Topic: Russia

[patentlymn]

I am back to watching video blogger content from Russia. I have watched Bald and Bankrupt before, also Eli from Russia, maybe Britanica guy. Now this Brit Jonny Tickle is much more concise. 

Moscow compared to rest of Russia.

https://youtu.be/ev5NbuO1f7k
Moscow is NOT Russia 15 min

Jonny Tickle
24.9K subscribers

19,672 views  Feb 13, 2019
I’m stood today in Red Square, the Russian symbol, to talk about a topic which comes up so often here. If you ever find yourself with a Russian not from Moscow, and you tell them you visited Russia because you visited the capital, you’re guaranteed to hear one thing - “Moscow is NOT Russia.” This is even a common comment on my youtube videos from provincial Russians who think I have never left Moscow, even though it’s not true.   Why do many Russians believe Moscow, and to a certain extend St Petersburg, is not Russia?

https://youtu.be/sUzcVRC4tK8
THIRD CLASS ON A RUSSIAN TRAIN 4 min

Jonny Tickle
7,229 views Dec 9, 2019
Over my last few transiberian train videos, many of you have asked to see the inside of Russian Trains, so over the next 3 days I’m gonna show you a few clips from inside 3rd, 2nd and 1st class cabins over three different videos. In this video I’m gonna talk you through third class. Let’s take a look!

https://youtu.be/-QgaD3yWl0E
2ND CLASS ON A RUSSIAN TRAIN 3 min

https://youtu.be/KFoAYGkr8MY
FIRST CLASS ON THE TRANS-SIBERIAN 4 min

https://youtu.be/3vDCNzEN3Sw
An Englishman in Khabarovsk

Jonny Tickle
I plan to visit every single oblast, krai and republic in Russia before I leave.

This is number 19: The city of Khabarovsk in Khabarovsk Krai

Today I’m in the city of Khabarovsk. Khabarovsk is the capital of Khabarovsk Krai and is only 30km from China. Khabarovsk is the largest city in the Far East with over 600k people and is the 26th biggest city in Russia.

[Libertas]

Heh, people everywhere resent being dismissed as fly-over country or assumed to be less in any way to big city snobs... 

As for those two cities...if I was forced to choose I would much rather visit St. Petersburg over Moscow...heck, Vladivostok would be better than Moscow IMO...

But I am not going anywhere...

As for trains, 1st class or nothing...

Unless it's Amtrak in which case nothing is a smart option...

[patentlymn]

Heh, people everywhere resent being dismissed as fly-over country or assumed to be less in any way to big city snobs... 

As for those two cities...if I was forced to choose I would much rather visit St. Petersburg over Moscow...heck, Vladivostok would be better than Moscow IMO...

But I am not going anywhere...

As for trains, 1st class or nothing...

Unless it's Amtrak in which case nothing is a smart option...

This is interesting. The criticisms of Moscow are not all true. Amusing. Also, earlier migrants to Moscow look down on more recent arrivals from the same place. Moscow is a nice city from the videos I have seen.
https://youtu.be/19qwCQWOyn0
 The Most HATED City in Russia
Setarko
54.7K subscribers
111,204 views  Jan 4, 2023
There is a common pattern in many European (and not only European) countries - residents of other cities do not like the residents of the capital. And vise versa. The same thing can be found in Russia. Muscovites are considered lazy, arrogant and annoying. But, most importantly, most people outside of Moscow think that our capital lives at their expense. That all the taxes from Russia are collected in Moscow and then are spent on its improvement. Meanwhile, the rest of Russia is drowning in poverty. Let's discuss this problem today - Is Moscow robbing Russia? Or Russia is just an over-centralized country?

[patentlymn]

IMO the short video on Moldova at the end is worth watching. In short, under USSR it was a well kept place. Now it has been looted. That happened to Russia under Yeltsin also. Then Bald goes to the Tranistyria. I found  some more videos, some from others so I may revisit Moldova soon and post. Some video titles dispute Bald's conclusions.

I obtained most of my information on the Ukraine war early through telegram posts.
Especially Mariupol video clips. It is possible they are CGI or actors but the sources are too diverse and I believe them more than any govt. Civilians and army on all sides like to post on social media and it tells something about themselves.

I also believe what I see and hear on many video blogs. I watched Bald and Bankrupt and noticed that sometimes people would say that life was better under USSR. I thought this was crazy, as I 'knew' better. I have never set foot in Russia.

Recently came across some polls or referendums where people wanted to remain in the USSR, but I noticed this was not the result. I just scratched my head. Those people who voted that way may have right?

