The First Soviet Five Year Plan

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  • Опубликовано: 25 июн 2024
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  • @megaprojects9649
    @megaprojects9649  3 года назад +222

    SideProjects: for when it's just not quite MEGA enough! This is an awesome new channel from Simon Whistler that serves as a companion to MegaProjects. Here at MP, we'll continue to cover huge undertakings, often with outsized global implications... over at SP, which is published on alternating days, we'll give you interesting projects, stories, and tidbits that aren't quite so massive. We hope you'll subscribe to both!
    Subscribe to SideProjects: ruclips.net/channel/UC3Wn3dABlgESm8Bzn8Vamgg

    • @Sideprojects
      @Sideprojects 3 года назад +26

      I am Sideprojects, and I approve this message.

    • @noudfrenken1
      @noudfrenken1 3 года назад +14

      Nice! This is what, your 26th channel?🤣

    • @shanehaney6040
      @shanehaney6040 3 года назад +9

      Another day, another channel, another step closer to Simon being the only RUclipsr on the site.

    • @mishrachabra4471
      @mishrachabra4471 3 года назад +5

      Do a megaproject on TESLA GIGAFACTORY in California

    • @chronosschiron
      @chronosschiron 3 года назад

      bad breath megaproject......

  • @MatthewJemilo
    @MatthewJemilo 3 года назад +599

    "First of thirteen 'Five Year Plans.'" -yeah, I'm down for 12 more of these

    • @Arbiter099
      @Arbiter099 3 года назад +26

      It's like potatoe chips or battles on the Isonzo river, you can't have just one

    • @kailashbtw9103
      @kailashbtw9103 3 года назад +9

      SAME i really liked it. Also I think he was very impartial in detailing it. There were terrifying human losses during those 5 years, but there were also massive industrial gains and it cemented Russia as a global superpower.

    • @mannymarotta
      @mannymarotta 3 года назад +9

      @@Arbiter099and like Battles of the Isonzo River, they all result in bureaucrats bungling things up and thousands of people dying

    • @tyrantstomper
      @tyrantstomper 3 года назад +6

      Sounds like "15 days" to slow the spread, just about 50 times back to back

    • @lordcabello
      @lordcabello 3 года назад +4

      I would love to see the rest of them!!

  • @surrodox
    @surrodox 3 года назад +1415

    Megaproject idea: Simon's channel managing skills

    • @williamwilson304
      @williamwilson304 3 года назад +24

      This is perfect we need his wisdom!

    • @hughjass9914
      @hughjass9914 3 года назад +9

      Holy shit....

    • @generalhyde007
      @generalhyde007 3 года назад +19

      Is this 9 channels that he has done or is doing now?

    • @zacharystewart9790
      @zacharystewart9790 3 года назад +13

      Haha right! He should make a video giving everyone who helps with his channels a shout-out

    • @outcast170
      @outcast170 3 года назад +37

      Not to mention his new kid, I guess that's one way to get out of changing diapers,
      "Sorry I can't get this one, uh... I'm starting a new channel!"

  • @cammando2363
    @cammando2363 3 года назад +119

    Wouldn’t mind hearing more about the next few 5 year plans

  • @matthewmoser1284
    @matthewmoser1284 3 года назад +122

    Anybody else come here after watching Simon lament how no one watched this in his T-35 video? 😅

    • @External2737
      @External2737 3 года назад +6

      Yes, I... had to search for this video.

    • @Quinnknights
      @Quinnknights 3 года назад +4

      heh yup

    • @srdavis37
      @srdavis37 3 года назад +7

      Yep. Felt sorry for him, so here I am!

    • @lsxbird7874
      @lsxbird7874 3 года назад +2

      Yup. Glad I did

    • @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die
      @Couldnt_let_J.Marston_die 3 года назад +8

      Giving you an update after watching the T35 video this video was the first video that popped up afterwards. So Simon's mentioning the video has definitely helped.

  • @owensquelch449
    @owensquelch449 3 года назад +227

    So thats;
    Megaprojects
    Geographic
    Business blaze
    Today I found out
    Toptenz
    Simon whistler
    Side projects
    (I'm probably missing some aswell)
    That Simon Whistler is host of.
    This guy takes up like half the channels I watch.
    Edit: biographics, just remembered.

