinder club denies that ever happened. So does the dealership.
Just like the" All wheel drive tractor with a 4 cylinder engine" they denied existence of. The Supreme Court had to make the Company confess it was theirs, before they finally accepted it.
John Deere has a history. I assure you Old Founder John would not be happy with many things about the company that uses his Name.
I know someone else edits your videos....but he went to far with 23:21 .... Lol
Bad ass we always scratch our heads about how the F did they buy cars? when you buy in USSR car does your passport get updated? Do they put your job and schedule in your passport can you drive anywhere you want?
Where is that "US States and their Capitals" map from? lol that is not where Madison is located.
Russian Yandex
USHANKA SHOW gotcha! Nice video, I really enjoyed this one!
7:00 Rambler American
Gratiot? Fun word for accent. =) Maybe to far south idk.
Survival Russia sent me here
А "Коммунизм победит" то перевернут.
Да, это был слайд и я его не так вставил
I don't know anything about cars but 95 horse power sounds kind of weak to me.
Scott Larson Blin, my '79 Ford has 85 horsepower motivating almost two tons! It's not much better. However, like most Russian cars, she can be repaired with hand tools and generic parts. Wouldn't trade her for anything. Except maybe a Lada with a manual choke.
@@Whammytap I remember when gas was cheap and having 289 horses under the hood is what every guy wanted.
Scott Larson Most I've had was a '70s land yacht with 212hp with a respectable 342ft/lbs. That was back in the early aughts and it cost $100 to fill the tank. I've never known cheap gas LOL.
@@Whammytap Some guys had late 60's Mustangs. I thought they had 289hp engines, but like I said I don't know anything about cars. I know there were Ford Galaxies with engines over 400hp.
The real question is can the do a burn out?
ZiL trucks but no ZiL limos 😔 those things were ugly as sin in a good (badass) way
They removede the deer because it cause accidents? Definetely really weird things happend in 1972 in Moscow lol
No, ther found deer in people's brains after the accidents. Like a tip of the spear when you strike a pedestrian
@@UshankaShow ok, my bad. Well, despite that it's still sounds really weird lol. Great video by the way!
@@UshankaShow Geez. Hood ornaments in the US were made springy so they couldn't do that.
Hablar del tráfico de un país, sin tener en cuenta el contexto en el cual se vivía, es un error, puesto que todo se basaba en el transporte público de hecho en cuanto a ómnibus se refiere los soviéticos innovaron muchísimo más que el resto del mundo!!!!
Y porque esa foto no puede d
Ser un fin de semana aunque haya un camión recolector de basura?
Awesome! "Car Culture" has actually had some negative effects on the USA. Before WW2 most Americans lived in cities and towns, within walking distance of their jobs, shopping, etc. Larger cities had public transportation. So most Americans did not own cars. During the war people worked in war production, made lots of money but couldn't spend it under wartime rationing. So after WW2, the auto factories switched back to peacetime production, and cheap cars flooded the market! With that, city people left for the suburbs and small town people for rural areas. So now, we are spread out, cars and fuel prices are rising, wages are dropping, but you must have a car! We are dependent on them! So if you are poor living 5,10, or 20 miles from where you work, losing your car or having it break down is catastrophic. And I largely blame car ownership for destroying the dream of home ownership for our younger generations. They get trapped into buying a new car at a young age and get stuck in the renters trap. So, for any young folk reading this. Move close to your job, and shopping. Keep a low debt to income ratio, drive old used cars, and put home ownership #1!
@Fred Smurf Yeah but a lack of money and good credit to buy a house is often related to poor decisions made in one's youth. Pissing money away on fancy new vehicles that quickly devalue is a bad idea!
Hear, hear! I drive a 41-year-old economy car that is inexpensive to stable. I couldn't get by without her. She is well taken care of, but someday she will rust away in the winter salt and I don't know what I'll do then.
I agree with this...when i am in new town i always first want to go center off town which is almost everywhere pedestrian zone..so when i was in US first time its same thing i wanted..but they sad " there is no pedestrian zone" ..how in the world city where millions live dont have pedestrian zone ..so i ts just endless streets with cars ...yes great for driving everywhere but for walking and enjoying not so much ...but US is not only one ...also Dubai ..look great on pictures but you are really there you see that whole city is just for cars
Physical mobility is directly correlated with economic mobility. Having a car means massively more employment opportunities from a given house (that is, job shed). It would actually be cheaper to supply each public transit dependent household in most parts of the US with a car, maintenance, and fuel than it is to continue public transit subsidies, and the result would be significantly greater household income within a few years.
I love the IDEA of transit because I like playing little dictator as much as anyone. But after having ridden the best systems in the world (Tokyo, Guangzhou, Hong Kong) and done the calculations, I've realized there is literally no way to make it compare to individualized transportation.
When most cars are self driving, the parking lots and garages will disappear, and cities will be once again designed at a human scale. :) Best of both worlds.
Btw, you are wildly wrong about car ownership destroying the home ownership dream. Literally the opposite. The cities with the highest sprawl measurements and car dependency have the cheapest houses. It's a pretty tight correlation.
My God:
The ugliest, worst performing vehicles on the entire planet…and people couldn’t afford them and had to get on a wait list to buy them.
What kind of culture and society could find themselves a hundred years beyond the rest of the world’s automotive industries? Hell…
Even Yugoslavia’s YUGO was more dependable than the rest of this garbage. Must really suck to be Soviet, which explains a lot.
I had a new 1974 Camaro in 1974 when I was 17, paid for with a part time job!!!