@@BHuang92 Also in 2023, the Ukrainian TV interviewed the grandson of Vasyl Borodai, who shared the original designs for the statue. He revealed that the sculptor initially intended for the statue to hold a palm branch, symbolizing peace. However, the Communist Party insisted on replacing it with a sword.
How dare,you Mr Terry, comrade Brezhnev's forehead is like the eternal sky over Kazakhstan, and his brow is the mighty steppe eagle spreading its wings in a protective embrace, like the politburo taking care of its fellow citizens 😂😂
This reminds me of how the fall of East Germany was handled on East German state television. There were mass protest marches in the GDR's biggest cities, and hundreds of people hiding out in the West German embassies in other socialist countries. But the official state-run news outlets were still pretending like everything was fine, and the "small handful of malcontents" were clearly being riled up by western agents. However, GDR Television also had a massive youth program which filled several hours in the afternoon of each day. And this youth program had its own set of news reporters. And these reporters showed what was really going on in the country. Obviously, the government didn't like this one bit, but they also didn't dare to interfere. Apparently they were afraid that cancelling the youth program would spark even more protests.
For a “people’s republic”, they grossly neglected their own people in the bid to militarily outdo the West. Decades of abuse and terror meant that by the time they tried to reform, it was all too late.
The news certainly tried to play it down. But it is also good to keep in mind that merely a few years earlier, there would not be ANY mention in the news at all. When talking to people from the USSR from that time, many of them remember being shocked about hearing about this first from official news instead of the usual rumor circuit.
7:21 the man on the front right is Konstantin Chernenko, who was the penultimate leader of the USSR. He succeeded Yuri Andropov in 1984 and died 13 months later in 1985, which paved the way for Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR.
Fun fact: The part mentioning Pepsi reminded me of when I found out that Stolichnaya vodka made a deal with Pepsi to make it the first American product made in the Soviet Union. The deal over the years got stranger as in the 80s/90s they gave Pepsi Soviet Submarines, a Destroyer, and other ships and tankers making the "Pepsi Navy"
Anytime I hear the Soviet Union's anthem all I can think is the lyrics..."she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.". It fits so perfectly.
Awesome that you watched Ordinary Things! I would recommend watching Internet Historian and/or his second channel Incognito Mode. Ordinary Things actually is a return guest on the second channel.
Chernobyl was such a great series. Somehow my husband had never heard of the accident so it was great watching it with him and seeing him learn about it
@8:32 I know it's on RUclips, but I want to say from the quality of the footage that it is 10-20 years old. They wash Lenin periodically, and all that is left of him is his head, upper chest, right arm (maybe left hand)
I went to Russia in 1996. I was amazed at the imaginative ways, literally everyone had for stealing shit from work. Everyone had a scheme to steal and resell supplies from the factory they worked at. Ever notice how everything seemed half painted? Thats because everyone who worked at the factory smuggled out paint in cafeteria milk cartons. Or the paint wasn't sticking? Thats when the engineers took an allowance for dry-cleaning those white shirts...but just dipped their shirts in drums of acetone that then failed to make the paint stick. They DRANK acohol based aircraft fluids.
I own various special photography lenses, a (class 2) night vision scope, and various other items which almost certainly come from that circuit. A very good place for buying such stuff was flea markets in eastern European countries and Germany.
As for 6:10 to be fair, the products from the soviets weren't bad. A lot of cheap yet good photography equipment came from there. One company (Photo Porst) even had their imports as the major part of their sales. The company sold russian products with western product guarantees. It was also a company which tried a democratic workplace. Things didn't turn out well, though.
4:55 Yep...Rambo 3 (which was technically Rambo 2 because the first movie was First Blood and the second movie Rambo: First Blood Part 2). Man that movie series has ridiculous names.
Great stuff. There used to be a puppet based political satire program in The UK called Spitiing Image. Gorbachev's birthmark was hammer and sickle shaped on the show. Would love to know which piece of music or film that other nations would show on TV to try to make people feel good when things collapse. I'm guessing Life Of Brian for the UK, perfect ending.
But with global warming, more of the russian land will gain better climates and become more valuable. If the polar ice melts enough, those russian ports may become more economic, including a shorter trade route between China and Europe. So Russia and China not only should NOT help fight climate change, but should even try to accelerate it.
