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your premise that russia doesnt have much freedom of speech lays your whole video into a biased viewpoint before you even start. RT was russian and it was probably one of the most open and least controlled news channels out there.
@@ricardoxorge5157 If he is seriously the most "Anti-Russian"-Russian you have met it speaks volumes about how silenced and oppressed the Russian population is. I have Russian friends who are much harsher with their criticism of Russian people than Roman is. But much like Roman, they cannot express this in their home country.
I was told by a Russian friend about 20 years ago that Russia is lawless. IMO the only law in Russia is the law of gravity when you see how many people fall from 6th floor balconies
@@arathortizs28445 What a fucking galaxy brain it's not like every other person with a significant youtuber makes money 🙄 😒. Is this like the new insult for your average basement dweller on the site?
The only way to prevent wars is letting people state their opinions and talk about it. Its usally harder to blindly hate groups of people once you notice they are humans with ideas and wishes too.
To quote Ōscar Benavides, twice president of Peru: "To my friends, anything. To my enemies, the law." Pretty perfectly sums up the dictatorial mindset.
no. Actually this is a CIA state. Where do you think CIA agents went when USSR collapsed? packed their things up and left the territory? They are still in russia.
Roman makes valid points about the privileges of the elite. Indeed, in the past 3-4 months, both President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have referred to the "war" with Ukraine instead of "special military operation". Why haven't these 2 been arrested and sent to a Siberian prison?
I remember there was russian stand uper, who picked fun at whole "slavs only" in his sketch; "In Russia, word "Slav" appears only in two places: in works of historians about our ancestors, and appartament offers in Moscow"
Ehhh yeahhh, it happens in poland too. I'm so glad I was born in Canada because if I tried to find a place to live as a Roma person I think I'd end up homeless because I'm not a "slav", even if I was lucky enough to it'd either be in a shitty inaccessible ghetto or I'd be evicted shortly after either on the "slavs only" rule or the fact that I'm physically disabled and rely on welfare because Im unable to work or find a job
'Appartment for rent with EUROPEAN REPAIRS, slavs only'. LOL (Eur repairs/renovation means higher quality/standards/nonslav/nonsovjet style). But indeed slavs only isnt anti european, its anti 'non slav russians'
They use the "only for Slavs/Slavic people" thingy, because they can't outright say 'For white people only". There were some cases with students of... African descent, let's put it that way, who were denied or had trouble renting on that basis. Case in point: people of other ethnicities, who are not Slavs but can speak fluent Russian, like Gemans and French, have had no troubles renting. It clearly shows that these Russian landowners don't really care about their tenants being Slavic. Just imagine if in America, or almost anywhere else in the world, someone included a clause like "Whites only, no blacks or colored people." They'd get sued for discrimination into oblivion. But in Russia, it's not explicitly outlawed so no one in positions of power seems to mind.
Yeah no rule of law is one of the main reason why I left. Even if you are not related to any of political protest you just can’t plan your life or your business you can be arrested for let’s say “fraud” allegations get your business extorted from you and spend like 10 years in prison for the same stuff your neighbour doing every day. I mean is it worth it? Yeah there are some opportunities but there are no reasons to be law abiding in an environment like that where you can’t clearly say how you gonna get fckd up. Kafka-esque country if you will.
And this is what ukrainians also had enough of. Ukrainians were done being like Russia in especially this kind of sense. (And all other corrupt crap plus all that keeps regular people as poor as possible). But in Russia the people, drowned in propaganda, think 'America lured ukrainians and forced maidan'. Huge steps were made in the past decade to no longer be like Russia. Which factually made this an existential threat to russia. If putler didnt attack, eventually a majority of Russians would become like you. And with attacked I mean the attack on crimea. If he hadnt, he would not be president anymore by now. Which.. would actually be a better position to be in for him than the position he is in now. 😂
That is exactly what i dont understand about russian logic. On one hand officials talk about how russia has to be competitive with west, needs investors, new technology, talented entrepreneurs etc... but once there is someone competitive, they just stole his business. Typical example is digital business. Look what happened to VK (founders fled to exile and is currently owned by gazprom), yandex (almost the same story)... what has happened to oleg tinkov and his business? How can be russia competitive if all the promising companies are being literally stolen from their founders and given to friends.
@@xlukas93Maybe this is precisely the logic and the plan of those in power. Seed and reap. I remember back when Putin just came to power, there was a spike in birth rates in my home city in Siberia. There were many kindergartens and schools built in new districts, and people were happy to have kids in a time that seemed more stable than the hell of the 90s. And now, guess what? It's 20 years later, and all these children are now of the conscription age. And the authorities send them all to the hell.
@@xlukas93 Because you would always try to sidestep laws and work for third parties, so better give your business to someone loyal, who won't do it. As Russian saying goes, businessman will sell his own mother to make money. Could do things Chinese way instead, where all promising business owners just "disappear" without a trace.
It used to be exactly that. Btw Putin is a lawyer, at least on paper. Now even this system is crumbling as Putin has started informally announcing "guilty" sentences before trial (there's this guy who allegedly burnt a Qur'an who was beaten up by Ramzan Kadyrov's son on tape while in jail)
Difference between a police state/dictatorship and a "normal sociaty"/functioning democracy is not so much what kind of laws exist, but how they are applied and upheld and what kind of judicial safety there is for the lowest person in that sociaty, not the highest.
And that is why America is NOT free. I am a lowest common denominator and I have been being bullied by the local legal justice system for almost 3 years now. They are inept and woefully under qualified to do what is needed to be done. I had my house broken into a few times and had money stolen from me. They said it was a burglary and they'd keep looking out. I called recently and found out it was reduced to suspicious activity and the sheriff, that has ZERO psych background and barely made it out of high school said he thought I was "Mentally Ill". I have never been so insulted. He didn't say it to me. He wrote it on a report. A report he refused to give to me. Told me to "Get a copy" from the court.
@nothanks9503 Yeah, fair point, but I also watched that CGP Grey video. Which is not an insult by the way - it's very good and informative piece of content.
All states are illegitimate, since the ruled never gave their voluntary consent to have a state, a government and laws in the first place, but a "democracy" (there are no REAL democracies either) is usually much less oppressive than a right out dictatorship, and the oppression that exists is usually predictable in its nature.
