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I am an American having grown up in the 70s and 80s. I did live a good life in America during that time, but I have realized in recent years (I live in India now) that this was at the expense of the Soviets, who lost their empire, dare I say, at the manipulations of the US gov't (since the US has the reserve currency among other advantages). I sometimes wonder if the outcome of the Cold War's end was really a case of evil triumphing over good... While the Soviets lost their empire this way, we are in the process of losing ours without even anyone acting against us. We're doing it to ourselves. We're also allowing our gov't to commit crimes against people and nations all over the world. I daresay that a time is coming such that America is occupied just like post-WWII Germany, possibly divided up by party lines and lives severely restricted under martial law under the occupiers.

I fled America over 5 years ago because it became very clear that I had lost against the descendants of those who manipulated to destroy the USSR and who is destroying our country today. I'm prepared to live and die in India, possibly never to return to the US to live there again.

So many of these people were born after ww2 and it shows 😮

One of my best friends grew up and worked in the socialist soviet Republic of Azerbaijan and has nothing but positive things to say about the soviet days.

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened an era of a new type of development of culture and civilization, and its experience in crushing Nazism is invaluable today, in the context of a global conflict, the main front of which has been transferred to Ukraine, believes Professor of Philosophy at the Technical University of Crete Dimitrios Patelis, Candidate of Philosophy.

"On December 30, 2022, all progressive humanity celebrates the centenary of the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The USSR, the fruit of the first early victorious revolution, opened the era of a revolutionary transition to a new type of development of culture and civilization: to a united humanity. This was the triumph of the revolutionary creativity of the oppressed, proven by the example of the USSR "that they can take their destiny into their own hands, emancipate society, begin unprecedented revolutionary transformations, overcoming antagonisms and exploitation, towards a society of solidarity and humanity," Patelis said.

In his opinion, the triumphal march of the USSR is associated with the world-historical achievements of man: the fight against illiteracy, the establishment of a number of social benefits, free education, healthcare, medical care, proper rest, the rapid development of the economy, society, science, technology, sports, art and culture .

“A titanic feat was the crushing of the anti-Comintern axis by the Soviet Red Army thanks to the self-denial and self-sacrifice of the entire people of the USSR, ensuring the world with nuclear parity, internationalist assistance to the world anti-imperialist movement, as well as primacy in space exploration. A clear example of internationalism is providing access to education in USSR universities to students from different capitalist countries, thanks to which I personally received an excellent education,” the professor noted.


What did the Soviet government of the USSR give to the people?

1.The right to an eight-hour working day. For the first time in the world in the history of mankind.

2. The right to annual paid leave. For the first time in human history.

3. The impossibility of dismissing an employee on the initiative of the administration or the owner without the consent of the trade union and party organization.

4. The right to work, to the opportunity to earn a living by one’s own labor. Moreover, graduates of vocational educational institutions had the right to compulsory employment in the labor field with the provision of housing in the form of a dormitory or apartment.

5. The right to free general and vocational education. Moreover, both secondary vocational education and higher education. For the first time in the world.

6. The right to free use of preschool institutions: nurseries, kindergartens, pioneer camps. For the first time in the world.

7. The right to free medical care. For the first time in the world.

8. The right to free sanatorium and resort treatment. For the first time in the world.

9. The right to free housing. For the first time in the world

10. The right to protect the state from the arbitrariness of local bosses and officials. For the first time in the world.

11. The right to free travel to the place of work or study using an individual travel document paid for by the state. For the first time in the world.

In addition, women had the right to a number of additional benefits:

1. The right to three years of maternity leave with job retention. (56 days - fully paid, 1.5 years - benefits, 3 years - without interruption of service and a ban on dismissal from the administration.).

2. The right to free foster care for a child for up to one year.

3. The right to a free dairy kitchen for newborns up to three years of age.

4. The right to free medical and sanatorium-resort treatment for any childhood diseases.

There was nothing like this in any country in the world and there could not even be a trace of it. Some social benefits in foreign countries began to appear only after the Second World War as a result of a powerful labor movement caused by the existence on the planet of the Soviet state, the State of Workers and Peasants.

Citizens of the USSR had much more rights than Americans or Germans. But those don’t have them today, and don’t expect them to.

In addition, in the USSR cross-subsidization made payments for utility services symbolic. When setting prices for certain goods in the USSR, they were primarily based on their social significance. Therefore, meat and meat products, milk and dairy products, and many varieties of fish and fish products were sold below cost and at constant prices. Children's clothing and shoes, textbooks for schools and universities, toys, notebooks and other writing materials, medicines, cotton fabrics and many other goods were sold at a loss. State subsidies for these purposes amounted to tens of billions of rubles annually. The state partially covered its losses through high prices for jewelry, natural furs and other luxury goods, and alcoholic beverages. But the main source of subsidies is the profits of state-owned enterprises. By spending a significant portion of the profits of its enterprises on subsidies, the state covered its losses. Losses in favor of the consumer!

Justice for me, but not for thee.

i think its not pure nostalgia. because there is fact that they give free education, free housing, free healthcare, all have a job, all have money. all of this vs would you trade it with barely have sausage or meat on weekly basis? or long queue to get one? like on black friday?. not to mention higher education standar, supposely you can study in USSR and then after graduate, go out from USSR, looking more good pay job in capitalist country. bet germany need a lot educated people there

It’s just funny how well propaganda works, like they just forget that it was only like that in the important cities while there imperialist regime lets millions starve to death, these people should be ashamed to wish that suffering back, but as long as it’s not in Russia it’s ok? Russians do really want to make me se Moscow go up in a giant fire ball

Мечта любого совка: отгородиться от мира и водить хоровод вокруг очередного вождя. В данный момент в России идеальное государственное устройство для подобных.

