People in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, every country bordering Russia, have long memories. Here in Finland people remember the Winter War. In Poland people remember the Katyn massacre. So yes, there are some historical long-term grievances against Russia.
Katyń, but also many other things...they attack us when we fight germany, that was part of Ribbentrop Molotow pact, that start ww2. Then after war force us to be in USSR...
Regardless of the individual integrity of it's citizens, a nation who's leader repeatedly threatens other countries with nuclear attack isn't going to have a good reputation and neither are it's people.
Yes they flee instead of fighting against their psychotic regime. Not because they do not wanna kill other human beeing, just because they'r afraid having their but in the meat grinder. Yes they flee during the time some Iranian women die for freedom. And they even believe all lies and dreams of glory delivered by their propagandists. They don't even claim freedom at all. If the regime is bad change the regime.
they fleeing cuz they loosing, otherwise they would wave flags, sing loud and clap to this psycho Put-in... Russia was, is and always will be the cancer of this planet. This nation is fuked up to the bone
I find it so bizarre the ingrained idea that many of those interviewed have that politics and the people are somehow completely separate from each other.
Well if your voice counts for nothing and you are not represented by anyone, then it's something "they" are doing and not "we". Politics is for the few.
The sad truth is that many of the people interviewed are the minority that are willing to speak. In my experience, most Russians are very reluctant to talk about politics or anything to do with the war for fear that it will be passed on to the State police and they will be arrested. I've seen other videos where the majority of older Russians either refuse to speak or follow the state tv news propaganda and support Putin and his criminals. These people probably know someone who is a soldier in Ukraine and fear that speaking disloyally about their country is being a traitor to it.
@@lottaroos5566 Problem is just it's not only "the few" who ar effected by it. It is a crime not to do anything while you're watching somebody murder someone. The population has responsibility. Not all of it but some.
@@Micha-qv5uf Absolutely it's a big problem! They need to change that ingrained idea that they can't do anything about what the government decides. I think it's a left-over from USSR.
@@johnnymcandrew that's why war should be avoided at all cost but the Russian apatite for apathy has doomed tens of thousands of their own sons to death with a tarnished reputation.
@@johnnymcandrew (1) Russians are banned because of the perceived security risk; (2) it is THEIR government that is at fault, so they should look to their own government if they want the sanctions lifted. If it’s true that the Russian government does not represent its people, and you argue that it’s not safe to oppose the Russian government now, things are only going to get worse until the Russian people act. The longer they leave it the worse it will be.
@@johnnymcandrew there is 120 million russian , if they want to stop killing on ukraine they could ,but instead they ignore people get kill for no reason . so yes . people on street is to be blamed . will it cost lifes , yes , righr now this has already cost 100000-20000 already in ukraine. if you are not willing to fight for freedome dont come and enjoy europe freedome
5 : 37 "Everyone has their own truth." What? No, everyone has their own opinion, their own view of the truth. But somewhere a single truth lies. And the question is, who can situate themselves, who can travel, or even wander, in order to near it, to know it. This man's postmodern view is what's wrecking the world. He's confusing taste with truth.
Well, fair or not... it is the citizen and people of Russia that has kept Putin at power for 2 decades, so you are not that innocent in what's happening now! Stand up and take responsibility for your life and country, don't blame everybody else for what you let your political leaders do! Even Iranian 12 years old girls are braver than Russians! Shame on you!!!
That is, you propose to start discrimination against Russians on ethnic grounds. This is the true face of Euro-Nazis What nonsense are you talking clown. People living in a totalitarian society are not responsible. It's easy to sit in a free country and talk about how easy it is to protest. Shut your mouth, you don't have to teach Russians how to protest.
@@user-mj7dt8of8e - That is just B.S and you know it, the Russian Chauvinism is very well known all over the world, it's just you and some of your fascist "friends" that deny it. It is the same as under WW2, when the communist party pushed poor people from the periphery areas in front of the Russians in the Red Army without equipment, without weapon, and today, the officials in Russia try to, just like Stalin to alter the history, by saying that "Russia won the WW2", truth is that without the help from UK and USA and 30000 Norwegian sailors, Russians would have been speaking German today. There is some very few Russians today that speak up against the Russian Government and against the war, but almost everybody else just find a Vodka bottle and a tree in the forrest. And regarding the protests... most of you push your sisters, mothers and Wifes out to protest while the men lay stupidly drunk under a tree hoping no one find them. I have absolute full respect for those few that actually speak up and risk their lives, but that is not "most Russians".
@@StoltHD What you write is BS. It's thanks to the Russian soldiers that you don't speak German now. You just skipped history class. Most of the German troops fought on the eastern front. You Europeans hid behind the backs of Russian soldiers. You cannot find and study the statistics on the second world war, instead you eat anti-Russian myths, this indicates your weak cognitive thinking Russia is not on the list of the most drinking countries in the world. You Euroalcoholics who drink no less than Russians do not dare to blame Russians for alcoholism, you are even worse.
Before you write such a BS, you visit a rally. Most of the protesters in Russia are men. Russian man is stronger and more courageous than you weak European half-men. Russian men at least do not kneel before blacks and feminists, unlike you European men who do not have balls. You European men are only brave on the Internet, but in real life you are cowardly and cannot tell the Russians your claims in person. It's easy to blame the Russians for doing nothing while sitting in a free country. If you are so brave, then go to Russia and protest, show the Russians how to protest, or are you only brave on the Internet?
@@StoltHD There is no Russian chauvinism whatsoever. But the world knows European racism. Russians, unlike Europeans, did not carry out cruel colonization. On the contrary, the Russians fed the captured peoples. The tsarist elite used the Russian people as a cash cow to feed the captured peoples. That is why the Russians were the most oppressed ethnic group in the Russian Empire.
@@user-mj7dt8of8e - You need to learn Russian history before you keep writing anything more. Russian chauvinism, Russian fascism, Russian genocide is all part of the Real-World history, only Russians supporting it and Putin and that think Russia is some kind of the new super state and lives in total denial, try to convince anyone that the History is wrong... similar to people that think Earth is flat. Russia is the biggest growing ground for neo-Nazism in the world... But I bet you also deny the cruelties, raps and killing Wagner Group are doing around the World to. It's stupidity to try to say that Russians didn't carry out any cruel colonization in history... just the last 120 years Russia and Russians, under communism was responsible for more than 80 million people's death, and that is after all the cruelties of the Russian Tsars. Communism as an ideology is responsible for more than 120 million people killed! So just stop it with your fascist propaganda, trying to play victim. Russians are responsible for their choses, and you could learn a few things from 12 years old Iranian girls regarding protesting.
"Evil deeds equal retaliation." Totally agree with you. It is necessary to destroy NATO along with the United States for what they did to Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.
@@dep.deity3605"" it's necessary to destroy every country for what they have done to other countries. lol"" I agree. First you need to start with the United States for dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan.
The same reason they were buying gas and oil from Putin while he was killing his own citizens. Hypocrisy. Not showing European people full picture of Putin’s crimes is the point
Yes, I'm really wondering why... Perhaps because Russia is one of only two countries in the world that poses a threat to US hegemony? Do most European countries represent US interests?
Wow! This was great. I watch 1420 and think you get a much better, more honest response from your interviews. Keep it up. Keep the interviews coming and people will watch.
It is because Daniil is doing his interviews in Moscow hipster areas and interviewing his fellow IT students. So he is getting quite an untypical response
@@True_Heretic It's still going on in all countries and will always go on. The only thing we can look at is the intent and the outcome. Does it benefit the people effected or a select few? I personally don't see how this benefits anyone other than a select few.
@@FoulPet Western politics are usually run for the benefit of the few as well. Whilst greed triumphs over humanism I agree, it will always go on, almost everywhere. I think that's why, as citizens, we have to lend our voices to an insistence upon international law and human rights, and the calling out of all those, including our own governments, who break those rules.
@@True_Heretic unfortunately we're part of the reason they are in power. Someone has to do it. Preferably a groups rather than an individual. It's not perfect but other than anarchy it's what we have. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Dividing that power up a bit helps. Personally I think the President has to much power. Nice thing is, its a limited time frame. At least for now.
@@FoulPet I agree with much of what you say. I think that whilst money buys political success the whole thing will be absolutely corrupt. Personally, I'd prefer a meritocracy where the most credible individuals volunteer to be part of a leading think tank and the Game of Party Politics is eschewed forever. Politics seems to be the most corrupt industry going. Other than some sections of the media. Probably why politics and media attract more sociopaths than any other industries. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum. No wonder things are such a mess globally. I'm not saying that the President is powerless, because he is not. But he is still more of a figurehead than anything. After all, he doesn't make the key military decisions, for instance. His advisors, or the people they really represent, do. Its not just Russia that has oligarchs.
The guy says “ it seems to me that they have exactly the same media that does not reliably convey the picture of what’s going on in Russia” is that opposed to having only state approved media that totally misrepresents what’s going on in Russia
@@PrimoStracciatella it’s not possible to have reliable media when it’s controlled by the state and anything negative to the state is banned, that’s the whole point of a free and independent media. Obviously that’s not the case in opposite land
@@nic969 a war is not a war, a Jew is a nazi, soldiers need replacing not because they’re dying but because Russia’s winning, Russia’s not going to invade then they invade. Get it? Opposite land. Everything Russia says the exact opposite is the truth.
So did ur media showed you programs of Putins crimes since 1999 and how European leaders were ignoring it ? How were they buying gus and oil from putin if human rights are important? Russian people were dying cause of you
Exactly. People in the West just don't get it. They keep asking us Russians - "why don't you guys just free yourselves?". Because our guards have all the guns, that's why.
Anyone with even a cursory understanding of history can see why Poland, The Baltics and Finland would close their borders to Russians. So suck it up. You brought it on yourselves. Even if you weren't directly to blame.
Frankly, I'm not sure how many of these Russians know that the Soviet Union was actually hated by the European satellite countries living within the Soviet grip. Pretty much the only references I've heard from Russians on the Soviet Union was that it was a time of peace, equality and fraternal friendship amongst member nations.
@@GreenGibbon I've noticed that too and it leaves me absolutely stunned. I'm an Estonian. They used to call us "fascist" during the Soviet time. How could anyone possibly think that they are loved or respected after such derogatory statements? Not to mention mass deportations, cultural and religious oppression, etc. One the other hand, it scares me. If even the Russians think they were loved and admired in the USSR, what would the free world think? Would we be supported in case of attack, or would we be considered an integral part of the horrendous "Russkii Mir"?
@@GreenGibbon yeah ,their fraternity/equality and friendship was to starve 4 million Ukrainians to death and send all political prisoners from those nations to die in Siberia or instant executions!
@@hunt8619 Don't you worry my Baltic friend. We got you. From the 🇺🇲. And Poland is RIGHT THERE. They know. So does Finland. As it stands Russia's done for anyway.
Once a vendor found a thief attempting to steal in his shop, so he told to the thief:" you Will never enter anymore in my shop". The thief said:" but May Be next time I Will not come to steal....". The dealer said: "did I mention that my family owns 40 shops and that i Will pass them you Pic and id? By the way we own the Mall". The thief cried " that Is a violation of my Freedom of movement!!!!" . "Call yourself lucky, thieves should have to stay in jail, or at least at home arrests".
