Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "USHANKA SHOW" channel.

  1. Footwear manufacturer Samelin still there at Kastani 48, Tartu.
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  2. @Cyberspine From what I've seen (on YT etc) of the contemporary Sakha republic (aka Yakutia) they still do.
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  3.  @code_monkey_steve  I don't think the Soviets were big on Western IP rights.
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  4. It's kinda funny how in the West nationalism is bad bad bad....Hungarian nationalism, English nationalism, French nationalism, Flemish nationalism, Catalan nationalism, White nationalism, Christian nationalism (the last two in the US). But somehow all the post-Soviet nationalisms ... Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian etc get slobbered over. Especially Ukrainian nationalism. Polish nationalism used to be bad bad bad too until they went all in in supporting the Ukraine. It's also strange that in these cases the main goal of the 'nationalists' seems to be turning over their sovereignty to the EU.
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  5. @sergei971 There are 475,000 Sakha (Yakut) people whose ancestors have lived in such conditions for centuries. And of course in North America we have Inuit that have done the same thing.
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  6. Stellar work both Uncle Bill and Tovarishch Sputnikoff
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  7. I am not a communist but US farmers are often so 'rich' because there labor force is so poor. Visit the Central Valley of California some time...the migrant workers live in tiny shacks. In the 1990s and 2000s in Northern San Diego county there were tent camps of Mexican and Central American migrant farm workers in the arroyos (dry creek beds). Read Grapes of Wrath or watch the famous CBS documentary Harvest of Shame...from just a few years before your film.
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  8. @kge420 We've done it twice.
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  9.  @viktorias63  Do we use Muenchen, Torino, or Moskva in English?
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  10. I think the Ukrainians call that adoption 'kidnapping'.
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  11. ​ @UshankaShow History is strange. Russia literally created the first state for the Finnish people...before that they were totally dominated by the Swedes. And their 'national hero' Mannerheim started his career as an officer in the Russian empire.
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  12.  @bronzebackbassing18  I don't think they are. Around the federal building in San Francisco there are literally blocks of street encampments. Or at least there were, I heard they cleaned them out when President Xi was to visit the city.
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  13. @prismpyre7653 LOL. This is the absolute worst reading of Russian history I have ever heard. No people from the Ukraine were ever prohibited from settling anywhere. They were East Slavic Speaking Orthodox -- Russians in the larger sense. In fact, they were well represented among the pioneers that took part in the Slavic expansion...under Imperial auspices...to the east. To my knowledge only Jews were restricted to the pale of settlement. As for Germany, it basically wanted to weaken the Russian empire and it also developed an ethno-nationlist ideology which its 'scholars' applied to territories within the Empire. They literally created 'Latvians' from 4-5 distinct peoples. And this is exactly the same ethno-nationalist ideology that gave rise to its extreme manifestation in the Third Reich; hence even today you'll hear stuff from Ukrainian nationalists about how Russians aren't Slavs (i.e. Indo-European aryans) but Finno-Ugric Mongol hybrids (i.e not Aryans). I say this as someone sympathetic to ethno-nationalism, in the Ukrainian case it is just off the rails. And edit : The 'average Ukrainian peasant' fought with their Russian brothers and sisters in the Red Army. Look up the story of Lyudmila Pavlichenko...the Soviet female sniper born in the Ukraine. In fact there is clip of a speach of hers in New York where she calls herself literally a 'Russian soldier'. Or research Lydia Spivak, a 'Brandenburg Ballerina'..another female soldier in the Red Army...hailing from Sumy. After the war she became a teacher and ended up teaching Ukrainian language and literature in Donetsk city. Up until 2010 her legacy was kinda celebrated in the Ukraine.
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  14. She looks straight out of Moscow Doesnt Believe in Tears.
