@@anonymouse527 I guess it’s a cultural crossover then since there’s so many ppl in America who willingly wear shorts when it snows or is below freezing😂
It's quite funny how vague he keeps it. Anyways, he should have said "peasant family" as that would have been less inaccurate than saying "worker family"
@@r3v773 Sad about Romanov? Hell no, I don't get why people workship their tyrants, did you forget the bloody Sunday of January 1905, also the white guards could have used the Romanov as a tool to restore the old zarist Russia
officially there is no war now. Russia did not declare war on Ukraine, and Ukraine did not declare war on Russia after the invasion (because it knows that this will result in the complete destruction of Ukraine with the help of aviation and artillery, and not just a harmless invasion as it is now)
@@gunterodim1535 it’s not a “harmless invasion” people are dying, getting hurt, having their lives and homes ripped apart. No part of this is harmless and you’re delusional for thinking so
@@mason2324 Russia is more mindful of civilians than NATO and America has ever been. If they didn’t care about civilian corridors and focus on military targets this would have been over a week ago
This is fast becoming one of my favourite channels. You ask simple, short questions that somehow are deep and probing. It’s a real skill. You show the diversity of thought and opinion in Russia brilliantly. What comes across is how well they know their own country and how comparatively little they really know of others. Every video has a few people I instantly warm to and one or two who I would probably avoid in the pub - exactly like every country!
@@doin_fine But hey 5-10 millions of Russians died in civil war so Lenin can take power and kill and steal from even bigger number of people! So lets forget about it and lets talk about porn... 200IQ🤣 You know that in whole WW2 less than 5 millions of Germans died in world war that they lost? And that 5-10 millions of dead people was only start of communist score in XX century... NKVD, gulags, "sluggish schizophrenia"->people locked in mental hospitals for thinking that communism is not the best system in the world... you know all the good stuff that you love so much!
This video was the hardest one to finish from the channel in awhile, the level of psychosis from each person had me pausing every 30 seconds. Great editing on your part for causing that effect.
As someone who lives in the US Lenin to me is someone who I found very interesting as a Revolutionary. I know a majority of the west over here likes to depict him as some tyrant without doing their research and will buy into the westernize propaganda. This was the guy within history, who's goal was to establish a society that emphasizes worker's self management. Lenin had advocated for Communism and once he came to power, he did his best to implement those ideas giving the Russian working-class/peasants what they wanted.
It was a new idea. Someone tested it out. It failed miserably. I hope communism is eradicated. Like, he was perhaps doing what he believed in. He was against monarchy, the Romanovs were just not functioning. Lenin did skyrocket the country to high status, but so does Every Socialist/communist nation and then collapses or fails. China's saving grace was opening private sector.
Ik its been a year but watching this vid now and this is facts. Did Lenin do bad things? Yes obviously but he always did it to advance the revultion and did what he thought was best and not only that but he was always honest about why
Wow do they need a refresher on the history of Russian Communism, a lot of confusion between Lenin's outlook for the party and the Country and Stalin's. Most of the "bad" things that were mentioned about Lenin were in fact done by Stalin. Stalin's USSR was nothing like Lenin's USSR. If Stalin never became leader of the CCCP and the USSR it would of been a much more successful form of government and would most likely still be the main political force in Russia and the Balkan States.
@@justasimplemathematicallye3917 what starvations are you talking about? And how Molotov Ribbentrop pact is a bad thing? This is literally a victory of soviet diplomacy which won some time for preparations for war.
Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary. You will find many bad and good things about revolutionaries. Revolutionaries aren't evil nor are they saints they are revolutionaries.
Time to wake up... "Lenin" by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski... you know the book that whole world was reading before the WW2 and the best depiction of Lenin and his revolution made by real witness!
Ленин - творец советской государственной модели, он дал ей легитимность, запустил механизм функционирования. Ленинские идеи индустриализации, культурной революции, поголовной грамотности были сильнейшими в его политическом арсенале. Большевики открыли беспрецедентные социальные лифты для миллионов людей из низов. Дали если не лучшую жизнь, то надежду многим обездоленным. Многие не знают историю, а зря ,потому что без прошлого нет будущего.
~don't look at the milions Innocent workers and peasants killed, the exact samr tsarist oppression and the Bolshevik leaders living the life of Luxury. It's goid because it had hammer and the sickle as it's symbol
"Многие не знают историю" 5-10 млн погибло в гражданской войне, чтобы к власти мог прийти человек, который даже придумал себе имя... Книга: "Ленин" - Оссендовский Антоний Фердинанд, Это должно быть обязательным чтением для всех, кто любит Ленина.
Samo je prije toga pobijao 20milijuna Rusa u gradjanskom ratu a Staljin drugih 20u svojoj vladavini . da li ste vi ljudi normalni .Komunisti tj. Ruski zidovi kojih je bilo u politbirou i nkvde,75 posto uništili Ruski narod
@@nikolaysokolnikov2677 в то время, раз уж вы апеллируете к Столыпину, крестьяне в рабочие уходили тогда и только тогда, когда у них в хозяйстве оставалось на столько мало земли, что он не то что заработать, а прокормиться с неё не мог.
@@nikolaysokolnikov2677 надо напомнить, что при Столыпине он мог уехать просто в голую степь и там разбираться как может. да, некоторые проценты населения, могли из крестьян стать уважаемыми кулаками, но только за счёт остального большинства, так уж распределяются материальные блага.
I have born as Czechoslovakian ,we had good live at that time , free university, free healths system ,stabil jobs , houses you could affort ! no homless people , no debts , never loose job . tradtional live style ,no prostitutes on strrets or drug dealers ! capitalism is not far from fasicm , rich people become rich from stilling and than decide about your live
At 2:00 the person said he was from a worker family who owned a big farm, while I cant be certain but that sounds a lot like he was from a kulak family
Russia is made up of Scandinavian peoples duh. I hope your not russian? If you are shame on you. Swedish vikings headed to Russia and made it what it is now. Since 8th century. Duh
@@brianticas7671 are you sure? :-) sorry to disappoint you but slavic / Rus culture existed long before the Scandinavia thawed and became inhabited :-)
1:57 From a simple working family and a large household. Few people had a large household. It was owned by kulaks and landowners. Ordinary workers and peasants did not always have even one cow. Yes, sometimes there were medium people and they were hit a little, but it is impossible to do such a great job without a single mistake. 1:57 Из простой трудовой семьи и большое хозяйство. Большое хозяйство было мало у кого. Им владели кулаки и помещики. Обычные рабочими и крестьяне даже одной коровы не всегда имели. Да, иногда встречались средняки и по ним немного ударили, но сделать такую большую работу без единой ошибки невозможно.
The elderly lady nailed it. The radicals know how to destroy but not to artfully transform. Lenin forced changes needed to get rid of an antiquated absolute monarchy but he could have transformed it to be like that in the UK and then have left in tack things he could have used to build on. Russian could have actually gotten much more out of WW II if a different approach was taken. Stalin got lucky because FDR was too old and sick to negotiate effectively and FDR did not use Truman so Truman came in when FDR died woefully uninformed.
@@Lesboi I know all about Cromwell and he set England backwards and it was not the UK at that time. Het real. The USSR no longer exist and Russia is now back to its Orthodox roots.
@@Lesboi ok, but with that positive came unnecessary destruction of Russian strengths and societal cohesion. Stalin had to actually go back and rely on the Russian Orthodox Church yo aid his effort in the Great Patriotic War
Классно живём, ни черта никто ничего не знает из истории собственной страны, но мнения имеют. Благо не все окончательно отупели и есть ещё на нашей земле разумные люди, правда такие живописные срезы общества, увы, никаких перспектив светлого будущего не предвещают.
да пусть хоть так, у нас люди хоть могут свою страну на карте найти, я конечно не из такого типа людей, которые везде приплетут Америку, но я видел сотни видео, где люди из США просто напросто не могут назвать пять любых стран, не могут найти свою страну на карте, ничего не знают об истории и т.д
@@seepmoney нет, это не нормально и не стоит возводить невежество в принцип. С таким уровнем понимания жизни и образования общество обречено, и не вижу в этом ничего позитивного.
9 Things You May Not Know About Vladimir Lenin 1. Lenin's brother was hanged for plotting to kill the czar. ... 2. Lenin was kicked out of college. ... 3. Lenin was exiled to Siberia for three years. ... 4. Lenin was not his real name. ... 5. Lenin hoped Russia would lose World War I. ... 6. Lenin quickly did away with an experiment in democracy 7. Lenin succeeded where his brother had failed. As civil war raged between Lenin’s supporters and opponents, Czar Nicholas II and his family were awakened on the night of July 16, 1918, and instructed to dress quickly. Their captors in Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, purportedly told them that the anti-Bolshevik White Army was closing in, and that they needed to move to a safer location. Instead, however, the czar, his wife, their five children and four servants were whisked into a basement, where a firing squad burst in and gunned them all down. 8. Lenin began to harbor serious doubts about Stalin. Stalin, a close member of Lenin’s inner circle, became general secretary of the Communist Party in April 1922. Soon after, Lenin began to regret that appointment. In a letter to Russia’s congress, penned in December 1922 and January 1923 but not read until after his death, he described Stalin as “too rude.” “This failing … becomes intolerable in the office of general secretary,” he wrote, adding that Stalin should be replaced with someone “more patient, more loyal, more respectful and more attentive to his comrades, less capricious and so on.” In a separate letter, Lenin accused Stalin of having “the gall to call my wife to the telephone and abuse her.” Around that time, however, Lenin suffered a third stroke that left him essentially unable to speak. Stalin went on to win a vicious power struggle to succeed Lenin and become one of the 20th century’s most notorious dictators. 9. Lenin was mummified following his death.
As Russian, I would say that Lenin was an extremely controversial person. Of course, he was a leader who truly believed in communism and revolution. But what are the results? I think the results were just awful. We have lost our most powerful economy and communication with Europe. Russia has lost part of its culture, has lost its cultural core, it was mired in world confrontation and isolationism and global lag almost everywhere, including science, culture and so on for the next century. And what for that was done? For a dream? That was a monstrous experiment on tens and hundreds of millions of people and the fate of a huge and great country!
why? Russian culture has not been destroyed, but a new Soviet culture has appeared, gradually replacing the old Russian culture. Look at European and American countries. All their musicians play classical music? The Soviet Union created by Lenin was extremely powerful. In order to be competitive with the Soviet system, the West gradually learned from the Soviet Union and adopted the labor security law, which narrowed the gap between the Western world and the Soviet Union. Not Lenin, people all over the world now live in the cruel side of capitalism. In the past, the Soviet Union represented democracy, and the West represented freedom. After the death of the Soviet Union, freedom and democracy were all represented by the West. There are many reasons in Russian history, Peter Arikseyevich Romanov and Ekaterina II, they are just great men of Russia. Lenin is not only a great man in Russia but also a great man in the world. Because Lenin changed the world. And why are you praying for the western world to accept you? Since your Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus converted to Orthodox Church, the western world has not accepted you.
