We also have another similar video that we published 2 months ago! Rural Russians name a country they DON'T like: ruclips.net/video/AmGZvlnhs84/видео.html
Hi Daniil , may I suggest a question😊, it would be interesting to ask what country people would like to visit if they had an opportunity or would they like to travel, where and why ? 😅 I think it would be extremely interesting to see if this way of asking could elicit different answers from people 😊I’m very curious, what are your thoughts ? I Think your channel is phenomenal by the way!!
After watching this it’s no surprise how they act in Ukraine most seem like the walking dead….. Why do they think Russia is great if they have not been anywhere??
мне самому страшно от таких людей и заброшенных сел, во времена СССР строили заводы, фермы и вокруг них появлялись деревни как "село образующие" когда СССР развалился а предприятия закрылись это по сути брошенные территории на которых зачем то остались люди, кое где там есть газ, центральное водоснабжение есть. но во многие домах не проведено, живут в основном пенсионеры и деградирующие алкоголики не вполне похожие на людей_)) и таких сел с населением 1000-3000 человек полно
@@domagojcelic3987 I think Russians treat Slovaks like brothers. at least they treat the Slovaks better than they treat the Poles. and the flag of Slovakia is very beautiful for Russians, hahahaha.
Almost all the people in this video are uneducated and poor people living in a Russian well, croaking how good the well is, while the more learned people in cities like Moscow are educated and rich enough to go around the world and know how much better it is outside the well
Your arrogance is perverse. Just because you live in a richer society it means nothing. These same opinions were given after Bush invaded Iraq in rural upstate NY.
As an American I have observed many rural Americans saying the same thing about America, there seems to be a trend between patriotism and isolation from the world and society
I’ve been saying the same thing - Russia and the US, Russians and Americans are extremely similar yet that’s the thing they both hate about them the most
A lot of developing countries have wells - good form is to solely have a water bucket for collecting - that is use to fill containers/buckets that people bring - bad form is throwing buckets in water that are dirty on the outside. Their is a huge advantage to water collecting - the community of the well - easy way to met all in your village in a natural way . So less lonely people. All these wells are protected from outside - some countries with less resources will concrete around well on ground surface
@@LOLHAMMER45678 Yeah I get your point - for a resource rich country like Russia, or Iran, Iraq etc etc - their people could all be well off middleclass . Russia squandering itself in Ukraine is not new - Spain's wealth from Inca gold , Bolivian Silver was squandered in no time - including war with England etc
You haven’t been or seen many developing countries still in many parts people walk like this daily to get water in a bucket . Till this day many countries.
I am originally from Bosnia. From a small poor village. Since I have been living in Austria, I have become aware of how poor Bosnia actually is. But when I was in Russia in 2018, also in the rural area, I only realised how good we actually have it in Bosnia. No running water, no sanitary facilities, no sewage system. Russia is rich, but also so poor.
Russia may be rich, as Norway! Guess what is the difference. It takes to much time to count them all. Culture, mindset, education,....most important not a Kremlin Gangster Mafia reinvesting in "Mega-Yachts" (that were acutally built in Germany, thx for that btw) and endless grift. The Norway State Pension Fund is the wealthiest one in the world. Just imagine were Ruzzia could be...they would not need fight a war...people would line up to become citizens!!! But this actual Ruzzia just needs to be stopped, at all cost, with ALL MEANS!!
@@jknezevic95 Thats the funny thing, the oligarchs are hand picked from Putin and kick the money back ... The "Oligarchs" are rich from the countries natural resources which are front for Putin, hes literally been stealing from the country in quantity you cant imagine.
it stuns me that this is the only comment I've seen acknowledging this. like regardless of how they really feel, they'd certainly be scared of saying anything besides "Russia"
Mate this is in the middle of nowhere. I doubt any Government officials would go through the trouble of traveling to an isolated city in the middle of nowhere to Test random peasants who don't particularly matter about their opinions. Do you think Russia has that kind of Resources to waste? Is it really that hard to believe that people simply fall for propaganda? It's literally the most basic human trait imaginable to be prone to manipulation. Get real. Besides why would they ever answer differently? Everything they know about Countries at large comes from the Television as they never left their Village. And since they never left their Village they would have no choice but to believe the TV. And we both know what the TV says. It would have been more stunning if they answered anything else because why would they? How would anything neutral about other countries ever reach them?
I was thinking the same. North Korea is of course more isolated but if this was somehow allowed to happen there, you would just get the same results as this video.
@@BladeJonesTheir world is very small. Many say as much. They don't think about things like foreign countries much, and anyplace other than Russia probably feels like a completely different planet in their minds.
@Falkriim The fact he's literally wearing maybe not classic vata but a coat reminds me of it, holding his vodka bottle in pocket, "fuck everyone but Russia, Rossi!" and leans in to the camera belligerently. Thank you, thank so sooooOOO much my Lord, thank you GOD I was not born in the fucking Russia.
@@russomasha9378 Yeas, look away from the evidence and put Stalin's dreams in your head instead comrade. Eliminating reality and way you can will help cope with belief that Russia is great
It's like North Korea. They have no comforts, not even enough food. But they believe that other countries have it worse. They are "lucky" to be protected from the evil West.
My favourite episode, the interviewer did well not to laugh. They are all very patriotic and love their motherland but it looks like a village from a horror film
I wouldn’t call them patriots of Russia, because Chuvashia is literally a colony of Russia, so they have their language, their traditions, but they have to live under rules of Russia. They even have to go to become murderers and die in the senseless war.
I love the brilliant logic. They say on the one hand that they have never been abroad but on the other hand they know without a doubt that Russia is the best.
Death in Ukraine will be a blessing for him. Will put an end to a meaningless existence in hopeless poverty. Russians should worship Putin. He found the fastest and most effective way to bring people out of the darkness of a miserable existence on the sidelines of civilization.
Yeah, it truly is remarkably sad :/ A people, without hope, without dreams, without purpose, mentally imprisoned, by their own government and society. And now they're being sent to slaughter by reasons they don't even know.
"We don't need this" and the fact word got around so fast, kinda telling isn't it? It's sad that so many Russians still feel the need (and probably quite rightfully too!) to keep their heads down.
"You can live this life, but you better stay silent" Honestly depressing how Russian is still in this mess. "After" the cold war we (the west) could have reached out and helped prevent this, but instead most of the west started showing off that they had "won" the cold war and just treated Russia like losers. The west might as well have written Putin's propaganda for him.
I’m from Poland and we all know how it looks like in Russia but watching this really breaks my heart. Those people could have had really better life if not for corruption. It all looks sad and grey but you must notice how beautiful the architecture of some of the houses is. Once again, thanks for showing the truth Danill. Greetings from Poland
I'm from Canada and we see things like this and think "What the f_uck?" It's the alcohol that's the key. Perhaps their government prefers that they are perpetually drunk but widespread Fetal Alcohol Syndrome produces a population that wants to murder, pillage and rape because they are physiologically incapable of self control.
This was one of the most surreal videos Ive ever seen. Every single person answered the exact same answer. I really appreciate the 1420 channel. He's brave.
He is not brave. What are you expected from old people, from rural area who's hobbie - watching TV or drinking. It's just fits to yours propaganda, nothing more.
@@RedstoneCriper I’m not expecting anything more from them. They have the right to live the way that they want to. It’s sociology; like minded people migrate together. The reason I say 1420 is brave is because any of those people could have told him to leave and get off their property or to not bother them with questions.
Rural Russia is like a time warp. The juxtaposed position of the people filling water buckets from a well, yet saying Russia is the best place is something to behold. I’m practically lost for words. And the drunk at the end volunteering to go to the front, kind of sums up Russia.
Потому что для нас счастье не в деньгах как на западе, это деревенские люди благодарят за всё. Впрочем, чего у них нет? Дома? Одежды? Еды? А что ещё нужно? Машины? Дворцы? Золотые туалеты? Как говорил Господь - "Трудно войти богатому в Царство Божие".
@@Сегодняшняяреальность you’ve got to be kidding me… how about a working infrastructure form the 20th Century? My grandparents are born right after WW2 and the lived a much more comfortable life and that was almost 80 years ago!
@@Сегодняшняяреальность Mají akorát dřinu, vodku, kulturu z televize. Vypadají velmi štastně 🥴 Měli prvního kosmonauta ve vesmíru a nemají ve vesnici ani vodovod. Hlavně že na válku peníze jsou.
@@dayglodoggy The Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, is a federal subject of Russia in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group. Its capital is the city of Cheboksary. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,251,619.Wikipedia
Seeing this makes me feel so grateful to live in my country in the times we are now. Our villages and general life in Estonia had conditions and looked pretty much the same like in this video, when we were under USSR. If you go to these rural areas in Estonia today, after we have been independent again for 31 years, there are new roads everywhere, street lights, roads for pedestrians, houses that have been renovated and have working water and electricity systems and activities for people to do besides drinking away their misery. Citizens can apply to get financial support for the work they need to do on their households etc. Until you go/visit elsewhere or have access to see and hear the possibilities and rights that you should have, you cant even wish or require them and you will just blindly accept the minimum your manipulative ruler is feeding you.
So happy for Baltic countries to be truly freed from communist regime and hidden soviets in the government... Russia nowadays is still totally overwhelmed with soviet remnants who found a new 'russian' identity but actually just keep making our lives miserable and it just drives me insane. To look at these rural people for example, living in the worst damn poverty you could imagine and still keeping Communist party' flags. Guys, cmon, these are the symbols of people who made you to live THIS life... Hope someday we'll also be able to successfully tear down all these fuckers in the government and clear ourselves from the soviet and current bullshit we're having. Sorry for the longread. Greets from Moscow
Wow, this is strange to read, considering that Estonia was one of the most funded regions in the Soviet Union. My grandparents were in one of these regions, while in the rest of the Soviet Union there was a shortage of almost all goods, in their opinion, "there shelves were bursting with a choice of products and other things," but maybe they lived so badly. You were very right.
Estonia and the rest of the Baltic states have 0 natural resources, minuscule populations and territory and yet look at them now. And up to this day many Russians claim that these countries would have been broke if not for the USSR... more like they would be already on par with neighbouring Finland. It's enough to have a glance over the minimum/average wages in these countries as compared to Russia to get an idea of why size does not matter.
@@crocolagerfelden6142 It's the fault of the Russian mentality that doesn't strive for improvement but instead the destruction of those who do improve. An almost completely irredeemable culture tbh. A dead end of human civilization.
