Why did the Soviet Union Collapse? 

I don’t think i will

raid shadow legends sponsored the collapse of the soviet union

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Knowledgia please make a video on the collapse of British raj

You really need the money eh

That what happen one you give so much power to a single man

What ?

@@alonfizi4213 or corporations

No,no it doesnt.

@@taavi948 where are you from?

The people rise up

I have always hated the west’s leftover fears of the Cold War and the lack of real information and not nationalistic propaganda. I find Russian people to be strong, committed to family. Honorable citizens trying to live in peace. Chernobyl makes me bawl.

lets hope thats true for US. the most violent, barbaric, powerful empire in human history

The what is going to happen to empire of the US of the A

@@raaid85 no it is not

AMEN KEEP PREACHING

100% correct. Dallas and Dynasty were TV shows Soviets could get access to. They were amazed at the extent of wealth in the US. Even in news reports of protests and rioting in down trodden black neighborhoods, the Soviets were looking at the store shelves and how much the poor people in America could buy.

But why? He already had McDonald's

He's a fool

@@derekhajos3555 Yes, the Russians read between the lines in their propaganda news. "Hey, why can't WE loot a TV or a stereo like those Black gentlemen?" Romanians revolted because it was a kind of cottage industry to watch Western movies dubbed into Romanian with the voice of only one woman, on VHS cassettes, often recopied to the point of static. There's no comparison, Communism is BAD NEWS. Kids today are brainwashed by teachers trained in education departments run by Marxist professors. Kids hardly get any anti-Communist education.

One of only two European countries who defied Stalin and got away with it.

@@johnh.tuomala4379 The other one? Finland?

@@KAD010900 Yes.

@@KAD010900 I though it was Albania, another communist country, but refusing to take orders from Moscow? But given that Finland was allied to Germany in WW2, it was very luck to have got off with not being invaded by the USSR come the end of the war. I think Finland made a deal something along the lines of 'we won't join NATO or host foreign troops, and always vote with the USSR in the UN, and never do anything to upset you, and in return we don't get invaded'. And the USSR, busy with occupying 1/2 Germany, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, 1/4 Austria, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungry, Latvia & Lithuania, said 'OK, deal.'

@@dromankass8655 Enver Hoxha was a Stalin fanboy and did not split with Moscow until Khrushchev began the era of de-Stalinization. Albania was in step with the Soviet Union until Stalin died, and the invasion of Hungary in ‘56 was their cop out to leave the Warsaw Pact.

Well, yes, and then democracy came in the 90s, and everything bloomed and smelled.

Don't powder people's heads. 70% supported keeping the Soviet Union in the vote.

@@ratelarmonter4736 what vote was that?

@@ratelarmonter4736 Soviet says how they felt in USSR. Westerner: Actually here is how you all felt!

@@jongxina3595 You can describe the whole situation in two sentences: If in the USSR children were treated for deadly diseases for free, now they are trying to collect money for treatment via SMS from all over the country. P.S. We do not consider this an acceptable life, I don’t know about you, I can’t say anything, but our citizens do not think that they are filibusters and they need luck to survive in the country, so pro-communist sentiments in the country only grow over time.

if you want everything simplified: US successfully beat Soviet Union's peace by destroying its economy and working inside to divide the nation, since it was US's biggest enemy. US wants to control the world believe or not.

@@HassaanALal whatever you say “Hassaan”

@@HassaanALal do go on ?

@@HassaanALal LOL what a bunch of bullshit Usa is money hungry state but Soviet union was a fucking atrocious state where people didnt have anything to eat ffs and no freedom of speech. Grow up "hassan"

Me… but not sure I understand it any more after seeing the video

I know I sure did

Very smart

It collapse because it created cold war , it murdered and annexed many countries forcing them to be communists

Thats a shlrter explaining than a 14 mins video

Funy

+1!!!

Yes!

Please. Manners cost nothing but mean everything

You do it; we will sub to you

This was purely ideological..By the time Russia has recovered it's independence from Tatar Golden Horde(1480) Byzantine was already extinct(since 1452)..but Russian ruler Ivan III who now represented the only independent Orthodox power yet needed Imperial ideology to cement his newly independent Muscovy to serve both as center of Orthodoxy and "beacon" to oppressed Christians..so he positioned Muscovy as "heir" to Byzantine to "legitimize" his claim to "Third Rome" Ivan married the niece of last Byzantine Emperor Sophie Paleolog and adopted Byzantine double-headed Eagle as new Russian State Emblem..it's still valid..if we bar Soviet period 1918-91..

