Whats the right answer lol?? Ive been watching this channel for some time but i have yet to see this other bald man with him lol. Im used to seeing his foxy russian friend with him.
Man! This is an old pioneer camp where we used to go every summer! The name of this camp is "Kirovets" ( Кировец). This camp was attached to the Kirov factory which produced some equipment for factories (The factory is still working by the way). This was common for all camps in Soviet Union ( and post-soviet Belarus). In 1990s - 2000s my parents were working on this factory and were sending me and my brother to this camp every summer for all summer. It was almost free for them. The thing what I remember is that all toilets were outside - they were traditional Russian toilets with a whole in the ground. I also remember we had a separate dining room, where we had 5 meals every day. Sometimes the food was not so good, as almost everything in the 90s, so these toilets usually had long queues to enter. Usually they placed 6-8 holes in 2 rows without any walls between, so when the food was not so fresh (dysentery was quite common), you have to go there and sit face to face with guys from older squads, your friends or your enemies. We used to spend there a lot of time - had a chat, someone was smoking, telling anecdotes. It was almost like the Ancient Rome with patricians. 9:44 This actually was a Banya (Sauna)- the only concrete building in the camp. It was also the only place in the camp (except kitchen) with hot water. Every week our guides were sending us there, and the water was BOILING hot. Eventually this camp was closed because of antisanitary reasons and my parents started to send us to the village. Nothing changed with sanitary for us though because in village it was even worse. Eh, good old times..
Thanks - I find this really interesting. I have a Polish friend who I used to work with and I used to love listening to her stories about being a young Pioneer and her memories from The Soviet Era (she was very young so at the time so couldn’t remember that much) I used to ask her so many questions sometimes she would get annoyed 😂. One time she brought in some old photos from when she was a Pioneer - I love the red neckerchief. I said I wish I could have been a pioneer - she said ‘are you fucking crazy’ 🤣🤣but then admitted she had good memories from those times, looked after, everything very cheap or free. But she also admitted her dad was head of the local communist party so they said her family got some perks and that everyone was not Equal under communism and people in good positions got better perks and houses etc. I find all the history fascinating 👍
@@55tranquility in the 90s we were not pioneers anymore, actually we were in some sense free kids. Old sovied propaganda already ceased, the new one was not yet implemented. We're surrounded by everything soviet and at the same time had access to everything from the west. We didn't have money though, that's why everything was mostly Chinese and, let's say, low quality - pirated or copied. But it was much better than soviet anyway :)
If you haven't already subscribed to Irish Partizan, that' s all your fault. Same is true for the adventure of hunting down the sneakily hidden merch store. 😜
Indeed, he started a long time ago though. Hasn’t always had this many subs. I’m sure it was difficult for him at times. I mean I’ve been subbed to him for years, seen him experience some shit. Lol - But personally I like the way he does it. You learn, laugh, see some fine women, & learn how to flirt with Russian chicks! All in all great dude and vids! & has never told people to like or sub!
The “soviet code” card you found was actually a punch card used in computer programming back in the 1960’s. It would take hundreds to thousands of these cards to run a program. Get one out of order and the whole program could be screwed.
In Yugoslavia it was used in 1970's , just after punched tape became obsolete and before they invented magnetic disks. I remember big disk with 5 MB of memory :)
7:34 This is a monument to Marat Kazei (1929 - 1944). He was a pioneer and a partisan and in May 1944 he was encircled by Germans sodiers and pro-german police, and when all ammo was gone, he exploded himself with the last grenade. In 1965 he was awarded the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
@@ragincajun7625 12 millions of soviet people died in the fight for independence and freedom of their country. Acts of bravery like this one were very common. There are thousands of heroes acknowledged in history who were not scared to sacrifice their life for the big victory of their nation. Saying this is a fairytale is disrespecting all the heroes who died in the WW2, not just the Red Army soldiers, but all the allies too.
@@kakt his point is that even your precious Soviets would embellish moments to create icons for other good Soviets to look up to and inspire. If he was the only one left and blew himself up then no one would know what actually happened. Every nation does this.
@@kakt Way to assume a whole lot based on literally nothing. He never even mentioned Germans. You and I both know there are lots of soviet fairy tales.
Koji si ti bree Kralj od coveka!!!Iskreno u ovo dosadno vreme od ove Korone,ulepsavas,skrenes misli u pozitivnom ,smislu. Samo jako brate.Veliki pzdrav iz Srbije ,ozracenog ,Uranijumskog ,gradica,na Jugu Srbije-Vranja-e. Puno uspeha u svom poslu.
@@bowlofsoup12 the only thing we cant master is pronounce Statham right. We're only able to say STAT KHAM. We dont have that terrible TH sound in our language.))
It is like somehow, when I digest your content, the whole sadness in the world disappears. I think you have influenced over people's lives more than you imagine. Thanks!
In 2009 I was in Minsk, in the Belarus Tractor Works to repair a machine. My interpreter at that time, was kind enough to show me some sights in Minsk. I went to the Museum of the Patriotic War through his help. It was absolutely interesting as a German to see the other side. Whoever is in Minsk should see the museum, it is worth every second!
