How to Get Rich After Destroying the USSR

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  • @SideQuestYT
    @SideQuestYT  Год назад +98

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    • @LightxHeaven
      @LightxHeaven Год назад +4

      Surely this very generous offer is only possible due to getting rich after destroying the USSR? :D

    • @Voloxim
      @Voloxim Год назад +1

      I was literally waiting for you to upload today! Tysm!

    • @It_is_I_Rogal_Dorn
      @It_is_I_Rogal_Dorn Год назад +1

      Nice to hear you back in your videos and not having the ad for Q playing

    • @robsonwilianwinchester9726
      @robsonwilianwinchester9726 Год назад

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    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад

      @@LightxHeaven when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

  • @tekuaniaakab2050
    @tekuaniaakab2050 Год назад +1744

    Gorbachev basically being an advertisement supermodel for companies trying to get into the eastern market is both surprising and not surprising at all

    • @julianusvictor327
      @julianusvictor327 Год назад +71

      Ikr that pizza hut ad was just, surreal.

    • @boomburst8031
      @boomburst8031 Год назад

      @@julianusvictor327 nah man, if anything can covince a commie it's a pizza.

    • @OrangeFawkes
      @OrangeFawkes Год назад +13

      Heil Gorbachev!

    • @patrickshea5955
      @patrickshea5955 Год назад

      Well I mean what do you expect? Did you wanted to bring an end to the horrible century of communism.

    • @stevengreen9536
      @stevengreen9536 Год назад +4

      @tekuaniaakab Almost anything is better than being broke.

  • @TwoBears1325
    @TwoBears1325 Год назад +710

    There was a much more interesting story of getting rich in Russia like how Yeltsin stole 10% of the economy and gave it all to his friends under the guise of the „free market“

    • @firdausariff
      @firdausariff Год назад +88

      I was expecting this particular story actually 😂

    • @Ttegegg
      @Ttegegg Год назад +10

      @@firdausariff yea me too. Ecconomic explain that everyone (expect government officials) have no capital. You can see where this is going

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

    • @Ghboy2
      @Ghboy2 Год назад

      The Mabetex affair was so drenched in corruption that even the Russian State Duma told Yeltsin to tone it.

    • @jakesmall8875
      @jakesmall8875 Год назад

      Putin stole half the economy

  • @tessat338
    @tessat338 Год назад +283

    I was taking a class at university called "Politics of the Soviet Union" in 1986 when everything started to crumble and there was a coup attempt against Gorbachev. We were assigned the roles of different members of the Politburo and had to research them and their careers. I was the editor of Pravda. On the day we were supposed to have our Party Congress, the guy portraying Gorbachev didn't show up for class. We were all wondering what was going on, if someone had taken things a little TOO seriously. He showed up in the last 10 minutes, very upset because he'd had car trouble and let down because there wasn't enough time for him to give his prepared speech.

    • @vanthomias5538
      @vanthomias5538 Год назад +16

      I am not a Conspiracy Theorist, but a "car trouble"...?

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 Год назад +24

      @@vanthomias5538 I know! That's how we all felt at the time! But it was a rainy day and he was coming to campus on the Beltway.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад +2

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

    • @vanthomias5538
      @vanthomias5538 Год назад +6

      @@carkawalakhatulistiwa what

    • @thomasdracup8403
      @thomasdracup8403 Год назад +7

      @@vanthomias5538 this guy keeps copy pasting this same comment under every comment thread. I honestly don’t understand what he’s saying.

  • @eujinvittoria1078
    @eujinvittoria1078 Год назад +1028

    I thought you we’re gonna talk about how the oligarchs pillaged the rest of the Soviet economy but it’s ok 👍

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki Год назад +29

      If something belongs to everyone, it belongs to noone

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 Год назад +243

      @@rafradeki "Throwing buzzword proverbs is not an argument, m8"
      -Julius Caesar before the battle of Stalingrad

    • @senpai8435
      @senpai8435 Год назад +56

      Oligarchs were the vermin eating the remaining corpse, the one responsible for the corpse was gorba.

