Why is every country against us?
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Lyudmila
0:23 - 2nd person
0:46 - 3rd person
0:51 - 4th person
1:20 - Maria, political scientist
2:00 - Dmitriy, 53, mover
2:37 - Arina
3:44 - Vladimir & Marina
4:20 - 9th person
5:01 - Aleksandra
5:46 - Vladimir, works for the government
6:00 - Sergei
6:24 - Abdulla, 19
7:33 - Vova, 18, student
7:53 - Arina
8:14 - Lyudmila
8:48 - Arina
9:15 - Vladimir & Marina
9:33 - 4th person
10:00 - Vladimir & Marina
10:43 - Stanislav, 34
11:31 - 1420: who made this video, when and where.
All those people, walking around in H&M clothes, sitting on their IKEA furniture, talking on their Iphone and surfing the internet on their Samsung devices, driving their BMW to the airport to sit down in a Boeing airplane., financed with money from oil and gas sales to Europe...and complaining about the West. Astonishing.
@@Mark-Haddow they shouldn't get visas anymore
And the super-rich like Putin educate and move their children to Europe.
The H&M factories are in Bangladesh, Germany exploits low-wage workers who work overtime to produce cheap fast fashion clothes. So yes, THANK YOU BANGLADESH. iPhones are produced on the Chinese factory foxconn, THANK YOU CHINA. The actual manufacturing of IKEA furniture takes place in China and in developing countries such as Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar. The question is... if all these products produced in Bangladesh, China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar, why do we need Germany here? It's cheaper to cut the middleman and work directly with Bangladesh, China etcetera
One of the best comments! Even Lawrow, while interviewed, was sitting there in a fancy west shirt from a homosexual designer and an iPhone on his table ;-)
@@user-yj7um6hv1d It's western designed and distributed. Why don't they want Russian or Chinese designs? All these fashions are about individual identity, freedom, progress. They are wearing the flags of the West while they curse the values they represent. It is a real life comedy.
I am a Russian, I have lived in Russia all my life, half of my life in Siberia, the other half in St. Petersburg. I would never have thought that such a large number of zombified people live in our country. I am ashamed to watch this, I am ashamed to read comments where people from abroad wish me and my country the worst. All my surroundings (my family, my friends, colleagues) are against the war, everyone understands what is happening now. And to hear such statements, as in the video, is a real shock for me. I sincerely apologize to the entire population of Ukraine for what our government has done to your life. This is not the result of recent years, it is the result of ten years of propaganda that is instilled into the people of the Soviet generation every day. They do not understand what they are saying and will never understand, their thinking cannot be changed. I understand all the hatred and anger that is now felt towards our country, but please, dear people, do not draw conclusions about the whole nation only on the basis of such videos. We are not all like that. We understand and regret what has happened. I just want this to end soon. No person in today's world deserves to experience the horrors of war. I have relatives in Ukraine, we are in touch every week, we worry and pray. Even if someone opposes the war-fact in Russia, this person will be persecuted. Our telephones are examined, our people are detained, and force is used in case of disobedience or resistance. They attribute some random article just to ruin the rest of their lives, just for expressing their opinion. And these are mild consequences. We are afraid of this system and we are afraid of Putin. Here is a whole web that weaved for twenty years of his reign, everything is fixed on him alone, a whole state. I used to be proud that I am Russian, because our people are, in fact, hospitable. They are responsive, with a persistent character. But not now. The propaganda has brainwashed them so much that now they can't see anything. It’s easier to think that you are a hero and save someone from something than to open your eyes and understand that we are murderers. Sorry for mistakes, I don't know English, but really wanted to leave the comment.
Update: I would never have thought that with one comment I could get such a huge response from so many corners of our planet. Thank you. Thank you for your indifference, thank you for your understanding, thank you for all the kind words and wishes. I read every comment and think about every word. Please remember: there is no "bad nation", there are only "bad people". Peace to all of us, happiness and love.
Nah ... no one is wishing you or your country the worst, it's the politicians we dislike and not just Russian ones.
No need to apologize for others.
PS ... your English is PERFECT
PEACE
Thank you for your words. I’m a US citizen and understand how it feels when one’s country acts outrageously… Iraq war comes to mind. But bush and his apologists in congress had the power and they took it. At least in the US we have the ability to voice our opinions without being persecuted. I wish you and yours well.
Your English is very good. So, I wonder how many of these people are saying they support the war etc. because they fear that Danill might be a government spy. I don't get how some people are very aware of the truth but others are oblivious. I know there are protests from mothers whose sons or husbands have been conscripted or drafted. Is that not on your TV? IN your papers?
"..people from abroad wish me and my people the worst..."
But I actually do not think people from abroad wish the russian people the worst. To do that would require, that we believed the russian people had an informed opinion based on own experience and visits abroad. They don't!
We separate the russian people, misinformed as they are - and this evil russian government headed by a war criminal. Two different things.
I know Sct. Petersburg very well - lived in Kolpino.
I was with you until the end… you’re clearly a native speaker of English. Your statement ‘I don’t know English’ is obviously false. Credibility 👎.
The lady in the red hat had it right. "We think the way we have been forced to think" it's sad but true.
True.
In 1991 NATO admitted that eastward expansion would be hostile enough to trigger war and promised not to, then continuously broke their promise.
9 days before the war started, Zelensky stepped up his shelling of Russian civilian residences to more than 1 shell per minute. To stop the war, all he needs to do is meet Putin's 2 demands: retract his commitment to either go NATO or go nuclear, and stop shelling the Russian civilians and honour the signed Minsk protocol instead.
But this is really not about the Ukraine or even Russia. In 2007 Putin made a speech at an international conference in Moscow in which he made his opposition to the New World order clear. It is for this reason, and this reason alone, that the deep state are using the Ukraine, close to the heart of Russia and able to control her only two warm water ports to sell her oil exports to fund her military, to drive a stake into her heart, or, as it transpires, force her to defend herself and her people.
While Russia stands against the deep state she will always be a refuge and and ally for the people of the world who are soon to suffer under the coming tyranny. Therefore she must go.
The deep state is also accomplishing 2 side goals by sending financial aid to the Ukraine: massive theft of the people's assets so that by 2030 you will own nothing, and massive increase in deep state power via the kickbacks from Zelensky sharing the loot via bitcoin.
If you find all this hard to swallow then you simply haven't read widely enough. But don't worry, you won't miss it. It will likely kick off with Pandemic 2.0 scheduled for 2024.
The other action item for this year is to get those pesky guns out of the hands of Americans because then the USA cannot be a refuge either.
@@greatbriton8425 text book tin head propaganda
But all these comments are from the most free-thinking highly educated people with immunity to western propaganda :D
Thank you so much, Daniel, for the work you've done. I myself come from Moscow and I can honestly say that it is very unpleasant for me to hear exactly the same words from people very close to me... Years later, our grandchildren will be shocked at how low we were then. No war! Freedom of Russia! Long live Belarus! glory to Ukraine!
