Ten Minute History - The Decline and Dissolution of the Soviet Union (Short Documentary)

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This episode of Ten Minute History (like a documentary, only shorter) covers the USSR after the death of Stalin. It covers its peak under Khrushchev during the Cold War and the Space Race and his attempted reforms before his ousting after the Cuban Missile Crisis. His replacement, Brezhnev, attempted to undo these reforms but spurned the Era of Stagnation which saw the Soviet economy stall. Gorbachev took over and attempted many sweeping reforms which went awry which culminated in the sudden breakup of the USSR and the establishment of the Russian Federation under Boris Yeltsin.
Recommended Reading:
Tony Judt - Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945. Probably the go-to work on the Cold War in Europe. Particularly good for the Warsaw Pact. Highly Recommended.
Stephen Lovell - Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction. A great overview of the entire USSR and its history. Recommended for any beginner to the period.
Geoffrey Hoskings - A History of the Soviet Union. This is an older work (from the 90s) and excludes some of the more recent discoveries since the opening of the Soviet archives. However, it's still the best one-volume work on the USSR available in my opinion.

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@fuzzydunlop7928 5 лет назад

"If we keep changing the name of the secret police, it will remain a secret."

@ursa_margo 3 года назад

You've got to admit that a "Ministry" sounds weird for a secret police. A "Committee" sounds much better

@hitemhard1991 3 года назад

Suupper seccret!

@merlin2935 3 года назад

You are a god damn genius

@weebishusername9288 2 года назад

3:10

@henrik3291 2 года назад

@@ursa_margo In the beginning all the ministries were called People's Commisariats, but Stalin decided that it sounded weird an renamed them ministries, with that all People's commissars were renamed ministers. NKVD renamed MVD (NK stands for Narodna Kommissariat somehting, which means Peopls's commissariats). VD actually stands for internal affairs, and so MVD was the ministry of internal affairs, and that kind of ministries are not that uncommon in the world.

@KEVMAN7987 5 лет назад

"He came down with a case of being shot." That's a very fatal disease.

@cyberdiver7076 5 лет назад

Lead is a helluva drug

@TroelsF87 5 лет назад

that’s not great but it isn't horrifying

@rock3tcatU233 5 лет назад

Just walk it off.

@samuelmmmk181 5 лет назад

Also an effective preventative. Tends to ward off other potentially aggressive males

@TotallyOriginality 4 года назад

The Courier would like a word

@kirschitz64 3 года назад

"He transfered Crimea from the Russian authority to his native Ukrainian one" Yeah, sure, that won't cause problems later. No way....

@kieranwalsh2058 2 года назад

No problems whatsoever. None at all

@kohrenhund 2 года назад

Hyup. Nothing in particular.

@jj70098 2 года назад

He was Russian apparently not Ukrainian

@isyraf9989 2 года назад

This age like a milk

@marcrohden8300 2 года назад

the problems are still not visible

@Missing_exe 3 года назад

3:23 Entire world: *communist* Madagascar: BETTER DEAD THAN RED

@auritro3903 3 года назад

Yes

@MrScruffels 2 года назад

Agreed

@kennethnwebb 2 года назад

hahahahahhaha

@casperhammerich356 2 года назад

No No, the collective communist states of earth made Madagascar into a big psychiatric hospital

@looinrims 2 года назад

@@casperhammerich356 playing Pandemic? I can believe it

@CoffeeSuccubus 5 лет назад

Fun fact: For 10 days, Kazakhstan was the USSR

@icecold1805 5 лет назад

As in, Kazakhstan was ALL of the USSR for those 10 days?.

@Orrma 4 года назад

Correct. Kazakhstan wasn't "The USSR," it was simply an SSR. The Union was dissolved and all the other member states had declared independence. Kazakhstan remained, for 10 days mind you, the only Soviet Socialist Republic left over from the Soviet Union.

@cageybee7221 4 года назад

@@Orrma Not True, Transnistria technically still exists and claims to be part of the USSR still. in practace though they do not have the old institutions of communism such as Gosplan (the economic planning agentcy) or the actual soviet governmental system. they did get left with a boatload of old guns though.

@aguy3664 4 года назад

The Doo-Wop Stop so you could call it soviet union

@abbad707 4 года назад

Cool thx

@Seohyunbias4 4 года назад

Interesting side note, the secret speech and the Soviet communist party turning against the legacy of Stalin made Mao incredibly paranoid about his legacy and was a big part of what led to the Sino Soviet Split

@SoulDuckling126 3 года назад

Well, china change a lot but even deng xiaoping and pooh never touch him. PRC a Communist county with billionaires & millionaires!

@dickmonkey-king1271 3 года назад

Is his legacy that he is a complete twat too?

@robbieaulia6462 3 года назад

@@dickmonkey-king1271 I mean to be fair, if there is anyone who deserves "The highest kill count record" it would be Mao. Just think about it, he directly responsible for 55 million death meanwhile Hitler is only directly responsible for 12 million death.

@dickmonkey-king1271 3 года назад

@@robbieaulia6462 Reminds me of the 'bodycount' wars between Arnie and Stallone in the eighties. But you're right... no-one touches Mao. He was supreme dick of the 20th century.

@hgos7211 2 года назад

@@robbieaulia6462 Hitler launched wars, invasions and genocides. Mao was partly responsible for a famine that had a very high body count. Still very different.