My mum was a pioneer back in the Soviet Union days and she still talks about it to this day, she says it was one of the happiest times of her life! Thanks for these vlogs :')
Old "soviet spy" card is a blank perf(orated or ~ration)card (I'v heard "punch card" to be used as well, but it's slang, obviously) - one of the first "hard disk" systems invented in the 1930s before the computers by IBM for their electromechanical accounting and statistics machines. They were still in use till the 1970s along with another similar system - perftapes for entering programs and data in the old mainframe machines. Perfcards have found many other types of use even in later times such as, for example, individual identification card for check-in/check-out registration clocks in factories and offices. It survived so far even in these conditions, because they were made of exelent cardboard designed to withstand more shuffling than professional playing cards.
When I was at school we entered some of our maths answers onto these cards (using pencil), which were then processed by a mainframe to give the results. I once got 0% because I filled it in wrong. So proud.
@@neilwilson5785 In HEXDec? If so, did they punch them by hand for entering or they have some contraption with reflective optical reader. Or I misunderstood? In the 70's a colegue of my mom gave her a stack of blanks - it was nice to have them by the pfone (with cable cord) for scratch notes. My mom's colegue husband worked in a socialist time electronics R&D institute were only use for them was for a hours registration clock (one of the developmen directions was hard drives and in the next building was the factory that produced first test series, so no place for old technologies there) and not surprisingly all of them had copies of the cards of his work group colegues - first to come registers all :)
You are correct,these were early computer cards ,for time keeping.Some were used for storing data on.First used them when i was at school late 1970`s ,and our computer filled the room.The connection at the time were with a famous US motor company based along the Thames corridor at the time
It’s an 80 column punched card. Used for storing data or programs, usually for input into a computer, but they can also be used for industrial control (commonly looms). For the chap who said he used to colour these in with a pencil, that would likely have been an optical mark recognition card as opposed to a punched card.
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DUDE... THANK YOU! That is so awesome! The funny part is - for you it was a time capsule, for some of who wore the red & blue nooses, that was a MEMORY. I see the camps like that where I went in the summer - but fully functional, no weeds, kids and flags everywhere... *sigh* Thank you. THANK YOU. I love your vids so much!!!! Всегда готов!
My mom went as a teenager to those pioneer camps, she said it was an amazing time and they all genuinely loved it - it was in the Czech forests somewhere
Pioneers were pretty much the same thing as scouts are in US. Even with the unnecessary patriotism. Kids usually didn't care about that. It was a camp where you played, made campfire, etc. True though there was a bit more of a discipline compared to today's camping. But then even scouts do exercise a bit more of that too. It's hard to compare 1:1 because there were some differences among camps even in one country.
Bit late but catching up slowly with this excellent vlog. That "spy card is of course a normal computer punch card or Hollerith card used in 60s and 70s. :-) greetings from Canada. My hubby and I (retired and on in age) hope to go to Russia after covid and are learning Russian slowly. Encouraged by your vlog Ben!
Damon Khan Soviet road, get on soviet subway, then soviet taxi. Soviet weather is good so soviet adventure begins soviet style to find soviet scouts through soviet forest. So in summery, soviet, in soviet times was soviet, but today soviet things are all around ex soviet country. Did I mention the soviet aspect?
10:33 Him telling the story about spy school while wearing that mask and the badminton racket hanging out of his jacket is absolutely priceless!!! I'm so glad his trips are back on despite the pandemic not being over yet. Bald is a creative dude.
@@arutzuki2491 Definitely a little messed up. Bald made a conscious choice to go ahead and not put that guys link in the description. Would've been a small thing to help him out.
How is this guy not working for the history channel? I can guarentee itd be a hit worldwide, especially the US and UK, you teach us the history and fully explore the culture, amazing mate look forward to more
He already has in the previous video to try your local beer, ( which I am afraid he didn't like ). However, I hope he goes again to meet your good self.
Best to leave Kolya till this virus passes. He is certainly in the very vulnerable cohort. I miss him too but it's not worth him dying just for a visit :(
@@drunkvegangal8089 .....Kolya is not going to die just because Bald visits him. Remember Kolya lives in a nuclear waste zone, he has survived and is immune from everything.
Alan Godden so you are saying pounds are real money and rubles are not? Are you dumb? What is he gonna do with pounds in Ukraine in a deserted village?
10:14 is not a spy card, is an old punch card, computer programs where programmed in those cards (hundreds of cards) and feed into the mainframe which read those holes and computed the program and the result. Notice one of the corners is beveled, its a guide, the stacks of cards must face the same direction and be aligned, hence that bevel. Usually the holes from two columns (numbered 1 to 9, those are the rows) represented a letter or digit, since you have several columns, maybe you could encode about 40 ish characters per card.
@YaKefir well, based on the upvotes, a bunch of people, probably young people, didnt even know about that. And not for a single second I believed Mr Bald was seriously thinking it was a spy card, but looks like many people didnt even know what that card really was
Your knowledge is incredible mate. Love Eastern Europe and can't wait to explore more after lockdown, including Belarus! ps. You need to film in Polska!
