I was born in Soviet it is my native land The soviet time it was good time, people was kind and friendly not like today people are. There was good music and movies without violence and brutality. From soviet government I got free education, free lunch at school, free Holidays and Gifts for the Holidays. And most important there was peace and international friendship
Not to mention that racism I think was also less of a problem, was it not? I wish we could all get over our reptilian brains and make communism work without destroying it from the inside. :)
I have heard and I would imagine that racism was less of a problem because the materialist conditions that fuel racism were largely removed. When people no longer have to compete for basic resources and survival the mindset can shift from fear based scapegoating. Then you have less reason for racism and division. People say socialism cannot work because we are too divided but we are divided not so much by human nature but because of the economic system and material conditions we are forced to live under.
I want to add that in the Soviet Union people had free education, free healthcare, always had jobs and earned enough. You didn't have to own a car like in America because the public transportation was so convenient and cheap. The prices for products never went up. People could afford to live! People read books played sports. Today, people drink, smoke. Crime rate increased after the collapse of the Soviet Union. People became corrupt. You have to pay for everything just to survive. Inflation grows and your salaries stay the same. People lose jobs, families fall apart.
My mom lived in the USSR for 23 years and she says that people earned about 90 rubles a month and paid about 14 rubles a month for a three bedroom flat. The only thing that people of the Soviet Union didn't have was fancy clothing like jeans. They also didn't know much about the western world. But other than that everything was perfect.
***** Well, that's true what you're saying. However, if your spoke out against the gov't/did anything the gov't didn't approve of except for under Khrushchev & Gorbachev, you'd be locked up/sentenced to death/ forced to leave. It wasn't a heaven on earth @ all. Please keep in mind, I'm not the typical American that says that everything about the Soviet Union was entirely bad & often do think that often times the criticisms of the Soviet Union by the West, especially the United States are & were exaggerated. But, please do a little more homework on Google, Wikipedia, or any other reliable source. Overall, my views on the Soviet Union are very mixed. The Soviet Union had many positives like what you've mentioned, improval of women's rights, improved relations between those of different ethnicities, elimination of Religion, high emphasis on science, technology & math, increased literacy rates, improved education system, & they've also invented many things which are still popular/used to this very day like Satellites, space travel, Tetris, etc while the Soviet Union had many negatives like no press freedoms, no free speech, no competition between different companies, authoritarianistic nature, no political freedoms (except under Khrushchev & Gorbachev), no freedom to buy whatever you want, food shortages, & shortages of other things as well. Overall, I've been wondering what it was like to be living in the Soviet Union for the past 1 1/2 years & I've also been doing some research on the Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc as well as a high school senior from the United States.
I agree about the negative side that you mentioned such as no free press, etc. But I don't think that it is a good excuse to let a great country to fall into pieces and leave its people at the mercy of the fate. I say it because my mom went through hell when the USSR collapsed. War in Azerbaijan, hyperinflation in the Ukraine. These are just few examples of that hell that my mom went through. I asked a lot of Russians about the Soviet Union and they dream that those days would be restored. I mean you can keep a great country afloat, but just introduce democratic reforms. You don't have to break everything and start from scratch. And I don't mean conquering countries that don't want to be in the Soviet Union. Even so, the Soviet Union will never be restored. A lot of Russians understand it. Russia may become great again but it will not be Communist or Soviet again. It will be modern.
The simple truth is that a planned economy doesn't work, there's difficulty maintaining high standards of productivity and setting prices. The chronic food shortages in a country with such a large amount of agrarian land, not to mention the near lack of a consumer goods sector are just some examples of this. The problem with the USSR wasn't political, it was economic.
The USSR industrialized faster than any nation ever before, in only 20 years. The USSR put the first woman into space, long before the USA did. The USSR had great visual artists, such as Rodchenko, great dance troupes, such as the Bolshoi, great composers, such as Shostakovich, and great filmakers such as Tarkovsky.
sinekonata Sorry, I personally know people who fled Communist Russia. I believe their explanations of how things were. You are a just stranger on the internet.
just industrialized? In 1917 there were more than 70% iliterate people in russia. Most of them were living in rural areas/villages. They couldn't even read. But after the death of lenin in 1922 they became super power in just 23 years. They urbanized areas and put everyone in flats. It was really impressive, they went to super power position faster than any other country ever. Got to give stalin credit, he was boss.
Fast Networks Yes, they accomplished all these amazing things. However, under Stalin they also turned against some of the artists I mentioned. Shostakovitch was put under a lot of pressure, even interrogated by the secret police. And that was the least of the difficulties during Stalin's regime. Things are never simple, brother. Never simple.
Even though I'm an American, I do kind of miss the USSR and the USSR was a great union of countries that brought balance to the world. If the USSR was still around America would not be starting all kinds of wars in Africa and Asia. And America would not be stealing natural resources, killing innocent people and destroying infrastructures in other countries.
Western propaganda demonized USSR in all possible ways. My parents, ancesstors lived in that country and always say those days were the most peaceful time, the majority of people were kind-hearted, simple and psychologically resistant than nowadays. They (like many other lived that time in USSR) always remember those days with full happiness, sad and tears :'( People should believe what that country's citizens say, not propaganda and jealous history re-writers.
This is so true. I was born in the modern Russia and lived for some time in the West reading their newspapers, the demonization and biasness is still there, so I kinda feel you. I can't really complain 'cause now it's much better than in the 90s. However, I always wanted to feel what it was like back in the day, since parents' stories are so damn good, like, you weren't even afraid to let your little kids hang out alone. Ты, кстати, очень очень милая! :3
Fun fact-the USSR economy started to get weakened in 1970,year in which some reforms started to decentralize the economy.It broke under Gorbachaev tho,which adopted a free market-style of economy.Before that,the Soviet Union had a solid economic growth that never stopped (except from 1941-1945,when it was invaded by nazis). The USSR had also a free education system and free wealthcare too,the first in the world.In fact,in the '70,there were much more engineers and doctors in the USSR than in the US,and they had a similar population too.The quality of the products in the USSR was also very high,easily comparable to the western Europe's ones,and sometimes even better.The man made famines are fake,even a lot of western historicians and intellectuals said that.And some of them were man made,but by kulaks,which hid wheat and agricolture products to the governament.The fact that Stalin killed more than 20 milions people is completely fake: first of all those stats are predictions,so they're not accurate.Then,standing to wikipedia,about 2,5 milion people died in gualgs or were killed by repressions.Over 21 milion people were killed by the Wehrmacht during operation Barbarossa,and 12 milions of them were civilians (again,go on wikipedia)And the USSR won the war almost by themselves: in Stalingrad died more Wehrmacht soldiers than in the whole west front.American supplies to the USSR were quite poor,and they were mostly logistic help (such as jeeps) and some food.For the rest,the Soviet Union saw a massive economic growth under Stalin,with the quinquennal plans and the collectivized agricolture.Labour conditions were not bad too: Stalin himself decided to put the numbers of labour hour to 7 each day and 5 for the hardest jobs.There was also one year of maternity for every mother. Then,Engels himself said that the state should stay if it is better for the safety of the prolateriant revolution.And by the way,the USSR was not communist but socialist,which is different. Also,countries in eastern europe are now poor because they are capitalist: for example,a lot of Romanian people preferred Ceausescu to their western governament today,and the people who lived in the former east Berlin continue to vote the german communist parties.Not to mention that Tito's Jugoslavia was a wealthy nation too,same for Hoxha's Albiana.And 60% of the russian people today still think that life was better in the USSR.
Oh,btw,the fact of tanks is fake,the USSR used only T-34 (then becoming T-34/85),KV-1 and KV-2 (replaced by JS-2 tanks) that were actually better than all the americans and english tanks,plus they were easy to produce.Also the majority of airplanes were mostly soviet (even if they bought some english and american airplanes,which were actually better)
If the USSR or something as great as the USSR ever comes I'll be moving there. Where I live in the states of this Imperialist country is fallen into poverty and corrupt politicians. I can't wait to get out of this hell hole.
USSR had enchanted me in every way since childhood. Their culture. sports achievements. space conquests. folklore. superpower status. Arctic conquests. world war winners. beautiful people. The list goes on .
To all the haters out there: The Union may have collapsed, but the work of our leaders shall not be forgotten. Our nation will rise again, and the US is not a country to stup us, because we are Russians, and we cannot be defeated.
I hope to be the person to rise for it again but instead of Russia, I will do it in the USA to show the American people what lies their public schools taught them and show a better way of life. Long live Soviet Union, long live Lenin.
