Holy shit a channel with a million subs, nice

Long live the USSR

Man you're leaving quite the bread trail of comments. First I saw you on Adam savages channel and now here. Still loving your content (:

Holy shit. How ya goin?

I died when i looked down at your comment and thought, "what carpet" .. and then the carpet ad came on, and i thoroughly agree hahahah

Hey! It's the Boris that's bringing down our country! y'alright mate? x

That Boris brought down the Soviet Union and now this Boris is tryna bring down the Soviet Union 2.0, the European Union. Keep up the good work!

The last 4 countries to leave were: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. The other countries broke off days, months ago

@@anonymousbloke1 technically, in the last four days of it's juridical existence, Soviet Union consisted only of Kazakhstan

@@whoeverest_the_whateverest Yeah. Prolly cause they weren't sure on what kinda government they wanted. Since around half of their total population were non-Kazakhs

He must have seen so much.

Not a lot of people survived during that whole span. Very interesting. I was born in Moscow in 1984, and now I live in the US. It will be interesting to tell people when I'm 60-70 that I lived in the USSR. It's like meeting someone now and them telling me that they lived in the Weimar Republic before WW2

The Soviet Union was kinda founded in 1917, He barely saw the Russian Empire

Out of curiousity, what did he think of the Soviet Union?

@@ze_baronkrigler7611 The Soviet Union was not founded until 1922. For the five years between 1917 and 1922, the state that existed was simply the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic. Therefore, my great grandfather was born before the Soviet Union.

my dad watched that

The reason I think he called it a satellite state rather than part of the USSR was because it was, to an extent, an illegal occupation. Though he's British, here in America, the Baltics were still recognized and their own states throughout the time of the USSR.

Shame we have KZfaq ... No intellectuals anymore in the world 😂

I’m america it is because our school system is dominated by the dems who have no idea what they are doing in almost every position

@@mrunseen3797 I learned alot from this youtube video You just have to know where to look.

@@AmericanCaesarian Ohh because you want bible to replace Science and Critical Thinking 🙄

@@xenoidaltu601 lol you seem to be a brainwashed individual who defaults to the "you must be a Christian straight white gun nut republican" argument, which is meaningless. Ill have you know i am a libertarian who happens to be an agnostic, i am a bit of a gun nut but that's besides the point. Also, for someone who claims a want to replace science, I feel as if you support unscientific concepts like there being more then two genders and all that. I would guess that you are rather young too, considering your unintellectual response. I assume you support the dumbasscrats right? probably, go back to mindlessly consuming whatever CNbrainwashing tells you to. Throw sceince out the door and worship biden or something, its what CNN wants you to do lol.

Wait you died in 911?

@@chrispy2721 heheh

Hahaha good one

@@chrispy2721 that was a poor choice of words on my part

So u saying u got a past life?!

He was reusing a famous Stalin quote: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_has_become_better

Смерть Сталина, означало что жить станет хуже.Так и случилось. Сталина очень сильно уважали в СССР, это самый влиятельный и уважаемый человек того столетия. Вождь народов.

@@user-cm1uu6zq3kyou confused fear with respect

This didn’t happen so hard it unhappened things that did happen

I remember when my late Grandpa said about day when Stalin died, teacher has told the class about his death and they all cheered (to horror of teacher) because it would be day off, and when his statues were being dismantled in my town one of drunks said "Joseph, hold on" and was detained for this comment.

Maybe he just didn't know what a syllabus is....

Maybe he didn’t like communism

I would love to hear all of that honestly. I have a fascination with the totally mundane parts of history.

I had a similar experience, except it was with the JFK assassination. We had to do a whole project on it for some reason. The reason? The teacher had a crush on him. She even had a cardboard cutout of him in her classroom

@@jmjedi923An Actual cardboard cutout????

It's what they do best, after being Squidward: The Nation.

Carelian

@MR.random57 mmmh nah sounds like a pyramid scheme

Since 1939.

kalevala culture is real good, i want it :(

Hot damn, that's good.

