Comments by "Link Knight" (@OffGridInvestor) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

  1. Over here in Australia we had "party line" phone systems in the 50s and I think you would get a weak ring if it wasn't for you and a strong one if it was. But the other 5 or so families sharing the line could listen in and even talk.
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  2. 3:31 well I certainly didn't feel gay there.....
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  3. Stoli was sent as payment for pepsi. To unravel all the currency exchange and possibly inflation or devaluation. During the collapse of the Soviet Union they gave PepsiCo old military hardware such as battleships to sell as scrap metal as payment instead. Some US politician complained and the response from the PepsiCo CEO was "I am single handedly dismantling the Soviet armed forces faster than the whole US government combined.".
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  4. And by the early 80s they were saying communism would be there by about 2000, or maybe a few more years. It's like when my phone is uploading. It tells me 5 minutes left. And that's what it told me 5 minutes ago.
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  5. Just funny to think that as cars were special in the Soviet Union my uncle and dad slone had about 20 wrecks and 5 working vehicles and that didn't include my grandfathers cars. And they were just a few hillbillies on a small farm in Australia.
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  6. Samantha Smith. Who died a few short years later in a plane crash with her father.
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  7. If it's true IT'S STILL TRUE. Sergei is here to tell the truth, not get a beating because he didn't tell the "official" PC story.
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  8.  Charles Lee Ray  was probably an actual case. And it was A DAMN GOOD joke. If it wasn't real. You grumpy assed commie.
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  9. I heard from a Romanian it was about 90% of people who did it. VERY GLAD and grateful you aren't trying to pretend like these pro-communists do and try to get the REAL answer not the polished turd answer...
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  10. What are they gonna steal.... "Dimitri, you have been busted stealing depleted uranium...."
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  11. I heard the diabetes got him. They WERE WORKING on a breifcase dialysis machine and it would've been ready in another 2 months but he died before it was finished. SOME SAY that he could well have turned the Soviet Union around and kept it going til at least 2000. Because he was a very hard handed man. Not tolerant of sny laziness, drunkenness, corruption or other BS.
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  12. Generally I believe the communists liked the concept of people doing what they liked best. And then the crap jobs like coal mining or the jobs that NEEDED more people than were willing to go, would give more money or big perks/benefits to get more people in. Often housing coming with the job, queue jumping benefits, etc.
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  13. Yeah. He loved the corn 😅
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  14. Strangely enough, if you're on s disability or old age pension here in Australia, plenty of these things you mentioned are severely discounted. A huge list of drugs will cost you a set price (about US $4.20), you get a certain amount of free public travel and I mean including SERIOUS distance. But only if you work it right because I think it's based on 8 "trips" per year. So my aunt on a disability pension goes hundreds of miles away as one trip instead of just blowing the "trip" to go to the next town. Anyone on welfare of any type gets discounted public transportation anyway. We have public housing too but the system is terrible. People who can't get anything for years and end up homeless while they leave whole streets of houses empty for years then demolish them. But refugees are moving straight into new places (and given $30 thousand to "help set up"). And some of those "refugees" have been found to be telling big lies and aren't actually refugees at all.
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  15. Frigging insane. I have heard holland has a similar thing bit its like a few weeks. It's ACTUALLY an open public register. And I heard "it's good because friends can find you". Yeah, so can crazy ex girlfriends...... screw that. Just in my local area, they started "fire safety inspections" because out here in Australian countryside grass fires can result in house fires (had one at my place about a year ago, 26 fire trucks, even helicopter). But the funny thing was they seemed to pick up everything EXCEPT long grass around houses. And I highly suspect that it was a few adult children of other local government employees who had the job MADE just for them to get a job. Only lasted like a year or 2.
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  16. I would have had a gallon of gasoline straight on that mattress.
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  17.  @justdustino1371  it's the way you worded it. Sounds like when YOU were a kid. Not your grandfather. Coz that's how I read it first time as well.
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  18. NOTHING was mentioned about abduction. You missed the whole point.
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  19. Not these days. It's pretty easy going but I gather almost no English, VERY cheap food and fantastic food quality, but the visa can be quite complicated. Like more than you would expect. My sister's friend looked into it and you will wait weeks even months for approval.
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  20. 4:53. Nazis. The guy on the right has an MP43/Stg 44 with magazine taken out. Worlds first assualt rifle.