  • @bradenwilliams5826
    @bradenwilliams5826 3 года назад +100

    Megaprojects: the boeing Everett factory: home to the largest building in the world by volume

    • @tonybrodeur4766
      @tonybrodeur4766 3 года назад +3

      YES!!!

    • @spoon102
      @spoon102 3 года назад +4

      across town from my house lol

    • @tgdm
      @tgdm 3 года назад +2

      Is that the one that produces its own interior weather patterns?

    • @bradenwilliams5826
      @bradenwilliams5826 3 года назад +1

      tgdm, I know that they do develop clouds inside due to the 11 story height.

    • @Tubluer
      @Tubluer 3 года назад +1

      @@tgdm Houston Astrodome does that. It's been known to rain inside.

  • @victorbeltramo3314
    @victorbeltramo3314 3 года назад +65

    Megaprojects suggestion: Moving the swedish town Kiruna to prevent it from falling down a mine.

    • @DarthBigBen
      @DarthBigBen 3 года назад +3

      We should take Kiruna, and push it somewhere else!

  • @nashthebaker9338
    @nashthebaker9338 3 года назад +80

    Megaprojects Suggestions: German bucket wheel excavators and Big Muskie.
    Both are/were the largest terrestrial machines on the planet.

    • @toddlerj102
      @toddlerj102 3 года назад +5

      That's a fikkin huge machine! What is it like supposed to be , each bucket would fit a van in it or something an like 20 buckets on the wheel.
      I second your suggestion!

    • @nashthebaker9338
      @nashthebaker9338 3 года назад +3

      @@toddlerj102 Big Muskie had the biggest single bucket of any digging machine in the world. 2 Greyhound busses could fit side by side in it.

    • @le_travie7724
      @le_travie7724 3 года назад +3

      The Bagger 288

    • @ryandowney8743
      @ryandowney8743 3 года назад +1

      In the second Ghost Rider movie he turns a bucket wheel excavator into a fiery hellvehicle!

  • @ignitionfrn2223
    @ignitionfrn2223 3 года назад +16

    4:10 - Chapter 1 - Lenin death
    6:20 - Chapter 2 - 1928
    8:55 - Chapter 3 - Propaganda
    10:10 - Chapter 4 - The farming collective
    14:00 - Chapter 5 - Sucesses & failures
    16:15 - Chapter 6 - 1 down, 13 to go

  • @glennlaroche1524
    @glennlaroche1524 3 года назад +65

    Simon: starts aNoThEr channel
    Cats: we no longer control the internet-call for an orbital strike

    • @stephjovi
      @stephjovi 3 года назад +3

      They still control the rest of the internet 😂.

  • @Farming-Technology
    @Farming-Technology 3 года назад +45

    Do you remember when the Simon Whistler show used to be called RUclips?

  • @ameliaphaff2691
    @ameliaphaff2691 3 года назад +25

    I want more 5 year plan videos! Even if it's a small audience

  • @TheTrueMorningStar
    @TheTrueMorningStar 3 года назад +16

    Simon- "I had no idea that there were so many of these."
    Me- "Well yeah, there was a new one every five years, LOL"

    • @fukkitful
      @fukkitful 2 года назад

      I thought it was just a Stalin thing. I didn't realize they kept it going after his death.

  • @Itzmihowz
    @Itzmihowz 3 года назад +15

    Given that the first five-year plan resulted in the Soviet union eventually becoming a world power, learning more detail of the events leading to its ultimate collapse would be interesting to say the least

  • @pamelamays4186
    @pamelamays4186 3 года назад +14

    Yes, please, a continuation of the Five Year Plans!

