I believe him to be an honourable man. He did see the good in the fight to improve the working and living conditions of the common man, but he also seemed to realise how utopian the communist ideal is, and why it led to decades of atrocities and oppression courtesy of the state. We really should be wary of those who wish to re-attempt the march towards the communist ideal, and I view them little differently from Hitlerean crackpots.
Sometime would it be possible for you to do a segment about the Soviet Union’s “Nomenklatura?” I once read a book by Arkady Shevchenko called “Breaking with Moscow” where he talks extensively about the privileges of the ruling bureaucrats and leaders in “classless society” of the Soviet Unión.
I can recommend the book "Nomenklatura" by Mikshail Voslenski. This is a good research on this class of Soviet society written by a member of this class.
I can recommend the book "Nomenklatura" by Mikhail Voslenski. This is a good research on this class of Soviet society written by a member of this class.
I don't understand why you say your stories are ''boring'', you are anything but. I look forward to your videos, no matter if you think they are boring. I think your life has been adventurous. Plus American Diaries 1995 kicked ass!
Could you please explore the subject of Soviet prisons and the experiences of the inmates who were confined there? I am particularly interested in the daily schedules of the guards and the varying treatment given to the detainees in these facilities.
@@noco7243 Numerous individuals were dispatched, while an equivalent number remained behind. Repeat offenders likely faced severe consequences, such as being subjected to the harsh conditions of labor camps. However, it is important to mention that not all individuals were sent on the journey to Siberian camps. Dissidents during the Brezhnev era were labeled as mentally ill by the KGB and confined to psychiatric hospitals to complete their sentences. This was because the authorities believed that only someone who was mentally unstable would oppose the communist party.
It's interesting that there was a riot in Azerbaijan over Stalin...Stalin was Georgian after all. Georgians are Christian, Azeris are Muslim, Azeri is a Turkic language, Georgian is it's own language family. I know that there was some mixing in the Caucuses..maybe that particular city had a bunch of Georgians. BTW there were also riots in Georgia (1956) over de-Stalinization. To this day Stalin is seen as a local boy made good among a segment of Georgian society both in Georgia itself and among the Georgian diaspora in the RF.
Soviet Lives Matter😂 Interestingly enough, it seems Soviet people 50 odd years ago were CONSIDERABLY more engaged, active and rebellious than Russians are today - I wonder why that is?🤔
Around @16:40 you mentioned the equivalent of "County police" can you explain if there were police divisions like in the U.S?( local, county sheriff, highway patrol, state police, etc)
I find it kind of ironic when I read once that Lenin banned "Striking" in the Soviet Union, and lets say, it never really became "Unbanned" throughout the USSR's history. Even when the Party said it's okay, in actuality it wasn't okay. It is funny because banning worker's right to "Strike" was something people point at Hitler doing as proof he wasn't a Socialist, yet they flat out ignore within the Soviet Union even the Prophet Lenin himself, also banned protest and striking. This reason for this, if your movement is meant to represent the working man, and yes the Nazis believed they did. If people were protesting/striking against the Party, then it would be proof the Party didn't have the Worker's Interest at heart. Which would undermined the entire movement. So you were banned from even doing so. Since the party had your best interest at heart, striking was no longer necessary. *winks* It's a similar issue with why Stalin was obsessed with getting all Soviet citizens returned to the USSR after WWII, regardless whether they wanted to return of not. The US and British governments aided in forceful repatriation of millions of eastern Europeans many of which didn't want to return. Those who didn't want to return were forced, and sometimes violently. Good example are Soviet POWs who were captured in German uniform and were forced by the Nazis to man the Atlantic Wall. A lot were captured, a lot of them preferring to commit self deletion rather than returning, the US Military resorting to drugging them just to get them on a Soviet merchant ship. Mind you all that happened before Stalin played his hand and made the Cold War happen, and proved to the west he couldn't be trusted as an Ally. At the time the US/UK were trying to appease him. I would state the specific operation as Operation K%%l Haul < and sadly yes that gets comments deleted because the US/UK governments still denied it happened despite being proven to have happened. If you recall 006 from Goldeneye the story is actually brought up in that film with the main villain being a victim of the repatriations. TIKhistory actually has a 3 part video series on this Operation and it's kind of a sad story for a lot of people. However, the reason for all this, was that all these people knew what it really was like inside the USSR, and many of them didn't want to come back after being Prisoners in central or western europe. According to some even being in a concentration camp was better than living under Stalin, which is a terrifying thought because we know those camps were not good places. Basically to sum it up, allowing these people not to return would of created a permanent voice outside the USSR on how terrible the USSR actually was and the USSR was always obsessed with it's image internationally, and how the outside world viewed it. It's also why going on Vacation abroad as a Soviet citizen was lets say heavily monitored and scripted. You had to be part of a tour group operated by the Soviet Union or a Cruise ship. Basically attempting to safeguard your pure mind. They didn't want their citizens to see the world as it really was outside the USSR. Otherwise they'd see the USSR for what it really was.
