Ted Koppel in Moscow and with Gorbachev on the day of his resignation and the dissolution of the USSR. The Soviet hammer & sickle flag is replaced with the Russian flag at the end of the broadcast.
Russia was always there. You were either a soviet Russian or a soviet Belarussian or a soviet Ukrainian or a ... The USSR was an union of 15 states, same as the USA is an union of 50 states. The leading soviet state of course has always been Russia.
@@freedomfighterletsgobrandonYes, but as someone who lives in Massachusetts, I'd sure be mighty surprised if the country I woke up in tomorrow was the Republic of Massachusetts and the President was Maura Healey. So yeah, Russia always existed during the Soviet Union, but it wasn't these people's country. That'd still be a huge change for anyone.
@@lackedpuppet9022Imagine that, imagine the United States collapsing over Joe Biden preferring chocolate chocolate chip over cookies and cream, and Trudeau and AMLO with him, accidentally collapsing the three all because of this oh wait why am i rambling about this
I was with Ted Koppel in Gorbachev's office at the end of the Soviet Union. He called Bush and told him he was resigning and turning to nuclear codes over to Yeltsin who was down the hall drunk. I watched them take down the Soviet flag in the Kremlin and raise the Russian state flag. I shot the opening at 3A in Red Square with Ted and took his Gorbachev's last walk through the Kremlin with him. Show was called Gorabchev:The Final Hours. two hour show that won an Emmy.
@@fattaman777 It aired as a two hour special on ABC called Gorbachev The Final Hours. I have an Emmy nomination hanging on my wall plus a photo on myself and Gorbachev(with other Press also) taking his final walk through the Kremlin. All documented. Yes, I do have proof.
The last cosmonaut of the Soviet Union was actually in the Mir Space Station when the USSR collapsed. Basically, he went up there as a Soviet and came back as an Alien.
I remember that! I went to Q&A session about the NASP at a science museum during that; they had a retired astronaut there to answer questions- I asked if NASA was going to go save him!
Imagine what he said. "Hello comrades! So how is the soviet union?" The people:"Uhh this is russia USSR Collapsed 10 years ago..." "Haha nice joke!" The people:"No really" "Oh..."
Look at Ted Koppel's objectivity. He speaks candidly, but quite objectively. Certainly very different from the anxiety inducing way of talking that we see today. Anchors today talk with aggressiveness, in an effort to sell. This man, Koppel, is impressive. He is calm, objective, informative, and certainly a product of an era where people were interested in information, not in tendencies. Look at news outlets today. There is no true news. It's all about creating biased agendas.
I remember this and am so happy someone uploaded it! I was 8 years old at the time and was the first serious thing my parents taught me about the world.
@Ann Nifödova every soviet leader was corrupt. It's literally what caused the stagnation because not being able to vote out people who suck is a bad way to run a country.
Exactly man idk what is it but I feel cozy and quite seeing this as if i lived through it Love the old Christmas days and how everything was so much about family and togetherness, not everyone on their phones now don't give a shit about any tradition
@@cruzgomes5660 we were the fourth richer state of the world, after the rise of united Germany and the new technologies discovered during the last 25 years we lost a lot. I think in cold war period, USA supported us more and viceversa, for Italy is convenient dealing with americans and either russians than the other eu countries.
@@AmosNg555 What version of history have you been learning? The USSR and US were always enemies. Even during WW2 the western Allies were extremely reluctant to help the USSR against the Nazis and were extremely opportunistic.
Regardless of the Cold War. America saved the Soviet Union from collapsing of starvation and corrupted economy. The Soviet Union generals admitted themselves that if “it wasn’t for the American intervention of supplies, we would have suffered a lot worse than losing the war, how can we make tanks without steel? How can we make a ammo without copper and gun powder? In case anyone asked, FDR literally gave USSR 1.1 billion free credits to help the fight against the Nazi, this is why Stalin like FDR a lot more than Truman in office www.rbth.com/defence/2016/03/14/lend-lease-how-american-supplies-aided-the-ussr-in-its-darkest-hour_575559 www.historynet.com/did-russia-really-go-it-alone-how-lend-lease-helped-the-soviets-defeat-the-germans.htm
My parents who were from the Soviet Union but had moved out about a decade before it’s collapse told me they were shocked at the fall of the USSR and did not expect it to ever fall.
I was born in Lithuania, way after the fall of the USSR I know some stuff about how it was like back then, from people explaining it to me, and to me it feels obvious that a country like this would fall
My dad, who was working overseas at the time, simply couldn't believe it. The existence of the Soviet Union was just a fact of life and everyone fully expected a war to happen betwen it and the NATO countries at some point.
@@zephyrus3554 NATO didn't do shit. Former Eastern Bloc countries applied to join NATO because even 20 years ago there were people who were concerned about Putin, and his aggressions only prove they were right to do so.
It's so fun and unpleasant at the same time to hear Americans say about oppression of other nations and countries... The USSR has lost both in the economics and politics to the US and the NATO, but what's more sad is the death of socialism as a hope of people from the beginning of 20th century to live better lives and to build more sustainable future for everybody, it still wonders me, that the USSR could send people to space, develop massive industries, had accessible education and housing distribution, but couldn't provide simple consumer goods to everybody...
Many countries in Western Europe have a kind of mixed economy of socialism and capitalism - it isn't just one or the other - and seems to work pretty well.