Написал Слава Украине и ничего не дрогнуло. Ничего, что под этим лозунгом вырезали поляков и евреев в Волыни? Хочется быть таким либеральным, так добавь ещё Хай Гитлер!, чтобы нравиться всем и чтобы твои дети через много лет видели, как низко ты пал
@@ComradPravda Согласен, и оцените масштабы цинизма стран запада, которые аплодируют нацистским лозунгам в Украине, которые возвели на государственный уровень. Еще смешнее видеть поляков, целующихся взасос с почитателями палачей польского народа
@@franka2678 политики как раз меня не удивляют. В Европе элита всегда отделяла себя от народа. По сути им все равно какой народ: польский или русский, украинский или французский. Все это для них лишь ресурс, который по мере развития науки и техники становится ненужным и только увеличивает расходы.
Но здесь в комментариях столько раз написано Слава Украине в развернутых размышлениях обычных "людей", что диву даёшься, то ли уже такой продвинутый AI, что может генерировать любые тексты на английском, то ли и правда на западе сама ментальность человеков насквозь нацистская и подхватить любой лозунг можно легко и не думая.
Странно, что никто из них не пишет Спасибо товарищу Сталину за наше счастливое детство.
Tacy Rosjanie jak ty sa nadzieja dla swiata
@@kingajonas5219 он не россиянин
Believing that Russia has the right to take an independent country to be a buffer state is pretty incredible.
Это законы геополитики.
They seem to historically consider Eastern Ucraine as part of the former big Russia, which < by mistake> was cut off in the last decades. Nevertheless, instead of through economy, collaboration, culture etc, they chose the war. The wrong path that will have to be paid off very dearly in the future.
@@user-ki6im7so6p нет таких законов геополитики
@@user-ki6im7so6p Well yes, it is a geopolitical perspective, but completely unjustified.
They lost their independence when they started burning alive Russians living there and when Victoria Nuland was deciding who will be the prime minister. It didn't happen to Ukrainians in Russia.
It will never cease to amaze me how a country with 2.5x the population of but an equal economy to Italy thinks that it's somehow a global power able to rival that of China and the US. If it weren't for nuclear weapons Russia would only be a footnote on the global stage.
Facts
Nuclear power and an army not competitive like Italy. Honestly, I think that Italy's army (and also most of the western countries) is more efficient than russian one. Less soldiers but more powerful.
@@user-yf1mw6qu3u and we Poles ruled in Moscow😂. Kacapki. Japan also thrashed you and you were hitlers allies in 1939
Imperial nostalgia casts long shadows. The Russians' perception of themselves is much grander than the reality they live. It's a very primitive worldview: nations either submit or dominate, and if one nations gains, that means other nations are deprived. They're a bunch of gullible, primitive peasants most of them.
@@homosum1 Italy's army is professional, unlike the majority conscript force that the Russian have. What we're seeing in Ukraine is something the West learned the hard way in Vietnam: a conscript force is ineffective at anything but holding ground. You need a professional force for any sort of effective advance in modern warfare. In that, Russia only has maybe 150,000 professionals left in their force. Meanwhile the Italian army has about 95,000 professional soldiers.
Yes Russia does have a large conscript force available but moving forward the actual strength of ones military will be judged not by raw numbers but by how many professionals a military has available to it.
As an educated American, I can safely say that most Americans (well, all the ones I know) give no thought at all to Russia. They simply do not care what Russians think, do, or how they imagine *us* to be. A complete non-issue. In that light, I always find it interesting that a lot of Russians have formulated an opinion on what Americans are like, or motivates us, etc.
Тут не шел разговор о простых американцах, идёт разговор о власти Америки. Которые диктуют всему миру как жить.
They're talking about the government n the media, genius!
You're not that educated. American think tanks since the 90's have been strategizing as to how to weaken and break up Russia and take her resources, the way we do everywhere else in the world. The problem is Putin came to power and saw what was going on and put a stop to it. Thats why they hate him and want him out of power.
And you consider yourself to be an educated American? To me, your comment implies a lack of education, for an educated person would understand that it is important to give thought to all countries, including ones you don't "think" of. I am American too, by the way.
@@green-user8348 do you deny that most americans don't care about Russia or the outside world in general? I don't even remember the last time russia even topped the polls in things americans are concerned with. generally its jobs or economy with the odd pandemic thrown in.
Could you ask something along the lines how people view situation of a neighbour breaking into their neighbour's house and killing the neighbouring family's husband, raping and killing his wife in front of their children and abducting their children. Other than that, thanks for persisting with these videos. Stay safe!
Now That's a GOOD question! Very on point too, since basically this is what the russians are doing in and to the Ukraine.
you are right, it make more sense to attack thousand miles distant country and rape their men as well as their women and change that country from being one of the richest to one of the poorest and steal their resources and sponsor terrorists' group.
In 1991 NATO admitted that eastward expansion would be hostile enough to trigger war and promised not to, then continuously broke their promise.
9 days before the war started, Zelensky stepped up his shelling of Russian civilian residences to more than 1 shell per minute. To stop the war, all he needs to do is meet Putin's 2 demands: retract his commitment to either go NATO or go nuclear, and stop shelling the Russian civilians and honour the signed Minsk protocol instead.
But this is really not about the Ukraine or even Russia. In 2007 Putin made a speech at an international conference in Moscow in which he made his opposition to the New World order clear. It is for this reason, and this reason alone, that the deep state are using the Ukraine, close to the heart of Russia and able to control her only two warm water ports to sell her oil exports to fund her military, to drive a stake into her heart, or, as it transpires, force her to defend herself and her people.
While Russia stands against the deep state she will always be a refuge and and ally for the people of the world who are soon to suffer under the coming tyranny. Therefore she must go.
The deep state is also accomplishing 2 side goals by sending financial aid to the Ukraine: massive theft of the people's assets so that by 2030 you will own nothing, and massive increase in deep state power via the kickbacks from Zelensky sharing the loot via bitcoin.
If you find all this hard to swallow then you simply haven't read widely enough. But don't worry, you won't miss it. It will likely kick off with Pandemic 2.0 scheduled for 2024.
The other action item for this year is to get those pesky guns out of the hands of Americans because then the USA cannot be a refuge either.
Everything Russia does is somebody else's fault, like you'd expect a naughty 6 years old kid to react when confronted with its own behavior.
Sadly it's not only confined to children. When adults act like that it is Narcissistic Personality Disorder, but on a scale of the whole country.
It's typical manipulative speech from an abuser.
"But she forced me to beat her. I had no choice."
They never take any responibility. They haven't even admitted that they occupied the baltic states for 30 years now. They think they liberated.
This is true. And for them, lying is the most natural thing, exactly like repeating the propaganda of their TV channels. They are disgusting.
and this is what every country does, which country blames itself? USA is the country involved in most wars in the world, when was the last time they blamed themselves for that?
As a Russian, I say that I am disgusted to live among such people.
I have a friend in russia and she cant stand the gov, we are planning for her to escape next year, maybe sooner
What do you think would change people's mentalities? I think that's probably the biggest problem. I know it comes from a historical context, but it seems to me that the current prevailing mentality in most Russians (minus 20% or so) will keep feeding this negative loop.
I do feel sorry for you, this is a very surreal situation to have in the modern world, so many crazy people in one country. The nuclear threats could come true too, the sane world is helpless to it.
А вот и "хорошие русские" подоспели
Stay strong, nazi regime was supposed to last a thousand years; it managed twelve. We are aware of your suffering, we see the flag without the red. Don't give up, your country needs honourable people like you more than ever before
I am Lithuanian, the oldy one who understands Russian language clearly. When I hear what these people are saying, I asking my self - do they live on a parallel earth ? Looks like 2 + 2 is not equal to 4 for these people...
