Miracle on Ice: 25 Years Later Alexei Kasatonov Interview

[WWrestlingEntertain]

Communism is an ECONOMIC system dumbasses not a Totalarian government. there cud be Democratic governments with a communist economy and Totalarian governments cud run with a Capitalist economy! Dumbasses get it right.

Capitalism/Communism = economic system

Democracy/Totalarian = governing style

[Dave5000i]

@WWrestlingEntertain Are You FUCKING RETARTED DumbShit

[chicagogreg06]

this was made in 2005

[alexboii]

I wish i had a russian accent .. lol i am Vvvrussian

[nabkovfan20]

why?...

[yojimbo81]

The Soviet Union is dead. Communism is dead in those countries. Ditch the politics and talk about the game or this video.

[DrFrankLives]

Dear rest of the world, please don't think these idiots on YouTube are typical Americans. Idiots are idiots. Especially racist idiots, and they exist everywhere. Unfortunately.

[minimusmax]

@DrFrankLives Why do you care what others think of you? Self conscious much? Bad trait to have.

[NastyNole1]

Fuck Russia...and fuck communism...

God Bless America.....and Fuck Barack Hussein Brobama...

[FlyersHockeyPride]

Fuck Russia and Fuck Barack Obama? Here's one for ya, cockstain...FUCK YOU and your toothless mother, you cocksucker!

GO FUCK SARAH PALIN, COCKFACE, she's LOVE a retard like you! Inbred piece of shit! :-/

[EaglesMan36]

That's OUR President you are talking about, you piece of garbage! Why do you hate America? Love it or leave it!

[ppd343]

EaglesMan why don't you understand that "Our" President is not a fucking king, he is supposed to be a man elected. He is however a man chose to be controlled by special interests. Everyone has their right as Americans to criticise the war criminal and socialist Obama. I love you fools that support Obama and were against Bush, the same thing you now support Bush did!

[EaglesMan36]

@ppd343

I'm only doing to you the same thing I'm sure you did when your boy Bush was in office. Of course, I don't expect you to admit that or get it.

[ppd343]

I just posted Obama is doing the same thing Bush did. I am just saying people now support Obama that DID NOT support Bush. Guess what fools? They are doing the SAME thing. WAr, war, war, spend, spend, spend. America = SHEEP that deserves their fate.

[usteeler81]

@EaglesMan36 loving your country is different than loving a leader. When a leader has the status Obama has they get embroiled in it. In my opinion loving a leader means you love them man, not the ideas he produces, while loving your country means you love the ideals regardless of who is in office.

[LinkinParkLivEshow]

c'mon dude, your a fucking idiot

Obama is the president of the US, don't be a hypocrite

[NastyChuck]

The guy in the middle @ 2:04 looks like a roided up Mike Cera.

[BoSoxnation1972]

Kasatonov looks like one of the fat Baldwin Brothers...Danny.

[fuji302]

Communism, you can never trust the images that the countries leaders send out. They try to paint rosie pictures but they are little better, if at all, than a third world country.

[PurplePepsi1]

thats my coach he coaches in staten island woot

[gammypetra]

Stop looking at the bad points of that country. The novels, poetry and inventions and the sports history is marvelous in Russia. I been there, it is sad to see such a beautiful country getting run down.

[JAVMAN83]

@gammypetra

Well put. Every country has its good points and bad points. That is the nature of mankind Unfortunately, certain elements within society buy into a philosophical point of view that tries to explain the world from one point of view and implement that system without respect to others. Pure socialist is evil. So is pure capitalism.

[okpapereat]

im not a idiot it was lucky back then the soviets was the best team that played hockey even better then canada. even Herb brooks said that they where the best with his comment "if we played them 10 times they might win 9 but not this one" thats 90% win for soviet. And did you know that soviet had won gold metals from 1956 to 1988. The Soviet have world champions 1954 to 1991.

[thejimeister782]

seriously, your dumb.

