Comments by "SantomPh" (@SantomPh) on "bald and bankrupt" channel.

  1. I was more impressed the kid knew some English. he lives smack dab in the middle of Russia.
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  2. a car isn't "guapo", a person is.He's smiling cos you called him handsome. the word is "bonito" or "hermoso".
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  3. Putin flooded the place with Russians and gave Russian passports to any locals willing. The people you speak to here are the real Abkhazians.
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  4. Bald said that is something he loves about India.
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  5. she's Belarussian
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  6. the Estonian, Tajik and Georgian pavillions are now other pavillions or demolished. The park is not actually a celebration of the Soviet SSRs any longer but some the independent countries decided to fund their own pavillions. "Latvia" is a pavilion for Physical Education and Sport while "Lithuania" is dedicated to Chemistry. Estonia, being Estonians didn't bother to replace or build one of their own and their former pavilion is now the Kyrgyzstan pavillion. fun fact there is actually an Abkhazia pavillion, probably to piss off the Georgians.
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  7. the helicopter is literally the same type as the one in Rambo 3, the Hind-D
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  8. "La Ilahaillah Muhammadur Rasullulah" - There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is his Messenger. This is the Islamic declaration of faith and she is repeating it; her beads are a counting device.
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  9. I was wondering why she would have said "Christians" when the region is majority Christian.
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  10. Italians, Greek, Polish, Midlands and Spanish grandmas would speak like this as well. What we think of as " Western" is normally Anglo-Saxon/ American bland, culture-void crap.
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  11. Stalin also means "steel", maybe in his younger days he was tough as nails
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  12. the kids who lived in Derby have a perfect accent!
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  13. i'm worried they won't let him in with the Azerbaijan stamp in his passport (unless it is detachable)
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  14. they were a pretty killer team in the old days, even the women were quite good
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  15. while Mauritania is conservative, they are so far out of town that by the time we see Alinchik's glorious legs no one else can see them. You might notice she is very well covered in the house and on the train, she is polite enough to do that. don't confuse "Islamic" for "shallow dunderheads who can't accept anything different/Tory voters/ Republicans"
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  16. a lot of his travels are inane walks or getting shouted at by locals
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  17.  @baldandbankrupt  Romani and Hindi have a lot of common roots, notably all the parts of the face are the same (naak, muh, kaan = nose,mouth, ear) even some of the numbers are the same. One reason the Roma are discriminated against is due to their darker skin compared to Central Asians and Eastern Europeans....
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  18.  @wesbulltex  presenting things with a clear, non biased perspective is "lefty"? Were you one of those Nazis at Charlottesville? Yes
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  19.  @BrekkaJones24  plenty of white people in Africa, lots of teachers, volunteers, expats etc
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  20. he is nowhere near Baku, can't be for the tournament
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  21. Well swimming in the lake is illegal lol
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  22.  @longkumercontribution377  he raised money for the refugee colony in Delhi and visited Kolya 3 times in an irradiated wasteland. How is that stingy?
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  23. the republics in the Caucasus are not exactly "Russia" proper as they have high levels of autonomy and often it seems you are not in Russia any more despite the opposite
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  24. well, not for the right reasons
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  25. They are friendly or rather apathetic due to decades of neglect. In South America villagers are more robust and energetic
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  26. School is not necessarily segregated in the Caucasus republics (of which only one is not Muslim) as children are not needed to be segregated. In fact most Muslim countries do not segregate their schools. The Caucasus has bred many terrorists and fundamentalists over the years but it is by no means their ideal place to live.
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  27.  @jeremylim2421  subtitles/ dub helps.
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  28. she Belarussian
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  29.  @lukusmardukus4002  if you wipe this sink it won't complain at least
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  30. to be fair that is almost all the developing world in Asia and Africa
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  31. There was a bridge there but the British Indian Army blew it up in WW2.
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  32. He should be on VICE
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  33. UK= Chav, Essex Boy, Scally Oz = Bogan, Ned, Hoon Russia = Gopnik
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  34. and you have to film the old London black cabs they bought up to use in Baku.
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  35. he literally fell over in Bolivia and took out a knife in Belarus
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  36. everyone loves freedom. No need to listen to a country so cocky they picked a fight with Russia with its president running away to become an advisor to Ukraine's president.