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  21. Over here in Australia it's not uncommon for a priest to go to 3 or 5 different churches on a Sunday out in the rural areas. One priest was like 83, going to 5 churches with decent distances between them. It was like a 14 hour day and the old guy couldn't handle it. Ran off the road when he fell asleep driving.
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  22. I think it was kind of like "clearing out the elitist scum"
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  23. Actually the EXACT thing happened with convicts first bought to Australia. They thought they were suddenly straightening up because they kept requesting bibles. Only to find they were using them all as cigarette paper.
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  24. 10:00 it sounds like an Alaskan "dry cabin". Waste water freezes in the pipes so everything goes to a bucket and you take the bucket out. And they have an outhouse too.
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  25. Reminds me of a few towns that I used to go to when trucking. Just a bar, gas station if you're lucky, post box, and a few old people on the pension. Houses though are NOWHERE NEAR that far gone. Most need repairs but are not completely gone. Sometimes these towns have a lot of single moms too. My sisters town has cheap housing but MAINLY a strange building classification which means it's easy to turn old shops into houses. But the school is one of the bigger reasons for the single moms.
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  26. The ones at the top of the heap ALWAYS miss something that helped them the most.
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  27. MY GOSH. Do you not know that the reason your dad didn't have to relight his cigarette was THE ADDITIVES the germans put in it to keep it burning? I thought EVERYONE knew that. You must REALLY be not used to anything related to cigarettes. It's nothing to do with the tobacco quality. And actually the self burning stuff is actually quite nasty. I think we started getting those cigarettes in the 70s. But there's one brand available that doesn't have it, and no cigars have it either.
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  28. I remember a clueless bunch of Americans. But they were teenage girls so..... one of my sisters friends has American dad and Australian mother. Born in the USA but spent much of her life here. Went back for a few years as a teenager. The girls there thought EVERYONE was BORN WITH an American accent and had to LEARN the Australian accent.... priceless stupidity.
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  29. Sprats is the right word. If you mean the little fish that look like sardines. The German store chain Aldi sells them here sometimes.
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  30. Actually one of the stark differences between the Soviet Union and the west was the computers were always very far behind. Think about this. In the time he's talking about cars being special, my father and uncle had over 20 junk cars and 5 working cars between them. And considering that at the end of the Soviet Union officials were being bribed with VCRs, one of the most coveted items at the time, guess how far they got with computers..... they were only used for military applications and it became apparent with missiles and fighter jets that they had big problems trying to advance the computers to run this gear. All the creativity had been beaten out of them and the incentives taken away and computers take very smart people on huge wages to develop..... what would the average person do with one? No internet, not bulliten board dialups. In a country where it was hard to get bananas and mayonnaise would never be on the shelves for long.....
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  31. English version has a native man who helps him. Italian version.... scantily clad hot young black woman..... 😝 why does that not surprise me....
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  32. except that jaguar is owned by ford. and you can't spell beetle. indian taxi drivers are STILL DRIVING copies of the BRITISH HILLMAN HUNTER FROM THE 50'S. you have new car of your own design that have no heaters or air conditioning! but what could anyone expect? Your engineers usually know NOTHING about engineering because they were rich kids who BRIBED their way thru university.
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  33. I think aspects of the Soviet Union just MADE jobs whether they were really needed or not. Because it was thought of as more important to give a man a job than be productive as such. And YES the kibbutz is a collective. Many of those have factories but there are few left and people who left them in their 30s (women) realized they couldn't even COOK because someone else had always done it while they done other tasks or worked in the kibbutz factory.
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  34. INVALID is the OLD BRITISH TERM.... never mind french... There's even a beer called invalid stout that I could buy 15 years ago or maybe less. Meant to "help" invalids.
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  35. I'm SURE you uploaded this one BEFORE. I remember the bit about branch falling in the water "stale waters" because I commented that STAGNANT was the word you were looking for. I have a particularly brilliant memory. But can't remember what day of the week it is without thinking.
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  36. Stilts is the correct word. The lower ones they call stumps. Here in the hotter areas of Australia they have stilts so high that people park their cars underneath the house. It gives air flow for the hotter and humid climates, helping keep the house cooler.
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  37. It IS called mash. The legitimate ones we have are a plastic S bend thing and you put water in it and it bubbles out. BUT if the yeast had run out of sugar and stopped bubbling, as it cooles down at night the damn things would SUCK AIR BACK. They would also bubble so fast when the yeast was working that it would actually throw most of the water out of the S bend. The S bend goes into a rubber plug with a hole drilled in the middle for the S bend.
