Perestroika & Glasnost (The End of the Soviet Union)
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985.
His policies were centred around the idea of reforming and modernizing the Soviet Union.
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Fun fact: Gorbachev was the only Soviet leader to be actually born in the USSR (i.e after the Russian Empire)
Gorbachev will also be the only Soviet Leader to not actually die in the USSR
More seriously, he had family members who had been a victim of Stalin's excesses.
@Dark Lord he was technically a hero to all. Without him life would have likely only worsened for people of both the USSR and United States and any proxy states they used to fight one another. By consolation of the USSRs faults he paved the way to a far more free world. Just because the elite of the USSR and the ignorant within the Soviet Union framed him as a traitor. He was not. He was a traitor only to those who didn’t want what he was offering or simply didn’t understand the implications without acting like their predecessors had.
@@rageraptor7127 Exactly. He probably saved the Russian people and the world. Look how far North Korea and Cuba have fallen since the Soviet money dried up.
@@BungieStudios well Cuba isn’t as poor as other nations and actually did develop some civil liberties for its citizens while keeping an isolationist stance on almost everything related to foreign affairs until only recently. But it’s also fair to note that we don’t have much information on Cuba’s economy since they are isolated but we do have some idea of what types of policy implications they are actually placing. It’s completely different story for both Korea. We know they are suffering and we know they are very poor because they have no vital imports or exports from any other nation except relief from China who uses the nation as a buffer state. And they only threaten war for vital import trade. Not really for any other reason.
Did you get your Pizza hut?
Gorbachev: Yes
What did it cost?
Gorbachev: Everything
"And than after i snap my fingers and communism is gone...i will eat pizza hut look over a grateful russia"
@@Dumpstermuffin1 Soo is Gorbachev a Hero or a traitor ?
Worth it!
@@niaagustina4142 hero
@@niaagustina4142 Both
Gorbachev's new policies to tackle the stagnation of the USSR
Perestroika = "restructuring" the Soviet Economy, almost towards capitalism
Glasnost = "openness" of the USSR its censorship of media, culture, and corruption
Great
Thank you for more USSR videos.
Can you make a video about the Romanian Revolution
Could you make a video about the power struggle in the Soviet Union after Stalins death?
Lmao dude was in a Pizza Hut commercial
McDonald’s logo- Yellow letter and red background
Communist logo- Yellow hammer and sickle and red background
Im beginging to see a patteron that i may not like
This is the first time I am getting a heart from simple history . Thank you so much
Yes, there is a connection.
And yet when the russians tasted the food they found it weird and of course "non russian", it almost took them their entire salary to eat at a McDonald's when they recently opened
It stimulates feeling of hunger, at least that's what my art teacher told me back in 10th grade.
“We weren’t able to buy anything, we had money, now we have everything but we don’t have the money” a quote that accurately represents the soviet economy
Sounds about right.
@@lukaj4833 ruclips.net/video/sjI8jwn0Upo/видео.html a woman in this video said it
@@lukaj4833 it is very famous in former eastern block countries. Author - Life.
You see it rise and you see it fall
@@lukaj4833 Well noone really it is just a popular saying in most former eastern block countries.
I’d be really cool if you you did a Cold War factions series
It Would Be Cool, I Think.
Factions?
You're already cool
Yea
How about a Napoleonic Wars factions series?
Chernobyl Disaster; Afghanistan War :
_“We're About To End This Country's Whole Career.”_
These are not the reasons.
@@TheSunchaster thease are major reasons
They werent the only reasons but more like the last few nails in the coffin.
@Igor Senkin How the USSR didn't collapse during the 1973 oil crisis is beyond me. Their economy was totally backwards, as anything a communist can provide to the people.
@Igor Senkin Education NEEDED to be good. The Soviets needed rocket scientists, aeronautical design chiefs, fighter pilots, astronauts, etc. Also, the civvies had patriotism for beating Germany during WW2, but in contrast to the U.S., they sent millions after millions to die, AKA human waves. The same tactic China used in Korea, 1950.
I was honestly shocked when I recently learned that Gorbachev is still alive. He's a very old man now but I had thought that he would have been assasinated after the fall of USSR
Wish he was, would’ve granted the Russian people some justice
@@moemoe7082 agreed. the man responsible for the fall of soviet union and brought russia to it's worst state at that moment.
it is a good fortune that putin came to save russia and brought it back to it's former glory even thought it's not perfect but it did save russia from collapsing any further.
