Sorry about the reupload, if you check the community tab you will see due to a false copyright claim the original video got completely broken. I tried to fix it with RUclipss post editing tool, but the tool deleted 20 min of the video for some reason. Please do subscribe like and share this video as losing all the ad revenue and views has significantly harmed my ability to make this thing economically viable. If you would like to directly support me the best place is subscribe star, you also get roubles with $5 or up subscription. Thank you all :) Subscribe star: www.subscribestar.com/callum
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England. (Different from the Church of England) Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations. :)
@@homuchoghoma6789 Да сам мем не смешной. Просто низкополигональная модель крысы крутится под музыку. И всё. Но в контексте двух пьяных иностранцев в России это кажется смешным
Speech is already free as long as it is patriotic. Try to protest US foreign policy or so-called 3l3ct10ns you'll be charged with "espionage, conspiracy or treason" have your bank accounts frozen, put on No fly lists or the US government will have you kidnapped and thrown in prison if you're overseas (Julian Assange, @ndr3w T@te). And one of those guys is not even a US citizen.
We don't have freedom of speech in Europe either. I can't say what I really feel about mass immigration without being throw in jail. Only America has actual freedom of speech.
You have freedom of speech for as long as nobody hears you, and this is the same in every other country. U.S. doesn't have it either, granted you don't get imprisoned for that *cough Assange cough* , but there are many other ways to ruin your life and take away your livelihood.
Just a fact: the day Wagner took Rostov, I was supposed to have an exam, and I study in Rostov. My teacher said no and rescheduled the exam for a week, which allowed me to prepare from scratch
And btw Konigsberg castle was literally destroyed during the war, thanks to british aviation in particular, the soviets only demolished the remnants of the tower. So there was no 'nice castle'
Allied bombing hit it, but there were all the main walls and the tower standing, which couldve been restored. Soviets demolished it during several years to come. I guess new regime didnt like the memory of the old one.. somewhat of a threat to its new identity in the region ;) Funny, the cathedral's RUINS were left standing and were rebuilt later. So, yeah, "nice castle" or not, wouldve still been nicer to restore history (non-nazi btw) than have this concrete-frankenstein (saying this even as I am a fan of brutalisk architecture)
@@toivotooming1243 so, soviets didn't like memories of a castle, but were ok with the memories of a cathedral, because soviets were famous for keeping memories of religious buildings, but not castles in particular (although they kept the Vyborg castle, for example). Got it, sounds plausible
13:27 just like the Nord Stream pipeline, everyone knows, no one talks. As an experiment, I decided to add milk to my tea today. Don't repeat my mistake.
These type of videos are your absolute best, loved your Afghanistan video and this is yet another masterpiece, glad you managed to get the video back up!
@@jorgeenchilada also I can't speak for Czechs or Slovaks, but that's basically how you say it in Polish "na zdrowie", maybe they confused a bit all Slavic immigrants back in the day and thought they're all russian, which sometimes is annoying that anything Slavic is somehow automatically russian
Funny story. There is an indoor eternal flame shown at 41:50. I've been there. It was about 20 years ago and I went with my mom and dad to visit relatives as my mother is Russian. This was back before smart phones were a thing and even digital cameras were a bit of a luxury. She had an fairly modern (for the time) picture camera that used film rolls. She was snapping pictures of the murals that lined the path up to the building that held the flame. When we got inside, it was just my mom, my dad, two Russian honor guards and me. My mom explained to me that this was a sacred place where visitors were requested to act in a dignified manner and be quiet. I don't remember exactly what prompted her saying this but I think it was a sign. It could have been me speaking too loudly though. Right after she said that, she tried to take a photo of the flame. Unfortunately for her, her roll of film had reached it's end and when she tried to take a photo, the camera started to automatically rewind the roll. The only thing you could hear in the building was the loud electronic whirring of her camera which she could not stop. For about 20 seconds we just stood there while my mom embarrassingly tried to fumble around with the thing in some vain effort to shut it up. My dad and I were trying not to laugh while the two Russian guards just stood there with their poker faces on.
Russian women. Shush in public, don't speak too loud, don't look that way, wear your good shoes. Inside the house though, chaos, mess in the kitchen, we're not allowed to clean it, blankets on the sofa, no discipline, no softness.
Since Callum is somewhat fixated on the issue of multiculturalism, he now only has to visit our “Islamic belt” - the republics of the North Caucasus and Crimea. And there are still a couple of unrecognized republics with gorgeous mountains and beaches!
You’re a clueless russophobe. There is almost not Muslims in Crimea. Crimean Tatars make up 8 percent of the population and they’re pretty secular like Azeris and Volga Tatars.
@@slawaboga1433 They came back again in the 90s and 00s. Crimea is not all Islamic, but there are areas and cities where there are a lot of them. Simferopol, Bakhchysarai, etc.
I would suggest Tatarstan since it's one of the most developed regions, mostly Islamic, but may be also the most diverse (there are religious buildings of Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christianity of Old Believers, Protestantism, Catholicism)
@@al1sa920 no, they are too secular, once in Kazan a foreigner will not even understand that half the people around are muslims) need something more hardcore))
They think they are superior. They think they can never be wrong. And that everybody else is there to hurt them. This path only leads to misery. Soviet union collapsed because of this line of thinking, and sooner or later Russia will collapse too. And before you tell me I am brainwashed by western media, I live in post Soviet union and have to interact with Russians on almost daily basis.
Russians honoring their history by lying about it :D Literally colonized and ethnically clensed Kaliningrad, colonized Crimea and parts of Ukraine, colonizing occupied parts Ukraine as we speak. Amazing history really.
@@martincerny3294 Germans attacked USSR and lost, so take the L nazi apologist. And Crimea belonged to Russians way before USSR even became a thing, they conquered it through a war with Ottomans
It doesn’t immediately mean that no, but as you can see in for example the remembrance service in the video current actions and remembering the past are mixed extensively, as you see in more places.
@@beibotanov I'm not American but I've heard that ever since everyone started leaving its become a lot quieter. The rust belt is a really bittersweet thing.
This is about the third time I've watched your videos in entirety, but this time I'm not in America I'm in South Korea. The amount of stares I got in traffic when it cuts to the North Korean pop music was equal parts amusing and alarming. Please keep traveling so I can keep watching.
"Third Rome" referres to the Orthodoxal belief which was taken to Russia from the Byzantium's capital of Konstantinople that was well the Second Rome after the fall of the first one. That's all the reasons behind it. That's why it's no as joke as one may think
You know how many Russians say that liberalism is bad (myself included). Then there is LDPR, which is some sort of enigma, in my opinion. It calls itself liberal, but it's hard to see it as such, when you know most of liberals that aren't patriotic, and hate our country.
Just to explain, the LDPR is a spin-off of the ruling United Russia party, just to create the illusion that there is a party pluralism (in fact, of course, there is not). The Russians were good at staging stuff during the Soviet times (remember Finland 'attacking' the Soviet Union or the Baltic States 'voluntarily' accessing to the Soviet Union) and that has not changed.
Recently I also visited big Russia via Kaliningrad (it was a Berlin-Kaliningrad bus). And the funny thing is that when I was waiting for this bus at the station, one old man came up to the group of Russian people and asked: “Is this a Kiev bus?”
I'm friends with a Guy from China who introduced me to his Cousin, who was visiting The Chinese Embassy in the US. It was about 15 Years ago, & since he could tell I was not very Political, he took us out for Drinks. So we had a Great Time & like typical great times, we ended up getting pissed & even going to a Strip Club. Like normal "Way too much to 🍷 Drink" events, he started saying things, he probably would never say Sober. In a nutshell, he turned to me & said "Do you know what the CCP's biggest fear is?" I said "No". He said "That the US & Russia will finally figure out that it's futile to keep fighting, and that your Governments will get along". I know it happened a long time ago, but I've never totally forgot his words. Plus I've always thought that too much alcohol can be kind of a truth serem !! FYI - 8 Years after my drunk conversation, even Donald Trump said "Wouldn't it be Great if we got along with Russia?" Shortly after he said that, I decided to learn Russian & Study Russian Culture. It's actually been a really exciting journey !!
