Could you ask the rural people if they see China as a friend or ally . It would put a perspective on more things

Hey Daniil, I’ve been thinking for a while now, are you guys not also at risk of getting mobilized? What will you do if it happens? Will you go to Ukraine or try and escape?

Could you please ask for Russian opinion on PACT invasion on Czechoslovakia 1968. I heard russians are taught their own version, where they went there to fight against some NATO forces or an armed insurrection. I am sure that your Czech and Slovak viewers would appreciate it.

Back in the USSR: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jrRod9Bl1LDdo3U.html

Учитывая, что вы снимаете на ядринском, не могли бы вы снять видео с вопросами на чувашском? Эпĕ чăвашла вĕренетĕп.

Being a hard worker, a workaholic, is smth that people in Russia take pride in. Yes, even to the extent that they believe it is better to teach your kids hard work than for the kids to be lazy

@@NeroNich Being hard working person isn't bad, but not to perversed extreme.

Crazy to me!

Don't get me wrong I agree. Just trying to understand all the ussr born and raised Russians. Which comes really hard for me.

I live in a modern European country. I worked in shops, factories etc. during my holidays from the age of fifteen. Overall, it was beneficial and a good life experience. I definitely wouldn’t change it.

bro feel you. my city once used to make airplane engines and trains for the nation, the population was nearing 500,000 . After the fall it all rapidly changed. Some folks even stole our wires to run our already decaying trams. WIth the war in ukraine it also cascaded.

@@arseniipianykh8425 thats sound depressing

Yes the USSR wasn’t as flashy and attractive as the West BUT people actually had lives back then. One question I think many post Soviet and Soviet citizens failed to ask is “How many Americans/West Germans own Sports Cars, Gold watches and nice Houses?” I think modern day Moldovans are actually living the American life…worse of course but the truth is? Many Americans are actually poor. During the Cold War the West made sure to make themselves look prosperous. Especially to East Germans so naturally Soviet citizens and East Germans really wanted to live the Western life and see what it was like. Spoiler alert Capitalist Western life isn’t all that it’s cut out to be and many who used to support Gorbachev/Yeltsin still regret the transition. This isn’t even counting the people who hated the Soviet breakup altogether and still know their Country was taken from them.

Yep that's what my Moldovan cabbie in Dublin, Ireland told me, almost exactly.

That has nothing to do with the USSR, but with politicians stealing every single Penny of your taxes and building themselves expensive Mansions and Yachts. And with no government cracking down on those thoeves, because the government itself is 90% corrupt, the stealing increases more and more. Moldova actually has much more money than before. But it doesn't stay with the ordinary people in Moldova, it wanders into someone's pocket. Exactly like with Yeltsin in Russia. They stole everything that was not tied down or bolted down and drove the country into the ground to become super rich. That's why it's going downhill. The government was replaced by thieves.

people also have no idea that the famines that happened during the USSR were absolutely nothing compared to the famines that happened in the same area previously

Rf ?

@@thethirdwheel4758 Famines were exist in Russia before USSR also! Most part of the country was under the snow for 9 months a year! During USSR one major famine happened in 1920-22 and another one created by western academics ( according to legends,its happened in Ukraine in 1933-34. in reality they legalised Ukrainian SS war criminals as Holodomor victims).

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@@PotionsMaster666 Russian Federation

the guys recording and asking the questions are obviously total losers

Rude? Hardly. They are asking pointed questions, and challenging the people they're interviewing, with the facts of the repressive and unpleasant aspects of the USSR. This is legitimate reporting.

@@hebneh I'd say it's, if not rude, then at least extremely biased to immediately repudiate the opinions of people who actually lived through the USSR. After all, the interviewers are too young to have ever experienced it and only understand the USSR through modern media (extreme anti-communism). You'll notice that a common theme with these interviews is almost all people old enough to have lived in the USSR think it was better and almost all people too young to have experienced it somehow know better, that it was terrible and capitalism is great actually. Personally, I defer to the opinions of the elders, and the historical facts.

​@@alexjeffrey3981what the fuck would you know about the reporters' age?

@@astro_mapping1 I'm gonna guess you've not seen their other videos.

