"i can't believe i ate the whole thing" ... it did take me almost 2 days, but i managed to make it from E1/24 right through E24/24 - what a journey.. like so many others, i thank you for the opportunity to watch this series.. and look forward to the next !
@@miles8575 well... the west made that promise on the predication that Russia (the USSR) would be a democratic country. Instead we have a diluted Stalin (Putin) in power
@@miles8575 Neither the Americans nor NATO ever promised to ascend Russia to NATO, nor there was never a chance that Russia would join NATO if they could... This "NATO betrayed us!" narrative is a huge joke-of-a-myth (propagated by Putin as casus belli for the invasion of Ukraine) which does not hold up to any real scrutiny whatsoever. And it wasn't even Gorbachev who was involved this particular discussion (that's right, it was just a discussion) you are referring to. It was Yeltsin. And the context of the discussion wasn't even a legitimate desire to join NATO. The discussion focused on American/European and the new Russian Federation's foreign policy regarding the end of the Cold War, and if NATO would dissolve due to the new developments of Communism/The USSR collapsing. NATO said they would not dissolve. So Yeltsin rebutted and asked (facetiously I might add; he never believed for a minute that Russia could join) if Russia could join NATO. Again, the answer was (obviously) no. And all of this is ignoring the simple fact that there was *no way in hell* the NATO member-nations would unanimously vote (aka all NATO member-nations had to be 100% in favor, a prerequisite for a new member) for Russian accession to NATO. One would have to delude themselves in order to believe such a thing would ever be a possibility. And irregardless, this is ignoring the fact that Yeltsin never even wanted to really join NATO. Yeltsin wanted NATO defunct.. And fast forward to the present day, Putin is pushing this narrative which you yourself are perpetuating, in order to justify his annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine as a whole.
Putin would’ve gotten in regardless. Yeltsin was just a stand-in. A man named Yevgeny Primakov who was Putin’s mentor and the head of intel for the KGB made sure of it that Putin would be the man in charge.
I've just finished watching the whole series. It is a fascinating topic. I particularly enjoyed the episode about LatAm. Thanks a lot for the upload, very informative, and fun... :)
Mikhail Gorbachev's valiant sacrifice is such a compelling story. I recognize his missteps, but he is, in this arm chair historian's estimation, one of the 20th century's greatest heroes. History will remember him fondly; in the here and now, I am grateful that he is speaking out against Putin and Trump's determination to restart an arms race.
Many blamed Gorbachev for the destruction of the Soviet Union, but we now know it was collapsing when he came to power. At worst, we could blame him for failing to save the Soviet Union, but not destroying it.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chapters📖🔖: 1:50 Bush-Gorbachev Malta Summit 5:00 Prague🇨🇿 Spring / Velvet Revolution 7:45 Romania🇷🇴 Revolution 12:2021:30 Soviet Union pressure cooker 15:21 Gorbachev Vilnius🇱🇹 visit 16:15 Boris Yeltsin demagoguery 18:42 Soviet forces withdrawal from Eastern Europe 19:56 Helmut Kohl-Gorbachev Pact 🤝🏻 & German unification 20:51 Iraq🇮🇶-Kuwait🇰🇼 War 23:43 Soviet crackdown on Lithuanians 26:30 G7 London💂🏼 Summit and loan refusal to Soviets 27:25 Soviet coup and Emergency Committee 34:12 Boris Yeltsin ascendancy and Gorbachev resignation 35:36 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦 *Minsk Agreement* & CIS 36:28 Reminiscences, Recollections Remembrances and Reflections 45:07 New World Goodbye and Godspeed.
My favourite side-character was the Soviet Ambassador Anatoly 'Dobby' Dobrynin. He had such a kindly grandfather-like demeanour. He seemed to be one of the major Soviet officials who appeared in the most number of episodes without being replaced. Always amused and interested me when he gave his input whichever episode it was. Here's one of the last episodes I think we see him, episode 19, at this time: ruclips.net/video/EVVFAHiYfuo/видео.html edit: removed wrongly formatted time link to this video
I feel bad for Gorbachev. He had really great ideals about future of USSR, but he was caught in middle between liberals and communists, and unable to satisfy either side's wishes. And Boris Yeltin, a disgraceful drunken opportunist who hasn't done much good since he took office except putting Russian economy into a meltdown.