@@ShatnerMethod first world economies, especially in Western Europe have social-democratic states, which provide people with social benefits, based on very developed economics of first class goods, but 3 world countries produce cheaper goods or raw resources, and their capitalism is still based on harsh exploitation of people, that makes that neocolonial dependence, that 3rd World countries can't compete with others in terms of more expensive sectors of economics. There are social states in Europe, but it's very far to the point, where they will appear all over the world
@@user-vn2on9tz9g Like much of eastern Europe, Russia itself had opportunities to move toward a first world economy with its developed education system and natural resources but has become an authoritarian, and now, criminal state instead. Tragic and sad what Putin is doing not only to Ukraine but to his own country. Russia needs new and very different leadership that will stop blaming others for all of their own country's own outrageous mistakes and end the terrible killing and suffering that it is imposing on its neighbouring nation of Ukraine. What a terrible waste this war is and for what?
I love the old advertisements so much more than the ones we have now. Just because how the old adds get to the point. Instead of doing a long ass skit that has nothing to do with the product.
@@america692 he revive Russia from the ashes of Yeltsin disasterous rule. He bring Russia to become one of the world power again. Every russians should be thankfull to him that Russia is not a third world country rn
Lmao watching this today with historical context is wild. They're reporting on the most consequential event of the 20th century post world War II and out of nowhere there's an ad like, "Ay we got ET on vhs on sale for $9.99! That's a crazy deal!"
@@PhirePhlame they had a different anthem under the Yeltsin Presidency. Putin brought back the old Soviet Anthem, albeit with the new lyrics as it was a more familiar tune. It would be like the U.S. replacing the "Star Spangled Banner" with "Our Country 'Tis of Thee" knowing that the tune is the same as "God Save The King/Queen" in Great Britain (and in Canada, which is the Co-Official Anthem of the Dominion along with "O Canada").
Lol i remember sears. Yeah. Well to be honest if you move financially, you start buying more expensive things. Higher quality stores man. Macy's Bloomingdales, Guess, Polo Ralph Lauren. PEOPLE BETTER THEMSELVES AND WANT QUALITY STUFF. SAME WITH THE SOVIET UNION. ALL COUNTRIES GOT TIRED OF THAT SHIT
This isn't something you'd usually see. Mighty empires, such as the size of the USSR would usually die in a flurry of gunshots and explosions. But the USSR ended on a somewhat light note.
The irony of the collapse is that, in hindsight, the world was a saner place with the two superpowers keeping everyone else, including each other, in check.
There were many empires that were larger or lasted longer. The largest in terms of land and population was the British Empire, which peaked in the early 20th century. (The term "the sun never sets on the British Empire" was meant to reference the fact that its territories spanned the globe and therefore some part of it was always in daylight). The Ottoman Empire lasted over 600 years, while some portion of the Roman Empire lasted for nearly 1500.
Soviet Union: I go bye America: You will be back later? Soviet Union: Yes America: OK bye Soviet Union: Bye -_Soviet Union left the chat._ -_Russia joined the chat._
We're no strangers to love You know the rules and so do I (do I) A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it And if you ask me how I'm feeling Don't tell me you're too blind to see Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching, but you're too shy to say it (to say it) Inside, we both know what's been going on (going on) We know the game and we're gonna play it I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
What a day. For kids like me, who came in the Cold War, it was here is the tension and one on one global adversaries, and ever and always the looming threat of war, nuclear war. It was something like Christmas maybe.... like a dark cloud lifted and we were quite suddenly, out of nowhere, no longer on this doomed road. The wall came down, and a new course appeared that nobody expected would ever happen. Maybe it didn't seem like that on the other side. But it was enough.
Gorbachev wasn't only "The Last President of the Soviet Union". Gorbachev was the *only* President of the Soviet Union. He created that post during his final year as General Secretary of the Communist Party.
Yup. The capitalists won the Cold War and then they want to blame communism for the consequences of capitalist restoration (militarism, national division, corruption...). The world hasn't been made any safer with the absence of an international socialist bloc, only more dangerous and unstable.
This is another thing The Simpsons can be blamed for. Even the symbolic Moscow Monsters of Rock concert, which featured Highway to Hell performing AC/DC as headliners, came out too long after the Devil told Bart to listen heavy metal music in the January 1991 episode Bart Gets Hit By A Car. Bartmania was something the USSR could not contain, and historians need to recognize that more.
Despite what Russia has become in the last 30 or so years since this historical moment and his attempt to modernize and make the USSR a better place, Gorbachev left a legacy(if its small or complex at the same time). RIP
Yeah legacy of millions dying, millions being sold as prostitutes (including young girls and boys lol) and the extreme poverty without ANY hope for the better future for the next 30 years. What a great man, i wish your country had one just like him.
Gorbachev never understood that communism has no future in a free society. Communism only works with fear, terror, murder, blood and war. That's what Putin is doing now.
USSR Collapsed. People of USSR: *panik* US Media: do you want to be a volunteer at the Mt. Juliet Community Center, or a deal in Sears, here watch a ad from General Electric about their deals with the Tokyo Electric Company
I applaud Gorbachev’s efforts, as ineffective as they were. He wasn’t an ideologue like Stalin, Brezhnev, and Chairman Mao. It’s not very often that career politicians put forth reforms that strip away their own power. That give political rights back to the people, that were once stripped away. Then walk away from power. Imagine if the US Congress enacted a law for congressional term limits. It would never happen. All governments face the same problem: Power attracts pathological personalities
Well Chairman Mao was of China , Brezhnev did introduce many reforms which made USSR prosper in the 70s , Stalin built the USSR a superpower , though I get why anyone would hate on Stalin tho , the dude was responsible for the death of millions And yes , you're right about Gorbachev , I'll give it to you for that But Yeltsin ruined it
I wonder if Russia and Eastern Europe in general had received support from the West to help start their new lives (much like the Marshall Plan did for many Europeans after World War II) if the attitude would be significantly different. We can merely speculate today, but as an American the older I get the more I feel we should have done more.