Russia and America are brothers. Both founded by Piratical Germanic Warbands, both frontier empires that conquered vast swathes of land with the use of Pastoral Warrior Cultures who love freedom (Cowboys and Cossacks), both had brutal civil wars where the Landed Aristocracy were defeated by Egalitarian Industrialists. Siberians and Native Americans are even closely related to eachother. During the 1800s America and Russia were growing increasingly close. This terrified Britain, who was in direct competition with Russia in Central Asia. As a result, the Brits worked hard to repair their relationship with America and drive a wedge between the two growing superpowers.
@@aceambling7685You’re absolutely right. I lived and studied in Russia for a while as an American, and there are so many similarities between the common people. Both love their countries, have a can-do attitude, and honestly, looking at the space race, if it weren’t for the threat of nuclear war, it could almost be seen as a friendly competition amongst brothers seeing who can outdo the other, which is the attitude I found with the friends I made in Russia. If only we could put aside geopolitical ambitions and embrace each other as brother nations… The world would be a better place.
So guess who benefits from this? They don't call China Joe for nothing. If Russia splits China gets eastern siberia, if not then they're forced to an alliance so a win win. What a diabolical plan 🥸☕
Хвала Калуме! Well, lets re-watch this, so RUclips can take more money from advertising, before it takes down again, and refuse to pay Callum his fair share. Cause RUclips is not biased at all LOL
14:40 - that cola is from Iran but we also have cola from Poland and Serbia here in Kaliningrad. They all taste different but the Polish one in my opinion is the closest to the original. 17:30 - the House of the Soviets for a long time was in private hands so government couldn't do much with it but recently it was finally bought back by the government and it's being dismantled at the moment.
Truly awful what they did to the Königsberg castle.. What a great cultural and historical loss and to replace it with that useless monstrosity! Adding insult to injury.
Russia isn't some backwards country. Like pretty much all countries you have nicer well kept areas, normally those focused more around tourism, and you have shitholes.
@@MrEsphoenix where did i say it was a backwards country? i live in the Netherlands and usually tourist spots are the dirtiest (amsterdam) and also i've never seen it as clean here as I see it on this video in Russia (Just like with Japan).
@@kirilllysenko4618 the fact that metropolitan areas are clean and only in the countryside it's "dirty", just speaks more volumes. considering it's the opposite in western countries.
Not the biggest lotus eaters fan, but I've got a lot of respect for you man. You do thourogh work, youre brave, and straightforward. Of all of Lord Miles' vassals, you are my favorite.
Alex's English in absolutely incredible! Barely any hint of an accent for someone that grew up in Germany and is half German/Half Russian. Amazing insight! Edit: You took on a half German/Half Russian at drinking ... oh sweet summer child xD
As a russian its super strange seeing all that war propaganda, it feels foreign but like home at the same time. Thank you for showing us all that perspective
i missed the original video because of reallife stuff happening... but let me say, thank you for this, its a real blast seeing cultures all around europe that got hit with the evil-stick and how they are doing. wanted to visit st. petersburg anyways so now this is the motivation to make a trip. probably stop by in königsberg and talk german non-stop just to see what happens...
@@kyrios443 dunno, locals will try to sell you stuff, overpriced by their standards, talking German themselves - most foreign tourists were and are Germans for obvious reasons
0:26 pochonbo electronic ensemble "the youth will support our party" Finding the name of a song from your video is always a fun adventure. Great work as usual.
@@natewilliams4737 Yeah, cause no freedom of speech, no right to bear arms, and getting arrested for criticizing dear leader just screams "Libertarian."
@@ZIEMOWITIUS Britain hated Russia and constantly tried to attack it from its Polish foothold. So Catherine the Great suppored original bearers of this snake flag and partitioned Poland.
@@hairytentacle3924 British-Polish relations were not that close in the 18th century. Quite odd to think so considering Poland gave considerable aid to the American colonists in their war of independence against the British. Events in Eastern Europe had no bearing on the war in the West whatsoever. Catherine the Wh*re recognized the Revolution, but did little else. Poland was taken out of greed by three autocratic Empires because it was in the midst of building a Constitutional Republic akin to the Americans.
I'm an American military veteran and have always wanted to visit Russia, even now with everything going on. I've started studying Russian language on Pimsleur and started the process to apply for a Russian entry visa. I'm a little unnerved by the questions on the visa about weapons and explosives experience, but I won't lie so we'll see if it gets approved. I was planning on doing a similar trip to Callum's (St.P, Moscow, Volgograd) solo, and then in the future bringing my wife and children if everything went okay. If anyone reads this and has any advice I'd appreciate it. Thank you for doing these travel videos Callum.
as someone from one of the cities you listed, I advise you get in touch with some americans who live there in case of an emergency, or a russian you can trust. Late May is the best time to go since it's after all the may holliday craziness but before heat-waves. Moscow and St Pete is overrun with illegals from central asia and it's not a good expereince. I'd visit Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov and Volgograd. That's be a great tour. Also the "golden ring" medieval cities around Moscow are worth touring as well.
Also you should check Tank Museum in Kubinka (and/or Patriot Park) - they are 1 hour drive from Moscow. There you can find an actual Mouse tank, IS-3, t-84, Panther, exotic aircrafts.
53:25 this can also be extremely easily explained because I asked this to one of my ex-coworkers who is Russian; Russians are content with their own history, literally. They don't hate themselves or contemplate about the atrocities done in the past. For them the past is the past and it has lead them to who they are today. Some support the actons of the past, some don't but they don't bicker and fight amongst eachother for it. As they are content with it, probably due to the vast and diverse history of their country and people. Also another major factor I would assume, is that Russians aren't raised and taught in elementary schools to hate themselves and their history. But rather to be proud of it or atleast maybe learn from it from a centrist perspective. If you compare this to the West, it's no surprise that most Westerners harbor self hate. As they're taught from elementary school that they are evil due to their history. In addition also not learning anything of the greatness of their own history and or people. Everything is taught in the context of "we did this because we are bad people". So I would say that Russians might be more sober regarding this cultural topic in general than Westerners.
"They don't hate themselves or contemplate about the atrocities done in the past." Which to me is literally hypocrisy, seeing as how they love to remind others for their past. They accept their past, no matter if it was bad, but they will constantly remind others how bad their past was.
@@ishitrealbad3039 That's all fine and good but it can lead to problems. In this case, it does because the Russians have not learned from their past. There are several reports of mass graves being found in Ukraine of civilians killed and buried by Russians, mirroring very closely the mass graves of Polish soldiers and civilians found in places like Katyn. These are war crimes, and Russia's unwillingness to acknowledge it's past war crimes lead it to commit more to this day.
You put a lot more effort into your videos then the vast majority of RUclips channels, tourism related or otherwise. You deserve atleast a few million subs more then what you have now. I don’t care wether you see this or not because atleast this comment will help boost this video up and give it the attention it deserves.
Everything is an opportunity to extract money from you. You are often expected to pay for the public Wi-Fi here in the UK, at least. It's much less common now that everybody has mobile data, but 10 years ago, I recall BT charging as much as £10 per day for use of their public Wi-Fi. It was free if you were one of their customers, however.
Posting this again since the original video got deleted. For anyone that wants to know the North Korean music used in this video are, here you go: 0:26 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Young People, Uphold Our Party [Vol. 11] 15:17 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Urban Girl Comes To Get Married [Vol. 11] 20:58 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Валенки (Мне без валенок беда) [Vol. 23 - Foreign Songs 1] 41:35 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Our Toast 53:41 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Dançando lambada [Vol. 23 - Foreign Songs 1] *The one in brackets are where I found them at by doing a youtube search.* I had to change the timestamps on the last two as they're different now. Again if I got one wrong, feel free to correct them in the comments. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of your day.
oh thank you. I was trying to shazam it but remembered he uses north korean music due to copyright, so thank you for this comment. It was just a blast to hear Валенки with this accent
Watched the original, great work as always, people really need to have their eyes opened to other parts of the world👍, just a shame that you have had to re-upload this over very little
Another great episode from you, Callum. Can't eclipse the number of dead from the siege of Lenningrad, around 900 days, but the siege of Sarajevo lasted for 1,395 days. It was the longest siege in modern history, (BBC) Not to diminished the suffering of the Russians but maybe you could visit Bosnia sometime.