Communism and fascism only survive by either brute force or massive propaganda. They both have laughable flaws in their ideology that creates massive problems even if they dont have near limitless corruption (which they always do). Communism makes trickle down economics seem amazing by comparison. As soon as people can see how others actually live they demand change or flee, and that's why they have to rely on non stop aggression and repression to survive

@@arthas640 So what's the laughable problem in fascism? I am pretty sure all economies under it were fine if not much better

@@arthas640 true

@@arthas640 even under heavy sacntions and military threat, there are many communist nations that are thriving and even better on many aspects compared to capitalistic ones, examples being cuba, china and vietnam.

@@Jack-he8jv Pfft, Cuba is the only true example you gave. Vietnam, and China, are under no sanctions, and to call those countries communist, who have by now embraced much capitalist economies, is laughable.

And jimmy carter

The Soviet Union will go down in history as one of the few societies that prevented people from leaving the nation, most countries have to build to a wall to keep people out, the USSR had to build walls to keep people in.

@@rgsxyz1105 and other of the societies that prevent or prevented people from leaving the country have had some form of Marxism.

@@rgsxyz1105 Very untrue ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Xej1FRgrtVo.html

@Joseph Norm History has shown that Marxism just doesn’t work

Bruh

Yeltsin is the best proof that the fall of socialism was a bigger tyranny than socialism - he disbanded the russian parliament, disbanded every other elected representated body, abolished Russia's constitutional court, banned labour unions from political activities, outlawed parties and attacked the parliament building killing 2000 people. Yeltsins popularity rating before the 1996 elections had fallen to only 8%, the US had to rig elections to ensure his victory (super ironic considering Trumps elections were claimed to be rigged by russians).

@@meganoobbg3387 Never forget Black October 1993.

@@meganoobbg3387 Which makes sense as to why Putin bombed the apartment buildings to gain power.

@@user-qu6cz2ss8m By the way, propagandists like to forget about this event

Never mind the USA will be next, have you seen the division in that country? Too many stupid people running around with guns and they are allowed to vote.

The arms race also did them in, Regan spent them into oblivion with Star Wars. They were basically bankrupt but I can tell you living through that time I was more worried than during the cold war. People celebrated and thought the cold war was over but even as a kid I realized what happens to the nukes in those satellite states? Who's running the government? We knew the Soviets didn't want a nuclear war but now Gorby is gone. I was afraid of the unknown more than the enemy I knew.

Never knew this. Fascinating. Thanks!

@@venomad77 . The video clearly stated that USSR cut back on their military so Regan's military spending had nothing to do with USSR's collapse.

@@MrSupernova111 I'm telling you from experience, I was born in the 70s and grew up in the 80s. I lived through this and remember very well what was going on through the news and my parent's conversations.

Also Gorbachev refused to enforce the Brezhnev doctrine and instead let the vassal states go their own way.

That's a true fact lol

Did the Reds (the Soviets, not the baseball team) have a Midnight Train to their Georgia? :D

@@JohnSmith-zw8vp More importantly, did the Devil go down to the right Georgia? Or did he mix up his destinations?

I was born in Georgia.

@@jacob4920 the devil came from Georgia and his name was Joseph stalin

Its shocking since the Russians even today arent shy about killing citizens for embarrassing the nation or hurting their autocratic regimes and Gorbachev did both.

The US 'Democratic Party' welcomed all defectors, with open arms. Witness, 'Exhibit A' : The Biden Administration.

There where no reason to kill him after he lost his political power, no thread anymore

Yea the bastard eventually moved to california.

Do you think Gorbachev would overtake Putin?

That's why it was a union and not an empire, every ethnic group you mentioned had their own Soviet Republic, so break up based on ethnic identity was never inherent or inevitable, infact many even want it back. You have to remember that's how civilizations always were anyhow, expansive empires covering atleast a few significant ethnic minorities here and there, the modern concept of a "Nation State" is a fairly recent one, and people thinking it to be inherently desirable is rather a tragedy.

Oddly enough it was just Kazakhstan for a view days, and than it finally died.