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  15. 1100 a week in W Los Angeles will barely keep you off the streets
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  16.  @UshankaShow  As late as 2014 industries in the east of Ukraine were producing the engines for Russian Federation small rocket ships. As late as 2020 YuzhMash (or PivdenMash if you prefer) was buying Russian aluminum to produce its rockets. Even today Ukrainian contracting firms service the Russian Federation produced Ka(mov)-31 helicopters in service of the Indian armed forces. The economies were tightly integrated, going back to even before the Soviet Times and continued to be so. As the RF recovered, the Ukraine profitted again.
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  17. Looking up Proskuriv really sent me down a rabbit hole. It is now the famous Khmelnytskyi...so a fairly major city. The name change was done in ...when else...1954. Turns out there was a serious anti-Jewish pogrom in 1919 while the city was under the control of the Ukrainian People's Republic...that might explain why these kids had to be adopted. In fact that document might be valuable for some roots research, if some of the family survived the H*tl*r-zeit. Interesting too it that it was the birthplace of Alexander Rutskoy, who was co-leader of the anti-Yeltsin events of October 1993 in Moscow.
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  18. @davidjernigan8161 Interestingly a super hardcore Ukrainian nationalist got 'deleted' this weekend. Iryna Farion. But she got deleted inside the Ukraine.
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  19. Estonia didn't exist before Russia, it was part of Sweden. Neither did Finland.
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  20. No...number stations are literally all numbers
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  21. @neilreynolds3858 Demographers going back to Malthus have noted that war has virtually no effect on overall demographics. Populations recover quickly from wartime deaths.
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  22. ​ @patnolen8072 Even Anthony Blinken referred to where his grandparents came from as being Russia...they emigrated from Kiev
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  23. It's interesting that there was a riot in Azerbaijan over Stalin...Stalin was Georgian after all. Georgians are Christian, Azeris are Muslim, Azeri is a Turkic language, Georgian is it's own language family. I know that there was some mixing in the Caucuses..maybe that particular city had a bunch of Georgians. BTW there were also riots in Georgia (1956) over de-Stalinization. To this day Stalin is seen as a local boy made good among a segment of Georgian society both in Georgia itself and among the Georgian diaspora in the RF.
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  24.  @code_monkey_steve  Went over my head, LOL.
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  25. Lavrov was born in 1950. The US bombing of Laos (1964-1973) would have been a huge deal when he was studying at the Moscow Institute of International Relations. Probably all the more so since he was an Asia specialist (his first foreign language was Sinhalese, the language of Sri Lanka). Just a bit of a senior moment. BTW Lavrov's father is an ethnic Armenian from Georgia (the country).
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  26.  @UshankaShow  I think John up there is talking about the 2010 elections which brought Yanukovich to power which most observers recognized as free and fair. Did Russia try to influence them...of course. Just like we, the United States of America, try to influence elections around the globe. We were, for example, very invested in getting Yeltsin reelected in 1996. Or the Quebec sovereignty vote in 1995 where we basically told the province that it would be frozen out of NAFTA if it went it alone.
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  27. @gamewizard1760 Bald and Bankrupt didn't show 'the real' Russia anymore than Tucker's brief view of Moscow showed 'the real Russia'. Russia is an enormous and varied country. Most of its cities seem fairly clean, orderly, and safe if not as glitzy as Moscow. There are plenty of videos here on Youtube which can give you an accurate picture.
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  28. I think managing to raise two kids and get your own apartment in a bad economic system for people from a village background is a pretty good achievement. And that guy from 1420 looks like a young you. Was your grandparents house considered private property? Is there some sort of deed to the property? I've seen several post Soviet space vloggers whose family seem to have retained some sort of property rights to village houses or dachas dating from the Communist era.
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  29. @tripsaplenty1227 There are gays in the Russian Federation...they just don't get to propagandize the young or force normal people to worship them each June.
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  30. I didn't dare
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  31. I believe 'latinitsa' was used in the Baltic states during USSR days. Even the photo you showed of a communal kvass tank had Latin writing and Cyrillic IIRC. And of course all the Warsaw pact countries save Bulgaria used Latin letters. So if the vodka was exported or made it to Latvia etc it made sense to put Latin on the label too.
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  32. I interpret it as precisely the opposite...it erases Great Russian culture. States typically fear their biggest national group. Plus the Soviet Union was replete with celebrations of the nationalities.