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki Год назад +8

      @@missk1697 This was the train of thought of russian oligarchs after USSR collapsed

    • @ernstschmidt4725
      @ernstschmidt4725 Год назад +1

      How to Get even more Rich After Destroying the USSR

  • @frisianmouve
    @frisianmouve Год назад +557

    I thought this was going to be about a few oligarchs cheaply buying up the majority of previously state owned industry

    • @crazydinosaur8945
      @crazydinosaur8945 Год назад +20

      same

    • @Pancasilaist8752
      @Pancasilaist8752 Год назад +54

      With the Russian oligarchs so influential in Russian politics today, I am surprised that there are still many communists who support Russia.

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 Год назад

      @@Pancasilaist8752 They don't have political influence. They are subject to Putin's whims.

    • @userwsyz
      @userwsyz Год назад

      He means how Gorby destroyed ussr then to become rich.

    • @kierangorman3052
      @kierangorman3052 Год назад

      @@Pancasilaist8752 A lot of authoritarian leftists just like anything that opposes the US, plus Putin manages to keep the communist party of Russia on side as controlled opposition through Kremlin-funding and giving them a few Provinces to govern. There's also the Russian Federation's alliance with China to consider, which many Leninists and Maoists view as the legitimate leader of the global left, making the former country appear at least tolerant of communism in the eyes of some.

  • @MietoK
    @MietoK Год назад +159

    Small detail that surely doesn’t matter that much but didn’t Yeltsin sign the dissolution (Belovezh Accords)? Gorbachev just ceded power as the Russia and other countries had already left at that time so he was “King Nothing” with no power at all.

    • @advisorynotice
      @advisorynotice Год назад +24

      Not a small detail. You're right.

    • @TheEnergeticPanda
      @TheEnergeticPanda Год назад +4

      @@advisorynotice it is a small detail really. Yeltsin may have signed the paper but it was Gorbachev's pen. Gorbachev was effectively the one who signed it due to his actions, even if he wasn't literally the one who signed it

    • @ADogNamedStay
      @ADogNamedStay Год назад +6

      @@TheEnergeticPanda no, they were the heads of two different principalities one just a teir above the other. Ussr is comparable to Canada, US, and Mexico forming a union under the same principles that the United States is.

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa Год назад

      when you eliminate 50% of the country's gdp it makes the debt 10x higher and makes 50% of people out of work. 10% of families lose their odd house if a Russian falls in love with Gorbachev

  • @paleoph6168
    @paleoph6168 Год назад +1960

    The people cheering for Gorbachev in the Pizza Hut commercial were all of the 0.5% who voted for him.

    • @tunahxushi4669
      @tunahxushi4669 Год назад +162

      Hey, that is still 1 million people... Enough to fill Pizza Hut.

    • @S_Warden
      @S_Warden Год назад +33

      Also feels creepy asf

    • @josefstrauss9017
      @josefstrauss9017 Год назад +66

      @@S_Warden I thought it was hella funny ngl

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 Год назад +1

      Tankies and ultranationalists will have to cope. Boris Yelsin was more responsible for destroying Russian democracy and handing Russia to Putin, oligarchs, and corruption.

    • @goblinking9824
      @goblinking9824 Год назад +1

      80% of the population didn't want the Soviet Union to dissolve, but the Bougoise controlled the government and decided to dissolve it, sell the factories, and get rich while leaving the broken countries in shambles.

  • @onecertainesquire486
    @onecertainesquire486 Год назад +424

    Thank you for this helpful guide. I will now reform and later destroy the Soviet Union in order to make this dream a reality

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 Год назад +6

      USSR system was doomed. Too hard to change and wrong incentives to succeed. There is a reason Russian has a word for lying and you both know you're lying and accept it.

    • @SiPakRubah
      @SiPakRubah Год назад +1

      This video gave a good reason why USSR was doomed in the first place. They probably should've follow what China did without dissolving their country
      ruclips.net/video/43ptxFx-CRM/видео.html

    • @sebastienholmes548
      @sebastienholmes548 Год назад

      Based

  • @BlakeTheDrake
    @BlakeTheDrake Год назад +270

    The self-own at 2:27 was funny enough that I feel compelled to forgive the channel for actually making me *buy* one of those silly things, literally days before the big scandal broke. No, really - it was that add in the 'How to Become a Medieval Aristocrat' video that convinced me that a noble title would make an amusing gift for my nephew...
    Ah well, I managed to get a refund, and a spot of humorous self-awareness goes a long way, so have a Like as a token of reconciliation!