Could not agree more! Gorbachev tried to bring radical reform, and did. If he could have held on to his power, I'm sure that the Cold War would have ended, and Russia would have recovers. It was just the resistance that he held towards the end. As a Communist all his life, it must have been difficult to turn his back on most of the ideologies rooted inside him. But he still beleved in peace, reform and passionately wanted to improve soviet people's lives for the better, and in my view, he mostly succeded
I was going to say basically what you said, but i scrolled down and read the comments, and here you are! I believe Gorbechev was a honorable man who was REALLY trying to save Russia. It was clear that the cold war was coming to an end. The USSR was breaking apart. Russians had no food, no economy, and no money. Things were going to get worse, but they got better faster thanks to Gorbachev. IDK why but most Russians absolutely hate him. Yeltsin basically gave away all the state owned companies to his cronies. Yeltsin turned out to be a drunken fool. GORBY, GORBY, GORBY, GORBY!!!!!!
Poor Mr Gorbachev. He tried so hard and achieved so much, only to be rejected by the people he was making things better for and screwed by more ambitious, but less capable usurpers. RIP Mr Gorbachev, you truly were one of history's good guys
Absolutely fascinating. I have studied the Cold War in my personal time since the 90s, but never have I come across a series that narrated the conflict's many intricacies and tensions so thoroughly. Thank you for uploading this! It has been a pleasure spending the last 3 day with these 24 chapters.
Cold War was actually a blessing in disguise for smaller countries. By playing both sides against each other, they could get deals, technology, arms and goods that the superpowers otherwise would not have made available to them. A prime example for this was pre revolution Iran. It's starting to happen again with the China-US rivalry.
This is such a wonderful series !! watching all the episodes added something like a new dimension as to how I saw and felt about the world order. Only thing I felt bad was the insult of Mr Gobrachev, he was the one who understood that the true sense of communism was in the freedom of the common folk. " Socialism with a human face ". We will all remember you. I dont know if I will find any other series so interesting !
Socialism doesn't have a human face.It is against human nature. It can be maintained only by force and fear. You remove the fear and it all crumbles. Gorbachev didn't understood that.
@@adrianapostol8360 exactly - it took Gorbachev by absolute surprise - he had no idea how much the system was despised until he allowed people to talk about it.
It's over. All twenty-four episodes; it's been a journey. And rather like Bush said of Gorbachev on 25 December 1991, I feel... I feel as though a friend has left.
thank you mr uploader. thank you so much. this is one of the best documentaries i ever watched. i was born in 1992. i never witnessed the soviet union. or cold war. thank you.
The Cold War sadly is appearing again, so it was never really over, I think. Now it is more about obeying international law, and how far sovereignty should go in the 21st century. Around Europe we see more regionalisation, apparent sovereignty claims, people believing single leaders instead of collective ideas, and absolutism on the rise again without the willingness to compromise. I am not optimistic.
Ronald de Rooij You have it backwards. The collectivist Marxist liberal Eurocrats are the problem. People and nations that are rightfully SICK of the political globalism, multi culturalism, Cultural Marxism, radical atheism, promLGBTQ, pro Islam, no borders, etc of the Atheist Marxist Globalist liberal political, academic and media elites.
William Gill_Esq. Exactly. This is the new cold war, two sides with radically different ideas, God knows what the outcome is but the breaking point is coming soon :/
Finally, finished all the series, well presented documentary. But I must say every single topic of the series can make another 24 series, there were so much thing to talk about during the cold war.
Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful series!! Seeing how many lives - civilians, soldiers, and spies were lost in this tussle of balance in power between the so called superpowers it's just sad and scary. Apparently some leaders didn't learn from this and there are still countries and people experiencing similar fears - lack of basic human rights, unnecessary bloodshed, and people being forced to leave their homes. History is repeating itself sort of, and it's just sad.