USSR was first to introduce countrywide: 1. 8 hours working day. 2. Free obligatory education. 3. Free ressorts for children. 4. Cheap ressorts for workers. 5. Equal rights for women. 6. Equal rights for all nations. 7. Free health care and many others.
I respected the Soviet Union. It was a great country, it was better than America in every way, it had better work force,better economy,stronger military,it was more technologically advanced than America, it wasn't a country that was ran by terrorist politicians who are thirsty for power and world domination like America is today.I personally think that if the US collapsed instead of the USSR, the USSR won't be killing innocent people,stealing resources,bombing other countries,supplying them with drugs, it won't be giving weapons to Al-Qaeda etc...
USSR killed millions and supported every terrorist state in the world with weapons and money. learn history. Read about soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980s.
+Alex Koltsov Did they ?? :) , mate ussr was 1 of most peaceful states ever excited , they helped all over the world to build a peaceful social system , they gave a lot of there knowledge to other countries , they had no racism in there ideology , black white Asian etc ... , (дружба народов) was there motto , they succeeded in every kind of area ( science , space , military , education , society , etc.. ) and above all they faked no victory , not in military or science , not like some countries which pulled off the buggiest lie to all humanity by faking moon landing . soviet union was one of the greatest country and nation of all times and this is a fact .
+Sky Isblue actually in the last yearly poll over 50% of russians wanted the russians wanted the ussr back and 10% wanted just socialism but not the ussr
I am an Indian and we Indians are very thankful to USSR for help in 1971. Hope USSR returns in future becoz its the only nation who is capable of kicking ass of USA
Pete Rock Preemo I heard he killed 100 millions people! You should use this number, more impact. Feel free to inflate it as much as you want for future use of course, reality check isn't your concern anyway, right?
5 years after the war Deutschland, the defeated country was exporting all kinds of goods. In the USSR, the "victorious country, long rows of people must stand for hours just for buying eggs, bread, potatoes or chicken. After Stalin died, ALL the communist dirigents accused him of treason, all the public buildings, streets, ships, etc bearing his name were rechristened. The history books were corrected and rewritten.
nah, even tho i love ussr, but stalin was terrible, if not cause of amazing generals he might have lost ww2, also his mass murdering of ukraine ppl was insane. soviet union became powerhouse during 60s 70s when chrushciov and breznev were leaders, all country was building factories, houses, beating usa in space race and sport wins. after them ussr started to collapse and usa with europe had big impact why it happend.
yeah he might did some stuff to make country more industrical, but it started before him with lenin party, most people lived in countryside at those times, only rich people were in cities, after lenin and stalin exiled rich assholes, then i would say mostly in khruschiov times world ussr started major industrialization process
1957: Launch of the first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 Semyorka. 1957: First orbiting satellite, Sputnik 1. 1957: First living in orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2. 1959: Launch of a missile, the first man-made object to leave the Earth's orbit, Luna 1 1959: Telemetry - First communication to and from the ground, Luna 1. 1959: First object to pass near the moon, and the first object in orbit around the Moon, Luna 1. 1959: First satellite hit the moon, Luna 2. 1959: First images of the dark side of the moon, Luna 3. 1960: First satellite to be launched to Mars, the Marsnik 1. 1961: First satellite to Venus, Venera 1. 1961: The first person to enter orbit around the Earth, Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1. 1961: The first person to spend a day in orbit, Gherman Titov - Vostok 2. 1962: First flight of two astronauts (estimate), Vostok 3 and Vostok 4. 1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6. 1964: First flight of several astronauts (3), Voskhod 1. 1965: First spacewalk, Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2. 1965: First probe to another planet Venus, Venera 3. 1966: First probe to descend on the moon and send from there, Luna 9. 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10. 1967: First meeting of unmanned Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188 (until 2006 this feat was not imitated by the United States). 1969: First docking and crew exchange in orbit, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 1970:. First signals sent to the moon by Luna 16. 1970: First mobile robot, Lunokhod 1. 1970: The first data sent by a probe from another planet (Venus), Venera 7. 1971: First space station, Salyut 1. 1971: First satellite in orbit around Mars and landing on Mars 2. 1975: First satellite in orbit around Venus and sending data to earth, Venera 9. 1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaja (Salyut 7) 1986: First team to visit two space stations Salyut and Mir (7). 1986: First permanent space station in Earth orbit, the MIR orbit from 1986 to 2001. 1987: First team to spend more than a year aboard Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov.
Inheriting a poor, feudal and rural country devastated by a great world war and a great civil war, the USSR through a planned economy and the common ownership of the means of production became one of the world's superpowers and the country that won the space and nuclear and conventional arms race against the USA having half of its GDP, it was the country that sent to the space the first satellite, the first rocket, the first man and the first space station... it abolished unemployment and famine, people had free education and healthcare, literacy rate was 99,9%, percentage of people trained in higher education was the highest of the world and life expectancy was (and still is) greater than the US that is a world power since the 19th century, was untouched in both world wars and has the double of GDP... But the difficulties inherited by recovering from WW1 and civil war, the destruction of the rural proprieties by the landowners from the time of czar (kulaks), the invasion in WW2 by all the axis countries (excluding Japan), that killed 26 million people in the USSR (among them 15 million civilians and 3.3 million unarmed prisioners) and destroyed 1720 cities, 70,000 villages, 31,800 factories, 84,000 schools and etc. that caused lack of workforce and the need to spend decades re-building the country... and furthermore by the costs of winning the space and arms race against the west and the costs of funding countries and left-wing groups worldwide, and by the disasters like the siberian pipeline explosion (that destroyed a pipeline that could have made 8 billion $ a year for the USSR) and chernobyl.. made the progress slower, consumed much workforce and resources that could be used in the economical and industrial progress and consumer goods production and thus caused economic difficulties that made republics declare independence in the start of the 90's according to their rights by the soviet constitution of 1977 And the hypocrites say that the USSR fell by communism's fault
Nei Eduardo De Paula You should get a nobel for this. USSR was a great union, but fell because of economic problems. The only people that can disagree with your thinking is misinformed and not very well educated people. America stands only because they never got bombed by the axis and others. USA is a capitalist warmongering country that has shitty education and health. Ussr wasn't perfect, but it was one of the greatest political unions of all time.
The USSR was a mass murdering terror state. Everything it did (its so called achievements) were the result of force and terror. People had no choice but to do what they were told or face prison and labor camps. The people were kept in backwards poverty compared to the capitalist west, so the country could spend most of its money and resources on the military. No freedom of speech or press, so the people could be kept in the dark on how bad off they were compared to the west. There weren't too many people who wanted to move there, but many who wanted to leave. That was not true of the USA.
Very well said; your statements are worth a Nobel, as TimMCgee said. One political negative in the USSR was killings in Joseph Stalin's times. The Soviets should have had a such that a person could be the Premiere/President... only for a limited period (something the USA has now a day). No family rule... Otherwise the USSR was much better than most countries. Many dissenters argue, rather wrongly that lack of incentives kills efficiency in Communism/Socialism. Actually it's the capitalistic setup that is worse in this context. Compare the wealth that is usually enjoyed by chiefs of reasonably large private enterprises with that of a skilled engineer or a physician. What about share/stock market? Does anything worth, say, a gram of foodgrain or a needle?
Nei, I'll give you a piece of advice, don't talk if you don't know. Communism has never EVER worked, and it won't. It ''abolished'' unemployment merely because being unemployed was a criminal offense, it still is here in Belarus. As for free education and healthcare, that is true. The rest is Soviet propaganda.
bugbeemaine that was during the Stalinist era which ended after his death in 1953, after that the USSR’S focus was on getting rid of that stain and trying to reform itself, after his death you were no longer sent to prison camps and Khrushchev set all people working in gulags free.
One of my friend's grandads was a Russian Citizen during the USSR in the 60s, who immigrated to East Germany in the 80s. Despite the harsh life for workers and liberals during the Stalin Era, the Gulags and the political repression, he was always mentioned how the 60s under Khurshchev was the greatest time of his life. Despite the massive propaganda by the U.S for years and years about the Soviet Union and the "red scare", normal life for people was very peaceful and full of pride. Everything was cheap, people were united, and the Soviets were making the best progress in almost every field of life. But as the years went by, the USSR was becoming more and more shit. It's economy was collapsing, and people were tired of communism. But during USSR prime, there was and has been no country in the world that came close to it in terms of progress, happiness and unity.
