Escaping Collective Farm Slavery. My Mother's Story. A Village Girl Moving to Kyiv
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2024
- Soviet collective farms. Was life in the Soviet Union good? Life in the Soviet Ukraine.
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Can your son talk to your mum in Russian or can your mum talk English?
@@Granty_lad55 They used mostly sign language. Or I translated
@@UshankaShow seriously ? That’s funny and awesome 😎
Condolences for the loss of your father, Sergei.
Thank you
I bet you're so proud of your mom Sergei. And vice-versa. To me, it seems that most people in your family are doing exactly what they want to do in life.
Condolences for the loss of your father, Serghei. Luckily your mum looks like she has great energy, and you’ve got a wonderful family ❤
Your mom is a badass and seems like someone who knows life is too short not to follow your heart. I come from the country and moved to a megacity because.. well, I had to, to survive, but I find myself missing the quiet and the presence of nature and the familiar faces sometimes, too. I hope I have as much energy at her age!
I can tell how much love you have for your mom. By the sound of your voice when you speak of her. I am glad she is doing well. The food on the table looked scrumptious!!😊
5:40 Your lovely Mum does look very proud of her land and all the great vegetables that she has grown! She must be very proud of you, too, Sergei, being so successful that you were able to buy her a house.
Your mother is very beautiful and you look like your grandfather and dad. Your brother has your mom’s eyes.Such a hard working family. Your mom is blessed to have two sons who love and care about her ❤I still have my mom she’s 84 and still lives on her own doing all the mowing and chores
Wow! Bike riding 10 miles per day. I think a lot of people would have a hard time doing that.
Sir, you took care of family. Respect! Her eyes show both kindness and concern.. You lucked out with parents.
Thank you!
@@UshankaShow Roger!
Still having your mother makes you more lucky than you realise, Sergei. I lost my mother when I was 37, and I will never recover. Not only did I lose her, I am mentally destroyed due to witnessing the pain she was in. She was my best friend, perhaps my only true friend, and you should do everything you can to spend as much time with her as you can, whether it be in Ukraine or in the USA. Believe me, Sergei, what you still have is so precious.
Weak and pathetic. GROW UP AND BE A REAL MAN.
What an adorable babushka ❤
great video. you rule. screw the critics. Late wife loved your stories.
Thank you for showing us your mothers life.🙂
My pleasure 😊
that house looks like houses I saw in Finland
Ur, a good man. Thank you
I know this will sound a little strange but the country house reminds me of old country houses here in Australia. Few cupboards and no fitted kitchen.
Thank you for this video! Makes me think of my grandmother in Ukraine.
RUclips will keep all these adorable life stories for a long time. It's family history but written in the larger book of History.
I wish I had time to do so with my grandmother. I have boxes of old pictures from Poland, then USSR of course, and I don't know what's all about.
And sorry for your father's loss.
Natural spring water ‘on tap’ 👌.
Certainly beats going to the gym and paying for expensive bottled water in the US.
17:55 kids are the only ones looking at the camera!😂
Very nice! Thanks for sharing
I was born in Saskatchewan, among Ukrainians and the Mormons - Ukrainians are great farmers and show great reverence for their culture. You're mum seems like a pure soul, send her our love please.
Thank you!
I enjoy stories about your Mother. One comes to mind when she visited you in Michigan and your former employer took your family out for breakfast and she said it was a waste of money she could have easily cooked at home. You always loved her cooking.
Yep, that's my mom! 😊
Your mum is the best, I think we’d all love to have a mum/grand mother like her 😊
Rest in peace Nikolai 🕊️
Aren't moms (or in Oliver's case grandmothers) the best?
3:13 now that’s what I like to call a portrait of a man with a lot of bling. I’ve seen pictures and portraits of kings and emperors with less medals. Never knew Brezhnev was a showboat.
Very nice to see your son Oliver. Glad he's helping grandma with the firewood.
Thanks! Enjoy your perspective on life.
Thank you so much!
This was a really nice video :D
Beautiful family. You should be very proud. All your fine upbringing shows. ❤
This presentation was lovely. Should have some music with it😊
nice post sergei. i like your channel very much. i thin you are very balanced and show the good and bad side of everything. well done. keep it up!!