I came across this long doc from Australia I think. 1984 USSR. It seems real hokey but real. Something good has been lost. I think they reclaimed some of that without the bad. Some of this sounds like propaganda but I notice what they ere pushing. Workers.

https://youtu.be/Hlb-HwxUxSU
 The Human Face of Russia (1984) - society and everyday life in 1980s USSR
Bits of History
13.7K subscribers
479,691 views  Mar 12, 2022  #1980s #Soviet_Union #history
1984 documentary on the USSR.
Produced by Film Australia.

https://youtu.be/wnDxHTaeNX0
Nobody Visits This Country...Find Out Why 16 min
bald and bankrupt
3.85M subscribers
11,404,421 views  Apr 11, 2019
🇲🇩 Moldova is the least visited country in Europe. And so I came to its capital city Kishinev to see why...It did not take long to find the answer. Years of theft and corruption by politicians has left the locals of the country tripping up on broken pavements and walking past abandoned buildings on their way to collect their 40 Euro pensions.

The parts he showed seem orderly? He did not show much inside in Moldova outside this region?
https://youtu.be/5kVnrqBb6y4
This Country Does Not Exist! | Transnistria

[Libertas]

Yes...so much to miss about the USSR...little/bad food, presumed guilty always, no gun ownership, free train rides to Siberia, pogroms and millions executed...

Ahh, the good 'ol days...

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[patentlymn]

Yes...so much to miss about the USSR...little/bad food, presumed guilty always, no gun ownership, free train rides to Siberia, pogroms and millions executed...

Ahh, the good 'ol days...

/

I know all that and a lot more bad stuff, so I was surprised to hear people tell bald they missed the USSR. Recently I saw that Australian doc and then the Bald Moldovan trip. I listened to the old guys talk abut how things had gotten worse since the USSR fell, unless you were rich.

In the USSR theoretically everything belonged to the people, but controlled by the govt. After the collapse somehow almost everything belonged to some oligarchs thanks to the drunk Yeltsin, whom the US helped into office and the west loved. Being looted by the likes of Blackrock, Cargill,  and Soros isn't all that great, even if the corporate press calls it "Democracy" and "Freedom."

[patentlymn]

My opinions are just opinions, not God's truth revealed through me.
If think and say that X happened that is separate from the opinion as to whether that was morally right or wrong and the  opinions as to whether that advanced American interests.

I think that US policy makers look on the world like a board game and the goal is to weaken other countries that are getting too strong in their areas. There are other goals. One way is to exploit existing disputes or grievances by funding them, arming them, perhaps getting involved militarily. IMO US funded NAZIs in Poland and Ukraine 1946-1953 to weaken USSR. 400K dead on all sides. IMO Turkey and UAE(?) started the Syrian civil war and the US piled on a year later with money and arms. US funding went from a conspiracy theory, to funding 'moderate rebels', to a CIA complaint that they had to spend too much of their budget.  I think the US funded the Chechen wars to weaken Russia.

IMO Russia wanted to get along with the west, even join NATO,  but that would lessen the reason for NATO to exist.

The 'geniuses' in DC knew that if Kiev attacked the Donbass Russia would go to war. They believed  that the resulting sanctions would destroy the Russian economy, causing regime change, allowing US and other globalists to strip Russia bare as they started to do in the 1990s. The US wanted the war and acted to make it happen. It did not go according to plan. Russia did a pre-emptive strike and their economy did fine. Soros wrote a 2013 paper proposing using US tech with eastern European manpower to reduce NATO body bags. Here we are.

I watch some videos like I read cases studies in anthropology class long ago. Recently this doc about the human face of USSR. Hmmm. They give pride of place to 'workers.' The material wealth or lack of it is on display in the video. BTW the communal living places (shared kitchens and bathrooms) still exist in St. Petersburg as a cheap place to live.

I watched the  bald and bankrupt video from Moldova. Bald talked to locals who told him things were much better under USSR, unless you were rich. The WEF "young leader" program is well known now. There are other similar programs. The president of Moldova was in one, and went to university in US as I recall. IMO She sold out her country. US would  love to start a civil war there over Transnistria.

What surprised me was how willing the EU leaders were to sell out their citizens to US interests. IF there was a Ukraine war THEN there would be millions of refugees. Therefore, implement Minsk accords to prevent the war. IF Germany stops using Russian nat gas THEN their economy would be destroyed. Therefore don't do that. Germany used to sell lots of stuff, like BMWs, to Russia. Not any more. Now China does. Newer taxis in Moscow are Chinese.

[Libertas]

Easy to be Czar for life when no opposition is ever allowed to reach a threatening level...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-seek-re-election-2024-5th-term-reuters

...the model the DemoNazis here have fully embraced...and the Cucks have allowed...

[Syzygy]

Easy to be Czar for life when no opposition is ever allowed to reach a threatening level...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-seek-re-election-2024-5th-term-reuters

...the model the DemoNazis here have fully embraced...and the Cucks have allowed...

I'm sure Pat is very pleased with this.  Just like "the good ol' days" in the USSR.   

[Libertas]

Easy to be Czar for life when no opposition is ever allowed to reach a threatening level...

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-seek-re-election-2024-5th-term-reuters

...the model the DemoNazis here have fully embraced...and the Cucks have allowed...

