Russia of the Soviet Union vs now | What has changed since the USSR?

seems like it's life or not yeah well hello my friends welcome to this live stream alice here and today we will talk about russia during the soviet union times versus now apparently i'm not going to be speaking from my personal experience because i was born after the dissolution of the soviet union by the way who knows when the soviet union collapsed let me know in the comments and i will check your knowledge of history and connection and i will will be able to see if you can hear what i ask and if you can see and hear me well so when has the soviet union collapsed or when do you think it collapsed someone knows that okay i'm getting some answers now it means that everything is good with the connection and we're ready to start so today we have quite an unusual topic but many of you might not know how life was like in russia during the soviet union or some of you don't know what countries were included there or how russia changed after the dissolution of the soviet union so today we will discuss all those topics and uh i'm not going to be making this stream alone uh this stream will be held with my friend and also a teacher from our russian speaking club aleana and actually she is already here uh she is helping me to set up the stream she will be coming here later here is our plan for today's life so at first we will talk about the history of the ussr for those who don't know much or don't know anything about the ussr how life was there why it collapsed and differences in between russia and the ussr etc we will compare it and then for the third part ilona the teacher from the russian speaking club will join us and she will talk about the differences in the russian language and some slang phrases of the soviet union time and some stereotypical phrases that foreigners use for folks we will start with the history and as i said this is not gonna be based on my personal experience because i was born in the russian federation not in the soviet union but i've talked to many adults and also my grandparents about their life in the soviet union also we learned a lot at our schools about the soviet union i've uh i've been studying history since the fifth grade till the 11th grade of school and as you may already know in russia every pupil like every student at school has to follow the same syllabus so we are not able to use to choose the subjects as in american schools for example where you can drop subjects where you can choose the subjects that you want to attend in russia we have to follow all the subjects so i studied history for seven years at school one year in a university because when you're a freshman and it doesn't matter which major you can study biology you can study medicine you can study engineering or marketing anyways at the first year you will have to study history philosophy and all the subjects that are compulsory so i studied history a lot as well probably if i was able to choose subjects like in american schools for example or probably in some countries the system also works like you can choose the subjects i would probably choose languages but as i i wasn't able to choose the subject i studied a lot of history but now i don't regret it so this talk will be based on some knowledge from russian high school and university history classes russian history books and some conversations that i've had to people who lived during the soviet times so let's start i've already seen that there were some correct answers in the chat some of you it means that some of you already know some history about the soviet union or at least about its dissolution so and december the 8th in 1991 the picture of the world dramatically changed because one of the world's super powers of that time of the 20th century ceased to exist the communist giant the ussr or the union of the soviet socialist republics disappeared from the world's map it was a huge event for all the countries especially for russia of course so in late 1991 the leaders of three of the soviet union's uh foundings and largest republics the russian sfsr it was called also the ukrainian and belarusian ssr declared that the soviet union doesn't exist anymore and other republics also joined this decision and on in this picture you can see how this uh decree was signed uh so they just declared the end of the soviet union one of the world's superpowers it was like a huge event so this is actually how the soviet union looked in its final years so it consisted not of countries but of socialist republics it was the union of the socialist republics oh my gosh i feel like i'm a history professor or something um so those were armenia azerbaijan belarusia now belarusia estonia georgia kazakhstan kirigisia now kyrgyzstan latvia lithuania moldavia now moldova russia tajikistan turkmenistan ukraine and uzbekistan the capital of the ussr was moscow then and now it remained the capital of russia by the way let me know in the comments what you were taught at schools about the soviet union uh because sometimes i think the history is represented and taught differently in different countries because i know that in america they learn a completely different history of the world war ii in russia it's also very different that is why sometimes people have these arguments and when i was talking to some americans or even europeans about the world war ii we realized that it was taught completely differently in our schools high schools or universities so i'm curious what you were told about the soviet union at uh history classes or maybe overall in your country what do you know about the soviet union what is it famous for in your country so on the day of the termination of the existence of the ussr its leaders established you probably know this cis which is the commonwealth of independent states and georgia was the only former republic that didn't participate in the meeting in alma atta the capital of kazakhstan the previous capital now it's no now it's nur sultan the previous astana you probably know that the capital has changed all the time in kazakhstan or it was renamed many times so in alma atta on the december in 1991 while lithuania latvia and estonia refused to do so according to their governments and the baltic states were illegally inco incorporated into the ussr in 1940 so during the existence of the soviet union what did it look like it was by area the world's largest country you you can just imagine russia plus 14 other existing countries now uh republics of that time so it was like enormous um and it was also one of the most diverse with more than 100 distinct nationalities living within its borders and the majority of the population was made of east slavs those were russians ukrainians and belercians so these groups lived together and they made up more than two-thirds of the total population in the late 1980s but of course there were more nationalities than these ones but this one these ones were the main the soviet union was the successor to the russian empire of the tsars and was formed following the civil war in 1921 as the world's first marxist communist state in the world and after that it would become one of the biggest and most let's say powerful and influential nations in the world however as you already know the soviet experience began in 1917 and it ended in failure because they had these great plans of creating the world superpower and so many economic plans and of like implementing so many projects which would improve the life of people but this experiment uh ended in failure because the high moral goals uh it had said uh were never realized and indeed the countless crimes and dictatorship was settled and during that time there were the revolutions and also the gulag camps so it was the opposite of what they were planning actually and when the democracy uh trims communism has to deport the stage so economic failure was the key reason for the ussr ussr's collapse and the socialist alternative to the market economy turned out to be just an illusion and the soviet union collapsed and it is funny that when i talk to some usually americans i would say i think that americans hate to be stereotyped for not knowing the geography or history well but sometimes it's it happens because when i was talking to some americans and i told them that i'm from russia they asked me so it's the same place as the ussr so i was shocked that some of them thought that the ussr still exists or some of them were asking me is russia and ussr the same country and i was like no i'm from russia the ussr was a different country and they asked me okay but where is ussr