Soviet Conspiracy Theories - Cold War DOCUMENTARY

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  @martinstent5339 · 2 years ago

  One nice urban legend I heard in Moscow in the 1980s was about the foreign engineer who checked into a Moscow hotel. He had heard all about how the KGB was bugging every foreigner, so he started to look for microphones. He noticed a lump under the carpet. Rolling back the carpet he could see a small metal box. Getting his tools he opened the box and could see a hexagonal nut with 2 wires coming out of the top. He unscrewed the nut and then heard a crash in the room below. The chandelier had fallen to the floor.

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  @queenofdramatech · 2 years ago

  My parents spent a wonderful evening in the early 90's with our Czech friends sharing the lies our countries told us about each other. The one I remember was that Americans lived in log houses. Like log cabin style. My dad explained that our houses were wood, but not log cabin style. Years later when they came and we had some construction going on my dad showed them the wooden studs and said, "See, we do live in log houses!" Everyone laughed!

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• LU

  @lumpydark6173 · 2 years ago

  Necro-communists sounds like a faction to play in Stellaris lol

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• LE

  @lexeylaxandrych · 2 years ago

  Greetings from Ryazan! I lived in one of the houses where the sugar story happened—the red house, to be precise. I was born in 1998, so I don’t remember much, but my mother told me how my godmother went out into the street with me during the evacuation. I love your channel and thank you for the wonderful videos :-)

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  @vonPeterhof · 2 years ago (edited)

  One interesting series of Russian conspiracy theories that people outside former Soviet states hardly ever hear of is the idea that the sale of Alaska to the US was rigged or otherwise illegitimate. The most widely known variant of this theory is that the sale was originally intended to be a 100-year lease similar to the Hong Kong deal between the UK and Qing China, but Catherine the Great (who, by the way, had been dead for 60 years by the time of the sale), not being a native speaker of Russian (and yet personally authoring contracts for some reason), misspelled the phrase &quot;на век&quot; (for a century) as &quot;навек&quot; (forever). How popular is this theory? Well, in the early 90s Putin&apos;s supposed favorite band Lyube had a hit song based on this premise, and my own middle school history teacher, a Russian woman in Kazakhstan, presented it as fact. A more obscure version of the theory is that the sale was always intended to be a sale, but that Russia never actually received the gold payment due to the ship carrying it disappearing under varying mysterious circumstances.<br><br>As for the apartment bombings, it&apos;s been curious to watch the theory transform from being essentially the equivalent of 9/11 trutherism among even the most vehement opponents of Putin to becoming something close to a mainstream belief among the anti-Putin crowd in the past couple of years.

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• HR

  @hrolfthestrange · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s good to hear the USSR/ Russia has its own version of sovereign citizens

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• TA

  @Tannenberg_1914 · 2 years ago

  I love hearing about the Moscow Metro legends. There&apos;s quite a few of them in the Metro series, and Glukhovsky&apos;s opulent writing brings them so beautifully into the imagination. If anyone&apos;s looking for a dark psychological and political tale in a post apocalyptic world, I highly recommend metro

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  @PotatoRadius · 2 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcDHmSwHeus&amp;t=520">8:40</a> &quot;...a different well to hell...&quot; <br><br>That&apos;s it. A Well to Hell is the name of my next band.

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• ER

  @eruno_ · 2 years ago (edited)

  <b>New Chronology</b> is probably among most wild and crazy Soviet/Russian conspiracy theories. It also influenced Dugin.

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• DA

  @daniel.stasinski · 2 years ago

  Regarding the terror attacks that Putin blamed on Chechen separatist &amp; the explosives found in Ryazan; there is a book written by Alexander Litvinenko (yes, the same guy that was killed in London using polonium-210) and Yuri Felshtinsky, titled &quot;Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within. It&apos;s an interesting read that covers the Ryzan incident in detail.

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  @daveacbickford · 2 years ago

  One of your best Bell Button gags yet 😂

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  @dendostar5436 · 2 years ago

  This was fun. Except for the horrifying bits.

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