This is one videotape I found and was able to convert.. Moscow 1990-91
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@gunnergoz4 жыл бұрын
Explains an old Soviet humorous saying: "Things are getting better! Well, not as good as yesterday, but better than tomorrow!"
@ezequielalberto7203 жыл бұрын
Thats what I say about Argentina too!!!
@almafuertegmailcom3 жыл бұрын
@@ezequielalberto720 Well, peronism applies basically the same policies as the USSR, so not surprising.
@Peter_Parker3613 жыл бұрын
@Pamphlets Well, at least for most of the former satellite states of the USSR and the non-European Russian territories it got much worse but they were already a huge failure before Soviet Russia funded them like crazy. It's like you lived your whole life on welfare without ever learning a job or having any kind of useful education and then, after more than 60 years, you suddenly have to do something yourself to provide your living AS IT SHOULD BE! Of course this is not an easy pill to swallow but it's absolutely necessary and I can't see how "very very wealthy" oligarchs are worse than very very wealthy communist government officials who - unlike the oligarchs - have the power to control the entire economy (which didn't work out too well...) and the power to put you and your entire family in a fucking gulag if you cough in the wrong direction. However, the biggest problem for them is actually not the lack of Soviet funding but the complete ineptitude to establish Western democracies with real free market economies that ACTUALLY WORK and don't depend solely on the exploitation of finite geological resources...
@Peter_Parker3613 жыл бұрын
@Pamphlets What a bunch of BS! These polls are fucking meaningless (as most polls are), especially if you consider that a lot of these people are still very much indoctrinated into the communist/socialist maxim and/or just feel deeply nostalgic about these times for a variety of reasons - mostly subjective and personal. And yeah, a lot of them definitely benefited from the welfare they got from the government, I'm not even denying that! But it's also a fact, that their economy was a complete disaster for the most part and the few parts of it that somehow worked weren't sustainable because they relied mostly on the selling of rich geological resources (similar to the economies of the Middle East) and they had an undoubtedly tyrannical government that robbed them of almost all the freedoms that every individual in Western-run countries had at that time. And your excursion of Western colonialism in Africa is just pathetic and completely out of place in this context and maybe you should have educated yourself about the countless colonial endeavors of the USSR all throughout the Middle East and Asia! Admittedly, they totally failed in colonialism, just as they failed in everything else, but you can't say that they never tried. Anyway, I see that you already prepared these comments beforehand but i gotta tell you, that you are not very well prepared, my dear comrade!
@Peter_Parker3613 жыл бұрын
@Pamphlets Easy: A prison (in a Western country) punishes individuals who severely impair the freedom of others, (e.g. by killing or physically hurting them or by stealing from them) and also to protect the rest of society from those criminals! Gulags on the other hand existed exactly for the reason of committing such crimes against the citizens of the USSR, like taking the freedom of people to criticize the government or to form a political opposition or to defend themselves against the oppressive forces of the government or to defect to the West or to create a private business, etc. Everyone who dared to claim these basic Western/human rights had to fear of landing in one of these hellholes someday and the living conditions there... Well, let's just say, even the hardcore criminals in Alcatraz probably had it better back then, than the poor souls inside these "Russian prisons", which is just a different name for the same shit.
@marksman3143 жыл бұрын
The Soviet Union was truly ahead of its time -- the shelves at my local Trader Joe's didn't look like that until late in March 2020
@Volynyanka3 жыл бұрын
That was exactly what I thought when was a limit imposed how many of each items one could purchase. I grew up with that in USSR.
@electronicraisin59562 жыл бұрын
@Dope Cat gov: reforms the economy(perestroika) into a more capitalist chinese(dengist) model right wingers: "look how terrible gommunissm iz 😭"
@ggsay16872 жыл бұрын
@Dope Cat Soviet women were not thin, potatoes and cheap macarons are not very good for health.
@RealTallestSkil2 жыл бұрын
@@electronicraisin5956 You’ll be first against the wall when your revolution comes. You’ll die confused and afraid, begging your masters to let you live. “But I was a good revolutionary, wasn’t I?! I did everything you asked for! I’m not a prole! I’m one of y-“ That’s just it, though. You did everything they asked. It’s just that they asked you to die. You didn’t get the memo. Enjoy.
@electronicraisin59562 жыл бұрын
@@RealTallestSkil take your pills grandpa, youre drifting off to your fantasies again
@666crippled6664 жыл бұрын
me: walks into walmart me: finds 80 different types of cookies me: "these suck"
@NatalieNicole22224 жыл бұрын
appreciate what you have.
@miltonferreira92874 жыл бұрын
"I will reestablish communism" - Gandhi 3298-6486
@WilBgames4 жыл бұрын
4 months later...
@henriaunin4 жыл бұрын
there were huge lines always at the store, like if apple came out with the original iphone every day. Stock was non-exsistent as usual. Bananas were hard to find or there weren't even any. It was always like this, every single day.
@miltonferreira92874 жыл бұрын
@@henriaunin bananas are important , but poteto is essential
@User39842D5 жыл бұрын
The entire store looks like my refrigerator whenever I'm hungry.
@alixritter98513 жыл бұрын
Imagine how they felt
@Mvet3 жыл бұрын
@@alixritter9851 put soviet patato in the refrigerator 😂
@kitsunetrask3 жыл бұрын
Do you want brown ketchup? Or brown ketchup? We have many colors of lipstick, red and dark red. We also have flesh color...it is no lipstick.
@Isinforblood3 жыл бұрын
Yea fr 😭😭
@tandlreeve3 жыл бұрын
It was a different world. Thank you for the video. Feels like travelling back in a time machine. I was a young woman when I left USSR. I now can't recall in such details what people wore, what it all looked like having lived for so long in the West. Those videos enable us to reconnect with our childhood (somewhat)
@gregoryrodriguez56212 жыл бұрын
Well if you're in America get ready to relive history at the rate we're going
@tandlreeve2 жыл бұрын
@@gregoryrodriguez5621 I am not sure if you know it but the first thing the Soviets did back in 1917 they'd destroyed churches and annihilated tens of thousands of priests in the Stalin's prison camps. Each country has its own history...
@Vrediskin2 жыл бұрын
@@tandlreeve " Each country has its own history..." вот только история россии вечная жопа почемуто- как были у карамзина бояре и опричнина , так и остались. проклятая страна
@nonames15592 жыл бұрын
@@gregoryrodriguez5621 Go back to Mexico then
@yaser51332 жыл бұрын
its going to be russia any minute now
@lamarmadriaga2373 жыл бұрын
This is the most depressing grocery store that i have ever seen
@ishikawagoemon43972 жыл бұрын
Soviet economy was really fallen behind compare to western economy, while western europe and America produce more goods everyday with both food, cloth and with newer abd better electronics goods, Russia and Eastern Europe can't keep up with them, Russian military maybe modern but their economy is sore that even the basic need are hard to find
@skibididopyesdop Жыл бұрын
@Surreal_NewsFull with what? Empty jars?