located i was like it doesn't exist come on but uh that was like really weird for me um so can you text in the chat if you've also encountered such situations probably with some people from other countries where they didn't know like much about your country or maybe about the soviet union as well because it was so weird for me every country i go there are americans even in odessa um we're so globalized now i think anywhere go there are russians i went to this really remoted place in indonesia and i was in a like deserted beach there were no people and i was walking somewhere in indonesia and i heard someone speaking russian like marina i was like whoa thank you so much david education is the 60s in the 60s was all about the cold war and the space race you would be a great teacher very interesting subject thank you so much i was i actually worked as a teacher but as a teacher of english language not of the history but this is really an interesting topic to discuss especially when i realized that very few people know much information about russia or the soviet union yeah because they were asking me where the soviet union is so they thought that i'm from russia and soviet union is some separate country somewhere else where they were asking me is it the same country i was like it doesn't exist come on so now let's compare how russia has changed since the soviet union times what russia looks like now what's common about russian soviet union what has changed so the basic difference between russia and the soviet union is that russia is an independent country whereas the soviet union was a political state in which russia was one of the republics it was a union of socialist republics united by the same government and ideology yeah and russia is just an independent country that's just an obvious difference also the ideology of the communist party of the soviet union was marxism-leninism an ideology of a centralized command economy with a one-party state to realize the dictatorship of the proletariat proletariat is there such word in english proletariat like um russian poli policymakers tried embracing capitalism liberalism and western style democracy after 1991 but nowadays the country is back to antagonizing the west on ideological grounds so moscow's backing of syria's president or who the majority of western countries firmly oppose is the latest but not the only example of that and a key difference is the ideology underpinning russia's stance in the world communism has been actually traded for conservatism now and there are many other examples where russia supports some leaders of particular countries or where russia admits some laws but all the countries of the united nations don't and that is why russia is still [Music] kind of not really in the good relationship with the west now another difference is the aspect the economical aspect the economy of the soviet union was based on state ownership of the means of production collective farming and industrial manufacturing and the highly centralized soviet type economic planning was managed by the administrative command system but russia today is a capitalist economy uh whereas still many people think that russia is a communist country alyona lived a long time in brasilia and i believe that you told me that brazilians still think that russians are communists right yeah she she says yes yes and laughs because that's what all the brazilians told aleana like can you tell us about how life is in do in communism and she was like what um but now russia is a capitalist country which means that deeper integration in the globalized world and more personal freedom to work to travel to learn and to explore the world so that's some stereotype or just lack of knowledge i would say that some people really think that russia is still a communist country another difference is politics so in the soviet times there were no parties other than the one almighty communist party and membership was a prerequisite for career advancement nowadays well there is a party political party named edineresia or united russia and it dominates the federal parliament by the way do you know who won the elections like they were two two weeks ago yeah so we had these elections as well and i think that they won actually because in russia everyone knows who is gonna win the elections before the elections um yes uh this party dominates the federal parliament and most local legislators and officials in the executive branch so businessmen working with the state and even artists are sometimes card carrying party members nowadays though political alternatives do exist i believe there are more than 10 of them like there are 12 or 14 political parties but i know that it was funny uh because one communist party was so popular this year it was never popular but this year in many regions of russia people voted for this communist party and even russians who live abroad but they voted in the embassies of russia i know that in thailand russians voted like mostly for this communist party everyone was so surprised so political alternatives do exist including a modern communist one although the real opposition faces major difficulties caused by president supporters uh however it's quite possible to make a career without any party affiliation then another difference is about the policy of uh relig religions because the government of the soviet union followed an official uh and unofficial policy of state atheism aiming to gradually eliminate religious belief within its borders so they wanted to make it a union without any particular religion while it never officially made um religion illegal the state nevertheless made great efforts to reduce the prevalence of religious belief within society but today uh russian orthodoxy is the country's largest religious um denomination representing more than half of uh the population and organized religion was repressed by soviet authorities for most of the 20th century and the non-religious still constitute more than one-fourth of the population and overall i would say that russia isn't that religious country and many people who are like or orthodox christians they don't go to church uh at all or that often or probably they just go for easter and christmas but overall i haven't met many religious people in russia except the caucasus region my videos from caucuses are coming soon please guys um a little bit more patience and i will make videos from the caucuses i would say that chechnya is one of the most religious regions of russia the main religion the there is sunit muslim yes i believe so now another difference is about the media the soviet media broadcasted um only what officials wanted to and access to foreign media was banned and in the 2000s one of putin's first moves was to bring back under state control the leading television channels and russians main source of information they have since turned into pro-government vehicles nevertheless russia has many independent small media outlets that offer alternative points of view for example we have this channel named rain or dost so we have many channels and social medias which are independent of the of the government and anyways now because of the internet cable and the access to international print media russians can get their hands on any means of media from any part of the world in the picture you can see one of the tv news tv programs of the ussr also the ussr actively intervened in personal life every soviet citizen was embraced by the comsa mall which was a political youth organization trade unions extra curricular activities and formal gatherings for family offenses one could be punished in the service now of course things like that don't exist the state doesn't interfere with your private life like the soviet union did and i heard that during the soviet union people always got this idea that you have to be careful in everything that you say so people lived in like constant being constantly [Music] conscious of what they can say or of what they shouldn't be saying but now um things like that i would say almost don't exist almost let's not idealize everything about russia well let's now see what happened after the dissolution of the soviet union and why some people miss those times now you know now it's common to idealize the soviet union because we russians can hear so many times from our grandparents or just from some more adult people that they're saying oh i miss the soviet union times a lot the the life was so great i'm so nostalgic about that period of my life others though say that now it's much better so uh not only the elderly but also some young people talk