[okpapereat]

thats not dumb they where the best in the world even better then canada and for a colege team to pull out a win against the experienced soviet team is a miracle its just like saying boys against men out there its lucky if the boys win because they sucked.

[ufcCanadianhockey87]

the us team actually had extremely good players so it wasnt all luck. they also went against an ok goal tender not the best but they still out played that team.

[okpapereat]

i don't know about outplay because if tretiak was not pulled the soviets would of still won yes they are great players but i mean there not great at experianced. Even in the NHL the more experienced team comes out on top look at pitsberg penguins when they went to the playoffs for the first year since a while they lost to the senetors why? because they where not as experienced then next year they whent to the finals but detroit won why? because they got players like Lidstrom, Refalski and

[NEFalcons4]

tretiak was the best goaltender in the world at the time, myschkin wasnt any slouch either. man dumb idiot

[btbbuilder]

Thinking of the Domino Theory,

Ok, Take Communism, Marx & Engals Wrote the Communist Manifesto, (1847) in response to the society ran by the Zar. It is adopted years later by Lenin, The society buillds on it falling deeper into that social thought. Individual rights are usurped by Collective thought. Stalin takes over once Lenon dies. Russians are taken by force to the concentration camps for "Re-Conditioning) to follow in with the collective. 20 MILLION die because they dont agree. DOMINO

[okpapereat]

Thats not the domino theory. The domino theory is when one country fall to communism the rest falls think of it like a domino set if one falls then the rest starts to fall. Now thats what the united states thought and as a result president truman came up with the idea of containment. Out of this domino theory usa thought in the korean war the vietnam war to prevent countries around the soviet empire fall and become communist. Stalin was a great leader who came up with the 5 year plan that

[okpapereat]

boost the soviet economy which is what they needed altough as you said 20 million died but during revolutions thats what it takes to start and make it through to become a free and united country. just look at the french revolution and leaders like napoleon he thought many wars and was a great strategic man to lead the france through the revolution. Look at the guilitine it was so deadly.

[btbbuilder]

I was not explaining the "Domino" theory. I was merely explaining the effect. really If you think Stalin was a great leader there is not much more to talk about. My Girlfriend from the past would disagree with you as she was a Russian Jew living under Communistic rule. I guarantee you now that she is out and alive (Her Dad killed by them) She would have a different opinion. My opinion(& the vast majority) is that Stalin was a sick thug guilty of the murder of 20 MILLION of his own countrymen.

[okpapereat]

and i see why u disagree 20 millions of people is a lot but my opinion is that even though 20 million had died it brought russia better future. And don't forget they also go the better hockey team then the united states

[btbbuilder]

Ok,

I feel sad for you, You must live in one of those countries where you just do not understand that Mom's, Dad's, Children were rounded up and Slaughtered like cattle. And NO it did not make a better Russia. Communism in Russia Fell in a heap of rubble and we only see the aftermath of that with the ex- Military now as the Mafia, controlling what it can and selling off pieces of a once"Great" Empire to the highest bidder. Truly your way of thought is so completely off base I fear for you.

[okpapereat]

no i live in a country called Canada and yes it was better now because there at least not banked rupped thats what happened in 1991 when the soviet union fell and fear not you dont need to fear for me!!!!!!

[btbbuilder]

Sorry, I should have wrote Domino Effect. Not the Domino

 Theory. Follow Logic to its conclusion which is what I was doing.

[btbbuilder]

Communism Sucks! I vote for a free America. That is what it meant to the US fans, Who cares who won before that Game. The point is that when it counted most 20 Amature Hockey players beat the best team in the world.

"Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall" Ronald Reagan

[okpapereat]

communism sounds good in theory its just in human nature people want to get rich and have a lot of money. Communism is a economical/political idea where all weath is distributed equally. How does that sound bad. Its all fair but human nature that we want more then other which is a capitalist economy where you can make ur business and no government involvment (laissez faire) thats why america i like the american economy/markets. theres not much scarcity because of the competive nature of business

[btbbuilder]

Human Nature is why it does not work. If we werent human I get it, But ask those under Stalins Regieme, Or how about Mao Tse Tung, C'mon now A woman ges pregnant and the state forces an abortion on her, Murder!! The point is communism has proven itself not to work where Capitalism has proven it does work. History bears the truth. Lenon was wrong, Stalin was wrong and 20 million dead Russians would Agree.