@@Paul_Sergeyev When the BBC was a credible news service they produced a fine series called The Death of Yugoslavia. That would be a good place to start. The series is on youtube.
Though only recently finding your channel, you've been a great eye opener on what is actually happening in place I have yet to visit and now actually hope to. Please keep it up
Interesting and beautiful. I've always wanted to go to St. Petersburg and Moscow. I've collected pictures of St. Basil's because it's amazing. The war history is so important. Even the underground is an architectural masterpiece. Thanks for the tour.
It was not "Druzhinniki" it was "Truzhenniki" - meaning "labourers". It's a common phrase from soviet times "Truzhenniki tyla" meaning "labourers of the rear" referring to all the working class that was generally not a military person and were providing coutry life and victory while working in the "rear" - not on particular battle front
Thank you sir! Recently converted to Russian Orthodoxy in the nightmare that is Upstate New York. History let me to the culture, and the culture led me to the faith. Best regards from a factory worker trapped in the worst state of the union. God protect you and the lads at the Lotus Eaters! 🇺🇲☦️🇷🇺
I lived in St Petersburg for a few years and loved it there, and went to Orthodox masses. Now I feel that Russian Orthodoxy under Kirill is a sort of zombie. I could respect the ROC until it bowed to his declaration of Christian jihad. He declared that anyone who fights and dies in Ukraine for the Russian World will have their sins cleansed. I can't get past that. When the Orthodox Christmas mass in Kyiv was celebrated for the first time in history in Ukrainian last year, many top Russians went apoplectic. I used to nod my head at the concerns over NATO, but Russian domestic media broke me of that. The stuff they say about Ukraine makes me ill. Especially the hatred to Russian speaking Ukrainians: "Russian speakers who insist on being Ukrainian are the worst sort of creatures. They deny who and what they are...." The Russian World nonsense and Great Patriotic War obsession is a giant death cult. I hope Russia can get out of it.
Russia has systematically worked against your country for years, and is partly to blame for your problems, and what you do you do? You join their church! You start to play being Russian!
@@markheithaus what stuff they speak of Ukraine is not true? In ten years huge beautiful country has turned into a monstrosity! Democratic countries breastfed a chauvinist militarised totalitarian state! Aren't you ashamed of your leaders?
@@redstarling5171 Not necessarily. It tends to be buildings from around the 60's where they really liked concrete that are the worst. Cheap, dirty and falling to bits. Modern buildings can be an eyesore, but they can also look great and mesh really well with more historical stuff when done right. The biggest factor in bigger cities is often cohesion. If the buildings in an area really mesh well with each other it looks neat, if they clash with different styles it can look a mess.
So? I live in the UK where we actually still have a monarchy, and a picture of The Queen in a pub would be weird, let alone a picture of the Russian monarch. @@SusanooMain
@@locomotivefaox well. I ain’t saying we have monarch portraits in all of our pubs, but there are a lots of weird places in Saint Petersburg, and a lot more stranger owners. if I knew the name of the place I’d probably give something more reasonable for explanation rather than “idk maybe owner is into russian empire and monarchy”
For most people she was a lot more of a celebrity than she was ever a 'monarch' so her face tends to be used as a sort of Warhol-esque piece of pop art. It's like having a portrait of Dali or Kurt Cobain on your wall, something along these lines.
I see your videos and its encouraged me to continue looking at the world in a way that is different from just simply what you have been told online by one source and on the TV. I'd like to visit for myself one day. Maybe i'll leave afghanistan for now, but i'm sure i'll get round to it
Thank god the video is still/again there! Wasn't able to watch it until now but had the tab open all the time. Keep up the good work, your content is fascinating!
@@beibotanov Cleaner no. You'll find most major cities and tourist spots are kept very clean in most countries. Safer, certainly not. Russia has a lot of organised crime and police violence that is swept under the rug. As a tourist going to major cities, you'll be as safe as anywhere, but let's not pretend Russia is some safe haven from crime. Less homeless is true thanks in large part to social housing for the poor, but that is balanced out by a much larger portion of the population living in what would be classed as poverty in many western countries. I do think more countries should follow Russia's example of looking after their homeless, but Russia could do a lot to look after the less fortunate too.
@@MrEsphoenix as a Russian, i just walk around feeling safe in my commieblock neighbourhood. All the neighbourhoods are same - no lawless ghetto's I'm aware of, everywhere is free for everyone to roam. Not seeing that much of the police - just a couple of patrolmen for a whole day in the metro, probably going to neighbor station to check a firearm carrier's papers. Hundreds of thousands others are hiding in their holes imitating work, I guess. Organized crime is rampant in Israel and Korea too, but citizens there do not get involved in street crime, feeling safe - too. And today I have also seen a bum! First one for half a year. Hard to get habit to them at these rates. Social housing - there is none for the bums I heard of. Not really a problem with them being rare. For the people less fortunate but not completely lost there is the is the workhouse industry - yes, the word is basically the same as English history book ones - a bunk, meal one or two times a day and weekly wage payments for low-qualification work outsourced by other companies. The industry is fully commercial, profit-based, except few houses run by the Church and other religions or charities. You see, most dreams of welfare and other developed countries' things like progressive taxing were dropped on the border of centuries, post-factum after the economic collapse to the level of some Latin American countries. Russia is a very neoliberal state, although it may change in several years, labor force gets expensive, a deficit as it was in USSR. So, the "working poor" mass phenomena may be will fade away, dunno
@@beibotanov Anecdotal evidence aside, Russia is nothing special in most regards, they just have a similar level of superiority propaganda to America. The homeless thing is good, as I said, but balanced by general poverty. You'll find in reality humans are humans, Just some of them buy the propaganda more than others.
I still don't get how an American company can own the rights to a song by SHAMAN, a Russian artist. OVER 9000 sanctions - this doesnt make sense. Also clearly in context of the museum piece. Ugh. Disgusting. Stay strong Callum, we are behind you.
This is a youtube issue, it happens most of the time a popular song is out. Some 3rd party will lie, copyright strike all content it can, steal the income, then disappear.
16:29 Most of these detectors appeared in Russian regions after the Volgograd bombings in December 2013, and your lady friend is incorrect in assuming that most of them aren't functioning, they are.
Hello from Volgograd, great video :D One things you missed here is the world biggest Lenin statue, in the most southern district of this city. Tbh not the greatest area, ive personally pissed under that thing.
Жаль в Москву в этом (уже том) году не приехали летом, когда зелени полно. Парки просто загляденье есть. Но так выбор городов хороший был. Приезжайте к нам ещё!
Translation: Too bad you haven't visited Moscow in the summer, when it's full of greenery. Absolutely beautiful parks. But overall, good selection of cities. Come again!
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England. (Different from the Church of England) Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations. :)
Man, I lived in and studied in Russia for a while, and seeing this makes me miss it more than I already do. As an American, Russia was welcoming, beautiful, and had a great culture. Can’t wait to go back.
I just watched this video and I like it very much. No matter what opinions people have on this war, this video was really enligthning and it showed that life in Russia is pretty much different from what we hear from the western news. Thanks for the video.
Another great video! I'm an American who's lived in Moscow for four years now and I'd love to introduce you to the expat community here or show some gems. Another awesome place to see is Dagestan!
Are there a lot of Americans in Moscow? I've been living in Chelyabinsk for five years and I think nowadays I'm the only American left in the city. There used to be some others, but they cleared out.
I noticed your video on Afghanistan and clicked on thinking there's no way I'm gonna make it an hour. Then you said the video was over and I was like where did that hour just go? Laughs along the away. Love that you doing what you love and found a way to capitalize on it
Bro, when you mention the destruction of the castle in the center of Konigsberg, do not forget to mention that the Soviets did not destroy the city, they did it (as in other things and always in the history of their existence), the Anglo-Saxon Air Force. The Red Army has already entered the city bombed by the British. So the British decided to annoy the Russians. This is the essence of the British, destroy everything around, but make it bad for Russia. This is literally the meaning of Britain's existence.
