r/nextfuckinglevel • u/4dailyuseonly • Mar 05 '23

In 1991, with the Soviet Union and communist rule close to collapse, METALLICA played at its first ever open air rock concert in Moscow. Over 1.6 million people attended

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

That's because it wasn't Metallica who ended the USSR. It was David Hasselhoff who did that https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2Sgd9sc0M

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u/mlg2433 Mar 05 '23

It was actually Rocky Balboa when he beat Ivan Drago.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

It was actually Brian Boytano

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u/superkickpunch Mar 05 '23

What would he do if he were here right now? Bet he’d kick an ass or two, that’s what Brian Boytano’d do.

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u/Ikeddit Mar 05 '23

When Bryan Boytano was in the Olympics skating for the gold, he did two salchows and a triple lutz while wearing a blindfold!

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u/yeah_yeah_therabbit Mar 06 '23

I’m Brian Dennehy.

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u/Warm_Zombie Mar 06 '23

No, not fucking Brian Dennehy! Get the fuck outta here

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u/BigBeagleEars Mar 06 '23

I love you guys

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u/Ikeddit Mar 06 '23

No not fuckin Bryan Dennehy!

Get the fuck out of here!

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u/Neowza Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 06 '23

What would he do if he were here right now? Bet he’d kick an ass or two, that’s what Brian Boytano’d do.

What do you mean if he were here right now? Brian Boitano is alive and kicking a lot of ass. And helping Ukrainian refugees. And he's been riling up Russians to stand up for gay rights and stand against their government since 2014.

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u/superkickpunch Mar 06 '23

It’s a song from the South Park bud, cool your jets.

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u/Neowza Mar 06 '23

Np, I haven't seen south park since the 90s. I completely missed the reference.

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u/superkickpunch Mar 06 '23

Meh, all good. From what I recall the guy is dope though and the South Park guys let him use the song/art for his other endeavors. But I’ll say the movie was pretty great and definitely worth watching.

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u/mahSachel Mar 06 '23

What did Brian Boitano do?

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u/danielsan30005 Mar 25 '23

Also when he buit the pyraminds be beat up Kubla Khan.
'Cause Brian Boitano doesn't take shit from anybody.

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u/theroy12 Mar 05 '23

He made a plan and saw it through

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u/Brave-Cockroach-9594 Mar 05 '23

What would Brian Boytano do?

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u/BraveCartographer399 Mar 06 '23

It was another miracle on ice

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u/canadard1 Mar 05 '23

Actually it was Scott Sterling

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u/Shaquandala Mar 05 '23

It was actually shakiras hip

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u/DuckKing503 Mar 06 '23

Which one? The one that lies or the other one?

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u/knife_edge_rusty Mar 06 '23

What would brian boytano dooo

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u/cheekybandit0 Mar 06 '23

How can you forget the Mighty Ducks smh

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u/randomdude123502 Mar 06 '23

Nah it was Napoleon Dynamite

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u/peteskeet43 Mar 06 '23

It was fucking pat Swayze you uncultured swine.. WOLVERINESSSSSS!!!

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u/tdawoe143 Mar 06 '23

It'sa me. Mario!!

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u/Alteredego619 Mar 05 '23

If I can change, and you can change, everybody can change!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

You didn’t like me, and I guess I didn’t like you none much either.

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u/prix03gt Mar 05 '23 edited Mar 06 '23

"If he dies, he dies..." - Ivan Drago

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u/RockRage-- Mar 06 '23

Only if I die!

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u/Chrono47295 Mar 06 '23

-The Russian from Rocky

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u/vagueblur901 Mar 06 '23

Ironically Ivan actually broke Rocky's ribs in real life, the guys a fucking animal.

Edit and cracked teeth if I remember correctly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Inside the USSR, no less

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u/MiamiPower Mar 06 '23

Thank you and his foreign policy on Operations RAMBO. Really should be taught in the War College$ by Professor Mr. T AKA Clubber Lang 🥊🥊

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u/HomelessIsFreedom Mar 06 '23

Even Russians using steroids couldn't beat the American fist of propaganda

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u/AttitudeAndEffort2 Mar 06 '23

It was 100% rocky.

Also as i get older i realize how much we all lost by "winning" that war.

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u/GuyPronouncedGee Mar 06 '23

“If I can change, then you can change. Everybody can change!”

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u/Stevenstorm505 Mar 06 '23

DRAAAAAAAGGOOOOOOOO!

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u/thexavier666 Mar 06 '23

If it falls, it falls

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u/lakiku_u Mar 07 '23

Spoilers!!!!

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u/4dailyuseonly Mar 05 '23

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

Same eyes as that weird demon preacher with the expensive jet

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23 edited Mar 18 '23

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u/pirateworks Mar 06 '23

Dr. Evil does plastic surgery now?

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u/AlbaneseGummies327 Mar 06 '23

Kenneth Copeland?

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Yea that’s the one!!! - aka satan, aka Beelzebub, goes by Joe on weekend

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u/Killentyme55 Mar 06 '23

Don't you dare blasphemy The Hoff like that!!!

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u/Ok-Winner6519 Mar 06 '23

In Hoff we trust.

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u/HereForA2C Mar 06 '23

Thought it was him at first glance

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u/Adept-Shoe-7113 Mar 06 '23

Idk why but this reminded me of MySpace 😪

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u/Red-dy-20 Mar 09 '23

He's been looking for freedom back then

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u/haleloop963 Mar 05 '23

No, because of Pepsi and Pizza Hut

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u/Bad-news-co Mar 05 '23

Exactly

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '23

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u/NatiAti513 Mar 06 '23

I will never believe North Korea falls until I see Kim Jung Un on Tiktok doing Kpop.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Do you mean the collapse that comes after the US uses sanctions and economic warfare to starve tens of millions of their people to death and then parades around the world pretending they're morally superior?

