Yes. There is too much bullshit to wade through.

Frontline has a KZfaq channel

Yes. He loves Russia when it is weak.

Ya well "freedom" doesn't mean prosperity just appears out of thin air, tbh it took the US over 100 years of free enterprise to reach its level of prosperity. People need to build it

@@patrickshea5955 🙄Give it another 1000 years and you might all have access to healthcare.🙄

@@patrickshea5955 and it took the USSR 40 years to surpasse American living standards while the US spent centuries genocide, slavery, and imperialism to today have one of lowest living standards in the developed world

Imaginary freedom, an ilusion

@@patrickshea5955 Please. It has every head start imaginable. Perfect geography- protected by oceans, every climate contained so no need to depend on other countries for exotic things, British technology, lots of migration (Irish famine, China collapse, Germany disunified), no European wars. You "built", but with all the help circumstances can give. Your prosperity was not earned, but gifted.

Exactly!

It's still there on PBS. The long-form reporting and journalism. Even the intos still sound exactly like PBS today lol

Today the media just declares anyone opposing government polices and pointing out the negative consequences of those polices of being an extremist or right winger and therefore their concerns not valid and declare we don't give a platform to extremists .

talk about integrity in putains Russia

Thought that they were going to lynch him!. 🙂🇬🇧

I do. A memory pill of sorts.

Me watching too, it's a good one.

Of course

Me to

Sure I do.. still after 4 visits to Russia, still struggling to understand Russia

Абсолютно точно. Просто Горбачев не должен был допускать межэтнических конфликтов. Это его единственная ошибка....

All connection falls down. All structures falls down. Some sellers acted as in soviets times: if you have goods - hide it to have extra pay after. Inflation skyrocket. One day you go to buy bred it coast 1 rouble, nex day it is 5 roubles, nex week - 20 etc. Salaries rises slower than prices.

@@FedotDaNeTod you really help me understand. Thank you. My Russian friend who lived it Moscow during the fall once told me the heating system even broke down in winter at the time.

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If you have the Rubles.

Store Shelves are full but what about people's shelves?

@@user-ze1ej5zb6z oof

And now??? 😂😂😂

@@MiguelJW And now too, nothing has changed since then

Why do all of these people who never lived in the USSR, extol its so-called virtues? lol

I hope you're right.

stuck on Earth as an American I'm not really pro- capitalist but not pro-communist either. I'm more favorable of what Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, France all have.

​@@bidenwearstrumpscrappypamp1829 It's gone

This did not age well

That seeems like such a meme haha

Glad Yeltsin is resting in hell.

thats rubbish! gorbachev is as much a criminal as yeltsin, same for khruschev and you trotskyists spreading rubbish lies. Each who has comitted to this disaster deserves punishment.

@@WM-gf8zm You're completely delusional

@@idontmakecontent4870 cope

@@WM-gf8zm 🤡

Very interesting thank you

The think you wrote about illneses Russia is not number one in anything

@@lodickasvlajeckou в европе россия номер первый по многим болезням так же наркомании и спиду конечно не в чем хорошем топа продолжительности жизни или уровень здоровья граждан россия не номер один это ясно

откуда ты взял эти данные долбоеб? В США уровень преступности гораздо выше. В Совке постоянно все бухали паленую водяру. Толк от твоих больниц если медицина была на уровне Африки? Толку от твоих школ если она не учила думать и анализировать.

​​​@@lodickasvlajeckouВрёт всё. У меня была сложная операция. Всё бесплатно. Я полгода была на больничном мне государство платило деньги. За это время у меня было 6 химий всё обследования КТ, МРТ, всё анализы всё бесплатно. Я была смертельно больна а меня вылечили. У меня диабет и я каждый год прохожу обследование и получаю лекарства,все бесплатно. Врёт ещё потому, что сейчас стали рожать детей у всех знакомых по два ребёнка а есть уже по три. За рождение ребёнка дают 10 000 долларов ,называется материнский капитал. . Эти деньги можно потрать на жилье (ипотека) , маме на пенсию или ребёнку на обучение (получить профессию и образование) это всё индексируется со временем. Ещё мамы сидят в декрете, три года и им платят деньги. Да 90-е года оставили плохое наследство . Но жизнь идёт и Я вижу что государство всё же пытается улучшить жизнь своих граждан. Открываются заводы, строятся федеральные трассы ( скорость передвижения по ним 130 ) строится жильё, аэропорты , большие стадионы. Стало появляться много программ по внешкольному воспитанию. У меня племянник серьёзно занимается футболом. Тренировки и спортивная форма бесплатные. Часть поездок (поезд гостинница) тоже оплачивается предприятием спонсором. Да не смотря на мои проблемы со здоровьем Я работаю и никто не может меня уволить, если мне надо то всегда могу взять дни, правда за свой счёт ,но есть ещё и отпуск 30 дней оплачиваемый

Fun fact in sovjet there where 0 homeles people and now ?

@@Mrbimmer11 fun fact in sovjet there where all people poor and now?

The Soviet system collapsed because it couldn’t sustain itself

@@SebajstardNope it was overthrown by a counter revolution.

@@user-ze1ej5zb6z whats the difference not even soviet leaders wanted it anymore and they lived well.