The Soviet experience is full of such contradictions, in part due to the Cold War and the fragility of sinsible internal information being stowed away by spies somewhat easly. This is something that the Chinese and Cuban experiences, for example, are so interesting. Protests are incentivized in Cuba and many times the politicians themselves participate in solidarity, while in China protests are very powerful for changing some policies. Not to mention Cuban doctors going abroad with minimal supervision. Losing the paranoia-policies about the strenght of the ideology is one thing modern communists can point as a success, at least.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 To be honest that isn't exactly correct. It's a Facade. They do it to calm the populous and nothing more. So many Chinese citizens have shown footage of just how staged China's response to social unrest is ie, they fake solidarity, with actors, and staged events showing how good of a job they are doing "not" actually fixing the issues the people are complaining about. For example last years heavy flooding, they literally brought film crews showing the emergency personnel being heroic, but the people they were rescuing were actors, and the whole event they filmed of them rescuing people was that, staged. Meanwhile thousands of people in China died last year from flooding, and the response by the authority was terrible at best. But they created a facade publicly that they were doing a "Good Job" meanwhile the government lied heavily about the death tolls and how much damage the floods actually caused, and how good the government response to the floods etc etc etc. Favorite ones are when they get water hoses out so make it look like it was storming when filming one of them. Basically they STILL CARE more about their IMAGE than the people they're supposed to be serving. China's modern strategy has nothing to do with solidarity but basically creating a facade of actually helping. Basically convince the people they're on top of everything so they have no reason to riot. When they do riot, join the riot and pretend you care. They learned from how bad the PR was from a specific college student protest that eventually turned into a riot which sadly you can not always mention without worry of censorship. So now the CCP has become a master at facades.. hopefully to trick the people into think everything is swell. Heck I remember one tunnel that flooded last year they pulled hundreds of vehicles out of it, and it flooded so fast no one had a chance to get out of the tunnel. Totally didn't happen according to the CCP.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 Also about China. China has opened up police stations across much of the world. to monitor it's own citizens abroad. So if you think people from China who are outside of China are free from the glitches of the CCP, no they're not. There was a big scandal over this in NYC last year as well. When the NYPD found out China literally had a number of POLICE stations opened in the city specifically to, control it's citizens in the city. Even being outside of China Chinese are not free.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 _'Losing the paranoia-policies about the strenght of the ideology is one thing modern communists can point as a success, at least.'_ Massive cope. The ideology had to build a wall to stop people leaving and lie that it was an anti-spy wall. People had to obtain permission to travel abroad. Out of suspicion and fear the Party had to monopolise _everything_ . 'We are for the people... who we distrust.' No, this was not strength. It was utter weakness.
High technology no, a factory I worked in had a trophy German steam turbine made in 34. Hopeless alcoholism yes, and one won't get fired for showing up drunk, so the cycle is perpetuated.
