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1 soviet hour literally lasts 1h20

For not russian: this music begins nostalgy from our childhood. Samples from old cartoons about space, old tv news, etc. Our parents in childhood belives they will fly and observe space, stars, live with robots. But now we have no future, all cosmic science corrupted =( Sry. 4 my english, use it only playing online games.

"Sovietwave is not nostalgia for the past, but for a future that never happened."

nostalgia for the USSR is not nostalgia for the past but for the lost future.

It weirdly feels like listening to a memory that’s not my own

Who would’ve guessed that the friendliest comment section on KZfaq would be on a video of Soviet music.

I'm a 15 yo boy in Italy, it's 2 am. It's summer. I'm at the seaside. I'm starting apprecianting solitude, that has made me suffer so much in the previous summers. Sometimes strangers think Italy like "that sunny place pizza pasta mandolino (MAFIA COUGH COUGH)", but in fact we are just another capitalist country like US. They say we should be happy here, if you r sad it's just because you haven't the right mindset... My father's communist, he has always talked about USSR like a beautiful place. I don't know if I belive him, I've read Kundera's books, communism doesn't seem so good there. But when I listen to this music, and I read this heartwarming comment section, I feel terribly homesick for something I've never lived, and I just cast aside, for the moment, my inner Schopenhauer, the misantropy, and I just love y'all, because we're all the same thing, we all wish love and peace for humanity. I wish I could meet y'all in real life. Love from italy comrades ❤

"And then, after five minutes of silence, almost inaudibly, the old man sighed and said, more to himself than to Artyom: ‘Lord, what a splendid world we ruined . . .” Dmitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033

When I watched some "1 Hour Brazillian Doomer" (basically sad Bossa Nova) playlists I found a surprising amount of Russian people in the comments, saying how they didn't understand the language but could relate to the feelings. And now I, a Brazillian, have this pop up in my recommendations and make me feel nostalgic about memories that aren't mine. This world we live in feels kinda small right now.

For context: this photo was made in 1993 during the constitutional crisis. Army used tanks to assault the house of parliament. And no, that's not a Disneyland in the background.

Plot twist: This video was recommended to you for the comment section, the songs are merely there to accompany your reading and your tears. Enjoy the most wholesome comment section on KZfaq 🤝

I think there are more people in the US who understand this than you might think - especially here in the here in 'Rust Belt'. Empty houses and factories left to rot and rust, but nonetheless reminders of a time when people had something to achieve, something to be proud of, something to look forward to. I don't know Russian, so I don't understand the sound clips, but I understand the feeling. The nostalgia for a bygone time falling further and further away, taken by greed and collective thinking; the imagined dreams that might have come true, had things gone just a little differently; the lost innocence and purity of science, and engineering, and artistic vision. Memories, real or imagined, are all we have to fill the husks of history.

“For decades we were told we would own the future. Then one morning the USSR fell and we learned that in fact none of us would own anything.” /music plays

Politicians want us to believe we are enemies. Yet here I only see friends. Thank you for coming here. Your kindness makes me cry.

Хочу сказать привет моим друзьям и братьям по всему миру! Музыка объединяет нас!

Peace and love to everyone in the comments section, no matter where you lay your head. I am a Black man living in New York City, Brooklyn to be exact! I'm turning 26-years old soon, and I've realized I know very little of how life is outside of the U.S. It's taken me years to break down the illusion that I am living in "the greatest country in the world." That couldn't be further from the truth. That aside. This is the happiest I have ever been in my life. As I untangle the webs of U.S. propaganda (democracy, capitalism, etc.), I am finding myself to be human before anything else. Life is rough. Happiness and love are the only ways through it. Stay strong, and take care. p.s. I love you ;)

I was looking through this thinking I'd find a lot of communist or Soviet jokes but instead, I found a bunch of Nostalgic comments that made me sad.

I thought I was clicking on a vaporwave version of the USSR national anthem. What I got was so much more.

Hello there. Я просто хотел сказать, что читая комментарии людей с разных стран, я начинаю верить в человеческое братство, ведь я зашёл поностальгировать о временах, в которых даже не жил. Но я ни как не ожидал увидеть здесь столько иностранцев, не живших в СССР и говорящих очень добрые слова, из-за которых мне становиться тепло на душе

Comment sections like these are what keeps my faith in humanity from deteriorating further, it's nice to see people get along and enjoy music without all the hectic confusion, fear, division, and problems of modern society

"The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same." - Marjane Satrapi

A year ago I went to the library and saw someone was still logged into their KZfaq account. I added this video to his favourites. I hope he enjoyed it.

