The First Soviet Five Year Plan 

SideProjects: for when it's just not quite MEGA enough! This is an awesome new channel from Simon Whistler that serves as a companion to MegaProjects. Here at MP, we'll continue to cover huge undertakings, often with outsized global implications... over at SP, which is published on alternating days, we'll give you interesting projects, stories, and tidbits that aren't quite so massive. We hope you'll subscribe to both! Subscribe to SideProjects: ru-vid.com/show-UC3Wn3dABlgESm8Bzn8Vamgg

"First of thirteen 'Five Year Plans.'" -yeah, I'm down for 12 more of these

Megaproject idea: Simon's channel managing skills

Wouldn’t mind hearing more about the next few 5 year plans

Anybody else come here after watching Simon lament how no one watched this in his T-35 video? 😅

So thats; Megaprojects Geographic Business blaze Today I found out Toptenz Simon whistler Side projects (I'm probably missing some aswell) That Simon Whistler is host of. This guy takes up like half the channels I watch. Edit: biographics, just remembered.

Megaprojects: the boeing Everett factory: home to the largest building in the world by volume

Megaprojects suggestion: Moving the swedish town Kiruna to prevent it from falling down a mine.

Do you remember when the Simon Whistler show used to be called RU-vid?

4:10 - Chapter 1 - Lenin death 6:20 - Chapter 2 - 1928 8:55 - Chapter 3 - Propaganda 10:10 - Chapter 4 - The farming collective 14:00 - Chapter 5 - Sucesses & failures 16:15 - Chapter 6 - 1 down, 13 to go

Megaprojects Suggestions: German bucket wheel excavators and Big Muskie. Both are/were the largest terrestrial machines on the planet.

Simon: starts aNoThEr channel Cats: we no longer control the internet-call for an orbital strike

Megaproject Suggestion. Longest deep bore ice core in Antarctica. Took years, loads of drama with it and they found some cool stuff like a fresh water lake under the ice containing previously unknown lifeforms. Would go Well with the other hole projects that are popular

I'm highly interested in the remaining plans! Also, thoroughly impressed with the consistency and quality of your myriad of channels' videos. Keep it up! I'll keep subbing to all of 'em, ♥

Given that the first five-year plan resulted in the Soviet union eventually becoming a world power, learning more detail of the events leading to its ultimate collapse would be interesting to say the least

I want more 5 year plan videos! Even if it's a small audience

Here's an idea for ridiculous technological innovations still in use: the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico! It hosts one of the largest radio telescopes in the world and is one of the observatories currently monitoring petty little things in space like mass extinction causing asteroids and other various space junk. This would also pose an opportunity to talk about future changes to a megaproject, as it had structural issues and considerable damage just this summer.

Yes, please, a continuation of the Five Year Plans!

Simon- "I had no idea that there were so many of these." Me- "Well yeah, there was a new one every five years, LOL"

the Brenner-Base-Tunnel in conjuction with the Brennernordzuluf would make for a good episode.

You said this video did poorly on your T-35 video. I'm here to make amends.

I would enjoy seeing another of these plans, they’re fascinating! Thank you for your videos 🥰

You left us hanging! Definitely want to hear more about the subsequent plans. Honestly this was a lot more interesting topic than I thought it would be, and gave me insight into this conflicted period of history. So many channels, so much good content, Simon & team!!! 💚✊

Great stuff! More, please! I can’t believe the quality and volume of highly informative material you are cranking out, Simon! Wow!

I wonder who started those rumors about invasion, certainly not the party

Simon is the Wikipedia of RU-vid. He's done videos on pretty much everything and everyone (of importance) who's ever existed.

Good video, id watch as many more that you are willing to put out. Dont worry about the numbers any particular video puts out , or what does well. Keep making videos that you like doing , and viewers will appreciate your work.

Simon I love your channels, you're my breakfast companion every morning. I've always been fascinated with Soviet Russia and the cold war in general, please do more videos on the topic, I'll watch them all. Keep up the good work my friend!

An idea: it's mega: the Mackinac (mak-in-aw) Bridge in Michigan

Half of my subscriptions are Simon's channels... Simon: I've got a new channel!

I truly appreciate all the content you put out, thank you!

Awesome presentation as always. Fascinating subject. Excellent over-view. Thank you. Bring on the next in this series😊

I wouldn't mind seeing a second episode of this! Keep up the awesome content 🍻

Hey Simon, I'm here from the T-35 Tank video on SideProjects.

Honestly binge watching so many of your channels. Would enjoy more of these 5 step plans

Simon.... Ive played and replayed this video over 270,000k times to up the view count in hopes of getting the next 12 parts. Throw me bone already.

Stalin's logic: The end justifies the means

I’m now subscribed to 4 channels hosted by Simon and I don’t think that’s enough 😂😂

Fantastic episode. This is like a deep dive of an album. Would love more like this.

I really enjoyed this video and would love to see more of this style!

Yup, definitely want more of this 5 year plans. Bring it.

I'll make more anyway because I love praise. Well at least he's honest

Side Projects! You are just crushing it! I keep finding you in different places on RU-vid and I get hooked on all of them! Brother you are the algorithm! Loving It! Keep rocking the Free World Sir!

Subscribed to yet another channel of yours. Keep it up Simon & team!

You should do one on the Moscow Metro system

Simon should host a skillshare on managing 61 RU-vid channels

Please make more of these!!

This was great, I'd love to listen to more of these.

