My uncle managed to go to one of these when he was studying in Bulgaria , Vietnam also tried to do the same as the Soviet Union back in the day but was limited by the lacking economy . Fun fact , the best chance for Soviet citizens to vacation abroad was by serving in the Navy , I still remember that time when i saw Russian sailors swimming in Cam Ranh bay , Nha Trang .
Even until this day, the central region of Vietnam still have a lot of Russian tourists (well before covid ofc). When I go to Mui Ne and Nha Trang, triligual signs (Vietnamese, English, Russian) are everywhere.
It sounds really nice, basic services like that would be great in rural areas in America. Hospital coverage is sparse in rural areas and people often have to drive hours to reach a hospital, not to mention the closing hospitals all over America.
When I was a child my grandfather told me constantly about the worker resorts and sanitoriums in Hungary. Although by 1980 the worker retreats weren't used as much as before, a lot of Hungarians still went to Lake Balaton and utilized the related leisure facilities (like mineral springs and such) which still exist and are of very good quality.
It's great that they still exist and are well maintained! I think that Soviet sanatoriums in Russia, with proper maintenance, can serve for many years to come.
There's a fairly well maintained one on Margritsziget, I believe. A drive around Balaton definitely offers a glimpse of Soviet vacation life. I have very fond memories listening to VaporWave and CityPop driving to Tihany, peak '80s vibe. Thanks Setarko!! Super informative vid on something that has been very mysterious to me.
Hungary (Balaton) was also destination for people from Czechoslovakia and East Germany. It was one of the few country you can get without restrictions. Yugoslavia was considered as capitalist country (because of nearly free borders with Austria and Italy), so it was much more complicated and expensive to get there.
Hungarian, can confirm. There are more people speaking german at Balaton cuz all the DPR people travelled there all the time so they learnt. Old german people still visit out of nostalgia
I'm originally from Odessa and we'd go on a Black Sea cruise every year. That was the most luxurious vacation in the USSR. the restaurants had good food, there were bars and plenty of other entertainment. My family had tickets on the final cruise of Admiral Nakhimov but my parent's friends couldn't make the date so we transferred to a smaller ship. Admiral Nakhimov had a collision with a huge container ship and sank in about 15 minutes after collision. Hundreds of people lost their lives.
As a Bulgarian who goes to the Black Sea like it's the most casual thing ever, I find it quite flattering how many other Eastern Europeans have fond memories of laying on some warm beach and then going for a swim into the warm water (warm for you, a bit cold for us). Even back in Socialist times taking a break in the mountains or on the Black Sea was pretty common - the country is small and jampacked with beauty, how hard could it be to send Petrov, Dimitrov, Ivanova and Serafimova for a 3-4 week break a hundred kilometers away. (My grandpa had a couple of months break in the mountains, because he started experiencing severe heart issues, it turned out a family trend) Since the early-mid 2010s, Bulgarians exploring the country has become more common, while the number of tourists has exponentially grown (10 million in 2019). One of those little things that brings me joy.
Holidays in Bulgaria were also something big in Poland. My mom was there in late 70s and consider these vacations as the very best time of her life. It was even beneficial for her extended family - after three years her cousin married a friend of a friend which my mom met in Bulgaria. She also still remember two Slovaks which accompanied them for the whole trip.
I'm not even from a former soviet country, but we still has a system something like this. With the influence and support from USSR in 1970's our government went on a rapid change to a near socialist economy. Even though land ownership and some other things were still kept private, most of the power in business sector was handled by the government. Transport, Education, Healthcare and even manufacturing was mostly handled by governments institutes. As a result the government needed to provide vacation facilities to government workers. Just like USSR they too built circuit bungloves and similar facilities. Government sector workers were provided ability to book them in advance and spend there vacation there. However the waiting list was endless so bribery was common to jump the queue. Even 1st class free train tickets were provided to reach the destination. My both parents are teachers in government sector so I went such trips when we got the chance. The facilities were certainty not really good but that was something since fancy vacations were only dreams with my parents meager salaries.
Interesting video, comrade. 👍I remember my grandfather, a miner, often went to the sanatorium for free. Nowadays, not every hard worker can afford this.🤔
Miners were considered amongst the most important workers for the industrialization of the country and try tended to get better pay and stuff. But you probably knew that.
@@OffGridInvestor You're right. Mining work has always been one of the most dangerous, but well paid. Nowadays, this is an almost disappearing profession. Coal mines are being closed all over the world due to environmental and other concerns.🤷♂️
Similar things existed in Yugoslavia. There were even special resorts owned by corporations on the Adriatic. However, from what I can tell, access to these was much easier than in the USSR. Also, you could always go to one of these resorts on your own accord. Vacation days were plentiful enough to allow you to organize a trip. Today, however, this system collapsed. Now, holidays on the Adriatic are very expensive unless you own property there (some did even during the times of the SFRY). Even the previously corporation-owned resorts have been privatized and turned into luxury 4 or 5 star hotels. (Though I must add they were really nice inside and out even during the socialist era). Really nice video by the way!
In Estonia, if you were a good worker, you could get a free trip to a sanatorium. Such as to Georgia. You had to do the best in your department, say be the best cow milker. The problem being that if you were friends with someone higher up you could get something to help your cows produce more milk that the other workers wouldn’t receive and you’d be guaranteed a yearly holiday. This is a story I am told about my mother in laws friend. 😅🤷🏻
The idea behind elaborate architecture of USSR sanatoriums was to create "palaces for the people" akin to palatial underground stations. I wonder whether it was the initial impulse when repurposing the royal villas after the revolution, so that the former oppressed could enjoy the luxury.
@@dwarow2508 But the repression of the KGB never abatted much, and while Russia itself may have benefited, the sattelite states never had much freedoms. Nowhere could this be more clearly seen than the Berlin Wall.
Отличные видео! Очень рад, что подписан на канал, где вижу скорее обьективный взгляд на страну, нежели страшилки и ад на земле. Еще то, что контент на английском просто замечательно. Сам думал сделать такой канал про СССР, только на испанском, так как живу в Мексике и постоянно слышу достаточно глупые вопросы о водке, медведях, Гулагах и холоде! Очень рад за то, что канал растет! Желаю как можно больше подписчиков и благодарю за шикарно проделанную работу!
So it's basically 30 day paid vacation provided by your job most expenses paid. One vacation every 3 years or so and every year or so if you are in management.. not bad.. free healthcare and excellent education and most got basic free housing too. Not too fancy but sure sounds to be less stressful ..
There is still a lot of sanatoriums in Poland. They are almost for free if you are are ill and willing to wait two years or you can pay to get there. They are cheaper than spa resorts
my dad was an officer in soviet military so our whole family used to go to Crimean sanatoriums for free every year. but to get to best places you had to be high rank which my dad wasnt.