@mikespike11 Жыл бұрын
Well you not saw Yugoslavia in 90s still plus there all fall down and sanctions and war,here they have something there nothing 1 can on all market,ppl wait for milk ir bread all day and inflation,till you waiting for milk price riže 10 times,inflation was 220 000 percent
@thunderbird1921 Жыл бұрын
From what I've heard, even before it got THIS bad, the Soviets were having to import large amounts of meat from France in the 80s to ensure it would stay in the diets of their people. Agriculture and livestock production in the country had never been phenomenal IIRC, but by Brezhnev's last years in power, it was having serious problems and decline in production. Before the Russia-Ukraine War and other stuff, Russia in the 2000s actually had a miraculous agricultural revolution that saw them go from being an importer of grain in the Soviet era to becoming one of the Top 5 exporters on earth. If THAT doesn't prove the superiority of a capitalist system, what does?
@skibididopyesdop Жыл бұрын
@@ishikawagoemon4397 russian military isn’t modern 😂 they use machinery from the 1960s
@snowwhite58422 жыл бұрын
American grocery carts are the size of Fiats to make you feel like you didn’t get enough. Russian grocery carts are the handbags to make you feel as though you have more than enough.
@galactic_mapper Жыл бұрын
In both cases you still don't have enough😂😂😂
@efrainmar4707 ай бұрын
Nah. Shopping carts used to be like that across Europe back in that time
@davestohs3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this historical footage. The picture is beautiful and the sound is clear. I am studying Soviet culture and historical media like this video is priceless.
@brandonlopez89502 жыл бұрын
Seems like the time you’re living in is priceless for studying Soviet culture
@andredesign39854 жыл бұрын
I was born in Soviet Union, in 1981. But I don’t remember being hungry, because my grandma had sort of mini farm. She owned: couple of cows, pigs, rabbits, chickens, goats. We grew our own vegetables, fruits e tc. My grandma made our own bread, cheese, ice cream. As a result I was super healthy kid, never had any allergies, never had a cold! And it was super cold in the winter in Ural Mountains. I remember there are used to be separate shops for different things. Separate shops for milk, for bread, or meat for example. Only when supermarkets came in to play, with extensive choice of food, I suddenly developed some allergies and my immune system went down. Although, I am happy that I’ve kept some of my childhood healthy eating habits up to today. 👍
@user-km5kj8xh1x3 жыл бұрын
Atleast Russian's arent confused which batbroom to use and have identity crisis
@TheButterMinecart13 жыл бұрын
@@user-km5kj8xh1x What does that transphobic drivel have anything to do with the original comment?
@user-km5kj8xh1x3 жыл бұрын
@@TheButterMinecart1 sorry i forgot how sensitive you people are, try not to cry. Everything is going to be okay, do you need a coloring box and books and a safe space. Like many of the universities there offer.
@mouwersor3 жыл бұрын
@@user-km5kj8xh1x It's not about sensitivity, you're just shilling your completely unrelated ideology in this conversation.
@recklssabndon3 жыл бұрын
It was the same way in Cuba. It also was really hurt by corruption when the supermarkets showed up. Somehow the distribution of more luxury foods always ended up in the stores that only ministers and officials could shop at. That got really bad in the late 80’s
@criznueve3 жыл бұрын
A family friend of my husband, he’s Filipino brought his Russian wife to live in the Philippines (90s) and she was so shock to have all the Coke she can drink. Lol Filipinos found it weird as Philippines is a 3rd world country but Russia had no access to soda. And we thought we had it bad
@galactic_mapper Жыл бұрын
She should be thankful for him of taking her from "worker paradise" imo
@mitchyoung9311 ай бұрын
Yeah...sugar water!
@JACKPOTTT77716 күн бұрын
And ? Like who needs that poison anyway ? Coke 🤦🏻♂️
@pAThomies15 күн бұрын
Found this upsetting, cannot imagine the struggles she went through during Soviet rule.
@tendedtadpole2paparazzi9973 жыл бұрын
7:37 That women took one sniff of that meat and said "Ight imma head out"
@friedrice693 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂😂😂
@thebluewhale88913 жыл бұрын
True. The Soviet Union suffered constant meat shortages. Kina like what the US is experiencing right now except these days we have IQF and cryoseal technology, combined with a strong distribution network. Meat prices are high but at least they're reaching their destination before they expire.
@saganich742 жыл бұрын
Cat meat has a acquired smell
@Xapheus2 жыл бұрын
So much meat rejection in this video, even when there isn't much meat to choose from.
@melelconquistador2 жыл бұрын
@@Xapheus Who would want to shit their guts from food poisoning?
@mattikaki3 жыл бұрын
The Finnish Commercial TV (MTV) was able to watch in Soviet Estonian Tallinn. We had much food commercials and the best were those where our K-Market ”Meat Counter Väiski” named man told how to make good beef and what kind of meat is now the best and on sale etc. showing delicious chunk of meat in close-ups. The counters were of course full of meat as the markets usually were here. When Tallinn people were angry that they don’t have meat like in Finland, the party told them that all the commercials we aired, were only propaganda and the meat were not real or not really for sale for the puclic. The same story was told when we aired washing machine, hoover or freezer commercials.
@pehess24953 жыл бұрын
At that time, a woman said to her husband: "if I had bacon, I would have made you a bacon omelet, but unfortunately I have no eggs ....!"
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
At least have a McDonald's in Moscow. Until it close down.
@IBoughtItMyself Жыл бұрын
Fantastic camera work. Very stable and gives a solid perspective on what it was like back then.
@eos716 Жыл бұрын
@@CzechtoU This is not an USSR. And USSR was the greatest state on Earth!
@eos716 Жыл бұрын
@@CzechtoU Why should I go to North Korea if my Homeland is the USSR? The USSR was the greatest country in the history of Mankind, which gave UNBELIEVABLE freedom from capitalist slavery for ALL people! And North Korea is also a good country, they have their own missiles, processors, satellites, OS, etc and all this for a 70-year blockade from Western traitors.
@eos716 Жыл бұрын
@@CzechtoU Also, u dont have freedom at all, u have cancel culture, that's all, EU = big prison for nations.
@Doug_M Жыл бұрын
And now gen Z thinks socialism is something we need to go back to, even though the 20th century is littered with the millions of dead from socialist regimes. I wish those young people could be sent off to a place where the government rations out everything in their lives, so they could experience the realities of socialism.
@Earth0987 жыл бұрын
This was in 90s during the recession ultimately led to the collapse of the country.
@denisoko84944 жыл бұрын
It was in 20th with millions dead from artificial famine created by communists ,and again it definitely was with more than millions dead for the same reason, it was in 30th with 1at least 11 millions dead in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Don, Cuban and etc., it was again in 40th with 1+ million dead, and the reason was communist policy... so 80th and 90-91 were a kind of relaxed mode comparing to previous 50 years in USSR. And yes, I was born in fucking USSR in one of the countries occupied by Red Russia, I remember empty shelves in grocery stores, generally in any shop/supermarket empty shelves all over USSR, with some exceptions for city like Moscow and Leningrad!