Speaking of that wolf and hare Tom&Jerry-like (yes, according to the lore it's a hare, not a rabbit) cartoon, it's undisputed best (according to my very subjective and correct reasoning) of commie cartoons, where everything starts, because the hare has extinguished wolf's cigarette while watering his flowers and as Polish version of Nonsensopedia says: The creators of "Ну, погоди!" in contrast to Americans do not give a damn when it comes to showing reality. Every character smokes cigarettes (even the Hare himself lends the fire to the Wolf), the pig on the beach is wearing three bras, and the police does absolutely nothing. And this is actual preparing of kids for this world!
Dude no way you found Ordinary things, I H introduced me to him as Stead Bonnet. 👍 Id be down to watch The gentleman pirate again with you have with every other tuber
Russia's war in Afghanistan lead to a song that will forever be recreated every time Russia goes to war with someone. Don't Tell Mother I'm in whatever country of conflict there is now. There's a recording of a Russian soldier singing and playing guitar to it in Ukraine, adapting new things like Whatsapp into the song. Really such a strange time.
You probably should have done this a lot sooner, I don't know who you are, I have never watched your content before, but it legitimately made you pop-up in the algorithm, so listen to your comments From Now On, just do it dude. Trust me, you will gain a lot of subscribers from this, I am evidence of that.
Fun fact well that scene in Chernobyl was super f****** cool with the coal miners it was also a lie... They insulted the the minister of energy or whatever for being kind of a fat cat but he was actually a coal worker as well if I remember right for for a few decades so he was used to coal dust
17:30 Guy is liying. We can buy at least cars. I don't know what boat price but someone still can buy that too. We don't have many cars not because we are poor. It's because line which still present in Gorbi time.
Off topic but I found a dude that could be your brother. Maybe even twin. He’s a “seer” you know, like medium of sorts… his name is Blake Healy. It’s truly weird. As I’m watching it I’m like man he looks like somebody, then it hit me. He looks like you!!!
The western lies about Chernobyl : like it is well depicted here, the soviet government in the USSR lied a lot about the Chernobyl industrial catastrophe. But in the West, it was as bad as in the USSR without the "excuse" of being totalitarian states. It's propaganda vs propaganda. The Chernobyl catastrophe would certainly not be in the 100 worst industrial catastrophes and could be, perhaps, in the bottom of the top 10 civil nuclear catastrophes. Actually, what used to be called the "Chernobyl Nuclear Plant" was not in Chernobyl, but in a small town in the rural area not far, but not near Chernobyl. The town of Chernobyl is not even in the exclusion zone. In the West there was an irrational panic. In Germany, the levels of radiation were a bit more than natural radioactivity, less in some places (where there is granite and volcanic soils, there is more natural radioactivity). But nonetheless, there was a spike of unwanted abortions who were not in anyway sensible : poor women who had been lied to. Salads were forbidden although : 1- there was not enough radioactivity to render anything dangerous to eat ; 2- even if there were (mushrooms, for example, could have been if you would eat hundreds of kilos of them, salads wouldn't retain any radioactive elements. Except for some of the employees who died from the explosion (not the radioactivity and not all of them) and some of the first responders (my heart goes to them), all the other first responders, the "liquidators" were certainly at risk, but no more no less than any firefighter in the world (except firefighters make it their daily job : respect to them). The main health problems these liquidators had were PTSD and depression. Even the very courageous divers who went near to the core lived long enough to be alive to be decorated in 2018. The worst that happened to the Prypiat inhabitants (those nearest to the plant and who were forcibly moved) was the discrimination they had to endure in their new locations, especially the children. In the highly dramatised miniseries "Chernobyl", there is even a scene that shows that a firefighter was not to be approached in his hospital bed. It might have happened but, contrary to what the series implied, it never was about radioactivity. When a man is exposed to radioactivity, when his clothes are discarded and he is washed, whatever the level of exposure (even deadly), the guy is not radioactive enough to be dangerous at all (like shaking hands with a cancerous person). What could have happened is 1- the nurses were ignorant of this kind of illness and were over protective (which could be the case because this kind of illness is so rare) ; 2- the sick man was in a phase when any germs from the exterior could kill him ; 3- both of the previous causes ; 4- pure invention for the dramatisation of the series. I don't mean that Chernobyl was not a really bad accident. But the real effects of this accident is, as it is well shown here, a communication accident. It cost the fragile trust people had in their government. But it also reinforced the lies about nuclear power plants already which had already been spread spread at the time by stupid and/or malevolent lobbies (like GreenPeace or the coal and oil industries). It made Germany to close their nuclear plants and to reopen coal mines and coal power plants (a single coal power plant kills more people than all the nuclear power plants in the world in the 80 years of their existence).