@@FarisMoringstar so, First of all, I didn't say that Russian culture was destroyed. But the Soviets destroyed a monstrous amount of cultural monuments, primarily temples and churches, which in addition to their religious significance had a historical and cultural legacy. In addition, tons of information about the people of the past were stored in churches. In addition, thanks to soviet policy, the core of Russian culture was destroyed. The village is the keeper of traditions, cultural peculiarities. And what is it now? They are dying out. Even the authorities of today, with all their will, can't stop this process. The Iron Curtain, which happened, among other things, because of the Soviet politicians. Russian culture became isolated from the rest of the world, which led to its inevitable backwardness. So was science. As well as everything else. During the Russian Empire, Russian culture was fully integrated into the world culture. The whole world read and reads now famous Russian writers (Tolstoy, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Chekhov, Bunin, Dostoevsky). Paintings by Russian artists (Aivazovsky, for example) still appear at auctions. Equally importantly, the Soviets divided Russian culture and the Russian people into 3 parts. Just think about it! It's like dividing the Han people into 3 separate peoples. Allocate separate broad autonomies to them. Then reform, develop their language and establish them in that territory and force them to learn separate languages. This is not to say that they have allocated 14 (!!!!!!!!!!) separate republics with their own cultures and languages on the territory of Russia. Secondly, there is no Soviet culture. All the world famous Soviet writers (Bulgakov, Gorky, Sholokhov) - were born in the Russian Empire. This is the cultural legacy of the Russian Empire, not an example of "Soviet" culture. Thirdly, occupational safety laws would have been passed without Soviet influence. Competitiveness had nothing to do with the fact that the West first did not recognise and shun the USSR and then completely shut it out. There was no contact and no competition. There was only mutual discredit. Fourth, there are poor, middle and rich classes in the world. They existed in the USSR. But the average worker in the USSR had incomparably less income, choice and opportunity than the average worker from France, for example. Fifthly, the USSR never embodied democracy. In the 1920s the country was in chaos, in the 1930s it became an empire led by a tyrant, where every dissident was hunted down, as well as talented people whose work later became of world significance. Lenin's only merit was that he started an experiment on Russia. A terrible experiment, the negative results of which I could go on and on. Sixthly, as far as the West is concerned, I do not pray for its acceptance. Because of the Cold War, we have become the epitome of evil for the West, and we can only become part of it now as a weak colony. And it will take many decades or centuries to change their attitude towards us, and that's assuming there is no confrontation between us. I am only stating the facts. I'm tired =((
I'm very curious as to what Russians think of the book 'Gulag Archipelago ' and if they refuse to understand or think it's a lie. How can anyone support communism after reading that? Genuinely curious.
@@grosezero8834 in 23 his mind started going, one of the last things he wrote was a letter saying Stalin should be removed from his position and Trotsky should be his successor. He didn't want Stalin in power, Stalin is the one who destroyed the Union.
That guy wasn't dumb, he just meant that for him to say MORE about Lenin would require to get to know him personally which is obviously impossible but still he meant that we cannot trust history books telling us about historical personas. We must indeed know them personally to have our opinion be less biased depending on the author we chose to believe.
1:24 reminds me of my grandma, she was born in Poland and moved to USSR in WW2, she received a socialist education and while keeping skeptical about the things around her, revered Lenin and his accomplishments for the working class. I was a kid receiving a US education and used to disagree with her without knowing why. I later learned about Lenin and read his works, now I understand my grandma and we talk about the USSR on occasion, it’s great
@@RedScareClair it’s interesting because she’s seen so much. She lived under Stalin and returned decades later to Brezhnev USSR and said so much had changed. She lives in the US now but laments a lot of the guarantees that she had back in the 40s and early 50s. She had a good free education a nice home and a wonderful healthy family with good medical care and PTO. I don’t wanna get into a whole thing but yea from what she tells me, the USSR while it wasn’t heaven was generous and Lenin changed the nation forever
@@se7enei8htnin97 i don't know if i can be mad but i really do not like Lenin or communism i mean the communist Chinese government did take everything from us
When was an evil monster who murdered millions of innocent people to create a totalitarian state. He should have been hanged for crimes against humanity.
Categorically correct my comrade. I love Soviet Union and it's history. It makes my blood boil that the youths of Russia are so illiterate as compared to their babushkas.
I am Russian if you care... All of them are different people. I respect Peter I very much, he made so much for Russia and he did it with high quality. There are also Alexander I, but he didn't do much in domestic policy (by reason of Napoleon and economic crisis I guess), and Alexander II who made the peasants free in 1861 and it was such a great transformation. Nevertheless he was killed by terrorist wich wasn`t much smart because after that there were two conservative rulers. Sooo I`d say that if Alexander II wasn`t murdered, we would had probably escaped the October Revolucion and had an emperor today. But History decided that Romanovs rulled Russia only 300 years...
What do Russian think about the Romanovs? Well, let's see, my great great great father used to be a Leib guard for the Romanovs and then they all got murdered.
Man a lot of these people don’t know much about their history. Learning from history is how you improve the future. Sounds like the young generation don’t really care about Lenin or communism but the older generation who lived in the USSR generally support him.
Millenials are simply like that. As I millenial I can confirm this. My own generation can’t name 3 major battles fought on our soil during WW2. Or commanders, or anything more than that.
Not exactly. Older people who lived in USSR have either mixed opinion on him, negative or positive. Opinions vary when it comes to older generations too.
Older generation don't know about some crimes and scary things, that were commited during Lenin times. Also they were studied in Soviet schools. Soviet historiography is the same fantasy as Americian one. Most of people in Russia of 80-90s era don't care about politics. Modern generation don't cares about history and school. In my historicial opinion Lenin is genius of politics and politicial concurention. But during his times Russia lost 60% of all africulture and 90% of industry, lost a lot of territories, Poland, that also conquerred half of Ukraine and Belarus' , Baltics, Moldova, Finland. 10 million people died from hunger and war, all country was destroyed and was in ruins. He build socialist state.
@@arty5876 I'd like to ask what history book have you been reading? Lenin's government did not kill 10 million people, and it is only books made by the americans during the cold war that put ridiculous numbers like Stalin killing 60 million people (which is imposible because there was population growth during his time) - The truth is that the revolution was coming anyways and Lenin wasn't the only actor in it anyways, but was the one that knew how to get through the situation and deliver what he promised, Peace Land and Bread
@@Burrito69killer 6 millions people died from hunger, that was caused by destructive Civil War and Millitary Communism politics - soldiers and workers with weapons took the harvest from peasants. Enterprises were given to the worker control or nationalized. Workers lost their morivation to work, because there is no more capitalists, that could dismiss them for bad work. Also workers made their interprises irretable, because they simply made their salary bigger (Unteached workers didn't knew that total cost of money is equal to total cost of product, money don't have cost by their own, and there is no difference how many money you have, but difference is how many product). As a result less product, more money, inflation of economy, the prices are growing when there is less product with same number of money, but this cause the problems with organization of production - production of something also needs money to pay, as a result of which production become more expensive and fell, and there is cycle. That caused hunger economical decline. Most people in modern Russia blame the people, who destroyed Soviet Union, saying that in 90s there was unemlloyment ratio 25%, inflation of 300% per year and decline of everything. This people even sometimes hate the Soviet Union, but they still blame Eltsin. They don't know, that when Soviet Union was established, there was much higher and scary crisis, with same inlation in 4 years between 1922 and 1917 as a result of wonderful communist politics and Civil War. In 1922 there was the denomination of Rouble, the Rouble of 1921 was equal to 10 000 Roubles of 1918. Middle salary in 1913 was 80 Roubles, in 1921 - 300 000 Roubles. Also government controlled enterprises were unnefective due to the fact, that officials aren't motivated to lead the enterprise as capitalists, that gain profit from enterprise, and they interested in growth and profitability. 1.6 million soldiers died in Civil War from both sides, and 1.8 peasants were killed. 6 millions people immigrated from Russia, this were the scientists, ingeeners, and etc. . Russia lost a lot of territories with population. And we not talking about Brest-Litowsk peace threaty, when Germany occupied Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Baltics, and even landed in Helsinki. Thanks to the Antanta Germany lost the war, and Communists took Ukraine and Belarus. But Poland occupied some territories of Ukraine and Belarus.
@@beketyermek6853 and before there was a famine every 20 or so years in the Russian Empire and after this famine there were no famines any more, can you imagine that?
@@letsplaywithmegacyborg3098 they exploited people, we all know that in tsarist times in Russia, farm laborers received pennies, Lenin did a lot of good for this country.
How does an American socialist feel about Lenin? No need to dissemble and be afraid of censure from any of the parties, speak as it is. The next question is, have you read at least one work of Lenin and Marx?
@@byzantium7638 it seems as though the other guy isn't going to answer your question so If your interested I can give an answer. As an American ML I atleast see lenin as a man who had done the impossible to a backwards futile country transforming it from a land that still had middle ages working conditions to a country where the common people actually felt like a human being instead of property to a lord or factory boss. He showed the world that even a country that was lagging behind the rest of the world ruled by a family who was completely out of touch with humanity could be transformed into a global super power that had the west shaking in their overpriced boots. He inspired workers all over the world to stand up for better working conditions and quality of life in general. Some places the revolutions worked others failed either from incompetent leadership or government Crack downs like in America. Revolution could've worked here if they had tried a few years before WW1 when the u.s. had a small army of around 127000 soldiers compared to 8 million in WW2. I have no idea where you are from but if you are american you are well aware of how lenin and the soviet union are demonized in the media and in teachings at school. Although if you are not ill give examples. We are taught that lenin was on par with the evil of hitler which is quite ridiculous for anyone with a functioning brain which is also hard to come across in american or atleast in the little slice of hell they call ohio. Also we are taught atleast I was taught that America made it to Berlin first and liberated auschwitz. A fundemental flaw with our education system is there is a standardized cariculum but is loosely followed and leaves more room for the teachers beliefs than actual fact. I believed the bullshit for a long time until I started doing my own research when I was about 16 or so into Marxist theory and the works of him and lenin I consider myself to have a good understanding of Marxist leninism but there is always more to learn I could go on for hours but I'll leave it here. If you have anymore questions I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my abilities.
@@unfairweather I'd say 50/50. When the USSR collapsed, most people were in favor of capitalism, especially young people, but the last 30 years have shown that socialism was not so bad idea.
@@Vadim_Sulimovare positive views of socialism more bc of socialist ideology (ie marx/Engels/Lenin) or because of the historical power of the USSR? If that makes sense
@@jakeavakov5230 of course not 99% of the americans, and of course the knowledge of this girl doesn't reflect the average russian level in history. I've known americans who knew more about my country's history than me...and I'm a student in history.
