Comments by "USHANKA SHOW" (@UshankaShow) on "Weird History" channel.

  1. My grandparents still used a horse to plow fields in Soviet Ukraine in the early 1980s
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  2.  @chickenlover657  Yes Soviet Ukraine, the former "bread basket of Europe" had shortage of bread. Welcome to the socialist economy
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  3.  @barbarapiazza-georgi3831  Not possibly. For sure. I was born in the USSR. To move to another area required a permission (so-called propiska) but traveling needed no permissions
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  4. Please, I spent countless hours in bread lines in the late 70s, early 80s in a small village in Northern Ukraine. Bread was delivered three times a week, and people waited for hours in line
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  5.  @chickenlover657  No, just central socialist economy. I don't blame Russians also many Russians blame "bad" Soviet leaders like Khrushchev and Brezhnev who were supposedly Ukranians
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  6. Your second point is completely wrong. There was no need for a permit to travel within the USSR, except visiting so-called "closed cities". People did travel to other countries as tourists but it was very expensive and required a lot of paperwork
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  7. Gorbachev was a President of the Soviet Union from 15 March 1990 – 25 December 1991. No mistake there, Greg
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  8. Money for nothing and chicks for free sounds very appealing
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  9.  @Evil0tto  You mean NKVD bullets and GULAG camps?
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  10.  @Evil0tto  Just trying to help you out. You need to be historically correct in order not to sound silly
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  11. VAZ Zhiguli, a Soviet copy of FIAT-124, had a waiting list up to 9 years. Car ownership at its peak - one car per thirty people
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  12. Yes, it was pretty bad.
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  13. Yes but Lenin couldn't live forever to keep sh!tyness from happening
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  14.  @danielcaraveo4844  Lenin introduced NEP, New Economic Policy, which was restoration of capitalism under government supervision. Exactly what China did many years later
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  15.  @danielcaraveo4844  Wow, that's an interesting analogy! )) I think Lenin realized that applying communist/socialist theory in real life with real people produced no good results, just uprisings, and starvation.
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  16.  @chickenlover657  I spent my summer kanikuly there, and it was my job to go to SELMAG three times a week to buy bread. In Kyiv, where I lived, there was no shortage of bread
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  17. All those ships had weaponry removed so it wasn't the "navy". Just a fleet of rusty buckets destined for the scrape yard
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  18. You should visit "Berezka" hard currency store, it had anything under the Soviet sun
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  19. The only item that I would call weird from this video is Kholodets, Meat Jello. Hated that stuff. We ate cottage cheese with sour cream and sugar. Americans eat it with salt and pepper. Weird. Blood sausage - cooked pigs blood with rice and spices inside the pig's intestines. Raw pork fat - salo. Spicy pickled herring maybe.
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  20. Yes, the USSR was never a communist state.
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