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The statue at the beginning is the Mother Ukraine monument. In 2023 the Soviet crest on her shield was replaced with the Ukrainian Trident.
The statue was designed by a Ukrainian artist and it is facing towards Moscow. The absolute irony of it all…..
@@BHuang92 Also in 2023, the Ukrainian TV interviewed the grandson of Vasyl Borodai, who shared the original designs for the statue. He revealed that the sculptor initially intended for the statue to hold a palm branch, symbolizing peace. However, the Communist Party insisted on replacing it with a sword.
SLAVA UKRAINE
Ordinary Things is an AMAZING channel. His yearly recaps are incredible as well as a way to truly depress yourself.
@9:30 The best joke about his birthmark was from the Naked Gun, where Leslie Neilson has Gorbachev in a head look, grabs a towel, and wipes it off.
How dare,you Mr Terry, comrade Brezhnev's forehead is like the eternal sky over Kazakhstan, and his brow is the mighty steppe eagle spreading its wings in a protective embrace, like the politburo taking care of its fellow citizens 😂😂
This reminds me of how the fall of East Germany was handled on East German state television.
There were mass protest marches in the GDR's biggest cities, and hundreds of people hiding out in the West German embassies in other socialist countries.
But the official state-run news outlets were still pretending like everything was fine, and the "small handful of malcontents" were clearly being riled up by western agents.
However, GDR Television also had a massive youth program which filled several hours in the afternoon of each day.
And this youth program had its own set of news reporters. And these reporters showed what was really going on in the country.
Obviously, the government didn't like this one bit, but they also didn't dare to interfere. Apparently they were afraid that cancelling the youth program would spark even more protests.
What do you think was the biggest reason for the collapse of the Soviet Union?
For a “people’s republic”, they grossly neglected their own people in the bid to militarily outdo the West. Decades of abuse and terror meant that by the time they tried to reform, it was all too late.
Probably the fact they try to do a arm race against some of the highest GDP countries at that date.
Central planning, does not work.
@@gamerfan8445isnt it GDP? Gross domestic product?
@@GreenPoint_one thx
The Russian Revolution didn't finish in november. It was the 25 of october in the old russian calendar, but the 7th of november in the calendar we use
sooo... it finished in november? ok
6:48
Mr. Terry letting us in on his type! ❤
Brezhnev
Ordinary Things is one of the best channels on RUclips
The news certainly tried to play it down.
But it is also good to keep in mind that merely a few years earlier, there would not be ANY mention in the news at all.
When talking to people from the USSR from that time, many of them remember being shocked about hearing about this first from official news instead of the usual rumor circuit.
7:21 the man on the front right is Konstantin Chernenko, who was the penultimate leader of the USSR. He succeeded Yuri Andropov in 1984 and died 13 months later in 1985, which paved the way for Gorbachev and the collapse of the USSR.
Fun fact: The part mentioning Pepsi reminded me of when I found out that Stolichnaya vodka made a deal with Pepsi to make it the first American product made in the Soviet Union. The deal over the years got stranger as in the 80s/90s they gave Pepsi Soviet Submarines, a Destroyer, and other ships and tankers making the "Pepsi Navy"
Anytime I hear the Soviet Union's anthem all I can think is the lyrics..."she was looking kind of dumb with her finger and her thumb in the shape of an L on her forehead.". It fits so perfectly.
I will say Soviet art is really interesting but it’s supposed to idealize the dream when it’s reality was grim
Whose dream? The USSR was just a goomer hiding as a teacher.
So excited to see this reaction, Ordinary Things is one of my favorite channels!
I can't wait to see your reactions to his other videos like his video on coups
Awesome that you watched Ordinary Things! I would recommend watching Internet Historian and/or his second channel Incognito Mode. Ordinary Things actually is a return guest on the second channel.