The education of the old people is so good because the Soviet Union's education was aimed at making people aware of how to even govern their country and was also aimed vigorously at making them aware of history.
yeah and if they said anything bad about their "great leaders" you, me and all of us know what would have happened, better live in a happy bubble than knothing the truth.
@@perfectmazda3538 fun fact, some officers openly wrote letters of disapproval to the head of state with 0 repercussion whatsoever. Disagreement among individuals was fine and fairly common, u just could not politically do anything “anti-communist”. Still limited freedom, but hardly as bad as you make it out to be. American politics was the same at the time, we fired a quarter of our government for being suspected ‘communists’ and encouraged people to spy on their neighbors. People like u always conveniently forget the red scare
They had a good education system to an extent, but in the political realm it was strict and limited to what the CPSS wanted you to hear. I don't think you can be "aware of history" in the sense you suggest through a Marxist-Leninist lens.
@@JohnKobaRuddy prove what? Lenin was a great Marxist Leninist thinker, Stalin was a thinker aswell and a great leader, but Lenin is beyond reach, without Lenin there would be no Stalin.
Soviet education was clearly superior too modern Russian education. The one strong take away I took was the belief that the USSR a person was bettering their own nation(community, society, peoples), and in modern russia your just focused on your own betterment and there is nothing wrong with that either. Putin is a product of the USSR
That guy at 0:20 is a king. "We need to think about the future. We make the future." Lenin 100% agrees. 2:40 Little do you know that the dog was actually quoting "State and Revolution" and explaining Lenin's ideas...you just couldn't understand it. 3:55 "It's a shame they shot the royal family. A shame." And it's a shame the royal family murdered tens of thousands of unarmed people who were very unhappy about famine, the lack of rights, massive poverty, etc. And there was a massive faction of monarchists that could very easily have tried to reinstate the royal family (I mean, it's not like they fought a civil war over control of the country or anything...oh, wait!). Doesn't make it right, but karma's a B***.
Fun historical fact: The monarchist faction was hardly "massive". Monarchism was mostly limited to the aristocratic commanders & public faces of the white movement. It was actually a huge liability, especially for countries like the UK and US, to be seen supporting a supposed monarchist restoration, especially after they had just been through a catastrophic war to defeat the kaiserreich. Arguably the execution of the Romanovs only helped the White movement by removing the monarchist albatross from their neck - allowing "democratic" powers to freely support anticommunist forces without having to worry about the PR nightmare that was Nicky II.
@@TessHKM "Massive" enough in the forces they controlled. Sure, numerically the faithful monarchists were not a large number, but it's not necessary to maintain a massive army that fights for that numerically small number. The faction was "massive" in regards to the forces it commanded, though I should have found a better way to put it, so I'll accept the correction that it was "hardly massive." That said, the Provisional Government was working towards reinstating the monarchy, and while some people say "but the royal family turned it down," the fact is that Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, who Nicholas II abdicated his and his son's claims to the throne to, made the condition that he WOULD take the throne only if the Constituent Assembly legitimized it through law. The PR nightmare of Nicky II wouldn't have even been a thing, and the legitimacy of the constitutionally recognized monarchy would have been a boone to the White movement by the marriage of democracy and monarchy helping to bring the various factions of the White and other anti-Bolshevik movements together. I'll admit to not being a scholar on everything that happened in those times, what the motives were etc, so I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that I'm missing that gives more context and such to what was going on that we didn't really see. Things like correcting me on the size of the monarchist faction's actual proponents not being the same as their military power or political influence. So thanks for the correction.
"What are the good things that Lenin did?" Answer: Founded a country that saw the first ever implementation of a new economic system. The country went from very poor to very rich in a short amount of time. The USSR enjoyed the fastest economic growth in the history of the world and became the 2nd wealthiest and most powerful country in the world within 50 years of it's inception. Thats not exactly nothing XD
Wasn't quite the fastest economic growth, but rather 4th fastest. Behind Germany after the Nazi party took power up until the outset of WW2, China the last decade+, and the United States just after WW2
Don’t forget they pretty much started the whole space race. First person in space. First to circumnavigate the planet. First woman in space. First space walk. They literally took a country from feudalism to the cosmos in less than 50 years.
@@Pvt.Conscriptovich какой пиздежь. Пришёл домой и вместо хи-хи видосов посмотри что-то историческое, почитай. Нет, это тяжело. Лучше жить дураком. Не оправдывай себя. Есть наушники, есть аудио-подкасты.
"Lenin could have made some reforms like implementing an eight-hour workday. My brother in Christ, that was codified four days after the October Revolution.
As an Indian teenager saying after watching this video, I have better knowledge about USSR history just from my textbooks than these russian youngstars.......
that guy at 2:00 " my grandma was from a workers family", 1 second later "they had their own big farm" . LOL , now I get where all the anticommunist stuff comes from from supposed "normal workers that lived there"
@@thestifmyster1 I think they are just more educated, and that's a fact. the level of education fell from top positions to some kind of bottom + in modern Russia we are taught myths about bloodthirsty Lenin, even in schools we are forced to read Solzhenitsyn
@@РусланБекиров-э7ч No bro you are wrong. I live in post Soviet country. I know from my grand parents they didn't like him. There were photos of him in school and it was a rule to not say anything against Lenin and also love Lenin. They were teaching that in school from first grade. Most post I post Soviet countries hate Lenin. Only those who benefited from him still like him. Every educated man knows what a bad person he was.
The man whose ancestors were kulaks and had their farms taken told the best story here because it seems to be a firsthand account experienced by his great grandmother. Most interviewees either know Lenin from what the education taught them or have vague or none information of him at all.
His comment shows that good and evil, right and wrong, good or bad, most of times has to do with the position you have or the situation you are in. For example I Believe that it would be great to leave in medieval France if you were the king, but not if you were a farmer!
First thing the bolchevik did was give farmland to the presents who worked on it. The peasants made up the majority of the army and the population of pre industrial Russia as a whole. Unfortunetly, they got it rough, as did everyone, during the civil war. What really fucked them over was Stalin yoyoing between far left and right elements in the bolchevik party. After building up the wealth of the kulaks (despite being warned and discouraged by the left opposition, he then destroyed) , stalin soon realised they were right and in respons forced collectivation of all peasant property, one day to the other, entering a huge famine.
@@mitsos306ify There is book: "Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel" by John Scott. John Scott was as clueless as you and he made decision to leave USA and move to Soviet Union. In that book you can find John Scott experience from his visit in France, he was in a cafe and two beggars entered the premises to ask for money. What caught his attention was the fact that the French beggars was better looking and wore better clothes than the talented and hardworking specialist in his Soviet work place... So stop babling about French king and claiming that live of common man in Soviet Union was somewhat better because whole country was mostly producing weapons and tanks and typical worker was dreaming about bike when worker in USA was able to buy his own car after one or two years of hard work!!!
@@costbart During civil war that Lenin started 5 to 10 millions of Russians died... in whole war on all fronts and during all boombing "only" 5 millions of Germans died in WW2. Life of farmer in tsar Russia was bad but purges and nationalisation of private property was not an improvement. People did nothing to stop Lenin and his bolsheviks because WW1 was so bad and people wanted to see peace and some positive change and Lenin was telling to all his people to promise Russian people what ever they wanted to hear! All the books from Soviet Union claiming that he delivered what he promised... No he did not! But he was the new Tsar and he got Red Army and NKVD to deal with everyone that was unhapy with new Tsar(even name of LEnin was fake!). Read pre WW2 world bestseller: 'Lenin' by Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski if you want to learn the truth about Lenin...
I guess we humans are just generally badly informed about ourselves as a whole, which is why some politicians could get away with seemingly unacceptable actions.
A great quote from Comrade Lenin in 1913: "People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."
3:33 I don't know if this guy is joking, but that "we have democracy" part was really fun. We basically have the king and his friends in power here in Russia, all oppositionists are already in jail 🤣
If that's the case, you'd be an exception to the rule I'm afraid. No insult to you personally. You may know more about him than the average person, but the average American knows very little about him now; especially among the post-Cold War generation. I actually talked to a guy around 30 today who didn't even know what the Soviet Union was.
@@frostwang6557 Yeah, I forgot to type that she probably forgot about the conflict with Georgia in 2008. Though to be fair, the engagements between Russians and Georgians weren't that major and that confrontation lasted only a few days in August, which I really wouldn't consider a major war conflict, which is probably what she meant.
@@jpegxguy thanks to your local propaganda (and mine honestly) :/ Russian news said there was a referendum with the Crimeans about accession to Russia. I've been there again after 10 years and didn't see anything negative with Russian tourists. Most of them are ethnic Russians (how i think)... But I understand that the whole story is not good and is connected with the military interests of both sides (i dont mean Ukraine in that case at all).
We can all have blank moments in our knowledge of history. In UK I know next to nothing about anyone who lived in the same years Lenin lived, & I tried looking up a few names this past week but they seemed so uneventful I fell asleep XD
@@СерГей-я2щ6н смотря какую историю, и кто её рассказывает. В прошлом слишком много фигни которую лучше забыть типа религий, воин, делёжки, и обид. Молодые учатся ненавидеть друг друга из-за поступков предков которые умерли 100 лет назад.
Lenin did not want to kill the royal family, only their haters did it, read on the Internet about the red and white terror during the civil war in Russia, it is strange that they only mention the red terror, but they forgot about the white terror of the tsar's supporters and the intervention of the Americans, the British, Czechs, who killed communists and built prisons for them
To Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists. Comrades! The uprising by the five kulak volosts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, for we are now facing everywhere the “final decisive battle” with the kulaks. We need to set an example. 1. You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the people see) no fewer than 100 of the notorious kulaks, the rich and the bloodsuckers. 2. Publish their names. 3. Take all their grain from them. 4. Appoint the hostages - in accordance with yesterday’s telegram. This needs to be done in such a way that the people for hundreds of versts around will see, tremble, know and shout: they are throttling and will throttle the bloodsucking kulaks. From Lenin's Hanging order, which can be read here: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/11c.htm Lenin didn't order the killing just like Nicholas didn't order Bloody Sunday, but it happened. www.history.com/news/romanov-family-murder-execution-reasons
Lenin didn’t really order to kill the, however do note that should they be kept alive, foreign imperialists could recognise the family as the rightful heir to the thrones or the ones in power and with the white army potentially reinstituting them and later on just kill every communist lmao, so whether or not Lenin ordered it, screw the romanovs anyways. In terms of the kulak case, the kulaks controlled at least half of the soviet good stock and violently resisted the collectivisation the Soviet Union introduced (of which peasants would be recognised as a working class and to be treated equally and not undermined by their leader), kulaks also did contributions to soviet famines like the holodomor, whereas the kulaks stole grain and wheat, contributing to even more deaths.
I legit died when he said that lmao like yep, your granny was a kulak. obviously the soviets didn't oppress the kulaks enough, that's how you get guys like him to this day.
by you from the WEST, if Russians believe that they live in a democracy - they live in it. Just your democracy and theirs aren't the same and that's okay. Just like your democracy from the '50s and '60s when black people were treated like dogs isn't the same democracy from 2021.