@ezrathegreatconqueror3 жыл бұрын
Denis Oko Brezhnev era was far far far better than your fuсking Gorbachev the impostor
@chrissthrlnd3 жыл бұрын
@@denisoko8494 Have you seen all the videos on YT with people saying how great the USSR was?
@denisoko84943 жыл бұрын
@@chrissthrlnd Yes, it was crazy for me to see that people, those uneducated, but "useful idiots" for Commies, those who bought all this socialist crap again. BTW those on TV generally were first in line to shoot when Commies take full power, i.e. they don't need more "useful idiots" who could compare their promises and the Commies reality.
@denisoko84943 жыл бұрын
@@ezrathegreatconqueror F@ck all and any of these Commies abomination AKA Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin... Brezhnev, Gorbachev and etc.! USSR is dead and I like it! I am from Ukraine occupied by Red Russia and I didn't remember time when harvest was bad that time, but Red Russia Commies Policy "magically" created multiple famines and deficit of food continuously from 1917 to 1991.
@phamtrieuduong16193 жыл бұрын
The cameraman has noticed the beautiful face at the end - and he has shared this little ray of light to us through many years
@lu8712 жыл бұрын
Soviet smiles LOL
@ralphralpherson9441 Жыл бұрын
You know Russian girls... All 10s and 1s. WOW😍... woah🤢.... WOW😍.....woah🤢... "woah".... Awwwww, I'm a "woah" 😥
@youtube-ventura Жыл бұрын
@@ralphralpherson9441 Thanks Family guy!
@hmmmnmnmnm11 ай бұрын
Two beautiful faces, one behind the other. Holy moly. If they didn't have those dowdy haircuts and clothes they'd be super hot.
@ssmusic2148 жыл бұрын
LOL! Empty shelves but potted plants on top! How cute!
@tomlauris6 жыл бұрын
Distracts from the empty shelves...
@faithsrvtrip87686 жыл бұрын
Those were refrigeration units.
@tes4204 жыл бұрын
Serge Stodolnik - That is Communism in a nutshell
@joemalone73864 жыл бұрын
Lipstick on the ol pig routine.... But in Russia no pigs. Not even in deli case
@ssmusic2144 жыл бұрын
@@tes420 Communism is a fantasy fairy tale that has nothing to do with reality.
@zippyLTU7 жыл бұрын
Wow this shop is stacked, probably its because in Moscow... In smaller cities you couldnt find at least half of this stuff.
@doghammer17 жыл бұрын
))) soo funny, you make my week)), you make my month))). I'll have good mood for New Year.
@zippyLTU7 жыл бұрын
doghammer1 but thats what reality in soviet union was... yeah now it looks like comedy, but then people had to suffer coz of some commies...
@doghammer17 жыл бұрын
Actually not.Please, make some effort over yourself, to read below "cc" post and comment from Django. Both are very accurate. Django's observations are exactly righ. Because I remember 70s, and 80s.So in this way I will agree with every Django and cc words
@zippyLTU7 жыл бұрын
doghammer1 well I am talking from my experience. My parents, gandparents lived in ussr occupation... so nice try, but no... ussr was awefull.
@doghammer17 жыл бұрын
You have no experience, cause you never lived in USSR. You parents and grandparents lie to you. What about Riga's radio factory, was famous all over USSR? It' bankrupt under capitalism.
@thekidfromiowa7 жыл бұрын
It's like a dystopian Costco
@gretahoostal85656 жыл бұрын
I was thinking looks more like Aldi, actually. Dystopian Aldi. It’s German, now I wonder, EAST German?
@BridgesDontFly4 жыл бұрын
At least the plants are feed
@glenbaker84124 жыл бұрын
Or a Post-Brexit Britain...
@wa23684 жыл бұрын
50+ years of sanctions and embargoes against the USSR by the entire West did this....not socialism/communism. The greatest lie ever told was that socialism causes this. If you were sanctioned/embargoed for 50+ years, you would be eating your neighbor's cat out of hunger.
@latinolawdog50674 жыл бұрын
So you’re saying that the capitalistic system was the one producing the supply, and when they denied the supply, the communist system couldn’t produce it on their own. Is that correct?
@xep5k9 жыл бұрын
Amazing footage for history nice work.
@piirakkaliisa83404 жыл бұрын
If party says that store is full, then the store is full
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
Not in Mother Russia.
@ralphralpherson9441 Жыл бұрын
NYET! This topic is forbidden. Ministry of Truth will handle all communicades to outside world. Report to Gulag! NOW!
@PropiaPersona4 жыл бұрын
"When all you have is nothing, there is enough to go around"
@lewisyeadon40463 жыл бұрын
@Awawawa “Awawawa” CM no, this was 1917 to 1991, the only reason the footage is from during Khruschev is because no other leader would allow anyone to film how shit it was
@lewisyeadon40463 жыл бұрын
@Awawawa “Awawawa” CM I meant Gorbachev, and no, there is no uncensored footage of what the reality of life for the Soviet people was There were still films made in the 30s and 40s that were only released properly in the late 80s because Gorbachev was the first leader who didn't want to brutalise his own populace for not believing state "thruths"
@lewisyeadon40463 жыл бұрын
@Awawawa “Awawawa” CM yes, on paper it took a nosedive, but that's only because of how the Soviet system was setup- the USSR never actually recovered from WW2, and the stagflation under Khruschev was only openly revealed when the government stopped hiding it under Gorbachev Why else would the USSR admit that for decades it was far behind most other nations in consumer industries under Gorbachev? It wasn't that he suddenly flicked a switch and then everyone lost their jobs, it was the result of stopping the massive state spending, hyperinflation of currency, and strict state censure of information Quality of life in the USSR was terrible, hence why when we see a huge crisis in Western states supermarkets are still fully stocked, while even "good times" in Communist countries result in massive shortages and poor economic results
@lewisyeadon40463 жыл бұрын
@Awawawa “Awawawa” CM Nothing you have just said is true. The economy never recovered after WW2- it was never given the chance. The military was, from 1941 to about the middle of the 1980s, consistently absorbed far more of the Soviet economy than it had any right to. The economic "growth" experienced post-war was much like the "growth" seen under Stalin pre-war- it wasn't real growth, as in the economy of the country increasing, it was paper-growth in that what was recorded was wrong, the areas that grew were state subsidised and over-represented and the true economy, the supply of goods, services, labour and demand through consumption *decreased* due to the capital extraction and population decreases Now, one may argue the merits of this. I certainly do not agree that it was neccessary to kill millions of people through collectivisation to build industry, but if you do you cannot say it "grew" the economy, only pivoted it away from agriculture to industry. That's fine if you are arguing purely on the merit of state functions, but it is not conducive to actual economic growth. The Soviet economy, from its inception, was based around massive, hyperinflation. If you read the party documents, especially during Lenin and Stalin's rule, it is especially prevalent that they (and the Politburo) wanted this- by hyperinflation the currency and making it worthless to people, the Communist utopian ideal of people abandoning money would occur. The shortages did not develop under Gorbachev, they began under Lenin, *as a result of intentional state policy*. And when people were clearly angered by this, the Soviet state responded by increasing wages and lowering prices. It doesn't take an economist to tell you what will happen if goods are in short supply and people then are given more money and have more value for their money: they will buy more of it when they can, exacerbating shortages further. I'd seriously recommend