I just want to let you all know that I have nothing but love in my heart for everyone in the comments section. I never thought a KZfaq comments section could change my world view the way this one did. My heart goes out to everyone struggling due to post-Soviet economics and I hope that one day, regardless of who world leaders are, we, the people, can come together and love each other regardless of politics, social status, race, religion, or borders. Love knows no borders, and I send all of my love to you. Much love from America.

I'm Russian, born and grew up in Ukraine. And it's sad for me to realize, that such a big, authetic country and culture became a territory with a lot of wars, poor people and existential disapointment. And all we have is ruin of the other civilization. And I'm glad to see, that people here are very friendly and understand this feelings. Thank you for it.

You are a soviet citizen in 1991 seeing the last hours of the USSR, you have parents living in yugoslavia, you may be asking how will the future be for you and for them, you take a look at your window in a cold night thinking how things will not be the same again.

This is so nostalgic to me. My father used to listen to this kind of music. He was young when this genre became popular and he fell in love with it. He's been listening to it for 30 years. Because I always heard it playing, I grew up to love it too, but now I actually know why he loves it so much. As a kid he read a lot of western, cowboy stories, he and my grandmother were very poor, and he didn't get good education. When this kind of music showed up, it was a complete new thing to him, these computer generated sounds amazed him. He soon started to read sci-fi books, and then documentaries about UFOS, and conspiracry theories. My dad should have been an astronaut or a space researcher , and I'm sorry his dream wasn't accomplished. I will always listen to these, and think about him. Love you, dad. Edit: I can't believe so many people read this! It means so much to be heard and I'm happy that many of you can relate to this story in some way, or just feel touched by it. Have a wonderful day and don't give up your dreams!

And here I am, filling my resume while listening to sovietwave, hoping I may find a job to get money to eat, smoke, and refill my car so that I may go to work the next morning ... and the music hacks into my soul ... when it became so hard to live?

Старый космический корабль в ржавом ангаре, старый самолёт облетавший весь мир, старый радиоприемник вспоминающий о утре в утерянной, другой цивилизации, старый человек, плачущий по будущему которое не наступило.

These vids are doing more for the stabilization of Ruso-American relations than any politician / organization on either side of the Atlantic.

1. listen to this music 2. read comments 3. cry upd. I can't hold it anymore this video makes world a lot sadder

"Я не хочу эти проблемы на Земле, я просто хочу в космос."

Нормально я люблю все советское но эта музыка очень крассива. Я турчанка и вот конечно же всё о советской време кажется мне увлекательно, и вот это зачем я изучала русский язык после мне была 30 лет. У вас очень хорошая и интересная культура. Блогадарю вас за отличнаяа музыка.

This playlist is interrupted by screaming, loud, in-your-face, american ads. How ironic.

I am not from Soviet Union ..i from ex Yugoslavia but this playlist remind me off sitting in night listening to radio (electronic music was popular in Yugoslavia ) and reading futuristic magazines in 80s dreaming off world and space travel beyond 2000

Desolation. But friends, let's rebuild this together, shall we?

You know, as a Russian I would say that saying "this is nostalgy not for the past but for the unhappened future" is true partially. Soviet times had its good sides, some people (not the privileged but the educated common people) were genuinely happy. For an American point of view this happiness might just seem as an illusion created with Soviet cinematography where people looked glad and happy (the films had good casts and acting which is evident even for me, born after the USSR's fall) and the promise of glorious future mostly. But the food had a high quality, education and medical care was free for everyone and had very high quality as well and at some point Soviets were considered the begiist readers in the world (marking their interest for literature) Then came so called "Perestroika" (literally "rebulding") and fall of the Soviet union with subsequent crysis that burned Soviet people's hope and dreams to ashes. So nostalgy for the long lost Soviet times may be different. For some, it is longing for the unhappened future. For some it is Khrushev post-war "Ottepel" or stable Brezhnev era with good and popular comedy movies. For the later generation it is painful and kind of bittersweet longing for youth spent in the dying and changing state where bright dreams of becoming an austronaut were not relevant anymore and the future seemed cold and unknown marking the arrival of capitalism.

Greetings from one man in the United States, to anyone living outside of America. Let us not let our rulers turn us into enemies. I know that we could be friends, if we only knew each other.