@@lagartoverdebr6176 while true, they did get their own states, it should be noted many of them were merely puppet states, and existed for the reason of giving the USSR a bigger voice in international affairs, and some Republics were certainly treated better than others. In particular the Baltic states and Ukraine suffered quite a bit, which would explain the huge Anti Russian and Socialist feelings amongst the population within those countries today. And it’s not like Russia today is doing anything to repair those relations. Also, at least when Stalin was in charge, he definitely did try to make those nations more and more Russian by sending many Russians to those republics, by the time they got their independence, on a little over half the population within the Baltic states spoke their native tongue, and had a large Russian minority.

@@Godslayer5656 Yeah Russia and Kazakhstan broke away. Then when when Gorbachev resigned it officially ended.

@@Jiji-the-cat5425 Kazakhstan didn't break away, Russia did when the elected president basically told Gorbachev "Y'know what? You can't boss me around, suck it"

Agreed

They allways had a right to leave. If didn't know the ones, who wished to leave was not the people of USSR, it was national elites, who now owns what is left of soviet infrastructure and who made alot of money out of it. General puplic was not into the separation of USSR, but new liberal dimocratic states was not interested in what the general public wants

except russia , still accurate comment , hi from Ukraine

exept Russia, because many russians are salty that their russian dominated union collapsed

@@gamer228r Hello from Lithuania

Some actually really like the USSR

Nah, as always - too many lies.

Then you may consider that Soviet union illegally occupied Russian Empire or something. That is true but makes no sense.

@@Admin-gm3lc that's rather an internal thing. The Baltics were fully recognized sovereign states and the USSR occupied them in a clear breach of international law.

@@eksiarvamus who cares about international suggestions.

@@lagartoverdebr6176 What?

I don’t know, the continuing line of the current government is shouting about the Soviet occupation, if you trust the state line and their actions, then there is at least some point in relying on what they say, if you don’t trust, therefore why listen to all this.

It damaged the USSR, because it had no real backup to compensate for all the revenues lost by the oil price collapse.

Russia's main export is oil. President Reagan asked the Saudis to increase oil production. When the Saudis complied, this lowered the price of oil and resulted in less revenue for the Soviet Union. It could not afford to do what it was doing.

@@rogerevans9666 no brother,not saudi arabia,,iran revolation in1979

Thank you so much! I am glad that you liked it :)

Probably not if major factors isn't mentioned.

Napoleon did NOT "conquer" Europe. That concept is a perversion of history.....of truth.......written into the books by the victor's who often write the history we're taught. Remember what had happened......France.....England's arch enemy and chief competitor on the world stage...... became a democracy......George III......England's king.... had just lost what were formerly his colonies.....who became the United States...... to democracy. He and his minister's began a years long campaign to crush democracy in Europe.....fearing the same fate as France's monarchy....to his own. In the ensuing 20 odd year period of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars....England induced the other European monarchies to war against now democratic France. No less than 7 coalitions were formed against France largely financed by England.....breaking many peace treaties in the process. While France/Napoleon fought across Europe.....France did not administer control of most of the area's that are said to be "the French Empire" in history books. That is one of the biggest lies still prevalent and taught today.

Why? Epic History already did a phenomenal job, and they're still churning out Napoleonic content as we speak

@@stephenmichalski2643 calm the heck down, you said everything yet nothing

@@stephenmichalski2643 not to sound rude or anything but an essay wasn't that necessary

Or the fact that soviets where the biggest tards that ever existed? They lasted 70 years because they were incompetent simpletons. They lacked decorum, culture, skill, thought, God, humanity. They sunk to the lowest depths humans could sink to. Why did they exist in the first place? Bavarians fought their British brothers. Could have teamed up, and melted Stalin and every single one of his followers into gold.

@@ultimateguy7641 ehat you say is very simplistic and full of propaganda brainwashing. After all havent you hread about Bolshoi ballet? And there are also people who say from their experience that in comparison to what came later in those areas , even though the state was in very big economic slump and would require to fontinue what it started and do similar change to what China did , that schools were better, wports trainings and aftivities were great, and people had some stuff. although this would still be far from satisfactory and would require to do what it started so to use market economy.

@@innosanto It really isn't, worst empire of all time. 70 years wasn't even a single generation. So bad. Mongolian empire, Chinese, Roman, Persian, British, French, Holy Roman Empire. Hell these guys last YEARS. Soviets? Damn, so bad.

