I was in Korea when the KAL flight was downed. We went on alert, and stood by to move out to our tactical positions for two days. We thought, OK this is it.
LOL. Yeah, that's true. Gorbachev, in Russian: "That is a very interesting offer that I think we can use as a starting point for negotiations. I look forward to spending some time with you as we work together to make the world a safer, better place." Translator who hates life: "Mr. President, I suggest that you take your offer, turn it sideways, and shove it up your ass. Also, Mrs. Reagan looks like an alien from the bar scene in Star Wars. Go back to your pansy ass country and tell all of your weak ass citizens that they can suck my balls while I piss on the American flag."
Those puppets in that British TV show at 06:20 was Spitting Image and it was absolutely terrifying, Reagan was a nutjob US politicians ARE creepy so they did accurately portray reality.
@@elhistoriero1227 Reagan? The man did nothing, NTNON sketches highlighted that! Oh of course you weren't alive then were you, oh well back to watching fake Fox news propaganda for you!
@@dantaylor7344 Dude I'm a progressive but Gorbachev, a soviet, literally says in the first two minutes somebody else probably wouldn't have been able to do it.
+Moses Fakatou Given his role within the KGB prior to becoming head man for the Soviets, "ultimate peace maker" doesn't completely hold water. However, he absolutely had the right idea about SDI and the handling of Berlin.
No he didn't (it's spelt Reagan btw). Prior to Gorbachev's arrival as leader Reagan had referred to the USSR as the "Evil Empire" and had increased arms by an unprecedented amount to place pressure on the Soviets. That kind of mentality completely contradicts the notion of peace and it was only through the arrival of Gorbachev that peace and the End of the Cold War was even considered properly
You have never heard of peace through strength. The Soviets went broke from having such a massive military. A thousand tanks a the border of the west. Invading Poland in 1980. Invading Afghanistan, and it was for territory. If anyone remembers Afghanistan when the west fought with the Northern alliance, after 911, the country was in complete ruble.That was from the Soviet invasion.
"SDI". Strategic defense initiative. But going on a tangent here, I never understood why we stopped saying STD. I guarantee in another 30 years people will decide arbitrarily that STI is considered demeaning and they will change it again.
SDI was pretty insane. Flying cars from Back to the Future 2 set in 2015 seemed more realistic. Watching this at the end of 2020 with over 35 years of more advanced technology, the reality is the system still wouldn't work well enough. You can stop a few missiles, you might even be able to stop 90 percent of them, but no matter what some get through and you're destroyed anyway despite the trillions you spent developing a somewhat effective missile shield. Maybe in another 100 years it would work all the time....
@@cxa340 Please. That is theatre interception versus continental. Planetary even the way it was talked about possibly extending it to Western Europe. Iron dome is a system designed to intercept crude, slow moving, cheaply made missiles over a local range of at most 100 kilometres. Success rate is well below 100 percent, incidentally. SDI was and remains a completely different ball game. Stopping Soviet ICBM and SLBM missiles IN space, travelling at tens of thousands of kilometres an hour before re-entry. Ones that were already equipped with advanced interception counter measures and would according to doctrine be launched with a mass all out attack of at least several thousand warheads at any one time. You're comparing someone flying a paper aeroplane versus landing a man on the moon.
Some people think President Reagan knew SDI could never be created during the 1980s. He marketed this set of defensive weapons as a way to either force the Soviet Union to spend even more of its dwindling resource onto its military which would hasten the demise of the Soviet Union's economy, or motivate the Soviet leader to agree to the treaties for total arms reductions.
@@chiensyang Possible but unlikely. We tend to look back on history knowing the result and attribute grand master plans to people who in reality had no idea what was going to happen as a result of their actions. Virtually nobody in the West thought the USSR could collapse so quickly and comprehensively- even in 1990 after Reagan was gone! Reagan's grasp of science and his funding of science early on was poor. Key personal advisors like George Keyworth and Edward Teller seem to have encouraged him over SDI. He delegated and trusted them despite Teller's wild concepts. When a real opportunity arose with Gorbachev to agree a massive arms control deal and possibly even get rid of all nuclear weapons one of the critical aspects of such a deal from the Soviet perspective was abolishing SDI altogether, which Reagan flat out refused to do. It was his pet project and he was invested deeply, both politically and economically. It is more likely he listened to his top advocating science advisors and just let them get on with it, who had obvious funding motivations themselves to not spell out the pie in the sky to the office of the president. Finally we must have some perspective and try not to simplify; SDI in itself never really bankrupted the USSR. Perhaps a contributing factor, but a small part of a very large tapestry.
Maybe do some self introspection before blaming others… Russia doesn’t have over 850 military bases all over the world. The ruble is not the worlds reserve currency. Russia doesn’t spend $860,000,000,000 a year on maintaining a police force across the planet… 🙄🥱 you people bore me.