@@LordNightCrawler Blame it on Yeltsin
@@gourmetbacon5750 Gorbachev started it and Yeltsin make it more even worst
@@LordNightCrawler You Russians cant shake off from that imperialist idea. You can't just move on with that.
"Shook hands with both Ronalds! Reagan and McDonalds, no doubt!"
If your name has "in", time to get out
You guys are man of culture
EPIC RAP BATTLES OF HISTORY
Did somebody say...real power?
i understand that some Russians where not happy about the price of a Ham burger and a coffee at the first Mc Donalds in Russia
A Russian friend once said "Glasnost was like hangover after a weekend binge"
That’s actually a really good way to put it.
My polysci professor said it was the biggest mistake since it allowed capitalism which destroyed the nation.
@@noanyabizniz4333 ok, but did your professor give an alternative to capitalism? What would your professor do for a better solution to the problem in the USSR
@@endutubecensorship Democratic socialism with no private property.
@@noanyabizniz4333 And does the concept your professor came up with sit well with you?
When you realize the Soviet Union stood for 68 years 361 days:
*We were on the verge of greatness! We were this close!*
So close
Soooo close
What are you saying?
@@Pajdas610 it could have been 69 year....
@@Pajdas610 They almost had their 69th anniversary.
Pizza Hut: Exists
USSR before Gorbachev: *We don’t do that here*
Gorbachev after taking power: *But I do*
Kansas: good
Pizza Hut came to Russia *way* after USSR's collapse, tho, and even now it's probably only present in Moscow and St. Petersburg
@@aspid6546 I believe in reference to him appearing in a pizza hut commercial
The first manager of the Mcdonald's: "Business is booming."
Soviet union: **Dies**
Slavaboos: I didn’t hear no bell
A thorough slap of sense may make them stop
Yeah.
And I'm guessing you are a freeboo?
@@letmechangemyusername what is a freeboo?
@@javiermendoza9607 the opposite of a slavaboo
Funny how you made Gorbachev the same height as Reagan. In real life Reagan was much taller than Gorbachev.
Only Yeltsin was close to Bill Clinton (and best relations with Americans). The more the gap between the Russian leader and the American, the more hostile relations.
Christ stop nitpicking every single detail lmao, practically every person in they're videos are the same height lol
Nobody cares
@@themasterbanana3138 it wasn't meant as nitpicking thing. I just thought it was funny.
@@mochalo4912 obviously enough to leave a comment.
Here after hearing the tragic news. Rest In peace Gorbachev.
I heard that Lenin tried a similar thing. He noticed a lack of support from the Russian middle class, since they weren't happy with the state taking away their businesses. There were plans to let some business owners keep their business to get their support. But he never got the chance to implement it. And Stalin threw this idea right off te table.
You heard right. It was called НЭП (NEP, short for New Economic Policy)
Farewell Mr. Gorbachev. Thanks for all the memories.
The best thing to come out of the USSR was the Gorbachev Pizza Hut commercial
Gorbachev's Pizza Hut commercial was after the fall of USSR.
What about Tetris?
@@Dumpstermuffin1 You can still hear that catchy tune in hearts of iron 4.
What?
@@sloppyoyster5779 this video ruclips.net/video/fgm14D1jHUw/видео.html
“Knock knock knock knock
Did somebody say birthmarks?”
"Hey, I'm the host with the most, glasnost!"
Ahsoles made a mess and the war got cold
Shook hands with both Ronalds.
If your name ends with "in," time to get out!
No doubt
Anastasia: "Dad can we have pizza hut?"
Gorbachev: "We have Pizza Hut at home."
Pizza Hut at home: *Chanting* "Hail to Gorbachev!"
Even the commercial showing how old man and teenager arguing about him too
What a coincidence my history teacher talked about this today
"Shook hands with both Ronalds, Regan and McDonald's no doubt" - Mikhail Gorbachev
Yes
Comrade Belikov, we are in grave danger from the capitalists. Our collective, our very way of life is at risk
"If your name end with in, time to get out!!!"
-Gorbachev
Putin why he no ou-
Damn, that intro is scary. Sounds awfully familiar to today's problems in US.
Wdym
You couldnt be more correct
Read about how Hitler came into power, you might get scared even more.
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That commercial?
3:45 one of the reasons that simple history has become my favorite YT channel.
My Grandparents lived in that period.
They watched the USSR collapse and the end of the Red Terror.
They watched how us Latvians got freedom.
While they just watched, we did it! :)
Give me Robux please
@@lukaj4833 “There is no freedom, just a bigger prison.” By someone I forgot
God bless any country that suffered or still suffers from communism. Must have been an incredible moment knowing that your country isn't going to be oppressed anymore.