Please ask Russians how they think Europe should dissuade them from invading other European countries if all these methods are unjust. What would be a just method?
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o - No need, we are talking about Russia now! And before you start more whataboutism, most European knows that Russians have been doing genocide in both Ukraine and other areas in the old USSR, and that Putin is following in those tracks. Russians' genocide of Tatars, multiple Nations in Siberia etc. etc. So just shut it with your whataboutism.
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o We’re talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Whatever any other country has done in other regions of the world is not a justification.
They are not the one firing the missile or shoots the bullets, they are not your enemy, they are just normal people trying to live their lives like you and I, it is their government that screwed everybody else, even their own citizen, can't you even see that from this video?
It was so cringey when Russian state TV was saying that the bombing of the Crimean bridge was an act of terror, while they completely decimate entire cities and target civilians.
@@nietzchan They are ignoring the truth of what's happening in Ukraine. They are ignoring the truth about their own government and, by doing so, they are enabling the deadly schemes of a mad man bent on destroying the world with Nuclear weapons for his own selfish desires. They are weak, they are cowards for running from the fight they MUST fight if they are ever to be free of totalitarian rule. They aren't trying to live their lives, they're living less than their lives because they have helped cause the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women, and children who actually were just trying to live their lives. Can't YOU even see that from the video?
@@seargantmagor That is, the Ukrainian army can bomb peaceful cities for 8 years, but not the Russians? That is, the United States and NATO can destroy entire countries, but is it forbidden for Russians? The Russian army does not purposefully bomb civilians, unlike the army of Ukraine and the armies of NATO and the United States. The Russian army is bombing Ukrainian infrastructure that can be used for military purposes.
Not all of those interviewed said it was unfair, so again stupid generalization and collective guilt. That's like blaming all Americans for the wars in Iraq and Vietnam and the millions of deaths in those wars. Unlike Russia, the United States has democracy and free elections of politicians who start wars. So, on the basis of the principle of collective guilt, all Russians are responsible for the war in Ukraine, while war criminals like Bush, Blair or Cheney are free to travel around the world. Strange justice.
Here in Finland people were travelling to Russia and the other way around. I would argue that the relations peaked in 2010 with the high speed train line opened between Helsinki and St Petersburg. To think that we saw Russia invade Georgia, bring green men to the Donbass, annex Crimea and still it was more or less business as usual. It took us until Feb 24 to realize what was going on and that Putin will not stop. An important reason for stopping the Russian tourists coming to Finland is security. Lots of drones flying around strategic objects nowadays...
And you, the fool, no one said that all the issues of Russia in Ukraine, this is an internal private matter? I told our liberals in 2012, we will make the Baltic countries bankrupt for their hostile attitude towards us. Now, watch my hands, we will bankrupt Poland and Finland. Soon, you will not care what we do IN OUR RUSSIAN lands.
"that we saw Russia invade Georgia" 19.) There is the question of whether the use of force by Georgia in South Ossetia, beginning with the shelling of Tskhinvali during the night of 7/8 August 2008, was justifiable under international law. It was not. Georgia had acknowledged that the prohibition of the use of force was applicable to its conflict in South Ossetia in specific legally binding international documents, such as the Sochi Agreement of 1992 or the 1996 Memorandum on Measures to Provide Security and Strengthen Mutual Trust between the Sides in the Georgian-South Ossetian Conflict. Even if it were assumed that Georgia was repelling an attack, e.g. in response to South Ossetian attacks against Georgian populated 23 villages in the region, according to international law, its armed response would have to be both necessary and proportional. It is not possible to accept that the shelling of Tskhinvali during much of the night with GRAD multiple rocket launchers (MRLS) and heavy artillery would satisfy the requirements of having been necessary and proportionate in order to defend those villages.
@@Pioner1111 Не надо так напрягаться, просто скажи ему, что ЕС проверил и признал Грузию агрессором в той войне. Это официально так, он просто не знает! :)
@Suvi Eskelinen once a year, Finnish saboteurs killed the civilian population of the USSR. as scheduled. Then Stalin offered to change a piece of the isthmus for a much larger part of the territory in Karelia. You didn't want to. In the thirties, wars began on a lesser occasion. Here it was about the defense capability of the second most populous city of the USSR
If you let them in they'll have a referendum and annex half your country. They weren't leaving when it looked like they were going to win easily and they weren't leaving when it was people from rural Krapkanistan being killed by their leaders' incompetence.
After looking at the Elder Abuse being perpetrated on President Biden, he is due to enjoy his elder years. Giving incompetent old men 'the codes' is scarey. This includes Putin and 'Trudeau'.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c death is what is happening to Russian coward Russian soldiers everyday. The Russian totalitarian and mafia state is in the way to finish. Death will find Putin too.
Well they don’t need to lol: "Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say if, for example, Mexico was to form a military alliance with a US adversary?"
6:21 - it is the fault of the ordinary citizens if they allow their government to act is such a despicable way - their leaders are a reflection of themselves......we should not have to fight their government, it is their responsibility.
@zeta - are you seriously suggesting that any view of Americans, British, French etc. are invalidated because of history? Any country that physically invades another sovereign nation is in the wrong - otherwise who would have been able to criticize Saddam Hussain for invading Kuwait, Hitler invading France and Poland, North Korea for invading the south. Your argument is piss poor - and promotes a false equivalence.
What you talking about? Killing people has something to do with it? You didn't hear that? "negativity they accumulated over the last 10 years" - that's how it is!
Killing white people. When the Chinese killed Uyghurs, the Saudis killed Yemenis, the Turks killed Kurds, or the Americans and British killed Iraqis, Libyans, and Afghans, no one cared.
It's not all bad, poor Russian aggressors. 😢 these countries will surely greet you with open arms: China, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Cuba, maybe even some Ethiopian warlords.
They are in charge of their country... You just don't understand Russians... Vast majority of them support the war in Ukraine... Putin (&Co) was elected in democratic elections... There is no doubt about it...
IMHO Pootlerstan citizens are not generally "evil", just guvment. The problem is that many of these citizens were OK with the war inflicted on Ukraine until Tsar Bedpan introduced the "partial mobilization", which now brought the war to their front door. These people are the mindset that causes troubles in the Baltic states.
That mother with the vest is either lying to not get in trouble on camera or has the typical warped sense of rationality when it comes to this war and Russia's actions in the past
@@kimpedersen4746 It is not surprising, at least not an insolated case. There are so many millions of Russian of Ukrainian descent and Ukrainian binationals in Russia. Remember that some Ukrainians have reported on Ukrainian and western medias how they had to break ties with their relatives in Russia, even those who emigrated to Russia to work there. The same for pro-Ukrainian Russians who came in Ukraine before invasion. Other people told that they mutually decided to not talk about war and politics with their relatives, in order to not damage the "sacred" family bonds. The topic stays in the background, to never be worded.
Russian simply don't have a conscience mind and they don't care unless it's pain that they're feeling directly. They are brainwashed like North Koreans and they're too ignorant to know any better.
Questions for Russians: Are they aware that russia constantly violates neighbours territorries? And do they know about the agressive actions and behavior against their closest countries? there is a reason for "negativety" russia can unfortunatly not bee trusted. I live in Sweden and on regular basis, during my life (68 y) russians have been sending attack and bombplanes submarines and surface militaryships, landingvessels launching against Swedish territory sometimes they turn just outside the border, sometimes they go slightly inside. claiming it is navigational error. I have loved russian culture music litterature food and have allso met nice and friendly people during my visits to russia. I have tried to learn russian to get closer to the culture and the people. For me it's now sad because I realize that I will propably never visit again. Europe tried to ivite russia into a closer relation in trading, Northstream pipeline that russia blew up and destroyed, arctic enviormentresearch is ended, all sientific exchange is ended, open up borders for travelling and tourism that's now ended. And Sweden has supported democracy organisations, citizenrightmovmet organisations, independent trade unions. Theese aid projects total costs about 10 million € but obiously you can't implement democracy in a country that is not willing to go for it.
They do the same in Scotland, provocating brushing its airspace...the RAF is always on the standby and has to tell them to "f*** of adding if you don't ,we have permission to shoot you down.Then they veer away at the last second.
@@sonjagatto9981 It's obvious. You don't need any further information. Russia is notorious for violating other counties' sovereignty. Russia poisoned some guys in Britain. They shot a guy in Germany. Against the will of their respective governments, their military occupies parts of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. And they feel emboldened to replace a legitimate democratic government of a neighboring country with a satrap of the despot in the Kremlin.
Do you really think Democracy is working? I think it is a failing phenomena that definitely needs restructuring. Countries that have democracy are mainly just voting for a different dictator because most political parties are morphing into one.
"I live in Sweden and on regular basis, during my life (68 y) russians have been sending attack and bombplanes submarines and surface militaryships, landingvessels launching against Swedish territory sometimes they turn just outside the border, sometimes they go slightly inside. claiming it is navigational error." Has the Swedish media ever talked about this? Can you provide links to these sources?
World is you mean a bunch of Western countries that obey the US? If so, then I'm glad that the Russians can no longer travel to us. This is what level of selfishness and narcissism you need to have to think that we are here this is the whole world, my God. We forgot about China, India, the United Arab Emirates and many more countries. Get out of this damn propaganda that they feed us here and look at things realistically
I feel sorry for some of these people, but the reality is that if your country acts tyrannically towards other countries then you cannot expect to stay part of the international community - at least not the democratic part of it.
That is exactly what the USA is doing everywhere in the world. They have killed 600,000 children in Irak only. ~3 millions in Irak, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, etc.
@@Wirmish Only 600,000 sure it wasn't 600 million? I mean if you are making shit up, then go big or go home. Because either way, no one believes your BS.
I have to say I disagree with Europe on this one. Closing the borders for tourism I can see but to prevent people who don't want to fight in the "Special Military Operation". That's just wrong.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” And so, why all of Putin's Russia is collectively blamed for their own collective apathy in standing against Putin's evil.
When your leader is constantly threatening nuclear attacks and invasions of other sovereign countries, it’s very hard to feel sorry for that countries citizens, namely Russia! Truthfully, most Americans have no problem at all with the Russian people, I would love to come visit Russia on vacations.
