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This content is so incredibly fascinating. Please keep doing more videos. I admire the time and effort you have put into making these videos and your knowledge and insight is rare and impressive. Thank you!

I’m so sorry I missed this one! You are so brave for going in that elevator 🫣 why is it that ground floor apartments were undesirable?

Thank you for sharing ❤... I want to try your vinaigrette! Send you lots of Love from France...

Please don't use vegetable oil it's so so bad for you. Animal oils or if you must, real extra virgin olive oil.

Thank youFor your wonderful recipe and insights thoughts on surival and love. Si inMelb Aus

Poor people, it doesn't occur to them that true disaster begun not with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but with it's creation in 1917. The most dark and shameful 70 year period of that territory's history.

julie, i really appreciate the work you put into your videos, the filming, research, sharing your own insights and memories, interviewing people, writing/translating, dubbing/narration, editing and finding and including extra clips like of the original elevator. thank you! truly amazing professional quality content. it’s very interesting to see snippets of life in places i can’t afford to travel to and to hear the history directly from the people there.

Your such a sweet lady. Looks really good, as a vegetarian, i need to try this. Also, thankyou for sharing your life story and glad life is better for you now ❤

I would have skipped the onions as well.

Wonderful video - great food and a heart-tugging poignant story!!! We escaped in the early 80s, but BOY do I remember Vinagret! We would have it every Saturday from around October through April. Mum would do it a bit differently each week - sometimes she'd add pickled mushrooms, or Rutabaga, or Parsnips - sometimes she'd even put sauerkraut in it instead of (or WITH) the pickles. We only had Sunflower oil, so that's what we used - and if possible, some lemon juice (oddly, while oranges were a rare treat, we usually had access to lemons or lemon juice). I find as I'm older we're eating a lot of the old Soviet dishes again - and I'm going to make Vinagret a regular again (we have it 2 or 3 times during the winter here in the US, but... now I want it more often!). Another major benefit of making Vinagret is that the water used to boil the vegetables is a WONDERFUL flavourful stock! In our home it was Vinagret on Saturdays and a big Rassolnik or Borschsch on Sundays! A 'two-fer' lol And dear younger friends... you probably won't understand this, but tinned peas are what we used in the Soviet Union, so Vinagret or Salat Olivier with frozen peas just tastes... wrong. We've made dishes with non-tinned peas and every time we look at each other & shake our heads 'NO'. lol

Thank you for sharing your stories and also this lovely recipe! I will try it very soon. I enjoy hearing all your important stories and thoughts. Thank you for your generosity.

This apartment is better than others that I've seen in some areas of America. God bless she has a place to live as some elderly don't even have that.

Thanks for a great video! I love your channel. God bless you my friend. Love from the USA.

If these tenants were considered well off, imagine how poor people lived.

Hi from france. Thank you.❤❤❤

Very interesting video. Thank you.

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Thank you for your moving story. How funny is it that your vinegret comes from the french salad dressing (vinaigrette) with vinegar, but there is no vinegar in it 😀

In Brazil we call it Russian salad 😊

Alkoholismus gibt es überall.In Deutschland ist Bier das alkoholische Getränk überhaupt. Bei jedem Anlass wird Bier oder Wein angeboten ,aber auch harte Alkoholika. Natürlich gibt es auch viele Süchtige. Das Hilfsangebot in Deutschland ist enorm .Wenn der Süchtige bereit ist ,kann er oder sie ,ins Krankenhaus zum entziehen . Danach versucht der Sozialdienst so schnell wie möglich ein Langzeit Therapie Platz zu vermitteln.Deutschland ist bekannt für gute Therapieplätze aber auch für großem Alkoholverkauf .Dennoch nicht in dem Ausmaß der Sowjetunion

In Alberta in Canada, in Canadians dollars, onions are 4.00 a kg, potatoes 4.50 a kg, carrots 2.40 a kg, beets 2.40 kg. Pickles are 5-6 dollars for a 1 litre jar. No food is inexpensive any more. 4 years ago, all these things would have been half the price on sale. Even cabbage is expensive here. Some people have good salaries, but we have many people who are struggling to buy food here too. The food banks are so busy helping people now and people struggling to pay high rents. We have lots of people with lots of money and good salaries, but more and more every day many without much……

Great❤

I imagine that the pickles give a lot of the flavour. What flavour of pickles are they? Are they dill pickles? Or dill and garlic? Or something else? I want to try to make this in Canada, but not sure what type of pickles to use.