Those people just have false memories _and_ do not know the _real_ life in the USSR: crime was high but not exposed in media, etc.

@@foilcap crimes officially started after collapse then you can't call a majority of people's memories false, all they know is what they experienced, all you know about them is what you read: take a minute think if the capitalist media we most probably heard, had any reason to praise the Workers Union (USSR)

@@vincentmwangi5968 I quite well remember life in the USSR since 1960's. So I think that I know what I'm talking about. You'd get mugged in Leningrad's parks in daylight and nobody would even think to go to a militia (police) and complain - they would not do anything. All serious crime stats were secret.

If it was still the time of USSR, there would be a heck of a lot less cars on the roads. One's that were not broke down anyways.

I disagree. Half of my family comes from Yugoslavia. They came to Germany and immediately noticed the negatives of capitalism. In socialism, they might have been poor, yet things were simple, uncomplicated, free. I hear similar reports from people from Eastern Germany. They have more bananas now but everything is expensive. Bureaucracy rules. There are no fair chances, just like before.

It had to happen.. they couldn’t last forever on oil money and isolated..

Russian binoculars, telescopes, cameras, bicycles, some cars, low quality but there was a plenty of russian products, at the beginning of 90's the economic situation was worse than under communism, huge unemployment and crime. It was only after a few years that rapid development took place, faster than after joining the EU. But Russia stood still, one foot in communism, the other in capitalism, unable to move forward, neither mentally nor economically.

Eta pravda

Thats nonsenses!..you were living with cheap oil and gas from Russia beside natural resources!...now it is an unprofitable to have an industry and even a coffe/bar in Poland due the electricty prices.

Is that why PoIand sends thousands of immigrants every year because of poverty now?

Daniil gave an interview 2 days ago with Canadian TV and showed his frozen village and some other clips from his posts. I think he is endangering his life by giving interviews with foreign media. He did not say anything about Putin being bad. he said one thing very correctly people don't blamed Putin, but his authorities.

@@bazlur-Vancouver yea, was surprised that he shows his face at the beginning of each vid

Agreed, this channel is very important for the population of the world right now.

Daniil is nothing but a traitor to his motherland because of western propaganda

This is the best comment to explain the USSR.

But there was a segment of the population who longed for the ease of those days - back when it was tough in Poland- the late 90s or so. It was a struggle here and many felt the system was against them. We once had a young man who was working in a store like Home Depot tell us no one could get ahead unless they stole (here in Poland). We felt like things changed so fast and so many people were not ready for it economically or educationally or mentally - and many fell behind. It's as if, as a country, they were trying to go from living in the 50's to the 90's (in the US) in 2 years - or even 10...and it was difficult for many, many people. And yes, some people longed for the days under communism. Not now, though - haven't heard anyone longing for those days for many years now. (Americans living in Poland since 1994)

I wouldn't say everything dramatically improved. 90s were mostly a dark time of poverty and misery, add to that the capitalistic mindset that now broke many families apart and you have a screwed up generation. And no, I don't miss the Soviet times but let's not be ridiculous.

USSR was basically parasiting by Russians on other nations.

I read about polish history that was written by finnish university. The amount of detail in history including Putinism era, I do indeed feel relieved for Poland that you managed to endure the horrible era like that. It was real rough to read that I had to loan the book for 2 months.

Good question. They seem to be happy that way.

Submissive culture. They're born to follow, not question.

Putin is secretly known to be the richest man in world. He and his bandits rape Russia.

And even after decades, I still heard from certain family members that Polish people are so bad, and Chezch people are so lazy, Latvians hate Russians, Lithuanians are rude etc. However, whenever I talked to people, I got the impressuon things weren't quite adding up. Chezch people seemed to be reacting to "ruRussian history" like "yea, they don't kniw what really happened", Latvian people never treated me badly, Americans treated me very well... hating on all of them seemed very strange. As an adult, I began seeing more and more through the Russian lies

Nobody cares good or bad communism was...Russians want better life..they were betrayed as usual. By who?....probably by West.

The Russian Revolution was one of the worst tragedies of recent times, the worst is the Enlightenment.

According to who or what?

Oh i guess you legally annexed eastern europe, caucasus, and central asia?