***** Totally agreed and yeah after lenin the leaders started becoming shitter and shitter and economy was collapsing because of the fatigue of communism which was happening because of the collapsing of the economy
+Nikita Komarov True. 100% agreed. I guess it's just nature that people want to get away with not having to work. That slowly eats away at a communist society. Sad, because it's the very same reason why they were so good in every field. Looking at the ruins of the SSR's monuments and industrial projects is depressing. :(
Micheal Parenti talks about how people in the 70's and 80's in the USSR and East Gernany were tired of communism b/c they saw the consumer goods and lifestyle of well off peole in the West and wanted those things. When he talked to them it because clear they thought they could take all the lavish consumerism of the west and super impose that over their current life and benefits not realizing how all the things they took for granted everyday ( guaranteed job, healthcare, daycare, cheap necessities, education etc) would disappear and they would just be left on their own.
Beatifull. Just Beautifull. There was no country like the ussr before and no country after it which could be compared with it. It was unique. And it will live in our hearts. Thank you;).
Look at this people:they were simple and happy of how they WERE, not what they HAD This is the capitalism, judge somebody according to his economic condition
Long live Lenin. Long live The Soviet Union! USSR shall surely return with a vengeance. To correct all the capitalistic wrongs done to the world during its absence. And I do hope to see Mama Stalin in charge of the updated Soviet Union.
Yugoslavia great. All eastern block brotherhood will really cool. USSR and Yugoslavia and DDR will be always in our hearts. Where people was like brothers to each other.
so true, ppl even called themselves brothers or friend in russian like "drug" or "brat" cause everyone were happy and live good. Today life sucks, and ppl became really bad ;\
Great times of Soviet Union. In seventies I was a teenager during Brazilian military dictatorship. I listened Moscow Radio to know more about my own country. In that time, USA supported many dictators in Latin America so that I had to listen news from USSR.
it is easy and cheap to criticize USSR or Stalin nowadays...however, it takes courage and guts to admit THEIR achievements...because of the dominating post-cold war ideology...
This video says nothing about the government or social system. There is nothing in this video that could not be done by or under the new government. All these things the Russian people could do again.
"The USSR was the most successful nation at the Olympic Games" - Because at the time the Olympics prohibited "professional athletes", which disqualified many American athletes from participating. Under the Soviet system, athletes could train, supported by the government, but not be considered "professional"
This video is very true. The USSR wasvw great and powerful nation. And without the bonds of a capitalist society holding it back, the Soviets had much quicker technological and breakthroughs than the US.
Roman Empire, British Empire and the Byzantine Empire lasted for many centuries. USSR lasted for less than a century, that doesn't sound all that great to me.
***** СССР - не развалился, его развалили. Причина этому - Пятая колонная, либералы, паразиты. Люди, для которых личный материальный достаток важнее благополучия всей страны. Это такая идеология.
Grammie cooks Oh right, Russia... AKA one of the poorest and undeveloped countries in Europe with shitty infrastructure, homophobia and political imprisonment.
I think we all sometimes like to remember an idealized past. We think back and say the Winters were warmer, the sky bluer, and smiles were brighter. Nostalgia allows us to do all this and omit wrong things of the past. The economy of the Russian Empire in 1912 was 70% that of the U.S. By 1939 despite all the progress made by Stalin the Soviet Economy was half the size of the U.S. where is remained for decades. When Andropov became Head of State in 1982 the country was insolvent.
1. Saying that Stalin "made mistakes" is like saying more than 10 people died in WWII. Are... Are you trying to downplay his monsterous legacy? 2. Life in the Soviet Union did certainly get better after Stalin's very overdue demise, but that's more because they started the implementation of some capitalist systems than that socialism wasn't actually a bad idea. 3. The invention of SPUTNIK was definitely impressive, and there's no denying that the U.S.S.R created some of the most incredible technology of the century, but they didn't invent the little things that made the lives of millions of people better. Think about it, what was the better invention, SPUTNIK, or air conditioning? I definitely know which of those two things I like more. 4. Even if we ignore the mathematical problems with socialism, it is still a failure because it has no way to remove a tyrant from office. Stalin and his 20-60 million corpse legacy are proof of that fact. 5. The more research I do on the Soviet Union, the more I find that it was Hell on Earth under Lenin and Stalin and that it was definitely not the best country on Earth. Honestly, if it was, would it have ever even fallen? Look, I don't want to look at any country badly without cause, and I will never say anything as ridiculous as suggesting that only bad things have and will come out of Russia, but I believe that people simply must know the truth: Socialism is death, and it has to be left in the past.
You may find stuff that is horrible in USSR but in the same way I can find proof why USA was hell on earth, for example no rights for everyone thar isn't a white man
потому что люди жившие в СССР хоть во многом жили бедно, по сути как и мы в целом сейчас, были счастливы и благодарны за свою жизнь. А мы, ребята, просто существуем
Wait what? Khrushchev good and Stalin bad? You have it all mixed up friend... Khrushchev is Gorbachev's ideological father He started the end of the USSR.
No... Khrushchev made it stable. Gorbachev was evil and introduced capitalism, but Khrushchev was just as anti-capitalist and respectable as Lenin (although he wasn't as smooth a speaker, so Lenin is more of a gigachad).
@@MrEE1961 Where do you get your information? Khrushchev is the anti-Lenin. He did all that Trotsky could not. And how exactly was the USSR unstable before Khrushchev? You mean he made peace with Ukronazis? Is that your idea of stability?
@@TrueSpace61 What? Who ARE you people? I had no idea these thoughts could even be a thing after the 60s. Here's a thought: what if these "small social issues" as opposed to "big economic/political issues" is all he did precisely because he wasn't interested in advancing socialism at all but rather undermining it? ^^ Yeah of course we all know he didn't DIRECTLY go back to surrendering to the capitalists/kulaks and the US, he obviously COULDN'T. But he paved the way for his ideological son Gorbachev to be able to. And to say he stopped the US is just crazy. Where exactly did he stop the US? xD Certainly not in Cuba, Fidel was furious that Khrushchev never sent the missiles and cowered like a pussy. Certainly not in Ukraine where his concessions to the banderites WAS a concession to the US also.
@@sinekonata Lenin was the incredible revolutionary. Stalin was the best at industrializing and making the dream a reality. Khrushchev worked on improving the domestic conditions, especially with housing. Brezhnev just kept things going without anything too impressive. These are the only leaders of the USSR that are worthy of praise. Side note, I like how we agree on the big idea but are debating a minor difference.
In British textbooks it has been lowered to 6 hundred thousand, not 50 million, because the black book of communism was taken off the shelves of Harvard university for its mathematical errors.
What always feels amazing is when my father tells me how the medical sector worked in the USSR. First of all, completely and utterly free. No insurance needed, you just visit the doc, he didn't even need your name. Then he had to make SURE and i repeat, he had to be 100% sure that when you leave him, you know what's wrong with you and how you can be treated. If something were to happen to you because the doc couldn't make out whats wrong with you, his life was pretty much over. It was utterly in his own interest to be 100% sure that you are healthy. Not like today, where when you visit your doc you become a number. You tell him what's wrong and he types the symptoms into his computer which then tells him the sickness. And if the computer was wrong? Well shit, not his problem, the computer said so. You die because of his incompetence yet this idiot keeps his license. It's no longer about saving lives but about quick money like pretty much everything else in our shithole of world.
Another interesting thing about Soviet medical sciences is that it was one of the few countries to go for Bacteriophage treatment instead of antibiotics which if you haven’t noticed is causing problems which the former Soviet countries are helping fix.
Adrian Salvatierra With Trotsky there wouldn't have been a war, atleast not against Hitler, since it was Stalin's socialism for one state policy that allowed Hitler's rise to power.
this country was really the best, but the video don´t say the correct things, the real big in this country was the hapiness of their people. Yes, you agree or ot, but this true, the people was really happy, and live friendly.
While I wasn't born during the Cold War and I have no actual experience of what life in the Eastern Bloc was like I think it was still better than what Eastern and Central Europe is today. I think it was the Eastern Bloc that was keeping these nations up and together.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær I'm pretty positive that the Russian people would have defeated the Nazis without Stalin as a dictator. In all reality, Stalin was a terrible human being with more innocent blood on his hands than Adolf Hitler himself.
Ole Gunnar Solskjær No you idiot Hitler would have never even risen to power had Trotsky became the leader of the Soviet Union. It was Stalin's socialism in one state policy that allowed Hitler's rise to power.