I love your channel ❤ I think if ever America goes through a hard time like that, families will turn on each other. It's dog eat dog here so much of the time. God bless you! ❤

Wow, thank you for sharing your experiences Best wishes!

What would it have been used for?

Vinegret! served in the famous crystal vase that every Soviet home had and many still do. Love it. There is also new year salad called Olivier - boiled veg with mayo and pickled gherkins - absolutely delish

Thank you for sharing such a tender story. I'm 50 now, and the small things in life are so important. ❤

It's really beautiful! It looks like it would be a festive addition to a Christmas meal!❤

Lockable freezers are somewhat common in the USA. The idea is to prevent children from climbing inside them while playing hide and seek.

What a coincidence: I have just started reading a Russian Christmas story by Nikolai Gogol with an Oxana and a village Dikanka in it! That short clip from a movie in your video should be based on it! There‘s also the devil and a strong blacksmith called Wakula, a good painter, and in love with Oxana. I‘ll finish the story and think of you!

😂😂😂…..The Gulag…..good old Stalin…..😂😂

I love all of these things ingredients so I’ll have to try this

I love the bear and the cat ia so cute. I have a black kitty.

The truth is, these apartments are much bigger with higher ceilings than modern apartments. If they had good upkeep they would be great.

That’s Julia’s ethnicity ?

Many, many pensioners live like this in Israel.

Putin does NOT live like this…….😂😂😂

Thank you for your story. I am taking it as a reminder that circumstances can, and sometimes do, change overnight. Many of us in America are worried right now because our future as a nation, for the first time in more than half a century, has became frighteningly uncertain. My only income comes from the government in the form of social security. I will remember your recipe for the vegetable salad and I think that for the near future, until we can see how bad it’s going to be, I will stock up on canned goods, coffee, and other non perishable foods. Thank you for your timely video. Good luck to you and all of us.

i love how many little flourishes and details are included in every corner of these apartments. the cabinet beneath the sink is pretty, the tiles and wallpapers have flowers, there are beautiful lace curtains. you can tell how much babushka and others cared about their space and wanted to make even their modest items beautiful. i admire it very much and i think it’s a nice change from the white and grey modern decor that is popular now. many elders here in the US live similarly despite how different the countries are. many are poor, have never had a chance to enjoy life even after working their whole lives and we don’t care for them properly. many can never afford to retire or end up unhoused. things were different before, retiring was more common maybe 20 years ago but cost of living is high and salaries have not risen, companies have stopped offering employees pensions or retirement benefits as they once did. the rich are very rich and everyone else is poor. everything is expensive. no one can afford to buy a home these days so unless they already owned one, even elderly people now have to rent forever. and rent is very, very expensive. it’s sad how much of the world has similar problems.

thank you for this video and your insights! it was very interesting. please don’t worry about not showing the last room, i’m grateful to you for the video and the family for inviting us into their space!

Is this a museum now? How is it so dust free and preserved?

It’s all mind over matter…….Putin doesn’t mind and the people don’t matter……😂😂😂

thank you for sharing this with us! i loved this video!

OMG, you're like the Russian Martha Stewart! So cool and cute! Will definitely try this. Спасибо

I thought the Russian staple was cheap vodka?……to keep the peasants drunk….😂😂😂

Yeah… I don’t want to live like a Russian. I want Russians to leave everyone else the hell alone, and stop ruining our countries.

My family still makes this for holiday meals. I love it! I live in Australia. xo

Хочу сказать, что голод в 90х был специально созданный, чтобы полностью сломать систему. А систему нашу запад очееееень хотел поломать.