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  38. I know a German in his 80s and he remembered one SINGLE incident of his mother pulling him to the ground during a bombing. That's it. Surprised that you were even out of nappies at the end of WW2.
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  39. It's called the algorithm that makes your videos explode. I already told you this 10 times but you never reply.
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  40. See THIS IS WHY the old soviets and old commies like my grandfather (not east European) are SO FAR DIFFERENT from the "trendy greenie city left" of today. There were a lot of traditional conservative style morals in the old communism. I know it was a joke about wiping out homosexuality would wipe out facism but NOW anything ANTI gay is labeled nazi and rich white capitalism. Funny how gay sex orgies are somehow recruiting for capitalist spies. "So while I put this in your bum, how about you read some pro-capitalist propaganda"..... " This might hurt, but no more than the average worker under capitalism does every day at work.". Honestly they could have told stalin that gay orgies were causing UFOs to fly over russia and that was a threat so ban homosexuality.
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  41. Actually SAME THING in buildings in Australia even until the early 80s.
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  42. Do you NOT KNOW that Fanta has ALWAYS BEEN owned by Coca-Cola??? They first started selling it to the Nazis and because of the company structure it was their way of getting around the trade embargoes the USA had on the Nazis and to help them not be associated with Coca-Cola but still make money from the Germans. Obviously they just continued that with the Soviets.
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  43. Except Biden doesn't know where he is, won't do a cognitive test, mixes up don lemon with TRUMP, and won't win anyway.
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  44. Happened in STALINS COUNTRY?Stalin was from Georgia....
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  45. VERY different in Australia. With our public health care. While you're IN the military they're INCREDIBLY fussy on your teeth. My brother in law was on a 7 year contract and they done 3 of his teeth on GOLD at a cost of around $15,000 because they ABSOLUTELY WANT them to have no teeth problems. Rolls Royce treatment if you get injured but nobody EXCEPT special forces puts a TOE outside the base on anything other than a armored vehicle. So something like your bearcats (we have a similar thing called a bushmaster with armor underneath and multiple fuel tanks in case one gets hit, etc etc.)
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  46. I remember ALL lenses were glass back in the 80s. I remember my moms glasses being very heavy and then one year in about 1996 she got some with plastic lenses that were like 1/4 the weight all of a sudden. So the whole world had heavy glasses in the 80s.
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  47. You gonna have a lot of people in the comments crying that communism should have never ended. (I'm not one)
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  48. Meanwhile the modern day Portland and Seattle commies pretend that the disabled would be treated as special. Yet in the reality of the Soviet Union....
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  49. I heard a better version with Gorbachev told by Reagan. You may have heard it there.
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  50. SURVIVAL RUSSIA has one of those stoves in a guest house and explained it. Beds are in the loft, surrounding the chimney.
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  51.  Charles Lee Ray  also some jokes originated from the Soviet Union and others from the west so in many cases it's hard to remember.
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  52. Wooo first
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  53. I didn't realize they froze accounts for YEARS. If you know a lot about financial structures, the SAD THING is they could have and almost DID avoid the inflation COMPLETELY. They were going to back the roubles with gold reserves, and most politicians understood the concept, but a few western economists got in their ears about keynesian economics with fiat currencies, do when they ended up floating it against the rest of the world, it DROPPED LIKE A STONE. And that was the hyperinflation right there. Very unfortunate. Then between loosing their savings and being conned out of the asset distribution tokens they had... And needing to get SOMETHING FOR those asset tokens to buy food straight away.... they were left with nothing. It was a great shame because it was a terribly botched changeover in Russia and many areas. East Germany lost half the value of their money and COME OUT ONE OF THE BEST.
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  54. here in australia they are pretty fussy on parcels. they either put them in the mail box or if you won't fit you have to pick them up within 5 days but SHOW ID. seriously. but then I have had property titles and silver bars sent in the mail. but even if it's just a book, you will need ID and signature to even get the parcel. And ID for any parcels SENT overseas. at times they scan big heaps of incoming foreign mail for drugs and even gun parts and certain knives.
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  55. Butterbrot is GERMAN for bread and butter sandwiches. I eat it driving to work because cold toast is a bit hard. The breakfast of a single man....
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  56. Over here in Australia a few years ago I saw these ads from an old Czech guy who had several Czech soviet era convertibles but he had some serious health problems and was trying to sell them. The price was high before his health got bad but in the end he was happy to sell them cheaply just so long as you restored them, not send them to scrap metal.