@@lukaj4833 so Latvia being apart of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military organization, is comparable to the annexation of Latvia and integration into the USSR, which saw major repression, deportations, killings and soviet control of the country with the interests of the RSFSR in mind? Are you kidding me?
Rest in peace Gorbachev. It's sad to see your visions for a freer state stepped on.
it worked in all states except Russia.
all the other SSR's are free. but Russia is looking like the Russian empire right now
@@comradesocalistfromaustralia fortunately, since the days of the USSR, many good things have remained in Russia, including nuclear weapons, for example.
@@YukiKras the nuclear weapons where in ukraine and a deal was made to give the bombs to russia
russia is a great country but in my opinon i dont like putin and what he is doing
@@comradesocalistfromaustralia Putin is not a single personality, on the one hand he defeated the problems of Russia in the 90s, on the other hand, he slowly but surely destroyed education and dragged him into a "special military operation".
@@comradesocalistfromaustraliaReally? You mean Turkmenistan is a free nation?
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This is the first time I actually downloaded something based on a youtube sponsor. Just wish simple history had a referral code.
Stalin: “and I took that personally”
I thought it was Khrushchev.
He definitely would. Gorbachev literally let Stalin be vilified and portrayed as a murderer in the USSR by the late 80s.
This is actually really interesting. I’ve always wondered how it all happened and this video explained it well. Kudos to Simple History 💛
This is the first time I have both watched a full ad on a video and got the app.
Cheers.
Not the McDonalds add my heart can’t take it
The only real yellow with red flag.
The First *and LAST* McDonald's to open in the Soviet Union.
The next one opened in Russia.
Car brand CEO: why cant we sell the car cheap
The goverment: its not your bussines, its ours
Just like soviet union, my englis is started collapsing to :/
I just heard today that Gorbachev finally passed away at age 91.
He claimed that had he played his cards right he could still be leading the USSR. Given that the PRC survived I'm inclined to believe him.
Party Member: We are against the reforms!
Everyone else: *Sleeping*
Yeah. The animation gives a dumb picture of the era.
Gorbachev was frankly the best leader the USSR had seen in a long time, and despite still not being the best, was not a brutal oppressor like other USSR leaders
They don't like him in Russia
My soviet Ukraine born mom says Gorbachev was the only decent soviet leader, because she fucking hated communism lmfao
lithuania: totally not an oppressor
There was no fear of ‘gulags’ when Gorbachev was in. Kruschev dismantled the gulags
They still exist until now but the post Stalin ussr used psychratrick hospitals instead
You don’t care about the number of innocent people imprisoned in America right now. And also the sometimes dire conditions in private prisons?
@@user-yp9vj7 ????
@@rayh6118 And also penal colonies, apparently.
Interesting fact though: one of the first things Gorbachev let become more widely known after easing media censorship was the extent of many of Stalin's crimes, including the Great Purge (this happened around 1988). There was even a "Wall of Sorrow" set up in honor of Stalin's victims.
Rest In Peace Comrade
Here after the passing of Gorbachev. Looks like Putin wants to create a soviet state again, undoing all of Gorbachevs hard work. RIP
I can only imagine how he felt in his final days, seeing all he wanted trampled upon.
Putin's desire for communism is not very visible
Putin's just a personalist autocrat. He's no different from Viktor Orban or any other current dictator. Everything he does is no different than other autocracies (e.g Autocratic elections), he's just really good at it. He definitely is not interested in communism, he just wants to stay in power.
What came after were even worse for Russia than before. Yeltsin created the oligarchs , tanks fired right in the middle of Moscow , the war in Chechnya and the economy was non existence . Russia was bullied into submission by the West , NATO rock right up on to its border and set up missile silos in impunity . Russia was neither rich nor democratic , the US interfered in the Russia election in 96 helping Yeltsin remained in power although he was unpopular. The West showed its true face after the collapse , they never want a strong Russia and will never want to peacefully co-exist with Russia . Luckily they didn't expect such a leader like Putin and Russia really comeback hard during the early 2000s.
As an American myself, I believe I speak for a number of westerners when I say I long for Russia to be truly free and prosperous. Our politicians were admittedly overly aggressive with NATO expansion goals and on other issues (I personally feel nations like Ukraine should be neutral like Austria or Sweden), but Russia sadly is run by absolute crooks and criminals who care little about the people and a lot about increasing their own power by any means possible (inside and outside of the country). Yeltsin was a tragic joke and Putin's a fascist tyrant. The Russian people after decades if not centuries of suffering and tyranny deserve much better. I hope in my heart the Russian people somehow throw off the garbage that stains their remarkable land and culture, successfully build a democracy, and truly join us in freedom and glory. Maybe we could then unite to bring down China's murderous government and allow their people to also grow powerful and prosperous, free of evil dictatorship. It is my hope and prayer that somehow through the power of God, these things begin to happen.
