Comments by "joe k" (@joek600) on "ZELENSKY, Have Pity For Your Men in BAKHMUT" video.

  1.  @yegor6763  This is exactly the way I remember things from the first time I visited the country in 2002. I was 24 and had a girlfriend living in a small city of Lugansk. For years I was back and forth Athens-Alchevsk staying there for long periods. The country was completely demoralized. All our friends there were basically the last soviet generation that found themselves as pre- teens in the craziness that followed the collapse of the USSR. Rampant crime, moral decay in every level, unemployment and the sense of no viable future. Everybody spoke Russian, even in Kiev and the official names of regions and cities were not in this newspeak they are trying to push now, like Kiyv etc. Most of the popular tv programs were in Russian and that included those surealistic overdubs where one guy did all the characters in the movie, including the females lol. Everybody was apolitical because they saw no use to it and described the country as Bardak (brothel). I still remember the next door family, saying goodbye to their daughter who was going to work abroad. As a stripper. It really made me realize how complex the world is. Normally you would expect some kind of degenerate dysfunctional family to do that. But these people were quite decent, normal folks and the parents highly educated. But also extremely desperate for money. It was really a shocking moment for me. I also remember one day we were shopping in the magazin down the corner, a young girl behind the counter, working for like 50 dollars a month. Suddenly a group of re-patriated strippers who were coming from their ''tour of duty'' came in cheerfully. They were all dressed up in furs, nice hand bags etc. I still remember the girl behind the counter looking at them wide eyed. I thought ''there she goes too''... Out of our circle of about 15 people, only 6 had a job and only 2 a proper one. Everybody wanted to leave for Kiev but the living costs were forbidding if you had not set up everything. It was practically a contry within the country with huge wage and expenses gap. Since everybody spoke Russian I asked them ''So guys are you Russians?'' to get the answer ''NO! We are Russian speaking Ukrainians''. Today if you call them Ukrainians they will break your head. I talk almost daily with my ex-girlfriend. She use to make fun of me for being very political and now she is so political that makes me pause sometimes. Families are not talking to each other, friends since school call each other names. The people who get their info from the mainstream narrative dont have a clue of how complicated this shit show is.
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  2.  @nednedelkov7852  Go watch cartoons
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  3.  @lyssword  yes Donbass was sooooo successful until Putin came and destroyed it. I remember the time when somebody stole the telephone wires and there was no telephone for days lol. Soooooooo successful.... Dude, you lived in a failed state full of thieves and it continues to be like that. You dont even know what you are asking for when you want EU membership. You think that it will rain money and you will be able to move away freely. Well thats the fairy tale version sold to the plebs. The real version involves IMF until hell freezes, all labor rights out of the window, privatization of the public sector and resources leaving all those people that already had NOTHING to fend for themselves in a neo-liberal wet dream. Just in case you were wondering.
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  4.  @lyssword  Well your clown president is going to bring Black Water, Goldman Sacks and Raytheon over and you will all eat with silver spoons. And if this doesnt work out you can always blame the Russians or the USSR.
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