​@Darcy And yet that guy is the one paying for it... No really think about it, how is it "unfair" ? it's the guys who pay for that and that's why it's a successful business.

robray111 Your extremely right, They were WAY TOO RIGID, but evreyone had the basic needs

@Darcy and why is it the fault of the girl PROVIDING THE SERVICE? Don't you mind that other services are expensive? every service and thing has its price! this value is not formed on the spur of the moment. no one is forcing the guy to buy this service, it's his OWN decision. for some reason he does not buy a yacht, car or other expensive thing, or an expensive plane ticket to fly to a place where his work pays better or does not try to save these funds to get a better education and earn more after all, he does not take an example from the girl, and does not offer his services in order to earn well and not to be jealous of this girl. No. he chooses to hate the girl for her work. (and this is work and service, obviously in high demand) so why are you accusing a girl who works honestly and earns HER money?! maybe the guy should think about his life? ugh

In USSR, you could forget about your needs and focus on your wants , especially in knowledge and skills . I studied in USSR , i didn't pay a penny . Now when my kids study , the prices aren't very friendly

I agree absolutely. I lived in the USSR. I was 14 when it collapsed, but I remember those times very well. All people were equally poor, and they simply did not envy each other.

Nostalgia for the USSR is not nostalgia for the past but for the lost future ;)

No I think Vodka is the strongest drug.

@@gerardoguaran6356 glad it was dissolved hahahahahahahha

@@samhoward7418 good for you. By the way, so many "hahaha's" make you look like a schizophrenic. Are you okay, champ?

@@samhoward7418 says the American, you don’t always decide what’s good or not my friend

"American propaganda" lol

Ну да, ну да, все кто Совок ненавидят - это они распространяют американскую пропаганду. Например русские националисты, воюющие на Донбассе

yes exactly. these kids think they know more about the Soviet Union than all the people who lived in it 😂😂

@@renovatio93 Soviet Union was shit, it just so happens that Russia is also shit, so shit when you’re young seems better than shit when you’re old. Simple explanation. They also have no comparison because most Russians don’t really leave the country. There you go.

This whole channel is about spreading Russophobia and Red Scare McCarthyism.

These women certainly do not know that Russia invaded Poland on September 17, 1939 and celebrated it with the Germans with a joint parade.

It's what they learned in school.

The Russian media and education system don't mention inconvenient truths. It's a bit like the Republican mindset in the U.S.A. trying to whitewash how America treated Africans and Native Indians in the past.

Totally agree, as the Murmansk convoys were running in 1941, my Dad being one of the RN sailors escorting them.

@@tonybaker55 my Dad was in the merchant navy, he was torpedoed 3 times while he was on the Mermanks convoys, he ones was arrested and put in a jail cell, they though that he was a German spy, probably couldn't understand his Geordie accent

Thank you for writing I am happy to hear light I have seen a TV show here in Sweden called a Viking's journey where two Norwegians take a boat and go all the way down to the Black Sea from the Baltic Sea and I just learned from the film and see wonderful people how helpful Russian seriously and also other countries going with the whole channel down you are so right in What you say I also know Russians I have met them in games There are wonderful people still today but people are afraid people are blind and They are afraid because they don't know what's around the corner and Putin is scaring all the people that the west is dangerous We don't want any harm I feel you have a big heart It was nice to hear Thank you for writing Is it good or Ok then you are quiet and then you are my neighbor I am a Swedish citizen of Gothenburg

Good analysis. I think you hit the nail on the head.

God bless Putin from Denmark.