Brezhnev kissing Carter is a classic, that's for sure! On the more serious note - regular Russian and American peoples never hated each. And never forget about Military Industrial Complex - you always need to have an enemy to feed this wicked entity...
16:51 I love these. Weird how Gorbachev is referring to himself in third person here. Maybe to disconnect himself. I'm watching this while series again!
Hard not to feel for Gorbachev being the one in charge when the financial burden of the Cold War finally took its toll and the entire enterprise started to collapse.
For me today, it seems almost as though the USSR was a spurious country I once read about in a fictional novel. Yet, during my early lifetime, the USSR seemed like terre consummatus. It was there complete and would likely remain there complete. In fact, back in the 1970s and 1980s, you would find countless opinion articles in newspapers and magazines speculating about the USSR of 21st century and the west's relation to it. They had a competing model of Realpolitik so there were constant examinations of where this all would lead. Much of this discussion arose during as the Cold War began to thaw in the mid-1980s. Again, looking back at this history is almost as though you are remembering a dream you had.
I just read "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia" and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the darker side of the history of the Soviet Union. Violence and repression were the only things holding the Soviet Union together, and once the Kremlin lost the stomach for these things, the system inevitably fell apart. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was one of the largest criminal organizations in modern history, and was responsible for a long list of unspeakable crimes against men, women, children, Russians, minority ethnic groups, foreigners, dissidents, and even loyal Communists. The lengths they went to dehumanize real or imagined political enemies was astonishing. The Russian state and people are still suffering the effects of the USSR's short existence, like a person who recovers from a severely abusive relationship.
I wish there had been an entire episode dedicated to NATO and Warsaw Pact especially their formation, their numbers and weapons, which countries didn't join and which countries left and for what reasons and relations between European NATO members and between Warsaw Pact members excluding USSR.
Remember when Yeltsin took on a APC outside the Kremlin sure he probably had drunk the better part of a gallon of Stolichnaya. Drunkest head of state since Winston Churchill who was picking up where U S Grant left off. Sometimes I like to think all of them are in Valhalla trying to drink each other under the table and because the gods aren't always capricious they imbibe with never a hangover in sight. I hate to admit it but Yeltsin would almost certainly win. I say give it to him after all he did lose the big one.
Gorbatsjov fully deserves credit as the single most influential person to play a part in ending the cold war. For that he truly is a hero in the name of freedom.
36:03 - Rest in peace my old friend. All your cries for help kept going unanswered, even today. He warned of NATO expansion and a new cold war breaking out. Well, sadly he lived to see his warnings on NATO expansion came true, like he said here: -> ruclips.net/video/3wB9uL2lKaw/видео.html -> ruclips.net/video/vj1IIlqGeu8/видео.html He was not too happy that the promises made to Russia weren't kept. Also this was said to him when he asked for help -> ruclips.net/video/eKb87H2g6CM/видео.html Yeah, sorry I can't just forget, like most people conveniently seems to do historical policy. It's also why I can't fully back everything the West (my side) has been doing. For me to back anything I'd have to make sure the side I back is completely clean.
अंततः शीत युद्ध समाप्त हो गया और इसके साथ समाप्त हो गया अहंकार बुराई तथा हैवानियत का बुरा दौर जिसमें मानवता को इतने त्रास दिए हैं इतने कष्ट दिए हैं करोड़ों लाखों जान चली गई अरबों की संपत्ति नष्ट हो गई परंतु जीत अंत में अच्छाई की ही होती है और अच्छाई अर्थात मानवता की होती है जय हिंद
“The world is a far safer place, now that the Cold War is over.” “No leader of a small country is worrying and saying to his cabinet ‘One of these two crazy superpowers is gonna get us caught up in a nuclear war.’” “That is not going to happen.” - George H.W. Bush
I've never understood the distinction between military casualties and civilian casualties, as if, by putting people into a uniform, often against their will, somehow makes their lives less important, or even disposable.
32:44 The captain in command of the battalion that drove into and fired on the protestors was Sergei Surovikin, now aka General Armageddon. Last month he was appointed as commander of the Russian invasion force in Ukraine by Putin.
A better ending would have Bush’s speech played over the footage of the red flag being lowered cause if you look up the video it ends with the Russian tricolor being hoisted.