@@crocolagerfelden6142 It's so sad to look at it, because Russia could be really developed and technologically advanced, but my people are used to living in bad conditions and under a bloody dictator. Most of them are also terribly lazy and "apolitical". I hope that all this will end someday, people will wake up and realize what they have done, and something will change in their mentality
I come from Italy and I have travelled there extensively. If you would go ask these same questions in a remote, impoverished village in southern Italy, they would all make a list of countries and places that are better and immediately point out all of the problems of village. All of this despite them having sewers, running water, electricity, roads, and being much more advanced compared to this russian village. If these people were to actually understand how poor they are and how rich Moscow is, and how much better off Russia could be, they would revolt immediately. I guess ignorance is bliss
@@robertlund5694 then why do they accept this? Moscow and Saint Petersburg are rich because all the wealth of this huge country is concentrated there. The people living where the resources that make Moscow rich are extracted live in poverty, while Moscovites are rich because of poor peoples work
@@Артём-ъ8з5е difficile in che senso? Le bollette sono alte, ma per il resto non è più difficile rispetto ad altri tempi. In Italia le persone si lamentano sempre, ma credo si viva bene. L'unico problema sono i salari bassi e il costo della vita alto. Per il resto non ci si può lamentare. Se hai un buon lavoro vivi meglio che in Germania, secondo me. Adesso si trova lavoro facilmente ma purtroppo non è ben pagato. Spero che verrai presto in Italia :)
I am 99% sure they have running water..i dont see outside toilettes which would be there besides every house if there was not running water . IT could be they like water from weel ..my first neigbour has a weel since forever (it was there when i was born) and he drink water from it ..and he is still alive ,i thing he has like 75 years now
I’m a 36yr old midwestern American and I remember being told that The Netherlands was a drug filled lawless land of depravity. It sounded fucking, great to me as a 20yr old when I was preparing to backpack Europe (this was in 2007). I found out that NL was the nicest, cleanest and most beautiful country I had ever been to. There’s a lesson there and it stuck with me very deeply.
Watch how Dutch people handled your Trumpy ambassador. Debunked with a capital D. That is how journalism should work in the US as well... ruclips.net/video/WqPWTGVI_aU/видео.html
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain
@@Feliday I have seen videos from foreigners on YT that thought that 'the Bijlmer' (our ghetto) was such a lovely place. I think you need to visit some violent cities in the world, it is all relative.
No running water in a village in a rich country in 2022? "It's better to be silent" from the elderly woman who's going to have to carry her water to her house. "I've been drinking 5 days in a row, blyat!" from the man who's going to volunteer for the army.
Now imagine being a boy from one of these villages or migrant towns in February with sick or eldery parents and no future. They come and tell you they will pay you 1,000 euros a month to be on a 3-6 month contract and just have to do some training in Belarus or guard the checkpoint in south of Russia. Next thing you know you are in a BMP in ukraine being shelled by artiliary you knew nothing about and seeing bodies and limbs flying everywhere. Russia will pay heavily later for doing that to those fresh conscripts and contracted young men that had no idea what was going on that are now all dead / shellshocked PTSD with missing limbs.
The people in europe in the 18th century lived arguably better lives. The workload was harder for sure, but they didn't drown their human spirit in vodka to distract themselves from their bad living conditions. No they tried to improve them. Russians instead of improving themselves seem to have this mentality to make others as miserable as themselves instead. That's why they're destined to fail, even if they succeeded in destroying everyone who's more prosperous than themselves.
@@LPVince94 A thought experiment: What if the corruption was abolished, and the news on any TV was fairly true? How fast would the living improve? One generation?
@@dc5269 Based on the other videos the cities are just as ignorant, but it is even worse because in the city they have "proper" education and internet and still choose to be ignorant.
@@GamerLoff so basically I live part-time in Moscow now but I was born and grew up there and trust me there is a deep hidden fear in this “ignorance”. I’m not telling you that nobody supports Putin, no. People do, but many MANY people are afraid to say something against our government. The reason why you see mostly people who supports Putin in these interviews, is that they (the supporters) are NOT afraid to speak for obvious reasons. And the others are. But if you live in Moscow, trust me, you are always surrounded by different points of view and yes we do have independent media (that is beeing oppresed all the time) and many liberal young and not-so-young people! But if you live in rural areas people don’t even have access to internet, they don’t have water or electricity, no smartphones so the only source of information is TV and newspapers (which is all propoganda ofc). So there is really a big big difference
Seems like it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with folks in rural areas. Good job and thanks for your patience and persistence in your work.
The woman by the well summed it up. They are afraid to say anything else. The guy at the end is signing up for the military. Not because he wants to go fight but because they came and took his 5 friends and he wants to join them.
This is how Ukraine was in my rural village back when I was little. Now 20 years later almost all the younger people have traveled to Europe and work there and come back to rebuild in Ukraine. Its almost insane how quickly the culture has changed in less than a generation.
I'm looking forward to seeing Ukraine become as prosperous and integrated as the rest of Europe after the war. It's going to get drowned in western cash investment and become one of the best places to live in the world. And sadly, over the border I suspect pocket scenes of grinding 1930s style poverty will continue to exist due to 0 political will to ever change it. Russians coming to Ukraine in the future will arrive like barbarians gawping in wonder at the gates of Rome.
I live in Csnada and was shocked to see how these people live. No running water, sewage systems,mud roads and the number of drunks. It makes me feel very fortunate for what I have. The thing that shocked me the most was the blind love they have for a country that obviously dosen't give a damn about them. They remind me of zombies. I feel bad for them.
Orcs perhaps? I completely understand why Ukrainians have started calling them Orcs. You could take these people off the street and wouldn't have to teach them a thing and they could absolutely nail the part of playing the Orcs in Lord of the Rings.
Sometimes I watch these and think our values and priorities in life aren’t so different. Then I watch ones like this and just stare in disbelief for 9 minutes. Please keep them coming
Sometimes I watch US movies and tv series from the sixties and seventies, or even from just twenty years ago, and recognize the values, ideas and sensibiblities in those: they're overlapping with our own northern European culture, Then I watch people who fanatically believe in Donald Trump or who are busy defending him, turning reality inside out to protect the ideas they share, and I'm just gaping in disbelief (at least that's my first reaction). Then I know we have nothing in common with what America seems to have become.
@@louise_rose Yes yes, Americans are well aware that Europeans are taught from a very early age to hate the US and that it, not China, not Russia, is the great evil in the world. You come here to visit, you have a wonderful vacation, many of you immigrate here, but then you still return to Europe spewing you hatred for all things America. It's not the US slaughtering Ukrainians, but instead saving them. And you have your own versions of Donald Trump right on your doorsteps in Hungary, Poland, Italy etc...but just like the deluded uneducated people in this video, you still hate America.
@@louise_rose WHOA THERE Louise. Dial it back a bit. In case you didn't notice, the INTELLIGENT portion of the US kicked his sorry butt out, in a BIG way. But yes, the disbelief part, totally with you. Frankly, I don't see all that many governments of the world looking very smart right now. Come visit America, I can guarantee it isn't what you think it is. There's good and bad though, no doubt, just like everywhere else. And Tramp was a freakin embarrassment. He almost turned this country into a total piece of crap.
@@MrJdsenior Yes, it is about disbelief! America is a great nation in so many ways and I'm quite aware that Trump was legally booted out in a free, fair and safe election two years ago - also, that most of the candidates he backed this time around *lost* in their states to sane democrats. Amen to that! It's about disbelief, anger and shock for me too - I personally don't have to live with friends and family who believe in Trump or see him wrecking the politics of my own country (Sweden), but watching his clownish government and the folks who seem to buy into everything he says and does, even from the other side of the ocean, was still disturbing (I'll admit the show was sometimes very entertaining too, but I never lost sight of how dangerous the guy is). This is not what we expected the US to be. I hope the country still can recover over time. The hard lesson of the 2020 election, I think, is that around 30% of those who are likely to vote in the US are completely fine with a POTUS who behaves, talks and make policies like Trump, who is as racist and sneering at the idea of judicial safety, legal propriety and the right to have good. working courts as he is, who is as waist deep into corruption as he is. They don't really care as long as it's their guy and they feel he embodies their hope for a "re-WASPed America". And they would bet on a new guy in that vein even after Trump is gone. I agree many governments all around the western world are looking dodgy and less than smart over the last decade (my own country included). /Loulou, bilingual Swedish lady
My grandmother lived about 20 miles outside a small town in the USA. I spent a couple weeks one summer with her on her farm in the late 1960s. The road by her place way paved. Her driveway was gravel. The home was from about 1900, but had been upgraded with electricity, well with electric pump, indoor plumbing, etc. Her neighbors were good people who would look out for each other. No drunks were seen on the street or nearby town. Rural life can be a nice way to live. Although it does limit your exposure to other countries, foreigners, technology, cultures, etc. With the mobilization, Russia appears to be echoing The Hunger Games, where people from the poor districts must offer up their children to die, while the rich in Moscow and Saint Petersburg enjoy their luxuries like plumbing.
@@milkman713 *patpat* yes grandpa, time to go to bed and stop ranting about these damn democrats that are the ones saying it used to be normal for a single working man to take care of his whole family :3. Not gonna lie. Since Reagan, you guys had a serious downfall '-'.
I agree, the poor young men are just fodder for the russian army and putin, u wont c university students or young men in good jobs in the army, sooo sad ,
@@tdrs1765 Oregon, the Willamette River Valley has fertile soil. Her husband died after WWI. She became sick from tuberculosis and my mom, her sister and brother went to an orphanage until she was able to care for them. She was a pioneering woman.
Наверное, грустно из-за того, насколько плоха ситуация. В других странах условия жизни (даже в сельской местности) намного лучше, чем в этой русской деревне. Также печально, что эти люди ослеплены националистической ложью или слишком боятся говорить то, во что верят.
@@РыжийВолк-х1р look at the second dude his world is so small his mind is filled with tv propaganda he hates the world and resorts to alcoholism no one wants to grow old like this. Yesterday i met a man around the same age (60-70) while i was walking my dog and he was cycling and asked for directions the man had lived where i live now in the past and cycled 50 km from where he lives now he still knew the old bars and some of the people that still live there. That's how i want to grow old. Not like a drunk frustrated alcoholic.
@@ohno529 they grew up in the USSR, in a country where they could be shot for any word against the government. They are used to it and are now afraid to say anything against it. I apologize for the mistakes, I am writing through a translator. Greetings from Russia
@@vule656 I can relate. They took that mindset from their parents who took the mindset from their grand parents. To most of them how and where they live now there is no way out to broaden the horizon. If you have any empathy it makes you kind of sad. I can even have empathy with people who seemingly don't feel or cannot feel or show empathy. It's just such a waste.
@@TheHesseJamesfeel a bit the same. But I'm russian and I live in such village. I feel bad for my "patriotic" relatives, but also THEY ANNOY ME SO MUCH with such kind of type of thinking
Thank you so much for filming this! My grate-grandma was from similar village but it was a century ago... so sad to see nothing has changed. When grandchildren were asking her questions about the past she used to tell them to stay quiet and not to ask too many questions (because she was scared that the authorities would come for them) - Seems like this hasn't changed too, so sad. And most of these people will never know the truth 😥
My Finnish grandmother is the same. Cant ask her questions about the past, like the war between Finland and Russia she was in. She'll shut you right down and accuse you of being a communist
Wish you’d changed subject and asked diff questions . I’m curious about their thoughts on things . But thank you for posting, I’ll explore your other content for more
I don't even have to imagine. It's weird, but living there is better for some reason than in big cities. I tried both, grew up in a shithole like one in the video and studied in the megapolis, and now returned because it's just physically hard to endure the rhythm and rules of a big city with its cops, cameras, cars, people and other things, meanwhile in a rural area u know everyone and don't have to be afraid of anything, no one can reach u and disturb u, perfect place for a schizoid like me.
Imagine being so brainwashed you think your country is better but in 2022 you still have to drag up water from a well. Russia might not be good at many things but their ability to brainwash is amazing.