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  33. @belstar1128 Belgium perhaps? Flemish independence would be a wonderful thing...though in the EU context 'independence' doesn't really mean much.
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  34. 12:36 .. Latin Alphabet, looks like a Finnish word, lots of blond kids.I'd guess Estonia. Looks like the classes let crowded there too.
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  35. There's a song in English about the BAM (БАм) sung by a guy named Dean Reed, an American who was a true believer in communism. There' also a vid of him riding atop a train on the BAM singing the American gospel song 'This Train' which is ironic given its religious roots. Theres a great documentary on the BAM and the BAMovtsi on the Redaktsiya channel right here for those who dont mind teading subtitles or who can understand Russian. Many of the workers are stll with us. I wish someone would make something similar about the Alaskan pipeline. Pakhmutova is still alive at 94. Whatever their propaganda aspect her songs 'Love, Komsomol and Spring' and 'The Battle Goes On' are 'bangers' as the kids say today. And her song 'Tenderness' (Nezhnost') is one of the most beautiful Ihave ever heard. Obviously classically trained as tovarishch Sputnikov has told us. Looking forward to discovering Zykina's work. Hvala drug Sputnikov.
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  36. Do you think all these nation-states have existed from eternity?
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  37.  @JBM425  Dude there have never been more than a million Estonians. If the Soviets really wanted to swamp them with Slavs (150 million) they could have. Instead a limited number came to work in industries which didn't attract locals.
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  38.  @ralfanari8854  Fun fact: girl boss Kaja Kallas's father was editor of the Estonian communist party paper. And another, you guys are still on the RF electric grid.
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  39. Nebeski, Potemkin, Bagration, Lermintov
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  40. @gigabrother458 The irony is that Lemberg would be in Poland right now if it weren't for the Red Army
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  41. And the US ethnically cleansed Oklahomans with the dust bowl...get real.
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  42.  @aWILDsomethingCAME  Oh, yeah. Like Ahnold's name.
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  43. @shatnermohanty6678 Even if the words and music aren't copyrighted, specific performances are. Having said that, there are a ton of YT rolliks with the Soviet TV Signoff up on YT.
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  44.  @jonthinks6238  Thirst trap.
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  45. "same cultural and linguistic difference as the United States and French Canada, so we would never make war on Canada to acquire the French part of it." Fifty percent of people in the Ukraine admit to speaking Russian at home. Or at least did before the war. The cultural differences between Ukrainians and Russian, it seems to me, are about those between Bavarians and the rest of Germany.
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  46. Also, as the simultaneous translation guy is obviously a profession and has probably worked translating Putin and other government officials before, it is highly likely he's heard purchasing power parity (whatever that is in Russian) before. There's a no dub version of the interview at Michael Rossi Poli Sci on this platform. I'm gonna find out. Паритет покупательной способности
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  47. ​ @Lightscribe225 Do you understand that at least a third of what is now the Ukraine has zero to do with any Ukrainian proto state or culture, and another fourth or so is only in the Ukraine because of the Red Army taking it from Poland?
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  48.  @ekesandras1481  Igor Sikorski also fled, but also had the same attitude. When a group of 'Ukrainian-Americans' came to him in the post war era to ask if he would support them in fighting for Ukrainian independence, he said, to paraphrase, that you could no more consider the Ukraine not part of Russia than you could consider Texas not part of the United States.
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  49. ​ @markdouglas8073 Empires typically extract resources from colonies. Other than the 1930s, when the need for rapid industrialization meant that resources where extracted from all rural areas the Soviet Union and the Russian empire both put resources into the Ukraine. The Antonov aviation bureau was started by a Russian and the original factory was in Russia, Novosibersk IIRC but then the Soviets gave it to the Ukraine
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  50. @ekesandras1481 There were plenty of Bolsheviks in the Ukraine, homegrown. In fact a couple of them were instrumental in putting down the Tambov rebellion in Russia, the first peasant uprising against the Bolshies. Look it up.
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