That is exactly right. One country can never have power over the world. There always have to be a neutralizer. The Soviets had a MASSIVE nuclear program. They had double the Nukes than the US. Both countries knew they would never be used on each other. Both countries would be destroyed. The Soviets had over a thousand tanks on the European border. It was very tense. That is why Americans had a NATO base in Germany.
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We live from payday to payday"? Huh that sounds familiar. I'm from Canada and most of us couldn't even strike or protest if we wanted to because we need that check. Actually most of us are in fucking debt. How are we one of the richest nations when the majority are in the hole? Yes we have a lot of freedoms here that most of the world doesn't have but they are slowly being taken away. As long as people are more concerned with their jobs and providing for their families then political action is the last thing on their mind. That's a sad democracy I think
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+Horatio Huffnagel Not to mention the U.S. partnership for military dictatorships like Somoza in Nicaragua, Pinochet in Chile, Brazilian's army government during Cold War. The neoliberalism and communism are just the same in practice, look at your country and Russia (I know it's not the fully communist, but it's the closest to it), don't they have the same problems after all? If you look into China, Brazil, U.S., every country is passing through a social crisis, an identity crisis as a result of many distinguished variables but all of 'em fall back on capital accumulation. The platinum question is a hiatus that we can't answer which is *how to develop an international society without capital, nation and keeping the same culture*, how could that be possible to work among creatures like us?
Ícaro Hoff We need a redistribution of wealth. There's not enough money left at the bottom to go around. I believe money will always exist but people should not be able to hoard hundreds of billions of dollars while people live in shacks with no water. That probably sounds communist but these banksters are worse then the most brutal drug lord.
+Horatio Huffnagel This wonderful plan of economic equality does not and, IMO, can not work unless EVERYONE is putting the same into the pot and we are controlling the pot emptying plan. There is no way on earth you can justify "pay and tax" for a nuero surgeon at the same level as a shelf stacker in Walmart. This is why there will never be financial equality, it is not possible, or where is the reason for the surgeon to work? what is his drive? who will pay his debts, why go to school to learn to be a surgeon at all if there is no money in it?Wealth redistribution, and the "war on the rich" are ways of creating division in the country and winning elections, nothing more. If you promised me all my bills would be paid and I would still have a good lifestyle, I would vote for you!The problem with increasing taxes on big companies and the rich is they will just move their money and their businesses elsewhere, costing jobs and tax revenue, they can afford to do that. Big companies work FOR PROFIT, people invest their hard earned money FOR PROFIT, they are not charities or they would go out of business. The only people then left to pay for all these government programs is the middle/working class, who are already taxed heavily as it is; those at the bottom end, who in general pay very little to no tax, do not care as long as they get their share.There are only so many non skilled jobs to go around, and that number is dwindling slowly with computer integration and mechanization, it has been this way for 60 years. Personally I favor educating and increasing productivity, If you simply keep redistributing other people's wealth, eventually the worker will find no reason or justification to work. One of the things that made this country great was the drive to succeed, to improve your life and that of your family; by taking things away from the workers, to give to those who do not and make everyone equal, we are killing that drive and justification. We eventually get to the stage where you are better of not working and not contributing at all to society.
+VectorW8 well said! I completely agree with you, it seems that those who want to redistribute wealth think of all the wealth of world in a closed pie. They look at capatilism and for some reason their tounge begins to taste sour, not realizing what France and many other fuedal European countries failed to see. That through the use of capatilism, free markets, and trade possibilies for wealth are limitless. Those who are upset are only so because they look at what they have and are just not content when they see the billionaires and millionaires. At some point there is going to be a bottum rung in the pay arena. At some point those at the bottom will either have to be content, look at our standard of living today and how improved the poor of today live in countries like the US compared to say 300 years ago in China or anywhere for that matter. We are at the point where the rich of people from back in time would trade an arm to live poor today. You can either live content (if you can, I realize a majority of the world does not live in a situation where I could be content, Im speaking in general hoping for a future where everyone can live at least how the poor in the US live today) or get motivated and go earn some profit, GET DRIVEN!
Jared Madden A few good points but what I think the poor get fed up with is how there is insane amounts of trade and money flying around but not that much makes it back to the bottom. Not everyone can go out and get these sweet jobs you say. Most have to take what's available now before they starve or the rich people take their house. When you are a kid you are told you can do anything. When you get older you realise that just isn't true. Hard work will only take you so far. Luck is a big factor and how willing you are to screw over other people.
amazing how cowboy actor reagan blew his chance for soviet/US nuclear de-escalation for that crappy SDI system that even after billions of dollars were spent developing the technology, the SDI had yet to shoot down a single ballistic missile in flight. i have the sauce on this btw.