🏆🇷🇺Bravo Setarko! You did very well. Your voice sounds the same. Thank you for creating this film recovering from illness. All these natural health philosophies and medical treatments are exactly what I love. Nature No.1. It sounds so perfect, no wonder Russians romantacise about the soviet days. You included so much information in here. I will have to watch few times to absorb and learn. The visuals are great. Setarko 🏆🏆🇷🇺🇷🇺
It all sounds well on paper (in video), but I don't recall almost any of my relatives who were simple kolhoz workers or just in general workers (truck drivers, nurses) going to those ''luxurious resorts'', maybe it happened before but not in the 80s. Almost all the time was spent in countryside helping grandparents work their small plot of land, similarly how USHANKA SHOW tells it was. And in any case Soviet entertainment or resorts were... let's just say they were Soviet resorts. No bowling, no golf, no video game arcades, amusement parks with huge rides, karaoke or game shows, bingo or shit like that etc... basically just yeah, some treatments with often pissed off nurses or personnel who would rather do something else, nice nature, sea (or lake) and ... unless your next door comrade came to you with a bottle of vodka, that was the end of entertainment. Ok, perhaps some excursions if there was something to see nearby. I guess something in Georgia or Black Sea coast was more interesting and fancy but as Setarko said many people might as well go to local ''rayon'' sanatoria which might have had rude personnel, worn out equipment for health procedures and nothing at all else to do
Much as it's not in practice quite up to the ideal, I think it's a brilliant feature. Even if the super Lux stuff wasn't in practice freely available to average-Ivan, the hiking trips and all the rest are awesome. The German Strength through Joy program was pretty cool too. These arent intended to be judgements on the respective regimes/systems ofc, just neat features that are really cool.
@@popytkpisatel societies always do social enginnering but in america you have a mix of goverment and private companies promoting a individualist, consumerist society while NatSoc Germany and communism promoted collective living and common society
Here in Bulgaria a lot of people think that coming to Bulgaria was very affordable for everyone in the USSR and they still think like this for all the Russians having apartments around the Black Sea.
Не мисля, че много хора сме останали с илюзията, че всеки нормален руснак може просто да си вземе куфар под ръка, да се качи на самолет и, опа, хайде на почивка във Варна. Поне, аз и хората около мен са наясно, че това са основно руснаци, които са много... финансово стабилни, да речем, полетите между Европа и Русия са изключително скъпи, благодарение на факта, че нискотарифни авиолинии там не оперират.
My grandparents and my dad flew to Sochi from Hungary for a holiday in 1986. They said that when they ordered chicken at a restaurant it had really long wings (probably a seagull lol) and that every night the hotel they were staying in would be surveyed by Soviet soldiers who shon giant reflectors on the building, the beach at night was fenced off and guards with dogs pattolled it. It's safe to say that this kind of memorable service can only be experienced in the USSR!
I went to those things with my parents in the eighties when I was little. Made it to Black Sea two or three times, otherwise one of those local places. The hardest part was trying to get down to the Black Sea on the weird trains that were always late or you couldn't get a ticket. One time we had to spend the night at a train station waiting for connection. The Resort's themselves didn't do the propaganda and required activities anymore by then. So my parents just laid on the beach all day and I went swimming and exploring
Unfortunately, not all of them are scientific - like treatment with magnets that my mother recently got for her leg joins. Most were designed in a way that didn't require expensive equipment or personnel.
The numbers for 1975 (8mil.) are a bit misleading since the title of the video says about "Vacations in the Soviet Union" in general and not only about subsidized tours from labor unions. Probably like 90% of people shown on beaches in this video were on so called "savage tours" meaning that they were paying a full price to go to a resort including buying plane/train tickets and paying for stay in some hotel or as it was mentioned renting a room for cash from some private owner (and there was a whole lot of such rental property owners even during Soviet times at any resort place). So the number of people going to some seaside vacations every year was times higher but it was really a rare occasion to get such tour for free/symbolic price from your work. Still great video and great channel!
I am glad to hear that the Soviet Citizens did have vacations and some perks in their lives. I never heard a single good thing about the people of the Soviet Union until recently. W e American Blue Collar Workers had access to some places in our two weeks of vacation each year, places like Myrtle Beach and Disney, if we could afford it. The more I see your posts, the more I feel we had somethings in common. For us those were good days too.
Guys, this video is about how it was back then, not a political propaganda. Many of my friends speak of these times with nostalgia but they were not blind either. In my home country we also had these sorts of holiday places in the 70’s, some were good, some not so. But in the end we always had a good time so long as one of the guys had a guitar. Just like in the USSR. Great video, thanks.
In Romania we had the Black sea resorts and also some resosrts and sanatoriums in the Banat and Transylvania regions that were from the times of Austro-Hungarian Empire, The communists mantained them in very good conditions for the workers vacations. Like in the USSR the nomenklatura stayed separate from the average worker. For example one resort from the Black Sea was especyally for them and the average worker was not alowed to go there. Here is a video link about Romania Black sea resorts ruclips.net/video/xkFFR_gR2YM/видео.html
This is a really excellent video you’ve made - thanks for sharing it. As it happens, I’m making a documentary about a sanatorium at the moment. I’m currently looking for archive of old sanatoriums and I noticed you had some great clips in there. There’s quite a few clips with a watermark on the bottom left - is there a particular website you found to get all these clips. Would love to know because I want to use similar clips in my documentary. Thanks!
Most of these clips are taken from Gosteleradiofond archives. The Gosteleradiofond archives television and radio broadcasting programs that were recorded in the Soviet Union/ Russia before 1999. They have a channel on RUclips so you can find these videos here: ruclips.net/channel/UCiVZttFkdEwMi3QXpRqFTzQ If you need to purchase something from them (idk, if you are going to broadcast it through TV or something else where you need a license) then it is also possible through their website - gtrf.ru/sales/index However, I am not sure if they sale anything to foreigners right now (they are a state company after all). But if you just need some footage for your personal project or for youtube documentary then I guess their YT channel would be a good enough place to start.
It was going so good... So good indeed... I almost changed my mind about the USSR and was about to write "so the USSR did something good" and then you said there was guided tours daily..... That's nightmare fuel for me! I hate guided tours!
@@Setarko I have gone in guided tours and all was great but if I can choose, I will always opt to go on my own. God, I would be so miserable if I lived in the USSR!