@@Stone8age The Soviets shot down a U-2, put the first object, animal, and man in space, landed on Venus a bunch of times (a feat yet to be repeated), and flew a space shuttle that operated autonomously without crew. There was some high tech.
@@mitchyoung93 that's one paradox that characterized the USSR. It had brilliant breakthrough in a few fields but was grossly inadequate and backwards in others. And the mentioned space and rocket science achievements we're not products of the system, but of people. Many of whom had to go through gulags and if they weren't petitioned out by the patronage of the elite(in this particular case Kapitsa and Tukhachevskiy played a leading role in these efforts), we wouldn't have seen many of them.
What? Did you say "Tütüniki"? Yes not "u" but "ü"? Oh boy, that is probably also Turkish. Tobaco is Tütün in Turkish and I strongly suspect it comea from the verb tütmek, which means slowly releasing smoke...smoldering?...probably...
Wherever there's people there's potential for stuff like this. People gonna get angry (sometimes wasted on a grain alcohol - aka riot punch) and take to turning over cars and lighting things in fire for reasons that dont seem to add up? For instance, an American national sports collective wins a title or trophy or whatever at the end of a long season of play, even harder play offs in the run up to the big game and then the people in the hometown of the winning team, start rioting. Sometimes people riot because they lost. Sometimes cos they won. Sometimes they riot because they are whipped into a frenzy by the media or even locals with entirely fictitious nonsense. Other times people riot over legit reasons, like the local government ignoring the pleas of a community being poisoned with a tainted municipal water source And so on and so on People in big numbers love to get all churned up and cut loose. The reasons always vary as do their ethnic background and political affiliations. No matter the. 'paradise' We as a species love to start wrecking our own environments and brutally savaging each other in our streets. Why? Because! Humans. That's it. It's that simple: ... Humans! 🎉 Honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't more riots in the Soviet Union during certain events in history like Chernobyl and the local SSR handling of it like ignoring all the radioactivity reading and just allowing state festivals to take place outdoors in areas where the freshly ejected radioactive vapor was hanging very densely over neighboring cities. ⚠️Stay tuned for my country is gonna be another hotbed of political unrest and violent upheaval in the coming seasons. 💣🥀💔🎉
i see similarities when people of all nationalities go on riots. i find it however unacceptable to hear - people got shot or similar in passive. just who do you imagine released the lead bees? the cold war channel left much better impression when comenting riots. ruclips.net/video/b06Gfm2QVxY/видео.htmlsi=wgX3lWn2V7NwVDiV
Another 14 Soviet Riots 1965 - 1987
ruclips.net/video/e3hjCWc0JB0/видео.html
Gorby was the only CCCP top leader who was born after the revolution.
I believe him to be an honourable man. He did see the good in the fight to improve the working and living conditions of the common man, but he also seemed to realise how utopian the communist ideal is, and why it led to decades of atrocities and oppression courtesy of the state.
We really should be wary of those who wish to re-attempt the march towards the communist ideal, and I view them little differently from Hitlerean crackpots.
Drunken seems to be a theme here. Rioting sober never happens.
Drinking precedes rioting in the Dante’s inferno of despair
To be fair, how many activities in the Soviet Union were done sober?
It's the ussr after all
@@MM22966 Professional sports. Soviet athletes were some of the fittest on the continent back then.
@@antoinesilva1527 I don't even pretend to have the expertise to debate that, but what are you basing the claim of "the fittest" on?
Sometime would it be possible for you to do a segment about the Soviet Union’s “Nomenklatura?” I once read a book by Arkady Shevchenko called “Breaking with Moscow” where he talks extensively about the privileges of the ruling bureaucrats and leaders in “classless society” of the Soviet Unión.
I can recommend the book "Nomenklatura" by Mikshail Voslenski. This is a good research on this class of Soviet society written by a member of this class.
I can recommend the book "Nomenklatura" by Mikhail Voslenski. This is a good research on this class of Soviet society written by a member of this class.