reading Kotkin's three-parter tome on Stalin, but in essence it describes in several hundred pages what I just said. When the USSR entered the post-war world, it was severely crippled, industry was virtually zero because what wasn't destroyed was entirely geared towards now-useless military applications, which is not a moral condemnation but an observation of fact. It's population had not recovered to the pre-war total of ~185-195 million until 1955, and then its issues became impossible to ignore. From 1945 to 1950, the USSR grew a few percentage points of GDPpC in comparison to both Europe and the USA, from about 50 to 60% and 25% to 30%, respectively, yet then immediately took a drastic turn it never recovered from, reaching 50% of Europe in the 70s and 40% in the 90s. Stagflation absolutely affected the USSR, because stagnation was inherent to economy because of the way the central planning worked and inflation was state policy. Inflation was actually worse under Khruschev and Brezhnev because they did not operate the slave labor of the Gulags which allowed them to extract precious gold and platinum for very little cost, which meant unlike Soviet citizens the state could trade on the international market for what it needed. One of the few lifelines the state had during the 70s and 80s was Russia's incredible supplies of oil and gas, supplanting the previous decades reliance on increasingly difficult to extract metals. Ultimately, Gorbachev had little-to-no impact on the Soviet economy- supplies were already bad in the 20s and never reached a sufficient level in the first place. All Gorbachev did was to open the system to sunlight, to try and take an objective look at the real situation the Soviet Union faced. There is a reason he reached power, and its precisely excuse the Soviet Union had reached a crisis point under previous leadership, which was inevitable given the economic principles governing the country. There is a man who understand this, and that man is Reagan. Unlike the USSR, the USA was not an extractive economy, it was productive. It had the consumer economy as priority, and was therefore able to tax it lightly to produce an arms industry that far surpassed the Soviet Union's, which meant it could expand while the USSR would eventually collapse if it attempted parity, and that's what happened in history. Unlike the US in Vietnam, the USSR was unable to sustain Afghanistan and collapsed under the economic pressures from that. Now, you can certainly argue a counter-factual reality, like a more conservative Soviet leader crushing the independence movements within the USSR, but ultimately that would have most likely ended up with the state in a similar position in at most a decade. Instead of internal collapse, the economy would have shattered and you'd have civil war between the state and all its constituent territories wanting freedom. There is a reason that China pursued economic liberalism while tying it to the CCP, it can actually truly grow now and that is evident in the difference between China in 1990 and China in 2010, or 2020. Unlike the USSR, China has gone from an agriculturally extractive economy to a truly consumer based economy, like the USA, and therefore has the funds to do what it wants, which is why I find them a far larger threat than the USSR ever was. Unlike the USSR which died with its people having decades long waiting lists for massively outdated cars, China has the largest market for cars, smart phones, video games, etc. That is the real headstone of the USSR- its legacy is failure, having been supplanted by what it saw as an even greater rival than the USA
@cordeliachase601 Жыл бұрын
9:05 They had to literally smell the food to make sure it wasn’t rotted because in the USSR, they’d sell anything no matter if it gave the customer a disease or poisoned them. There was no rules.
@user-qo7zw9wm7v9 ай бұрын
Actually, there were rules. The abbreviation «ГОСТ» means «State standard» and complying with it was a mandatory thing.
@gmodrules1234567897 ай бұрын
They couldn’t sell rotten meat or eggs or anything that was inedible. They could sell stale bread. It was common for bakeries to sell the stale bread at the end of the day.
@marcuspold96522 жыл бұрын
my mom told me the story of his father life how lucky they were others were basically starving and my grandfather had very good life they had lots of food and also they had a car,cars were soo rare in ussr atleast in my country (estonia)
@tlf_worldcorner28782 жыл бұрын
they weren’t so rare in latvia, i guess it’s a matter of relocation of industrial complexes.
@chriseder50067 жыл бұрын
Watching this after seeing black Friday videos. Talk about two extremes.
@jcb57823 жыл бұрын
Worth to note that this video was taken sometime around 1990-1991. The whole Soviet empire was collapsing at this point. It is obviously a fair representation of grocery stores during the twilight of the Soviet empire(although stores from Moscow or St. Petersburg would probably be a lot better off), but it isn’t m quite a fair representation of stores in the decades before.
@ggsay16872 жыл бұрын
it is, stores in USSR sold only basic essential things, in comparative to western stores they were basically empty.
@snowwhite58422 жыл бұрын
But it did decline, and it did collapse. And the people who lived there suffered. You know what the definition of crazy is? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. People keep saying socialism will be different this time. Yeah, sure, with so many more people in the world today (many of whom have no desire to work) I’m sure it will be different. I’m sure it will fail that much sooner.
@sungod13842 жыл бұрын
@@snowwhite5842 gorbachevs pestroika policy did this man. Not planned economy. He was privatizing industries at massive levels. It couldnt handle markets and private ownership and such
@coldsake072 жыл бұрын
That fact that it ever got to that point and then totally collapsed says enough. A terrible venture that lasted less than a century and killed millions
@comrade_commissar37942 ай бұрын
@@coldsake07It collapsed because of Perestroika, which was markets.
@Adam-vo6tv2 жыл бұрын
My favorite part is the butcher behind the glass just chucking random meat parts onto the shelves below.
@ralphralpherson9441 Жыл бұрын
Imagine a world where "meat" has to be kept behind the closed doors so that no one storms the butcher area and raids all the meat. LOL
@MrCantStopTheRobot3 ай бұрын
Here is your allotment of 1 Meat Unit.
@M0rshu646 жыл бұрын
For a video from the 80's the video quality is impressive!
@maurice20145 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing USSR in my social studies textbook in 6th grade.
@elena79rus5 жыл бұрын
It's 'cause it's not from the 80s. This was happening already after the fall of the USSR. I would say 1991-92 maybe? In the USSR we had everything.
@elena79rus5 жыл бұрын
@@riccardonoce4832 The USSR fell apart in 1991.
@zilet78445 жыл бұрын
It was after the Perestroika when everything went to shit...
@Rugybrat5 жыл бұрын
@@elena79rus You had? Where are you from because as someone from a country that was once a part of ussr I can disprove this.
@@athandog tfw corona shortages are literally caused by capitalism. Fuck off, moron
@ebenade14 жыл бұрын
@@Diax1324 >Doesnt know how to use tfw meme
@savagegarbage5516 жыл бұрын
Nothing....it’s what’s for dinner
@marieantoinettescake95135 жыл бұрын
😂 I shouldn't laugh, but that was damn funny, and you nailed it. 👍God Bless You for you humor.❤️
@ddbrnaujaliai61854 жыл бұрын
Marie Antoinette's Cake It isn’t even funny, it’s propaganda, and it isn’t creative. And just going to say this was the 90’s.
@novodkagohome95084 жыл бұрын
DDBR Naujaliai you could eat nothing in the ussr, because there was nothing to eat.