In 80's people think they would be in Mars and have a flying car by the 2000's yet here we are, in this nonsense that is the former Soviet Union, no future, no plans and no friends. It was all just a dream, a dream that was never achieved, a long forgotten dream.

I don't know why but Sovietwave songs are making me both motivated and hopeless at the same time. It makes me motivated because obviously, the music is about a bright future, a futuristic future, a successful future. It makes me feels like we can change the future. It also make me hopeless because what if we failed to build it, again? What if I can't fix or build my future? What if history repeats itself? These questions always make me hopeless.

USSR, how are you? Belarus, how are you? Moldova, how are you? Estonia, how are you? Latvia, how are you? Lithuania, how are you? Kazakhstan, how are you? Kyrgyzstan, how are you? Tajikistan, how are you? Turkmenistan, how are you? Uzbekistan, how are you? *Russia, how are you?* Armenia, How are you? Azerbaijan, how are you? Georgia, how are you? *Ukraine, how are you?*

I'm finnish and I'm studying russian language in University. Last spring I made my language exchange in Russia and I went there by train. I can remember the feeling I got when I crossed the border, the train started to shake because of the old rails, the environment changed, architecture changed, it was like I jumped into a whole different era. There's no words to describe the feeling, but this music definitely speaks for it.

People are so cool and nice in this backyard alley of KZfaq, stay all who you are. You make the world a better place!

I'm not even Russian and I feel like my future was stolen from me and my comrades.

Приятно видеть иностранные комментарии под нашей музыкой

Fixed: For non-russians: this music enhances nostalgia from our childhood. Samples used from old cartoons about space, tv news, etc. Now we have no future, shattered hopes

For people, who don't understand I'm from Russia/Soviet Union It's very sad when you lose a great country. Really. Grandparents tell us how good it used to be. We, the generation of perestroika, were born at the wrong time and in the wrong place. in 30 years we lost everything we had, the people became depressed, there were no salaries, a lot of alcoholics, old Khrushchevs, the post-Soviet atmosphere .. it all puts a lot of pressure on you. You know that you will never get out of here, you will not live better, your dreams will never come true. This architecture of the past reminds you that a completely different civilization lived here before, which dreamed of flying in space, aspired to the future, was simply kind. Now I'm just lying on the bed.. It's 3:00 am and I feel the pain. Every night. Sry, u just need to know, what's really happened with most of Russians.

The nostalgia of the Soviet citizen is not for a past that has been buried, but a future on which ground was never broken.

I like humans. we all can relate to each other through simple things like music. stay well my dears

This is the comment section that cures the covid and cold War relations.

Remember when they said in the 2000s humanity would have colonized space? Lived among the stars and driven flying cars? Here we are, worrying whether we'll be able to keep living on this planet for much longer instead

OK so... I'm a little French guy and decided to write a book here in the comments that no one is likely to read. It's crazy how I understand this playlist. I mean I'm young and French, so how could I relate to old Russian dreams? Because we feel the same things. I mean there are actually people who want to divide us. To make us think that we are so different that we cannot understand each other. In France, politicians talk about Muslims as if they were fucking aliens (because of terrorist attacks you know) and that's pretty sad. War and hatred make it possible to advance the capitalist economy better, so we are stuffed in our heads and we are divided. We are pushed into ridiculous competitions to the point of forgetting that those opposite, whether they are financial competitors or enemy soldiers, are humans. Like us. We are closing ourselves off from other cultures, other ways of thinking, other stories, other people. But today we have the internet. We no longer need to learn a language to understand others. We never needed. Music may be enough. Art can be enough. And the internet is helping us. Never stop listening to playlists of all styles, from all countries. I come from a Japanese jazz playlist of the 70s, after that I will surely go on a 60's brazilian playlist doomer. Nothing can divide us here on the internet. Love all of you. Croissant update: I wrote this over a year ago, thinking no one would read it. In one year, so much has happened, for all of us I think. Under this comment, you answered me, and it made me so happy. Of course it got political, I don't agree with everything, but that's why it's so interesting. Above all, you gave me hope. Even if it costs you nothing to reply to a youtube comment, you did it. And I'm so thankful for that. In France, things have changed. Not for the best clearly. Politicians are increasingly angry and xenophobia has become a political argument. But after the yellow vests crisis and the coronavirus, there are not many people ready to try again to change things. There are a few politicians who try, but the media is obsessed with the good old, corrupt, ignorant or both, who want to rule a country and not help people. I won't be 18 before the election, but all my friends are, and they're as lost as I am to be honest. But after all, I try not to forget the main thing: it's not about anything other than people. Not about political parties or ethnicity or religion or sexual orientation or even IQ level. I've seen so many people this year who wanted to erase divides and who actually used this cause to unleash hate, towards Jews or Muslims, towards pro-vaccines or anti-vaccines, left or right , lgbtq+ people, and I'm so sick of it. I still listen to music. I am still cultivating myself. I learned more about the English language. I think I will learn Italian with a friend next. I realize that the French are often bastards, as some of you have said in the comments. I mean, even I can't stand them. So I hope we will improve. Sorry from us. I love you. Baguette.