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  57. Actually you missed a step in tobacco production. They used to cure tobacco which means basically put it in a high humidity warm area for a week. I have seen setups on the internet where they use polystyrene sheets and a space heater and a container of water and a coat hanger with a few small vents. It doesn't smell as bad and more like store bought tobacco.
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  58. It's because of the "no dangerous stunts or activities" might have got the first 2.
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  59. Cigarette holders are still around today. You can get them from tobacco stores that sell cigars and stuff.
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  60. when my uncle died I found what seems to be AN ORIGINAL copy of atlas shrugged. So I read it. Quite interesting. Especially the part where he knew they would not like his light bulb because it had taken them 9 or 10 years to approve the use of candles.
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  61. Communist government: The capitalists will take everything from you. You need communism. People: Government takes from us so we must take from the government.
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  62. It's actually those communists who leave weird comments. They try to strike ALL VIDEOS within a few minutes of them going up. They subscribe and click the bell so they know when you have put one up. These are guys who are like 23 living with their mom who are doing liberal arts or something strange at college. So called "social justice warriors" or SJWs.
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  63. Very interesting to see how modern city rich kid commies THINK versus how the Soviet Union ACTUALLY WAS....
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  64. Mahindra was actually selling pickup trucks here in Australia. Like MANY indian vehicle manufacturers, it's more simple than most and the 4WD have dated hubs that look like they're from the 70s.
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  65. What planet are you on? He's the editor and commentator and has a normal job like most youtubers. He's got a simple slideshow style video. Easily made in windows on every basic standard computer.
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  66. Remember..... there wasn't any voting in the Soviet Union.... well not for the average joe...
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  67. Sure they aren't ROASTED sunflower seeds? Because the chinese love them too.
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  68. Honestly, as a foreigner, from what I've seen if American knowledge of things outside the US.... I am not surprised that they'd think you're russian. To most of them it's all the same. I constantly see a need for them to reference EVERYTHING foreign to some type of US equivalent in order to make sense of it. Nothing can be WHAT IT IS without having an American equivalent to compare it to. Otherwise it's like they can't understand it. Even seen them assume greeks are Australian Natives (Australian Aboriginals).
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  69. No no no. UBI was just a way for all the bums and losers and lazy people to vote for Mr Yang..... fact is they wanted a 10% tax on corporations and ones with thin margins like airlines and fast food would GO BROKE if he implemented that tax or your burgers would go up by half overnight.
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  70. Same crap different day. That's the phrase I hear at jobs I've been in.
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  71. And usually the view count is stunted. You'll see videos with 20 views and 35 likes and 30 comments.
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  72. 8:46 NOT ACTUALLY A PHOTO. It's a giant painting and they zoom out. I had a number of postcards from the Soviet Union like that. Took me WEEKS TO REALIZE THAT they were actually paintings. But look at the taxi on the left and it becomes obvious. The external lines are strange.
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  73. SAME THING for baby boomers the world over. I asked my parents
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  74. I get kefir here in Australia quite often. REALLY expensive, a type of hipster greenie thing. But because no one like that lives in my area, I keep seeing it in the discount section in the supermarket fridges. Usually less than half price with use by being a day or two away.
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  75. There's an English version I hear sometimes on youtube. The Soviet Union, with stalin as leader blah blah, in friendship and labor blah blah. I'm sure it's some adapted version they made for English speaking communists/supporters.
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  76. Hmmm. I must admit my family has quite a bit from that era including expensive antiques. Peoples personal gold watches etc. Even PRIVATE CURRENCY which is a privately issued currency when Australia couldn't get enough actual cash despite its huge productivity and lots of gold.
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  77. That was probably THE MOST POLITICALLY CORRECT question since stalin. Of course EVERYONE is proud of who they identify as. In fact my sister has a psychology degree and says that the poorer or lower on the social ladder people are, THE PROUDER people are. Why would people not feel proud regardless of some slave owners in the south 200 years ago? Btw my sisters friend was married to an Inuit (northern indigenous people of Canada), and in case you thought Detroit was bad, you should see the drug problems and dumped rubbish and trashed houses on Inuit reservations. I gather Canadian Indian reservations aren't much better.
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  78. My thoughts exactly.
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  79. Cossacks are A RACE OF PEOPLE.... and stalins country is Georgia. C'mon bro. Put in the effort....
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  80. It's MOST LIKELY some of these communists that leave weird comments trying to strike your videos. The thing with manual review is MOST people watched it already so your views are mostly gone.
