Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

i remember seeing a tv interview of Eduard Shevardnadze, who was soviet foreign minister under Gorbachev. On the collapse of communism, he basically said the same thing - he said that over the years so many Russian scientists had attended international conferences, so many Russians had served at embassies, so many Russians with their support staff had completed in international sports, and all had visited stores, there was just no hiding the fact that Western grocery stores had lots of good quality everything, and that the soviet system just could not match it. So the soviets at all levels lost their morale. I remember Shevardnadze saying he had visited a US grocery store - it was fully stocked and "nobody was buying."
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They are gasoline engine trucks. A gasoline engine will start, if its electrics are good, no matter how cold it is - the only thing is, you have to turn it over. At really low temperatures, batteries become ineffective, and oil becomes so thick the starter-motor can't turn the engine over even if the battery can deliver enough current. That's why Caterpillar diesel tractors were made with a little rope-start gasoline engine instead of an electric starter motor. No matter how cold it is, you can always get the gasoline engine started (though I can personally vouch by experience that it can take all one's strength due to the oil). The gasoline engine shares its coolant with the diesel engine, so it warms up the diesel engine. When the diesel engine is warm enough, you can engage the pinion and start it.
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In really cold conditions, multigrade oils aren't much better than traditional oils. If you plot viscosity versus temperature on a log-of-log chart, mineral oils are a straight line. A multigrade oil such as 10W-30 follows the 10 SAE line beyond a low temperature limit, and the 30 SAE line above a high temperature limit, and have a gradual transition between the two limits. So at really low temperatures, 10W30 just behaves as 30 SAE oil and gets thicker.
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Minibus inspired by the VW Kombi? It looks more like the English Commer van.
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"You can't trust Soviet numbers (production statistics) because they are political". Sounds like top-down command-run government owned enterprises anywhere. For instance here in Australia we have a major investigation into Centrelink - a federal govt department whose mission is to pay the dole to the unemployed. The politicians kept on demanding more and more savings. The administrators didn't want to risk their cushy jobs so they just agreed to the demands. And ended up inventing jobs clients supposedly did and fabricating overpayments so they could demand money back from huge numbers of clients. The millions of dollars they claimed was overpayment due to client fraud never existed.
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Pokazuha is in no way confined to the USSR or communist countries. Here in Australia, a visit by Queen Elizabeth usually caused something good to happen, or the appearance of something good happening. Railways here until recent years were government owned, and operated with a sort of benign neglect. On one visit, the Queen wanted to travel by train from the State capital to a regional city 160 km away. The scheduled train used to rattle and shake somewhat, and occasionally break down. For the Queen's trip, they re-aligned the track with welded rails to give a smooth ride, plus they bought a new locomotive and carriages, with a dining car that served drinks and snacks. Passengers benefited for years afterward. Priot to anothe visit by Queen Elizabeth, they were discussing with her plans to live broadcast a "glad to be here" speech by the Queen. She asked if children who were in hospital would be able to see her speech, and there was talk about an "impromptu" hospital visit if her schedule ran well and there was time. So the government hurriedly installed lots of TV's in hospital wards. But after her visit, they took the TV's away again. I attended the opening ceremony, conducted by the Queen, of a big new shopping precinct. Most of the shops were bare concrete as construction was running very late. For a few weeks prior, contractors worked double shifts to paint the concrete, install glass, and make it look like it was finished. Then after the Queen went back to England, they removed the glass etc, cleaned off the paint, and set about installing the finishes the architects specified. It was another 6 or 8 months before it really opened for business. Recently, some newspaper journalists embarrassed the Health Department of Western Australia. The Premier decided to visit a hospital, and the hospital management got staff to volunteer to be pretend patients, getting fake treatment with happy smiles on their faces! Most of the various companies I have worked for ordered cleanups and show-work to be done when government VIP's came.
