You guys are working very hard, it's very impressive the videos you are pulling out. Thank you to the entire team, Over the past year, I learned so much about Russians via your channel.
I agree, 1420 is doing a great job and a real service…letting people all over the world see a variety of people in the street in Russian towns, cities, and rural areas, and hear their varied views, unfiltered.
@@nyurkao2061 To me the most unexpected and shocking was how effective propaganda can be. The views of the world some people have are so different from reality sometimes, and yet they believe in it with all their hearts...
I know, right? I wonder if it's related to previous conversation with the people conducting the interview or if they really are that ready to talk about Americans.
Actually most of the times, the author asks them about America but the question is edited out and only answer is shown and we think that they are talking about America without anyone asking. You will realise this when you watch many of their videos
It really works amazingly well. The common serfs hate each other, while the superpowers probably formed some kind of cartel a long time ago. As in the book 1984 by George Orwell. The relationship between the superpowers is much more complicated than we think. This gives them enormous strategic advantages against us and smaller competitors. The basic conditions have not changed much since the middle ages. Just the technology. We're all serfs with flat screens.
They dont deserve anything, if every Russian rose up and went to Kremlin for a demonstration,like Romanians did in 1989, Putler would be dead by now. They are just apathic and they have no light in their eyes. Shame on them, not just elderly, all Russians. They are not willing to fight for a normal country.
Listened to people from this rural village and the accent sounded very familiar. Pretty much the same accent like my people have when speaking Russian (I'm Estonian). And then checked from Google Maps and discovered that this was actually a Mari village and these people were not Russians but Mari. And Mari language is closely related to Estonian. Such a nice discovery :)
Vast majority of the countryside, Siberia and the Far East is filled with people who aren't "ethnic Russians" and their accents vary far and wide. Not only the accents but the dialects as well. The way they phrase things is hella different.
Well, Russians are an ethnic group, mostly East Slavic, but consisting of a lot of smaller groups like Northern and Easterns Slavs, Kamchadals, Pomors etc. I suspect Mari is somewhere on the list too.
Just want to say I've been watching your videos from Boston, MA for about the last six months. I love the open conversation with Russian people. I watch every video you guys put out. Thank you.
I got the impression that most people interviewed here hadn't travelled much including those in Moscow. It's hard to compare countries and cultures when you haven't experienced them first hand. I've had the opportunity to visit quite a few countries and it definitely broadens the mind. I like living in Australia but can appreciate that other places are better in certain aspects. Be interesting to hear from Russians who have travelled to places like Turkey, Thailand and Vietnam.
I'm from Russia, but I lived in a number of countries (UK, Germany, Thailand) and have visited friends and relatives, who live in a few more, e.g. the USA. I think the little day-to-day things that you deal with are a lot simpler in Russia. For instance, Germany is held in high regard in Russia for its quality medicine. It is thought that if you have a complex condition, you can expect to get excellent treatment from the best doctors in a very nice hospital and the state-sponsored healthcare system will pay for it. However if you have something more mundane, expect to have a hard time getting an urgent appointment with the local clinic, then expect to spend an hour in the Wartezimmer (waiting room), then expect to get a recommendation like "here, take this ibuprofen and schedule an appointment at this specialized clinic that has a waiting list of two weeks". In Russia (more specifically, Moscow) it is the other way round. You can easily schedule an appointment the same day in your local clinic, the doctor will see you on time (quite literally, on the very minute that your appointment is scheduled), and, more often than not, he will try to do more, than the very bare minimum (the bare minimum is usually "here, take pill, come back in week if doesn't get better"). Sure, the bare minimum solves 90% of cases, but it's super-frustrating if you're in the remaining 10%: it feels like no one gives a shit, until it's your third appointment and you're like "dammit, doctor, this didn't help, that didn't help, it's been three weeks, can you please give my case some serious consideration?!". BUT if you have something serious, well, shit. You'll have to search far and wide for someone who specializes in conditions similar to yours and then chances are that the state will not cover your bill, since you're supposed to be treated at your local clinic and/or whichever hospital your local clinic has sent you to, not at the medical institute for XYZ where you went yourself, trying to find that single person in Russia who has studied infections of the upper third of the frontal half of the hyperafloglous gland*. *Yep, just made that up on the spot. Or freedom. In Germany you have free speech and freedom of assembly, but you are not allowed to, idk, install an AC on the apartment that you fucking own, because of ZE RULES. In Russia it is precisely the reverse. However, I have to admit that the lack of the "more important" freedoms have led Russia into such a situation, where I'm no longer able to enjoy the lesser, more mundane things and now I have neither.
I have lived in Vietnam, and a little bit in Cambodia and Vietnam. I can say for sure that the standard of living in Russia is much higher, if we consider in general and not just the turistic cities of Asia. Many people in indochina don't even have a house, just a canopy over head Turkiye is a separate conversation. A terrible economic crisis, no job, very expensive gasoline and poor quality of some products.
Love the content. This channel is a very nice window to people's lives from a different country. Something we can't really find easily in such a simple way
Our University here in Germany used to take exchange students from Russia and our students could go there. No longer. They were always polite and well mannered people, it's sad that they have lost these opportunities.
They can thank Putin for it but I think Western countries should take them so they could see that there is no Russophobia. The only Russophobia is the Russian government abusing Russians
Allowing cultural and educational exchange would only benefit both sides. Closing the young people inside Russia so they only learn from state propaganda does not help us.
And now the Russians live in Germany and calling for Putin to drop a bomb there, which is very strange, considering that fact that they also live there, but Russian propaganda is stronger than their brains.
1420 is doing a great job and a real service letting people all over the world see a variety of people in the street in Russian towns, cities, and rural areas, and hear their different takes, unfiltered. Thanks!
Thank you 1420. My favourite part of the video is when you visited Yungo-Kusherga village. It got real quickly. Ladies voice coming from inside the house window, "Grandpa, don't say anything ... you might say too much ...they'll come after you." I liked the lady whose son went to Chechnya, and an old guy in the background yelling out Gorbachev! And other sounds😂 The conversation was interesting. Just with a few words she indicated so much. This was my favourite advice from the lovely lady on how to get through it all: TOLERATE. LIVE. EAT POTATOES. 😊
This was such a good content!! You really showed all sides of russia. I realy hope your content gets out to a russian audience and children. Mabye they dont know so much about how people in other parts live even.
I like the old people in the rural most. They remind me of my childhood, back then it was a little kinder here in Germany. On the other hand, outsiders were rigorously despised at this time (1980s/1990s). It's not the "good old days", it's different, not necessarily better.
In the 80's there were still relatively few foreigners in Germany, but I would not say they were despised in general. It is in the last 2-3 decades some foreign cultures have become unpopular in parallel societies - just think of a place like Neuköln, Berlin, where many schools have no etnic Germans in some classes, and the few left were bullied out of classes. I have known Germany since the 60's, and just like Denmark and particular Sweden, it has changed a lot.
@@poulnrgaard7820 there are problems with migration in germany, similar to those in other countries. But that's nothing new, after the 2. worldwar in the 1960s/1970s many Turks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese came to Germany to work here as "Gastarbeiter"(Guestworker). More than 3 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany. Since the 70s turkish people got extremely discriminated. And now Döner Kebab is considered German culture! In the 90s many "late resettlers" with german roots came from Russia. In the beginning it was said that they were not capable of integration, they split off, were considered uncultivated, coarse and brutal. In the 2000s it became apparent that the Russian-Germans were able to integrate very well. They are very hard-working, warm-hearted and familiar, as I know because I am in a relationship with a Russian-German girl myself. Integration/migration are therefore not unsolvable problems. Even after the refugee crisis in 2015, it was said that strange, brutal people from foreign cultures were coming. The situation has just calmed down a bit, and now Ukrainian women and children are coming to germany, fleeing from Russian bombs. And what do the german right-wing extremists claim? Say the Ukrainians are lazy, would only take advantage of Germany and should "defend" their homeland, with CHILDREN and women!? And which person do the European right-wing extremists see as the great ally: Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Putin! Prejudice is fueled to generate clicks, votes or profit, an endless scheme since thousands of years.
Забавно, что даже мне, человеку из России, удивительно смотреть на деревеньки в глуши. Обычно не задумываешься, как там люди живут. А смотришь - и грустно становится. С одной стороны, может они там живут дружно, но с другой - разруха и безденежье :(
I think, people no matter where or what condition will learn to survive and cope with life... so theyre village life maybe be quiet, but its lonely, cold and god knows what else.. but they’ve learned to deal, learn to settle for bread and potatoes. How sad.
I remember my father saying that my uncle earned twice the annual income from his dairy farm in the 1960’s that my dad earned in his city job. But still my large family was not poor or in need of assistance. When my uncle died in his 40’s my aunt sold the farm and was a wealthy widow until her death at 90 years old. It is dreadfully sad to see the poverty that rural Russians endure decade after decade.
@@crzdbt It bit better over there because the gov already organize how agriculture/food distributed, it Russia the corruption prevent any business from grown
@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث How does corruption affect business? what are you carrying? I live in Russia and in almost every village we have a cafe or a shawarma
@@crzdbt Agriculture/food industry is kinda complex, if farmers didn't get good distributor/price for their product the way that make it unprofitable to work on it and make progress, you can compare Europeans farmers and Russians farmers, and you will find big difference.
It's a great place to live as long as you don't express your opinion and you live in fear. Even in America the homeless can express their opinion and they can say anything they want about the president not in Russia you get jailed for life.
Fantastic post as always guys, thanks, really interesting to see the different attitudes between the ages and the places. Rural Russia looks to be a harsh and beautiful place.