@@marshuswp3325 no not at all lol putin gained lots of support for getting russia through the worst of the 90’s and back to a world power, and if you look at his approvals now it’s up to around the highest it’s ever been. there is a disconnect between what westoids think the russians want and what the russians ACTUALLY want. we need to remember that for many of these people the ussr is their true motherland, and a better time for many things. the soviet union was comprised of 15 countries, during the ussr you were free to travel and work in any of these countries as you were a citizen of the greater union as well as your ssr and while the majority of people were not rich by any measure the majority of people were at least equally poor and when russia went to capitalism it was just a handful of oligarchs that came in and robbed all the wealth, leaving the people more poor than they were before. while younger generations may not have lived through those times, to older citizens it would be the biggest of betrayals losing their motherland and then the poverty that followed. i am in no way a supporter of communism, but we have just as many problems here, they are just different issues or the same issues in a different tune. every system has things that are better about it, as well as worse, and for a lot of these people the soviet union at least brought a sense of pride, stability and patriotism which is why they look back fondly on it. people like to bring up the gulags as if we don’t have people jailed wrongly here every day, as if we don’t have our own political prisoners. i would even argue we have more problems here in the west then they did, wether it’s social or economical does not matter, we are self destructing here just as they did. and as far as food goes, they are correct, here the producers are more worried about how they can make food quick and cheap so we are eating a lot of very unhealthy chemicals and products that otherwise would never been considered edible, look at how obese the united states population is compared to russia, that’s partially portions, but also a testament to the quality of food people are eating. many issues to talk about, but the idea that they were freed from an oppressive regime and they should have nothing to be reminiscent of or sad about losing is just absurd. people here look back to better times too, it’s human nature and times were probably better back then for all of us… it is funny to read the comments and see just how ignorant we are in the west to the way the rest of the world lives/wants to live. we are not the pillar of everything that’s right and good in the world, a good amount of people here hate the way things have been going yet we insist the rest of the world do everything just as we do.

@@yggdrasild755 well then invite him to Denmark and elect him president. I think you should have what you like.

Yep! That's neoliberalism and globalisation.

And 50 percent of the babushkas too. It's both weird and sad at the same time. Alcohol in those amounts makes you feel like death and makes your life fall apart. The hangovers alone limit me from drinking that much more than once.

@@Stephen85 you don’t get hangovers when you’re always drunk. They’re like 98 years old. I don’t think they’re life is falling apart now.

@@Lepocoloco no it fell apart decades ago. I don't think the drunk ones are in their 90's either. They just look 20 or 30 years older than they are from staying piss drunk all the time. Every bit as bad as crack heads and junkies in my opinion.

hahahaha it seems to me you are drunk that you write like that without understanding the speech that the person is drunk

There's nothing else to do out there but drink and hope to die.

I don't think those people are able to give a proper awnser

Russian people DO NOT KNOW that many other ex soviet countries were basically occupied by ussr and their citizens were suffering. Even till this day Russian people believe that many eastern European people have negative feelings towards Russia because of so called russophobia and western influence.

@@user-nt6rq2rm6o True but it is a reasonable guess as it's unlikely they were really informed of how folks in those places viewed the USSR. That said I would like to hear their answers

No, we don't want it back. I live in the post-soviet country, and I didn't need to pay for my studies (both bachelor and master), also you can find a job, but you need to put some effort into looking for it. No one is going to bring it to you.

@@user-nt6rq2rm6o не считаю. Говорю маме "А как же гулаг? А как же оккупация ссср балтийских стран?" Она чуть плакать не начала, сказала, что я западной пропаганды насмотрелся

🤣 "very brave"

I think they're safe since they're not saying anything against the current government/leadership

@@Cacofonicoasimetrico They are though, they risk prosecution

much much braver is Kanye West

@@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla Not really. For one thing, from what I've observed, bipolar disorder can give false courage and make you reckless by taking the filter off your words and behaviour. For another thing, living in the US, no matter how much social disapproval he might meet with, he's unlikely to be dragged off, beaten, tortured and possibly disposed off out of a window, poisoned or shot multiple times in an unfortunate 'suicide' for expressing his views.

I was thinking exatly this

I agree....very good interview!Thank you Danii.

oh a liberal genius from U$ or UK who knows exactly "what is going on."

"It wasn't the Soviet Union it was communism". I don't know what that comment means. I got some studying to do.

@@Dr.Pancho.Tortilla I was referring to one old lady in the video who was asked if she want to go back to the times of Stalin and she simply replied "No, no, no". Is she the liberal genius that you refer to? She is in rural Russia, not US or UK.