  • @AnthonyWilliamscs
    @AnthonyWilliamscs 3 года назад +25

    I'm highly interested in the remaining plans! Also, thoroughly impressed with the consistency and quality of your myriad of channels' videos. Keep it up! I'll keep subbing to all of 'em, ♥

  • @anarchyantz1564
    @anarchyantz1564 3 года назад +77

    Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular

    • @edbangor9163
      @edbangor9163 3 года назад +10

      Really hard to think about "popular holes" and keep a straight face

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 года назад +9

      @@edbangor9163 Yeah, Simon really makes probing deep dark holes in the backend of beyond appealing doesn't he?

    • @Oorlich95
      @Oorlich95 3 года назад +4

      @@edbangor9163 Especially with your name.

    • @armr6937
      @armr6937 3 года назад

      Vostok Lake

    • @anarchyantz1564
      @anarchyantz1564 3 года назад

      @@armr6937 Thats the one.

  • @LikeTheBuffalo
    @LikeTheBuffalo 3 года назад +9

    You said this video did poorly on your T-35 video. I'm here to make amends.

  • @robbiebrownvox
    @robbiebrownvox 3 года назад +98

    Here's an idea for ridiculous technological innovations still in use: the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico! It hosts one of the largest radio telescopes in the world and is one of the observatories currently monitoring petty little things in space like mass extinction causing asteroids and other various space junk.
    This would also pose an opportunity to talk about future changes to a megaproject, as it had structural issues and considerable damage just this summer.

    • @joshuaf4867
      @joshuaf4867 3 года назад +5

      Yes please!

    • @killerlalu1
      @killerlalu1 3 года назад

      I would love this! Great suggestion... No matter which channel it ends up on.

    • @Comet8489
      @Comet8489 3 года назад

      Yes!

    • @howellgreenland2506
      @howellgreenland2506 3 года назад

      I've been there.....It's awesome! Please do it Simon?

    • @louithrottler
      @louithrottler 3 года назад

      I heard it took some pretty severe damage in a storm, that at the time was odd to me 'cos I'd finished reading about it literally a week before. Have they repaired it yet?

  • @rs47vh36
    @rs47vh36 3 года назад +8

    the Brenner-Base-Tunnel in conjuction with the Brennernordzuluf would make for a good episode.

  • @erinmcdonald7781
    @erinmcdonald7781 2 года назад +4

    You left us hanging! Definitely want to hear more about the subsequent plans. Honestly this was a lot more interesting topic than I thought it would be, and gave me insight into this conflicted period of history.
    So many channels, so much good content, Simon & team!!! 💚✊

  • @krald8421
    @krald8421 3 года назад +11

    I wonder who started those rumors about invasion, certainly not the party

  • @Millie-moo-too
    @Millie-moo-too 2 года назад +3

    I would enjoy seeing another of these plans, they’re fascinating! Thank you for your videos 🥰

  • @Theultimateginger
    @Theultimateginger 3 года назад +14

    I’m now subscribed to 4 channels hosted by Simon and I don’t think that’s enough 😂😂

    • @megaprojects9649
      @megaprojects9649  3 года назад +19

      Confirmed. Four is not enough. I want all of your subscriptions, Harry. ALL OF THEM

    • @stipe3124
      @stipe3124 3 года назад +3

      We are Simon you will be assimilated, ressistance is futile, subscribe, subscribe...
      Already subscribed and happy 👍 LLP Simon and keep doing what you are doing 💪😎

  • @taqiyasir8086
    @taqiyasir8086 3 года назад +14

    Stalin's logic: The end justifies the means

    • @squee222
      @squee222 3 года назад

      which is an excuse as his ends would only justified the means if a massive war broke out shortly afterwards - and he had no way to predict that... as such his means were done with no "end" to justify them. His constant fearmongering of a looming war to justify it was propaganda. Oddly WWII did happen but that was not foresight but a strange sort of luck - which just led to more death for the soviets. Arguably the death toll of industrialization was higher than anything the Nazis could have inflicted on russia if they stayed agrarian.

    • @GodlikeIridium
      @GodlikeIridium 3 года назад +8

      Thats the logic of all leftists...

    • @user-wj8xf8cs8o
      @user-wj8xf8cs8o 3 года назад +10

      @@squee222 lol, wut? no way to predict a full scale war? What a complete bullshit. Literally everyone, who had even a slightest clue, knew, that the next World War is inevitable. It became obvious the very monent the WW1 ended.