Such a shame they did not research enough on economic reforms. In 1985 Gorbachev introduced "kooperativs", basically introduced right for entrepreneurship and basically no tax, that's why people have economic basis for protest and freedom.
I well remember the cascade of falling Communist regimes, especially Romania. Amazing times. Incidentally, Jeremy Isaacs, the executive producer, was also producer of the marvellous The World at War, narrated by Laurence Olivier.
if america stop with spending so much money on weapons, then many US companies would run out of bussines, millions of people will get their asses unemployed and whole US economy would crumble, pretty similar to things that happened tu russia during meltdown of soviet union, so now US government, pushed by lobbyists from arms companies, must start fresh war every now and then or they will loose their money (lobby money) simple as that... only good thing is that US people dont get what is happening to them so they continue to support politicians who will only serve interests of big companies, sorry for bad english :)
Even daw that the Soviet Union cease to exist anymore still there military spending is reduce some of hte cold war era military hardware is now for sale Russian Military is a cash strap that goes with the US . You remember war is a part of the Superpower business
After watching the whole series in two days I feel a hundred years older.
Ilko Germanov I feel a sense of déjà vu. I was born in 87 and can remember none of these events and yet I see them happening again today.
It's true, it looks like the planets align again.
I feel like with all this Russia stuff that’s goin on now we were safer then anyway
Atticus Finch safer during the cold war or after?
It was a good film, though.
"i can't believe i ate the whole thing" ... it did take me almost 2 days, but i managed to make it from E1/24 right through E24/24 - what a journey.. like so many others, i thank you for the opportunity to watch this series.. and look forward to the next !
part of the fascination of this series for me is that i was only 10 yrs old in 1962 and can actually remember the major events from about 1960.. .
Me too!
Just finished and it was amazing.
I think the second series of cold war may take a few decades to make.
For a show made nearly 20 years ago it had some great footage I had never seen before !
God's blessings on Mikhail Gorbachev
The unsung hero
He is worthy of all admiration
the Americans broke there promise to him about not adding Eastern Europe to NATO so I’m not offended by what Putin is now doing
@@miles8575 well... the west made that promise on the predication that Russia (the USSR) would be a democratic country. Instead we have a diluted Stalin (Putin) in power
@@miles8575 Neither the Americans nor NATO ever promised to ascend Russia to NATO, nor there was never a chance that Russia would join NATO if they could... This "NATO betrayed us!" narrative is a huge joke-of-a-myth (propagated by Putin as casus belli for the invasion of Ukraine) which does not hold up to any real scrutiny whatsoever.
And it wasn't even Gorbachev who was involved this particular discussion (that's right, it was just a discussion) you are referring to. It was Yeltsin. And the context of the discussion wasn't even a legitimate desire to join NATO. The discussion focused on American/European and the new Russian Federation's foreign policy regarding the end of the Cold War, and if NATO would dissolve due to the new developments of Communism/The USSR collapsing. NATO said they would not dissolve. So Yeltsin rebutted and asked (facetiously I might add; he never believed for a minute that Russia could join) if Russia could join NATO. Again, the answer was (obviously) no.
And all of this is ignoring the simple fact that there was *no way in hell* the NATO member-nations would unanimously vote (aka all NATO member-nations had to be 100% in favor, a prerequisite for a new member) for Russian accession to NATO. One would have to delude themselves in order to believe such a thing would ever be a possibility.
And irregardless, this is ignoring the fact that Yeltsin never even wanted to really join NATO. Yeltsin wanted NATO defunct..
And fast forward to the present day, Putin is pushing this narrative which you yourself are perpetuating, in order to justify his annexation of Crimea and the war in Ukraine as a whole.
This was one of the most satisfying investments of my time. Thank you so much for uploading the entire series. 10/10
This damn storyline is still underway
Sure makes me miss Mikhail Gorbachev, if he had gotten the loans, I doubt Putin would be in charge now.
Putin would’ve gotten in regardless. Yeltsin was just a stand-in. A man named Yevgeny Primakov who was Putin’s mentor and the head of intel for the KGB made sure of it that Putin would be the man in charge.
