Comments by "Biały" (@Bialy_1) on "How Oil Ate the Soviet Economy" video.

  1. As a Polish person i am so amazed about ammount of Russian/Soviet propaganda in this video... Poland was dependent on the Soviet energy supply?! HAHA Poland was one of the biggest producers of coal and many in central Europe were producing it. Soviet was for many years buying it from Poland for 10% of the real market price and calling it "war reparations from Germany" as they made deal with Western Allies that reparations for Poland will be going from East Germany via USSR(that is why Polish government officialy said that they do not want any more reparations from Germany as there was no momen to even pay the miners for the job and no energy in country as USSR was sucking it out of Poland...). That also took all the Uran that Poland got and did not paid for it or informed miners about health risks during this work... Number of cars in Poland was very small and yet fuel was rationed and for many years government was giving special bons for fuel and withut it you were not able to buy fuel for your car... This video is nice continuation of previous one where you forgot to mention significance of Polish scientists in Building Soviet Oil industry... Witold Zglenicki->"Witold Zglenicki was not only an explorer of rich oil pools in the Caucasus but also a pioneer of oil extracting from the bottom of the sea. He directed the early development of the oil industry of the port of Baku in Russian Azerbaijan. He also sponsored a foundation for the development of Polish culture and science which brought him the reputation as the "Polish Nobel". "
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  2. Repeating Soviet propaganda is far from "superbly researched"... Soviets were sucking energy sources from satelite countries all the time and from the video we are learning that they were some kind of saviour delivering it and whole central europe was dependand on Soviet energy sources(when in reality its full of coal and that was the main energy source). There was hardly any car production in Warsaw Pact countries and you were waiting many years to be allowed to buy a car and yet fuel was rationed by communist governments for a very long time and government was providing special fuel bills that you needed to buy a fuel on a gas station... For example Soviets were paying only 10% of Polish coal real free market price and they were calling it special price and delivering by them reparations for WW2 from Germany, as USSR made a deal about reparations that Soviet Union will be delivering them from Germany to Poland... that is why Polish government now asking for real war reparations from Germany as they back then said that they do not want this Soviet style reparations->as there was no money to even pay miners for diging out the coal and not to mention buy coal on free market to have energy in Poland! In previous part about this topic there should be at least mention of Witold Zglenicki the guy that got plenty to do with Baku oil success but no, not in Soviet/Russian propaganda(as that is clearly the source of his informations).
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