What If The Soviet Union Never Collapsed?

Check out today's epic new video that asks the question "What if the Soviet Union never fell? " How different would the world be today? Watch right now to find out!

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[TetsuShima]

*Fun fact:* There are actually a ton of works of fiction (many of them made before the collapse of the communist regimes) in which the Soviet Union is still alive and important in a futuristic world. The 1968 dystopian science-fiction novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheeps?" (set in 2019) and the 1987 cyberpunk anime "Bubblegum Crisis" (set in 2032) serve as great examples of such works

[t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna]

“Trust takes years to build seconds to break and forever to repair”
that’s an amazing quote right there 😊

[diversejoe]

"I want affordable healthcare"

USA: *So you have chosen, the electric chair*

[landenwarren]

Infographics should do a video on “What would North America look like if settlers never came and wiped out the Native Americans?” 🙏🏻

[tyvulpintaur]

The pilot episode of the show “Sliders” had them travel to a a world where the Domino Theory had happened in favor of the USSR and the US’s economy shrank until it collapsed and the Soviets conquered.

[Warshuk]

" Trust takes years to build, seconds to breaks and forever to repair"
That's an amazing quote right there 🥰.

[s.m]

"You can't HEAR pictures!"
The thumbnail:

[ichoboi]

This would be one of the most epic comebacks in human history!

[TetsuShima]

The rise of the Soviet Union was brillantly portrayed in the 1974 mini-series "Fall of Eagles". Aside from depicting the decline and fall of the Russian, Austro-Hungarian, and German empires from the mid-19th Century to the end of WW1, it also tells the story of Lenin (played here by the legendary Patrick Stewart) from his youth to his rise to power. The series ends with the emperors overthrown and plunged into misery (Charles I and Wilhem II exiled for the rest of their life and Nicholas II and his family horribly executed) while Lenin is triumphantly received in Moscow, achieving what the imperial eagles could not: become eternal.

[MrMirville]

That's wishful thinking : Soviet Russia after a military would have followed China and experienced the same ascending path while the West would have fallen even deeper than in our time line.

[levity]

Imagine wanting affordable healthcare and a decent living wage being seen as communism

[aymanehomrani]

what if earth's resources increased by 15%?

[nigel_saxon]

If the Soviet union never fell we'd get the events from "My friend has been living in an alternate reality for seven years"

[ridbensdale]

That was superb. Please make more ‘what if?’ videos like this.

[zollen]

It would mean Putin would have never become the ruler of the USSR, he was just an unknown colonel. USSR would have handled any potential nuclear standoff way more responsible than Putin. Discontent would still have existed among the satellite states, but Moscow would have closely monitored the economic development of china and attempted to learn from them. The USSR style communisms would have morphed into something else, perhaps a hybrid system ruled by the old guards.

[AWGragg]

If anyone is interested in playing an indie, retro style game which has graphics and animation that looks similar to the Infographics Show's it's called The Final Station and it's really cool. It also has some great DLC for like $5, unless you just buy a deluxe edition that includes it. It's a very cheap game but very cool and atmospheric...has a somewhat post apocalyptic setting but because of an alien invasion, not nukes or whatever. Highly recommended if you like the retro style of gaming. Oh and I know it's on the Xbox and most likely the PlayStation also, maybe even the Nintendo Switch but I'm not sure. 🕹

[jds]

There never would have been an internet in the soviet union to cut off from the west or for vpns to help get some information out. The internet developed a half a decade after the soviet union collapsed. The minor networks that existed before that were more of a primitive chat/messaging network and or a reference library connecting some universities together.

[MrPoint]

Man ADHD got me on a trip with this video. I've done so much and had so many different jobs watching this hahaha my brain just logs off for a sec and then I'm off somewhere else hahaha

[evanderpierznik]

Alternate history will always be more interesting 😂

[Curlywhrly]

They took sharing is caring to a whole nother level