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@Tyler_Owen23 ; Oh, quick clean=ups before the Big Boss arrives is very common in industry. It is not Pokazuha. The funny thing is, later in my career I became a head office boss myself, and I could always tell if they had done a special cleanup, or had guys doing make-work to appear busy. They neither fooled nor impressed me. One time I decided to visit a plant, and rang ahead just before leaving my office and told them I was coming, so they only had about 20 minutes notice. Just as I entered the foyer, I heard a faint voice say, "Put that away! Hammleter's here." I wondered what naughty thing was to be hidden from my sight, but hearing it made me smile.
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Sergei: The reason why the English version and the Russian version are different is because they were written by different people - each team ignorant of the other. In theory, anyone can work out the editing history of any Wikipedia article. Just click on the article's View History tab, and work your way through the listed versions, right back to the first version. you can see what changes, additions, and deletions were made. In practice this can take you days or weeks. I said in theory. Sometimes edit wars happen - different volunteer editors keep undoing each other's work until either one gets fed up and gives up, or the dominant editor's friends gang up and swamp it. Worse, groups of them decide someone is a Bad Person and just delete everything he/she did, without trace, including the entries in the history list. I used to be a Wikipedia editor (English Wikipedia), but some twit noticed that different editor names had logged in with the same IP address. So him and his friends decided I was pretending to be different people and banned me. Stupid berks did not understand that many, but not all, internet service providers allocate IP addresses dynamically - you get a different address each time you start your computer. Some give you a new IP weekly. So, everything I had done got deleted - without trace. They also banned access to all the IP addresses that they thought I had used - which for me is hilarious, as the probability that my ISP will allocate them to me is very low. I am permanently banned - just because a few idiots don't understand how the internet works. Researchers and authors should always click on the Talk tab of any Wikipedia article. In the talk page you can see all the debates and arguments that went on between editors, and often the reasons why things got changed/added/deleted. Never the less, Wikipedia IS a good place to start to research or learn any subject. Just don't rely on the article text - instead, look up the references given and interpret the references for yourself. If an article claims something without giving a reference, ignore it - it cannot be trusted and is likely to be wrong.
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In Australia we have regions that go far over body temperature and have high humidity as well - so sweating becomes ineffective cooling your body. We just drink lots and lots of water continuously and take salt tablets. You gotta do what you gotta do. Somebody has to do it.
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What is labeled "Bottle Factory" at 2:19 appears to depict the manufacture of a crankshaft of a large engine - possibly the crankshaft of a marine steam engine.
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I've never seen reference to them doing it, and there's lots of stuff about life and things in Russia in the cold war era now on YouTube. They probably had more common sense. if the Soviets actually had lobbed a nuclear bomb on you, especially if it was one of their enormous hydrogen bombs, getting under a desk was not going to help you much. In other countries, there has long been a persistent rumor that the Cold War was something dreamed up by Truman and Stalin to motivate the workers in both countries to work harder, thinking they had to beat the other side, and not slacken off in reaction to World War 2 ending like the British did. If so, it certainly seems to have worked.
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in theory, anyone can work out the editing history of any Wikipedia article. Just click on the article's View History tab, and work your way through the listed versions, right back to the first version. you can see what changes, additions, and deletions were made. In practice this can take you days or weeks. I said in theory. Sometimes edit wars happen - different volunteer editors keep undoing each other's work until either one gets fed up and gives up, or the dominant editor's friends gang up and swamp it. Worse, groups of them decide someone is a Bad Person and just delete everything he/she did, without trace, including the entries in the history list. I used to be a Wikipedia editor (English Wikipedia), but some twit noticed that different editor names had logged in with the same IP address. So him and his friends decided I was pretending to be different people and banned me. Stupid berks did not understand that many, but not all, internet service providers allocate IP addresses dynamically - you get a different address each time you start your computer. Some give you a new IP weekly. So, everything I had done got deleted - without trace. I am permanently banned - just because a few idiots don't understand how the internet works. Researchers and authors should always click on the Talk tab of any Wikipedia article. In the talk page you can see all the debates and arguments that went on between editors, and often the reasons why things got changed/added/deleted. Never the less, Wikipedia IS a good place to start to research or learn any subject. Just don't rely on the article text - instead, look up the references given and interpret the references for yourself. If an article claims something without giving a reference, ignore it - it cannot be trusted and is likely to be wrong. You are correct in saying you don't need an account to edit any article. However, Wikipedia has a vast number of rules for just about everything. The trouble with this is that most editors don't know all the rules. If you don't have an account you are much more likely to have any changes you made reverted - by some twit who thinks not having an account is a sign of evil intent, or is somehow naughty..