    • @darksu6947
      @darksu6947 Год назад +2

      That's a sweet looking dragon in your pfp. What do you think of my idea to have a pet dragon that spews out a raging blizzard instead of fire?

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 Год назад +5

      @@darksu6947 you may struggle to find that pet
      If you’re writing a story you should consider some of the physical constraints. (Don’t need to flaunt them in the story)
      Energy is not destroyed therefore heat must be conserved, this means that blizzard or freezing breath requires heat be removed from the gas to be exhaled. Unlike a chemical reaction this must occur internally due to taking more time (fire breathing dragons should have fire begin externally)
      This should make the dragon warmer than normal with cold patches where the blizzard is produced, this could involve systems a radiating refine and ridges to lose heat, less insulation or a colder climate (though colder climate animals it’d hunt would be more resistant to the cold)
      Hope these are some interesting design considerations for you

    • @mortified776
      @mortified776 Год назад

      @@chrissmith3587 What about an exhalation of compressed air from a cavity in a deep muscular chest? That produces both a powerful blast effect and temperatures cold enough to instantaneously freeze flesh. I can attest to that first hand. Specifically, my left hand.

    • @chrissmith3587
      @chrissmith3587 Год назад

      @@mortified776 ouch sounds painful
      That would work as a reason why the breath is cold, this would require compression in the body which would still produce heat, although you would only notice cold spots after the exhalation
      Compression often uses multiple compressors to improve efficiency, this could be translated into your dragon through a multi chamber storage and compression system with potentially up to 3 chambers (one storage, one low to medium pressure, one medium to high pressure)
      This would allow for differences between species as some dragons could lack chambers reducing functionality
      As temperature and pressure drops across across a choke this is effectively what occurs at the point of exhalation.
      Edit/correction : had to remove initial conclusions as think I was wrong
      This would increase the velocity and therefore kinetic energy. I believe the colder (more choked) strike would hit harder assuming striking at one point.
      A good place to look at from here is convergent divergent nozzles in rocket engine and how you could design your dragons to use this
      Basically thermodynamics is really hard and you get away with a lot if you base the designs and power levels on existing equipment
      If you want any other dragon ideas look at how vortexes can carry light materials, there’s a few aggressive possible uses for that

  • @locomotivefaox
    @locomotivefaox Год назад +167

    Becoming an oligarch was the best decision I ever had in the 90s.
    Among... other... things.

    • @tylerclayton6081
      @tylerclayton6081 Год назад +12

      I decided to become an oligarch in the 2010’s. Great decision. 10/10 would recommend

    • @georgyekimov4577
      @georgyekimov4577 Год назад

      @@tylerclayton6081 nah bro being one in the 90s was different
      now you can sit at the table but cant take stuff home

    • @nexor7809
      @nexor7809 Год назад

      the other best decision you mean was becoming a furry?

  • @cocacola4blood365
    @cocacola4blood365 Год назад +190

    When a ruler of a nation has to look for work once they retire, you know things are bad.

    • @silverdeathgamer2907
      @silverdeathgamer2907 Год назад

      I mean usually they do paid speeches, lobbying, just get paid to attend functions, hang around with elites etc. Like Boris Johnson for example recently got paid very well for doing a few speeches, Obama did the same once his second term ended.

    • @kavky
      @kavky Год назад +40

      No, that is how things should be. Why should we be paying outrageously high pensions for bureaucrats who aren't working anymore?

    • @richardarriaga6271
      @richardarriaga6271 Год назад +37

      @@kavky Because you don't want sale of the government to become and income stream like with Yelsin and Putin. And the US had a ex-President live in poverty before the pension system was set up.

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT Год назад

      @@kavky Because they have immense influence and power and could be easily bought to sponsor your favouriteTM dictator?

    • @Hangman11
      @Hangman11 Год назад

      @@richardarriaga6271 The number one thing against corruption is paying the politicians whether they're corrupt or not lol. Fucked up world

  • @sirnikkel6746
    @sirnikkel6746 Год назад +195

    From being sponsored by the scam of Established Titles to admitting what you have done at 2:26 is a golden move.