I think evening animation is far worse 😅. Real and recent story from my mother who still gets free vouchers to go to sanatoriums. During her last stay there was a lady, who complained that their place didn't employ an accordion 🪗 player for daily sing alongs in the foyer 🤦🏻♀️
Important note to ALWAYS watch to the end to get the full story. I wonder how many vacations were visiting relatives in their Kruschevka or sitting around doing nothing and watching TV....
and not a single fat or obese man in sight. In USSR your health was always on top. This is true. I live in Lithuania and I remember all the activities that were mandatory in school, in kindergarten and your mandatory heath checkup was twice a year. You basically had to go at least twice a year to your family doctor and he would examine you and give any immediate treatment if it was necessary. You would never spot a child with a curved or deformed spine, because that was one of the most important things in child healthcare. You would never see an obese child, as that was too one of the upmost important health things in USSR and post USSR countries. And the best thing was that even if you didn't have health insurance, as many people in Lithuania did not have before 2010 when the private insurance organizations started to take off in my country, you would still get all treatment necessary, even to this day, if I call my family doctor and tell her I need something, she will arrange the meetup for the next week, as opposed in US if you don't have insurance your fucked and if you are not putting your own effort into your health your fucked, because noone gives a shit even your own family doctor. You can be obese, have hearth problems, be at your worst, be dying from hearth disease, have diabetes and your doctor would do nothing if you didn't want to do it yourself. In Lithuania and other post Slavic countries, and all of Europe as a matter of fact, if you are in need of a heath treatment or checkup, you will get it and no matter if you want it or not. And that is a very good thing. I respect this, and I am very happy I was born in Europe not in USA.
I remember getting some white "vitamin" foam on a daily basis in one of those as a kid. My faith in scientific grounding of some of the procedures is lacking 😅
@@catbeans3257 it was called the "oxygen cocktail". The vitamin syrup was saturated with oxygen and foam formed. In schools and sanatoriums, this was given to children
If you saw pictures of the North Korean upper class having fun at their sky resort, using cell phones, you would think that there wasn’t millions of people dying from famine in a country where things like cell phones are for the few, very few.
28 days of vacation in a row? God, living in the US, the idea of a vacation that long seems impossible expect for the wealthy. Maybe this is a bit insensitive, but I feel like I would have more relaxed free time in the USSR than I do in the modern US, bc basically all I do now is work/sleep with no leisure time.
28 days of vacation is pretty much the standard in every socialist developed nations. In some Scandinavian countries it is mandated by law that workers receive a minimum of 21-28 days of paid vacation every year. And it is enforced, as in. If you were not taking out your vacation the company has to "force" you on that vacation otherwise the state can take reprimands for overworking you.
You fail to see the forest for the trees. Until the end of 1960, the Soviet work week was 6 days. Right there you've lost all your Saturdays for the entire year. Given deficits in many items, you'd spend free time scrambling for things. If you lived in a major city, you had fewer deficits. If you lived outside, you had many more. Further, mass housing wasn't built until Khrushchev. If you were single, you lived in the barracks or your parents. If you were married, you shared a room - yes, a room - with another family. Your holiday was tied to your employment. Important industries were given better locales - the most dangerous occupations had the sanitariums. But, the holiday was for the worker and not the worker's family. A husband working at one company and a wife at another may not have had their holidays together. Further, your holiday was spent in a room with another worker. Children were sent to camps. Of course, due to deficits and the difficulty to have a family holiday, many people ended up going to the countryside to stay with their rural parents/grandparents to grow potatoes.
'I want to tell English-speaking viewers about the real Russia, about its past and present. Unfortunately, you can find a lot of propaganda about Russia on the Internet, both from the Russian media and from the Western ones. I want to tell you about Russia, as it really is, the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived all my life.' And it's much appreciated - nothing I read about Russia in the UK can be trusted
Much of Europe is still quite paranoid of Russia. There's only been 2 generations since the Cold War ended, and old fears still linger. Hopefully in another 20 years people will be over it.
I get the feeling. As an Australian I see the UL as far more fearful of russia than us. Remember the "gas politics" where they "cruely and unexpectedly cut the gas just beforw winter"? That story was a total crock. They hadn't paid the gas bill for 2 years. So how where they paying before? They WEREN'T. The gave the russians a bunch of supersonic nuclear bombers, "the white swan" they call them, and the Russians were deducting the gas bill from what the Russians owed them for getting the huge planes handed over. They're HUGE, like a concorde but 4 times the size, and I think it was 18 or 15 of them. But eventually the Ukrainians had used up enough gas nationally to reach the cost of these planes, which took like 15 YEARS or more, and then the Russians wanted to get paid for the gas. And it was all crying like a little kid when it got shut off with a bunch of BS stories about russia being mean. But how long do you think anyone ELSE would let them have free gas without paying. Two years before they turned it off? No. Probably 3 months.
soviet state encouraged hunting especially among military because its a type of training and because there were and are vast forests, so hunters were the only people except police and military who were allowed to own guns. Also there were many shooting ranges where kids and adults could practice shooting for fun from pneumatic rifles (again government encouraged it for training purposes)
and of course if you were son of some high rank army or police officer or high rank government official then you could get any weapon, even shoot from tank for fun
Thanks for the video, very informative, some people tend to forget maybe because propagand that soviet people were not robots with no feelings, they were people like us with hobbies and aspirations, they liked to go to theaters, watch movies, read books,play some sport, spent time with family and friends, they were humans just like us. It seems obvious but still some ppl today don't know it.
Baden Baden is a lot further south west from the Czechs at about 30km away from the french border in Germany.. because I live there and here is this natural spa that is powered by hydrothermic activity in the area. The area is btw very rich in important and healthy minerals for the human body, thats why a resort was built there a very long time ago. Like your channel a lot comrade! ✌🥸🐻
In 2005 I spent three weeks in Yalta shooting a big TV commercial in the Livadia Palace. God, those horrible stony beaches and the grotesquely overpriced hotels. Surly, unfriendly waiters and waitresses. Typical. To be in the Livadia where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met was amazing - yet it was full of 'recuperating' older peasant men in need of deodorant and shuffling about in those filthy cloth slippers they wear. Then one summer I was in Riga for another shoot in July and was invited for a stroll/hike along a beach. It was cold, foggy and utterly horrible. My Latvian colleagues stripped to their Speedos and flung their long beautiful bodies into the icy waters. It was like watching people commit suicide.
How about uploading some of those movies? Or links to watch online. The Crazy Day looks interesting to me. The Soviet Union was a Command Economy, so it makes sense along with waiting in line for just about everything, so it would also apply to vacations too. Yet it looks like a lot of the old Vacation Resorts of what is known as the Borscht Belt that served the vacation needs for, the People living in NYC. Places like Banner Lodge here in East Haddam. Long gone now, Cheap Jet air travel did them all in. It's an interesting history. I have fond memories of Banner Lodge, I grew up not far from the place, and I learned how to ride a horse there. The Old stable was still standing till a couple of years ago, it is all housing development now. Some 56 years ago now.
