What was television like in the Soviet Union?

HOCH HECH!

Soviet slapstick is genuinely great.

youtu.be/F68bbzOOOdY?t=160

youtube.com/watch?v=qbar3nsf0_U

Basically this I think

Most of it was documentaries about important people to the Socialist movement like Thalmann and Lenin but occasionally they showed more fun stuff like Frank Schobel.

youtube.com/watch?v=jk1tHxfdJrA

There actually were adverts in TV in Soviet Union, they were all made in Estonia.

Link?

Russianwave
A E S T H E T IC

youtube.com/watch?v=oavMtUWDBTM

youtube.com/watch?v=sqdiEUp6s4E&list=FLO6V3yO0mNVAvSekQUtV7ww&index=141

youtube.com/watch?v=BPsRX7m6CX4

>Also a handful of high quality dramas

You mean Latin American telenovelas.

I don't know, but here's what Soviet arcades were like:
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-alternate-universe-of-soviet-arcade-games.amp

I really like it, and I had to watch spongebob as a kid.

I like that

I was born in Comunist romania,and the TV was full of enjoyable shows,mostly comedies,the west are saying that the single thing you could watch is propaganda,wich was pretty hard to find on tv.

Brazilian telenovelas>Mexican telenovelas.

Those are just like every other south american telenovela but with more bunda.

This is better than anything on tv today tbqh.

Thanks for proving me right.

bland and god awful

The soviets brought out some pretty good films back then desu. As an average citizen in a city the soviet union was not as bad as many assume.
I personally really like the commieblocks and barebones infrastructure built around efficiency.

youtube.com/watch?v=z2_dhUv_CrI

Ikr commie block give me a hard on they look very comfy

What the hell was that?

This is cute, shame the US never translated and broadcast it

>not having a morning wank in 1987 USSR to Russian gymnasts working out to 80s synth.

youtube.com/watch?v=Hdh0ekN4Y50

You are now aware that there was a Soviet film adaptation of The Hobbit, and it is on YouTube.

youtube.com/watch?v=6m0l3Yr1B50

Pic related, it's Gandalf.

No subtitles, but even if you don't speak any Russian it's worth clicking through. The costumes are pretty goofy but the backdrops are honestly amazing.

Visit one and you'll change your mind pretty quick, Amerikansky.

>implying

Better than you might imagine, actually.

Source: Polish People's Republic (1946-1989)

Information like this is why I stay on Veeky Forums.

10/10 thread....well done Veeky Forums

That Gollum is hilarious

>No subtitles
>"subtitles now!" in the description

nvm just realized those are russian subtitles.

wow I still play this unironically in my car sometimes

>Miner
>Barely working
Don't pull shit out of your ass.

link relateds are just a few of cartoons and movies from late ussr times I will never ever forget. hope someone will enjoy
t. soviet

youtu.be/a50qT9bW2Qo
youtu.be/wh6lxMpffCo
youtu.be/TZTjr-DN9xY
youtu.be/wh2DQYTZxXo
youtu.be/cHeRDRAxowQ
youtu.be/YlFbhOsl7ro
youtu.be/kKeLTp9bw6s
youtu.be/B-iVfLX2tvY

ballet, theater plays, concerts, soviet cartoons, various made for tv series, documentaries, nature and travel programmes

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing

>This video contains content from UMG, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.
How the fuck?

Typical fucking western retard.

>oh look mum all these slums in Uganda look so cozy and comfy I wish I lived in Africa getting caressed by tse tse flies and falling asleep to the soothing sound of gunfire

TV was one positive thing about Eastern commies.
They despised trash Western trends, emphasis was put on high culture and education. In many ways communist societies of EE were a lot more conservative than Western capitalist countries.
I enjoyed watching old Yugoslav TV, can't find it now but Serbian national TV played the archives year ago or something like that.

Commieblocks are comfy you shithead, he wasn't wrong.

No they aren't, they're poorly insulated concrete prefab cancerous rabbit cages where you can hear your neighbors taking a dump while you're eating breakfast. You would know if you lived in both a normal house and a commieblock as I did.

Oh and you had "kitsch and schund tax" in Yugoslavia.
What really fucked some Eastern European countries in cultural and social sense was not communism but getting off communism.
Not saying it was a good system at all but the way communism was scrapped for neoliberalism was quite idiotic.