The key question is, now what do I do?
+Kieran O'Connor Cold War 2 has started. Watch the news for daily updates.
I will give myself two days and repeat the series :-)
I'm waiting for the War on Terror Documentary, 2001 - ????
hit the gym, get swoll, get cash money and chicks.
Now I want a series like this about the events from 1991 to 2008.
Look up Trauma Zone.
one of the best shows ever
I remember trying to do a class in politics in 1989/90. Everything was changing so fast, I found it hard to keep up. I wish we had the internet then.
not once while watching the entirety of this doc was I distracted, taught me more than any of my classes
poor groby, he just needs a big ol hug
I've just finished watching the whole series. It is a fascinating topic. I particularly enjoyed the episode about LatAm. Thanks a lot for the upload, very informative, and fun... :)
Yet all it took was the bad handling of the super flu bug might cause the house of cards to fall!
Mikhail Gorbachev's valiant sacrifice is such a compelling story. I recognize his missteps, but he is, in this arm chair historian's estimation, one of the 20th century's greatest heroes. History will remember him fondly; in the here and now, I am grateful that he is speaking out against Putin and Trump's determination to restart an arms race.
Many blamed Gorbachev for the destruction of the Soviet Union, but we now know it was collapsing when he came to power. At worst, we could blame him for failing to save the Soviet Union, but not destroying it.
I can't believe that this series is 20 years old. I had no idea that it existed.
This is a fantastic series.
Thanks for putting it on.
UK. Cheers.
Great series, thank you for uploading.
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Chapters📖🔖:
1:50 Bush-Gorbachev Malta Summit
5:00 Prague🇨🇿 Spring / Velvet Revolution
7:45 Romania🇷🇴 Revolution
12:20 21:30 Soviet Union pressure cooker
15:21 Gorbachev Vilnius🇱🇹 visit
16:15 Boris Yeltsin demagoguery
18:42 Soviet forces withdrawal from Eastern Europe
19:56 Helmut Kohl-Gorbachev Pact 🤝🏻 & German unification
20:51 Iraq🇮🇶-Kuwait🇰🇼 War
23:43 Soviet crackdown on Lithuanians
26:30 G7 London💂🏼 Summit and loan refusal to Soviets
27:25 Soviet coup and Emergency Committee
34:12 Boris Yeltsin ascendancy and Gorbachev resignation
35:36 🇷🇺🇧🇾🇺🇦 *Minsk Agreement* & CIS
36:28 Reminiscences, Recollections Remembrances and Reflections
45:07 New World
Goodbye and Godspeed.
My favourite side-character was the Soviet Ambassador Anatoly 'Dobby' Dobrynin. He had such a kindly grandfather-like demeanour. He seemed to be one of the major Soviet officials who appeared in the most number of episodes without being replaced. Always amused and interested me when he gave his input whichever episode it was. Here's one of the last episodes I think we see him, episode 19, at this time: ruclips.net/video/EVVFAHiYfuo/видео.html
edit: removed wrongly formatted time link to this video
I feel bad for Gorbachev. He had really great ideals about future of USSR, but he was caught in middle between liberals and communists, and unable to satisfy either side's wishes. And Boris Yeltin, a disgraceful drunken opportunist who hasn't done much good since he took office except putting Russian economy into a meltdown.
Could not agree more! Gorbachev tried to bring radical reform, and did. If he could have held on to his power, I'm sure that the Cold War would have ended, and Russia would have recovers. It was just the resistance that he held towards the end. As a Communist all his life, it must have been difficult to turn his back on most of the ideologies rooted inside him. But he still beleved in peace, reform and passionately wanted to improve soviet people's lives for the better, and in my view, he mostly succeded
I was going to say basically what you said, but i scrolled down and read the comments, and here you are! I believe Gorbechev was a honorable man who was REALLY trying to save Russia. It was clear that the cold war was coming to an end. The USSR was breaking apart. Russians had no food, no economy, and no money. Things were going to get worse, but they got better faster thanks to Gorbachev. IDK why but most Russians absolutely hate him. Yeltsin basically gave away all the state owned companies to his cronies. Yeltsin turned out to be a drunken fool. GORBY, GORBY, GORBY, GORBY!!!!!!