I have been interested in seeing some as well. Even looked but found nothing because the search results might only work of I typed in the russian language title.
Well, most of those movies are available on RUclips on the official Mosfilm channel, just go on wikipedia with the name of the movie in English, switch to Russian Wikipedia and copy-paste the name into RUclips. Other than "Crazy Day", it was deleted from RUclips for some reason. Obviously, I can't upload them myself because that would be copyright infringement. And I don't think that giving a direct link for "Crazy Day" is ok too because that would be piracy. But you can find it if you google ""безумный день 1956 баскино" and then click the first link.
2021 - many (not all) American workers involved in the customer service industry are now beginning to get a week off per year - some with pay! .... and an occasional holiday off with or without pay ....
...and we don't have to forget that the USSR was the first country in the world to give workers 10 days of vaccation in 1922. In Sweden we got 2 weeks in 1936 or 14 years later.
11:01 huh? No you did not. You painted one of the bleakest pictures ever, of a prison state that literally controls your every move even while you’re on vacation.
Some were going on ship cruises until covid. Literally less than a days wage for a day to 3 days cruise. But the fact is it's probably a lot like he just said with the Soviet system. Many AVERAGE WORKERS got to do it MAYBE every 10 years and that MIGHT only be some hiking tour a few miles up the road.... or the other one were you got 24 days holiday but STILL HAD TO work.... after 9 years of visiting your wife's mother for "holidays". This is a part of the big ASSUMED myth. That certain people like pro-communists block their ears and DON'T hear. That the system somehow DIDN'T revert to a system where the UPPER people in society got to have the good holidays almost yearly. And there WAS rich and poor, because a great uncle of mine saw this first hand AS A FOREIGNER on a tour thru russia. You'd think they'd try to hide it from them but he saw it regardless. Guys walking around with a tracking ring holding cardboard onto their shoe soles like a hobo or something out of the great depression.
@@OffGridInvestor That's not really the point or question at all. The average Soviet citizen, regardless of class, got much more vacation and had a much lower workload than the average american
@@Hypogean7 Which is false since the Soviet standarts of living were constantly rising and were to this day higher than in any post soviet state excluding the baltics.
When I heard sanatorium, i thought you were referring to place for the insane. Everyone soviet went there, were they all crazy. Then I realized what you meant.
I was feeling very uneasy about the whole vacationing until he mentioned the darker side. Man, I didn't thing it could get worse, but it did the more he described it. I would have stayed home. Lord thundering Jesus! I now understand why everyone I met that lived in the Soviet Union were so bleak. You would have to be to survive.
Sounds shockingly similar in the end to american vacations, most cant afford major vacations to the premier destinations regularly, only those with privilege and such, the only main distinction is the predetermined nature of the activities.
i hope in future if some form of ussr comes back, products will be distributed equally and without shortages, same goes for vacations, every single person of ussr should have went to sanatorium or resort once a year free... country needed more balancing , less focus on space and nuclear race, and more to people and it would been really paradise for common people....
Pretty sure yes as this was an important part how the iron curtain was ended as i think Hungary did stop to control there border and people all over the eastern block where leaving over there. Probably in the early years more difficult and also maybe Yugoslavia is the exception as they where not under Russian control.
Spend a couple hours into the mud flood and what a sanatorium really is. You'd be surprised to see that sanatoriums are strangely elaborate buildings. Mud flood bro
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My uncle managed to go to one of these when he was studying in Bulgaria , Vietnam also tried to do the same as the Soviet Union back in the day but was limited by the lacking economy . Fun fact , the best chance for Soviet citizens to vacation abroad was by serving in the Navy , I still remember that time when i saw Russian sailors swimming in Cam Ranh bay , Nha Trang .
but were they actually on vacation or simply sailors having a time off? 🤔
One of my older Cousins vacationed in Saigon, but that was in 1968!
@@SovietMoviesExplained it was probably a day off but that is a luxury in itself. Being able to swim on a day off in a different country
Even until this day, the central region of Vietnam still have a lot of Russian tourists (well before covid ofc). When I go to Mui Ne and Nha Trang, triligual signs (Vietnamese, English, Russian) are everywhere.
@@viethungle8627 for people living in Siberia it's cheaper to go to Vietnam or Thailand than to the Baltic Sea.
As a child, I repeatedly went to the sanatorium for free, because with immunity and in general with health I always had problems.
and where to, I wonder?
Of course
It sounds really nice, basic services like that would be great in rural areas in America. Hospital coverage is sparse in rural areas and people often have to drive hours to reach a hospital, not to mention the closing hospitals all over America.
Cap youre a liar
@@chrismanaloe3507 No, it's true. In the USSR, in general, rest in sanatoriums was very cheap, and for sick children it was free.
When I was a child my grandfather told me constantly about the worker resorts and sanitoriums in Hungary. Although by 1980 the worker retreats weren't used as much as before, a lot of Hungarians still went to Lake Balaton and utilized the related leisure facilities (like mineral springs and such) which still exist and are of very good quality.
It's great that they still exist and are well maintained! I think that Soviet sanatoriums in Russia, with proper maintenance, can serve for many years to come.
There's a fairly well maintained one on Margritsziget, I believe. A drive around Balaton definitely offers a glimpse of Soviet vacation life. I have very fond memories listening to VaporWave and CityPop driving to Tihany, peak '80s vibe. Thanks Setarko!! Super informative vid on something that has been very mysterious to me.
Hungary (Balaton) was also destination for people from Czechoslovakia and East Germany. It was one of the few country you can get without restrictions. Yugoslavia was considered as capitalist country (because of nearly free borders with Austria and Italy), so it was much more complicated and expensive to get there.
That is great, comrade! Can’t stand how horrible life is under Capitalism.
Hungarian, can confirm. There are more people speaking german at Balaton cuz all the DPR people travelled there all the time so they learnt. Old german people still visit out of nostalgia
One addition - workers of harmwful jobs was able to get good vacations every year.
Yep, that' true. Also, as far as I know, they got an extra seven days of vacation.
@@Setarko depends on type, it can be up to 28 additional days. I have 14, because our factory use soviet normative acts for harmwful work.
@@PyromaN93 where do you work?
@@PyromaN93 is it a good job? are you satisfied with your work?
@@PyromaN93 how many rubles, and also what are your hours?
I'm originally from Odessa and we'd go on a Black Sea cruise every year. That was the most luxurious vacation in the USSR. the restaurants had good food, there were bars and plenty of other entertainment. My family had tickets on the final cruise of Admiral Nakhimov but my parent's friends couldn't make the date so we transferred to a smaller ship. Admiral Nakhimov had a collision with a huge container ship and sank in about 15 minutes after collision. Hundreds of people lost their lives.