Russians come to your senses at last ...you always needed the Tsar and you didn't care if he was good or bad but he was ..... and now you have Putin and your meanness
If there were no security risk for the other countries, then I would say that it would be reasonable for them to allow Russians who are fleeing conscription to enter their countries as refugees. However, let's look at the reality of the situation for neighboring countries of Russia. Part of Russia's rationale for attacking Ukraine and also Georgia has been that they're bringing in their military to protect oppressed Russian nationals. This has been utterly false in both Ukraine and Georgia. Millions of people in Georgia and Ukraine speak Russian as their first languages, and these people were not systematically oppressed in either country. Russia used their presence as a false pretext to invade the neighboring countries to "protect Russians". So if you're Lithuania or Estonia and suddenly tens of thousands of Russians are entering your country, OF COURSE you should fear that Russia could, at some point in the future, claim that these people are being oppressed and need to be "protected" by Russian military or paramilitary forces. Russia could certainly do things like bring in paramiltary forces, intimidate locals, hold a "referendum" to declare an autonomous state, and then show photos and video images of Russian nationals in the region voting in the referendum. In addition, Russia could very easily send in FSB saboteurs who are disguised as refugees who then carry out terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure or political assassinations in these countries. What about Mikhail Lesin -- a previous member of Putin's inner circle who died in Washington DC in 2015. The Washington DC medical examiner ruled that he died from a blunt trauma injury to the head. There have been mysterious deaths of Russians in the UK and other countries in Europe. This is a reality. In this context, is it unreasonable for Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland to allow tens of thousands of Russians into their countries? Finally, do a web search for "Yulia Prokhorova". There are Russians in Germany and other EU countries who publicly harass Ukrainian refugees. There have been people who spray paint Z signs on churches in Barcelona. Is it unreasonable for politicians and citizens in the EU to worry that there will be people like this among the crowds if they start letting in tens of thousands of people from Russia? As the war continues, conscription numbers increase and the Russian economy crumbles for various reasons all related to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, there could easily be over 100 thousand Russians who try to enter Europe from Russia. For all of the reasons, EU countries would struggle to handle the influx of these people as well as millions of Ukrainians who may again cross the border into the EU as Russia bombs Ukraine's heating, water and electrical infrastructure in the winter. Restricting the travel of these Russians as their government is invading an EU border nation is not unreasonable. I would imagine that probably most of the Russians fleeing the war are decent people who either oppose the invasion or don't understand it because they haven't had access to honest objective news, but Europe has to ensure that there is peace and stability in its communities.
you do not have a garage cluttered in your head a mess. Russia did not attack Georgia. Georgia attacked Abkhazia and South Ossetia, killing more than 80 Russian peacekeepers on the outskirts of Tskhinvali and more than 1,500 civilians. Russia just carried out a military operation to force Georgia to peace. Even the UN recognizes this fact and openly calls Georgia the initiator of the conflict and a party to aggression. What do you think the United States would do with a country that would allow itself to kill 80 American peacekeepers? I think such a country would no longer exist in nature. But Georgia is alive and well.
I don't know who told you that the Russian economy is collapsing. But this is not true. The Russian economy is now stronger than ever. Here the economy of the EU, the USA, Britain is collapsing without cheap Russian energy, food, metals, including rare earths, fertilizers and many other things that simply cannot be replaced due to the fact that it will either cost fabulously expensive or it simply does not exist anywhere else in world except Russia. Once again I ask you to put things in order in your head, you have such chaos. And stop slandering Russia in your haste, using propaganda clichés from Western media slops like SNN and others.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c Yaaaaawn. We've all heard your twisted Russian "facts" over and over again. It's not working, mate. The economy in western countries are not collapsing. Some higher prices for energy and some inflation will not lead to a economical collapse. Nearly a million refugees leaving one countries work force on the other hand, combined with extreme sanctions, lack of access to high-tech are things that will eventually lead to a collapse. So, dear Putin bootlicker, get out and face reality. As in, objective reality. Not some subjective post-modern Putin "But I want THIS to be my reality! :(" reality. Most Russians are living in complete delusion at this time, so are you.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c Your government is absolutely destroying your economy. I don't know if you're trying to push propaganda that you don't believe or if you truly believe what you're saying, but what you're saying is patently false. First of all, because Russia chose to invade Ukraine, at least 100,000 Russian men will either become dead, imprisoned in Ukraine, or seriously injured physically and/or mentally. At least 100,000 people have fled Russia or will flee. The birth rate is going to decline because hundreds of thousands of men will be deployed to war where they cannot procreate. All of this is accelerating Russia's demographic decline, which will decrease the countries GDP for generations. Oil and gas exports will decline. In the short-term, there may be some marginal buyers of LNG or tanker oil, but the capacity to export oil and gas via tankers rather than pipelines is physically constrained. Purchases from Europe are declining massively and will decline further. The Russian economy has used equipment and materials from European companies to build much of its pipeline and LNG infrastructure, and sanctions will make it much more difficult for Russia to maintain all of its industrial infrastructure -- oil and gas, planes, cars, rail, electronics... etc. I have many friends who are Russian. I believe that ruling elites in your country have followed their own narrow interests at the expense of the interests of basically everyone else in Russia. Putin has engaged in deception and taken risks for decades, but his failed policies and decisions have finally caught up with him. You may think that your economy is fine now, but it will get worse in 6 months, and then it will get even worse in the coming years. Your government generates about 35% of its revenue from the oil + gas sector. I guarantee you that Gazprom's earnings will decline massively in the next 2 years. Nord Stream is dead. Developing infrastructure to replace gas sales with LNG will be very costly and take a long time. It didn't have to be this way. Had Russia never invaded Crimea, Russia would have remained the primary exporter of gas to Europe. Putin's initial choice to invade Crimea and the Donbas was a mistake that created serious problems for him, his inner circle and for the Russian economy in general. 8 years later, he thought that the only way to solve these problems was through escalation, but the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is leading to the destruction of Russia's military and economy. If you considered your own interests and the interests of your countrymen, you'd realize that while it would be embarassing for Putin (but why should you care?), the only way that Russia can restore its economy and save its people will be to withdraw its army from ALL of Ukraine, including the Donbas and Crimea. This will be the first step toward reintegrating Russia into the global economy and rebuilding democracy in Russia, which will be the only way to grow prosperity for the Russian people.
@@clutteredchicagogarage2720 Yes, dude, you are clearly on the financing of the CIA's psychological operations center. Well, let's start with the fact that you predict Russia's demographic failure. When Russia was "loved" by the United States and indeed the entire Western "democratic community" in the late 90s and early 2000s, Russia lost more than 10 million people. From the actions of our "benefactors" from the USA and the EU. This is drug trafficking organized by the USA from Afghanistan through the Russian Federation to the EU, this is constant terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia organized by the USA, this is an endless series of wars of color revolutions and coups organized by the CIA in the post-Soviet space. As for the EU and the USA, make no mistake, you will have the same demographic pit as in Russia, only on a larger scale. Your liberalism, support for sexual minorities and other drug perversions are to blame for this. Both the EU and the US will not be able to help in overcoming this demographic pit refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The only thing they can help you with is the EU and the USA further marginalizing the EU and the USA and turning them into the same Africa and Latin America only in other geographical latitudes.
It is not "evil" that allows evil to flourish. It is their apathy that allows these atrocities to continue. If they do not choose to care, then they must be shown that their inaction has consequences. ALL the population of a country IS responsible for what their country does.
That is, you propose to start discrimination against Russians on ethnic grounds. This is the true face of Euro-Nazis What nonsense are you talking clown. People living in a totalitarian society are not responsible
"ALL the population of a country IS responsible for what their country does." So the Japanese have the moral right to kill Americans because the United States committed genocide against the Japanese people in August 1945 by dropping 2 atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or is it different?
You would think that the relatively well to do middle-class on display here would have some access to western media. Be interesting to see interviews undertaken outside of wealthy city areas, especially as the vast majority of Russians can barely make ends meet.
Unfortunately outside of those areas you will find more support for this madness as they have less education and less access to anything other than RTL media. Older Russians are mostly all in as well.
"Country is only an idea. The problem is when majority of people are willingly obey mad man ideas." As in Poland. Poland destroys monuments to Soviet soldiers who died liberating Poland from German fascists. I really hope that the Polish nationalists will demolish the Pałac Kultury i Nauki in Warsaw, which was built with the money of the USSR as a gift to the Polish people. Do you still have a law on decommunization in Poland?
@@alikkhusainov319 all Russian monuments flags anything like that it goes directly in the trash that's where it goes that's exactly right! The only thing the Polish people want from Russia is for them to stay on their own side of the damn borders and that's it!
Yes, Putin is terrible that he attacked, poor Ukrainians, until 2022 they were destroyed by their own president and after that by Putin. And we contributed to this as best we could.
It would be interesting to ask the average Russian; How many Ukrainians did Stalin purposely starve to death. Do they have any clue about their own history?
oh do you? Do you aware that so called "holodomor" was raging on the fertile territories of BOTH Ukrainian and Russian SSRs? That soviets didn't cared about common people no difference given from where they were? Of course you don't. It's those "evil russians" who starved alongside ukrainians who are to blame, right?
Just as it was for Germany after WWll, now it will be Russia's turn to be hated by the world for a generation or so. Glory to Ukraine Glory to the Heros
Yeah but sometimes the russian people should know and understand, that wherever they go, a madman with a name starting with P wants to invade the lands where those russian people go, because Putler thinks it belongs to them because many russians live there.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c your opinion is an opinion of uninformed fool and russian tool, who steals from Hitler's speeches. Thus, it's value is zero. "..In the face of the development of National Socialist Germany, England turned for a second time to a policy of encirclement, the results of which are today casting their blood-red shadow across the world. We remember its development clearly. Attempts by England and its vassals to build a ring around Germany did not have the desired results... The Poles were the only remaining Slavic vassal in Eastern Europe. ...England did all in its power to feed the fire that was burning between Kattowitz and Danzig. Their goal was to use the situation, with the remnants of encirclement, to incite a war with Germany. The English wanted this war in the crazy hope that it was their last chance to stop Germany’s growing strength. They passionately avoided doing anything that might have prevented war. Rather than encouraging Poland to accept the Führer’s generous proposals to resolve the situation, they encouraged it to let the deadline pass, thereby providing a reason for war. The Führer felt obliged to strike back only after Polish troops had crossed the German border at several places. The German fight is a defensive fight. We fight because we were forced to fight by the insults and demands against us, because of the brutal suppression of ethnic Germans in Poland, and because of the open announcements that they would do everything in their power to strangle National Socialist Germany through military or economic means."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Darwin
*Ask the citizens if they can tell the difference between a nuclear wasteland and Ukrainian cities, in pictures and video.* *Show them the hospitals and schools, all the apartment buildings.* *Ukraine has NOT leveled Moscow or St. Petes. Time to become a democratic Country.* Remember Ceacesceau?
@@johnnymcandrew The fact is, the Putin shot rockets into the civilian neighborhoods. You cannot defend this aggression on the civvies. Besides, he blames everyone but himself, and has lied at every turn.
I remember seeing the Ukrainians fleeing in the first few days of this attack. They were dressed just as stylishly in beautiful modern cities just like these Russians. Now these Russians smirk with knowing grins while they feign ignorance about the atrocities their brothers commit.
The fact is that they are all brothers there. Russia, which attacked Ukraine, brothers to each other, Ukrainians who, with the support of the EU and the US, have been killing people in the Donbas since 2014, also killed brothers
Lots of russians obsessed with western, guess the state media needs somebody to blame for their inner problems. I wonder why we don't start doing the same LoL. Here we never used to talk about Russia before the war (and even after), not that it was a taboo or sth: it's just not a very interesting topic. A psichologue would say thy have an identity crisis, or it's just envy. Whatever they do I hope they live and learn to let live. 💙💛
Here in the west we don't talk about Russia because it's just not that important it's something you hear a little bit once in awhile but apparently in Russia that's all they do is talk about the West because of their extreme jealousy and lack of confidence I guess. Most people in the west don't know much about Russia it's just not interesting. It's not like it's a place we go to for vacation or something.
