Russian History Lesson--My Trip to Moscow!

Here's a quick video of me on my trip to Moscow to speak about leadership and personal development. I give a brief history of some of the incredible buildings there--what a fantastic place!

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[bulwarkjm2]

Thanks for sharing this. Very interesting.  You never see stuff like this on TV.

[luckyvidoes]

grrreat to see you with the intro about Moscow.

Thank you Mr. Tracy

[ltsgoyanks]

Interesting how quickly our tempers flare even today, some 20 plus years after perestroika. Many Westerners have heard the story of the fate of the Cathedral workers.. I heard it first from my Russian colleagues; so it seems westerners and muscovites alike tell false tales. Ura293.. did you ever purchase goods from GYM before 1989? I think mostly diplomats and elites shopped there as well, so his conversation is not completely false. I commend him for his interest in Russian culture.

[Ura293]

continued -so your sinister picture does not fit nostalgia of Russian pensioners for Soviet times and votes they give to commies- as 12% of seats in Russian Parlament belongs to communists...Having said that, lets understand that Soviet regime was undemocratic and communist economy based on prohibition of private enterprise did not work and kept USSR behind the West and failed provide living standarts equal to those in the West.But exagerating does not help to understand Russia and its problems

[Ura293]

continued - so it (USSR in 1960-80-s) was dull and dictatorial to dissenters, but MUCH more caring about pensioners, ophans, healthcare issues, social security, public housing, free education etc. of simple people then any regime after it (whatever democratic post Soviet years in Russia were called in the west) - so your sinister picture of party officials having everything and poor workers standing 3 hours for potatoes DOES NOT fit to nostalgia of Russian pensioners for communist times and

[Ura293]

cont. from previous - so this kind of exageration actually makes Russians to look weird and in fact is dehumanising them as ethnic group as they look like a bunch of marcians after such presentation...Russian history was cruel ofcource, but was not it the same cruel in medieval England (or where are your ancestores from) for example? Soviet regime was cruel in Stalin times, but was it really so horrible in 1960-70-80-s?- I doubt it - it was paternalistic and dull, dictatorial to dissenters,but

[Ura293]

continued from prev. - so, never in Soviet time did Russians lined for 3 hours to get bread and potatoes(exept maybe for wartime 1941-45 and also not everywhere and only in the worst months of it) - they did however stand in lines to get some consumer goods (like rare in Russia Italian fashion shoes which suddenly appeared on sale, or furniture items from Finland, maybe some exotic fruit which appeared in shops before holidays etc, or as I remember some rare those times kinds of salami.)

[Ura293]

good to know you are interested in Russian history, Brian, but what is spoiling my impression that you (as well as many Westernes) try to exagerate everything to make your story about Russia more weird and more interesting - never did the Tsar blinded architects of St.Basil Cathedral - it is the same legend like the one that bears are roaming in Moscow and all Russians drink vodka every day, also never in Soviet times did people stand 3 hours in lines to get bread and potato (exept for wartime)

[Leila8able]

Hello and wait a second, Brain, I`m a guide-translator around Moscow and can tell you many interesting stories and myths in Moscow`s history.

So the MYTH that Ivan the Terrible ordered to put out eyes of the St. Basil`s Cathedral`s architects - Barma and Postnik is just a MYTH.

Later sources tell us that Barma&Postnik later built another Cathedral in Novgorod.

So....sorry, Brian, but you can NOT sell just a myth as a historical fact.

Hope you`ll correct the information.

Regards,

Gagarin

[luigiperso]

sauder,what the hell are you talking about....first of all,B Tracy is not a motivational 'get rich' speaker. He's an educator. He's a guy that was digging ditches and sleeping roughly,and then built his wealth out of intellect and honesty. Secondly,no one in his sane mind would say that a cathedral is more important than the eyes of the people,and that's not what Tracy has said. You are mixing too many things here......what the hell has to do the George Bush era with these other psychos?