I sit upright in the bed I was confined to for 2 weeks on my birthday the year just gone for “quarantine purposes” listening to a Soviet-wave mix on my ad ridden, government tracking device disguised as an entertainment vessel. Snow outside my window is freezing the ground of my 5 kilometre prison block waiting on my father to bring up a Russian Caravan tea, while I watch the candles burn quietly on my windowsill. A synthetic chorus of intelligible nostalgia I have never known seems to fill my head and chest with familiarity, as if the soul of the Soviet Russia that inspired these tracks were not so far away, not so distant anymore. No longer so disconnected from my world like it used to be in the early 2000’s. When I was young. It was just a distant story of a far off land that you needn’t think about back then, whatever was the opposite of a fairytale. That was our privilege. Ignorance and willful blindness was our inheritance. Waking up from that is as surreal as falling into dream. Everything around you changes, colours shift, the stars would look brighter yet only because the night blackens like never before. As if the frequency of your emotions skips to another track running parallel to your own. Suddenly the complexity of this new emotional field awakens you to the truth as you begin to understand your own context at a higher level and the illusion fades as you awaken to the suffering that you were allowed to ignore all your life. We are losing humanity. Our efforts in the west are not facing outwards but obsessively inward. The narcissism of the west in crippling the world. I can’t help but wonder if we are now in the Pre-western-Soviet era. What looms around the corner? Is it hope or dystopia, a dystopia most of us have never touched and of which we barely cared for or gave a passing fancy. Is it our fate to join our Russian comrades? Our human counterparts under the hand of political oppression? Were we sold a lie? Are we so deep in the trenches of political warfare that we are blind to the trees and rivers around us? The free world- the Divided States of America is collapsing. Yet we stand in denial. We claw at the west we once knew but the momentum is too great. The landslide has begun and we have descended into chaos. Those who wish to help are slandered and censored. We may turn to the budding revolution in the east I watched on the news, young Moscovians beaten senselessly by their police. Can we ask our fellow man what has he learnt. Are the Russians so dispirited that there is no life left in their broad nation or will these stirs cause overturn. Can we befriend our brothers oceans apart? Or will politicians divide us. Is there an awakening on the horizon? Or a final human descent into madness. These questions swim uneasy in my mind. It seems we may be fated to defeat. Our collective dreams were bound to falter a long time ago, perhaps an illusion is all we upheld in this technologically infatuated civilization we call contemporary. Where is the exponential growth of human compassion? It seems we took the wrong path many many years ago. Africa was forsaken. The people of our communal birthplace suffer in plea. And we send no-one. Robinhoods scrape what they can from the hoards of monopoly to give our darker brothers what chance they can. While they thank us from calloused stomachs where acid has eaten the very flesh we deny sustenance. And our children, they are taught this is okay, not by our words- but our actions. We say all the right things , isn’t it a shame. You should be grateful. And what do they do ? There is an impassioned admonition that we in the west have more than anywhere else in the world , and we say "oh aren't we lucky" only to forget in an instant the troubles we just thanked for our “luck”. No. We are greedy. A greed so profound that we choose to stand on the fingers of our cousins clinging to the edge of the precipice of suffering, while we recklessly smoke or drink and sing our nihilism away. You mustn't blame your own soul, or your character. That is a waste, realise simply, that you were mislead, your intelligence hijacked. Humans have been disconnected from themselves for a long time. This is not an individual issue, it is a collective poison, our environment is a Chernobyl. A seed cannot grow on arid rocks. All our lives we in the west were shown- by the actions of our parents, that what is happening is fine. Even positive. Not only are we doing enough, but we are exceeding expectations. Is it possible this was wrong? Not a lie per se but simply a misconception that they too were fed. Must we follow this decline into madness with haste or will we - at last hold hands with our fellow man and both cling to the edge of the precipice together. Our fingers tread on only by our legacy not our own feet. Will we hold on? Will we climb up to level land? Or will we fall..?