@roadent217 3 года назад

8:38 Ahh, yes, the two famous Baltic nations: -Lithuania -The Others

@TheRightGayGuy 2 года назад

It's true

@goodluckokereke 2 года назад

I hear more of Estonia that Lithuania

@anon3631 2 года назад

based

@skat0rzZzz 2 года назад

@@goodluckokereke depends on where you went to school

@chrissy9469 2 года назад

Latvia

@johnearle1 2 года назад

I was in a grocery store back in 1992. A group of Russian sailors were there when one of them went beserk and starting shouting in Russian. He repeated one phrase over and over. I asked one of his friends what he was saying. He replied, “They lied to us! They said the line ups here were twice as long!” The sailor had grown up on a farm, and had never seen so much food for sale.

@loganb7059 2 года назад

IIRC part of the reason Yeltcin started his reforms was because he made an impromptu visit to a grocery store while on a diplomatic visit to the USA. As the story goes, he was stunned by the fact that it not only was fully stocked, but with multiple competing brands, and the products weren’t crap. Don’t know how true the story is. Edit: corrected, it was Yeltcin, not Gorbachev

@jamespaquin5639 Год назад

What city ?

@johnearle1 Год назад

@@jamespaquin5639 Stephenville, Canada.

@anzelatoleikyte2083 Год назад

@@loganb7059, Yeltcin, not Gorbachev.

@loganb7059 Год назад

@@anzelatoleikyte2083 thank you.

@bvthebalkananarchistmapper5642 5 лет назад

Kazakhstan was the last to officially declare independence from the USSR (yes, even after Russia).

@russiaball7447 4 года назад

Russia: The Union is dead. Kazakistan what are you doing? Kazakistan: I AM THE SOVIET UNION

@michaelweston409 4 года назад

They wanted to be masters of the new empire

@eliasheikkila8307 4 года назад

@@russiaball7447 Is it a union then? Though, "I AM THE SOVIET" doesn't have the same ring to it...

@russiaball7447 4 года назад

@@eliasheikkila8307 yeah, you are right, i did it just for the joke

@iron60bitch62 4 года назад

Why do you think

@kevinbyrne4538 5 лет назад

I'll never forget a sign that a little old lady held during a protest in Moscow as the USSR disintegrated: "70 years on the road to nowhere".

@grrumakemeangry 5 лет назад

oww :/

@kevinbyrne4538 4 года назад

@tu tu -- Time magazine featured a photo of a large demonstration in Moscow during the death throes of the Soviet Union. In the photo was a little old lady with a sign, "70 years on the road to nowhere". A very fitting epitaph for the USSR.

@thomasmaiolino 4 года назад

@tu tu you buy it

@comradewildcat1770 4 года назад

@tu tu Whenever people say life in the Soviet Union was bad, they are often exaggerating it. The Soviet Union saw many achievements in increasing the standards of living for everyone, especially compared to Tsarist Russia. What ultimately led to it's demise was it's extremely inefficient bureaucratic mess and lack of light consumer industry, it couldn't compete with the capitalist rest of the world. I should ask you to consider why so many in the former USSR actually miss it, and also not believe all the things said about the USSR at face value.

@MemeMaster-bg4mf 4 года назад

Comrade Wildcat Most people that miss the USSR are the elderly that miss receiving their state pension and bitter Russian nationalists. They don’t miss the USSR itself per se, they just don’t like what came after it.

@CJ-dw3dr 3 года назад

To sum up, things that led to the decline and dissolution of the USSR: 1. Economic stagnation 2. Corruption and overspending 3. James Bissonette

@Void_Wars 2 года назад

Sounds like the US

@kindadumb916 2 года назад

@@Void_Wars yeah, James Bissonette is going to burn the country down.

@StraightEdgeSieghart 2 года назад

4. Kelly Moneymaker

@bsadewitz 2 года назад

One thing led to the dissolution of the USSR: Gorbachev ordered the government to stop threatening/killing citizens.

@stevenmaginnis1965 2 года назад

The USSR was the old Russian empire in a new package. The communists set up separate soviet socialist republics in four ethnic homelands in the old empire - Russia, Belorussia, Ukraine and Transcaucasia. Russia and Transcaucasia were federations of numerous ethnic groups. These first four soviet socialist republics were united to form the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ethnic enclaves in Central Asia within the Russian Federation were formed into union republics, then the Transcaucasian Federation was split into Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, then the Baltic States were annexed and made union republics, and then Moldavia was created out of Bessarabia, which Romania was forced to annex to the Soviet Union. After the war, Karelia (along the border with Finland) was demoted from union republic status to a republic within the Russian Federation, bringing the final number of union republics to fifteen. These ethnic homelands had long wanted to be independent from Czarist Russia and the Russian-dominated USSR, and Lithuania got the ball rolling. Karelia will never be an independent country, though. I don't think there are that many Karelians left.

@Eboreg2 3 года назад

Khrushchev: "Let's implement freedom of speech!" Civilians: "You suck!" Khrushchev: "Not like that!" Gorbachev: "Let's implement freedom of speech!" Civilians: "You suck!" Gorbachev: "Yeah... I guess you're right."

@salahabdalla368 2 года назад

He was so naive, what works in the US wont work with everyone

@lefroggy6233 Год назад

Tbh Gorbachev has a humiliation fetish

@lcdream4213 Год назад

@@lefroggy6233 nah dude I blame boris yeltsin, he's the reason it all went to shit, Gorbachev was just trying to do his best to make the country better

@ThePikminCaptain Год назад

@@lcdream4213 I agree Yeltsin took advantage of Perestroika and Glasnost and dissolved the USSR

@-ragingpotato-937 Год назад

For his own good Gorbachev should have made things improve or suck less before implementing freedom of speech.