Do you even know what woke even means

Sadly I think you are right :(

Yes, you're right. Your country has destroyed USSR, the greatest, most fair country on earth, now its modern child, Russia will destroy yours.

The collapse of the American empire is on it's way.

Yeah it's cocoming. Yes we are also headed for communism too

Pretty much

Times of utter shame are now. Pre 1994 they weren't actively bloodthirsty fascists at least. (although the russian exceptionalism/chauvinism bordering on fascism has always been rampant among them)

Generally, Russia has always been a tyranny. Its political 'DNA' is a combination of Byzantium and Golden Horde. Maybe 15% of Russians truly support the idea of government based on contracts, personal freedoms, democracy, checks and balances. What people in the West have naively perceived as periods of 'democracy' in Russia (1917 between the February and October revolutions or early 1990s) were actually brief interludes of anarchy between 'dynasties'. Putin is not an aberration, he is back to 'normal'. If Putin dies, there will be a new 'tsar' or a short power struggle for power between various factions.

Putin wasn't leader in the 90s

@ilshyf - clearly you remain completely ignorant

@@JanuszKrysztofiak For the part I agree and I think it's fair to say that when you compare imperial Russia to the USSR to modern Russia you see more and more economic prosperity and less and less severe authoritarian regimes over time relatively speaking so I can see why many Russians like Putin , a few years ago they voted to change the constitution to remove presidential term limits to allow putin to potentially get voted in again

Or the early 1600 hundreds

Брежнев правил 18 лет. Первые годы были после Хрущёва очень обнадёживающими. А с середины 70х уже на спад шло всё. А в 1992 полки опустилы и цены взмыли вверх так, что не то что Брежневские но и Хрущёвские годы показались бы раем.

Что за хрень? В нашем Архангельском захолустье всё перечисленное вами свободно продавалось в магазинах и сельпо. Можно было даже икоркой подзакупиться )

В Хабаровске жили не тужили. Было всё.

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You're so edgy.

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He was bought off by the west lol

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It was also a cold war!

I agree. I was wondering what people were thinking those few days after the fall of the Union and from what l noticed in the video,they still hadn't accepted it as a new reality like the guy who wanted to buy the factory said.I am not talking about the economic aspect, l mean the political one.I would struggle myself to gasp the collapse of my country into 15 new countries, it would be shocking to say the least.

I also see USSR flags on the New year celebrations. I wish l was there so l could get e better understanding on the general thought of those people.

@@albanian_barcelona_fan What really? Even in December 1993?

В России церкви не популярны.

Путин ✊

@@simba7107 Putler Kaput.

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Too bad Putin himself is nothing more than a corrupt bureaucrat

@@dengxiaopinggaming5500 sure but what career politician hasn't partaken in corruption at some point ? They're all corrupt ! Despite that, Putin still enjoys mass popular support throughout Russia for steering the country in a better direction

And then undid all of his improvements by turning Russia into a pariah pseudo-fascist state.

@@zem1ya are you Russian ?

@@zem1ya do you follow Western MSM for your news on Putin?

The united states was responsible to some degree

@@tinahale9252 yeah

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my english is good

Desire for what kind of "independence"? To become the EU and NATO member? That is Just another kind of slavery, for some reasons even worse than in the USSR.

@@runoflife87 I'm paraphrasing the documentary, not speaking for Ukranians. I suggest letting them choose their own destiny, whether it be EU/NATO or not. Their choice.

@@christian1294 maybe it's personaly You who lets them choose but not Western leaders and their mass media like CNN or BBC.

@@christian1294 клоун.

@@user-yl5jm8np5d Maybe - give me an alternative view then. I’m open to changing my mind. Insults cheap and easy though

​@@caveman70 You're right, it takes time. It's impossible to go from total state ownership to a _free_ economy that works for most people in such a short time. As we saw with Russia and Ukraine, you can't "privatize" the economy by selling all the state assets to a few wealthy (ex-)party members. That's how you create an oligarchy, which in some cases might be worse than a state-run economy.

Because some people are lazy and cant come up with ideas to make money.

@@hasselnttper3730 Guess who was behind all of this corruption? Western economists. This is the way the "free" market is designed to work. The soviet union WAS NOT a state-ran economy until the 70's and 80's when capitalist-sympathizers and bureaucrats started to gain power. The undemocratic dissolution of the USSR was only the nail in the coffin for the people who lived here. The west wants eastern europe to be its slave. Russians are NOT westerners. They don't get the same imperialist perks as the west does at the moment. The only way western europe survives off of this "free" market is imperialism in africa and asia. If it weren't for this, europe would be a hell-hole just like the rest of the world.

Here? Where's here?

​@SnarkyRC the west you doofus

@@SnarkyRC the west , while inflation eats away at people's purchasing power and ability to live comfortably , the largest 7 tech companies all reached a market cap of over$1billion dollars in the last few years. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer

Germany might but rest of Europe is fine expect those who were poor before happening.

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Yes in a big mass grave.

​@@MiguelJWyou're forgetting history

Navalny is a CIA asset.

Вор должен сидеть в тюрьме

Нет, ничего он не поднимет. Он просто начнёт продавать нефть на восток вместо запада.

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Explain please.