I really do feel bad for all these people. Simply because they don’t know any better
Victims of propaganda. Sad 😢
I really feel sorry for all those people in the comments. Just because they think they know better.
@@meinhardcore yeah, you really hate to see it. I pitty them because they genuinely believe they are right.
I don't think that's a sufficient excuse in the Information Age. Ukraine has similar history and they do know better
"Tell me, what is there in the West that we don't have in Russia? Russia has everything!"
You're absolutely right, sir. You had literally everything:
- Italian clothing,
- Silicon valley i-Phones,
- German engineering,
- European aviation,
- US IT technology,
- French cuisine,
- Japanese cars,
- British pop music,
- Suisse cheese,
- Spanish holiday resorts,
- Taiwanese semi conductors,
- etc. etc.
Until you decided to leave the community of civilized nations. Good luck with your new 'friends' in China and North Korea. You will definitely need it.
and largest economy and the most powerful military in recorded human history.
Spot on
You missed out Italian villas, and expensive apartments in London and other western capitals probably. UK-wide property actually. I read somewhere that Oligarchs have to export their wealth, since otherwise their assets can be confiscated (if not suffer some worse outcome) if they fall out of favour of the guy in charge ...
Why do you think they "decided to leave the community of civilized nations"?
@@lgnfve Actually those both go to the US :)
I'm British and have 0 patriotism in my blood at all, I can honestly tell you that the majority of people in my age bracket (30 - 40) do not care about being "On top" nor do we care about controlling Russia. We simply want to enjoy life and be successful, I could probably speak for a lot of Europe in this aspect. This constant playing the victim is absolutely pathetic from a "strong country" as they so pride themselves to be. When will they realise that actually, nobody cares about them, we have our own problems within our own borders to worry about.
Тогда почему Британия всегда накладывает ограничения на торговлю с Россией? Почему Британия хочет поражения России и поддерживает то чеченских террористов, то украинских.
Fact is - no country in Europe would want Russia if it was given free of charge...
@@user-ki6im7so6p Мне нужен источник в Великобритании, поддерживающий "чеченских террористов". Обратите внимание, что российские сайты не являются источником.
@@LMB222 Зайдите на Википедию и узнайте где проживает Ахмед Закаев. Так же не забывайте про теракт на Крымском мосту и теракт в Москве, где погибли гражданские лица. Это совершили нынешние союзники Британии - украинская разведка.
@@user-ki6im7so6p we impose restrictions on you because you attacked an innocent country both now and in 2014!!! (Not to mention all the countries before that) We see that Putin is the new Hilter and we are not prepared to let him have his genocide of the Ukrainian people as he stated he wanted in HIS SPEECH. Just listen to him. Do you honesty expect us to do nothing? And even as I say that full of indignant rage that so many feel at Putin and Russias needless killing spree, I know from listening to 1420 that this willingness to be cold, pay higher prices whatever to stop this genocide is as alien to Russians as their self centered apathy and need to rule others is to me.
Painful to watch this darkness in the heads...😢
С каждым твоим видео все грустнее становится
Каждое видео, которое они снимают, делает людей еще глупее.
This is what happens when the citizens of a country “Don’t want to get involved in politics “
If politic involvement can kill you, you better don´t want to get involved in politics. Same happend in Nazi-Germany.
Well in a dictatorship nobody should be involved in politics if they want to stay alive. No excuse but I can understand that point of view
The same sh.t in West. People in West doesn't have knowledge about politics. I'm sorry.
There's no opposition party in Russia look what Putin did to his political opponent, He sent him to jail on made up charges and had him poison.
@@72seeker72 the dictatorship is not coming without the approval of the people. If these people are fighting against it from the beginning they have a chance to change it but when they only sit and do nothing in combination with Vodka it's not possible. Alcohol or other drugs in combination with propaganda is preparing the way to dictatorship. Göbbels made Hitler and the people loved it.... until the country was destroyed. Anyway the Earth doesn't stop spinning only because the Human Race is that stupid....
Until it invaded Ukraine, I don't think many people in the West thought about Russia at all, yet these good folk seem to think we're obsessed.
If anyone's going to carve up Russia and plunder its natural resources like they imagine the West is trying to do, it's their best friend: China
Yeah, this is the biggest culture shock for me. I don't think I had even heard a normal Russian person speak before finding 1420.
Yes.. Before the war Russia was just one travel option among others. No different than Lithuania for example.
@@98ZaiThats because 1420 disabled Russian viewers from being able to view his video.
@@natureblank1401 Isn't youtube blocked in Russia?
"It is always everybody else, but not us" ruzzian logic has no analogs in the world
This logic was invented by the Russians, everyone else always blames only themselves!
Wow, the sheer victim complex all these people have is extraordinary.
Of course, it's everyone else's fault that you're hated, it couldn't possibly be the result of your own actions, could it?
It’s honestly sad to see how utterly brainwashed these people are.
Russians have always been like this: they behaved in exactly the same way in Afghanistan, in Chechnya, in Georgia, in Ukraine. They need to be isolated, they are crazy
That's quite a few depressing videos in a ow 1420 posted. Restore my faith 1420 pleaseeeeee! I can't take it no more, interview younger generations next time.
@@StayPrimal lmao
you have also been brainwashed, only from the side that your government needs
It’s the citizens of western countries are brainwashed
'Ukraine was a part of Russia' That is exactly the mindset that is part of the problem.
That is the key of it all, they never respected Ukraines independence
@@alejandropradalozano6525 Russians hate those who lived the same swamp and now have better life.
Yes. No respect for sovreign states. Poland was part of Sweden a few hundred years ago - does that mean Sweden has the right to Poland or to Finland (which part part of Sweden for a much longer time)? Who says that Russia has any more of a right to the countries it occupied during the peak of the Soviet Union?
@@----ic6pw We had some monarchs from Wasa dynasty, but Poland never was a part of Sweden ;)
@@tomdrummer6500 I was talking about the Polish Swedish-union 16th century. But maybe it's more accurate to say that Sweden was part of Poland then heh. Either way, what I meant to say is that many countries of today were part of other countries in the past, during shorter or longer amounts of time, during times when democracy wasn't a thing. Sovreign and democractic countries of today however, can't be forcibly taken the way Russia has in Ukraine, and it makes no sense to refer to borders of a certain time in the past to try to justify it.
Thank you for bringing these videos to us
That guy in the black hat ssaid it perfectly "They were always bad, we just looked at them through rose-colored glasses, which have now been removed..." This perfectly describes what happened to Russia and how Europe naively together with the west hoped Russia could be a moder peacfull country.
How dare they resist the kindest policies of the most peace-loving countries (USA, UK, France, Germany) in modern history!?
This one was tough to watch.
The last guy epitomized this episode: "We will figure out who brought us to this war"
I'm at a loss for words
They’re all tough to watch now. Who wants to watch the channel of brainwashed Russian zombies?
They happily justify genocide and atrocities, and disregard the fact that the entire free world hates their country.