He was a traitor and sell out to the imperialists
@none of your damn business necroposting i see
You know liberals and commies are the same
Poor Mr Gorbachev. He tried so hard and achieved so much, only to be rejected by the people he was making things better for and screwed by more ambitious, but less capable usurpers.
RIP Mr Gorbachev, you truly were one of history's good guys
This series should be required reading/viewing for all Americans.
Absolutely fascinating. I have studied the Cold War in my personal time since the 90s, but never have I come across a series that narrated the conflict's many intricacies and tensions so thoroughly. Thank you for uploading this! It has been a pleasure spending the last 3 day with these 24 chapters.
This is my second time through this series in a year. One of the best series ever made.
Great Documentary series. Should be shown in schools.
@I'm Here to Spew Sarcasm Guessing you did not approve of 45?
Cold War was actually a blessing in disguise for smaller countries. By playing both sides against each other, they could get deals, technology, arms and goods that the superpowers otherwise would not have made available to them. A prime example for this was pre revolution Iran.
It's starting to happen again with the China-US rivalry.
This is such a wonderful series !! watching all the episodes added something like a new dimension as to how I saw and felt about the world order. Only thing I felt bad was the insult of Mr Gobrachev, he was the one who understood that the true sense of communism was in the freedom of the common folk. " Socialism with a human face ". We will all remember you. I dont know if I will find any other series so interesting !
Socialism doesn't have a human face.It is against human nature. It can be maintained only by force and fear. You remove the fear and it all crumbles. Gorbachev didn't understood that.
@@adrianapostol8360 exactly - it took Gorbachev by absolute surprise - he had no idea how much the system was despised until he allowed people to talk about it.
It's over. All twenty-four episodes; it's been a journey. And rather like Bush said of Gorbachev on 25 December 1991, I feel... I feel as though a friend has left.
Such an amazing documentary! Never knew I be so both enlightened and educated about the Cold War
thank you mr uploader. thank you so much. this is one of the best documentaries i ever watched. i was born in 1992. i never witnessed the soviet union. or cold war. thank you.
Great series that gives a good overview of the Cold War conflict.
What a fantastic series. Excellently made. Learned a lot from this.
The Cold War sadly is appearing again, so it was never really over, I think. Now it is more about obeying international law, and how far sovereignty should go in the 21st century. Around Europe we see more regionalisation, apparent sovereignty claims, people believing single leaders instead of collective ideas, and absolutism on the rise again without the willingness to compromise. I am not optimistic.
Ronald de Rooij
You have it backwards.
The collectivist Marxist liberal Eurocrats are the problem.
People and nations that are rightfully SICK of the political globalism, multi culturalism, Cultural Marxism, radical atheism, promLGBTQ, pro Islam, no borders, etc of the Atheist Marxist Globalist liberal political, academic and media elites.
William Gill_Esq. Exactly. This is the new cold war, two sides with radically different ideas, God knows what the outcome is but the breaking point is coming soon :/
How the hell is it appearing again?
Finally, finished all the series, well presented documentary. But I must say every single topic of the series can make another 24 series, there were so much thing to talk about during the cold war.
Thank you for uploading the serie, one of the best.
episode 18 is now gone from this playlist. It covered south america and central america. Please restore the episode if possible.
Incredible series. Thanks for uploading
Few episodes were left. I have downloaded them now I'll complete the series. Thank you BBC for a great work!
Fantastic series, thank you for making them!
Thanks a lot for sharing this wonderful series!!
Seeing how many lives - civilians, soldiers, and spies were lost in this tussle of balance in power between the so called superpowers it's just sad and scary.
Apparently some leaders didn't learn from this and there are still countries and people experiencing similar fears - lack of basic human rights, unnecessary bloodshed, and people being forced to leave their homes. History is repeating itself sort of, and it's just sad.
Great series, must watch, thank you so very much for uploading 🙏
Just wow...if only film and media was still produced to this standard. Thank you for sharing, for both education and posterity. Thank you.