Sct Petersburg and Moscow, are like a country within a country. I have for the last 26 years had family in Sct Petersburg, and when they first came to visit here in Europe, they were very skeptical when I said I lived in a village. They had all the bad associations of primitiveness from Russian villages in mind, but when they came and saw "we had running water, the toilet was not in the street, and roads had asphalt", they lightened up somewhat. It is true as some say, if you have not lived in other places, how can you know and compare? I have lived in the following countries in extended periods and speak their languages: Denmark, Germany, Greenland, United States, and Sct. Petersburg, Russia. Where I retire is right on the border between Denmark and Germany, and I live and have realestate in both countries. That is absolutely the best place for me and my wife, and if talking about Russian speakers (many speak Russian but are not from Russia), they have settled here by the millions. So they have answered that question with their feet.
This is true and does not only apply to villages but also to cities with less than 500,000 inhabitants. Russians associate "small" cities with civilizational backwardness and economic poverty. In the Russian imagination, someone who lives in a small town is a poor, uneducated peasant who has seen nothing beyond the immediate vicinity.
Another excellent video. I don't recall if you've done this yet, but I would really be interested in you asking Moscow citizens if they have any immediate family members fighting in the "Special Operation" - like ask 100 people - and then do the same in one of these very rural areas. It seems that all the soldiers come from the rural areas, and I would to see what the answers are like. Great job as always.
To be honest I'm extremely touched and saddened by the poverty in those Russian villages. Those people obscured by the state propaganda and nationalism accept (or doesn't realize) their state of pur misery...
It is exactly two different worlds---Muscovy and its COLONIES! Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder.
you watched powetry that is lowest in Russia, and this boy found very special people, reality is different. Yeas we have povetry , but poor people have their own homes (Russia has the best rate among home owners) . they live in clean and safe ebvirenmant with free medicine , and their kids can get university education for free - social lifts work. Grounups can get education for free too by the way. Compare with povetry in EU - I wathced it there :P
@@ГалинаБрагина-п2т You are right my friend, if you want peace, stability and security, take pride in your country. While others may see poverty, you as a patriot must see potentials and possibilities.. God bless Russia..
@@ГалинаБрагина-п2т It is certainly alright you want to be optimistic about your country, but things depicted are not completely wrong and rare... Free medicine... I have a friend who just prior to the pandemic was diagnosed with breast cancer. "For free" and there would be a 1 year waiting for the operation in Kolpino. She ended up paying in all 430.000 rb for operation and chemotherapy. Lucky it was before the war, because chemo medicine and much other, are just not available now.
However.....why? would anyone want to move there ? If one is going to leave the U.S. - it seems like there are so many other, nicer places than Russia. Someplace WARM year round.....or at least LESS COLD ! Also, many places around the world have very nice, affordable living conditions that an older, retired person on Social Security (government pension) can live very well and easily afford a nice apartment, food, entertainment, and medical care.
So I livei n the west, from day one of the war people were advised to leave ukraine and russia. There is even a ban for flying to or through Russia and vice versa (west imposed these restrictions firstt). Only ways to get there is to go through countries that are neutral or friendly to Russia (like Turkey). No it's not formally prohibitted, but it's advised not to and it's definitely much and much harder and much and much more expensive. The old man is mostly accurate, but it's true that it's not formally prohibitted.
@@streaming5332 Depends where. However Russia has a lot more snowy land than USA by proportion. Most of Russia's land is above 50 degrees latitude whereas most of USA's land is below 50 degrees latitude.
That one old guy, 1st interview, is hilarious. "Their government has banned them from coming here". No, but they did recommend not to travel to Russia because the government has a habit of arresting business people, journalist and even tourist with imaginary crimes that have long prison sentences. Ukraine has a no travel recommendation as well, because it is an active war zone. There are homeless, but they tend to have mental issues and drug/alcohol addiction problems. "Food stamps" are very common for government assistance. They didn't get rid of it. "I heard it on TV" explains a lot. He is literally wrong on every point he made about the West. Simonyan, Skabeeva and Solovyov are strong with this brain washing.
But isn't the fact that your mentally ill people become homeless and walk around on streets en masse without having the medical treatment they need kinda WORSE than if homeless were just homeless? Like, Russia also has homeless people, but crazy fellows behaving as they want on streets while everybody around doesn't give a f is a thing many of the guys I know were shocked the most when visiting the US.
A U.S. food assistance program offered expanded benefits to many low-income Americans during the Covid emergency, but those benefits ended in February 2023. Further, new requirements demanded of food assistance beneficiaries by Republican lawmakers will surely cause large numbers of Americans to lose said assistance. If American employers paid their employees fairly, and landlords didn't gouge low-income folks on their rent, people wouldn't need such food assistance in the first place. There's room for both Russia and the U.S. to improve.
@@AntonPavlovich2000 Yes, in the 1980s U.S. President Ronald Reagan worked hard to get the severely mentally ill (including those who are violent, and a threat to society) out of state-run hospitals and onto the streets, essentially untreated.
@@dbadagna you’ve got it wrong - the expansion of food stamps was to people who didn’t meet previous income requirements, not more food stamps for poor people. The program has reverted back to the pre-pandemic income-qualifying requirements. In addition, work requirements were expanded for persons able to work. The US unemployment rate is 3.5% - employers are looking for people.
@@poulnrgaard7820 ah i see. yes there is a big influx of russians back then and all the 200''s to europe and us. but why say nothing ? were they afraid of repercussions back then?
@@dmp1520 there were several factors: Not all had a smooth ride with visas, so no preannouncements. Many went to get married abroad, but that could also run out into the sand, and that would be embarrassing, if often she, quickly came back. Announcing at work you were leaving, and things immediately changed. It would be bad inspiration for others, who also might consider leaving. Friends and aquantences might stop greeting you, as you were now "going to the west".
If they speak, they support the system. They remember all too well what can happen if you are not political correct. Those who are dissatisfied, say "I am neutral, I don't follow politics, I know nothing, I do not have time etc".
funny how people think that if they have a choice while living in a democratic society, then everyone has a choice, even those people who live in utter poverty in an autoritarian country
Russia, the largest country in the world, is talking about two (2!) cities that are OK. Even small Norway got more than two cities that offer greater opportunities compared to the countryside.
@@maestro6458 So? Both countries pump oil, we are both above the Arctic Circle, we share a lot of history, we share waters to fish in, we are in many ways the same. Norway is a bit more "densely" populated, even if you will not notice it when travelling outside the cites. One country chose one path, the other another. We could have both been modern and successful countries; one chose to be successful and one not.
@@marpl6063 The standard of living is not measured by salaries. In Norway, everything is several times more expensive, and an old tiny 50m2 house outside the city costs 350 thousand euros.
@@Imwer How can you compare countries that are completely different in size and position? Norway's income from oil/gas per citizen is several times higher and there are no such costs for infrastructure and so on.
Another fascinating report, thank you. It is clear from what you show that Russia is a country of two quite different components, one prosperous, where people have a positive view of their circumstance and the second where the people are hopeless watching the steady deterioration of the quality of their lives. The latter category for most. And why? . . .
It is exactly two different worlds---Muscovy and its COLONIES! Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder.
YES indeed. There are three reasons to this in my opinion: 1) Overly centralized government. Moscow sucks all the juices from rest of the country. Regions get leftovers, they are chronically underfinanced. Instead of investing into manufacturing and infrastructure, Putin invests into pointless shows, such as Sochi 2014. The solution to this is Swiss type direct democracy. 2) Poor education. Education is chronically undefinanced as well. Russia is lacking in some areas such as architecture, management, consulting, etc. 3) Oligarchs not interested in investing in Russia. For many years they've been buying huge yachts and storing money in European banks.
And a significant category are friends of the "director" who appears throughout multiple videos and tend to be more "liberal" and "anti Putin". I wonder
The Ruble has dropped 40% compared to the Yuan. It's gonna get a whole lot worse. If the oil price stays like this Russia is gonna have huge economic problems in 2024.
Russia is bragging about their GDP being on the rise, what they "forget" to tell the world is that it's due to the heavy cost of the "military operation" that is rapidly eating away the kremlin oil and gas nest-egg that was suppose to bolster the Russian economy over the next many years to come, but is now almost gone, so the positive development is not a good sign at all, because their economy will crash and burn when the money is all spend. There has also been talks in Russia about increasing the 20% VAT sales tax that applies to most goods and services, and the VAT Rate of 10% that applies to food, something the Russian government have done before, when they have been running out of money. Of cause such a move would only increase the inflation, and perhaps add 3-4 month extra before the Russian government run out of money, if they do not end their insane military spending. Russian state-backed media and business community have also petitioned the Russian Economic Ministry to introduce a six-day week for workers, due to the economic demands of the war in Ukraine, apparently without additional pay for the extra day of work. Russian TV propagandist Margarita Simonyan has also floated the idea that Russian citizens should have to work an extra two hours in munitions factories each day after their regular working hours (with no additional pay). So they know were their economy is heading.
Thank you Daniil and team.... very interesting insight into some local Russians in various places..👍...I had a lot of interest in Russia and even started some Russian language lessons on RUclips but currently working on a project so got away from it ....since the start of the WAR in Ukraine and due to other news inside Russia it does not appear to be a good place to visit currently ..... Best to you and your team from Maine USA and THANK YOU 👍
I must say that this is one of the most intresting videos i have seen on this channel so far. It shows how greatly Russia has changed in the past decades. In the bigger cities like Moscow and Smolensk, many seem to have a good life. I would say that the living standard in Moscow is comparable to living in the West, if you look at income, for exempel. But in my eyes, it hurts to see a declining rural russia where many live in poverty. And that is the biggest difference between russia now, and the soviet union: the growing inequality between rural russia and the big cities. This video highlights this very clearly. In the rural areas, many even said it was better back then. I might even draw a parallell to the war in Ukraine tight now, because most soldiers are from places, which are similiar to what can be seen later in the video. This is happening while people in cities are enjoying pensions and decent income. It almost dels like two different worlds in a single country. Keep up your good work 1420!