Once upon a time there was a peaceful world (or more peaceful than it is now). USSR had embraced peristroika and glasnost, and we began to trade with each other in peace. Prosperity and opportunities arose in what became Russia. We all had a wary, but becoming warmer relationship than with the USSR. Enter Putin who has ambitions to return Russia to its 'glory' days, reuniting break-away republics to create a new USSR, depite the fact that they don't want that. He increasingly isolates Russia, becoming colder in his interactions with the west. He sends agents to other countries (chiefly Britain) to kill off those considered his enemy. He invades Crimea. Because he CAN. And that's because the world sits back, afraid to act. He begins to feel he is omnipotent and moves on to operation B to invade Ukraine. The world wakes up to what's happening and acts as robustly as it dare without causing WW3 to begin. I still don't think that most Russians, interviewed or or not, have a clue about the long term damage of losing its oil and gas markets. Never mind companies choosing not to trade with Russia. If peace broke out tomorrow, does anyone here think anyone in the West will trust Russia, or Russians ever again? Russians, Putin is destroying your economy and world relationships and it doesn't matter how much you all opine on what you think is going on because no one will tell you the truth, (apart from a few brave vloggers who dare to do so) you will continue to believe in the lie. With true democracy comes more truth and understanding. Russia still has a long way to go!
Love so many of those being interviewed - the girl in the burgundy NY baseball cap. So balanced and so right with what we should all be striving for. Peaceful world, exchange of information and joy. The guy with the jacket and dark red hoodie. He does not believe the false propaganda. The blond lady with purple hair gets it and so does the guy with the green vest and black hoodie. Refreshing to see. I admire you all. Thanks for doing the video! So nice to see that not everyone believes the false narrative.
It is interesting to observe how some people, brainwashed with propaganda, evaluate the statements of others with the same brainwashed. Do you really think that what they say in our west is the truth? Ahaha
Because of Russian people in Ukraine who had been yelled that they had been under the pressure of Ukrainian language and bagged Russian army to come to Ukraine and free them from Ukrainian language, Ukraine is now in the war. So the conclusion is that it's really dangerous to let Russian people live the European countries because Russian can call for Russian solders to come and free them from the Lithuanian language, from the Polish language, from the Estonian Language.
You're right Ana. But Russians are too arrogant and stupid to understand that they are only guests in those countries. When they don't like the language of that country, or their culture, they have only one option: go and live in their fantastic, well-developed, free Ruzzia. They have absolutely nothing to say in the country where they are only guests. If they become too annoying, the host can and should kick them out.
@@DonJohnSpain I don’t support Putin’s regime. We talking about languages. In your age, I would recommend u to fly to warm country like Greece or Mexico. Don’t be mad.
Well done, your interviews are better than those of "1420". At least your interlocutors show a sign of having a brain, not just repeating usual Russian street nonsense like " we Russians never attacked anyone, we always kept defeating ourselves against fasists and nazis of the outside world; we did not start a war with Ukraine, and even if we begain the special operation it was because Zapad forced us to do so. Russian soldiers didn't torture, rape and murder civilians in Bucza and Izjum, it was Ukrainians who killed their own people because NaziUkrs wanted to blame us, innocent Russians so that the world would hate us, peace-loving Russians". When such feelings are shared by Russians met on Russian streets, the risk is too high to let them enter neighbouring countries. Simple as this.
Here are a couple of questions - do they feel like they are better off financially than their parents/grandparents? Does anyone in their family have a home in the villages in addition to an apartment in the city/ Have they visited another country? (yes/no) if yes - which one. What was different about it than what they grew up with.
Это вовсе не «real Russia». Большинство людей считают что это обыкновенный нацизм, по отношению к русским, а прибалты всегда были нацистами и во времена ВОВ.
Russians, not being real elderly and not living in the ‘Russian outbacks’, by know should know better. Russia isn’t evil, the way the Russian government is acting and reacting is evil. In Russia, you have the ‘lefties’ and ‘rightist’ and ‘moderates’ as well. At the moment, I think that the Russian society first reset their country, adapt to a lesser aggressive behavior (normal behavior) stop their war, accept thuis guilt, respect Ukraine and help Ukraine to rebuild Ukraine on all aspects. Russia is guilty as sin on this, so they have to pay.
Can you ask about the term "Homo Sovieticus." I'd like to know if they think it's true that the average russian is conformist and apathic. If they truly think that their opinion doesn't matter and there's nothing they can do against their situation.
My opinion as a Russian: 1. Do these European countries have the right to do so? - of course. And I understand them emotionally. 2. Will they help Ukraine with this? No, no way. 3. Will they harm Putin and his war? No, they help Putin and his propaganda. 4. Are the fugitives from Russia dangerous for these countries? I don't think so. How?
Why do you call your channel 'Real Russia'when that was the name of a Russian channel started by Serge Baklykov in Ufa over ten years ago? He now lives in St Petersburg and operates as Baklykov Live.
Q. How do you think, if Putin is a dictator who was getting rid of his own citizens, how were European leaders able to buy gas and oil from him? A. Hypocrisy of European people and their stupidity and ignorance
@@your_faith-r1r The pot calling the kettle black. Such a joke that you accuse Europeans when Russians have committed mass murder. European leaders didn't want to believe how evil Putin was. They thought they could appease Putin by buying his gas and oil, but that never works. Psychos take everything you have to give, and then stab you in the back.
1953 - East Germany 1956 - Hungary 1968 - Czechoslovakia 1980 - Poland 1992 - Georgia, Moldova,... ... Now - Ukraine I'm sorry, but it's no wonder that, after previous experiences, those states are taking precautionary measures. And: Unfortunally it is big different between thinking of people in Moscow (like in the video) and in the countryside. 😞
@@valentinaegorova4117 It is a logical answer? :-D "US make this same, so we can do too." But: "US are world badliest state! We are not the same!" :-D :-D Really no wonder, that little states do prevention... against Russia and against US too. Sorry, I don't know any attacked state attacked by Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia too) in last 50 years.
Famous words: perestroika and glasnost. We all know what that means. New word I learned here is strakh (fear). And we westeners don't know what real fear is. We are more or less safe.
I’ve met many many Russians while I was working at a hotel. They were always kind and friendly. It’s not them that’s the problem. Like most countries- it’s the governments that’s causing issues. 😢
If your political leaders and your army acts like a bunch of mad dogs, what do you expect? That the rest of the world will invite you in for a cup of tea and a biscuit?
Question for the Russians: In 1994 Ukraine gave up their 5000 nuclear bombs with the assurance from Russia, that Russia would not invade Ukraine in the future. Knowing the Ukrainian national character (some would say nazi character) do you think they withheld some nukes in case of emergency and if so, do you think they will use them when Russia starts using tactical nuclear bombs in the 'special operation'?
What they do not seem to understand is that it is in their hand. Their freedom is in their hands. Only the people can do something, but not only a few thousands, millions and all over the country. But as they say 《We are apolitic. I prefer not to talk about it. I cannot respond to your question.》.
@@horsthorstmann7921 well Putin is taking care of the internet problem. That way Russians can't see what's happening outside of Russia just like North Korea.
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People in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, every country bordering Russia, have long memories. Here in Finland people remember the Winter War. In Poland people remember the Katyn massacre. So yes, there are some historical long-term grievances against Russia.
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Katyń, but also many other things...they attack us when we fight germany, that was part of Ribbentrop Molotow pact, that start ww2. Then after war force us to be in USSR...
Very true! The facts are; sharing a border with Russia, is much more of a curse than it is a blessing!
А я помню блокаду Ленинграда. У меня жены родственники умерли там. Привет пособникам фашизма
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o скажи мне, почему я был бы сторонником фашизма
Regardless of the individual integrity of it's citizens, a nation who's leader repeatedly threatens other countries with nuclear attack isn't going to have a good reputation and neither are it's people.
Now putins saying he won't do nukes. He also said he WOULDNT INVADE UKRAINE!
О да, пропаганда и русофобия они такие.
If the Russian people truly care about what the rest of the world thinks of them, they should arrest and try their leadership. Problem solved.
@@Mika-dv1os ; And as for the masters of propaganda, the Russians... 🤣🤣
Смех без причины -признак дурачины. Русская пословица.
A country shouldn’t be wondering if it’s evil, when a high proportion of its citizens are trying to flee it.
Agreed. Also not too confusing when you continually try to take other countries territory by force. Massive cognitive dissonance?
Only 30% of russians have foreign passports! The rest haven't got enough money to even get a passport
Yes they flee instead of fighting against their psychotic regime.
Not because they do not wanna kill other human beeing, just because they'r afraid having their but in the meat grinder.
Yes they flee during the time some Iranian women die for freedom.
And they even believe all lies and dreams of glory delivered by their propagandists.
They don't even claim freedom at all.
If the regime is bad change the regime.
they fleeing cuz they loosing, otherwise they would wave flags, sing loud and clap to this psycho Put-in... Russia was, is and always will be the cancer of this planet. This nation is fuked up to the bone
Лучшая? НЕ УВЕРЕН
I find it so bizarre the ingrained idea that many of those interviewed have that politics and the people are somehow completely separate from each other.
Right, master and slave relationship.
Well if your voice counts for nothing and you are not represented by anyone, then it's something "they" are doing and not "we". Politics is for the few.
The sad truth is that many of the people interviewed are the minority that are willing to speak. In my experience, most Russians are very reluctant to talk about politics or anything to do with the war for fear that it will be passed on to the State police and they will be arrested. I've seen other videos where the majority of older Russians either refuse to speak or follow the state tv news propaganda and support Putin and his criminals. These people probably know someone who is a soldier in Ukraine and fear that speaking disloyally about their country is being a traitor to it.
@@lottaroos5566 Problem is just it's not only "the few" who ar effected by it. It is a crime not to do anything while you're watching somebody murder someone. The population has responsibility. Not all of it but some.
@@Micha-qv5uf Absolutely it's a big problem! They need to change that ingrained idea that they can't do anything about what the government decides. I think it's a left-over from USSR.
Stop attacking your neighbours and nobody will treat you this way. It really is that simple.
The average person in the street shouldn't be punished for something their leaders are doing.
@@johnnymcandrew that's why war should be avoided at all cost but the Russian apatite for apathy has doomed tens of thousands of their own sons to death with a tarnished reputation.
@@johnnymcandrew (1) Russians are banned because of the perceived security risk; (2) it is THEIR government that is at fault, so they should look to their own government if they want the sanctions lifted. If it’s true that the Russian government does not represent its people, and you argue that it’s not safe to oppose the Russian government now, things are only going to get worse until the Russian people act. The longer they leave it the worse it will be.
@@johnnymcandrew there is 120 million russian , if they want to stop killing on ukraine they could ,but instead they ignore people get kill for no reason . so yes . people on street is to be blamed . will it cost lifes , yes , righr now this has already cost 100000-20000 already in ukraine. if you are not willing to fight for freedome dont come and enjoy europe freedome
@@johnnymcandrew yes they should ...overthrow the government....millions march on the kremlin
5 : 37 "Everyone has their own truth." What? No, everyone has their own opinion, their own view of the truth. But somewhere a single truth lies. And the question is, who can situate themselves, who can travel, or even wander, in order to near it, to know it.