@@whatsgoingon71 Nah, we're just going to the woods for a day if recruiters are coming, but it happened like once and they took only some drunkards who are stupid enough to open a door and being registered in their houses and since then no one showes up cause there are literally no any cops for 50 miles around.
I come from Chuvashia and seeing this makes me feel impossibly bitter. At the same time I think that everyone from large Russian cities must watch this video. You'd say these are marginal people but that's actually what I see every time I visit my parents. It's not just a couple of people. It's a pity but no conversation is possible if someone is THIS narrow-minded. I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons behind this is extreme poverty. One thing said in this video that stung me especially is "better stay silent". This is something I hear all the time among my relatives who are all Chuvash. I find this characteristic for our ethnic group and that can partially be explained with our history. A republic with poor economy, no resources, highly dependent on donations from Moscow. People whose ancestors (most of them) were smashed about a thousand years ago. This logic not to show up so that it wouldn't get even worse seems to exist on a genetic level. I feel so sorry and ashamed that many Chuvash people are like that. Russia gives Chuvashia as little as possible and they still praise it. There are certainly Chuvashs who are strongly against the war and the attitude presented in the video. There's even quite well-known (among Russians at least) movement called "Angry Chuvashia". I'm waiting more people to get angry and finally speak.
"We don't need nothing but the Motherland!" (Carries buckets of water from the well to the house.) Bloody hell, these people are blind to how badly their own country treats them.
Ordinary people have always been badly treated in Russia be it bybthe Tzars, the Bosheviks, Stalin or Putin..100s of years as serfs has created a subservient mindset to those in power
@@ДенисДжонсон-к2ь I am sorry to inform you, but it was your own people who made the "democracy" after the fall of USSR so shit by making an autocracy instead. You all let USSR happen in the first place, then you let USSR fall and you let Yeltsin to make mockery of democratic parliament, Putin and his mafia do whatever they want (take away more of your freedoms, democratic principles, etc.) by still not caring about politics and giving him too much power over you. You all are to blame.
Seen from the point of view of Russians and the pre-1991 economy, the end of the Soviet Union meant losing half the population of the country, half the base of working people, taxpayers, the domestic market etc. They lost much of the best farmland of the country too. On top of all that, there was a chaotic series of crashes during the 1990s when doctrinary neo-liberal "experts" were brought in to "reform the Russian economy". I can assure you, if the US had been forced through those kinds of changes, with Texas, Cali and the western pacific states seceding and turned their backs on the "rump USA", which had practically gone bust, then a *lot* of US towns, farms and industries would have gone bust in the process too, and you would have seen massive decay in many places (including the sainted but expensive US military and your cherished navy!), And the answer to this is not "Meh, we're simply the best, the US can never go bust or be shaken by serious convulsions".
You visited poor village and asked question only to old peoples, scince USSR they belief TV only, where pure propoganda is translated. Ask it to young people in towns, they know something about outer world at least
I'm from a not-so-small city in Siberia, but I also have very little knowledge of that kind of rural life. I begin to understand why researchers say there are actually 4 types of Russia... These types are not only completely different but never even speak to or encounter each other.
yeah, thats also why there wont be a revolution in russia. putin is burning rural gopniks on the frontline, and claiming russia has lost nothing of worth. just worthless gopniks and worthless soviet tanks, two or three times as old as the crews manning them.
This is one of the saddest videos Daniil has made so far. The incongruence of modern cars parked on mud streets next to a hand-operated well. "Old" people (probably only in their 60s) who have to carry water by hand to their houses because there is no indoor plumbing. People who can't seem to even name a foreign country off the top of their head when asked, nor differentiate one from another, let alone have travelled to one.
That simply means they are happy with what they have.. and no need to find something else.. you will be very lucky if you reach such attitude in your life!
@@michaelherron4306 so called "overlords" are sick of western illness of "wanting money". They are not internally free even externally traveling a lot lol
@@darthherohito lol u havent notice? U can comment in internet now meaning we are not living in middle ages that shit was middle age thing canr even provide basic water system? Lol
@@darthherohito That's kind of a strange Assessment though, because what would you yourself do in that case? Probably not much because we we literally developed for centuries to come to a point where you have something like City hazard troops who literally are ready 24/7 to quickly repair crucial infrastructure lmao. Those people are only self sufficient to a degree, if they're cutt off from their surrounding villages and a really bad and long winter comes knocking they'll starve as well. After a really bad catastrophe they'll probably even suffer more than us simply because they lack ressources and the connection to other places .
My mum was born in 1913 on a remote hill farm with no running water or electricity but their well was just a few yards (metres) from the back door. Over 100 years later these poor people are still carrying water every day quite some distance back to their home.
This video is a masterpiece... These people are like tragic heroes of the classic old russian novels, still existing in the 21st century. I feel so depressed after watching this video... What a MASTERPIECE
Honestly reminds me of some of the rural areas of Michigan (my home), both in their clear dilapidation and in that they're filled with people who are convinced nowhere else is better in the world. I think everyone is better off hearing from others around the world, even perspectives you may not know or enjoy, and that's why I love your channel!
Thank you for being honest - Americans are in the comments "shocked" at how people in rural areas (which are significantly poorer in every country in the world - all of them) are patriotic. This is found in every country in the world. Rural areas always have been and always will be more conservative/traditional and therefore patriotic. I am sure in rural Michigan you will find exact answers like this replaced with USA instead of Russia. But they act so shocked this is possible and think it's "brainwashing"
Generally rural areas are more conservative, but you will not find this dislike of foreigners and their countries everywhere. My wife is from the rural Philippines and I have had the opportunity to spend significant amounts of time there. Filipino’s love foreigners, perhaps it is the opposite mentality, a ‘colonial mentality’ some would say, but either way, as my wife says, Filipino’s treat white foreigners better than they treat their own countrymen.
@@WereismymilkДаже в этой деревне на видео есть водопровод. У тебя мозг промыт . А из колодца вода питьевая. У них не только водопровод есть но и смеситель
Here in America many people don't have gas because they cannot afford it thanks to our unelected cognitively impaired President and his behind the scene handlers!
Out of curiosity, in 1998 I did the same in the village Kirova in Belarus to turn the handle to lift up a pail of water. What is still amazing to me, the people in Rural Russia still think that there is nothing better in the entire world as Russia, even they have a standard of living which my German village had around 1912.
@@a32-h6u I am German. I have out of Germany delivered 2 Truck / Trailer loads of humanitarian / medical aid to a charity in Minsk and one Truck / Trailer load to the Catholic Parish in Gomel, Sovietskaya Street 118. With a Chrysler Van, I have been probably 10 times in Gomel as well, delivering humanitarian aid to Kirova Street 76. Does this answer your question??
Great video as always, not confrontational and not being too direct with the questions so that these folks can answer without becoming defensive. The more I watch these videos, the more I'm sick of hearing the term "motherland", I'm not German myself but I have lived in Germany for 22 years now. If someone from here would dare to speak in the same language about Germany that these guys do about Russia, you bet your ass that the entire world would turn on them. The simple fact of the matter is that these people have been drinking the government cool-aid for so long that they don't know anything else and don't have access to anything else. The praise for "Great Mother Russia" is so instinctive to these guys that they don't even know how much Russia has been humiliated over the course of the Ukraine war. This kind of nationalism needs to die out, not just in Russia but also in my home country of China and to some extent in America as well.
they are like islam extremists. they have so little and are so subjugated that if their one belief of "russia/allah is the greatest" was wrong they'd have nothing left. and so they cling on..
This "motherland" and "my country right or wrong" sentiment exists in every nation to varying degrees. While it is good that countries preserve cultural traditions, language, etc., this type of nationalism is a relic of the past that has led to so much conflict and misery and has no place in the world today. Be proud of what you are but not superior to others and join the world community where everyday people can just live their lives and not hate other because they come from a different country or because they are told to do so by governments.
Fuck, this was hard to watch. These villages are soo eerie, like time never changes; a german ww2 soldier popping into view would have not seemed out of place.
@@haraldgutzinger6099 Warsaw was razed in 44 and 45 .It's a rebuilt modern city has been for decades...Russia was victorious,and the people are living like animals...yeah we love Russia
1:01 I think this guy is properly struggling. He’s all bluster and booze, but when he calmed down you could feel his unhappiness. I hope he’s feeling better.
No, when he finally sobers up from his 5 day bender he will feel much much worse. So he will start drinking again to feel better, because it is the only thing he has to do...
The russian way of coping and escaping the soul-crushing despair of living in constant poverty, misery and total abandonment from governmental development of their communities.
I like the lady with the red headdress thing who said she’s never been abroad. Although she’s ignorant at least she doesn’t try to say anything she doesn’t know for sure, she just tells him to ask the younger people who may have more knowledge about foreign countries than she does. If you don’t know anything for sure, don’t lie about it. Good job lady that I will never know but I like ur answer.
Looks like a lot of people don't understand the fact that this video was recorded in VILLAGE. Sadly but most of Russian villages stuck in previous decade. But some people actually enjoy living like that. I have a grandma and she has a small farm, I love visiting her. It is actually very cool, especially visiting this kind of villages during the winter. Very cozy tbh.
I am Pole growing up in really small village (It is literally one straight road) in north-eastern Poland, probably the poorest and coldest part of this country. We had running water, we had internet, we had toilets and we *are* financially supported by country. Sadly but russian villages are far far away from what you can call "normal" in XXI century.
@@livro5845 Poland is small country compared to Russia. Most of those completely rural villages are in Siberia. It's very hard to support all of them, especially with the fact that they can be located far away from railroad as well.
@@Wersawec Canada, USA, they are as well big countries and yet there is very small amount of villages separated from civilization compared to Russia. Russia spend its money on military actions instead of spending it to develop living standards. Most of European countries gave up fighting for old territories except for Russia. It is not normal for times we live in and for european standards. It would be decades ago.
Условия для жизни как в средние века. И люди понятия не имеют, что есть чужая страна. Они никогда нигде не были, знают только свою великую Россию. Это действительно ужасно.
@@ProffesorFreddy в Украине, к слову, всё в порядке и с деревнями и с сёлами. Сколько унитазов и стиральных машин спёрли оттуда наши вояки в первые месяцы войны, ужас
@@F_A_F123 If you have electricity, a submersible well pump is cheap. Every rural house around me has one in their own well. I don't think they have reliable electricity.
@@skyrider2515 Cities attract more investment everywhere in the world compared to the countryside yet I have not seen anything as deprived as this, at least not in Europe.
I grew up in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. Very poor region virtually no infrastructure. Yet the people from my town could imagine no better place to live. The scenery here very much reminds me of where I grew up. Thanks for a great video
I see you are filming Gogol's "Dead Souls". Very promising start! Method acting is also at its finest! The movie will garner a ton of applause, critical acclaim, palme d'or and a few Oscars to boot. Oh, wait, that's a documentary for Russkij Mir.
I was brought up in a remote location in outback Australia, it was a 2 day drive to the nearest town and our living conditions were far superior to the poor people.
Yeah mate it startling to say the least. I'm in Angledool NSW (25 people) 400 kilometres from the nearest major town and we live in absolute luxury compared to this. I had a heart attack recently and an ambulance was with me in an hour and then flown to Orange for a stent. These poor buggers probably wouldn't remember the last time they saw an ambulance. Sure all things are relevant but when you see the grandeur of the elite of RF, something stinks for sure.