I appreciate that!
Freat video thanks for showing us. In pasted video, I remembered the well with your son at your mother house. Always wonder why she had no running water, now I know why .
Your mother seems to be a strong and incredible woman. Thanks for sharing.
Very cozy video, reminds me of my grandmother, grew up in a rather a cashlimited environment (Sweden was probably better than the USSR, but if you we're poor in 20's, to bad for you, the current welfare system was still on the drawing board). They did have a couple of goats though, at the tender age of 5 she was sent out to milk one of the goats (probably by one of her older brothers), this turned out to be a difficult task, only one teat to work with and the yield was rather limited...
I don't think the Swedish welfare system was even possible in the 20's. Also, as it would appear from my point of view in the US, have the social democrats gone too far with immigration?
That was a great story abut your Mom, she is quite a beautiful lady, she reminds me of my own Mother who passed away at 94 in 2018. She was also a country raised girl who moved to "town" for a better life, then years later after she retired she was always going back to the farm , finally in later years just moving in with my youngest brother on the farm. It was always her "home".
It's great that your mom rides her bike 10 miles a day. It's important for people her age to be active and keep getting exercise.
GOOD work - FAMILY so nice - informative engaging n entertaining TY
The last generation that can truly live off the land....
The onions you were holding in the picture with your mom look so good! I would eat those kind on onions with a saltshaker and a glass of milk. 👍
How Lucky you are to have a family history and photos.
Simple Rural life is the best (city-people don't know what
they're missing : ))
same goes for country people. both have ups and downs.... that's why many people try to have both, a home in the city and a 2nd place for leisure in a quiet area.
I like nature, but I also like having stores and culture around me.
Ahh, but now, in rural areas U can have books, music, internet and
can even possibly work-at-home! But cities are only concrete & steel
w few trees, constant car noise, little privacy and high Crime. Few can afford 2 casas, but rural would be more peaceful. The bk."WALDEN"
was my childhood-guide : )) @@Blackadder75
Sergei I really enjoyed the well clip of your family! Reminds me of when I lived on a farm growing up. Good video!
Really great video!
Thank you!
What an awesome mom you have. Mine is almost exactly the same age.
"You're gonna marry some local drunk." LOL.
My grandma was absolutely correct. Only drunks remained in the villagers, everyone else was leaving for the cities
@@UshankaShow Wise woman.
Always fascinating. 👌👌
I never met your mom, but through your videos i feel like i know her.. What a good person.. She made things happen even under those terrible communist and Russian bastards
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Please consider doing a Soviet collective farm equipment video.
The combines in this video looked interesting / modern for the time period, and I am curious about the history of Soviet collective farm equipment and methods.
I have seen a few different tractor models; some larger 4x4 models and some row crop sized.
Very little information about Soviet harvesting equipment is available, compared to the way US equipment has been extensively researched and recorded.
What models were built and how?
Were foreign equipment makers consulted or copied?
Deutz had a big impact on US equipment makers; they bought them up when the market slowed in the 70's; farmers couldn't buy expensive new equipment with a near 30% interest rate on the loan.
The management structure of the collective farm would be interesting, too.
Who operated the equipment?
How work would be assigned and when to plant and harvest is a foreign concept, to the way private farms are operated and would also be interesting.
How were the crops and livestock transferred and processed for the market and consumers without an open market to buy and resell the crops and livestock?
Were the crops collected by the state?
Did the farmer have to transfer the crops to a centralized location?
How were the crops and livestock transported after leaving the farm?
What equipment was used for the transport?
How did the farms get the seed, fertilizer, feed, and livestock to grow their crops?
Was it delivered to the farm or have to be picked up?
What equipment was used?
Did consumers pay for their food with money?
Did that money go back to operate the farms?
If so, was it a self-sufficient farming system?
Dang, you've got some good question!
I will add this topic to my list.
Collective farms:
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Collective farm pay:
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very nice. thank you.
i'm the same about clothes. if they are not stained/ripped/smell bad, what's the problem with keeping clothes for years and years? plus 'new' clothes today just feel....cheap, but the prices are through the roof. better off checking out the thrift stores and getting better clothes for a tenth of the price. congrats again on 100k subs! and i look forward to you drinking that vodka!