Killer joke! XD

I don't get it

впервые слышу эту шутку

@@IgoreandTorii you must have subscription to get it XD

5 hours ago damn

How???

“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests” ― Henry Kissinger

@@prospoulify we ain't the ones who did 9/11 lol also as stated, that's literally every country. It's a dumb quote

@jungmin lim My point exactly. Just with a single quote. I didn't say it doesn't apply to other countries aswell. And, yes, there's no morals in geopolitics.

Rambo 3 aged rather poorly. :D

Didn't James Bond ride into battle with those same folks too, in The Living Daylights?😂

If youre in America January 21st after biden "falls down stairs"

So the rumor that Putin's health is failing isn't a rumor after all?

@@JohnGalt916 That requires Kamala, Pelosi, Hillary and Schumer to immediately turn on each other saying ' the deal is off' and the brawl start. They know this could be the last Democrat administration for the next 12 years right? With Hispanic and Asian driven away from Democrats thanks to BLM and Antifa fiasco.

@@thanakonpraepanich4284 there's no way of telling. Once a year he disappears from the screens to show up later with a swollen face and a very unhealthy pace. One thing's for sure, he's getting older. So, fingers crossed.

Things can always get worse.

Something I've always wanted to ask a middle aged russian: did u like the cccp or russia more?

@@user-wd1xr3zy6w Russia is Federal Reserve's colony, not a free country. What's to like about it?! And so is the USA, not a free country, either. How can a country be free without its own currency, and without its own military?! The USA being a country lacks both. Federal Reserve owns American currency, and the US being a corporation owns both the FRS and American military.

@@user-wd1xr3zy6w Well, I wouldn't be the right person to ask as I've lived in USA for almost 20 years now and haven't been to Russia in a couple of decades, but I will share my limited experience. Keep in mind that I was only 13 when USSR fell apart so my understanding of it will be rather limited. First, there are of course pluses and minuses to just about anything. The good about the USSR was the overall safety and a lot of cool and fun things for kids to be involved in at almost no expense for parents. The safety part was pretty solid. I grew up in a town of about 50k people and never heard of any murders or rapes or anything violent like that. My dad was a cop so I would be the first one to know. He barely ever used his government issued pistol for target shooting, let alone in the line of duty. My parents would let me walk to pre-school which was about half a mile from where we lived when I was 5 and I had to cross several intersections just to get there and it would never occur to anyone that it wasn't safe. I went to music school when I was 8 and had to take a regular bus ride with a bunch of strangers several times a week just to get there and again I did it all by myself and no one ever thought that it would be unsafe. If I was short a couple pennies to get a pastry or something tasty at a grocery store while waiting on a bus I could (and did) approach any adult and I'd always get a couple pennies and no one ever thought of it as some pan handling thing to do. Adults just figured I was a kid and wanted something tasty lol. We had red pioneer camps every summer which were a ton of fun as well as all sorts of sports and other activities we could get involved in and it barely cost any $. So, growing up as a kid, USSR was pretty darn good and safe place. Of course there were negatives. We didn't have a whole lot of choices. I don't remember anyone starving or not being able to get basic necessities but the choices we had at grocery and department stores were very few. If you needed to get bread or milk you'd have maybe one or two choices at best compared to hundreds of choices we have here in US. However, I never worked and actually never experienced the soviet union as an adult so I wouldn't know how that went. I know my parents had jobs they liked and I don't know anyone who was oppressed in any way but again, throughout 70s and 80s, the USSR was pretty chill and the good old Gulag times were long gone. As far as I know, if you weren't involved in any politics or "illegal" commerce (pretty much any commerce was illegal) then you had nothing to worry about. One bad thing I remember was Afghanistan war in the 80s. Everyone hated it and hardly anyone was pro that war. Since military drafted young men at around 18 it was every mother's nightmare to have their young kid deployed to Afghanistan. I knew several veterans growing up and half of them were maimed or had other issues and there was almost zero coverage in the news about it. There was also a general sense of stagnation. People were conditioned to expect the government to take care of them. Most people out in the country, who were part of farming collectives, literally did not know what to do when USSR dissolved and many fell into heavy drinking and a lot of little country towns just disappeared overtime because there was simply nothing to do. However, back in the 70s and 80s, collective farm towns were pretty darn good to live and work in. I think that switching from one system to another in a very short period of time will always be associated with growing pains. The 90s were basically a total shit for most of the former USSR states but from what I am hearing from relatives and old friends now it's getting better. I am sure people have grown more and more familiar with free market demands and there's a lot more stability and entrepreneurship happening in both Russia and other former soviet republics. So to sum up. Soviet times were stagnant, very little choice when it comes to consumerism but it was sort of compensated by free education (which was actually pretty solid), free medical care (which was admittedly pretty shitty most of the time) and a ton of stuff for kids to be involved in (which was awesome) Now, people have more freedom to make whatever they want to make out of their lives and engage in all sorts commercial activities. From what I can tell things have changed and I think from the economic standpoint the change is for the better. Some people may argue that people were nicer back in the old days of USSR and I would agree with that but I don't believe it has anything to do with the USSR per se, it is more of a cultural shift that many countries experience.