about this nostalgia even the young people which is quite surprising because they haven't lived during those times and i don't understand why they say so i cannot say that i'm nostalgic for the soviet union so um they said they say about this wonderful time which everyone treated with fear and respect as well where they were the world's best medicine education where everyone lived in prosperity and everyone was confident and tomorrow and in this picture like on this slide you can see a survey by the levada center which reveals that at the end of 2017 so this survey was made just several years ago the share of russians who regret the collapse of the soviet union and who missed those times are 58 so it's more than half and you can also see the percentages of the same survey made in different countries like georgia ukraine kazakhstan uh etc and still the percentage is quite high uh the attitude towards the greatest geopolitical catastrophe let's say so differs sharply depending on the age as well so if the generation is plus 55 plus 60 the vast majority regret the collapse of the soviet union otherwise when you ask someone younger aged from 18 to 25 maybe 27 who never lived in the ssr the number of those who don't regret the collapse of the ussr outnumbers the amount of those who regret it so on one hand idealized thoughts about the ussr are weakly correlated with facts on the other hand so much of the soviet remains in modern russia and all spheres from legislation and law enforcement to language and anecdotes that sometimes there's a feeling that the soviet union is still around us several days ago though i had a talk with my aunt and she was talking about the soviet union and for example she told me that she didn't like the soviet union and she is much happier now and she thinks that life in russia is so much better now than during the soviet union so i will try to explain you why there are these opposite opinions one people are so nostalgic about the soviet union and others really almost hated those times so my aunt is an entrepreneur and she likes when everything is in her own hands and when she can control her life when she gets when she gets paid as much as uh as much as she works and as much effort she puts and as much smart cheese and the idea of the soviet union was equality for everyone the communism etc and it means that some people love those times because they would get everything for free education medicine uh etc and they were even free uh things like in the supermarkets for example people could get a box of food or even the clothes etc but you would have to stand in the line to get those things for such a long time so the soviet union is actually um known for these huge lines everywhere you would have to stand in a line to buy oil to buy bread to buy new shoes there were lines everywhere on the one hand you could get a lot of free stuff on the other hand the life really didn't depend on you like if you wanted to live a better life and you worked harder than others but you would make the same money as those who work less for example so for example my aunt she didn't like those times because she's an entrepreneur and she wanted to improve her life and not to get free stuff and this equality and also she told me that she hated those lines because you had she told me that she could uh go outside take a line for oil then go somewhere and take a line for buying shoes and then go to other place and for the whole day she would be just walking from one line to another line and if you want to get some stuff you have to be in those lines so she told me that it was crazy and that now she likes it much better because you are free and you can make as much money as you want and everything just depends on your efforts and your talent now let's talk a bit about the countries of the former soviet union because there is actually there are many things that unite all of them once we were all one country the ussr but now there is russia and 14 other countries but there is still something that unites all of them because because they were once one country so the first thing that unites the countries of the former soviet union is that most people in all of those countries speak russian as it was the first official language of the ussr and while younger generations might not be so fluent in russian but most mostly all the elder people speak fluent russian and for example if you go to georgia probably some young people will not be that good in russian but elder people will all speak russian because during the ussr it was the official language but overall if you go to the countries of the former soviet union expect like oh i thought that i'm gonna drop my camera um it's fine it's fine and you if you go to the countries of the former soviet union you can expect that the majority of people will speak russian if you go to ukraine they're gonna understand russia the problem for russians is that they will go to the to ukraine and they will not have problems because everyone will speak russian but russians don't understand the ukrainian language for example but ukrainians will understand and speak russian you go to kazakhstan for example russians are not able to understand the kazakh language but um all the kazakh people they will speak russian so i think that's pretty impressive for all the countries of the former soviet union that they all speak at least two languages georgian and russian or ukrainian and russian kazakh and russian etc so if you speak russian and you go to ukraine to belarus to uzbekistan to kazakhstan you will be good with russian only and you don't have to learn one more language i mean you can but if you only speak russian you will be good also we all united by new year celebrations the soviet union made a great contribution into the traditions of new year's celebration including new year deli like food decorations habits activities and many people in the post-soviet countries still follow these habits i actually have a vlog about celebrating a new year which i recorded last winter and in my vlog you can see how basically all the people from the former soviet union and from russia celebrate the new year it's all the same for all the slavic people i would say and it's so typical and i think it's a bit funny but it's a tradition which we do every single year in my vlog you can you can see that we watch the same movie we cook the same things we watch the president's speech at midnight and many more traditions so the soviet the countries of the former soviet union's also do that also we have this habit of not throwing things away the soviet people thought that if i throw it away where will i get it later because it was very difficult to get any stuff as i told you you have to wait in a line for a really long time and then probably you were in a line but while you were standing there that thing already was sold out so it was so difficult to get any stuff during the soviet union and people didn't throw anything away but this habit is still with us and russians usually don't throw away things they think i'm probably i'm gonna need it later and they put it on their balcony for example so our balcony is always full of a lot of usually unnecessary and some stuff that we're never gonna need but we just don't throw it away because we think that it's wasting things or something like that that's quite um habit for all the countries of the former soviet union as well also another thing that unites those countries is dacha that's a kind of a country house outside of a city where russians always go for weekends and where they grow their vegetables and it's normal for russians to have a house in the city and also to have a dacha in the countryside it's like some it's like a tradition it's like a habit and many foreigners ask me your russians are so rich you have a house in the city and then you also have this private house um in a village or nearby the city but it's not considered something luxurious here it's like a tradition that russians have adacha where they go to where they get dressed from the city where they grow vegetables and that habit remained in the countries of the soviet union as well also it's the habit of drinking tea of course in any country of the former soviet union you go to the first thing that you're gonna hear when you enter the house will be do you want to drink some tea let's go to drink some tea and we probably drink it for so many times a day like maybe five six seven times and for example when i come to my parents house or grandparents it seems to me that all day long you're just drinking tea because you you drink tea after a meal