Comments by "ElephantInTheRoom " (@elephantintheroom5678) on "1420 by Daniil Orain" channel.

  1. What a rude shock these people will get one day when they are forced to acknowledge what they have allowed to happen through their lackadaisical political irresponsibility.
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  2.  @johnwayne8494  He looked like he knew he was risking his life to say what he thought, but he was willing to call Putin's regime criminals, anyway. I saw pain in his eyes for what Putin is doing to Russia and Ukraine and all their peoples, too.
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  3.  @johndenver8907  He was afraid, but brave. Big Brother is watching them, in Russia.
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  4.  @johnwayne8494  Well, I've been watching this channel for a long time, and they all look different to me.
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  5.  @CCPJerBear  Especially since they have become allied with Iran and are buying weapons from Nth Korea.
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  6.  @SteveSmith-oi2xz  That's exactly right.
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  7.  @Sedobr  Have you seen how the French people react when their government tries to lord it over them and do something they don't like? - (it's in the news right now). You Russians need to take a leaf out of their book. They didn't give up after their Revolution.
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  8. The hubris, not the "courage."
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  9.  @oselish  Yeah - the Russians are prepared to submit to serfdom, while the French demand Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. That's the difference.
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  10. Wow! That first guy has had enough of the criminals holding Russia hostage. I hope he lives to see a free Russia.
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  11. The generation who avoided all war and lived through a long prosperous period, telling young people to die for a corrupt tyrant.
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  12. Terrifying, comical, hopeless and absurd... A perfect summary.
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  13. The young ones aren't apathetic or scared, they simply have a total lack of human sympathy.
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  14.  @freedomwhenneeded  I haven't seen him inserting his opinions.
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  15. All but one who lived in the USSR preferred it and said it was better, and people were happier. I especially found it interesting how they mentioned the free university education and health care, and the high employment, better food, and more cooperation and care between people. I remember seeing a documentary, once, about how native reindeer herding people were driven from their lands after the collapse of the USSR, too. Perhaps capitalism isn't better in every way, as we are programmed to believe...
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  16. I love Vasya in the hay. And 1420!
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  17. The young ones don't give a damn about anyone but themselves, and the old ones seem to already have maggots for brains.
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  18. 46 Yes; 32 No Comment; 22 No: In other words - 46 Yes; 54 No. Pretty sad, overall, considering the slaughter in Ukraine.
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  19. There must be something seriously wrong with the education system in Russia.
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  20. Putin's greatest victory has been over the mental independence and citizenship engagement of the Russian people.
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  21. That's right, he established the mines there.
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  22.  @usrgit  Is that an attempt at wit? It failed. Miserably.
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  23.  @zachhi89  I agree.
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  24. You are fabulous! ...but it's sad that only those young Russians with sociology degrees seem to comprehend or care about what is happening in their country.
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  25. Russians have got to lay off the excessive drinking and smoking if they want to live longer. Also, Russia does very little for the elderly, and its hospital/medical system is pitiful, falling backwards ever since Putin came to power.
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  26. All Russians seem to do is "obey" Putin, they are the opposite of "independent." I couldn't believe my ears when I heard the last man's comment. Talk about repressed desires, and a slip of the tongue.
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  27.  @oleopathic  My thoughts, exactly.
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  28.  @АлександрДухин-р3ц  Putin better stay in Russia or they'll clap him in irons, like Milosovich.
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  29. Beats me, but I didn't know that Russia "battled against most of the world and Europe" in WW11.... I always thought Russia was allied with most of the world (including USA) and Europe against Germany.... Did I miss something?
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  30. Well, as I've watched this channel for a while I know that so many Russians hate Europe and America that I think it is a wise move to stop an influx of them into Europe.
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  31. In Australia and America a lot of rural people are pretty stupid, too. It's quite common nearly everywhere. That baby boom generation is pretty dumb, also. It's disgusting how the women of Russia are so eager to sacrifice their sons for Putin.