The USSR the greatest and strongest country who that wouldn't tell it the fact. Worthy repulse to wild capitalism - where money is more important than honor, to conscience and other moral values of the person. If you have no money - you shit to nobody necessary, work as the slave for bastards fattening on your work, be at war for enrichment of corporations and as you will become the disabled person creep for the next bridge and beg, and in general, concept of the country under capitalism in general inappropriate and everyone for itself. The country is when all people are uniform, everyone works for the benefit of the country and disinterestedly each other help, such country is the USSR. And USA it not country it only business.
It's interesting in the 2010s and 2020s to contrast the attitudes of the older generations living in ex-Soviet states. The citizens of some look back with fondness, while those in other countries don't. I'm not going to name them here, but those of you familiar with this will know which is which...
Stalin made the USSR a living hell. I was so upset to have read about all his faults and how my expectations for a great leader of the best country to be made a mockery of. But thank goodness he didn't live forever.
Stalin might had some mistakes, but overall all you needed to do during his role. 1. Trying to not starve 2. Say no bad things about the government That's it.
USSR's top achievements: 1. They're the only truly space nation so far (made the most firsts in space, and are always in space for decades) 2. They stopped the Nazis. However, if they transformed their state socialism into mixed economy (like Germany, US, etc.) they would have been the mightiest.
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia We can ignore that the Soviet Union oppressed their people,oppressed Eastern European people,and made life horrible for their people.The stores were mostly empty,the products they did have were of low quality and we're prone to breaking. I never lived there,and I'm glad that I didn't. the USSR was an oppressive dictatorship,they malnourished their people,spied on them with the KGB and the Stasi,they gave Trump inspiration for a wall,and helped support numerous dictators and regimes,the most infamous is the Kim regime of North Korea. To say the USSR was the best state in the world is absurd,and even a contradiction,because how can a *Stateless and Classless* Society be the best *State* that ever existed?
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia Capitalist propaganda? From what Former Soviet Citizens said,not to mention what is fairly obvious and open to the naked eye,is Propaganda? Oh There definitely was propaganda,but not all of it was. The Soviet Union was a dictatorship,oppressing it's people including the other republics as well as Eastern Europe.No one rebels from the best state ever(Czechoslovakia and Hungary did) then the 15 republics that made up the best state ever left very quickly it seems.
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia After the Stalinist era it was better, but explain to me why hundreds to thousands of East Germans left their Soviet Satellite state aka East German for the West? The USSR probably wasn't AS bad as people do say,but to say it is the best country ever is absurd. Not to mention to the contradiction the USSR was... Having a State under a "Communist" system. Why people choose to defend or praise any country is my problem,who cares what the country did in the past or what their reputation is today.We ought to look to the future.
@@HorsieCloppenHoof What good is that "quality" you speak of if the majority of people can't afford it? Mediocre healthcare is still better than no healthcare. (And soviet healthcare was actually not mediocre, its doctors were considered among the best in the world, just like Cuba's are nowadays). Also, why should having more money entitle you to better care? All people deserve equally to live and be healthy. If there are enough resources for one person to receive luxury healthcare these resources would be better spent being equally distributed so everyone can benefit.
I was born in Soviet it is my native land The soviet time it was good time, people was kind and friendly not like today people are. There was good music and movies without violence and brutality. From soviet government I got free education, free lunch at school, free Holidays and Gifts for the Holidays. And most important there was peace and international friendship
Not to mention that racism I think was also less of a problem, was it not? I wish we could all get over our reptilian brains and make communism work without destroying it from the inside. :)
I have heard and I would imagine that racism was less of a problem because the materialist conditions that fuel racism were largely removed. When people no longer have to compete for basic resources and survival the mindset can shift from fear based scapegoating. Then you have less reason for racism and division. People say socialism cannot work because we are too divided but we are divided not so much by human nature but because of the economic system and material conditions we are forced to live under.
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This is the future for which we fight, товарищ.
Don't forget starving
USSR is temporary shut down for maintenance works. A new updated USSR 2.0 is coming soon.
Съем этот кусок мяcа, а затем спать ameri ubijaju Srbe u fort hudu Rusijo spasi nas
😘😘😘 loved that. U told my heart. I hope she successfully completes the maintenance works and rejoine with full power in this age of Aquarius.
I'm ready, comrade.
Haha Ukraine
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I want to add that in the Soviet Union people had free education, free healthcare, always had jobs and earned enough. You didn't have to own a car like in America because the public transportation was so convenient and cheap. The prices for products never went up. People could afford to live! People read books played sports. Today, people drink, smoke. Crime rate increased after the collapse of the Soviet Union. People became corrupt. You have to pay for everything just to survive. Inflation grows and your salaries stay the same. People lose jobs, families fall apart.
My mom lived in the USSR for 23 years and she says that people earned about 90 rubles a month and paid about 14 rubles a month for a three bedroom flat. The only thing that people of the Soviet Union didn't have was fancy clothing like jeans. They also didn't know much about the western world. But other than that everything was perfect.
***** Well, that's true what you're saying. However, if your spoke out against the gov't/did anything the gov't didn't approve of except for under Khrushchev & Gorbachev, you'd be locked up/sentenced to death/ forced to leave. It wasn't a heaven on earth @ all. Please keep in mind, I'm not the typical American that says that everything about the Soviet Union was entirely bad & often do think that often times the criticisms of the Soviet Union by the West, especially the United States are & were exaggerated. But, please do a little more homework on Google, Wikipedia, or any other reliable source. Overall, my views on the Soviet Union are very mixed. The Soviet Union had many positives like what you've mentioned, improval of women's rights, improved relations between those of different ethnicities, elimination of Religion, high emphasis on science, technology & math, increased literacy rates, improved education system, & they've also invented many things which are still popular/used to this very day like Satellites, space travel, Tetris, etc while the Soviet Union had many negatives like no press freedoms, no free speech, no competition between different companies, authoritarianistic nature, no political freedoms (except under Khrushchev & Gorbachev), no freedom to buy whatever you want, food shortages, & shortages of other things as well. Overall, I've been wondering what it was like to be living in the Soviet Union for the past 1 1/2 years & I've also been doing some research on the Soviet Union & the Eastern Bloc as well as a high school senior from the United States.
I agree about the negative side that you mentioned such as no free press, etc. But I don't think that it is a good excuse to let a great country to fall into pieces and leave its people at the mercy of the fate. I say it because my mom went through hell when the USSR collapsed. War in Azerbaijan, hyperinflation in the Ukraine. These are just few examples of that hell that my mom went through. I asked a lot of Russians about the Soviet Union and they dream that those days would be restored. I mean you can keep a great country afloat, but just introduce democratic reforms. You don't have to break everything and start from scratch. And I don't mean conquering countries that don't want to be in the Soviet Union. Even so, the Soviet Union will never be restored. A lot of Russians understand it. Russia may become great again but it will not be Communist or Soviet again. It will be modern.
***** Thanks for the reply.
The simple truth is that a planned economy doesn't work, there's difficulty maintaining high standards of productivity and setting prices. The chronic food shortages in a country with such a large amount of agrarian land, not to mention the near lack of a consumer goods sector are just some examples of this. The problem with the USSR wasn't political, it was economic.
The USSR industrialized faster than any nation ever before, in only 20 years.
The USSR put the first woman into space, long before the USA did.
The USSR had great visual artists, such as Rodchenko, great dance troupes, such as the Bolshoi, great composers, such as Shostakovich, and great filmakers such as Tarkovsky.
None of this means I'm a fan of the totalitarian state, but facts are facts.
Forget about the anti-communist propaganda, it wasn't totalitarian.
sinekonata Sorry, I personally know people who fled Communist Russia. I believe their explanations of how things were. You are a just stranger on the internet.
just industrialized? In 1917 there were more than 70% iliterate people in russia. Most of them were living in rural areas/villages. They couldn't even read. But after the death of lenin in 1922 they became super power in just 23 years. They urbanized areas and put everyone in flats. It was really impressive, they went to super power position faster than any other country ever. Got to give stalin credit, he was boss.
Fast Networks Yes, they accomplished all these amazing things.
However, under Stalin they also turned against some of the artists I mentioned. Shostakovitch was put under a lot of pressure, even interrogated by the secret police. And that was the least of the difficulties during Stalin's regime.
Things are never simple, brother. Never simple.