and then she's my grandmother would be like oh let's just have some tea before lunch um and to have some snack and then you drink tea after lunch and then you drink tea during the lunch during then after [Music] then before dinner during dinner so it's so many times a day and when you visit your russian friend um i'm gonna guess like that for 90 100 she's gonna or he's gonna offer you to drink tea by the way it's a nice habit as well that you all when you're a guest you always bring something small we call it for tea like you take some small chocolate candies and when you're a guest you always bring something small and you say that this is for tea and then you might eat it together when you have tea it's also a habit uh that unites all the countries of the former soviet union by the way what about your country do you also drink like much tea and what happens when you're a guest do you also have kind of traditions like that i see a question here so it's usually black tea but sometimes it's green tea it doesn't matter but usually the black tea okay i will answer your questions about the soviet union later again but now um the teacher from the russian speaking club will join us like in two minutes let me tell you about the russian speaking club that we organized because the fourth group has finished like several days ago i held i organized the russian speaking club since this march i think and we already had like four graduations and it was so cool and i'm inspired by reading the reviews and comments of our students it's just amazing to enter our chat in the russian speaking club where our students learn russian and at first i was really surprised that people from all over the world want to learn russian because it's popular to learn english it's popular to learn french german etc but i was surprised that so many people are also interested in learning russian and we have students from all over the world like the uk the us germany france etc and even we see people from singapore papua new guinea or some more islands and at first i was like why do you even need russian but it's so cool that when i enter our chat and everyone is put so much effort to learn russian and they are so genuinely interested in the russian language and russian culture so in our speaking club as in the left of this slide you can see our chat and in our chat the teacher sends all the materials and vocabulary where we learn it all together and we discuss different interesting topics and on the right it's our speaking session which we have every weekend so during the week you learn the vocabulary and then on weekends you put everything into practice and also during the week you practice with saying like recording the voice and video messages in our group group chat or directly to the teacher alona and for me it's so cool to listen to these messages and to watch the videos that our students record because i really like to share the russian culture and it's so nice to see this interest in the language and culture now we have three groups you can start from zero if you've never learned russian also for elementary and pre-intermediate and it's organized in like a form of a game so that you are always motivated to keep up with the group uh with other members of the chat and we make it like a game we have this matriarchal lifesaver so it's gonna be a lot of fun and i'm gonna leave the link to the russian speaking club in the description of this video and i think that you can actually already see it now so you if you want to join us you can go to the link and this secret code le10 is only for those who watch this stream and you will get a discount for our russian speaking club and i will be so happy to see any of you because it's really mesmerizing for me to enter our chats or speaking sessions and to see how people from all over the world learn russian for example here you can see some reviews of our students and they're like from completely different parts of the of the world brazil indonesia canada the us so our chat is always super international and it will be a lot of fun and now um we will talk about the language of the soviet union and what has changed aliana can finally enter the room teacher alana teacher ariana is here yeah hello guys my name is ayoda and today we will talk a little bit about russia and usar nowadays because it's a little bit complicated uh because it's uh really really impressive how the time sometimes can be different because uh we can speak and talk about some myths or some other kind of stereotypes about the country but uh it's really important sometimes to understand uh like what happened really right now in the country so today we will discuss a little bit about uc star and russia and please let me know uh do you think like russian uh speak now as a ussr or maybe change something uh let me know what do you think about this because uh yes you can think that you like youth star and russia it's like the same thing but uh it's already past 30 years and history has changed so it's a little bit different thing okay so guys today we will talk about some really uh like important and interesting thing so the first thing it's uh that everybody just like believes that until today we talk tavares and comrade like tavares even in our group chat in the russian speaking class some people who only start to learn russian they tagged predator yeah and we're like why no one uses this now yeah you know it's it's like you know you were wake up and you will make you i don't know for girls will be more easy like you wake up and your eyebrow is really thin and now you wake up and your eyebrow is really like this so it's the same thing so tavares it's already did that i am sorry for breaking your hearts if you use this word or you've heard about it let us know in the comments yeah just let us know if you ever listen about this i believe you you did uh but i maybe will broken your heart but stavanesh does not exist anymore as a comrade yeah in the past it was popular but now you can sing only you know like a really joke or maybe you know uh ironic thing like tavares what do you think about this no but really you know when you want to exaggerate some situation and you say it's like a joke but no one uses it like if you see a friend you will never say if someone uh spoke to this it's definitely 5 a.m and you're in a bar drinking the next vodka so okay so guys uh the most important and the most popular is the gopnik gopnik and all this style of things that you know so gobnik it's like a subculture that you can heard from the one one or one interesting uh maybe you would find it in youtube maybe some movies or i don't know some crazy jokes let me know where did you find information about gopnik uh maybe you find it in some youtube channel or maybe it was some uh history i don't know uh i can tell you about gopnik like just a little bit story that gopnik was born in saint peter's work uh like it was 1920 and it happened because we had preliterate preliterate is like kind of worker class the people who was working and it was in the time when people moved from small city to the big city for opportunity of work and like a normal life or people who used to live in a small city like a new village they didn't have opportunity to have education so they are not education uh have some habits that there was like adopted in that small city and then i came to the big city as a saint petersburg and they start to live in a small dormitory uh that's why it's called gop gop it's like it's a statement or government uh dormitory for proletariat so it's like abbreviator it's called gup uh and they just at nick and gopnik it's a board uh so who is the gopro it's like a gangsta as like a social gangster in san pete's work early 1920s so it was a person who didn't have much education uh sometimes they make a go stop so go stop with some things like do you have cigarette i don't so they abide you they take everything that you have maybe they steal something like for example some part of your car maybe wheel or maybe um the audio system or any kind of thing that uh they can take so that time was really popular and also um the system of ucsr was really strong but even system using stark and break them so there was so strong subculture that there was like gangsta real gangsters that even uh use a circum uh breaks them and gotnicks are the ones who are famous for the slav squad right yeah on the left i don't know someone's asking us to do this let me know if we need one more person for our slav squads or two weeks okay so the gopnik was born and uh guapnic uh it was the person who like where did that there was