@@ultimateguy7641 it wasnt an empire, in fact it brought Empires down

Soviet union fell on deepest shit during Brezhnev, hardly anyone could recover the country after it...dude just made nukes..

Thank you so much for your support!

@@Knowledgia dude. You deserve it. You give so much content, you give your best, and you've never gived up. You are one of the if not THE best RU-vidr I've ever seen. And I'm proud for you that you kept this going for 4 powerful years. #RoadTo1M

Correct. It was marked socialism but independent that's why it was member of third world club.

@@ShubhamMishrabro how can I join the third world club, that sounds fun. I want america to join. We have socialists here too now!!

@@ericg4915 huh it was a group during cold war. I think most countries today are in third club or non alignment

it was never a real country

@@ericg4915 The Third world is a Group of countries that look at the Two Super power dominated Earth and go "THIS IS HORSE ****!" And who also refuse to partake in Global politics.

It's bureaucracy failed it.

Relying on God does nothing for people especially if they use "his name" to commit atrocities and ostracize others for their beliefs. Believing in fairy tales and praying to some nonexistent concept won't save humanity or magically make the world a better place than it already is. Only man, his mind, his morals and technology can do such a thing.

@@mishka5706 there was no "president" in the soviet union. There were many factors that led to the collapse. I study Marxist thought and I don't agree with many things done in the union but I see its many achievements in science, industry, war and endeavors like its space race. The approach to kulaks and the planning of agricultural could of been way better than just shooting every one of them and siezing the wheat. While I agree I revolution can't happen I white gloves or or a change in the system can't be sugar-coated, complete purges on the scale of Stalin was crazy and unjustifiable

Not helpful. The fall didn't kill him. It was the rapid deceleration. Don't be dense.

@@frankherthem1794 Look dummy...It's like this, a lot of people "think" that a nuclear explosion is a possibility in a commercial nuclear reactor. It's not and the video producer didn't specifically state that.

Steam explosion with a healthy helping of Uranium & the radionuclides. Remember all of that radiation was detected all the way to Sweden & other western European countries.

​@@frankherthem1794if it was a nuclear explosion there won't be an Europe union in existence today. Don't believe everything you read. Steam explosion carrying radioactive material to atmosphere is not nuclear explosion 🤦

Reactor 4 core did explode. The lid flew off about 10 feet.

What kind of independence are we talking about? It's just that the countries were socialist, now they are capitalist. This is all done by hand.

@@ratelarmonter4736 that's independecedo what u want but dont damage other countries

@@sabakvetenadze6546 It's quite impressive how long the USSR lasted with all the odds stacked against it. In 1992 the neo-liberal new world order started but class consciousness is starting to rise again especially in the USA the heart of the imperialist world.

What it really comes down to us this....are the Russian people better off now then they were in the 1980s? I would say overall yes.

@@ericg4915 who knows?

Did they teach about pre-communist Poland's history of conflict with Russia? Or did Russia order Poland to exclude that from the history books?

@@carlramirez6339 As far as I know it was excluded; the narrative was that our countries were best buddies since always, and people could get in serious trouble for talking (not even teaching) about things like Partitions of Poland

Being a puppet of the USA is better?

@@iumbo1234 It sure beats being a Soviet puppet. Notice how many Soviet puppet states never recovered once the Soviet Union stopped supporting them? Cuba? Somalia? Ethiopia? Mongolia? North Korea? East Germany?

@@shauncameron8390 What do you think would happen to the puppets of the USA if they fall tomorrow? All our economies are bond to the Dolar. Japan and South Korea for example would literally die of hunger for not being able to import food.

Stalins popularity rating is about 60% in modern day Russia. Higher than putin

@@diabetusultrainstinct7737 Which is just sad. So they like a Georgian who was likely the cause of death to at least one relative(likely more) of most current Russians, Belarusians, and Ukrainians over an actual Russian who hasn't done even remotely close to the amount of damage domestically. Man, Tsardom/Communism really fucked up the Russian people forever.

@@alexhennigh5242 i dont know ow many people you think were caught in the terror, but i dont think its as many as you think. to a lot of russians he represents the system that made thir country go from a backwards semi fedual power to a space age one. thats just one explanation to the height of the current popularity though

@@diabetusultrainstinct7737 That is a fair assessment. You're probably right but enough people were affected between the purges, world wars, genocides etc I imagine I'm not too far off. However, that last part makes too much sense.