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  37. Goulash is from Hungary but there are regional variants everywhere. Janek from Honest Guide showed a Czech goulash that is pretty similar but uniquely Czech
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  38. a Salvadoran gang operating in Mexico? naw
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  39.  @budgetking2591  it doesn't sell passports, like Estonia it sells E-citizenships which isn't the same thing. To get a Latvian you have to speak Latvian, and that is hella difficult..... It is Bulgaria that is selling passports.
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  40. the transition of power was rather quiet
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  41. forget Borat. Where is the legendary stuntman Illyudin Tulyakbay who performed the magnificent feat of letting a man place his khram in his anus? that was earth shattering (refer to Comic Relief hosted by Graham Norton)
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  42. I thought Aussies just looked at a beer and it opened
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  43. I was a leftenant then
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  44. Saudi Arabia is pretty much the only country with "family" and "male only" areas. In places like Indonesia, Nigeria and Malaysia people sit however they like even sharing tables
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  45. the Ganges literally changes name at the border, it might as well be Ganges all the way
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  46. so, where are the morons saying "where are the women?" they are all in this video
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  47. Estonians and Latvians were brought to the Perm area and all down the Urals to Chelabynsk, too few came back.
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  48. He speaks Russian, probably read it in Russian
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  49. easier to learn it with a native speaker of your own language as well. It is actually pretty hard to find a genuine Hindi school for foreigners
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  50. Serj lives in LA and didn't grow up in Armenia. Though he speaks the language and is proud of his heritage, he has no real connection to the land apart from his families
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  51. There is an actual brand called Kingfeemer which is a 0% beer. In other videos he drinks Kingfisher but labels the fisher as feemer using tape😂
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  52. Or you were headed the wrong direction
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  53.  @blackmoreOrion  Russian and Czech are Slavic languages but with full sentences they sound very different. And yes you are multilingual
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  54. No wonder they don't sell it at the local shop
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  55. 5:11 ah to be little Fidel. Fidelito bueno
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  56. Azeri is just a dialect of Turkish, after all
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  57.  @ivarsverson4116  strange song to sing in church...is it religious?
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  58.  @mecolinsougrakpam3856  Manipur is still part of India...just not Hindi speaking
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  59. Mauritania is relatively safe from terrorism of that sort, although banditry is more of a problem
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  60. Britain has no biosecurity, it's own natives need an upgrade
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  61.  @LentusTV  the Nazis failed due to many factors, which was the failure to neutralize the USSR and capture its leadership BUT also the failure to take the Caucasus and invade the oil rich Middle East. Hitler's attitude towards tactical retreats was also a problem
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  62. don't think he wants to be under the thumb of a desk riding Old Etonian producer. Bald is his own man and hopefully continues to be so.
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  63. He has been there and apparently barely survived
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  64. The Mughals and Sultans of Delhi prized Farsi as a language of learning and culture and of business
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  65. people are frightened they will be identified and used in some government crackdown.
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  66. Russian was made an optional subject in school over a decade ago, and people outiside of the big cities don't speak it at all since the government ordered all official events and items to be in Azeri. There are places with strong Russian speaking populations like at the border and I believe it is compulsory for police and military officers to learn it. Unlike many ex USSR members and satellites Azerbaijan hated the Soviet cloak and threw it off as soon as possible, since their oil industry supported their new economy. Armenia on the other hand lost access to the coast and is still dependent on Russia for a lot of things given that most of their neighbors are not that friendly (Azerbaijan and Turkey hate them, Georgia is wary of Russia etc). Hence Bald will have no problem speaking Russian in Armenia. Russia in fact has the most Armenians outside of Armenia.
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  67.  @YeeLeeHaw  SA has the largest African population of white people...I mean wha?
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  68. they demolished it in 1954. They do have an "Abkhazia" pavilion though lol and Stalin hated Georgia, he was very Russified, almost becoming an Orthodox priest at one point.
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  69.  @jett6207  there is a Hindi speaking belt in the north, plus the Prime Minister is a Hindi language advocate.
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  70. Sony x3000 or something like that
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  71. He can put 2 and 2 together
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  72.  @gaurav0narwal  immigrants? From where exactly? In your mind if they are not white they are immigrants? Idiot.
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  73. the secret to her long life? lots of prayer and no idle conversation. And good food of course.
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  74. There is a Nepali community there.
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  75. it is in the western part of Russia west of the Urals, so it is European Russia. Get over it
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  76. that's 34 degrees Celsius , folks.