@@pezos5 Whether or not a country is democratic is based upon a set of facts and objective characteristics, not upon human emotion or a nationalistic feeling. Russia is more democratic than many countries, but less than the vast majority of developed nations. You can research the issue for yourself if you are willing to.
@@shidapu145 Democracy s a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so... Taken from the Wikipedia definition, I'd say that makes a good start. Perhaps now we need to apply this question to Russia, how much democracy do they have? According to a video from history matters, even during Stalin's time Russian people got a local representative, he or she would need at least a 50% vote to represent them, apparently voters would band together to spoil ballots in large numbers forcing the representative to either make things better or get replaced. To me, it doesn't sound as black or white as people like to think, but it certainly doesn't have as many choices as we might like to idealise.
@@CloudWalkBeta It was a rhetorical question democracy in capitalism is nowhere to be find people have no say in economy and politics they just vote every 4 years who the opressor will be.
Почему наша страна безгранична в своей "гениальности", некоторые личности утверждают, что в аграрной стране, живется лучше чем в индустриальной....... Так еще умудряются делать прогнозы на целый век вперед.....
Well Russians do elect their President and Parliament through a nation wide voting campaign. In the US POTUS is elected by electoral college. In Germany Chancellor is appointed by a ruling party. The UK technically is a freaking monarchy (in 21st century! lol). So yep on paper Russia is more democratic than any of those countries above.
The soviets took a country with medieval laws and government and transformed it into a world superpower. They were the first to put a man in space. I don't see Tsarist Russia making the same accomplishments.
Here you are thinking like a medieval man.In your opinion, in the rest of the world in 1917, when the empire collapsed, someone flew into space?You didn't even give it time.Russians were intelligent and cultured people even at that time.Mendeleev invented a table of chemicals.Popov invented the radio.
0:47 happy to see Dostoyevski is still with us
this beard is majestic :D
even his shirt is like something from 1800's lol
Lmao
He also said a smart thing
He is wearing a t shirt in probably 30 degree weather lolol
so confused about the weather, I’m seeing a guy in a t shirt and women looking like the michelin man
It seems they don't agree about Lenin and also about the temperature.
In Russia, it's a perceived sign of coolness/superiority [among some people] to dress light in freezing weather.
@@anonymouse527 so true! And there are many jokes about it)
Agreed.i wonder how cold it really is over there
@@anonymouse527 I guess it’s a cultural crossover then since there’s so many ppl in America who willingly wear shorts when it snows or is below freezing😂
What Americans think of lenin:
He should have not married Yoko.
Hahahahah
good one)))
Wow an actually funny and original joke lol
Lenon 😭
Stfu, Donny. V. I. Lenin. Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov.
>my great-grandmother was from a workers family
>They had their own big farm
It's quite funny how vague he keeps it. Anyways, he should have said "peasant family" as that would have been less inaccurate than saying "worker family"
the probably owned slaves. Kulaks did that
Saw that on genzedong I mean if kulaks were oppressed look at batraks lmao
I mean, you must know that worker in Russian may not exactly mean a factory worker. People do reffer to peasent as workers as well.
Ahhhh commie bad they took my slaves away from me and freed them ahhhh
Funny how they are sad about Romanov's and not about the living condition of the people at that time....
@@r3v773 Sad about Romanov? Hell no, I don't get why people workship their tyrants, did you forget the bloody Sunday of January 1905, also the white guards could have used the Romanov as a tool to restore the old zarist Russia
@@karwoski91 I think he barely know history at all. History is not about good or bad it's about facts.
@@r3v773 who killed the ukrainians? you confused with the nazis?
@@r3v773 The Romanovs killed and oppressed Ukrainians and even banned there language.
They study from hollywood movies...
In Vietnam, we see him as a symbol of the fight against colonialism. He is the hero, a Uncle Ho's teacher.
*Approved
Does it have a link with the fact that Vietnam is communist or something else?
@@Pikachu-sc1yc the Communist Party is individually ruling Vietnam, you can check that on Wikipedia or orther source.
Long live Uncle Ho, Lenin, and Stalin
In West we see you hungry and sad how does the whole socialism goes by the way does it work for you?
“Thanks to Putin we haven’t had wars for 20 years”
If irony could kill I’d be dead after seeing that
@@WeAreSoBackBros please tell me you’re not a russian supporter
@@WeAreSoBackBros Your comment = "2 weeks ago"
officially there is no war now. Russia did not declare war on Ukraine, and Ukraine did not declare war on Russia after the invasion (because it knows that this will result in the complete destruction of Ukraine with the help of aviation and artillery, and not just a harmless invasion as it is now)
@@gunterodim1535 it’s not a “harmless invasion” people are dying, getting hurt, having their lives and homes ripped apart. No part of this is harmless and you’re delusional for thinking so
@@mason2324 Russia is more mindful of civilians than NATO and America has ever been. If they didn’t care about civilian corridors and focus on military targets this would have been over a week ago
It was so cute when you interviewed the dog 🥰 He most definitely had my favourite answer 🥰❤️
He is non-political!
This is fast becoming one of my favourite channels. You ask simple, short questions that somehow are deep and probing. It’s a real skill. You show the diversity of thought and opinion in Russia brilliantly. What comes across is how well they know their own country and how comparatively little they really know of others. Every video has a few people I instantly warm to and one or two who I would probably avoid in the pub - exactly like every country!
When a Russian says: Lenin destroyed the Soviet Union
Me: I know every Fucking thing!
😯
But hey they export Russian porn stars to Europe now so everything worked out for the best.
@@doin_fine 😵😵😵 😑
@@doin_fine But hey 5-10 millions of Russians died in civil war so Lenin can take power and kill and steal from even bigger number of people! So lets forget about it and lets talk about porn... 200IQ🤣
You know that in whole WW2 less than 5 millions of Germans died in world war that they lost?
And that 5-10 millions of dead people was only start of communist score in XX century... NKVD, gulags, "sluggish schizophrenia"->people locked in mental hospitals for thinking that communism is not the best system in the world... you know all the good stuff that you love so much!
the dog had the best answer
The Russian beard is magnificient. I miss seeing more Russian mystical beards! Peter the Great is gone, let the beards grow!
This video was the hardest one to finish from the channel in awhile, the level of psychosis from each person had me pausing every 30 seconds. Great editing on your part for causing that effect.
As someone who lives in the US Lenin to me is someone who I found very interesting as a Revolutionary. I know a majority of the west over here likes to depict him as some tyrant without doing their research and will buy into the westernize propaganda. This was the guy within history, who's goal was to establish a society that emphasizes worker's self management. Lenin had advocated for Communism and once he came to power, he did his best to implement those ideas giving the Russian working-class/peasants what they wanted.
It was a new idea. Someone tested it out. It failed miserably. I hope communism is eradicated. Like, he was perhaps doing what he believed in. He was against monarchy, the Romanovs were just not functioning. Lenin did skyrocket the country to high status, but so does Every Socialist/communist nation and then collapses or fails.
China's saving grace was opening private sector.
@@AcidifiedMammoth would u want to talk?
But now we have a new problem.the great reset,and there's nothing great about it.buckle up, gonna be a real rough ride.
US doesn't even teach proper history, they fix everything to make themselves look gooder... than other leaders.
Ik its been a year but watching this vid now and this is facts. Did Lenin do bad things? Yes obviously but he always did it to advance the revultion and did what he thought was best and not only that but he was always honest about why
Wow do they need a refresher on the history of Russian Communism, a lot of confusion between Lenin's outlook for the party and the Country and Stalin's. Most of the "bad" things that were mentioned about Lenin were in fact done by Stalin. Stalin's USSR was nothing like Lenin's USSR. If Stalin never became leader of the CCCP and the USSR it would of been a much more successful form of government and would most likely still be the main political force in Russia and the Balkan States.
What bad things did Stalin do, huh?
@@LuchokPlay the great purge starvations molotov ribbentrop pact you know the usual
@@justasimplemathematicallye3917 what starvations are you talking about? And how Molotov Ribbentrop pact is a bad thing? This is literally a victory of soviet diplomacy which won some time for preparations for war.
@@LuchokPlay bitch the soviets provided nazis with equipment etc.
@@justasimplemathematicallye3917 all of Europe and US did
Парень который южной национальности понимает Россию гораздо больше чем половина русских из всего видео.
Согласен, парень думает логически и называет вещи своими именами.
Вы же понимаете что в России живут не только русские, и не только русские были в составе ссср))
@@user-gw2es7cy7e вопрос в количестве, соотношении.
Vladimir Lenin was a revolutionary. You will find many bad and good things about revolutionaries. Revolutionaries aren't evil nor are they saints they are revolutionaries.
No, most of them are pretty evil. Lenin killed millions.
@@peterfireflylund says the fascist
revolutionaries policy that cause death to millions peoples,sounds evil enough for me!
Revolutionaries spill a lot of blood
Time to wake up... "Lenin" by Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski... you know the book that whole world was reading before the WW2 and the best depiction of Lenin and his revolution made by real witness!
Everybody always has an opinion on me but no asks what's my opinion of them
Comrade what is your opinion??
Каково твое мнение
When will you come back comrade?
Is hell hot?
@@eduardodelemos7986 no actually its freezing with absolute emptiness
@@eduardodelemos7986 stfu landlord
Ленин - творец советской государственной модели, он дал ей легитимность, запустил механизм функционирования. Ленинские идеи индустриализации, культурной революции, поголовной грамотности были сильнейшими в его политическом арсенале. Большевики открыли беспрецедентные социальные лифты для миллионов людей из низов. Дали если не лучшую жизнь, то надежду многим обездоленным. Многие не знают историю, а зря ,потому что без прошлого нет будущего.
~don't look at the milions Innocent workers and peasants killed, the exact samr tsarist oppression and the Bolshevik leaders living the life of Luxury. It's goid because it had hammer and the sickle as it's symbol
"Многие не знают историю" 5-10 млн погибло в гражданской войне, чтобы к власти мог прийти человек, который даже придумал себе имя...
Книга: "Ленин" - Оссендовский Антоний Фердинанд, Это должно быть обязательным чтением для всех, кто любит Ленина.
Samo je prije toga pobijao 20milijuna Rusa u gradjanskom ratu a Staljin drugih 20u svojoj vladavini .
da li ste vi ljudi normalni .Komunisti tj. Ruski zidovi kojih je bilo u politbirou i nkvde,75 posto uništili Ruski narod
2:02 Чувак вообще огонь!
"4-19 Моя прабабушка была из простой рабочей семьи.
4-20 У них было своё большое хозяйство."
Если кто то имеет происхожденте из рабочих это не значит что он не мог получить хозяйство и расширить его. Особенно при Столыпине.
@@nikolaysokolnikov2677 в то время, раз уж вы апеллируете к Столыпину, крестьяне в рабочие уходили тогда и только тогда, когда у них в хозяйстве оставалось на столько мало земли, что он не то что заработать, а прокормиться с неё не мог.