I appreciate being called " comrade"
I don't understand why you say your stories are ''boring'', you are anything but. I look forward to your videos, no matter if you think they are boring. I think your life has been adventurous. Plus American Diaries 1995 kicked ass!
I just quote one of my disgruntled subscribers 😊
@@UshankaShow you know what they say, opinions are like assholes, everyone has 1 and it most likely stinks. 😂, keep up the great work!
how dare you, there were no riots in soviet union like there are no gays in russian federation.
You're sarcastic, right?
@@erdood3235 ...Yes.Yes, they are. It's...really, really obvious.
There was no gays in the USSR because there was no sex anyways. I don't know for the present, maybe Soviet scientists invent cloning.
@@AUniqueHandleName444 a. It's the internet.
B. I'm bad at identifyng sarcasm
@@AUniqueHandleName444
I'm only one dude. don't use the plural third person pronoun "they" for one person.
If there's no grad students demanding food delivery, is it even a riot, though?
Thanks!
Thank you kindly! I appreciate your support.
Could you please explore the subject of Soviet prisons and the experiences of the inmates who were confined there? I am particularly interested in the daily schedules of the guards and the varying treatment given to the detainees in these facilities.
Read gulag archipelago.
@@Trump2024asw I am referring to standard correctional facilities, not work camps.
@@tr4hekthose were the standard prisons in the USSR.
@@noco7243 Numerous individuals were dispatched, while an equivalent number remained behind. Repeat offenders likely faced severe consequences, such as being subjected to the harsh conditions of labor camps. However, it is important to mention that not all individuals were sent on the journey to Siberian camps. Dissidents during the Brezhnev era were labeled as mentally ill by the KGB and confined to psychiatric hospitals to complete their sentences. This was because the authorities believed that only someone who was mentally unstable would oppose the communist party.
It's interesting that there was a riot in Azerbaijan over Stalin...Stalin was Georgian after all. Georgians are Christian, Azeris are Muslim, Azeri is a Turkic language, Georgian is it's own language family. I know that there was some mixing in the Caucuses..maybe that particular city had a bunch of Georgians. BTW there were also riots in Georgia (1956) over de-Stalinization. To this day Stalin is seen as a local boy made good among a segment of Georgian society both in Georgia itself and among the Georgian diaspora in the RF.
Azerbaijanis love him for giving them Artsakh 🇦🇲
My impression is that Caucasus people tended to like Stalin, because he was a fellow Caucasian who achieved to rule over Russians.
Chinese : Finish my house Or return my money.#evergarden
something I remember some protest where people claimed trees and they fell down shot. where would that be
Soviet Lives Matter😂 Interestingly enough, it seems Soviet people 50 odd years ago were CONSIDERABLY more engaged, active and rebellious than Russians are today - I wonder why that is?🤔
I didn't know Singer was a German firm.
Do you know anything about the village Kozliv or the town next to it, Ternopil? My family is from there.😊
Around @16:40 you mentioned the equivalent of "County police" can you explain if there were police divisions like in the U.S?( local, county sheriff, highway patrol, state police, etc)
ruclips.net/video/r9RicTttxD0/видео.html
I find it kind of ironic when I read once that Lenin banned "Striking" in the Soviet Union, and lets say, it never really became "Unbanned" throughout the USSR's history. Even when the Party said it's okay, in actuality it wasn't okay. It is funny because banning worker's right to "Strike" was something people point at Hitler doing as proof he wasn't a Socialist, yet they flat out ignore within the Soviet Union even the Prophet Lenin himself, also banned protest and striking.
This reason for this, if your movement is meant to represent the working man, and yes the Nazis believed they did. If people were protesting/striking against the Party, then it would be proof the Party didn't have the Worker's Interest at heart. Which would undermined the entire movement. So you were banned from even doing so. Since the party had your best interest at heart, striking was no longer necessary. *winks*
It's a similar issue with why Stalin was obsessed with getting all Soviet citizens returned to the USSR after WWII, regardless whether they wanted to return of not. The US and British governments aided in forceful repatriation of millions of eastern Europeans many of which didn't want to return. Those who didn't want to return were forced, and sometimes violently. Good example are Soviet POWs who were captured in German uniform and were forced by the Nazis to man the Atlantic Wall. A lot were captured, a lot of them preferring to commit self deletion rather than returning, the US Military resorting to drugging them just to get them on a Soviet merchant ship.