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  77. Ready for the next school shooting I suppose
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  78. he is going to Armenia via Georgia- anyone who has been to Armenia can never enter Azerbaijan.
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  79. 20 lev is about 8 quid
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  80. The Caucasus below the Russian side can be quite hot in the summer.
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  81. Swiss man....from Geneva....ahahahah SURE HARALD
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  82. oh look, soppy butthurt Republican.
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  83. German cars are very durable, and unlike Japanese or American models age much better, at least the 90s models. Albania is full of Mercs and BMWs of this caliber
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  84. aren't they made in the USA though
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  85. the people exist, some are even top level officials like the Chairman of Gazprom, Alexei Miller. It's just that they are so assimilated they are no different to Russians.
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  86. Those are some nice Pensions they got there😃
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  87. The outtakes are just like the main videos lol
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  88. It helps that these places are sparsely populated.
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  89. A lot of Raj officials did speak Hindi and many local languages , actually. Not like the French or Spanish in their colonies.
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  90. Not sure where you get your figures, maybe Stormfront? Egypt made over 250 billion last year, Moldova barely got 8 billion. Smart ass.
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  91. i believe Alinchik does
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  92. He's no migrant. Looks local. Unless everyone darker than beige is a migrant to you
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  93. he said "I can't read Russian". And in some part he is right, in a previous video he said he only read capital letters. I think he's much better now though
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  94. Kyrgzstan was originally a part of Persianized Central Asia, in a mess of several empires, Khanates and Chinese client states. Hence some Persian words persist
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  95. he travels really light.
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  96.  @arthurlenko9598  it's not the prisoner quotas, it's the factory workers in the steel mills. Someone had to produce a level of steel or assembled machinery or be punished. In the gulag no one cared how much you did, it was meant to break you and kill you.
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  97. the park is actually a monument to economic progress, the former USSR pavilions are actually a minority of the overall displays. The "Latvia" and "Lithuania" pavilions are actually now "Physical Education and Sport" and "Chemistry" specifically. The Moldovan one is actually something called "trade standards" now but has been rented back to Moldova. The Kazakhstan government renovated their pavilion as it was previously a drab building dedicated to metallurgy.
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  98. The Dutch still tightly control it, if they find you growing it in your house the punishment is just as bad as elsewhere. People think the Netherlands is some bustling drug Mecca, actually it is not at all, Amsterdam has particular areas but in general the Dutch are quite conservative and not that keen.
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  99. not sure what is propaganda, it is pretty much what is shown to the world. The Cubans in the video are honest about their problems. The Cubans in Florida however are largely right wing shills that would make Mike Pence blush.
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  100. nowadays the border moved a bit west, didnt it
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  101. You destroyed Europe. Just admit it,
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  102. He DID
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  103. most of the diaspora speak Eastern dialect while most Armenians at home speak Western dialect of Armenian. As for dialect when speaking other languages, it depends on generation.
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  104. the USSR funded and subsidized a lot of things in the republics and allied nations like North Korea. When they broke off and the USSR collapsed they were on their own and couldn't afford to maintain everything.
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  105. I want a sidekick like Alinchik
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  106. India had a big construction boom in the late 70s and 80s but economic crises and gross mismanagement of funds led to heaps of places just left the buildings as they were. Due to the chaotic nature of bureaucracy in India virtually nothing modern can get done without direct intervention from the main government or local strongmen.
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  107. yes
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  108. Harald also left in a hurry....hmmmm
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  109. Ala Richard Sharpe and the Rocket Artillery
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  110. what is that sound 12:37? and now obsessing over what "zelin" is
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  111. And get tossed out by the 5 Star racists? No, I would rather piss on Italy.
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  112. it's Klayd not Clyde
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  113. national security policeman.
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  114. you can't drink in the actual irradiated zone, the shop and Ivan's house are in resettlement areas that are not applicable to the law (although you can't bring your own alcohol inside)
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  115. Karelia was a Soviet republic but of a lower status to the likes of Armenia and Kazakhstan- it was a part of the main Russian SSR but had a very high degree of autonomy, like the Tuvan or Cechnyan Republics today. It is famous because of the woods and also because of its very unique culture shared with Finland.