So interesting, all those events through the eyes of a child.

@@BuckeyeRutabaga Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. May I ask where abouts did you live in Russia? Also very strange question but did any of the republics of the USSR have animosity towards eachtoher? i.e racial tensions, or frustations towars eachother like "you guys aren't pulling your weight" type of stuff? Considering it was a huge country that had many ethnicities. Russia itself is already extremley diverse so the USSR as a hole would be a melting pot for ethnic tensions and I feel the USSR being administred as 14 different states could have given those citizens a platform to fight with eachother.

A perk from working in the secret police, permanent poker face.

If u watch some videos of him walking you will also notice that he barely ever lifts his right hand up and keeps in near his leg. It's called "gunslinger's walk" and was tought in KGB so whenever something dangerous happens he could draw his pistol and shoot instantly. Pretty neet little detail

@Feels Bad Vlad "The Gunslinger" Putin

He always had the slight smile

What are you talking about? He's crying like every year or so on national TV. Pretending to be touched by "massive support" russian people give him.

Yeah tell that one to Vietnam vets

He was

Dude he literally destroyed our country and made all the mess we, as Russians, now supposed to clean up. Millions died, progress of humanity slowerd down (we could've already have colonies on mars). Now, there is no good communists, now, EVERYONE in the world doomed to become fascists through degradation of capitalism.

danke gorbi

There'll always be complications, like the mess in Afghanistan that he inherited from Brezhnev, but that (specific example) really wasn't his fault. I think Gorbachev legitimately tried to make the Soviet Union a better place for its people, but too many members of the CPSU wanted the _exact opposite._ Still, he tried, and that's a lot, LOT more than any of his predecessors _or_ next gen Russian leaders did. RIP, Gorbe. You seemed to actually care.

Ushanka Show channel brings that up a lot. Essentially, whenever Soviet media weren't sure what they're allowed to report and waiting for instructions took too long, they'd plug air time with something perfectly inoffensive - classical music on radio, ballet on TV. That became kinda conspicuous after a while.

Parents grew up during the collapse of the soviet union. They said it was the most eerily weirdest shit they every witnessed in their life. They knew the protests were raging, and something significant was underway, but the tv was only running ballet. They also said that on the same day, they were talking on the phone about possibly trying to leave the USSR and the telephone operator, out of fucking nowhere, interjected "You can't talk about that kind of stuff, you should be imprisoned". Obviously, nothing ended up happening since at the time, there probably were a lot of people talking about getting the fuck out. Also fun facts, despite both my parents having degrees (both in CS no less), their degrees were borderline worthless when they came to the US, since it's not really possible to get university records from a country that doesn't exist on a map. Another fun one, apparently if you had jeans, you were the hottest shit, since most of them were smuggled in.