It reminds me of the Shakespeare poem “ my thoughts and my discourse, as mad men’s are….at random from the truth and vainly expressed”
As if Russians would then bother to come out and say "Oops". Nah, Russia is always right by default so there was never anything in need of figuring out to begin with.
well it is quite clear that someone in Russia wanted to transform the country in a chinese dominion .
Mindblowing
Unfortunately a ton of these people have never heard of an outside news source or bothered to research outside of their country. They spend their days watching Russian State TV and reading Kremlin run Newspapers. They don't even realise they are brainwashed. Its very sad 😢
"We live like oppressed serfs in a dying economy, sent to die in a meaningless war...
And the WORLD IS JEALOUS OF US!"
Great work. Thanks!👍👍
That first answer from the old lady made me very sad. She was very honest and you can tell what she really feels.
Amazing how none of them can even bring themselves to discuss Russia's treatment of the people of Ukraine as a reason for bad relations.
True, or their treatment of their own citizens in jail for next 15 years.
@@andybrown6981like that does not happen in the USA?
Ever heard of the term “domestic terrorism”?
And it is extremely easy to be labeled as such.
Я Украинец, живущий в России!! И считаю что надо наказать этих уродов, за то что выбрали извращенцев из Америки, себе в друзья!!
Россия 🇷🇺🤙 моя страна!!
It should be clearly mentioned in the question that 'many countries' means at least 140 countries from UN. And it means dozens if countries from all over the world including Asia and S. America. The question should state these as Russians are limited to thinking that many countries means EU and US only.
@@robertholland7558 It absolutely DOES NOT HAPPEN in the U.S. If you are talking about the January 6th domestic terrorists, they must face legal JUSTICE. This is different from being railroaded into jail. Most just get brief tresspassing charges which are extremely lenient given the circumstances. The few caught on tape being violent have been caught on tape and they must face our laws. The "tresspassers" were chanting "Hang Mike Pence" and kill Nancy Pelosi and other liberal Democrats with a gallows erected on the grounds of Congress. Even the "tresspassers" should have gotten a one or two year sentence, not a slap n the wrist. I believe the most violent have gotten five year sentences. If I slammed a flag pole into a police officer's chest or beat them unconscious I believe I would have gotten ten to fifteen years, not five.
No surprises, shifting responsibility onto others as usual.
Yes, everything bad Russia ever got into was foreign fault, literally everything.
It's a human trait. Russians aren't the only ones who do it.
Zawsze tak jest, mentalnosc zula
Слава России 🇷🇺🇷🇺Z
not really shifting responsibility, but trying to achieve justice
You can tell everyone is scared to even give an answer good or bad
You're brave for even covering this stuff in earnest, with the Foreign Agent laws. Stay safe!
You dress like a super-hero, fly to Ukraine to help, bro, or sis.
Now I'm wondering how many europeans would agree with the statement that "it's natural that any country should wish to be at the top"
This sentiment seems to come back often in 1420 interviews and is stated as if it is an obvious fact, but I doubt many people in the EU countries would agree.
It seems we've learned very different lessons from the 20th century.
EU wishes to be on the top in fighting climate change.
@@juliarichter6987 I just bought the ingredients for soup
Yes, that and "I'm a patriot so all my country does is right". I've never heard that kind of reasoning here.
It's natural that a super power needs a buffer zone. That's why Nazi Germany had to invade Poland. Obviously, they needed a buffer zone. Completely natural.
Russians: We want to be on top. Like every other nation.
Poles, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Ukrainians, Fins, etc: We don't want to be eradicated by Russian imperialism.
For me, in Poland, patriotism is to do the best for the country and people. For these people it is to support leaders no matter how criminal and thieving they are.
As a Canadian....our country belongs to us, we don't belong to it. It's a big difference in mentality.
And that’s the difference between patriotism and nationalism.
Yes, we think patriotism is about maintaining my country as independent and peacefull as can be, not invading and oppressing other countries... Patriotism is to respect everyone's patriotism!
Before the war your country was heading the same way towards populist right wing, authoritarian and antieuropean rule as Russia did, I hope you do better now
There is still much populism and it is possible that current government will stay in power for another 5 years or so (I hope not). Still, in all their stupidity I can not think of a single suggestion that we should invade, dominate or do anything of that kind to any of our neighbours. In that context can you kindly explain me what is your point ?
I'm not sure if they actually believe what they're saying or just keeping in line to avoid any repercussions.
Agreed. It would be very interesting (and perhaps scary!) to know the answer for sure.
They are pointed with guns behind the camera, did you not guess it?
2:15 ehhhhh who’s going to tell him? 😂
I'm Russian but even for me it sounds funny. I'm ashamed of them
I once said to a Russian, after the war started, "you will lose all your friends; for generations you will be remembered as invaders". His reply was: "Russia doesn't need friends". I was speechless.
Alexander III said: "Russia only has 2 allies, it's army and it's navy" And ignoring the fact that the Russian navy is sh!t, it gives you a closer look to the Russia mindset. True capitalism and even feudalism hasn't reached Russia yet, Russia is stuck in Medieval times were the ruler has absolute power and the power of international trade and relations isn't understood. Lawlessness and absolutism are the cultural stamps of Russia
And he was right. No nation needs "friends". Nations need equal partners. For example, we in Germany are supposedly friends with the US but they blew up our pipeline with Russia anyway.
We don't need russian ppl in the rest of the world too. Let them stay at Syberia.
@@vonmuller7007 There's no hard evidence of us blowing up nord stream
Well, they may no need driends, but they sure as hell gonna love being China's pet.
Did that older guy really ask
“Tell me what is there in America that Russia doesn’t have?”
😳🤯
Basic freedom
Lots of transgender people.
@@RicardoMartinez-oh9sq or basic freedom
I think I need a cat video now
"The more we destroy, the better" What can you do with people like this?
paulhopkins8148 - I have a few suggestions...
🤯
Just stop playing with them. We are on the right trac in the West.
Good question. I was thinking the same thing...
Send them right to the ZERO line.
I think my favorite is when Russian state media said that Europe was starving and freezing to death because Russia stopped supplying it with gas and energy. They even said "in the UK they have to shoot squirrels to eat because they have no energy"
Happily the squirrels in my garden live without fear. As for freezing the bills have been a struggle but as my 96 year old mother states " I have known worse".
paris was really fucking chilling that month ooh
Squirrels doing well here too. Last night was on grim war rations; ongelet steak, chèvre salad and a nice bottle of Pomerol. I’m sure it can’t compare to boiled cabbage and vodka 😅
This is obviously an overstatement. No one really thinks that way. Except for boomers who don't know how to use the Internet.
Yes, but they forgot to tell people that we are so poor and stupid that we here make gasoline of carbondioxide and air!
They're always looking around to see anyone is listening. You'd never get what they really think out of them. They'll say what keeps them out of trouble.
8:15 brave woman wasn’t afraid to speak up.❤
For me, the saddest interaction was with the political scientist who was incapable of seeing any other possible answer to the problem. Propaganda may work on ordinary people, but she should have been capable of seeing through it.
Same here
Regime is working on having the "right" people which will continue spreading the propaganda. She might become little ruSSian Goebbels.
I would expect a lot of human studies like history, politics or even economics to be perverted by the corrupted Russian system as you can't keep up that system when you have a lot of people who actually understand what goes on in the world.