    • @littleabigail4328
      @littleabigail4328 3 года назад +5

      Also, if Germany won they would have genocided all the soviets at least up to the Urals. Which was 80-100 million people.

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh 2 года назад

      Now look at neutered russia with USSR dissolved. barely the superpower it used to be.

  • @nichmiller4251
    @nichmiller4251 3 года назад +6

    Simon should host a skillshare on managing 61 RUclips channels

  • @jacobduhthrowbak3226
    @jacobduhthrowbak3226 3 года назад +1

    Simon I love your channels, you're my breakfast companion every morning. I've always been fascinated with Soviet Russia and the cold war in general, please do more videos on the topic, I'll watch them all. Keep up the good work my friend!

  • @nathangriese1824
    @nathangriese1824 3 года назад +12

    An idea: it's mega: the Mackinac (mak-in-aw) Bridge in Michigan

  • @amydigman2292
    @amydigman2292 3 года назад +5

    Mega project ideas - Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The LEM for the Apollo Missions to the Moon or the Lunar Rovers. Also the pyramids of Giza and the Great Pyramid for the First Emperor of China with his pits of terracotta warriors as well as scribes, slaves and concubines. Just a few ideas.

  • @davidgreen3423
    @davidgreen3423 3 года назад +15

    Simon, you should make this series like the Corporate Darwin Awards and have the biggest failures as bonus facts at the end! As an American student, we aren't taught much about the turmoils that other nations face so these videos are always very fascinating and educational

  • @LordSluggo
    @LordSluggo 3 года назад +6

    Comrade, congratulations on fulfilling your annual channel quota!

  • @numbernegative2248
    @numbernegative2248 3 года назад +8

    I got a suggestion you might like:
    During the 1850s and 1860s the city of Chicago had to install it's sewer system, but since the city was already built at only about 4ft above the shores of Lake Michigan they actually raised the entire city, building by building on jackscrews as they built the sewers. Literally raising the elevation of an entire city is pretty mega.
    Edit: Hey! Simon did it: ruclips.net/video/QWQa2jCNzIc/видео.html

    • @jimtalbott9535
      @jimtalbott9535 3 года назад

      They had to do the reverse in Seattle about 100 years ago also - had to grade down some very steep hills - ended up exposing basement walls in some places.....

  • @xILLxChronic
    @xILLxChronic 3 года назад +3

    Hey Simon, I'm here from the T-35 Tank video on SideProjects.

  • @urbansea12
    @urbansea12 3 года назад +1

    I truly appreciate all the content you put out, thank you!

  • @___ty__
    @___ty__ 3 года назад +2

    I really enjoyed this video and would love to see more of this style!

  • @Not-Great-at-Gaming
    @Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 года назад +52

    Simon is the Wikipedia of RUclips. He's done videos on pretty much everything and everyone (of importance) who's ever existed.

    • @outcast170
      @outcast170 3 года назад +8

      So... Simon isn't important? Just keep in mind, once he consumes all of RUclips, there will be only Simon... This is only the begining.

    • @Not-Great-at-Gaming
      @Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 года назад +3

      @@outcast170 Good point. Im actually one of the many who've recommended Simon do a story of himself on biographics.

    • @MashMonster69
      @MashMonster69 3 года назад

      @@outcast170 then we'll have to play RUclips says.

    • @leighpowell1062
      @leighpowell1062 3 года назад

      Simon the real Jesus

    • @outcast170
      @outcast170 3 года назад +1

      @@leighpowell1062 Nah, although he's definitely "delivering the message", he hasn't tried to convert us to the Church of Simon... Wait a minute, he's done videos on subliminal messages, all masterminds love to tell you HOW their going to take over, while their doing it... Oh no, we've already been indoctrinated to the Church of Simon Says.
      Eh, I've been in worse groups. Either that brainwashing was great or Simon really is a nice deity to follow.
      Speaking of Jesus though, he does have the epic beard, often walks around with no shoes (when is the last time you saw his shoes?), and always has a message to deliver while attempting to make us better people through information. Again I say, that must have been some good brain washing.