Well that got dark
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Shit escalated quickly
As a Bulgarian who goes to the Black Sea like it's the most casual thing ever, I find it quite flattering how many other Eastern Europeans have fond memories of laying on some warm beach and then going for a swim into the warm water (warm for you, a bit cold for us). Even back in Socialist times taking a break in the mountains or on the Black Sea was pretty common - the country is small and jampacked with beauty, how hard could it be to send Petrov, Dimitrov, Ivanova and Serafimova for a 3-4 week break a hundred kilometers away. (My grandpa had a couple of months break in the mountains, because he started experiencing severe heart issues, it turned out a family trend) Since the early-mid 2010s, Bulgarians exploring the country has become more common, while the number of tourists has exponentially grown (10 million in 2019). One of those little things that brings me joy.
My relatives live by the Black Sea, so I used to go there with my mum every summer. I loved every bit of it.
Holidays in Bulgaria were also something big in Poland. My mom was there in late 70s and consider these vacations as the very best time of her life. It was even beneficial for her extended family - after three years her cousin married a friend of a friend which my mom met in Bulgaria. She also still remember two Slovaks which accompanied them for the whole trip.
I'm not even from a former soviet country, but we still has a system something like this. With the influence and support from USSR in 1970's our government went on a rapid change to a near socialist economy. Even though land ownership and some other things were still kept private, most of the power in business sector was handled by the government. Transport, Education, Healthcare and even manufacturing was mostly handled by governments institutes. As a result the government needed to provide vacation facilities to government workers. Just like USSR they too built circuit bungloves and similar facilities. Government sector workers were provided ability to book them in advance and spend there vacation there. However the waiting list was endless so bribery was common to jump the queue. Even 1st class free train tickets were provided to reach the destination. My both parents are teachers in government sector so I went such trips when we got the chance. The facilities were certainty not really good but that was something since fancy vacations were only dreams with my parents meager salaries.
By any chance are you from India?
@@psmonish8735 Nope, but close. I'm from Sri Lanka.
@@anuradhapriyankara5226 Close enough
You Are From India Right, It Was Bhaksis
Interesting video, comrade. 👍I remember my grandfather, a miner, often went to the sanatorium for free. Nowadays, not every hard worker can afford this.🤔
Miners were considered amongst the most important workers for the industrialization of the country and try tended to get better pay and stuff. But you probably knew that.
@@OffGridInvestor You're right. Mining work has always been one of the most dangerous, but well paid. Nowadays, this is an almost disappearing profession. Coal mines are being closed all over the world due to environmental and other concerns.🤷♂️
Similar things existed in Yugoslavia. There were even special resorts owned by corporations on the Adriatic. However, from what I can tell, access to these was much easier than in the USSR. Also, you could always go to one of these resorts on your own accord. Vacation days were plentiful enough to allow you to organize a trip.
Today, however, this system collapsed. Now, holidays on the Adriatic are very expensive unless you own property there (some did even during the times of the SFRY). Even the previously corporation-owned resorts have been privatized and turned into luxury 4 or 5 star hotels. (Though I must add they were really nice inside and out even during the socialist era).
Really nice video by the way!
In Estonia, if you were a good worker, you could get a free trip to a sanatorium. Such as to Georgia. You had to do the best in your department, say be the best cow milker. The problem being that if you were friends with someone higher up you could get something to help your cows produce more milk that the other workers wouldn’t receive and you’d be guaranteed a yearly holiday. This is a story I am told about my mother in laws friend. 😅🤷🏻
The idea behind elaborate architecture of USSR sanatoriums was to create "palaces for the people" akin to palatial underground stations.
I wonder whether it was the initial impulse when repurposing the royal villas after the revolution, so that the former oppressed could enjoy the luxury.
Former oppressed?
Simply swapped for an oppressor who wares a smile
@@TheAwillz
Nah, at no point did people in Russia enjoy more privelleges than in the USSR. So yea, former opressed
@@dwarow2508 It was a general improvement from the Tsarit days, but I wouldn't call the Great Purge and the KGB as great privilages.
@@Hypogean7
Ah yes, the great purge definetly lasted from 1922 to 1991, yes...
@@dwarow2508 But the repression of the KGB never abatted much, and while Russia itself may have benefited, the sattelite states never had much freedoms.
Nowhere could this be more clearly seen than the Berlin Wall.
Отличные видео! Очень рад, что подписан на канал, где вижу скорее обьективный взгляд на страну, нежели страшилки и ад на земле. Еще то, что контент на английском просто замечательно. Сам думал сделать такой канал про СССР, только на испанском, так как живу в Мексике и постоянно слышу достаточно глупые вопросы о водке, медведях, Гулагах и холоде! Очень рад за то, что канал растет! Желаю как можно больше подписчиков и благодарю за шикарно проделанную работу!
Gulags killed off my whole Tatar clan, you idolize genocide. Worry about your own country
So it's basically 30 day paid vacation provided by your job most expenses paid. One vacation every 3 years or so and every year or so if you are in management.. not bad.. free healthcare and excellent education and most got basic free housing too. Not too fancy but sure sounds to be less stressful ..
There is still a lot of sanatoriums in Poland. They are almost for free if you are are ill and willing to wait two years or you can pay to get there. They are cheaper than spa resorts
my dad was an officer in soviet military so our whole family used to go to Crimean sanatoriums for free every year. but to get to best places you had to be high rank which my dad wasnt.
Love your videos man keep the Good work going!
Greetings from The Netherlands :)
🏆🇷🇺Bravo Setarko! You did very well. Your voice sounds the same. Thank you for creating this film recovering from illness. All these natural health philosophies and medical treatments are exactly what I love. Nature No.1. It sounds so perfect, no wonder Russians romantacise about the soviet days. You included so much information in here. I will have to watch few times to absorb and learn. The visuals are great. Setarko 🏆🏆🇷🇺🇷🇺
Really interesting episode. Thanks for posting
It all sounds well on paper (in video), but I don't recall almost any of my relatives who were simple kolhoz workers or just in general workers (truck drivers, nurses) going to those ''luxurious resorts'', maybe it happened before but not in the 80s. Almost all the time was spent in countryside helping grandparents work their small plot of land, similarly how USHANKA SHOW tells it was. And in any case Soviet entertainment or resorts were... let's just say they were Soviet resorts. No bowling, no golf, no video game arcades, amusement parks with huge rides, karaoke or game shows, bingo or shit like that etc... basically just yeah, some treatments with often pissed off nurses or personnel who would rather do something else, nice nature, sea (or lake) and ... unless your next door comrade came to you with a bottle of vodka, that was the end of entertainment. Ok, perhaps some excursions if there was something to see nearby. I guess something in Georgia or Black Sea coast was more interesting and fancy but as Setarko said many people might as well go to local ''rayon'' sanatoria which might have had rude personnel, worn out equipment for health procedures and nothing at all else to do
Much as it's not in practice quite up to the ideal, I think it's a brilliant feature.