like a gangster they had some criminal roots uh and they start spread so instead of non-education person from small village they became real gangsta who had some um some connection with the uh like some like i don't know some bad people who had criminal future so uh everybody who didn't have the hair uh who had the tattoo because was really crazy to have tattooing you start but they're like really cool guys it was a half tattoo so this uh guys they became like um the criminal elements in society yeah and it was really cool to be a gopnik because you are like real gangster or going like in places you take the mobile phone you can do air wherever you want them but everything change how it's not how do you have them in the tv comedies or in some stand-up comedies where these goblins are always in the adidas uh sportswear they're always with the chopkin yes they and they're always eating the sunflower seeds yeah with the bottle of beer [Music] and they're always speaking russian really weirdly and with many like bad words and they're like the school guys who everyone is scared of yeah so uh two reason uh why gopnik has that guys sorry second time i've broken your heart but got nicked that uh the first reason was because uh um between gopniks was really common to use drugs and drugs in 1930 i believe like 1990 it was really heavy drugs and i believe not so good quality i don't know let me know if we have someone from amsterdam maybe you know something about this we we can't talk but you can talk in the comments uh so uh the fourth first reason why go opening that because they are literally that uh like 10 years using uh like 1990 was their most time the gopnik so it was time of them uh when they used drugs a lot of alcohol vodka uh smoking so they don't have so long life so they are dead like literally that so in 2000 it was already half of gophenic because of drag other half of wapnic was killed by putin so that's why it's really weird when i get the comments or some suggestions on my youtube or instagram like ellie go and make a video with a gopnik ellie go and talk to some gopnik or gal pizza and i'm like why why people are interested in this and why do they think that it exists now and where do everyone learns this from like why everyone is so interested about gothics yeah and i believe that adidas have to connect with them because literally they have spread their ideas everywhere i don't know why i didn't just not make that collaboration let me know if you know someone from ideas that can work with them because it's really big you know but i i was talking that um putin killed uh the opnix uh but not literally because uh putin had some social reforms that uh make the cut of vodka and uh alcohol uh problem in russia so uh alcohol became less popular also gopnika became a part of the subculture that was like a jokes so there was like a maps in them inside of society and there was not became real gangsters that everybody's fear all they are like really cool guys that want to break a system but there was already guys that was not so popular everybody joke with them everyone just makes fun of them and as i mentioned just some comedy shows or in tv series where they're just these guys who are stupid who don't like they're without education and yeah stupid and strong silly guys yeah so that's their image what the what what's left it's just adidas i don't know why adidas didn't have collaboration but uh only uh uh the uh adidas has left for the cockpit of course nowadays you can find someone who has really strange uh strange uh house behavior for example they're going to airplanes they scream i don't want to use a mask i don't wanna use anything i want a liberty or some people go to turkey and they scream drink a lot so you can talk that this is a people non-education or people who don't have any sense of good behavior so it's not real gangster or something really cool it's like a brexit system but it's some really strange guy so instead of goknik you can use uh some kind of the words the first is erie beatta aribiata so you don't [Laughter] but suddenly it's one of the most popular like patanji by dion nadine so but sunny it's used by village guys and they're city guys but it's really popular but sunny but suddenly sometimes you can say patantre like in the way of italian e chip chip is like oh strange like strange guy story it's like some strange guy like wear it here but it's not gopnik because gopro is already uh not mean anything so gopnik has died guys so you can talk tip tip but but if you just say gopnik it means that you are stuck in 1990 but today is 2021 i guess yeah okay guys so we do have some questions about some interesting a lot of questions about gold nyx okay guys you bought ussr was fluted with adidas clothed with former brand logo and goltnix could afford adidas finally probably they couldn't afford it sometimes so they would buy fake adidas and it's really funny because they have to somehow change the logo right in order to um like avoid the loss so it would be a bibas yeah or i'd add a dust or something like they would make uh purposefully a mistake so that they don't copy the logo they don't break the law so they will be ibiba and people could literally wear this funny clothes yes i even remember this yeah but i i guess my friends so i disagree but maybe something like this who knows next thing is kay ge bear okay gabe is like fbi or like from russia said like by watching or something guys kagame some people texted me when i asked about their fears of traveling to russia they took like not one but many people texted me that they're afraid of being followed by kgb or kgb punishing them for things they say or kgb sending them to prison right uh on the day when they arrive to russia yeah but kgb doesn't exist guys yeah so some korean group of young boys can take us a new pop music group like kgb like have bts can make kgb because kgb is uh available now um and not exist anything under name of kgb but we have other one that is called fe as well phase b it's fbi this is real guys of fbi uh so facebook uh only when you can use it you can use it um it's for girls guys sorry so if you see one guy for example elena i like that guy look but i don't know the name of him i don't know anything give me a second past like three times his name is sergey he live in metro dinama he like um sports football but and you know how he knows this you face bad yeah like this we can do it like you fbi because you know some extra information like you know the girls that uh every time watching for boyfriend who he had on instagram where he put like so this is facebook yeah in this kind of thing you can use like the freeze brushing now as well uh and also we have one more i hope no one russian policemen watching me because this is dangerous yes we have as a word that's called moosa moosa literally is mean garbage is like a cops like for example elena [Music] yeah it was in the past but also until now it exists so uh guys kagabe has diet sorry uh face bear works but if your girl who looking for the boyfriend uh after in in instagram so if you have the girlfriends that follow you and every time know your fingerprints and you're sleeping and she just push your button here for unlock your cell phone she is face back for other kind of thing we not use it um next thing that is most important today everybody talk about politics they have haters and the command the right the left straight guys we are not from the left from the right we are just here in a direction in direct position yeah because we have no idea about politic not just because i'm belonged uh just because russians don't care about politics really if you go to brazil there's like their fight their fights yeah so they are like you can you can listen uh they're called panilazzo where they take something like uh japan and they do this with a spoon yeah so they are they have conflict their fight with the neighborhood like you support him no you support this they put in the facebook who is this i haven't even uh seen even once a situation where two friends or family members would argue about politics okay we just i guess really don't care yeah uh the one time when you can talk about putin it's when you go to store and buy vodka the name is putin yeah of course we have someone that like want to talk like we have to change this country or something but uh when it's happened it's called kitchen if someone not just rich i know that someone not just rich so now we're in the kitchen talking with you is a life so when it's happened so if you have a party like a friday morning not morning night so you already drunk a