@@alexhennigh5242 well in fairness, the world war was held off for as long as possible with the infamous molotov ribbentrop pact, and even before that pact was signed the ussr requested britain and france to form an alliance to stop the growing nazi germany

*first 20 years, my parents were from USSR and they said they had everything, medicine, schools, jobs etc. Streets were safe and people were prospering. Altough it was only on the big citys and after Stalins massacre, but other than that life wasnt bad at the USSR not until collapse

@@GoofyCheeks Criminality was down played by government? I've heard that late Prigozhin robbed a woman, beat her and even took her boots to sell.

Oh shit its Bigfoot!

Let me get my 1mp camera

@Rollo37 Yes the video is true. There was an attempted coup but Gorbechev was saved by Boris Yeltsin.

@@ald1050 And i know that much already, but me who wanna study history are very interested into seeing the video. But i cant find it anywhere...

@@Rollo37 Ok I understand. You might see the clip maybe in a bbc documentary series on the fall of the USSR from memory.

@@ald1050 yep and with boris being anti-soviet, he did something that was the death nail to the Soviets....he made Gorbachev outlaw the Soviet party, which is where all Gorbachevs power rested.

@@seansimms8503 Yep he sadly did. Then Boris dissolved the Soviet Union and formed the CIS which was a big mistake.

On december 8, 1991 The Alcoholicus Eltsin plotted Conspiracy along with two other traitors and some sort of narcomans : Stanislav Shushkevich (Belarus) and Leonid Kravchuk (Ukraine) !..They third of them, together signted the dissolving the UUSR, in the Belarus-Poland Border , on Belovezhka Wood Forests .

it is interesting that all the troll saying they lived in the urss never, never absolutely never mention the part where the exfuncionarios turned in oligarchs

Sup USA guy :)

@@ttwwoo22 you should be in the us too! And don’t say guy that’s weird!

@@robloxiangamer2.013 oh okay sorry merican boiii 😳

@@ttwwoo22 ok your not from the USA and you spelled American wrong! Do you have to go to spelling school? LOL!

@@robloxiangamer2.013 I was just joking my friend :)

I heard there was somewhat of a "free market" in the soviet even under Stalin. They were known as cooperatives and people could sell the usual products like clothes, cooking ware, food and sometimes rarer items that would immediately be snagged. It was canned under khrushchev's reforms and that sad dreary boring planned economic side of the ussr.......that's where it comes from. Imagine if that was never removed and it had further reform like markets under China today

Its because of democracy

@ozymandias nero nulifidian No. But my mom is. She was born in Russia though.

Sad to think that there are legions of western fools, born outside of Eastern Europe and well after the fall, who would argue the virtues of the Soviet Union.

@ozymandias nero nulifidian Because we're discussing the Soviet Union specifically. As for your second statement, the Soviets did not liberate anyone, rather they reconquered what was ceded to the Germans in the Great Patriotic War, as well as attempted to overthrow legitimate governments (Afghanistan) to spread their communist ideals (not unlike the USA, of course). As well, free nations like Poland were brought under the iron curtain and reshaped (eastern poland given to ukraine and the polish inhabitants forced to migrate or die, Karelia conquered from the Finns, half of Germany conquered and made communist). Those who attempted socialism light (Prague Spring) were stomped out by the Warsaw Pact, and other formerly free countries were horribly oppressed by their communist regimes (East Germany and even Russians, in particular - berlin wall, secret police, gulags, etc.). As for successful communist nations, Cuba is the only one that actually lasted as predominantly communist. China and much of Indochina adopted a strange hybrid of communist social policy and capitalist markets, Yugoslavia splintered and fell into civil war after Tito died, Venezuela is a mess, and the list goes on. Let me know if I missed anything, it's been a good while since I aced my World Wars, Soviet Russia, and Cold War courses back in University. Though I am enjoying the russian book, 'We Stormed the Reichstag,' so don't discount me as purely biased. I just call it like it is.