@@nikolaysokolnikov2677 надо напомнить, что при Столыпине он мог уехать просто в голую степь и там разбираться как может. да, некоторые проценты населения, могли из крестьян стать уважаемыми кулаками, но только за счёт остального большинства, так уж распределяются материальные блага.
Just thought I’d let you know that the dog interview is what got me to like and sub :)
2:48 Nicholas the second: “ at least someone has forgotten about the famines and murders I committed and ordered “
Lenin the greatest person in history !!! Genius !!! Leader !!!
😃🥺☺️
yea only 5-10 millions died in civil war so he under his fake name could start Red Terror and murder even more people...
1:57 - "Была из простой рабочей семьи"
2:04 - "Своё большое хозяйство"
In my land in Tamilnadu, many people named there children with his name, shame on you, young generation of Russia
I have born as Czechoslovakian ,we had good live at that time , free university, free healths system ,stabil jobs , houses you could affort ! no homless people , no debts , never loose job . tradtional live style ,no prostitutes on strrets or drug dealers ! capitalism is not far from fasicm , rich people become rich from stilling and than decide about your live
At 2:00 the person said he was from a worker family who owned a big farm, while I cant be certain but that sounds a lot like he was from a kulak family
yeahhhh "big farm" 😂
funny how the people with negative opinions on lenin were either monarchists/fascists or kulaks.
wow this nature looks so Scandinavian with the right architecture it could've looked like Norway
Russia is made up of Scandinavian peoples duh. I hope your not russian? If you are shame on you. Swedish vikings headed to Russia and made it what it is now. Since 8th century. Duh
@@brianticas7671 are you sure? :-) sorry to disappoint you but slavic / Rus culture existed long before the Scandinavia thawed and became inhabited :-)
1:57 From a simple working family and a large household. Few people had a large household. It was owned by kulaks and landowners. Ordinary workers and peasants did not always have even one cow. Yes, sometimes there were medium people and they were hit a little, but it is impossible to do such a great job without a single mistake.
1:57 Из простой трудовой семьи и большое хозяйство.
Большое хозяйство было мало у кого. Им владели кулаки и помещики. Обычные рабочими и крестьяне даже одной коровы не всегда имели. Да, иногда встречались средняки и по ним немного ударили, но сделать такую большую работу без единой ошибки невозможно.
Communists killed 10 million peasants
that was so funny for me. “[my family was an ordinary working family, we had a large piece of land]”
W Lenin ✊🏻🚩
The elderly lady nailed it. The radicals know how to destroy but not to artfully transform. Lenin forced changes needed to get rid of an antiquated absolute monarchy but he could have transformed it to be like that in the UK and then have left in tack things he could have used to build on. Russian could have actually gotten much more out of WW II if a different approach was taken. Stalin got lucky because FDR was too old and sick to negotiate effectively and FDR did not use Truman so Truman came in when FDR died woefully uninformed.
UK- Cromwell and civil wars lol
@@Lesboi I know all about Cromwell and he set England backwards and it was not the UK at that time. Het real. The USSR no longer exist and Russia is now back to its Orthodox roots.
@@fmayer1507 but he laid the foundation for independent parliament and urbanite population through overthrowing of kings back then
@@Lesboi ok, but with that positive came unnecessary destruction of Russian strengths and societal cohesion. Stalin had to actually go back and rely on the Russian Orthodox Church yo aid his effort in the Great Patriotic War
Lenin and the bolsheviks killed the tsar family and basically destroyed Russia. Yet people still idolize this guy. I dont get it.
"people were living good before the revolution" bro literally was like "serfdom was better than communism" 😭
the outro was good. The camo-coat guy was funny
I like the dog's answer the best.
Классно живём, ни черта никто ничего не знает из истории собственной страны, но мнения имеют. Благо не все окончательно отупели и есть ещё на нашей земле разумные люди, правда такие живописные срезы общества, увы, никаких перспектив светлого будущего не предвещают.
да пусть хоть так, у нас люди хоть могут свою страну на карте найти, я конечно не из такого типа людей, которые везде приплетут Америку, но я видел сотни видео, где люди из США просто напросто не могут назвать пять любых стран, не могут найти свою страну на карте, ничего не знают об истории и т.д
@@seepmoney нет, это не нормально и не стоит возводить невежество в принцип. С таким уровнем понимания жизни и образования общество обречено, и не вижу в этом ничего позитивного.
@@paparomch тоже верно, но у нас люди уж не самые необразованные в плане знания истории
@@seepmoney может и так, статистики по данному вопросу нет, так что можно лишь фантазировать на этот счёт.
9 Things You May Not Know About Vladimir Lenin
1. Lenin's brother was hanged for plotting to kill the czar. ...
2. Lenin was kicked out of college. ...
3. Lenin was exiled to Siberia for three years. ...
4. Lenin was not his real name. ...
5. Lenin hoped Russia would lose World War I. ...
6. Lenin quickly did away with an experiment in democracy
7. Lenin succeeded where his brother had failed.
As civil war raged between Lenin’s supporters and opponents, Czar Nicholas II and his family were awakened on the night of July 16, 1918, and instructed to dress quickly. Their captors in Yekaterinburg, in the Ural Mountains, purportedly told them that the anti-Bolshevik White Army was closing in, and that they needed to move to a safer location. Instead, however, the czar, his wife, their five children and four servants were whisked into a basement, where a firing squad burst in and gunned them all down.
8. Lenin began to harbor serious doubts about Stalin.
Stalin, a close member of Lenin’s inner circle, became general secretary of the Communist Party in April 1922. Soon after, Lenin began to regret that appointment. In a letter to Russia’s congress, penned in December 1922 and January 1923 but not read until after his death, he described Stalin as “too rude.” “This failing … becomes intolerable in the office of general secretary,” he wrote, adding that Stalin should be replaced with someone “more patient, more loyal, more respectful and more attentive to his comrades, less capricious and so on.” In a separate letter, Lenin accused Stalin of having “the gall to call my wife to the telephone and abuse her.” Around that time, however, Lenin suffered a third stroke that left him essentially unable to speak. Stalin went on to win a vicious power struggle to succeed Lenin and become one of the 20th century’s most notorious dictators.
9. Lenin was mummified following his death.
As Russian,
I would say that Lenin was an extremely controversial person. Of course, he was a leader who truly believed in communism and revolution.
But what are the results?
I think the results were just awful. We have lost our most powerful economy and communication with Europe. Russia has lost part of its culture, has lost its cultural core, it was mired in world confrontation and isolationism and global lag almost everywhere, including science, culture and so on for the next century.
And what for that was done?
For a dream?
That was a monstrous experiment on tens and hundreds of millions of people and the fate of a huge and great country!
why? Russian culture has not been destroyed, but a new Soviet culture has appeared, gradually replacing the old Russian culture. Look at European and American countries. All their musicians play classical music? The Soviet Union created by Lenin was extremely powerful. In order to be competitive with the Soviet system, the West gradually learned from the Soviet Union and adopted the labor security law, which narrowed the gap between the Western world and the Soviet Union. Not Lenin, people all over the world now live in the cruel side of capitalism. In the past, the Soviet Union represented democracy, and the West represented freedom. After the death of the Soviet Union, freedom and democracy were all represented by the West. There are many reasons in Russian history, Peter Arikseyevich Romanov and Ekaterina II, they are just great men of Russia. Lenin is not only a great man in Russia but also a great man in the world. Because Lenin changed the world. And why are you praying for the western world to accept you? Since your Grand Duchy of Kievan Rus converted to Orthodox Church, the western world has not accepted you.
@@FarisMoringstar so,
First of all, I didn't say that Russian culture was destroyed. But the Soviets destroyed a monstrous amount of cultural monuments, primarily temples and churches, which in addition to their religious significance had a historical and cultural legacy. In addition, tons of information about the people of the past were stored in churches. In addition, thanks to soviet policy, the core of Russian culture was destroyed. The village is the keeper of traditions, cultural peculiarities. And what is it now? They are dying out. Even the authorities of today, with all their will, can't stop this process.
The Iron Curtain, which happened, among other things, because of the Soviet politicians. Russian culture became isolated from the rest of the world, which led to its inevitable backwardness. So was science. As well as everything else.
During the Russian Empire, Russian culture was fully integrated into the world culture. The whole world read and reads now famous Russian writers (Tolstoy, Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Chekhov, Bunin, Dostoevsky). Paintings by Russian artists (Aivazovsky, for example) still appear at auctions.
Equally importantly, the Soviets divided Russian culture and the Russian people into 3 parts. Just think about it! It's like dividing the Han people into 3 separate peoples. Allocate separate broad autonomies to them. Then reform, develop their language and establish them in that territory and force them to learn separate languages. This is not to say that they have allocated 14 (!!!!!!!!!!) separate republics with their own cultures and languages on the territory of Russia.
Secondly, there is no Soviet culture. All the world famous Soviet writers (Bulgakov, Gorky, Sholokhov) - were born in the Russian Empire. This is the cultural legacy of the Russian Empire, not an example of "Soviet" culture.
Thirdly, occupational safety laws would have been passed without Soviet influence. Competitiveness had nothing to do with the fact that the West first did not recognise and shun the USSR and then completely shut it out. There was no contact and no competition. There was only mutual discredit.
Fourth, there are poor, middle and rich classes in the world. They existed in the USSR. But the average worker in the USSR had incomparably less income, choice and opportunity than the average worker from France, for example.
Fifthly, the USSR never embodied democracy. In the 1920s the country was in chaos, in the 1930s it became an empire led by a tyrant, where every dissident was hunted down, as well as talented people whose work later became of world significance.
Lenin's only merit was that he started an experiment on Russia. A terrible experiment, the negative results of which I could go on and on.
Sixthly, as far as the West is concerned, I do not pray for its acceptance. Because of the Cold War, we have become the epitome of evil for the West, and we can only become part of it now as a weak colony. And it will take many decades or centuries to change their attitude towards us, and that's assuming there is no confrontation between us. I am only stating the facts.
I'm tired =((
@@FarisMoringstar we were integrated with the West thanks to Peter 1 The Great. And this integration and unification ended in 1917.
@@FarisMoringstar You obviously don't live in Russia. Grow up. You sound delusional as hell.
@@thenewparallel Well and truly said.
0:12 girl: he destroyed USSR
i mean what the hell bruhhh
I'm very curious as to what Russians think of the book 'Gulag Archipelago ' and if they refuse to understand or think it's a lie. How can anyone support communism after reading that? Genuinely curious.
Gulag archipelago was real but exaggerated. It was used to detain landlords.
They don't read it in school? And certainly not outside! Ha ha.
'He did his thing and then he died.'
That just about sums it up
Sums the majority of humanity up
@@alexonian2940 true
When history class is a compulsory course
That's the stupidest comment, says nothing.