Morgenshtern was doing the exact opposite of disrespecting veterans by suggesting that the money spent on parades could be spent actually supporting veterans.
And in Putin's Russia, law doesn't even have to break you - you'll most likely leave on your own volition, before it has the chance to. Because it's much better than the alternative.
Hahahah, Brendan Shaub! Dude, your knowledge of American culture is so on point. You just gave a perfect example, not that Idrak is in any way similar to Shaub. Отличный контент, чувак, гамарджоба гагимарждос!
How do you be a good citizen if your country supports and cherishes malignancy? No wonder why Russia gets so much hate. I'm sorry for everyone who has to deal with this tyranny.
If you take "CCP", the initials of the Chinese Communist Party, and then add another "C" at the beginning, you'll get "CCCP", which is the Russian abbreviated name for the USSR, whose full name in Russian is "Coıo3 CoBeTckNx CouNanNcTNYeckNx Pecny6nNk", which is almost like a valid password on the internet, but is shows that Russia and China are basically the same country co-ruled by both Putin and Xi.
In all seriousness I genuinely appreciate voices like yours, who shed a light on the realities of what it is like to live under an autocratic dictatorship. You do a lot to discredit a number of western idealists who refuse to acknowledge the corruption of the Putin regime because it would only serve to undermine their own position regarding the Russian Ukrainian war. To be clear the best war is the war that never happened, but in this case ukraine was unambiguously invaded so their only choice was either to fight or give up and surrender their sovereignty.
@@Juan_Carl0s of course. Who wouldn't want to live in an isolated dictatorship with no internet, serving 10 years in the military, likely starving and controlled to the point of being limited to ~12 haircuts?
@@Juan_Carl0sooooh, turtle doesn’t think they are becoming N.Korea at all. He thinks the observation is hilarious. Took a second to clue into who made the comment because I agree with the OP comment but as truth not sarcasm.
Yes, it’s so funny when people don’t have any freedom, when people are forced to obey the authorities in order to simply survive, when people’s destinies are ruined for having a “wrong” opinion 😍 I don't understand what kind of ogre you have to be to laugh at this
What eludes many people is the sheer idiocy of those programs, be it Solovyov, Carlson, or Alex Jones. Its essence is grouping some people to discuss the topic from such an angle that, ultimately, the result of the discussion would confirm the state's (or host's) worldview. The problem is the result is known well before the program, and the whole prefabricated "discussion." serves as 21st-century "Potyomkin village," i.e., a ruse to pay an hommage to a non-existent tribunal to keep up the appearances of an "objective" analysis
There is huge difference between Solovyov and Carlson/Alex Jones: -Solovyov tells his opinions in a public channel, and no private channel can express its opinions against Putin's interests. -In the USA, Carlson and Jones say what they want, but people who disagree them also can say what they want. Мир без НАЦИЗМа, это мир без ПУТИНа. Мир с ПУТИНом, это мир с НАЦИЗМом. A world without NAZISM is a world without PUTIN. A world with PUTIN is a world with NAZISM.
@sffg9671 From the little I've seen of Russian programs outside of the 'shock factor' stuff that people like this guy like to clip out and present, there is actually a lot more serious discussion and debate than their is on US mainstream media.
That's basically the power of good framing (not "good" as in proper, objective or correct, just "good" from the host's point of view). Personally, I think Carlos Maza from Vox explained it very well in one of his videos.
@@mitchyoung93 No it is not, it is similarly idiotic, it is just different. If you dont understand russian language and russian culture, you just dont understand in what context they talk. Yes, they use more sophisticated language because US television is literally like for retarded people, for like people with mental development of 6 years old (which is basically US only thing on this planet), but once you get past this, what they are actually saying is similarly narrow minded as in US. But unlike in US there is no other side to be found anywhere.
If you made this exact video in Russian and substituted "war" for "special military operation" there would be an immediate warrant for your arrest. Please continue to walk that thin line my friend.
If he had done that, there wouldn't be a warrant for his arrest at all, instead, his social credit score would plummet, which would give him some penalties, such as being unable to board planes and trains, having restricted acess to public services, and public shaming, and it's only if his social credit score gets low enough that he would get arrested, or worse, sent to these so-called "re-education camps" or even outright executed.
@@candyneige6609 Let's not forget that people are arrested for holding up blank signs in Russia. Roman would likely face prosecution if he returned to Russia despite not using the term "war" to describe the atrocities his country is committing in Ukraine. Otherwise, I agree with you.
Hey Roman - big fan of many years here! I was wondering if you'd perhaps consider doing a video on how people like Daniil Orain//1420channel are still able to roam free while others a thrown into a jail cell at the slightest mishap? My off-the-cuff take is that some people are too popular and therefore dangerous to touch, but then again; Prigozhin and Girkin (just to name a few) are gone. Again - big fan and I hope you're happy and enjoying yourself in Georgia!
I can only guess, of course, but I think it's likely it could have something to do with the target audience of the statements/content. I think content in English or targeted at a Western audience (such as 1420) is probably not as much of a threat as content targeted at Russians, because the point of the propaganda is to keep them blind to reality. Most of the people on the outside already consider the lies churned out of the Russian government to be BS, and Russian propagandists are openly hostile to the West, so why would they waste energy trying to shut down channels or silence people who are just confirming what a great deal of westerners already believe? My guess is that they care more about keeping people from making statements to other Russians, as they threaten the integrity of the propaganda system from the inside.
yeah... Russians enjoy in Georgia, but Russians shooting and killing Georgians while Georgian government keeps quiet themselves not to upset Russia. The Kremlin has not carried out the agreement of 2008 signed by EU and Russia. Yesterday, Russian occupants killed a Georgian citizen at the border and the second person is missing. This happens very often. Basically, Russia is criminal state.
Because those kind of RUclips channels only ask other people and NEVER express their own opinion. But more and more you don't actually have to say something in Russia to break the law. It's enough to just choose the freedom side, the right side, and you will be punished.
yeah it's not hypocrisy if as an essential part of their ideology the members of the ruling party believe that they're above the law, hell I bet a lot of them would openly admit it as such at this point (ofc that's just might makes right with extra steps, but not the first or the last such ideology)
You are joking but tgis actually what happened in Turkey. They gave dead people's Ids from earthquake to immigrants. They also gave bunch of Turkish identiy to immigrants. And our abroad votes were so funny most of them had more votes than whole population of Turkish live in there. Like there is 200 people living in some country and somehow 2000 people voted.