    • @NeostormXLMAX
      @NeostormXLMAX Год назад +14

      i mean its like jake tran, they know its a scam, just doing the sigma grind set and doesn't bother to hide anything
      Id say still more respectable than those so called "scam" advisor youtubers like fucking mudahar who constantly claims moral high ground and still does exact things like this, just hypocrites.

    • @Novaerian
      @Novaerian Год назад

      It's not a scam, see here: ruclips.net/video/nIjkACB2Xqk/видео.html&ab_channel=FactFiend

    • @tunahxushi4669
      @tunahxushi4669 Год назад +1

      How much does the scam of Established Titles pay? Some of these channels reach hundreds of thousands of people just curious what the rate is for selling snake oil these days...

    • @sirnikkel6746
      @sirnikkel6746 Год назад +3

      @@tunahxushi4669 400 ShillBucks

    • @Hideyoshi1991
      @Hideyoshi1991 Год назад +14

      @@NeostormXLMAX its a gag gift with some misleading advertising, the only seriously questionable claim they made was that you'd be recognized as a lord in Scotland.

  • @xanderbg1
    @xanderbg1 Год назад +22

    And here I am sitting and thinking that this would be a video about curruption, currupted privatization, oligarchs in the making, Russian mafia and its former-USSR-state / KGB background.

  • @JamesTM
    @JamesTM Год назад +92

    The self-deprecating dig at Established Titles was a phenomenal touch. A actually laughed out loud.
    And good on you for acknowledging that mistake. I hope you find some great (ethical) sponsors going forward and make lots of money for producing your excellent content!

    • @DatcleanMochaJo
      @DatcleanMochaJo Год назад +6

      If you genuinely thought Established titles was not a scam before everyone started calling it one you aren't any brighter

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 Год назад +12

      VPN companies are a bit better. Their product is at least genuine, though many resort to scare tactics and blatant lies in their advertising. Buy our product or the hackers will get you!

    • @ryuunosuk3
      @ryuunosuk3 4 месяца назад

      Betterhelp.

    • @JamesTM
      @JamesTM 4 месяца назад

      @@ryuunosuk3 Yeah. They did not, in fact, find ethical sponsors going forward. :(

  • @Seraph.G
    @Seraph.G Год назад +56

    The way the USSR was destroyed really makes you understand why many people who lived under it before the dissolution remain so loyal to it

    • @bruhbruh-us6gl
      @bruhbruh-us6gl Год назад +8

      And why they're so loyal to Putin, for that matter.

    • @sebastienholmes548
      @sebastienholmes548 Год назад +2

      Stockholm syndrome is a powerful thing.

    • @tamalepapi4692
      @tamalepapi4692 Год назад

      That’s what happens when you have a shitty economic system to begin with

    • @ricechido1089
      @ricechido1089 Год назад

      Same reason why many individuals in America's are so loyal to officials whom run to enrich themselves while on backs of their constituents

    • @russiannatcon
      @russiannatcon 10 месяцев назад +2

      As a resident of Russia, I can say that the USSR was a terrible, disgusting cesspool that collapsed due to a whole range of reasons not mentioned in this video.

  • @annach109
    @annach109 Год назад +44

    I thought this video would cover how western companies and the west in general made bank on the dissolution of the USSR.

  • @mathy4605
    @mathy4605 Год назад +26

    lol that Established Titles reference

    • @ianchristmas
      @ianchristmas Год назад +1

      Same here. I laughed out loud at that bit.

  • @pre0wned
    @pre0wned Год назад +10

    Loved the self poke on the check at 2:27!

  • @Eques2749
    @Eques2749 Год назад +30

    Oligarchs are the ones who were close to the leaders then, so when the privatisation was taking place they were (oligarchs) a priority..

    • @Redpilled_Retribution
      @Redpilled_Retribution Год назад +2

      Abramovich was a nobody in the beginning

    • @Ocelot835
      @Ocelot835 Год назад

      Well, It was Gorbachev poorly managed economical reforms that created them in the first place. Yeltsin only cemented their power over politics with his "shock therapy"

  • @Sue_Me_Too
    @Sue_Me_Too Год назад +11

    That feeling when your computer says you have a 50Mb/s Internet connection, but can't load a RUclips video....