This man's postmodern view is what's wrecking the world. He's confusing taste with truth.
Some say the truth lies in the middle. False, the truth lies where the Supreme leader (putin) placed it.
It's that whole "everyone's opinion is valid and deserves respect".
Nope. They aren't and they don't.
See my comment above, and also th-cam.com/video/_j6Vg7yLx54/w-d-xo.html (The Postmodern Hell of Russian Propaganda)
I caught that too. Truth isn't actually relative. Truth is truth.
Facts and opinions- two different things. There´s a wonderful David Mitchell´s rant on this. On Graham Norton´s show...
Well, fair or not... it is the citizen and people of Russia that has kept Putin at power for 2 decades, so you are not that innocent in what's happening now!
Stand up and take responsibility for your life and country, don't blame everybody else for what you let your political leaders do!
Even Iranian 12 years old girls are braver than Russians!
Shame on you!!!
That is, you propose to start discrimination against Russians on ethnic grounds. This is the true face of Euro-Nazis
What nonsense are you talking clown. People living in a totalitarian society are not responsible. It's easy to sit in a free country and talk about how easy it is to protest. Shut your mouth, you don't have to teach Russians how to protest.
@@user-mj7dt8of8e - That is just B.S and you know it, the Russian Chauvinism is very well known all over the world, it's just you and some of your fascist "friends" that deny it. It is the same as under WW2, when the communist party pushed poor people from the periphery areas in front of the Russians in the Red Army without equipment, without weapon, and today, the officials in Russia try to, just like Stalin to alter the history, by saying that "Russia won the WW2", truth is that without the help from UK and USA and 30000 Norwegian sailors, Russians would have been speaking German today.
There is some very few Russians today that speak up against the Russian Government and against the war, but almost everybody else just find a Vodka bottle and a tree in the forrest.
And regarding the protests... most of you push your sisters, mothers and Wifes out to protest while the men lay stupidly drunk under a tree hoping no one find them.
I have absolute full respect for those few that actually speak up and risk their lives, but that is not "most Russians".
@@StoltHD What you write is BS. It's thanks to the Russian soldiers that you don't speak German now. You just skipped history class. Most of the German troops fought on the eastern front. You Europeans hid behind the backs of Russian soldiers. You cannot find and study the statistics on the second world war, instead you eat anti-Russian myths, this indicates your weak cognitive thinking
Russia is not on the list of the most drinking countries in the world. You Euroalcoholics who drink no less than Russians do not dare to blame Russians for alcoholism, you are even worse.
Before you write such a BS, you visit a rally. Most of the protesters in Russia are men. Russian man is stronger and more courageous than you weak European half-men. Russian men at least do not kneel before blacks and feminists, unlike you European men who do not have balls. You European men are only brave on the Internet, but in real life you are cowardly and cannot tell the Russians your claims in person. It's easy to blame the Russians for doing nothing while sitting in a free country. If you are so brave, then go to Russia and protest, show the Russians how to protest, or are you only brave on the Internet?
@@StoltHD There is no Russian chauvinism whatsoever. But the world knows European racism. Russians, unlike Europeans, did not carry out cruel colonization. On the contrary, the Russians fed the captured peoples. The tsarist elite used the Russian people as a cash cow to feed the captured peoples. That is why the Russians were the most oppressed ethnic group in the Russian Empire.
@@user-mj7dt8of8e - You need to learn Russian history before you keep writing anything more.
Russian chauvinism, Russian fascism, Russian genocide is all part of the Real-World history, only Russians supporting it and Putin and that think Russia is some kind of the new super state and lives in total denial, try to convince anyone that the History is wrong... similar to people that think Earth is flat. Russia is the biggest growing ground for neo-Nazism in the world... But I bet you also deny the cruelties, raps and killing Wagner Group are doing around the World to.
It's stupidity to try to say that Russians didn't carry out any cruel colonization in history... just the last 120 years Russia and Russians, under communism was responsible for more than 80 million people's death, and that is after all the cruelties of the Russian Tsars.
Communism as an ideology is responsible for more than 120 million people killed!
So just stop it with your fascist propaganda, trying to play victim.
Russians are responsible for their choses, and you could learn a few things from 12 years old Iranian girls regarding protesting.
Not one of them showed any empathy for the civilians dieing in Ukraine. They still think its unfair??? Sooooo weird.
What about Russian speaking Ukrainians being killed by Ukrainians soldiers?
@@Wirmish the point was they are not showing empathy towards deaths of innocent civilians.
Evil deeds equal retaliation.
"Evil deeds equal retaliation."
Totally agree with you. It is necessary to destroy NATO along with the United States for what they did to Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.
@@alikkhusainov319 it's necessary to destroy every country for what they have done to other countries. lol
@@dep.deity3605"" it's necessary to destroy every country for what they have done to other countries. lol""
I agree. First you need to start with the United States for dropping 2 atomic bombs on Japan.
"It's clear that countries have some other fundamental long-term grievances against Russia"......I wonder why that is.......
The same reason they were buying gas and oil from Putin while he was killing his own citizens. Hypocrisy. Not showing European people full picture of Putin’s crimes is the point
USA have killed 600,000 children in Irak only. ~3 millions in Irak, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, etc. But USA is good... lol
Yes, I'm really wondering why...
Perhaps because Russia is one of only two countries in the world that poses a threat to US hegemony? Do most European countries represent US interests?
Wow! This was great. I watch 1420 and think you get a much better, more honest response from your interviews. Keep it up. Keep the interviews coming and people will watch.
It is because Daniil is doing his interviews in Moscow hipster areas and interviewing his fellow IT students. So he is getting quite an untypical response
It's kinda unfair to people if you kill them because you want what they have.
Yeah, British and American history is all about doing exactly that. Russia is not the only villain.
@@True_Heretic It's still going on in all countries and will always go on. The only thing we can look at is the intent and the outcome. Does it benefit the people effected or a select few? I personally don't see how this benefits anyone other than a select few.
@@FoulPet Western politics are usually run for the benefit of the few as well. Whilst greed triumphs over humanism I agree, it will always go on, almost everywhere. I think that's why, as citizens, we have to lend our voices to an insistence upon international law and human rights, and the calling out of all those, including our own governments, who break those rules.
@@True_Heretic unfortunately we're part of the reason they are in power. Someone has to do it. Preferably a groups rather than an individual. It's not perfect but other than anarchy it's what we have. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Dividing that power up a bit helps. Personally I think the President has to much power. Nice thing is, its a limited time frame. At least for now.
@@FoulPet I agree with much of what you say. I think that whilst money buys political success the whole thing will be absolutely corrupt. Personally, I'd prefer a meritocracy where the most credible individuals volunteer to be part of a leading think tank and the Game of Party Politics is eschewed forever. Politics seems to be the most corrupt industry going. Other than some sections of the media. Probably why politics and media attract more sociopaths than any other industries. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum. No wonder things are such a mess globally.
I'm not saying that the President is powerless, because he is not. But he is still more of a figurehead than anything. After all, he doesn't make the key military decisions, for instance. His advisors, or the people they really represent, do. Its not just Russia that has oligarchs.
The guy says “ it seems to me that they have exactly the same media that does not reliably convey the picture of what’s going on in Russia” is that opposed to having only state approved media that totally misrepresents what’s going on in Russia
Having media which reliably conveys what's going on in Ukraine is all I need. Also, Russian tourists have a bad reputation.
@@PrimoStracciatella it’s not possible to have reliable media when it’s controlled by the state and anything negative to the state is banned, that’s the whole point of a free and independent media. Obviously that’s not the case in opposite land
What?
@@nic969 a war is not a war, a Jew is a nazi, soldiers need replacing not because they’re dying but because Russia’s winning, Russia’s not going to invade then they invade. Get it? Opposite land. Everything Russia says the exact opposite is the truth.
So did ur media showed you programs of Putins crimes since 1999 and how European leaders were ignoring it ? How were they buying gus and oil from putin if human rights are important? Russian people were dying cause of you
RUSSIA IS ONE BIG JAIL.
Exactly.
People in the West just don't get it. They keep asking us Russians - "why don't you guys just free yourselves?". Because our guards have all the guns, that's why.
Yep.If not at the moment,soon will.Thanks
North Korea 2.0
Only thing good about it Russia doesn't have an immigration problem! Nobody wants to immigrate there! 😂🇷🇺
😂😂😂
Anyone with even a cursory understanding of history can see why Poland, The Baltics and Finland would close their borders to Russians. So suck it up. You brought it on yourselves. Even if you weren't directly to blame.
Exactly! Not even one sorry from Russian state and zero remorse from Russian society for 1939-1991 and now they are whining.
Frankly, I'm not sure how many of these Russians know that the Soviet Union was actually hated by the European satellite countries living within the Soviet grip. Pretty much the only references I've heard from Russians on the Soviet Union was that it was a time of peace, equality and fraternal friendship amongst member nations.
@@GreenGibbon I've noticed that too and it leaves me absolutely stunned. I'm an Estonian. They used to call us "fascist" during the Soviet time. How could anyone possibly think that they are loved or respected after such derogatory statements? Not to mention mass deportations, cultural and religious oppression, etc. One the other hand, it scares me. If even the Russians think they were loved and admired in the USSR, what would the free world think? Would we be supported in case of attack, or would we be considered an integral part of the horrendous "Russkii Mir"?
@@GreenGibbon yeah ,their fraternity/equality and friendship was to starve 4 million Ukrainians to death and send all political prisoners from those nations to die in Siberia or instant executions!
@@hunt8619 Don't you worry my Baltic friend. We got you. From the 🇺🇲. And Poland is RIGHT THERE. They know. So does Finland. As it stands Russia's done for anyway.
Once a vendor found a thief attempting to steal in his shop, so he told to the thief:" you Will never enter anymore in my shop". The thief said:" but May Be next time I Will not come to steal....". The dealer said: "did I mention that my family owns 40 shops and that i Will pass them you Pic and id? By the way we own the Mall". The thief cried " that Is a violation of my Freedom of movement!!!!" . "Call yourself lucky, thieves should have to stay in jail, or at least at home arrests".
Please ask Russians how they think Europe should dissuade them from invading other European countries if all these methods are unjust. What would be a just method?
А вы задавали этот вопрос США за их художества за последние хотя бы лет 25?
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o Why should I ask the US, are Russians unable to speak for themselves???
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o - No need, we are talking about Russia now! And before you start more whataboutism, most European knows that Russians have been doing genocide in both Ukraine and other areas in the old USSR, and that Putin is following in those tracks. Russians' genocide of Tatars, multiple Nations in Siberia etc. etc.
So just shut it with your whataboutism.
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o you are aware that USA never have invaded for steal land !!!! russia more or less only do everytime .
@@user-nt6rq2rm6o We’re talking about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Whatever any other country has done in other regions of the world is not a justification.
Russians - "It's so unfair." Ukrainians - "Oh really? You killed my family, for your own selfish reasons. How unfair is that?
They are not the one firing the missile or shoots the bullets, they are not your enemy, they are just normal people trying to live their lives like you and I,
it is their government that screwed everybody else, even their own citizen, can't you even see that from this video?