  • @internetzenmaster8952
    @internetzenmaster8952 3 года назад +4

    9:45 One of Karl Marx's biggest gripes with the bourgeoisie/capitalists when writing Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto was that the owners of the factories treated workers like "cogs in a machine"...
    Which is essentially the same thing that Stalin's USSR did to so many workers.
    To quote Sheev Palpatine: "Ironic."

    • @baronvonlimbourgh1716
      @baronvonlimbourgh1716 3 года назад

      The soviet union had very little to do with marx ideas.
      Kinda like usa's "all men are created equal".

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh 2 года назад

      "That wasn't real Socialism"

  • @woofernando7076
    @woofernando7076 3 года назад +3

    Yup, definitely want more of this 5 year plans. Bring it.

  • @lsxbird7874
    @lsxbird7874 3 года назад

    Good video, id watch as many more that you are willing to put out. Dont worry about the numbers any particular video puts out , or what does well. Keep making videos that you like doing , and viewers will appreciate your work.

  • @inewulf3204
    @inewulf3204 3 года назад +7

    I'll make more anyway because I love praise. Well at least he's honest

  • @Get-Native
    @Get-Native 3 года назад +8

    I feel like you are teaching me a university level course in soviet history! How about a megaprojects video about the power grid network and how it compared to western ones? Or even moving away from Russia, the worlds biggest power grid?

    • @ianmathwiz7
      @ianmathwiz7 2 года назад

      Or related to that, Lenin's 15-year plan to electrify Russia.

  • @daflotsam
    @daflotsam 3 года назад

    Fantastic episode. This is like a deep dive of an album. Would love more like this.

  • @jaydearien8624
    @jaydearien8624 Год назад

    Great stuff! More, please! I can’t believe the quality and volume of highly informative material you are cranking out, Simon! Wow!

  • @Not-Great-at-Gaming
    @Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 года назад +35

    Half of my subscriptions are Simon's channels...
    Simon: I've got a new channel!

    • @ghaznavid
      @ghaznavid 3 года назад +3

      Same here!

    • @garethbaus5471
      @garethbaus5471 3 года назад +1

      He won't stop until he hits 99.9% of your subscriptions.

    • @currykingwurst6393
      @currykingwurst6393 3 года назад

      Funfact: He just started another channel yesterday. xplrd

  • @eddietat95
    @eddietat95 3 года назад +107

    It could have been worse. They could have gone for a great leap forward.

    • @ryann8680
      @ryann8680 3 года назад +24

      ain't communism fun

    • @kieranh2005
      @kieranh2005 3 года назад +12

      Especially with all of the leaderships competing to show their ideological purity and commitment to the cause.

    • @fredmyers120
      @fredmyers120 3 года назад +17

      With every Communist movement comes their inevitable Purges. The most self-destructive & "Cannibalistic" form of government ever.

    • @skizzik121
      @skizzik121 3 года назад +4

      @@ryann8680 read this as ANTI communism fun then realized both comments work

    • @bushmanPMRR
      @bushmanPMRR 3 года назад +6

      Hitler: I'm bad!
      Stalin: Hold my vodka
      Mao: Meh, amateurs

  • @lizlewis238
    @lizlewis238 3 года назад +2

    Simon making yet another channel: A fine addition to my collection

  • @bradmotoko
    @bradmotoko 3 года назад +1

    I love this idea for a series and I can’t wait to see more

  • @JasonDoe1000
    @JasonDoe1000 3 года назад +6

    I was already worried that Simon hasn't created a new channel in the last three weeks
    Good to see that he is fine though and added another one to his collection

  • @heckinmemes6430
    @heckinmemes6430 3 года назад +8

    One step further on the path to youtube domination.

  • @DCHasso
    @DCHasso 2 года назад

    Honestly binge watching so many of your channels. Would enjoy more of these 5 step plans

  • @dedogster
    @dedogster 3 года назад +1

    Now I want to know more about the other 5 year plans! Thanks for doing this!