@ddbrnaujaliai61854 жыл бұрын
S D my family lived under the Soviet Union and they ate, there was only one major famine, and hell, I’m a Leftcom and I don’t like the USSR.
@jaydengray40154 жыл бұрын
S D shut up you idiot. There was always something to eat
@pezzie32016 ай бұрын
I think what makes thos video unsettling is the fact there is no store music, not just the empty shelves, but the whole environment is depressing
@zuluexmachina21915 ай бұрын
True. Sadly as I get older and more peculiar, a shopping 🛒 trip to Walmart is almost fun, (almost) 😊😊
@comrade_commissar37942 ай бұрын
I cannot stand the blaring music in modern stores. I wish it were more like this
@marcod73474 жыл бұрын
"May I speak to the manager"
@Adam-vo6tv4 жыл бұрын
This is Communism, everyone's a manager.
@arinarici4 жыл бұрын
she/he is in the gulag :D
@asim07demir4 жыл бұрын
Everyone is manager and everyone is clerk.
@tscpereira4 жыл бұрын
Comrade Gorbachev is busy...
@BarbecueinItUpGood4 жыл бұрын
[gets shot on site!]
@russ000744 жыл бұрын
In the west, we forget that food security is a thing. Most times, we dont understand that the typical human condition is just above starvation. We've been here for 200 thousand years, and only within the last 150 has there been any real food security for any large section of the world. Industrialization has given us the idea that there will always be plenty. Now, we see that our food supply chain is a luxury, that is guaranteed to noone. Imagine if something major happened. You want to see people get crazy, stop tricking in food. A few days of hunger and you will see how quickly order descends to chaos. It really surprises me that more people do not realize this.
@domnoya41303 жыл бұрын
Modern farming is so insanely effective that it would be next to impossible for food security to fall apart in America. Farming equipment and fertilizer has enabled thousands upon thousands of acres to be worked by a small handful of people. This in addition to the vast amounts of viable farmland. Commodity foods can be produced so cheaply and at a level of automation that it would take a very intense war fought on American soil to cause food security issues.The USSR has starvation entirely because of how challenging switching to collective farming is. There was no highly technical near automated tractors and half the farmers had been killed or sent away for refusing to be turned into de facto slaves losing their land. Let’s also not forget almost all the grain was being sold to fund industrial growth as well. There didn’t ever need to be starvation in USSR it was man made.
@trzaskubejbe2 жыл бұрын
@@domnoya4130 well unless there is a plague that kills all the corn :D
@jacob69082 жыл бұрын
In the west our poor people are obese
@johan-erikjohannesson27962 жыл бұрын
@MainstreamPoPsucks3 That goes not just for food butalso electricty and thesecond a shortage appears the individual countries in the EU without production are in the shitter. France stole medical hygiene deliveries meant for Sweden passing through France shortly after Covid started. EU should simply be a trade bloc and nothing else.
@tompelle10612 жыл бұрын
@MainstreamPoPsucks3 Is the salary in Norway enough to have a decent life?
@oats29493 жыл бұрын
Great camera quality for the 90s.
@krunkle51363 жыл бұрын
Couldn't imagine not being drunk off vodka walking into this place.
@ronnieromero76043 жыл бұрын
The size of the shopping carts says it all lol
@nicktasteless3602 жыл бұрын
you forgot shopping carts in America used to look like that
@cordeliachase601 Жыл бұрын
@@nicktasteless360 Uhhh no they didn’t. Not in 1990 when this was filmed. Maybe in like 1940. Our shopping carts were big in the 90’s. I remember shopping with my mom in like 1994 at ShopRite. You’re confused sweetie.
@nicktasteless360 Жыл бұрын
@@cordeliachase601 i think you're the confused one here. I said "used to look like that". i didn't say that it was during the 1990s. All i said was, the shopping carts once looked like that.
@evildead97082 жыл бұрын
The Soviet Union has always really fascinated me. Im no communist or socialist and I was only 2 Years old when the collapse occured so obviously I have no memory of said collapse, but Its just really interesting for someone whos lived in a capitalist system all his life, to actually see things like these videos with my own eyes. Its like a time machine!
@cordeliachase601 Жыл бұрын
It makes you glad capitalism exists. But capitalism has its fair share of problems, especially with greed.
@TheDarknightRemix Жыл бұрын
Do you think the USSR didn't run on greed?
@wimblewomble21 Жыл бұрын
Being from the UK I was lucky to have been around alot of Eastern Europe. As a whole the system was very beaureucratic and not very practical. In most shops there were several qeues you would join before purchasing an item. One to order, one to pay and one to collect. Ordering something as simple as a dish cloth or light bulb could be a 3 hour experience. Believe it or not, but toilet paper was like gold. People would exchange thier toilet paper rations for things such as perfumes and beauty products, there was literally hardly any spare toilet paper around. However alot of the stores weren't as drab looking as this one on the video. In fact many within bigger towns and cities were actually quite beautiful looking. Very high ceilings, wooden detailed skirting and fixtures, they almost had an elysee Palace feel to them. But usually that was more your department store type shops, many of them in places like Moscow still exist. Some of the products were also very good quality. I used to buy beautifully made glass ornaments and China ware for a very cheap price. Over the years Western products did begin to creep in, I remember being in warsaw around 1986 and there was a shop that sold Pepsi, the line was around the corner, and the prices were extortionate for Eastern wages . In the end the system could no longer override the ambition and will of the people who wanted to progress, after 50 years of toilet paper rationing and queueing up for hours to buy a bath towel, the system was only ever going to collapse with exhaustion. But fascinating times.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
Well the world still have China, Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam,Laos and Cambodia. All of Communist nations. Chinese Communist government decided to lease land to Capitalist nations because they people were staving after the Maoist "Great Leap Forward". North Korea rather stay Soviet and Stalinst. Laos is being like China and Vietnam. Vietnam is bring like Laos and China Cambodia is acting like Vietnam. And Cuba is rather stay like Khrushchevism with Little spice of Che Guerrera.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
@@TheDarknightRemix ... Their leaders are.
@otecmifodii92044 жыл бұрын
Это были действительно тяжелые времена! Купить-то можно было все, но через знакомых работников торговли. Еще заметил очень важную деталь, почти никто не улыбается! Ведь просто по количеству улыбающихся людей можно определить уровень экономической ситуации в стране. Всем добра и здоровья в этом мире. )))
@piterpen92544 жыл бұрын
Зато щас все есть, только денег ни хрена нет,и также никто не улыбается
@user-zb4yl2vv5f3 жыл бұрын
Саботаж, на который народ попался, но вы правы, люди не улыбались уже. К сожалению, эта безрадостная жизнь надолго затянулась и дело не только в еде!!!
@elementone94542 жыл бұрын
@@piterpen9254 те совковые деньги ничего не стоили, как страна рухнула советские деньги сразу в фанттики превратились, когда империя рухнула те деньги еще 10 лет принимали и акции на бирже торговались вплоть до 1929 года
@AngloSupreme2 жыл бұрын
I saw a vid about 2 Russians visiting the US in Soviet times and people laughing and smiling so often was alien to them.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
@@piterpen9254 ... You think that in the Iron Curtian, you are happy to be poor.