Chernobyl was such a great series. Somehow my husband had never heard of the accident so it was great watching it with him and seeing him learn about it
About TV. You have same TV even some time after WW2
Ordinary Things is a phenomenal journalist and video maker, his end of year videos are great as well !
@8:32 I know it's on RUclips, but I want to say from the quality of the footage that it is 10-20 years old. They wash Lenin periodically, and all that is left of him is his head, upper chest, right arm (maybe left hand)
I went to Russia in 1996. I was amazed at the imaginative ways, literally everyone had for stealing shit from work. Everyone had a scheme to steal and resell supplies from the factory they worked at. Ever notice how everything seemed half painted? Thats because everyone who worked at the factory smuggled out paint in cafeteria milk cartons. Or the paint wasn't sticking? Thats when the engineers took an allowance for dry-cleaning those white shirts...but just dipped their shirts in drums of acetone that then failed to make the paint stick. They DRANK acohol based aircraft fluids.
I own various special photography lenses, a (class 2) night vision scope, and various other items which almost certainly come from that circuit.
A very good place for buying such stuff was flea markets in eastern European countries and Germany.
As for 6:10 to be fair, the products from the soviets weren't bad. A lot of cheap yet good photography equipment came from there.
One company (Photo Porst) even had their imports as the major part of their sales. The company sold russian products with western product guarantees. It was also a company which tried a democratic workplace. Things didn't turn out well, though.
Hey, Swan Lake goes hard!
4:55 Yep...Rambo 3 (which was technically Rambo 2 because the first movie was First Blood and the second movie Rambo: First Blood Part 2). Man that movie series has ridiculous names.
I kinda think you’d love his “how to coup a country” video
Great stuff. There used to be a puppet based political satire program in The UK called Spitiing Image. Gorbachev's birthmark was hammer and sickle shaped on the show.
Would love to know which piece of music or film that other nations would show on TV to try to make people feel good when things collapse. I'm guessing Life Of Brian for the UK, perfect ending.
But with global warming, more of the russian land will gain better climates and become more valuable. If the polar ice melts enough, those russian ports may become more economic, including a shorter trade route between China and Europe.
So Russia and China not only should NOT help fight climate change, but should even try to accelerate it.
That wasn't Boris Yeltsin but Mikhal Suslov member of Politburo
Speaking of that wolf and hare Tom&Jerry-like (yes, according to the lore it's a hare, not a rabbit) cartoon, it's undisputed best (according to my very subjective and correct reasoning) of commie cartoons, where everything starts, because the hare has extinguished wolf's cigarette while watering his flowers and as Polish version of Nonsensopedia says: The creators of "Ну, погоди!" in contrast to Americans do not give a damn when it comes to showing reality. Every character smokes cigarettes (even the Hare himself lends the fire to the Wolf), the pig on the beach is wearing three bras, and the police does absolutely nothing. And this is actual preparing of kids for this world!
My mom watched that cartoon in Czechoslovakia when she was young
Very good reaction. I never understood really what happened to Gorbi.
Dude no way you found Ordinary things, I H introduced me to him as Stead Bonnet. 👍 Id be down to watch The gentleman pirate again with you have with every other tuber
@MrTerry the pizza hut commercial was actually for american audiences ive been told In russia he was so unpopular it wouldnt have flown at all
Well the october Revolution took place in Russian October which was different than the julian calendar because they still used the gregorian Calendar
Russia's war in Afghanistan lead to a song that will forever be recreated every time Russia goes to war with someone. Don't Tell Mother I'm in whatever country of conflict there is now. There's a recording of a Russian soldier singing and playing guitar to it in Ukraine, adapting new things like Whatsapp into the song. Really such a strange time.
ordinary thing is a great channel, they cover a lot of serious topics with a British humor. please cover their video about how to do a coup detat
You probably should have done this a lot sooner, I don't know who you are, I have never watched your content before, but it legitimately made you pop-up in the algorithm, so listen to your comments From Now On, just do it dude. Trust me, you will gain a lot of subscribers from this, I am evidence of that.