It doesn't sum anything up ffs. It doesn't say anything! Lazy dimwits all over smh
"He destroyed the Soviet Union, right?"
Lenin rolls in the masoleum in confusion
Lol
Procede to put de right of auto determination to the republics in the soviet constitution
That is some American level of stupidity right there.
She said united/connected. It's wrong subtitles for some reason?
He destroyed russia and tagged few more countries along, dooming them for decades to come
When she said "he destroyed the soviet union" I wanted to put my head through a wall I wanted to cry I wanted to set something or someone on fire.
Same :(
and she looked the most russian bruh
He destroyed the soviet union by giving up on democracy and letting Stalin get to power think about it ...
@@grosezero8834 in 23 his mind started going, one of the last things he wrote was a letter saying Stalin should be removed from his position and Trotsky should be his successor. He didn't want Stalin in power, Stalin is the one who destroyed the Union.
@@ripussr1766 well he gave him the secretary role - RIP
History Test: Who was Lenin?
Me: "... I can't say more since I haven't met him in person" ( 1:07 )
Plot twist:he was lying, he's actually Rasputin
That guy wasn't dumb, he just meant that for him to say MORE about Lenin would require to get to know him personally which is obviously impossible but still he meant that we cannot trust history books telling us about historical personas. We must indeed know them personally to have our opinion be less biased depending on the author we chose to believe.
@@БагердзюцуБаныка I know, I just found that funny, haha
"He was in the Beatles." - Average American
Just a test
1:24 reminds me of my grandma, she was born in Poland and moved to USSR in WW2, she received a socialist education and while keeping skeptical about the things around her, revered Lenin and his accomplishments for the working class. I was a kid receiving a US education and used to disagree with her without knowing why. I later learned about Lenin and read his works, now I understand my grandma and we talk about the USSR on occasion, it’s great
It's awesome that you are able to enjoy that perspective
@@RedScareClair it’s interesting because she’s seen so much. She lived under Stalin and returned decades later to Brezhnev USSR and said so much had changed. She lives in the US now but laments a lot of the guarantees that she had back in the 40s and early 50s. She had a good free education a nice home and a wonderful healthy family with good medical care and PTO. I don’t wanna get into a whole thing but yea from what she tells me, the USSR while it wasn’t heaven was generous and Lenin changed the nation forever
@@se7enei8htnin97 i don't know if i can be mad but i really do not like Lenin or communism i mean the communist Chinese government did take everything from us
Lenin’s works changed my life
When was an evil monster who murdered millions of innocent people to create a totalitarian state. He should have been hanged for crimes against humanity.
Those Russian grandmothers have more political awareness and clarity of thought than the young generation.
They did not have tik-tok when they were growing up
Soviet education system is far superior to Russian one. Current Russia is nothing more than Putin and his buddies’ oyster.
Categorically correct my comrade. I love Soviet Union and it's history. It makes my blood boil that the youths of Russia are so illiterate as compared to their babushkas.
Why i should care about something before my birth
Pretty much.
10:40 "thanks to putin we haven't had wars for 20 years"
badly aged
The invasion of Ukraine started 8 years ago. There was the war in Chechnya and the invasion and annexation of northern Georgia. Oops!
Do next
What Russians think about the Romanovs ?
this needs to go all the way up
depending on which one of the Romanovs.There were both great people and all sorts of morons
I am Russian if you care...
All of them are different people. I respect Peter I very much, he made so much for Russia and he did it with high quality. There are also Alexander I, but he didn't do much in domestic policy (by reason of Napoleon and economic crisis I guess), and Alexander II who made the peasants free in 1861 and it was such a great transformation. Nevertheless he was killed by terrorist wich wasn`t much smart because after that there were two conservative rulers. Sooo I`d say that if Alexander II wasn`t murdered, we would had probably escaped the October Revolucion and had an emperor today. But History decided that Romanovs rulled Russia only 300 years...
What do Russian think about the Romanovs? Well, let's see, my great great great father used to be a Leib guard for the Romanovs and then they all got murdered.
@@itisprofile The people who murdered them were far worse.
Man a lot of these people don’t know much about their history. Learning from history is how you improve the future. Sounds like the young generation don’t really care about Lenin or communism but the older generation who lived in the USSR generally support him.
Millenials are simply like that. As I millenial I can confirm this. My own generation can’t name 3 major battles fought on our soil during WW2. Or commanders, or anything more than that.
Not exactly. Older people who lived in USSR have either mixed opinion on him, negative or positive. Opinions vary when it comes to older generations too.
Older generation don't know about some crimes and scary things, that were commited during Lenin times. Also they were studied in Soviet schools. Soviet historiography is the same fantasy as Americian one. Most of people in Russia of 80-90s era don't care about politics. Modern generation don't cares about history and school.
In my historicial opinion Lenin is genius of politics and politicial concurention. But during his times Russia lost 60% of all africulture and 90% of industry, lost a lot of territories, Poland, that also conquerred half of Ukraine and Belarus' , Baltics, Moldova, Finland. 10 million people died from hunger and war, all country was destroyed and was in ruins. He build socialist state.
@@arty5876 I'd like to ask what history book have you been reading? Lenin's government did not kill 10 million people, and it is only books made by the americans during the cold war that put ridiculous numbers like Stalin killing 60 million people (which is imposible because there was population growth during his time) - The truth is that the revolution was coming anyways and Lenin wasn't the only actor in it anyways, but was the one that knew how to get through the situation and deliver what he promised, Peace Land and Bread
@@Burrito69killer 6 millions people died from hunger, that was caused by destructive Civil War and Millitary Communism politics - soldiers and workers with weapons took the harvest from peasants. Enterprises were given to the worker control or nationalized. Workers lost their morivation to work, because there is no more capitalists, that could dismiss them for bad work. Also workers made their interprises irretable, because they simply made their salary bigger (Unteached workers didn't knew that total cost of money is equal to total cost of product, money don't have cost by their own, and there is no difference how many money you have, but difference is how many product). As a result less product, more money, inflation of economy, the prices are growing when there is less product with same number of money, but this cause the problems with organization of production - production of something also needs money to pay, as a result of which production become more expensive and fell, and there is cycle. That caused hunger economical decline. Most people in modern Russia blame the people, who destroyed Soviet Union, saying that in 90s there was unemlloyment ratio 25%, inflation of 300% per year and decline of everything. This people even sometimes hate the Soviet Union, but they still blame Eltsin. They don't know, that when Soviet Union was established, there was much higher and scary crisis, with same inlation in 4 years between 1922 and 1917 as a result of wonderful communist politics and Civil War. In 1922 there was the denomination of Rouble, the Rouble of 1921 was equal to 10 000 Roubles of 1918. Middle salary in 1913 was 80 Roubles, in 1921 - 300 000 Roubles. Also government controlled enterprises were unnefective due to the fact, that officials aren't motivated to lead the enterprise as capitalists, that gain profit from enterprise, and they interested in growth and profitability. 1.6 million soldiers died in Civil War from both sides, and 1.8 peasants were killed. 6 millions people immigrated from Russia, this were the scientists, ingeeners, and etc. . Russia lost a lot of territories with population. And we not talking about Brest-Litowsk peace threaty, when Germany occupied Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Baltics, and even landed in Helsinki. Thanks to the Antanta Germany lost the war, and Communists took Ukraine and Belarus. But Poland occupied some territories of Ukraine and Belarus.
My great grandma used to say a lot of negative things about him, they had a big farm... LMAO
@@beketyermek6853 they had a big farm... they were called kulaks... well that's obvious.
@@beketyermek6853 for no reason? they refused cooperating while other people were suffereing because of famine. That's enough of a reason.
@@beketyermek6853 then why burning your own grains and crops? tell me
@@beketyermek6853 and before there was a famine every 20 or so years in the Russian Empire and after this famine there were no famines any more, can you imagine that?
@@redcommierad2447 you cant force people to do good. It ends up in several millions Ukrainians dead
"My great-grandmother was from a workers family" and then proceed to say "They had their own big farm"... that is called a landowner.
they were working at their farm
@@letsplaywithmegacyborg3098 they exploited people, we all know that in tsarist times in Russia, farm laborers received pennies, Lenin did a lot of good for this country.
@@letsplaywithmegacyborg3098kulak is a person who has its own farm workers, so, he was not a worker, he was a boss
kulak is a person who owns things. they were all farmers who grew and sold their stuff@@itsnight1571
@@itsnight1571no entendiste nada, gringo
"But we don't have communism, we have democracy".
Well, he's right about the former.
Было бы смешно, если бы не было так грустно
This sentence makes no sense. Communism is a democratic system. Russia does not have a democracy
When did russians have democrary? lol
How does an American socialist feel about Lenin? No need to dissemble and be afraid of censure from any of the parties, speak as it is. The next question is, have you read at least one work of Lenin and Marx?
@@byzantium7638 it seems as though the other guy isn't going to answer your question so If your interested I can give an answer. As an American ML I atleast see lenin as a man who had done the impossible to a backwards futile country transforming it from a land that still had middle ages working conditions to a country where the common people actually felt like a human being instead of property to a lord or factory boss. He showed the world that even a country that was lagging behind the rest of the world ruled by a family who was completely out of touch with humanity could be transformed into a global super power that had the west shaking in their overpriced boots. He inspired workers all over the world to stand up for better working conditions and quality of life in general. Some places the revolutions worked others failed either from incompetent leadership or government Crack downs like in America. Revolution could've worked here if they had tried a few years before WW1 when the u.s. had a small army of around 127000 soldiers compared to 8 million in WW2. I have no idea where you are from but if you are american you are well aware of how lenin and the soviet union are demonized in the media and in teachings at school. Although if you are not ill give examples. We are taught that lenin was on par with the evil of hitler which is quite ridiculous for anyone with a functioning brain which is also hard to come across in american or atleast in the little slice of hell they call ohio. Also we are taught atleast I was taught that America made it to Berlin first and liberated auschwitz. A fundemental flaw with our education system is there is a standardized cariculum but is loosely followed and leaves more room for the teachers beliefs than actual fact. I believed the bullshit for a long time until I started doing my own research when I was about 16 or so into Marxist theory and the works of him and lenin I consider myself to have a good understanding of Marxist leninism but there is always more to learn I could go on for hours but I'll leave it here. If you have anymore questions I'd be happy to answer them to the best of my abilities.
2:35
"Good dog." -Vladimir Lenin, Russian communist statesman and revolutionary (21 January 1924), to his dog who brought him a dead bird
Was the bird a sparrow?
Fun fact: Lenin owned 6-7 cats
As a Russian of left-wing socialist views, I almost smashed my face with the palm of my hand from some of the answers
Is it common for Russians today to hold positive views of Lenin/communism or have a pro-capitalist position?
@@unfairweather I'd say 50/50. When the USSR collapsed, most people were in favor of capitalism, especially young people, but the last 30 years have shown that socialism was not so bad idea.