Sad times, I've often wondered about 1420. How are these interviews still going?? What protections are saving the interviewer??? Thanks Roman, super informative and interesting commentary ❤️
Dear Roman, I am sorry to tell you this but law only rules very limited in a dictatorship- I am very happy that you escaped. Thanks for helping us to understand the difference between democracy and dictatorship once again. Keep going!
Lawyers, ordinary citizens, and activists in the English Speaking World have been fighting for nearly 1,000 years to make everyone subject to the same “common law” that applies equally to everyone regardless of sex, national origin, wealth, social status, race and religion. We still haven’t perfected it, and believe me we haven’t perfected it, but it takes a long time to get as far as we have.
India has the same common law system but there is nothing common about the way it's applied. The difference is not the law but the people and their culture
Todays Russia is still pretty forgiving for its citizens. Too bad Putin is doing so bad in the polls. In Soviet Union you could easily get 120% of the votes.
Ya good point - I saw russians being arrested for laying flowers on a grave. On the other hand, there's a full-on Jewish pogrom and everything's fine. Great country ya got.
Roman, "factoid" basically means a piece of false information that gets repeated so much that it becomes accepted as true. I know it's a fun word to use and sounds like a synonym of "fact," but it's basically the opposite.
Inaquality is everywhere, thats true. But as you corretly showed there is a big diffents in how it shows. I hope some day russia can become better, but at this point it looks like it will become even worse and might have to crashland hard until the chance of change comes.
Russia is a great example of the horseshoe theory of political ideology that argues that the extreme far left (anarchism) and the extreme far right (authoritarian totalitarianism) are functionally the same. That is to say that they are both are kratocractic societies -- the idea that "might makes right." So, if you're part of the political class/machine, you get a different set of rules whereas if you're not, you're a threat. The only real difference between anarchy and totalitarianism is just what stage the regime(s) is/are in at the moment with multiple warlords (and their privileged class) being a state of anarchy and totalitarianism being the end-goal where all the other players (and their privileged class) have been eliminated or folded in. To anyone not in those privileged classes, society functions pretty much the same.
Leftism isn't about anarchism, which is just a tool, a means to an end. Leftism is about having actual democracy and actual freedom. Freedom from those who would enslave us, economically and physically.
Basically, if you say a truth that goes agaisnt the government's interests (not so much criticising the government itself, but their interests) will get you punished or a sentence if found out
Like, of you say they're corrupt or that putin is dumb and does nothing they probably wont care and will just propaganda their way out of that. But if you tell your piers what the government really tries to do, then you're probably fucked
It is slowly getting beyond that, when you have to actively celebrate government like in north korea, if you just dont overly support government, you can be in trouble - even without criticising anything.
Dearest Roman.. It’s the Latvian member that’s got mad love and appreciation for your insight, opinion ..oh and delivery and humor!But I gotta be honest..I am starting to burn out. You must have thick skin to expose yourself as you do, and you simply can’t take anything personally.. but some comments are so stupid and full of hatred and I am exhausted from it all. And now everything in Palestine…Did you catch the recent piece on 60 Minutes about the Russians currently in Georgia and how much they are not welcome? Sorry dude. Nothing good to report anywhere. Peace and love, Aleksandraa
9:59 the comedian was "arrested for 10 days and deported from Russia without the right to ever come back, so he's essentially completely banned from Russia" Pretty much the exact some thing happened to your dad! (the ex-MI6 agent and travel vlogger known as "Mr. Bald")
15:25 I was wondering what happened to Prigozhin and whether I'd forgotten something about him being imprisoned or amnestied or exiled to Belarus, so thanks for the update. It's stunning that protesting with a blank sign can be illegal.
@@sluggo206 yes, there was a "plane accident" with him aboard and few of his friends from wagners group command circle. And the investigation is over - it was basically nazi ukraine who killed him, as anything bad in russia is caused by nazi ukraine obviously. I wonder how many months before the rhetoric will pop up describing nazi ukraine tricking russia into attacking itself.
Hey you are clearly fluent in Russian and English; you can read write and translate much better than google translate; there is no doubt that you could get a good job in the USA as a translator. I had a cousin that got a college major in Russian and she got a job for the government. Come to America!
@@Anuclano You made a grammatical error that a middle school English speaker would never make, in your reply. Just saying... I am learning Russian and it is an extremely difficult language, as I have heard English is. Remember Hillary's "great reset" button she presented to Lavrov, with a translation error?
That first woman in space wasn't actually the first. She was the first one to make it back. There's a documentary about it. Sorry I don't have the link but it's pretty interesting
Roman's command of english is amazing. Selfdescribedly isn't actually a word but he intuitivly knows and demonstrates one of the more unique aspects of the english language. It is the easiest language in the world to create new words. The reason is twofold and hilarious. The first reason is because it's gramer is so strict and well laid out. The second reason is we're allowed to ignore those rules whenever we want.
How’s your moving to the West going? In Budapest Hungary (an EU country) lately there are a lot of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. I’ve started hearing Russia being spoken on the streets, which never happened before. There must be some way to come here.
Hello from slovakia. Here there you can hear some russian in the streets too, but it is mostly ukrainian refugees from the eastern ukraine (obviously affected by this war) and russian is their native language. Can it be the same case in hungary? Just ukrainian refugees?
Четвёртый год не могу заставить полицию возбудить уголовное дело в связи с тем, что у меня похитили две квартиры чеченцы по поддельным подписям и коррумпированного нотариуса. Одну квартиру уже даже вернул и в решении суда чётко, что подписи поддельные, но полиция не возбуждает уголовное дело хоть тресни. Прокуратура отменяет отказ, полиция ждёт пару месяцев и снова отказывает.
Чувак, нужно идти в выше стоящие службы, если не принимают там, иди выше, рано или поздно должны помочь. У меня таких проблем не было, но я читал что нужно делать именно так, сами службы я не вспомню, но они там друг за другом следят и ебут за косяки, так что просто в полицию долбится бесполезно.