I'm sure Pat is very pleased with this.  Just like "the good ol' days" in the USSR.   

Many will be.  I've never denied Putin is popular among many Russians and admired by many foreigners...I just bristle at any difference between their elite overlords and ours or anybody's for they are the norm not the exception...and suppressing political opposition is not a hallmark of ethical or moral government and certainly not a hallmark of a legitimate electoral system.

As for foreign admirers go not many go ex pat to Russia...

[Libertas]

In others news...

Russia exiting the 1990 Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty has resulted in NATO announcing they will kick it aside on December 7th.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/landmark-treaty-conventional-armed-forces-europe-collapses-after-russia-then-nato

Another pretty gift to NATO to keep their band together.

[patentlymn]

From your link above another story

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/netanyahu-rejects-biden-request-3-day-pause-gaza-war-idf-tightens-noose

[Libertas]

"Is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better? I think you know the answer,"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/end-western-dominance-and-rise-polycentric-world-lavrov-declares-doha-forum

Change "US" to "Russia" and ask some folks...

That fragile Rus ego never deviates...Rus are exactly like NeoCons/Startists/Globalists...incapable of ever admitting error in anything.

Whatever...let us see how well your polycentric world thrives, avoids conflict and makes all equally happy...   

But one thing is certain...they'll never let go of their bogeyman...which ironically and not surprisingly feeds their bogeyman to return the favor...

[patentlymn]

"Is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better? I think you know the answer,"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/end-western-dominance-and-rise-polycentric-world-lavrov-declares-doha-forum

Change "US" to "Russia" and ask some folks...

That fragile Rus ego never deviates...Rus are exactly like NeoCons/Startists/Globalists...incapable of ever admitting error in anything.

Whatever...let us see how well your polycentric world thrives, avoids conflict and makes all equally happy...   

But one thing is certain...they'll never let go of their bogeyman...which ironically and not surprisingly feeds their bogeyman to return the favor...

I recall 7 regime changes planned in 5 years. Did any of them make the place better? I recall the "Grand Chessboard" and similar US strategies were to harm other countries to make the US relatively stronger, not to make any better.

[Libertas]

"Is there a single place where the US intervened with military force, where life has become better? I think you know the answer,"

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/end-western-dominance-and-rise-polycentric-world-lavrov-declares-doha-forum

Change "US" to "Russia" and ask some folks...

That fragile Rus ego never deviates...Rus are exactly like NeoCons/Startists/Globalists...incapable of ever admitting error in anything.

Whatever...let us see how well your polycentric world thrives, avoids conflict and makes all equally happy...   

But one thing is certain...they'll never let go of their bogeyman...which ironically and not surprisingly feeds their bogeyman to return the favor...

I recall 7 regime changes planned in 5 years. Did any of them make the place better? I recall the "Grand Chessboard" and similar US strategies were to harm other countries to make the US relatively stronger, not to make any better.

Not defending Zbigniew Brzezinski or his schemes...but would he have even been relevant if not for the Fascist & Communist rape, pillage and slaughter in Poland in WWII and his fortunate escape to the West?

Ironically, his birthplace of Berezhany in modern day Ukraine but then under Polish rule following long Habsburg domination...the region was predominately Western Ukrainian/Ruthenian peasants and in Habsburg times the Poles were their middlemen administrators...his birthplace was probably less than 40 miles away from my paternal Ruthenian ancestral home...his escape from the area was a little more comfortable and easy than my ancestor's egress...

[Libertas]

Hilarious...

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/12/25/president-alexander-lukashenko-states-russian-tactical-nuclear-weapons-now-staged-in-belarus/

Russian nukes in Belarus give Lukashenko a (middle) leg tingle...when in fact he is the new West German pawn in this new era of cold war conflict...

What an idiot.

Well, whatever...

[patentlymn]

Agent Nesty she is cute and funny. BTW there were low level hoodlums in Russia that wore Adidas track suits,, squatted,  and stole from people.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sOyExKt879s?feature=share

Another cute one

https://youtu.be/Z8V_iPcVuKs

https://youtu.be/iNaEaqr8Owc

[Libertas]

Must be stuck in the Northern latitudes...girl is damn near pale.

[patentlymn]

Yeah. Many Russian girls do not get much sun. Here is a fan slide show of Alina Gingertail. Very pale. Lives in Khabarovsk on Amur River north of Vladivostok. Not a natural redhead btw.
https://youtu.be/OHOvVXev-WE

reminds me of a fan convention in which red head  Felicia day was on a panel and some (rude) person asked if the the carpet matched the drapes. she did not understand so her fellow panelist whispered to  her. she was very shocked embarrassed and pissed.

Here is who she is. She was ut austin valedictorian in violin and math and a big gamer. cute video.

https://youtu.be/xMrN3Rh55uM

[patentlymn]

i found the clip
https://youtu.be/GbFjePdOpK8