She was dumb AF
Exactly as Michael said. The propaganda finds its tentacles to universities and schools as well. They cannot teach the history how it truly was if they want people to believe the propaganda in TV.
Russians seem to celebrate their victory over Nazi Germany. But kind of leave out the fact that they would have been perfectly fine with the Nazis back then - as Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact shows. After all Hitler and Soviets attacked Poland at the same time and after defeating Poland, they held military parades together :D
But then Hitler began to lust after Soviet land (and the land that was under soviet influence).
So.. I think that that part about Nazi - Soviet friendship is conveniently left out when teaching the younger generations of Russians.
And also, we see how teachers who dare to say anything bad about Russia tend to end up. So even if they would like to teach things as they are, they kinda cant.
But ofc I get you. Since she studied on uni, one would hope she is curious and educated enough to find all the relevant sources and information, and examine them critically.
But then again, its not like all people who get masters are automatically well educated on what they studied sadly. x)) Look at Jordan Peterson :P
Lyudmila: "I actually live in Russia and have to obey its laws. I have to think the way we are forced to think, right?"
Lyudmila hits the nail on the head perfectly!
She does but not in the way you imagine, she is saying it's patriotic to follow state propaganda. She wants to fall in line.
the answer is wrong. The correct answer is: Lyudmila, you should not think, you should act. Others will think for you.
That's exactly how a SLAVE thinks. Time to start calling it what it is.
@@johnwayne8494 and how pathetic is that?
I am sure if the law said that at 5 pm every day , if you are a man, you have to put on a petticoat , stand on your head and wiggle your ears, Lyudmila would say OF COURSE..IT's the LAW!
I don't see hope for Russia with this mindset that even young people share.
2:27 a Russian calling out “Anglo-Saxons” for being imperialistic is really the pot calling the kettle black 😒
"If not, they might leave us alone with Ukraine! One on one! But, instead, they're arming Ukraine".
The U.S.A. is arming Ukraine, because in 1994 the U.S.A., England an Russia ll signed an agreement which stated that if Ukraine was invaded, those three countries would come to its aid. In return, Ukraine would surrender all its nuclear weapons.
So, I suppose the U.S.A. could replace those nuclear weapons and stop aiding Ukraine. Would that satisfy Russians?
Russian government was thinking, that they are so clever, they can do sanctions like for Georgia and other countries in early 2000, they can deliver weapon to separatists in neighbouring countries. But stupid West cannot do the same and suddenly surprise, even Ukraine army turned out better then they thought.
ive never heard of this, can you give some names of documents so i can searh it ?
@@ANIMshit Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, 5 December 1994, Budapest, Hungary. Russia committed to not invading Ukraine, and Ukraine got rid of its nuclear weapons.
Well said and this is a key point that a lot of people are not aware of. Russians seem to behave the same as Germans did in WW2 now they are bringing out their tanks of the same era. Why don’t they just go home?They are just a small fish in a big pond.They have shown the world how pathetic their military is and set Russia back decades all in a very short space of time. Russia has turned into North Korea in front of the worlds eyes.
@@ANIMshit asked about the Budapest Memorandum.
"The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was a political agreement signed by the US, the UK, and Russia to provide security assurances to Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan in exchange for their accession to the NPT as non-nuclear-weapons states and their elimination of all nuclear weapons from their territories123. The agreement pledged to respect their territorial integrity and borders, and to refrain from the use or threat of military force or economic coercion123. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents1. The agreement was seen as a result of the changes in the world-wide security situation after the end of the Cold War3. However, some leaders warned Ukraine that it would be tricked by the signatories4, and Russia violated the agreement by invading Ukraine in 2014"
Older Russians don't seem to understand that in order to have a superiority complex you first need to be superior at something. Having oil and gas is pretty run of the mill.
"I is important! I is smart!"
@@laikon7447 "And gosh darnit, people like me!"
@@pho-kingsoup8126 "Or I"ll kill them!"
We are superior - in nuclear research. We are the only country who has commercial fast breeder BN-800. A more powerful version - BN-1200 is in the construction. A very interesting reactor BREST is in the construction too. The "Rosatom" in fact one of the most high tech companies in Russia. They are building a fleet of nuclear icebreakers. Take a look for example "nuclear icebreaker ural". They are building small modular reactors too, such as "RITM-200". We also recycle nuclear waste.
@@user-yj7um6hv1d funny that you are proud on obsolete technology.
Modern countries work on green energy.
Suggestion for your next video:
What are your thoughts regarding the recent imposition of a miltary tax as well as imposition of digital mobilization notices for conscription?
What are your thoughts about an invasion of migrants through the Southern border, you, Ukrainian?
This one is super depressing
"We should all join together to defeat the enemy." he said while standing in civilian clothes and NOT being in the army. What he meant was "Somebody else should join together." but not him obviously.
He can join anytime he wants indeed. The fact that he didn't says enough.
His main point of view is that you first need to defeat the enemy before figuring out internal problems, which is what the author of this channel wants so much.
Perhaps he is in the next block. He'll get a letter with a meetingplace or a free trainticket.
@@videowa4er Problem is, russians have hard time figuring who exactly is the real enemy. It`s easy to put all the blame on Europe/Americans/Ukraine or the entire world, and it`s hard to see straight facts: russian people have been abused by a senile dictator, and russian people themselves let him.
Ukraine or USA weren`t their enemy, it was a scapegoat.
As an American no one cares about Russia no one talks about Russia we're not interested in Russia. and it's terrifying that lady is a teacher
Unfortunately, I have to disagree. American academia has been fascinated about russia for decades, which created a large number of Americans who believe that ruzzia's war in Ukraine is the American proxy war.
Agree 100%
I think that is exactly what pisses quite a few of these Russians of - we are simply not interested.
Indeed, that lady was a real Zed-head.
The people who run America care very, very much about Russia. 🤣 I assure you.
2:33 has he ever wondered ... "If u had too many resources in your country... Why your country still poor AF?"
Thanks to social media like this, we can now judge the intelligence level of ordinary people in many parts of the world. That is for many not an advantage.
Its sad when people cant see the difference between supporting criminal government and being a true patriot. Patriot fights for his country not watches as it turns into Mordor.
O Mele, so as a patriot be against the government in your country
Why, when America unleashed wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia, Libya, Afghanistan, the international community was silent and did not impose sanctions against the United States. And when Russia began to carry out the same things, did the whole West come out against it? Americans can, Russians can't?
It's understandable that the older generation brought up during the Soviet Union and who probably do not or have never had access to the internet, continue to believe Putin's propaganda. If you only hear one 'truth' then you will only understand and believe that 'truth'. In the West doubting your government, or at least disagreeing with your government and being able to state that openly is something we take for granted. Clearly speaking out in Russia has it's own fears (even some people who were approached were clearly not keen on speaking to a camera). The clear difference in opinion between the generations was amazing and actually holds a lot of potential for the future of Russia. The younger generation is clearly the future of what could be a great Russia.
My advice to you is, take more English as a Second Language classes.
"The more we destroy the better" - Russkiy mir
Scorched earth policy 😣
Именно так ! 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
More dead Ukrainians = less desire for them to fight further for the interests of the West.
@@wederMaxim you're a living proof that Russia should be destroyed as a state
8:06 hahaha... about to shit my pants from laughter :D
Thoughtful and heartfelt comments by the people of Russi. Very insightful and informative.