Richard Kelbe 😂😂😂. Yeah she’s an attention seeker alright. Whew she could use a personality 💗😎. If you have to wonder if you’re a weirdo then you’re FOR SURE weird and probably a lost cause 😝👍
I whisper worse things regularly, such as Nirobi, Bogota, Denver, Moscow, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Oslo....I left the unworthy cities off the list 😜
My history teacher was basically balds brother so I loved history🤣I fuckin always loved it anyway but you've j made me think about my old teacher and how similar he is to bald
I am living in a small town North East of Brasil i LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS..I have watched many of them and i want to watch them all during the lockdown over here and will have enough time.
It is great to see an Irishman and Englishman getting along together. I think your travel vlogs are helping to make the world a more peaceful place. Thank you for the great shows.
10:56 an english man wearing a gasmask as a hat, featherball racket in his hand, filming himself as he investigates an old abandoned building full of trash... true greatness
I love all your videos, but for some reason this one is my favourite. Maybe because I love sequins and gardening! Thank you for teaching me about apart of the world that I have overlooked.
IBM claim they didn’t directly help the Germans(saying Nazis is not correct) They used agents to get around things To avoid tarnishing their reputation
people growing up in the soviet union, even in the 80s, didn't get any "advanced" entertainment things like ataris and nintendos, they've only appeared in the 90s and were lagging a few generations behind contemporary
Bald, that place which you thought was a secret base is actually a building where the children would do army training, hence the gas masks and protocol information. In school, army training would be a subject and during the summer the pioneers would come to the building while they are in the pioneer camp. Hope this helps!
I doubt it was army training. They weren't shooting guns, learning how to take out tanks, etc. They learn how to start a fire, how to cut wood, how to build stools, etc. Girls would learn how to cook, knit, etc. This was all over soviet union.
seriously just imagine the adventures the two of them could have. No one would ever fuck with them regardless of where they went(even tho bald never gets fucked with), but if he has a contract killer? Sheesh, people are going to be running up to him asking him to sample their assortment of drugs and weapons
Every other youtuber: I'm not gonna say the C-word, you know, the "situation" going on, RUclips might demonetize me. Bald: CORONAVIRUS!!! IT'S A CORONA MASK!!!
1:27 Those are soviet ЭТ4 escalators. They are incredibly fast and have nice motor hum at upper platform. In Prague there are still few remaiming pieces, mostly on "B" and "A" line
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People new to the channel trying to work out which one of them is ‘Bald’ and which one is ‘Bankrupt’
😂😂😂👍
I laughed so hard 😂😂😂😂
Spot on!
I thought one was Matt Lucas?
Whats the right answer lol?? Ive been watching this channel for some time but i have yet to see this other bald man with him lol. Im used to seeing his foxy russian friend with him.
I love how he immediately knew he was Jason Statham
he’s definitely Belarusian Mafia lol
Probably not the first time he’s been called like that.
his instagram is all about it. cool dude
@@Danygotaworldtosee what is it?
😄
Man! This is an old pioneer camp where we used to go every summer! The name of this camp is "Kirovets" ( Кировец). This camp was attached to the Kirov factory which produced some equipment for factories (The factory is still working by the way). This was common for all camps in Soviet Union ( and post-soviet Belarus).
In 1990s - 2000s my parents were working on this factory and were sending me and my brother to this camp every summer for all summer. It was almost free for them.
The thing what I remember is that all toilets were outside - they were traditional Russian toilets with a whole in the ground.
I also remember we had a separate dining room, where we had 5 meals every day. Sometimes the food was not so good, as almost everything in the 90s, so these toilets usually had long queues to enter. Usually they placed 6-8 holes in 2 rows without any walls between, so when the food was not so fresh (dysentery was quite common), you have to go there and sit face to face with guys from older squads, your friends or your enemies. We used to spend there a lot of time - had a chat, someone was smoking, telling anecdotes. It was almost like the Ancient Rome with patricians.
9:44 This actually was a Banya (Sauna)- the only concrete building in the camp. It was also the only place in the camp (except kitchen) with hot water. Every week our guides were sending us there, and the water was BOILING hot.
Eventually this camp was closed because of antisanitary reasons and my parents started to send us to the village. Nothing changed with sanitary for us though because in village it was even worse.
Eh, good old times..
Thanks - I find this really interesting. I have a Polish friend who I used to work with and I used to love listening to her stories about being a young Pioneer and her memories from The Soviet Era (she was very young so at the time so couldn’t remember that much) I used to ask her so many questions sometimes she would get annoyed 😂. One time she brought in some old photos from when she was a Pioneer - I love the red neckerchief. I said I wish I could have been a pioneer - she said ‘are you fucking crazy’ 🤣🤣but then admitted she had good memories from those times, looked after, everything very cheap or free. But she also admitted her dad was head of the local communist party so they said her family got some perks and that everyone was not Equal under communism and people in good positions got better perks and houses etc. I find all the history fascinating 👍
So is the statue lenin or sergei kirov ?
nikk51 Electronic_Synth_Electro_Pop incredible share!!!
@@55tranquility in the 90s we were not pioneers anymore, actually we were in some sense free kids. Old sovied propaganda already ceased, the new one was not yet implemented. We're surrounded by everything soviet and at the same time had access to everything from the west. We didn't have money though, that's why everything was mostly Chinese and, let's say, low quality - pirated or copied. But it was much better than soviet anyway :)
I hope Bald has read these beautiful memories!
