At 15:39 that’s my home city

Sounds like a great Reagan joke.

Noah the Flowa I worked many years for a nuclear power plant in Sweden. We always ran the same joke whenever we had visitors (which was quite often)! Some who didn’t get the joke, were quite shocked: ”why don’t they work?”, ”oh they’re at home recuperating from all the radioactivity.” :-)

It's weird how pro-capitalist types will brag about how hard capitalist laborers work because they're constantly threatened with homelessness. What a strange flex.

@@gymnopedie4445 meanwhile, half of your effort is wasted working in a capitalist company following directives from management that don't actually work in reality.

@@Merle1987 directives from management that don't work is not unique to capitalist.

Sounds like she's a communist?

Compared to post WWII state, when everything was in ruins, things were constantly improving. E.g. my parents in the same city Kiev got their 3 room appt after 5 years of waiting or so in 1987. USSR was clearly bent on ideology and had quite an ugly censorship. But at its core it had real intentions of making everyone's life better and advance science & progress. USSR failed to readjust priorities and considered itself to be in a hostile capitalist evnironment with inevitable impeding war. It allocated huge resources into arms & space race failing to outpace the West in increasing the well-being of its citizens. This lead to its ultimate demise as the citizens started to increasingly believe that the Western system offered a "better paradise". Had USSR allocated its resources differently, there could be a different outcome.

@@antonlevkovsky1667 This was very much the intention of the arms race I think. The USSR was in ruins after WWII and had a huge lack of young men which is still reflected in the demographics of post-soviet countries to this day. The US was in a much better position and could afford all those weapons. The USSR could not.

@@dijikstra8 It is also difficult to father children from inside a gulag.

​@@meglukesthe US also had interment camps at the hight of gulags. Just don't be of the wrong race

Happy Diwali from India

I have a similar experience. I was born in 1973. I walked alone or with friends to elementary school (grades 1-6) in the US. So, the time and generation may also have something to do with children's independence.

Yeah, things were different in the 1980s and even the 1990s, remember those times fondly even if they weren't perfect.

67NewEngland in 2010-11, I walked to elementary, in 2013-14, I walked to middle school.

Through 4 feet of snow and uphill both ways.

67NewEngland why aren’t you guys allowed to walk to school

@wagner1va ...just move where they are not.

Yeah, people don't get that druggies leave others alone, they just beg for money, sometimes bit annoying, but that's it, you know what they need money for, so your choice...

because it was bad

@@radiozelaza everything is bad.

@@radiozelaza it's not as simple as that, we should take an honest, unbiased look at all cultures to see if there is anything we can learn.

@@dcan911 communism is not culture. Communism is anti-culture. Communism eviscerated and demolished Russian culture (which was not that good either), and did the same with traditional cultures of Siberian and Central Asian peoples as well.

@@radiozelaza ok, substitute 'culture' with 'society' my point still stands..

A gde ti živiš? Predpostavljam u Beogradu jer nikad nisam čuo za stanove koji su vredni oko 70 do 100 hiljada eura... Stanovi u Srbiji koliko ja znam su vredni oko 30 do 50 hiljada eura, ako je nešto više onda je to u Beogradu ili u centru grada. I naravno plate su niske ali ako dve osobe zarađuju oko 400 eura onda je to ukupno 800 eura što je i više nego dovoljno samo za njih dvoje (700 eura je srednja linija kada dođe do "srednje klase" za četvoročlanu porodicu).

Hello, if you don't mind. Can I ask what were your experiences living in a socialist country? I'm just getting into this stuff and it'll be interesting getting info from channels like these and people like you 😁

@@christofertristofer9943 Gde imas te stanove od 30 000 eura..u Kragujevcu za ta pare mozes samo garsornjeru..trosoban stan nov ti je 100 000 eura..

@@DanielGarcia-kw4ep In 50s was relatively poor becase off WWII devastation ,in 60s was little better ,but in 70s and 80s standard off living was pretty good ,i had everything that kids off my age in west had and also all friends i have ...everyone i knew had nice lives Off course there were some parts that were more rich some more poor..like in Serbia North parts were much richer then South parts.I dont what you interest in .

Jean P. G. Honestly! Get over it! I had a friend who was a "relative" (not by blood, but more of a friend since we actually were not relatives by blood) whose maternal grandfather was Jewish and he was superbly generous, when we visited him he would not let us stay at a hotel or even spend in restaurants. On the other hand many rich relatives who were pretty much "old Christians" and did not cared about as all except for a Christmas card once a year.

Well off people are sometimes pretty generous.

Free healthcare, apartments, and guaranteed jobs. So what happened? Reality happened. Socialism sucks.

