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

  1.  @utewbd  No I don't. But it isn't important.
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  2. Blaine, Blaine, James G Blaine... continental liar from the state of Maine.
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  3. @pacifist9805 Russia literally created Finland.
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  4. @wolfhockey is a great channel here featuring vintage hockey of 70s to 90s heavy focus on Soviet and then Russian matches but also other international matches. In Russian (I listen ss an exercise) but I think English subtitles are available.
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  5. Petuk~
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  6. And Poroshenko, Hollande, and Merkel have all admitted the Minsk negotiations where not undertaken or signed in good faith but rather just delaying tactics to give the Ukraine government time to arm so as to attack Donbas. The US government claimed it had nothing to do with the Maidan events yet Valery Nuland was caught on a phone call literally choosing the replacement Kiev government. We supposedly done have any forces in the Ukraine but in April 2022 the CIA tweeted they had added two names to their "they served in silence" wall. Politicians and government officials lie all the time. Even at the height of the Cold War we were talking to the Soviets. Khrushchev visited the US and Nixon...then VP..visited the USSR. Like it or not we have to talk to perceived adversaries, hopefully this Tucker interview will be a beginning of a return to realism. Sanctions haven't worked, the Russians are advancing the Kiev government has burned through most of the really gung to nationalists and a lot of young Ukrainian men are trying to leave or otherwise actively avoiding mobilization press gangs...there are even Telegram channels tracking so gangs. Best to come to the table.
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  7. @peterchaloner2877 I believe this is also the case for Kherson. The whole of the south of what is now the Ukraine was mostly in Ottoman or Tatar hands before the Russian Empire took control from them. To the north the area was called 'dikoe polye ' or 'wild field' as it was a sort of a Wild West area between the Russian and Ottoman empires. Then it became 'New Russia' when the Russian Empire took full control in the late 1700s.
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  8. Did your grandparents get a deed to the family house once the Soviet Union broke up? I watch a lot of Russian ...specifically Russian ...bloggers and they reference village homes and dachas that have been in families for generations. I wonder how the property rights were handled. Same thing with the Pavlo from Ukraine guy. Obviously despite collectivarization a lot of single family homes remained in the USSR. Who "owned" them.
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  9. Pretty sure the stuff that I had from the few MREs I ate while in the 'service' was freeze dried. We did have 'real coffee' on ships, if you can call it that.
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  10. ​ @jasonhaman4670 Unstressed 'o' does indeed change to a schwa or 'a' depending. Stressed 'o' is 'o'. In Southern Russia dialects however 'o' is 'o'.
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  11. @RandomDeforge I know from (now passed) older relatives that for the US public at least, Japan was top priority.
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  12. Мусика не подходит. Но интересно
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  13.  @bat9056  Leaving the EU makes the importation of food vastly simpler for the UK.
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  14. I just noticed the tank is labelled both in Latin and Cyrillic...must be from somewhere in the Baltics
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  15. Пять баллов гражданине!
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  16. Personally I think it's 50-50 whether 'Fighter-Bomber' is a Ukrainian SBU psyop. Certainly pro Ukrainian channels love reposting/quoting his stuff, especially when he identifies real or imagined casualties among Russia aero-spatial forces.
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  17. @alex182618 That's kinda one of Carlson's main points. Russia isn't the Russia of the 1980s.
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  18.  @alex182618  There's a whole genre on YouTube of Americans who have moved to Russia and love it.
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  19. ​ @UshankaShow I guess some of that habit is still around. I saw a Pavlo from Ukraine video and his father, probably mid 60s, was making a metal framed outdoor structure. So first he made his own welder out of a car battery and some sticks of iron. Then he welded the metal frame together. Guy was not a welder for his career.
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  20. The joke is that neither Russian nor Ukrainian has articles like 'the'. There is an analog in that up until the Ukrainian government started whining about it, normal usage in slavic langauges was 'na' (on) Ukraine rather than 'v' or 'y' (in) Ukraine. It's a very political issue.
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  21. si, lo hablo. But your example kinda works against you. First, because you can vote in Spanish, some government jobs require Spanish, there are taxpayer funded charter schools in Spanish, and so on. In contrast in the Ukraine even in 100% Russian speaking areas technically all official documents and all public official services have to be in Ukrainian. Further there is no publically funded education in Russian beyond elementary...so kids who are Russian speaking don't receive education in the grammar and literature of their own language. Second, just like we conquered and then kinda paid for the Southwest, Russia conquered and then paid for Kiev and 'right bank' Ukraine. Though they didn't pay the Ukraine...which wasn't a polity or national identity at the time...they paid Poland.
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  22.  @UshankaShow  (Bosanka) Tuzla was the city where the US had its troops in Bosnia-Hercegovina during IFOR and SFOR. Tuz is 'salt' in Turkish and there was a salt works there during Ottoman rule. BTW there were Russian troops operating within a NATO command structure then in the northern (US) sector and they were very valuable as they had good rapport with the Serbian population. Then we bombed what was left of Yugoslavia.
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  23. The man in the fruit market defitely NatGeo quality. So great you respect this mans memory and give a platform to his work. The Soviets were actually invited in by the Aghan government.