A lot of these Russians are far more aware of "what is going on" in Russia, than people in the west know "what's going on". The amount of people in the west who comply with governments who openly admit that their agenda is white replacement, and covered up grooming gangs that raped 10s of 1000s of young white girls, and force LGBT propaganda in primary schools and coerced a massive amount of their populations to take an experimental mRNA "vaccine". And these citizens still partake in voting and think that their governments are somehow more honest than Putin and his cronies lol

@@MrWarrensimmons , she is one in the whole video with such views. but you think that exactly she knows what is going on

Exactly. Moldovans were treated as garbage, they would get offended if you spoke Romanian in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova. Same with Central Asia or the Baltics

Because in the 80s people actually felt the affects of it. See, it's true that the USSR was doing better than the other areas because of the centralization, but you can't take grain from a dead peasant. Eventually they started starving in Russia too.

Yes. Noboby in Ukraine wants the USSR back.

It seems Russia can do well only at the expense of others, their neighbors, whom they sometimes have to kill to have an advantage, and the ethnically different Asian people who are poor and whose men die in Russia's wars.

@Adrien Yes indeed. I am from Latvia. There are no good memories. Just everything gray. We couldnt sing our national anthem. Need we say more? Life for the 15 occupied republics was not peaches and cream.

Yeah cause in 90s is their lowest time, tried 60s 😏

To be fair thats common thing to pay 5 years for a car???!!! The problem is that in communism you have no such thing like credit..instead that you have such thing like line for buy..But you have a time to save so money before buying

@@pekranevikrane That doesn't change the fact that the socialist countries in Eastern Europe during the Cold War were basically prisons. It's just most older people don't want to accept it. They just think the youngsters are brainwashed with liberal propaganda, and that's why we have what we have.

@@pekranevikrane you got it wrong, my friend. You didn't pay for 5 years. YOU PAY IT IN FULL FIRST, THEN YOU WAIT 5 YEARS TO BE DELIVERED!

“And the Goverment was allocating them apartments…” I find it funny cause they are doing it too even today 💀. Like…people be missing things that still exist

And then everybody clapped

Foreigners often complain that people in Lithuania are cold to strangers: no smiles, minimum words. This is left over from Soviet times when people snitched others to authorities and strangers especially made people wary. Younger generations show less of this reservation and are more open and engaging, they are also a lot more into volunteer work and so on.

@@ZaltysZ That's good to hear. It is natural for people to care about and help others. I am American and whatever good or bad things you can say about my country, there is a lot of volunteerism both when there are disasters here, as after hurricanes, and abroad. The same is true for people anywhere, I think. Some are more ready to help people who are different from them or unconnected with them, and some will help anybody. A lot of Ukrainian-identifying people live in Canada, but I don't think that's the main reason Canada has been so terribly supportive of Ukraine. The UK doesn't have many Ukrainians living there and their support for Ukraine has been phenomenal.

Same in Scandinavia - must just be that people were working together to build the world up back then, while it's all about grabbing a piece today. Scandinavia has never been communistic, so that's not what caused it

Its just nostalgia. Really hard to define a fact from a person's perspective. A lot of people say that people were nicer before, but we always look nicer at things that are in the past. Easiest example is school.

@@PaulRakoczi mh.. don't agree with that. Sure some things we remember are because of nostalgia, but from the old photos and videos you clearly see that the people were together in the streets daily, today it is a miracle to see someone on the street talking, all are just stressed to go somewhere, no time to talk.

To be fair, it might have some true as in that Russia has been a complete shitshow country for decades.

Some things were better, and others are no different than now.

Some are astute, though. Some people are more independent-minded and like to think for themselves. I love those responses especially when they come from older people, who usually seem to be women.

And they are right. What we have now in the modern world? Feminism, abortion, death of family, men became slaves of women(sex), prostitution, alcohol, drugs, in the west racism against whites, LGBT, etc.

because standards of living until 90s were better than now

Gulag isnt something u have choose. They just put u In and make work till u die. Thats how they was

Gulags stopped soon after Stalin dies,

I'm from Czechia, people really dislike Russia and communism in general here. The communist party is dying off (and was very unpopular and frown upon for decades, thankfully they didn't really have any say here). There are a few old people talking about how life was better back then, but that's just nostalgia of their youth, in comparison, after adjustments, stuff was more expensive, items were way less accessible and travelling abroad was forbidden (you would get shot down if you tried to cross the border).