@@arizona_iced_out_boy If you ask me the operator was trying to help them without self-incriminating. You wouldn't say "don't talk about that, you'll go to jail" for obvious reasons.

@@arizona_iced_out_boy Bruh if you had jeans on in the USSR that was the equivalent of having a Dodge Hellcat park outside of the trap house [Pikachu face] How did you know I trap!

@@duanerackham9567 you don't trap

Love it! 🤣

Soviet political humor is top-notch! I guess when you've got that kind of material...

“Dark humor is like food, some people don’t get it” - Stalin.

A Soviet man is standing in a queue for food. After a while he taps the person in front of him on the shoulder. "Excuse me, is this the queue for where there isn't any sausage?" "No, this is the queue for where there isn't any bread." "Damn it all!" he says, and storms off. "I've wasted my entire day!"

Two Russians are standing in an ATM line for three hours. One says to her friend, hold my place, I’m going to kill Putin”. Two hours later she returned, and her friend asked “So, did you kill him?”, she replied “No. the line there was longer than this one”.

Well one network put on Swan Lake today as all the staff walked out in protest of the war. So it begins.

@@TheMGSlow That's reassuring

We have bit more sophisticated propaganda machine now. Too bad for it that free internet still exists in some capacity yet

Russian: *Turns on TV, nothing but Swan Lake marathon*......who died this time?

@@Tadicuslegion78 7000-15000 Russian troops and a lot of officers.

Crna Gora (Montenegro)?

my dad is older than croatia

My generation of United-Statians may yet live to see the same thing. As Leon Russell said, "It's a strange world we're a-livin' in...."

@@flyingdutchman4794 Pretty soon maybe. The Soviet Union collapsed within two years after the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan. So when exactly is Nato out?

Laughs in Confederate States of America

An analogy of the Soviet Union?

As much as it's fun to knock the Soviet Union, I can reliably report that current Ukrainian trains, although built about 60-80 years ago and often barely refurbished since that time, are more reliable than UK trains x

@@SamHarrisonMusic tell that to everyone who's had the dubious pleasure of riding with UkrZaliznycja t. Ukrainian

@Toori Gooner I've never been on a 'Never ending journey' whatever that's supposed to mean, but living and travelling in Ukraine I've met some of the nicest and most hospitable people I've ever met. Don't trust the propagandised version we're taught about this part of the world, just like everywhere, good people trying to get by. Soviet engineering wasn't made by creeps and murderers, it was ordinary people just doing their everyday jobs - crediting those engineers is not endorsing dictatorship.

@@SamHarrisonMusic I'd say the reason why they were reliable was likely a defense reason since train cars were essential to the logistics of the wartime economy during the second world war. The joke works as an analogy to how the soviets had tried to apply different but overall dogmatically communist principles towards situations, for straightforward things like war and other heavy industries of raw materials, roads, rails do fine. As it interlinks to other sections of the economy we'll see inefficiencies, stagnation, and corruption.

A very different president came to mind, actually. The one who digs his own daughter. "Bigly."

*_Aren't those most americans?_*

@@awddfg As an American I can confirm this is true

It is. Didn't like Clinton. 😕 I do have a question - I was recommended this channel by YT so forgive me. I watch a lot of "Hate CCP" vids. I know the CCP is dangerous... But my question is... what were the Soviet's perception of China then, compared to now? I know they are allies now, but what was Russia's perception of China in general? On either side - government and its residents (erm, citizens)?

@@CarlosXPhone if I remember correctly from a video I had watched, there was a split. They both had different ideologies, the USSR had stalinism and the Chinese maoism. That led to them splitting up

I don't get a joke.. Can you explain please?

​@@ascendedbro1828 potatoes are an ingredient for vodka

I heard that sugar also works... Just a little too unhealthy I guess?