Cold. War. Never. End
Brilliant series! The World at War and this series really are excellent. Thank you for uploading Vasile.
If you haven't seen The Great War it is also brilliant - 1965 series about WWI narrated by Michael Redgrave
We need a documentary series on the war on Islamic terrorism
I watched this whole thing and loved it. Amazing documentary.
This was an awesome documentary.
Brezhnev kissing Carter is a classic, that's for sure!
On the more serious note - regular Russian and American peoples never hated each.
And never forget about Military Industrial Complex - you always need to have an enemy to feed this wicked entity...
“They started to listen to demagogues, who promised that everything would be better tomorrow.”
- Mikail Gorbachev
Thanks a lot for the uploads very informative :)
Just on the last episode now. Thanks a LOT for the uploads my man, great stuff!
What a fantastic series. Thank you for uploading it.
It’s happening again 2022
Very well made. Thanks!!
:)
Thanks for the upload! very interesting documentary
This was amazing! Thank you!
what a wonderful documentary, especially in the covid pandemic and Sino-US clashing is rising.
16:51 I love these. Weird how Gorbachev is referring to himself in third person here. Maybe to disconnect himself.
I'm watching this while series again!
very good series! thanks for the upload ^u^
Causescu's execution must have felt so satisfying.
Man I was in college when all this happened and it was changing daily! It was a very exciting time !
Hard not to feel for Gorbachev being the one in charge when the financial burden of the Cold War finally took its toll and the entire enterprise started to collapse.
For me today, it seems almost as though the USSR was a spurious country I once read about in a fictional novel. Yet, during my early lifetime, the USSR seemed like terre consummatus. It was there complete and would likely remain there complete. In fact, back in the 1970s and 1980s, you would find countless opinion articles in newspapers and magazines speculating about the USSR of 21st century and the west's relation to it. They had a competing model of Realpolitik so there were constant examinations of where this all would lead. Much of this discussion arose during as the Cold War began to thaw in the mid-1980s. Again, looking back at this history is almost as though you are remembering a dream you had.
I just read "The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin's Russia" and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the darker side of the history of the Soviet Union. Violence and repression were the only things holding the Soviet Union together, and once the Kremlin lost the stomach for these things, the system inevitably fell apart. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was one of the largest criminal organizations in modern history, and was responsible for a long list of unspeakable crimes against men, women, children, Russians, minority ethnic groups, foreigners, dissidents, and even loyal Communists. The lengths they went to dehumanize real or imagined political enemies was astonishing. The Russian state and people are still suffering the effects of the USSR's short existence, like a person who recovers from a severely abusive relationship.
Bush: "...it forced all nations to live under the spectre of nuclear destruction. That confrontation is now over". Putin: "Hold my beer"
I wish there had been an entire episode dedicated to NATO and Warsaw Pact especially their formation, their numbers and weapons, which countries didn't join and which countries left and for what reasons and relations between European NATO members and between Warsaw Pact members excluding USSR.
thank you. ive learned a lot.
RIP President George H.W. Bush.
Went through this in a week. ABSOLUTELY incredible.
Remember when Yeltsin took on a APC outside the Kremlin sure he probably had drunk the better part of a gallon of Stolichnaya. Drunkest head of state since Winston Churchill who was picking up where U S Grant left off. Sometimes I like to think all of them are in Valhalla trying to drink each other under the table and because the gods aren't always capricious they imbibe with never a hangover in sight. I hate to admit it but Yeltsin would almost certainly win. I say give it to him after all he did lose the big one.
Very well done series...
Gorbatsjov fully deserves credit as the single most influential person to play a part in ending the cold war. For that he truly is a hero in the name of freedom.
Gorbachev gave an inch. The soviet ppl took a mile.
what year was this made? fascinating.
36:03 - Rest in peace my old friend. All your cries for help kept going unanswered, even today.
He warned of NATO expansion and a new cold war breaking out.
Well, sadly he lived to see his warnings on NATO expansion came true, like he said here:
-> ruclips.net/video/3wB9uL2lKaw/видео.html
-> ruclips.net/video/vj1IIlqGeu8/видео.html
He was not too happy that the promises made to Russia weren't kept.