+Ronald Mcraygun He was able to get the Soviets to de-escalate (in both military and nuclear weapons), though; not as much as he COULD have, but no one else even came close.
Indeed, and what's more, there are cheaper alternatives already operational. Anti missile systems are now capable of destroying incoming missiles quite reliably. The only thing of course is, that you have to put them into the path of the incoming missile, which is a bit difficult to predict.
I don't think many people that didn't remember or were too young, forget. Star Wars was basically a bluff.The technology wasn't there. But the whole point was to make the Soviets think it was a multi-Billion in progress Nuke defense. The Soviets were in a bad economic way then. But when they tried to put massive money to their own Star Wars, it basically broke them.One of the best bluffs in history.
The Laser defense program is reasonably expensive but you can't expect the PATRIOT SAM Batteries or any other Conventional System to shoot down ordinary Ballistic Warheads all the time because of its limitations. US, British and Israeli Governments know that. And that was the Gulf War. Even with Israel's Iron Dome, it has its own limitations. Defending comes at a Price.
Not really. Putin managed to build up the Russian country while Gorbachev destroyed it. Of course there are other factors as well, but Gorbachev was overall a failure while Putin was a success.
As a Russian myself, I couldn’t agree more! In my opinion, he is the greatest leader Russia has ever had. Frankly there is little competition for that title - he is the only leader that put the interest of the Russian people first. Whilst others, including the current Russian president, are only concerned with consolidation their power and building corrupt aristocratic/oligarchic regime to enrich themselves and their friends.
Sogi Solongo Depends from viewpoint...for US Yes..for Soviet Union hes an idiot...failed pretty much at everything :) ....everything he has done was to save Soviet union and he failed at that big time
Gorbachev was a Russian that finally broke through. But remember at that time the Soviets were in dire economic crisis. Bread lines etc. The people were starting to revolt already. People also forget the US put Billions of dollars in the Russian economy too boost it after the Russian Independence.. The Ruble was worth nothing. Much of the loans from the US have never been paid.
I dont think he tried to save the soviet union. He wanted to change the union. The soviet union was a failed model. He did what was right. Of course there would be problems creating new government. He does not get enough credit. If he were predident of Russia now he would do such a better job then Putin. Putins game is breeding fear amongst his people to make them get behind them. Gorbachev embraced change Putin wants the soviet union back.
I think Ronnie was the only Republican president I voted for. The USSR was not a consumer economy. Reagan's finger on "the button". Trump's finger on " the button". Star Wars was a perjoritve term.. It did work but not in the way intended. Reagan, Gorby doing business! Compare Three Mile Island with Chernobyl. Glasnost, reform of Communist Party. People lost their fear of Communist party. Trust But Verify.
Such an important time in the modern history of the world. Sadly, a new Russian leader is taking us back to the old Soviet times of confrontation, by having to appear strong and tough, this attitude completely intimidates the poorly prepared Obama, who acts like a little boy that was sent to the principal's office.when he is around Gorbachov.
Aaaaaand Trump was complete trash. He allowed Putin to walk all over him, although it was to appease Putin. He was nothing like Reagan. Reagan, despite some flaws, would never stoop to the levels towards Russia like Trump did
reagan was first a dangerous unilaterally minded american imperialist for lack of culture about other countries. Most american politicians are born in this stock, few eventually recognize american hegemony is not the solution. If not for his wife Nancy a nuclear WWIII was close. Gorbatchev was a reasonable man who made reasonable peacemaking proposals, first refused by reagan but eventually got through to him. Not learning about other countries' popular culture is the fastest way to war.
Nothing like that is supported by the history or this documentary. Reagan worked very hard to expand NATO and to strengthen the relations between the US and the UK as well as within the G7 in order to strengthen economic ties in the west. Remember at the same time the Soviets were trying to negotiate they were fighting in Afghanistan to support their invasion.
Tell the people of Central America, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, or South America, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, or the people of Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, or people in the middle East, Palestine, Iraq, Iran just what a Lovely warm hearted man Reagan was,...... he had the blood of hundreds of thousands either directly or indirectly on his and his administrations hands, ...... this picture of Reagan as a kind hearted, genial caring sorta guy is so far from the truth, ....... Reagan described General Rios Montt who oversaw the massacre of tens of thousands of mainly indigenous Mayan people as a "very moral man",....... and his support for the Contras in Nicaragua and the Khmer rouge dominated rebels in Cambodia only adds to the crimes committed whilst he was President!!.
steveo2857 Oh please. The countries of the world need to stop blamming the US for internal strife and stagnat economies that lead to civil war. Its up to them to restructure there governments and economy into a successful model. Everytime literally evertime the US offers support to oppressed people who want change they and us are labeled terrorists. Its insane. Like syria now like libya panama grenada. All of it never tells the whole storys.
