Comments by "Joshua Lieberman" (@joshualieberman1059) on "Why Do Russians Hate Other Post-Soviet Countries?" video.

  1. letecmig I agree with what you said, we have to admit it and do the same process Germans did to the Nazis...not even to make friends, just to move forward, unfortunately it's more "reasonable" for the Russian ruling elites to sell hate and "besieged fortress" agenda by justifying everything Soviet Union did .
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  2. Not every Westerners hate holodetz, mostly Americans who have that thing stamped in their head that ANY jelly must be sweet and fruity. But similar meat dishes exist in Central Europe , Germanic and Nordic countries as far as I know.
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  3. I think we all should stop to consume any mainstream media even in those countries who supposedly have a high level of press freedom, and make connection to actual people instead check if the person is smart ask different opinions and make your own conclusions.
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  4. Joseph Joestar it's just a language ...Russian is obviously much more widespread worldwide so if they hear your accent they will be very helpful lol(even the most radical Russia haters) as long as they know Russian themselves(95% of them do). If you blended in so much that you have no accent in Russian(I dunno if it's possible LOL) and don't look like a foreigner you can be replied in Ukrainian assuming you can understand. I can't even imagine that you gonna be harassed in any way unless you openly despise them and praise Putin(in any language). I can't imagine that you will be mistreated in any way only because you learn Russian LOL.
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  5. N M Serbia is an exception, there is no propaganda against Serbia or Montenegro. Many view them like as brothers for historical reasons/religious reasons. Slovenia ,Greece and Slovakia are kinda neutral as well by the media, Roman is lying that someone hates them. Czech R. was also viewed neutral until media started to demonize them. The only states often demonized in the media are Baltics, Poland , Ukraine, sometimes U.K. and USA.
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  6. Marek B. Really? I'm a Russian and I thought young people don't watch TV so they don't care about those things.
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  7. Marek B. Idk I think Czechs have a great sarcastic sense of humor. I love reading Idnes comments from time to time , maybe it's just me but I don't see much of a hate there just some healthy sarcasm. But I guess some Russians tend to take everything too close to their heart and see conspiracy and russophobia in everything LOL.
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  8. effexon brutal? If you think it's brutal you are a pussy. I am no fan of Soviet Union by any means but all those people tend to forget that "the regime" was like 10 times more harsh in Soviet Russia than in Poland, CZ etc. it doesn't mean you should love the regime forced upon you but you hate to remember that "the occupants"(average people)lived a tougher life, so you are not the main victim of the regime.
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  9. Jason Hunter No, Russians are very curious about the outside world actually not like Americans at all. Russian news etc. is dominated by foreign -related agenda, to distract people from their domestic failures. It's nothing alike USA. In America 95% of all news are domestic related, in Russia it's the opposite. It's hilarious how russian talk shows are 90% about Ukraine, Europe , USA problems but not domestic issues.
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  10. Tomáš Mažár he's overreacting no one hates countries like Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary etc. in Russia. Some think that Czechs are overly salty and sensitive about 1968, and the media instigates all those "ww2 disrespect monuments"things. Other than that the attitude among the regular people are pretty chill. Hating Slovakia, are you kidding me? I would say that Poland and Baltic states are often viewed by propaganda as "pain in the ass" I mean "salty countries that gonna do everything to irritate and "provoke" Russia. But that's it. I have met both Baltic and Polish people and it was quite comfortable if I'm not arrogant and respect those countries why they should hate me just because I was born in Russia LOL.
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  11. Jens Boettiger Russians are pretty chill towards Germany now, even Putin is a germanophile
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  12. Сергей Сергей Russians want order and the rule of law. If they don't know anything better they worship Stalin. But if they see real Stalin the last smart people would leave the country. P.S. Capitalism works just fine in many former socialist countries like Czech Republic. It is not about capitalism.
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  13. Сергей Сергей people deserve what they have, they want one man like Stalin to restore law and order but refuse to make their little battle about anything even insignificant, I would say that those societies are so sick and immature they gonna be in pain one way or another, even if a good kind of Stalin appears he will eventually die and everyone will suffer because law and order was guaranteed by one man and people haven't learned anything.
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  14. Traditional soviet Okrushka is awful but I really liked Okroshka served at Goodman restaurants in Russia, they use fillet mignon beef instead of kolbasa, and you have to use a special kvass with it, not that cheap supersweet bottled shit they usually sell in a grocery store.
