It seems that everyone that I've heard that has mentioned the dissolution had no real idea on why the USSR actually collapsed. This is the first video I've watched that clearly explains exactly what happened and the causes for its end. Fantastic and informative video once again!

I've heard countless takes on the fall of the USSR but I did find this one unique and interesting in its own right. Well done!

I could never emphasize enough how well done your reporting is. I really enjoy and appreciate the work you do.

I’m amazed at this video, especially because of how much was talked about Yuri Andropov despite his untimely and unfortunate death. Not enough people talk about him because (if it wasn’t already too late) he was someone who could have made huge improvements on the ussr

I am getting used to consistently watching your quality work and thoroughly enjoying it - keep it up this is really fantastic!

12:07 There was 8-hours working day from 1917 (1922 for USSR). From 1960 there was (max) 42-hours working week. From 1967 there were 5-day working week.

Thank you for pointing out that nations do not all start on equal footing. The world is not fair. It's not some giant meritocracy where one nation is full of geniuses, while the other is just inherently stupid and miserable just because of the people themselves. The world is much more complex than these oversimplifications. People naturally have a habit of simplifying everything for the sake of easy explanations, but ignoring all nuance often brings people to incredibly dark and destructive places.

ciao Simone, saró anche un ennesimo commentatore, ma voglio farti sapere che aprire il canale in inglese è stata la tua idea migliore dell’anno. il tuo contenuto, solo in italia, viene guardato anche da miei amici la cui homepage è musica trap e tutorial su come girarsi i cannoni. La qualità dei tuoi video va oltre qualsiasi documentario televisivo, e aprendoti al pubblico mondiale non farai altro che espanderti e mostrare la tua arte e conoscenza al mondo. (ps scusa se la sintassi fa schifo ma non ho voglia di rileggere)

Thanks for your hard work, the final result clearly shows the effort condensed in a very watchable video essay. Well done!

how you have only 60k subscribers is mind boggling. this was such well explained and detailed analysis. most videos just don't explain policy or give hard data however you excelled.

This is one of the best ones I've seen about the end of the Soviet Union. It was so easy to follow, for a change. They usually have way too much information that really doesn't help you to understand at all. And they never quite add up to something logical. But this video made the whole thing seem like it followed some kind of logic.

Boris Yeltsin didn’t “support a coup against Gorbachev in 1991.” The exact opposite happened. Both Yeltsin and Gorbachev were on the same side against a coup by KGB hardliners. I’m frankly shocked how you can misrepresent history in such a manner to say that Yeltsin supported a coup again Gorbachev. Wtf?

I think this English version came even better than the Italian, don't ask me why. Very good job as always, keep it up!!

This is amazing! The best, clearest and most in depth analysis about the USSR collapse I have seen. Please keep educating!

Yes,another great video,I'm really sure that your type of videos will be more and more liked.Keep doing this great job and greetings from a latin brother(from Romania).

By the way, the deficit was also caused by the people's salaries growing every decade but food/ other product's prices weren't, so people started buying more and more to the point where it caused panic and people started buying even more in hopes of buying before it disappears. This happened so much to the point where demand was so high that production couldn't even come close to the demand, and that's not even considering the factors mentioned in the video.

Loved your analysis and video. Keep growing!

I'm just starting the video but I hope it mentions the Soviet military industrial complex and its detrimental effect on the Soviet economy. It's utterly baffling the amount of resources and money they put into military industry at the expense of light civilian industry, making tens of thousands of modern tanks and other armored vehicles that dwarfed the industrial capability of the US and Western Europe combined but which was completely unsustainable.

I would have found it really funny if Kazakhstan just didn't declare independence and just stayed the Soviet Union xD

It should be understood that Gorbachev’s liberalization wasn’t just Pizza Hut. He encouraged private worker owned and managed cooperatives. They were successful. Yugoslavia already had worker owned and managed cooperatives. This was market socialism. GHW Bush demanded a complete end to these cooperatives in Yugoslavia in order to receive a loan, and obviously the CIA lead Yeltsin government preferred neoliberalism rather than liberalism. So the USA created the Russian oligarchy. Also Gorbachev‘s admiration of Lenin is not such a contradiction, Lenin had a liberal policy of private enterprises that Stalin ended.