little bit drunk or you just see that someone's there just uh dance and you don't wanna dance what you do you go into the kitchen to stay in some calm silence place and now you find someone who is here also and i'm talk elena this life is so hard i have to pay all these bills and i didn't cut off me yeah like oh god every day i pay for my light you see this cost of this light it's just because of the stupid government and everything it's under tequila so believe me no political of serious way so it's gonna be and the next thing about all this uh kind of politic it's putin rasputin elena do you know who is rasputin that was one of the revolutionaries i guess yeah i don't know guys let me know if you know who is rasputin because i know rasputin only for the last song of manchester united putin that maybe you know i think it was during the nicolas ii yeah so it's really popular abroad talk about rasputin what he did so guys believe me you know about russ putin more than i that born here in this country and learn seven years history past national exam of history and enter with national exam of history in university and i don't know who is this guy because it's not so popular we don't know and the same about putin yeah now it's um a little bit um dangerous moment because uh we have a lot of change thing and about our history some conflict some of uh think like uh demonstration but we not talk really about them or elenian lenin also lenin uh not not a guy okay lenin nero is a kremlin if you want to visit him take some tea for him he's there he's staying there was already a couple of decades still there he's still there sleeping waiting for you in the center of moscow three for free you don't need work yes but you can't make a selfie have you visited it yes but i don't make a selfie no you can't make pictures even stop even stop so not put high heels it's hard to walk right yes when you go inside the room yeah i don't know this word when you go inside the mausoleum of lenin on the like nearby near the red square you go inside and you cannot stop at one place the there is the guard who tells you that you always have to walk like keep walking constantly yes like motion that's the role they have yes so when you come here i wouldn't say this is a place like must visit but if you would like to visit you will see this if you like dead people if you like walk in bed no but i wear adidas i mean uh shoes it will be really comfortable to walk around selenium but lenin exists exists in every city [Music] everyone confuses tartar and tartar but i don't think he was he's not i don't know guys tartar is souls please yes and not or a dish made of raw meat or a sauce yes and tartar tatar is ethnic group yes it's like talk uh swedish and sandwich it's the same so and now leon uh actually in every city in russia you cannot believe but trust me uh we have the street of eileen and monument in the middle of the city in every city of russia so there lenin is still alive so if you want to make a picture with him you can choose or that leaning or monumentally but within that lenin you can't make a selfie do you run marathons yes people feel like you have too much energy do you learn marathons yes she's always this energetic oh yes even our students they say that she replies constantly like you they asked something and she replies all the time yeah yeah so the next thing is what do you like is to drink so everybody's saying it's not existing as a joke in one of my recent videos um and i said it because this is such a stereotypical phrase which all the foreigners know and they think that russians you'll use all the time so i used it but only as a joke because not that olivia we don't use it when we want to cheer no so if you want a cheer let's take our chair here is of course vodka yeah you are drinking vodka by the way my vodka vodka yes we think we don't have snacks because in russia we talk that all gra uh like growls that degrees like every oh all i'll go to snacks so do not waste your money to snack invest in a vodka because straight mark straight vodka so we can say sally boy boyfriend that your wife is mean for love so we drink falafe sallywife acceptable and also zanas than us for us like we are drinking for us for be happy if you want to uh drink for health you can say but not not that but it's better to say zavasha rovia like for your health zavashas it means uh you're welcome now for example uh i has arrived in a elena house and i gave for her chocolate and say elena chocolate very spicy she will say spicy but and i will say nazdarovia so my chocolate i bring for her my gift like as a food for she eat be happy and be healthy i mean you are welcome just literally one hour ago a delivery man brought this to me and it's uh it's not sponsored yeah it's a stabilizer for my camera and for my phone and then now he texted in the chat i brought you this stuff let's just say thank you thank you for loving you we love you what is his name thank you the delivery man thank you thank you so much thank you so much by the way guys uh really thank you a lot because during the last stream i've got many um like donations and help from you so now i was able to buy a stabilizer and i will be able to make better videos so this is all thanks to you thank you so much now i will need to learn how to use this because you can see that it's in a box i've never used it before the delivery man just brought it to me and now he's he texts in this chat i was so surprised to say this yeah so literally we target one follower yeah so uh it's when we drink nas that obvious you're welcome if you wanna uh just thanks for someone and you wanna wish for him the best so you take na okay next is like the pain of my heart really like praying from my heart it's ski ruski amerikanski diabotsky uh baranatsky krimlovsky putzinski uh guys please ski in courchevel skiing on holiday but don't ski in russian language ins we don't have ski okay so we have america [Music] that mean american we're not talking americans we say anglis in the end anglis ki [Music] so we don't have ski anywhere it's not existed you just not exist and just remember this guys please uh you can find it i know where you can find it it's low it's called low budget films yeah so uh you can find it in a spongebob that don't know translation fast infusion that change the power and energy it's half a lot of uh yeah for example this arnold schwarzenegger uh the movie like old movie old school movie so there's like really really bad russians it's like you know it's like parody of russian so like nazdarovia i don't know what this is but it's really popular uh guys from amsterdam just be quiet if there is a russian he's one always a bad guy two he's always boris almost like we have like we only have this one named boris yeah by the way it's not boris at all it's buddies it's a boy yeah so guys if you find this kind of we don't have such name boards if you find this kind of film just for you know the uh direction of this movie or some kind of uh the writer of this movie he just bought the new my buff or lamborghini because he saved money in the budget of film and he just wanna use it with a google translate or i don't know some really strange guy that looked like a talking russian but he doesn't there are actually many mistakes like this and some american movies or in other international movies where there are the where there is the cyrillic alphabet for example there there is one movie with leonardo dicaprio and he shows his passwords and he plays a russian i think and there is just letters just uh many consonant consonants which don't make sense in russian it's like and it's it looks just hilarious yeah i think that the director really spent uh the money on himself and saved yeah my gosh yeah there are some russian letters which don't make sense in russian and he's showing a passport and there is some serious moment in the movie and he's like here's my password and then when you put it on the pod and like oh there it's in russian and then it's like it doesn't make any sense and there are many mistakes like this in different movies by the way have you watched many movies where you saw russians and how usually were they represented because usually there are these bad guys i remember watching a horror movie and there was this crazy girl i think it's detachment like child of the darkness something like this and she was she was like super crazy girl who killed she was a teenager like 15 years old and she killed all her family because she fell in love with her stepdad so she killed his wife she killed his children but then when she realized that he doesn't