Even if the super Lux stuff wasn't in practice freely available to average-Ivan, the hiking trips and all the rest are awesome.
The German Strength through Joy program was pretty cool too.
These arent intended to be judgements on the respective regimes/systems ofc, just neat features that are really cool.
@@popytkpisatel societies always do social enginnering
but in america you have a mix of goverment and private companies promoting a individualist, consumerist society while NatSoc Germany and communism promoted collective living and common society
Here in Bulgaria a lot of people think that coming to Bulgaria was very affordable for everyone in the USSR and they still think like this for all the Russians having apartments around the Black Sea.
Не мисля, че много хора сме останали с илюзията, че всеки нормален руснак може просто да си вземе куфар под ръка, да се качи на самолет и, опа, хайде на почивка във Варна. Поне, аз и хората около мен са наясно, че това са основно руснаци, които са много... финансово стабилни, да речем, полетите между Европа и Русия са изключително скъпи, благодарение на факта, че нискотарифни авиолинии там не оперират.
CANNOT get enough of that bear in the tub at the start
I loved this topic! Thanks, a piece of history that spawned many offshoots
This is one of your best videos. Keep it up
My grandparents and my dad flew to Sochi from Hungary for a holiday in 1986. They said that when they ordered chicken at a restaurant it had really long wings (probably a seagull lol) and that every night the hotel they were staying in would be surveyed by Soviet soldiers who shon giant reflectors on the building, the beach at night was fenced off and guards with dogs pattolled it. It's safe to say that this kind of memorable service can only be experienced in the USSR!
I went to those things with my parents in the eighties when I was little. Made it to Black Sea two or three times, otherwise one of those local places.
The hardest part was trying to get down to the Black Sea on the weird trains that were always late or you couldn't get a ticket. One time we had to spend the night at a train station waiting for connection.
The Resort's themselves didn't do the propaganda and required activities anymore by then. So my parents just laid on the beach all day and I went swimming and exploring
Those sanatorium treatments sound interesting
Unfortunately, not all of them are scientific - like treatment with magnets that my mother recently got for her leg joins. Most were designed in a way that didn't require expensive equipment or personnel.
Those in power get the most. Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.
The best channel. One of my favorites 😍
Very nice Video
Very enjoyable commentary sir, enjoyed your strong sense of irony.
The numbers for 1975 (8mil.) are a bit misleading since the title of the video says about "Vacations in the Soviet Union" in general and not only about subsidized tours from labor unions. Probably like 90% of people shown on beaches in this video were on so called "savage tours" meaning that they were paying a full price to go to a resort including buying plane/train tickets and paying for stay in some hotel or as it was mentioned renting a room for cash from some private owner (and there was a whole lot of such rental property owners even during Soviet times at any resort place). So the number of people going to some seaside vacations every year was times higher but it was really a rare occasion to get such tour for free/symbolic price from your work. Still great video and great channel!
im glad your channel is growing , well deserved. i
I am glad to hear that the Soviet Citizens did have vacations and some perks in their lives. I never heard a single good thing about the people of the Soviet Union until recently. W e American Blue Collar Workers had access to some places in our two weeks of vacation each year, places like Myrtle Beach and Disney, if we could afford it. The more I see your posts, the more I feel we had somethings in common. For us those were good days too.
great video Mate! keep it up!
At first glance, we rest only when we eat and sleep, but they forget that the spirits do not know fatigue!
Красивое видео! Санатории были очень продуманными и их стоило посетить! 🇷🇺
Woah, the Russian flag translated into the British flag.
Guys, this video is about how it was back then, not a political propaganda. Many of my friends speak of these times with nostalgia but they were not blind either. In my home country we also had these sorts of holiday places in the 70’s, some were good, some not so. But in the end we always had a good time so long as one of the guys had a guitar. Just like in the USSR. Great video, thanks.
In Romania we had the Black sea resorts and also some resosrts and sanatoriums in the Banat and Transylvania regions that were from the times of Austro-Hungarian Empire, The communists mantained them in very good conditions for the workers vacations. Like in the USSR the nomenklatura stayed separate from the average worker. For example one resort from the Black Sea was especyally for them and the average worker was not alowed to go there. Here is a video link about Romania Black sea resorts ruclips.net/video/xkFFR_gR2YM/видео.html
This is a really excellent video you’ve made - thanks for sharing it. As it happens, I’m making a documentary about a sanatorium at the moment. I’m currently looking for archive of old sanatoriums and I noticed you had some great clips in there. There’s quite a few clips with a watermark on the bottom left - is there a particular website you found to get all these clips. Would love to know because I want to use similar clips in my documentary. Thanks!
Most of these clips are taken from Gosteleradiofond archives. The Gosteleradiofond archives television and radio broadcasting programs that were recorded in the Soviet Union/ Russia before 1999. They have a channel on RUclips so you can find these videos here:
ruclips.net/channel/UCiVZttFkdEwMi3QXpRqFTzQ
If you need to purchase something from them (idk, if you are going to broadcast it through TV or something else where you need a license) then it is also possible through their website - gtrf.ru/sales/index
However, I am not sure if they sale anything to foreigners right now (they are a state company after all). But if you just need some footage for your personal project or for youtube documentary then I guess their YT channel would be a good enough place to start.
That’s super helpful man - thanks so much for all this information! Much appreciated
It was going so good... So good indeed... I almost changed my mind about the USSR and was about to write "so the USSR did something good" and then you said there was guided tours daily..... That's nightmare fuel for me! I hate guided tours!
Yeah, me too lol
@@Setarko I have gone in guided tours and all was great but if I can choose, I will always opt to go on my own.
God, I would be so miserable if I lived in the USSR!
I think evening animation is far worse 😅.
Real and recent story from my mother who still gets free vouchers to go to sanatoriums. During her last stay there was a lady, who complained that their place didn't employ an accordion 🪗 player for daily sing alongs in the foyer 🤦🏻♀️
@@SovietMoviesExplained that would also be included in my nightmare fuel list! 🤣
Important note to ALWAYS watch to the end to get the full story. I wonder how many vacations were visiting relatives in their Kruschevka or sitting around doing nothing and watching TV....
I want you to know for some reason whenever I watch one of your videos, I get the trolololol song stuck in my head and start humming it.