Anglo saxons did the same in Serbia at the end of ww2. As Im sure you know Serbia was allied with uk and usa against Germany and their allies. Despite this, the anglos did a devastating bombing of Belgrade in April 1944, especially targetting hospitals where Serbian civilians were being treated. Belgrade was bombed by British and American air forces on 16-17 April 1944, which was Orthodox Easter Day.
*Actually, Gdansk was part of Poland. On November 14, 1308, it was captured by the knights of the Teutonic (German, or Germanic) Order, annexed to Prussia and renamed Danzig.*
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I have to thank you, very much callum. You went to my country and showed what it truely is like, even in the poorer areas we recently took over, ever since the war, life has gotten..... much better, the economy is more stable, fuel is dirt cheap, food is plentiful and spirts are high, finally, i am able to buy my own house. My grandmother finally said life is better than in the USSR. Thank you West, for sanctioning us!
superb stuff callum, really enjoyed that. was supposed to take my son to moscow for the 75th anniversary victory day but covid happened then the SMO. was taking him as a reward for teaching himself russian to troll other kids in fortnite! maybe one day.
Sorry about the reupload, if you check the community tab you will see due to a false copyright claim the original video got completely broken.
I tried to fix it with RUclipss post editing tool, but the tool deleted 20 min of the video for some reason.
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np. shoutout from russia bro
Please can you tell me the name of the sonh 21:00
ah well - will just have to rewatch now
Wait what part got deleted?
Does this mean RUclips's editing tool has secret control over what you broadcast? Hmmmm...
He's the bravest man I've ever seen! I can't believe he survived in one of the most dangerous places in the whole world! 6 hours in Poland! 😱
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church
(These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches)
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC
(Different from the Church of Scotland)
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England.
(Different from the Church of England)
Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
:)
The real Mad-lad
Had us for the first half ngl
I mean hes brits so understandable
Love seeing the support Poland is giving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 🤝🇵🇱
Most-underrated travel channel.
British and German drinks in Russia and laughing over the spinning rat meme. PEAK COMEDY 😂
This is how memes works for anyone in Russia
что это за мем ? поясни.
@@homuchoghoma6789 Да сам мем не смешной. Просто низкополигональная модель крысы крутится под музыку. И всё. Но в контексте двух пьяных иностранцев в России это кажется смешным
@@homuchoghoma6789 мем уровня "дед, смотри собака сидит", крч мета-пост-кардио-ирония
@@JustRedDude мне было смешно, извинись
"Freedom of speech?"
"Eh fuck that"
They really are Russian patriots 😂
Speech is already free as long as it is patriotic. Try to protest US foreign policy or so-called 3l3ct10ns you'll be charged with "espionage, conspiracy or treason" have your bank accounts frozen, put on No fly lists or the US government will have you kidnapped and thrown in prison if you're overseas (Julian Assange, @ndr3w T@te). And one of those guys is not even a US citizen.
We don't have freedom of speech in Europe either. I can't say what I really feel about mass immigration without being throw in jail. Only America has actual freedom of speech.
You have freedom of speech for as long as nobody hears you, and this is the same in every other country.
U.S. doesn't have it either, granted you don't get imprisoned for that *cough Assange cough* , but there are many other ways to ruin your life and take away your livelihood.
Ah yes, but did you notice they had the freedom to say that?
@@limedickandrew6016 Ah yes they had the freedom to say things that the government agrees with, who would've thought?
Third Rome claim exists because Sophia Paleologue was the niece of the last Emperor of Constantinople. She married Ivan III, Tsar of Russia.
That doesn't make Muscovia a third Rome. They're more akin to Mongols than Romans.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS man, you seriously compared the Mongols to the Russians💀 You better go to school and then take classes
@@slovilmaslinu Last time I checked, Muscovia was ran by the Mongols for quite a while.
Never was part of Rome though.
@@ZIEMOWITIUSневежда. Позор тебе
@@КубанцынаУрале Sorry, don't speak Mongol.
Just a fact: the day Wagner took Rostov, I was supposed to have an exam, and I study in Rostov. My teacher said no and rescheduled the exam for a week, which allowed me to prepare from scratch
"Just Russian things"
Maxed the luck out so hard there was a military coup started just to prevent you from failing 😭😭
@@MrSnoopy100 just my life)
That is fucking based
@@MrSnoopy100
”THANK GOD!”
“The fuck did you say?”
At 40:29 it's me, congratulations on your new video, Callum! Only I am a Don Cossack, not a Kuban Cossack 😅
Best wishes, your friend Kirill 🤗
sorry for the mistake, just being a stupid forigner :D
I wanted to include the singing but the audio.was broken.
nothing, great video! 😊
Просто интересно, что за песня была?)
@@zanuda_online честно говоря не помню, но это точно чистый фольклор :)
«Баклановцы», «На речке Камышинке», «Как донские казаки» и проч.
Its weird seeing a person in Callums video commenting on the video.
And btw Konigsberg castle was literally destroyed during the war, thanks to british aviation in particular, the soviets only demolished the remnants of the tower. So there was no 'nice castle'
Allied bombing hit it, but there were all the main walls and the tower standing, which couldve been restored. Soviets demolished it during several years to come. I guess new regime didnt like the memory of the old one.. somewhat of a threat to its new identity in the region ;) Funny, the cathedral's RUINS were left standing and were rebuilt later. So, yeah, "nice castle" or not, wouldve still been nicer to restore history (non-nazi btw) than have this concrete-frankenstein (saying this even as I am a fan of brutalisk architecture)
@@toivotooming1243 so, soviets didn't like memories of a castle, but were ok with the memories of a cathedral, because soviets were famous for keeping memories of religious buildings, but not castles in particular (although they kept the Vyborg castle, for example). Got it, sounds plausible
@@ФедяКрюков-в6ьOof yeah, you have a better point
13:27 just like the Nord Stream pipeline, everyone knows, no one talks.
As an experiment, I decided to add milk to my tea today. Don't repeat my mistake.
You just need to add sugar in addition to milk. Theoretically, I could drink tea with milk too, but I don't consume sugar. 😅😅
If you drink redbush it's absolutely delicious with milk
as an american tea drinker, milk in tea is disgusting. it only works with Chai tea, which should always have milk in it.
@@selectionn As a Canadian tea drinker - it's fine, and it definitely elevates certain kinds of tea
The proper way to drink tea is with milk, what are you talking about.
Unless it's some garbage herbal nonsense that curdles milk.
lovely video. The North Korean pop music doesn't ever get old.
Appreciate the travels, Callum!
And more importantly, the Best Korea pop music doesn't get copyright claimed.
What are the name of the songs?
@@LordCohliani music performer is Pochonbo, no need to know song names, all of their tracks are gems
At first I thought he did it only for the Afghanistan video because music was "banned" or something and he didn't know what to put as a result.
Thank you for mentioning this! I was going crazy trying to figure out what the language was. I would have guessed Korean but glad to not be crazy.
These type of videos are your absolute best, loved your Afghanistan video and this is yet another masterpiece, glad you managed to get the video back up!
nobody:
absolutely no russians ever:
foreigners drinking "in russian": NA ZDOROVIE
Shhhh... let them west-slavic'fy russians
потому что в юные годы они слушали E-Type ))
Za Vashizdrovie is pretty close to that and that one works. I think that's why it's used in American movies, a misunderstanding
@@jorgeenchilada also I can't speak for Czechs or Slovaks, but that's basically how you say it in Polish "na zdrowie", maybe they confused a bit all Slavic immigrants back in the day and thought they're all russian, which sometimes is annoying that anything Slavic is somehow automatically russian
A Slovak man told me they say "na zdravie"
Funny story. There is an indoor eternal flame shown at 41:50. I've been there. It was about 20 years ago and I went with my mom and dad to visit relatives as my mother is Russian. This was back before smart phones were a thing and even digital cameras were a bit of a luxury. She had an fairly modern (for the time) picture camera that used film rolls. She was snapping pictures of the murals that lined the path up to the building that held the flame.
When we got inside, it was just my mom, my dad, two Russian honor guards and me. My mom explained to me that this was a sacred place where visitors were requested to act in a dignified manner and be quiet. I don't remember exactly what prompted her saying this but I think it was a sign. It could have been me speaking too loudly though. Right after she said that, she tried to take a photo of the flame. Unfortunately for her, her roll of film had reached it's end and when she tried to take a photo, the camera started to automatically rewind the roll.