@@mikotalik In late USSR life was much easier then even in modern Russia..But yes ..if we to compare where quality of living better right now USSR of 80s or modern Russia even now thats obviuosly modern Russia mainly because many consumer products which was very expensice in USSR became very cheap today.

Well, it was good. For ... simple people. For the general folks to say so. Was not good for smart people with opinions or business owners. So many family fortunes taken away for the state, restituions after fall of czechoslovakia were a joke...an absurd joke, we got back pieces and trash in terrible conditions, absolute joke...

Because mentally they still live in the USSR.

@@malkontentniepoprawny6885 we don’t just live there mentally, in fact almost nothing changed since the USSR fell apart. the only difference is that we’re not communists anymore, in other aspects everything is just like it was in the Soviet Union

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@@dietmountndew "the only difference is that we’re not communists anymore" - I highly doubt that one, especially when we're talking about nostalgists

@@Randomizer92mx nostalgists aren’t necessary communists. still, it’s hard to know anyone’s political views here as it’s illegal to talk about politics in any other way but positive. even unofficially with your friends.

also gulags aren't really a great argument, after the records were opened it was found that the estimates made before then that most people tout about saying hundreds of millions passed through the gulags, it was found to be incorrect, the gulags held less than American prisons have which we even currently hold 25% of all the prisoners in the world, as well we pay maybe .35 cents to max $4.00 where as in the USSR gulags you worked 8 hours, got paid the same as everyone else due to the fact the constitution set a piece rate pay system, and if you wanted you could work an additional 2 hours of overtime for extra cash, where as here in the US they do 1hour sometimes but sometimes do up to 12 hour, all at the same pay rate of .35 cents sometimes, isn't that odd? that the amendment banning slavery within the US ONLY does so so long as the slavery is not punishment for a crime? there are many stories as well of people who were in the gulag who said that it was not that bad, there are people who were innocent and still said it wasn't that bad, the worst "accounts" from the gulags come from a book that was written on hearsay with no actual tracking or verification, and it was mostly written by his wife, who admitted a lot is fabrication, all states have bad, certainly the gulag had shortcomings like how many people got put in sometimes unjustly, but, it was just a prison, listen to your elders.

I remember reading about how a guy and his father travelled to USSR in a brand new Mercedes 500 SEC and how people were shocked to see it. I imagine it was like a spaceship to them.

@@footballfactory2574 There was certainly "modern" automation in manufacturing in 1980, and even for many years prior to that in the US. Not as advanced as today of course, but still pretty impressive. Houses and cars were much cheaper than today, but of course, incomes were much lower too on average. But even adjusting for inflation, I think it was cheaper to live back then. Plus I think that people back then didn't live as much beyond their means as they try to do today. I've noticed that people have increasingly bought more house and car/truck than is necessary, as well as other extravagant expenditures, creating too much debt, making it necessary for 2 incomes to maintain that lifestyle. I think that's what happened to some people. But, not all live like that. It's still possible to buy a cheaper old house and car, so that they are easy to afford. I chose to buy an old house, and always bought old cars, so my expenses were low, so I didn't have to work so much to pay for them, and had more time to enjoy. It took some time, but now I own the house and several cars outright, with no debt, and do what I feel like doing all the time. So, regardless of whether it's 1980 or 2022, it still depends on how you decide to live your life.

@@footballfactory2574 Capitalism happened.

@@footballfactory2574 Specifically neoliberalism happened

unsuitable music, boom boxes, and modern clothes. - those are not the reasons. They checked everything that western or other foreigners do not bring porno books or spying materials etc. I lived there at that time. When I came back from England or Berlin with my shopping, they checked thoroughly that we did not bring something not good for the commies or propaganda materials. At that time we brought the latest vinyl records, TVs, Musical equipment, and Jeans to sell them the handlers and they sold them to the public. at that time selling jeans, you could buy a fridge. A lot of foreign students made hundreds of thousand dollars doing those businesses (russian authority called the speculation).

they say so because It was better in the past than it is today The country has gone backwards

Absolutely.👍👍👍

Ha! That woman would be Deutsch sprechen today if the U.S. had waited until 1944 to start providing the USSR with military equipment through its "Lend Lease" program. In reality, the first shipments of U.S. "Lend Lease" weapons and materials were already on their way to the USSR in the fall of 1941.