None of those countries were even touched by the Reagan administration you moron lol. Vietnam? Reagan was President from the 1960s to 1989? Every single country you just mentioned had a Democrat in office when the US screwed up their country. Did you not watch the other episodes of this series?
Cannot stand that very first song in the reagan commercial. When in the Marines, my MOS school was a year long in 29 Palms, CA. Would hear that song ten times an hour. Because of that, I still cannot stand that song.
Reagan should have given up SDI, it never worked anyway, but the old man would not gave it🙄 The song after about a minut…. “Proud to be…..” it said “At least I know I’m free” ? Free? Try to post a tit on facebook, and see just how free it is to be on an American social media… free my *ss ….. free my a** ….. can’t even write it….🤣
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Thatcher brought the U.K. back out of economic collapse, both of them ended stagflation which we have not seen since until 2022, Reagan and Thatcher both pushed hard for the G7 nations to be closer in economic and political ties as well as expanding NATO. All of this while communism and socialism still ran rampant around the globe claiming millions of lives from Ethiopia to El Salvador.
Mag Tinfal not everyone can agree with Reagan. But no one, liberal or conservative, should undermine that he played a huge role in ending the Cold War.
I was in Korea when the KAL flight was downed. We went on alert, and stood by to move out to our tactical positions for two days. We thought, OK this is it.
I wanted so badly to be stationed in South Korea, but they sent me to West Germany 🇩🇪.
A lot of people thought that.
When I got orders for Korea one of my DS just laughed.
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Right? I am also very impressed.
They should have joined forces to develop those damn anti-missile lasers.
The translators could have ended or aggravated the war so badly if they wanted to
LOL. Yeah, that's true.
Gorbachev, in Russian: "That is a very interesting offer that I think we can use as a starting point for negotiations. I look forward to spending some time with you as we work together to make the world a safer, better place."
Translator who hates life: "Mr. President, I suggest that you take your offer, turn it sideways, and shove it up your ass. Also, Mrs. Reagan looks like an alien from the bar scene in Star Wars. Go back to your pansy ass country and tell all of your weak ass citizens that they can suck my balls while I piss on the American flag."
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1:39 Persona of Reagan
3:15 22:50 Soviet might & hardships
7:07 Anti-☢️ movement
8:03 Strategic Defence Initiative SDI
12:57 Yuri Andropov
13:49 spy flights
14:30 RoK Flight 007 💥shot down by Su-15
17:19 1983 nuclear build-up🚀
18:22 Mikhail Gorbachev: Glasnost & Perestroika
24:42 *Geneva 🇨🇭 Summit of 1985*
28:37 Chernobyl ⚛️☢️ nuclear accident 1986
31:24 *Reykjavík 🇮🇸 Summit 1986*
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36:43 1986 Goodwill Games - 🏃🏻🤸🏻♀️🏋🏻♀️⛹🏻♂️🤾♂️🤼♂️🏌🏻♀️🏊🏻♀️🤽🏻♂️; Soviet gets 📡📺📻🖥️👨💻👩🏼💻
38:51 Soviet cultural churning 🌪️
40:56 *Washington 🇺🇲 Summit 1987* ; Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty - ☠️ of SS-20 & Pershing 🚀
44:31 *Moscow 🇷🇺 Summit 1988*
Those puppets in that British tv show at 06:20 was absolutely terrifying. They looked so creepy!
Especially the Reagan puppet thing.
Those puppets in that British TV show at 06:20 was Spitting Image and it was absolutely terrifying, Reagan was a nutjob US politicians ARE creepy so they did accurately portray reality.
@@dantaylor7344 A nutjob that helped to win the cold war, maybe if he had been more "tame" the situation would've been different.
@@elhistoriero1227 Reagan? The man did nothing, NTNON sketches highlighted that! Oh of course you weren't alive then were you, oh well back to watching fake Fox news propaganda for you!
I remember those puppets. Genesis - Land of Confusion
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@@dantaylor7344 Dude I'm a progressive but Gorbachev, a soviet, literally says in the first two minutes somebody else probably wouldn't have been able to do it.
Gorbachev is literally bae he's just such an example of the ultimate peace maker.
+Moses Fakatou Given his role within the KGB prior to becoming head man for the Soviets, "ultimate peace maker" doesn't completely hold water. However, he absolutely had the right idea about SDI and the handling of Berlin.
No he didn't (it's spelt Reagan btw). Prior to Gorbachev's arrival as leader Reagan had referred to the USSR as the "Evil Empire" and had increased arms by an unprecedented amount to place pressure on the Soviets. That kind of mentality completely contradicts the notion of peace and it was only through the arrival of Gorbachev that peace and the End of the Cold War was even considered properly
Don't try to explain facts to people who refuse to except history.