@@mirriulahwaterdog Yeah, in very rural areas in the US like Alaska, they will literally fly a helicopter out to pick you up instead of an ambulance. Same if you're in a boat 50 miles at sea - the Coast Guard will lift you up and fly you to a hospital with one call on the radio.
You pointed out the "problem". The children of abusive parents love their parents. It's all they know. We need to get rid of despots and oligarchs. In a civil way! Fight the propaganda. Thanks for doing your best!
Most Russians can't access YT, most of them probably do not even have a computer with web access. They need to be tech savvy and wealthy enough to have a VPN to do that.
I’m from a very small village in Wales. We have concrete roads, water in our homes, street lights, everyone has been abroad and we have extremely good internet. But Russia is the best obviously. This video is the prime example of why people need to travel .
For some reason, everyone scolds the British Internet. Maybe it's good in Wales (thanks to the druids). I heard Russia has better internet than Britain. I also heard that the internet is very good in Estonia
@@daiseraise1200 In Russia, the Internet is really faster than in the UK or the USA. All emigrants ( or almost all ) they complain about a strong change in Internet speed despite the fact that 5g is available in other countries.
Spending 2 years abroad should be mandatory in a person’s education. We would solve so many problems with bigotry, nationalism and climate change if we forced people to experience the world and not their little corner.
I mean, when you see the conditions these people live in, can you really be surprised by their answers? I can't say I'd care much for foreign countries if I were born into a situation like this
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We also have another similar video that we published 2 months ago!
Rural Russians name a country they DON'T like:
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Hi Daniil , may I suggest a question😊, it would be interesting to ask what country people would like to visit if they had an opportunity or would they like to travel, where and why ? 😅 I think it would be extremely interesting to see if this way of asking could elicit different answers from people 😊I’m very curious, what are your thoughts ? I Think your channel is phenomenal by the way!!
After watching this it’s no surprise how they act in Ukraine most seem like the walking dead….. Why do they think Russia is great if they have not been anywhere??
мне самому страшно от таких людей и заброшенных сел, во времена СССР строили заводы, фермы и вокруг них появлялись деревни как "село образующие" когда СССР развалился а предприятия закрылись это по сути брошенные территории на которых зачем то остались люди, кое где там есть газ, центральное водоснабжение есть. но во многие домах не проведено, живут в основном пенсионеры и деградирующие алкоголики не вполне похожие на людей_)) и таких сел с населением 1000-3000 человек полно
Ask people what they think about Slovakia.
@@domagojcelic3987 I think Russians treat Slovaks like brothers.
at least they treat the Slovaks better than they treat the Poles.
and the flag of Slovakia is very beautiful for Russians, hahahaha.
The lady saying: "I've never been abroad, but I know, our Russia, its better." Sums up this videos tone pretty well.
@Iron Man Do they look like they can afford it?
Almost all the people in this video are uneducated and poor people living in a Russian well, croaking how good the well is,
while the more learned people in cities like Moscow are educated and rich enough to go around the world and know how much better it is outside the well
@Iron Man Do any of them have 1000$ or 1000€ in their pockets? No insult but look at their appearance… 😅
A few hundred years later, they will be looking at 1420 videos to study how the Russian Federation collapsed
The Russian peasant are even more stupid than the trump mob
Russia is a huge country. Their time zones span 11 hours... and 11 decades.
11/10 - spot on!
Your arrogance is perverse. Just because you live in a richer society it means nothing.
These same opinions were given after Bush invaded Iraq in rural upstate NY.
Decades? You mean centuries, surely. People in this dump live like it’s the Middle Ages.
@@bunnylarese2161 Non sequitur
😭😭🤣🤣
As an American I have observed many rural Americans saying the same thing about America, there seems to be a trend between patriotism and isolation from the world and society
Its called living in a bubble i guess
I’ve been saying the same thing - Russia and the US, Russians and Americans are extremely similar yet that’s the thing they both hate about them the most
@@edu7979 well for me its called stupid. alone the fact she sais other countries dont exist for me is so ignorant
@@edu7979 it's called having access to TV in a secluded area
@@Bleed1987 there is no need to care for other countries though..?
Watching this whilst sitting by the pool on a Spring day in Australia. This is wild.
we don't know how lucky we are until we watch videos like this
Ngl these people are living better life than you and me brother.
@@Hazy_y Get what you mean but I wouldn't entirely be sure about that either
@@Hazy_y I'd doubt that
@@Hazy_yand die from alcohol in their early fifties. Ah, such a great life indeed. Full of TV and vodka, vodka and TV
This village is like a time warp. I've never seen anyone carry buckets of water like that.
A lot of developing countries have wells - good form is to solely have a water bucket for collecting - that is use to fill containers/buckets that people bring - bad form is throwing buckets in water that are dirty on the outside. Their is a huge advantage to water collecting - the community of the well - easy way to met all in your village in a natural way . So less lonely people. All these wells are protected from outside - some countries with less resources will concrete around well on ground surface
@@nimblegoat most of those countries didn't have 45,000 nuclear weapons two generations ago
@@LOLHAMMER45678 Yeah I get your point - for a resource rich country like Russia, or Iran, Iraq etc etc - their people could all be well off middleclass . Russia squandering itself in Ukraine is not new - Spain's wealth from Inca gold , Bolivian Silver was squandered in no time - including war with England etc
You haven’t been or seen many developing countries still in many parts people walk like this daily to get water in a bucket . Till this day many countries.
I would say that almost 70% of the population of earth (might be more or less) is living like "that".
bro went through a time machine to the 1600s
Он как сигма приехал в ебеня и всячески пытается поднять ваше эго чтобы ты сидя дома думал вот как у них там все плохо
That's 90% of Russia today
A lot of places in Russia are too cold to have running water where the pipes will freeze and burst.
@@YourSapiens ахаххахахаххахахахахаха да ты че какие 90% там все 400%
@@rubbishbin2936 а тебя не смущает что там живёт человек 700 а в основном люди живут в нормальных городах
I am originally from Bosnia. From a small poor village. Since I have been living in Austria, I have become aware of how poor Bosnia actually is. But when I was in Russia in 2018, also in the rural area, I only realised how good we actually have it in Bosnia. No running water, no sanitary facilities, no sewage system. Russia is rich, but also so poor.
The oligarchs are rich.
Moscow and St. Petersburg are rich, that's centuries old tradition
Russia may be rich, as Norway! Guess what is the difference. It takes to much time to count them all. Culture, mindset, education,....most important not a Kremlin Gangster Mafia reinvesting in "Mega-Yachts" (that were acutally built in Germany, thx for that btw) and endless grift. The Norway State Pension Fund is the wealthiest one in the world. Just imagine were Ruzzia could be...they would not need fight a war...people would line up to become citizens!!!
But this actual Ruzzia just needs to be stopped, at all cost, with ALL MEANS!!
@@lg3org3 thats what i mean. Rich of oil and gas, but the oligarchs steal all the money
@@jknezevic95 Thats the funny thing, the oligarchs are hand picked from Putin and kick the money back ... The "Oligarchs" are rich from the countries natural resources which are front for Putin, hes literally been stealing from the country in quantity you cant imagine.
This tells me "They live in a country where if a strange person comes and asks strange questions - it is probably a test - so say the party line"
it stuns me that this is the only comment I've seen acknowledging this. like regardless of how they really feel, they'd certainly be scared of saying anything besides "Russia"
Mate this is in the middle of nowhere.
I doubt any Government officials would go through the trouble of traveling to an isolated city in the middle of nowhere to Test random peasants who don't particularly matter about their opinions.
Do you think Russia has that kind of Resources to waste?
Is it really that hard to believe that people simply fall for propaganda? It's literally the most basic human trait imaginable to be prone to manipulation.
Get real.
Besides why would they ever answer differently? Everything they know about Countries at large comes from the Television as they never left their Village. And since they never left their Village they would have no choice but to believe the TV. And we both know what the TV says.
It would have been more stunning if they answered anything else because why would they?
How would anything neutral about other countries ever reach them?
I was thinking the same. North Korea is of course more isolated but if this was somehow allowed to happen there, you would just get the same results as this video.
bro if a russian went to rural america it would be the same shit
@@yopierre2048 NO NO No Almost any American would pick another country they like. 0.00% chance of any repercussions
- What country do you like?
- USSR
:D
*Tears up*
Old rural folks set in their ways. They don't seem to care that they have to pull their water out of a well.
@@BladeJones yeah, they still live in their old soviet ways
@@BladeJonesTheir world is very small. Many say as much. They don't think about things like foreign countries much, and anyplace other than Russia probably feels like a completely different planet in their minds.
What the f*ck is that gadget you have?💀
@Falkriim The fact he's literally wearing maybe not classic vata but a coat reminds me of it, holding his vodka bottle in pocket, "fuck everyone but Russia, Rossi!" and leans in to the camera belligerently. Thank you, thank so sooooOOO much my Lord, thank you GOD I was not born in the fucking Russia.
@@drek9k2Russia isn't that bad. And not everyone there thinks like people in this video.
What a vadnik lmao
Exactly what a 19th century farmer would say.
@@russomasha9378 Yeas, look away from the evidence and put Stalin's dreams in your head instead comrade. Eliminating reality and way you can will help cope with belief that Russia is great
Still stuck in the 19th century. Just 400 Miles from Moscow!
😂 wait till they see lavish lives of the west not carrying bucket pf h20😂
That's 90% of Russia today
@@YourSapiensнет
@@YourSapiens нет
@@МрБист2 да, сам в таком жил, ездил по россии много. За себя говорите, а то живёте в больших городах и говорите что вся россия такая
У них нет водопровода и туалет на улице, но, у них есть телевизор, который расскажет им всю "правду" о мире, и как им "повезло" жить в России.
It's like North Korea. They have no comforts, not even enough food. But they believe that other countries have it worse. They are "lucky" to be protected from the evil West.
Exactly! Точно!
Поймите, это не их вина, это вина политиков.
@@jameson4058Их никто и не обвиняет
так они живут в деревне😅
My favourite episode, the interviewer did well not to laugh. They are all very patriotic and love their motherland but it looks like a village from a horror film
Horror film 😊
Yeah, I'm sure I visited this village in Half Life 2 or something
I don't think I would feel like laughing in that situation. This is one of the most depressing videos I've ever seen.
That's not cool, they are good people and that is their home!
I wouldn’t call them patriots of Russia, because Chuvashia is literally a colony of Russia, so they have their language, their traditions, but they have to live under rules of Russia. They even have to go to become murderers and die in the senseless war.
This is probably the best/ most mind-blowing 1420 video ive ever seen
I love the brilliant logic. They say on the one hand that they have never been abroad but on the other hand they know without a doubt that Russia is the best.
@@asmael666 ...while taking water from a well. Russia is the best
All they hear about foreign countries comes from Russian state propaganda. That's all they think they need and care to know.
But we are making rockets and dammed the Yenisei. And also in the field of ballet We are ahead of the rest of the planet
Zombies in the wild )))
That drunk guy at the end man... drinking because all his friends are gone. And volunteering because he has nothing left. I feel for him
Drinking is the way of life in these villages. Regardless where friends are.