Also this was said to him when he asked for help -> ruclips.net/video/eKb87H2g6CM/видео.html
Yeah, sorry I can't just forget, like most people conveniently seems to do historical policy.
It's also why I can't fully back everything the West (my side) has been doing.
For me to back anything I'd have to make sure the side I back is completely clean.
Thank you for upload! This should be required standard studies to reading also.
30 min and 53-56 seconds in and there is a soldier in a tank with a beer. Hell yea. Long live russians
“Something that goes against life can last for a long time, but it will eventually collapse”
अंततः शीत युद्ध समाप्त हो गया और इसके साथ समाप्त हो गया अहंकार बुराई तथा हैवानियत का बुरा दौर जिसमें मानवता को इतने त्रास दिए हैं इतने कष्ट दिए हैं करोड़ों लाखों जान चली गई अरबों की संपत्ति नष्ट हो गई परंतु जीत अंत में अच्छाई की ही होती है और अच्छाई अर्थात मानवता की होती है जय हिंद
“The world is a far safer place, now that the Cold War is over.”
“No leader of a small country is worrying and saying to his cabinet ‘One of these two crazy superpowers is gonna get us caught up in a nuclear war.’”
“That is not going to happen.”
- George H.W. Bush
the sea was rough that day my friends, like an old man trying to send back soup in a deli
Bush : "World is now much safer place"
:)
The world now much safer place ....MY ASS
Is that a picture of Nicholas the 2nd?
I've never understood the distinction between military casualties and civilian casualties, as if, by putting people into a uniform, often against their will, somehow makes their lives less important, or even disposable.
Mikeal Gorbachev was a great man. And I'm an American. It's too bad Putin had to f it all up for the Russians.
"cold war over....or just chsnge names"
*nemes
32:44 The captain in command of the battalion that drove into and fired on the protestors was Sergei Surovikin, now aka General Armageddon. Last month he was appointed as commander of the Russian invasion force in Ukraine by Putin.
“I firmly believe a dictatorship is approaching.”
“No one knows what sort of dictatorship or who the dictator will be.”
Eduard Shevardnadze
A better ending would have Bush’s speech played over the footage of the red flag being lowered cause if you look up the video it ends with the Russian tricolor being hoisted.
gorby dancing with comrade zangeiff was the start of glasnost
Finally after a week i have finished the entire series..
Such a shame they did not research enough on economic reforms. In 1985 Gorbachev introduced "kooperativs", basically introduced right for entrepreneurship and basically no tax, that's why people have economic basis for protest and freedom.
What a journey
21:42 hell of a sucker punch. Dude got him back good tho. 😝😝😝
Now you expect me to clean up the mess, you can think again...
Castro was right in the end, socialism isn't going away anytime soon.
What argument do you think it makes that led to the end of the Cold War and the Soviet Union?
Man watching this I feel like to be reborn in the 20th century to expirence all this being born in 1991 the USSR colapased and cold war ended
I well remember the cascade of falling Communist regimes, especially Romania. Amazing times. Incidentally, Jeremy Isaacs, the executive producer, was also producer of the marvellous The World at War, narrated by Laurence Olivier.
That was the idea behind this series - The World At War v2.0.
Yeltszen eventually gifts power to the furher Puttin!!
Isn't that Putin next to Yeltsin at about 16:41.
Cold war is over, but we're still spending the same amount on cold war military hardware.
So much for the "peace dividend!"
if america stop with spending so much money on weapons, then many US companies would run out of bussines, millions of people will get their asses unemployed and whole US economy would crumble, pretty similar to things that happened tu russia during meltdown of soviet union, so now US government, pushed by lobbyists from arms companies, must start fresh war every now and then or they will loose their money (lobby money) simple as that...
only good thing is that US people dont get what is happening to them so they continue to support politicians who will only serve interests of big companies, sorry for bad english :)
Even daw that the Soviet Union cease to exist anymore still there military spending is reduce some of hte cold war era military hardware is now for sale Russian Military is a cash strap that goes with the US . You remember war is a part of the Superpower business