Excelent summary of the topic. Brilliant. Thank you!

Well written. Excellent content and very educational. Thank You very much in making this.

This was great, thank you! Though even if this took 2 hours, I'd still watch it. Never be afraid of long-form my guy.

Well done. That was an impressively concise account of a very big subject. Thank you.

Found you this morning and I'm liking what you do. I'm subbing.

The USSR is like that depression commercial where they're asking if you're fine and really you're not.

I still find it strange that so many people today have no idea what life was like during the cold war. The tension, paranoia, and the omnipresent and palpable threat of nuclear destruction that hung like a dark cloud over daily life.

Tbh all your videos explain things really well

I am glad I found this channel and if you are taking requests. Can you make a similar video detailing how political and economical reforms in China worked.

Really underrated and well made video

Premium content. Clear and sharp analysis.

Loved this report! Seven blessings to you

Brilliant historical documentary. I've subscribed for more. Thank You

Dude, what a pro video! Pro in the content!!! Reputable sources nicely put together. Learned a lot!!! Grazie mille dal Brasile! Oh ... let me put an ad here: When in Rome, be sure to visit Ristorante la Nuova Piazzetta at Via del Buon Consiglio, 23. I was there 7 years ago and that's how good they were - I'm still making free ads for them!

Wow what a very detailed content. Thank you for this great work

Love your videos, great content!

Such good work! Amazing. Thank you.

I'm from a former communist country, Romania and i honestly didn't know much about the fall of the USSR itself, but i assumed it was similar to the fall of communism in my country. In our case, the economy never did spectacularly well, so as mentioned in the video, we had a national debt to western banks. The dictator Ceausescu was crazy enough to want to pay it all in just a few years at the expense of the people. Everything we produced was exported and there was literally nothing left for the people. There was no food to buy in the stores, people would line up in front of stores hours before they opened just to get the basics like milk and bread and there was often nothing left for the people in the back. Electricity was cut off a few hours a day, so we could sell more of it and so on. All in all, the people were miserable and terrorized by the secret services who listened in and manipulated people against each other.

excellent historical summary. You have earned a new subscriber :D

You have earned a new subscriber. Thank you for the 30 min of explanation.

This video is going to get extremely popular

Thank you very much, you explained a lot!

Really excellent documentary! Great work. Subbed ❤️👍😎😄

great video.. enjoyed watching this while at work on my computer.. just raw facts and the only narrative was pure facts.. well done! cheers!

“You can build a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.” ― Boris Yeltsin

Thank you for this awesome video and even more awesome channel!

I love your video about history and international affairs keep up the good work brother love your video from from Luxembourg

Awesome video keep up good work

This was the only video about the collapse of USSR that I could understand. Thank you

"Central Europe depended on subsidies from Moscow" Are you high? East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland and others were mercilessly plundered by russians and then had to accept injust trades with the soviets! Lots of that trade debt had to be repaid for years after collapse of USSR. One of the contributing factors in the russian economic decay of 90ties was loss of those very countries, that were supplying them with quality goods (compared to what russians were able to build).

VERY VERY WELL DONE!!!

Thank you I learned a lot.

Nice and informative. Sad to see parts of the history repeating right now. Old men doing all they can to stay in power.

I will never forget that day. I couldn't believe what I was hearing and really thought we collectively all dodged a bullet being as the Cold War failed to get hot. Silly silly me. I just get to know my wife, my kids and my grandkids before we all die of nuclear annialation. I'm trying to figure out if that's better or worse.