Bald: *finds decades old corpse*
Also Bald: “Wow Guys! An authentic Soviet corpse!! It doesn’t get much better than this”
Thank god that corpse wasn't hanging...
If you know the reference.
JAKE PAUL HERE WITH ANOTHER BANGER
Well if he went to Lenin's mausoleum that's exactly what he'd find
WOWZERSSS
@@KirbyVanPelt um, valery legasov?
He is the only one that can make “Soviet” sound like a marketing term.
lmfaoooo the accuracy of this is unbearable
I could just imagine a Tui advert be like "Do not miss out on a wonderfully Soviet adventure deep in the woods of Belarus" lol
Why doesnt he visit Kolja?
Bald must have been Soviet in his past 100 lives. Lol
OMG 😆
Bald: Doesn't link irish dude's channel
Also Bald: Doesn't even link his own merch store
Why tho
Where is Kolja?
Lol also bald: buy my merch
Me: where?
If you haven't already subscribed to Irish Partizan, that' s all your fault. Same is true for the adventure of hunting down the sneakily hidden merch store. 😜
Bald doesn't hand you things like an entitled bourgeois. How very Un-Soviet of your comment!
These two dudes are "Bald and Balder"
Harald is the OG Baldr
And You must be one of those people who are making memes on Facebook!
typical west Europe beautys enjoying east Europe freedom of drinking lol
@@nickbartb4172 Easy boomer
I was just gonna say that :D
I am always astounded how clean, modern, orderly Belarusian stations, supermarkets and streets are. They are gleaming!
almost like its a totalitarian state
Simple, no third world filth there
Yes . People from Belarus like clean streets. During their protests , they organized the places with water and trush.
I was about to comment this. I thought Minsk was the only tidy place but even the provinces look clean.
@Andy Towler Go out and lend a helping hand then?
this guy just started travelling the world and have fun an will soon be one of the most famous travel reporters lmao what an awesome career
Indeed, he started a long time ago though. Hasn’t always had this many subs. I’m sure it was difficult for him at times. I mean I’ve been subbed to him for years, seen him experience some shit. Lol - But personally I like the way he does it. You learn, laugh, see some fine women, & learn how to flirt with Russian chicks! All in all great dude and vids! & has never told people to like or sub!
@@reedreed3300 Not to mention that he literally turns town ad revenue to keep the channel ad free. That's such an amazing move.
@@reedreed3300 Ive been a subscriber to him since 20k subs, he has not been around for years. He grew very quickly.
Reed Reed absolutely incorrect. Why would you lie about something that’s obviously false? 😂
Mathew Smith exactly lol. He blew up quick
The “soviet code” card you found was actually a punch card used in computer programming back in the 1960’s. It would take hundreds to thousands of these cards to run a program. Get one out of order and the whole program could be screwed.
punchcards was used in ussr until mid-80th
@@debconfsetup8673 thanks bro
In Yugoslavia it was used in 1970's , just after punched tape became obsolete and before they invented magnetic disks. I remember big disk with 5 MB of memory :)
But circuits for this soviets computers was spied from IBM360, 370 models in lates 60s 😉 by KGB spies...
My mom was an Engineer and work with this machines back in USSR. I had a lod of those stuff at home when i was a kid)
7:34 This is a monument to Marat Kazei (1929 - 1944). He was a pioneer and a partisan and in May 1944 he was encircled by Germans sodiers and pro-german police, and when all ammo was gone, he exploded himself with the last grenade. In 1965
he was awarded the Gold Star Medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union.
True hero's!
Sounds like a good Soviet fairytale. He probably killed thousands of Germans with 2 dozen bullets.
@@ragincajun7625 12 millions of soviet people died in the fight for independence and freedom of their country. Acts of bravery like this one were very common. There are thousands of heroes acknowledged in history who were not scared to sacrifice their life for the big victory of their nation. Saying this is a fairytale is disrespecting all the heroes who died in the WW2, not just the Red Army soldiers, but all the allies too.
@@kakt his point is that even your precious Soviets would embellish moments to create icons for other good Soviets to look up to and inspire. If he was the only one left and blew himself up then no one would know what actually happened. Every nation does this.
@@kakt Way to assume a whole lot based on literally nothing. He never even mentioned Germans.
You and I both know there are lots of soviet fairy tales.
Koji si ti bree Kralj od coveka!!!Iskreno u ovo dosadno vreme od ove Korone,ulepsavas,skrenes misli u pozitivnom ,smislu. Samo jako brate.Veliki pzdrav iz Srbije ,ozracenog ,Uranijumskog ,gradica,na Jugu Srbije-Vranja-e. Puno uspeha u svom poslu.
"Bald will put my link in the description"
"Go buy my merch"
Bald: No link for either of them
Maybe, he still need to stay "bankrupt" for the sake of this channel.
Peace.
Can't have two bald guys covering the Soviet lands 🤣 Only one Comrade Mr Bald🇷🇺😅 stay safe the one and only mr bald 🏴👍🏻👏
@@hanifaji1672 that was a good one ngl
I noticed that. What happened?😋
IDIOT
“We’ve been dropped off in the middle of nowhere.”
Thats when you know the video is about to get good.
