Are there any good documentaries on the soviet union? also general cold war thread
pistolgrip on an ak always looks pretty retarded desu
I always wondered how was the common house hold in the USSR?
What did it have? radios?
What kind of furniture did it have?
>>80547
Legitimately thought that was George Costanza
>>80547
Soviet Storm is a good WW2 Soviet point of view documentary.
All on YT.
>>80617
I mean more about during the cold war, about not just one thing, i would like one that covers life, politics and the army if one like this even exists
>>80547
I'm afraid not many, been looking as well.
>>80593
their furniture and tech were all the same. Like you could've walked into 100 apartments all over Moscow and they'll only seem to have had the furniture and rooms moved around. Only things that were unique to each househokd were things made by the people themselves.
>>80660
>OP
B-but im the OP
Also i remember a long time ago there was a 30+hour documentary on youtube in around 47 parts of the soviet union that went into great detail about politics, the average life and the military, i can't find it anywhere now though
>>80547
>The cold war started just because Churchill said the words "Iron Curtain"
>Cuba is the Island of Freedom
>This is what soviets actually believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUe0ywSoNeU
>>80693
>I'm the OP
Yeah sorry.
I'm interested if you find it.
Watched this guys vids about daily life growing up in the USSR a while back.
He moved to USA and became a libertarian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwNi4iWDgM8
watch at like 1.5x or 2x speed for time
Here's a 24 part series on Cold War where they interview a ton of top people like several US presidents, Gorbachev, Castro, Kruschev's son, top KGB and CIA guys, Kissinger, Brzezinski & other top US officials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbRffPnNuc&list=PLsPmJnlcm_ThTlBUL7FBKwII_Wtdkl6sY
pic related is great new biography of Stalin based on primary sources from recently opened USSR archives including Stalin's personal archive not seen by previous biographers (only volume 1 of 3 is out so far)
>>80797
The thing is i started watching it earlier this year then it just vanished, i only got to part 3 or 4, i really need to find it even those were great and packed full of information
This is, IMO, the best Cold War documentary series out there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22KIQ1QNnhE&list=PL8hNHC9nbLlzb4miGp5pZPYCk9Zw0dGke
It is a 24 part series narrated by Kenneth Branagh.
here's a military pic from east germany
>>80547
>also general cold war thread
why do the americans can't admit that they lost in vietnam?
>>81571
Because American civilians weren't affected the outcome in the slightest. Sure, the defeat was devastating on a personal level for the men who fought, but for the vast majority of Americans, the "defeat" was nothing.
>>80593
Radios, TV, furniture, kitchens, stoves, fridges, etc.
Pretty small apmnts tho.
>>81571
they won the battles, they forced the NV to the tables because Giap got blown the fuck out during the Tet offensive, they just bowed to public pressure and left the SV to be fucked while the NV rebuilt their army so they could come back three years later and reunify.
Political loss, military victory.
>>80593
>>85210
It looks like higher quality ikea furniture
Not about the Soviet Union in general, but I saw a pretty solid documentary series a little while ago about the history of Russian military aviation. I think it was called "Wings of Russia", I watched it on youtube.
>>84994
Hahahahahahahahaha
>>84994
kill ratios do not win wars. Controlling territory does and the US/South was never able to do that effectively. As soon as the soldiers went back to base the commies were back in the territories that were just sweeped. The fact that the Tet offensive could be set up and executed at all shows how impossible the situation was.
![78672[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/OQkCN9o.jpg "78672[1].jpg")
>>80593
It's not exactly the USSR, but here's a gigantic photo archive from Hungary, with working English language tag search:
http://www.fortepan.hu/?view=all&lang=en
I'd try stuff like
>blocks
>interior
>kitchen
>living room
>furniture
etc.
Mind that many of them are stock photos and propaganda materials, so naturally they show better conditions than what the average gommie citizen could expect. One thing that sucks about old photos in general is that people only took pictures of what they deemed very pretty or very important.
>>80547
>Are there any good documentaries on the soviet union?
Mutiny on the Storozhevoy 1975 Part 1 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYQEl9OxnqM
Mutiny on the Storozhevoy 1975 Part 2 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrXOF_PS8eg
Mutiny on the Storozhevoy 1975 Part 3 of 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdXh7N5nWwU
The Battle Of Chernobyl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elmVJE5M_mw
>>86349
>It looks like higher quality ikea furniture
Fun fact about Ikea. Their first cheap labor scandal involved commies. Ikea had some subcontracting done in east German prisons full of political prisoners.
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/16/ikea-regrets-forced-labour-germany
IS that Oleksandr Turchynov?
>>80593
common house hold in USSR ranged from republic to republic, from city to city.
Soviet Union was biggest country at the time with third largest population in the world. It had dozens of republics and about 200 ethnicities.
Couple pictures can't to it justice.
>>80593
>>80593
http://rus-img2.com/sovetskaya-kvartira
https://www.google.com/search?newwindow=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Alt%3Aofficial&biw=1440&bih=729&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0&oq=%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BA%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%B0&gs_l=img.12...0.0.0.27409.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.img..0.0.0.epDxDF9wn_k
>>87618
No, it's a romanian soldier from the revolution.
![1399474095-5241-turchinov[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ngRzyKQ.jpg "1399474095-5241-turchinov[1].jpg")
>>87618
No, THAT is Oleksandr Turchynov.
>>87655
Is that a lens in front of the tv?
>>88642
Yes. First TVs had screens so small you had to look at them through lenses.
>>88689
That's kinda awesome
I've never seen a truly neutral one Op, almost all are either very pro or very against the ussr
>>80574
Find me an ak /without/ a pistol grip and i will personally agree with you
>>80810
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBbRffPnNuc&list=PLsPmJnlcm_ThTlBUL7FBKwII_Wtdkl6sY
wow, is that the narrator from Walking with Dinosaurs?