It was so cringey when Russian state TV was saying that the bombing of the Crimean bridge was an act of terror, while they completely decimate entire cities and target civilians.
@@nietzchan
They are ignoring the truth of what's happening in Ukraine. They are ignoring the truth about their own government and, by doing so, they are enabling the deadly schemes of a mad man bent on destroying the world with Nuclear weapons for his own selfish desires. They are weak, they are cowards for running from the fight they MUST fight if they are ever to be free of totalitarian rule.
They aren't trying to live their lives, they're living less than their lives because they have helped cause the deaths of thousands of innocent men, women, and children who actually were just trying to live their lives.
Can't YOU even see that from the video?
@@seargantmagor That is, the Ukrainian army can bomb peaceful cities for 8 years, but not the Russians? That is, the United States and NATO can destroy entire countries, but is it forbidden for Russians? The Russian army does not purposefully bomb civilians, unlike the army of Ukraine and the armies of NATO and the United States. The Russian army is bombing Ukrainian infrastructure that can be used for military purposes.
Not all of those interviewed said it was unfair, so again stupid generalization and collective guilt. That's like blaming all Americans for the wars in Iraq and Vietnam and the millions of deaths in those wars. Unlike Russia, the United States has democracy and free elections of politicians who start wars. So, on the basis of the principle of collective guilt, all Russians are responsible for the war in Ukraine, while war criminals like Bush, Blair or Cheney are free to travel around the world. Strange justice.
Here in Finland people were travelling to Russia and the other way around. I would argue that the relations peaked in 2010 with the high speed train line opened between Helsinki and St Petersburg. To think that we saw Russia invade Georgia, bring green men to the Donbass, annex Crimea and still it was more or less business as usual. It took us until Feb 24 to realize what was going on and that Putin will not stop. An important reason for stopping the Russian tourists coming to Finland is security. Lots of drones flying around strategic objects nowadays...
And you, the fool, no one said that all the issues of Russia in Ukraine, this is an internal private matter? I told our liberals in 2012, we will make the Baltic countries bankrupt for their hostile attitude towards us. Now, watch my hands, we will bankrupt Poland and Finland. Soon, you will not care what we do IN OUR RUSSIAN lands.
"that we saw Russia invade Georgia" 19.) There is the question of whether the use of force by Georgia in South Ossetia,
beginning with the shelling of Tskhinvali during the night of 7/8 August 2008, was
justifiable under international law. It was not. Georgia had acknowledged that the
prohibition of the use of force was applicable to its conflict in South Ossetia in specific
legally binding international documents, such as the Sochi Agreement of 1992 or the 1996
Memorandum on Measures to Provide Security and Strengthen Mutual Trust between the
Sides in the Georgian-South Ossetian Conflict. Even if it were assumed that Georgia was
repelling an attack, e.g. in response to South Ossetian attacks against Georgian populated
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villages in the region, according to international law, its armed response would have to be
both necessary and proportional. It is not possible to accept that the shelling of Tskhinvali
during much of the night with GRAD multiple rocket launchers (MRLS) and heavy
artillery would satisfy the requirements of having been necessary and proportionate in
order to defend those villages.
Brainwashed. Hoping for the best But expecting the worst Are you going to drop the bomb or not? If you want this, young nazi, you'll get it
@@Pioner1111 Не надо так напрягаться, просто скажи ему, что ЕС проверил и признал Грузию агрессором в той войне. Это официально так, он просто не знает! :)
@Suvi Eskelinen once a year, Finnish saboteurs killed the civilian population of the USSR. as scheduled. Then Stalin offered to change a piece of the isthmus for a much larger part of the territory in Karelia. You didn't want to. In the thirties, wars began on a lesser occasion. Here it was about the defense capability of the second most populous city of the USSR
If you let them in they'll have a referendum and annex half your country. They weren't leaving when it looked like they were going to win easily and they weren't leaving when it was people from rural Krapkanistan being killed by their leaders' incompetence.
After looking at the Elder Abuse being perpetrated on President Biden, he is due to enjoy his elder years. Giving incompetent old men 'the codes' is scarey. This includes Putin and 'Trudeau'.
Few years ago here in Latvia we had referendum to have Russian as second official language.
Krapkanistan my favourite ruzzian region. Good people
Exactly. Keep the russians out.
Truth. No sympathy. That woman ni her nice expensive coat and great haircut. Cry me a river.
Slava Ukraini free from Russian tyranny 💙💛🇺🇦
death to the ukronazis. Zelensky to the gallows.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c death is what is happening to Russian coward Russian soldiers everyday. The Russian totalitarian and mafia state is in the way to finish. Death will find Putin too.
@@iberiano-ls2rv Do not Cry. You are not immortal either.😁
@@user-no9eg5ho5c but I am scared of it as you cowards are.
@@iberiano-ls2rv You are wrong, we are not afraid of this for all the will of Allah. So you are the cowards.😁
If Russia knew how to play nice with it's neighbors they would not have these problems
Well they don’t need to lol: "Does anyone really believe that the United States would not have something to say if, for example, Mexico was to form a military alliance with a US adversary?"
6:21 - it is the fault of the ordinary citizens if they allow their government to act is such a despicable way - their leaders are a reflection of themselves......we should not have to fight their government, it is their responsibility.
totally correct
Well written..
😄😂🤣
@zeta - are you seriously suggesting that any view of Americans, British, French etc. are invalidated because of history? Any country that physically invades another sovereign nation is in the wrong - otherwise who would have been able to criticize Saddam Hussain for invading Kuwait, Hitler invading France and Poland, North Korea for invading the south. Your argument is piss poor - and promotes a false equivalence.
Russians have no concept of civic pride, no concept of civic responsibility, choosing leaders for themselves.
Killing people probably has something to do with it,
they're "apolitical"
What you talking about? Killing people has something to do with it?
You didn't hear that?
"negativity they accumulated over the last 10 years" - that's how it is!
Killing white people. When the Chinese killed Uyghurs, the Saudis killed Yemenis, the Turks killed Kurds, or the Americans and British killed Iraqis, Libyans, and Afghans, no one cared.
You didn't complain when millions of them were killed in WW2 to save your freedom and democracy.
Amazing how everyone is oblivious to the facts, & the real reasons the borders have been closed.
Not everyone, some did point out why and that they also understood why that was.
It's not all bad, poor Russian aggressors. 😢 these countries will surely greet you with open arms: China, North Korea, Syria, Iran, Cuba, maybe even some Ethiopian warlords.
You are a clown
Not a club I´d like to join... 🤪
The world's biggest human rights abusers all combined together!
Dear Real Russia, I would like you to ask Russian people what they would do if they were in charge of their country? Best wishes, John in the UK
Thanks for the idea! We will consider it for one of our future videos!
They are in charge of their country...
You just don't understand Russians...
Vast majority of them support the war in Ukraine...
Putin (&Co) was elected in democratic elections...
There is no doubt about it...
Off camera, faces blacked out, it's that bad. Dissenting voices have serious consequences.
You didn't understand anything, WE ARE ALREADY LEADING OUR COUNTRY! :)
IMHO Pootlerstan citizens are not generally "evil", just guvment. The problem is that many of these citizens were OK with the war inflicted on Ukraine until Tsar Bedpan introduced the "partial mobilization", which now brought the war to their front door. These people are the mindset that causes troubles in the Baltic states.
That mother with the vest is either lying to not get in trouble on camera or has the typical warped sense of rationality when it comes to this war and Russia's actions in the past
and she even claim she is half ukraine . she has to me the worst view of them all . she is really nationalistic in her mindset
@@kimpedersen4746 It is not surprising, at least not an insolated case. There are so many millions of Russian of Ukrainian descent and Ukrainian binationals in Russia.
Remember that some Ukrainians have reported on Ukrainian and western medias how they had to break ties with their relatives in Russia, even those who emigrated to Russia to work there. The same for pro-Ukrainian Russians who came in Ukraine before invasion.
Other people told that they mutually decided to not talk about war and politics with their relatives, in order to not damage the "sacred" family bonds. The topic stays in the background, to never be worded.
Russian simply don't have a conscience mind and they don't care unless it's pain that they're feeling directly. They are brainwashed like North Koreans and they're too ignorant to know any better.
Questions for Russians: Are they aware that russia constantly violates neighbours territorries? And do they know about the agressive actions and behavior against their closest countries? there is a reason for "negativety" russia can unfortunatly not bee trusted.
I live in Sweden and on regular basis, during my life (68 y) russians have been sending attack and bombplanes submarines and surface militaryships, landingvessels launching against Swedish territory sometimes they turn just outside the border, sometimes they go slightly inside. claiming it is navigational error.
I have loved russian culture music litterature food and have allso met nice and friendly people during my visits to russia. I have tried to learn russian to get closer to the culture and the people. For me it's now sad because I realize that I will propably never visit again.
Europe tried to ivite russia into a closer relation in trading, Northstream pipeline that russia blew up and destroyed, arctic enviormentresearch is ended, all sientific exchange is ended, open up borders for travelling and tourism that's now ended.
And Sweden has supported democracy organisations, citizenrightmovmet organisations, independent trade unions.
Theese aid projects total costs about 10 million € but obiously you can't implement democracy in a country that is not willing to go for it.
They do the same in Scotland, provocating brushing its airspace...the RAF is always on the standby and has to tell them to "f*** of adding if you don't ,we have permission to shoot you down.Then they veer away at the last second.
Who said that russia blew up Northstream pipeline? Where do I find that information?
@@sonjagatto9981 It's obvious. You don't need any further information. Russia is notorious for violating other counties' sovereignty. Russia poisoned some guys in Britain. They shot a guy in Germany. Against the will of their respective governments, their military occupies parts of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. And they feel emboldened to replace a legitimate democratic government of a neighboring country with a satrap of the despot in the Kremlin.
Do you really think Democracy is working? I think it is a failing phenomena that definitely needs restructuring. Countries that have democracy are mainly just voting for a different dictator because most political parties are morphing into one.
"I live in Sweden and on regular basis, during my life (68 y) russians have been sending attack and bombplanes submarines and surface militaryships, landingvessels launching against Swedish territory sometimes they turn just outside the border, sometimes they go slightly inside. claiming it is navigational error."
Has the Swedish media ever talked about this? Can you provide links to these sources?
the world simply wants to see a sign of the russian citizens that they stand up to their regime and not just go the easy way to save their skins.
World is you mean a bunch of Western countries that obey the US? If so, then I'm glad that the Russians can no longer travel to us. This is what level of selfishness and narcissism you need to have to think that we are here this is the whole world, my God.
We forgot about China, India, the United Arab Emirates and many more countries.
Get out of this damn propaganda that they feed us here and look at things realistically
I feel sorry for some of these people, but the reality is that if your country acts tyrannically towards other countries then you cannot expect to stay part of the international community - at least not the democratic part of it.
Why? Democratic countries can also act tyrannically - thats ok
So it’s ok for the US to spend 300 million a day for 20 years to put the Taliban in power or no ?
That is exactly what the USA is doing everywhere in the world.
They have killed 600,000 children in Irak only. ~3 millions in Irak, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Somalia, etc.
@@Wirmish Only 600,000 sure it wasn't 600 million? I mean if you are making shit up, then go big or go home. Because either way, no one believes your BS.