@ericjamieson 5 лет назад

"We will bury you" wasn't actually intended as a threat. "Bury" was used in the sense of "be present at your funeral" e.g. "We buried my grandmother last week." It was based on a Russian saying and essentially meant "we will outlast you."

@billvolk4236 5 лет назад

A great example of a tiny translation error/misunderstanding that had effects on a global scale. Props to the interpreters at the UN who have to translate speeches in real time and catch every cultural nuance perfectly in one go.

@brandonlyon730 5 лет назад

Still a bit of a ironic statement considering the exact opposite had happened in 1991.

@fenrirgg 5 лет назад

"I will dance on your grave" is less confusing.

@bear8ful 5 лет назад

@@fenrirgg nah not really

@johnw5584 5 лет назад

Then why bang his shoe on the table? No one did that when grandma died.

@theprussianmink 5 лет назад

It's a bit ironic that the Brezhnev character here doesn't have eyebrows.

@WG55 5 лет назад

That bothered me. "Where are the eyebrows?!"

@POCLEE 5 лет назад

Or medals.

@theworldoverheavan560 5 лет назад

@Judy G. Lol

@oilersridersbluejays 5 лет назад

Brezhnev eyebrows were visible from Helsinki.

@nigeh5326 4 года назад

Ludwig van Beethoven ‘visible from Helsinki’ they were visible from space wobbling round the Kremlin

@matthew416811 Год назад

RIP Mr Gorbachev, for your contribution in ending the cold war. ...and of course Pizza Hut.

@aperson6242 Год назад

Pizza Hut? How?

@NickIsSlick698 Год назад

he put the first pizza hut in the ussr

@beans00001 Год назад

All hail to Gorbachev

@thewafflehouse841 Год назад

A man who is revered by some but to some seen as the man who destroyed a great nation but to the man himself in his final few years he saw the many freedoms he had given to his people be stripped away and to be seen as a terrible leader he wasn't perfect sure but he genuinely believed he was helping and out of the few notable figures I would have wanted to meet and ask him about really his time in office and his ideas he had implemented and things he wish he could do differently may the man rest peacefully and I hope for the Russia people to have the freedom they had

@richieflores6617 Год назад

@@NickIsSlick698 He was even in a Pizza Hut commercial only aired in the USSR.

@graham8552 3 года назад

Would love to see a sequel to this video showing Russia’s evolution from post USSR reform to Vladimir Putin’s rise. Your ten minute histories were the best and most entertaining historical content on RU-vid and I’d subscribe to the patreon to get them back

@Godslayer5656 2 года назад

Would as well, but feel that may be too recent, really the last marking point we’ve had in history 1991, we’re still in a US dominanted world, maybe after another firm point in history has been marked.

@brettsnyder5858 2 года назад

yesssssssss! i was looking for one

@anguswaterhouse9255 2 года назад

We going to need one about pitons fall soon

@probablysomedingus75 2 года назад

@@Godslayer5656 lol we'll see how the year goes...

@mckenziestrib9187 2 года назад

@@Godslayer5656 i think we've had one now.

@samiamrg7 4 года назад

When Kruschev visited the US in 1959, he requested to specifically make a stop in Iowa so he could see some American farmland and how we do it. This is because Iowa has a fairly similar climate to places throughout the USSR, and so Kruschev thought he could gain valuable insights by visiting.

@HeadCannon19 Год назад

No wonder he became obsessed with corn

@pokemaster123ism Год назад

I mean, he did say that corn initially did very well, and it was the bad weather that did it in, so Khrushchev was definitely onto something

@gengis737 Год назад

@@pokemaster123ism Monoculture is a sure way to disaster when you try to adapt foreign agriculture. A soviet joke says that Kruschev identified the four problems of soviet agriculture: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

@Nerad137 Год назад

He stayed in a particular room at the Hotel Fort Des Moines. My wife and I stayed in the same room on our honeymoon. Because we couldn't possibly not...

@LamborghiniDiabloSVPursuit Год назад

He should have also paid a visit to Ireland. Maybe he could have figured out why your entire country relying heavily on a single crop for food and trade was a bad idea.

@Loup-mx7yt 4 года назад

People: the ussr dissolved because of an unstable economy Gorbachev: I want McDonald's.

@smartcaja6681 4 года назад

Pizza hut.

@ln7929 4 года назад

Pizza hut

@quisqueyanguy120 4 года назад

"Za Gorbachova!"

@gabagooom 4 года назад

Pitza Chwut

@Gia1911Logous 4 года назад

You mean PIZZA HUT?

@sargentrowell81 3 года назад

I love the funny phrases like "came down with a fatal case of being shot," and "a little bit assassinated." Brilliant writing.

@adamstevens5070 2 года назад

The fact that Brezhnev's eyebrows didn't make it into the animation is disappointing...

@Matt620 5 лет назад

"He came down with a fatal case of being shot." This is why I love this show.

@sabribeser2268 3 года назад

communism takes over the world madagascar:no

@georgeamesfort3408 3 года назад

"We don't do that here "

@Custerd1 2 года назад

A fatal case of lead poisoning.

@josephD32 2 года назад

Ah, killed to death.

@feonor26 2 года назад

Another politician accidentally cut his own head off while shaving.