You have never heard of peace through strength. The Soviets went broke from having such a massive military. A thousand tanks a the border of the west. Invading Poland in 1980. Invading Afghanistan, and it was for territory. If anyone remembers Afghanistan when the west fought with the Northern alliance, after 911, the country was in complete ruble.That was from the Soviet invasion.
@vitoduval did the SDI program had the railgun on their agenda?
Frankly, the Cold War was over on Dec. 8, 1988 when Reagan met Gorbachev for a final time before leaving office.
Feels like the United States and Russia are further apart today than they were near the end of the Soviet Union.
Of course, one was a partnership and the other is a proxy conflict.
Gorbachev was a genuinely good person
History really doesn’t give Mikhail Gorbachev the credit he really deserves for helping to end the Cold War.
Well said...!!
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It is really hard not to like Mikhail Gorbachev.
Hang on, Ronald Reagan's Chief of Staff was called Donald Regan?
I laughed every time STI was said :')
What the fuck is STI?
Star Wars was a bluff
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"SDI". Strategic defense initiative.
But going on a tangent here, I never understood why we stopped saying STD.
I guarantee in another 30 years people will decide arbitrarily that STI is considered demeaning and they will change it again.
SDI was pretty insane. Flying cars from Back to the Future 2 set in 2015 seemed more realistic. Watching this at the end of 2020 with over 35 years of more advanced technology, the reality is the system still wouldn't work well enough. You can stop a few missiles, you might even be able to stop 90 percent of them, but no matter what some get through and you're destroyed anyway despite the trillions you spent developing a somewhat effective missile shield. Maybe in another 100 years it would work all the time....
SDI is the iron dome in Israel - in the end the technology not only works, but have the research tremendously moved laser technology forward
@@cxa340 Please. That is theatre interception versus continental. Planetary even the way it was talked about possibly extending it to Western Europe. Iron dome is a system designed to intercept crude, slow moving, cheaply made missiles over a local range of at most 100 kilometres. Success rate is well below 100 percent, incidentally. SDI was and remains a completely different ball game. Stopping Soviet ICBM and SLBM missiles IN space, travelling at tens of thousands of kilometres an hour before re-entry. Ones that were already equipped with advanced interception counter measures and would according to doctrine be launched with a mass all out attack of at least several thousand warheads at any one time. You're comparing someone flying a paper aeroplane versus landing a man on the moon.
Some people think President Reagan knew SDI could never be created during the 1980s. He marketed this set of defensive weapons as a way to either force the Soviet Union to spend even more of its dwindling resource onto its military which would hasten the demise of the Soviet Union's economy, or motivate the Soviet leader to agree to the treaties for total arms reductions.
@@chiensyang Possible but unlikely. We tend to look back on history knowing the result and attribute grand master plans to people who in reality had no idea what was going to happen as a result of their actions. Virtually nobody in the West thought the USSR could collapse so quickly and comprehensively- even in 1990 after Reagan was gone! Reagan's grasp of science and his funding of science early on was poor. Key personal advisors like George Keyworth and Edward Teller seem to have encouraged him over SDI. He delegated and trusted them despite Teller's wild concepts. When a real opportunity arose with Gorbachev to agree a massive arms control deal and possibly even get rid of all nuclear weapons one of the critical aspects of such a deal from the Soviet perspective was abolishing SDI altogether, which Reagan flat out refused to do. It was his pet project and he was invested deeply, both politically and economically. It is more likely he listened to his top advocating science advisors and just let them get on with it, who had obvious funding motivations themselves to not spell out the pie in the sky to the office of the president. Finally we must have some perspective and try not to simplify; SDI in itself never really bankrupted the USSR. Perhaps a contributing factor, but a small part of a very large tapestry.
Gorbachev was just what Russia needed - and the world needed for that matter. Now with Putin at the helm, it's as if we've gone back 30 or 40 years...
Russia needed a way more capable leader at that time than Gorbachev.
I agree, but the majority of Russians almost despise Gorbachev lol.
Or 50+ years
Maybe do some self introspection before blaming others… Russia doesn’t have over 850 military bases all over the world. The ruble is not the worlds reserve currency. Russia doesn’t spend $860,000,000,000 a year on maintaining a police force across the planet… 🙄🥱 you people bore me.
Great stuff.
The world needs another Gorbachev right now.
Absolutely
Peace through superior firepower!
That is exactly right. One country can never have power over the world. There always have to be a neutralizer. The Soviets had a MASSIVE nuclear program. They had double the Nukes than the US. Both countries knew they would never be used on each other. Both countries would be destroyed. The Soviets had over a thousand tanks on the European border. It was very tense. That is why Americans had a NATO base in Germany.
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Chernobyl=great series
Those two were the greatest duo. Reagan was so cool, Gorbachev wasn't bad either - much better than the unibrow.
Fuck Reagan
@@boogerf3679 Yes, what you said. Btw, I think I have a frush.