You need to remember that WW2 ended in 1945 and Russia was completely destroyed, bombed, burned to ashes and 27 millions people was killed in war ( almost all men). In the USA, western media they trying not mention this fact. In the 1960 already was no homelessness, free apartments after working like 8 or 10 years for to own ,free medical care, free high education, paid 1 month vacation a year, great public transportation, thousands of libraries, museums and so on. My parents got their 3 bedroom apartment after my dad served 8 years in the army - he never ever was shipped on any wars. Just 5 days a week walked in his army division on next street . I lived in the SSSR from 1980 . In 1990 end up in country Moldova 🇲🇩. All hell got lose in this country since then:( For the last 18 years I live in the USA. My life is hard here and my coworkers too. Allot of homelessness, people can’t afford health insurance, it’s a very very big deal and great accomplishment if someone from your family able to go to college- extremely expensive. But I love people here - everyone was always good to me and people mostly nice and very kind. But I do have great nostalgia about this 1980- 1990 years in the SSSR .Allot of things I wish was here that we had Happiness to have in the SSSR. This Chanel is for English speaking people. So you will read opinions of people who don’t know any actually facts- only what they been hearing in their media - of course only bad staff. If you will see huge amount of videos about SSSR from People who lived in the SSSR - you will find out that almost everybody MISSING SSSR Times. It was ALLOT to love about this times too. For some reason over of this Chanel will always tell only bad staff about it’s people and life at this times. On different occasions I was thinking that I will just never watch his videos no more, but then I wonder - what people think about his videos? Will they believe allot of lies in them too. Keep in mind that over of this Chanel from Ukraine- and probably getting paid to tell bad staff about Russia, SSSR. Just imagine someone from your country moved somewhere else and then speeding lies , speak BS about your country, your people - it will be someone like owner of this Chanel.

@@duradim1 You're stupid, misinformed and brainwashed. Fix yourself.

@@100Mmore my brother, you're wiser than me, do you still feel the pain? The pain of the Soviets folding up their worn out rhetoric and it being buried in the ash heap of history. Has it occurred to you that I may have thought like you and then fixed myself?

I heard about many inventive ways to trick the meter. Some people actually drilled holes in the concrete walls to connect to the power lines before the meter

All to save a few rubles that couldn’t buy much of anything anyway 😬

I know, I studied hvac at trade school but if the underground steam lines were melting the snow above them in winter then they were very poorly insulated and were wasting loads of heat

Yes I agree.

Truly. In america there is an estimated 6 empty houses to 1 homeless person. Capitalism seems to work well XD

USHANKA SHOW For free??? What are you talking about? My grandma was working as a horse for almost 16 years in several Sovhos as an economist. And only after that, when she already had 3 kids, government gave her 80square meters apartment. Actually which looks like most of the Soviet apartments. Ugly and poor. And that’s all) She is a veteran of the labor, and ended her career and a major economist in the government of our town. Now she has a VERY low pension. By the way my grandpa also worked all his life. Both of them graduated universities, worked hard and had shitty poor life.

That's an absurd inefficiency. What good is a house if no one lives in it and homeless people live extremely terrible, short lives on the streets? A house is literally meant to house human beings. If it isn't doing that, it's not a positive sign at all. And people starve every day under capitalism. Most nations in the world are capitalist and are rife with malnutrition and starvation. All of sub-saharan africa is capitalist and look how that works for them. Even in the US, 1 in 5 families are malnourished and don't get enough food. Yes, there is lots of food, but enough people aren't getting it, just like housing. Most of that food also is thrown out and spoils before anyone even eats it. What good is food if no one is eating it? Again, hugely inefficient, wasteful and harmful.

Completely wrong. Far more waste in capitalism than any socialist system. The world's greatest polluters are all in the US, starting with the US military. As for waste byproducts, even what is constructed is done inefficiently. 6 empty houses for every homeless person, and usually homes no one can afford? Food produced and imported but most is thrown away for not looking right or reaching the sell-by date, while 1 in 5 US families are malnourished and hungry? Capitalism is the most wasteful system ever devised, combining modern production techniques with a perpetual need for consumption. Profit accumulation is the reason for activity in capitalism, not meeting material needs, so insane volumes of waste are produced at world historic levels.

John Wyatt we did that in the 90’s too

Wow, thank you!

SCP-001 Hi, do you know if there is any equivalent Chinese version of Ushanka show where a Chinese person talks about pre Deng China? Thanks 🙏

I would like to know too.

@@dylanhiggins4760 dylan, were you able to find?

@@deantan4080 Hi Dean, no I haven't found anything like this so far.

Cheeky Sod. Guilty I did that too. We were more creative then. This current generation would not know what to do. Plus they have everything. The sense of entitlement.

There was succession, you could make a will, or your relatives would inherit. Just like everywhere. Specifically, the USSR was using the German system of inheritance, with notaries. As to “antiques” - If you mean like really culturally valuable items, than , private citizens could not own them. If you found a treasure trove, you were to give it to the state, and get 25% of value paid

Reminded me of this scene from the simpsons...kzfaq.info/get/bejne/obahmKWpl57FgWQ.html :D

I’d watch that over any other modern sitcom any day! Soviet Wonder Years... we need a better title...