The same can be said in the english speaking west. We've let the wealth be centralised to the 1% and authoritarianism to take over, both at large scale (government) and small (work places schools etc).
@@1337fliteIn “the English speaking west” those in rural areas do have advantages over those living in rural Russia. A developed road system as opposed to mud tracks. Inside plumbing is also there. Life expectancy in excess of 54 years. Rural Russia looks like the West did 100 years ago.
@@1337flite You are right. We see the same problems in the West. Even some of the 1%-people are asking to pay more taxes, because they know the massive inequality will lead to uproar and destabilisation of our society.
The contrast between those living in the cities and those in rural communities is shocking. Its like the having the 1st World and 3rd world in the same country, and the lack of proper paved roads in 21st century is insane. Oligarchs living like Kings whilst so many people live in poverty, its no wonder the old people preferred Soviet times.
What most people do not understand is that RuZZia is an EMPIRE--It is Muscovy and its COLONIES! Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder. To suppress the people, RuZZia has to be an authoritarian state which deprives its colonials (and most of the rest of its "people" (sheeple) as well. RuZZia needs fresh colonies to steal from!---hence the war in Ukraine and the slow annexation of Belarus'!
That's what petro $ does. All the money from oil and gas is concentrated in just two cities. Russia's economy is pathetic, they only dig stuff out of the ground and for the most part, they cannot do it without help of German/French companies. (their pipelines frequently brake and freeze when they are not run by the Germans). If you look at China, there is even greater difference. China is a nation of rich 200 million people, married to extremely poor 1.3 billion people, many of whom are illiterate.
can’t complain in my western country yet, how ever what they are doing here to the farmers, taking their land to build houses, banning them from having livestock and other stuff, people here don’t seem to understand you don’t have food and products if you don’t have farmers. Oh well, we shall see how bad it gets in a while. It got even crazier, with all the shitty problems in the world right now, you’d expect the gouvernment to focus on those issues, right? Nah they got so much time on their hand they banned archers ( hobby) from shooting at fake 3D animals or any depiction of animals as it’s “ animal cruelty “ you can’t make this shit up.
True, but how would you send people to war if they live fine? People are kept in total poverty to be then treated like meat. If I would not be Ukrainian myself I would feel sorry for them, but I just can’t anymore:(((
@@ramishrambarran3998 he's saying you keep people poor and under oppressive conditions they will do anything like go to war when you offer them more than a bread crumb to advance their conditions. now some are finding out a 6 month contract can be extended indefinitely, and the money promised can be reduced or refused at any time.
@@justmehello5543 Ok. Nevertheless, Russia is a big country with lots of rural areas. People in these areas hardly know what's going on in their own country, far less in the outside world. Too, because of governmental control, they will never know.
Unfortunately you are right. Many are clueless - also in my Russian part of the family. It was in a way unfortunate Putin did it now, because in another 8-10 years, younger folks would take over, and "they have been abroad" and understands, the West does not come and 'steal their resources"...
I loved st petersburg. It’s very European and relaxed. Although moscow is fascinating I was constantly worried as the police are so corrupt. I was glad when we left to go on with our travels. That was in 2006 when we spent 6 weeks in russia travelling on the trans sib. My favourite was visiting Onkon Island in Lake Baikal. Everyone was friendly there. The thing that struck me though were the amount of beggars everywhere in russia.
They speak so because they don't see the criminal war against Ukraina. They are completely indifferent of what their Russia is doing. If you had asked the same question in Berlin 1940 , people would have answered that thei were satisfied of their standard of life.
In fact, police of Saint Petersburg is even more corrupt than the one in Moscow. Also, there are not more beggers in Moscow than in Berlin, however the quality of life of Moscow beggers is of course not comparable to Berliners'.
The little town you went to was interesting. They seem to have discovered the lawn mower. Many of the other small towns you have gone to did not seem to be aware of this device. Also, you should have let the man know that his archenemy, Gorbachev was dead. It might have brought him some happiness.
Gorbachev wasn't his arch enemy. He wanted to save the Soviet Union. Chechnya happened under Yeltsin and he was the one who obliterated the Soviet Union. The current leadership is basically the same as under the Soviet periode that Gorbachev wanted to save it from. They were responsible for the demise of the Soviet Union and will be again for Russia, because they haver learned nothing, absolutely nothing. More than 30 years have now gone down the drain and more to come with this regime, because Russia lacks the capability to look at themselves in an honest manner.
Yeah, I kind of noticed that he was a few dolls short of a matryoshka. My first hint was when he blamed Gorby for the war even though he resigned years before it broke out. You might claim that he meant that the fall of the Soviet Union was the cause. I do not think this guy is thinking quite that deep. As they say, he is a cosmonaut without a ship.
3:17 has me laughing. But even regarding this gentleman who had a very well articulate response, these people are all clearly loyal and decent citizens, and their views of why they live Russia, I damn well sympathize with their responses. They made their homes and they are patriotic and humble. It's admirable. Just like a lot of us Americans. I do enjoy hearing your interviewees speak of what they love and less of what they hate and langush of us (I'm from the US)
But if being patriotic and humble, means you let your government run wild and you are convinced you can do nothing, then perhaps a little less humility would be in place.
@@poulnrgaard7820 The very same thing could be said about the situation here in the US. We have a government that lies, cheats and steals, any day and every day. We have an old, senile, pedophile, figurehead president that has taken millions in bribes from half a dozen different countries and tells us that if we're conservatives we are a terrorist threat to the country! The entirety of Washington DC, both parties, are the real threat to the country. They are currently trying to put a former president in jail for the very same thing the current president has done to an even greater degree in order to keep him from running again. I am ashamed to live in such a Banana Republic.
@@poulnrgaard7820 I apologize for my late reply. Everyone in most first world countries has a lot more room to express and endure their humility. Of this I agree with you.
Fuck man. I love your videos. It just brings to life a lot of what I've read in books. Thank you so much for doing these. They really are a gift for anybody who takes the time to seek them out.
Thanks Daniil for another excellent video. Can’t understand why with such a diverse culture and huge country Russia would want more territory…??? Maybe it’s time for Russia to sort out its own problems and leave other countries alone.
Siberia is only good for it's oil and gas. But then RuSSians need Western technology. Which they are not going to get anymore. RuSSians and Putin are stupid. They even cannot conquer Ukraine.
Its no more of a dictatorship than the u.s. At least they know putin is a dictator,the u.s. you have two parties with similar policies,directly in the pockets of the military industrial complex..and when you spread your ‘democracy’ around the globe,millions have ended up dead.
Lmao u live in a cave? You might say too much anywhere in the world. They might not necessarily come after you but they(whoever they are) for sure will react accordingly, like a game of chess. Because saying too much causes disturbances in what they have already planned out. It wakes people up. And that's what they are afraid of. And being woke doesn't mean to be into the latest philosophical trend or whatever. Means to be curious, to have critical thinking, to search for the truth. And what truth? Like some all powerful entity? Nope, not what i mean, and that's a whole another topic. Truth like hard freaking evidence. So many wars, all over the earth, have been fought for such hard evidence to be destroyed, hidden or replaced with a forgery.. Wake the f up. If u wish to find God, u will find God in nature. Idk why but it seems like people are afraid to acknowledge that nature is the source of life. That nature deserves gratitude and care. If i sound like a hipster to you, and you understand nothing of what i just said, you might as well go to hell.
The rural Russians fascinate me. China watching is a hobby of mine and I love being able to see the same kind of depth and quality of content and questions throughout all of these videos. I love having you be able to give me some context to Russians. Thank you from the USA
You are a good and intelligent journalist. I really like your calm but determined style. You are my independent source on Russian people today. I wouldn't even have an inch of your courage. You have the heart of a lion. I admire you a lot. Greetings from Italy and forgive me if I made some language mistakes but I don't understand Russian or English and I used an online translator
Dan- it’s obvious you love your country and want to see it reach it’s potential. Hopefully the post putin russia will allow that to happen. Thanks for your work!
It is nice to see that people like their country. Same people should realize that people from another countries love their country too. And don't like when foreigners come and bomb it. Like in Ukraine.
The end rural bit of this video was one of the most interesting and insightful I've seen in these vids! Very interesting seeing all the different perspectives, especially the ladies at 10:55
Wow, great video. Nice cross section of people. Really impressed with the students. It seems they are familiar with and think about global affairs. Does Russia have much of any discrimination against a certain culture, class or group of people? Like here in the US, we have conflicts along racial and class lines. I’m just curious.
I enjoy your videos and seeing ordinary Russians and hearing their views. I can relate to most of them and could be friends with them and I don’t think that they’re any different from fellow 🇿🇦 countrymen in similar living conditions. They don’t represent their government, just as many 🇿🇦 don’t represent our 🇿🇦 government. Keep up the good work.
I fell in love with that one village oerson, She was down to earth. Didn't want her throat cut. Besides that was a hard question you asked them. How would they realy know if it is better else whare?
I have seen many Russian villages through your videos and those of other RUclips creators. Life appears incredibly difficult for Russian villagers, especially the elderly. Was it always like this? Or did village life take a steep downturn after the breakup of the USSR in 1990? On another note, I think you are incredibly brave to make these videos. Good luck!
