What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed 

And that's why I don't support nuclear proliferation in any instance we have had many of those near misses over the course of the years and decades since nukes were first used and invented in the 1930s and 40s To me the biggest example of that is the Goldsboro incident of the 1960s, where a plane carrying nuclear weapons crashed and its weapons were dropped to the ground The bomb recovery/disposal team that was able to dig up the weapons relayed to their supervisor how close the incident was to being an accidental detonation _"Until my death I will never forget hearing my sergeant [Earl Smith] say, "Lieutenant, we found the arm/safe switch." And I said, "Great." He said, "Not great. It's on arm."_

What evidence do we have that Yeltsin really did that?

He was too drunk to press th button

The business about going out in his skivies, drunk, Yeltsin wasn’t the first, you know. On a seventh grade field trip in 1975, two guys from my class ran out of the youth hostel where were staying, butt-naked, ran around the block and came back on a dare. They weren’t even drunk. Needless to say, the nude two were banned from all further field trips and suspended in school for a week. There was this one-hit wonder called, “The Streak” so there was a streaking fad.

@@excentrik5725 none it's just some random guy on the internet rambling.

It does

It’s almost as if people REALLY don’t want to fuck around and find out. Why the US 2nd Amendment is very important, among other reasons.

If American politicians have their way America will be just as bad or worse than the USSR. Time to get them out all of them

I grew up in the 70s and remember well the footage of Russians waiting in huge lines all day for TP, bread, or coal. The TP one really hits me now.

2022... a months salary to fill up a car. coming to a city near you!

pretty much everything from clothing is Made in China now (or Bangladesh, Vietnam). There are gazillion alternatives to Levi's these days.

I ain't know that

American government printing massive amounts of money and giving it to commies in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world isn’t helping

@@quanbrooklynkid7776 Yep. Small-time companies that used 'fracking' for natural gas (which can be made into gasoline) went bankrupt. They never recovered, and the middle east has control again. If politicians were serious about lowering price for people they'd help these companies start back up with subsidies, or loans.

I've known people who work in the oil industry and you are 100% correct. Oil was rather low for at least five years prior so investments in oil drilling in the US were absent.

Yup. As the saying goes, the cure to low prices is low prices. And the cure to high prices is high prices.

The scientist and the engineers won't be the one pushing that button. All they were to do is build a weapon. And in the Cold War the weapons were to simply be a deterrent, nothing more. Either side didn't want a nuclear fight. When that in mind, I would generously build a weapon that will never be used. 🤔

I think this is the first time I’ve seen the “job creation” argument used in the context of nuclear armament😂

@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 It was the Cold War mentality. Like it or hate it, the past happened.

@@justinhackstadt6677 People with this level of faith in the competency/rationality and essential goodness of world leaders and military commanders are showing their naivety. Disregarding the fact that a large amount of nuclear weapons are controlled by autocrats who are liable to flying off the handle at any moment, there’s also numerous documented instances of nuclear war almost occurring by accident because of human errors. All told, there have been many close calls already in the very short time that WMDs have existed. There is no possible way that humanity can exist perpetually in a state of global brinkmanship for centuries, let alone millennia, without an incident occurring. I agree that disarmament is not an option at this stage. But I just think it’s blissful ignorance to claim nukes will NEVER be used as though you’re some kind of prophet

@@jabrokneetoeknee6448 And yet the nuclear war never came. So whatever gaslighting you want to do here, nothing came of it. Js

Because russia is the ring leader and daddy of them all. Russia created the ussr.

But it was the most powerful

Because the USSR is Russia with a different name. 60% of the population of the USSR are Russians. The USSR was created as a reformed Russian Empire. 90% of all industry, natural resources, goods and power were in the RSFSR (Russia)

@king fuqurmahmen Most of the Soviet leaders were Russians. This can even be seen by their surnames, which end in "ev". They even said themselves that they were Russian. The fact that they were born in the Ukrainian SSR does not mean anything. Russian Russians were resettled to other republics in the 1920s and 1930s, which is why there are still huge Russian diasporas in these countries. And no Soviet leader was Asian lol

@@Anonymous-qj3sf "no Soviet leader was asian" What about Stalin lol?

haha aww so true. In Soviet Russia, the State sleeps so the people dont have to!