Paranoia is defined by two things: Grandiosity and fear.
Grandiosity is the belief that you are a lot more important than you really are.
The fear that powerful forces want to harm you is irrational because you aren’t that important.
Paranoid people believe they are so important that an enormous amount of attention is focused on them by those who would do them harm. They may believe that aliens are trying to manipulate them or government agents or sinister international forces are watching them all the time.
When it is an individual person who believes such things as we call it a mental illness.
When it is an entire country that believes this, we are talking about Russia.
It’s sad that every single person you interviewed is paranoid and unaware of or unconcerned about the horrors Russia inflicts on other countries: Chechnya, Syria, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Mali, the list goes on. As this song goes, “Russia always wants war.” That’s how others look at Russia and what they don’t like Russia.
ruclips.net/video/ox5OeOIBBzI/видео.html
The Margaret Thatcher “quote” is fake. I looked it up. It was made up by Russian propagandists.
The fakeness of their arguments go all the way to their 'Supreme' leader Putin. I have yet to hear one Russian speaking the truth to be honest.
Thank you for your spot-on observation.
Well said Jean
You can say that again! Insightful stuff
oh my god what a one-liner!!!!
"When it is an individual person who believes such things as we call it a mental illness.
When it is an entire country that believes this, we are talking about Russia. "
''If they are mad that mean we are doing something right''
Typical Russian mentality.
Which historicaly served them just right
There's no such thing as a 'typical Russian mentality'. So what is the typical English mentality? Or Australian mentality? Sure it's easy to come up with stereotypes - but it's lazy thinking.
you can beat your woman without cause, but anyway she must know why.
Just a mirror phrase. Open any of the Lavrov's speeches protesting against "military aid" and there will be a bunch of English comments "if they are mad, we're doing everything right".
@@user-yj7um6hv1d Yea, same with the "Margaret Tatcher" phrase - always possible to know what new propaganda Russia has come up with just by hearing a few people on the streets repeat the same phrase as if they came up with it themselves
It feels like they get more on the same message(“they want our resources”) and at the same time think the invasion happened for different reasons…
I'm from Denmark, and in school we learned about Hitler being bad, and Russia lost many million men in WW2. We learned to feel sorry for Russia in WW2. . . Today Russia is just as patriotic as Germany was, and the Swastika here is a big Z.
Read about the Ribbentrop pact too. And how Stalin attacked and/or occupied Finland, the Baltics, Poland. Evil power. Not to mention Stalin's other horrific legacy, against Russians and others, not the least Ukrainians (Holodomor).
Perhaps you were off school when they taught the start of WW2.
Russia invaded Poland two weeks after Hitler invaded and then occupied Eastern Europe for over 40 years after the war.
so Danish education is like this country would be behind iron curtain. No wonder why many west countries have so big pro Russian sentiment. Ask people from central east Europe about history facts. Nobody feels sorry for Soviet loss during WWII - our "LIBERATORS" as they say.
because it was no german invention, all the tools are hundreds of years old. It will work over an over again.
The irony of Russians wearing 'Z' symbols, invading a country to 'denazify' it is completely lost on them.
Ignorance knows no national boundaries but this is sad.
this war and the comments about it, shows that not only politicians but most of the people in the world are stupid, extremely divided, unable and unwilling to understand each other, and the risk of destroying themselves has never been higher.
It's not just that. They are guilty of what happens
@@PUARockstar guilty? How? Maybe I am guilty too?
@@user-nt3hm2qv1u war is not something what just happens. One does not only need leaders following their own political agenda but also supporters who are ready to accept such way of dealing with problems and misunderstandings. But above all one needs a huge indifferent majority. Indifference of all those who think it's not their responsibility is a main burden leading to human disasters.
@@yuriitovstyi1957 ну вот я не поддерживаю войну и чё? Говном поливают почему-то всех. А те, кто считают что они не виноваты в войне, вполне имеют право на это
Ok, if they say so!
I support all street level interviews. The people are not polished spokespersons. You get honest opinions and I believe that there is similar opinions everywhere. Older generations wanting past wars settled and young people wanting to move on to a better future.
The younger generation often grew up "outside politics", have neither a decent education nor knowledge of history. Therefore, we often get rather strange answers.
Russia don't bend to others....
China "doubt" 😅
China in a process of raw ducking ruzzia: Oh, my sweet summer child😅
the wolf is at the door to russia and putin is inviting the wolf in
Best of interviewed Russian citizens:
"If they are mad, it means we are doing the right thing."
"We are too soft on them. We need to be harder, so that they understand that Russia has power."
"The more we destroy, the better!"
"They are trying to take a piece of us somehow."
"Everyhing is right with the war. The war is a right thing."
"The West has been too aggressive lately."
"Russia is one of the most comfortable and pleasant places to live."
"We welcome their homosexuals, let their nations fall apart since they are nuts about it."
"Russia chose the right way, we attacked Ukraine preventively."
"Putin has sourrounded himself with decent people who are his friends and honest."
"Now we need to unite and defeat the enemy. And then we will figure out who brought us to this war."
and thats what, ladies and gentlemen, our kids will learn in the future. How propaganda in Russia worked....
That is Russkiy mir for you
War is piece
Freedom is slavery
Ignorance is strength
@@halfer2011- Well, you must be vert strong if you believe 'piece' is the correct spelling in this context...🙄
Most of the replies are contradictory. Putin has a created a population of zombies.
It"s a pity to see so many young people beliving in propaganda. But "professional politoligist" is the worst. Her example shows that higher education is contaminated for a long time.
Shame of it all
Lol that teacher where did she go to school
As a Russian immigrant who lived in the USSR, I can tell you - I remember how I've been buying chicken thighs exported from the US as a humanitarian assistance - the only normal meat that we could buy in 1980th in the stores, the only tasty chocolates were American Mars and Bounty, the second hand cloths were donated from US and Europe and so on. Unfortunately, the memory of Russian people is very short. Funny thing - they are praying to China but forgot what China did to Russia and how the friendship was ended ))) The history repeats itself if you are not able to learn you lessons. Glory to Ukraine!
Yeah, that's quite an interesting aspect. I always wondered why humanitarian aid from western countries was actually sold to the population and who made money on selling it? Maybe that's one of the reasons why some common folks don't remember and don't feel particularly grateful to the western donators? On the other hand, I do remember news about something like syringes or some medical equipment getting donated to the local hospitals and at least this made sense. Everything was really bad, though you are probably talking about 1990th immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union? In the middle of 1980th the assortment in shops was very limited, but at least some very basic food was affordable, available and sufficient for survival. Many old people still believe that the poverty of the 1990th and hyperinflation was directly caused by the "democracy" and "capitalism". So they were happy to move away from that kind of "democracy" that they experienced to something else.
@@SiarheiSiamashka yes, it was late 1980th and 1990th. We were really surviving at that time. Without help from the US and Europe, it could be much worse.
End of 80th, when liberal Gorbachev was ruled.
@@karinaivankova4099 Some people are just unfortunate to be in power during difficult times and we can't blame everything on them. For example, Zelensky was also unfortunate to be the Ukrainian president during difficult times, but this doesn't mean that the war is his fault. In the same way, Gorbachev became a ruler of the already failing country, which was destined to collapse with or without him.