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  116.  @Ancient_Chronicler  Estonians can understand Finnish mostly because Finnish TV is viewable in major cities like Tallinn and Tartu and for a certain generation it was the only foreign language apart from Russian they could learn. However the languages have many homonyms (words that sound the same but mean different) that will confound and confuse each other, an Estonian and Finn will probably speak English when they meet these days. The people on Aaland (an Island belonging to Finland) certainly cannot understand Estonians- they speak Swedish!
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  117. most folks in Ukraine speak or understand Russian so he's ok. The languages are kind of intelligible but Russian is widely spoken the further east you go. You might notice the guide says "Dobry den" when they visit the shop instead of "Privyet" . Dobry den is a typical Central European greeting used in Poland,Czech Republic, Slovakia and sometimes in Hungary
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  118. Well, he is a big bald white man and walking in daylight.
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  119. Different village
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  120. @ᴛʀᴇ no swapping here
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  121. why not? Bald specializes in not so touristy places
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  122. he doesn't know where to go, although there's a lot we don't see behind the scenes
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  123. we've known his name for a year or so he revealed it on Instagram and in videos after that
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  124. more than one, it looked like
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  125. it can be Haidar Hyder Hidyr Heyder etc. Remember Azeri is a Turkic language so the vowels are different
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  126. he has already been there.
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  127. he has Alinchik to translate, fear not!
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  128. Was that a Captain Macmillan quote at the end or a coincidence?
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  129. well he won't be able to cross directly into Armenia (the border is closed and there are no flights) so a detour to Georgia might be necessary. Even then, if the authorities see an Azerbaijan visa in his passport he might get dunked into the Med.
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  130. You just made me hungry lol
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  131. Ivan Petrovich Samyakin was a Belarussian professor and writer who became a deputy of the whole USSR in the 80s. He was from that part of Belarus.
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  132. you can blame white flight for that one. Why can't this race just get along with others?
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  133. he might say something horrible. better not to try without an actual guide. That is why he asks locals the basic greetings first in Russian.
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  134.  @JesusisJesus  Azerbaijan is actually at low altitude near the Caspian so the leaves will actually cause trouble
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  135. in the election that brought Sarkozy to power someone compared the parts of France impacted by the radiation cloud to the areas that supported right wing candidate Jean Marie le Pen and found that they almost matched.
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  136.  koviack  some sellers pre weigh it and stack it in KG increments
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  137. search. it is in the video archive
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  138. Dagestan is majority Muslim and some of the TV stations occasionally play Middle Eastern music or Turkish music. Azerbaijan is also mainly Muslim and culturally Turkish as well.
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  139. Baldy speaks Russian so naturally he looks for Russian speakers
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  140. Suu Kyii was not elected as head of state/government as she has foreigner children. She was instead made the leader of her party and chose the PM, who many consider to be her puppet. The demonym for someone from Myanmar is still Burmese.
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  141. We can't all be chained to our couch, doc
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  142. This is the only place that had a UKIP MP, who later went on to quot
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  143. Bald knows that when the guy says Russia he means the non-Caucasus bits and more traditionally European part of Russia. A lot of those republics are only Russian by geography, Slavic Russian culture is almost absent in many places-no Orthodox churches, prevalence of Muslim religion, local languages, autonomous local government and societal structure.
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  144. cashless is pretty common in Eastern Europe. In some places like Tallinn and Prague you can do everything by card. It was a kiosk in a major train station of course, elsewhere it might be cash only.
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  145. a normal Andi sentence would probably not have so many sounds, a typical !Xhosa "how are you today my friend" already has over 10
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  146. has a job and life in Belarus, unlike him her passport doesn't travel that easily.
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  147. Azerbaijan hated being a Soviet republic like Georgia did so they started de-Soviet-ing as soon as they could. When they discovered oil and gas in the Caspian they went even further away from Soviet/Russian influence and decided to embrace ties with Turkey and Iran (and Israel) instead as well as Western Europe. More Azeris live in Iran compared to Azerbaijan.
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  148. It is a Buddhist symbol for the night and serenity. In Japanese and Korean maps until recently a swastika meant a Buddhist temple was there.
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  149. poor Kolya....seems to be suffering from rhumatism
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  150. The republic of Mongolia is not the same as the old empire; most "traditional" Mongolians are in fact living in China.
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  151.  @idontneedthis388  it does mean "black head" in Turkish
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  152. If they are running autos/taxis and clear tourist traps then yeah. Otherwise, especially in villages and towns people are much more honest
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  153. risking definite arrest?