  • @KuldarJ
    @KuldarJ Год назад +29

    SideQuest could you make a video how to get/make a Tardis at home, so we could actually try these "history tips" out

  • @grandcommander1140
    @grandcommander1140 Год назад +16

    Truly; this is a criminally underrated Channel . . . You deserve at least a mil or two subs
    Best of luck too you friend !

  • @stuartkirkbride7363
    @stuartkirkbride7363 Год назад +40

    Finally a how-to that I can actually incorporate into my daily life

  • @igorlech9922
    @igorlech9922 Год назад +248

    As eastern european I can confirm this is one of many reasons why we love Gorbachev

    • @silesiaball9505
      @silesiaball9505 Год назад +10

      ZA GARBACZOWA!

    • @snomcultist189
      @snomcultist189 Год назад +16

      Itsa Gorbachev!
      -random Russian Pizza Hut enjoyer

    • @beburs
      @beburs Год назад

      @@silesiaball9505 he destroyed you,living standards used to be higher before him,this is a statistical fact.

    • @silesiaball9505
      @silesiaball9505 Год назад +1

      @@beburs I'm not Russian XD

    • @beburs
      @beburs Год назад +15

      @@silesiaball9505 your country was destroyed more than Russia though,look at the data of your country’s population and manufacturing,they both collapsed

  • @herzog1857
    @herzog1857 Год назад +6

    That Pizza Hut ad is all the worst of Soviet Russia and the US rolled into one.

  • @jakubLonghorn
    @jakubLonghorn Год назад +1

    That pivot to the advertisement was a master class

  • @josephlieberman8295
    @josephlieberman8295 Год назад +5

    Ah yes, show a tone deaf ad for Pizza Hut followed immediately by a tone deaf ad read for a VPN. The system works.

  • @escapingmediocrityhub
    @escapingmediocrityhub Год назад +3

    Thank you for sharing your thoughtful content…for putting it out there with the passion that many of us need and strive for. I'm starting to listen to you almost every morning. Your voice and words feels real and genuine.
    I am grateful to have your channel as a source for having a better relationship with myself and the world around me.❤️❤️💥

  • @figgehn_
    @figgehn_ Год назад +1

    In sweden we have a microwave pierogi called gorby, named after Gorby... and a Pan pizza called Billys, named after clinton

  • @moralfuxery
    @moralfuxery Год назад +19

    Holy shit. Is that Pizza Hit commercial real? That feels like a glitch in the matrix.

  • @bobbyferg9173
    @bobbyferg9173 Год назад +12

    For some reason I thought Gorbachev died awhile ago, not the summer of this year.
    I guess that goes to show that the decline from final leader of the Soviet Union to Pizza Hut commercials to now was a pretty significant decline

  • @RUTHLESSACADEMY
    @RUTHLESSACADEMY Год назад +5

    Gorbachev wasn't a premier of USSR, he was the last general secretary of KPSS and the first ever president of USSR.

  • @maksiksq
    @maksiksq Год назад +75

    4:32 as a Ukrainian when they started saying "за Горбачова" I started laughing so hard that my brother thought I started choking

  • @seangleason260
    @seangleason260 Год назад +15

    It had to be incredibly soul crushing to go from the head of the USSR to shilling for pizza hut

  • @mrabintom
    @mrabintom Год назад +12

    One of the best RUclips channels that puts out the best content. Barely recognised by anyone.

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher Год назад +1

      Too bad they didn't address the scam sponsor they promoted until their last video

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher Год назад

      @@jmoger yeah no, I was thinking something in the lines of "we made a mistake" and "don't buy from them" and more importantly "sorry we uploaded that sponsor, here's a reupload of the original video without the endorsement, so you don't fall into a scam like we did"

  • @thecrazymoon6578
    @thecrazymoon6578 Год назад +29

    Amazing. Super funny jokes 😂
    This is definitely quality over quantity.
    Keep up the great work!

  • @jbthestoner5504
    @jbthestoner5504 Год назад +5

    That pizza hut commercial had to be one of the best I've ever seen

  • @stomostudios6718
    @stomostudios6718 Год назад

    Thanks for reminding me of the March of the 8th Guards Panfilov Division. (which played in the background the entire video)

  • @Indlovu402
    @Indlovu402 7 месяцев назад

    Gorby's skull has the same his distinctive birthmark😂

  • @gunterxvoices4101
    @gunterxvoices4101 Год назад +14

    Thank you for making this video.