Wait.... I forgot to mention China as one of the neighboring countries Russia ate a large part of through invasion. I hope the Chinese get back their territory along with their port, Vladavostok. In fact, I'm surprised they are so focused on Taiwan. Getting back that port and their territory would be so much more beneficial to China.
the utter ignorance of some of these people is both sad and scary
А что больше?
Грустно или страшно?
Не бойся, от ядерного удара, не больно умирать 🤣🤣🤣🇷🇺🤙
@@user-om6pj2fv3l Typical answer from russkiy mir.
@@Fecbar Yeah, very stupid response from the Russian troll
Just scary, not sad.
@@Fecbar this video is propaganda for sure. Only western world support Ukraine. Most of asia, south america and africa support Russia. Since when europe and usa is the world?
10:17 "we attacked preventively". These people need to start listening to themselves.
And what’s wrong?:) Actually, This is officially spelled out in the American nuclear doctrine of a preventive attack, but this doesn’t bother you, does it?)) And remind me, who shook a tube with alleged evidence of the presence of chemical weapons in Iraq and then bombed it? It seems to be... America again and it’s Secretary of State?)) however, it turned out there was no any chemical weapon, but who cares?))
Collin Powell: "We attacked preemptively, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction."
Damn I wanted to listen to Maria. Get her back on for a full interview!
all those people that think russia is doing the right thing should be shipped to the front line
Especially the military aged males.
these are crazy people, they need to close the entrance to civilized countries
@@Cam_88 They will be a good cannon fodder for Ukrainians HIMARS.
Lemmings need to face their destiny
@@matfax Sad but true.
Thank you Daniil, from France. Even if your videos make me often sad, your work is very interesting.
cool, je ne suis pas le seul Français 😊
Are you a “white” French? If so, what’s your opinion on France is becoming a non-white European country? Do you think French people are brainwashed that the gov made them think taking immigrants is good?
“Everything is right with the war “ . I’m speechless
Why speechless? You as polak should remember 17.08.1939? What about Katyn 1940? Or Smolensk in 2010?
@@antisoviet6786 Wow! I never knew about what happened in Smolensk in 2010. Very efficient way to get rid of some uncomfortable people. As usual, Russians are the best at it!
Lol What we just heard was typical Russian propaganda the Soviet Union is still alive and well It is funny how these people still buy into that bullshit After all these years
@@adiagy9283 It's not over 'till it's over.
@@antisoviet6786 Yup! Very true.
Maybe it is the translation but sometimes different people give the same reply almost word for word or using very specific terms. Seems like they are simply repeating what they heard or read somewhere word for word.
So very sad!
I'm glad you get so many to answer you in this uncertain time. My job for 35 years was interviewing people and getting them to answer uncomfortable questions. You do a very good job! You ask the question and follow-up questions with no provocative tones of voice or prompts or any giveaway as to a certain way they should/shouldn't answer. Just very straightforward and you show interest and they feel like you really want to know that you really care. Excellent job boys and I really hope your channel continues.
"no provocative tones" but the questions are provocative in themselves. 5 videos about "countries that Russia should invade next" what the hell is that? Let me name the questions he'll never ask.: how do you feel about the residents of Donbass, do you think that Ukraine has been shelling civilians in the eastern regions in recent years?
”Tell me, what is there in the West (in America) that we don't have in Russia?”....FREEDOM, you silly old man!
If hope is the last thing in the box, then the box is empty when it comes to Russia.
These people definitely live in a weird world!
The Russian World
"What is there in the West that we don't have in Russia?" Accountability, less corruption, less oppression, open speech (even for the dumb and opportunistic one), less censorship, human rights, working class protection, social help, streets, toilets, heart and brain ...
and largest economy and the most powerful military in recorded human history.
One word: Finland 😅
Washing machines
@@lgnfve economy like Italy or Spain, way to go. And the military? Poor mobiks and convicts sent in useless canon fodder waves, poor guys...
@@jass5g
I can not even listen to these people anymore, the brainwashing really hurts.
I’m amazed by their answers🤔
Not in a positive way
I am not, they could be funnier.
This was incredibly hard to watch.
"Anglo Saxons are used to plunder their colonies and live off them"
Holodomor has entered the chat
They say it’s newer was😢
Yes, colonies like Australia, New Zealand , Canada and more. You can't get more if you don't have with whom. USSR empire dismantled by itself not being capable even to keep itself together. After they faked democracy and get in contact with western know how and technology that help them to come back some how, they think they can go back to old behavior stealing and invading neighbors.
Russia has been doing that for centuries, and still today in colonies like Yakutia, Dagestan, Tatarstan, Chechnya etc
@@Grek1574 именно так.
The entirety of Siberia has also entered the chat.
It's like the most disliked person in the class saying "they are just jealous of my brains and looks". Delusional.
If the entire world is a class, then who is the teacher? I wonder...🤔
I’m only getting to know your channel so pardon if this already exists. I would love to see and episode of asking where they get their information and how they know its reliable.
I leaned forward when the woman said she was a political scientist and then I let out a huge sigh of disappointment after her statement. Amazing how every single person in this video except perhaps Vova has such a distorted view of Russia in the world.
They certainly are deeply impressed with themselves.
Probably depressed too.
They are so dull, because they are under the vast grip of a cluster of people with at least a huge Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Paranoia goes hand in hand with NPD, hence the enormous amount of that too. When (if ever) they find out what really was going on, they will instantly blame others for that and never be willing to take responsibility and actually learn. In fact, this is a problem, that comes up with the instability of the NPD psyche: their ego is too feeble to handle criticism.
Yet, they will be held responsible. Each and every one of them. By the God, they also don't want to acknowledge. He's not fooled. He's not amused either.
@@gardenjoy5223 What kind of bullshit i just read.
They seem to be pretty impressed with a country that has the economy the size of state of Florida too.
Watching these videos becomes more and more horrifying. And each time it strikes my mind even more how right the German theologian and resistance activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in what he wrote in 1943, as part of a reflection on ten years of Nazi rule in Germany, about the phenomenon of a certain kind of stupidity that was then ubiquitous amongst German people, even intellectuals, as it is obviously now amongst Russian people (and for the very same reasons). I quote the full text:
"Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice. One may protest against evil; it can be exposed and, if need be, prevented by use of force. Evil always carries within itself the germ of its own subversion in that it leaves behind in human beings at least a sense of unease.
Against stupidity we are defenseless.
Neither protests nor the use of force accomplish anything here; reasons fall on deaf ears; facts that contradict one’s prejudgment simply need not be believed - in such moments the stupid person even becomes critical - and when facts are irrefutable, they are just pushed aside as inconsequential, as incidental. In all this the stupid person, in contrast to the malicious one, is utterly self-satisfied and, being easily irritated, becomes dangerous by going on the attack.
For that reason, greater caution is called for than with a malicious one. Never again will we try to persuade the stupid person with reasons, for it is senseless and dangerous.
If we want to know how to get the better of stupidity, we must seek to understand its nature. This much is certain, that it is in essence not an intellectual defect but a human one. There are human beings who are of remarkably agile intellect yet stupid, and others who are intellectually quite dull yet anything but stupid.