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  154. the newly liberated ex-Soviet republics simply lacked the money and infrastructure to maintain things. Apart from Azerbaijan with its oil boom (but resentment towards Russia) none have fared too well in that region.
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  155. the women eat in the room next door unless it is their house. Less awkwardness that way
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  156. Dagestani children at school don't have bullet holes in them. That is the difference.
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  157. Being declared bankrupt does not mean you have no money
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  158. Russian name for the place perhaps.
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  159. the Hitler Youth were nothing like the scouts or pioneers. They were basically a third layer of militia with propaganda duties
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  160. He needs a separate visa at the border, if you are not Russian it might be tough
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  161. he had not left Russia at the time. that is the Mahatchakala train station
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  162. he does
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  163. Tada?😂
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  164. Azerbaijan is not an Arabic speaking country
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  165. Albania's WTF moment was siding with China in the Sino-Soviet split when everyone around them sided with the USSR , NATO , or no one. Then Hoxa was ignored by China and well, everyone else. It got worse in the 90s when the president Sali Berisha invested the national wealth of the country in a pyramid scheme that failed.
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  166. it is the Islamic declaration of faith. Basically she is attributing it to God.
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  167. the videos are not truly live, they are edited later when he is safe😂
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  168. would he be allowed? they are very dangerous industrial areas
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  169. the name is official, get over it
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  170. poor you.
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  171. Not sure how to tell 8 million people to leave the center of town and a busy harbor to shoot a movie
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  172. he visited Kolya in Belarus again. Poor chap is not long for the world, living in the Chernobyl radiation zone and coughing non-stop now.
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  173. doesn't count. Please actually travel
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  174. We just sleep through it bruv. Or sleep right there after prayer 😂
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  175. He's learned to sleep through it
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  176. now where are you going to go? The US might not let you in since Mexico technically never saw you come throough
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  177. Khabib also has no tattoos himself. He lowers his head when his father is talking, even Putin told him to listen to his dad and not to do the cage jumping stunt again.
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  178. Mahomed Nurbagandov.
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  179. Yeah on his instagram his name was revealed as Benjamin
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  180. it's an abacus called a schoty. here's a guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BY8jYRmP1k
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  181.  @Longlostleader  Moldova is a Balkan country as well so there is some crossover
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  182. The Illyushin theory is unproven.
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  183. ok we'll compare it to the constant oppression of Palestine by the descendants of Auschwitz then. Triggered?
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  184.  @mikeromadin8744  they seem to know each other prior to Youtube. Not exactly a typical pickup
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  185. it's no longer a Jewish oblast, most of the population moved to Israel or Europe
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  186. he is a national security agent, like FBI or KGB
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  187. he's gone to the village of the man who saved him last year. He didn't go there last year
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  188. oil money my friend. lots of oil money
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  189. oh look, someone angry they can't sit in a bar. Oooooo I'm soooo sad. Piss off
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  190. Well he is going to the border....
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  191. Don't worry, you will be able to claim everything for yourself and the rest of us can move to the Balkans and the Middle East. You already have job quotas, legal protection against being fired for any reason and marriage rights and the sympathy of loud people on the line.
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  192. it is not actually a "Russian" pavilion it is the "Main" or "Central" pavilion. The entire park is a homage to Russia's economic and scientific achievements.
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  193. that is why he brought his friend , to make introductions
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  194. The US is already like this in many places thanks to Republican obstructionism in Congress. Most of the shithole states are red.
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  195. the sanctions are aimed at personalities and businesses, not the country as a whole.
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  196. he literally highlighted a woman speaking a local language, a 100 year old lady, his friend's mother and the women selling clothes. Are you blind and also deaf? These are simple people, not attention seeking influencers.
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  197. there isn't. The Russians packed up and left, and Alaska is one of the most conservatively American places in the country. Apart from the native cultures there, it's virtually Texas of the north. I'd rather he get to Sakhalin island near Japan.
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  198. you cannot visit Turkey if your passport has Armenian stamps on it. The border is closed.
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  199. yes
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  200. it is because the pavilion is not actually "Lithuania" but dedicated to Chemistry.
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  201. He said "I'm joking". You are also deaf.
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  202. stubborn people who just want to watch the death rates climb, that's what you are.