Death in Ukraine will be a blessing for him. Will put an end to a meaningless existence in hopeless poverty.
Russians should worship Putin. He found the fastest and most effective way to bring people out of the darkness of a miserable existence on the sidelines of civilization.
Yeah, it truly is remarkably sad :/ A people, without hope, without dreams, without purpose, mentally imprisoned, by their own government and society. And now they're being sent to slaughter by reasons they don't even know.
yep he'd be drinking anyways, especially when you have to fetch your own water, alcohol is less work.
Becoming recruited into military is a standard way to try and get out into the world in such poor far away circumstances.
Thing is when you ask questions like this in Russia, how many people answer suspecting you might be undercover FSB?
"We don't need this" and the fact word got around so fast, kinda telling isn't it?
It's sad that so many Russians still feel the need (and probably quite rightfully too!) to keep their heads down.
"You can live this life, but you better stay silent"
Honestly depressing how Russian is still in this mess. "After" the cold war we (the west) could have reached out and helped prevent this, but instead most of the west started showing off that they had "won" the cold war and just treated Russia like losers.
The west might as well have written Putin's propaganda for him.
Probably a lot
Paranoid people
Rightfully so@@misterpotato427
I’m from Poland and we all know how it looks like in Russia but watching this really breaks my heart.
Those people could have had really better life if not for corruption.
It all looks sad and grey but you must notice how beautiful the architecture of some of the houses is.
Once again, thanks for showing the truth Danill.
Greetings from Poland
So sad and depressing. Peasants.
Always grey weather.
Nice you Saw that. There Must have Been better and Brighter days there
I was looking and thinking you could make that place lovely with minimal money which just shows how little has been invested.
Thought the same, the houses are beautiful. Greetings to Poland from Vienna!
I'm from Canada and we see things like this and think "What the f_uck?"
It's the alcohol that's the key. Perhaps their government prefers that they are perpetually drunk but widespread Fetal Alcohol Syndrome produces a population that wants to murder, pillage and rape because they are physiologically incapable of self control.
This was one of the most surreal videos Ive ever seen. Every single person answered the exact same answer. I really appreciate the 1420 channel. He's brave.
Was.
He is not brave. What are you expected from old people, from rural area who's hobbie - watching TV or drinking.
It's just fits to yours propaganda, nothing more.
@@RedstoneCriper I’m not expecting anything more from them. They have the right to live the way that they want to. It’s sociology; like minded people migrate together. The reason I say 1420 is brave is because any of those people could have told him to leave and get off their property or to not bother them with questions.
It's cherry picked answers
@@RedstoneCriper how is it propaganda if these are real people in real Russia?
Rural Russia is like a time warp.
The juxtaposed position of the people filling water buckets from a well, yet saying Russia is the best place is something to behold. I’m practically lost for words. And the drunk at the end volunteering to go to the front, kind of sums up Russia.
Потому что для нас счастье не в деньгах как на западе, это деревенские люди благодарят за всё. Впрочем, чего у них нет? Дома? Одежды? Еды? А что ещё нужно? Машины? Дворцы? Золотые туалеты? Как говорил Господь - "Трудно войти богатому в Царство Божие".
The guy above me is heavily coping, ignore him.
@@Сегодняшняяреальность you’ve got to be kidding me… how about a working infrastructure form the 20th Century? My grandparents are born right after WW2 and the lived a much more comfortable life and that was almost 80 years ago!
@@Сегодняшняяреальность Mají akorát dřinu, vodku, kulturu z televize. Vypadají velmi štastně 🥴
Měli prvního kosmonauta ve vesmíru a nemají ve vesnici ani vodovod. Hlavně že na válku peníze jsou.
@@Сегодняшняяреальность Copium.
Hopium.
Delirium.
Xenophobia and alcoholism appear to be thriving in rural Russia.
Over the last decade rates of alcoholism had been dropping, but since the war they've started to rise again
As it does in every country, lol.
At least there's no pedo flags
As if it doesnt exist in the usa
@@edelweiss45nah, hell no
Fascinating to see how different rural Russia is to the cities. Almost a totally different country/culture
those he interviewed aren't even Russian, they're Chuvash, but yeah
Almost a totally different era. The Middle Ages are alive and well in rural Russia.
@@dajdasdq Is Chuvashia not in Russia?
@@dayglodoggy it is, unfortunately.
@@dayglodoggy The Chuvash Republic, or Chuvashia, is a federal subject of Russia in Eastern Europe. It is the homeland of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group. Its capital is the city of Cheboksary. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 1,251,619.Wikipedia
All your videos speak for themselves, but this one is a whole book. Thank you! Stay safe!
Seeing this makes me feel so grateful to live in my country in the times we are now. Our villages and general life in Estonia had conditions and looked pretty much the same like in this video, when we were under USSR. If you go to these rural areas in Estonia today, after we have been independent again for 31 years, there are new roads everywhere, street lights, roads for pedestrians, houses that have been renovated and have working water and electricity systems and activities for people to do besides drinking away their misery. Citizens can apply to get financial support for the work they need to do on their households etc. Until you go/visit elsewhere or have access to see and hear the possibilities and rights that you should have, you cant even wish or require them and you will just blindly accept the minimum your manipulative ruler is feeding you.
So happy for Baltic countries to be truly freed from communist regime and hidden soviets in the government... Russia nowadays is still totally overwhelmed with soviet remnants who found a new 'russian' identity but actually just keep making our lives miserable and it just drives me insane. To look at these rural people for example, living in the worst damn poverty you could imagine and still keeping Communist party' flags. Guys, cmon, these are the symbols of people who made you to live THIS life... Hope someday we'll also be able to successfully tear down all these fuckers in the government and clear ourselves from the soviet and current bullshit we're having. Sorry for the longread.
Greets from Moscow
Wow, this is strange to read, considering that Estonia was one of the most funded regions in the Soviet Union. My grandparents were in one of these regions, while in the rest of the Soviet Union there was a shortage of almost all goods, in their opinion, "there shelves were bursting with a choice of products and other things," but maybe they lived so badly. You were very right.
Estonia and the rest of the Baltic states have 0 natural resources, minuscule populations and territory and yet look at them now. And up to this day many Russians claim that these countries would have been broke if not for the USSR... more like they would be already on par with neighbouring Finland. It's enough to have a glance over the minimum/average wages in these countries as compared to Russia to get an idea of why size does not matter.
@@crocolagerfelden6142
It's the fault of the Russian mentality that doesn't strive for improvement but instead the destruction of those who do improve. An almost completely irredeemable culture tbh. A dead end of human civilization.
@@crocolagerfelden6142 It's so sad to look at it, because Russia could be really developed and technologically advanced, but my people are used to living in bad conditions and under a bloody dictator. Most of them are also terribly lazy and "apolitical". I hope that all this will end someday, people will wake up and realize what they have done, and something will change in their mentality
The entire collective psyche seems to be reflexive bitterness, proud ignorance, and depressed rage.
Vodka and state TV appears to be the national anesthetic
Vodka is probably the only germ free liquid available.
and the Russian Orthodox Church
@@Splodnik Which is also used for state propaganda
So true
One of the reasons I hate alcohol. I am Russian and I almost never drink, and only a tiny amount when I do
I come from Italy and I have travelled there extensively. If you would go ask these same questions in a remote, impoverished village in southern Italy, they would all make a list of countries and places that are better and immediately point out all of the problems of village. All of this despite them having sewers, running water, electricity, roads, and being much more advanced compared to this russian village. If these people were to actually understand how poor they are and how rich Moscow is, and how much better off Russia could be, they would revolt immediately. I guess ignorance is bliss
They know how rich Moscow is - it's rammed up their nose on TV and in the papers(photos and text).
Ciao, vengo dalla Russia, ho iniziato da poco a imparare l'italiano. Com'è ora in Italia, probabilmente difficile in questo momento?
No they wouldn't. Their life is hard but simple. They're probably happy the way they are
@@robertlund5694 then why do they accept this? Moscow and Saint Petersburg are rich because all the wealth of this huge country is concentrated there. The people living where the resources that make Moscow rich are extracted live in poverty, while Moscovites are rich because of poor peoples work
@@Артём-ъ8з5е difficile in che senso? Le bollette sono alte, ma per il resto non è più difficile rispetto ad altri tempi. In Italia le persone si lamentano sempre, ma credo si viva bene. L'unico problema sono i salari bassi e il costo della vita alto. Per il resto non ci si può lamentare. Se hai un buon lavoro vivi meglio che in Germania, secondo me. Adesso si trova lavoro facilmente ma purtroppo non è ben pagato. Spero che verrai presto in Italia :)
There is nothing to say about this video, it says it all itself!
Thanks 👍🏻
"What is that device?" "I love vodka!"
About what I expected.
the fact that the drunko said that russia won afghanistan tells you everything you need to know
One can never overstate the importance of having running water.
As a plumber, I like to say there can be no civilisation without plumbing.
@@Stigstigster Especially the outgoing...
They have slow staggering water
I am 99% sure they have running water..i dont see outside toilettes which would be there besides every house if there was not running water .
IT could be they like water from weel ..my first neigbour has a weel since forever (it was there when i was born) and he drink water from it ..and he is still alive ,i thing he has like 75 years now
@@dzonikg yeah mate the whole fucking village of 80+ year olds love carrying water across the field in the cold 🙄 have a fucking think will ya
I’m a 36yr old midwestern American and I remember being told that The Netherlands was a drug filled lawless land of depravity. It sounded fucking, great to me as a 20yr old when I was preparing to backpack Europe (this was in 2007). I found out that NL was the nicest, cleanest and most beautiful country I had ever been to. There’s a lesson there and it stuck with me very deeply.
Watch how Dutch people handled your Trumpy ambassador. Debunked with a capital D. That is how journalism should work in the US as well...
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” - Mark Twain
The Netherlands is one of my favorite countries as well. I’m from China, and lived both in the US and Russia.
have you been to Amsterdam? its like the Gomorrha of Europe. ;D still love this city
@@Feliday I have seen videos from foreigners on YT that thought that 'the Bijlmer' (our ghetto) was such a lovely place. I think you need to visit some violent cities in the world, it is all relative.
The ending with the young man is saddening. "I've been drinking because they took our guys." Heartbreaking. Hello from New Mexico, USA.
New mexico? Is this a breaking bad reference?!
@@krinos1 No, I think he's just from New Mexico. It's not that deep.
@@SwitchTF2 that's just how most of us are. We don't like changes, we don't want to change. That is our nature and it's terrible
@@SwitchTF2 😂 (About the New Mexico)
believe me, he would still be drinking if they hadn't taken them. They drink to celebrate, they drink to mourn, they drink to boredom
1:33 “Yes I love VOdKA!”
Russian national drink
No running water in a village in a rich country in 2022? "It's better to be silent" from the elderly woman who's going to have to carry her water to her house. "I've been drinking 5 days in a row, blyat!" from the man who's going to volunteer for the army.
Mind blown
Now imagine being a boy from one of these villages or migrant towns in February with sick or eldery parents and no future. They come and tell you they will pay you 1,000 euros a month to be on a 3-6 month contract and just have to do some training in Belarus or guard the checkpoint in south of Russia. Next thing you know you are in a BMP in ukraine being shelled by artiliary you knew nothing about and seeing bodies and limbs flying everywhere. Russia will pay heavily later for doing that to those fresh conscripts and contracted young men that had no idea what was going on that are now all dead / shellshocked PTSD with missing limbs.