I literally live in a commieblock, albeit a bit modern and more stylish one, built in early 80's. You need to state which country are you from because here in former Yugoslavia commieblocks were built better than most of modern apartment buildings, even if they are ugly.

Grew up in commie Czechoslovakia.

>I literally live in a commieblock
Out of sheer curiosity, have you ever lived in something else than a commieblock? Just wondering whether you can actually compare it to housing for human beings.

Yes, I have a house in the suburbs and I lived there. Didn't really like it. I now live in a 70 m2 apartment. Commieblocks are paradoxically more "private" than suburbs.
Maybe your commieblocks in Czechland are awful, wouldn't know m8.

Top-kino/satire of the Soviet Union and the man it produced, though it was made in 1989.

youtube.com/watch?v=whHySar4EoY
youtube.com/watch?v=2usMQPheilU

I dunno man I've been inside some commie blocks in Zagreb and they weren't pretty.

This desu.

>Commieblocks are paradoxically more "private" than suburbs.
What makes you say that?

My Aunt grew up in post-WW2 USSR. She never had a tv and did not see one until she went to university. She actually has a lot of interesting stories.

...auto translate with captions? Like, does youtube not work for you?

That's the projects cuz.....

yo this was aired/produced after communism

don't be retarded

Not him, but neighbors always get all up in your business.
The whole neighborhood is gonna know, who you fucked, when you fucked, where you fucked.

Dense high population centers are mostly anonymous. Everyone stays out of everyone's hair. Most people even go out of their way to not say hello to their neighbors.

Small villages on the other hand...wew.

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Haha one of those is my post

Isn't this the same thing that /pol/ does with other boards, except less subtle and more shitposting?

yes

Oh Parasite, you wreck my sides and state!

The fact that you can hear your neighbors taking a dump makes you want to ignore their existence in every way still left open to you.

t. just moved out of a commieblock

When you think about it USSR was the true land of the American dream, where georgian peasants could become general secretary.

Honestly airing documentaries and culture related shit is a way better idea than those fucking Sweet 16 shows and similar unintentional bleach drinking advertisements.

Either this is a /pol/tard red-herring or modern communists are absolute shit at pushing their ideology to other communities.

As opposed to a commieblock where neighbors will actually hear you fucking.

This.

Avant-garde animation like that didn't become a thing until the 80's. In the USSR at least, can't speak for other communist states.

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these are really cool. Were you old enough to understand/appreciate the collapse of the USSR as it happened?

this might be the most fedora thread i've ever seen on Veeky Forums

how

Different guy but speaking of which, it wouldn't be too far off to say that local media played a significant role in spiraling the collapse of the union.

encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/chernukha

I grew up in a post-soviet state and my parents showed me a lot of good soviet movies and cartoons.
Does anyone else remember the movie where there's a teacher and a criminal who look identical, or the movie where a guy ends up in the same looking apartment block in a different city after partying on new years ( because most soviet apartment complexes were identical)
soviet movies and cartoons were comfy as fuck

>they're poorly insulated

I guess you've never lived in an Anglo country.

Well technically I live in America now, not sure if it counts as Anglo.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate

>the movie where a guy ends up in the same looking apartment block in a different city after partying on new years ( because most soviet apartment complexes were identical)
kek

would watch/10

it's a unoffical tradition in the soviet union to watch this movie every new years eve.
new years eve is also basically christmas , that's when you get your presents too
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irony_of_Fate
Growing up in a post-soviet state had a lot of benefits , didn't have to grow up in shitty socialism but experienced some parts of soviet culture.

I'm sure your next hour will be as exciting as your first

If it's state controlled TV, it's almost always great. State TV is an underappreciated form of culture reproduction, but anyone that has searched a bit more on film has seen that at least a quarter of great cinema is conserved in SATrips.

Yeah state TVs are always better. Commercial TV is such enormous cancer that even normies consider it degenerate.

you should watch belgian government tv if you think that...

Only thing I know about Soviet TV is Stirliz, but hell old commie shit is pretty entertaining.

>Tank crew and their loyal dog fighting their way to Berlin
>Spies pretending to be high-ranked SS members
>Quality as fuck children shows
>High quality movies, often with anti-system overtones
>Theatre plays
>Amazing cabaret performances, criticising communism behind a thin veil
>Informational broadcasts that would sometimes BTFO the opposition
>Mr. Jerzy Urban

As long as it isn't news. State entertainment is pretty decent though. It's basically a fascist circlejerk of promoting national culture and identity.