You know... This music is waking a "deep" nostalgia in you. You didn't even see this times but you feel it... I think even non-Russians will understand me.

the playlist you need when exploring Mars

The mix slowly starts to hit differently.

My parents lived under Ceaucescu’s regime, mostly after he closed the country, but they knew a little of before. I may not have been born in Romania, but from what they told me, life was so different from now. I understand why post-soviet citizen regret sometimes, my grandfather being one of them. Life was planned in advance, no surprises, and u felt like your country was one of the best. But now it’s just a fallen empire, some power addicts try to gather its crumbles, and its population is now left in disbelief and hurt, for their world shattered. like everyone else in these comments said, the politic sphere wants to divide us, bc it’s simpler to control us then. But we are all siblings, from wherever we are. Slavs, Latins, Africans, Asians, Americans, and all the ones that I couldn’t name. We were all at some point robbed from our dreams, that’s why we can identify so well with those musics. keep fighting, brothers, sisters, siblings, for one day we’ll see the end of the tunnel.

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This comment section is a proof that our humanity still exists, although it might seem like the world being more and more divided, i think this paints a false picture of who we really are, humans. The world is going through a difficult time right now, after this pandemic is over, we will still have major challenges ahead of us, but we will be able to overcome them with our astounding ability to cooperate, as men and women, as people, as friends. I wish you all the very best

This is like listening to a future that never existed. I feel bad for all the young Russians who now grow up with uncertainty in the future and a desire for things to get better.

As someone born after the fall of the Soviet Union, as well and in America, this makes me nostalgic for something I never experienced.

I came here expecting to listen for a minute and losing interest like I usually do with vaporwave, and about 15 minutes later I'm in a complete trance that was broken by an ad. In short, this is gorgeous. I love it.

Not a Russian, a Dutch guy actually. But i think you guys are awesome for still being here today. After reading the comments about your stories and that your hopes and dreams are lost. I truly felt sorry for you fellas. Stay strong alright? It may not be much but just know that i care about you, no matter who you are.

How is it that so many of us feel this very specific, same thing. I didn't even know it was possible to be home sick, nostalgic, for memories you never had, but it's unmistakable when you feel it for the first time. There's definitely something surfacing with these shared experiences.

Меня, как сибиряка, очень трогает эта тема из Сибириады. Закрываю глаза и вижу бесконечные леса и ёбаные болота, которым нет ни конца ни края, золотые поля и бесконечное белое безмолвие, когда на километры вокруг тебя только снег и даже поздороваться не с кем, как в рассказах Джека Лондона, а севернее стоят буровые вышки и газовые факела выше дома. Тоскливо смотреть в великое прошлое и счастливое будущее, живя в хуёвеньком настоящем.

i am not russian but this playlist hits harder than my father's belt.

Why does this music make me want to be nice to everyone? I feel sad and happy at the same time.

Friends, I want to tell my story. I was born in 1983 in the Soviet Union near Moscow in the city of Sergiev Posad. The city is 70 kilometers from Moscow, but these kilometers mean a lot to Russia and millions of individuals. For example, the base of my football club Spartak Moscow is located here or the Space Mission Control Center, where my father worked (he is now retired). I grew up with my brother and we were happy - I saw my father coming home from work every day, he was a big boss, but he always walked. I remember that all the people helped each other, went to visit each other, walked, there was no crime, no one killed anyone (it was very rare), we didn't lock the house with a key, you could walk on the playground and all the adults protected you, there was delicious food. Yes, there were a lot of things that did not happen - for example, many fruits do not grow in Russia and it was difficult to get them, but there were a lot of quality products of their own. The cars were only Soviet, the whole industry was also Soviet, medicine was free, education was free, recreation at sea or in pioneer camps was free, pensions were high and there were no poor. Someone may say that people were poor, but this is not so. They were educated, intelligent, well-read, athletic, humane people who cannot be called poor for sure. They were on the contrary - rich. Soul, body, mind. I lived in this society and did not know what war, pain, and anxiety for the future were. The Soviet Union gave us iron protection from the Western world of capitalist lies... But then... they destroyed it. Yes, the Soviet Union, like capitalism, are the projects of those who control us, but it was the Soviet Union that they destroyed. Now they are destroying the USA and Europe. When the collapse of the USSR happened, all people were abandoned in an instant. People did not know what to do, where to go, production facilities, huge Soviet scientific institutes began to close, no one paid money, poverty and fear for the future began. Now Russia has everything to make the country even better than the USSR. The USA and Europe will interfere with us. They want Russia to be weak and submissive, but this will never happen. I have three children, a wife, 2 cars, a good job (I make expensive furniture), a house, land I live well and I am grateful to the Soviet Union for this, which laid the right values in me. I appeal to foreigners who have encountered problems in their countries. Come to Russia. There is everything here to become a man - it's like the USA in the 60-70s. There are many opportunities and many people willing to help. I love you all! Don't despair! Everything will be fine) We live in a world where everything is possible. It's like a computer game (maybe we really live in a simulation). Be happy, friends!