@ozymandias nero nulifidian Your argument makes very little sense and sounds less like a debate and more like a defensive rant. For one, you're misinterpreting just about everything I've said. I never said Cuba was a failure, but I did say Yugoslavia collapsed into war due to Tito's death. To clarify, this was more due to longstanding ethnic tensions that Tito kept in check (my mother is Serbian), but the social situation of the former Yugoslavia was never brought up, nor is it even relevant. We're not having a capitalism vs communism debate. Finally, you have no idea how many books I've read, to whom I've spoken with in my career as a journalist and historian, or the extent of my education. However, you come off as exceptionally ignorant and biased since you blatantly ignore my statements such as that there's no defending the USA for doing exactly the same imperialism as the former USSR did with Afghanistan. The USA government is extremely corrupt and anyone who defends it is a bloody fool. Don't mistake knowledge of history as defense of an ideology you dislike. The job of a historian is to be objective, not recklessly opinionated. Now read both of my comments several times so you completely understand what I've written.

@ozymandias nero nulifidian Oh yeah, the evil USA is the reason behind all of their failures. Not their crappy form of government. Cuba, Libya, and Iraq...yeah those are on us. Although Cuba had it coming. But Afghanistan was even more fucked when we arrived...because of the Soviets of course. Yugoslavia was a ticking time bomb due to its multitude of different peoples and faiths inside of it. Tito was all that held it together. The US didn’t destroy it, we actually liked them and had very good relations with them ffs.

I saw that too, but maybe it was Austria, I'm not sure

It was Latvia

The Germans built the soviet union. During ww1 while fighting russia they financed lenin's coup that toppled the Russian czar and formed the soviet union and they did it with the ideology of a German intellectual Karl marx. The soviets didn't truly become a superpower until after ww2 and obviously we wouldn't have had ww2 without germany. I blame the Germans for the soviets lol. Thats not tbe official text book explanation but its true.

@@dudebros6122 I visited the Czech Republic and the tour guide who grew up in the country (before it broke from the USSR) said that they used to use the Soviet propaganda newspapers to wipe their asses because there was no toilet paper. They could get fruits like one pineapple per person and two bananas per person at the store during the holidays, so you had better bring everybody in your family to stock up as much as you could get from what otherwise were empty shelves. Around 1970 a Latvian family moved next door to our house-moving from Minnesota but they came originally from Latvia. God only knows how they got out. The father clearly had at least PTSD &was paranoid, if not full out psychotic- God only knows what happened to him. it was a very stressed family & I think he was abusing his son- his arm was constantly in a cast and he cried easily. the parents eventually got a divorce.And I agree the Baltic states were absorbed against their by the Soviet Union when they had the opportunity to do that to small countries that had no real way of holding them off. I mean, Austria allowed itself to be annexed by Germany, rather than fight against Hitler and the Nazis. Now there was quite a bit of sympathy towards Hitler Who grew up in Austria, but they didn’t even put up a fight As the government was overthrown in a coup. Another friend of mine grew up in West Berlin before the wall fell and he reported that the East Germans who came after the fall were, after only 35 years of separation, were like hillbilly cousins so different from the modern Germans of West Berlin they would go to the grocery stores with jaws dropped open 😮 by the abundance they were seeing, were very simple dressed from another era, and had difficulty integrating with modern Germany. However, Angela Markel clearly did not. I find it ironic that she and Putin were both in Communist Germany at the fall of the wall and later became the leaders of their two countries. She developed a phobia to military dogs; he to large crowds & mob protests.

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@@ladislavjonas977 Do you understand you can create a youtube account with whatever name you want?

@@pbohearn sounds harsh. I complain about my childhood all the time. Abusive stepfather and i didnt get as spoiled as i could have been but that story sounds a bit worse than my childhood. Even if i got beat up by my stepdad. But my mom bought me nice fancy clothes and i was able to travel to 2 countries. She also bought me a few cars in my 20s. So yeah. That story sounds bad.