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  32. Seeing as they have no say, or choice in the matter I suppose they have decided to tell themselves it isn't so bad. Just like women in abusive relationships lie to themselves, often until they are strangled to death, or beaten to within an inch of their lives. Even then, many of those who survive are so lacking in clarity of what is right and wrong, that they stay with the abuser. The whole Russian population is in an abusive relationship with a leader who uses power and control to maintain his tyranny. No wonder so many lie to themselves about it; where can they go for help - unless they leave the country?
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  33. I used to think that you could tell if someone was intelligent or an idiot by looking at them, but these videos have made me reassess that belief; you really can't tell at all.
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  34.  @ZhenYae  Teens read classics in high school English in the West, actually. As for Russia, I saw a video on YouTube of a Russian being arrested there for holding up a bit of cardboard with the title "War and Peace" - which title you should recognise, if you've read the classics - in protest of the war on Ukraine. That's how much Russia respects the content of the classics.
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  35. I like the 10th person, she seemed like a woman I could relate to.
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  36. It always strikes me as pathetic how so many Russians claim to be so far removed, so above, the scheming manipulations of politics, and on another, somehow superior, plane; as if they don't even realise they are deeply enmeshed in a power structure that controls their lives in myriad unavoidable ways. They are so naive and irresponsible, like children or childish teenagers (not that all teenagers are childish).
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  37. That's because Putin is running a massive, corrupt, protection racket.
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  38. Wow...how ridiculous and pathetic.
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  39. True.
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  40.  @foilcap  I'll listen to them speak for themselves, thanks, as they were there and lived it.
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  41.  @PijusONLINE  It was obvious they meant what they said.
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  42.  @foilcap  I think unchecked capitalism is just a way for rich criminals to try and turn people back into serfs.
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  43. Beautiful young woman; she had a skewed, unfocused eye, but her brain was clear and focused.
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  44.  @oleh_1337  NO HE DOES NOT.
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  45.  @usrgit  Navalny is not corrupt like Putin; he exposes corruption.
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  46.  @usrgit  What rubbish. Putin has started several wars of aggression, condoned torture and mass kidnapping, and has robbed billions from his own people. Navalny hasn't even been in power, so how could you say he has done any of those things? Answer: You can't.
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  47.  @usrgit  Navalny recently penned an article from prison for The Washington Post in which he condemns Putin's "imperial authoritarianism," and he publicly supports a proper, democratically run referendum there, rather than the fake one they had. Meanwhile, his chief of staff has recently come out and said that Crimea belongs to Ukraine.
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  48.  @usrgit  Yes, but Putin is NOT Navalny.
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  49.  @usrgit  At no point did Navalny say Crimea "was Russia." What he did say was that Crimea was not like a sandwich to be handed between those who want a bite. Instead, it was entitled, in his opinion, to a genuine, uncorrupted, referendum. As Crimea, like the rest of Ukraine, originally voted to be independent of Russia in the 1990's, they would likely vote the same way in an unrigged referendum, and Navalny knows it.
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  50. Good idea.
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  51. The naive faith in the system so many of them evince... The typical faith that young men have that they will not personally die, despite declaring they are aware of the "risk." As if death is an abstract thing that (really) only happens to other people. So sad.
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  52.  @lodoova572  Yes, they are.
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  53. The more I watch your channel the more concerned I am for the mental health of the middle-aged women in Russia. So many of them seem to have gone mad.
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  54. Why do they always feel so weak and wimpy? Don't they realise they are a population that has overthrown a dictatorial empire before? They really just don't give a sh*t because they aren't the ones suffering.
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  55. In the whole time I've watched 1420 videos, I think I've heard a handful of middle-aged to old Russian women say they don't support that evil murderer, Putin. What the hell is wrong with them? They remind me of the old crones knitting at the foot of the guillotine during The Terror in France, or the old women handing white feathers to denote cowardice to young men who weren't fighting during the Great War. They're absolutely pathetic. It's as if it makes them feel great to see young men die. Despicable hags.
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  56.  @RR-et6zp  Russia is so rich in fossil fuels that the entire country, including rural areas, should be far more developed by now, if it weren't for Putin and his cronies STEALING most of the profits. Instead, he just keeps the major cities in reasonable nick. Especially Moscow, near the Kremlin!
