What Actually Happened Right After The Soviet Union Collapsed
2022 ж. 28 Мам.
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It was years in the making, but when it actually came, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 occurred suddenly. In the immediate aftermath, the Russian people hoped for blue jeans and other Western goods - and the freedom that came with them.
Their hopes were not fulfilled as Russia underwent a dramatic transformation from a planned economy to the market economy via a highly controversial “shock therapy” process. Amid the wild fluctuations in currency value came a constitutional crisis, a widely condemned invasion of Chechnya, and the rise of a new breed of politician.
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Freedom doesn't mean you can choose between 25 brands of the same product which are controlled by a handful of corporations
Basically what best describes how Yeltsin handled Russia was during a visit to the White House in 1994, he went onto the street at night in just his underwear asking for pizza while drunk... he also almost started a nuclear incident. American and Norwegian scientists were sending a rocket to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, they notified neighboring countries of it. Russia was notified, but the radar technicians who were checking on it didn't (they thought it was a Trident missile) and thus the country was put on high alert with the nuclear fleet ready. The nuclear briefcase/Cheget was activated, and Yeltsin was a button away from war. He thankfully didn't.
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.
2:30 My mom lived in Mexico in the 2000's - 2010's. It was common knowledge a hit could be arranged for $500, so everyone was nice to everyone else.
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.
A months salary for a pair of Levi’s?! I wouldn’t be surprised if history repeats itself.
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.
Russia was not the only country in the USSR...why does everyone forget this?
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
You know the price of a barrel of oil being super cheap is what actually led to this sudden increase in gas prices. Price per barrel was negative briefly in 2020, and it killed small drilling operations, and allowed OPEC to regain control over oil after they lost control in the late 2000s.
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.
Russia's problems go deep and are cyclic. When I think of Russia, I remember that old saying, "you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink".
You do realize Russia is on the brink of winning the war in Ukraine, right? Ukraine's military is completely collapsing.
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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 👍
I had never thought about disarmament of the Soviet's nuclear programs in the sense of the educated, capable engineers and scientists that were now unable to afford bread. Riding the bus one way to work was nearly a months wages. So it wasn't just the already built hardware but it was the minds holding the knowledge to make them. It's incredibly easy to stand on principals, morals, and ethics when your family has, at the very least, the necessities to live. When you've got a family that know what it feels like to be truly hungry those lines could get a little muddied. Understandably.
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
9:44 The Second Chechen War didn't begin in 1991, it began in August 1999. And the apartment bombings in Moscow (as well as Volgodonsk and Buynaksk) didn't happen before the war, it happened in September. The reason there was a second Chechen war was because Islamist fighters from Chechnya (Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade) invaded the neighboring Republic of Dagestan. Declaring it as "the independent Islamic State of Dagestan". In fact, the decision to have another Chechen was already decided in March of that year according to then Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
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.
Nobody forget there are hundreds of unaccounted nuclear warheads as well a literal crap ton of other munitions and weapons (i.e. C4, stockpiles of assault rifles, literal warehouses pf ammunition, etc.) that just went missing, out there still, unaccounted for.
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.
After the collapse, most people went to bed.
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.
As someone who is thoroughly fascinated by Chinese history, is there any way you could do a video on what life was like during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)?
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 KZhead! kzhead.info/sun/YNdspZyah4ycf40/bejne.html
*Palpatine voice* "DEWIT!"
Its nice to see this story not ending when the disolution went into effect
You are awesome, Weird History!
It's weird it has same abbreviation as Whitehouse (WH)
My friends visited Russia in 1979. At the border, cars and suitcases were thoroughly checked for Levi's and Western magazines which were promptly confiscated if found. In order to not have a vehicle robbery, every time they parked their car, they removed and hid all outside mirrors and any inside radios/stereo equipment-these were the top black market items. They drove to Russia from West Berlin and if they strayed off the main roadway, a black car would follow them and turn them around-they had one path available to get where they were going. They liked the people they met but shopping entailed long lines for little merchandise.
You mean Soviet Russia?
“War and Peace” was written by Tolstoy… not Dostoyevski
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?".
I'm new to your channel WH, and it's awesome, keep up the good work 💙😁.
The unfolding of this story reminds me very much of a retelling of George Orwell's "Animal Farm." A man who played a nearly heroic role in the fall of the USSR took power and quickly began acting like the regime he overthrew. Promises are made and never kept and a slightly different oligarchy takes power.
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."
The 1993 Constitutional Crisis deserves a whole video of it's own. There was much more than Yeltsin pulling up to Parliament with a tank.
he did a coup actually..to avoid Communist restoration..
I would love an episode for each country in our world today. And how they came to be. This could cover a year of videos
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
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.
I'd love to see you talk about the kanesatake oka war 1992. Thanks great channel and that narrator sarcastic tone is incredible love it . Cheers from montreal
Excellent video gang.
That is a very interesting video, it explains a lot. Thank you for the video.
A+ video! LOVE IT! Fascinating, dramatic, and scary history of the collapse!
