Watching Soviet TV in the Early 1980's. Life in the USSR #sovietTV, #soviettelevision

We had TVs without remotes well into the 90s here in the UK. It was common across the world.

I couldn't wait til Saturday, when I was a kid , we had all day cartoons

I always wondered how communists sponsored their TV shows...

You didn't find classical music concerts, ballet, and theater performances entertaining? What's wrong with you?

soviet news: all our industries are 110% above 5-year plan and our cows make huge surplus of milk
new news: there's new strain of plague and you won't be able to afford rent when world war 3 starts

Отака хуйня, малята.

Sergi, I'm an American and I too think it is a crime that we stop movies in the middle for commercials!

Didn't you have commercials constrained to about 5 minutes before or after the evening news? There was some commercial activity towards the end of Gorbachev's time. I remember one commercial where a man and a woman were arguing. The woman kept repeating ovoshi (vegetables) and the man always replied with cvetii (flowers), and the woman got increasingly mad and broke a porcelain plate every time she said the word.

You had an hour long programme on weekends for kids showing Donald Duck and Chip & Dale Speshat na Pomosh from the U.S. Later it broadcast Ghost Busters. This was from the Russian central television.

I think television was off during the day. You could adjust the antenna on the test screen to get minimal ghosting. Later they replaced this screen with plain color bars without sharp lines or geometry.

Boring = safe, safe for the broadcaster, safe for the viewer. Excitement = controversy = danger!
I am surprised you could tuwn the TVs off. That it wasn't nonstop propaganda, want it or not, like the radios in the wall.

Anyone remember Kukla, Fran & Ollie?

I’m still very upset and disturbed over commercials interruptions! So me too so don’t feel bad.Ever thought of being a translator?

What date was this airing of Время?

West Germany showed American programming translated without the commercials. West German television had a specific time to tune into commercials, I don't know exactly how that worked. 30-minute American shows ended in only 18 minutes or something like that.

They had to color adjustments game come on early in the morning just before the start of the new broadcast day. I liked the one which was the picture of an Indian.

How about the show Mr. President featuring Volodymyr Zelensky, a comedy?

Chinese Central Television’s news is like Soviet’s till this day: 全国形势一片大好，世界人民水深火热 (national circumstances are great, while people of the world are miserable). There are many TV channels in China today and censorship and information steering are done more indirectly and subtly.

Poverty & slavery & lies.

Found myself laughing really hard at the story of the drunk old man swearing on the kid's show! 🤣

America really is such a good place to live

The reason people in USSR never served close to home - was not to mix up genetic lines.
The reason was to prevent ques and unrest. If any republic decides to revolt, the central government could be sure the locally stationed garrison would support the central government and not the local population.

I f'cken hate commercials! I’ve always regarded them as some form of crime against humanity or human rights abuse, especially when a good movie is interrupted every 15 minutes for 5 minutes of business propaganda. Yes, commercials = business propaganda!

What about western movies/series?
Very populare was in Romania Kojak in the 70s and Mannix. (In the seventies there were a lot of movies and series from the West.) Than in the 80s there was nothing, except Dallas.

If you were short you go into a tank, if you had a bick dick you go to the rape battalion.

weekends = Sundays

Did you also had the news where it was presented how in the West they all were poor and junkies living on the street?

Did you not have someting like teleschool? Or documentaries? I watched those as kid in the afternoons when I was alone at home. Well, until Ceausescu reduced TV program to 2 hours/day and you could watch guess only who.

I just found your channel earlier today and I am loving the content and stories you tell! My family left the cccp before the German invasion, we think we were from belarus. Cool stuff man!

Also those are puppets that the children’s show lady is holding 👍🏼

COMMERCIALS were almost always suspended on NBC, CBS and ABC if something really major was happening in the world or the US.

I'm surprised that Soviet era tv elected to NOT run some of those great Ptushko and/or Rou fantasy epics and folk tale movies, or charming animated fantasy/Pushkin film shorts.

Very very interesting. Thank you.

Anyone know the name of the movie with the boy with the sharp nose? He's kind of a dwarf, and it's made for children. I noticed snippets of it in this video. I remember seeing it a long time ago, but I can't find it or think of the name.

Aah, the good old test picture. We had that in Sweden as well.

Seems not an easy life like america , but so interesting...thank you

Adjusted for inflation a television in the early seventies would be about $3000 for a 21” color. Three channels.

The local news is so much alike there’s no point in changing the channel, let alone watching it at all; it’s about a car crash, a house fire, a fuzz piece, and then weather. They all go to the same damn school, the damn fools…

British tv mystifies me; I ask myself why this programme was made and there is sometimes no answer.

About commercials, i live part time in Sweden. And people are still complaining that commercial in the middle of a movie are awful. Sweden was and still is almost like a country from the iron curtain

A group of people that rubber stamp the whims of a Communist dictator.

What about the famous alligator cartoon? You didn't mention that..

Soviet 70’s TV production quality looks like USA TV from the early 50’s, but with color.