Fun fact well that scene in Chernobyl was super f****** cool with the coal miners it was also a lie... They insulted the the minister of energy or whatever for being kind of a fat cat but he was actually a coal worker as well if I remember right for for a few decades so he was used to coal dust
If you ever feel to do a longer video i would recommend ordinary things video how to coup any country
First off if you had a game boy you weren’t POOR and if you had the light up magnify thingy you DEFINITELY WERENT POOR 😂😭
7:25 It's not Eltsin. It's Chernenko
The mono eyebrow is 3 times the size of mine xD
hey! i see your nba jam game in the background. does it ever say "Petrovič" by itself?
I just finished listening to the audiobook of Red Storm Rising
17:30 Guy is liying. We can buy at least cars. I don't know what boat price but someone still can buy that too. We don't have many cars not because we are poor. It's because line which still present in Gorbi time.
Its finally happening!
interesting Video!
@MrTerry where you live sir?
I don't think it was the commercials but they surely didn't help.
Off topic but I found a dude that could be your brother. Maybe even twin. He’s a “seer” you know, like medium of sorts… his name is Blake Healy. It’s truly weird. As I’m watching it I’m like man he looks like somebody, then it hit me. He looks like you!!!
breznev was the founder of EU, extraordinaly unified-eye-brows
if you want a dive look at his video for how to coup any country
just an fyi Poland was not in the Soviet Union
The western lies about Chernobyl : like it is well depicted here, the soviet government in the USSR lied a lot about the Chernobyl industrial catastrophe. But in the West, it was as bad as in the USSR without the "excuse" of being totalitarian states. It's propaganda vs propaganda. The Chernobyl catastrophe would certainly not be in the 100 worst industrial catastrophes and could be, perhaps, in the bottom of the top 10 civil nuclear catastrophes. Actually, what used to be called the "Chernobyl Nuclear Plant" was not in Chernobyl, but in a small town in the rural area not far, but not near Chernobyl. The town of Chernobyl is not even in the exclusion zone. In the West there was an irrational panic. In Germany, the levels of radiation were a bit more than natural radioactivity, less in some places (where there is granite and volcanic soils, there is more natural radioactivity). But nonetheless, there was a spike of unwanted abortions who were not in anyway sensible : poor women who had been lied to. Salads were forbidden although : 1- there was not enough radioactivity to render anything dangerous to eat ; 2- even if there were (mushrooms, for example, could have been if you would eat hundreds of kilos of them, salads wouldn't retain any radioactive elements.
Except for some of the employees who died from the explosion (not the radioactivity and not all of them) and some of the first responders (my heart goes to them), all the other first responders, the "liquidators" were certainly at risk, but no more no less than any firefighter in the world (except firefighters make it their daily job : respect to them). The main health problems these liquidators had were PTSD and depression. Even the very courageous divers who went near to the core lived long enough to be alive to be decorated in 2018. The worst that happened to the Prypiat inhabitants (those nearest to the plant and who were forcibly moved) was the discrimination they had to endure in their new locations, especially the children. In the highly dramatised miniseries "Chernobyl", there is even a scene that shows that a firefighter was not to be approached in his hospital bed. It might have happened but, contrary to what the series implied, it never was about radioactivity. When a man is exposed to radioactivity, when his clothes are discarded and he is washed, whatever the level of exposure (even deadly), the guy is not radioactive enough to be dangerous at all (like shaking hands with a cancerous person). What could have happened is 1- the nurses were ignorant of this kind of illness and were over protective (which could be the case because this kind of illness is so rare) ; 2- the sick man was in a phase when any germs from the exterior could kill him ; 3- both of the previous causes ; 4- pure invention for the dramatisation of the series.
I don't mean that Chernobyl was not a really bad accident. But the real effects of this accident is, as it is well shown here, a communication accident. It cost the fragile trust people had in their government. But it also reinforced the lies about nuclear power plants already which had already been spread spread at the time by stupid and/or malevolent lobbies (like GreenPeace or the coal and oil industries). It made Germany to close their nuclear plants and to reopen coal mines and coal power plants (a single coal power plant kills more people than all the nuclear power plants in the world in the 80 years of their existence).
Ordinary things makes some great videos. Watch his whole channel if you want a laugh
NBA jam and ninja turtles, nostalgia 😢
Manykudos!
Talk about a "captive audience"
5:16 sounds like Ukraine lmao BUT GO UKRAINE
Youre annoying.. let the damn video play for at least a minute before you try to be funny
Just so it is not from a crazy tanky like Hassan.
Please stop talking over!