[okpapereat]

Im not a business man my self but a consumer of a lot of american business cause the competition allows for more business to compete and that allows cheeper prices and more products out there for people. Thats why apple release so many different kinds of ipods. And where did i say communism rules? You really can't judge a persons political view because after all its just a idea its stupid to start a war for it like the cold war, communism vs democracy. Who cares how other countries political

[btbbuilder]

If you had a business you would understand, I paid 225k Last year so that Lazy morons have their welfare chacks. Please do not go down the Downtrodden avenue, I'm not talking about them. I do work for the Development corporations that own the "Low Income Familiy" properties. They are all in nice new condos driving Lexus' and Beamers while I have my truck and My wife her Car and a shitty little home I am fixing up during my off hours as if there were any, With a wife,4kids 2 lawyers Employees....

[btbbuilder]

Yes I Can judge a persons political view when that persons actions interfere with another personal rights. Are you saying that My rights should govern yours, NO!, That is exactly what those ideas bread, The individual right to Life ,Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were bought with blood, respect that or stand opposed. It is said that for EVIL to prevail all we need to do is nothing. Well, I say pay through the nose for the taxes, Make as much money as you can, Live, Love, Care, Cherish.

[okpapereat]

well you saying communism is evil? i don't see it its just a political view and its nothing to fight over here i mean its depicted as evil in a lot of film during the cold war but in fact i don't believe communism is evil. Im guessing you believe in the domino theory where one country falls to communism the rest falls is that why you say " that for evil to prevail all we need to do is nothing" Well the domino theory is crap i don't believe that.

[okpapereat]

ideas are. Thats all i got to say

[btbbuilder]

Yes, Communism Sucks, Socialism sucks, Facism sucks, Any time a few elite tell the masses what they can or cannot do It is abridging their freedom to be what they inherently are, That is Humans with free will. Try to take my will away(Even though it costs me so much) & I guarantee you it will be met with resistance, Lethal if necessary, Ask our founding fathers, They did exactly that. the right to bear arms was a right given not to protect from outside evil, rather from within our borders.

[btbbuilder]

Stalin was a Great Leader??? (URRGH!) Seriously, I cannot imagine a person with the freedom of thought stating such a ridiculous thing. Murder, Rape,Torture both physical and pshyhological just becuase some did not think the same way. China, north Korea,Russia,The whole Middle East... Go live there and enjoy, Just remember if you do move there to pack up your computer and hide it becuase you will be killed for wirting this stuff and conversing with the "enemy), Maybe you like that.

[okpapereat]

lucky not skilled!!!!

[oncepwnd]

you're an idiot

[btbbuilder]

Yes,

Canada is pretty safe compared to otehr areas of the world. Maybe if you moved to one of those other countries you would change your mind, maybe not. I can tell you that I could care less to visit Lenons tomb, Or Stalins Superhighway to the death camps. I can care less to spend the night in Iraq or hike the trail of tears. I just want for people to be free, Thats why that game was so important

[okpapereat]

well i don't think i will change my mind because russia today is a lot better you can still leave the country so you do get the freedom to move around. Thats why alexei kasatanov came here. i don't see a lot of russians moving out i guess they like it there then

[btbbuilder]

C'mon,

The reason they cannot move out is because the have NO MONEY. They dont have enough to get bread let alone enough to buy a bus, plane, train ... Ticket, And no they cannot just leave. They are stuck under ex-communistic Mafia rule. the country is in shambles. I suppose if you dont believe me you could talk to Marina about he "Lovely" Experience of sneaking from Tjakistan to Northern Russia where she boarded a ship thinking she was going to be sent with her brother to Siberia.