Mind you all that happened before Stalin played his hand and made the Cold War happen, and proved to the west he couldn't be trusted as an Ally. At the time the US/UK were trying to appease him. I would state the specific operation as Operation K%%l Haul < and sadly yes that gets comments deleted because the US/UK governments still denied it happened despite being proven to have happened. If you recall 006 from Goldeneye the story is actually brought up in that film with the main villain being a victim of the repatriations. TIKhistory actually has a 3 part video series on this Operation and it's kind of a sad story for a lot of people.
However, the reason for all this, was that all these people knew what it really was like inside the USSR, and many of them didn't want to come back after being Prisoners in central or western europe. According to some even being in a concentration camp was better than living under Stalin, which is a terrifying thought because we know those camps were not good places. Basically to sum it up, allowing these people not to return would of created a permanent voice outside the USSR on how terrible the USSR actually was and the USSR was always obsessed with it's image internationally, and how the outside world viewed it.
It's also why going on Vacation abroad as a Soviet citizen was lets say heavily monitored and scripted. You had to be part of a tour group operated by the Soviet Union or a Cruise ship. Basically attempting to safeguard your pure mind. They didn't want their citizens to see the world as it really was outside the USSR. Otherwise they'd see the USSR for what it really was.
The Soviet experience is full of such contradictions, in part due to the Cold War and the fragility of sinsible internal information being stowed away by spies somewhat easly.
This is something that the Chinese and Cuban experiences, for example, are so interesting. Protests are incentivized in Cuba and many times the politicians themselves participate in solidarity, while in China protests are very powerful for changing some policies. Not to mention Cuban doctors going abroad with minimal supervision.
Losing the paranoia-policies about the strenght of the ideology is one thing modern communists can point as a success, at least.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 To be honest that isn't exactly correct. It's a Facade.
They do it to calm the populous and nothing more. So many Chinese citizens have shown footage of just how staged China's response to social unrest is ie, they fake solidarity, with actors, and staged events showing how good of a job they are doing "not" actually fixing the issues the people are complaining about.
For example last years heavy flooding, they literally brought film crews showing the emergency personnel being heroic, but the people they were rescuing were actors, and the whole event they filmed of them rescuing people was that, staged. Meanwhile thousands of people in China died last year from flooding, and the response by the authority was terrible at best. But they created a facade publicly that they were doing a "Good Job" meanwhile the government lied heavily about the death tolls and how much damage the floods actually caused, and how good the government response to the floods etc etc etc.
Favorite ones are when they get water hoses out so make it look like it was storming when filming one of them. Basically they STILL CARE more about their IMAGE than the people they're supposed to be serving.
China's modern strategy has nothing to do with solidarity but basically creating a facade of actually helping. Basically convince the people they're on top of everything so they have no reason to riot. When they do riot, join the riot and pretend you care.
They learned from how bad the PR was from a specific college student protest that eventually turned into a riot which sadly you can not always mention without worry of censorship. So now the CCP has become a master at facades.. hopefully to trick the people into think everything is swell.
Heck I remember one tunnel that flooded last year they pulled hundreds of vehicles out of it, and it flooded so fast no one had a chance to get out of the tunnel. Totally didn't happen according to the CCP.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 Also about China. China has opened up police stations across much of the world. to monitor it's own citizens abroad. So if you think people from China who are outside of China are free from the glitches of the CCP, no they're not. There was a big scandal over this in NYC last year as well. When the NYPD found out China literally had a number of POLICE stations opened in the city specifically to, control it's citizens in the city. Even being outside of China Chinese are not free.