Even though I'm an American, I do kind of miss the USSR and the USSR was a great union of countries that brought balance to the world. If the USSR was still around America would not be starting all kinds of wars in Africa and Asia. And America would not be stealing natural resources, killing innocent people and destroying infrastructures in other countries.
Dont worry. China is getting big.
Quack OP the new ussr
No. China is a completely different story.
You are a conscient american, my greetings to you
Nei Eduardo De Paula My greetings is to you aswell.
Western propaganda demonized USSR in all possible ways. My parents, ancesstors lived in that country and always say those days were the most peaceful time, the majority of people were kind-hearted, simple and psychologically resistant than nowadays. They (like many other lived that time in USSR) always remember those days with full happiness, sad and tears :'(
People should believe what that country's citizens say, not propaganda and jealous history re-writers.
And there wasn't unemployment ☝
This is so true. I was born in the modern Russia and lived for some time in the West reading their newspapers, the demonization and biasness is still there, so I kinda feel you. I can't really complain 'cause now it's much better than in the 90s. However, I always wanted to feel what it was like back in the day, since parents' stories are so damn good, like, you weren't even afraid to let your little kids hang out alone. Ты, кстати, очень очень милая! :3
Fun fact-the USSR economy started to get weakened in 1970,year in which some reforms started to decentralize the economy.It broke under Gorbachaev tho,which adopted a free market-style of economy.Before that,the Soviet Union had a solid economic growth that never stopped (except from 1941-1945,when it was invaded by nazis). The USSR had also a free education system and free wealthcare too,the first in the world.In fact,in the '70,there were much more engineers and doctors in the USSR than in the US,and they had a similar population too.The quality of the products in the USSR was also very high,easily comparable to the western Europe's ones,and sometimes even better.The man made famines are fake,even a lot of western historicians and intellectuals said that.And some of them were man made,but by kulaks,which hid wheat and agricolture products to the governament.The fact that Stalin killed more than 20 milions people is completely fake: first of all those stats are predictions,so they're not accurate.Then,standing to wikipedia,about 2,5 milion people died in gualgs or were killed by repressions.Over 21 milion people were killed by the Wehrmacht during operation Barbarossa,and 12 milions of them were civilians (again,go on wikipedia)And the USSR won the war almost by themselves: in Stalingrad died more Wehrmacht soldiers than in the whole west front.American supplies to the USSR were quite poor,and they were mostly logistic help (such as jeeps) and some food.For the rest,the Soviet Union saw a massive economic growth under Stalin,with the quinquennal plans and the collectivized agricolture.Labour conditions were not bad too: Stalin himself decided to put the numbers of labour hour to 7 each day and 5 for the hardest jobs.There was also one year of maternity for every mother.
Then,Engels himself said that the state should stay if it is better for the safety of the prolateriant revolution.And by the way,the USSR was not communist but socialist,which is different.
Also,countries in eastern europe are now poor because they are capitalist: for example,a lot of Romanian people preferred Ceausescu to their western governament today,and the people who lived in the former east Berlin continue to vote the german communist parties.Not to mention that Tito's Jugoslavia was a wealthy nation too,same for Hoxha's Albiana.And 60% of the russian people today still think that life was better in the USSR.
Oh,btw,the fact of tanks is fake,the USSR used only T-34 (then becoming T-34/85),KV-1 and KV-2 (replaced by JS-2 tanks) that were actually better than all the americans and english tanks,plus they were easy to produce.Also the majority of airplanes were mostly soviet (even if they bought some english and american airplanes,which were actually better)
+intensity digital "artificial famine" lel
Not only they were the best country of all time...they had the best national anthem of all time as well.
Only India & some islamic nations hav equivalent anthems.
For sure. Soviet has THE best national anthem. And who can forget Katyusha
WE BRO WEEE
Pretty damn good musics
@@shashanks631 Lmao I agree. When the USA anthem is sung by a pop star it’s pretty decent as well.
I miss another great athlete. Vasily Zaitsev. Gold Medal in 1943 Stalingrad Olimpics in Nazi Shooting XD
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If the USSR or something as great as the USSR ever comes I'll be moving there. Where I live in the states of this Imperialist country is fallen into poverty and corrupt politicians. I can't wait to get out of this hell hole.
☭Синтетический авангард☭ Why don't you leave now? please leave if you hate the USA.
There are many good socialist countries that still are around like Cuba, look it up and you will find some communist countries that work like USSR.
@@rakijaenjoyer5488 Cuba is kind of a shit hole
If you want no freedom of speech, being repressed, then sure. Go to the USSR
@@hamster4810 i mean a revolution in the US is called terrorism though
USSR had enchanted me in every way since childhood. Their culture. sports achievements. space conquests. folklore. superpower status. Arctic conquests. world war winners. beautiful people. The list goes on .
To all the haters out there: The Union may have collapsed, but the work of our leaders shall not be forgotten. Our nation will rise again, and the US is not a country to stup us, because we are Russians, and we cannot be defeated.
I hope to be the person to rise for it again but instead of Russia, I will do it in the USA to show the American people what lies their public schools taught them and show a better way of life. Long live Soviet Union, long live Lenin.
- V - CIAA Not really
Dàvis Vasiļjevs ruined Baltics? When baltics had their power? 🤔 I think u always were under Commonwealth and Russia
"Can't be defeated" *Looks at Crimean War*
Dàvis Vasiļjevs lol, we just turned back our previous territories that we got into fair wars.
USSR was first to introduce countrywide:
1. 8 hours working day.
2. Free obligatory education.
3. Free ressorts for children.
4. Cheap ressorts for workers.
5. Equal rights for women.
6. Equal rights for all nations.
7. Free health care and many others.
Stalin made the great industrial country! Yes it was brutal guy but people cried when he died. People called him the Father of nation.
My great grandfather father, who's dad was sent to Gulag for being a soldier in Imerial Russian army, smiled when Stalin died.
I respected the Soviet Union. It was a great country, it was better than America in every way, it had better work force,better economy,stronger military,it was more technologically advanced than America, it wasn't a country that was ran by terrorist politicians who are thirsty for power and world domination like America is today.I personally think that if the US collapsed instead of the USSR, the USSR won't be killing innocent people,stealing resources,bombing other countries,supplying them with drugs, it won't be giving weapons to Al-Qaeda etc...
Yes, and it created the seas, the mountains and America discovered Europe
USSR killed millions and supported every terrorist state in the world with weapons and money. learn history. Read about soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980s.
Where did you get that?www.google.anti-sovietpropaganda.com.us?
How can you respect a country that built walls to keep people in? The US has walls to keep people out!!!
+Alex Koltsov Did they ?? :) , mate ussr was 1 of most peaceful states ever excited , they helped all over the world to build a peaceful social system , they gave a lot of there knowledge to other countries , they had no racism in there ideology , black white Asian etc ... , (дружба народов) was there motto , they succeeded in every kind of area ( science , space , military , education , society , etc.. ) and above all they faked no victory , not in military or science , not like some countries which pulled off the buggiest lie to all humanity by faking moon landing .
soviet union was one of the greatest country and nation of all times and this is a fact .
russians comrades, make USSR great again !!!
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Hell yes brethren
Russians don't want this dictatorship again.It's dead and never will come back
+Sky Isblue actually in the last yearly poll over 50% of russians wanted the russians wanted the ussr back and 10% wanted just socialism but not the ussr
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I am an Indian and we Indians are very thankful to USSR for help in 1971. Hope USSR returns in future becoz its the only nation who is capable of kicking ass of USA
@NeXto Gaming absolutely correct
USSR is still living in my heart and I am still waiting until it rising from its ashes
Aren't we all?
We all have this idea
I'm Australian, and I can't wait to see the greatest thing this world ever had (in my opinion) To return.
That's the one mate the greatest thing is yet to come
We are allies so we dont have to bother with that but western scumbags must be aware of us because when we start to invade we will fuck you up
USSR helped my nation get there independence in 1971 always be grateful to them
Stalin made no mistakes. There's a reason the Soviet Union was in it's peak years under his rule.
Explosive Crow People die in wars dispite nationality or leadership.
Dumbass
I agree... Stalin is a great leader from Russia after Lenin..
you need help
+Tyler Pape did you know that stalin was te guy that killed the most people from his team in HISTORY but im russian so i dont hate him that much
I disagree about Stalin. I think he actually made a great job, like no one else could have done it…
Stalin's Gulag Enough Said
If killing 40mil people is a great job ...