I knew the legal system of Russia (if I can even call it one) doesn't work very well for anyone but the government, but now, I know a lot more about the problems with it! I've heard of the idea of killing the 20% of Russians (if it's even 20%; see Roman's video on opinion polls for information about the problems with those numbers), which is mad unto itself. However, now I know just how bad the problem of lawlessness in Russia is: advocating the killing of 28 million of one's own countrymen (for opposing the government!) is perfectly fine under Russian law, but activities like changing the Victory Day celebrations (so that more money can be used to support veterans, like the ones that won the victory!) is a "crime". I hope that someday, your homeland can be transformed into a true state of law. After all, as you said, "human rights are cool". Thanks for the video!
Eh, I mean there are some things to critique about them. Hypocritical manipulation of facts to convince already anti-war people they're the good guys, while in reality they use exactly same methods Soloviev does, for example recent interview Gordon took of FRL. And that, my friend, turns oppositionally leaning Russians away from them, because they've already seen same propaganda just from a different mouth and clearly have developed resistance to it.
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your premise that russia doesnt have much freedom of speech lays your whole video into a biased viewpoint before you even start. RT was russian and it was probably one of the most open and least controlled news channels out there.
🎉YOU ARE THE MOST ANTI RUSSIAN RUSSIAN GUY I EVER MET ON INTERNET 😂😂😂😂
@@ricardoxorge5157 If he is seriously the most "Anti-Russian"-Russian you have met it speaks volumes about how silenced and oppressed the Russian population is.
I have Russian friends who are much harsher with their criticism of Russian people than Roman is. But much like Roman, they cannot express this in their home country.
Hasan didn't joke when he said that about 911...
I was told by a Russian friend about 20 years ago that Russia is lawless. IMO the only law in Russia is the law of gravity when you see how many people fall from 6th floor balconies
Putin is insulted by gravity, he had to outdo it and apply his own laws of relativity.
There is one law in Russia. "Then it got worse".
In Russia you can bribe gravity to not hurt you if you fall from the top of a building
who exactly fell from balconies? this "joke" only exist in the west but not in russia
Overppayed jokes
man i respect that you express your own opinions here on youtube, even though you get death threats. I do enjoy your content
he earns money. Nothing specail here.
@@arathortizs28445
What a fucking galaxy brain it's not like every other person with a significant youtuber makes money 🙄 😒. Is this like the new insult for your average basement dweller on the site?
@@arathortizs28445nothing special about your spelling either. Just saying. Envious much?
Couldn't even type out "specail" here, you're special lol@@arathortizs28445
The only way to prevent wars is letting people state their opinions and talk about it. Its usally harder to blindly hate groups of people once you notice they are humans with ideas and wishes too.
To quote Ōscar Benavides, twice president of Peru: "To my friends, anything. To my enemies, the law."
Pretty perfectly sums up the dictatorial mindset.
Had the same exact thought. Putin really runs his country like a caudillo.
I've heard people refer to the Russian political system as a "Mafia State" and honestly it seems more or less accurate
no. Actually this is a CIA state. Where do you think CIA agents went when USSR collapsed? packed their things up and left the territory? They are still in russia.
Yes, it is. Big organised criminal group with governmental authority led by puten - a man from russian 90's
Well, John McCain once called Russia “A gas station run by a mafia that is masquerading as a country” and I think there is some truth in there.
That’s what Trump and DeSantis and other Republicans in the US want-a mafia state. They’re so jealous of Orban, Putin, Kim Jong Un etc.
quite literally actually. the ppl in power were mafia back in the 90s or had their protection
Roman makes valid points about the privileges of the elite. Indeed, in the past 3-4 months, both President Putin and Foreign Minister Lavrov have referred to the "war" with Ukraine instead of "special military operation". Why haven't these 2 been arrested and sent to a Siberian prison?
Get a petition going in the duma
Thanks!
Dear Roman, I enjoy your work immensely and want you to be able to continue doing it . Please take care of yourself.
I remember there was russian stand uper, who picked fun at whole "slavs only" in his sketch;
"In Russia, word "Slav" appears only in two places: in works of historians about our ancestors, and appartament offers in Moscow"
Ehhh yeahhh, it happens in poland too. I'm so glad I was born in Canada because if I tried to find a place to live as a Roma person I think I'd end up homeless because I'm not a "slav", even if I was lucky enough to it'd either be in a shitty inaccessible ghetto or I'd be evicted shortly after either on the "slavs only" rule or the fact that I'm physically disabled and rely on welfare because Im unable to work or find a job
'Appartment for rent with EUROPEAN REPAIRS, slavs only'. LOL
(Eur repairs/renovation means higher quality/standards/nonslav/nonsovjet style).
But indeed slavs only isnt anti european, its anti 'non slav russians'
They use the "only for Slavs/Slavic people" thingy, because they can't outright say 'For white people only". There were some cases with students of... African descent, let's put it that way, who were denied or had trouble renting on that basis.
Case in point: people of other ethnicities, who are not Slavs but can speak fluent Russian, like Gemans and French, have had no troubles renting. It clearly shows that these Russian landowners don't really care about their tenants being Slavic.
Just imagine if in America, or almost anywhere else in the world, someone included a clause like "Whites only, no blacks or colored people." They'd get sued for discrimination into oblivion. But in Russia, it's not explicitly outlawed so no one in positions of power seems to mind.
@@nob2243 this announces are mostly against people from Caucasus and Midle Asia
What do the 189 ethnic groups do?
"Because human rights are pretty cool"
-Roman 2023
Yeah no rule of law is one of the main reason why I left. Even if you are not related to any of political protest you just can’t plan your life or your business you can be arrested for let’s say “fraud” allegations get your business extorted from you and spend like 10 years in prison for the same stuff your neighbour doing every day. I mean is it worth it? Yeah there are some opportunities but there are no reasons to be law abiding in an environment like that where you can’t clearly say how you gonna get fckd up. Kafka-esque country if you will.
And this is what ukrainians also had enough of. Ukrainians were done being like Russia in especially this kind of sense. (And all other corrupt crap plus all that keeps regular people as poor as possible). But in Russia the people, drowned in propaganda, think 'America lured ukrainians and forced maidan'.