@@leonamvonborowsky7559 _'Losing the paranoia-policies about the strenght of the ideology is one thing modern communists can point as a success, at least.'_
Massive cope. The ideology had to build a wall to stop people leaving and lie that it was an anti-spy wall. People had to obtain permission to travel abroad. Out of suspicion and fear the Party had to monopolise _everything_ . 'We are for the people... who we distrust.'
No, this was not strength. It was utter weakness.
US spies Vietnam war protesters And said they were under the Soviet communists
Yeah, first to watch and comment!
Rockband 🐈⬛Riot.
Got whipped during Olympics of 2014😂
"German company Singer!"
American company!
In SU and even earlier it was pronounced in German fashion i.e. Zinger
"Meningitis."
He was probably beaten to death.
So, we're just going to sleep past the Аласка, наша map starting at 0:35 ?
Hey I’d appreciate it if you would stop calling me COMRADE, I didn’t call you any names 😉
I wonder what Nataliya is up to these days?
@2:39 if ya missed it.
So strange that there could be at the same time high technology and mass depression hopelessness and alcoholism.
High technology no, a factory I worked in had a trophy German steam turbine made in 34. Hopeless alcoholism yes, and one won't get fired for showing up drunk, so the cycle is perpetuated.
@@Stone8age The Soviets shot down a U-2, put the first object, animal, and man in space, landed on Venus a bunch of times (a feat yet to be repeated), and flew a space shuttle that operated autonomously without crew. There was some high tech.
@lllPlatinumlll. Are you a US Amerikaner?
@@mitchyoung93 that's one paradox that characterized the USSR. It had brilliant breakthrough in a few fields but was grossly inadequate and backwards in others. And the mentioned space and rocket science achievements we're not products of the system, but of people. Many of whom had to go through gulags and if they weren't petitioned out by the patronage of the elite(in this particular case Kapitsa and Tukhachevskiy played a leading role in these efforts), we wouldn't have seen many of them.
What? Did you say "Tütüniki"? Yes not "u" but "ü"? Oh boy, that is probably also Turkish. Tobaco is Tütün in Turkish and I strongly suspect it comea from the verb tütmek, which means slowly releasing smoke...smoldering?...probably...
Wherever there's people there's potential for stuff like this. People gonna get angry (sometimes wasted on a grain alcohol - aka riot punch) and take to turning over cars and lighting things in fire for reasons that dont seem to add up?
For instance, an American national sports collective wins a title or trophy or whatever at the end of a long season of play, even harder play offs in the run up to the big game and then the people in the hometown of the winning team, start rioting.
Sometimes people riot because they lost.
Sometimes cos they won.
Sometimes they riot because they are whipped into a frenzy by the media or even locals with entirely fictitious nonsense.
Other times people riot over legit reasons, like the local government ignoring the pleas of a community being poisoned with a tainted municipal water source
And so on and so on
People in big numbers love to get all churned up and cut loose. The reasons always vary as do their ethnic background and political affiliations.
No matter the. 'paradise'
We as a species love to start wrecking our own environments and brutally savaging each other in our streets. Why? Because! Humans.
That's it.
It's that simple:
... Humans! 🎉
Honestly, I'm surprised there wasn't more riots in the Soviet Union during certain events in history like Chernobyl and the local SSR handling of it like ignoring all the radioactivity reading and just allowing state festivals to take place outdoors in areas where the freshly ejected radioactive vapor was hanging very densely over neighboring cities.
⚠️Stay tuned for my country is gonna be another hotbed of political unrest and violent upheaval in the coming seasons. 💣🥀💔🎉
riot juice: 1 part grain alcohol, 1 part blue kool aid.
Fun fact: Singer is an American company. Isaac Singer founded it and was the son of a German immigrant.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Corporation
i see similarities when people of all nationalities go on riots. i find it however unacceptable to hear - people got shot or similar in passive. just who do you imagine released the lead bees? the cold war channel left much better impression when comenting riots.
ruclips.net/video/b06Gfm2QVxY/видео.htmlsi=wgX3lWn2V7NwVDiV