KGB Encounters In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

good morning from the world's greatest hotel check out the view over there the caucus mountains and over here some random hills and down there's our car the little Kia that got us here well I'm gonna have a cup of coffee a wash and then let's hit the open road and look for ganja what strange hotel the obviously spent an incredible amount of money on this place it has everything you can imagine but I'm pretty much the only guest here so one other person stranger he built in the middle of nowhere knowing that they could never possibly make their money back who's gonna drive out here for three hours from Baku check it out it's got a waterpark a serene pool but night people well that was fun it's nice having a bit of luxury but he's not me let's not do that again I'd much rather be an old Soviet place to be honest with you misty morning don't see no Sun I know you're out there somewhere having fun I've pulled off on the road to show you this which is something that you see everywhere in Azerbaijan which is pictures of the ex-president Heydar Aliev Heydar Aliev was the head of the KGB for Azerbaijan in Soviet times and then in the 1990s he went into politics and became president in I think 1993 and served for about ten years and you see his picture everywhere ok dad I'll leave eventually he went to America for medical treatment and died there in Ohio but everything in this country is named after him airports museums everything is named after Heydar or hideout and he pronounced it alive [Music] salam alikoum cv toka architect order process hotel four key mottos is Ponyo Ponyo ha no vote no the cello she is an awareness yes our ski down she village is a gazelle mr. Chester Garros key post last as I said they're known as this is the road that leads to the old sob holes the old Soviet state farm when communism came to the land they amalgamated all the farms the privately owned land into one big soft course this is the old road that leads to her the oil money of the country certainly hasn't touched this part of town or this part of the country rather well so this state farm or former State Farm soft horse from the past is a first place I've seen which really has some Soviet architecture left here's the old drama theater you can see the design here is obviously very Soviet let's see if it's opened be interesting to look inside hello how are you how are you you speak English little bit yeah okay what's your name what is your name my name is pull up please to me brother yep ganja danger English good speak English good okay all the galton later no filming he's saying this could be a problem if I film here maybe other friends dude hey nice to meet you hey guys Cheers bye bye this alright I didn't get much of that but let's check out this old Soviet statue that's what I've come here for despite them saying it's not allowed here we go look basically call cause workers the state farm workers the women and their carrying up there the wheat and the fruit I get it still standing in this kind of place that time forgot this old Soviet state farm look at it let's check out the old Soviet War Memorial back here crazy place just up here you can see nine four five so this was obviously the second world war memorial here in the village but now of course it's either been torn apart or it's just been left to fall apart but this is it written up there in some Russian and some Azir D language here look was where the eternal flame was before the old gas pipe but that was obviously last use a long long time ago now it's just a place whoa just a place probably for the kids to hang out wobbly scared me man Reggie appear from jump shock okay sure okay all right so what happening here everyone's here today Wow your friends everyone's been Vanessa to my mom saying man he is saying video us all so here we go these are the dudes [Laughter] absolute legends with the Neva with the green lever can I look in the divas greatest car in the world check it out real Russian Eva ocean P Edna thank you guys thank you see you later nice guys ah nice dudes Wow we had no idea what we were saying to each other but somehow we communicate it Julie before I came to Azerbaijan I had some I don't know had some preconceptions I don't know why I had those preconceptions but I've got to say every time I meet the people they just ah they just prove to me how wrong I was about Azerbaijan and what I was going to expect here you know but people are so incredibly friendly yeah it's a real pleasure travelling here and obviously now get arrested for filming that still Selam aleykum that slam la Cucaracha Guttenberg angry angry rather push SUV versus trainer oh is it was use documented passport yes sure yes done Oh I've just been stopped and this guy's asked me for my documents he's making some phone calls let's see what happens hopefully they don't make me delete my footage Benjamin venture a cut possible I'm not me Oh God Darcy bruh let's be done your ship he was a bit dodgy money I don't know if he was secret police or something let's get the let's get the hell out of here anyway bye bye guys bye bye that's the thing with this part of the world when you go poking your nose around people think it's a little bit suspicious they start asking questions and stuff documents Wow three Lord is in a row I love it convoy Lada convoy Oh Salam alikoum Salah this is your job I wanted to stop here just because of this laundry is like in Italy how the laundry's across the street here and all down may sit how is just strung along the street hello we've got we've got the barbecues here controlling the neighborhood you don't have CCTV in Azerbaijan you just have publishers looking out the window yeah yeah plus the fat cell first voltage to Russia special gesture but the motion is on Glee if I gimme me a taxi Liam yeah there we go I found some Azerbaijani babushkas on gay Chanin and prostitutes garage-door Kanye's nur Azerbaijani India - Jie shake their booties or simply an ocean three of them everyone's come out of their houses to say hello hello oh the publish keys I'm in heaven I mean barbash gay heaven just uh unfortunate sir sang-gyu chunker - oh yeah boo Dewey Scott if there are any English girls out there who wants a larger taxi driver as a husband I found you one - ah [Music] here we've got a really interesting communist statue in this random village here on the road to worm ganja it's an oriental communist woman probably Chinese then a white Slavic dude and then here we got a black dude on the end with an afro I suppose it represents the communist parties of Asia and Europe in Africa I've never seen one of those before what a random place to find it and here we had some publishers hello well it's not past 4:00 in the afternoon and I've just seen the first sign on the entire trip for ganja it's another 60 kilometers so yeah this journey has been taking forever let's just get there find a hotel find a place to eat and chill out for a little bit crikey I didn't think it'd be so hard to find ganja in Azerbaijan finally we've made it to ganja city is this what you're expecting is better than Ratish but is it as good as Ladin that's what I want to know where we going carrying on deeper into the mysterious town of ganja and it girls the beauty that is ganja and the beauty is a hotel ganja Wow Soviet and a London phone box I feel like a home welcome to the hotel gangjae talkes in Noida let's check out what this room is like them here in the Ganga hotel oh it's like a shining they see so Sophia this is more Soviet than the hotel Soviet in Moscow 203 there we go that's the light ship yeah Oh like you check it out finally I mahogany desk and mahogany desk to write my book out finally so right in there dragon cost me 30 pounds what's that $40 u.s. what's the view like oh it's nice and warm in here use not so amazing still I think I'll be very comfortable at the hotel ganja well good morning from ganja check it Sal the beauty that is ganja on a Tuesday morning I've got to say I'm mightily impressed I mean 48 hours ago I didn't even know there was a city called ganja and now here I am in the middle of it Oh Oh some policemen making a cool on the radio some filming but look at it 1930 Soviet architecture southern Caucasian Soviet architecture is beautiful everything's built at this beautiful light yellow brickwork and um yeah now I don't normally film in cities as you know yourself but um let's have a little walk around before I'm arrested by the coppers Jesus cries the the authority is a little bit wary but check out this architecture look at this stuff that was built in Soviet times it's obviously being fixed up and like the colors have been done but look how beautiful it was here I mean who knew that like Azerbaijan had such beautiful cities I had no idea look because we've crossed the caucus mountains and we now pass the caucuses it kind of gets a little bit more temperate down here it's a little bit more of a subtropical climate in this part of country and so you've even got palm trees growing here no coconuts but there are palm trees before I came to Azerbaijan I remember saying in a previous video that I didn't want to come here I just had a feeling that I was gonna hate him don't know why I had that feeling misconceptions preconceptions but I've got to say it's been absolutely bloody brilliant the food's been great that people have been great and the landscapes have been amazing I mean yeah Azerbaijan has gone from being a place that I never really wanted to come to to be in a country that I would love to come back to I don't know if that will ever be possible which will become clear in future videos but um yeah I'd be mightily impressed by Azerbaijan and we found a little bit of Soviet miss Tim we tucked away on the back roads and it's an it's been a great trip and so erm cheerio from an awesome country cheerio from Azerbaijan until next time see you guys later bye bye