For many people from such rural, poor areas, armed forces are the only way to break out.
@@Sam656TH Putin, his cronies, and the oligarchs are true monsters.
That man is either going to get himself killed or commit war crimes.
I always wondered what would happen if you had a time machine and gave people living in the 18th century a TV.
Rural Russia seems to come close.
The people in europe in the 18th century lived arguably better lives. The workload was harder for sure, but they didn't drown their human spirit in vodka to distract themselves from their bad living conditions. No they tried to improve them.
Russians instead of improving themselves seem to have this mentality to make others as miserable as themselves instead.
That's why they're destined to fail, even if they succeeded in destroying everyone who's more prosperous than themselves.
@@LPVince94 A thought experiment: What if the corruption was abolished, and the news on any TV was fairly true? How fast would the living improve? One generation?
I can go to some rural place in montana, with a bunch of old people, it will look the same, and they live the same exact lives? What is your point
@@freedomwhenneeded you're so disconnected from reality, Jesus Christ
@@derautomatt no you are, stop consuming western propoganda.
Fascinating to see the difference between urban and rural areas
Not much difference except urban have internet.
Urban and rural all brainwashed by russian or american propogand. There are such small ammount of people who knows more than tv or internet gave them.
@@brian8410 this is so ignorant… there is obviously a huge difference
@@dc5269 Based on the other videos the cities are just as ignorant, but it is even worse because in the city they have "proper" education and internet and still choose to be ignorant.
@@GamerLoff so basically I live part-time in Moscow now but I was born and grew up there and trust me there is a deep hidden fear in this “ignorance”. I’m not telling you that nobody supports Putin, no. People do, but many MANY people are afraid to say something against our government. The reason why you see mostly people who supports Putin in these interviews, is that they (the supporters) are NOT afraid to speak for obvious reasons. And the others are. But if you live in Moscow, trust me, you are always surrounded by different points of view and yes we do have independent media (that is beeing oppresed all the time) and many liberal young and not-so-young people! But if you live in rural areas people don’t even have access to internet, they don’t have water or electricity, no smartphones so the only source of information is TV and newspapers (which is all propoganda ofc). So there is really a big big difference
I can tell you added nature sounds on top of the original audio. There shouldn't be mosquitoes in a wintry swamp. 5:20
Nice that someone said it. I noticed the same thing
но это не зима, а поздняя очень...
Seems like it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with folks in rural areas. Good job and thanks for your patience and persistence in your work.
Because Russia is...
You can't take Russia, got it?
The woman by the well summed it up. They are afraid to say anything else.
The guy at the end is signing up for the military. Not because he wants to go fight but because they came and took his 5 friends and he wants to join them.
You would have gotten the same responses in the Midwest when Bush invaded Iraq and Afghanistan.
@@bunnylarese2161 You have said that multiple times without any evidence.
@@johnflux1 you are delusional! These wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, these illegal wars were supported by the same types of people as in Russia.
Nice to ask people living like it is 1950s if they feel superior to other countries :)
See them buckets? More like 1850s
@@RedFatGingerInAsia And people ask themself why their soldiers steal toilets from Ukraine...
@@FAL87 What are they gonna do with a toilet without any plumbing. They probably don't even understand the plumbing concept.
@@XTSonic you must be 12 or something
@@FAL87 they steal toilets because they are living in trenches and want to have a comfy shit, that's not hard to understand.
The architecture in this little town is actually pretty cool once you see the buildings up close, despite how dilapidated they are.
Yeah and its nostalgic kinda if you play DayZ
You have a level of courage to do this. Keep doing the good work out there
Wdym level of courage, you're talking like they're gonna stab him any moment.
This is how Ukraine was in my rural village back when I was little. Now 20 years later almost all the younger people have traveled to Europe and work there and come back to rebuild in Ukraine. Its almost insane how quickly the culture has changed in less than a generation.
And no wonder ukrainians dont want the russians back in power to turn back the clock 20 years
Rebuild Ukraine? Where? In Kiev or Odessa? Ukranian cities and villiges not much better.
@@karinaivankova4099 hi there Vladolf Putler ZZZombie
I'm looking forward to seeing Ukraine become as prosperous and integrated as the rest of Europe after the war. It's going to get drowned in western cash investment and become one of the best places to live in the world.
And sadly, over the border I suspect pocket scenes of grinding 1930s style poverty will continue to exist due to 0 political will to ever change it. Russians coming to Ukraine in the future will arrive like barbarians gawping in wonder at the gates of Rome.
ahahahahahhahahah ципсо тобой гордится
This reminds of Resident evil 4 with the villagers... Insane
Dude seriously xD There were no cameras back in 1884 but this is probably as close as you can get to a realistic image of what life was back then.
@@joaosoares2570 I remember seeing photos of American civil war circa 1865
This is freaking me out.
Incredible job from the man
what majority of eu ppl grew up like this ☠️☠️🏴☠️
I live in Csnada and was shocked to see how these people live. No running water, sewage systems,mud roads and the number of drunks. It makes me feel very fortunate for what I have. The thing that shocked me the most was the blind love they have for a country that obviously dosen't give a damn about them. They remind me of zombies. I feel bad for them.
lol, they are literally ZZZombies. The next Zombie movie should simply film life there.
The shittier the country/leader is, the more fanatical the compensational 'love' for it
Orcs perhaps? I completely understand why Ukrainians have started calling them Orcs. You could take these people off the street and wouldn't have to teach them a thing and they could absolutely nail the part of playing the Orcs in Lord of the Rings.
You could pay them in VODAK
If they are trapped there, it would make them depressed if they thought about how bad they live. So they don't want to admit it
Sometimes I watch these and think our values and priorities in life aren’t so different. Then I watch ones like this and just stare in disbelief for 9 minutes.
Please keep them coming
Sometimes I watch US movies and tv series from the sixties and seventies, or even from just twenty years ago, and recognize the values, ideas and sensibiblities in those: they're overlapping with our own northern European culture, Then I watch people who fanatically believe in Donald Trump or who are busy defending him, turning reality inside out to protect the ideas they share, and I'm just gaping in disbelief (at least that's my first reaction). Then I know we have nothing in common with what America seems to have become.
@@louise_rose Yes yes, Americans are well aware that Europeans are taught from a very early age to hate the US and that it, not China, not Russia, is the great evil in the world. You come here to visit, you have a wonderful vacation, many of you immigrate here, but then you still return to Europe spewing you hatred for all things America. It's not the US slaughtering Ukrainians, but instead saving them. And you have your own versions of Donald Trump right on your doorsteps in Hungary, Poland, Italy etc...but just like the deluded uneducated people in this video, you still hate America.
Why the disbelief? Lol
In America there are people like this specially in rural areas
@@louise_rose WHOA THERE Louise. Dial it back a bit. In case you didn't notice, the INTELLIGENT portion of the US kicked his sorry butt out, in a BIG way. But yes, the disbelief part, totally with you. Frankly, I don't see all that many governments of the world looking very smart right now. Come visit America, I can guarantee it isn't what you think it is. There's good and bad though, no doubt, just like everywhere else. And Tramp was a freakin embarrassment. He almost turned this country into a total piece of crap.
@@MrJdsenior Yes, it is about disbelief! America is a great nation in so many ways and I'm quite aware that Trump was legally booted out in a free, fair and safe election two years ago - also, that most of the candidates he backed this time around *lost* in their states to sane democrats. Amen to that! It's about disbelief, anger and shock for me too - I personally don't have to live with friends and family who believe in Trump or see him wrecking the politics of my own country (Sweden), but watching his clownish government and the folks who seem to buy into everything he says and does, even from the other side of the ocean, was still disturbing (I'll admit the show was sometimes very entertaining too, but I never lost sight of how dangerous the guy is). This is not what we expected the US to be. I hope the country still can recover over time.
The hard lesson of the 2020 election, I think, is that around 30% of those who are likely to vote in the US are completely fine with a POTUS who behaves, talks and make policies like Trump, who is as racist and sneering at the idea of judicial safety, legal propriety and the right to have good. working courts as he is, who is as waist deep into corruption as he is. They don't really care as long as it's their guy and they feel he embodies their hope for a "re-WASPed America". And they would bet on a new guy in that vein even after Trump is gone.
I agree many governments all around the western world are looking dodgy and less than smart over the last decade (my own country included).
/Loulou, bilingual Swedish lady
Based video! You are lucky they even tried you educate your soft handed self.
This looks like that Resident Evil 4 village.
@@diaconucristi2452 no it's in spain.
The actual location in resident evil 4 not village is called, Village Pueblo and it’s based on Castle Chepstow in the UK, very interesting
Because it is, they all turn into zombies at night, and since you noticed, they are coming for ya
@@ruy_u oh my bad i read 8 instead of 4
I was thinking the same thing lol. This place seems horrible!
It's sooo good having to get your water in a bucket and take it home. Then there's the village tyre hanging from the tree. Oh how the hours fly by.
LOL.
This is raw journalism, the way it should be. Great work!
You mean cherry picking places and answers to make appropriate narrative? Yes journalism at its best
This is fantastic documentary work man. Russia is such a fascinating place.
My grandmother lived about 20 miles outside a small town in the USA. I spent a couple weeks one summer with her on her farm in the late 1960s. The road by her place way paved. Her driveway was gravel. The home was from about 1900, but had been upgraded with electricity, well with electric pump, indoor plumbing, etc. Her neighbors were good people who would look out for each other. No drunks were seen on the street or nearby town. Rural life can be a nice way to live. Although it does limit your exposure to other countries, foreigners, technology, cultures, etc. With the mobilization, Russia appears to be echoing The Hunger Games, where people from the poor districts must offer up their children to die, while the rich in Moscow and Saint Petersburg enjoy their luxuries like plumbing.
@@milkman713 *patpat* yes grandpa, time to go to bed and stop ranting about these damn democrats that are the ones saying it used to be normal for a single working man to take care of his whole family :3.
Not gonna lie. Since Reagan, you guys had a serious downfall '-'.
@@milkman713 where was that? Mississippi?
I agree, the poor young men are just fodder for the russian army and putin, u wont c university students or young men in good jobs in the army, sooo sad ,
The 'Hunger Games' analogy is very insightful.
@@tdrs1765 Oregon, the Willamette River Valley has fertile soil. Her husband died after WWI. She became sick from tuberculosis and my mom, her sister and brother went to an orphanage until she was able to care for them. She was a pioneering woman.
Моя родная деревня. Очень грустно видеть. Автору большой респект!
Почему грустно?
Наверное, грустно из-за того, насколько плоха ситуация. В других странах условия жизни (даже в сельской местности) намного лучше, чем в этой русской деревне. Также печально, что эти люди ослеплены националистической ложью или слишком боятся говорить то, во что верят.