love her she she decided to kill him and then so i watched this movie and in the end everyone finds out that this girl that this girl is natasha who was adopted from russia of course russians in the movies are always so stereotyped they're always these bad guys and oh no we're gonna change the camera just a moment guys just a little moment here please because it's a bit crazy here with the cameras uh now it's gonna be like this another not a really good quality but anyways we've gotta finish this live stream so because of these stereotypes and russians being represented like this in the movies or maybe in some comedy shows when we go abroad some people usually have these stereotypes against russians so it's really not cool yeah so just um for like quick thing for example i've been living in brazil so now there's really popular guys that call vitus he's singer and my grandmother used to listen him but it was like 30 years ago and now he just became popular there so sometimes you need to remember that time and fashion is coming really slow so something that you know about russia maybe was 20 years ago so every time update your information okay and just be sure that you use uh good resource about this so let's read the comments now and answer some of your comments okay uh yeah russians are always demonized in movies are they gemini's in the american movies or also in other movies by the way i think that in russian movies germans are sometimes demonized for what do you think yeah so this is probably the problem for many nations let's say so it's just really popular to have as a really strong russian mafia and it's like this what else now the us is communist and russia isn't why the us is recognized as one of the best countries for entrepreneurship and many russians like their dream is to move to the us sometimes of course it's a dream in these pink glasses where they think that they move to the us and their lives become just marvelous and they are entrepreneurs and they just count money and spend money a lot of people believe that like russian hate americans because we are always like competitors between each other but uh if you will see in real life and you will ask i don't know like every third russian person will talk that there would like to visit usa or live there even they will talk that they don't like or they use some propaganda thing or something but they will they are definitely inside wanted to visit or just to leave their work there so sometimes uh what politics say says like the mass media they're talking about the high society because they know what they're talking about and like normal people they're just so really curious how how is the lives there how life here so it's not always like the right or to the left sometimes it's in the middle and it's good to have the bose view of the situation by the way many people ask me how americans are viewed in russia and i even got some dms or comments where people were asking me will nothing bad happen to me if i come to russia because i'm an american and i think that russians don't like americans is gonna is anything dangerous gonna happen to me because of this of course not this like not war but opposition is only on the level of the politics of course between the us and russia and when we talk about normal usual people many russians are curious about making amer american friends many of them really like english so they would be just happy to have an american friend to practice english with a native speaker and as alana mentioned many russians also would like to study in the us or go there for working we have a really popular program here work and travel where russians go to the us for summer and work there as lifesavers or as waitress in mcdonald's or somewhere it's like low-paying jobs for americans but for russians when it's in dollars it's quite a well-paid job so we have this program work and travel where students go uh for working there for several months so people uh on the like usual level if we're not talking about the politics they have nothing again against the us and on the opposite they are really curious interested in it and in my video where i interviewed russians you probably see saw that many russians have like positive view of americans and there are just several exceptions usually elder people um who think that there is no culture in the us uh that just because they're watching too much tv i guess what else do they ask the orphan yes that movie is named orphan and in the end uh you find out that this girl is natasha from russia by the way there is this stereotype that all the guys are boris but we don't have such name boys i don't have any friends by the way yeah i have only i have one i have a small uh small nephew and he's watching the cartoon and the name of cow there is a boy and he sing a song there so he's in folklore yeah so not in the mafia yeah and that all the girls are natashas and and that natashas are these girls of uh non-responsible behavior that they're gonna [Music] make out with foreigners and that yeah russian girls are stereotyped for this that they're all natashas let's say so in turkey you say yeah in the turkey is really popular in turkey because a lot of russian go to turkey so they have like uh the holiday romance i believe uh so most of the turkish people will called russian natasha but actually i've never been in turkey so vietnam and alliance of russia i would say that the relationship between vietnam and russia are really close and you probably know that in vietnam there was this socialist communism system and there they have this communist flag when i went there i was like it's this soviet union or or something like this overall the relationships between these two countries are really great and as for my experience and i lived in vietnam for almost a year before the pandemic started i worked there as a language teacher everyone really treated me so well and everyone there is interested about russia so i was really glad that they have such positive view of russia olga is also really popular but when i was in brazil i had the neighborhood and his dog was named olga so actually all they're not existed is also really really really rare name now because um every year we have some fashion for the name so all those kind of names like but he's olga maybe it was like popular in the past like maybe 30 years ago now it's uh other names like sofia maybe you know sofia [Music] actually now it's really popular to call uh the children with really strange names so and also now it's popular to use really old russian names for example yes maybe yes there is this new trend for these traditional names by the way do you think that russian names are hard to pronounce i think they are super easy like alona elena yes where many friends call me ellie or in russian it's ella but do you have a short name no no a lot of people want guillermo but both don't like it a lot of people mix elena and elena as well yeah okay well thank you guys a lot for all your questions and thanks to you our stream was really interesting because you have uh asked so many questions and it was really active thank you so much for taking part i hope that you've learned more about the soviet union history about russia before the dissolution of the soviet union and probably learned more um how russia changed probably you didn't know which republics were in the soviet union so i hope that you've got a lot of useful information about that and also about that slang during the soviet union times and i hope that he will not be using these stereotypical words like alona was telling nazdarovia etc which don't exist now sorry for break your hearts i thought that you did got a bad day incorporating that i'm so sorry but i have to tell you ugly truth yeah we have to tell you the truth only thank you again for being with us for almost two hours right thank you so much david oh we didn't tell usually we would make a tree uh a life with aleana me from moscow or from anywhere the last stream we made together i was in chichenya in the cheshire republic and elena from is from smallies can you tell about your city a bit uh my city uh my city is like border of belarusian and there was born every time i told this as i was born in the first space man uh the guardian yuri gagarin he was born there uh so all we always don't know actually it's always good for you so we learn not will not teach you only but learn from each other so guys thank you very much to be with us yes and today we are making this stream together actually because tomorrow we're leading to more months already tomorrow yeah this is gonna be really exciting