  • @mangogo44
    @mangogo44 Год назад +4

    I'm from Russia and I've never even HEARD of Gorbachiov making ads. Wow

    • @wederMaxim
      @wederMaxim Год назад

      Не верю. Просто не верю. Особенно в свете последних событий.

  • @danlei88
    @danlei88 Год назад +6

    I appreciate the jab at Established titles sponsorship. This channel was the only place I even heard about it before it became youtube drama. Some channels have decided to donate all the sponsorship money to conservation/tree planting charities and I highly encourage you to consider this as well, if you really want to undo it in a sense.

  • @midge_gender_solek3314
    @midge_gender_solek3314 Год назад +15

    He did a lot of bad stuff (ask Armenians or Lithuanians) but was unusually genuine and straightforward not just for a Central Comitee member, but for any major global politician of that era.

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Год назад +4

      What did he do to Armenians and Lithuanians?

    • @sztypettto
      @sztypettto Год назад +4

      Here we go .... before someone pulls up the victim card they need to speak about their own actions first. A world where the police are shamed and defunded for arresting a person committing a crime is a world on a downward trajectory.

    • @gagamba9198
      @gagamba9198 Год назад +8

      @@GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Sent in the troops and massacred protestors.

    • @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING
      @GLASSMOSCOWANDBEIJING Год назад +3

      @@sztypettto preach brother

    • @sztypettto
      @sztypettto Год назад +4

      @@gagamba9198 , were those protestors destroying public property, breaking any laws, causing public disturbance, or inciting an environment for crime?

  • @florenmage
    @florenmage Год назад +1

    That pizza hut commercial is hilarious.

  • @Ggdivhjkjl
    @Ggdivhjkjl Год назад +6

    Thanks! This is just the instructional video we needed.

  • @Vandal_Savage
    @Vandal_Savage Год назад +5

    @3:57 they've got Mark Novack in the Pizza Hut advert! Well, he did say he wasn't always a gunsmith...

  • @Divano-qw2sb
    @Divano-qw2sb 7 месяцев назад

    He forgot the part about selling weapons from soviet arsenals to various dictators and warlords across the globe (every on is too busy to notice some missing kalashnikovs)

  • @vagpaithe3570
    @vagpaithe3570 Год назад +1

    great video as always

  • @overlordupchuck
    @overlordupchuck Год назад +1

    this video tied perfectly with history matters' channel's video today, like literally perfectly back to back viewing

  • @maruku4445
    @maruku4445 Год назад +9

    As soon as you said Pizza Hut, I bursted out laughing. 🤣

  • @bantenglewat9799
    @bantenglewat9799 Год назад +40

    Hate him or love him but he always be a legend comrade no matter what you believe he always be the legend

    • @revolter7094
      @revolter7094 Год назад +2

      He is a legend for people who were the enemies of the post-USSR and for people who didn't live there. For people who lived after the collapse of the USSR ,he is the worst human being in their history and should be burning in hell.

    • @bantenglewat9799
      @bantenglewat9799 Год назад

      @@revolter7094 yes for the Russian people he is the one who sell their identity to the west for sure

    • @Tyrannitus
      @Tyrannitus Год назад +10

      No

    • @randomguy2052
      @randomguy2052 Год назад +1

      Yes

    • @coolbasedgigachad6820
      @coolbasedgigachad6820 Год назад +10

      No

  • @DinoWinoSaur
    @DinoWinoSaur Год назад +2

    Love this channel. Glad you're finally getting sponsorship!

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher Год назад

      Too bad they didn't remove the Established Titles scam sponsor from the last video, or address the bluder at all. Shame on SideQuest.

    • @RelayXl
      @RelayXl Год назад

      @@YagoStecher they did somewhat address it 2:27

    • @YagoStecher
      @YagoStecher Год назад

      @@RelayXl yeah that's not addressing it. They should say: hey we dropped the ball, didn't check our sponsor, don't buy drom them, and also reupload the sponsored video having removed the sponsorship. The video is still there! People can still fall for it!

    • @RelayXl
      @RelayXl Год назад

      @@YagoStecher yeah but Established titles are pulling out the sponsorship Link : ruclips.net/video/dxLc8u7L2L4/видео.html

  • @martinmillar9116
    @martinmillar9116 Год назад

    This channel doesnt release videos fast enough! Lol. They are brilliant.