"Bald will put the link down below"
Bald: ???
he flush the water on that one
LOL waiting for that one
Are you the guy from the War thunder forums?
What did he say his channel's name was?
@@prinpupper7846 prepares aim 9j
Jason Steatham AND Matt Lucas in one video... Bald is really moving up in the entertainment world
Fuck sake, you took my joke. Good job.
Matt Lucas 😂🤣 I thought it was only me lol
I love how that guy just knew he looked like Jason Statham
Everybody tells him that for the last 15 years, believe me. Russian guys always look like Statham to some degree.
Андрей Березин and thats hilarious cause jason is English lol
@@AndreiBerezin jason statham is a double hard bastard
@@bowlofsoup12 the only thing we cant master is pronounce Statham right. We're only able to say STAT KHAM. We dont have that terrible TH sound in our language.))
@@AndreiBerezin You can pronounce it as Stayfam.
‘An old soviet badminton racquet” Ladies and gentlemen, we’ve peaked.
Wait til he finds an abandoned village hotel and a Soviet woman's bra that lies there since 1991.
@@AndreiBerezin He will keep it as a souvenir
After the '' soviet snail '' it can only go down hill imo
💀
“Bald will put the link below”
Bald: SIKE
except that he didn't :-)
Rolly Balondo That’s literally what the OP said
@@RollyBalondo Irish Partizan
Ok tnx. Did not get what sike meant
It's supposed to be 'psyche' - when you psyche someone out
It is like somehow, when I digest your content, the whole sadness in the world disappears. I think you have influenced over people's lives more than you imagine. Thanks!
“Soviet” time stamps :
1:25
1:34
1:40
1:47
1:49
2:01
6:00
6:11
6:28
7:40
8:02
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8:28
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Someone needs to make a "soviet" compilation
Wow! Thumbs up for your work
basically 00:00 to 12:02
Your incredible!
10:13 he say Sovjet spy codes. I say Belarus CIN numbers
Next vid: 3 bald guys.
I'm calling it now.
Globalklaus hairless mitosis
And a Soviet cup?
Damn it. I was so close to calling it. *sigh*
3 bald guys. (Mr. Clean, Agent 47, & Saitama(one punch man) ) a huge *prophecy* in the making
@Sandbwoy
Wheres his Girlfriend?
This is video proof of Bald spiralling into insanity as he finds more and more Soviet things
Is it a soviet metro station? :) :?)? :)? :?)?
Lol, I think he was a little tipsy, you are probably right tho.
Soviet nostalgia is like a drug that slowly eats your brain
Да
But that's why we love him
In 2009 I was in Minsk, in the Belarus Tractor Works to repair a machine. My interpreter at that time, was kind enough to show me some sights in Minsk. I went to the Museum of the Patriotic War through his help. It was absolutely interesting as a German to see the other side. Whoever is in Minsk should see the museum, it is worth every second!
My mum was a pioneer back in the Soviet Union days and she still talks about it to this day, she says it was one of the happiest times of her life! Thanks for these vlogs :')
im kinda late but what does being a pioneer mean? what did they do?
@@ynpavo they were basically like scouts!
@@RitaKaminski With machine gun's and full military training.👍
❤️
You want to become a pioneer in the USA 😍😍😘💖💗💓💞💕💘💝
2:38 Jason Statham was my first thought exactly when I saw him!
same!
He transport but instead of Audi he drive ISCH-2126 Orbita and gets chased by some bicycles. Mediocre action but also nobody gets hurt.
Even the guy himself knew who bald was talking about!
Yea, but Chinese version.
Peter Fonda
Old "soviet spy" card is a blank perf(orated or ~ration)card (I'v heard "punch card" to be used as well, but it's slang, obviously) - one of the first "hard disk" systems invented in the 1930s before the computers by IBM for their electromechanical accounting and statistics machines. They were still in use till the 1970s along with another similar system - perftapes for entering programs and data in the old mainframe machines. Perfcards have found many other types of use even in later times such as, for example, individual identification card for check-in/check-out registration clocks in factories and offices. It survived so far even in these conditions, because they were made of exelent cardboard designed to withstand more shuffling than professional playing cards.
10/10
When I was at school we entered some of our maths answers onto these cards (using pencil), which were then processed by a mainframe to give the results. I once got 0% because I filled it in wrong. So proud.
@@neilwilson5785 In HEXDec? If so, did they punch them by hand for entering or they have some contraption with reflective optical reader. Or I misunderstood? In the 70's a colegue of my mom gave her a stack of blanks - it was nice to have them by the pfone (with cable cord) for scratch notes. My mom's colegue husband worked in a socialist time electronics R&D institute were only use for them was for a hours registration clock (one of the developmen directions was hard drives and in the next building was the factory that produced first test series, so no place for old technologies there) and not surprisingly all of them had copies of the cards of his work group colegues - first to come registers all :)
You are correct,these were early computer cards ,for time keeping.Some were used for storing data on.First used them when i was at school late 1970`s ,and our computer filled the room.The connection at the time were with a famous US motor company based along the Thames corridor at the time
It’s an 80 column punched card. Used for storing data or programs, usually for input into a computer, but they can also be used for industrial control (commonly looms). For the chap who said he used to colour these in with a pencil, that would likely have been an optical mark recognition card as opposed to a punched card.