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  203.  @hugocassany  while close relatively, France is still very far away. If he was a Channel Islander it would be a different story
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  204. @jacob you are certainly not a real German
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  205. oh, what place is next door to the UK? Who does the UK have historical ties that date back to the Roman times? Brazil?
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  206. Female gopnik = gopnista
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  207. um...Dagestan?
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  208. he has a video on it. go look for it
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  209. He gave it for free!
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  210. Russia is that kind of place. You smile,you are either drunk ormore drunk
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  211. How tall is Bald? Roman is 6"4 and he looks like a teenager next to him
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  212. we have a road here where a whole car has fallen in.
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  213. he speaks Russian rather fluently (though the case system is ignored) but has only a 30-35 word Hindi vocabulary..
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  214. it was historically part of Georgia despite having Abkhaz identity, much like how Chechnya is always part of Russia despite not being culturally Russian. When the USSR dissolved plenty of places went Yugoslavia and tried to break away from successor states and people were shunted left and right. Those people were Georgian but had lived in Abkhazia for centuries dating back to the times of the Roman Empire. The sudden rise of oligarchy and populist governments made ethnocentricity popular, leading to thousands of people being chucked out of generational homes for being "foreign". So yeah, it WAS part of Georgia and Georgians were a large minority in the place. Putin has reinforced the post USSR atmosphere by supporting an armed secession in Abkhazia and giving locals Russian citizenship and posting troops there and South Ossetia. I hope you get more familiar with the situation.
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  215. the way his videos work it seems he does the journey, then uploads them from the comfort of home one by one while he recovers. He has two channels and a blog to maintain so he has a lot of material.
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  216. so are Kazakhstan and Israel. Might as well invite Australia at this rate
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  217. Yes
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  218. His real name is Benjamin
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  219. dunno, he is from Brighton (the UK's gay capital) after all
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  220. 6:20 a white carrot indeed....as it originally comes from South America I wonder how it got there
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  221. just how will he communicate with everyone? plus with his closeness to the USSR it would make him very unwelcome in China.
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  222. it's the sermon rather than a ceremony
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  223. Cleaning up decades of Thatcher is a near impossible task
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  224. Khabib is not there.
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  225. yes they are but he might need a visa first. no VOA I think
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  226. sorry but that is hardly impressive. Don't call yourself "mixed" please.
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  227. Russia may have kicked you out but there are so many other ex-Soviet places out there plus China and Mongolia (where the urban young speak Russian). Don't drop the travels just yet kind bald man
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  228. Nagorno Kharabakh. the biggest facepalm in Caucasus history
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  229. we know he will. Just hope he doesn't actually go to the border, people get shot at just for approaching it from either side.
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  230. go to Brighton Beach, New York.....
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  231. no, he has said it many times. He revealed it on Instagram last year
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  232. they are not Azeris or Turks. you would be welcome
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  233. He is not particularly good at exonyms - words used by outsiders to name something. Kishinev is the Russian name for Chisinau
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  234. he's been there before.
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  235. he became president after the fall of the USSR
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  236. Perm (pey-u-rm) is the name of the city and the region.
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  237. he has been there. Do you not watch all of his videos?
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  238. who did you leave Little Fidel with? the guys of Honest Guide? PPPeter?
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  239. Azeri is part of the same Oghuz family of languages Turkish is in
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  240. Alina is Belarussian not Russian. and she has her own life over there- plus her passport is not as welcome overseas as Bald's is.
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  241. that is for more intellectual and more well-funded channels
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  242. pretty sure there's a mosaic of Lenin marching on the left of the cosmonaut one too hmmm
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  243. What crisis? The cities are hyper overpopulated but the countryside is rather empty
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  244. unlike in Azerbaijan the Russians left Armenia in the hands of pro-Soviet Armenians, the languages became co official
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  245. he meant the classical "Slavic" Russia . In Dagestan the culture is not Slavic so despite being a Russian republic it isn't "Russian" to a lot of people as the culture is virtually foreign (and the laws). Bald has been to several parts of the country are not culturally Russian like Chechnya, Tuvan and Kamatchaka which are all within Russia's borders but are culturally so foreign even Russians feel they are outside their country.
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  246. he is
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  247. they were in the room next door.
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  248. how do you get into Azerbaijan without a confirmed hotel booking?