@averageboi5195 5 лет назад

Khrushchev actually said “we will see you be buried” but his translator was a little special in the head

@sandygehrmann6309 5 лет назад

*Khrushchev

@sonicbro6446 5 лет назад

@@sandygehrmann6309 Dank Kushchev

@masadda7 5 лет назад

What I've heard is that it was meant to say we will outlast you as in communism will outlast capitalism but the original translation stuck in the heads of everyone.

@kles44 5 лет назад

That means something different than what is quoted in English.

@zoedanforth7932 4 года назад

@@yousefghuniem5575 bro why are you unnecessarily throwing a tantrum?

@taskfroce80th95 2 года назад

1922 Dec 30th ~ 1991 Dec 26th = 68 years 360 days We were on the edge of perfection, we were this close to 69

@Technobabylon Год назад

I'm almost surprised that the video didn't end with Kazakhstan standing around confused as the last (and only) member state of the USSR for a brief period

@imperatorcaesardivifiliusa2158 5 лет назад

The Death of Stalin was hilarious, Zhukov stole every scene he was in.

@kastiloshepherd1892 5 лет назад

Fact ^

@ComradeHellas 5 лет назад

Are you talking about the movie?

@KCJ1999 5 лет назад

I fucked Germany I think I can take a fucking fleshlump in a waistcoat

@Erik-ko6lh 5 лет назад

Zhukov had balls.

@MrBolas33 5 лет назад

“Saddle up cowboy!” 🤣

@mysticsharp2053 4 года назад

3:23 With communisim spreading through the earth, Madagascar is the last bastion of hope for the worlds capitalists

@amerain1729 4 года назад

MysticSharp And it is the global center of exonomy

@arthas640 3 года назад

Reminds me of Hearts of Iron and similar Paradox Games. Sometimes you can take over a country and their government will be relocated somewhere random, I'm currently at war with England and after I took the British Isles their colony of Pakistan became the leader of the free world, ruler of the global British Empire, and Karachi became the global hub for trading. Luckily for me Goa is a friendly port and I have all these lovely Marines sitting around...

@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero 2 года назад

SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN

@isoni9430 3 года назад

3:22 I'm glad to see madagascar is immune to communism.

@Konmonachi 2 года назад

Based madagascar

@thelibertyking6735 Час назад

Ironic since it did had a period under Communism.

@tomross4599 3 года назад

You said that a couple of tanks led to the construction of the Berlin Wall, which would have made it a defensive structure. That’s not at all what most historians would say. 4 million Germans had fled from East to West Germany between 1949 and 1961, a quarter of the population. This ruined the economy and social infrastructure (think doctors and engineers). The Berlin Wall was built to lock up the remaining population, not to protect it from Western tanks. Important distinction.

@davespiller684 3 года назад

'Fled'. They moved because pay was better in the West, because the East spent its (far more limited) money on maintaining jobs and services for the poor. It's like saying Indian doctors in Britain 'fled' here.

@looinrims 3 года назад

It’s more the case of communist citizens had a way to compare their life to western life and the communist governments realized it was way worse so they had to stop them

@davespiller684 3 года назад

@@looinrims The citizens who were doctors and engineers, yes. For the people at the bottom of German society, the West was arguably worse.

@looinrims 3 года назад

@@davespiller684 the west wasn’t arguably worse How many people fled to the east? How many people make garbage rafts to escape capitalism and go to socialist or communist nations? Which system gets the ‘refugees’ of places? Exactly, as the quote goes “we don’t need to build walls to stop our people from leaving”

@davespiller684 3 года назад

@@looinrims You should maybe think about which nations went socialist and why, and then look at which capitalist countries people migrate to. Venezuelans aren't heading to Liberia.

@christianbuffum-robbins8904 5 лет назад

Fun Fact: NYET

@mecha7419 5 лет назад

Пет

@classic952 5 лет назад

*no*

@darthXreven 5 лет назад

another fun fact Nein

@jakartagamer6188 5 лет назад

@@darthXreven jajajajajajajajaj

@rookieodst1376 5 лет назад

jakarta gamer - superintendent!!!

@killerOfMoons 5 лет назад

All the thuds when they die are hilarious.

@nigeh5326 5 лет назад

And the Sgnt Pepper reference, although 'back in the USSR' is on the white album not Sgnt Pepper

@TheBluetwo26 4 года назад

I want a video of just reading off a date and name of a person followed by “ was dead.” Just like that but for like a thousand different leaders through history.

@livethefuture2492 3 года назад

The thud when Stalin died was probably the most wonderful sound ever heard by the people of the USSR and the world.

@aninditapaul9291 3 года назад

@@livethefuture2492 *saddest

@martinmorles1 Год назад

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, the last leader of the USSR It's shocking that throughout its eighty ish history they only had 7 leaders !

@Suksass Год назад

Well, it existed for less than a hundred years so no surprise there.

@martinmorles1 Год назад

@@Suksass most countries have at over a dozen leaders by then or more the USA had 23 presidents by the time it reached 100.

@Suksass Год назад

@@martinmorles1 USA was a democracy where no president could serve for longer than two terms, 4 years each. USSR was dictatorship.

@matthewmiller6987 Год назад

@@Suksass western rome in the fifth century only lasted 76 years and had 11 rulers (2 of which ruled for a combined 50 somthing years” the Soviets had pretty good stability once a leader actually took power

@Suksass Год назад

@@matthewmiller6987 which leader? Cause Soviet Union had to contend with uprisings for entirety of its existance. Soviet Union was a powder keg of instability.