I started buying 2nd hand clothes 20 years ago, because I was poor. I am now wealthy, but I still go to thrift stores for at least half of my clothes. I like the quality and that you can never know what special item you might find. Of course there is a lot of junk in those stores as well, but I got good at recognizing the good pieces. And if i don't find what i need a buy a new item, and don;t care about the price, as I save so much from other pieces.
@@Blackadder75absolute gems can be found at thrift stores. Clothes you can find nowhere else.
PS, cherish time with parents and relations. They are here for a limited time.long live brownies!
love Ukrainian battle cat
fair play your mums in great health for her age it must be the countrylife
Very surprised Ukraine does not allow private property in land. Nice episode.
That nice
Greetings Mr. Sputnikov. I have heard a song titled "Mountain Farm" about a man telling his lady that she is not good enough because she lives on a collective farm while he lives on a 'mountain farm'. Under communism, what would be the status of a 'mountain farm'. (or am i misinterpreting the lyrics?)
Condolences for your father.
I must have missed your previous videos but did you mum and dad live together in the village once she moved there or did he stay in Kiev?
Thank you! Dad remained in Kiev and my mother moved to the village
Вот я, маленький Сережа
I thought you didn't like to be called Сережа! haha
Сирожа, not Серёжа
at 20:36 is that a stove under a bed??
It will be amazing if you make a video on Afghanistan when it was invaded by USSR.
he has-- multiple videos, I think.... that whole thing was so insane, especially since the government in Kabul was ALREADY pro-USSR!! But they didn't want some stalinist russian stooge like Kim Il Sun in charge so they got rid of Moscow's puppet and chose their own leader instead-- and that couldn't be forgiven by the Kremlin, even though they were still ALLIES!
I don't think this channel is about geopolitics and war as much as personal history and family experiences.
@@benjammin9745 Yeah Brother, I really like his analysis as he has witnessed the war and some of his friends had served in Red Army.It's just a request.
Your mom is badass
2000 to 500. That is what they call depression
Tucker just wet his pants over that.
There are tons of abandoned homes in that village as well as in other villages in the area
I really like the family stories and pictures to go along, your mother seems like a though but kind lady!
The thing is the collectivized villages are a result of bad leadership had the leaders seen the problem early they would have more sense the Yugoslav ZADRUGA which was the name for those collectivized farm's failed in 4 years they had a good start but failed and the Yugoslav president Tito had the brains that he always did to stop it early before it caused a really bad shi* storm and private property returned to Yugoslavia to some degree and since our Economy was not full on "Planned Communism" we got the ability to as early as the 50's and 60's move to cities and the farmland was given to proper farmers that had a family dynasty in agrarianism and or people with the passion in agrarianism the state still worked the same and took some of your crop and left you some for you and to sell and the farm animals that were born like let's say 8 pigs were born when they are grown up they'll take 4 or 3 and leave you enough to feed yourself,sell the males after they mate with the females to people that wanted the pig for slaughter day for the meat mostly it was suburbian people and villagers at the bazaar the rest of the stuff is basic stuff in any other Socialist country except we had it very much so easier in Yugoslavia or well... what's left of it today.
Do you think you'll bring the rest of your fam to the states?
They showed no interest
Second!
If Ukraine won the War by now, would the EU be a little afraid of a strong militarized Ukraine? Ukraine having the muscle to be more steadfast on EU things they don't want and agree with
Ukraine is going to be very pro eu for a while maybe later on there will be conflict with the west European hippies trying to get Ukraine to waste money .but that will be so far in the future its hard to predict
Who do you think is going to win the election in Russia? s/
It's too close to call yet. Either Vlad or Putin
Or Vladimirovich 😂
I don't think election is the correct verbiage. Maybe sham election.
@@frakismaximus3052Vovochka could win.
Can you ask your mom how much it cost for your uncle to go to school in Kiev
I know that all education was free in the Soviet Union. But it’s a interesting question, how about living expenses like food and board and so.
free marxist studies
So that's your Mom's secret to well-being - leave the city for country life.
Does your mother speak English?
No
Another long and boring video. Nice to see the countryside. Hopefully, it will never change too much.