When I was a kid, I was totally in love with the "Wizard of the Emerald City", the russian version of the "Wizard of Oz". I remember I told my mom, I will go to Kansas when I grow and will look for the Fairy Land. It was in 1984... Just before Covid started I thought I'm grown enough now, flew to Minneapolis, rented a car and started driving through the Middle West, all around. I was alone, just driving four weeks long, sleeping in a motels. I flew some strange aircraft with an 88 years old veteran in Topeka, flirted with a very pretty girl, who worked in the reception in Nebraska, shared food with some guys who got stuck in the middle of nowhere in Colorado, etc. I had no map, no plan. I think, I found what I was looking for. It was a mirror of the country I am from and only then I realized that it was always the same lonely blue planet and one group of its inhabitants that we are all and in reality there are no borders and people are beautiful everywhere.

This is so nice... Thank you. Greetings from a polish guy. Slavs together, beyond politics

I feel like this music is the sound of a sad smile. It is nostalgia for the anticipation of a future: a future that we now know will never come. Perhaps for some it is a kind of post-longing for a world where there was a side to take, a cause to embrace, a better world to create. Whether it was liberals, communists, fascists or even conservatives there was always a hope to be embraced, a shining future just over the horizon. We were sold that dream for decades. people worked, died, and lived for those dreams. And now? Russia, Germany, America... the young have lost faith in the future, hope is a foreign word. But we still hold onto the nostalgia. Homesick for a place we have never been. communism, capitalism... both have promised. Both have failed. But still, here we are.

Гордись советский человек, ты к звёздам путь открыл с земли!

I’m another french young boy. I can speak fluent english and french, a bit of spanish and I’m learning russian. I’m an history nerd, especially WW2 era and the USSR. I think deciding to come here to listen to a bit of Soviet music and then reading the comments was one of the best choices I’ve ever made. This comment section is one of the sweetest I’ve ever seen in a while. It really feels like I’m in another reality, after everything that has happened this past year(s). I’m so used to people killing, discriminating, insulting, being mean to each other for their opinions, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexuality and more.

It feels weird, imagining a time where people had such high expectations for the future.. No corruption, no poverty, no injustice, just an united mankind, where everyone is happy and with purpose, and life is filled with leisure and the exploration of the cosmos.

This kind of music deserves an animated loop.

Велика љубав за ову листу из Србије!

Как приятно что эта музыка по душе почти всем

The comments make me feel human again.

If you're receiving this transmission, you are the resistance.

Чувство несбывшихся мечт, вместо светлого будущего планета погружается в дикость и соедневековье

Looking through the comments section, I see how people from all over the world share these feelings. I associate with them as well. I, as an American, find myself coming back to this playlist time and time again. I notice that many of us, including myself, long for the past.

Me: millenial, likes synthwave, born in Russia. There is no music that can possibly be custom tailored to that KZfaq: hold my algorithm

When "Soviet" and "Melancholy" are on the same phrase, all I can think of is this quote: "Yes. I once thought of that. My family is waiting for me there. But even if I fled to the United States, I would once again find myself creating weapons of mass murder. In the end, it doesn't matter where I go. I am still a weapons scientist. To be honest with you, I am tired. Every day, I help create things that should never be used - things that should never have existed in the first place. Every day, without sleep. Without a word of praise from others. And my creations do not even benefit mankind. They are merely the tools of politicians. All I wanted to do was build space rockets. But it was not to be. The space race between America and Russia became the prey of the politicians. The space race and the arms race are one and the same. Missiles, rockets... what's the difference? Scientists are always being used. Please watch over my family." (Nikolai Stepanovich Sokolov, Weapon Scientist, 1964).