I would say that rural life was spoiled by the forced collectivization of the economy after 1920. But what they say in this video is only partially true. Farming can be done and earn well, but you need to know how to do it. A lot of people live in the past. My cousin is a 34-year-old farmer and he has a farm in the Saratov region. He earns about $2,500 a month, which is very good for Russia. The secret in many ways is that you need to take the right animals and organize everything correctly. For example, he admires European and Canadian breeding and takes only imported piglets of a certain breed. The secret is in the ability to run a business. And by the way, he told me that large-scale agriculture in Russia is on the rise now, I mean corporations like Rusagro.
@Gata_Scheglova Thank you for your reply. When I read The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, he described the seizure of farm lands and the punishment of farmers who were prosperous. According to the descriptions in the book, it appeared that successful people in all the different occupations were routinely punished in the early days of the USSR. Of course, mass executions - including those of successful people - continued under Stalin. All of these deaths seem to me to be a terrible brain drain for Russian society. What kind of people largely remain? Poor, uneducated, and unsuccessful people? Now, with Putin's war, another brain drain has occurred - young, educated, professional men have left in the hundreds of thousands! I don't know if you have read about Russia's demographic problems, but according to many social scientists, Russia's future looks bleak. There will not be enough young people to support Russia's aging population. Further, males in Russia now have and will continue to have a significantly lower life span than women - about 60 years old. Peter Zeihan is an author who has studied this problem. You can probably find info about this on RUclips and Google.
По рассказам моих родственников, в сёлах и деревнях в советское время могли быть тем продукты, которых не было в городе(Волгоградская область, город Камышин и окрестные деревни). Жизнь и тогда была трудной, но сейчас стало ещё хуже, так как нет колхозов/совхозов, и по факту деревни, села, станицы никто не поддерживает, и они медленно умирают, особенно в бедных регионах😢
That kid with the glasses is smart. I wish I would have thought about my big move a little deeper. I probably wouldn't have had such a hard time adjusting.
🇦🇺 Respect for what you are doing and surprise you are not in jail. Unfortunately any sympathy i had for the Russian people has disappeared due to the atrocities committed in Ukraine. Lack of empathy appears to be part of the Russian character.
Of course, this is a generalization, but at the same time an empirical fact - Poor nations do not know the concept of empathy, if anyone has any doubts, just mention the countries that actively support Putin in limiting the effects of sanctions.
A person with NO money: “I’ll never trade my country for the west!” Russian oligarchs and propagandists: “I’m buying property in Miami and on lake Como!” 😂😅
I applaud you young man for asking questions for which there are no easy answers. I’ve travelled the world, and there is one simple truth I’ve come to realize…we, humanity only want health, prosperity and love. I hope these gifts come to all!
Very good, Daniel I would like to know more about the interview -situation: * Difficult/easy to find people willing to answer? * Girl warned her grandfather, Typical or...?
It amazes me that Russia always compares itself to America even though the countries are light years distance economically, socially and even mentality wise. If by some miracle Russia becomes a democracy tomorrow and starts building free institutions, modern infrastructure and quality social services they will still need about a century to bring their country to the level of US or Western Europe, or even to the level of Moscow. I feel bad for people who live their entire life in shit, not being allowed to complain, yet they still think they are better than others, that their county has some god given mission and its people are special. Patriotism is overrated.
Most of these pensioners in rural Russia only get paid around 200-300 euro a month. It's a rough life. Hard working for 40-50 years and they get robbed by corrupt politicians and oligarchs.
The state of living that those rural Russians endure is heartbreaking....and you'll see conditions exactly like it, or worse, if you visit Appalachia in the Eastern United States.
emmm... You know, that more than 70% of Russian househod doesnt have a toilete in house? And they don't mind that till they can have their TV- sponsored by goverment- with their 3 channels (also-all are state ruled media) to watch and listen how living in Russia is great, and the whole world are jelous of them.
@@zrobsobiekrzywde Rosstat data back in 2018 asserts there are 22.8% of households without access to a centralized sanitary sewer system. But there are 66.5% of RURAL households without access to centralized sewer systems, so that's probably what you mixing it for.
Well, it's a bit different. There is simply no opportunities in Russia outside Moscow and Petersburg, unless you enlist. In Appalachia's, it's a bad culture, not lack of opportunities. People prefer to take government aid, over starting at a minimum wage jobs. Also, thousands of tons of drugs coming from China to destroy US is not helping, since the government is unwilling to do anything about it. I would recommend reading on Thomas Sowells work, specifically "Black Rednecks and White Liberals".
@@zrobsobiekrzywde ??? 85% Russians live in cities with central heating, gas , electricities, and everething you can imagine, and hight speed internet, that is extremly cheap in Russia.
Your videos give me a glimpse of how Russians really are. I have been watching your videos almost since you started and believe I have a more rational understanding of Russians. I think it would be a grand idea to do videos of other country's people and show them to Russians!
@@zrobsobiekrzywde I mean, not really? Like, almost everyone I know uses VPN and no one cares about it. It’s definitely not like NK. More like China, Belarus. The war censorship is harsh af tho
You guys are working very hard, it's very impressive the videos you are pulling out. Thank you to the entire team, Over the past year, I learned so much about Russians via your channel.
I agree. Very interesting content.
What was the most unexpected, new or shocking for you?
I agree, 1420 is doing a great job and a real service…letting people all over the world see a variety of people in the street in Russian towns, cities, and rural areas, and hear their varied views, unfiltered.
@@nyurkao2061 To me the most unexpected and shocking was how effective propaganda can be. The views of the world some people have are so different from reality sometimes, and yet they believe in it with all their hearts...
@@jeffafa3096 yeah but that's also due to "western" people believing the propaganda from their news sources.
Its funny how you simply ask ''How is life is Russia'' and right away they start talking crap about America lol.
I know, right? I wonder if it's related to previous conversation with the people conducting the interview or if they really are that ready to talk about Americans.
Actually most of the times, the author asks them about America but the question is edited out and only answer is shown and we think that they are talking about America without anyone asking.
You will realise this when you watch many of their videos
Old man said about America because his daughter lives there and has the opportunity to go to her.
Reagan jokes about Russia are still relevant
It really works amazingly well. The common serfs hate each other, while the superpowers probably formed some kind of cartel a long time ago. As in the book 1984 by George Orwell. The relationship between the superpowers is much more complicated than we think. This gives them enormous strategic advantages against us and smaller competitors.
The basic conditions have not changed much since the middle ages. Just the technology. We're all serfs with flat screens.
Young man, you are doing an EXCELLENT JOB !!!!! Compliments for your courage and hard work !!!!
They are a team.
Sometimes it comes to my mind that majority of comments are pro- Russia which makes it acceptable for the gov
Rural part is always the most interesting! Thank you, great video!
My heart breaks for the elderly people at the end of the video - they deserve so much more for their years of hard work!
They all miss and wants the USSR back.
Same polish people
They dont deserve anything, if every Russian rose up and went to Kremlin for a demonstration,like Romanians did in 1989, Putler would be dead by now. They are just apathic and they have no light in their eyes. Shame on them, not just elderly, all Russians. They are not willing to fight for a normal country.
In Germany older people Must Collect bottels to live and refugees become everything without ever working
They prefers rockets instead good life, they deserve even worse. Does you heard breaks seeing what this people did in Georgia/Syria/Ukraine?
Listened to people from this rural village and the accent sounded very familiar. Pretty much the same accent like my people have when speaking Russian (I'm Estonian). And then checked from Google Maps and discovered that this was actually a Mari village and these people were not Russians but Mari. And Mari language is closely related to Estonian. Such a nice discovery :)
Vast majority of the countryside, Siberia and the Far East is filled with people who aren't "ethnic Russians" and their accents vary far and wide. Not only the accents but the dialects as well. The way they phrase things is hella different.
Russia is a prison of peoples
Well, Russians are an ethnic group, mostly East Slavic, but consisting of a lot of smaller groups like Northern and Easterns Slavs, Kamchadals, Pomors etc. I suspect Mari is somewhere on the list too.
@@Cunning_Trout Mari people are Finnic, not Slavic.
@@Cunning_Trout yeah you’re right - I’ve actually no idea why I put that in quotes lmao
Just want to say I've been watching your videos from Boston, MA for about the last six months. I love the open conversation with Russian people. I watch every video you guys put out. Thank you.
Boston squad checking in
I got the impression that most people interviewed here hadn't travelled much including those in Moscow. It's hard to compare countries and cultures when you haven't experienced them first hand. I've had the opportunity to visit quite a few countries and it definitely broadens the mind. I like living in Australia but can appreciate that other places are better in certain aspects. Be interesting to hear from Russians who have travelled to places like Turkey, Thailand and Vietnam.
I'm from Russia, but I lived in a number of countries (UK, Germany, Thailand) and have visited friends and relatives, who live in a few more, e.g. the USA. I think the little day-to-day things that you deal with are a lot simpler in Russia.
For instance, Germany is held in high regard in Russia for its quality medicine. It is thought that if you have a complex condition, you can expect to get excellent treatment from the best doctors in a very nice hospital and the state-sponsored healthcare system will pay for it. However if you have something more mundane, expect to have a hard time getting an urgent appointment with the local clinic, then expect to spend an hour in the Wartezimmer (waiting room), then expect to get a recommendation like "here, take this ibuprofen and schedule an appointment at this specialized clinic that has a waiting list of two weeks".
In Russia (more specifically, Moscow) it is the other way round. You can easily schedule an appointment the same day in your local clinic, the doctor will see you on time (quite literally, on the very minute that your appointment is scheduled), and, more often than not, he will try to do more, than the very bare minimum (the bare minimum is usually "here, take pill, come back in week if doesn't get better"). Sure, the bare minimum solves 90% of cases, but it's super-frustrating if you're in the remaining 10%: it feels like no one gives a shit, until it's your third appointment and you're like "dammit, doctor, this didn't help, that didn't help, it's been three weeks, can you please give my case some serious consideration?!".