The only thing you could hear in the building was the loud electronic whirring of her camera which she could not stop. For about 20 seconds we just stood there while my mom embarrassingly tried to fumble around with the thing in some vain effort to shut it up. My dad and I were trying not to laugh while the two Russian guards just stood there with their poker faces on.
nice experience
Russian women. Shush in public, don't speak too loud, don't look that way, wear your good shoes. Inside the house though, chaos, mess in the kitchen, we're not allowed to clean it, blankets on the sofa, no discipline, no softness.
I remember those cameras 😂 wizwizwizzz
Since Callum is somewhat fixated on the issue of multiculturalism, he now only has to visit our “Islamic belt” - the republics of the North Caucasus and Crimea. And there are still a couple of unrecognized republics with gorgeous mountains and beaches!
You’re a clueless russophobe. There is almost not Muslims in Crimea. Crimean Tatars make up 8 percent of the population and they’re pretty secular like Azeris and Volga Tatars.
@@slawaboga1433 They came back again in the 90s and 00s. Crimea is not all Islamic, but there are areas and cities where there are a lot of them. Simferopol, Bakhchysarai, etc.
I would suggest Tatarstan since it's one of the most developed regions, mostly Islamic, but may be also the most diverse (there are religious buildings of Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Orthodox Christianity of Old Believers, Protestantism, Catholicism)
@@al1sa920 no, they are too secular, once in Kazan a foreigner will not even understand that half the people around are muslims) need something more hardcore))
@@slawaboga1433 they were, but since the late 80s they began to return. I'm sure Callum will really like the new cathedral mosque in Simferopol))
I'll repeat the comment section I saw on previous video:
Callum, please, don't visit Ukraine. They can detain you because you visited Luhansk.
Спокойно, его даже нет на Миротворце. Я проверял)
@@zanuda_online Миротворец вообще никак не связан с МВД Украины, он все равно может уже быть в "расстрельных" списках.
Source?
@@NicholasEzclapz trust me bro
How else can he top Miles? He must be detained and watch blu-ray with his captors.
they are proud of their past and rightfully so, it doesnt mean that they are communists or imperialists right now. its honouring their amazing history
They think they are superior. They think they can never be wrong. And that everybody else is there to hurt them. This path only leads to misery. Soviet union collapsed because of this line of thinking, and sooner or later Russia will collapse too.
And before you tell me I am brainwashed by western media, I live in post Soviet union and have to interact with Russians on almost daily basis.
Russians honoring their history by lying about it :D Literally colonized and ethnically clensed Kaliningrad, colonized Crimea and parts of Ukraine, colonizing occupied parts Ukraine as we speak. Amazing history really.
@@martincerny3294 Germans attacked USSR and lost, so take the L nazi apologist. And Crimea belonged to Russians way before USSR even became a thing, they conquered it through a war with Ottomans
It doesn’t immediately mean that no, but as you can see in for example the remembrance service in the video current actions and remembering the past are mixed extensively, as you see in more places.
Callum this is all easy mode. When will you visit a real warzone like Detroit?
Maybe the ones the Russians created in Ukraine?
"Take him to Detroit!"
Although I heard it got a lot nicer than it was ten years ago
Go watch Channel 5......
@@beibotanov
I'm not American but I've heard that ever since everyone started leaving its become a lot quieter.
The rust belt is a really bittersweet thing.
@@beibotanov I hear they've got running water by now!
This is about the third time I've watched your videos in entirety, but this time I'm not in America I'm in South Korea. The amount of stares I got in traffic when it cuts to the North Korean pop music was equal parts amusing and alarming. Please keep traveling so I can keep watching.
Don't be an ass and watch videos on speakers
I did not even know there IS North Korean pop music. At what time point?
that is russian music i think. listen carefuly
@@lukasalej5710 It's "Valenki" by Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble
"Third Rome" referres to the Orthodoxal belief which was taken to Russia from the Byzantium's capital of Konstantinople that was well the Second Rome after the fall of the first one. That's all the reasons behind it. That's why it's no as joke as one may think
It is kind of a joke.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS you're kind of a joke, pathetic one
Dont forget the Marriage into the Emperor Bloodlines and the Double headed Eagle
Byzantium was not a second rome, it was just rome.
@@Callaghan552 Still the logic of inheriting for Byzantium remains
the LDPR guys were hilarious
what do we support?
Freedom of Speech?
Eh, Fuck that
I can already see them as important politicians.
They are the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. Basically Russian Republicans. United Russia is kind of like American 90-s or early 2000-s Democrats.
You know how many Russians say that liberalism is bad (myself included). Then there is LDPR, which is some sort of enigma, in my opinion. It calls itself liberal, but it's hard to see it as such, when you know most of liberals that aren't patriotic, and hate our country.
Just to explain, the LDPR is a spin-off of the ruling United Russia party, just to create the illusion that there is a party pluralism (in fact, of course, there is not). The Russians were good at staging stuff during the Soviet times (remember Finland 'attacking' the Soviet Union or the Baltic States 'voluntarily' accessing to the Soviet Union) and that has not changed.
Recently I also visited big Russia via Kaliningrad (it was a Berlin-Kaliningrad bus). And the funny thing is that when I was waiting for this bus at the station, one old man came up to the group of Russian people and asked: “Is this a Kiev bus?”
What did they say?
Königsberg*
@@homoe7976 dont loose next time
@@homoe7976 this looks so pathetic, you probably should stop doing that.
I'm friends with a Guy from China who introduced me to his Cousin, who was visiting The Chinese Embassy in the US. It was about 15 Years ago, & since he could tell I was not very Political, he took us out for Drinks.
So we had a Great Time & like typical great times, we ended up getting pissed & even going to a Strip Club. Like normal "Way too much to 🍷 Drink" events, he started saying things, he probably would never say Sober.
In a nutshell, he turned to me & said "Do you know what the CCP's biggest fear is?" I said "No". He said "That the US & Russia will finally figure out that it's futile to keep fighting, and that your Governments will get along".
I know it happened a long time ago, but I've never totally forgot his words. Plus I've always thought that too much alcohol can be kind of a truth serem !!
FYI - 8 Years after my drunk conversation, even Donald Trump said "Wouldn't it be Great if we got along with Russia?" Shortly after he said that, I decided to learn Russian & Study Russian Culture. It's actually been a really exciting journey !!
Inbred Western leaders are probably overly greedy or just plain racist, viewing the Communism as an original sin of a whole nation. Bad for them
Thank to the United States for literally pushing us and China into each other's arms
Russia and America are brothers. Both founded by Piratical Germanic Warbands, both frontier empires that conquered vast swathes of land with the use of Pastoral Warrior Cultures who love freedom (Cowboys and Cossacks), both had brutal civil wars where the Landed Aristocracy were defeated by Egalitarian Industrialists. Siberians and Native Americans are even closely related to eachother. During the 1800s America and Russia were growing increasingly close. This terrified Britain, who was in direct competition with Russia in Central Asia. As a result, the Brits worked hard to repair their relationship with America and drive a wedge between the two growing superpowers.
@@aceambling7685You’re absolutely right. I lived and studied in Russia for a while as an American, and there are so many similarities between the common people. Both love their countries, have a can-do attitude, and honestly, looking at the space race, if it weren’t for the threat of nuclear war, it could almost be seen as a friendly competition amongst brothers seeing who can outdo the other, which is the attitude I found with the friends I made in Russia. If only we could put aside geopolitical ambitions and embrace each other as brother nations… The world would be a better place.
So guess who benefits from this? They don't call China Joe for nothing. If Russia splits China gets eastern siberia, if not then they're forced to an alliance so a win win. What a diabolical plan 🥸☕
Brother you're always welcome in Russia! Come again soon
Хвала Калуме! Well, lets re-watch this, so RUclips can take more money from advertising, before it takes down again, and refuse to pay Callum his fair share. Cause RUclips is not biased at all LOL
Well said
14:40 - that cola is from Iran but we also have cola from Poland and Serbia here in Kaliningrad. They all taste different but the Polish one in my opinion is the closest to the original.