@@unfairweather steal and share, no thanks
@@Vadim_Sulimovare positive views of socialism more bc of socialist ideology (ie marx/Engels/Lenin) or because of the historical power of the USSR? If that makes sense
@@EUGEN093 u must be a kulak
It's funny how mirror like this is to America in terms of ignorance to Russias own history.
You're kidding right!
if you asked anybody in the US about history past 100 years they would not know who you were even talking about
@@jakeavakov5230 So are they here. The girl literally asked if that was the guy who created the USSR...
@@alioshax7797 1 girl who slept in history class compared to 99% americans
@@jakeavakov5230 of course not 99% of the americans, and of course the knowledge of this girl doesn't reflect the average russian level in history.
I've known americans who knew more about my country's history than me...and I'm a student in history.
The real question is:
"What would Lenin say about Putin?"
He would be fucking furious
Lenin & Stalin would have Putin executed in a whim
suka
The education of the old people is so good because the Soviet Union's education was aimed at making people aware of how to even govern their country and was also aimed vigorously at making them aware of history.
yeah and if they said anything bad about their "great leaders" you, me and all of us know what would have happened, better live in a happy bubble than knothing the truth.
@@perfectmazda3538 fun fact, some officers openly wrote letters of disapproval to the head of state with 0 repercussion whatsoever. Disagreement among individuals was fine and fairly common, u just could not politically do anything “anti-communist”. Still limited freedom, but hardly as bad as you make it out to be. American politics was the same at the time, we fired a quarter of our government for being suspected ‘communists’ and encouraged people to spy on their neighbors. People like u always conveniently forget the red scare
If they learn how to govern the country they would have ended Putin's oligarchic system a long time ago when they still have the power
They had a good education system to an extent, but in the political realm it was strict and limited to what the CPSS wanted you to hear. I don't think you can be "aware of history" in the sense you suggest through a Marxist-Leninist lens.
And they are superpowers somehow like you're just a kid and look at your dumb side?
the whole "i wasn't alive then so why should i care" thing is deeply terrifying and not as i first suspected a strictly western phenomenon
Lenin was better than Stalin
@@achyuththouta6957 prove it then
@@JohnKobaRuddy prove what? Lenin was a great Marxist Leninist thinker, Stalin was a thinker aswell and a great leader, but Lenin is beyond reach, without Lenin there would be no Stalin.
5/10 Its almost a facade of "I dont know the closest thing this person did other than he is a historical figure, so Ima pretend Im wiser than this".
@@lordvader22 if only lenin died in Siberia
"We don't have communism, we have democracy"
🤣
Someone needs to tell them....
Communism is when Putin
@Ann Nifödova + 15 roubles
@Ann Nifödova it doesn't mean you're allowed to do your nazi things judging by the person's last name
@Ann Nifödova yeah, almost won an election. Somehow, the drunk Yeltsin won
@Ann Nifödova it's croatian surname
the guy who was saying people lived well before revolution lol, muddy imperium
Fun fact: literacy rate in Imperial Russia was mostly under 50%. Just tells you how much of a shithole Russia was before the revolution
@@xgamerbih it became even worse after
@@nobody5228 ok nazi
@@mycodingchannel9690 Why do you think i am a Nazi?
@@nobody5228 100% literacy rate and zero homelessness by 1940. Are you sure?
один в футболке, другой в теплой куртке это Россия!
KGB CCCP
Vodka cures temperature difference
That third guy: fuck history, who needs it, let’s move into the future and not think about the past
I despair
Can't learn from history if you forget it.
you need to learn history to build the future
Well somebody failed their History Class
That's most peoples' attitude towards history which is pretty depressing.
0:11 Girl: "He destroyed the Soviet Union, didn't he?"
LMAO THIS GIRL DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT HER COUNTRY HISTORY.
That's modern Russian education. Putin don't need smart people.
@@pasauliite lol?
In modern Russia and Putins government, education was destroyed and 70% population of country dont know our history.
(Sorry for my English)
@@myloisonau8406 oh thanks for that
i only know a bit about communism and Lenin but want to learn more. Where could i start from or from which sources?
”But we don’t have communism, we have democracy” lol!
lol like how can you call that democracy?
@@Burrito69killer I wonder the same, maybe she’s brainwashed
Putin - U sure bout that?
@Александaр Бесфамильный how is google being free the only meter of democracy?
@Александaр Бесфамильный you must be in love with Putin then since he has ruled the country for over 20 years!
почему-то я читаю субтитры, хотя я русский
Почему я напишу на русском хотя я португалец?
@@darkdevil905 душа русская)
Я тоже. Хочется знать, как это воспримут иностранцы. Как бы посмотреть их глазами.
Soviet education was clearly superior too modern Russian education. The one strong take away I took was the belief that the USSR a person was bettering their own nation(community, society, peoples), and in modern russia your just focused on your own betterment and there is nothing wrong with that either. Putin is a product of the USSR
Idk why you say that. Its clear putin has put Russia in a better economic situation now then when they were the ussr.
No education is the best
@@brianticas7671 that’s just demonstrably false
You just described the difference between Socialism and Capitalism.
@@StraightEdgeSieghart Yes I did 🙏
That third guy sounds like a beat poet!
Ахахах🤦
Lmao
That guy at 0:20 is a king. "We need to think about the future. We make the future." Lenin 100% agrees.
2:40 Little do you know that the dog was actually quoting "State and Revolution" and explaining Lenin's ideas...you just couldn't understand it.
3:55 "It's a shame they shot the royal family. A shame." And it's a shame the royal family murdered tens of thousands of unarmed people who were very unhappy about famine, the lack of rights, massive poverty, etc. And there was a massive faction of monarchists that could very easily have tried to reinstate the royal family (I mean, it's not like they fought a civil war over control of the country or anything...oh, wait!). Doesn't make it right, but karma's a B***.
autism ^
Fun historical fact: The monarchist faction was hardly "massive". Monarchism was mostly limited to the aristocratic commanders & public faces of the white movement. It was actually a huge liability, especially for countries like the UK and US, to be seen supporting a supposed monarchist restoration, especially after they had just been through a catastrophic war to defeat the kaiserreich. Arguably the execution of the Romanovs only helped the White movement by removing the monarchist albatross from their neck - allowing "democratic" powers to freely support anticommunist forces without having to worry about the PR nightmare that was Nicky II.
@@TessHKM "Massive" enough in the forces they controlled. Sure, numerically the faithful monarchists were not a large number, but it's not necessary to maintain a massive army that fights for that numerically small number. The faction was "massive" in regards to the forces it commanded, though I should have found a better way to put it, so I'll accept the correction that it was "hardly massive."
That said, the Provisional Government was working towards reinstating the monarchy, and while some people say "but the royal family turned it down," the fact is that Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, who Nicholas II abdicated his and his son's claims to the throne to, made the condition that he WOULD take the throne only if the Constituent Assembly legitimized it through law. The PR nightmare of Nicky II wouldn't have even been a thing, and the legitimacy of the constitutionally recognized monarchy would have been a boone to the White movement by the marriage of democracy and monarchy helping to bring the various factions of the White and other anti-Bolshevik movements together.
I'll admit to not being a scholar on everything that happened in those times, what the motives were etc, so I'm sure there's a lot of stuff that I'm missing that gives more context and such to what was going on that we didn't really see. Things like correcting me on the size of the monarchist faction's actual proponents not being the same as their military power or political influence. So thanks for the correction.
"What are the good things that Lenin did?"
Answer: Founded a country that saw the first ever implementation of a new economic system. The country went from very poor to very rich in a short amount of time. The USSR enjoyed the fastest economic growth in the history of the world and became the 2nd wealthiest and most powerful country in the world within 50 years of it's inception. Thats not exactly nothing XD
I’m not Russian but Lenin was one of the greatest leaders of the 20th century
@@s1050 I would venture to say one of the greatest leaders ever. Has to be top 10.
Lol
Wasn't quite the fastest economic growth, but rather 4th fastest. Behind Germany after the Nazi party took power up until the outset of WW2, China the last decade+, and the United States just after WW2
Don’t forget they pretty much started the whole space race. First person in space. First to circumnavigate the planet. First woman in space. First space walk. They literally took a country from feudalism to the cosmos in less than 50 years.
Знание истории собственной страны у многих опрошенных буквально-таки ниже нуля... Печально
ну, не удивительно, когда у тебя нет времени на самообразование. Надо деньги зарабатывать, кормить себя.
@@Pvt.Conscriptovich Кормить господ надо, вот люди и остаются ограниченными в знаниях.
@@Olegstuff21986 кому нунжы умные рабы ? Умный рабочии гораздо опаснее глупого. Да сами эксплуататоры не давали им учиться.
wut
@@Pvt.Conscriptovich какой пиздежь. Пришёл домой и вместо хи-хи видосов посмотри что-то историческое, почитай. Нет, это тяжело. Лучше жить дураком. Не оправдывай себя. Есть наушники, есть аудио-подкасты.
"Lenin could have made some reforms like implementing an eight-hour workday.
My brother in Christ, that was codified four days after the October Revolution.
As an Indian teenager saying after watching this video, I have better knowledge about USSR history just from my textbooks than these russian youngstars.......
all are wrong
ахаххаха спасибо путину, что двадцать лет живём без войн) велкам ту зе 2022
that guy at 2:00 " my grandma was from a workers family", 1 second later "they had their own big farm" . LOL , now I get where all the anticommunist stuff comes from from supposed "normal workers that lived there"
"Lenin? He destroyed the Soviet Union"
My inner scream destroyed my ears.
Almost all the old people respect him
all people who own logic and know history too
Because they were taught to respect him in schools.
I don’t think they really had much of a choice.
@@thestifmyster1 I think they are just more educated, and that's a fact. the level of education fell from top positions to some kind of bottom + in modern Russia we are taught myths about bloodthirsty Lenin, even in schools we are forced to read Solzhenitsyn
@@РусланБекиров-э7ч No bro you are wrong. I live in post Soviet country. I know from my grand parents they didn't like him. There were photos of him in school and it was a rule to not say anything against Lenin and also love Lenin. They were teaching that in school from first grade. Most post I post Soviet countries hate Lenin. Only those who benefited from him still like him. Every educated man knows what a bad person he was.
The man whose ancestors were kulaks and had their farms taken told the best story here because it seems to be a firsthand account experienced by his great grandmother. Most interviewees either know Lenin from what the education taught them or have vague or none information of him at all.
His comment shows that good and evil, right and wrong, good or bad, most of times has to do with the position you have or the situation you are in.
For example
I Believe that it would be great to leave in medieval France if you were the king, but not if you were a farmer!
Lenin wanted to get the farmland by it coming from the farmers but stalin (like many things) went apeshit and just straight up cleansed them.