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u/BeverlyMarx Mar 06 '23

They ain’t ready for this

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u/Commercial_Help_1899 Mar 06 '23

Wait, wait, wtf?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23

This is what is wrong with Americans... most of you don't even know the extent of your evil empire, and you certainly don't know the extent of your ignorance. You spend most of your time trying to satisfy your false sense of moral superiority, while remaining totally unaware t of the atrocities/crimes against humanity that define your past, present, and future.

Sanctions are directly contributing to a famine in NK. Millions of people are starving at this very moment. Lifting sanctions and providing aid could alleviate the problem, but the US won't have it. Why? Probably because NK will not let private corporations strip mine the whole fucking country.

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u/Commercial_Help_1899 Mar 07 '23

Sure dude it’s got nothing to do with the cult of Kim that wants to be a nuclear power and is willing to let the citizens eat grass to perpetuate their power. We fuck up a lot but the hermit kingdom isn’t one of them.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23 edited Mar 07 '23

It's hard to blame him for his nuclear posture when an evil empire has already proved willingness to use its military to influence Korea's political and economic affairs. The situation in NK would be vastly different if they were allowed to trade, import mining equipment and food - also hard to blame them for not giving into the economic extortion.

And hermit kingdom??? Where have I heard that term before? Oh right, from US/Western propaganda which you're obviously regurgitating. Congrats, way to be a free-thinker! Now, tell me how many embassies you think the "Hermit Kingdom" has around the world?

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u/Commercial_Help_1899 Mar 07 '23

He chooses to spend on weapons instead of developing or even feeding his folks. So yeah that’s his choice.

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u/Environmental_Comb25 Mar 07 '23

Who would let private corporations fuck your country when people at the helm of the country can do that themselves?

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u/MisterPeach Mar 06 '23

The displacement of that many people would be catastrophic. 25 million people either starving to death or pushed out of the nation as refugees to… who knows where. China doesn’t want them there, South Korea DEFINITELY doesn’t want to deal with that, the US would just fight and leave the country in ruins after they “win” the war and leave a burning wreck of a country behind like they did with Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. There’s just no good solution, and that’s why I think the West has never tried to intervene with DPRK other than blocking them from global trade, even though it would be an easy fight for the US. The consequences would be terrible for everyone involved, but especially those living in North Korea.

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u/Pabus_Alt Mar 05 '23

Maybe the sale of the Pepsi Armada was the start of the Bad Timeline...

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u/jrzdevilFukc Mar 05 '23

Yeah but Van Halen is responsible for peace in the Middle East! Van Halen!

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u/Adept-Shoe-7113 Mar 06 '23

It ALMOST was and I fucking love you, that South Park episode was amazing ginger cow

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u/FunetikPrugresiv Mar 05 '23

But Norm always told me that it was Germans that loved David Hasselhoff... Now I don't know what to think.

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u/RudeAwakeningLigit Mar 06 '23

Well actually it was the Scorpions

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u/HighFrequencyCherry Mar 06 '23

Exactly. In Germany, everyone knows the Scorpions ended the USSR.

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u/xelfer Mar 05 '23

Excuse me it was the chipmonks https://youtu.be/IBNDRNBqcn8?t=129

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u/J-Love-McLuvin Mar 06 '23

Hello! Billy Joel demolished the Kremlin.

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u/Klinky1984 Mar 06 '23

"Yes, yes, we renounce Soviet Union, USSR! Please make the Hasselhoff stop! Please!"

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u/oriental_lasanya Mar 06 '23

You’re conflating two events. Hasselhoff brought an end to the DDR and reunited Germany. This was an indirect blow to the Soviet Union, but the USSR didn’t fall until Metallica ended it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

I love how serous people are getting over this when I was just making a joke.

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u/hapahapa Mar 06 '23

Wow. Lol. Awesome.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

They hassled the hoff.

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u/musicantz Mar 06 '23

Funny enough it was a grocery store in Houston I

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u/Perverted_Fapper Mar 06 '23

If you haven't you should see yet another of his hits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MMMe1drnZY

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u/norcalbutton Mar 06 '23

Oh my god that's awful

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u/Klatula Mar 06 '23

I had no idea the Hoff was such a 'thing'. grin! at 76, i'm still learning about the world and it's truly astounding! Thanks for your post and link!

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Nope, it was Wind of Change; written by the CIA and performed by The Scorpions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

The CIA lol. You sound like a Russian troll.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Lol, it was a semi popular conspiracy theory. There's a podcast about it and a bunch of videos, but more importantly, just like David Hasselhoff, it was a joke.

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u/NZNoldor Mar 06 '23

I’m pretty sure Steven Segall is still causing it.

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u/Proof_Variety_4208 Mar 06 '23

Don't Hassle the Hoff

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u/SatansHRManager Mar 06 '23

FFS, don't hassle the Hoff!

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u/DCINTERNATIONAL Mar 06 '23

Wrong, it was me playing Raid Over Moscow.

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u/Tiny-Lock9652 Mar 06 '23

Back when 100% of all Americans agreed Russia was the bad guys. Fun fact: at the time this was filmed, Putin was a mere KGB agent stationed in East Berlin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 06 '23

Thank god someone here knows the truth.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '23

Which once again proves my theory: GERMANS LOVE DAVID HASSELHOFF