17:30 - the House of the Soviets for a long time was in private hands so government couldn't do much with it but recently it was finally bought back by the government and it's being dismantled at the moment.
schizo rambling, вырусь, cola is the same.
Fun fact; cheap shops in western countries also sell officially branded Coca Cola that's made in factories in Poland. How does it taste differently?
@@thymenwaterman8672 I can't explain but Serbian cola is somehow not as sweet as Russian or Polish cola.
@@senaya wrong and fake hohol
Truly awful what they did to the Königsberg castle.. What a great cultural and historical loss and to replace it with that useless monstrosity! Adding insult to injury.
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„Hoi4 players know as Danzig” had me laughing like crazy 😂
not even one minute in and i'm surprised to how clean it al is...
Russia isn't some backwards country. Like pretty much all countries you have nicer well kept areas, normally those focused more around tourism, and you have shitholes.
@@MrEsphoenixone minute in, he was in Poland
@@MrEsphoenix where did i say it was a backwards country?
i live in the Netherlands and usually tourist spots are the dirtiest (amsterdam) and also i've never seen it as clean here as I see it on this video in Russia (Just like with Japan).
Dude, you haven't seen real Russia. Most places are dirty as fuck
@@kirilllysenko4618 the fact that metropolitan areas are clean and only in the countryside it's "dirty", just speaks more volumes.
considering it's the opposite in western countries.
Not the biggest lotus eaters fan, but I've got a lot of respect for you man. You do thourogh work, youre brave, and straightforward. Of all of Lord Miles' vassals, you are my favorite.
Give this man a timemachine.
I'd love to watch him stumble around 1805s Paris, 1936s Berlin, 1900s Bejing, 1930s Tokyo and many, many others.
Alex's English in absolutely incredible! Barely any hint of an accent for someone that grew up in Germany and is half German/Half Russian. Amazing insight!
Edit: You took on a half German/Half Russian at drinking ... oh sweet summer child xD
You can find him at 27:02
The soundtrack is so funny - it’s Chinese or North Korean people sing Russian Soviet era songs.
As a russian its super strange seeing all that war propaganda, it feels foreign but like home at the same time. Thank you for showing us all that perspective
i missed the original video because of reallife stuff happening...
but let me say, thank you for this,
its a real blast seeing cultures all around europe that got hit with the evil-stick and how they are doing. wanted to visit st. petersburg anyways so now this is the motivation to make a trip. probably stop by in königsberg and talk german non-stop just to see what happens...
the most common reaction would be “rot front” and “Hitler kaput”)
What would happen if you speak german in koningsberg ?
@@kyrios443 dunno, locals will try to sell you stuff, overpriced by their standards, talking German themselves - most foreign tourists were and are Germans for obvious reasons
@@kyrios443 probably nothing. Many Russians like Germans from my experience. And they love love German cars 🤣
0:26 pochonbo electronic ensemble "the youth will support our party"
Finding the name of a song from your video is always a fun adventure. Great work as usual.
Sad to see it had to be reposted. Thanks for your Russia vids, now I have a plan to visit these 4 cities in the exact same order as you.
This is by far one of the most interesting channels I subscribe to. Keep up the great work and stay safe!
Will never cease to be baffling to see people with profile pics like yours praising Russia.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS 🤡 you don’t make any sense.
@@natewilliams4737 Yeah, cause no freedom of speech, no right to bear arms, and getting arrested for criticizing dear leader just screams "Libertarian."
@@ZIEMOWITIUS Britain hated Russia and constantly tried to attack it from its Polish foothold. So Catherine the Great suppored original bearers of this snake flag and partitioned Poland.
@@hairytentacle3924 British-Polish relations were not that close in the 18th century. Quite odd to think so considering Poland gave considerable aid to the American colonists in their war of independence against the British. Events in Eastern Europe had no bearing on the war in the West whatsoever.
Catherine the Wh*re recognized the Revolution, but did little else. Poland was taken out of greed by three autocratic Empires because it was in the midst of building a Constitutional Republic akin to the Americans.
Make a Transsiberian trip next time. Vladivostok is a super interesting city to see just as a whole Russian Far East.
How long from Moscow to Vladivostok on car or motorbike I wonder? It's gotta be almost a week right? Seems like a crazy adventure
@@CursedImagesEveryday probably 2 weeks at least if you want to see the cities and attraction, and also rest well.
Glad it's uploaded again. I think there's something particularly unique about Callum and Miles. Daredevils of our age.
Hey, no worries. I"ll gladly watch it again.
I'm an American military veteran and have always wanted to visit Russia, even now with everything going on. I've started studying Russian language on Pimsleur and started the process to apply for a Russian entry visa. I'm a little unnerved by the questions on the visa about weapons and explosives experience, but I won't lie so we'll see if it gets approved. I was planning on doing a similar trip to Callum's (St.P, Moscow, Volgograd) solo, and then in the future bringing my wife and children if everything went okay. If anyone reads this and has any advice I'd appreciate it. Thank you for doing these travel videos Callum.
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as someone from one of the cities you listed, I advise you get in touch with some americans who live there in case of an emergency, or a russian you can trust. Late May is the best time to go since it's after all the may holliday craziness but before heat-waves. Moscow and St Pete is overrun with illegals from central asia and it's not a good expereince. I'd visit Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov and Volgograd. That's be a great tour. Also the "golden ring" medieval cities around Moscow are worth touring as well.
wow, thank you for this advice. I will look into that info@@kirillholt2329
You should also visit Vladimir and Yaroslavl, Saransk, Kazan.
Also you should check Tank Museum in Kubinka (and/or Patriot Park) - they are 1 hour drive from Moscow. There you can find an actual Mouse tank, IS-3, t-84, Panther, exotic aircrafts.
53:25 this can also be extremely easily explained because I asked this to one of my ex-coworkers who is Russian;
Russians are content with their own history, literally.
They don't hate themselves or contemplate about the atrocities done in the past. For them the past is the past and it has lead them to who they are today. Some support the actons of the past, some don't but they don't bicker and fight amongst eachother for it. As they are content with it, probably due to the vast and diverse history of their country and people.
Also another major factor I would assume, is that Russians aren't raised and taught in elementary schools to hate themselves and their history. But rather to be proud of it or atleast maybe learn from it from a centrist perspective.
If you compare this to the West, it's no surprise that most Westerners harbor self hate. As they're taught from elementary school that they are evil due to their history. In addition also not learning anything of the greatness of their own history and or people. Everything is taught in the context of "we did this because we are bad people".
So I would say that Russians might be more sober regarding this cultural topic in general than Westerners.
"They don't hate themselves or contemplate about the atrocities done in the past."
Which to me is literally hypocrisy, seeing as how they love to remind others for their past. They accept their past, no matter if it was bad, but they will constantly remind others how bad their past was.
@@Dread_2137 you seem to miss the entire context and point.
@@ishitrealbad3039 That's all fine and good but it can lead to problems.
In this case, it does because the Russians have not learned from their past. There are several reports of mass graves being found in Ukraine of civilians killed and buried by Russians, mirroring very closely the mass graves of Polish soldiers and civilians found in places like Katyn.
These are war crimes, and Russia's unwillingness to acknowledge it's past war crimes lead it to commit more to this day.
"Taught to hate themselves"
Annnnnnd opinion discarded. 🦜
Damn birds are getting clever, learning how to type. To bad they can't think.
@@ZIEMOWITIUS”several reports” yah bro keep drinking that propaganda kool-aid.
Numero Uno, watching now before it's taken off and Callum decides to open an Only fans account for such videos.
You put a lot more effort into your videos then the vast majority of RUclips channels, tourism related or otherwise. You deserve atleast a few million subs more then what you have now. I don’t care wether you see this or not because atleast this comment will help boost this video up and give it the attention it deserves.
Hold on, Free Wifi isn't a thing in the western world?
Everything is an opportunity to extract money from you. You are often expected to pay for the public Wi-Fi here in the UK, at least. It's much less common now that everybody has mobile data, but 10 years ago, I recall BT charging as much as £10 per day for use of their public Wi-Fi. It was free if you were one of their customers, however.
It is in parts of America
There is lots of free wifi in Germany
Cafes usually have it but public spaces generally don't. You'll occasionally find it in a shopping mall or something.