You may be bald, but you are a beautiful soul, my dear Benjamin. I tripped over your channel, been binging your vids for DAYS! TY for being just a regular human, friendly and polite. I believe that we are largely just REGULAR folks in this world, just trying to live a peaceful, productive life. 🤗😊
someone buy this man a lenin statue for his house ASAP
I dont even think hes got a house considering how much he travels 🤣
What house
@BC Bob Why dont you do it instead of telling him to not ask others to do it?
I think this comment has been took out of context lol
not like he would ever be home to see it
"Little pioneer girl!"
*Lightly slaps on breast*
From Brest to breast
Also rude considering she was on her period
I knew someone would make fun of Bald touching that girl statue
I was many summers in those ,,camps,, in my youth in Estonia (my mom was cook there). I was drummer. THE most fun time in my life!!!
I love this Gonzo (old VICE) style vlog/journalism which you do, it’s so interesting, raw and inspirational.
DUDE... THANK YOU! That is so awesome! The funny part is - for you it was a time capsule, for some of who wore the red & blue nooses, that was a MEMORY. I see the camps like that where I went in the summer - but fully functional, no weeds, kids and flags everywhere... *sigh* Thank you. THANK YOU. I love your vids so much!!!! Всегда готов!
Sees a badminton racquet.
Me: Don't say it... Don't say it...
Bald: A Soviet badminton racquet!
Wantwotwee You didn't have a chance, of course he said it 😂
Wantwotwee i died omg
It most definitely is of that time period, pre-1993
"We are lost, let's get a cab and go deep into the forest", sounds like a plan...
Normally this might be the start of a horror movie... but not with Mr. Bald! 😅
10:24 that's actually a punch card - kind of memory card for old computers - it served as I/O
I was just going to comment the same thing. Bald is clearly too young.
but in the pioneer base?
My mom went as a teenager to those pioneer camps, she said it was an amazing time and they all genuinely loved it - it was in the Czech forests somewhere
Pioneers were pretty much the same thing as scouts are in US. Even with the unnecessary patriotism. Kids usually didn't care about that. It was a camp where you played, made campfire, etc. True though there was a bit more of a discipline compared to today's camping.
But then even scouts do exercise a bit more of that too. It's hard to compare 1:1 because there were some differences among camps even in one country.
In romania my mom learned how to use a gun while she was at such a camp
@@Kuran1986 based
"Bald will put the link in the description"
Bald: *doesn't put the link in the description*
I also would like to get link and watch this Irish guy channel.
@@VEINHORN the channel is called "
Irish Partizan"
May be he forgot it lol
ikr
Alex Winner thanks! It was very smart! Now I found him to 😊
“I hate it when they say that”. Then he proceeds: ‘buy my merchandise’ xD
Bit late but catching up slowly with this excellent vlog.
That "spy card is of course a normal computer punch card or Hollerith card used in 60s and 70s. :-) greetings from Canada. My hubby and I (retired and on in age) hope to go to Russia after covid and are learning Russian slowly. Encouraged by your vlog Ben!
Come on bald meet kolya now, We need to know about what he's going through. Kolya Kolya Kolya
who is kolya
@@janbasler5760 Kolya is from Chernobyl. Bald met him in the radiated forest months ago.
Lagartija Math anything you can link to that?
@Lagartija Math where did he post it?
It's worth a watch dude, Kolya is awesome!
Bald: **inhales**
Bald: "Ahh, good ol' Soviet air"
Damon Khan Soviet road, get on soviet subway, then soviet taxi. Soviet weather is good so soviet adventure begins soviet style to find soviet scouts through soviet forest. So in summery, soviet, in soviet times was soviet, but today soviet things are all around ex soviet country.
Did I mention the soviet aspect?
10:33 Him telling the story about spy school while wearing that mask and the badminton racket hanging out of his jacket is absolutely priceless!!! I'm so glad his trips are back on despite the pandemic not being over yet. Bald is a creative dude.
Old soviet chemical testing on shuttlecocks facility.
It was when he said somethings going on here that i died .... love this creativity it`s right up my street.
His choice to head to Belarus during lockdown is bullseye.
11:11 Dressing the statue in his merchandise T-shirt was pretty creative too. Bald was more inspired than usual today.
What a channel! Absolutely loving it cheers.
@10:20 that's a Hollerith card. It's a form of computer memory developed in the US in the 1970's by the Hollerith Tabulator Company. They became IBM.
This channel is the BEST at showing the world via travel vlogging. I look forward to each new adventure. Long live Bald! 😄
Haha - Bald never drops the other guy's link in the description....RIP 🤣
Kind of messed up
Lmao
@@arutzuki2491 Definitely a little messed up. Bald made a conscious choice to go ahead and not put that guys link in the description. Would've been a small thing to help him out.
Nobody wants to see that over grownbabys videos
@@krisrivera3514 why don't you like him?
How is this guy not working for the history channel? I can guarentee itd be a hit worldwide, especially the US and UK, you teach us the history and fully explore the culture, amazing mate look forward to more
If you end up going to Vitebsk LET ME KNOW!!! I’m a huge fan, and I’d like to buy you a drink!!
he's gone there for a bit to taste the local beer, it's his previous video
He already has in the previous video to try your local beer, ( which I am afraid he didn't like ). However, I hope he goes again to meet your good self.