BUT if you have something serious, well, shit. You'll have to search far and wide for someone who specializes in conditions similar to yours and then chances are that the state will not cover your bill, since you're supposed to be treated at your local clinic and/or whichever hospital your local clinic has sent you to, not at the medical institute for XYZ where you went yourself, trying to find that single person in Russia who has studied infections of the upper third of the frontal half of the hyperafloglous gland*.
*Yep, just made that up on the spot.
Or freedom. In Germany you have free speech and freedom of assembly, but you are not allowed to, idk, install an AC on the apartment that you fucking own, because of ZE RULES. In Russia it is precisely the reverse.
However, I have to admit that the lack of the "more important" freedoms have led Russia into such a situation, where I'm no longer able to enjoy the lesser, more mundane things and now I have neither.
Getting an impression from travels results in a highly anecdotal perception compared to a study of objective stats.
I have lived in Vietnam, and a little bit in Cambodia and Vietnam. I can say for sure that the standard of living in Russia is much higher, if we consider in general and not just the turistic cities of Asia. Many people in indochina don't even have a house, just a canopy over head
Turkiye is a separate conversation. A terrible economic crisis, no job, very expensive gasoline and poor quality of some products.
@@khldr you country is the last empire on this earth and its crumbling thats happening
21 century be like waddup
Are you from Australia originally or have moved there from another country?
Love the content. This channel is a very nice window to people's lives from a different country. Something we can't really find easily in such a simple way
Our University here in Germany used to take exchange students from Russia and our students could go there. No longer. They were always polite and well mannered people, it's sad that they have lost these opportunities.
They can thank Putin for it but I think Western countries should take them so they could see that there is no Russophobia. The only Russophobia is the Russian government abusing Russians
Allowing cultural and educational exchange would only benefit both sides. Closing the young people inside Russia so they only learn from state propaganda does not help us.
And now the Russians live in Germany and calling for Putin to drop a bomb there, which is very strange, considering that fact that they also live there, but Russian propaganda is stronger than their brains.
@@-whackd valid
We dont regret
Quality interviews as usual. I thought the rural life was a good subject to see . Nice work keep it up
1420 is doing a great job and a real service letting people all over the world see a variety of people in the street in Russian towns, cities, and rural areas, and hear their different takes, unfiltered.
Thanks!
Thank you 1420. My favourite part of the video is when you visited Yungo-Kusherga village. It got real quickly. Ladies voice coming from inside the house window, "Grandpa, don't say anything ... you might say too much ...they'll come after you."
I liked the lady whose son went to Chechnya, and an old guy in the background yelling out Gorbachev! And other sounds😂 The conversation was interesting. Just with a few words she indicated so much.
This was my favourite advice from the lovely lady on how to get through it all:
TOLERATE.
LIVE.
EAT POTATOES.
😊
Bread, butter, sugar and a clear head. Interesting life philosophy.
the Gorbachev part was indeed hilarious 😂
This was such a good content!! You really showed all sides of russia. I realy hope your content gets out to a russian audience and children. Mabye they dont know so much about how people in other parts live even.
I like the old people in the rural most. They remind me of my childhood, back then it was a little kinder here in Germany. On the other hand, outsiders were rigorously despised at this time (1980s/1990s). It's not the "good old days", it's different, not necessarily better.
In the 80's there were still relatively few foreigners in Germany, but I would not say they were despised in general. It is in the last 2-3 decades some foreign cultures have become unpopular in parallel societies - just think of a place like Neuköln, Berlin, where many schools have no etnic Germans in some classes, and the few left were bullied out of classes.
I have known Germany since the 60's, and just like Denmark and particular Sweden, it has changed a lot.
@@poulnrgaard7820 there are problems with migration in germany, similar to those in other countries. But that's nothing new, after the 2. worldwar in the 1960s/1970s many Turks, Italians, Spaniards, Portuguese came to Germany to work here as "Gastarbeiter"(Guestworker). More than 3 million people of Turkish origin live in Germany. Since the 70s turkish people got extremely discriminated. And now Döner Kebab is considered German culture! In the 90s many "late resettlers" with german roots came from Russia. In the beginning it was said that they were not capable of integration, they split off, were considered uncultivated, coarse and brutal. In the 2000s it became apparent that the Russian-Germans were able to integrate very well. They are very hard-working, warm-hearted and familiar, as I know because I am in a relationship with a Russian-German girl myself. Integration/migration are therefore not unsolvable problems. Even after the refugee crisis in 2015, it was said that strange, brutal people from foreign cultures were coming. The situation has just calmed down a bit, and now Ukrainian women and children are coming to germany, fleeing from Russian bombs. And what do the german right-wing extremists claim? Say the Ukrainians are lazy, would only take advantage of Germany and should "defend" their homeland, with CHILDREN and women!? And which person do the European right-wing extremists see as the great ally: Wladimir Wladimirowitsch Putin! Prejudice is fueled to generate clicks, votes or profit, an endless scheme since thousands of years.
Забавно, что даже мне, человеку из России, удивительно смотреть на деревеньки в глуши. Обычно не задумываешься, как там люди живут. А смотришь - и грустно становится. С одной стороны, может они там живут дружно, но с другой - разруха и безденежье :(
LOL😂
I think, people no matter where or what condition will learn to survive and cope with life... so theyre village life maybe be quiet, but its lonely, cold and god knows what else.. but they’ve learned to deal, learn to settle for bread and potatoes. How sad.
Но ведь масло-то есть, сахар есть. Чего еще надо? Погнали к ним
@@maxim999-s7s не настолько)
Не хвилюйся. Добрі, невідомі ракети та дрони "освободят" вас.
The decorative woodwork on the rural village houses is very nice!
That village was a lot more welcoming than some of your previous visits.
I remember my father saying that my uncle earned twice the annual income from his dairy farm in the 1960’s that my dad earned in his city job. But still my large family was not poor or in need of assistance. When my uncle died in his 40’s my aunt sold the farm and was a wealthy widow until her death at 90 years old. It is dreadfully sad to see the poverty that rural Russians endure decade after decade.
Is there no poverty in rural America? When I was there, I didn't feel that way.
@@crzdbt It bit better over there because the gov already organize how agriculture/food distributed, it Russia the corruption prevent any business from grown
@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث How does corruption affect business? what are you carrying? I live in Russia and in almost every village we have a cafe or a shawarma
@@crzdbt Agriculture/food industry is kinda complex, if farmers didn't get good distributor/price for their product the way that make it unprofitable to work on it and make progress, you can compare Europeans farmers and Russians farmers, and you will find big difference.
@@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث yes, but for Russian prices they get pretty good (if we are talking about large, and not about people who only have a garden)
It's a great place to live as long as you don't express your opinion and you live in fear.
Even in America the homeless can express their opinion and they can say anything they want about the president not in Russia you get jailed for life.
Well in Russia homeless people is not too common
Fantastic post as always guys, thanks, really interesting to see the different attitudes between the ages and the places. Rural Russia looks to be a harsh and beautiful place.
Moscow and St.Petersburg is nice showcase for foreigners to believe this is how Russia "looks" like :D
Sct Petersburg and Moscow, are like a country within a country. I have for the last 26 years had family in Sct Petersburg, and when they first came to visit here in Europe, they were very skeptical when I said I lived in a village. They had all the bad associations of primitiveness from Russian villages in mind, but when they came and saw "we had running water, the toilet was not in the street, and roads had asphalt", they lightened up somewhat.
It is true as some say, if you have not lived in other places, how can you know and compare?
I have lived in the following countries in extended periods and speak their languages:
Denmark, Germany, Greenland, United States, and Sct. Petersburg, Russia.
Where I retire is right on the border between Denmark and Germany, and I live and have realestate in both countries. That is absolutely the best place for me and my wife, and if talking about Russian speakers (many speak Russian but are not from Russia), they have settled here by the millions. So they have answered that question with their feet.
^^ 100%
This is true and does not only apply to villages but also to cities with less than 500,000 inhabitants. Russians associate "small" cities with civilizational backwardness and economic poverty. In the Russian imagination, someone who lives in a small town is a poor, uneducated peasant who has seen nothing beyond the immediate vicinity.
Even Russians believe their entire gas station looks like Moscow 🤡
nearly 30 mln people lives in Moscow and St.Petersburg , so it is about 20% of population of russia. too big for showcase
Another excellent video. I don't recall if you've done this yet, but I would really be interested in you asking Moscow citizens if they have any immediate family members fighting in the "Special Operation" - like ask 100 people - and then do the same in one of these very rural areas. It seems that all the soldiers come from the rural areas, and I would to see what the answers are like. Great job as always.
To be honest I'm extremely touched and saddened by the poverty in those Russian villages. Those people obscured by the state propaganda and nationalism accept (or doesn't realize) their state of pur misery...
It is exactly two different worlds---Muscovy and its COLONIES!
Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder.
you watched powetry that is lowest in Russia, and this boy found very special people, reality is different. Yeas we have povetry , but poor people have their own homes (Russia has the best rate among home owners) . they live in clean and safe ebvirenmant with free medicine , and their kids can get university education for free - social lifts work. Grounups can get education for free too by the way. Compare with povetry in EU - I wathced it there :P
@@ГалинаБрагина-п2т You are right my friend, if you want peace, stability and security, take pride in your country. While others may see poverty, you as a patriot must see potentials and possibilities.. God bless Russia..
@@ГалинаБрагина-п2т It is certainly alright you want to be optimistic about your country, but things depicted are not completely wrong and rare...