We discover this to our surprise in particular situations. The impression one gains is not so much that stupidity is a congenital defect, but that, under certain circumstances, people are made stupid or that they allow this to happen to them.
We note further that people who have isolated themselves from others or who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals or groups of people inclined or condemned to sociability. And so it would seem that stupidity is perhaps less a psychological than a sociological problem.
It is a particular form of the impact of historical circumstances on human beings, a psychological concomitant of certain external conditions. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or of a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.
It would even seem that this is virtually a sociological-psychological law. The power of the one needs the stupidity of the other.
The process at work here is not that particular human capacities, for instance, the intellect, suddenly atrophy or fail. Instead, it seems that under the overwhelming impact of rising power, humans are deprived of their inner independence, and, more or less consciously, give up establishing an autonomous position toward the emerging circumstances.
The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In conversation with him, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with a person, but with slogans, catchwords and the like that have taken possession of him. He is under a spell, blinded, misused, and abused in his very being. Having thus become a mindless tool, the stupid person will also be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. This is where the danger of diabolical misuse lurks, for it is this that can once and for all destroy human beings.
Yet at this very point it becomes quite clear that only an act of liberation, not instruction, can overcome stupidity.
Here we must come to terms with the fact that in most cases a genuine internal liberation becomes possible only when external liberation has preceded it. Until then we must abandon all attempts to convince the stupid person.
This state of affairs explains why in such circumstances our attempts to know what ‘the people’ really think are in vain and why, under these circumstances, this question is so irrelevant for the person who is thinking and acting responsibly. The word of the Bible that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom declares that the internal liberation of human beings to live the responsible life before God is the only genuine way to overcome stupidity.
But these thoughts about stupidity also offer consolation in that they utterly forbid us to consider the majority of people to be stupid in every circumstance. It really will depend on whether those in power expect more from people’s stupidity than from their inner independence and wisdom."
We have such people in our country now in the U.S. A whole political party, the Republican Party. Reason falls on deaf ears. It is frightening.
Johannes Dörr, you wrote a lot. but can you say why NATO moved their military bases to Russia's borders? they promised to Gorbachev not to do it. It seems they lied. And now you call Russian people "stupid" for starting and supporting the war. I would't like to fight but why did you move your millitary based to our borders. We do not want your millitary bases on our borders. Is it very hard to understand? Maybe something wrong with your minds if you do not understand such simple things?
@@wild_reader ALL your neighbours desperatly wanted to join NATO but not allie with u. Perhaps you should ask yourself "why". There were only few western troops before 2014 (and even after) and Poland had only old technik till recent - to not threaten Russia. Everything started to change after 2014 (it should have after 2008) and will dramatically change now. Perhaps you should ask your leader "why"!
@@wild_reader ‘Supporting war’ 😂 What an exemplar comment on stupidity and evil
@@wild_reader NATO didn’t move to Russian borders. Russias neighbors didn’t feel save with their neighbor and became NATO-members. NATO cannot move - it is a treaty between nations to defend each other against frightening neighbors.
Ohh boy..
0:32 Dude, we PAID for that gas ! :))
Daniil, thanks for sharing these people with me. As a Westerner I cannot fathom what is the matter with Russian people. Meat waves in Bakhmut, graveyards filling up, bad Covid vaccines, people being poisoned or falling out of windows, 77 year old Babushka-artists being arrested, chemical food, bad roads, alcoholism, criminal oligarchs stealing the pensions and funds for medical services. Extremely poor logistics, huge Gulags filled with horribly treated people, a president who murders people and builds palaces.....and yet the average Russian in the street with rotting teeth surrounded by snow thinks Russia is hugely powerful and cannot go down.
Let us not mention the Kulakization of Ukraine, the Holomor, and the purges in the 20's and 30's, the Chechen Wars, Georgia etc. I mean this is a National Delusion. An erroneous idea impervious to reason. Some ghastly frontal lobe brain disease which flows down the generations.......a sort of sense of entitlement. We can be the bad child and because we are Russians you had better watch out!
It bodes very poorly for Russia's future in my opinion. 140 million totally deluded people. We in the west have no designs on North Asia, we don't care a fk for your resources or anything else. If Russia disappeared overnight, would any one notice? I know there are clever people in Russia, artistic people, mathematical people, educated people, nice people, but there are nice people everywhere. The horrible people in the West simply are not as horrible or numerous as the horrible people in Russia.
My worry is that at the end of the up-coming civil war in Russian another nasty group of criminals will start the cycle again. Putin, Lavrov, Peskov are just horrible men that I would certainly not want living next door to me. Their taste in everything is indescribably horrible. They walk and talk like something out of a gangster movie and they never tell the truth. Are autocracies places where the general population have frontal lobes susceptible to delusion? From Ireland.
Truth. There is no justification for whats happening in Ukraine. To its civilians.
Russians think westerners for stupid to not organize as defensive alliances.
As a Russian person, your comment, unfortunately, caused a really big laugh. I can understand your point of view, but it is clear that you have no idea about Russians and life in Russia in general. This is if we talk about something objective, and not about private, perhaps, stories of friends of girlfriends.
@@igorglushatov1948
> your comment ...it is clear that you have no idea about Russians and life in Russia in general
Can you please list the facts that @beak hammer had it wrong ?
@@igorglushatov1948 Another delusional voice.
Igor go suck putine... SOB
so painful to watch...
these are the people to blame.. stupidity does a great harm
😂
Blame yourself
Right? I'd send that old man eager for war right on the front lines. You want glory? Have at it.
ΙGNORANCE, or > that was cultivated after decades of continuous persecutions by the communistic regime.
@@imperium_vox Blame himself? Drunk so early comrade ork?
Someday, foreigners in the comments will understand that if they want world peace, this does not mean that the government of the countries also wants it.
In Western countries, if those in power do something wrong or even incompatible with customs, they cease to be in power. And this is the difference. We don't agree with everything and don't serve the rulers, it is the rulers who serve us. Such Putin would have been in prison for the rest of his life long ago if he had been born in any country in the West. In Russia such thugs rule and are adored.
If you think that no Russian supports their government, you are mistaken
Haha insane how their answers literally makes no sense at all but they are still convinced. Is logic not a thing in Russia?
Imagine thinking other people are the agressor when you are literally the one who invaded a neighbouring country... Smh...
logic is illegial in russia
Sad these common citizens don't realize Putin started this,and no one wants Russia! Things were fine when we had peace could visit each other's country and trade. Why was this so bad living in peace????😢so many have died for one crazy man 🤦♀️
Putin is a great president and it’s the west who started all this and Russia will finish it and win ☦️🇷🇺🇷🇺Z
"putin surrounded himself with decent people" history proves that EVERY dictator surrounds himself with stupid or cynical people who never tell him the truth but always what the dictator wants to hear because they either fear him or want to please him
its not only Putins war, but also all those people who keeps the power structure intact, police,judges,oligarks, the FSB, the people in the media picture ,the military command and so on. If Russia should ever hope to become a real country, they would have to retire all the corrupt personel, and put young people in charge free of corruption taint. Then 50-80 years later relations with the world would be normalized......something like that
No, not 1 crazy man. Thousands were needed to orchestrate and continue the war. It is not a one mans war.
Sad how us puppets dont realize how many wars they caused and how they provoked the war in ukraine