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  24. Was Stolichnaya ever made in Russia> Supposedly the distillery was established in 1938 in Riga. And the 'Stoli' thing is kinda BS...obviously the root is Stolichnaya...the capital vodka, which is true in that Riga is the capital of Latvia and was of the Latvian SSR.
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  25. Ive heard postrel' from the Ukrainians and vystrel' from the Russians.
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  26. ​ @jonthinks6238 History starts in 1954.
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  27. The minute I was the othonika kolbasa, before you said what it was, I thought 'landjaeger', which means 'land hunter' and is basically the same.
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  28. ​ @X1mtheDespot  Some Rusyns consider themselves distinct from Ukrainians.
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  29. I hope your brother stays safe in his border guard unit and that they look the other way as guys try to leave.
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  30.  @Mortablunt  And I believe there are Tatar language schools.
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  31. Better than turning into Guatemala del Norte
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  32. Fiscultura
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  33. @cane6074 Was the US being 'imperialist' when it annexed Texas? I won't even go into Hawaii or the remaining actual colonies like Puerto Rico or Guam that we have.
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  34.  @UshankaShow  Thanks...I sometimes watch a post-Soviet immigrant cooking instructor here (Helen Rennie...no idea where that 'familia' came from) and she always calls it sofrito...which is the Spanish and Italian term (of course the ingredients are different too but the technique is the same). I've asked in comments what the Russian term is but she never answers.
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  35. Yup and Yanukovitch isn't a Russian name.
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  36. @BobAbc0815 As were West German village roads, but 'we' generally paid to have them repaired.
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  37.  @jefflewis4  The first time I saw the coin in the cart thing in the US was when I moved to a town with an Aldi (German company). Most other stores in my area use those horrid geolocked carts which can be really a hassle if you park your car too far from the storee itself.
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  38. @Alte.Kameraden How did he treat him like dirt?
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  39.  @KameradVonTurnip  Putin literally got out of his limo to talk to some teenage girls a couple of months ago, in a city in the south of Russia.
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  40.  @MyTv-  That's not true. Our most common words are from Anglo Saxon (10 of 11 right there)
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  41. Dude, the most recent vid at the 1420 channel...the anti-Putin guy that interviews Russians in Russia...has an interview with a guy that is a dead ringer for your grandfather in this picture. It's uncanny you should check it out (the interviewee is anti-Putin too).
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  42.  @michaelwarenycia7588  Dude, the woman, Iryna Farion, was about half a step from a Nazi. She even criticized the mostly Russian speaking guys fighting in the trenches in for the Ukraine for speaking their native language and said they shouldn't be able to 'serve'. She sicced the Ukrainian cops on some poor kid for performing Kino/Viktor Tsoi songs in Russian on the streets of Odessa...even though that isn't illegal as pre-1991 Russian music is legal in Ukraine (that's kinda crazy it itself...banning music in the language half of your population speaks at home). She was killed by a Ukrainian, not a Russian. A local kid from Lemberg IIRC. The funny thing is like many ultra-nationalists, her name gives away that she has at least some foreign, non-Ukrainian, non-Slavic background. Her death I don't think was much noted in the Russian media, but was in the Russian speaking Ukrainian alt media.
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  43. "The Argentine"!
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  44. @otrab1080 It got worse. Both Russia and the Ukraine suffered huge losses in male life expectancy in the 1990s. And as Russia recovered under 'Putler' the Ukraine began to recover too. The economies were very connected. In fact as last as 2014 the Russian navy was using engines produced in the Ukraine in some of their ships. Also as a side note and contrary to what most people in the West think...and indeed I thought...the Eastern Ukraine/Donbas had higher GDP per capita than the Western part...excluding Kiev.
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  45. ​​ @Leitis_Fella  Not what happened.
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  46. @pamelajaye Well, technically Kostya is lying by calling his channel 'Inside Russia' because he has been outside Russia for, I believe, more than a year now. Mind you, he didn't leave when the invasion happened. Oh, yeah, he criticized it and good on him, but he only left Russia when a small chance appeared that he might be mobilized. I must have missed the part about the Soviet Union collapsing because 'it wanted to have more ties with the West'. What Putin did say is that at the time after the collapse and for a long time after Russia did want more times with the West. He gave multiple examples, with specific names, of him reaching out and being rebuffed. I have yet to hear any denials.
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  47. Хлопец Молодец ...but isn't this just a bit like getting a pin for being a hero of Soviet Production?
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  48. Interesting that the Soviets erased Russian identity. The Serbs, who were the most numerous in Yugoslavia, complained that while Croats etc were able to celebrate their national identity Serbs were not. And of course the same is true in the USA for white people. There is no white history month for example.
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  49. @S.P.Rocket Little bit of irony there, no, sending greetings from a place that Anglo-Americans annexed after some chicanery and whose own language is endangered apart from a few words for 'show'.
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  50.  @ayararesara6253  Well, yes, that's part of the double standard. Having said that now that Poland has reelected EU apparatchik Tusk and Mr. Anne Applebaum (aka Radek Sikorski) is back as defense minister the Poles will be cut some slack. And interestingly one of the first things Tusk did was lecture the Sjem on 'xenophobia'.
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