Belarus... the only country you would see Matt Lucas and Jason Statham in the same place
What? That makes no sense.
Hahha I was thinking the same thing lmao
😂😂😂
Lmao
@@ezmdz387 He does
Hey Mr bald you forget to visit our great friend KOLYA we want to see if he is OK in this pendamic
Best to leave Kolya till this virus passes. He is certainly in the very vulnerable cohort. I miss him too but it's not worth him dying just for a visit :(
Kolya is in isolation 24/7 so he is OK plus the radiation would have killed all bugs anyway
@@drunkvegangal8089 .....Kolya is not going to die just because Bald visits him. Remember Kolya lives in a nuclear waste zone, he has survived and is immune from everything.
@@yurintroubl so many hazards! Glad he's made it this long :)
Alan Godden so you are saying pounds are real money and rubles are not? Are you dumb? What is he gonna do with pounds in Ukraine in a deserted village?
"bald will put the link in the description"
LOL. rip
Imagine how piss-warm that singular can of 30p beer would actually be when he finally cracked it.
Get on it, Bald
We drink it warm in Britain
@@etherealhawk 😝🤷😘
Ethereal Hawk we don’t 😅🤮maybe our great grandads did 😂
I'm drinking a warm one now.
Got a Warm Guinness with a
Generous dash of tia maria waiting for them to chill in freezer🤙
10:14 is not a spy card, is an old punch card, computer programs where programmed in those cards (hundreds of cards) and feed into the mainframe which read those holes and computed the program and the result. Notice one of the corners is beveled, its a guide, the stacks of cards must face the same direction and be aligned, hence that bevel. Usually the holes from two columns (numbered 1 to 9, those are the rows) represented a letter or digit, since you have several columns, maybe you could encode about 40 ish characters per card.
@YaKefir well, based on the upvotes, a bunch of people, probably young people, didnt even know about that. And not for a single second I believed Mr Bald was seriously thinking it was a spy card, but looks like many people didnt even know what that card really was
I love how clean the country is.
Your knowledge is incredible mate. Love Eastern Europe and can't wait to explore more after lockdown, including Belarus! ps. You need to film in Polska!
what is he supposed to film in Poland? It's no different there than in western europe, it wouldn't be suitable for his channel at all
Jason Statham look alike was amazing! He knew what look he was going for in THAT jacket on THAT hot day, glasses nice touch too
I think the real one is a bit taller (but I don't know), but other then that a true doppelganger!
@@alexanderwingeskog758 Statham is 178cm and Bald is quite tall so I reckon this lad is taller than the real deal
I wonder if Bald is famous now in Belarus? Do they think “it’s the English traveller again” lol
@Петро Олександрович is it usually in a positive way?
@@ginomanshit2365 Yeah, absolutely. Everyone loves this guy in Belarus
"Muum the bald British guy is running around in the woods with a badminton racket again"
I love the word Minsk so much, I whisper it to myself sometimes, I don't know if that makes me weird
I'm a Brest man myself
Richard Kelbe 😂😂😂. Yeah she’s an attention seeker alright. Whew she could use a personality 💗😎. If you have to wonder if you’re a weirdo then you’re FOR SURE weird and probably a lost cause 😝👍
@Richard Kelbe ??? I hope your day is going ok, bud.
I whisper worse things regularly, such as Nirobi, Bogota, Denver, Moscow, Berlin, Lisbon, Tokyo, Stockholm, Helsinki, and Oslo....I left the unworthy cities off the list 😜
minsk it spells quite crunchy right ? lol
still watching 2020. I'm so addicted to your videos. I'm from Philippines. Take care as always. God bless to your every trip.
I've fallen through the same trapdoor.
When you called the cleaning lady "my little darling" it was so cute. You made her day.
I would’ve enjoyed history if this guy was my teacher
you are not soviet enough
Stanislav Surin wowowowowowowowowowo
Me too
You must like Ranch salad dressing.
My history teacher was basically balds brother so I loved history🤣I fuckin always loved it anyway but you've j made me think about my old teacher and how similar he is to bald
He just loves his Soviet stuff, bless him.
I am living in a small town North East of Brasil i LOVE ALL YOUR VIDEOS..I have watched many of them and i want to watch them all during the lockdown over here and will have enough time.
10:07 That is a soviet type punchcard used in early programming.
Thats an IBM punchcard like you would use in a 1401
We used those in the 70s when I worked at an early telemarketing company.
Gernuts how do we know you are not a soviet spy who tries to distract the attention from those spy codes?
Wow. Looks like an IBM 5081 punch card. We quit using those in the late 70's.
"Belarussian Jason Statham isn't real, he can't hurt you"
2:40 Belarussian Jason Statham:
He look like iniesta....
Go on Bald mate, loving the upload rate keeping lockdown boredom at bay!
Ur still in lockdown?
Me : breathes
Bald : good ol’ soviet air
Belarusian Jason Stathem just 10 years younger... Good one :D
10:31
When you are drunk and you steal random shit from the street
Racket
I was actually laughing at the Jason Statham lookalike well looked like him
Idk why but I think he looks like Conor McGregor
Yeah looked like Jason's crackhead cousin.
