Hi, I’m still at the minute 25 of that video, thanks for linking it, very interesting.

Still, I already feel the need to make a remark, as I’ve said before my knowledge on Marxism is very very limited, but my partner in life is Soviet (by almost nothing, born right after the fall of the Berlin Wall) which gave me the opportunity to talk with her family about life on Soviet Union. And one thing that they have constantly underlined is that one has always to take into context, the fact that Russia was an really really huge underdeveloped country (and at the time even obviously bigger). Grandma, died around the first decade of 2000s, and lived through the prewar and postwar Stalin era, her moto was that if she was given another opportunity to live, she would choose not to. She was not a depressed person, life for her in USSR was simply an terrible burden she would prefer not to suffer again.

On the other hand, the Mother and the Father (an European emigrant who went to Moscow to study Marxism-Leninism), both from very modest families, don’t describe USSR as an tyrannical place at all, all of the contrary.

This guy is clearly very clever but I don’t think he has an realistic view on the life of USSR, from the late 60s until its unfortunate end.