@jasonbourne1218 2 года назад

"A fatal case of being shot." One of the greatest lines ever

@maxwellweiss9849 4 года назад

3:23 Madigascar would never submit.”, *King Julius Holds the Line*

@joshuajoe1419 3 года назад

lol Madagascar reference

@HaxeRoxas13 3 года назад

Julian >:(

@kdarkwynde 3 года назад

*Julien

@yakuisa6558 3 года назад

@@kdarkwynde you're*

@GamingWithChf 2 года назад

James Bissonette protects Madagascar.

@charliespurr7325 4 года назад

Lol 3:41 Stalin's picture was replaced with corn 🌽

@antonzhdanov9653 3 года назад

Pretty accurate and a joke itself. Khrushev was a conductor of destalinization policy and of intensifying of extensive agriculture by planting of corn and cultivating of more land for corn fields. Actually that provoked the biggest anthropogenic disaster till Chernobyl happen. - Devastation of millions square meters of fertile soil in Russia, Kazakhstan and other middle Asian countries. Bcs, Stalin actually supported very correct farming policy of correct irrigation and mixed tree/fields agriculture areas. But Khruschev was kinda obsessed with doing everything not like Stalin and when you do something in area where you are not expert and don't listen actual experts..... Khruschev by first profession was a farmer but not an expert in agronomic area. Well, this would end ugly if you don't know what you do. And, oh, it turned ugly.

@charliespurr7325 3 года назад

@@antonzhdanov9653 I know that's why it's so funny 😂

@Kiwoeoe 3 года назад

yeah its Khrushev we called him Kukuruznik meaning Cornman xD

@charliespurr7325 3 года назад

@@Kiwoeoe that's great 😂

@StLouis-yu9iz 3 года назад

@@antonzhdanov9653 not to mention the draining of the Aral Sea :(

@Luboman411 3 года назад

The first 1/10 of this video is hilariously depicted in the recent 2017 movie, "The Death of Stalin." People should definitely watch it. Khrushchev was quite the sneaky schemer...

@PotionsmasterDyne 2 года назад

I love how Khrushchev frolics through corn instead of daisies.

@Hannodb1961 5 лет назад

There is one MASSIVE omission in your representation of Soviet history: You ommited Brezhnev's monobrow

@ruturajshiralkar5566 2 года назад

Unibrow

@Hannodb1961 2 года назад

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 Uberbrow.

@ruturajshiralkar5566 2 года назад

@@Hannodb1961 His Brows merged to become a one Supreme Being

@Hannodb1961 2 года назад

@@ruturajshiralkar5566 It must've complicated negotiations. Brezhnev: I must protest against the increasing presence of the US military in West Germany! US diplomats: Mooonsteeerbrooow!

@ricardokowalski1579 2 года назад

So unfair. Stalin got a mustache, but Brezhnev got his epic eye brows ommited.

@Kez_DXX 4 года назад

Corn wasn't Khrushchev's only secret weapon for food success. He also had red king crab specimens brought from the Pacific and were introduced to the waters around Murmansk.

@shipaskof8371 2 года назад

Never knew hed a case of the crabs

@lukecash3500 3 года назад

"1953 and Joseph Stalin... is dead." The most thoroughly satisfying thing you've ever said.

@amir-ng6jv 3 года назад

It's a sad reality that he could only die once

@aceofr3ap3r21 2 года назад

It is a big relief

@Jake3121225 2 года назад

The Paul McCartney appearance when he says “back in the USSR” is AWESOME!

@smilingearth5181 4 года назад

Soviet history in nine words: "He came down with a case of being shot"

@arthas640 3 года назад

Replace "shot" with "had an accident and instead of cream he added cesium 137 to his tea" and you've got modern Russia in a nutshell

@anonUK 3 года назад

"Severe case of hypothermia due to a prolonged stay anywhere North or east of Moscow."

@SportyMabamba 3 года назад

Russian history in 4 words: “Then things got worse”

@skeletonjanitor 3 года назад

@@SportyMabamba sadly trye

@robbieaulia6462 3 года назад

@@SportyMabamba Yeah the Russian empire before the Crimean war is pretty much Russia at the height of it's power.

@marcnassif2822 5 лет назад

Fun fact: My mom was in Lvov in Ukraine during the Chernobyl disaster and only found out when her freaked out brother called From the US (Both had emigrated)

@Bartonovich52 5 лет назад

I still think it’s amazing that the first the western world heard of the Chernobyl disaster was when radiation alarms went off in a Swedish nuclear power plant 1000 km away.

@freddy4603 5 лет назад

@@Bartonovich52 that's what happens when you have an authoritarian government.

@eksdee2170 5 лет назад

Fun (maybe not so fun) fact: My mom lived in Ukraine as it happened (since we're from Ukraine) before we moved to Sweden in 2004 and my grandfather was called in to help dealing with the disaster, he declined thankfully orelse he would be dead much sooner. Nothing serious happened to my mom tho or the rest of the family, but some nerve damages. Was born in '98 with slight mental problems, such as autism but not sure if that's related or not.

@slappy8941 5 лет назад

He was delusional, because RBMK reactors don't explode.