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  81. He had this video up last year WORD FOR WORD audio and I said the exact same thing to him then. Now he's added an outro of his book and reuploaded it.
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  82. It is. And quite old.
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  83. ACTUALLY Robinson Crusoe..... was based on an actual English sailor. His island was somewhere down in South America. Maybe near Argentina I think. I have read.... he set himself up so good that he ended up going back after he was rescued and living there for 30 or 40 years.
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  84.  @unfairfight3625  completely different from what Canadians tell me....
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  85. I used to go to school with yugoslavs and the first one was quite popular. I used to do it in the end.
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  86. I have a still. Only used it once but it's fairly high capacity. I was looking at this big plastic drum I have today that I have been moving around my laundry that I was using for a roof leak 2 months ago. I was wondering when I bought it and now I remember. It was for making the moonshine. About 60 litre container and I got about 1.5 gallons of vodka at 58% purity (normal vodka is 38%). Still have most of the other gear. Big glass flasks and stuff.
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  87. Stainless???!!!! Sure it wasn't galvanized like in Australia?
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  88. That comment about everyone living poor as hell in the USA was ridiculous. I don't live there, but the average household has 3 cars. Hell I live alone and have 3 cars MYSELF.
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  89. I think a better term for "refrain" in this case is "chorus". Because refrain also means "stop doing something". Like "Please refrain from spitting" on a sign in the train station or whatever.
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  90. 3:39 Australian outback coal train from one of the mines.
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  91. On TV Reagan told a similar but longer and better version of the speeding one with Gorbachev. He told Gorbachev and he laughed.
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  92. It's actually well known it was his increasing worsening diabetes and complications from that that killed him.
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  93. 3:30 outback Australia coal train from one of the mines
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  94. It's correct. They got a battleship to sell for scrap metal. There was some complaint from sone US politician and the PepsiCo CEO replied that he was single handedly dismantling the Soviet armed forces faster than the whole US government was.
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  95. 5:12 WW2 Ppsh-41 submachine guns 5:19 WW2 Ppsh-43 submachine guns with the stick mags (next model slightly cheaper)
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  96. What about the INVALIDS CARS you showed??!! So they could manage cars for them but no wheelchairs just dollys made from stolen parts??!!!
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  97. When they complained about her shirt she should have asked if they wanted a russian one instead....
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  98. Would've been interesting to know what the REAL story was. I bet they killed him and wanted to cover it up.
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  99. It's bad enough with your kids sleeping in your room but 2 SEPARATE FAMILIES? Between that and public toilets with no doors or partitions..... communism should have been ended out of sheer lack of privacy and decency....
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  100. The brezhnev speeding one..... first time I heard a far better explained one with Gorbachev as the driver. And the guy in the back was REALLY important, so important that Gorbachev was his driver.
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  101. ACTUALLY 10.5 litres is about 2.5 US gallons. There's 3.8 litres per US gallon and 4.5 litres per British Imperial gallon (about the only time something British is bigger than the US version).
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  102. 4:42 is that a WOOD GASIFIER on a tractor??!! They had them elsewhere during WW2 and even in my country during the depression
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  103. Reagan told a similar but longer and better version with Gorbachev instead. He even told Gorbachev and he laughed.
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  104. I heard there was one guy that was fully for stalin, thought he was great and said so in his speeches, but stalin saw him as a possible future rival who may be voted president (or whatever it's called) in 10 years or so, and then got him killed to stop that.
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  105. 5:45 robe room or something. I know a casino in my country has one. Only place I know of.
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  106. You have actually REPEATED some of this lately. Barracks translates to barracks..... which are military dorms.
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  107. It sounds strange because communist ideas can be very weird.
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  108. There's an English version I hear sometimes on youtube. The Soviet Union, with stalin as leader blah blah, in friendship and labor blah blah. I'm sure it's some adapted version they made for English speaking communists/supporters.
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  109. In the very early days of 2000. Boris Yeltsin quit like a few hours before new years eve.
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  110. I heard Romania was the same for people stealing stuff from work. BUT it never got on the news because the statistics were kept secret. THEN shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed they printed in the newspaper that 90% of people were stealing stuff. ALL OF A SUDDEN all the old communists were saying "everyone is a theif since communism ended" and started locking doors and putting mesh on their windows. What they DIDN'T know was they ALWAYS WERE stealing BUT it was never printed in the newspaper....
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