  • @Pravculear
    @Pravculear Год назад +1

    hi sidequest!

  • @felixnilsson2440
    @felixnilsson2440 Год назад

    Two ads in a 7 minute long video -- well played sir, well played...

  • @terranceaddison4599
    @terranceaddison4599 Год назад

    That's one high quality commercial

  • @BTNMNKI
    @BTNMNKI Год назад

    Good stuff as always, but please lower the background music.

  • @dannydacheedo1592
    @dannydacheedo1592 Год назад +1

    This channel answers the question I never knew I wanted to know.

  • @noytelinu
    @noytelinu Год назад

    Yep. I remember the Pizza Hut ad. Back when I had optimism.

  • @fridolfstor
    @fridolfstor Год назад

    I noticed your voice is in a commercial for a card game

  • @raymanadventuresgameplay6700
    @raymanadventuresgameplay6700 10 месяцев назад

    Bro went from controlling nukes to advertising pizza

  • @michaelrae9599
    @michaelrae9599 Год назад +6

    Good to know that Gorbachev had a proactive web identity plan.

  • @Aunuto
    @Aunuto Год назад +1

    “Ferb! I know what we’re gonna do today!”

  • @visassess8607
    @visassess8607 Год назад

    Thanks, I needed this advice

  • @pogchimp3783
    @pogchimp3783 Год назад

    The day he died I put an online order to pizza hut with his name on the receipt, I still have a picture of it

  • @gagamba9198
    @gagamba9198 Год назад +1

    The failure was a feature. Some things take a while to reveal themselves. In the USSR's case, bankruptcy arrived in the late 1950s. Soviet workers were required to spend 1/12th of their annual income buying state bonds. In 1957, the state realised repayment of bonds coming due in the early 1960s would cost the state more than it would receive in mandatory bond purchases. Khrushchev decided a good idea would be for the Soviet workers to decline repayment as a display of patriotic gratitude. Hocus pocus, debt gone. Other leaders were uncertain. 'We'd better pitch this proposal to some actual workers to see what they think of it.' This was done. Workers hated it. They had been compelled to buy these bonds and they expected repayment. Oh-oh.
    Repayment was not cancelled. Instead, it was _postponed_ . The government stated repayment would resume in about 20 years. During which time no interest would be paid on this debt. New bonds would no longer be required to be bought.
    But without the income from the mandatory purchase of these bonds, there would be a shortfall of the funds the government needed. What to do?
    Gambling! The government re-introduced a lottery. Due to the gov't created consumer goods deficit, winners wanted overpriced yet tough to get items like cars rather than cash. It was wildly popular. And it allowed the government to kick the can down the road for a few more decades. Let someone else deal with the problem.

    • @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044
      @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044 Год назад

      Kicking the can like the US $ debt ceiling that will have to be addressed
      It's usually economics that break nations, empires and individuals

  • @rext4607
    @rext4607 Год назад +2

    The self own makes you legendary

  • @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan
    @Josep_Hernandez_Lujan Год назад +3

    Seriously though, how DID he survive?

  • @ryanbaird2110
    @ryanbaird2110 Год назад +4

    Love your videos thank you for letting me vibe over a blunt listening too history

  • @CactusJackIV
    @CactusJackIV Год назад +1

    Amazing videos! Keep up the kick ass work!!

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro Год назад +1

      Shuv it man

    • @CactusJackIV
      @CactusJackIV Год назад +1

      @@ShubhamMishrabro Slow Down Mark.

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro Год назад +1

      @@CactusJackIV a wild slap nuts appears

    • @CactusJackIV
      @CactusJackIV Год назад

      @@ShubhamMishrabro That's it, Mr User-yh4lt4cs4w, I'm goin' to go to North Carolina and tell my stoner friend Shannon all about you Mr User-man.

    • @ShubhamMishrabro
      @ShubhamMishrabro Год назад +1

      @@CactusJackIV and I'm going to meet Jimmy rave so we can party

  • @jquest3329
    @jquest3329 Год назад +1

    2-minute ad in a 7.5min video? y'all are getting out-of-hand

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile Год назад +3

    Now that’s how they Putin themselves in the right place.