Huge steps were made in the past decade to no longer be like Russia. Which factually made this an existential threat to russia. If putler didnt attack, eventually a majority of Russians would become like you. And with attacked I mean the attack on crimea. If he hadnt, he would not be president anymore by now. Which.. would actually be a better position to be in for him than the position he is in now. 😂
That is exactly what i dont understand about russian logic. On one hand officials talk about how russia has to be competitive with west, needs investors, new technology, talented entrepreneurs etc... but once there is someone competitive, they just stole his business.
Typical example is digital business. Look what happened to VK (founders fled to exile and is currently owned by gazprom), yandex (almost the same story)... what has happened to oleg tinkov and his business? How can be russia competitive if all the promising companies are being literally stolen from their founders and given to friends.
@@xlukas93Maybe this is precisely the logic and the plan of those in power. Seed and reap. I remember back when Putin just came to power, there was a spike in birth rates in my home city in Siberia. There were many kindergartens and schools built in new districts, and people were happy to have kids in a time that seemed more stable than the hell of the 90s. And now, guess what? It's 20 years later, and all these children are now of the conscription age. And the authorities send them all to the hell.
@@xlukas93 Because you would always try to sidestep laws and work for third parties, so better give your business to someone loyal, who won't do it. As Russian saying goes, businessman will sell his own mother to make money. Could do things Chinese way instead, where all promising business owners just "disappear" without a trace.
"The criminal case was actually cancelled..." Oh, so the Cancel Culture actually exists in Russia...
it's a soviet tradition
@@animeXcaso Take it even deeper. These are the traditions of Moscovia 😊
I have heard this type of system being called "rule BY law", when you have laws for everything and the autocrats can use it selectively
Great point!
Governed by thieves by law.
This stress on 'BY' is awsome😅
It used to be exactly that. Btw Putin is a lawyer, at least on paper. Now even this system is crumbling as Putin has started informally announcing "guilty" sentences before trial (there's this guy who allegedly burnt a Qur'an who was beaten up by Ramzan Kadyrov's son on tape while in jail)
I like that phrase. Applies in China too. It's an OP strategy. Make everything illegal so you can arrest anyone who is inconvenient
Difference between a police state/dictatorship and a "normal sociaty"/functioning democracy is not so much what kind of laws exist, but how they are applied and upheld and what kind of judicial safety there is for the lowest person in that sociaty, not the highest.
no it's also the laws that exist although the EU needs freedom of speech including for " hate" speech.
And that is why America is NOT free. I am a lowest common denominator and I have been being bullied by the local legal justice system for almost 3 years now. They are inept and woefully under qualified to do what is needed to be done. I had my house broken into a few times and had money stolen from me. They said it was a burglary and they'd keep looking out. I called recently and found out it was reduced to suspicious activity and the sheriff, that has ZERO psych background and barely made it out of high school said he thought I was "Mentally Ill". I have never been so insulted. He didn't say it to me. He wrote it on a report. A report he refused to give to me. Told me to "Get a copy" from the court.
@nothanks9503 Yeah, fair point, but I also watched that CGP Grey video. Which is not an insult by the way - it's very good and informative piece of content.
All states are illegitimate, since the ruled never gave their voluntary consent to have a state, a government and laws in the first place, but a "democracy" (there are no REAL democracies either) is usually much less oppressive than a right out dictatorship, and the oppression that exists is usually predictable in its nature.
“The best argument against democracy is a 5 minute conversation with the average voter” -Winston Churchill
Like Oceania in 1984: crime is whatever the state says it is.
There is no crime. There is no law. There is only dictatorial power that is used to arrested anyone they like
Sums things up perfectly
Russia is basically 1984 at this point
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia, Winston.
1984 became the most sold book in Russia in 2022 btw
Morgenshtern was doing the exact opposite of disrespecting veterans by suggesting that the money spent on parades could be spent actually supporting veterans.
Thanks!
9:50 For a sec I really thought something happened. Hope you won't face such a situation in real life, Roman. Stay safe.
The art of the jump scare!
i nearly screamed at that part lmao
I'm wearing headphones and I briefly thought somebody was knocking on my window on 15th floor.
@@GeorgeGzirishvili Huh, pretty scary indeed
The whole situation is completely nuts Roman! So glad you are somewhere safe and away from those fools.
Let us hope Georgia doesn't get hong konged (give Russia priviliges to extradite individuals from Georgia)
"Deported from Russia without the right to ever come back"
Oooh what a punishment! I wouldn't know what to do if I won't be able to live there..
"I will immediately authorize a special election operation."
-Putin
In Soviet Russia, law breaks you.
literally
Oh man
80s comedian Yakov Smirnoff still weirdly relevant and known 40 years later.
I think that despite being incredibly corrupt and unjust, justice and corruption was even in better state in Soviet Russia than in Putin's Russia.
And in Putin's Russia, law doesn't even have to break you - you'll most likely leave on your own volition, before it has the chance to. Because it's much better than the alternative.
Roman, i just wanna say right now, the quality of your videos just keeps getting better with every single video.
That lady grew some frightening eyebrows.
her eyes are more disturbing
Grazie.
Hahahah, Brendan Shaub! Dude, your knowledge of American culture is so on point. You just gave a perfect example, not that Idrak is in any way similar to Shaub.
Отличный контент, чувак, гамарджоба гагимарждос!
Vladimir Putin is the type of guy to reads the terms and conditions and clicks “I disagree”
More like he clicks 'agree' then rocks up at the server bank with a hand grenade glued to his fod
putin is a controlled dictator, not an independent one
And proceeds" Continue" 😂😂
Or like a youtuber who doxes people, is a known felon and uses adblocker but still has a monetized channel for many years to come
@@debilman9065what's with the adblocker comment 😂 like fuck her but that's so uncalled for
How do you be a good citizen if your country supports and cherishes malignancy? No wonder why Russia gets so much hate. I'm sorry for everyone who has to deal with this tyranny.
Also laws exist to have peace and order. Tyrants don't care about law.
Your videos are starting to pick up more and more momentum, respect for how you speak out and give an honest opinion. Take care of yourself братан.