Pretty much what happened to countries that were part of the eastern bloc. In Romania it was very similar, except no disilution of the parlament and no war. Poverty was v high, inflation hit 150% brieflt in the early 90s, people were without jobs, coruptio was v high ( still is) criminality was also v high
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?
I should give myself a huge slap in the face for not subscribing for this legend earlier.
When Putin refused employment with the city administration that followed Sobchak's, he was not driven by loyalty. He and Sobchak were both crooks that had become rich by emptying St Petersburg's coffers. A mafia in expensive suits. As soon as Sobchak had lost power, Putin dumped him and moved to greener pastures in Moscow where he became close to Yelzin's family (a stronger mafia clan). Soon after receiving the presidential post in 2000, he arranged for his former boss Sobchak to be assasinated. Dead men tell no tales.
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."
"It better to be hanged for loyalty than to be rewarded for betrayal"
Your videos are so good. Could you do one on the rise and fall of apartheid and how South Africa went from one sort of corruption to another.
9:43 You must've meant to say "a second conflict would break out in 1999" instead of "1991". That is when Putin ordered those terrorist attacks to be carried out.
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
Fun fact: Putin's father was a chef for Stalin
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.
Love these videos.
After the fall of the Soviet Union it was really sad people wanted the USSR back
Sad?
Learning from this channel more then my 12 years in public schooling
Romanian here. I just wish to present a brief comparative study between Romania and Russia. The key difference is that Yeltsin made Russia a doormat for the West, while Iliescu (ruler of Romania till late 1996) was considerably more assertive. Yeltsin adopted Western policies, unconditionally and at the pace the West wanted. Iliescu used to hold out until the West gave in return. Let's take for instance the Council of Europe. Romania was made a member in 1993, after having liberalized its economy considerably less so than Russia. Romania was also more authoritarian than Russia in 1993, according to Freedom House index. Take gays for example: Romania criminalized homosexuality fully for over 3 years after joining the CoE, while Russia decriminalized it months before Romania joined, and still was only accepted in early 1996. Russia killed off its Gdp and state economy and asked for nothing in return. Meanwhile, Romania had a fat GDP growth of over 7% in 1995, while Russia's growth for the year was -4%. Romanian state-owned industry even increased slightly in 1995, compared to the previous year. In 1997, Romania's GDP was over 80% its 1989 level, while Russia's barely exceeded 50%. In 1998, Russia defaulted. Romania almost defaulted a year later, but saved it because - again - it held onto its cards. In 1998, less than 50% of bank assets in Russia were owned by the state, while in Romania the figure was 75%. Thus, when shit hit the fan in 1999, Romania avoided default by selling off state banks, which it had held onto until then, while by 1998 Russia had mostly sold its own. Romania was assertive and knew to negotiate its transition, making the West pay for its reform trouble most of the time, holding back reform until the West gave compensation. Yeltsin acted like a colonial overlord, making his country a doormat before the West.
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.
Wells Fargo and Shell are no different from the Mafias
In Soviet Russia, the Yakov Smirnoff joke is YOU!
Jokes on Zelensky now 🤣
Old joke, move on
Can you do a video on Quanah Parker please! Love the content!!
Weird History Sunday is 🔥
These people can't seem to get a break. Great video though!
That's is what I've always thought!
I watch these videos as much to hear Robert Clotworthy's fantastic voice work as the subject matter. Dunno who's the greatest, Robert Clotworthy or Frank Welker. Love 'em both.
Tolstoy was the Russian author known for long books, like War and Peace and Anne Karenina. Dostoevsky wrote Crime and Punishment and the Brothers Karamazov, which is about the same length as Anne Karenina, but not War and Peace.
Track suits are more valuable than jeans...
Adidas Track suits comrade.
Gopnicks are special
We learn from "bald and beautiful ".
There was a huge amount of 10 year securities that were sold from state owned assets that came to maturity in October of 2001. Many were being held on servers held in the world trade center. When the emergency powers were granted to the S.E.C.the process of verification of ownership was drastically curtailed. Billions of dollars that were looted from the former USSR, were cleared to be liquidated. Are these two events related?
Could you make a video about the Korean “comfort women” that the Japanese had in the WW2? Pleaseeeee 🙏🙏🙏
It wasn't just Korean they stole women from China and few other countries forgot which one's exactly
Roman Empire: "We have the most pathetic downfall in the history of world powers" Soviet Union: "Hold our vodkas"
USA will follow
Et tu Gaius ? 😂
@@MiniKodjo Keep kidding yourself Chump
@@MiniKodjo freedom forever 🇺🇲🇬🇧🏴 🦅🗽
@@MiniKodjo well, now would be a good time to start!
I love the visuals on this videos
Started the yard sale of anything in the militaries possession if you had cash. From nukes right on down the line, planes, helicopters, weapons, these lunatics almost sold 2 submarines with crews to to pablo escobars organization to traffick drugs with. Hell until just a few years ago you could go take a ride on any fighter jet they had. It wasnt a black market thing either, it was a "legit" business. Could you imagine the air force having a side business where you could buy a seat on an f-15 flight. On a us base. By a foreign national. Just insane.
I love these "what happened right after" videos!
in ten years or so we will have “What Happened Right After the Fall of Fascist Russia”
Can you do a video on 5 of may,or have you already?.