Slow down man, so that people have time to absorb your humor and get a good laugh. Love your work!
and not a single fat or obese man in sight. In USSR your health was always on top. This is true. I live in Lithuania and I remember all the activities that were mandatory in school, in kindergarten and your mandatory heath checkup was twice a year. You basically had to go at least twice a year to your family doctor and he would examine you and give any immediate treatment if it was necessary. You would never spot a child with a curved or deformed spine, because that was one of the most important things in child healthcare. You would never see an obese child, as that was too one of the upmost important health things in USSR and post USSR countries. And the best thing was that even if you didn't have health insurance, as many people in Lithuania did not have before 2010 when the private insurance organizations started to take off in my country, you would still get all treatment necessary, even to this day, if I call my family doctor and tell her I need something, she will arrange the meetup for the next week, as opposed in US if you don't have insurance your fucked and if you are not putting your own effort into your health your fucked, because noone gives a shit even your own family doctor. You can be obese, have hearth problems, be at your worst, be dying from hearth disease, have diabetes and your doctor would do nothing if you didn't want to do it yourself. In Lithuania and other post Slavic countries, and all of Europe as a matter of fact, if you are in need of a heath treatment or checkup, you will get it and no matter if you want it or not. And that is a very good thing. I respect this, and I am very happy I was born in Europe not in USA.
My grandma got more vacations in the union then some people get now in the states
I remember getting some white "vitamin" foam on a daily basis in one of those as a kid. My faith in scientific grounding of some of the procedures is lacking 😅
Soap
@@catbeans3257 it was called the "oxygen cocktail". The vitamin syrup was saturated with oxygen and foam formed. In schools and sanatoriums, this was given to children
My grandpa and my Dad used to always go to the Caucasus Sanatoriums when the CCCP was still a thing
Damn, never knew about Brezhnev and Jurmala. Have to go there now.
This all looks really wonderful. We should have this sort of thing in the U.S, Russians always look healthier than Americans. I think this is why.
russians dont look very healthy after 40
Because those who starve look better than those who overeat, although neither is great.
@@Tropical-Aes I mean, these people don't look like their starving, some of them look fat.
If you saw pictures of the North Korean upper class having fun at their sky resort, using cell phones, you would think that there wasn’t millions of people dying from famine in a country where things like cell phones are for the few, very few.
@@justinmartin4662 But these people aren't upper class, what are you talking about? USSR wasn't like North Korea at all.
28 days of vacation in a row? God, living in the US, the idea of a vacation that long seems impossible expect for the wealthy. Maybe this is a bit insensitive, but I feel like I would have more relaxed free time in the USSR than I do in the modern US, bc basically all I do now is work/sleep with no leisure time.
28 days of vacation is pretty much the standard in every socialist developed nations. In some Scandinavian countries it is mandated by law that workers receive a minimum of 21-28 days of paid vacation every year. And it is enforced, as in. If you were not taking out your vacation the company has to "force" you on that vacation otherwise the state can take reprimands for overworking you.
I would rather just keep working than take a "vacation" where the government could tell me where I could go, what I could do and set my bedtime.
You fail to see the forest for the trees. Until the end of 1960, the Soviet work week was 6 days. Right there you've lost all your Saturdays for the entire year. Given deficits in many items, you'd spend free time scrambling for things. If you lived in a major city, you had fewer deficits. If you lived outside, you had many more. Further, mass housing wasn't built until Khrushchev. If you were single, you lived in the barracks or your parents. If you were married, you shared a room - yes, a room - with another family. Your holiday was tied to your employment. Important industries were given better locales - the most dangerous occupations had the sanitariums. But, the holiday was for the worker and not the worker's family. A husband working at one company and a wife at another may not have had their holidays together. Further, your holiday was spent in a room with another worker. Children were sent to camps. Of course, due to deficits and the difficulty to have a family holiday, many people ended up going to the countryside to stay with their rural parents/grandparents to grow potatoes.
'I want to tell English-speaking viewers about the real Russia, about its past and present. Unfortunately, you can find a lot of propaganda about Russia on the Internet, both from the Russian media and from the Western ones. I want to tell you about Russia, as it really is, the country in which I was born, grew up, and lived all my life.'
And it's much appreciated - nothing I read about Russia in the UK can be trusted
Tell me more. I'am from south america and like soviet history.
Much of Europe is still quite paranoid of Russia. There's only been 2 generations since the Cold War ended, and old fears still linger.
Hopefully in another 20 years people will be over it.
I get the feeling. As an Australian I see the UL as far more fearful of russia than us. Remember the "gas politics" where they "cruely and unexpectedly cut the gas just beforw winter"? That story was a total crock. They hadn't paid the gas bill for 2 years. So how where they paying before? They WEREN'T. The gave the russians a bunch of supersonic nuclear bombers, "the white swan" they call them, and the Russians were deducting the gas bill from what the Russians owed them for getting the huge planes handed over. They're HUGE, like a concorde but 4 times the size, and I think it was 18 or 15 of them. But eventually the Ukrainians had used up enough gas nationally to reach the cost of these planes, which took like 15 YEARS or more, and then the Russians wanted to get paid for the gas. And it was all crying like a little kid when it got shut off with a bunch of BS stories about russia being mean. But how long do you think anyone ELSE would let them have free gas without paying. Two years before they turned it off? No. Probably 3 months.
I'm firmly anti-communist as a political-philosophy, but that doesnt have to become a wilful blindness to the admirable features of Soviet Russia.
@@corneliuscapitalinus845 In the end of the day, the best option is a mix of both
I'm 40 now, but I remember how my mum and dad go to sanatoriums (always 2 different ones, to cheat on each other and during seas of vodkas)
You should talk about Russian (and Soviet if it existed) firearms culture
They prefer tanks!!
soviet state encouraged hunting especially among military because its a type of training and because there were and are vast forests, so hunters were the only people except police and military who were allowed to own guns. Also there were many shooting ranges where kids and adults could practice shooting for fun from pneumatic rifles (again government encouraged it for training purposes)
and of course if you were son of some high rank army or police officer or high rank government official then you could get any weapon, even shoot from tank for fun
We still have sanatoriums in Kazakhstan. They're pretty good
even holiday is like work, no free roaming around alowed, you do what you are told to do
F that noise haha. It's like being in school, all regimented. Hard pass.
Interesting Comrade
When will there be a video about Siberian punk?
Thanks for the video, very informative, some people tend to forget maybe because propagand that soviet people were not robots with no feelings, they were people like us with hobbies and aspirations, they liked to go to theaters, watch movies, read books,play some sport, spent time with family and friends, they were humans just like us. It seems obvious but still some ppl today don't know it.
Whats the music you used in the introduction?
It's a melody called "Sochi, foxtrot" from a movie "Широка страна моя родная" (Vast is my Native Land).
ruclips.net/video/CzaaR0xfKrQ/видео.html
Baden Baden is a lot further south west from the Czechs at about 30km away from the french border in Germany.. because I live there and here is this natural spa that is powered by hydrothermic activity in the area. The area is btw very rich in important and healthy minerals for the human body, thats why a resort was built there a very long time ago.