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  249.  @baldandbankrupt  +1 access
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  250. the British equivalent would be "oi" or "ey bruv"
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  251. lol two in one
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  252. Azerbaijan is not really dependent on Russia for anything so links are not as strong. While there is still an ethnic Russian population and Russian is spoken in Baku, Azeri is the only official language in Azerbaijan with Russian now degraded to optional status in schools. Apart from Georgia the other countries you mentioned have good links with Russia and somewhat depend on it for technological and economic support. As you might have seen in Bald's Georgia videos, Russian is not spoken by everyone, especially outside Abkhazia and South Ossetia. The Georgians also rather dislike the Russian government.
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  253. Taking turns with Romania as the poorest country in the EU
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  254. You mean Naples?
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  255. The Caucasus are west of the Urals, so this is European Russia. Even the Tsar insisted.
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  256. He would need another visa but we never know
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  257. You look like a couple of Mormon missionaries😆
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  258. Somewhere Boris is smiling
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  259. It's "Kyrgyz" not "Kygryzstani" 🇰🇬
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  260. that's not the graveyard , that wouldn't be inside the walls.
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  261. errr bald and bankrupt?
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  262. the Caucasus mountains are well, mountains. The forests start when you get closer to the Caspian coast
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  263. 12:50 me at the start of my trip, throughout my trip and at the end. Sitting with a bottle in my hand. Pretty sure Rovno was the old name and Rivna is the new name and not the opposite?
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  264. Specifically coin
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  265. do they? show some proof. of your narrowmindedness
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  266. he married a Belarussian woman once and just soaked it up. He reportedly misses the case system entirely but people understand him anyway. The history of his Russian journey is explained in a video on his channel as well as his collab with NFKRZ on that channel
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  267. why are you on a no fly list?
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  268.  @BitWise501  you might see them in some loh jibanij places
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  269. He needs to speak Spanish and Portuguese first...that is the charm of his channel, he speaks the local language. Otherwise he would be like any other Brit traveller with no language skills...
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  270. there is no "Indian" language.
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  271. Chechnya is more conservative, could pass for a Middle Eastern country in some places
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  272. you seriously don't know?
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  273. he can't type or read Azeri, can he?
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  274. The opposite- all governments in that area are quite right wing. You have to travel to Sweden or Germany to find one.
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  275. Lots of multilingual people, unfortunately they are not the whites!
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  276. Vladivostok. See the Pacific Ocean. Or go to the bordertown with North Korea with the rail bridge.
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  277. haha the dude was smiling because he thought Bald called him handsome
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  278. he was there! and he went on a cable car up a mountain....
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  279. rather, to spend time praying and living a (relatively) clean life. Not to say being religious is necessary, but to have faith in something helps keep the wllpower strong
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  280. Bald is now 🚰 sinksexual
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  281. everything west of the Urals is considered Europe. 80% of Russians live in the western side. Now shut up.
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  282. it's not that the place is 'more Soviet mentality', the preserved monuments don't have explicit USSR symbols and are closer to Ukrainian history than Soviet.
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  283. He got sick in Imphal, went home, then came back to India but got even more sick and is now back home on a break
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  284. he just came from there
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  285. Because he has been in the north and north west and north east...big place!!!
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  286. the BBC is still viewed as a government channel and is hamstrung by interference from its upper management. Even BBC3 had to go fully online to show things like drug dealers and teen pregnancy.
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  287. the state farms were never owned by people before collectivization.
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  288. he needs a visa to go to Russia and most non-EU ex Soviet/Yugoslav countries anyway so not much will change in that regard
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  289. Speaking the language really helps.
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  290. What happened to Bolivians that they don't seem trusting? You don't speak the language. Husband/wife : esposa
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  291. he made a video about that all.
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  292. it's a surplus jacket that somehow ended up in the local market
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  293. Russian Xmas is in January, come back later
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  294. you and PPPeter did the crazy. The train , as you saw is not a passenger train hence it is away from the town
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  295. Botlikh
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  296. he's been to India so he should be alright
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  297. when the state doesn't regulate the economy you'll have more than 1000 food banks
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  298. yes he is a Dagestani. The hat Bald wore in the last episode is similar to the one Khabib wears in the pre-fight and press conference
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  299. we'll have to rescue those lads soon
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  300. Johnny HD went.
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  301. he said in Russia.
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  302. it's either road signs or school children.
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  303. That's Buran. Baikonur is still used to launch rockets including NASA and ISS modules.