@@kirilllysenko4618 there is free public wifi in Germany, but not even close to how much you find in Russia
What was the copyright claim on? Are the dastardly South Korean music labels trying to muscle in on the noble art-form that is NK-Pop?
These videos are so entertaining! Great work Callum!
Wow, nice to see you visited my hometown of Zelenogradsk. After the conflict started it became a tourist hotspot since the borders are mostly closed.
the " WAGER "cola is not the wagner cola 🤣 Nice vid btw ! loved it!
I didn't see a woman with 2 mommies in any of those Russia military ads, I wonder why?
Because there is a huge fine for LGBT propaganda, and if LGBT propaganda is for children - several years in prison.
@@DenOfTen Based.
Russians are scared of gay people.
Posting this again since the original video got deleted. For anyone that wants to know the North Korean music used in this video are, here you go:
0:26 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Young People, Uphold Our Party [Vol. 11]
15:17 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Urban Girl Comes To Get Married [Vol. 11]
20:58 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Валенки (Мне без валенок беда) [Vol. 23 - Foreign Songs 1]
41:35 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Our Toast
53:41 - Pochonbo Electronic Ensemble - Dançando lambada [Vol. 23 - Foreign Songs 1]
*The one in brackets are where I found them at by doing a youtube search.*
I had to change the timestamps on the last two as they're different now. Again if I got one wrong, feel free to correct them in the comments. Otherwise, enjoy the rest of your day.
22:08 HOI4
Do you know why the video was deleted?
@MarcelRecasens He got copyrighted. You can read all about it on his community tab he posted.
oh thank you. I was trying to shazam it but remembered he uses north korean music due to copyright, so thank you for this comment. It was just a blast to hear Валенки with this accent
Спасибо!
I also visited Russia, Saint Petersburg, Velikij Novgorod, Pskov. And man! What a world from our "western terms".! And their women! Holy Djebus!
I went to Russia a month ago, one of the best moments of my life, loved it❤
Watched the original, great work as always, people really need to have their eyes opened to other parts of the world👍, just a shame that you have had to re-upload this over very little
What was amended in this re-upload?
@@HurryUpGrandma20 seconds were removed
You have become, easily, the best travel blogger I’ve ever witnessed. I hope, if you aren’t already, you’re able to live exclusively on your travels!
Another great episode from you, Callum. Can't eclipse the number of dead from the siege of Lenningrad, around 900 days, but the siege of Sarajevo lasted for 1,395 days. It was the longest siege in modern history, (BBC) Not to diminished the suffering of the Russians but maybe you could visit Bosnia sometime.
I am interested in balkan wars but never knew that sidge was so long. What happened?
@@Paul_Sergeyev When the BBC was a credible news service they produced a fine series called The Death of Yugoslavia. That would be a good place to start. The series is on youtube.
@@andrewnorris2 the BBC still is a credible news service
Though only recently finding your channel, you've been a great eye opener on what is actually happening in place I have yet to visit and now actually hope to. Please keep it up
Britannica is a Russian propagandist. Your eyes are not being opened but forcibly shut as you are fed a false narrative.
Interesting and beautiful. I've always wanted to go to St. Petersburg and Moscow. I've collected pictures of St. Basil's because it's amazing. The war history is so important. Even the underground is an architectural masterpiece. Thanks for the tour.
I can’t believe you were allowed to film the. Stalingrad ceremony like that! Truly an amazing curiosity.
А кто запретит? Меньше смотрите телевизор.
You are too brainwashed about Russia. Here’s much more freedom that you think
It was not "Druzhinniki" it was "Truzhenniki" - meaning "labourers". It's a common phrase from soviet times "Truzhenniki tyla" meaning "labourers of the rear" referring to all the working class that was generally not a military person and were providing coutry life and victory while working in the "rear" - not on particular battle front
i once again thank you for the gift of content, british man.
Eastern Europe is criminally under-explored. Hoping to see you go to more places.
Thank you sir! Recently converted to Russian Orthodoxy in the nightmare that is Upstate New York. History let me to the culture, and the culture led me to the faith. Best regards from a factory worker trapped in the worst state of the union. God protect you and the lads at the Lotus Eaters! 🇺🇲☦️🇷🇺
Wow, what a fool you are
I lived in St Petersburg for a few years and loved it there, and went to Orthodox masses. Now I feel that Russian Orthodoxy under Kirill is a sort of zombie. I could respect the ROC until it bowed to his declaration of Christian jihad. He declared that anyone who fights and dies in Ukraine for the Russian World will have their sins cleansed. I can't get past that. When the Orthodox Christmas mass in Kyiv was celebrated for the first time in history in Ukrainian last year, many top Russians went apoplectic.
I used to nod my head at the concerns over NATO, but Russian domestic media broke me of that. The stuff they say about Ukraine makes me ill. Especially the hatred to Russian speaking Ukrainians: "Russian speakers who insist on being Ukrainian are the worst sort of creatures. They deny who and what they are...."
The Russian World nonsense and Great Patriotic War obsession is a giant death cult. I hope Russia can get out of it.
Russia has systematically worked against your country for years, and is partly to blame for your problems, and what you do you do? You join their church! You start to play being Russian!
ROC is literally run by feds
@@markheithaus what stuff they speak of Ukraine is not true? In ten years huge beautiful country has turned into a monstrosity! Democratic countries breastfed a chauvinist militarised totalitarian state! Aren't you ashamed of your leaders?
Honestly the architecture makes it look like a paradise compared to England.
Same as all countries. Some areas are nice, others are a shit hole
@@MrEsphoenixunfortunately it's usually the modern buildings that are a stain on the landscape and ones eyes
@@redstarling5171 Not necessarily. It tends to be buildings from around the 60's where they really liked concrete that are the worst. Cheap, dirty and falling to bits.
Modern buildings can be an eyesore, but they can also look great and mesh really well with more historical stuff when done right. The biggest factor in bigger cities is often cohesion. If the buildings in an area really mesh well with each other it looks neat, if they clash with different styles it can look a mess.
@@MrEsphoenix yes I hate concrete everywhere it's taking over Australia
@@-phizix2250 oh, you didn't see shittiest cities in russia yet if you thing like that.
_"After that, it was time to meet up with a local girl, bribe her with a Freddo..."_
[Always Sunny music starts playing]
*_Callum gets a gf_*
29:50 I like how there's a random portrait of Elizabeth II in a pub in St. Petersburg.
"random"
my guy, Russian and British royal family had close familial relations, and Elizabeth II was in Saint-Petersburg in 1994.
So? I live in the UK where we actually still have a monarchy, and a picture of The Queen in a pub would be weird, let alone a picture of the Russian monarch.
@@SusanooMain
@@locomotivefaox well. I ain’t saying we have monarch portraits in all of our pubs, but there are a lots of weird places in Saint Petersburg, and a lot more stranger owners.
if I knew the name of the place I’d probably give something more reasonable for explanation rather than “idk maybe owner is into russian empire and monarchy”
For most people she was a lot more of a celebrity than she was ever a 'monarch' so her face tends to be used as a sort of Warhol-esque piece of pop art. It's like having a portrait of Dali or Kurt Cobain on your wall, something along these lines.
Thats pretty interesting @@foodymann7309
Laughed so hard at the "spinning rat meme video" clip. Amazing.
I see your videos and its encouraged me to continue looking at the world in a way that is different from just simply what you have been told online by one source and on the TV. I'd like to visit for myself one day. Maybe i'll leave afghanistan for now, but i'm sure i'll get round to it
12:56 "Copyright doesn't matter anymore"
Famous last words
Why do you have Korean karaoke singing in the background though? XD
He’s responding to market signals.
Wau! You are good at understanding Russian soul.
One of the best videos about Russia from foreigners.
Thank god the video is still/again there! Wasn't able to watch it until now but had the tab open all the time. Keep up the good work, your content is fascinating!
So clean and orderly, if only I could put my finger on why Russia is so much nicer than the west. I guess we'll never know.
Because you're seeing tourist areas in major cities and ignoring the parts you don't want to see
@@MrEsphoenix still cleaner, safer and with almost no bums
@@beibotanov Cleaner no. You'll find most major cities and tourist spots are kept very clean in most countries.