@@davidfreeman3083 and way more expensive if I had to guess

ah thanks dude!

I-Is it truly you? Our tortoise overlord?

Yo what you doing here. Upload more

Exurb?! omg I missed you ❤❤❤

@@rudolf895 for real, please do q.q

true. gotta leave room for the sequel tho

@@OrdinaryThings Fair. Though, you should ask for some stories from that time because it made whatever low point a lot of countries have had look fairly tame. The murder-rate even managed to double itself from what was already a fairly high level.

How Russia's TV is under Putin. Looking forward to this

Wild East*

@Swamp Henly equally what was done to them by boris yeltsin and the former kgb

That was just from the USSR мелодия pressing of 'Dark Side of the Moon'...

Both Heaven and Hell have walls, gates and armed guards. That can't be a coincidence.

It sounds like the Russified interpretation of the Greek afterlife.

lenin

@@paulhimmel4204 nope.

​@@shivamchaudhry5959 I believe he WANTED to, but after he got power he didn't want to give it up. STALIN, HOWEVER-

Well, Lenin had fixed principles that he didn t want to compromise on. He saw the Menshevics as cooperating with the burgioase ( he was right) and didn t want to give powers to them right after his coup

@@paulhimmel4204 He wished well for the proletariat In an agrarian country *cue 1921*

The USSR banned religion, speaking against government, kept you inside the country, restricting everypart of your life, bad regime, bad economy. YEAH its a GREAT country😃

​@Kaiser_Wilhelm_ll like how North korea is right now

@@Kaiser_Wilhelm_ll Wtf you talking about? The USSR didnt ban religion, they were free to believe in any religion they want, it was only discourage it in contrary to western countries. Speaking against the country?Where did you read your info, CNN? You could talk shit and criticize the government freely. What you couldnt do was try to sabotage or actively try to change the socialist system to capitalist, just like the USA does but vice versa. They become the second biggest world power, how the fuck their economy were bad? Only when they started adding capitalism by the end of the union, that everything went to shit

in Estonia back in USSR days the whole place was poor and you could barely afford a home not even talking about a TV.

Ads in the modern sense are just privatized propaganda. They'll always exist as long as the act of propaganda proves to manipulate successful.

Estonia used to be a pretty privileged part of USSR compared to the rest of the soviet republics. Such things wouldn't be common in the Soviet Union.

There are many things that are and were not as you think under communism.

@@TheBcoolGuy That's true, and I'm quite satisfied to not know what things were like under communism. The reviews are pretty awful.

Ironically, watching the ‘72 Hockey Summit Series footage and there are no board ads in the Canadian arenas but there many in Luzhniki 🤔

It's just as funny if you're finnish, too.

Hakkliha = minced meat but alas. Atleast you got nostalgia

The idea of a russian seeing an ad yelling "KANAAAA HAKKLIHAA YEE BOII"

@famous austrian painter bro what

Have you ever seen ‘Ahvatluste Tund’

"We kept all the worst aspects, but got rid of the few good ones. Thanks, Reagan!"

"Capitlaist boogaloo"

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ipt5gbmA2b3Uqnk.html

Russia now is a pathetic waste of space with degradating education science and welfare services.

@Lee Ruan wait are you saying they will call it that until Stalin gives them gulag? What? But I do agree we need Stalin back

A fanatical old commie I knew back then i Liverpool came back from a visit to Moscow - Well? I said - how is life in USSR ? He responded - "Fantastic, the workers are so wealthy they have to queue outside the shops to get in and spend their money". Self delusional to the end!"