@@ernestinebass4371 On the other hand, the Allies would not be able to land on Normandy if the Soviets didn't fight the brunt of the Nazi army. The U.S. depended just as much on the Soviets as the Soviets depended on the U.S.

@@ernestinebass4371 "we'd be speaking German"

​@@ernestinebass4371USSR would be able to win without lend-lease. But without german forces being focused on the west and Africa tho? Not so much

​@@dontforgettonerfthepig3322It would have taken longer though, with more casualties.

@STS Did USSR even had fast cars? As far as I know Melkus RS was the peak "sporty" automobile, but even then it was dogshit slow.

These people are responsible for the 2014 Maidan coup and ejection of Yanukovych by the Verhovna Rada, which triggered a civil war in Donbas? I don't think so.

pov america for the last 70 years

What is a shining billboard? (non native english speaker)

@@peterlustig2143 it is a reference to a beacon. A metaphor for something that draws great attention from passersby. :)

Love your videos, One of the Biggest problems in 🇷🇺 society is that 1% of the population hold 60% of the Wealth, It’s why 1 in 5 Russians don’t have an indoor toilet ( indoor plumbing, tarred villages ) among other things … money not filtered down to the majority of the population..

Ummm, several have no devotion to the state whatsoever, if by that you mean the govt., which means Putin. To Russia that group usually does, but some of them, not even that. Some are downright EMBARRASSED and disgusted at what their country is doing right now. ALL of them should be. This invasion is benefiting Russia and its people in exactly zero ways, and harming them in a LOT of ways.

@@mike4480 utter lies !!!only less than 20% are considered poor

@@vincentmwangi5968 from Moscow times: More than one-fifth of Russian households do not have access to indoor plumbing, according to official statistics obtained by the RBC news website on Tuesday. Russia leads the developed world with the worst sanitation record, according to the London-based WaterAid NGO. A 2012 estimate citing official data placed the number of Russians whose households are only equipped with outhouses at 35 million, or roughly a quarter of the population.

@@vincentmwangi5968 LOL! that's a lie bye Troll

Based on this answer I think that russia will not change until the generation that so severely traumatized as to say this dies off.

what is funny comrade? you work hard, you eat potato. is good life.

There was a practice in USSR when students and their professors must go to "kolkhoz" and help with agricultural works. Just imagine Ph.Ds with their students who dig potatoes or fertilize the soil with manure. For free of course. Kolkhoz - soviet state farm

To be honest when they had fun while working why not.....

Under the Soviet regime, people were taught that labour is glory !

If you were from another country what do you expect?????? Cold war ???

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Sounds like when you visit North Korea today

due to the embargo?

Why are people from the former Eastern block so hung up on oranges and other fruits. Truthfully, how many do you eat per year?? I bet most people (even in Western countries) hardly eat any.

@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Right now most people don't appreciate small things and take them for granted. But back then many people had so little that one orange or a handful of candies were the greatest gifts. It's not about the orange, it's about what that orange meant in those times and what it means now.

And those orange were far worse quality than what you have today.

in 92 in Texas several russian exchange students lived at my dormitory. they could not stop eating, especially oranges. 5 Russians at a table would have a two foot tall pile of orange peels between them

There is. Here in the US, you can be as poor as you want or as rich as you want. It's your choice. What is it you are looking for? Someone to care for you? The government isn't your mommy. Grow up.

@@TheBandit7613 within reason, that is correct, but I think part of the problem is having the mindset of how rich you want to be in the first place. As some people said, kindness and camaraderie become somewhat pushed aside when people obsess over materialism. Being free to make a lot of money is great, but it isn't emotionally meaningful either. For me, an ideal balance would be having personal freedoms but combining deeper human values.

Great observation. Communism offers low stress but is unsustainable. Ultimately life is stressful and humans will always find themselves in this condition.

@@TheBandit7613 The whole point of a goverenment is to take care of its people...Youre braindead

I think democratic socialism would be interesting to look at

How likely do you think we are to see an independent Tatarstan soon?