Russia is becoming more and more facist 😢
I think it went full fascist after they changed the constitution for putler.
just carrying on the soviet tradition
If you take "CCP", the initials of the Chinese Communist Party, and then add another "C" at the beginning, you'll get "CCCP", which is the Russian abbreviated name for the USSR, whose full name in Russian is "Coıo3 CoBeTckNx CouNanNcTNYeckNx Pecny6nNk", which is almost like a valid password on the internet, but is shows that Russia and China are basically the same country co-ruled by both Putin and Xi.
In all seriousness I genuinely appreciate voices like yours, who shed a light on the realities of what it is like to live under an autocratic dictatorship. You do a lot to discredit a number of western idealists who refuse to acknowledge the corruption of the Putin regime because it would only serve to undermine their own position regarding the Russian Ukrainian war. To be clear the best war is the war that never happened, but in this case ukraine was unambiguously invaded so their only choice was either to fight or give up and surrender their sovereignty.
Russia is speed running into becoming the new North Korea 😂
and lemme guess, you think that's a good thing?
@@Juan_Carl0s of course. Who wouldn't want to live in an isolated dictatorship with no internet, serving 10 years in the military, likely starving and controlled to the point of being limited to ~12 haircuts?
@@Juan_Carl0s Every North Korean gets a free car btw. Come to North Korea guys 😇😇😇
@@Juan_Carl0sooooh, turtle doesn’t think they are becoming N.Korea at all. He thinks the observation is hilarious.
Took a second to clue into who made the comment because I agree with the OP comment but as truth not sarcasm.
Yes, it’s so funny when people don’t have any freedom, when people are forced to obey the authorities in order to simply survive, when people’s destinies are ruined for having a “wrong” opinion 😍
I don't understand what kind of ogre you have to be to laugh at this
Excellent, watch your back. Russian Ukrainian community in Sacramento CA would love to have you come over.😊
What eludes many people is the sheer idiocy of those programs, be it Solovyov, Carlson, or Alex Jones. Its essence is grouping some people to discuss the topic from such an angle that, ultimately, the result of the discussion would confirm the state's (or host's) worldview. The problem is the result is known well before the program, and the whole prefabricated "discussion." serves as 21st-century "Potyomkin village," i.e., a ruse to pay an hommage to a non-existent tribunal to keep up the appearances of an "objective" analysis
There is huge difference between Solovyov and Carlson/Alex Jones:
-Solovyov tells his opinions in a public channel, and no private channel can express its opinions against Putin's interests.
-In the USA, Carlson and Jones say what they want, but people who disagree them also can say what they want.
Мир без НАЦИЗМа, это мир без ПУТИНа.
Мир с ПУТИНом, это мир с НАЦИЗМом.
A world without NAZISM is a world without PUTIN.
A world with PUTIN is a world with NAZISM.
@sffg9671 From the little I've seen of Russian programs outside of the 'shock factor' stuff that people like this guy like to clip out and present, there is actually a lot more serious discussion and debate than their is on US mainstream media.
That's basically the power of good framing (not "good" as in proper, objective or correct, just "good" from the host's point of view).
Personally, I think Carlos Maza from Vox explained it very well in one of his videos.
@@mitchyoung93 No it is not, it is similarly idiotic, it is just different. If you dont understand russian language and russian culture, you just dont understand in what context they talk. Yes, they use more sophisticated language because US television is literally like for retarded people, for like people with mental development of 6 years old (which is basically US only thing on this planet), but once you get past this, what they are actually saying is similarly narrow minded as in US. But unlike in US there is no other side to be found anywhere.
@@xlukas93 I am B2 in Russian which is why I can tell a lot of Western media is propaganda.
9:47 Omg, that made my heart rate spike!
FBI OPEN UP!!!!
Screw you Roman, lol 😅
Gonna take me a minute to unwind, maybe a bowl.
the way you put Varlamov at 12:41 makes people think that he's one of the propagandists you described that were offended 😂
Thank god im not the only one who noticed
Russia took the concepts of Scientology to a national level. Seems pretty cool, would recommend, fun cult all around.
Ghost in the shell profile pic
@@caim3465 you got me
You should do stand up comedy, you’re a funny guy. Love your channel brother 👍🇺🇸🇺🇦
If you made this exact video in Russian and substituted "war" for "special military operation" there would be an immediate warrant for your arrest. Please continue to walk that thin line my friend.
If he had done that, there wouldn't be a warrant for his arrest at all, instead, his social credit score would plummet, which would give him some penalties, such as being unable to board planes and trains, having restricted acess to public services, and public shaming, and it's only if his social credit score gets low enough that he would get arrested, or worse, sent to these so-called "re-education camps" or even outright executed.
@@candyneige6609 Let's not forget that people are arrested for holding up blank signs in Russia. Roman would likely face prosecution if he returned to Russia despite not using the term "war" to describe the atrocities his country is committing in Ukraine. Otherwise, I agree with you.
@@nazcaplain Those blank signs were around a year ago, in November 2022.
Yah I no. 😃@@candyneige6609
@@candyneige6609it's Russia puta not North Korea or China. Russia doesn't have a social score?
Hey Roman - big fan of many years here!
I was wondering if you'd perhaps consider doing a video on how people like Daniil Orain//1420channel are still able to roam free while others a thrown into a jail cell at the slightest mishap?
My off-the-cuff take is that some people are too popular and therefore dangerous to touch, but then again; Prigozhin and Girkin (just to name a few) are gone.
Again - big fan and I hope you're happy and enjoying yourself in Georgia!
I can only guess, of course, but I think it's likely it could have something to do with the target audience of the statements/content. I think content in English or targeted at a Western audience (such as 1420) is probably not as much of a threat as content targeted at Russians, because the point of the propaganda is to keep them blind to reality. Most of the people on the outside already consider the lies churned out of the Russian government to be BS, and Russian propagandists are openly hostile to the West, so why would they waste energy trying to shut down channels or silence people who are just confirming what a great deal of westerners already believe? My guess is that they care more about keeping people from making statements to other Russians, as they threaten the integrity of the propaganda system from the inside.
yeah... Russians enjoy in Georgia, but Russians shooting and killing Georgians while Georgian government keeps quiet themselves not to upset Russia. The Kremlin has not carried out the agreement of 2008 signed by EU and Russia. Yesterday, Russian occupants killed a Georgian citizen at the border and the second person is missing. This happens very often. Basically, Russia is criminal state.