@@uingaeoc3905 To be honest, such comparisons were always unfair. From an historical point of view. Before the Soviet Revolution, the Russian Empire was pretty much a medieval, gloomy realm. 75 % of its people couldn't even read or write. And serfdom was still a reality. True, they had some factories, recently built, in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But overall... And then, they had a bloody civil war. And then, a couple of decades later, they lose 20 million lives, and half of their developing new country is destroyed, because of World War 2. Again... they had to rebuild everything from scratch. A few years later they had a man and a woman cruising around the Cosmos. I don't give a fuck about Communism, but I wonder how life would be, in the U.S.A., which was already an industrialized country in the 19th century, if they had to put up with all the shit that the Soviet Union had to. Nevertheless, to this day, poverty in the USA is enormous. 10 million homeless people. Only the rich can get in the super-awesome Universities, etc. Hey, just trying to be objective. It's like you and me are running a marathon against each other. But you start in the middle of the road, and I'm forced to run the whole thing. Of course I will be mocked upon arrival, because you will arrive a LOT earlier, obviously.

@@Topcat6103 Even so, there's no turn around. It's still a huge number. Not to mention lack of life's perspectives, endemic poverty, even among people who are working, etc. The U.S.A. is the wealthiest nation on the planet. They consume 50 % of the world's resources. You can't just look at two separate blocks and compare them just like that, without understanding the backgrounds. It's plain stupidity.

I mean, they do, they just call them "food banks"

It’s funny because breadlines were popularized and most commonly used during the Great Depression......in *america*

Yes of course advertising luxury products is one of the most capitalist things

"adverts for cars and speedboats I could never afford" Don't tell me you can afford any car you see adverts for.

When the state is run by corporate capitalists the culture is what they dictate. It's no different. We in the west like to act superior but we're honestly not that much different. I'm an ancom and I fucking hate tankie soviet-bolsh nonsense... But in my eyes capitalism is the true enemy and far more carcinogenic to our planet.

“The Flag is different but methods are same” -victor reznov

Probably could during the 60s

Nah, Russia was a state

Public school?

@@somerandommen i aways trough Soviet Union was Russia

@The running man Yes correct but Russia ruled all the countrys.

Which isn't very far from what it actually meant, isn't it? You can nipick about the exact terms, but it's the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics; what's a state other than a republic in the sense of the Soviet Union? Every Republic had it's own (marionet) gouvernement, but the Central Committee was the great leader of all. It's obviously not like the United States literaly, but it's what it comes down to.

Weeaboo

Weeb

haachama chama~

Tbh, I'd rather watch this meta modern, than the same "our toothpaste recommend by 9 out of 10 doctors"-like commercials

Like they have TV

Gotta love OverSimplified.

But then was replaced by mikhail gorbachev

I see you're a man of culture

OverSimplified gang

Big head

I remember that! your grandfather was Yuri Bangnogginoff? Awesome.

I cannot believe someone got hit by Sputnik. Must've been an honor.

thanks comrade, welcome to the party (the ordinary one, not the communist one)

yes

Same here

if thats the line that made you subscribe I'm scared to know what kind of person you are...

@@ponysoftonline4533 😂😂😂😂👍🏾

I know, I fuckin love it. But, if he lives in Russia, now, with the economey tumbling & this seriously crushing the public & civilian population first. I mean he needs help getting around, if he bcomes unable to afford that, he's not going to have a fun last few months. I reallky feel for the guy, he actually tried to do something good, out of all the spinless selfish bastards who'd take up that mantle. He's the only 1 who tried too do some good for the world & his people. I just cannot believe he is still, alilve & kicking, what, a sad, shit show, he has had to witness his country go through with Putin, knowing that coup, Decades ago drove all of it. The poor bastard had to suffer a birthday through this war on the 2nd of March

@@esraeloh8681 there's a joke in Russia that the hell doesn't want it as it will collapse it too.

Ohhhh shit

Not anymore

RIP the homie, most based soviet leader

Lord willing. Or rather, people willing...

*America The Brave plays somberly in the background*

I am 25 and already outlived 2 countries with 3 different regimes. My parents outlived 3 countries with 4 different regimes.