We live from payday to payday"? Huh that sounds familiar. I'm from Canada and most of us couldn't even strike or protest if we wanted to because we need that check. Actually most of us are in fucking debt. How are we one of the richest nations when the majority are in the hole? Yes we have a lot of freedoms here that most of the world doesn't have but they are slowly being taken away. As long as people are more concerned with their jobs and providing for their families then political action is the last thing on their mind. That's a sad democracy I think
+Horatio Huffnagel Not to mention the U.S. partnership for military dictatorships like Somoza in Nicaragua, Pinochet in Chile, Brazilian's army government during Cold War. The neoliberalism and communism are just the same in practice, look at your country and Russia (I know it's not the fully communist, but it's the closest to it), don't they have the same problems after all? If you look into China, Brazil, U.S., every country is passing through a social crisis, an identity crisis as a result of many distinguished variables but all of 'em fall back on capital accumulation. The platinum question is a hiatus that we can't answer which is *how to develop an international society without capital, nation and keeping the same culture*, how could that be possible to work among creatures like us?
Ícaro Hoff We need a redistribution of wealth. There's not enough money left at the bottom to go around. I believe money will always exist but people should not be able to hoard hundreds of billions of dollars while people live in shacks with no water. That probably sounds communist but these banksters are worse then the most brutal drug lord.
+Horatio Huffnagel This wonderful plan of economic equality does not and, IMO, can not work unless EVERYONE is putting the same into the pot and we are controlling the pot emptying plan. There is no way on earth you can justify "pay and tax" for a nuero surgeon at the same level as a shelf stacker in Walmart. This is why there will never be financial equality, it is not possible, or where is the reason for the surgeon to work? what is his drive? who will pay his debts, why go to school to learn to be a surgeon at all if there is no money in it?Wealth redistribution, and the "war on the rich" are ways of creating division in the country and winning elections, nothing more. If you promised me all my bills would be paid and I would still have a good lifestyle, I would vote for you!The problem with increasing taxes on big companies and the rich is they will just move their money and their businesses elsewhere, costing jobs and tax revenue, they can afford to do that. Big companies work FOR PROFIT, people invest their hard earned money FOR PROFIT, they are not charities or they would go out of business. The only people then left to pay for all these government programs is the middle/working class, who are already taxed heavily as it is; those at the bottom end, who in general pay very little to no tax, do not care as long as they get their share.There are only so many non skilled jobs to go around, and that number is dwindling slowly with computer integration and mechanization, it has been this way for 60 years. Personally I favor educating and increasing productivity, If you simply keep redistributing other people's wealth, eventually the worker will find no reason or justification to work. One of the things that made this country great was the drive to succeed, to improve your life and that of your family; by taking things away from the workers, to give to those who do not and make everyone equal, we are killing that drive and justification. We eventually get to the stage where you are better of not working and not contributing at all to society.
+VectorW8 well said! I completely agree with you, it seems that those who want to redistribute wealth think of all the wealth of world in a closed pie. They look at capatilism and for some reason their tounge begins to taste sour, not realizing what France and many other fuedal European countries failed to see. That through the use of capatilism, free markets, and trade possibilies for wealth are limitless. Those who are upset are only so because they look at what they have and are just not content when they see the billionaires and millionaires. At some point there is going to be a bottum rung in the pay arena. At some point those at the bottom will either have to be content, look at our standard of living today and how improved the poor of today live in countries like the US compared to say 300 years ago in China or anywhere for that matter. We are at the point where the rich of people from back in time would trade an arm to live poor today. You can either live content (if you can, I realize a majority of the world does not live in a situation where I could be content, Im speaking in general hoping for a future where everyone can live at least how the poor in the US live today) or get motivated and go earn some profit, GET DRIVEN!
Jared Madden A few good points but what I think the poor get fed up with is how there is insane amounts of trade and money flying around but not that much makes it back to the bottom. Not everyone can go out and get these sweet jobs you say. Most have to take what's available now before they starve or the rich people take their house. When you are a kid you are told you can do anything. When you get older you realise that just isn't true. Hard work will only take you so far. Luck is a big factor and how willing you are to screw over other people.
Now April 2024. Gorbatschow and Reagan are definitly needed now and the Tensions of the UA-war would be decreased. Amen
amazing how cowboy actor reagan blew his chance for soviet/US nuclear de-escalation for that crappy SDI system that even after billions of dollars were spent developing the technology, the SDI had yet to shoot down a single ballistic missile in flight. i have the sauce on this btw.
+Ronald Mcraygun Tomatoe or BBQ?
Chuppa75 burn sauce :P
+Ronald Mcraygun He was able to get the Soviets to de-escalate (in both military and nuclear weapons), though; not as much as he COULD have, but no one else even came close.