In conclusion, the big mac brings nations together.
Or in this case, break a country up
The succulent gift of heart disease and diabeetus. Better make that coke a diet one! ;)
don't forget the pizza hut commercial
Free trade tends to bring peace. It makes no sense to attack a good customer, or a good supplier. There has never been a war between two nations that both had a McDonalds.
Fun fact: the word “glasnost” and “perestroika”, were used in an episode, in a series called Pingu.
RIP Gorbachev
I never really bothered to learn this on my own, thanks for making this!
Who's here after Gorbachev died?
RIP Comrade Gorbachev
3:41 when my grandfather was sleeping on a routinely meeting of the SED in 1989 while someone have a presentation, he was yelled at by a functionary and threatened that he'd have to give the next presentation. He left the scene. At the next meeting other regular members were walking around with clipboards, asking who'd want to leave. It was the last meeting he'd take part of.
Just learned this in history class today. What a lucky upload.
Remember kids: your western teachers are extremly biased and tell you propaganda!
All teachers are biased
The policies Gorbachev introduced should have been introduced 10-15 years earlier.
Then maybe the USSR would be still alive today.
everyone just gonna ignore how he breaths in cigarette smoke but never exhale?
Like sponsor this week, Ground News actually sounds useful
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Imagine being first. Wait that’s you
How did ya manage to get 16 minutes early lol
He is a hero without a cape really
Well, not really. His economic polisy was garbage and from some sourses he personally ordered to use force at the end of empire. But i must admit that his peasfull political polisy is with "glasnost" is really blessing and potentually prevented civil war in broken USSR
@@angryspearmen3614 yeah he definitely saved a lot of lives. That is pretty honorable I think.
Mikhail Gorbache... Now that is an haircut you can set your watch to
Blamed for the fall of the Soviet Union.
Bring this man a medal.
"Yoink! I'll take that" - Boris Yeltsin
Gorbachev needs a medal.
He'd already had from the Nobel Committee.
rip gorbachev 1931-2022
Gorbachev loved Russia so much he now lives in Germany
If the reforms were implemented at an earlier date perhaps the Soviet Union might still be standing, but alas we can only imagine, I myself can see many similarities between the late Soviet Union and America right now in terms of economic inequality and political corruption.
He's a great leader and I admire him for what he had done. RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, you will always be remembered...
you admire his murders?
USSR: alright guys, this “capitalism” thing sounds appealing, i’ll apply it MINIMALLY to test it out
USSR: *fucking collapses*
I like it how I was watching videos about Mikhail Gorbachev yesterday and all of a sudden you guys made a video about him lmao
This legend has died today.
K you guys have so many videos I can just look up an event somewhere and you have a video it seems this is why I love this channel.
Rest in eternal peace Legend
Gorbachev is not legend. Gorbachev is an enemy of the people.
@@YukiKras Gorbachev ended an already failing system prematurely. There was virtually 0 percent chance of the USSR recovering from the oil decline of 1986, and the republics were getting more independent by the day. People would have inevitably found about western consumerism whether or not glasnost ever happened, there would have been widespread rebellion at some point. At best they might have been able to keep it going another decade or so. Maybe if Lenin and every Soviet leader that followed actually stuck to the original ideologies of egalitarianism then they could have stood a better chance, but human greed is too powerful apparently.
@@collinstrickland7565 unfortunately, yes, the course has changed since Khrushchev.
putin, take some notes from gorbachev man
Yeah Gorbachev is a traitor putin is a badass ruler he will crush nato with his left hand
before 2014 putin was gorbachev after 2014 putin was brezhnev.
@@atomth0242 only Putin is for capitalism so far, and Khrushchev has been for communism.
R.I.P Gorbachev
Gorbachev wasn't opposed to communism or a communist approach, he just wanted to make things better, in some ways he did, some ways he did the opposite.
“If your name starts with in time to get out” -Gorbachev
When Simple history makes a video about Russia:
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Nicolai is very thirsty after killing zombies.
Very nice video! Love the script.
1:22 Well, They got the stereotypes right.
Oh Abe!
An actual pretty cool sponsor on this video! Will check it out to support the channel!
Gorby was a hero who realised that communism will never work.
