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LOL, Russians were running Pizza Hut and are just running it still, like Starbucks. Russia is not a western Drama Queen, they take advantage of opportunities.
I love how you picked 1957, which is arguably the year that communism was at it's height in terms of popularity and achievements. The Russians put Sputnk into orbit that year which resulted in a boost of prestige and popularity for the Soviet Union and Communism in general.
@@jordanmorris5827 Yes, I'm familiar. A lot of the Third World was constantly torn between capitalism and socialism, and the Space Race was one of a number of dick-measuring contests to show which system was the one to bet on.
That’s what happens when you suck at everything and the US gives Yeltsin, a drunkard who will listen to anything the US says, 1.6 Million dollars in campaign finances, something that was unheard of in the Soviet Union.
@@michaelbread5906USSR had a higher purchasing power parity and savings per capita, job and social security lol A month salary of a factory worker is capable of raising 10 kids in college and a year of vacation with a house and 2 cars
Soviet people: "Comrade Gorbachev, what are you doing? We must fight capitalism!" Gorbachev: "And also cholesterol, but this double cheese pizza is complicating things"
After reading about his death today, I went to Pizza-Hut today and ordered a pan style pizza with the same toppings just like in this upload in honor of Mr. Gorbachev. Thank you for making such a memorable commercial sir.
Good idea. I wish I would have thought about going to Pizza Hut today. I read that Gorbachev used the money he was paid for the commercial to fund his charity work. No matter what you think of him you have to admire that level of humility for a greater good. Would be fun if the little girl was actually his granddaughter. Nice memory for her whoever she is.
@T-1000 Then it's not communism, because communism, as stated by Marx, said that the means of production have to owned by a collective, not private individuals. So it's communist in name only.
I didn't think this was real at first. HOLY SHIT this has to be the most ironic 60 seconds of television ever produced. Imagine Fidel Castro starring in a commercial where he sells boats
I'm pretty sure Castro starred in quite a few commercials, beer and cigar commercials to be specific. Anyone who has been to Cuba knows it is a far cry from marxist ideals
If the USSR broke up in 2021: Gorbachev: Yes, yes the USSR is dissolutioning but first lets take minute to talk about this video's sponsor: *Raid Shadow Legends.*
RIP Mikhail Gorbachev. He died this week. Fun Fact: He was born literally seven days after my Gran was but he still outlived her (she died in January 2021).
Actually Lenin was supportive of allowing capitalism to exist alongside socialism as a means to lead development to a point that would actually be stable for communism.
@@minhha8981 tzarist Russia was the fifth world's economy, but it held the half of the world's debt, imported half of the weapons it fought with in WWI and prodcuded tens of times less weapons than France/Britain/Germany taken separately. And thousands of times less automobiles. Mainly it was an agricultural country. The nobility didn't pay taxes at all, whatever rich they were. Instead they fed off from the illiterate and dependent farmers. Lenin made these people pay taxes, took their excessively sized pieces of land in the benefit of the farmers. And put away any limitations for the small businesses for the simple people. However he nationalised some of the bigger ones which were speculating on goods prices b4 the revolution. This all happened in the situation of de-facto losing WWI, hunger and the richers becoming mad at this fella. Up to the year 1925 things got kinda stable and cool, except for one thing. Small business couldn't provide significant ccontribute to the industrial growth. And u now know it was hella problem. In 1927 Stalin offers 5 year plans of grand build ups among the entire country. Up to 1939 the USSR exceeds Germany in the general economy size and the production of number of non war related industrial goods. About 8000 of only huge factories were built. The small business concept had been changed though. U could come to the government with ur offer of opening something and if they considered this suiting to their plans they could lend u equipment on the condition of selling the ready product to them on the prescribed price. If u had more left this time u could go to the local market. The second thing was the so-called "artels". This were independent enterprises, but with no shareholders, everyone hired had strictly one vote and it's the workers who regularly met to decide on things. These guys were making up to 30% of clothes, shoes and furniture in the USSR b4 the WWII. The small businesses suffered from WWII and later were legally banned as "the remnants of the capitalist past" by Khrushchev, what I personally find stupid👎
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Jay Zee i am not sure about this. gorbachev loved it that at least the west liked him, well at least more or less after he failed to uphold ussr while politically reforming it. you become a happy cynic when you know you have failed, sadly.
oh yes because that went really well when it totally ruined the soviet economy and russia still hasn't recovered after 30 fucking years. capitalism is great isn't it?
