Comments by "Adam Bainbridge" (@AdamMGTF) on "Paper Skies" channel.

  1. I very much doubt it. But i would argue the video wasn't about that one comment. More an open letter to such people
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  2. I'm sorry you have these feelings about the UK. I don't know which part of which country you live in. But I hope you realise that what you've experienced is NOT the norm. I've travelled across Europe. I was born at the end of the cold war. I'm passionate about history and I'm proud to be from the UK. I just don't see anything your saying ever in my daily life. Oh, and I went to university 10 years ago. I didn't see it then. I'm no saying you haven't seen a darker side of our country. But I hope you get to see the UK I live in.
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  3. ​ @DiamondKingStudios  I'd say it made loads of sense for the USSR to use westerns set in the USA. It basically took the good Vs evil of the base plot and then as a bonus the added twist was that the "good" guys were genocidal capitalists bent on cultural and racial extermination in order to colonise a continent. I mean as a propaganda piece it makes total sense... Because they can just wink and say "of course we 'good' Communists would NEVER act like that!" 😂
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  4. ​ @renanpardillos9919 I don't understand how anyone can look at Marxism or socialism in general and consider it in any way an improvement. Not given living standards now or in the 80s and 90s. I also have a feeling your statements have missed out the only decades which saw actual support for socialism in the UK. Might I suggest you read a bit more history? I'm too young to remember the politics of the 80s. But I do remember the 90s and discussed this topic with my mother at Sunday lunch today... In the 80s the last thing the working man or woman wanted was socialism and sure as heck we've learnt since then that it would have been a great way to ruin the quality of life of the working classes! As an aside. I'm a working class (all be it educated) middle aged man in the UK and I know for a fact my standard of living would be and is the envy of thoes unlucky enough to have been stuck living under socialism (and I do not just mean the USSR, and i am including contemporary regimes). In the UK (especially England) we are excellent at complaining and generally grumble about how things 'just get worse'... But to paraphrase Churchill, what we have now isn't the best. But it's way better than all the alternatives (especially communism!).
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  5.  @DiamondKingStudios  sadly it's a constant across history. Every country has an example I am sure.
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  6. @renanpardillos9919  I admit my knowledge of french history is limited to pre 1945. I only have a general overview of the years since. So I'll focus my reply on what I do know. Firstly I apologise if you thought I was implying that you were from the UK. I wasn't. The UK based comments were to the op who is originally from poland and living in the UK. So onto the meat of what you've written. I'd like to point out your wrong about the UK gaining better working conditions thanks to communist or socialist governments. We have never had such a government in the UK. We have the Labour party (which is currently in power and had a major revision prior to Tony Bair becoming the party head in what is known as 'new labour '). But that is NOT a socialist or communist party. It is on the left of the conservative party (in power from 2010 until this year) BUT and this is important to this conversation. The labour party maybe considered on the left in the UK. But in most countries it would be considered a center party. In the UK we haven't had any real support for socialism represented in parliament since the 50s and even then it was single digits territory. Standards of living in the UK have contributed to rise constantly since the 60s (we of course had to pay off huge debts and rebuild after ww2, I'm sure muchlike France). So i hope you understand when I say what you have said about how we gained workers rights here is simply incorrect. In fact we gained works rights largely through direct democracy. IE trade unions and their influence on industry and politics.Though it could be considered a double edge sword as they became very powerful in the 70s and 80s and the strikes ended badly for the workers involved (the old joke was that the trade unions won and the working man lost. Mind you they were mostly industries that were not making a profit and or were heavily subsidised or nationalised and as such had no future in capitalism anyway. Obviously I can't comment on how things went in your country. But given the amount of strikes you have had none stop for decades.... Isn't that an argument to suggest your system hasn't been good for the working man? In the UK we haven't seen major strikes since the 1970s. In France they seem to have been constant since I can remember (so the last 35+ years). I would never say that socialism/communism is just about a big military and depressing concrete housing. But it I would say it's about controlling things that are better left to improve through natural competition.
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  7. If it works right the first time, it's because you've already done it. It's easy to pick fault in hindsight. But innovation isn't easy and these were incredibly skilled and intelligent people... Who had to learn from their mistakes like anyone else. Heck, in 1939 turret fighters made sense 😂
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  8.  @arthas640  I think your applying facts from later in the cold war to this design. The Soviets didn't lack brain power. Quite the opposite. They used trial and error to learn how to develop new cutting edge technology. That's how the west did it as well. Applying stereotypes is fine. But you can easily go too far. There is a simple rule of engineering. If you did it right the first time, it's because you've already done it.
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  9.  @Przechylyohoho  your welcome to any of my thoughts. Mostly your welcome in my home country. I hope your home country stays safe. :)
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  10. In fairness. Sean Connery is Scottish. I'm English and I need subtitles to understand some Scottish accents.
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  11.  @volo870  that's brilliant info. I can imagine 🤣. It's the same now when American TV or movies try to do a "British accent". Anyone who's been to one of the countries in the UK can tell you there is no such thing. Yet Hollywood gives us these hilarious accents that are so silly they take over the show. How did western movies get popular in the USSR? I always assumed they would be banned (much like North Korea now)
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