@@РыжийВолк-х1р poverty
Страшно , что люди в комментариях в ужасе от деревни на видео... А для рф, это еще не самая "разбитая и запущенная" деревня =(((
@@РыжийВолк-х1р look at the second dude his world is so small his mind is filled with tv propaganda he hates the world and resorts to alcoholism no one wants to grow old like this. Yesterday i met a man around the same age (60-70) while i was walking my dog and he was cycling and asked for directions the man had lived where i live now in the past and cycled 50 km from where he lives now he still knew the old bars and some of the people that still live there. That's how i want to grow old. Not like a drunk frustrated alcoholic.
Most Russians are used to be monitored. When someone shows up with a camera, they will say what the state wants to hear.
That’s what I was thinking. One lady hinted the same saying we are told Russia is best so Russia is best
@@lifeliver9000 This amount of honesty can already cause problems.
Do you honestly think somebody will monitor these old folks?
7:00
@@ohno529 they grew up in the USSR, in a country where they could be shot for any word against the government. They are used to it and are now afraid to say anything against it.
I apologize for the mistakes, I am writing through a translator. Greetings from Russia
Thank you, Daniil. Interesting. Peter The Great would be desperate! 😅
"You can live this life, but you better stay silent"
I think this is the first video from you guys that’s actually made me cry. I don’t need to say more, the film says it all.
What? Why??
@@vule656 I can relate. They took that mindset from their parents who took the mindset from their grand parents. To most of them how and where they live now there is no way out to broaden the horizon. If you have any empathy it makes you kind of sad. I can even have empathy with people who seemingly don't feel or cannot feel or show empathy. It's just such a waste.
@@TheHesseJamesfeel a bit the same. But I'm russian and I live in such village. I feel bad for my "patriotic" relatives, but also THEY ANNOY ME SO MUCH with such kind of type of thinking
Hard to tell if it’s ignorance or an ingrained caution against saying anything. But it’s certainly nothing I’d ‘cry’ over.
Thank you so much for filming this! My grate-grandma was from similar village but it was a century ago... so sad to see nothing has changed. When grandchildren were asking her questions about the past she used to tell them to stay quiet and not to ask too many questions (because she was scared that the authorities would come for them) - Seems like this hasn't changed too, so sad. And most of these people will never know the truth 😥
Wouldve been a terribly traumatic time for her no wonder it stayed with her
Yeah from the looks you can tell how much the authorities care about them.
My Finnish grandmother is the same. Cant ask her questions about the past, like the war between Finland and Russia she was in. She'll shut you right down and accuse you of being a communist
It just boggles the mind. A nation that could put the first man into space, but couldn't put clean drinking water into family homes.
@@CountScarlioni Priorities...
Wish you’d changed subject and asked diff questions . I’m curious about their thoughts on things . But thank you for posting, I’ll explore your other content for more
Damn, that shit is depressing. Imagine growing up there.
I don't even have to imagine. It's weird, but living there is better for some reason than in big cities. I tried both, grew up in a shithole like one in the video and studied in the megapolis, and now returned because it's just physically hard to endure the rhythm and rules of a big city with its cops, cameras, cars, people and other things, meanwhile in a rural area u know everyone and don't have to be afraid of anything, no one can reach u and disturb u, perfect place for a schizoid like me.
@@darthherohito unless they take your ass to the frontline of a total war without even giving you any chance of survival...
Imagine being so brainwashed you think your country is better but in 2022 you still have to drag up water from a well.
Russia might not be good at many things but their ability to brainwash is amazing.
@@darthherohito Well I get your point but I bet you have electricity, internet, nice local shop and running water at home. They don't.
@@whatsgoingon71 Nah, we're just going to the woods for a day if recruiters are coming, but it happened like once and they took only some drunkards who are stupid enough to open a door and being registered in their houses and since then no one showes up cause there are literally no any cops for 50 miles around.
I come from Chuvashia and seeing this makes me feel impossibly bitter. At the same time I think that everyone from large Russian cities must watch this video. You'd say these are marginal people but that's actually what I see every time I visit my parents. It's not just a couple of people. It's a pity but no conversation is possible if someone is THIS narrow-minded. I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons behind this is extreme poverty.
One thing said in this video that stung me especially is "better stay silent". This is something I hear all the time among my relatives who are all Chuvash. I find this characteristic for our ethnic group and that can partially be explained with our history. A republic with poor economy, no resources, highly dependent on donations from Moscow. People whose ancestors (most of them) were smashed about a thousand years ago. This logic not to show up so that it wouldn't get even worse seems to exist on a genetic level.
I feel so sorry and ashamed that many Chuvash people are like that. Russia gives Chuvashia as little as possible and they still praise it.
There are certainly Chuvashs who are strongly against the war and the attitude presented in the video. There's even quite well-known (among Russians at least) movement called "Angry Chuvashia". I'm waiting more people to get angry and finally speak.
Really interesting comment. Thanks!
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Those people live like that just because - this is dozens time cheaper..They better will have sattelite for example instead of water in bottles.
The opinions of rural people who manage mostly locally is always going to be different than city dwellers wherever you go?!
"We don't need nothing but the Motherland!" (Carries buckets of water from the well to the house.) Bloody hell, these people are blind to how badly their own country treats them.
They see no better version of the future. They don't know what they could have. They live in a bubble of normalized misery.
Ordinary people have always been badly treated in Russia be it bybthe Tzars, the Bosheviks, Stalin or Putin..100s of years as serfs has created a subservient mindset to those in power
When the Soviet Union was, we had everything we needed, and when you and your shit democracy destroyed our country, created discord between nations
@@ДенисДжонсон-к2ь I am sorry to inform you, but it was your own people who made the "democracy" after the fall of USSR so shit by making an autocracy instead. You all let USSR happen in the first place, then you let USSR fall and you let Yeltsin to make mockery of democratic parliament, Putin and his mafia do whatever they want (take away more of your freedoms, democratic principles, etc.) by still not caring about politics and giving him too much power over you. You all are to blame.
Seen from the point of view of Russians and the pre-1991 economy, the end of the Soviet Union meant losing half the population of the country, half the base of working people, taxpayers, the domestic market etc. They lost much of the best farmland of the country too. On top of all that, there was a chaotic series of crashes during the 1990s when doctrinary neo-liberal "experts" were brought in to "reform the Russian economy".
I can assure you, if the US had been forced through those kinds of changes, with Texas, Cali and the western pacific states seceding and turned their backs on the "rump USA", which had practically gone bust, then a *lot* of US towns, farms and industries would have gone bust in the process too, and you would have seen massive decay in many places (including the sainted but expensive US military and your cherished navy!),
And the answer to this is not "Meh, we're simply the best, the US can never go bust or be shaken by serious convulsions".
You visited poor village and asked question only to old peoples, scince USSR they belief TV only, where pure propoganda is translated. Ask it to young people in towns, they know something about outer world at least
I'm from a not-so-small city in Siberia, but I also have very little knowledge of that kind of rural life. I begin to understand why researchers say there are actually 4 types of Russia... These types are not only completely different but never even speak to or encounter each other.
yeah, thats also why there wont be a revolution in russia.
putin is burning rural gopniks on the frontline, and claiming russia has lost nothing of worth. just worthless gopniks and worthless soviet tanks, two or three times as old as the crews manning them.
We are all strange. We're all on the same planet - but we live in completely different worlds.
This is one of the saddest videos Daniil has made so far. The incongruence of modern cars parked on mud streets next to a hand-operated well. "Old" people (probably only in their 60s) who have to carry water by hand to their houses because there is no indoor plumbing. People who can't seem to even name a foreign country off the top of their head when asked, nor differentiate one from another, let alone have travelled to one.
What are the 4 Russias? I'm interested to know.
А ты откуда из Сибири?
2:34 "Afghanistan, we've won them all" who's gonna tell him?
They still have soviet flags flying
@@lfroujibetmusic it was the flag of one party, it is not the flag of the Soviet Union
Their state controlled monopoly media told them all they need to know. Even if they are lies.
Yeah and Mongols too...
@@anonymooseplays3905 he's refering to the golden horde
Thank you for your journalism and your incredibly important reporting.
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Interesting water bucket exercises, they are creative with their workout routines
“Russia is the best country” Have you been anywhere else? “No”
That simply means they are happy with what they have.. and no need to find something else.. you will be very lucky if you reach such attitude in your life!
@@Rus-eq5wn You think people who travel around the world exploring new things do so because they're unhappy with what they have?
@@Gnaaal Not necessary, but it's also does not mean that people who do not travel should be unhappy about it.
@@Rus-eq5wn meanwhile their overlords travel the world in private jets and superyachts while they don’t even have running water lol
@@michaelherron4306 so called "overlords" are sick of western illness of "wanting money". They are not internally free even externally traveling a lot lol
"I love Russia - Russia is great!!!", as she carries water from the well to her home.
its better to be quiet. Thin walls and lots of snitches!
Man, it's called self-sufficiency. What r u gonna do when something breaks in your home or even in the whole city and water is no more running?
@@darthherohito lol u havent notice? U can comment in internet now meaning we are not living in middle ages that shit was middle age thing canr even provide basic water system? Lol
@@ainz1325 Like in Flint, Michigan?
@@darthherohito
That's kind of a strange Assessment though, because what would you yourself do in that case? Probably not much because we we literally developed for centuries to come to a point where you have something like City hazard troops who literally are ready 24/7 to quickly repair crucial infrastructure lmao. Those people are only self sufficient to a degree, if they're cutt off from their surrounding villages and a really bad and long winter comes knocking they'll starve as well. After a really bad catastrophe they'll probably even suffer more than us simply because they lack ressources and the connection to other places .
My mum was born in 1913 on a remote hill farm with no running water or electricity but their well was just a few yards (metres) from the back door. Over 100 years later these poor people are still carrying water every day quite some distance back to their home.
the houses are very well maintained and clean. I am impressed
This video is a masterpiece... These people are like tragic heroes of the classic old russian novels, still existing in the 21st century. I feel so depressed after watching this video... What a MASTERPIECE
Hahahahahah I'm depressed (really diagnosed) after living there for 20 years 😂
I am really sorry! Are you feeling better now? Have you changed location?
@@ManiaMpar unfortunately, no. But I’m going to in the future
@@MAKCNMKA I would invite you in Greece, my friend
08:35 the least hypocritical person in this video. I feel sorry for him and his buddies and wish they could stay home and not go die in Ukraine.
I hope they, or at least he, can go back home once this shitstorm's over.
I wouldn't wish him anything, I just wish he never applied. More lives are lost because of people like him.
they aren't hypocritical, they really believe in it
Honestly reminds me of some of the rural areas of Michigan (my home), both in their clear dilapidation and in that they're filled with people who are convinced nowhere else is better in the world. I think everyone is better off hearing from others around the world, even perspectives you may not know or enjoy, and that's why I love your channel!
Thank you for being honest - Americans are in the comments "shocked" at how people in rural areas (which are significantly poorer in every country in the world - all of them) are patriotic. This is found in every country in the world. Rural areas always have been and always will be more conservative/traditional and therefore patriotic. I am sure in rural Michigan you will find exact answers like this replaced with USA instead of Russia. But they act so shocked this is possible and think it's "brainwashing"
Generally rural areas are more conservative, but you will not find this dislike of foreigners and their countries everywhere. My wife is from the rural Philippines and I have had the opportunity to spend significant amounts of time there. Filipino’s love foreigners, perhaps it is the opposite mentality, a ‘colonial mentality’ some would say, but either way, as my wife says, Filipino’s treat white foreigners better than they treat their own countrymen.