@/dev/RerunCipher "not true capitalism", hypocrite much? also "i wouldn't exist without capitalism" what kind of arguement is that? none of us would exist without feudalism, that doesn't make us hypocrites for saying it is a terrible system. alsoalso food prices skyrocketed after the soviet union became capitalist, before then food was plentiful and cheap in government stores. the famines were caused by the world wars and the civil war aswell as the transition to mechanized farming, not the economic system.
TheXenoxen Today’s Russia has about the same economy as Texas. The USSR was a global superpower. You tell me which economy was stronger. I don’t like “Communism” either, but I ain’t arguing facts.
@@WelloBello "The USSR was a global superpower." Uh, no. The USSR just stockpiled alot of nukes at the expense of everything else. The food, health care, consumer goods, infrastructure, industry, and overall standard of living for average non-Party members was Third World level. But most importantly, the state / government was more repressive than most Third World countries - and the repression and jailing of political prisoners had increased throughout the 1970s and early 1980s under Brezhnev and Andropov. Using this comment section - in fact, visiting this and pretty much any other website you browse today - would land you in prison, in indefinite detention (perhaps with torture) without a proper trial in the USSR. There's nothing whatsoever to defend about the USSR, or communism in general.
i like how the freedom of speech gorbachev gave is seen here. and old timer, who grew up in a brutal era, but with economic stability, expressing his views on the changes gorbachev did(without getting shot). while, the young says that with such changes, we have more opportunities.
Do you honestly think that people got executed all willy nilly after Stalin? The old timer, as you put it, looks to be in his 40s here at worst, so he would be growing up right in the middle of Khrutschev's Thaw by which point GULAG as an institution ceased to be. Even at the height of the kneejerk reaction to Khrutschev by Brezhnev, you wouldn't see people getting shot for wrongthink.
@@heinrichb i meant publicly. he can express his feelings and thoughts publicly,on tv, without getting arrested or sth. showing that the people have now the freedom to talk against the regime through literature, newspapers, etc.
Fun fact. Of all of the Soviet leaders Gorbachev is the only one to actually be born in the Soviet Union. All the other leaders were born in the Russian Empire.
Which is probably why he was in such a haste to reform it lol. The other premiers/general secretaries/whatever the fuck all grew up in the awful dark age conditions of the Russian Empire, so by comparison the USSR didn't seem so bad.
@@MCTogs The Russian Empire was terrible during World War 1 during the blockade but in pre war 1913 it was basically the China of its day economically speaking. Remember, Germany went to war with Russia because they feared it was now or never as Russia would have been unstoppable if they fully industrialized.
@@genghiskhan5701 No, that's definitely not what happened in 1914. 1913 Russia was the joint least industrialised country in Europe alongside the Ottomans. 1914 happened because Russia was allied with Serbia and Germany was allied with Austria-Hungary.
@@ThePrinceofParthia It's monarchist history revisionism. Tsarist russia like most monarchist superstates at the time was about to go the the way of the ottomans and austrians.
Reminder that Gorbachev is still alive and has lived to see the withdrawal of Pizza Hut operations from the Russian Federation in the wake of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Imagine being Gorbachev in the recent months and seeing that Russia turned out even worse than during the USSR, becoming an aggressive fascist state. All his work gone down the toilet.
A Twitter thread I saw the other day: User 1: "What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union? Wrong answers only" User 2: "A coup d'etat by Pizza Hut" User 3 (in reply to User 2): "They said wrong answers only"
Russian Joke: Two Russians are in line for bread in Moscow. One says, "We've been here for three hours ! I can't take it anymore and its all on Gorbachev! I'm going to go kill him !" and leaves. After a short while, he comes back in despair, so his friend asks, "What happened?" "The line there to Kremlin is even longer!"
@@tiffanyhill-anding8891 Many Russians hated Gorbachev for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the horrors that followed, such as food lines. Actually, many Russians today hate him. The joke is that no matter how many people are in line, (a lot) for bread, there is an even bigger line of people who wish Gorbachev dead.
@TheAllPowerfulChicken One guard almost managed to kill Gorbachev during the 1990 October revolution parade, he fired two shots and one almost hit him in the head.
Wilson Fisk my exact thought. "Oh, we have two pizza brands instead of just one! who cares that our country is being dismantled and sold to capitalists! Hail to pizza hut!"