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Sergei, contrary to your comment at the end, I found your video interesting, at least to me. I am an Australian, I grew up on my father 's farm. The farm next door was owned by a Ukrainian guy who was a refugee from World War 2. He could barely speak any English - hello, bye, yes, no, how are you was about his limit. His wife had to do the shopping so she spoke English quite a bit better. Him and his wife and kids spoke what I gather was mostly Russian amongst themselves, but since I spent a lot of time with his son and on their farm from a very young age, I picked up a few words - enough to converse with him on simple everyday subjects. He made it very clear that he absolutely HATED Russians. So in the context of the war in Ukraine now I was wondering if inherited hatred was a factor in Ukraine's spirited and deterrmined defence. From your video made before the "Special Military Operation", I gather not - just a typical bit of racial/cultural prejudice existed in recent years.
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@Tyler_Owen23 : That's pretty much how it is. Any competent manager is not fooled but uses common sense. Actually part of the art of being a boss is knowing how to handle the difference between what is normal human behavior and what constitutes screwing the company. The worst kind are martinets who try to enforce every rule to the letter. All that does is cost them respect and cause low worker morale. I have an engineering background. Technical guys using company tools. machines, and premises to do private work ("foreign work") can be good for the company, because it expands the skill and experience of the workers. Smart companies actually facilitate a controlled amount of foreign/private work by approving the use of company materials.
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Don't be too shocked. Here in Australia when I went to school in the 1950's and 1960's, every school had, out in the open grounds, a row of taps. If you were thirsty, you put your mouth under a tap and turned it on. Often in summer the water flow was weak, so we put our mouths around the tap to get every drop of water. Probably why tooth decay was rife back then. When they invented a vaccine for polio, all kids got the vaccine, then more shots for other diseases as they became available. A government nurse would turn up with three non-disposable syringes and a bottle of vaccine. All the kids in the school got injected with just those three syringes. Usually the nurse would recruit a couple of school girls to rinse the syringes with disinfectant and then with tap water and refill with vaccine before passing the syringe to the nurse to inject the next kid. Once in a while the girls would get a bit mixed up and some kid would be injected with disinfectant and start screaming with pain. Incidentally, polio spread rapidly in our schools until we got the vaccine. It turned out that polio is essentially a disease of the intestines and is passed by transfer by hands not washed properly after going to the toilet, but they didn't know that back then. In our schools in the 1950's the toilets had no hot water or soap or towels, so you couldn't wash your hands.
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@Initial_Gopnik Ladas are licensed built copies of Fiats. So, use Fiat parts to fix a Lada. But that fact also makes owning a Lada in the West pointless - because you can have a genuine Fiat, built with better quality. A dealer network for Lada was set up in Australia in the 1970's, taking advantage of Fiat deciding to withdraw from the market. They even boasted that the cars were really Fiats. The Lada dealers didn't last long, and the Soviets had made minor changes, always for the worst.
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"The free medical care is free of care." Bad food. Sharing a room with people you don't know. Sounds just like the free Medicare system here in Australia - except he didn't mention the long wait times (you can wait a year or more for an operation) that we have. Sounds like the Soviet system is pretty good. Of course we have the option of paying for it, termed "private care", in which case you get much better care and no waiting.
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