@PanSerbism I live in a rural area in the us and it's beautiful here. ( we even have running water!)
@@WereismymilkДаже в этой деревне на видео есть водопровод. У тебя мозг промыт . А из колодца вода питьевая. У них не только водопровод есть но и смеситель
@@EritresPG I know it's drinkable, if it wasn't they wouldn't be drinking it
I like the editing. Very slick.
Russians: Europe will be freezing without our gas!
Also Russians: *has no gas, running water or electricity*
That's the point, they don't want to live better, they just need the world to be as miserable as they are.
@@ccosoreanu That’s exactly the reason they Invaded Ukraine, they don’t want Ukraine to have running water.
A lot of houses in the UK don't have gas. Mine doesn't, we don't need it.
30 LNG carriers are just floating around European shoreline and waiting because storage reservers are nearly full.
Here in America many people don't have gas because they cannot afford it thanks to our unelected cognitively impaired President and his behind the scene handlers!
I’m just happy you volunteered to help them, kindness goes a long way
Out of curiosity, in 1998 I did the same in the village Kirova in Belarus to turn the handle to lift up a pail of water. What is still amazing to me, the people in Rural Russia still think that there is nothing better in the entire world as Russia, even they have a standard of living which my German village had around 1912.
Ja, es schockiert mich, dass die da im 21. Jahrhundert scheinbar keine Wasserleitungen haben.
Why were you in Belarus?
@@a32-h6u I am German. I have out of Germany delivered 2 Truck / Trailer loads of humanitarian / medical aid to a charity in Minsk and one Truck / Trailer load to the
Catholic Parish in Gomel, Sovietskaya Street 118. With a Chrysler Van, I have been probably 10 times in Gomel as well, delivering humanitarian aid to Kirova Street 76. Does this answer your question??
@@antonstoeckl3689 Yes, it does.
Powerful journalism, great work.
Great video as always, not confrontational and not being too direct with the questions so that these folks can answer without becoming defensive.
The more I watch these videos, the more I'm sick of hearing the term "motherland", I'm not German myself but I have lived in Germany for 22 years now. If someone from here would dare to speak in the same language about Germany that these guys do about Russia, you bet your ass that the entire world would turn on them. The simple fact of the matter is that these people have been drinking the government cool-aid for so long that they don't know anything else and don't have access to anything else. The praise for "Great Mother Russia" is so instinctive to these guys that they don't even know how much Russia has been humiliated over the course of the Ukraine war. This kind of nationalism needs to die out, not just in Russia but also in my home country of China and to some extent in America as well.
they are like islam extremists. they have so little and are so subjugated that if their one belief of "russia/allah is the greatest" was wrong they'd have nothing left. and so they cling on..
Chinese liberals are as nasty as the Russians
Well said sir!
This "motherland" and "my country right or wrong" sentiment exists in every nation to varying degrees. While it is good that countries preserve cultural traditions, language, etc., this type of nationalism is a relic of the past that has led to so much conflict and misery and has no place in the world today. Be proud of what you are but not superior to others and join the world community where everyday people can just live their lives and not hate other because they come from a different country or because they are told to do so by governments.
Ignorance is bliss...an old saying and its truth is demonstrated very well here,,,
"Чем дальше общество отдаляется от правды, тем больше оно ненавидит тех, кто её говорит..."
Дж. Оруэлл
Very true
Сейчас бы эту посредственность цитировать.
so true
@@sjsjssnsnjklqa6608 сейчас бы в этой посредственности жить
Порой трудно понять где правда, там или здесь или где-то между.
Fuck, this was hard to watch. These villages are soo eerie, like time never changes; a german ww2 soldier popping into view would have not seemed out of place.
Thats also a good excuse why there is no running water. The last division of german ww2 soldiers ambushed their construction convoy.
Or a Napoleontic soldier... a Tatar or a Mongol.
@@haraldgutzinger6099 Warsaw was razed in 44 and 45
.It's a rebuilt modern city has been for decades...Russia was victorious,and the people are living like animals...yeah we love Russia
What a great wording, you made my evening
1:01 I think this guy is properly struggling. He’s all bluster and booze, but when he calmed down you could feel his unhappiness. I hope he’s feeling better.
No, when he finally sobers up from his 5 day bender he will feel much much worse. So he will start drinking again to feel better, because it is the only thing he has to do...
The russian way of coping and escaping the soul-crushing despair of living in constant poverty, misery and total abandonment from governmental development of their communities.
He will feel fine and patriotic once he has a little more vodka. Then Russia will be a great nation again and the envy of the world. LOL
Can’t wait to visit Yunga .... people do not seem to be drunk and very friendly
Great beautiful properties and non depressing vistas
I like the lady with the red headdress thing who said she’s never been abroad. Although she’s ignorant at least she doesn’t try to say anything she doesn’t know for sure, she just tells him to ask the younger people who may have more knowledge about foreign countries than she does. If you don’t know anything for sure, don’t lie about it. Good job lady that I will never know but I like ur answer.
Looks like a lot of people don't understand the fact that this video was recorded in VILLAGE. Sadly but most of Russian villages stuck in previous decade. But some people actually enjoy living like that. I have a grandma and she has a small farm, I love visiting her. It is actually very cool, especially visiting this kind of villages during the winter. Very cozy tbh.
Decade? More like a millennia
Bro villages in Poland was looking like that 100-150 years earlier
I am Pole growing up in really small village (It is literally one straight road) in north-eastern Poland, probably the poorest and coldest part of this country. We had running water, we had internet, we had toilets and we *are* financially supported by country. Sadly but russian villages are far far away from what you can call "normal" in XXI century.
@@livro5845 Poland is small country compared to Russia.
Most of those completely rural villages are in Siberia. It's very hard to support all of them, especially with the fact that they can be located far away from railroad as well.
@@Wersawec
Canada, USA, they are as well big countries and yet there is very small amount of villages separated from civilization compared to Russia. Russia spend its money on military actions instead of spending it to develop living standards. Most of European countries gave up fighting for old territories except for Russia. It is not normal for times we live in and for european standards. It would be decades ago.
Условия для жизни как в средние века. И люди понятия не имеют, что есть чужая страна. Они никогда нигде не были, знают только свою великую Россию. Это действительно ужасно.
Откуда средние века взял? Обычная деревня, таких на Украине тоже много, Советское наследие.
@@ProffesorFreddyа до чого тут Україна?
незнание это счастье, я думаю
@@ProffesorFreddy, что не говори, а деревня в России и постсовке сейчас умирает, и ситуация хуже, чем в самом совке. Люди уезжают, хозяйства беднеют.
@@ProffesorFreddy в Украине, к слову, всё в порядке и с деревнями и с сёлами. Сколько унитазов и стиральных машин спёрли оттуда наши вояки в первые месяцы войны, ужас
This is real journalism. Thank you sir
IF she came to GB she'd be really jealous of our wells.
@RussianNationalSocialist No murderous dictators either, you can keep the gas.
@RussianNationalSocialist thank god no more anything from the likes of you, Nazi Boy...
@RussianNationalSocialist u thinks ur country has the only source of gas? Lol this russian villager needs to go out to the city 🤣
@Фридрих Лондо yeah....keep your gas.
I have a toilet... that FLUSHES.
In the 1990s I was travelling through Russia. Nothing has changed in the rural areas, no development. Greetings from Austria
I get the feeling nothing has changed in rural Russia since the 1890's.
естественно,всё развитие идет в крупные города
@@Onnarashi From 1990s - maybe yes, but definitely not from 1890s, then there would be no electricity in this village, but there is
@@F_A_F123 If you have electricity, a submersible well pump is cheap. Every rural house around me has one in their own well. I don't think they have reliable electricity.
@@skyrider2515 Cities attract more investment everywhere in the world compared to the countryside yet I have not seen anything as deprived as this, at least not in Europe.
I grew up in the anthracite coal regions of Pennsylvania. Very poor region virtually no infrastructure. Yet the people from my town could imagine no better place to live. The scenery here very much reminds me of where I grew up. Thanks for a great video
as a polish person from rural poland , their village is so nostalgic and slightly similar to the one i used to go to on holiday. I miss Lublin
my village still better tho
I see you are filming Gogol's "Dead Souls". Very promising start! Method acting is also at its finest! The movie will garner a ton of applause, critical acclaim, palme d'or and a few Oscars to boot.
Oh, wait, that's a documentary for Russkij Mir.
lol, Gogol literally pictured Ukrainian shitholes in his books cause he is Ukrainian himself
I was brought up in a remote location in outback Australia, it was a 2 day drive to the nearest town and our living conditions were far superior to the poor people.
Yeah mate it startling to say the least. I'm in Angledool NSW (25 people) 400 kilometres from the nearest major town and we live in absolute luxury compared to this. I had a heart attack recently and an ambulance was with me in an hour and then flown to Orange for a stent. These poor buggers probably wouldn't remember the last time they saw an ambulance. Sure all things are relevant but when you see the grandeur of the elite of RF, something stinks for sure.
Anglo-Saxons...
@@taeniasaginata3847 well my father was
Yes. But you are upsidedown.
@@mirriulahwaterdog Yeah, in very rural areas in the US like Alaska, they will literally fly a helicopter out to pick you up instead of an ambulance. Same if you're in a boat 50 miles at sea - the Coast Guard will lift you up and fly you to a hospital with one call on the radio.
You pointed out the "problem". The children of abusive parents love their parents. It's all they know. We need to get rid of despots and oligarchs. In a civil way! Fight the propaganda. Thanks for doing your best!
Fight the propaganda with making new propaganda Lol
Most Russians can't access YT, most of them probably do not even have a computer with web access. They need to be tech savvy and wealthy enough to have a VPN to do that.
I’m from a very small village in Wales. We have concrete roads, water in our homes, street lights, everyone has been abroad and we have extremely good internet. But Russia is the best obviously. This video is the prime example of why people need to travel .
For some reason, everyone scolds the British Internet. Maybe it's good in Wales (thanks to the druids). I heard Russia has better internet than Britain. I also heard that the internet is very good in Estonia
@@daiseraise1200 In Russia, the Internet is really faster than in the UK or the USA. All emigrants ( or almost all ) they complain about a strong change in Internet speed despite the fact that 5g is available in other countries.
@@ialreadyknew7132 clearly not in these villages
Spending 2 years abroad should be mandatory in a person’s education. We would solve so many problems with bigotry, nationalism and climate change if we forced people to experience the world and not their little corner.
I am from Russia and I love Cymru ❤️ best in Britain,
learning Welsh now
i love the answer of rural people better than city ones: raw, unfiltered, not giving a shit to thing.
Love the work you are doing. Keep it up, heroes
I mean, when you see the conditions these people live in, can you really be surprised by their answers? I can't say I'd care much for foreign countries if I were born into a situation like this
I come from a rural area too (not Russia) and people especially old people are like this too
Yeahh, they live in purity, never been abroad, and they say that their country is the best....
raral latinos are so sweet and very kind
They don't seem miserable. They seem to like their simple rural lifestyle.
@@poorsvids4738 Because they do not know life in another countries. They think that their life one of the best in the world..
I really thought the last chap was gonna attack you. He was battered! Stay safe lads. What you are doing is of great service and for posterity.