  • @zachareeeee
    @zachareeeee Год назад

    Is that Semeon Tchernetsky playing in the background?

  • @kooolainebulger8117
    @kooolainebulger8117 Год назад

    honestly didn't know he was still alive for so long

  • @jakelynch5113
    @jakelynch5113 Год назад

    that ad was pretty much "did somebody say KFC?"

  • @molybdaen11
    @molybdaen11 Год назад +16

    I am somewhat amazed that he did not just sold some secrets or old weapons to another country for some private cash.

    • @rafradeki
      @rafradeki Год назад +11

      If not him, then someone else probably did it

    • @maple1234567890321
      @maple1234567890321 Год назад +9

      @@s0rtaananym nor biden

    • @organicleaf
      @organicleaf Год назад +2

      or they got the scientists like with germany and the us after ww2

  • @silesiaball9505
    @silesiaball9505 Год назад +1

    Great video as always :)

  • @Etelvinicius
    @Etelvinicius Год назад

    A two minute ad on a seven minute video. Nice!

  • @zlatkaivanova265
    @zlatkaivanova265 Год назад

    Brilliant!

  • @yaelgarcia459
    @yaelgarcia459 Год назад

    I had no idea he did commercials 🤣🤣

  • @omaralzuhd1114
    @omaralzuhd1114 Год назад +2

    I honestly love sidequest

  • @BrandonSchleifer
    @BrandonSchleifer Год назад

    That pizza hut commerical was hilarious and cringy

  • @stulog
    @stulog Год назад +2

    Didn't he do a McDonald's ad too?

  • @thewilltheway
    @thewilltheway Год назад +1

    Have my algorithm points.

  • @mbg8733
    @mbg8733 Год назад +7

    There is no comparing to how much the Russians hate Gorbachev.
    He caused the greatest humanitarian crisis outside of war, and they suffered the brunt of it.

  • @god_perseveres
    @god_perseveres Год назад

    Thank you i may now time travel and Change my name to Gorbachev

  • @LLLeonn
    @LLLeonn Год назад

    Nice video

  • @blaine8197
    @blaine8197 7 месяцев назад

    What’s the background song name?

  • @MatthewCaunsfield
    @MatthewCaunsfield Год назад

    That advert! 😲

  • @240pixel
    @240pixel Год назад +29

    Destroying one of the most evil empires the earth has ever seen is already major achievement.

    • @missk1697
      @missk1697 Год назад +27

      He didn't destroy america though.

    • @roman-it8rq
      @roman-it8rq Год назад +26

      unfortunately he did not destroy the united states

    • @shadowfreaper8158
      @shadowfreaper8158 Год назад +5

      America

    • @240pixel
      @240pixel Год назад

      @@missk1697 Considering you are flying a pride flag its safe to assume you aren't from Russia, Otherwise you would be in prison.

    • @240pixel
      @240pixel Год назад +11

      @@shadowfreaper8158 Read the comment again. "One of" is not mutually exclusive.

  • @NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd
    @NOOBSLAYER-cw3gd Год назад +2

    this guy is my favourite narrator.

  • @meemstar2333
    @meemstar2333 Год назад +1

    i thought this one was going to be about russian oligarchs buying up all soviet state-owned enterprizes

  • @AnAppleWithEyes
    @AnAppleWithEyes Год назад +11

    You should do a piece on Henry Kissinger (who is 99, still alive, and just met with Putin)

  • @real9270
    @real9270 Год назад

    I really want to know if he's seen the Youjo Senki movie

  • @oliversherman2414
    @oliversherman2414 Год назад +1

    They probably tracked down the few people who voted for Gorbachev in 1996 and filled that pizza hut restaurant with them 😂

  • @christianhumer3084
    @christianhumer3084 Год назад

    Russian Guys go from President to Showmen
    American Guys go from Showmen to President lol

  • @whatsup3519
    @whatsup3519 Год назад +2

    please make a video about Counter culture of 60s,and the reason behind it?Why did it deviate towards free love ,LSD? What does this have to do with anti war protest?

  • @gaudiummundi8412
    @gaudiummundi8412 Год назад

    What's about "How get rich after destroying the Twin Towers"???

  • @Shmug_
    @Shmug_ 7 месяцев назад

    I thought Gorbachev was popular because of “Glasnost”.