Yes we destroyed civilization, but for a brief moment , no one could call us sexist or racist

I hate that you’re probably not wrong

Its almost like Russia went from an authoritarian state with a bunch of rich oligarchs to an authoritarian state with a bunch of rich oligarchs 🤔🤔🤔

When the Russians could get western TV shows and see video of western countries they realized they were being duped. The government knew the gig was up. NKorea executes people who watch South Korean or western TVS shows, but its getting harder to keep people isolated and ignorant. China still tries very hard to demonize the west but people will wake up there too.

@@tubester4567 If you think China is gonna fail in the next couple of decades, I have bad news for you...

@@Coastfog No they will. Most large countries will probably U.S. the European Union, China etc. The Neo liberal world order is burning and farther right and left groups are forming.

@@ApexRevolution nah in 80s it was pretty good welthy and mostly democratic it wasn't a democracy like other western country but you could join the party and go up the ranks

To come late in history is not good, but to be such early is disastrous.

:D. They didn´t appreciate that road trip, did they? My uncle paid off his engineer title and allegedly legally emigrated to BDR from Czechoslovakia in 1987. He could also wait for two years :) But I don´t think he regretted it. Edit: His father was an Evangelic priest. He was probably considered not trustworthy as son of his. At least not enough, so he could study medicine like he always wanted. But fortunately he could study at all. Few years prior that it could be a bigger issue

"...well fuck."

@@Martina-Kosicanka I think the issue for them was they spent so much time, and money, to secretly get out of the Soviet Union (cause death was the punishment if you were caught) that when the wall was taken down all the time and planning they had spent was basically for nothing. They probably told their childhood friends that they might never see each other again only for the wall to fall and the doors the union basically wide open

@@KRDecade2009 The uploader is a German I believe. He is talking about his parents emigrating from East Germany (GDR) to West Germany (BRD) via Hungary. Such a road is really a roundabout, when you look into a map. Hungary isn't even bordering Germany. It was usually done by traveling via Czechoslovakia to Hungary and asking for asylum at BRD embassy there, I believe. 2. Leaving USSR and Eastern block countries wasn't punishable by death, when you got caught, but by some years of prison time. Usually a singular digit. But you could be stopped on the borders by shooting or land mines, if you refused to stop otherwise. By the way, political prisoners weren't executed for their activities after 1950's. When the regime wanted to get rid off you later, they could sentence you to hard labour in uranian mines (bad for your health in the long run) or even expell you to the West and cancel your passport.

I've seen it! I can confirm it's awesome :) also капитошка!

Oh heck yeah. The circus episode was legendary.

Wasn't it called Nu Pogodi? or something like that? (Idk I don't speak Russian)

@@megamix5403 yes, that is the transliteration of the name, "Ну, Погоди!". It means "Oh, just you wait"

@@subrezon Ah, okay then. Spasibo

Im finnish And yes i learned that

Illegal things were only illegal on paper, everyone in USSR had access to the 'black market', which were one of the reasons Soviet Union fell.

As Finnish man... I found the notion of "illegal television from Finland" as outlandish.

@@retineyzer1670 It made them realize that everything they were told about the west was a lie.

@@Tespri i dont even understand what you are saying

a terrible mark on russia

@@dropyourself He literally dissolved the USSR and it was going to dissolve anyway as it was crumbling because of several factors (for example, Chernobyl.)

@@hyperadam1804 yes but he was a major reason and if you look at the several measure of for quality of life you'll see how terrible this was for the Russian people.

@@dropyourself He was one of the last politicians who tried to save Russia to lead it out from it's evil ways. For quality of life, it was simply because oil prices dropped at the time and screwed up Russia's economy that relied on oil sales. Plus it's pretty chaotic to switch economic model on spot. But of course average Russian wasn't smart enough to understand any of this. Their heads were destroyed by drinking vodka daily, only thing they didn't have shortages about.

"outrageous ear-rape sequence" me: it's going to be the kana hakkliha one, isn't it?

maybe watch youtube videos in your own language then

@@blob5907 ?