Interesting Fact: The Ceo that made Levi's Strauss and Co. what it is today died the day I was born.
One of the best commentators.
I love how the average citizen in the USSR went from guarenteed employment, housing, income, healthcare, education, parental leave and domestic holidays but were restricted from certain embargoed goods and voting for capitalists and went to having their GDP and life expectancy cut at the highest level ever seen in peace-time history, lost most of their rights to life's necessities but the rich ones can now afford holidays to Tenerife and the conclusion of Western Historians is "Ah, see. It's went from one nightmare to another, there's no need for further nuance here."
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.
Amazing music,anybody know the artist and piece name?
9:43 Correction, it's 1999 (the year when war broke out in Chechnya between the government of 🇷🇺 and the Chechen autonomous government) not 1991.
Can you do a video about King Arthur and Camelot to see if it was real or if it wasn't.
You won my sub at yes you knew hé was coming lol 😂😂🤘 J'adore merci
finally a russky video my teenage self can familiarize himself with lol...all of that, albeit to some lesser degree, has happened in my own country of birth as well. The parity between poor and super rich became insurmountable and it never really went away either
"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.
Please make a video about Emma Goldman!
This sinfony, in what game was it?
I agree American banking is not held to account for their nefarious actions often, but that's very different then the murderous actions of Russian Mafioso.
The submarine deal was made into a documentary called Operation Odessa. It's pretty good.
Music Please??
7:08 music please 🙏🏻
Make a video about Raspoetin please 😇
What about the other Soviet republics after the collapse of the USSR
"nutty history" aint got nothing on you guys, great video guys
Me retelling this to my co workers: "yeah and then he literally crawled through the vents at the Kremlin, so cool"
9:46 error. Just wanted to point that out for posterity sake.
I curious about the other 14 countries besides Russia too when the USSR broke up same as the puppet counrties too. More what happened in Russia too. Like to learn more about the USSR and puppet countries when it existed too.
Nekrasov said: The people are free, but are they happy?
And to today's time in 2022, some of what was mentioned here is still found in Russia today (not the news channel).
Now here in the US we can't get decent Levi's anymore. Just the way overpriced foreign made ones that are not worth buying. The Levi's name used to mean something good. Now, pffffffft...
Tushino airfield 1991 there was Monster of Rock consert.
12:56 Vladimir Putin giving off major 1984 vibes
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
Wait… so the free market doesn’t magically bring equal opportunity and prosperity for all?
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
I believe the involvement of one nations problems with another, ie USA and Vietnam or Russia and Ukraine, is a very complex decision and notion. At the same time it is one that merits discussion. Civil, logical, calculated, well thought out discussion. Everything has a consequence. Good or bad. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Only time will tell if what is being done at any given moment will be for the better or the worse. Have these two quotes in mind as you ponder this….. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Lord Acton (I know that’s not his real name it’s what he’s better known as also (RIP) With great power comes great responsibility. -Stan Lee (RIP) We all need to look at ourselves more closely. Even if we aren’t in a position of power, we do all have power.
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.
grazie
Well, that was depressing
Economic shock therapy sound scary :(
I remember watching CNN as Red Square filled with Russian people chanting and jumping and cheering. It was amazing.
Please do time line of 70s
7:08 music name please🙏🏻
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Just watching this to know what to expect with all this inflation coming in 😬😅😩
It is very interesting that in 1991 there was not a single millionnaire in Russia.
Wow, that is a neat piece of trivia. Not a single millionaire in 1991? That is hard to believe. Who was the richest person in Russia in 1991?
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.”
What happened was that a lot of former politicians got really rich $$$!
The columbian cartel had what the Russians needed...... a whole lot of money.
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Back in the early 2000s I works at Sears in the mens department. When I was going to college. Lots of German n Russian tourists came in a lot to buy Levi's! Funny story. A few years back I moved to San Francisco . A couple miles away from me is the where the founder of Levi's is buried in Colma "City of the Dead"
✨When inebriated Boris Yeltsin was a really fun likable amazing guy.✨
IIRC, the bombing by Chechnya dissidents took place in 1997, not in 1991.
I took a giant poop and then went fishing then again I was 7 🤷
You did Amber ? Naughty girl
Big gooey ploppies
I really wish you make a video about the Philippines during Martial Law. I want our people to be educated enough to know the harsh reality of our history.
History repeats itself again.
How about comparing today's USA to past countries decline. And the similar paths that are unfolding.
If in one sentence - the military remained almost the same ruled by one center in Moscow for the first decade, and economical rebublics started to act independed. Partly several factories tried to became "private" in Soviet Union whole industry had been dependet finacially on Goverment
Hi oksana! How’re you doing?
A hit in the beginning of the 90s, could cost as little as a case of vodka. $1000 was hefty amount, reserved for harder hits.
"Why is this guy so pissed at you?" "I threw his brother off the Nakatomi Tower out in L.A., i think he's holding a grudge."
I can barely recall, but since Russia is collapsing even faster than the Soviet Russia did, I'm sure we can learn again very soon....
"War and Peace" is written by Tolstoy (his last name means fat).