7:32 Crimean region was in Ukrainian SSR from 1954. And why the hell Soviet republics named as "Eastern block" lol?

boris Yeltsin did not in fact stage the coup against Gorbachev, it was instead the military whom wished to bring back the Soviet Union to a more "brezhnev" era, where perestroika and Glastnost were little more than an idea. Boris Stood on that tank not to proclaim that he had defeated Gorby but that the military could not take control of the Soviet Union.

keep going nova lectio! i am italian and i have been following your italians version for years , however i totally prefer english as language , really glad you made a new channel with this language, keep going dont give up , at some point others will pick you up and you are gonna be able to grow to the level of others english creators. here cheering up for you! on both channels.

Where u get your cold war map behind you? Would love to get one

26:30 Yeltsin didn't support the coup, but used it well.

Can you make a video about the Commonwealth Of Independent States please?

The pasta comparison is genious. I want to go in San Gimignano again...

Un video destinato ai big numbers 🤟

24:01 What photo of Victoria Nuland in Kiev maded on 11 Dec 2013 did here lol?

Felice della crescita internazionale del canale

Could you do a video exploring the economic divide between north and south Italy?

video fantastico, in italiano e in inglese, grazie nova lectio

What Gorbachev had to do was reshape the internal boundaries within the USSR, then dismantle along those new borders. This way all ethnic Russians would find themselves within restored Russia, while new entities like Ukraine, and Kazakhstan would be roughly half of what they are today, ethnically compact and tension-free independent states. Now we live with the consequences of this messy break-up which inevitably led to ethnic and religious wars, unthinkable in Soviet time.

very well done

I like your videos very very good thanks for making this video 👍👌

Once you have McDonalds you are on your way to prosperity, now that McDonalds has left Russia it’s a sign of dark times ahead

Thanks

where did you get the map of Europe during the cold war from

I think we Brazilians have a similar saying as"Mama mia Pizzaria", we say "Tudo acaba em pizza". it means something on the lines of "Everything ends in pizza,even when nothing actually happens"!

Loved it.

Never realised you had an international channel as well.

You failed to mention the peoples deputies that Gorb hired their main job was dumping consumer goods in a landfill thus creating food shortages , apart from that the IT sector was lacking 3-4 years behind the west USSR didnt do that bad like you said.

Damn this video is good

Neat

Bro that animated street fighter version of gorbechav has me CRYIING lmao on the floor I love it

How do you have such good historical knowledge on the latest Slavic events of the past 50 years?

Nice

Solid video compa. Why does Russian from far away ,sound like Portuguese ? lol! Saludos desde Califas.

2:16 That's two words

Bro please do a video on Rise and Fall of British India please please 🙏

2:32 - bro- what is that map? :D

For the algorithm!!!!

8:50 Crimean ASSR was not existing from 1945

At 0:30, You Mispronounced Mikhail Gorbachev. It is Not "Michail Gorbachev", it "Mikhail Gorbachev.

pretty sure that lenin would have liked the destalinization part . he didn't want stalin in charge

@3:46 intensivity

Such a joyous occasion that was!

Watching this guy in English is watching your favourite anime getting a dub

no way that youtube recommended me this although the video was posted 55 minutes ago

It's Pizza Hut's fault. They weren't ready for the stuffed crust. Dear God they weren't ready!

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I knew it was a joke, but secretly I had to find out if Total War: Cold War really was confirmed. Then I thought “they wouldn’t release something that amazing though, we’ll get warhammer V instead”

If there were a couple of things I'd like everyone to know about the collapse of the Soviet Union, it would be these: 1. The person who orchestrated Perestroika and Glasnost (Gorbachev was too incompetent to think of them), Alexander Yakovlev, the so-called "architect of Perestroika", the ideological leader of the party during that time, was an American spy since the 70's, who later admitted that he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union from within. 2. In 1991, coup leaders did not dare order soldiers to shoot at the people in the Soviet parliament, who supported Yeltsin. In 1993 the same legislators, already disappointed in Yeltsin's government, tried to impeach him. Yeltsin did not hesitate and ordered tank regiments to open fire at the people's deputies and other protestors in the parliament.

Italian honor nova 🇮🇹🇺🇳

this is an extremely well and deep analysis, but bear in mind that almost no one knew how to make capitalistic reforms there

18:47 Damn why you gotta hurt him like that.