I love when some Russians call Soviet Collapse "Dismantling Our Country". Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and other 9 republics WERE NOT YOUR COUNTRY, you Imperialist Scums!
man please stop you make me disgusted. You don't know anything about ussr. I have many friends from all those countries and they all at telling the fall of ussr ruined everyone and for many reasons. So stop being a propaganda bullshitalker and who is trying to write fake facts and lies and try to learn ussr history and how people were living. Also Stalin was from the ussr republic of Georgia so it is kinda lame to add them. They all had place in government and seen as ussr citizens and not in less position. Please just try to think before spouting nonesense
The Soviet Union was going fail without reform, it could not sustain the decades long feud with the United States and was suffering from it. Gorbachev was good intentions to save the Soviet Union, but went about it poorly and too quickly
Gorbachev or Hutchback, got bribes 1.2 mln bucks and he was a coward, so he helped to split USSR, for sake of group of people to get reach and the US. A biggest traitor of his own country, because he was a president with ultimate power ! Who ever will do that?
Don't you love it when you're inside a fast food restaurant, enjoying the meal with your younger relative when suddenly the whole restaurant including staff start hailing you
It is especially pleasant when there is chaos, banditry, default all over the country, and you have a private nook here. And as it turned out later, this will become a tradition and a standard for all those in power.
@@Avatrass Actually that is almost what Claudius did to Caratacus after conquering Britain. Took him to Rome, paraded him around, then allowed him to live out the rest of his days in Rome.
@@StellarYankee jesus reddit has you by the balls if you're tempted to give a coroporation useless money just to tell someone else they said something funny
@@HerrFresh yeah, but alliances fighting for money are called mercenaries or just salesmen. Of course you remember that Russia finished to pay for America's "help" during ww2 about 6 or 7 years ago. Though some European ordinary people are actually were helpful, unfortunately obviously they are died already and couldn't raise their children right, otherwise they wouldn't tolerate the help to rehabilitation of Nazism in Ukraine and in Europe
@@zweij I'd argue that does. He saw first hand how bad the Soviet system was long term and he actively took steps to change it. He failed and dissolved the Soviet Union. He wrote that Chernobyl was the true cause of its fall. Not just the manpower, money, and lives lost, but for what it revealed. The HBO series showed us what he saw.
@@Spartain14 Well I did not appreciate the series as for me it did not bring any new information from what I have already known. But maybe for some,it was eye opening. I speak for myself here
@@Spartain14 the Soviet Union democratically decided to stay together, so that's a direct contradiction to your point. The show's point was that the lack of government criticism lead to incompetence, but then when the people judge the government as good he decided that his opinion was worth more than theirs and destroyed everyone outside of the satellites lives anyway. Soviet march 1991 referendum btw
It never existed. Yeltsin was authoritarian as well and their economy was in shambles. People were struggling to survive and there was no social safety net.
@@andrewparker1622 Let's be honest the communists would've come back to power in 1996 if it wasn't for all the pro-Yeltsin media and the election rigging.
@@harshithh.s.7513 It would not have happened because ussr was already divided, National conflicts started straight away and nobody cared about communism anymore
@@okaberintaro3936 not really mate, the disolution of the soviet uniom was'nt democratic, It was a shake of hand between higher ups. There was conflict, yes, with nationalist groups, but they never were the majority. Many russians today both wanted the USSR back and hate gorbie.
Pretty accurate. After capitalism was introduced to Russia the standard of living dropped, there was mass unemployment, drug use, The Russian mob rose to power. Russia saw for the first time in its history a massive drop in life expectancy. It was a horrible time.
Дa,yo wanna mess with me? I spit hot borscht when I'm crushing these beats. Blow it up like a tuba while I'm balling in Cuba. Doing judo moves and schooling every Communist сука!
Girls: Oh my God do boys even have a heart because they didn’t cry in the Titanic movie Boys: See you in the next life comrade Gorbachev *Starts to eat Pizza Hut and begins to cry while watching Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut commercial*
hoodz The Soviet Union was going to collapse without reform. Its competition with America was beginning to show strain on basic aspects of Soviet life. Action had to be taken, Gorbachev’s problems do not lie in his hope for reform, rather the speeds and methods used to employ it.
@@misakayy1911 That's not what he meant, he was saying Gorbachev started the fire because of his reforms, not because he doesn't like him. And by the way, Yeltsin didn't dissolve the USSR, it was still Gorbachev who ultimately did it on Christmas day 1991.
"So yeah he did cause my sister to be kidnapped by a crazy gangster, we did lose our home, our job and lifestyle, but this pizza tastes good" *HAIL GORBACHEV*