Like your channel a lot comrade! ✌🥸🐻
In 2005 I spent three weeks in Yalta shooting a big TV commercial in the Livadia Palace. God, those horrible stony beaches and the grotesquely overpriced hotels. Surly, unfriendly waiters and waitresses. Typical. To be in the Livadia where Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt met was amazing - yet it was full of 'recuperating' older peasant men in need of deodorant and shuffling about in those filthy cloth slippers they wear. Then one summer I was in Riga for another shoot in July and was invited for a stroll/hike along a beach. It was cold, foggy and utterly horrible. My Latvian colleagues stripped to their Speedos and flung their long beautiful bodies into the icy waters. It was like watching people commit suicide.
ahh the good old days
How about uploading some of those movies? Or links to watch online. The Crazy Day looks interesting to me. The Soviet Union was a Command Economy, so it makes sense along with waiting in line for just about everything, so it would also apply to vacations too. Yet it looks like a lot of the old Vacation Resorts of what is known as the Borscht Belt that served the vacation needs for, the People living in NYC. Places like Banner Lodge here in East Haddam. Long gone now, Cheap Jet air travel did them all in. It's an interesting history. I have fond memories of Banner Lodge, I grew up not far from the place, and I learned how to ride a horse there. The Old stable was still standing till a couple of years ago, it is all housing development now. Some 56 years ago now.
I have been interested in seeing some as well. Even looked but found nothing because the search results might only work of I typed in the russian language title.
Well, most of those movies are available on RUclips on the official Mosfilm channel, just go on wikipedia with the name of the movie in English, switch to Russian Wikipedia and copy-paste the name into RUclips. Other than "Crazy Day", it was deleted from RUclips for some reason. Obviously, I can't upload them myself because that would be copyright infringement. And I don't think that giving a direct link for "Crazy Day" is ok too because that would be piracy. But you can find it if you google ""безумный день 1956 баскино" and then click the first link.
2021 - many (not all) American workers involved in the customer service industry are now beginning to get a week off per year - some with pay! .... and an occasional holiday off with or without pay ....
This sounds awesome
...and we don't have to forget that the USSR was the first country in the world to give workers 10 days of vaccation in 1922. In Sweden we got 2 weeks in 1936 or 14 years later.
Where did you get the footage from?
Some people DIDNT look to happy!
11:01 huh? No you did not. You painted one of the bleakest pictures ever, of a prison state that literally controls your every move even while you’re on vacation.
Poland, East Germany and Hungary worker: Can we have those thing too, please?
I wonder what percentage of working class Americans travel and go on vacation on a yearly basis
Some were going on ship cruises until covid. Literally less than a days wage for a day to 3 days cruise. But the fact is it's probably a lot like he just said with the Soviet system. Many AVERAGE WORKERS got to do it MAYBE every 10 years and that MIGHT only be some hiking tour a few miles up the road.... or the other one were you got 24 days holiday but STILL HAD TO work.... after 9 years of visiting your wife's mother for "holidays". This is a part of the big ASSUMED myth. That certain people like pro-communists block their ears and DON'T hear. That the system somehow DIDN'T revert to a system where the UPPER people in society got to have the good holidays almost yearly. And there WAS rich and poor, because a great uncle of mine saw this first hand AS A FOREIGNER on a tour thru russia. You'd think they'd try to hide it from them but he saw it regardless. Guys walking around with a tracking ring holding cardboard onto their shoe soles like a hobo or something out of the great depression.
@@OffGridInvestor interesting
@@OffGridInvestor That's not really the point or question at all. The average Soviet citizen, regardless of class, got much more vacation and had a much lower workload than the average american
@@dwarow2508 But also had lowering and lowering standards of living as the USSR progressedm and the coffers continued to dry out.
@@Hypogean7
Which is false since the Soviet standarts of living were constantly rising and were to this day higher than in any post soviet state excluding the baltics.
Cool
When I heard sanatorium, i thought you were referring to place for the insane. Everyone soviet went there, were they all crazy. Then I realized what you meant.
the bear in the thumbnail kinda handsome tho
can I get these high quality bear clips pls this is an actual request
I was feeling very uneasy about the whole vacationing until he mentioned the darker side. Man, I didn't thing it could get worse, but it did the more he described it. I would have stayed home. Lord thundering Jesus! I now understand why everyone I met that lived in the Soviet Union were so bleak. You would have to be to survive.
Here in the US, you have to pay 100+ dollars to go to a spa for a couple of hours
This Soviet place looks like a nice place to be in, I wonder how can I settle in it when I grow up
Oh
I thought the title was a euphimism for gulags
Sounds shockingly similar in the end to american vacations, most cant afford major vacations to the premier destinations regularly, only those with privilege and such, the only main distinction is the predetermined nature of the activities.
Both the Soviet planners and US middle class reached the same conclusion about vacation duration it seems
With the schedules and constantly enforced togetherness, a Soviet vacation was no fun for introverts.
Awesome Soviet holidays
As Bulgarian we always have had russian tourists even now
i hope in future if some form of ussr comes back, products will be distributed equally and without shortages, same goes for vacations, every single person of ussr should have went to sanatorium or resort once a year free... country needed more balancing , less focus on space and nuclear race, and more to people and it would been really paradise for common people....
This is funny if you’re serious and funny if you’re not serious lol
@@clayleonard7005 dead serious, if you dont like equality go live in your chaos world today
I could build that last one MYSELF. A few chairs in a room with an essential oil heater going....
was it posible for soviet people to go to yugoslavia?
Pretty sure yes as this was an important part how the iron curtain was ended as i think Hungary did stop to control there border and people all over the eastern block where leaving over there. Probably in the early years more difficult and also maybe Yugoslavia is the exception as they where not under Russian control.
The best recreation for a soviet citizen is admiring the power of the country--😂😂😂 that was funny
Spend a couple hours into the mud flood and what a sanatorium really is. You'd be surprised to see that sanatoriums are strangely elaborate buildings. Mud flood bro
Is it easier and cheaper now for Russians to go to holidays to Crimea now than during Soviet times?
Haters: Is this a communist propaganda?
Everybody else: is this communist propaganda?
Everyone are equal. But someones was more equal than others!
Always has been.
2:18 lol
The Slavic spirit died a long time ago, are there any Slavs in russia anymore? Or only soviets
So Soviet Union had war between the two competing gangs, the Kripp and Blat?
Kraft durch Freude
tfw communist workers have more time off than me per year.
I can't help but notice that blat is only one letter from blyat.
Leave it to the Soviets to continue Kelloggs work
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