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  57. Their answers all sound great until you ask them to elucidate what exactly they mean.
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  58.  @dwillbecancelledsoon4086  There are innumerable photos and films from Hitler's era that show what Hitler did to the Jews. Nobody needs war propaganda or Hollywood films to see what Hitler did to the them.
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  59.  @dwillbecancelledsoon4086  There are numerous witnesses - American soldiers - who personally saw and photographed the starving Jews in the concentration camps when they liberated them. If you repeat the misinformation you are spouting again I shall report you.
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  60. They think they are clean of guilt, but they are disgusting the way they close their eyes to how their government is massacring women, children, old people, and other non-combatants. What disgraceful excuses for human beings they are.
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  61. The older women of Russia have been disgusting me since I first started watching 1420 at the start of this war. So many of them are hateful and so very stupid. As for the young - too many of them don't give a hoot about others suffering. What a sick society. Russia has one of the highest divorce rates in the world, one of the highest alcoholism rates in the world, treats their elderly very poorly and is riddled with organised crime from top to bottom.
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  62. What a liar! Why did Russia just attack one of the US' drones in international waters? This guy is deranged!
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  63. That twisted woman in the red knitted hat would have been one to report people who spoke against Stalin, so they'd be sent to the gulag. I didn't like her one bit.
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  64. This is exactly what I show to anyone who thinks all Russians are poor, tyrannised victims of Putin. Overwhelmingly, they were in support of the invasion. Other than the first good woman, of course. Love to you Daniil Orain. You are a brave young fellow.🙏
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  65.  @Sedobr  If you are a Russian I have one thing to say to you: why do Russians keep running back into serfdom? The people in other countries managed to get out and never lay back down under the boot. Have some pride, and stop blaming it all on others. As long as most Russians have bread and milk and sausage and vodka they don't care about anything.
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  66.  @eden17_10  Russians were, in effect, serfs under Stalin; he was a dictator in actuality, not a communist leader. Communism was just his cover story. As for 1991 being a revolution, look how long it took before another dictator slithered his way into power, and he has remained there ever since, and the Russians just shrug, and say they aren't interested in politics, while he siphons off Russia's wealth and hides it overseas. A real patriot, your dear leader, Putin.
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  67.  @Mike-vd2qt  And he didn't last long. When he manages to stay in power for decades while poisoning, shooting, or having his rivals shoved out of windows, get back to me.
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  68.  @DarlyaFaroeste  It sure is bad there. But it's just as bad, if not worse, for poor people and ill people in Russia.
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  69. @iiiiii707 True, but the French didn't just passively accept whatever the government attempted without their mandate, and Macron can be voted out - unlike Putin, who murders and imprisons his potential political rivals.
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  70. The women over 50 in Russia are, largely, stupid. But they're not the only ones. It's really spooky how many Russians are now asking for Daniel's name and surname... It reminds me of the days of Stalin's regime.
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  71. If only they could afford computers and VPN's.
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  72. It is disgusting that so many Russians just shrug and say it's just the way things are, or I'm fine, and that's all that I care about. They have relinquished all concept of right and wrong, good and evil, and all that exists in them is self interest. They have become a hollow people.
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  73. Stupid woman - why would Europe want to "be friends" with a country that is invading and terrorising a common neighbour? Europe doesn't need the US to tell it what to do.
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  74. They have accepted they will be doormats forever. How silly.
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  75. To the young man that makes these videos: Leave - before they send you to kill people! Or to die...
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  76. It's truly pathetic, the seeming amused pride that Russians take in declaring themselves uninterested in how their own country is run. They don't realise that they are thinking like serfs. It's so sad to think that Russian's were once a people who fought for their own freedom from despotism, to descend to this. Saddest of all is how they have been conditioned to wear their powerlessness as a badge of independence. It's like in the book 1984: SLAVERY IS FREEDOM, and WAR IS PEACE.
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  77. Does that that crazy old professor have no access to media showing the reality of what his "stable empire" is doing in Ukraine? Or don't Russian professors learn the importance of independent media?
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  78. Two beacons of wisdom in a sea of foolish old crones.
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