That's Jason's long lost brother.
Jason's more handsome though
It is great to see an Irishman and Englishman getting along together. I think your travel vlogs are helping to make the world a more peaceful place. Thank you for the great shows.
"in spy school they taught me a few things..." Wait so Bald was a spy?! Confirmed!
Sire it's quite obvious from his background and approach.
@@UranijaZeus what do you mean?
It's agent 47 in real life lol
@@UranijaZeus you watch too many movies
When I see you post it truly makes my life a little better
2:42 Jason Statham's lost Belarusian identical twin brother :)
Kid: "Mom, can we stop and get Bald?
Mom: "We have Bald at home"
Bald at home = Irish dude.
lmao
4:20 Bald: I like your style
Woman: I'm a Rock
That was actually Jason Statham pretending to be Belarussian.
He was probably thinking "Bugger I came to Belarus to get away from the camera"
10:56 an english man wearing a gasmask as a hat, featherball racket in his hand, filming himself as he investigates an old abandoned building full of trash... true greatness
a drunk* Englishman
From Kenya. You have made me love Belarus
I can't be the only one who wants Alinchik back.
Love Bald, but that girl really has something special.
What happened?
She sure does 😎
We want Fidel !!
Bewbs?
shes like 70% of his views
I love that you’re doing this trip with Matt Lucas
@LGM whoosh?
the gas mask on top of his head killed me man
I love all your videos, but for some reason this one is my favourite. Maybe because I love sequins and gardening! Thank you for teaching me about apart of the world that I have overlooked.
10:20 you found a computer treasure! That's a punch card from early days of modern computing! My usb drive says hi to its IBMderthal ancestor
Yeh, i believe ibm invented the cards to help the nazis count Jewish prisoners
IBM claim they didn’t directly help the Germans(saying Nazis is not correct)
They used agents to get around things To avoid tarnishing their reputation
people growing up in the soviet union, even in the 80s, didn't get any "advanced" entertainment things like ataris and nintendos, they've only appeared in the 90s and were lagging a few generations behind contemporary
@@DamnedDave The Nazis were in power -- let's not put lipstick on this anti-semitic pig
When you reappeared with your new found hat I was undone, you funny dude!
Every else in the world: social distancing, Bald in Minsk: shakes hands with every stranger he meets
Its so good to watch such videos in so difficult times.
That's because they know it is only a political virus.
@@thumbdrive2104 🤔
@@thumbdrive2104 you're nuts
meropzit dont be a lamb to the slaughter. Wake up sheep
You meet so many cool people on your travels. Everyone is so friendly and happy to chat.
"An old Soviet badminton racket....this is like the best day ever!!!" only Bald....only Bald!
Bald, that place which you thought was a secret base is actually a building where the children would do army training, hence the gas masks and protocol information. In school, army training would be a subject and during the summer the pioneers would come to the building while they are in the pioneer camp.
Hope this helps!
I doubt it was army training. They weren't shooting guns, learning how to take out tanks, etc. They learn how to start a fire, how to cut wood, how to build stools, etc. Girls would learn how to cook, knit, etc. This was all over soviet union.
i don' t remember that, gas masks were more for decorate. But in school there were such lessons , not so many
Ha, you should've tried to hang out with Belarusian Jason Statham. He seemed like a cool dude!
Soviet Jason Statham was on his way to meet Soviet Vinnie Jones
seriously just imagine the adventures the two of them could have. No one would ever fuck with them regardless of where they went(even tho bald never gets fucked with), but if he has a contract killer? Sheesh, people are going to be running up to him asking him to sample their assortment of drugs and weapons
8:47 "It's never gonna be better than this, at least for me." ... Wow, those words almost became prophetic.
Every other youtuber: I'm not gonna say the C-word, you know, the "situation" going on, RUclips might demonetize me.
Bald: CORONAVIRUS!!! IT'S A CORONA MASK!!!
A couple of weeks a go youtube announced corona virus would not get your vids demonetized any more
Vaiss Exclusive can I see your source
@super t yes...all this BS over a cold/flu viral infection
@@vaissexclusive4825 You said Corona, so Corona does exist.
@super t wtf? tell that to the more than 300,000 dead so far ... and still growing. How is that not bad in just 5 months?
1:27 Those are soviet ЭТ4 escalators. They are incredibly fast and have nice motor hum at upper platform. In Prague there are still few remaiming pieces, mostly on "B" and "A" line
2040: "Thanks for coming to the Bald & Bankrupt Belarus Museum of History today - if you'll grab your complimentary beer and follow me..."
Hopefully not Babruisk beer.
Your show is the best. I like everything about you and your show
How to make things sound cooler:
Say "Old Soviet" before the word you were going to say
soviet tennis racquet!
@@BrendanMetcalfe old soviet babushka
Old soviet vodka
"Lost in Minsk with Matt Lucas"
That's who that other bald chap reminds me of. Thanks for that.
I was gonna write lost in Minsk with Matt Lucas and Jason Statham!
😂😂😂
@@oscarslife5497 Brilliant!!
Two Scary Hairless Men walk in the woods.. "ow !!.. ow !! .. it's so prickly!"