@@Wirmish they are not democratic
I have to say I disagree with Europe on this one. Closing the borders for tourism I can see but to prevent people who don't want to fight in the "Special Military Operation". That's just wrong.
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
And so, why all of Putin's Russia is collectively blamed for their own collective apathy in standing against Putin's evil.
Yes and we started it for not intervening when Crimea was invaded! It led Putin to think he was invincible!
The problem is not that the west understand what is happening in Russia, it can see what is happening in Ukraine
Ukraine started this war in 2014 with a coup d'état backed by the CIA.
When your leader is constantly threatening nuclear attacks and invasions of other sovereign countries, it’s very hard to feel sorry for that countries citizens, namely Russia!
Truthfully, most Americans have no problem at all with the Russian people, I would love to come visit Russia on vacations.
At some point, well past, citizens are responsible for their government. Hitler didn't succeed without the help of most German citizens. Same Putin.
Yea, and you might get locked up too.
Russians come to your senses at last ...you always needed the Tsar and you didn't care if he was good or bad but he was ..... and now you have Putin and your meanness
Well you can always cross the border to China
Soon whole Russia must learn the Chinese language.🤣😛
Whole world
M.G de Bruine = Mao Bru Lao не благодари
Go to China it's a good place for you damn Russians!
@@valentinaegorova4117 Unlikely. China's population is falling rapidly, and with that goes its economic power.
If there were no security risk for the other countries, then I would say that it would be reasonable for them to allow Russians who are fleeing conscription to enter their countries as refugees.
However, let's look at the reality of the situation for neighboring countries of Russia. Part of Russia's rationale for attacking Ukraine and also Georgia has been that they're bringing in their military to protect oppressed Russian nationals. This has been utterly false in both Ukraine and Georgia. Millions of people in Georgia and Ukraine speak Russian as their first languages, and these people were not systematically oppressed in either country. Russia used their presence as a false pretext to invade the neighboring countries to "protect Russians".
So if you're Lithuania or Estonia and suddenly tens of thousands of Russians are entering your country, OF COURSE you should fear that Russia could, at some point in the future, claim that these people are being oppressed and need to be "protected" by Russian military or paramilitary forces. Russia could certainly do things like bring in paramiltary forces, intimidate locals, hold a "referendum" to declare an autonomous state, and then show photos and video images of Russian nationals in the region voting in the referendum.
In addition, Russia could very easily send in FSB saboteurs who are disguised as refugees who then carry out terrorist attacks against civilian infrastructure or political assassinations in these countries. What about Mikhail Lesin -- a previous member of Putin's inner circle who died in Washington DC in 2015. The Washington DC medical examiner ruled that he died from a blunt trauma injury to the head. There have been mysterious deaths of Russians in the UK and other countries in Europe. This is a reality. In this context, is it unreasonable for Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Poland to allow tens of thousands of Russians into their countries?
Finally, do a web search for "Yulia Prokhorova". There are Russians in Germany and other EU countries who publicly harass Ukrainian refugees. There have been people who spray paint Z signs on churches in Barcelona. Is it unreasonable for politicians and citizens in the EU to worry that there will be people like this among the crowds if they start letting in tens of thousands of people from Russia?
As the war continues, conscription numbers increase and the Russian economy crumbles for various reasons all related to Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, there could easily be over 100 thousand Russians who try to enter Europe from Russia. For all of the reasons, EU countries would struggle to handle the influx of these people as well as millions of Ukrainians who may again cross the border into the EU as Russia bombs Ukraine's heating, water and electrical infrastructure in the winter. Restricting the travel of these Russians as their government is invading an EU border nation is not unreasonable. I would imagine that probably most of the Russians fleeing the war are decent people who either oppose the invasion or don't understand it because they haven't had access to honest objective news, but Europe has to ensure that there is peace and stability in its communities.
you do not have a garage cluttered in your head a mess. Russia did not attack Georgia. Georgia attacked Abkhazia and South Ossetia, killing more than 80 Russian peacekeepers on the outskirts of Tskhinvali and more than 1,500 civilians. Russia just carried out a military operation to force Georgia to peace. Even the UN recognizes this fact and openly calls Georgia the initiator of the conflict and a party to aggression. What do you think the United States would do with a country that would allow itself to kill 80 American peacekeepers? I think such a country would no longer exist in nature. But Georgia is alive and well.
I don't know who told you that the Russian economy is collapsing. But this is not true. The Russian economy is now stronger than ever. Here the economy of the EU, the USA, Britain is collapsing without cheap Russian energy, food, metals, including rare earths, fertilizers and many other things that simply cannot be replaced due to the fact that it will either cost fabulously expensive or it simply does not exist anywhere else in world except Russia. Once again I ask you to put things in order in your head, you have such chaos. And stop slandering Russia in your haste, using propaganda clichés from Western media slops like SNN and others.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c Yaaaaawn. We've all heard your twisted Russian "facts" over and over again. It's not working, mate.
The economy in western countries are not collapsing. Some higher prices for energy and some inflation will not lead to a economical collapse.
Nearly a million refugees leaving one countries work force on the other hand, combined with extreme sanctions, lack of access to high-tech are things that will eventually lead to a collapse.
So, dear Putin bootlicker, get out and face reality. As in, objective reality. Not some subjective post-modern Putin "But I want THIS to be my reality! :(" reality.
Most Russians are living in complete delusion at this time, so are you.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c Your government is absolutely destroying your economy. I don't know if you're trying to push propaganda that you don't believe or if you truly believe what you're saying, but what you're saying is patently false.
First of all, because Russia chose to invade Ukraine, at least 100,000 Russian men will either become dead, imprisoned in Ukraine, or seriously injured physically and/or mentally. At least 100,000 people have fled Russia or will flee. The birth rate is going to decline because hundreds of thousands of men will be deployed to war where they cannot procreate. All of this is accelerating Russia's demographic decline, which will decrease the countries GDP for generations.
Oil and gas exports will decline. In the short-term, there may be some marginal buyers of LNG or tanker oil, but the capacity to export oil and gas via tankers rather than pipelines is physically constrained. Purchases from Europe are declining massively and will decline further. The Russian economy has used equipment and materials from European companies to build much of its pipeline and LNG infrastructure, and sanctions will make it much more difficult for Russia to maintain all of its industrial infrastructure -- oil and gas, planes, cars, rail, electronics... etc.
I have many friends who are Russian. I believe that ruling elites in your country have followed their own narrow interests at the expense of the interests of basically everyone else in Russia. Putin has engaged in deception and taken risks for decades, but his failed policies and decisions have finally caught up with him. You may think that your economy is fine now, but it will get worse in 6 months, and then it will get even worse in the coming years. Your government generates about 35% of its revenue from the oil + gas sector. I guarantee you that Gazprom's earnings will decline massively in the next 2 years. Nord Stream is dead. Developing infrastructure to replace gas sales with LNG will be very costly and take a long time.
It didn't have to be this way. Had Russia never invaded Crimea, Russia would have remained the primary exporter of gas to Europe. Putin's initial choice to invade Crimea and the Donbas was a mistake that created serious problems for him, his inner circle and for the Russian economy in general. 8 years later, he thought that the only way to solve these problems was through escalation, but the full-scale invasion of Ukraine is leading to the destruction of Russia's military and economy.
If you considered your own interests and the interests of your countrymen, you'd realize that while it would be embarassing for Putin (but why should you care?), the only way that Russia can restore its economy and save its people will be to withdraw its army from ALL of Ukraine, including the Donbas and Crimea. This will be the first step toward reintegrating Russia into the global economy and rebuilding democracy in Russia, which will be the only way to grow prosperity for the Russian people.
@@clutteredchicagogarage2720 Yes, dude, you are clearly on the financing of the CIA's psychological operations center. Well, let's start with the fact that you predict Russia's demographic failure. When Russia was "loved" by the United States and indeed the entire Western "democratic community" in the late 90s and early 2000s, Russia lost more than 10 million people. From the actions of our "benefactors" from the USA and the EU. This is drug trafficking organized by the USA from Afghanistan through the Russian Federation to the EU, this is constant terrorist attacks on the territory of Russia organized by the USA, this is an endless series of wars of color revolutions and coups organized by the CIA in the post-Soviet space. As for the EU and the USA, make no mistake, you will have the same demographic pit as in Russia, only on a larger scale. Your liberalism, support for sexual minorities and other drug perversions are to blame for this. Both the EU and the US will not be able to help in overcoming this demographic pit refugees from the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. The only thing they can help you with is the EU and the USA further marginalizing the EU and the USA and turning them into the same Africa and Latin America only in other geographical latitudes.
It is not "evil" that allows evil to flourish. It is their apathy that allows these atrocities to continue. If they do not choose to care, then they must be shown that their inaction has consequences. ALL the population of a country IS responsible for what their country does.
That is, you propose to start discrimination against Russians on ethnic grounds. This is the true face of Euro-Nazis
What nonsense are you talking clown. People living in a totalitarian society are not responsible
"ALL the population of a country IS responsible for what their country does."
So the Japanese have the moral right to kill Americans because the United States committed genocide against the Japanese people in August 1945 by dropping 2 atomic bombs on the cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima? Or is it different?
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing”
One thousand "Thumbs Up" to this comment!
Harsh…. But true
You would think that the relatively well to do middle-class on display here would have some access to western media. Be interesting to see interviews undertaken outside of wealthy city areas, especially as the vast majority of Russians can barely make ends meet.
Unfortunately outside of those areas you will find more support for this madness as they have less education and less access to anything other than RTL media. Older Russians are mostly all in as well.
“As usual, russia is evil”. Tried to be ironic, unfortunately just stated a fact.
Country is only an idea. The problem is when majority of people are willingly obey mad man ideas.
"Country is only an idea. The problem is when majority of people are willingly obey mad man ideas."
As in Poland. Poland destroys monuments to Soviet soldiers who died liberating Poland from German fascists.
I really hope that the Polish nationalists will demolish the Pałac Kultury i Nauki in Warsaw, which was built with the money of the USSR as a gift to the Polish people. Do you still have a law on decommunization in Poland?
@@alikkhusainov319 all Russian monuments flags anything like that it goes directly in the trash that's where it goes that's exactly right! The only thing the Polish people want from Russia is for them to stay on their own side of the damn borders and that's it!
If I'm not mistaken, you might be able to enter Ukraine and see first hand what your leader is doing to them.
After Cokeinsky his nazis battalions killed many civilians in Ukraine! Wake the f… up
You can. And if you go in Donbas you will se Ukrainian soldiers who fight by taking native Russian Ukrainian citizens as human shield.
Yes, Putin is terrible that he attacked, poor Ukrainians, until 2022 they were destroyed by their own president and after that by Putin. And we contributed to this as best we could.
Wah, Wah, it’s unfair. What’s unfair is aggressive war, killing women and children you claim to be family, and robbing your children of their future.
1. Attack another country. 2. Object when people don't like it.
Some of these Russians interviewed need to take a class on cause and effect.
It would be interesting to ask the average Russian; How many Ukrainians did Stalin purposely starve to death. Do they have any clue about their own history?