Safer, certainly not. Russia has a lot of organised crime and police violence that is swept under the rug. As a tourist going to major cities, you'll be as safe as anywhere, but let's not pretend Russia is some safe haven from crime.
Less homeless is true thanks in large part to social housing for the poor, but that is balanced out by a much larger portion of the population living in what would be classed as poverty in many western countries. I do think more countries should follow Russia's example of looking after their homeless, but Russia could do a lot to look after the less fortunate too.
@@MrEsphoenix as a Russian, i just walk around feeling safe in my commieblock neighbourhood. All the neighbourhoods are same - no lawless ghetto's I'm aware of, everywhere is free for everyone to roam. Not seeing that much of the police - just a couple of patrolmen for a whole day in the metro, probably going to neighbor station to check a firearm carrier's papers. Hundreds of thousands others are hiding in their holes imitating work, I guess. Organized crime is rampant in Israel and Korea too, but citizens there do not get involved in street crime, feeling safe - too.
And today I have also seen a bum! First one for half a year. Hard to get habit to them at these rates.
Social housing - there is none for the bums I heard of. Not really a problem with them being rare. For the people less fortunate but not completely lost there is the is the workhouse industry - yes, the word is basically the same as English history book ones - a bunk, meal one or two times a day and weekly wage payments for low-qualification work outsourced by other companies. The industry is fully commercial, profit-based, except few houses run by the Church and other religions or charities.
You see, most dreams of welfare and other developed countries' things like progressive taxing were dropped on the border of centuries, post-factum after the economic collapse to the level of some Latin American countries. Russia is a very neoliberal state, although it may change in several years, labor force gets expensive, a deficit as it was in USSR. So, the "working poor" mass phenomena may be will fade away, dunno
@@beibotanov Anecdotal evidence aside, Russia is nothing special in most regards, they just have a similar level of superiority propaganda to America. The homeless thing is good, as I said, but balanced by general poverty. You'll find in reality humans are humans, Just some of them buy the propaganda more than others.
Russia looks absolutely beautiful!
Not a piece of trash in sight, everything is clean! Wonderful!
Why do't you go live there?
@@evilleader1991 considering it
@@CrashBandiiiConsider it faster and go.
Just visit Karelia and that image will shatter
@@FrazzP visit Ohio and I will get the same vibe I'm sure
I still don't get how an American company can own the rights to a song by SHAMAN, a Russian artist. OVER 9000 sanctions - this doesnt make sense. Also clearly in context of the museum piece. Ugh. Disgusting. Stay strong Callum, we are behind you.
Can you tell me which American company owns rights to his song? And the dude sings patriotic Russian songs, why is he signed to an American company?
@@prodigiii712 distribution rights in the West and in the Customs Union, just a proxy to do not let the song be free
@@prodigiii712 See his community post ruclips.net/user/postUgkx3Nc7MnN3mqMFNVDRDPEDbFehIpkLMqF7
This is a youtube issue, it happens most of the time a popular song is out. Some 3rd party will lie, copyright strike all content it can, steal the income, then disappear.
Callum still using Freddos as currency😏
You'd think he'd be soy-pilled about them at this point.
Good afternoon esteemed viewers of this particular channel, thank you for the amazing content.
Thank you for another immense video, Britannica. You are a titan in the spread of information.
16:29 Most of these detectors appeared in Russian regions after the Volgograd bombings in December 2013, and your lady friend is incorrect in assuming that most of them aren't functioning, they are.
I was there recently, the staff could care less about working them, this was in many places around Moscow and the cities towards the Urals.
Keep doing what youre doing! Ignore the people who hate. Love from America!! 👍
Dogwhistlers going hard
@@lisaanimidogwhistling what exactly?
We need a playlist of the songs used in this. They slap.
Yooo. Thanks for re-upload. Hope you're gonna visit the Asian part of Russia!
Hello from Volgograd, great video :D
One things you missed here is the world biggest Lenin statue, in the most southern district of this city.
Tbh not the greatest area, ive personally pissed under that thing.
Another enjoyable watch, keep up the great work young man.
Жаль в Москву в этом (уже том) году не приехали летом, когда зелени полно. Парки просто загляденье есть. Но так выбор городов хороший был. Приезжайте к нам ещё!
Жалко ещё, что он не посетил ВДНХ и выставку Россия 😭
Translation:
Too bad you haven't visited Moscow in the summer, when it's full of greenery. Absolutely beautiful parks. But overall, good selection of cities. Come again!
@@susgaming.4540
Translation:
It's sad he hasn't visited VDNKh (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exhibition_of_Achievements_of_National_Economy)ю
@@susgaming.4540 она в Ноябре открылась, а он летом приезжал
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16
Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out.
-Acts 3:19
If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church
(These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches)
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC
(Different from the Church of Scotland)
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England.
(Different from the Church of England)
Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
:)
Man, I lived in and studied in Russia for a while, and seeing this makes me miss it more than I already do. As an American, Russia was welcoming, beautiful, and had a great culture. Can’t wait to go back.
Really interesting. Great to see what is being hidden from us. Nothing is a simple as we are lead to believe. Sub’d.
Incredible content as always. Your tourism videos blow me away, I’ve never seen anything else like it. Never seen an honest look at these places.
Almost makes you wonder about the honesty and impartiality of our media. Almost..
I just watched this video and I like it very much. No matter what opinions people have on this war, this video was really enligthning and it showed that life in Russia is pretty much different from what we hear from the western news. Thanks for the video.
Holy fucking shit, you've actually been to Volgograd, my hometown. Cheers!
Thanks
Another great video! I'm an American who's lived in Moscow for four years now and I'd love to introduce you to the expat community here or show some gems. Another awesome place to see is Dagestan!
Are there a lot of Americans in Moscow? I've been living in Chelyabinsk for five years and I think nowadays I'm the only American left in the city. There used to be some others, but they cleared out.
@@SirRatiocination Chelyabinsk is really out there wow! In Moscow there’s still quite a few British and American teachers
@@SirRatiocination American? In Chelyabinsk? How are you ended up there?
@@ferberite5107 It seemed like a good idea at some point.
How'd you land a job there?
I noticed your video on Afghanistan and clicked on thinking there's no way I'm gonna make it an hour. Then you said the video was over and I was like where did that hour just go? Laughs along the away. Love that you doing what you love and found a way to capitalize on it
Bro, when you mention the destruction of the castle in the center of Konigsberg, do not forget to mention that the Soviets did not destroy the city, they did it (as in other things and always in the history of their existence), the Anglo-Saxon Air Force. The Red Army has already entered the city bombed by the British. So the British decided to annoy the Russians. This is the essence of the British, destroy everything around, but make it bad for Russia. This is literally the meaning of Britain's existence.
Anglo saxons did the same in Serbia at the end of ww2. As Im sure you know Serbia was allied with uk and usa against Germany and their allies. Despite this, the anglos did a devastating bombing of Belgrade in April 1944, especially targetting hospitals where Serbian civilians were being treated.
Belgrade was bombed by British and American air forces on 16-17 April 1944, which was Orthodox Easter Day.
Just here to watch again for the views. Keep up the good work!
*Actually, Gdansk was part of Poland. On November 14, 1308, it was captured by the knights of the Teutonic (German, or Germanic) Order, annexed to Prussia and renamed Danzig.*
how come the architecture was dutch?
Not much before and not much after England owned most of France, guess we now have an excuse for another war.
@DeEchteZeus
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@@NotJulius44 Dutch Protestants migrants flocked there due to Gdansk being an important Trade hub.
Great vids lad! keep them coming always look forward to them, would be a shame to lose them.
I have to thank you, very much callum. You went to my country and showed what it truely is like, even in the poorer areas we recently took over, ever since the war, life has gotten..... much better, the economy is more stable, fuel is dirt cheap, food is plentiful and spirts are high, finally, i am able to buy my own house. My grandmother finally said life is better than in the USSR. Thank you West, for sanctioning us!
superb stuff callum, really enjoyed that. was supposed to take my son to moscow for the 75th anniversary victory day but covid happened then the SMO. was taking him as a reward for teaching himself russian to troll other kids in fortnite! maybe one day.
That's not a reward but a punishment and I hope your son is not falling for your indoctrination.