Indeed, and what's more, there are cheaper alternatives already operational. Anti missile systems are now capable of destroying incoming missiles quite reliably. The only thing of course is, that you have to put them into the path of the incoming missile, which is a bit difficult to predict.
I don't think many people that didn't remember or were too young, forget. Star Wars was basically a bluff.The technology wasn't there. But the whole point was to make the Soviets think it was a multi-Billion in progress Nuke defense. The Soviets were in a bad economic way then. But when they tried to put massive money to their own Star Wars, it basically broke them.One of the best bluffs in history.
The Laser defense program is reasonably expensive but you can't expect the PATRIOT SAM Batteries or any other Conventional System to shoot down ordinary Ballistic Warheads all the time because of its limitations. US, British and Israeli Governments know that. And that was the Gulf War.
Even with Israel's Iron Dome, it has its own limitations.
Defending comes at a Price.
Krushchev walked so Gorbachev could run
SDI gave us Atari's Missile Command, after all. Jokes apart, I highly recommend the film "Tailspin" produced by HBO about the KAL007.
...Missile Command is based on ABMs, not satellite based weaponry.
If I can change you can change said Rocky to Drago
"I think a change would do you good." - Sheryl Crowe
"Ch-ch-ch-changes." - David Bowie
"Gonna make a change, sha-mon." - Michael Jackson
Donald Regan!
Ronald Reagan!
43:41 i feel for the guy :(
bruh that shit made me hate America even more
he had a pin make me
Gorbachev > Putin
I can agree with that
Not really. Putin managed to build up the Russian country while Gorbachev destroyed it. Of course there are other factors as well, but Gorbachev was overall a failure while Putin was a success.
As a Russian myself, I couldn’t agree more! In my opinion, he is the greatest leader Russia has ever had. Frankly there is little competition for that title - he is the only leader that put the interest of the Russian people first. Whilst others, including the current Russian president, are only concerned with consolidation their power and building corrupt aristocratic/oligarchic regime to enrich themselves and their friends.
Gorbachev = John F. Kennedy.
@@user-vz6xg1kw8s well said
They didn't have food but they had alcohol? Is it not made with grain, potatoes, fruit?
Food riots are a lot less violent than vodka or tobacco riots. Lol
@AstronomyToday Considering the rate that vodka was being consumed, I don't think shelf life would have come into play.
You can get more vodka than bread from the same amount of grain and the sugars provide enough calories to keep people going.
Andropov died in February 1984 not March of that same year.
And im proud to be an ameerican! Where at lerast i knwo im free...
What's up with the map of Florida on Gorbachev's forehead?
how old are you, 12?
That's rude !
Gorbachev failed where Deng Xiaoping succeeded. poor man he meant well.😭
Rip Gorbachev
Andropov died in February 1984 not March......
Corona vibes rn
Then Putin had to f it up.
please add Engsub, thanks you
George A. Keyworth II died in 2017.
10:02, the Star Wars policy of Reagan.
we miss you Reagan
Scott R better then Obama and trump
God bless him. And thank he loaned him to us
John Hinkley jr. and Mark David Chapman should have switched guns. . .
Caspar Weinberger died in 2006.
Gorbachev is the greatest leader .
Sogi Solongo Depends from viewpoint...for US Yes..for Soviet Union hes an idiot...failed pretty much at everything :) ....everything he has done was to save Soviet union and he failed at that big time
Gorbachev was a Russian that finally broke through. But remember at that time the Soviets were in dire economic crisis. Bread lines etc. The people were starting to revolt already. People also forget the US put Billions of dollars in the Russian economy too boost it after the Russian Independence.. The Ruble was worth nothing. Much of the loans from the US have never been paid.
I dont think he tried to save the soviet union. He wanted to change the union. The soviet union was a failed model. He did what was right. Of course there would be problems creating new government. He does not get enough credit. If he were predident of Russia now he would do such a better job then Putin. Putins game is breeding fear amongst his people to make them get behind them. Gorbachev embraced change Putin wants the soviet union back.
Leslie Gelb died in 2019.
I think Ronnie was the only Republican president I voted for. The USSR was not a consumer economy. Reagan's finger on "the button". Trump's finger on " the button". Star Wars was a perjoritve term.. It did work but not in the way intended. Reagan, Gorby doing business! Compare Three Mile Island with Chernobyl. Glasnost, reform of Communist Party. People lost their fear of Communist party. Trust But Verify.
Gorbachev are the man who can saved soviet union. But russians doesn't understand this!
Reagan won what was probably the greatest victory of the 20th century if not human history. Reagan stood up to and defeated a living nightmare.
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7.5/10
Wdym? Is this a rating tor the documentary or something
Why not just a 7 or an 8?
@@deviantd.6740 better than a 7 but worse than an 8
@@iingardinhio6173 no for the cold war
@@tyberportoghese6674 Interesting. What would have made it an 8?