@eksdee2170 5 лет назад

Slappy Not great, not terrible, I’ll still rate your comment 3.6/69 roentgen

@jacobtanner486 3 года назад

“You weren’t shot, you just lost your jobs” sounds very familiar to a similar country that was a rival with the USSR

@jacobtanner486 3 года назад

@@Godslayer5656 actually they’re mega corporations, all owned by 6 different companies, and all of them help influence political candidates and ideologies, selling not only products but their ideas, an oligarchy and communism are one in the same, except in communism the elite are supposed to give back, which never happens, so they are both the same thing, all the power Is owned by 6 people and the government, and the 6 people work with the government to increase their revenue while screwing the average person over, the difference is that we don’t have a planned economy, if we did we’d be starving rn, but the private sector is not private, it sure as hell isn’t a free market, it can never be a free market with 6 people producing about every single product we use

@nishiharach. 4 года назад

Mikhail Gorbachev also opened Pizza Hut in Russia. All hail Gorbachev!

@szahmad2416 4 года назад

Also went on a commercial for Pizza Hut because he needed money.

@suomi5475 3 года назад

All hail Gorbachev!

@Memelander 3 года назад

*Oversimplified

@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt 3 года назад

hey ive seen this before...

@nishiharach. 3 года назад

@@AbdulRasyidPangrango-qr9dt you have, yes.

@BadMouseProductions 5 лет назад

I thought you were gonna try something twisty at the beginning like "Its 1953 and Stalin... is still alive"

@levus_ 5 лет назад

This video was underscoring and unfunny..

@ahmedabokar4786 5 лет назад

Eeeeeey ur back! Keep makings vids man, I loved them

@maximusmedia8412 5 лет назад

BadMouseProductions hello there comerade mouse

@DaisyGeekyTransGirl 5 лет назад

Oh, hey, comrade, you a fan too?

@bulldogmadhav5762 5 лет назад

Wow I didn’t expect to see you here

@manolokonosko2868 2 года назад

Gorbachev didn't make the country worse. A freer press simply reported what was previously suppressed on how really bad things were, so for people used to believing the lies of the previous governments that "all things are good", to be made to realize that they were horrible, would unfortunately and unfairly, make Mikhail Gorbachev's government look "bad". The same happens in many other, including "democratic" countries, when a new president from a different party allows the press to uncover the shit. He will be inevitably be blamed for "ruining the country ". People just don't think. They react.

@flying_tsar 3 года назад

"Back in the USSR" I loved this Beatles reference!

@TheDarkever 5 лет назад

In the end, it's always economic failure that makes countries fall. Not lack of democracy, not riots and revolts, not bad press. When there isn't enough money, that's when everything comes crushing down.

@MrHAH-cd9ku 3 года назад

@@SaintGuyKenny The government’s incompetence made the country poor and the poor country promptly died.

@starwarzchik112 3 года назад

Unless you’re North Korea.

@MrHAH-cd9ku 3 года назад

@@starwarzchik112 North Korea was actually doing better than South Korea in the beginning. It was Famine that mainly led to it becoming one of the shittiest places to ever be born in, though losing the respect of fellow communist countries made it even worse.

@robbieaulia6462 3 года назад

@@MrHAH-cd9ku Yeah if anything most Decolonized country are better off staying as colony of Europe since most European empire after WW2 decided that their colonies require just as much living standards as Europe itself.

@SeanUCF 3 года назад

You can't really have one without the other. Bad economies lead to dictatorships and dictatorships lead to bad economies.

@MrZachary246 4 года назад

Everytime an animated character waddles out with a sign saying something different I die of laughter. Well done man haha

@adamromero 3 года назад

The characters are hilarious!! 🤣

@daver18qc 3 года назад

The quick thump of the dying cartoons crack me up every single time xD

@Tennischamp450 Год назад

Fun fact, Gorbachev blamed the TV show Dallas for the collapse of the Soviet union more than anything. He said in just that half hour where someone snuck the show on the air caused viewers to think thats how Americans were living.

@grantm6933 5 лет назад

God damn I hate these premieres. You get excited for a video only to discover it doesn't exist yet.

@trisha6161 5 лет назад

Top 10 anime plot twists

@jalmaritammela8642 5 лет назад

Yeah! Its annoying.

@HistoryMatters 5 лет назад

Agreed. I wanted to see what the fuss was about but it only seems like an excuse for regular creators (non-streamers) to get Superchats. I won't be using them again. Silly idea.

@jalmaritammela8642 5 лет назад

Thank you.

@cronoros 5 лет назад

@@HistoryMatters you could have said it was a premiere for the soviet premier

@bigbootros4362 4 года назад

Madagascar stays capitalist whilst the whole world becomes communist? Damn imperialist Malgache !

@jimmytang8131 3 года назад

god bless madagascar

@carso1500 3 года назад

King Julien will not cede his throne to those filthy comunists

@torgeirstrnnes6487 2 года назад

It's just proof that communism is an infectious disease :D

@anonymousdetective3786 2 года назад

@@carso1500 Gold comment, made my day. :)

@tkraccoon1368 Год назад

So what is the joke?

@archiethomson9982 2 года назад

i’m not sure if you will see this but i really enjoy your videos! they are so educational and interesting and your channel made me inspired to learn more about history! keep up your really brilliant work!!

@RJones-es7ur 2 года назад

This content is so good; I can go on History Matters rabbitholes for hours!

@Gia1911Logous 4 года назад

Gorbachev is really very underrated He is by far the most pro-democratic leader that Russia ever had Glasnost Perestroika may have eventually caused the break up, but as Gorbachev said once, "Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences." Truly the most progressive man in Russia's bloody history

@ufhb6649 4 года назад

I find it kind of stupid that the Soviet Union could have become a big powerful democratic state but everyone decided to go « screw you everyone, I’m going my own way now ».