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  304. Karl lives in Delhi. A bit hard to go places when you have a house to take care of. He is now in the North East though. Baldy goes everywhere but Delhi but the main flights from the UK normally go to the major airports at Delhi or Mumbai etc
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  305. Belgium is boring as heck. A country founded by whining Catholics in 1830 that decided to rape the Congo is not worth visiting. Shitting on, maybe. But not visiting
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  306. It isn't directly but Russia looms large over all that area
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  307. all Muslim countries know that phrase.
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  308. He is the King of Brighton.
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  309. They were never part of Romania per se.
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  310. that's a steel mill, not a railway station lol
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  311. he was in Dagestan and Chechnya before this with a stop in Astrakhan
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  312. Puerto Rico is a territory of the USA so it doesn't have a state government that pulls tricks to get funds or political stunts . Also there are those hurricanes that just destroy everything over and over again....
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  313. the CaucaSUS. A caucus is a poll type of election
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  314. in Russia all you need is a cousin
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  315. Russians don't care that much, but trust me. You need them without feeling the loss of your unearned privilege....er totalitarianism
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  316. the INS and overzealous local sherrifs and militia are also non democratic?
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  317.  @Blackadder75  the author of the song has actually commented here
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  318. @suNTmi LOg they tend to be in Transnistria, which is already the Crimea of the inland
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  319. The Caucasus region is not really part of the Middle East despite the religious background, it was part of the Persian Empire and laterOttoman Empire at some point but did not remain that way because of the Mongols and Tsarist Russia taking over.
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  320. she likely has a job to go to in Belarus.
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  321. he's kidding
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  322. he offered to replace their petrol, this is not a bribe.
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  323. he was declared bankrupt in the UK some time ago, which prompted his travels to India. He explains it in a video somewhere
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  324. A 1.41 USD tuktuk ride 😂
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  325. He has spoken English, Hindi (sparingly) and Russian
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  326. it helps that one of their own knows Bald , and that Bald can speak Russian
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  327. Bald is taking a short break, likely to spend time with his daughter. Kyrgyzstan is largely not-Soviet (mostly rural and traditionally Kyrgyz) so it would be very different from the usual content, but closer to his India vids.
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  328. he didn't realize the sheep herder noticed him.
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  329. PPPeter covers that
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  330. practical, sustainable and safe architecture.
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  331. and yet people can live there in peace. Shut up, Gary.
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  332. inland from Sochi. Not in this area.
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  333. He has been speaking Russian for a while now, learned from practice, normally with Russian and Belarussian women he was in a relationship with
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  334. But did he? All he drank was milk tea
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  335. Georgia was rather abused by Stalin and would have disappeared into obscurity had the USSR not disappeared
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  336. He's yelling at the border, one nicelly placed shell and he will be yelling the other way
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  337. Well that's nice of you to say
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  338. merry summer Xmas mate
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  339. That ending, who was the big spoon?
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  340. The Mordvin languages are not Slavic languages so they bear little resemblance to Russian apart from letters used. They are Uralic peoples, after all
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  341. They sell vegetables here therefore it is a veggie market.
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  342. He said do vidanya (Russian)
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  343. It's physically connected, Europe ends at the Black Sea
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  344.  Kyril J  the term is Uralic, and there are many diverse branches of the language that have been separated by distance and time- and unlike the Slavic languages have had few linkages via religion, physical contact and political union. Finno-Uralic (Finland and Estonia) is the strongest branch along with Ugric (Hungarian) today
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  345. the one that claimed to 'drain the swamp' and instead made it bigger?
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  346.  @50calorie82  legally all states need to have Hindi and English as a legal language, while there is no official language Hindi is compulsory for all high elected and appointed officials and legal documents
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  347. why would he visit a country where everything is overpriced and the people are not friendly at all? he might as well go back to the UK
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  348. oh give it up already. Poor white man whimpering at having to actually contribute more to society. Oh please.
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  349. he said so in the video as well as the last one.
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  350. looking at their culture and literature (Slavic culture in general) that is kind of a theme
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  351. although alcohol is legal to serve, places that sell them are few and far between in the region due to violence against such establishments.
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  352. He doesn't really speak Hindi, by his own admission he speaks maybe 30-40 words and knows key phrases. India is the world's largest English speaking country so there is a higher chance someone will understand him. He does speak good Russian, not just because he was married to a Belarussian but because he tries to immerse himself in Russian by going to provincial towns and villages. As for other languages, likely not.
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