No, it's not because he is too popular.
He is very careful and deliberate, and never makes any statements against the party line.
Because those kind of RUclips channels only ask other people and NEVER express their own opinion. But more and more you don't actually have to say something in Russia to break the law. It's enough to just choose the freedom side, the right side, and you will be punished.
As someone who can appreciate graphic design, I have to say your shirt is absolutely lit.
"How can you deal with a crocodile when it's in the middle of eating your left leg? The guy's completely not to be trusted." - Boris Johnson 🇬🇧
Thank you - you are so brave. I wish you will get the rights you deserve - we all deserve - wherever.
Roman, maybe this doesn't count for much, but i appreciate your content, and I hope you stay safe, you are one of my favourite youtubers, much love
Russia protects human rights. It's just in the matter of fact average citizen are doesn't count as humans.
yeah it's not hypocrisy if as an essential part of their ideology the members of the ruling party believe that they're above the law, hell I bet a lot of them would openly admit it as such at this point (ofc that's just might makes right with extra steps, but not the first or the last such ideology)
What a great video. I know it´s being hard for you, Roman, but your videos are way better now than before the war.
Thank you Roman for sharing your thoughts…
Dear Roman. Have you considered a translator position at the United Nations? You would be brilliant! (BTW... included your giggles.)😆
Love you Roman been watching since the MLG days!!
Страшно, очень страшно! Если-б мы знали что это такое, мы не знаем что это такое
When the leader gets less than 120% you know his support is faltering.
You are joking but tgis actually what happened in Turkey. They gave dead people's Ids from earthquake to immigrants. They also gave bunch of Turkish identiy to immigrants. And our abroad votes were so funny most of them had more votes than whole population of Turkish live in there. Like there is 200 people living in some country and somehow 2000 people voted.
😂
Thank you Roman for explaining reality of Russia to the rest of the world, you are doing the right thing
it's not reality, it's his opinion
@@МихаилДавыдов-ь1н No, this is the most real reality even possible
The airport thing was despicable
My man really says 🐬 🐬 🐬 🐬 whenever he laughs
Roman Adolphin
Borat reporting live from the Republic of Dagestan.
Sad times, I've often wondered about 1420. How are these interviews still going??
What protections are saving the interviewer???
Thanks Roman, super informative and interesting commentary ❤️
His channel is banned in Russia as I know.
@@MsCl surely the FSB watch?
@@MsClI live in Russia and his channel is not banned
Dear Roman, I am sorry to tell you this but law only rules very limited in a dictatorship- I am very happy that you escaped. Thanks for helping us to understand the difference between democracy and dictatorship once again. Keep going!
Varlamov out of context was hilarious.
Lawyers, ordinary citizens, and activists in the English Speaking World have been fighting for nearly 1,000 years to make everyone subject to the same “common law” that applies equally to everyone regardless of sex, national origin, wealth, social status, race and religion. We still haven’t perfected it, and believe me we haven’t perfected it, but it takes a long time to get as far as we have.
The fight never ends nor should it.
1000 years? Lol, who have been burning witches in Middle Ages?
I think 200 years would be much closer to the truth
India has the same common law system but there is nothing common about the way it's applied.
The difference is not the law but the people and their culture
Todays Russia is still pretty forgiving for its citizens. Too bad Putin is doing so bad in the polls. In Soviet Union you could easily get 120% of the votes.
You can be arrested for everything in Russia, a teenager girl was arrested for talking about politics with her friends in the cafe
Ya good point - I saw russians being arrested for laying flowers on a grave. On the other hand, there's a full-on Jewish pogrom and everything's fine. Great country ya got.
Cheers & Respect!
9:49 i had airpods in, you scared the living shit out of me omg
Same!! I'm surprised I haven't seen any other mention of the jumpscare
@@IbisGuyWell, I did 😌.
I watched this video yesterday and I just overheard my brother watching it.
Roman, "factoid" basically means a piece of false information that gets repeated so much that it becomes accepted as true. I know it's a fun word to use and sounds like a synonym of "fact," but it's basically the opposite.
Most people use factoid in a way tabloid was invented so no one cares about your official definition (assuming it is true).
Xi Jin Cena!
Hello Roman greetings from Florida. Thank you for this informative video. You truly tell it like is.
They were looking for "juice" as they were thirsty.
Inaquality is everywhere, thats true. But as you corretly showed there is a big diffents in how it shows.
I hope some day russia can become better, but at this point it looks like it will become even worse and might have to crashland hard until the chance of change comes.
Leaving comments to push the video to the algorithm!!!!!
Russia is a great example of the horseshoe theory of political ideology that argues that the extreme far left (anarchism) and the extreme far right (authoritarian totalitarianism) are functionally the same. That is to say that they are both are kratocractic societies -- the idea that "might makes right." So, if you're part of the political class/machine, you get a different set of rules whereas if you're not, you're a threat.
The only real difference between anarchy and totalitarianism is just what stage the regime(s) is/are in at the moment with multiple warlords (and their privileged class) being a state of anarchy and totalitarianism being the end-goal where all the other players (and their privileged class) have been eliminated or folded in. To anyone not in those privileged classes, society functions pretty much the same.
Leftism isn't about anarchism, which is just a tool, a means to an end. Leftism is about having actual democracy and actual freedom. Freedom from those who would enslave us, economically and physically.
That should have been " FSB, open up"
Hell yeah I get to wake up to a Roman video... Thanks man...
Morning wood with russian from neighborhood
The Dude Abides. ;)
So basically if you say anything against Putin or the government you get jail time? What a country
This is what moscovia has always been, but it has always tried to look better in front of other countries than it is. 😊
Basically, if you say a truth that goes agaisnt the government's interests (not so much criticising the government itself, but their interests) will get you punished or a sentence if found out
Like, of you say they're corrupt or that putin is dumb and does nothing they probably wont care and will just propaganda their way out of that. But if you tell your piers what the government really tries to do, then you're probably fucked
It is slowly getting beyond that, when you have to actively celebrate government like in north korea, if you just dont overly support government, you can be in trouble - even without criticising anything.
LIKE WW2 GERMANY WITH HITLER
That’s why Russia is hated 🤜Putin
Awesome video. Do one on Boris Nemtsov next
Russia does not operate on _Rule of Law_ , but on _Law of Rule_ .