In Communism, the dictator and his servants eat all the food so the people don't have to.

@@curiodyssey3867 HAHAH now that's a good one. 😉😁😇😉

Seems like the average Russian had a much better life under communist rule than they did in a capitalist society...

Drunk on vodka.

I guarantee some gopnik out there has a 5 megaton weapon in his basement somewhere and has no idea what it is.

Just like Lord of War, art imitates reality

I’m sure if sone radical group had one they def would have used it by now or are scared too knowing the response for setting off a dirty bomb in a someone’s city

A lot of it becomes non functional if not maintained properly (which it most likely wasn't)

@@juanelorriaga2840 Nuclear weapons are complicated devices, and require a set process to go off as they do. Unless you know that process or the nuclear codes to activate them they are basically just radioactive paperweights.

I would like that as well

There's a really good Chinese movie called Life that covers a family from the Chinese civil war up until the turn of the 20th century. Def recommend.

@@rocketsfan05 i think you mean “To Live”. That is literally my favorite Asian movie. It really breaks down what happened during the revolution, the Great Leap Forward, and the Red Terror in China. It’s kinda sad because China was a really cool and cultured country pre-communism but then everyone who was a landowner or homeowner was either tortured or executed during the revolution and it just destroyed all of the finer things that feudal China had and turned it into a dystopian police state. I hope it can change back to the way it was because I’d love to visit.

@@rocketsfan05 here’s the movie i just found on RU-vid! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--s3u8bPZfLU.html

*Palpatine voice* "DEWIT!"

It's weird it has same abbreviation as Whitehouse (WH)

You mean Soviet Russia?

You do realize Russia is on the brink of winning the war in Ukraine, right? Ukraine's military is completely collapsing.

👍

That saying only applies to nearly 100% of Russians that aren’t currently oligarchs.

Except the problem is that Russia is not even a horse, but a stubborn ox.

@@blitz3276 👍

he did a coup actually..to avoid Communist restoration..

Yup, with some 1984 thrown in for good measure.

@@TrineDaely That sounds absolutely right, especially considering state media control.

well animal farm is a metaphor for Stalin's actions during/after the Bolshevik revolution. Same land area, different year.

@@jasonaschan1723 And I believe the character of Snowball was a metaphor for Trotsky. Thank you for pointing that out!

@@channellegendarium7677 "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."

also the only really long book he wrote was The Brother's Karamazov all his other ones are snappier reads.

You mean "War, what is it good for?".

From no millionaires in 1991 to 17 billionaires in 2000, welcome to the West. Sounds good on a bumper sticker, but it's utter BS. The dictators and all the guards of the Soviet Union were de facto billionaires if not de jure. They had control of the entire population of the Soviet Union and all of their industry, and natural resources. As well as absolute control of every Ruble in the Soviet Union and all hard currency. Just because those assets work in an account with their name on it doesn't mean it wasn't theirs. And to State otherwise in some attempt to own the West is just moronic. Welcome to the West, indeed, where we work enslaved, prisoners of dictators that could not even leave without risk of death. I was there the day the Berlin Wall came down, and the amount of ignorance in that one statement it's just appalling. Particularly in a channel that claims to be about history. Before the fall of the wall, I went to Eastern Germany. Germany was considered the Jewel of the Communists. The most successful example of communism. And in the year leading up to the fall of the wall even in hard currency stores where you could spend only Western currency, food was down to foil top vodka, bread, sausage and if you were lucky some moldy cheese. I brought my own toilet paper and fiber pills. And even then, East Germany was better off than Poland or Czechoslovakia. You should look up polish tourism in the context of that time. I did it. Whenever we can find food insignificant amounts in East Germany, or somebody was going to slaughter a cow. We could by the food at fixed East Germany prices, and then carry it over to Poland and sell it for 10 times as much. And of course you return the grease The Palms have everybody who helped you along the way or you won't be doing it again. People who yearn for communism or the Soviet Union have never experienced either. Or were part of the dictatorship that live like kings while everyone else starved.