Channel: bald and bankrupt

Views: 4,890,411

Keywords: Ganja, Azerbaijan, babushka, USSR, Soviet, road trip

Id: qGSfK55Ggs4

Length: 19min 5sec (1145 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 06 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/radonezh]

around 18:43 he says that it might be not possible for him to come back to azerbaijan, someone knows whats up with that? did something happen again?

[u/KombinoHun]

This was one of his better videos. No acting, no clickbait title like in Bolivia, just straight up RPG-like travelling through a foreign country. His videos are one of the reasons why I've visited Georgia this autumn. Truly inspiring and quality content.

By the way, will he ever reveal what happened in Chechyna exactly? Was he arrested? Why did he make that apology video on instagram?

[u/Mugros]

Does anyone know why there is this ridiculous hotel in nowhere?

[u/DavidofSasun]

That was one of his best videos in a long time. He truly has a gift of being approachable and carrying out conversations with just about anyone he meets; from babushkas to gopniks to little kids.

I did however get a little worried when the old man asked for his documents. I'm just assuming here, but because the man read his name out loud leads me to believe that perhaps he wanted to see if he had an Armenian name or not. This is just a hunch.

For anyone who doesn't know, ethnic Armenians , regardless of their nationality/passport, cannot enter Azerbaijan. It's one of the rare cases where an entire ethnic group is forbidden by law to enter a nation regardless of which passport they hold. There have been exceptions in the past. For example, certain athletes competing in Baku for sporting competitions, or just recently when a Armenian journalists were granted permission by the state to visit Azerbaijan. But generally speaking, if you have a last name ending with "ian" or "yan", chances are that you'll be blocked from entering the country at customs.

Regardless, it is quite clear towards the end of the video that he will not be visiting Azerbaijan anytime soon. Not because he doesn't want to (because clearly he really enjoyed it) but once he enters Armenia and thereafter Artsakh (Armenian name for Karabakh), he will have a huge stamp on his passport and that will get you arrested if he ever enters Azerbaijan again. He will need to wait to receive a new passport with blank pages before trying to visit again. But even then, if he does indeed visit Karabakh, authorities can just find his videos and that in itself will be enough to get arrested.

[u/pinguin_on_the_run]

Changed the title to " KGB encounters in Azerbaijan". Most probably to get better hit-scores.

[u/[deleted]]

Typed in kingfeemer to learn about the beer, found this subreddit, life is now better. Jai Bhole ki..

[u/dasautomobil]

I wish he would stop changing the fucking video title all the time. It is annoying.

[u/hotchowchow]

I've watched the formula1 races in Baku and wondered what the rest of the country is like. I've read estimates that costs of hosting a race are near one billion dollars per decade so I wonder how it's paying off for them.

[u/fouriels]

Gross.