I miss Reagan so much
How old are you now?
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3:00, 6:49, 9:50, 12:57, 13:50, 14:29, 19:00, 23:04, 23:12, 24:42, 29:39, 31:23, 35:56, 40:56
Ronald Reagan- 2:39 27:19
Gorbachev- 21:29 20:40
Margaret Thatcher- 11:46 37:18
US- 11:04
Soviet Union- 4:50
Technology- 9:50 6:50 3:50
Such an important time in the modern history of the world. Sadly, a new Russian leader is taking us back to the old Soviet times of confrontation, by having to appear strong and tough, this attitude completely intimidates the poorly prepared Obama, who acts like a little boy that was sent to the principal's office.when he is around Gorbachov.
+Bobby Paluga putin was ex kgb
By fueling tensions to blame it on the next guy
Donald Trump is the new Regan
There's a new Sheriff in town. Trump doesn't bow to anyone. MAGA!!
Aaaaaand Trump was complete trash. He allowed Putin to walk all over him, although it was to appease Putin. He was nothing like Reagan. Reagan, despite some flaws, would never stoop to the levels towards Russia like Trump did
Thank you, President Reagan, I miss you and your leadership.
Russia couldn't have overrun the world. The US had way more bases all over the world. The Soviet Union had a few in Eastern Europe.
OMG, Reagan saying Gorbachev wouldn't give in??? The nerve.
reagan was first a dangerous unilaterally minded american imperialist for lack of culture about other countries. Most american politicians are born in this stock, few eventually recognize american hegemony is not the solution. If not for his wife Nancy a nuclear WWIII was close. Gorbatchev was a reasonable man who made reasonable peacemaking proposals, first refused by reagan but eventually got through to him.
Not learning about other countries' popular culture is the fastest way to war.
Nothing like that is supported by the history or this documentary. Reagan worked very hard to expand NATO and to strengthen the relations between the US and the UK as well as within the G7 in order to strengthen economic ties in the west. Remember at the same time the Soviets were trying to negotiate they were fighting in Afghanistan to support their invasion.
regan the silly man
Tell the people of Central America, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, or South America, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, or the people of Asia, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, or people in the middle East, Palestine, Iraq, Iran just what a Lovely warm hearted man Reagan was,...... he had the blood of hundreds of thousands either directly or indirectly on his and his administrations hands, ...... this picture of Reagan as a kind hearted, genial caring sorta guy is so far from the truth, ....... Reagan described General Rios Montt who oversaw the massacre of tens of thousands of mainly indigenous Mayan people as a "very moral man",....... and his support for the Contras in Nicaragua and the Khmer rouge dominated rebels in Cambodia only adds to the crimes committed whilst he was President!!.
steveo2857 Oh please. The countries of the world need to stop blamming the US for internal strife and stagnat economies that lead to civil war. Its up to them to restructure there governments and economy into a successful model. Everytime literally evertime the US offers support to oppressed people who want change they and us are labeled terrorists. Its insane. Like syria now like libya panama grenada. All of it never tells the whole storys.
Whatever
None of those countries were even touched by the Reagan administration you moron lol. Vietnam? Reagan was President from the 1960s to 1989? Every single country you just mentioned had a Democrat in office when the US screwed up their country. Did you not watch the other episodes of this series?
How's life on the pouting bot farm skippy?
@@jerrywatt6813 IDK, i give up, go on tell me what its like cause im dying to know😂😂😂
Cannot stand that very first song in the reagan commercial. When in the Marines, my MOS school was a year long in 29 Palms, CA. Would hear that song ten times an hour. Because of that, I still cannot stand that song.
That song sounds the way Lake Bandini smells.
Reagan should have given up SDI, it never worked anyway, but the old man would not gave it🙄
The song after about a minut…. “Proud to be…..” it said “At least I know I’m free” ? Free? Try to post a tit on facebook, and see just how free it is to be on an American social media… free my *ss ….. free my a** ….. can’t even write it….🤣
The audacity of the US to accuse the Soviet Union when they themselves downed an Iranian civilian airplane with great loss of life. Shame on you.
OMG Thatcher and Reagan were so fucking evil...
Moron
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Thatcher brought the U.K. back out of economic collapse, both of them ended stagflation which we have not seen since until 2022, Reagan and Thatcher both pushed hard for the G7 nations to be closer in economic and political ties as well as expanding NATO. All of this while communism and socialism still ran rampant around the globe claiming millions of lives from Ethiopia to El Salvador.
wow really shows how evil the uk govt is
Ronald Reagan was a horrible President. I hope Bernie Sanders runs in 2020.
You're an idiot
Mag Tinfal not everyone can agree with Reagan. But no one, liberal or conservative, should undermine that he played a huge role in ending the Cold War.
yeah... that comment didn't age well