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  15. 942mattu Neutral-Positive, a nice country, some admire your ability to keep your countryside tidy with infrastructure well maintained."Russian patriots" often use excuses like "We can't keep our countryside tidy and well maintained because we are a Nothern country so we have awful climate". So they are advised to cross the border and look how the same climate stops the Finns from taking good care of their land. So I have never heard anything bad about Finland. I guess we Russians respect their independence and don't consider that Finns owe anything to us, unlike other countries that were a part of RE, or soviet sphere of influence in Europe. I'm afraid most young Russians have no idea that Finland was a part of RE for 100 years LOL.
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  16. vondrejek man if they wanted to get them killed they would have done it already, they are just having fun of making CZ politics paranoid
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  17. Thomas Christensen it depends on what you consider being a middle class. Putin says that if you salary exceeds minimum salary by 50% you are a middle class by World Bank standards so if you get more than RUB 17K per month(like $240) you are a middle class at least LOL like 70% of Russian population that makes that kind of money is a middle class according to our "Glorious Leader". What is considered a middle class in your country? How you define if you a middle class or not?
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  18. Gopnic Otaku no, the most hated countries for those ppl. affected by propaganda are Ukraine, Baltic states, Poland...UK and US to a lesser extent...all other countries do not have any significant negative connotations.
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  19. Joseph Joestar Sure
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  20. Joseph Joestar I mean even the craziest Ukrainian nationalists do realize that a tourist foreigner much more likely to speak Russian that Unkrainian, so if you have an accent in Russian and let them know you are a tourist the chances some Ukrainian will be irritated that you speak Russian are slim to none. In the western provinces of the country where Ukrainian is significant you can start in English and switch to Russian that the strategy I would use to position yourself better to those who probably have some kind of a "strong national identity". Using a couple of words in Ukrainian wouldn't hurt though.
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  21. Gunnar_Gregory LOL I have been to Finland and Finns were extremely nice polite and honest to me so if they don't like "Russians in general" I'm OK with it as long as they behave like they did LOL.
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  22. Raian Levy where are you from?
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  23. Raian Levy cool, I have a question, how much did the dollar prices of Argentinian real estate(apartments etc.) dropped last years? Are there any web sites where I can see a chart?
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  24. Raian Levy I see but if you have 50% of annual inflation in pesos, dollar prices for some goods like apartments should fall as well because people gonna have less dollars so if I keep the same price in dollars like 2-3 years ago no one gonna buy it. For example my Moscow apt. was like $300K in 2008, in 2015 it dropped to $110K, while USD was like 24--->84
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  25. Raian Levy are the cryptocurrencies popular in Argentina? I mean you have an "official" and a "black market" rate now, right? If I take my foreign card to the bank and use ATM, I gonna get a very bad rate, but if I have $100 in cash I can get a better rate if I sell it to some exchange guys on the street, correct?
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  26. John Kapwn I mean Russians hate some textures too. Most Russian won't be able to handle a sheep's brain while in Central Asia it's tasty and perfectly fine.
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  27. mateusz molenda Poland is a target of propaganda and often seen as American puppet that is paranoid and biased against Russia for no reason(for most Russians) LOL. So Poland, Baltic states and Ukraine are portrayed as some kind of obsessed with that Russian threat beyond any logical reason. Many people are OK with them though considering those countries somehow indoctrinated against anything Russian unlike their more reasonable Western European buddies.
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  28. mateusz molenda you Central Europeans get one thing wrong you tend to forget that unlike those Nazis who targeted outsiders, the main victim of the communist regime were Russians themselves, so when I keep hearing that whining I think buddy you haven't seen real shit and real atrocities, as much as it was sucks in Central Europe it was much much worse in Russia, it's not like Russians lived in prosperity because Russia robbed all the republics and satellite states at gunpoint.
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  29. Marek B. Really surprising for me I would never thought young people somehow involved with that TV agenda. I mean I could understand they could try to trash talk to Americans, but you telling me that they follow that minor Czech- related agenda is really surprising for me. Are you sure there are "a lot" of them? Maybe you have met just 1 crazy Russian player that watches news LOL.
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  30. JL Music Productions that dish is known in all of Central and Nothern Europe incl Britain. The idea that any jelly must be sweet and fruity is an American thing...maybe it's also not common in Southern Europe as well..
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  31. Ig2212 Kravenchenko friendly people carnivals football not much I guess, it is too far away to be considered a tourist destination just like other S. American countries.