Pete Rock Preemo no i meant the opposite of that that the Stalin's Gulag camp meant that he did a terrible job i probably should have clarified sorry
Pete Rock Preemo
I heard he killed 100 millions people! You should use this number, more impact. Feel free to inflate it as much as you want for future use of course, reality check isn't your concern anyway, right?
You gona be kiding me this monster killed more people than hitler
tell ya more. In USSR wasn't homeless, jobless people. Everyone was reach, had a family.
You know why everyone was employed in USSR? Because being unemployed was a criminal offence.
because people lived with their parents until they were 30?
@@fegelfly7877 Woah, really, they still do it there? Damn. I'm glad I'm from Ukraine then.
5 years after the war Deutschland, the defeated country was exporting all kinds of goods. In the USSR, the "victorious country, long rows of people must stand for hours just for buying eggs, bread, potatoes or chicken.
After Stalin died, ALL the communist dirigents accused him of treason, all the public buildings, streets, ships, etc bearing his name were rechristened. The history books were corrected and rewritten.
@@merliraudsepp7106 no? They were given their own housing after registering after 1 years old
Stalin? Mistakes? Stalin was the best leader of USSR. He made the country great, he made soviet union a superpower!
nah, even tho i love ussr, but stalin was terrible, if not cause of amazing generals he might have lost ww2, also his mass murdering of ukraine ppl was insane. soviet union became powerhouse during 60s 70s when chrushciov and breznev were leaders, all country was building factories, houses, beating usa in space race and sport wins. after them ussr started to collapse and usa with europe had big impact why it happend.
He may have made the USSR more industrialized but he did it in a way it harmed the people
yeah he might did some stuff to make country more industrical, but it started before him with lenin party, most people lived in countryside at those times, only rich people were in cities, after lenin and stalin exiled rich assholes, then i would say mostly in khruschiov times world ussr started major industrialization process
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stalin was the best and the greatest communist leader after lenin
1957: Launch of the first intercontinental ballistic missile R-7 Semyorka.
1957: First orbiting satellite, Sputnik 1.
1957: First living in orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2.
1959: Launch of a missile, the first man-made object to leave the Earth's orbit, Luna 1
1959: Telemetry - First communication to and from the ground, Luna 1.
1959: First object to pass near the moon, and the first object in orbit around the Moon, Luna 1.
1959: First satellite hit the moon, Luna 2.
1959: First images of the dark side of the moon, Luna 3.
1960: First satellite to be launched to Mars, the Marsnik 1.
1961: First satellite to Venus, Venera 1.
1961: The first person to enter orbit around the Earth, Yuri Gagarin in Vostok 1.
1961: The first person to spend a day in orbit, Gherman Titov - Vostok 2.
1962: First flight of two astronauts (estimate), Vostok 3 and Vostok 4.
1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6.
1964: First flight of several astronauts (3), Voskhod 1.
1965: First spacewalk, Aleksei Leonov, Voskhod 2.
1965: First probe to another planet Venus, Venera 3.
1966: First probe to descend on the moon and send from there, Luna 9.
1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10.
1967: First meeting of unmanned Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188 (until 2006 this feat was not imitated by the United States).
1969: First docking and crew exchange in orbit, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5
1970:. First signals sent to the moon by Luna 16.
1970: First mobile robot, Lunokhod 1.
1970: The first data sent by a probe from another planet (Venus), Venera 7.
1971: First space station, Salyut 1.
1971: First satellite in orbit around Mars and landing on Mars 2.
1975: First satellite in orbit around Venus and sending data to earth, Venera 9.
1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaja (Salyut 7)
1986: First team to visit two space stations Salyut and Mir (7).
1986: First permanent space station in Earth orbit, the MIR orbit from 1986 to 2001.
1987: First team to spend more than a year aboard Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov.
Inheriting a poor, feudal and rural country devastated by a great world war and a great civil war, the USSR through a planned economy and the common ownership of the means of production became one of the world's superpowers and the country that won the space and nuclear and conventional arms race against the USA having half of its GDP, it was the country that sent to the space the first satellite, the first rocket, the first man and the first space station... it abolished unemployment and famine, people had free education and healthcare, literacy rate was 99,9%, percentage of people trained in higher education was the highest of the world and life expectancy was (and still is) greater than the US that is a world power since the 19th century, was untouched in both world wars and has the double of GDP...
But the difficulties inherited by recovering from WW1 and civil war, the destruction of the rural proprieties by the landowners from the time of czar (kulaks), the invasion in WW2 by all the axis countries (excluding Japan), that killed 26 million people in the USSR (among them 15 million civilians and 3.3 million unarmed prisioners) and destroyed 1720 cities, 70,000 villages, 31,800 factories, 84,000 schools and etc. that caused lack of workforce and the need to spend decades re-building the country... and furthermore by the costs of winning the space and arms race against the west and the costs of funding countries and left-wing groups worldwide, and by the disasters like the siberian pipeline explosion (that destroyed a pipeline that could have made 8 billion $ a year for the USSR) and chernobyl.. made the progress slower, consumed much workforce and resources that could be used in the economical and industrial progress and consumer goods production and thus caused economic difficulties that made republics declare independence in the start of the 90's according to their rights by the soviet constitution of 1977
And the hypocrites say that the USSR fell by communism's fault
Nei Eduardo De Paula You should get a nobel for this. USSR was a great union, but fell because of economic problems. The only people that can disagree with your thinking is misinformed and not very well educated people.
America stands only because they never got bombed by the axis and others. USA is a capitalist warmongering country that has shitty education and health.
Ussr wasn't perfect, but it was one of the greatest political unions of all time.
The USSR was a mass murdering terror state. Everything it did (its so called achievements) were the result of force and terror. People had no choice but to do what they were told or face prison and labor camps. The people were kept in backwards poverty compared to the capitalist west, so the country could spend most of its money and resources on the military. No freedom of speech or press, so the people could be kept in the dark on how bad off they were compared to the west. There weren't too many people who wanted to move there, but many who wanted to leave. That was not true of the USA.
Very well said; your statements are worth a Nobel, as TimMCgee said. One political negative in the USSR was killings in Joseph Stalin's times. The Soviets should have had a such that a person could be the Premiere/President... only for a limited period (something the USA has now a day). No family rule... Otherwise the USSR was much better than most countries.
Many dissenters argue, rather wrongly that lack of incentives kills efficiency in Communism/Socialism. Actually it's the capitalistic setup that is worse in this context. Compare the wealth that is usually enjoyed by chiefs of reasonably large private enterprises with that of a skilled engineer or a physician. What about share/stock market? Does anything worth, say, a gram of foodgrain or a needle?
Nei, I'll give you a piece of advice, don't talk if you don't know. Communism has never EVER worked, and it won't. It ''abolished'' unemployment merely because being unemployed was a criminal offense, it still is here in Belarus. As for free education and healthcare, that is true. The rest is Soviet propaganda.
bugbeemaine that was during the Stalinist era which ended after his death in 1953, after that the USSR’S focus was on getting rid of that stain and trying to reform itself, after his death you were no longer sent to prison camps and Khrushchev set all people working in gulags free.
One of my friend's grandads was a Russian Citizen during the USSR in the 60s, who immigrated to East Germany in the 80s. Despite the harsh life for workers and liberals during the Stalin Era, the Gulags and the political repression, he was always mentioned how the 60s under Khurshchev was the greatest time of his life. Despite the massive propaganda by the U.S for years and years about the Soviet Union and the "red scare", normal life for people was very peaceful and full of pride. Everything was cheap, people were united, and the Soviets were making the best progress in almost every field of life. But as the years went by, the USSR was becoming more and more shit. It's economy was collapsing, and people were tired of communism. But during USSR prime, there was and has been no country in the world that came close to it in terms of progress, happiness and unity.
***** Totally agreed and yeah after lenin the leaders started becoming shitter and shitter and economy was collapsing because of the fatigue of communism which was happening because of the collapsing of the economy
+Nikita Komarov True. 100% agreed. I guess it's just nature that people want to get away with not having to work. That slowly eats away at a communist society. Sad, because it's the very same reason why they were so good in every field.
Looking at the ruins of the SSR's monuments and industrial projects is depressing. :(
*****
Such an intellectual opinion. I am in awe.
Micheal Parenti talks about how people in the 70's and 80's in the USSR and East Gernany were tired of communism b/c they saw the consumer goods and lifestyle of well off peole in the West and wanted those things. When he talked to them it because clear they thought they could take all the lavish consumerism of the west and super impose that over their current life and benefits not realizing how all the things they took for granted everyday ( guaranteed job, healthcare, daycare, cheap necessities, education etc) would disappear and they would just be left on their own.