There were no famines in the USSR after 1947. There were shortages of certain _kinds_ of food in the USSR, but even according to the CIA, caloric intake in the USSR was on par with the US at the time. People in socialist countries have a better quality of life than people in capitalist countries with similar levels of economic development. Sources below. In the US, the lines for food banks a year ago stretched for miles, and 20% (1 in 5) children in the US are food insecure. 700 children die of poverty EVERY HOUR OF EVERY DAY under our current capitalist system. The majority of Russians believe that the USSR was the height of Russian civilization, and are nostalgic for what most considered better times. Russians went from being poor but having enough to eat, guaranteed employment, and affordable, high quality housing under the USSR, to being poor and having nothing guaranteed under the Russian federation and capitalism. Sources: (youtube buries comments that have working links) United States Central Intelligence Agency, Office of Research and Reports (1964) A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the U.S. A Comparison of Consumption in the USSR and the U.S. (CIA/RR ER 64-1) Congressional Research Services (1981, August 17) Consumption in the USSR: an International Comparison. Joint Economic Committee. (CRS Report No. 76-408-O) Cereseto, S., & Waitzkin, H. (1986). Capitalism, socialism, and the physical quality of life. International journal of health services : planning, administration, evaluation, 16(4), 643-658. www.cia dot gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP85M00363R000601440024-5.pdf imgur dot com/a/2DTpqxh

"I remember the sadness from the faces of eastern Bloc Breadlines" (c) - Jake Dailey (news) - Typical soviet citizen. "I imagine they were thinking how such technology could only be a product from a system which had magnificent bread cooking ovens" - or magnificent stoves for burning people, well, right, where is the Soviet Union to these technologies that brought the first man into space. Poor Western id*ots were brainwashed so badly that they did not even hear about the splitting of the peaceful atom or the creation of computers in the USSR. Apparently, this propaganda was needed so that against the background of this propaganda, residents in the West would feel relatively better.

@@ratelarmonter4736 I'm sure if you ask people who are actually interested in history no one would deny soviet achievements. But the fact that it was a communist country didn't helped them to be innovators. Communism lacks competition and therefore creativity, which means they never had a chance (in the long run) in the 1st place. Not to mention the ability to finance such undertaking as a space program etc. Capitalism is simply superior. But one has to admit Soviet contributions in science for example.

@@martinschmidt3989 In the USSR, there was competition, but not in what would make more money on its own citizens. Space was financed, rockets and related equipment were created. It's ridiculous for me to hear when people try to describe what they have no idea about.

Lasers in space was completely made up technology by some sconfo authors. The Americans wanted to scare the USSR.

USSR promoted nationalism in republics but NOT in Russia. So republics thought that they are "feeding" the Russia. Very bad planning

How did you come to this conclusion

@@Admin-gm3lc Don't be delusional, the whole Russian (proper term is Soviet not Russian) economy was built around that its other occupied states would work for their demands.

@@user-fm7xv5pk5z Yeah lol thats what they said but after they got independence it was obvious who worked for who as they became many times poorer. How you can still believe in this myth lol

@@Admin-gm3lc Lmao you have to be westoid or a vatnik coping. Obviously Eastern Europe was gonna start out poor, because they to rebuild the whole economy. Everything soviets built was outdated and could not compete in a western modern market. Eastern Europe is still recovering from the disaster that is socialist economy but it is by far richer under capitalism. Soviet Union had poor civilian industry.

No hope for Belt and Road initiative? One of my best college friends was Kazahh, he's doing well in Germany.

Why do you say that? What is it that you'd deny security and prosperity under a Soviet Union solely because it is the Soviet Union? It is irrational.

In Kazakhstan, thermal power plants, hydroelectric power plants and Khrushchev buildings were built only under the USSR, of course without the USSR you will live worse, enjoy capitalism and democracy.

And to be more specific, it was not part of the Warsaw Pact.

The night the Berlin wall fell, I was asleep (I was only like 9 years old, and Germany was about seven hours ahead on the timezone chart). I remember waking up the morning after, and being told that the Berlin Wall had been torn down. And my reaction, even as a little kid, was like: "Oh man! How did I miss this?!" Even back then I knew I was living through big history.

Yes, then this veil of euphoria quickly subsided.

Don't u miss the glory of east Germany?

The USSR was doomed since the late 60s because the country stopped focusing on military and cared more on the citizens (which was good for the soviet people the brejnev era is considered the best era in the soviet union) therefore the economy stagnated Brejnev did the opposite of what stalin did caring about his nation than the people (he turned the USSR into 2nd superpower in 5 years by industrialising ) the war just made the economy worsen

Becouse it wasn't "inhuman" and if you will not be so susceptible to propaganda, you will no longer have such questions.

@@DreamWalkerVl found a commie

@@falloutjay5005 You make it sound like it’s something bad.

It managed to survive because all rebelions against it were met with a military intervention

@@DreamWalkerVl Because it is lol All of the annexations are inhumane