That all was planned by putin.

Poor chechenia. The soldiers were bought off and Russia won at the end.

Yeah. Those year dates were goofy, lol.

truth…. was there when i was younger. Romania is mega corrupt… i could only imagine Ukraine lol

I know this is a touchy dark subject but the poverty, the fact cops don't do their jobs well and criminals having no real fear of prison time so does this kinda explain why Romania has a huge problem with grooming & young folks being trafficked🤔💭😮

@@richiethev4623 its a big problem in the eastern bloc... life is cheap.. much like parts of south america... africa or asia...

@@richiethev4623 might explained there attitudes towards a certain minority.

@@richiethev4623 Are we talking about Romania...or the United States?

They were both high ranking former party members. It isn't there fault that Russian masses have always just chosen new tyrants or in this case those who just changed the name. Simply hillarious. Komsomol man Khodoorkovsky who raved against 'imperial west' became sweetheart of the west.

Wrong

this is wrong on so many levels... you really should stop getting your history from reddit and twitter.

@@lamehick7511 I get it first hand, bro 😀 I lived in Russia back in the day, and Russian is my first language.

@@lamehick7511 please refute his assertions. I want to hear the "truth."

Also one of his cronies used to be a hot dog street vendor.

When Boris Yeltsin visited Vancouver BC, I looked out the window to see his huge motorcade coming into the city so I ran out to the street to wave and I was the only one standing there waving. I felt funny being the only one but don't you know he saw me and waved back from his limo! 😊

Not so fun fact: The USA supported Hitler with money and IBM made the machines to calculate ...whatever...How was Blitzkrieg possible without enormous amounts of money and materials...yeah...where did the money come from?! Now USA acting like world police and try to get into a similar situation like after ww2...because yeah USA econimy doesn't look that good either...don't be stoopid..it's obwious

@@dimaermolenko98 Because either way someone will be mad at us, so we might as well give 'em a reason.

the first Chechnya war?

Wrong

@@brucemunro7499 Shut up putrump

@@brucemunro7499 Found the tankie.

Kinda strange that those Chechen love Putin so much after he went it and basically destroyed the whole area.Must be throwing money at them to stay loyal or something

Adidas Track suits comrade.

Gopnicks are special

We learn from "bald and beautiful ".

That's is what I've always thought!

Jokes on Zelensky now 🤣

Old joke, move on

It wasn't just Korean they stole women from China and few other countries forgot which one's exactly

Sad?

​@@kanestalin7246The urss is destroying the west and the white race

in ten years or so we will have “What Happened Right After the Fall of Fascist Russia”

USA will follow

Et tu Gaius ? 😂

@@MiniKodjo Keep kidding yourself Chump

@@MiniKodjo freedom forever 🇺🇲🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🦅🗽

@@MiniKodjo well, now would be a good time to start!

Interesting analysis. I am looking for good source material, that is good books or documentaries on this. Can you provide that for those of us who want to learn more?

Honestly, hard to tell. Mostly, multiple World Bank and Freedom House books, though for starters I would personally recommend Freedom House's "Nations in transit" series, chiefly the 1997-2000 editions, as these cover the last years of Yeltsin and provide a comparative overarching view of all transition economies.

For real.