Не застал СССР но уверен что хотя бы в старости точно увижу его!

This music makes me feel like Ive given up on dreams and aspirations I never knew I had.

this invokes a very specific emotion and i don't know what it is but i'm into it

Feel a great sense of understanding and humility reading the experiences of people very far away from me. I relate to that deep disappointment with our current era. In the 80s technology was developing so fast and there was this sense of wonder for every technology coming up and where we would be. Then during the 90s internet use was becoming widespread and u could communicate with people all over the world. It seemed like we were going somewhere promising. But the new millennium arrived and all we get is more corruption and big corporations gathering data from us so they could advertise more products and, idk, governments spying on each other. Soon we’ll reach the 2020’s and it’s nowhere what people from previous decades imagined it would be. You can tell this from our current media as well. Media about the future are mostly dystopias or post apocalyptic or just depressing in general. But if u go back and see Sci-Fi from the 70s for example. It was full of exploring where we would be and what brand new things humanity could achieve. You can see this not only in films but in concept art from the 70s as well. I recommend the work of Syd Mead to get a feeling of that more Utopic sci-fi of the era. Vaporwave is mostly expressed from a capitalist point of view but I guess all systems can be corrupted by people and so we’re left with broken promises and nostalgia of what could’ve been. Greetings and much respect to Russians out there and people of all nations who were promised better.

Imagine what a world it could have been if US and USSR had chosen to cooperate. But instead of going to the stars we had an arms race of evil weapons. I may be naive, but I still believe a better world is possible.

Далёкое светлое чистое беззаботное детство. Так быстро летит время. Казалось бы, будто ещё вчера...а прошло 30 лет с тех пор... Самые приятные воспоминания, ностальгия...

Granted, I'm not ex-Soviet, but this still makes me wonder where we went so wrong. 30 years ago in Turkey nobody locked their doors at night, strangers liked to smile at each other. People helped those in need, there was social cohesion. What happened now? Why don't we have hope anymore?

I was born after the fall of the soviet union, but my parents had a collection of soviet cartoons, I remember my favourite was the one with the hare and the wolf. My grandpa still has a lot of soviet memerobelia left. Looking back on those cartoons and the soviet brutalist architecture, a sense of emptiness pervades eveything and disconnects me from a crucial yet indescribable feeling within my soul. But even then, there were positives to growing up in an ex soviet state. I remember each christmas the smell of a freshly cut tree, freshly cooked slavic and baltic foods, the simple enjoyment of going to a crude playground and meeting with neigbours and many more memories. Comparing that to the West and the aura of materialism and artificiality which is ever more omnipresent, I sincerely miss those simpler delights, even if some days I would go to bed hungry.

I was born in 1982 in Brazil. This kind of synthesizer sound is so deeply recorded in my brain that when I hear it makes me lose track of time, it seems for me not some 30 yers ago, but far in an unreachable way. It's sad, nostalgious, beautiful, fake, smooth, comforting, simple, magic and makes me want to cry for reasons I can't relate.

Hah.... I'm only 15. But still, I can feel that... Nostalgia? Sovietwave does weird things to my heart, and I like it.

to be honest, i didn't really know what i expected when i click on this, but i was mostly expecting some kind of meme. what i got was much more beautiful. this sounds beautiful, and the context behind it is amazing and interesting. i'm not russian at all, i was born and raised in new york to albanian parents, but this still invokes plenty of feelings and a strange nostalgia-like feeling. as another user marie lewis said, it's "a memory that's not my own."

Came to this comment section for the best jokes but found the best people.

This is not the youtube comment section I know.

I'm am from Germany and just begun to learn russian because hearing people talk russian made me always feel good for some reason.This playlisy sounds just so comforting and calm to me

Hats off to whoever made this. I'm feeling nostalgic for memories that aren't mine.

As a wise man once told me, “The Motherland isn’t dead, she merely sleeps, comrade.”

Humanity came up with the idea of dividing mankind into nations hostile to each other. Instinct make us antagonize, but it leads to nowhere. Even if our cultures are different, we have much more in common than we think. From Russia to every person reading this, with warmth in my heart.