It would have to be in Russian language with English subtitles or it just wouldn't be authentic. It could be like the Russian/Ukrainian language scenes of Everything is Illuminated. It was freaking hilarious even though I had to read subs.

Mark16:15 - Sergei is funny.

how is the real life in sweden

I gotta say. Your mom is a bright person. She really plannned for you and your future. That is so amazing and wisem

it's how people are, not because soviet. people loosen up more these days, but it is not because we are sad it is because that is culture. my parents mostly dad talks low and unemotional, but at home he is very lively. internet brings some lively videos with fast western style talk, but at home in US, still the way to be low key. now i'm so american, i talk fast and laugh much, and it is funny.

USHANKA SHOW The details are a bit foggy but from what I remember he was very sick/almost dead from being in the German labor camp. He ended up in some type of hospital. He said soviet soldiers showed up to grab their guys. He was able to hide from them with the help of a nurse. When he got all better he got a job on a merchant ship. They sailed to Chile. He stayed! When Chile elected a Marxist in 70 (Allende) he packed up and went to Argentina. He told my dad that he could not do communism twice in his lifetime. When Allende died he came back! Thanks. Your show reminds me of my childhood!

Thank you Sergei. In CSSR, we had Soviet canned fish, incl. uzene sproty (very common) and morskaja kapusta. Soviet matches with printed price of 1 kop. - different than our matches, and very popular with kids to make explosives because one didn't need a box to light Soviet matches. We also had Lada/Zhiguli cars, simple and durable, and Moskvich cars. Our police "verejna bezpecnost" and taxi used Volha cars. The waiting list for cars was maybe two to three years in 1980s. And small electronics, calculators, gun toys, and electronic game "Nu pogodi" (for 250 Kcs). And books, incl. books in English printed in USSR, and a lot of World War II movies, cartoons, and fairy tales (I am trying to find one about Kostej Nesmrtelny) (a ticket was 1 Kcs, compare to other movies 3 Kcs), and since 1988 a Soviet TV as a "third channel". And, of course, the entire Prague metro system was Soviet designed and made. Also, thank you for INTERKOSMOS and taking Vladimir Remek to space. Remek was the first cosmo/astronaut from a country other than USSR or USA. Not many people know that.

Yes, the coop flats tended to have a better quality internal fittings

Sorty, I missed your comment. I don't think quality was any different. My father had to repaint all the doors and windows

Yes please

The loan did not give you any free money. The loan was fully spent on the flat. The individual apartments were not owned - only a share in the cooperative. If I am not wrong, before you could sell it, you needed a consent of other coowners. Moreover, anyone who wanted to buy it, needed to give up any other apartment he might have. It was generally not allowed to have several places of residence

@@jurisprudens But the economics of communism forbids the concept of accelerating currency by loaning out money that is in people's savings. In communism, money cannot be in two places at once therefore a loan must come from a source of currency that's not in use. I have trouble believing that the Soviet Union had a pile of money used only for real estate loans.

Scott Larson I repeat - no money were given to the people. The “loan” consisted in that the state sold the flats with delayed payment

@@jurisprudens OK, *now* you're saying it wasn't a loan which isn't what you were saying before. That doesn't explain what happens when the new owner wants to sell it.

Scott Larson Officially, You could only sell it for the original price. In practice, there could be undercover additional payments. Few people had excessive free money that they could spend on buying coop shares from those who have already paid their installments. Police was watchful of illegal riches. If you bought something you could not officially afford, they would find out

We had a tremendous factory system in better times . Employed millions , in the sciences and skilled labor, best in the world !

It was terribly ineffective. Work for one done by three.

My mother was sorry and upset because smart comrades kept both apartments

​@@UshankaShow😂😂😂

There are. There are no DIRECT descendants of Tsar Nicholas II, but descendants of his sisters have survived as well as his cousins. In fact, the Romanov Dynasty is still considered royalty today though the current head is disputed.

Kiev is a rather big city though, different situation. The bigger the city, the chances are there are more people with money in it and more people buying real estate, driving prices up. It is not directly related to the economy of a country on average, same with Moscow - the prices there are too high too, compared to the living standard (which is high by average Russian standards but still nothing much to write home about). Moscow prices can be similar to Western European capitals. Although I too think 120 000 in the outskirts of Kiev is perhaps exaggerated a bit.

The housing situation in the SU was constantly improving. Keep in mind that after WWII, Russia industry was pretty much nonexistent, the economy was backwards, there was little technology, and the urbanization rate was very low. By the 70s, urbanization was high, and they had built millions upon millions of housing units in the ~30 years since the war. It was never stagnant on the housing scene there.

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Amount of people registered in the particular apartment and it's size

Hello! It's not boiler inefficient but the delivery of hot water to the surrounding buildings and inside the buildings as well. Heat losses were huge. Snow always melted in the areas where pipes were buried.