@looinrims Год назад

@@ufhb6649 half of them weren’t apart of the nation by choice, if you recall their histories

@Themehsofproduction Год назад

I hate him with every cell in my body

@falconlewitteducation4941 Год назад

If Yeltsin never did a thing and if those communist hardliners never staged a coup d'état, the USSR would have survived and it would have followed Democratic Socialism. And citizens of all non-Baltic republics would not have faced such immense problems like poverty and and war.

@photlam9769 Год назад

@@Themehsofproduction Why? He literally gave people freedom of speech to which people formed there own states

@underconstruction6436 5 лет назад

2:28 Khrushchev looks like he’s about to make a pun straight out of CSI Miami with those shades.

@themightyranger6321 5 лет назад

It's time to... Make reforms *puts shades on*

@azh698 5 лет назад

He should hold up a sign saying: YYEEAAAAAAH!

@user-ni2dp7rr1o 2 года назад

I LOVEEE your videos!! Please keep them going

@thenationaltimelyactionhou9328 3 года назад

As always, this was a great video!

@Feffdc 5 лет назад

I laughed for some reason "Kruschev was a little obsessed with corn"

@karolmorales9027 5 лет назад

😂😂😂😂

@aninditapaul9291 3 года назад

(Not so) fun fact: I am a little (very) obsessed with wheat.

@Alpha1200 5 лет назад

Wasn't the "we will bury you" thing a mistranslation or miscommunication or something?

@sceerane8662 5 лет назад

I think the intended meaning was "We will live to see you buried"

@themightyranger6321 5 лет назад

@@sceerane8662 kruschev was saying that socialism would bury capitalism, not that they would nuke the usa

@robertjarman3703 5 лет назад

He was referring to a phrase Marx used in which capitalism inevitably sows the seeds of its own collapse. He had in mind that the American working class would overthrow the American government and substitute a Marxist state in its steed.

@themightyranger6321 5 лет назад

@@robertjarman3703 exactly

@serioussamosa3780 5 лет назад

@@sceerane8662True, what khrushchev meant was along the lines of "we will outlive you"

@ZhangtheGreat 3 года назад

What I learned from this channel is that everyone in history communicated by holding up various signs

@azanianikhomanisi8713 3 года назад

2:25 Joe Biden, is that you?

@garrisonnichols807 2 года назад

I thought the same thing 🤣

@ThePharaoh44 5 лет назад

Brezhnev without eyebrows is not normal.

@riddlie787 5 лет назад

*YOU’RE TEARING ME APART LISA*

@huge7800 5 лет назад

Oh hi Mark

@themightyranger6321 5 лет назад

@@huge7800 *hai dogi*

@louisjohnson3888 5 лет назад

I did not hit her. It's bullshit! It's not true! I did not hit her! I did not.

@themightyranger6321 5 лет назад

@@louisjohnson3888 i wish you could have ruled the ussr

@louisjohnson3888 5 лет назад

@@themightyranger6321 so do I, comrade. So do I.

@mansfieldlou 2 года назад

In 1964 Khrushchev was ousted from power. "He did get to live though, so that was nice." Love this channel for those clever quips.

@McRocket 3 года назад

4:48 - 'He did get to live though. So that was nice.' 🤣

@missrakshakeller Год назад

And later he died on September, 11, 1971

@polandballhistorian8537 5 лет назад

3:22 Ahh, Madagascar... always so defiant.

@slavicvasenin6685 5 лет назад

0:00-0:44 main story of "The Death of Stalin" movie

@mbbno 3 года назад

I love your videos along with your dry humor.

@anthonyrodriguez7950 Год назад

Outstanding. Also, extra points for the "Back in the USSR" gag. Brilliant

@nigeh5326 4 года назад

Great touch ‘back in the USSR’ and the character wearing a Sergeant Pepper Beatle uniform 😊

@HELLBOY-ur4st 4 года назад

He was 1 second away of getting another add opportunity... this channel has gained so much respect from me

@DoglinsShadow 3 года назад

6:40 scared the heck out of me haha

@Jarod-te2bi 2 года назад

Your Doing the world a great service by making these videos.

@matheusdal8110 4 года назад

I really like how you do these videos fast enough and stating facts. They're short and go right at what matters concerning the truth of what happened. It isn't entertaining but is actually pretty helpful. I've lost count how many times I came back here whenever I had an insight watching something else or reading and wanted to go for full facts.

@Poopdahoop 5 лет назад

8:30 You don't know how lucky you are, boy.

@androzani 5 лет назад

An Unlikely Whale, The Moscow girls really knock me out.

@PhilWood82 5 лет назад

@@androzani Leave the West behind.

@yoshu4221 2 года назад

The photo of Comrade Corn at 3:43 was a nice touch.

@johnzengerle7576 Год назад

I wonder if we would be better off if Gorbachev had won reelection. He seems more competent then Yeltsin and less evil than Putin.

@Sly88Frye 4 года назад

Thank you for all your research and everything you do. I really appreciate this channel a lot. I for one half study some history but I forgotten so much of it and I don't think I really have looked that deep into history. I appreciate when guys like you do a ton of research and keep us well informed.