Free medicine... I have a friend who just prior to the pandemic was diagnosed with breast cancer. "For free" and there would be a 1 year waiting for the operation in Kolpino. She ended up paying in all 430.000 rb for operation and chemotherapy.
Lucky it was before the war, because chemo medicine and much other, are just not available now.
That’s because’80% of all Russia’s wealth ends up in Moscow.
There is no US government law forbidding Americans from moving to Russia.
However.....why? would anyone want to move there ? If one is going to leave the U.S. - it seems like there are so many other, nicer places than Russia.
Someplace WARM year round.....or at least LESS COLD ! Also, many places around the world have very nice, affordable living conditions that an older,
retired person on Social Security (government pension) can live very well and easily afford a nice apartment, food, entertainment, and medical care.
@@streaming5332 As an American I was nice and warm during the winter.
So I livei n the west, from day one of the war people were advised to leave ukraine and russia. There is even a ban for flying to or through Russia and vice versa (west imposed these restrictions firstt). Only ways to get there is to go through countries that are neutral or friendly to Russia (like Turkey). No it's not formally prohibitted, but it's advised not to and it's definitely much and much harder and much and much more expensive. The old man is mostly accurate, but it's true that it's not formally prohibitted.
@@jadon-sc1zj you were nice and warm sitting inside not out shovelling snow, not that I'd know being Australian
@@streaming5332 Depends where. However Russia has a lot more snowy land than USA by proportion. Most of Russia's land is above 50 degrees latitude whereas most of USA's land is below 50 degrees latitude.
That one old guy, 1st interview, is hilarious. "Their government has banned them from coming here". No, but they did recommend not to travel to Russia because the government has a habit of arresting business people, journalist and even tourist with imaginary crimes that have long prison sentences. Ukraine has a no travel recommendation as well, because it is an active war zone. There are homeless, but they tend to have mental issues and drug/alcohol addiction problems. "Food stamps" are very common for government assistance. They didn't get rid of it. "I heard it on TV" explains a lot. He is literally wrong on every point he made about the West. Simonyan, Skabeeva and Solovyov are strong with this brain washing.
But isn't the fact that your mentally ill people become homeless and walk around on streets en masse without having the medical treatment they need kinda WORSE than if homeless were just homeless? Like, Russia also has homeless people, but crazy fellows behaving as they want on streets while everybody around doesn't give a f is a thing many of the guys I know were shocked the most when visiting the US.
A U.S. food assistance program offered expanded benefits to many low-income Americans during the Covid emergency, but those benefits ended in February 2023. Further, new requirements demanded of food assistance beneficiaries by Republican lawmakers will surely cause large numbers of Americans to lose said assistance. If American employers paid their employees fairly, and landlords didn't gouge low-income folks on their rent, people wouldn't need such food assistance in the first place. There's room for both Russia and the U.S. to improve.
@@AntonPavlovich2000 Yes, in the 1980s U.S. President Ronald Reagan worked hard to get the severely mentally ill (including those who are violent, and a threat to society) out of state-run hospitals and onto the streets, essentially untreated.
@@AntonPavlovich2000 China eliminated poverty, hunger and homelessness as long as nobody reports on it too.
@@dbadagna you’ve got it wrong - the expansion of food stamps was to people who didn’t meet previous income requirements, not more food stamps for poor people. The program has reverted back to the pre-pandemic income-qualifying requirements. In addition, work requirements were expanded for persons able to work. The US unemployment rate is 3.5% - employers are looking for people.
When I lived in Russia there were those who lined up outside of Embassies willing to leave, and all the rest ridiculing anyone wanting to leave.
when was this?
Many of those who left said nothing to friends and colleagues, before they had actually left.
@@dmp1520 I got to know Russia when it opened up after 91, but it was also in the years immediately after, many left.
@@poulnrgaard7820 ah i see. yes there is a big influx of russians back then and all the 200''s to europe and us. but why say nothing ? were they afraid of repercussions back then?
@@dmp1520 there were several factors: Not all had a smooth ride with visas, so no preannouncements. Many went to get married abroad, but that could also run out into the sand, and that would be embarrassing, if often she, quickly came back. Announcing at work you were leaving, and things immediately changed. It would be bad inspiration for others, who also might consider leaving. Friends and aquantences might stop greeting you, as you were now "going to the west".
rural russia is fascinating. everyone is unhappy and knows its terrible but everyone still supports the system.
They don't support it, they hate it. But they have no idea it's them that could make it change. They have no concept of civic society.
learned helplessness
If they speak, they support the system. They remember all too well what can happen if you are not political correct.
Those who are dissatisfied, say "I am neutral, I don't follow politics, I know nothing, I do not have time etc".
funny how people think that if they have a choice while living in a democratic society, then everyone has a choice, even those people who live in utter poverty in an autoritarian country
Try living under a bridge in Los Angeles.🙄
This is honestly one of your best works so far!
Interesting as always. The rural areas look like the air is fresh.
Russia, the largest country in the world, is talking about two (2!) cities that are OK. Even small Norway got more than two cities that offer greater opportunities compared to the countryside.
dude, the population of all of Norway is 2.5 times less than in Moscow)))
@@maestro6458 Well but standard of living in Norway is 4x higher than in Russia. Avarange salary in Moscov is 1300$. Minimum wage in Russia is 200$ xD
@@maestro6458 So?
Both countries pump oil, we are both above the Arctic Circle, we share a lot of history, we share waters to fish in, we are in many ways the same. Norway is a bit more "densely" populated, even if you will not notice it when travelling outside the cites.
One country chose one path, the other another. We could have both been modern and successful countries; one chose to be successful and one not.
@@marpl6063 The standard of living is not measured by salaries. In Norway, everything is several times more expensive, and an old tiny 50m2 house outside the city costs 350 thousand euros.
@@Imwer How can you compare countries that are completely different in size and position? Norway's income from oil/gas per citizen is several times higher and there are no such costs for infrastructure and so on.
Another fascinating report, thank you. It is clear from what you show that Russia is a country of two quite different components, one prosperous, where people have a positive view of their circumstance and the second where the people are hopeless watching the steady deterioration of the quality of their lives. The latter category for most. And why? . . .
It is exactly two different worlds---Muscovy and its COLONIES!
Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder.
YES indeed. There are three reasons to this in my opinion: 1) Overly centralized government. Moscow sucks all the juices from rest of the country. Regions get leftovers, they are chronically underfinanced. Instead of investing into manufacturing and infrastructure, Putin invests into pointless shows, such as Sochi 2014. The solution to this is Swiss type direct democracy. 2) Poor education. Education is chronically undefinanced as well. Russia is lacking in some areas such as architecture, management, consulting, etc. 3) Oligarchs not interested in investing in Russia. For many years they've been buying huge yachts and storing money in European banks.
And a significant category are friends of the "director" who appears throughout multiple videos and tend to be more "liberal" and "anti Putin". I wonder
The Ruble has dropped 40% compared to the Yuan. It's gonna get a whole lot worse. If the oil price stays like this Russia is gonna have huge economic problems in 2024.
Russia is bragging about their GDP being on the rise, what they "forget" to tell the world is that it's due to the heavy cost of the "military operation" that is rapidly eating away the kremlin oil and gas nest-egg that was suppose to bolster the Russian economy over the next many years to come, but is now almost gone, so the positive development is not a good sign at all, because their economy will crash and burn when the money is all spend.
There has also been talks in Russia about increasing the 20% VAT sales tax that applies to most goods and services, and the VAT Rate of 10% that applies to food, something the Russian government have done before, when they have been running out of money.
Of cause such a move would only increase the inflation, and perhaps add 3-4 month extra before the Russian government run out of money, if they do not end their insane military spending.
Russian state-backed media and business community have also petitioned the Russian Economic Ministry to introduce a six-day week for workers, due to the economic demands of the war in Ukraine, apparently without additional pay for the extra day of work.
Russian TV propagandist Margarita Simonyan has also floated the idea that Russian citizens should have to work an extra two hours in munitions factories each day after their regular working hours (with no additional pay). So they know were their economy is heading.
@Leonid_1917Troll.
You keep believing bs you hear. Good economic info comes from IMF, World Bank, Bloomberg; not some fake experts
I was so confused when that guy said that gas and diesel was expensive, shouldn't it be super cheap for the domestic market?
our problems after all
Very thoughtful answers !
Thank you Daniil and team.... very interesting insight into some local Russians in various places..👍...I had a lot of interest in Russia and even started some Russian language lessons on RUclips but currently working on a project so got away from it ....since the start of the WAR in Ukraine and due to other news inside Russia it does not appear to be a good place to visit currently .....
Best to you and your team from Maine USA and THANK YOU 👍
I must say that this is one of the most intresting videos i have seen on this channel so far. It shows how greatly Russia has changed in the past decades. In the bigger cities like Moscow and Smolensk, many seem to have a good life. I would say that the living standard in Moscow is comparable to living in the West, if you look at income, for exempel. But in my eyes, it hurts to see a declining rural russia where many live in poverty. And that is the biggest difference between russia now, and the soviet union: the growing inequality between rural russia and the big cities. This video highlights this very clearly. In the rural areas, many even said it was better back then. I might even draw a parallell to the war in Ukraine tight now, because most soldiers are from places, which are similiar to what can be seen later in the video. This is happening while people in cities are enjoying pensions and decent income. It almost dels like two different worlds in a single country.
Keep up your good work 1420!
The same can be said in the english speaking west. We've let the wealth be centralised to the 1% and authoritarianism to take over, both at large scale (government) and small (work places schools etc).
@@1337fliteIn “the English speaking west” those in rural areas do have advantages over those living in rural Russia. A developed road system as opposed to mud tracks. Inside plumbing is also there. Life expectancy in excess of 54 years.