  • @dbatchison
    @dbatchison 3 года назад +40

    You should do one on the Moscow Metro system

    • @Bigdeathy
      @Bigdeathy 3 года назад +3

      @Anthony Swiss Metro 2033; classic

    • @kailashbtw9103
      @kailashbtw9103 3 года назад +1

      Metro 2033 by Simon.

    • @purpleldv966
      @purpleldv966 3 года назад +1

      why? Is any different then others? It surely isn't older or bigger then the London one, so what would be the point?

    • @dbatchison
      @dbatchison 3 года назад +3

      @@purpleldv966 It's larger than Londons, and it's stations are basically works of art. Created to show off the impressiveness of the USSR

    • @worldoftancraft
      @worldoftancraft 2 года назад +1

      @@purpleldv966 Bigger and it only grows...

  • @eFeXuy
    @eFeXuy 3 года назад +41

    Speaking of economy reverting projects: the Autobahn

  • @simonbrooks4088
    @simonbrooks4088 Год назад

    Awesome presentation as always. Fascinating subject. Excellent over-view. Thank you. Bring on the next in this series😊

  • @BlazeSilverWolf
    @BlazeSilverWolf 3 года назад

    Subscribed to yet another channel of yours. Keep it up Simon & team!

  • @delacroixp
    @delacroixp 3 года назад +4

    Loving it - Megaproject suggestions: Heavy Haul railways and India's electrified double-stack railway corridor

  • @alancranford3398
    @alancranford3398 3 года назад +9

    I approve of putting the 5 year plans under Mega Projects. Even though it was a dumpster fire it did work--because without these blood-soaked five year plans Hitler would have crushed the USSR. That doesn't mean that the five year plans were good things. It's hard to view these things objectively because the past is messy and chaotic--it was life.

    • @Dan-Martin
      @Dan-Martin 3 года назад +3

      People don't understand that if it wasn't for the rapid industrialization, Hitler would have destroyed the USSR.

    • @madgavin7568
      @madgavin7568 2 года назад

      @@Dan-Martin Russia lost the First World War partially because it was not a very industrialized nation.

  • @natureandphysics403
    @natureandphysics403 3 года назад +2

    "Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chain ..."

  • @superduper1917
    @superduper1917 3 года назад

    Side Projects! You are just crushing it! I keep finding you in different places on RUclips and I get hooked on all of them! Brother you are the algorithm! Loving It! Keep rocking the Free World Sir!

  • @LtColShingSides
    @LtColShingSides 3 года назад +8

    You have to get in on the ground floor with all these new channels so you can get all the inside jokes

  • @Not-Great-at-Gaming
    @Not-Great-at-Gaming 3 года назад +45

    New channel idea: Mini projects.
    Episode one: That time a man made a cup of coffee.

    • @lizlewis238
      @lizlewis238 3 года назад +5

      Sounds more like a megaproject imo
      Think of the overruns, the delays, the extortionate cost

    • @danielbronfenbrener5601
      @danielbronfenbrener5601 3 года назад +2

      You think he should make another channel?

  • @Ultrare
    @Ultrare 2 года назад +1

    I came here from the t-35 tank video because Simon said it was a cool video and he enjoyed it. This gave me a BRILLIANT idea: top ten Simon videos that he enjoyed making. Bonus video: top ten Simon Videos that he learned the most in recording.
    Ps. Just tell us what to watch Simon. We'll listen obviously. And boost your RUclips metrics and stuff too 😉

  • @AtodaK
    @AtodaK 2 года назад

    This was great, I'd love to listen to more of these.

  • @tokyosmash
    @tokyosmash 3 года назад +6

    Simon with a new channel? Imagine my shock.

  • @TacomaNative
    @TacomaNative 3 года назад +7

    Omg please continue this story. It had me feeling like i was right there with the desperate Soviet people. I could almost feel the sorrow and despair you could see on their faces. Great job Simon!