Mega project ideas - Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The LEM for the Apollo Missions to the Moon or the Lunar Rovers. Also the pyramids of Giza and the Great Pyramid for the First Emperor of China with his pits of terracotta warriors as well as scribes, slaves and concubines. Just a few ideas.

Simon, you should make this series like the Corporate Darwin Awards and have the biggest failures as bonus facts at the end! As an American student, we aren't taught much about the turmoils that other nations face so these videos are always very fascinating and educational

Subscribed to side projects and chasing down your 'less popular' videos on these crazy soviet economic plans 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I love this idea for a series and I can’t wait to see more

I feel like you are teaching me a university level course in soviet history! How about a megaprojects video about the power grid network and how it compared to western ones? Or even moving away from Russia, the worlds biggest power grid?

Speaking of economy reverting projects: the Autobahn

This was really interesting and well done, and I’d really like to see more videos about the other plans in the future

I look forward to your side piece. Thanks I was just saying I need more channels of yours lol :) good idea to get multiple channels. Good show again.

New channel idea: Mini projects. Episode one: That time a man made a cup of coffee.

Omg please continue this story. It had me feeling like i was right there with the desperate Soviet people. I could almost feel the sorrow and despair you could see on their faces. Great job Simon!

This was fascinating! I am glad I watched this.

Excellent vid. I'm definitely up for the rest of these too... :)

It could have been worse. They could have gone for a great leap forward.

I was already worried that Simon hasn't created a new channel in the last three weeks Good to see that he is fine though and added another one to his collection

Thanks Simon. That was a great vid.

Youre right this was an underappreciated video! I think it was my favourite, please do the next 5 years

Comrade, congratulations on fulfilling your annual channel quota!

Mega project idea : Danny’s spread sheets and filing system.

This is a good video and topic. Please continue.

Now I want to know more about the other 5 year plans! Thanks for doing this!

I got a suggestion you might like: During the 1850s and 1860s the city of Chicago had to install it's sewer system, but since the city was already built at only about 4ft above the shores of Lake Michigan they actually raised the entire city, building by building on jackscrews as they built the sewers. Literally raising the elevation of an entire city is pretty mega. Edit: Hey! Simon did it: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QWQa2jCNzIc.html

9:45 One of Karl Marx's biggest gripes with the bourgeoisie/capitalists when writing Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto was that the owners of the factories treated workers like "cogs in a machine"... Which is essentially the same thing that Stalin's USSR did to so many workers. To quote Sheev Palpatine: "Ironic."

More please, I really enjoyed this

Awesome job on this very touchy subject. Please do the rest of the 5 year plans.

I approve of putting the 5 year plans under Mega Projects. Even though it was a dumpster fire it did work--because without these blood-soaked five year plans Hitler would have crushed the USSR. That doesn't mean that the five year plans were good things. It's hard to view these things objectively because the past is messy and chaotic--it was life.

Loving it - Megaproject suggestions: Heavy Haul railways and India's electrified double-stack railway corridor

Love the content from this channel, would like to see another 5 year plan video.

Well done and informative video about a crucial period of Soviet history. Do more.

If you do that, then you should do Mao's Great Leap Forward next.

Simon with a new channel? Imagine my shock.

I'd love to hear more about the other 5 year plans. Not something I know much about, and your videos make everything so interesting! It's a shame that not all of your videos get the attention they deserve

Simon making yet another channel: A fine addition to my collection

One step further on the path to youtube domination.

I have a new hobby: collecting Simon Whistler channels. I now have 6 and I look forward to more. 😁

Make another one. I love this stuff and I have enjoyed watching this one several times lol

I’m looking forward for the rest!👍

You have to get in on the ground floor with all these new channels so you can get all the inside jokes

"How many lights do you see, Picard?!" -Gul Madred, Star Trek: TNG, "Chain of Command I & II" I, for one, would be interested in hearing about the rest of the "5 Year Plans." So little of "History" is actually covered in the U.S. public school system, that I find myself continually surprised (and a bit embarrassed) by how much I don't know about some of the most important events in world history. I have a much better appreciation for the importance of not simply "learning history," but rather UNDERSTANDING the complexities which lead to important events and the consequences thereafter. I was familiar with the "2 + 2 = 5" reference to the novel "1984," and understood that it was more about submission/mind control than arithmetic, but I was not aware of its actual use in Soviet Propaganda, nor its meaning in that specific context and in the greater context of the Soviet industrialization plans. That adds several layers of depth to something I previously thought I was quite familiar with. I wonder what else is contained in the subsequent "Plans." =)

Alex in Yr 10B found this really interesting and really loves your programmes. Do lots!

Great stuff! Keep it up! Maybe do videos on other 5 year plans…? I hope so.

People always underestimate the USSR...but the fact they were in million man casualty wars from ww1, the revolution, and ww2, they came really far in such a short time and even managed to send people into space in just 15 years after ww2.

Please continue cause I'm really interested and very confused with the 5 year plans, although I've studied them. You simplify them to an extend I can understand. Thank's Simon.

Subscribed. Keep up the good work!

Great vid yes please would like to see more on this!

Jesus, Simon. ANOTHER CHANNEL?! You’re out of control!

Can you do one on the Boeing super factory in Everett Washington, USA it can fit Disney world's magic Kingdom and i believe it is the largest building by internal volume.

I’d love for more of these.

Giving you my love and praise!

it was 300 PERCENTILES below, but 700% below the expected.

AN-2, really cool mass-produced soviet flying tractor. Just an awesome plane with 1000s still flying today.

More of this, please!

Thanks for the reference from your other video Simon.