Rural Russia looks like the West did 100 years ago.
The suburbs of Smolensk do not look better than this village.
@@1337flite You are right. We see the same problems in the West. Even some of the 1%-people are asking to pay more taxes, because they know the massive inequality will lead to uproar and destabilisation of our society.
Nonsense. The median income in Moscow is only 105,000 Rubles p/month. Approx $US1258.
The contrast between those living in the cities and those in rural communities is shocking. Its like the having the 1st World and 3rd world in the same country, and the lack of proper paved roads in 21st century is insane.
Oligarchs living like Kings whilst so many people live in poverty, its no wonder the old people preferred Soviet times.
What most people do not understand is that RuZZia is an EMPIRE--It is Muscovy and its COLONIES!
Muscovy (now called the RuZZian Federation) sucks all of the money for itself and its elites---the rest of the people live in its colonies to be milked and used up as cheap labour and cannon fodder.
To suppress the people, RuZZia has to be an authoritarian state which deprives its colonials (and most of the rest of its "people" (sheeple) as well.
RuZZia needs fresh colonies to steal from!---hence the war in Ukraine and the slow annexation of Belarus'!
Yep spot on
That's what petro $ does.
All the money from oil and gas is concentrated in just two cities.
Russia's economy is pathetic, they only dig stuff out of the ground and for the most part, they cannot do it without help of German/French companies. (their pipelines frequently brake and freeze when they are not run by the Germans).
If you look at China, there is even greater difference.
China is a nation of rich 200 million people, married to extremely poor 1.3 billion people, many of whom are illiterate.
Russia is still a feudal society.
That is the reality for a lot of Eastern European countries, I believe...
Well that was different.
Interesting how rural people feel completely left behind...
Great vid as ever. 👍🏻😀🇬🇧
can’t complain in my western country yet, how ever what they are doing here to the farmers, taking their land to build houses, banning them from having livestock and other stuff, people here don’t seem to understand you don’t have food and products if you don’t have farmers. Oh well, we shall see how bad it gets in a while.
It got even crazier, with all the shitty problems in the world right now, you’d expect the gouvernment to focus on those issues, right? Nah they got so much time on their hand they banned archers ( hobby) from shooting at fake 3D animals or any depiction of animals as it’s “ animal cruelty “ you can’t make this shit up.
The money spent on the Special Military Operation could have been used to improve the lives of the Russian citizens !
True, but how would you send people to war if they live fine? People are kept in total poverty to be then treated like meat. If I would not be Ukrainian myself I would feel sorry for them, but I just can’t anymore:(((
@@EugeneRudyy I am sorry, but I do not understand what you are saying !
@@ramishrambarran3998 he's saying you keep people poor and under oppressive conditions they will do anything like go to war when you offer them more than a bread crumb to advance their conditions. now some are finding out a 6 month contract can be extended indefinitely, and the money promised can be reduced or refused at any time.
@@justmehello5543 Ok.
Nevertheless, Russia is a big country with lots of rural areas. People in these areas hardly know what's going on in their own country, far less in the outside world.
Too, because of governmental control, they will never know.
Heartbreaking video 😢 Thank you for your amazing work! Stay safe 🙏🏼
You do a great job, but makes me so sad that people are so clueless of the world and just believe the bs they are told Sad times
Unfortunately you are right. Many are clueless - also in my Russian part of the family. It was in a way unfortunate Putin did it now, because in another 8-10 years, younger folks would take over, and "they have been abroad" and understands, the West does not come and 'steal their resources"...
That BS must include the portion we are fed daily to.😮
Bs like "Russia is the only evil" or "Ukraine s a democracy "? Or "The West did nothing to provoke Russia"?
Great video 1420 team. I love the rural interviews.
I loved st petersburg. It’s very European and relaxed. Although moscow is fascinating I was constantly worried as the police are so corrupt. I was glad when we left to go on with our travels. That was in 2006 when we spent 6 weeks in russia travelling on the trans sib. My favourite was visiting Onkon Island in Lake Baikal. Everyone was friendly there. The thing that struck me though were the amount of beggars everywhere in russia.
Did you asked people about their views on other nations? "It was ours so we have the right to kill their people" - it is common.
They speak so because they don't see the criminal war against Ukraina. They are completely indifferent of what their Russia is doing. If you had asked the same question in Berlin 1940 , people would have answered that thei were satisfied of their standard of life.
Yes, I saw so so many homeless in the park's around Moscow and mainly disabled veterans, was quite saddening, that was in 1981.
In fact, police of Saint Petersburg is even more corrupt than the one in Moscow. Also, there are not more beggers in Moscow than in Berlin, however the quality of life of Moscow beggers is of course not comparable to Berliners'.
Just like Americans and Brits didn't care much for Iraq. Or Saudis for Yemen
I loved the lady who appeared at 10:57: she was very honest.
"Tolerate. Live. Eat potatoes." Pretty much sums up the Russian outlook on life.
LOL
"You know what? Better keep your mouth shut." This lady said it all.
Evidently, the rural Russian man doesn’t know Gorby IS dead. We loved him. He was a rock star when he would come to NYC for a U.N. meeting.
Of course, Gorbachev did not destroy US.
Wow. I think that was your best video yet. Should win awards. Maybe one day it will.
The little town you went to was interesting. They seem to have discovered the lawn mower. Many of the other small towns you have gone to did not seem to be aware of this device. Also, you should have let the man know that his archenemy, Gorbachev was dead. It might have brought him some happiness.
Gorbachev wasn't his arch enemy. He wanted to save the Soviet Union. Chechnya happened under Yeltsin and he was the one who obliterated the Soviet Union. The current leadership is basically the same as under the Soviet periode that Gorbachev wanted to save it from. They were responsible for the demise of the Soviet Union and will be again for Russia, because they haver learned nothing, absolutely nothing. More than 30 years have now gone down the drain and more to come with this regime, because Russia lacks the capability to look at themselves in an honest manner.
maybe that was the son "son who went to chchnya" and returned a broken man... he looked very "done with it".
Yeah, I kind of noticed that he was a few dolls short of a matryoshka. My first hint was when he blamed Gorby for the war even though he resigned years before it broke out. You might claim that he meant that the fall of the Soviet Union was the cause. I do not think this guy is thinking quite that deep. As they say, he is a cosmonaut without a ship.
Wonderful reporting. Even in the cities there seems a complete absence of hope, like there is no future.
GORBACHEVVVV!!! OMG Daniel I am still laughing! I think you just showed how similar people can be 😊
Thank you 1420! 🇺🇸
Fabulous work!
3:17 has me laughing. But even regarding this gentleman who had a very well articulate response, these people are all clearly loyal and decent citizens, and their views of why they live Russia, I damn well sympathize with their responses. They made their homes and they are patriotic and humble. It's admirable. Just like a lot of us Americans. I do enjoy hearing your interviewees speak of what they love and less of what they hate and langush of us (I'm from the US)
But if being patriotic and humble, means you let your government run wild and you are convinced you can do nothing, then perhaps a little less humility would be in place.
@@poulnrgaard7820 The very same thing could be said about the situation here in the US. We have a government that lies, cheats and steals, any day and every day. We have an old, senile, pedophile, figurehead president that has taken millions in bribes from half a dozen different countries and tells us that if we're conservatives we are a terrorist threat to the country! The entirety of Washington DC, both parties, are the real threat to the country. They are currently trying to put a former president in jail for the very same thing the current president has done to an even greater degree in order to keep him from running again. I am ashamed to live in such a Banana Republic.
@@poulnrgaard7820 I apologize for my late reply. Everyone in most first world countries has a lot more room to express and endure their humility. Of this I agree with you.
Fuck man. I love your videos. It just brings to life a lot of what I've read in books. Thank you so much for doing these. They really are a gift for anybody who takes the time to seek them out.
That rural village is almost lite it was in Sweden for 100 + years ago. Everything is relatively.
Thanks for the perspective! 🙏🏼
Daniel asked the old man is Russia a good country? His daughter hiding in the house says where is his ID don’t say anything. That sums up Russia
Was his wife.
People in countryside is very suspicious.
Another stu pid bot that know russia just for a si gle video lmao
Thanks! This was a really good one!
Thanks Daniil for another excellent video. Can’t understand why with such a diverse culture and huge country Russia would want more territory…??? Maybe it’s time for Russia to sort out its own problems and leave other countries alone.
Maybe because a lot of the land is very cold ? Minus 50 to minus 70 is not so nice?
Siberia is only good for it's oil and gas. But then RuSSians need Western technology. Which they are not going to get anymore. RuSSians and Putin are stupid. They even cannot conquer Ukraine.
Interesting to see the different areas and the opinions
10:57 this grandpa yelling stuff in the background is killing me hahaha
Calling Russia a democracy is like calling their military competent.
Its no more of a dictatorship than the u.s.
At least they know putin is a dictator,the u.s. you have two parties with similar policies,directly in the pockets of the military industrial complex..and when you spread your ‘democracy’ around the globe,millions have ended up dead.
There is no democracy in any large country.
@pjdu5yifutd orc detected
I don't think we can call our system is no where the best either. from US
@mastermind can't even beat Afghanistan, 1979-1989, do you want sources?
Wow, this was so interesting to see the contrast with the Muscovites. Спасибо, Даниил.
You might say too much, they'll come after you.
Tolerate live, eat potatoes.
We are used to living in poverty.
Hopelessness.
Russia in a nut shell.