First thing the bolchevik did was give farmland to the presents who worked on it. The peasants made up the majority of the army and the population of pre industrial Russia as a whole. Unfortunetly, they got it rough, as did everyone, during the civil war. What really fucked them over was Stalin yoyoing between far left and right elements in the bolchevik party. After building up the wealth of the kulaks (despite being warned and discouraged by the left opposition, he then destroyed) , stalin soon realised they were right and in respons forced collectivation of all peasant property, one day to the other, entering a huge famine.
@@mitsos306ify There is book: "Behind the Urals: An American Worker in Russia's City of Steel" by John Scott.
John Scott was as clueless as you and he made decision to leave USA and move to Soviet Union.
In that book you can find John Scott experience from his visit in France, he was in a cafe and two beggars entered the premises to ask for money. What caught his attention was the fact that the French beggars was better looking and wore better clothes than the talented and hardworking specialist in his Soviet work place...
So stop babling about French king and claiming that live of common man in Soviet Union was somewhat better because whole country was mostly producing weapons and tanks and typical worker was dreaming about bike when worker in USA was able to buy his own car after one or two years of hard work!!!
@@costbart During civil war that Lenin started 5 to 10 millions of Russians died... in whole war on all fronts and during all boombing "only" 5 millions of Germans died in WW2.
Life of farmer in tsar Russia was bad but purges and nationalisation of private property was not an improvement. People did nothing to stop Lenin and his bolsheviks because WW1 was so bad and people wanted to see peace and some positive change and Lenin was telling to all his people to promise Russian people what ever they wanted to hear! All the books from Soviet Union claiming that he delivered what he promised... No he did not! But he was the new Tsar and he got Red Army and NKVD to deal with everyone that was unhapy with new Tsar(even name of LEnin was fake!).
Read pre WW2 world bestseller: 'Lenin' by Antoni Ferdynand Ossendowski if you want to learn the truth about Lenin...
I guess we humans are just generally badly informed about ourselves as a whole, which is why some politicians could get away with seemingly unacceptable actions.
A great quote from Comrade Lenin in 1913:
"People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises."
3:33 I don't know if this guy is joking, but that "we have democracy" part was really fun. We basically have the king and his friends in power here in Russia, all oppositionists are already in jail 🤣
Anche tu pensi di vivere in democrazia . Illusione
bro im from kerala and sometimes you can see people named lenin and stalin 😭 communism goes hard here
Yes that's ridiculous love from West Bengal 😃
Looks like we know about Lenin than some of the people who's in this interview
Maybe you should find out more about Lenin and Stalin.
yeah exactly, anyways mallus are based.
In Saint Thomas’ Kerala? That is so sad to hear :/
Жалко им Романова, они в курсе как формировались доходы феодалов и что такое выкупные подати, знали бы , жалко бы исчезло
@@АндрейТерлецкий-ж5х одно из требований революции 1905 г отмена выкупных, т.к их все еще не могли выплатить
Все равно никому такой смерти не пожелаешь. Всех его детей расстреляли на его глазах
@@НатальяМусабаева-у8е детей не жалко? Скот еще нарожает?
DAMN I am American, but somehow know more about Lenin than most of the people in this video hahaha
No you don't.
If that's the case, you'd be an exception to the rule I'm afraid. No insult to you personally. You may know more about him than the average person, but the average American knows very little about him now; especially among the post-Cold War generation. I actually talked to a guy around 30 today who didn't even know what the Soviet Union was.
@@achyuththouta6957 try me 😄
This didn't age well 10:38
10:36 " we haven't had wars for 20 years"
Well this lady definitely got that wrong...
She isn't. Russia didn't engage into any major conflicts in the following 10 years.
@@baconingbad Yes you are right, but she said 20, thats wrong
@@frostwang6557 Yeah, I forgot to type that she probably forgot about the conflict with Georgia in 2008. Though to be fair, the engagements between Russians and Georgians weren't that major and that confrontation lasted only a few days in August, which I really wouldn't consider a major war conflict, which is probably what she meant.
@@jpegxguy thanks to your local propaganda (and mine honestly) :/ Russian news said there was a referendum with the Crimeans about accession to Russia. I've been there again after 10 years and didn't see anything negative with Russian tourists. Most of them are ethnic Russians (how i think)... But I understand that the whole story is not good and is connected with the military interests of both sides (i dont mean Ukraine in that case at all).
What about the war in Chechnya?
as I know he destroyed the soviet union right... Damn
I never saw a country being so horrible at their own history like that
We can all have blank moments in our knowledge of history.
In UK I know next to nothing about anyone who lived in the same years Lenin lived, & I tried looking up a few names this past week but they seemed so uneventful I fell asleep XD
Есть какие-то проблески но никто здесь знаниями особо не блеснул. Молодой кавказец хоть правильно думает о будущем. И называет вещи своими именами.
Да, удивило и понравилось его мнение о настоящем и будущем. Вот только не согласен по поводу «вернуться в СССР», не дай бог)
@@KlimovArtem1 ну это он наверняка от родичей о позитивах СССР слышал. Типа "дружба народов" и т.д.
Если он не знает прошлого, то печальное его ждет будущее.
@@СерГей-я2щ6н смотря какую историю, и кто её рассказывает. В прошлом слишком много фигни которую лучше забыть типа религий, воин, делёжки, и обид. Молодые учатся ненавидеть друг друга из-за поступков предков которые умерли 100 лет назад.
@@anonymouse527 люди в любом случае найдут за что ненавидеть друг друга, а опыт прошлых войн и обид поможет в разрешеннии сегодняшних.
Did he directly order the death of the royal family? And can anyone specify what he ordered be done with the Kulaks? Historical sources please
@@somebody3086 wiki is a very reliable source yea)
Lenin did not want to kill the royal family, only their haters did it, read on the Internet about the red and white terror during the civil war in Russia, it is strange that they only mention the red terror, but they forgot about the white terror of the tsar's supporters and the intervention of the Americans, the British, Czechs, who killed communists and built prisons for them
To Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists.
Comrades! The uprising by the five kulak volosts must be mercilessly suppressed. The interest of the entire revolution demands this, for we are now facing everywhere the “final decisive battle” with the kulaks. We need to set an example.
1. You need to hang (hang without fail, so that the people see) no fewer than 100 of the
notorious kulaks, the rich and the bloodsuckers.
2. Publish their names.
3. Take all their grain from them.
4. Appoint the hostages - in accordance with yesterday’s telegram.
This needs to be done in such a way that the people for hundreds of versts around will see, tremble, know and shout: they are throttling and will throttle the bloodsucking kulaks.
From Lenin's Hanging order, which can be read here: www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/aug/11c.htm
Lenin didn't order the killing just like Nicholas didn't order Bloody Sunday, but it happened.
www.history.com/news/romanov-family-murder-execution-reasons
Lenin didn’t really order to kill the, however do note that should they be kept alive, foreign imperialists could recognise the family as the rightful heir to the thrones or the ones in power and with the white army potentially reinstituting them and later on just kill every communist lmao, so whether or not Lenin ordered it, screw the romanovs anyways.
In terms of the kulak case, the kulaks controlled at least half of the soviet good stock and violently resisted the collectivisation the Soviet Union introduced (of which peasants would be recognised as a working class and to be treated equally and not undermined by their leader), kulaks also did contributions to soviet famines like the holodomor, whereas the kulaks stole grain and wheat, contributing to even more deaths.
"My grandmother was from a workers family... they had ther own farm" hauahauajauaha
Funniest part he does not know the difference, what an ignorance, lol
I legit died when he said that lmao like yep, your granny was a kulak. obviously the soviets didn't oppress the kulaks enough, that's how you get guys like him to this day.
Thats just misunderstanding
They owned their own BIG farm, that guys is pathetic 😂😂😂
@@mariagabrielarodrigues7626 a true kulak
One fellow said: “We don’t have communism, we have democracy (in Russia)”. Russia today is considered mostly not democratic.
by you from the WEST, if Russians believe that they live in a democracy - they live in it. Just your democracy and theirs aren't the same and that's okay. Just like your democracy from the '50s and '60s when black people were treated like dogs isn't the same democracy from 2021.
@@pezos5 Whether or not a country is democratic is based upon a set of facts and objective characteristics, not upon human emotion or a nationalistic feeling. Russia is more democratic than many countries, but less than the vast majority of developed nations. You can research the issue for yourself if you are willing to.
Define democracy....
@@shidapu145 Democracy s a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation ("direct democracy"), or to choose governing officials to do so...
Taken from the Wikipedia definition, I'd say that makes a good start. Perhaps now we need to apply this question to Russia, how much democracy do they have?
According to a video from history matters, even during Stalin's time Russian people got a local representative, he or she would need at least a 50% vote to represent them, apparently voters would band together to spoil ballots in large numbers forcing the representative to either make things better or get replaced.
To me, it doesn't sound as black or white as people like to think, but it certainly doesn't have as many choices as we might like to idealise.
@@CloudWalkBeta It was a rhetorical question democracy in capitalism is nowhere to be find people have no say in economy and politics they just vote every 4 years who the opressor will be.
10:37
Aged like milk. I mean there was also Chechnya and Georgia in the last 20 years, but I guess if Putin said it's not a war, it's not a war
почему те, кто не знают, что сказать, просто не скажут: "извините, плохо знаю эту тему"..
но мнение то у всех есть, дайте людям раскрыться)))
@@РусланБекиров-э7ч тоже верно
Почему наша страна безгранична в своей "гениальности", некоторые личности утверждают, что в аграрной стране, живется лучше чем в индустриальной....... Так еще умудряются делать прогнозы на целый век вперед.....
0:57 he is a true Chad maybe Rasputin's relative
10:37 That answer didn't age well........ Would like to find that lady again and ask her the same question.
She would probably deny that there even is an invasion, seeing how brainbroken she is
Democracy, lol
@Діма Базалюк it wasnt lol
@@valenesco45 yes it was
@@wayne9474 В России настоящая демократия, так же как и в Америке. Просто демократия не означает свободу.
Well Russians do elect their President and Parliament through a nation wide voting campaign. In the US POTUS is elected by electoral college. In Germany Chancellor is appointed by a ruling party. The UK technically is a freaking monarchy (in 21st century! lol). So yep on paper Russia is more democratic than any of those countries above.
@Діма Базалюк if you say culture and press was free under any time period in USSR, you must be weak in history.
The soviets took a country with medieval laws and government and transformed it into a world superpower. They were the first to put a man in space. I don't see Tsarist Russia making the same accomplishments.
Ok
lmao
Here you are thinking like a medieval man.In your opinion, in the rest of the world in 1917, when the empire collapsed, someone flew into space?You didn't even give it time.Russians were intelligent and cultured people even at that time.Mendeleev invented a table of chemicals.Popov invented the radio.
The price of this is too high, a lot of people died during these construction projects and because of hunger.
0:16 Me trying to pass my history test.
"Thanks to Putin we haven't had war in like 20 years..."
well that didn't age well.😂
Chechnya 1999, Georgia 2008, Ukraine 2014 :(
@@Omniraptorr ikr🤣
damn the young people in this video make americans look smart