The Russia I remember from the 70s on, the average citizen was not doing well. Long lines for bread, tp, and coal. Your income didn't go far and you suffered. Tiny Apts, anything that broke wasn't fixed. Myneighbors whi immigrated from USSR to rural michigan lived simply as farmers but were so happy to be prospering in the US. I remember a PBS special in the 80s where a team of pediatric cardiovascular surgeons went in to a Moscow hospital to teach their surgeons how to do more but found their pediatric icu didn't even have cribs, much less ventilators, monitors, and esp meds. One of the kids they operated on died cuz they couldn't secure antibiotics on the black market in time.

Can you imagine the 'best' hospital in the country having a pediatric icu that is just a room with a few adult beds in it? Babies pinned by the diapers to the adult beds so they didn't fall off. Family is expected to secure meds on the black market ( including payment), and provide all meals for the patient. In nursing school in the 1990s one of my textbooks mentioned that two thirds of Russian hospitals had indoor plumbing. Which means a third were still hauling water and commodes to the bedside. Not a picture of utopia.

@@MarianneKatI don’t remember the USSR having PBS. I wonder what country runs PBS that hates the USSR. 🤔

Free does not mean it was good.

"The parity between poor and super rich became insurmountable" The magic of capitalism at work. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

@@Novusod You really need to read your Hegal, Capatilism and Socialism are both artificial political constructs weaponized after the French revolution.. to split societies down the middle so that they lose their Pagan/Orthodox sovereignties. When you follow the ill gotten gains, in and of any nation, you will always find the majority of it's resources are siphoned off by a small cabal of families, who install the ruling regimes, and it'll never change aslong as people's children are educated by the state, and it's corporate owners.

@@Novusod that is human nature, greed and thirst for power. Those things are not only present in capitalism, but in all of our systems. In the US we need to put more restrictions on lobbyists, money needs to be taken out of our government(legislature). Both of our parties are corrupt and love the money they make from special interests, we need to stop that from happening so easily.

@@jr2904 “this is all systems” immediately happened following the dissolution of the USSR and did not occur to this degree in any socialist country.

This is not human nature, it is power that corrupts. Human nature in general is quite friendly and sharimg. Think about yourself and your surroundings. Most people would help out if they could. Its not the image you get in the news though. And some people are just greedy bastards, sadly enough a lot of those bastards have a lot of power and recourses.

Good analysis, just make sure to note the difference between Vietnam and Ukraine. Though both are nations that were invaded by a large foreign power, the conflicts are exponentially different due to their relations to capital. In Vietnam, capitalism was rejected at the fundamental level. In Ukraine, however, it is not about whether or not the state will accept or reject capitalism, but whose imperialist multinational capitalist alliance it bows to, be it NATO, supporting US hegemony, or the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), supporting Russian hegemony.

@@gliiitched wrong. Both Vietnam, that got rid of French colonialism, and Ukraine, that got rid of USSR, wanted to be left alone and run their own politics, build their own country, but someone always has to put their big nose in and try to dictate what to do.

Have you been living under a rock for the last two and a half years? late 2019's repo market crash which was bailed out in 2008 had over half the planet's human rights violated by medical fascism.

@@leeboy2k1 I've been all to aware of the news

Not unless you have both the logistics infrastructure and government institutions to back it up

You have a culture of dependence for centuries: serfdom and obedience to the Tsar, then communism which was all about collectivism and the common good. Capitalism and entrepreneurship wasn't part of the culture

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History repeats itself again.

There were, no doubt, several millionaires even in the Stalin era. However, since their businesses in the Soviet system were completely illegal, no one knows exactly how many real millionnaires were in the USSR and how much exactly they owned. CETERVM CENSEO MOSCOVIAM DELENDAM ESSE

You don’t have millionaires in a communist system. At least in an uncorrupted communist system.

@@kevinwebster7868 Of course you have people who have more than others. You have to be incredibly naive to think that hierarchy does not exist in a communist system. We are heard animals. Marx himself proved this by being 'leader of the movement'. Leader naturally getsnthe biggest benefits.

@@ivarkich1543 We know exactly how high-ranking soviet officials lived compared to the average Russian masses.

@@chadgaston8615 To quote Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some are more equal then others.”

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