During the 1960's the USSR was living off what Stalin had achieved.
Beatifull. Just Beautifull. There was no country like the ussr before and no country after it which could be compared with it. It was unique. And it will live in our hearts. Thank you;).
Why don't you show here free education, free medicine, free houses, everything was for people's benefits. I am proud that I was born in USSR!
Look at this people:they were simple and happy of how they WERE, not what they HAD
This is the capitalism, judge somebody according to his economic condition
Totally, Comrade!
If Soviet Russia makes a comeback, I'll be the first one to move there!!
Assuming you can make it there before I do, I'd move there too!
You'd have to beat me in line!
Not if i get there first.
I hope one day It could exist a country like USRR. Greetings from Spain ✊
Thanks for teaching us communism, Comrade. USSR. Greeting from China.
Exactly
Stalin was greatest leader.
he made good and bad decisions
a good leader but probably not the greatest
seriously, killing your own people is NOT great
No
There's a difference between have great leadership ability and using it well.
noooo
Long live Lenin.
Long live The Soviet Union!
USSR shall surely return with a vengeance. To correct all the capitalistic wrongs done to the world during its absence.
And I do hope to see Mama Stalin in charge of the updated Soviet Union.
Exactly! I do hope that Mama Stalin is as photogenic and has as nice a moustache as the original Stalin.
It was my Favorite Civilization when I was in middle school. And It inspired me in my life.
beautiful! :)
alternatehistorypt blyatiful
nomoi: Yeah it's not beautiful.. IT'S AWESWOME!!!!!
USSR was pretty great but i think they should have given their people more freedom
Leslie Chow freedom is a new name of capitalism
What do you mean by freedom?!
They did
@@alexwinner5272 no. oppression is a new name of capitalism
GLORY TO SOVIET UNION 💪
Yugoslavia and CCCP was the best, along with our allies.
Yugoslavia great. All eastern block brotherhood will really cool. USSR and Yugoslavia and DDR will be always in our hearts. Where people was like brothers to each other.
so true, ppl even called themselves brothers or friend in russian like "drug" or "brat" cause everyone were happy and live good. Today life sucks, and ppl became really bad ;\
Ярослав Москвин and Mongolia
Nope, the allies were even more totalitarian than ussr
Great times of Soviet Union. In seventies I was a teenager during Brazilian military dictatorship. I listened Moscow Radio
to know more about my own country. In that time, USA supported many dictators in Latin America so that I had to listen news from USSR.
Thank you USSR for liberating my grandfather from Dachau, Romania!
After reading these comments, I'm starting to wish I was a Russian at the time living in the ussr
Collapse of the CCCP is the most regrettable thing in the history of mankind
Great job comrade
Mir was the first modular space station. Salyut was the first space station.
it is easy and cheap to criticize USSR or Stalin nowadays...however, it takes courage and guts to admit THEIR achievements...because of the dominating post-cold war ideology...
This video says nothing about the government or social system. There is nothing in this video that could not be done by or under the new government. All these things the Russian people could do again.
Please return back USSR!
Being an Indian , I don't know why I loved the USSR and I still do when it's not existing any more .. we lost a true friend .. a great loss in deed
become socialist! Then you can become that friend to everyone else!
@@americancommunist6076 good idea .. I will be a socialist now
Slava from Jordan .. I have a USSR flag flying above my house all the time.
"The USSR was the most successful nation at the Olympic Games" - Because at the time the Olympics prohibited "professional athletes", which disqualified many American athletes from participating. Under the Soviet system, athletes could train, supported by the government, but not be considered "professional"
i totaly agree with Greg ulgcyfvtg ..lenin and stalin who made the soviet union and USSR was the best country of all time because of them
This is cool! Good music too.
This video is very true. The USSR wasvw great and powerful nation. And without the bonds of a capitalist society holding it back, the Soviets had much quicker technological and breakthroughs than the US.
Stalin? Bad? Sounds like a reactionary to me.
It was the picnical of Russian Civilization.
Yes thank you soviet t Union i'll love you forever.
I am sorry to disappoint you all, but the USSR would have been nothing without Stalin, just saying.
Not to mention the incredibly beautiful women! The goddesses of USSR!
The ussr also won the space race in 1961.
I have a feeling the world will see the USSR again within the next 40 or 50 years.
If it was the best country of all time, then why did it implode onto itself?
All great countries come to an end, because of corrupted men and human nature eg: Roman Empire, British Empire and the Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire, British Empire and the Byzantine Empire lasted for many centuries. USSR lasted for less than a century, that doesn't sound all that great to me.
***** Russias still here
***** СССР - не развалился, его развалили. Причина этому - Пятая колонная, либералы, паразиты. Люди, для которых личный материальный достаток важнее благополучия всей страны. Это такая идеология.
Grammie cooks Oh right, Russia... AKA one of the poorest and undeveloped countries in Europe with shitty infrastructure, homophobia and political imprisonment.
God I fucking love the Soviet union
Hail The Motherland
We all miss the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 😞
I think we all sometimes like to remember an idealized past. We think back and say the Winters were warmer, the sky bluer, and smiles were brighter. Nostalgia allows us to do all this and omit wrong things of the past. The economy of the Russian Empire in 1912 was 70% that of the U.S. By 1939 despite all the progress made by Stalin the Soviet Economy was half the size of the U.S. where is remained for decades. When Andropov became Head of State in 1982 the country was insolvent.
The song name????
1. Saying that Stalin "made mistakes" is like saying more than 10 people died in WWII. Are... Are you trying to downplay his monsterous legacy?
2. Life in the Soviet Union did certainly get better after Stalin's very overdue demise, but that's more because they started the implementation of some capitalist systems than that socialism wasn't actually a bad idea.
3. The invention of SPUTNIK was definitely impressive, and there's no denying that the U.S.S.R created some of the most incredible technology of the century, but they didn't invent the little things that made the lives of millions of people better. Think about it, what was the better invention, SPUTNIK, or air conditioning? I definitely know which of those two things I like more.
4. Even if we ignore the mathematical problems with socialism, it is still a failure because it has no way to remove a tyrant from office. Stalin and his 20-60 million corpse legacy are proof of that fact.
5. The more research I do on the Soviet Union, the more I find that it was Hell on Earth under Lenin and Stalin and that it was definitely not the best country on Earth. Honestly, if it was, would it have ever even fallen?
Look, I don't want to look at any country badly without cause, and I will never say anything as ridiculous as suggesting that only bad things have and will come out of Russia, but I believe that people simply must know the truth: Socialism is death, and it has to be left in the past.
You may find stuff that is horrible in USSR but in the same way I can find proof why USA was hell on earth, for example no rights for everyone thar isn't a white man
потому что люди жившие в СССР хоть во многом жили бедно, по сути как и мы в целом сейчас, были счастливы и благодарны за свою жизнь. А мы, ребята, просто существуем
Gorbachev was a traitor
Yes, my friend. I know this.
He was indeed. He was the one to bow down and surrender like a coward in front of the US.
Yes, sadly, maybe the red flag would still be at Kremlin today if he never came to power, he threw away everything that people fought for...
Indeed. A traitor with a pizza sauce stain on his head.
Wait what? Khrushchev good and Stalin bad? You have it all mixed up friend... Khrushchev is Gorbachev's ideological father He started the end of the USSR.
No... Khrushchev made it stable. Gorbachev was evil and introduced capitalism, but Khrushchev was just as anti-capitalist and respectable as Lenin (although he wasn't as smooth a speaker, so Lenin is more of a gigachad).
@@MrEE1961 Where do you get your information? Khrushchev is the anti-Lenin. He did all that Trotsky could not.
And how exactly was the USSR unstable before Khrushchev? You mean he made peace with Ukronazis? Is that your idea of stability?
@sinekonata Khrushchev built homes, stopped the us, and got to work on small social issues because Lenin and Stalin fixes the big issues.
@@TrueSpace61 What? Who ARE you people? I had no idea these thoughts could even be a thing after the 60s.
Here's a thought: what if these "small social issues" as opposed to "big economic/political issues" is all he did precisely because he wasn't interested in advancing socialism at all but rather undermining it? ^^
Yeah of course we all know he didn't DIRECTLY go back to surrendering to the capitalists/kulaks and the US, he obviously COULDN'T. But he paved the way for his ideological son Gorbachev to be able to.
And to say he stopped the US is just crazy. Where exactly did he stop the US? xD
Certainly not in Cuba, Fidel was furious that Khrushchev never sent the missiles and cowered like a pussy.