Whoever "rules", *is* the law.
And that "whoever" is currently Xi Jinping.
It's just a mafia state
For friends -everything
For others -law
just like any state
how dare you express yourself freely online
Roman doesn't actually live in nazi Putin's Russia, but in Georgia (the country in the Caucasians Mountains, not USA's Georgia).
Dearest Roman..
It’s the Latvian member that’s got mad love and appreciation for your insight, opinion ..oh and delivery and humor!But I gotta be honest..I am starting to burn out. You must have thick skin to expose yourself as you do, and you simply can’t take anything personally.. but some comments are so stupid and full of hatred and I am exhausted from it all. And now everything in Palestine…Did you catch the recent piece on 60 Minutes about the Russians currently in Georgia and how much they are not welcome? Sorry dude. Nothing good to report anywhere. Peace and love, Aleksandraa
9:59 the comedian was "arrested for 10 days and deported from Russia without the right to ever come back, so he's essentially completely banned from Russia"
Pretty much the exact some thing happened to your dad! (the ex-MI6 agent and travel vlogger known as "Mr. Bald")
15:25 I was wondering what happened to Prigozhin and whether I'd forgotten something about him being imprisoned or amnestied or exiled to Belarus, so thanks for the update. It's stunning that protesting with a blank sign can be illegal.
Technically Prigozhin was held accountable… mafia style (plane crash, murdered along with a whole innocent aircraft crew)
@@marionetteworks He's dead? That's what was at the back of my mind that I couldn't remember.
@@sluggo206 yes, there was a "plane accident" with him aboard and few of his friends from wagners group command circle. And the investigation is over - it was basically nazi ukraine who killed him, as anything bad in russia is caused by nazi ukraine obviously. I wonder how many months before the rhetoric will pop up describing nazi ukraine tricking russia into attacking itself.
Hey you are clearly fluent in Russian and English; you can read write and translate much better than google translate; there is no doubt that you could get a good job in the USA as a translator. I had a cousin that got a college major in Russian and she got a job for the government. Come to America!
There are literally MILLIONS of people who knows Russian in the US. I think, about 4 million.
Why should he go to the US when he's already in europe? Way better options for immigrants...
@@Anuclano You made a grammatical error that a middle school English speaker would never make, in your reply. Just saying... I am learning Russian and it is an extremely difficult language, as I have heard English is. Remember Hillary's "great reset" button she presented to Lavrov, with a translation error?
@@erickelley3569 What error?
@@erickelley3569 Hillary's error was intentional. No dictionary would tranlate that word like they did.
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
That first woman in space wasn't actually the first. She was the first one to make it back. There's a documentary about it. Sorry I don't have the link but it's pretty interesting
"This is not it chief" lol
i love being arrested for holding a blank piece of paper
That was almost one year ago, it's old news.
Roman's command of english is amazing.
Selfdescribedly isn't actually a word but he intuitivly knows and demonstrates one of the more unique aspects of the english language. It is the easiest language in the world to create new words. The reason is twofold and hilarious. The first reason is because it's gramer is so strict and well laid out. The second reason is we're allowed to ignore those rules whenever we want.
It amazes me the level of Ignorance russian media displays on television... crazy. thx roman
This is what moscovia has always been, but only tried to look better in the eyes of other countries 😊
How’s your moving to the West going? In Budapest Hungary (an EU country) lately there are a lot of Russian and Ukrainian immigrants. I’ve started hearing Russia being spoken on the streets, which never happened before. There must be some way to come here.
Hello from slovakia. Here there you can hear some russian in the streets too, but it is mostly ukrainian refugees from the eastern ukraine (obviously affected by this war) and russian is their native language. Can it be the same case in hungary? Just ukrainian refugees?
Четвёртый год не могу заставить полицию возбудить уголовное дело в связи с тем, что у меня похитили две квартиры чеченцы по поддельным подписям и коррумпированного нотариуса. Одну квартиру уже даже вернул и в решении суда чётко, что подписи поддельные, но полиция не возбуждает уголовное дело хоть тресни. Прокуратура отменяет отказ, полиция ждёт пару месяцев и снова отказывает.
Чувак, нужно идти в выше стоящие службы, если не принимают там, иди выше, рано или поздно должны помочь. У меня таких проблем не было, но я читал что нужно делать именно так, сами службы я не вспомню, но они там друг за другом следят и ебут за косяки, так что просто в полицию долбится бесполезно.
I knew the legal system of Russia (if I can even call it one) doesn't work very well for anyone but the government, but now, I know a lot more about the problems with it! I've heard of the idea of killing the 20% of Russians (if it's even 20%; see Roman's video on opinion polls for information about the problems with those numbers), which is mad unto itself. However, now I know just how bad the problem of lawlessness in Russia is: advocating the killing of 28 million of one's own countrymen (for opposing the government!) is perfectly fine under Russian law, but activities like changing the Victory Day celebrations (so that more money can be used to support veterans, like the ones that won the victory!) is a "crime".
I hope that someday, your homeland can be transformed into a true state of law. After all, as you said, "human rights are cool".
Thanks for the video!
Great video Roman!
Man, if we've EVER seen a drunk talking while brain marinates in vodka -- Gurulyov (i typed this just as Roman diagnosed the dude).
"These aren't laws, they're more like...guidelines!"
Always funny watching NFKRZ just after watching Pyro, man I miss the old days
hi sejozwak, didn't expect a hoi4 youtuber to be here
I gotta say, I loved the video, but the way those pictures on the wall are tilted... it's pissing me off xD
Can you Make a video about Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC) and Freedom of Russia Legion (FRL).
Eh, I mean there are some things to critique about them. Hypocritical manipulation of facts to convince already anti-war people they're the good guys, while in reality they use exactly same methods Soloviev does, for example recent interview Gordon took of FRL. And that, my friend, turns oppositionally leaning Russians away from them, because they've already seen same propaganda just from a different mouth and clearly have developed resistance to it.
Was falling asleep and that knocking freaked me tf out 😂
I liked how Oxxy dissed morgen, what he said about his downfall was 100% true
LMAO I wasn't expecting a PewDiePie "Bridge" reference here on Roman's channel.