@mrvk396 жыл бұрын
Good times... no need to worry about what to buy, which brand, what's good for you or bad.... you just took whatever was there without thinking because having something to eat is always better than having nothing.
@josephbannon84843 жыл бұрын
I don’t know if you’re just a libtard, but have you maybe considered the quality of the food perhaps? Also, just by doing something called paying attention and watching the video would help you notice that most of the shelves in that store aren’t even stocked with anything at all.
@TheLakabanzaichrg3 жыл бұрын
@@josephbannon8484 I don’t know if you’re just a libtard, but have you maybe considered the quality of the food perhaps? Also, just by doing something called paying attention and watching the video would help you notice that most of the shelves in that store aren’t even stocked with anything at all.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
In the Soviet Union people were happy to be poor. But they work and shut up.
@mrvk39 Жыл бұрын
@@jacobtennyson9213 no one was happy to be poor. People simply had no clue just how much more well-off people were in the West. There was always thirst for Western clothes and electronics and movies and music. People simply had no say in how they lived and speaking up was dangerous.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
@@mrvk39 .. Some Russians are happy of being poor under communism and some were not.
@BilgemasterBill8 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking the time to post this. "Attention shoppers: Meat special scurrying up Aisle 4!"
@marvin199666 жыл бұрын
nowadays they call it aldi
@mustafaamiri32775 жыл бұрын
In austria, they call it hofer
@bugeyes80885 жыл бұрын
Lmao
@MATAM295 жыл бұрын
@@mustafaamiri3277 Switzerland too. I'm not swiss.
@98563595 жыл бұрын
In Portugal, they call it Minipreço.
@nocomment21525 жыл бұрын
in Greece they call it Lidl/Carfour
@natashka19829 ай бұрын
I was born in Moscow in 1982 and remember this well. Thank you for this footage. Posting for all to see
@joaopedropena6319 жыл бұрын
Incredible footages. well done
@jesselivermore22915 жыл бұрын
nao sei que idade tens nem se estou a responder mt tarde, mas portugal teve uma fase assim depois do 25 Abril em 74 na fase comunista, quase de repente começaram a subir os preços e nao havia nada nas lojas, tínhamos de pedir a frança para mandar toneladas de carne para portugal, em 76 as lojas estavam assim
@edersantos38773 жыл бұрын
@@jesselivermore2291 Sou brasileiro, seu país experimentou dessa praga chamada comunismo, e pensar que aqui ainda existem idiotas defendendo essa merda, socialismo é tão cruel quanto comunismo, basta observar venezuela e cuba.
@muriloninja4 жыл бұрын
17:15 Damn, what a beauty!
@ssmusic2144 жыл бұрын
Notice: NO MAKEUP.....
@rodrikforrester93434 жыл бұрын
just a normal woman
@ssmusic2144 жыл бұрын
@@rodrikforrester9343 great rarity nowdays.
@tashag17984 жыл бұрын
She is an old granny now((((
@zuutlmna8 жыл бұрын
I hope the many people living in remote regions were able to practice some degree of self reliance, such as hunting and keeping vegetable gardens, etc.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
Russian has always been called "Medieval Nation with a Medieval Regime. From the Czars to the General Secretaries and dictators.
@AlexeiVinidiktov10 ай бұрын
Yes, we could.
@jasiuss8 ай бұрын
Exactly how most people were feeding and survived, from local farms, villages, gardens
@TheFoodieCutie6 жыл бұрын
The woman at 16:23 is very pretty. It's a shame to see her facial expressions, as her reality was this result. Whoever filmed this whole video did a good job to capture people's faces.
@Gamato_Mouni5 жыл бұрын
The blonde or the brunette?
@mr.mcfife41314 жыл бұрын
You mean the one on the left I am sure. Yeah she is actually model tier. I wonder whatever happened to her.
@latinolawdog50674 жыл бұрын
She’s still waiting in that line.
@aimarramadhan23804 жыл бұрын
She was probably a KGB. She looked to good for a Babushka
@fucketaboutit3 жыл бұрын
but if you look real close....looks like she's sizing up the clerk TO EAT FOR DINNER!!!!!
@Komnenit4 жыл бұрын
They all look angry and depressed
@elafl8074 жыл бұрын
well yeah, it was during the recession
@probablyahuman34884 жыл бұрын
I mean wouldn’t you feel al little scared if someone with a large camera was walking around and showing everything in your local place? They don’t know the camera person, and they don’t know who the camera person might be, and it was a pretty closed off place at the time. And it was the Great Recession.
@probablyahuman34884 жыл бұрын
Might I add, this was around the same time the US was trying to sell products to the USSR for expensive and get good quality products for cheap from the USSR.
@princedeasturias3 жыл бұрын
Thats how russian people are. We smile a lot in the US
@probablyahuman34883 жыл бұрын
@Average Joe there is so much wrong with your sentence
@sonvirrana4 жыл бұрын
17:17 when she smiles.
@bamskination54263 жыл бұрын
we got heart attack!
@r-gart2 жыл бұрын
I feel sad for them. They had their potential great life taken away from them but were probably unaware of it, still keeping a smile to the face here and there.
@FlintIronstag232 жыл бұрын
@@r-gart The Soviet Union was collapsing when this video was made. The woman in the video was young and may have had a good, prosperous life post-collapse.
@MisterMichaelVReyes4 жыл бұрын
8:52 Worker throwing meat rolls out the window.
@MrEtovam4 жыл бұрын
Michael Reyes _ Costco )))
@Pheer7773 жыл бұрын
No fear of getting fired or unemployment = no incentive to have decent customer service or do a good job lol
@michaelodendaal57763 жыл бұрын
Aldi
@bodaciousbiker5 жыл бұрын
Imagine enduring this on a daily basis simply to feed your family? No wonder the people looked so glum. Some items were in such demand that they didn't even bother placing them on the shelves, just distributing them directly from the boxes...and that seemingly rotting meat couldn't even be given away! The look on the clerk behind the cosmetics/flotation device counter pretty much summed it up..."after 73 years of central state planning, we're all f**ked!"
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
The Russians thought that a Communist utopia will solve their hunger issues. Not they are really hungry. That what they get when read Karl Marx's quacky dialectical materialistic plans.
@gencerunutmaz53514 жыл бұрын
This time will come again for some countries
@TeamHatchet644 жыл бұрын
We had it for a few first weeks. Scary shit.
@dinonatorful3 жыл бұрын
@@chadwarden1179 how? Oh right "me american other poor" *dies in front of hospital*
@vivmomsews49624 жыл бұрын
How bad must that meat have been?? They ALL put it back. Omg.
@yingnyang3 жыл бұрын
Was that meat?
@haroldfromthebikinibottom73353 жыл бұрын
@@yingnyang i guess it was......
@yingnyang3 жыл бұрын
@@haroldfromthebikinibottom7335 🤮🤮
@edgabrielocay33763 жыл бұрын
It looked like roadkill.