@melonlord7443 5 лет назад

To show you the power of flex tape I dissolved the USSR and repaired it with only flextape

@TryinaD 4 года назад

I didn’t think Phil Swift was pro socialism

@vaimantobe3034 3 года назад

Not even flex tape could fix the 90s version of the USSR

@espvp 3 года назад

7:01 i thought you were gonna say "because of a mild case of being shot" or something along those lines. Love this channel

@geoffnicholls8539 9 месяцев назад

Thanks

@MrCarpelan 4 года назад

The Cuban missile crisis was actually more the other way around. It was the Americans who were aggressive by putting ICBMs in Turkey, the Soviets only followed suit by placing nukes on Cuba. It also stopped thanks to the Soviet's accepting the short end of the stick to preserve world peace.

@docsavage8640 2 года назад

Total b.s.

@Burning_Dwarf Год назад

@@docsavage8640 why do you think that?

@Zapinc9 4 года назад

Gorbachev sacrificed everything to end tyranny. The absolute stones of that man.

@allisondoak9425 4 года назад

Urban Meadows didn’t end tyranny tho

@cornguy1514 4 года назад

Yeah about that...

@kensukefan47 3 года назад

People from Russias 90's will absolutely agree (no)

@davis4555 3 года назад

He was really just kinda inept and didn't understand that communism relies on everyone acting as an arm of the government at all times. That why they would brutally crush any dissenting ideas and people. If people are allowed more freedom (as the should be) they are free to NOT act as a hivemind, and they will fall away. He was raised in the USSR, and I think he really believed that people would all choose to stay commie. Well, they didn't.

@kensukefan47 3 года назад

@@davis4555 well they didn't want to stay commie so much that they wanted to bring it back in 1993.

@benavraham4397 3 года назад

Fantastic video!

@hashbrown7845 3 года назад

Idk if its his voice or his dry humor, but these videos are just amazing

@DanielgtaLaw 5 лет назад

0:51 "Please move my body"-Stalin to Khrushchev

@TheologyChad22 4 года назад

I was why his corpse was still lying around till then 😂

@MisterKnightly 5 лет назад

"Back in the USSR." I see what you did there.

@winchesterchua3390 3 года назад

Timestamp?

@MisterKnightly 3 года назад

@@winchesterchua3390 8:29 I believe

@MisterKnightly 3 года назад

@@Account-jn7xu Made a Beatles reference.

@MisterKnightly 3 года назад

@@Account-jn7xu Oh well, check out Back in the USSR, great song. You won't regret it.

@hans3000 2 года назад

You dont know how lucky you are, boiiiiiiiiis

@harrish9021 Год назад

When I was first learning about the Berlin Wall back in middle school I didn’t quite know where Berlin was… and I didn’t notice that West Berlin was completely surrounded by Eastern Germany And so I just assumed that the Berlin Wall stretched from the Baltic, down along the Eastern and Western German border, and ending at Austria So the fact that the Berlin Wall was set up so quickly astounded me a lot more than it really should have 😅

@Choppytehbear1337 7 месяцев назад

You're not alone.

@Lew114 Год назад

I'm old enough to remember all this as it was happening. I grew up during the Cold War, constantly afraid of nuclear annihilation. When Gorbachov started his reforms we became hopeful. When the Berlin Wall came down we were all ecstatic. No more cold war fears. No more B-52s flying over our house (we lived near a SAC base). We all assumed that they'd become a democracy and that would fix everything. We thought they'd turn into another Germany, France or Britain. Just another free, prosperous nation. I was young and naive then, but I still don't completely understand how things went so horribly wrong. It seems like one of the biggest missed opportunities in human history. For a brief moment between Stalin and Putin a window opened for Russia to have peace, freedom and prosperity. I wish things had gone differently. Could you do a video on how they managed to mess it all up?

@Jimmy_Carter. 11 месяцев назад

They MIGHT have been able to be prosperous if the person who came after Gorbachev wasn't a incompetent drunk like Yeltsin. Russia has plenty of resources and enough farmland and people to be a world power on the same scale as the USSR but Yeltsin caused a recession, hyperinflation, and the rise of Putin simply stamped Russia's fate

@looinrims 5 месяцев назад

You need only look at France to see what it would take for Russia to be anything remotely nice, France had to suffer not one but two humiliating politically destructive military defeats, one with Napoleon the 1st and the other with Napoleon the 3rd, and even still it took an enemy more powerful than it very close to it (Germany, Soviet Union) to keep it in line, knowing it couldn’t weather the storm alone Germany and Japan if you recall had to be destroyed, literally, to discredit to everyone with a pair of eyes and two brain cells their expansionist revaunchist ideals. Russia has not suffered any consequences until its second invasion of Ukraine to its revisionist history and aggression, and frankly these consequences have not bothered the elite of Russia so much which is where it would need to happen. Proles can get riled up about anything and forget about it just as quickly. Until Russia is humiliated in some radical way that sees political downfall for its then ruling elite, only then can we hope for any form of change for the better…more likely they’ll just end up a Chinese puppet state

@Lew114 5 месяцев назад

@@looinrims Good points. If I had to bet on Russia’s future, I’d put my money on some form of subservience to China.

@jaredmoss7403 5 лет назад

Dude your vids are gold, and snappy humor holds attention.

@FlymanMS 5 лет назад

Khrustchev in his famous speech actually said an ideomatic phrase meaning "We'll show you!", it was just misinterpreted and the wrong translation stuck.

@danielfried4896 5 лет назад

FlymanMS I don’t believe so because he would latter on embrace the line saying in other speech “I once said we will burry you, and got in trouble with it. Of course we will not burry you with a shovel. Your own working will burry you”. This implies he wasn’t threatening nuclear war though he was implying that socialism will triumph capitalism and that we (socialist) will destroy capitalist nations from with in.

@docsavage8640 2 года назад

False