Did socialism work in the USSR? Former soviet citizens share their personal experiences and surprising perspectives on work, community, and daily life under socialism.

Nov 6, 2025 · 4:28 PM UTC

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Great interviews. You should find a better translator, though, the subtitles were poorly written.
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What was the Red Terror?
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A response to the white terror
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Great work Donald
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maladits comrade za etu programmu v chest' vilikovo oktabriya
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Important perspectives!
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Ideas so good you get killed for questioning or opposing them
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All were interesting, especially the two ladies from 06:40 on. Their comments for the '90s when everything was on coupons pretty much reflects the near future of the world.
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They didn't have socialism in the USSR after the mid 1920s, they had Stalinism. And no, it didn't work very well. It was a dystopian nightmare of a place for most people.
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Jason Smith - 上官杰文
 @ShangguanJiewen
Nov 6
This is China.🇨🇳 China is proof that socialism works. As for Cuba, Venezuala and other examples, they may have worked if the US government hadn't spent TRILLIONS of dollars to prevent their success. 👇
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Donald always out there keeping it real 👏🏼🐻
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Good stuff.. hope you’re well!
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YELSTIN was a disaster
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Nice insight
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Good stuff.
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They miss their youth not the regime!
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CPRF) views Boris Yeltsin's presidency as a disasterfor Russia, a period defined by national catastrophe, economic hardship
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Great video; 100years from now, someone should make a video about how much US Caputalism SUCKED
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Under Yeltsin remember those children living underground addicted to glue . Thank goodness Russia 🇷🇺 is back . That’s why there attacked the west liked seeing them powerless
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I am a Czech person. In my country the socialism was not so bad as you can read from the media. There was to much sabotage from the former bourgeoisia, secretly and oddly.
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Let me guess… it worked very well. Yeah, you can’t really interview the ones it didn’t work for as they’re dead.
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Translation We were YOUNGER back then ,now we re OLD and miss the times when we were young Fixed
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You Leftists are dangerous.
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Retards
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We didn’t have to think as long as we behaved like sheep and obeyed the Party representatives we survived comrade
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Lol. An exercise in cherry picking?
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Even a bureaucratic workers' state that undermined democratic rights is preferred over unrestrained Capitalism. The people yearn for Socialism
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