@yingnyang3 жыл бұрын
@@edgabrielocay3376 I'd choose roadkill over that lol
@ralphrutherford25836 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia- Store buys you
@huseyinbayram89634 жыл бұрын
in usa today- store buys you
@SB-jh8rl4 жыл бұрын
The tea brand you see at 3:24 is Turkish. Weird to see it there. Did not know that they were somehow open to foreign products.
@ceeam8 жыл бұрын
Multiply the prices by about 3x to get current US dollar pricing feel. (Late Soviet ruble felt like about 200 current rubles or more, exchange rate is 70+ rub/usd)
@micu15443 жыл бұрын
Yes but there's no food in the shops
@Sorter294 жыл бұрын
16:40 a kgb agent :)
@kuls433 жыл бұрын
@@athandog you are a chutya..
@ermellino35783 жыл бұрын
She was literally queuing
@donperignon66233 жыл бұрын
No, an agent of the CIA, who know how to kill and carry out coups d'état.
@NightwalkerUK5 жыл бұрын
What a truly grim place to live. Not only for the regime that controls things, but also the general atmosphere and basic offerings.
@ayylmao25695 жыл бұрын
It was during Gorbachev's rule you know the one where the soviet union liberalized its way of ruling and economy and honestly you should blame Gorbachev for the store being empty because the Gorbachev regime had to export more food to cover costs of their administration than actually provide the food to the people.
@rodrikforrester93434 жыл бұрын
Many people loved Brejnev
@BSIII3 жыл бұрын
Well, many of us can expect this becoming a reality amidst the 'The Great Reset', and NWO. Isnt it great?
@mikhailalmaz3 жыл бұрын
Idiot
@Richtofenfan7 жыл бұрын
vodka rations are top priority comrades!
@erdemg56332 жыл бұрын
High Quality products and happy customers.
@METALMAN4Wii2 жыл бұрын
History shall repeat itself!
@mr.grumpy3683 Жыл бұрын
Russians will face this once again. We as the world will turn our backs on them until they overthrow that midget dicatator.
@bakgul4 жыл бұрын
3:19 Çernobil'den etkilenen çaylarımızı tekrar sovyetlere satmak.
@resulkymaz8894 жыл бұрын
Joker gibi gülesim geldi 😄
@dexon7774 жыл бұрын
Aklıma direk aynı şey geldi. Topluca çakallık genlerimizde sanırım
@teymuraztopaloglu74474 жыл бұрын
@@dexon777 Çakallık yıllarca o çayları kendi halkına içirmek olmasın?
@merto954 жыл бұрын
yanlışın var o çayları biz içtik. ruslara temiz çay satıldı
@asnfamnezyak88804 жыл бұрын
Stonks📈
@marioncobaretti22808 жыл бұрын
food is road kill quality, i feel sorry for those people
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
That life inside the Iron Curtian.
@Czechmate883 жыл бұрын
I want to laugh at the way they look at the beef, realize it’s Soviet garbage, and move on; but it’s saddening as hell
@Hyporama8 жыл бұрын
a productive peace is a lot harder than war
@adonisparts13432 жыл бұрын
I can see the tankie in this comment section going like "uuuhm aschtually, my uncle's stepfather's brother's son's friend lived in the soviet union and said it wasn't bad so yeah, checkmate"
@duckythegamer7263 Жыл бұрын
B-b-but that wasn’t real communism
@hybridarmyoffreeworld Жыл бұрын
-Ваня, пора на войну -А с кем воюем? -С фашистами 🇷🇺. - Отлично! А против кого?"
@peterkachman92597 ай бұрын
Тебе ссы в глаза все божья роса, в Киеве проспекты названы буквально в честь нацистских коллаборационистов и военных преступников, но нацисты почему-то в России, ага
@hybridarmyoffreeworld7 ай бұрын
@@peterkachman9259 Масковію трэба знішчыць Красная Армия "освободила" Освенцим, но советские лагеря она охраняла до последнего. Мало кто знает, что нацистские концлагеря использовались в этом качестве еще пять лет. Из самых известных - Бухенвальд и Заксенхаузен (спецлагерь № 2 и спецлагерь № 7, в советской терминологии). С 1948 года спецлаги были переподчинены ГУЛАГу, в 1950-м ликвидированы. Но их оборудование не пропало: новые рачительные хозяева вывезли и использовали по назначению в отечественных лагерях. Как следует из этого документа, в СССР были вывезены разборные деревянные бараки, оборудование кухонь и прачечной, медицинское имущество. А также некие «производственные механизмы» - что скрывается под этим зловещим определением, в документе не расшифровано.
@hybridarmyoffreeworld6 ай бұрын
@@peterkachman9259 Moscow horde´s war record :- 1856 defeated by Britain and France 1905 defeated by Japan 1917 defeated by Germany 1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states 1939 defeated by Finland 1969 defeated by China 1989 defeated by Afghanistan 1989 defeated in the Cold War. 1996 defeated by Chechnya 2022 defeated by Ukraine WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :- a) Hungary 1956 b) Czechoslovakia 1968 c) Moldova 1992 d) Georgia 2008
@mackcummy49765 жыл бұрын
Glad I live in Canada with full grocery stores all the time.
@skycollins73144 жыл бұрын
@Final Battle if you unironically think that neolib is communist you're braindead
@BridgesDontFly4 жыл бұрын
@Final Battle True. Under socialism everyone is the same. Poor, Hungry, and Broke.
@latinolawdog50674 жыл бұрын
@@BridgesDontFly Yes, but everyone is equal. That's all that matters, right?
@tigertank3704 жыл бұрын
@Adam Defibaugh Then vote conservative.
@dinonatorful3 жыл бұрын
@@BridgesDontFly socialism isnt communism ya sped
@DavidInSydney1 Жыл бұрын
Fascinating look at the old USSR. Thank you.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
Back in the USSR.
@peacefulliberal56413 жыл бұрын
Did I hear English speaker on the background of this video?
@thieluar9 жыл бұрын
Whoa. Women dressed decently. What kind of heaven is this?
@MrChDennys9 жыл бұрын
***** future Eurasian ISIS... 25 years to become one.
@dougmorrison84682 жыл бұрын
I was there in the 80s its hard to explain to people back in the west what it was like. Restaurant food was awful except for Chicken Kiev beef tasted old thank god I brought peanut butter I also remember birds pooping on people from the roof of the mall
@Anonymous-qj3sf2 жыл бұрын
It was in the late 80s
@CEB18962 жыл бұрын
I thought it was apple juice in those bottles, but apparently it’s ketchup.
@caspence566 жыл бұрын
My God, that was depressing. All the people seem to be dressed in gray, shopping in a gray "store", for food that looks gray, too!
@doghammer16 жыл бұрын
Sabotage 1989
@LaserTractor5 жыл бұрын
caspence56 i'm russian and it is still so. Situation is better with stores (but 300-400$ is monthly salary lol). Everyone and everything still looks gray. I can even sent you a pic of my town if i'd know how
@skycollins73144 жыл бұрын
You Know what they say if it's grey it healthy for you
@PV12302 жыл бұрын
color is against the party, comrade.