@@hhelina ?

why? all soviet commercials were made in estonia, and also aired here in estonian...

Like milk it did!

Slava Rus!

It didn't age though.

@@RabbiHerschel find your own slogan nazi

​@@RabbiHerschel death*

That first day was probably the whole day.

Are you texting from Russia? If so that's cool

I've been in that McDonalds when I visited Moscow. Had to quickly figure out how to order, but managed it.

yeah me too

@@michaelmiller5771 We left Russia a few years after, when I was 11. Haven't been there since.

yeah, don't validate or procrastinate.......

Oh crap, I'm late.

Say wot mate?

AND HE'S O R A N G E

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@@OttKaselaan KANA HAKLIHA

ah thanks dude!

Seconded!

Same glad it brought me here looks like a good channel

jakson vipper Ikr! I’m already subscribed. Should’ve known IH would never steer us wrong

@@OrdinaryThings You guys should totally do a podcast, if you haven't yet!

I was gonna say, I felt that one.

Like the buy one choose one at McDonald's.

yeah but this difference with capitalism is you’ll have cheaper alternatives that you probably could afford. and u know, the freedom to change ur career and income whenever you want lol.

@@peanutskill007 i suggest you check out more videos on this channel

False dilemma: can you afford them - or do you really need them? 95% of ads I see I don't care about 'cause it's useless shit. By coincidence the remaining 5% should probably match the threshold at which marketers consider a promotion to be a success. What a waste of time, energy, and money...

That stopped around the 80s. Before then, characters like Lucky Luke would often smoke on television

Nu, Pugodi!

@@AgentDanielCross And continued into the 90's. I vividly remember some Animaniacs episode featuring a character smoking, even promoting a fake-brand of cigarettes. If I remember it right, Secret Squirrel also featured the main character as a pipe-smoker.

that was my moms favorite show, nu pogodi was awesome according to my mom who lived in 1986 soviet union.

@@cyborgthorney My mom showed it to me on VHS tapes. To my early 2000s sensibilities it was entertaining enough

Lol ironic to say the least.

@@samdherring gota love how things go full circle!

I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride.

Good thing a lot of it was demilitarized and they have no way of repairing any of it.

I see the state of the art (back then) Stinger missile, I see they got put to good use spreading democracy.

Maybe

Damn...me too

not at all

Look up Wendy's Commercial. "Is next, evening wear. Is next, Swim wear."

Well that's poetic justice I think - the Bolsheviks got a taste of what they did to Kerensky's provisional government

The movie Lord of War with Nicholas Cage touches on the whole gun running thing

Fell as it rose... with pillaging and other forms of turpitude. And the tankies forever want revenge.

That's actually on of the best explanations of that situation. Thank you.

Maybe, but to be frank, he was no Deng Xiaoping. Russia couldn't have done EXACTLY what China did, no, but I think Gorbachev could have done well. For one thing, Russia had a lot of aircraft-building capacity in those days, and nearly all Russian aircraft factories had large enough runways to fly out an airliner. They had good designs, and advanced capabilities, they even had a supersonic airliner before we did, all they were missing was a Western-grade Quality system to ensure airworthiness up to international expectations. Given what was at stake with the Cold War, one phone call to Ronald Reagan and Gorby would have had every Quality Engineering expert from Navair AND the Air Force & Army equivalents on the ground in Kiev within the month helping Russia turn swords in to plowshares, put Airbus out of business and give Boeing and McDonell Douglas a run for its money. And frankly, that would have produced more prosperity more quickly than what China did with cheap manufacturing, and certainly enough for a country of only 225 milion people.

I wouldn't call northern Ireland fully integrated

Or as Philippines or Japan were once satellites of USA. Or Vietnam as satellite of France.

It was also along with Lithuania and Lativa were forcibly conquered by the red army, so they never voluntary joined the union, they were forced into it.

@@jozopako or Israel

@@TheCoffeybeans it is. No matter what south Irish people think.

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