He was the traitor who understood how to make money.
He was capitalist@@user-yp9vj7
Do you thing that you guy could do things on the mongals. It’s for my history class
*Mongols.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 don't be so hard on the kid. He just wants to pass his test.
@@pekkaseppala3999 Who's being "hard on the kid"?
Did I criticise him at all?
Did I mock him?
No, I gave him the correct spelling.
If he's doing a project on the Mongols... from Mongolia...it'd be better if he knew what they were actually called - that way he can properly research the subject.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 It's a spelling error man, everybody does it sometimes, maybe he does know the actual spelling and it was just a typo he forgot to edit.
There's another history channel called ''Kings and Generals'' on youtube. They do lots of videos on the mongols and go into huge depth and detail. Check it out, I think it will be really helpful.
"Yo I'm the host with the most Glasnost, assholes made a mess and the War got cold!"
Rest In Peace comrade Gorbachev
Rip Gorby, you were the only normal leader that Soviet and Russia ever had
"and Big Brother was watching over ever word" sounds like the book 1984.
Well you confederates are practically firsthand experts at failed regimes. 😂😂😂
_THE FREE MARKET_
Because seizing production, seizes production.
This is not correct story.
The honger and crisis in USSR started with Gorbachev and not before him.
70% of country profits went to armament but people had a work, food and free medical care and education
Gorbachev: I want to fix our country
Everyone else in the Communist Party: Hahaha no.
Gorbachev: Let's perestroika and glasnost. We will destroy the USSR and plunder the Soviet norad.
Everyone else in the Communist Party: Good idea, we become oligarchs and sail 200m yachts in Bali. But officially we must not show it.
Gorbachev: Hail Hydra.
Everyone else in the Communist Party: Hail Hydra.
@@МихаилСлуцкий-м7г Don’t care didn’t ask plus that looks like Propaganda.
@@Pyrotrainthing Of course this video is propaganda, I agree with you. With the same success the Great Depression in the United States, can be called perestroika. And praised the American government for creating it.
@@МихаилСлуцкий-м7г I'm saying what you're saying is propaganda.
@@Pyrotrainthing Do you think you have more reliable sources of information about perestroika in the USSR than a person who now lives in one of the post-Soviet countries? Maybe I know better what is false propaganda and what is not? Specifically in this thread. Or can I, too, judge better than you what happened in your country 30 years ago?
Great content as always Simple History.
Yes an new simple history vid thank god I am no longer bored
The ad in the beginning should be shown to every college student
Fun fact : they didn’t play the Pizza Hut ad that Gorbachev made in former Soviet countries because they knew the people would be furious
R.I.P gorbachev
The "free" market asks 300 bucks for a package of insulin, sounds like capitalistic heaven.
That's because of government regulation buddy
atleast you can get good medicine soviet health service were abysmal even detroit had a better healthcare service
@@gustavoangladacancel5613 Bullshit. The government has been deregulating entire industries since the 1980s.
@@a_can_of_soda there are only three companies that make it for the US... it’s one of the most highly regulate goods in the US lmao
@@a_can_of_soda not the medical industry tho
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev 🇷🇺🕯
“If people didn’t make mistakes, they would never be good enough”
- One good person
“Im the host with the most glasnost”
Assholes made a mess and the war got cold...
shook hands with both Ronalds.Reagan and McDonald
@@СимеонНиколов-о9в no doubt. If your name end with in time to get out
@@jethrowilliamhyramgrecia672 I got the balls to let Baryshnikov dance playa
@@aaronclark9368 Torn down that wall like the kool aid man OH YEAH
Girls: **Titanic**
Boys: *I cry collapse Soviet Union*
Men: *Russian Empire*
No it was good
I guess you meant: "cry in joy"
8:06 THE FIRST EVER MCDONALDS!? :0
RIP mikhail gorbachev
Do more videos about the soviet union this is really interesting!!!
„Big Brother was watching every word.“ * flashes back to Room 101*
As Deng Xiaopeng's son once quoted " My father thinks Gorbachev is an idiot. He tries to put the cart before the horse"
China was so lucky.
I'd love to see a video on the first few heads of the Cheka and the KGB like Yezov, Yagoda, and Beria
For some reason, that last sentence, about them lining up for food at a McDonald’s, kind of gave me chills. To see a country with millions starving, able to eat something every American took for granted. Crazy times. And crazier times now.
only idiots would think havinf mcdonalds would make fucking life better. lmao
@@jaydengray30 It’s not so much about McDonald’s as it is about what it represented.
No one starved in the USSR in the 80s.