@alfonsoflorio5 жыл бұрын
somebody is going to comment "but west is worse than this"
@arthurheidt63735 жыл бұрын
this was right after the crush and the recession you should get one from 1980
@Zellig5 жыл бұрын
Yeah in the Soviet Union you can just find one brand made by one company in the stores. Over here you can find MANY brands.... all owned by one company in the stores.
@arthurheidt63735 жыл бұрын
@@Zellig thats because the soviet union was efficient, it didnt produced 50 different types of strawberry marmelade but just one, and remaining ressources were put into space exploration which was much more efficient than the american one.
@tonylouis49075 жыл бұрын
@@arthurheidt6373 Do you know the process of growing wealth? If you think that "efficiency" equals "wealth" you're completly wrong. Also, do you think that by 1957 they had the same economy policy that they had in 1918-1921?
@arthurheidt63735 жыл бұрын
other parts of the world are paying the price for the west being wealthy soviet union was selfsufficient it didnt stole labour from others
@user-nx9vu3jt8l4 жыл бұрын
Особенно понравилась продажа мяса,как собакам бросали куски,это жесть просто.
@AnabolicAsylum4 жыл бұрын
5:42 Is that mashed potatoes and grechka?
@baraxor5 жыл бұрын
Special sale next week for soylent green and long pig
@gregorymalchuk2723 жыл бұрын
Long pig?
@sophieresearcher5294 Жыл бұрын
Hi, I am archive producer, and I am working on a documentary produced by a French production company. We are interested in using some seconds of this video. How can I contact? Many thanks, Sophie
@mccommas24 жыл бұрын
The plants growing on those freezers look far more edible than anything else I saw in that horrible place!
@-KillaWatt-5 жыл бұрын
Just look at their eyes. It speaks volumes.
@wingsfan14503 жыл бұрын
Their country and entire system that they can remember was obviously collapsing at the moment. Rather civilized even compared to how the US eats itself apart in relatively good times.
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
At least they are happy to be poor. Lenin give Mother Russia, peace, land and bread.
@k.b.74245 жыл бұрын
Interesting how the guy was able to film all of this without somebody approaching and asking a bunch of questions. My best bet is that it was cut out. Horrible living conditions.
@brandonlopez89502 жыл бұрын
Hmm curious why someone would ask questions and of what?
@eddy23872003 Жыл бұрын
Interestingly enough, this appears to be outtakes from a US news segment about the changes under way in the USSR due to perestroika and glasnost. By that time, most camera crews could more or less operate freely without harassment from the authorities, which was unheard of even a few years back before Glasnost.
@petejames13265 ай бұрын
2.35 ITS LUNCH LADY DORRIS , what a coincidence 😂🤭😮🧐
@Pluto1336 Жыл бұрын
The camera quality is better than modern day security cameras wth
@brybryguy63143 жыл бұрын
Well this was during 1990 and 1991. The nation was already full swing in a collapse. So the vast majority of Productions of goods were ceased due to that all productions where overseen by the Communiest government. Even after the fall of the Soviet Union there still was a mass shortages of everything. This explains why this shop is practically empty during this time.
@illuminate46222 жыл бұрын
kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hMh-a6mptb3Jomg.html This shows it well. Russia STILL hasn't fully recovered!
@alfiedotwtf2 жыл бұрын
Seeing your comment in 2022 with all the current supply chain issues here in Australia
@videosofmygrandpaeating61425 жыл бұрын
they have a surprisingly large selection of ethiopian food in ussr
@opticlightning33535 жыл бұрын
Much of it was probably donated.
@texasgun27314 жыл бұрын
venezuelan cuisine
@probablyahuman34884 жыл бұрын
OpticLightning your hilarious, Ethiopia donating to ussr in the 90s
@jacobtennyson9213 Жыл бұрын
Because Ethiopia sided with the Soviets after Somalia broke away from them.
@galactic_mapper Жыл бұрын
@@opticlightning3353 ☠️☠️☠️
@mattb.73375 жыл бұрын
I can't believe how quiet it is.
@mrt008013 күн бұрын
Mandatory visiting spot for youtubers making videos about the economic conditions of late Soviet Union
@Ghastly_Grinner5 жыл бұрын
17:31 what's in these brown bottles they keep handing out?
@brentogara2 ай бұрын
vodka
@MrBlack-lk6ih4 жыл бұрын
А у этого мужика целая куча интересных записей того времени! Все советую посмотреть плейлист
@Pluto1336 Жыл бұрын
Fr I might do that thx
@seanjoseph36053 жыл бұрын
I remember shopping like this in 1995 on my 1st trip. I didn't understand the system or language so I left with nothing.
@swoosh503 жыл бұрын
Man that looks depressing
@umot62773 жыл бұрын
Strange to see the prices denominated still in Soviet roubles... How awfully long ago it was. Pretty nostalgic
@Besyl3 жыл бұрын
Rebrand as a shelf store and you've got a hit!
@melekkorel23144 жыл бұрын
So sad :(
@jlh4jc4 жыл бұрын
Yakov Smirnoff: In US, they have these grocery stores in Texas called HEB. In Soviet Russia, you shopped at KGB! What a country!
@wackyruss2 жыл бұрын
Bahahahahahaha! You make shutki, Да?
@bojanstanic9394 жыл бұрын
If you look at a lady at 16:40 of this video, you will see both hardship and dignity in her eyes. That was a great nation with big problems. I highly respect the Soviet people.
@user-ys2he5pk3n2 жыл бұрын
Спасибо, друг!
@bojanstanic9392 жыл бұрын
Не за что! Удачи вам!
@simonrichard98736 жыл бұрын
Guys, this was in 1990. The country was falling apart at that time.
@GroueTeam5 жыл бұрын
Communist nations are falling apart from the very day their "revulotion" "wins". It's just matter of time
@DavidLopez-up3qm5 жыл бұрын
Most communist nations fell apart due to CIA coups.
@GroueTeam5 жыл бұрын
@@DavidLopez-up3qm Keep telling that to yourself, and your starving family under communism. It will satisfy their hunger Im sure
@DavidLopez-up3qm5 жыл бұрын
@@GroueTeam The U.S. has executed at least 81 overt and covert known interventions in foreign elections during the period between 1946-2000.
@GroueTeam5 жыл бұрын
@@DavidLopez-up3qm Yeah, first of all "elections", secondly what about communst Russia before 46? Especially after the commies took over, when they won the civil war. All of that killing, and starving people to death, especially in Ukraine, sending everyone to Siberia into work camps.. Im sure CIA did that too... I am curius what kind of mental gymnastics will you use this time
@AptekerRonnie3 ай бұрын
Hello. We would like to please ask permission to use a few seconds of your video (just some short, quick visuals - no audio) in a documentary we are making about life in Kyiv. It has been over 5 years of work and it is an important project. It is a non-profit venture and we are trying to do something good that could benefit Ukraine. We would be very grateful for your support. Please let us know. Many thanks.
@flashtrash78305 жыл бұрын
Notice no promotions or advertising in this Russian supermarket. (no capitalism = no marketing = no brands)