Moscow Russia (Soviet Union) in 1982

[rocker6666]

Hmmm, seems to be like any other European city to me (minus the communist propoganda, anyway).

[MrSrgj]

Everywhere the Soviet Red flags.

Today the Soviet red flag is a big rarity and it is possible to see only in a museum.

[DmitriMorozov312]

@MrSrgj Or on my front porch...

[KimarTheGreat]

This is an interesting view into how society looked back then. There were many good things and many awful things, mainly the treatment of the people. But we must all learn to move on with our good and bad experiences. USSR was kind to some and to others it was cruel and malignant. We must remember the good and bad things and carry them with us to the future. Learn from our misstakes, leave our troubles behind and take with us the good things that we can find. So that nobody need suffer in vain.

[plunderpunk2]

People are people, everyone loves their country. My only observation would be that folks from the west generally didn't defect to the east at the same rate of people from communist countries coming to the west.

[MrViTopol]

@plunderpunk2 you don't know the statistics

[snickhill]

0:24 niggas in soviet union. They could actually walk in the streets..

[TheseSummerDays]

People did not have much. But they had HAPPINESS!

[lysol5555]

People complain about shortage. In america there is shortage of everything too, you can't satisfy all your needs. I think everybody has learned to live with it since they were born. Hey I want a new computer, new clothes, new bike, new guitar too, but my budget is tight.

[MrViTopol]

@lysol5555 exactly. americans are shopping and consuming as if expecting shortage of everything every day ... consumer stuff 'shortage's purely psychological phenomenon. you can easily hypnotize people into believing they lack everything and trick them into war...

[rajashraful]

man seriously!!! it is obviously not glittering but it is completely neat and clean without any disorder. everything seems perfect and working. ussr made propaganda about themselves that they are in good position and us made propaganda about ussr that ussr is an evil and broken, disordered country. seriously i would prefer ussr over us if you give me a choice to live a life.

[Mutleytech]

I am in amazement! How did you get the invite? It must have been extremely difficult then to get in and to even film especially the metro. Thanks for sharing this history and time with us. I have great interest in Russia and its' culture.

[GreatestTop]

@Mutleytech It wasn't that hard to get into the Soviet Union. It's just that few people chose to.

[Tokopol]

@Mutleytech You may have the USSR mixed up with North Korea. No invites were necessary, and Moscow was always accessable to tourists and cameras.

[Quex01]

No crime, no thugs, no bums, no trash on streets, people dressed modestly, no ads everywhere (except official propaganda)...

[tomylaw]

@Quex01 One thing I strongly agree: no ads make the city's visual look a lot nicer and more natural.

[RivieraByBuick]

@Quex01 official declassified (1991) statistics of crime in tne USSR claims: in 1980 18,000 homicides were registered, in 1989 12,4 homicides per 100,000 people, that puts the Soviet Union on the 5-th place. In contrast, now Russia holds 15-th place. About bums, once my mother told me how she met a woman that was living in the public toilet, that was the beggining of 80`s if i don`t mess. If u haven`t heared of terrible things about the USSR, that means KGB classified it.

[vartal]

О, интуристас...)))

[TheVeneth]

I still dont get your point.. coloured quality detail movies were produced allready at the end of second world war (german agfa company).. but I still dont get your line of thinking.. you live in the propaganda bubble man.. btw.. I have checked the nuclear reactors and realised that we in Czech rep. has had built and developed OURSELVES most secure nuclear reactor DUKOVANY in 1978!!!!!!!!!!! and one more time !!!!!!!!!!!! ..unlike yours that has been taken from retired US subs.. no offence..

[YesIamEccentric]

I Want to vivist Moscow, so alluring, even if the mystique of the secrecy of the USSR is gone it still looks beautiful and fascinating

[kaizerzydeco]

I was there in 1982 and it seems so much cheapened now. Most people we ran into (we were allowed to go pretty much where we wanted) seemed happy enough and had all they needed. They complained a bit about shortages etc. but people were invariably polite and friendly. I don't think it's that way any more. Некультурный used to be a very negative comment in Soviet times; now it pretty much describes the new class of Russians who have taken so much from their own people.

[englishdadinmoscow]

Moscow Soviet times

[dysonjob]

даже в новогиреево занесло туриста

[521i]

are you sure this is 1982?

[TheVeneth]

@521i ..why it wouldnt be?????

[521i]

@TheVeneth

I cant believe its taken in good quality :)

[sbistras]

what made a big impression on me is that ΓΥΜ was full of people shopping.......2 years ago i visited moscow and it was empty.........

[Shukria123]

I've met Russians who've told me they lived better under communism.

[assfever1]

@Shukria123 well, till 1990 it was the golden age not only for russians but for all soviet people.

[Shukria123]

@assfever1 They probably wish they could go back to communism.

[Gforguitar]

Thanks



[lazimofo90]

Very interesting video.