  • @MrTarmonbarry
    @MrTarmonbarry 3 года назад +1

    A lot of the grain taken from the farms was not used to feed the people working in the factories in the cities , a lot was sold abroad to western countries

  • @phoenixjen8986
    @phoenixjen8986 2 года назад

    This was really interesting and well done, and I’d really like to see more videos about the other plans in the future

  • @plinkitee
    @plinkitee 3 года назад +4

    I have a new hobby: collecting Simon Whistler channels. I now have 6 and I look forward to more. 😁

  • @joeyr7294
    @joeyr7294 3 года назад +8

    I wouldn't mind seeing a second episode of this! Keep up the awesome content 🍻

  • @danieljones9937
    @danieljones9937 2 года назад

    Excellent vid. I'm definitely up for the rest of these too... :)

  • @JoLew37
    @JoLew37 3 года назад +1

    This video should be more popular as its important history and as we all know... ignorance and arrogance is why it repeats itself. Much appreciated Simon and team! Keep making these videos for the betterment of the masses. Thank you for your efforts to be objective vs picking sides.

  • @zackmorrison470
    @zackmorrison470 3 года назад +7

    "How many lights do you see, Picard?!" -Gul Madred, Star Trek: TNG, "Chain of Command I & II"
    I, for one, would be interested in hearing about the rest of the "5 Year Plans." So little of "History" is actually covered in the U.S. public school system, that I find myself continually surprised (and a bit embarrassed) by how much I don't know about some of the most important events in world history. I have a much better appreciation for the importance of not simply "learning history," but rather UNDERSTANDING the complexities which lead to important events and the consequences thereafter.
    I was familiar with the "2 + 2 = 5" reference to the novel "1984," and understood that it was more about submission/mind control than arithmetic, but I was not aware of its actual use in Soviet Propaganda, nor its meaning in that specific context and in the greater context of the Soviet industrialization plans. That adds several layers of depth to something I previously thought I was quite familiar with. I wonder what else is contained in the subsequent "Plans." =)

  • @dmacpher
    @dmacpher 3 года назад +15

    Mega project idea : Danny’s spread sheets and filing system.

  • @ElijahPerrin80
    @ElijahPerrin80 3 года назад

    I look forward to your side piece. Thanks I was just saying I need more channels of yours lol :) good idea to get multiple channels. Good show again.

  • @drewrub7415
    @drewrub7415 3 года назад

    Thanks Simon. That was a great vid.

  • @robertboemke8705
    @robertboemke8705 3 года назад +8

    If you do that, then you should do Mao's Great Leap Forward next.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад

      And the Cultural Revolution, Mao's later monstrous madness.

  • @singular9
    @singular9 3 года назад +6

    People always underestimate the USSR...but the fact they were in million man casualty wars from ww1, the revolution, and ww2, they came really far in such a short time and even managed to send people into space in just 15 years after ww2.

    • @singular9
      @singular9 3 года назад +2

      @Anthony Swiss my bad, typo thanks for catching it

  • @alfford6438
    @alfford6438 3 года назад +2

    This story is indeed beyond tragic, yet I think it's important that people hear it. I hope we can hear more about these 5 year plans, awful though they may be.

  • @williamsimmons152
    @williamsimmons152 3 года назад

    Mid 50’s ( I was 10 ) I somehow acquired a 1940’s stand up RCA radio with short wave frequencies on the dial. I remember listening to Radio Moscow a bunch of times and there was a lot of talk about 5 year plans. Mostly about agriculture I think. I still recall the “chimed” ( like bells) musical announcement that you had tuned into the right frequency. They also played the morbid funeral march when someone of importance had died.

  • @overkillsnake
    @overkillsnake 3 года назад +5

    Jesus, Simon. ANOTHER CHANNEL?! You’re out of control!

    • @currykingwurst6393
      @currykingwurst6393 3 года назад

      Just wait until you find out he just started another channel yesterday, called xplrd.

  • @EmperorZelos
    @EmperorZelos 3 года назад +3

    it was 300 PERCENTILES below, but 700% below the expected.

  • @khanjones9390
    @khanjones9390 2 года назад

    Youre right this was an underappreciated video! I think it was my favourite, please do the next 5 years

  • @justchevrotainrating
    @justchevrotainrating 2 года назад

    This was fascinating! I am glad I watched this.