I'm glad the Soviet Union collapsed! It may have benefited Russians, but it was hell for the satellite states (Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic)! It only benefitted Russians, and none of these countries want communism back!

Russian empire > USSR

В СССР пенсионный возраст был 55 лет для женщин и 60 лет для мужчин, а сейчас соответственно 60 и 65 лет.

Was it good for non Russian nationalities living in the Soviet Union?

Yea times might of been calmer back then because the citizens had to walk on egg shells due to the kgb
This isn’t western propaganda either because this info comes from Russians who were deemed enemy of states aka soviet dissidents

Imagine being so naive that you say ussr cares more about the humans

The death toll of communism says otherwise

Моя разрушенная страна, преданная продажной верхушкой.
Страна, где люди были людьми. Не все, конечно, но очень и очень многие. Посмотрите на лица советских людей на фото тех лет, в документальных и художественных фильмах. Это другая жизнь, другая цивилизация.

I thought the thumbnail was from a video game.

Funny how today we hate communism and the Soviet Union but the people who lived under the Soviet Union absolutely loved it. We have been duped by capitalist propaganda

жесткое слабоумие.

it shall be revived

Wonder what the Polish or Ukrainians would have to say about the USSR, if asked?

I am a person from ussr it was a peoples jail .

You need to get a better translator

I was born in sukhumi abxazia and a came in Greece at 3 years old.
My parents said sssr was something special. It was a dream

Used to live in the USSR. It had it's pros and cons. First of all, if we're talking about the 60-80s, it was uncomparebly safer time than Stalin/Lenin era. One had to express his anti communist views very actively and intentionally to become of interest of KGB. None of my parents or grandparents were members of KPSS, although repeatedly advised to by the authorities. I lived in the 70-80s USSR where everyone around listened to the Voice of America, BBC or Svododa radio, had children baptised and had access to the Western literature and music. Sure, it wasn't the freedom of speech, but it wasn't so strict and opressive one might imagine. My father had many reasons for a strong dislike of the Communism and expressed it rather openly. The irony is he reconsidered his opinion on Comminist Russia when we finally had a chance to meet Capitalism in it's ugliest form during the 90s.

Back in the USSR everything was cheap. Housing, hot water, heating in winter, telephone communications, medicine were 100% free. Public transport, electricity, entertainment tickets, vacations cost practically nothing. No homeless and unemployment.
Not to mention, people were much more open and supportive to each other back then.
Bad things are well known - deficit of goods and food, quees, censorship and limited access to the foreign fashion, music and movies are just some of them.

America, sooner or later you will answer for our 90s.

I can totally understand Putin is like a modern Czar who serves the oligarchs

I DREAM EVERY MINUTE FOR TO GET THE SOVIET UNION REPARED AS IT WAS . I AM FROM EASTERN EUROEP WHO LIVED IN THE WEST IN THE PAST 70 YEARS AND MORE THAN HAPPY WITH THE ONLY WAY FOR THE HUMAN : WHICH IS SOVIET LEADERS AND THE SOVIET PROTECTION AGAINST THE BASTARD ROTEN HELLS LITURARLY THE HELLS FROM THE US....
THE US IS NOTHING BUT A HELL AND HELL AND OTHER HELL

THE BIGGEST DISGRACE FOR THE HUMAN RACE IS THE UNITED STATE

It is from people to the people, why it is bad. This call civilized.

When the boomers are actually based.

"People who lived under socialism hated it"
People who lived under socialism:

If all leaders took from eachother paradise could be possible

Missing old days cuz they were young back than. Classsic.

All brainwashed bot comments

people always remember the good things and forget the bad.

Cccp dead alleluya

Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and prosperous, except for one, especially mikhiel Gorbachev 😔😔

Very Interesting video and seems unbiased. Nice to hear their opinions, that aren’t part of the western propaganda.

Same to all the people they tend to be nostalgic about something from their youth ... but the main nostalgia will be about their youth only.
My grandparents had their youth before the communism's and never ever enjoyed the communist's regime.
There was a lot of nonsense in their eyes ... when comparing the communism's with what it was before the "red army liberation": like all the lazy people climbed very up in the communist's hierarchy becouse work was not for them but licking asses was ... or we all work as much as we can but we get paid only what we "really need" ...
And we are speaking about peasants who did not fit in the communist's definition of rich people who oppressed the poor... or any other comun...bsht propaganda...

100 million.

Then why it fell if it was soo good

Omg. The amount of commies in the comments. USSR was bullshit and stores lacked everything. Don't forget a shitload of repressions

How could russians afford all those " camps and state sponsored vacations"? It was paid for using stolen money and goods from easter european contries. Russians know this, but are too stupid to admit it now. Just like they don't want to admit that Stalin was a mass murderer. Most people still love him. Stupid people, led by ruthless tyrans.

What is most impressive is the high level of culture, the reflective capacity and the tranquility in how ordinary citizens think and respond. None of this exists outside of Russia.

The amount of Russian bots in this chat my god 💀

The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion

Yeah, so i am a westerner and i miss the Soviet Union too. In particular the iron curtain.