Comments by "starventure" (@starventure) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

Mario M Would you say that the political elite lived better than the average citizen?
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Would it be wrong to compare Beria to Weinstein or Epstein?
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Very cool find, Sergei. It would be interesting to see if anyone around today has relation to the subjects within.
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Sergei, were there censuses taken when you were growing up, or were these documents considered a replacement for it in the eye of the government? What was required for people to move from the rural areas to say, Leningrad?
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Mstislaw AA https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_grain_robbery By 1980, the Soviet economy was suffering from an extremely bad case of “red queen” syndrome in that it could no longer internally supply grain to itself no matter how hard they tried. There are many theories as to the cause of this, but what finally caved their house in was the acceleration of military spending in the early 1980s, the losses incurred from the Afghanistan war(if the Americans intention was to give the Soviets a taste of their own Vietnam medicine, it worked thrice fold), and the distrust of government created in the Chernobyl aftermath. Hungry, war weary, irradiated and grieving people have a tendency to demand change.
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De Eas You chose to pay for worse, right? Nobody forced you to...?
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That Wendy’s commercial was tame in its mocking of Russian life compared to others. I don’t remember the product, but there was one in the 1980’s that went after the whole “Female athletes on hormones” thing and slammed the GDR really bad.
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intel386DX 20 years wait! Oh no, not long at all.
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Pre 1990s - mountains of busted stuff. Post 1990s - kings of efficiency.
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After we pass from this world the only evidence that we existed beyond our physical remains is documentation.
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Impulse response W...T...F??? Those are fricking movies made by Hollywood, not the US government. They were garbage films created as childish fantasy, not propaganda. The equivalent of the Wendy’s commercial showing the Russian fashion show...comical diversion. The posters and phony news reports shown in the USSR were created by the government, not any private individual or organization.
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Rehan Zainul Abdeen A Wendy’s or yogurt commercial does not propaganda make. If you can find an actual American made poster about the USSR that was on public display, please show where to find it as it might be interesting. Otherwise, the limit of American commentary on the USSR was limited to comical commercials and radio talk show polemics.
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Pridetoons aka Afro Lion There are many black or Latino neighborhoods where ownership is the norm. Being a so called minority does not make one unable to attain ownership of a home.
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@chuckdacon4797 Not sure. I seem to recall it being a TV commercial, but I now remember that movie mocked them as well.
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Cody Hatfield Never seen them, where are they?
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Who are you calling a peasant, you peasant?! (JK)
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Greetings, Sergei. I hope that all is well with you. Regarding this video, was it ever possible for anyone to build a house for themselves outside of cities like Kyiv? Like a country cottage?
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@UshankaShow I don't understand. Water well, septic tank, train station?
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@UshankaShow So, one could not dig a well on their own or lay pipe? Yikes.
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@ So buying a pump was not an option? I don’t mean an electric one, the hand pump type. I’m only asking because it seems curious to me that the state would have not been relieved to have some want to live at the ground while there was a housing shortage. Was the plan to get everyone into apartments no matter what?
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How is it possible that oranges were expensive to get in Michigan back in the 1980s, but were dirt cheap in New Jersey and New York at the same time? I grew up in NJ/NY, and oranges were commonplace year-round. In addition, I had relatives in Detroit who would host gatherings for the holidays, and fruit was not a big deal at all as far as availability. Were you a yooper by any chance?
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@constancestrawn1303 Don't you mean overestimating? I'm just incredulous that something as simplistic as oranges or other fruits could be considered scarce or expensive anywhere in the US in the 1980s when every state I was in had them in groceries at dirt cheap prices. Certain meat products, yes I can understand them being called expensive but fruits and vegetables being expensive is just absurd sounding.
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@constancestrawn1303 Ok, where is this place you are talking about? Keep in mind we are talking about legitimate geographical areas, not abstracts like "the streets" or urban alleys. What towns are there where food is so expensive that it can not be afforded by even a WIC recipient?
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@constancestrawn1303 Link please? Not calling you a liar, just asking for proof and proper evidence.
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@intel386DX Could you sell it if had wanted to? Or trade it for another location?
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Baloney. Every head shop had a silkscreen press that you could have a patterned tshirt made for yourself on. They had books that showed the designs on each page, often 100s available(including comic book crap) and you could even bring your own if you had the means to make one and have a tshirt printed with it. They also did tye dye stuff. Silkscreen shirts were very delicate and could not be machine dried(not on high heat at least) and would always peel after some time.
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@perfectallycromulent Once again, baloney. I worked in a record store at my local mall as a teen, and the shirt press was easy to operate and did not take long at all to bake a pattern onto a shirt. The only challenge of it was making sure you got the timing correct or else you could either burn or melt it, or not seal it enough and it would start to fall off too soon.
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@perfectallycromulent I just explained to you that the books had comic book character prints in it, including Batman and the others. Shirts like that were not rare at all.
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@perfectallycromulent Every mall or college town had a head shop or record store in it.
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@perfectallycromulent If that is true, than you really should know better. Mid Island Plaza, Roosevelt Field, Massapequa...they all had shops you could get silkscreen shirts done at. This doesn't include all the strip malls all over where you were bound to run into Unique Boutique type places. And that is just Long Island; if you went to college towns for uni then you definitely came across these places.
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@perfectallycromulent Are you saying that a church going mom would not have brought her teenagers to Tower records or Record world? Was Modell's beneath her tastes as well?
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@perfectallycromulent We had comic book stores back then that sold everything you mentioned
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@perfectallycromulent Commack was considered rural at that time. Closer to and in NYC, that stuff was available easy. Forbidden Planet had loads of it in the 80s, along with the smaller mom and pop shops in the village. The only thing Commack was known for was the motor inn, which was always the source of jokes in the area.
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@perfectallycromulent You didn't travel far enough. It was always out there, you just had to know where to look and be willing to go there. Fandom was around long before 1989.
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Rehan Zainul Abdeen The US couldn’t care less if Canada decided to leave NATO since it wants to leave too. Americans have known for decades that NATO is a scam military welfare program for nations that don’t deserve it.
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