@@yagruumbagaarn If it were up to me alone, Tatarstan would become independent right this evening. Unfortunately, Tatarstan does not border on any other state and is surrounded on all sides by Russian or pro-Russian regions such as Chuvashia. In addition, Tatarstan itself is home to a significant number of ethnic Russians. That is why I do not count on the full independence of Tatarstan. But I do believe that Russia's current aggression against Ukraine will end in Russia's heavy military, political and economic defeat. This, in turn, may lead to a revision of relations between the regions and the federal center. Plus, the attractiveness of Russian-speaking culture in general will suffer greatly, which will additionally strengthen the autonomy of regions like Tatarstan.

@@ayrat7410 Keep dreaming, freedom lover. Russia's too big to fail. We'll just keep suppressing people until we run out of them. (sarcasm)

@@ayrat7410 I hope you're right.

I think 1420 could have told us that this is a special region. If you hadn't said almost all who see this video wouldn't have known.

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Chimneys need swept, Comrade.

The older generation, who found the USSR, thinks that child labor is good, and the fact that now young people are "very lazy is not what they were in their time," my grandmothers really like to brag that they were "accustomed to work" from childhood.

Hahaha true

My parents have stories how they were taken from school to fields to help harvest potatoes at autumn. Its so weird to think about

Whats wrong with that? almost every teen in 1st world countries has a job

She's right. The USSR is a renamed Russian empire basically. All the territories that's been in the Russian empire, later turned into soviet union. So, the USSR is a renamed Russia basically.

@@user-yj7um6hv1d действительно. Ведь чем ещё может отличаться СССР от РИ? Только территорией. Возможно и я так думал раньше. В первом классе примерно.

Yes Russians started from kiev

Вот только Киев был столицей Руси

@@andrushka5626 yes, and Rus was founded by Swedish vikings as they established trading posts to the middle east and rome

You're wrong. Are you familiar with the history of Kievan Rus? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kievan_Rus%27

Kiev must conquest Moscow!!! :)

They don’t care. They love it. Their children will live in Shiite too but “what are you going to do, eh?”

@@Lepocoloco eh, more like they don't know any different so they can't think any different - it's common human behavior.

Except they weren't actually interested in any of that and neither is any of them in this audience. They only care about the negative opinions about the USSR. Didn't you notice that they only debated the people who said yes and wanted to emphasize the negative things but for anyone who said no they don't want the USSR back they didn't really question about it. Also these kids doing the interviewing made plenty of remarks that were just straight-up disrespectful towards the people they're interviewing and about the subject they were asking a question about.

They saw the cameras and all gave the same answer. Some even claimed they still lived in the USSR. Think about it.

The only thing I agree with them is that families stuck together because things were shared, the enemy was the state and that unified people. When capitalism arrived, many went crazy with the property mindset and destroyed all relations, families broken up for generations. Speaking from experience.

ye i remeber my father had a friend (sweden) who went to russia (soviet times) to a Lada factory to help them with something, and he was chocked becuse it was like 50 men in the factory bulding and fixing ladas, then in another room there were like other 50 men who sat and played cards. and he asked who their were and he said there were workers but dident have anything to do. and the shiftet this, so one day u can just sit and play cards all day another day u build. u can do this till the money is gone.

Define "productive". We define it as making money. Not everything is about making money.

Well, one thing remains the same, they still can't choose the government.

European colonists insist on this, and they have a good point the inhumanity they did is unspeakable especially how they mixed it all with religion to capture the minds of innocents who were mostly Orphans (They were scared of the elderly who had already formed identities, hence forming breeding zones to forge a new identity for Orphans with new names and all) This is documented

@@vincentmwangi5968 Colonizing/invading occupied land is wrong and inhumane. Everybody involved in European colonization is long dead and Europeans have learned from their ancestors' mistakes through history. Now it's time to focus on relevant issues at hand, that being Russia's attempted colonization of Ukraine.

@@tescobakery1927 the British queen just kicked the bucket and her son is somehow still alive. They were very much involved with colonization of Africa. Don't make European colonization seem like distant history because it is not. Honk Kong was only returned to China in 1997.

Usa and other capitalists blocked their borders you know??

A lot of brave people fighting😂

Yeah, long live communism ♥️

agree

They are nostalgic for economic stability, not social justice causes.

@@zuzanazuscinova5209 Some of them, but others lament the loss of friendliness or social equality.