murmansk is in the very north of russia we're gonna be visiting one of the most north northernmost cities of the world we also hope to swim in the arctic ocean yes it's our plan and please stand for some stars for abroad yes it's the northern lights we hope to see them as well but it of course depends on your luck with the weather but we really hope to yeah and your stars so guys thank you so much roberto yes and yeah so we're going to mormons tomorrow i will be making a video there and also one more member is actually going to join us in our trip it will be interesting you actually thank you yes you actually know this girl but i'm gonna keep this as an intrigue you can you can get some comments and maybe if something yeah wow let's do it if someone will get uh wait we wanted to make the cards we have the yes but how i have the emails remember guys on my community page can you bring the posts postcards now no we will show there in community later we make a picture do you have them no no no i have some in the living room i'm going to bring something okay so let me talk what will happen oh my god [Music] i didn't know i would be doing [Laughter] it i just didn't want to throw my like super short uh it would get more of you okay so guys uh wait wait wait i wanna come now yes i will just tell what will happen she just will bring some surprise that we will gonna share with you so uh now we will tell you how it will be uh and everything you will know in a minute she just go back there so guys let me know if was useful for you and uh yes and definitely we will ask you as a question who will go with us and dank i think i'm coming in the end of this i don't know let's take here maybe some questions ask my dream city really well a lot of russian even don't know where is this place uh yes there is coal i believe will be interesting naked swimming i'm not sure there's four degrees water celsius uh i love russian people it's good to know i hope you are in yours we almost forgot about this yes in my community i told you that we're gonna make a surprise for those who fill out the form uh through the link and my community so let me just open it now and we're going to see how many people took part just a moment yes and so and i will tell what will be so here this is chocolate but yeah so here will be the postcard from the heart from the la from russia with love so this one is uh like from winter and this one from moscow and also we have one it's like extra cool gift because here it's from tritikov gallery it's like the louvre of russia so here half of the kremlin and inside have chocolate so here will be three gifts gifted uh we will uh like make um uh like a lottery yeah like a lottery uh like between the all the mails you are have left during times that your fills the form so we will just take the uh random number yeah yeah random number so we will take the right one 162 people he'll go out the world maybe we will create super cool slap squad i don't know so now we have 160 how much 100 we have to show them we can uh i'm gonna send this to you to your phone now and you will be showing it to the camera really yes it's really oh okay so now we have 100 can you open it yeah 162 people who took part you know who filled out the form in my community to take part to win this prizes from russia uh and we will use [Music] in just a moment uh we will also use the random random number generator and we will choose three people yes we will use the random random numbers generator and choose one of you so i just want you to see everything here is the all the people who filled out the form there are 162 people now alana will open the random number generator we will see who gets this gift so number one is this gift yeah so we will write something here with eleanor yeah so we it's also francisco gallery by the way yeah till 160 oh wait no no there is so there is a lot of people who filled out the form oh my gosh there is 958 wait really let me check i cannot believe that so many people are watching my my channel and reading my posts on community wait i'm just going to check it again um here oh so let's make a question yeah i know we will not pick a question we just make a generation okay so now we will just double check if it was yes because of it oh my god yeah wow 958 yes it was 958 people who filled out the form yeah so guys now i have uh this one um random randomizer yeah so we put 958 and we just take the one number so and we will find the number and after this read who who is winning so the first this card goes to [Music] it's 400 likes there you go 448 448 yeah you can make a screenshot maybe it's hardened or jordan yes you can see here 448 it's darden and i will make a screenshot of his email yeah so it starts let's text the start he doesn't have an email you don't have a mail sorry it was miss another seven five six i'm look like bingo bingo seven five six so make screenshot here let's check uh seven five six is zach zach zach yeah and what is his the beginning of his i will make a screenshot of his email yes he has an email yeah so so it's no i think he wouldn't want okay this card goes to that oh zach let's put zach dears up yeah let's bring it here dear zach right now we just went here here so dear zach [Music] number one so second let's put my uh it's 50. i don't know if you just push here the oh here's your announcement so here you just randomize some number so the second so here you can see number 50 and it's carla john carla capullo yes he has an email everything looks good wow it's something from italian mafia and the last one uh with the chocolate chocolate yes from special color yeah and it also has really beautiful package yeah so it was 240 bingo 240 and let's check who was 240 you can see it's at still a twin first oil 240 so you got chocolate from russia yes uh we will be sending out everything yeah so the russian post woman will say uh thank you wait uh i'm gonna open the chat now let's check oh my gosh thank you so much david for contributing to our trip to moormonk yeah and thank you uh the chat it's not the chat to win the lottery so before on my community page i left the link where everyone could fill out the form with the email if they would like to take part in this lottery and get some gifts from russia and i made an exile like chart out of these emails so every email has got a number for example number one zach number two um was the john et cetera and then we had a random number like app where we chose three people out of almost one thousand we took part that's really cool so uh where guys are gonna send these gifts thank you again a lot for being here yeah and let's make one more uh guessing [Music] no no that that's gonna become evident if we say yeah okay uh [Music] we're going to murmansk with another youtuber she also makes videos about russia what else can we say she's brunette okay she's a brunette so you can guess can you try to guess who is going to mormons with us yeah just guess there and we will send uh some special card like gift card from the north north city of russia yeah actually there have craft beer from north okay uh you have to name this one person yeah one person thank you so much roberto he's not called sorry it was a girl yeah because i mean everybody just fathered that girl [Music] thank you so much commando crossfire what is crossfire not there not dasha seems like everyone only knows one name like natasha we were just saying that natasha is such a stereotypical name and now yeah she she's not russian i think it's hard maybe uh someone said cat sullivan oppa wait is he rubble wait cats cats uh wait who was the first to say cats we will find it no okay it's look like liam liam tulan leave me a message like a direct message on instagram with your address and we're going to send you a gift card from mormont yeah from north no i will only answer to liam tulan yeah yeah yes it's gonna be cat your guest i don't know her yet so maybe that will be interesting uh travel for us and for her i believe uh because she's foreign that go to north you should be kind of brave even i'm scared i think i detect just the most warm clothes and lena spoke to me like why yeah we're the craziest travelers because when we say that we want to go to the sea the beach yeah to the beach we go to the arctic ocean to swim there probably we're gonna catch some sea urchins yes and try it okay simply and in order to understand that you can come to our speaking club we're gonna be waiting for

Channel: Eli from Russia

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Length: 111min 45sec (6705 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021