Certainly not in Ukraine where his concessions to the banderites WAS a concession to the US also.
@@sinekonata Lenin was the incredible revolutionary. Stalin was the best at industrializing and making the dream a reality. Khrushchev worked on improving the domestic conditions, especially with housing. Brezhnev just kept things going without anything too impressive. These are the only leaders of the USSR that are worthy of praise. Side note, I like how we agree on the big idea but are debating a minor difference.
In British textbooks it has been lowered to 6 hundred thousand, not 50 million, because the black book of communism was taken off the shelves of Harvard university for its mathematical errors.
What always feels amazing is when my father tells me how the medical sector worked in the USSR. First of all, completely and utterly free. No insurance needed, you just visit the doc, he didn't even need your name. Then he had to make SURE and i repeat, he had to be 100% sure that when you leave him, you know what's wrong with you and how you can be treated. If something were to happen to you because the doc couldn't make out whats wrong with you, his life was pretty much over. It was utterly in his own interest to be 100% sure that you are healthy.
Not like today, where when you visit your doc you become a number. You tell him what's wrong and he types the symptoms into his computer which then tells him the sickness. And if the computer was wrong? Well shit, not his problem, the computer said so. You die because of his incompetence yet this idiot keeps his license. It's no longer about saving lives but about quick money like pretty much everything else in our shithole of world.
Another interesting thing about Soviet medical sciences is that it was one of the few countries to go for Bacteriophage treatment instead of antibiotics which if you haven’t noticed is causing problems which the former Soviet countries are helping fix.
For my iosif Stalin is a war Hero and a good Comrade.
In wikipedia it says: "Iosif Stalin = Leader and Prime minister of the Soviet Union".
In addition to Co-founder of USSR.
Adrian Salvatierra With Trotsky there wouldn't have been a war, atleast not against Hitler, since it was Stalin's socialism for one state policy that allowed Hitler's rise to power.
Thank you soviet Union. You will live in our heart. Love from India
Ussr will live again!!! ;(
no and we don't want it to Fuck the USSR and fuck socilism
Atatürk > Erdoğan
this country was really the best, but the video don´t say the correct things, the real big in this country was the hapiness of their people. Yes, you agree or ot, but this true, the people was really happy, and live friendly.
While I wasn't born during the Cold War and I have no actual experience of what life in the Eastern Bloc was like I think it was still better than what Eastern and Central Europe is today. I think it was the Eastern Bloc that was keeping these nations up and together.
these comments would make 99% of history teachers mad
Nah, you've been poisoned with propaganda... ;)
what is name of the song?
It's called "random song from 2006-2012 RUclips videos"
We'll be back! Workers of the world unite! BTW - you forgot Buran!
I wonder what would have happened if the CPUSA managed to take power in those days?
name of music? please.
USSR Liberated my country albania from german and italian fascism
Thanks USSR
Ta qisha nonen
@Dimitri o p9 qka ki
Nuk i du kta
Po t pakten kta na kan liru prej nazistave nuk mundesh me ja u hup qeta
@@BADBOY-rq8py po po
Por komunizmi na ka shkaterruar
@Dimitri kapitalizmi nonen na ka qi
Kqyre shtetin pak
Qfar ushtrie e kem
T qime n both
Well, Stalin was not that bad, Without him, I must to speak german language for the rest of my life...
*Glory To Uncle Joes!!!*
Ole Gunnar Solskjær I'm pretty positive that the Russian people would have defeated the Nazis without Stalin as a dictator. In all reality, Stalin was a terrible human being with more innocent blood on his hands than Adolf Hitler himself.
But... In that time if he not cold hearted enough to do crazy thing like that.... This world will different so much than now...
Ole Gunnar Solskjær I do have to say, Stalin wasn't good when it came to respecting human lives
Ole Gunnar Solskjær No you idiot Hitler would have never even risen to power had Trotsky became the leader of the Soviet Union. It was Stalin's socialism in one state policy that allowed Hitler's rise to power.
The Soviets will return.
Thank you USSR, you was my mother!
The USSR the greatest and strongest country who that wouldn't tell it the fact. Worthy repulse to wild capitalism - where money is more important than honor, to conscience and other moral values of the person. If you have no money - you shit to nobody necessary, work as the slave for bastards fattening on your work, be at war for enrichment of corporations and as you will become the disabled person creep for the next bridge and beg, and in general, concept of the country under capitalism in general inappropriate and everyone for itself. The country is when all people are uniform, everyone works for the benefit of the country and disinterestedly each other help, such country is the USSR. And USA it not country it only business.
I didn't know Soviet has the world first supersonic transport aircraft.
Concorde was cool, but it was stolen. Just like everything else the west made.
It's interesting in the 2010s and 2020s to contrast the attitudes of the older generations living in ex-Soviet states. The citizens of some look back with fondness, while those in other countries don't. I'm not going to name them here, but those of you familiar with this will know which is which...
Stalin made the USSR a living hell. I was so upset to have read about all his faults and how my expectations for a great leader of the best country to be made a mockery of. But thank goodness he didn't live forever.
Stalin might had some mistakes, but overall all you needed to do during his role.
1. Trying to not starve
2. Say no bad things about the government
That's it.
I hate rock, it's bad for Socialism!!!
Rizqon Kasir I hate you too!!!
Rizqon Kasir Sorry, I'm not Capitalist!!!
Rizqon Kasir NO!!!
Rizqon Kasir I want the world!!!!
Rizqon Kasir YNT!!!
love the sound track bad ass comrade!!
I was born in USSR
Yugoslavia was the best country of all time!
Dude the video is about ussr
USSR's top achievements:
1. They're the only truly space nation so far (made the most firsts in space, and are always in space for decades)
2. They stopped the Nazis.
However, if they transformed their state socialism into mixed economy (like Germany, US, etc.) they would have been the mightiest.
Question
What drugs were you smoking?
+Job Jon "Why the USSR was the best country" part of the video...
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia We can ignore that the Soviet Union oppressed their people,oppressed Eastern European people,and made life horrible for their people.The stores were mostly empty,the products they did have were of low quality and we're prone to breaking.
I never lived there,and I'm glad that I didn't.
the USSR was an oppressive dictatorship,they malnourished their people,spied on them with the KGB and the Stasi,they gave Trump inspiration for a wall,and helped support numerous dictators and regimes,the most infamous is the Kim regime of North Korea.
To say the USSR was the best state in the world is absurd,and even a contradiction,because how can a *Stateless and Classless* Society be the best *State* that ever existed?
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia Capitalist propaganda?
From what Former Soviet Citizens said,not to mention what is fairly obvious and open to the naked eye,is Propaganda?
Oh There definitely was propaganda,but not all of it was.
The Soviet Union was a dictatorship,oppressing it's people including the other republics as well as Eastern Europe.No one rebels from the best state ever(Czechoslovakia and Hungary did) then the 15 republics that made up the best state ever left very quickly it seems.
+Eduard Ming Tse Hsia After the Stalinist era it was better, but explain to me why hundreds to thousands of East Germans left their Soviet Satellite state aka East German for the West?
The USSR probably wasn't AS bad as people do say,but to say it is the best country ever is absurd.
Not to mention to the contradiction the USSR was...
Having a State under a "Communist" system.
Why people choose to defend or praise any country is my problem,who cares what the country did in the past or what their reputation is today.We ought to look to the future.
+TheCommunistDragon51 Миллиарды расстрелянных лично Сталиным, 2 миллиарда сидели с ГУЛАГе еще два миллиарда их охраняли. Чувак. Иди. Учи. Факты.
Obviously USSR is not the best country ever, it collapsed and fell to an even greater country, USA.
USSR is better. They had free health care and more
Ltresso12 but then you have to see what kind of quality the health care is...
@@HorsieCloppenHoof What good is that "quality" you speak of if the majority of people can't afford it? Mediocre healthcare is still better than no healthcare. (And soviet healthcare was actually not mediocre, its doctors were considered among the best in the world, just like Cuba's are nowadays). Also, why should having more money entitle you to better care? All people deserve equally to live and be healthy. If there are enough resources for one person to receive luxury healthcare these resources would be better spent being equally distributed so everyone can benefit.
What is this song? Ive been wondering for years now
This video didn't like only the capitalists.
1922 to 1991. 69 Years. Great nations lifespans aren't measured in decades.
you forgot the thousand of students from third world countries that they studied free of charge in URSS universities