  • @josdesouza
    @josdesouza 3 года назад +4

    And who would have thunk that fiercely anti-communist old Henry Ford would play a major role in the Soviet drive for rapid industrialisation!

    • @gabbar51ngh
      @gabbar51ngh 2 года назад

      Yeah, Taylorism was heavily used in USSR's industrialization ironically.

  • @kentucky_official2440
    @kentucky_official2440 3 года назад +13

    Can you do one on the Boeing super factory in Everett Washington, USA it can fit Disney world's magic Kingdom and i believe it is the largest building by internal volume.

    • @gabenchrist7331
      @gabenchrist7331 3 года назад +2

      Similar to the tesla gigafactory 1 in Nevada which is the biggest building by area

    • @Borsuk3344
      @Borsuk3344 3 года назад +2

      It's not interesting, stop spamming it under every video.

    • @owenshebbeare2999
      @owenshebbeare2999 3 года назад +1

      @@Borsuk3344 Damn right, it really just isn't interesting, though this channel is American so they might do it as pro-Boeing propaganda, as if that corrupt company didn't have enough shills and subsidies.

  • @duncanmaclean2263
    @duncanmaclean2263 3 года назад

    Please make more of these!!

  • @georgegillett6059
    @georgegillett6059 Год назад

    Subscribed to side projects and chasing down your 'less popular' videos on these crazy soviet economic plans 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

  • @workhardism
    @workhardism 3 года назад +3

    All they need to do is unleash the power of capitalism and they could have all that industrial growth without the death.

  • @ziggy2shus624
    @ziggy2shus624 3 года назад +21

    When Hitler invaded Russia in 1941, he invaded with over 500,000 horses.
    When you get beyond the thin front line of trucks, tanks and aircraft, the German Army of 1941 was a horse drawn army.

    • @71kimg
      @71kimg 3 года назад +3

      And due to this lack of oil - the German invasion routes usually followed the train lines

    • @pyromania1018
      @pyromania1018 3 года назад

      Ever watched Potential History's videos on the Nazi war "machine"?

  • @BG_NC
    @BG_NC 2 года назад

    I'd love to hear more about the other 5 year plans. Not something I know much about, and your videos make everything so interesting! It's a shame that not all of your videos get the attention they deserve

  • @beaverjacob_214
    @beaverjacob_214 3 года назад

    Love the content from this channel, would like to see another 5 year plan video.

  • @SymbioteMullet
    @SymbioteMullet 3 года назад +4

    Simon! This is an intervention! Stop starting new channels! You're not burning the candle at both ends, you are weilding a flamethrower against a tealight!

    • @MercenaryPen
      @MercenaryPen 3 года назад +1

      I thought he was setting fire to the candle factory- having first doused it in napalm

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

      @@MercenaryPen shhhh! Don't give him ideas, or we'll see him starting a band called Napalm Candles with their own channel next month!

    • @currykingwurst6393
      @currykingwurst6393 3 года назад +1

      He didn't listen to you. He started another one yesterday. Called xplrd.

    • @SymbioteMullet
      @SymbioteMullet 3 года назад

      @@currykingwurst6393 he was never going to listen. Cocaine is a hell of a drug. Allegedly.

  • @Furudal
    @Furudal 3 года назад +44

    5 Year Plan. Also known as: "How many million lives this time around, comrade?"

  • @charlenasutherland
    @charlenasutherland 2 года назад

    I’m looking forward for the rest!👍

  • @Code3forever
    @Code3forever 3 года назад

    This is a good video and topic. Please continue.

  • @zmanjace1364
    @zmanjace1364 3 года назад +16

    I'd say Simon really needs to get a hobby but its seems like his hobby is collecting RUclips channels.

  • @tanks608
    @tanks608 3 года назад +4

    AN-2, really cool mass-produced soviet flying tractor. Just an awesome plane with 1000s still flying today.

  • @ChristopherGonzalez1280
    @ChristopherGonzalez1280 3 года назад

    Subscribed. Keep up the good work!

  • @davidandrews3948
    @davidandrews3948 2 года назад

    Alex in Yr 10B found this really interesting and really loves your programmes. Do lots!