I love how dude said Russia is the best country in the world and then as time went he said only negatives, like wtf xd
Lmao u live in a cave? You might say too much anywhere in the world. They might not necessarily come after you but they(whoever they are) for sure will react accordingly, like a game of chess. Because saying too much causes disturbances in what they have already planned out. It wakes people up. And that's what they are afraid of. And being woke doesn't mean to be into the latest philosophical trend or whatever. Means to be curious, to have critical thinking, to search for the truth. And what truth? Like some all powerful entity? Nope, not what i mean, and that's a whole another topic. Truth like hard freaking evidence. So many wars, all over the earth, have been fought for such hard evidence to be destroyed, hidden or replaced with a forgery.. Wake the f up. If u wish to find God, u will find God in nature.
Idk why but it seems like people are afraid to acknowledge that nature is the source of life. That nature deserves gratitude and care. If i sound like a hipster to you, and you understand nothing of what i just said, you might as well go to hell.
There's no hopelessness if you have potatoes
Russia is always at the top for alcoholism. I'd bet their drug use is way up there.
if by nut shell you mean your brain...
Very interesting! The Babushkas were absolutely adorable! I would love to meet them❤️☺️
The rural Russians fascinate me. China watching is a hobby of mine and I love being able to see the same kind of depth and quality of content and questions throughout all of these videos. I love having you be able to give me some context to Russians. Thank you from the USA
That was a really enlightening episode. Thanks!
You are a good and intelligent journalist. I really like your calm but determined style. You are my independent source on Russian people today. I wouldn't even have an inch of your courage. You have the heart of a lion. I admire you a lot. Greetings from Italy and forgive me if I made some language mistakes but I don't understand Russian or English and I used an online translator
Definitely You should making more videos from villages. People there talking very interesting things.
Dan- it’s obvious you love your country and want to see it reach it’s potential. Hopefully the post putin russia will allow that to happen. Thanks for your work!
Globalist oligarchs will never allow that to happen
It's really interesting listening to the views of people.
It is nice to see that people like their country. Same people should realize that people from another countries love their country too. And don't like when foreigners come and bomb it. Like in Ukraine.
Like in Iraq and Yugoslavia too, eh?
@@kirillzotin1983Civilians killing each other? Yeah Or taking over government.
The end rural bit of this video was one of the most interesting and insightful I've seen in these vids! Very interesting seeing all the different perspectives, especially the ladies at 10:55
Lovely, warm-hearted Russian people in that village. They deserve better...
Great video! Amazing perspectives!
I love the rural part. These people are fascinating, I could listen to them and watch them hours long.
Wow, great video. Nice cross section of people. Really impressed with the students. It seems they are familiar with and think about global affairs. Does Russia have much of any discrimination against a certain culture, class or group of people? Like here in the US, we have conflicts along racial and class lines. I’m just curious.
Some truly epic footage and interviews in this one!
I enjoy your videos and seeing ordinary Russians and hearing their views. I can relate to most of them and could be friends with them and I don’t think that they’re any different from fellow 🇿🇦 countrymen in similar living conditions. They don’t represent their government, just as many 🇿🇦 don’t represent our 🇿🇦 government. Keep up the good work.
I fell in love with that one village oerson, She was down to earth. Didn't want her throat cut. Besides that was a hard question you asked them. How would they realy know if it is better else whare?
I would love to see more about the rural Russia
Watch vasya in the hay
Learning lots about Russian perspective from your channel. Help me get to know my new neighbors a little better. Thank you🙏🏾💪🏾
I have seen many Russian villages through your videos and those of other RUclips creators. Life appears incredibly difficult for Russian villagers, especially the elderly. Was it always like this? Or did village life take a steep downturn after the breakup of the USSR in 1990? On another note, I think you are incredibly brave to make these videos. Good luck!
I would say that rural life was spoiled by the forced collectivization of the economy after 1920. But what they say in this video is only partially true. Farming can be done and earn well, but you need to know how to do it. A lot of people live in the past. My cousin is a 34-year-old farmer and he has a farm in the Saratov region. He earns about $2,500 a month, which is very good for Russia. The secret in many ways is that you need to take the right animals and organize everything correctly. For example, he admires European and Canadian breeding and takes only imported piglets of a certain breed. The secret is in the ability to run a business. And by the way, he told me that large-scale agriculture in Russia is on the rise now, I mean corporations like Rusagro.
@Gata_Scheglova Thank you for your reply. When I read The Gulag Archipelago by Solzhenitsyn, he described the seizure of farm lands and the punishment of farmers who were prosperous. According to the descriptions in the book, it appeared that successful people in all the different occupations were routinely punished in the early days of the USSR. Of course, mass executions - including those of successful people - continued under Stalin. All of these deaths seem to me to be a terrible brain drain for Russian society. What kind of people largely remain? Poor, uneducated, and unsuccessful people? Now, with Putin's war, another brain drain has occurred - young, educated, professional men have left in the hundreds of thousands! I don't know if you have read about Russia's demographic problems, but according to many social scientists, Russia's future looks bleak. There will not be enough young people to support Russia's aging population. Further, males in Russia now have and will continue to have a significantly lower life span than women - about 60 years old. Peter Zeihan is an author who has studied this problem. You can probably find info about this on RUclips and Google.
По рассказам моих родственников, в сёлах и деревнях в советское время могли быть тем продукты, которых не было в городе(Волгоградская область, город Камышин и окрестные деревни). Жизнь и тогда была трудной, но сейчас стало ещё хуже, так как нет колхозов/совхозов, и по факту деревни, села, станицы никто не поддерживает, и они медленно умирают, особенно в бедных регионах😢
I like your journalism, I hope this war ends soon, you're making me want to learn Russian also
Their words don't match their surroundings.
That kid with the glasses is smart. I wish I would have thought about my big move a little deeper. I probably wouldn't have had such a hard time adjusting.
🇦🇺 Respect for what you are doing and surprise you are not in jail. Unfortunately any sympathy i had for the Russian people has disappeared due to the atrocities committed in Ukraine. Lack of empathy appears to be part of the Russian character.
Of course, this is a generalization, but at the same time an empirical fact - Poor nations do not know the concept of empathy, if anyone has any doubts, just mention the countries that actively support Putin in limiting the effects of sanctions.
Lack of empathy is a human trait. No one seems to care about Yemen or Libya either.
интересно где была ваша эмпатия когда русских убивали и претесняли на Донбассе ?
This video was deep! Awesome!
Greetings from Germany!
A person with NO money: “I’ll never trade my country for the west!” Russian oligarchs and propagandists: “I’m buying property in Miami and on lake Como!” 😂😅
Ахаха
@@seasoul2007 she's not lying. ruclips.net/video/DfxMs5ET__I/видео.html
I applaud you young man for asking questions for which there are no easy answers. I’ve travelled the world, and there is one simple truth I’ve come to realize…we, humanity only want health, prosperity and love. I hope these gifts come to all!
Very good, Daniel
I would like to know more about the interview -situation:
* Difficult/easy to find people willing to answer?
* Girl warned her grandfather, Typical or...?
It amazes me that Russia always compares itself to America even though the countries are light years distance economically, socially and even mentality wise. If by some miracle Russia becomes a democracy tomorrow and starts building free institutions, modern infrastructure and quality social services they will still need about a century to bring their country to the level of US or Western Europe, or even to the level of Moscow. I feel bad for people who live their entire life in shit, not being allowed to complain, yet they still think they are better than others, that their county has some god given mission and its people are special. Patriotism is overrated.
this is the best material I've seen from 1420 so far. I loved the rural interviews!
The people in the village seemed so nice, they deserve better.
Most of these pensioners in rural Russia only get paid around 200-300 euro a month. It's a rough life. Hard working for 40-50 years and they get robbed by corrupt politicians and oligarchs.
@@erxen2 They were convinced that it's better to stay out of politics and let someone else fix everything for them.
Brave man. Thank you
The state of living that those rural Russians endure is heartbreaking....and you'll see conditions exactly like it, or worse, if you visit Appalachia in the Eastern United States.
yep, Appalachia comes to mind.
emmm... You know, that more than 70% of Russian househod doesnt have a toilete in house? And they don't mind that till they can have their TV- sponsored by goverment- with their 3 channels (also-all are state ruled media) to watch and listen how living in Russia is great, and the whole world are jelous of them.
@@zrobsobiekrzywde Rosstat data back in 2018 asserts there are 22.8% of households without access to a centralized sanitary sewer system. But there are 66.5% of RURAL households without access to centralized sewer systems, so that's probably what you mixing it for.
Well, it's a bit different.
There is simply no opportunities in Russia outside Moscow and Petersburg, unless you enlist.
In Appalachia's, it's a bad culture, not lack of opportunities. People prefer to take government aid, over starting at a minimum wage jobs.
Also, thousands of tons of drugs coming from China to destroy US is not helping, since the government is unwilling to do anything about it.
I would recommend reading on Thomas Sowells work, specifically "Black Rednecks and White Liberals".
@@zrobsobiekrzywde ??? 85% Russians live in cities with central heating, gas , electricities, and everething you can imagine, and hight speed internet, that is extremly cheap in Russia.
Love Your Channel it helps us to see the truth the poverty at the end - those folks are REAL cause they’ve got nothing to loose
Your videos give me a glimpse of how Russians really are. I have been watching your videos almost since you started and believe I have a more rational understanding of Russians. I think it would be a grand idea to do videos of other country's people and show them to Russians!
for that he would go to jail for 15 years. You have no idea about Russian cenzorship. It's just little less harsh than in North Korea.
@@zrobsobiekrzywde ЦИПСО?
За показ видео о других странах в россии сажают уже?
@@zrobsobiekrzywde I mean, not really? Like, almost everyone I know uses VPN and no one cares about it. It’s definitely not like NK. More like China, Belarus. The war censorship is harsh af tho
Thank youu!! Loved watching it!
I feel very sorry for those people in the village. Good people who have gotten the dirty end of the stick.