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  32. Karmo Kamp I've heard that many Russian IT guys never been to Estonia before immigrated to Estonia last 5-10 years. Do they learn the language to get Estonian citizenship in the future?p.s. I still don't think that local Estonian Russians not learning the language is a big deal. Maybe they believe that they not gonna get much of an bonus opportunity if they knew the language. I'm an ethnic Russian from Kazakhstan and I respect Kazakh people. But I don't believe that Kazakh knowledge give me any significant advantage. No disrespect here.
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  33. Beachcomber1993 Many counties have more than 1 official language(Switzerland, Canada etc.). Many countries where it's not official(like the USA) the minorities can do many things in their language(like passing a driving license exam in Russian in New York, or Spanish in California). If the person want more opportunity like government job they can learn the language but "forcing" it is just stupid, people have to be genuinely interested learning the language, it is kinda stupid for a practical people like Estonians to hate on the local russian grandma that she didn't learn the language yet, it won't do any good for the local russians in making them hungry to learn estonian LOL.
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  34. TheBambooBandit I have been to Finland and never felt anything negative.
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  35. Charlie No-Face actually it's not that widespread, I walk a lot around Moscow and maybe I felt the smell a couple of times only, I would say some progressive hipsters might smoke but ppl. are generally afraid to get jailed because they (cops)gonna see it as a "possession with the intent of distribution". It is actually horrible because prisons are filled with a lot of docile hipster kids that ordered 10 grams of mj in the darknet for their own consumption. I don't think the government will loose it up anytime in the nearest future because they are confident that mj consumption forces people to consume heavy drugs in the future. So the majority of ppl. follow and believe it though I think it's a statistical fallacy and a dogma.
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  36. wojstube that's the way it should be , hating on a person just because he was born in a particular country is stupid, I mean your interests and common beliefs with that person are more important than the fact you share or don't share the same language or cultural background with him.
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  37. kris404 from my Russian experience radish only added to okroshka soup but not to olivye salad, and the opposite goes to canned green peas, that often added to olivye but not to okroshka base.
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  38. Sam M why, who cares as long as he speaks english they don't care, those who can understand English and consume a foreign content are already "lost" for propaganda they kinda agreed to bite a bullet on this one.
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  39. SF1NX I get your point but Moscow has changed a lot and now it's very comfortable for living and from consumers standpoint. Russian institutions(justice, property protection,police , penitentiary) though are not improving , sometimes got even worse.
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  40. SF1NX I have lived in Europe (Austria, Spain, Czech Republic) and I can definitely say Moscow is more lively and exciting and has more to offer. Europe is good when you are a family man and trying to live your safe boring life or a grandma/grandpa with some good medical insurance and retirement money. Other than that Moscow is more vibrant and has more opportunities. Though I realize that Russian government might go really crazy and kafkaesque one day so you must have your escape plan ready.
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  41. LancesArmorStriking what's wrong with it...like sausage , different types of smoked meat...what's the problem, it's cold and not completely "dry" like beef jersey or something)
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  42. Mathef that would be hilarious, he's a legend trolling our media and government LOL. I'm kinda jealous that some local politic figure can call his president an idiot and not afraid anything bad. LOL.
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  43. Mathef yeah, they are terrible, in fact I believe any mainstream mass media is terrible(including CNN) , in Russia only business media(radio/tv)is "kinda" OK and trying to stay away from that patriotic hysteria,and everything else is a dog shit.
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  44. Darth Vader your message is pointless unless you say where are you from my friend:)
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  45. Родин Богдан Russian Government denies Holodomor as a deliberate action against Ukrainian population but no one denies that the famine hit many regions including Kazakhstan, Russia. It the famine existed in Ukraine only Ukrainians arguments would have sounded more valid in many eyes. Kazakhstan also hit by that famine doesn't not consider it a deliberate action against it's population.
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  46. Holodomor is not a holocaust in any way . I'm from a Russian family that lived in Kazakhstan, we starved like anyone else, many people died. Many people were hit by the famine in the southern regions of Russia(Volga) not just "the republics" that is a fact that kinda neglects those accusations it was some kind of ethnic cleansing or genocide. It's politicized beyond any reason and I'm an anti soviet guy.
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  47. ph4nt0m it's monthly minimum wage not daily....just FYI a median salary in Russia (excl. Moscow ) is $400 per month, maybe it's a weekly minimum wage in a Michigan LOL
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