Probably not. Most Americans don't know their history, either. That's why these nightmares keep happening over and over.
oh do you? Do you aware that so called "holodomor" was raging on the fertile territories of BOTH Ukrainian and Russian SSRs? That soviets didn't cared about common people no difference given from where they were? Of course you don't. It's those "evil russians" who starved alongside ukrainians who are to blame, right?
Just as it was for Germany after WWll, now it will be Russia's turn to be hated by the world for a generation or so.
Glory to Ukraine Glory to the Heros
Germans didn't suffer a bad reputation too long as they quickly became America's muppet. Although they killed 28 million Soviets alone.
It's a pity that Russian people have to suffer for Vladimir Putin's ill advised special operation. The Ukrainian people are suffering much more.
Yeah but sometimes the russian people should know and understand, that wherever they go, a madman with a name starting with P wants to invade the lands where those russian people go, because Putler thinks it belongs to them because many russians live there.
It is a pity that because of the malicious actions of the United States and NATO, the Ukrainian and Russian people have to suffer.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c stop stealing Hitler's talking points.
@@Overlord734 In my opinion, under Hitler, NATO did not exist yet? It seems that under Hitler, NATO was called the Wehrmacht.
@@user-no9eg5ho5c your opinion is an opinion of uninformed fool and russian tool, who steals from Hitler's speeches. Thus, it's value is zero.
"..In the face of the development of National Socialist Germany, England turned for a second time to a policy of encirclement, the results of which are today casting their blood-red shadow across the world. We remember its development clearly. Attempts by England and its vassals to build a ring around Germany did not have the desired results...
The Poles were the only remaining Slavic vassal in Eastern Europe. ...England did all in its power to feed the fire that was burning between Kattowitz and Danzig. Their goal was to use the situation, with the remnants of encirclement, to incite a war with Germany.
The English wanted this war in the crazy hope that it was their last chance to stop Germany’s growing strength. They passionately avoided doing anything that might have prevented war. Rather than encouraging Poland to accept the Führer’s generous proposals to resolve the situation, they encouraged it to let the deadline pass, thereby providing a reason for war. The Führer felt obliged to strike back only after Polish troops had crossed the German border at several places. The German fight is a defensive fight. We fight because we were forced to fight by the insults and demands against us, because of the brutal suppression of ethnic Germans in Poland, and because of the open announcements that they would do everything in their power to strangle National Socialist Germany through military or economic means."
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” Darwin
Excellent production, very interesting. Thank you
*Ask the citizens if they can tell the difference between a nuclear wasteland and Ukrainian cities, in pictures and video.*
*Show them the hospitals and schools, all the apartment buildings.*
*Ukraine has NOT leveled Moscow or St. Petes. Time to become a democratic Country.* Remember Ceacesceau?
Those schools and hospitals got levelled because the Ukraine military were using them as bases..... That's fact and reported by Amnesty International.
@@johnnymcandrew Who invaded whom?
@@SigmaWolf-in2mr Didn't really have a valid reply there did you?
@@johnnymcandrew The fact is, the Putin shot rockets into the civilian neighborhoods.
You cannot defend this aggression on the civvies.
Besides, he blames everyone but himself, and has lied at every turn.
"There's very little rationalism" well there's also very little rationalism in Russia invading Ukraine isn't there, so....?
Responsibility. This is the keyword. Are russian citizens responsible for the actions of their own government?
No we didn’t elected them. They are usurpers
the people don`t want war, just the governments. people are all the same, make love not war . . .
I remember seeing the Ukrainians fleeing in the first few days of this attack. They were dressed just as stylishly in beautiful modern cities just like these Russians.
Now these Russians smirk with knowing grins while they feign ignorance about the atrocities their brothers commit.
The fact is that they are all brothers there. Russia, which attacked Ukraine, brothers to each other, Ukrainians who, with the support of the EU and the US, have been killing people in the Donbas since 2014, also killed brothers
Lots of russians obsessed with western, guess the state media needs somebody to blame for their inner problems. I wonder why we don't start doing the same LoL. Here we never used to talk about Russia before the war (and even after), not that it was a taboo or sth: it's just not a very interesting topic. A psichologue would say thy have an identity crisis, or it's just envy. Whatever they do I hope they live and learn to let live. 💙💛
Here in the west we don't talk about Russia because it's just not that important it's something you hear a little bit once in awhile but apparently in Russia that's all they do is talk about the West because of their extreme jealousy and lack of confidence I guess. Most people in the west don't know much about Russia it's just not interesting. It's not like it's a place we go to for vacation or something.
Дай бог всем здоровья и удачи.
Once upon a time there was a peaceful world (or more peaceful than it is now). USSR had embraced peristroika and glasnost, and we began to trade with each other in peace. Prosperity and opportunities arose in what became Russia. We all had a wary, but becoming warmer relationship than with the USSR. Enter Putin who has ambitions to return Russia to its 'glory' days, reuniting break-away republics to create a new USSR, depite the fact that they don't want that. He increasingly isolates Russia, becoming colder in his interactions with the west. He sends agents to other countries (chiefly Britain) to kill off those considered his enemy. He invades Crimea. Because he CAN. And that's because the world sits back, afraid to act. He begins to feel he is omnipotent and moves on to operation B to invade Ukraine. The world wakes up to what's happening and acts as robustly as it dare without causing WW3 to begin. I still don't think that most Russians, interviewed or or not, have a clue about the long term damage of losing its oil and gas markets. Never mind companies choosing not to trade with Russia. If peace broke out tomorrow, does anyone here think anyone in the West will trust Russia, or Russians ever again? Russians, Putin is destroying your economy and world relationships and it doesn't matter how much you all opine on what you think is going on because no one will tell you the truth, (apart from a few brave vloggers who dare to do so) you will continue to believe in the lie. With true democracy comes more truth and understanding. Russia still has a long way to go!
Love so many of those being interviewed - the girl in the burgundy NY baseball cap. So balanced and so right with what we should all be striving for. Peaceful world, exchange of information and joy. The guy with the jacket and dark red hoodie. He does not believe the false propaganda. The blond lady with purple hair gets it and so does the guy with the green vest and black hoodie. Refreshing to see. I admire you all. Thanks for doing the video! So nice to see that not everyone believes the false narrative.
It is interesting to observe how some people, brainwashed with propaganda, evaluate the statements of others with the same brainwashed. Do you really think that what they say in our west is the truth? Ahaha
Because of Russian people in Ukraine who had been yelled that they had been under the pressure of Ukrainian language and bagged Russian army to come to Ukraine and free them from Ukrainian language, Ukraine is now in the war. So the conclusion is that it's really dangerous to let Russian people live the European countries because Russian can call for Russian solders to come and free them from the Lithuanian language, from the Polish language, from the Estonian Language.
Are u be believing in this?
Russians people don’t want it. It’s not a real reason for this war.
You're right Ana. But Russians are too arrogant and stupid to understand that they are only guests in those countries. When they don't like the language of that country, or their culture, they have only one option: go and live in their fantastic, well-developed, free Ruzzia. They have absolutely nothing to say in the country where they are only guests. If they become too annoying, the host can and should kick them out.
@@DonJohnSpain what about Belarus, Italian, Belgium, Canada, UK and Finland with a few official languages? I don’t think it’s a problem.
@@alexbayer2365 what about your stupid what-aboutism?
@@DonJohnSpain I don’t support Putin’s regime.
We talking about languages.
In your age, I would recommend u to fly to warm country like Greece or Mexico.
Don’t be mad.
"Hey Siri! How do I say PATHETIC in Russian?"
Zhalkiy
If you value freedom and privacy, you shouldn't voluntarily have Siri looking over your shoulder.
To cross borders is a privilege not a right. You have to earn that privilege. Dear Russians, you lost it.
What kind of privileges? It’s should be a basic human rights.
Well done, your interviews are better than those of "1420". At least your interlocutors show a sign of having a brain, not just repeating usual Russian street nonsense like " we Russians never attacked anyone, we always kept defeating ourselves against fasists and nazis of the outside world; we did not start a war with Ukraine, and even if we begain the special operation it was because Zapad forced us to do so.
Russian soldiers didn't torture, rape and murder civilians in Bucza and Izjum, it was Ukrainians who killed their own people because NaziUkrs wanted to blame us, innocent Russians so that the world would hate us, peace-loving Russians".
When such feelings are shared by Russians met on Russian streets, the risk is too high to let them enter neighbouring countries. Simple as this.
We do not hate Russia. We hate what Russia is doing.
they elected putler, so yea, they ALL are responsible
right, as Russia is famous for its transparent election system
Don't know if I'd go that far. Those were hardly fair elections. The indifference though, they're definitely guilty of that.
Absolutely, so.they are morally responsible for the obliteration of an entire country. Killings, rapes, tortura. Facts
He hasn't "Won" a fair election in years!! He quietly turned Russia into an "Autocracy" and either no one noticed or no one cared!
Half the soldiers fighting in Putin's war weren't even alive when Putin came to power.
What do Russians think of the women's rights protest,the hijab, in Iran, would make a good video.
Thanks for the idea! We will consider it for a future video!
Here are a couple of questions - do they feel like they are better off financially than their parents/grandparents? Does anyone in their family have a home in the villages in addition to an apartment in the city/ Have they visited another country? (yes/no) if yes - which one. What was different about it than what they grew up with.
Thanks for the idea, we will consider it!
Это вовсе не «real Russia». Большинство людей считают что это обыкновенный нацизм, по отношению к русским, а прибалты всегда были нацистами и во времена ВОВ.
I'm pretty sure the Ukaine people think they have had THEIR rights violated!
When all the crazy lunatics and murderers escape the mental hospital you don't let them into your home.
Escape from Russia? This is ridiculous. Russia is not a prison.
You can take a plane and fly to ~90% of the countries of the world.
They can always got to the ukraine for a holiday
Russians, not being real elderly and not living in the ‘Russian outbacks’, by know should know better. Russia isn’t evil, the way the Russian government is acting and reacting is evil. In Russia, you have the ‘lefties’ and ‘rightist’ and ‘moderates’ as well. At the moment, I think that the Russian society first reset their country, adapt to a lesser aggressive behavior (normal behavior) stop their war, accept thuis guilt, respect Ukraine and help Ukraine to rebuild Ukraine on all aspects. Russia is guilty as sin on this, so they have to pay.
Can you ask about the term "Homo Sovieticus." I'd like to know if they think it's true that the average russian is conformist and apathic. If they truly think that their opinion doesn't matter and there's nothing they can do against their situation.
We will think about it, thanks for the suggestion.
My opinion as a Russian:
1. Do these European countries have the right to do so? - of course. And I understand them emotionally.
2. Will they help Ukraine with this? No, no way.
3. Will they harm Putin and his war? No, they help Putin and his propaganda.
4. Are the fugitives from Russia dangerous for these countries? I don't think so. How?
Why do you call your channel 'Real Russia'when that was the name of a Russian channel started by Serge Baklykov in Ufa over ten years ago? He now lives in St Petersburg and operates as Baklykov Live.
70000 civilians killed in Mariupol by Russia.
Go back and learn some numeracy......
@@user-xz5it5hc1g I do! 🙂
The Russians going poor me the world is doing this to me. No you did it to yourselves.
Yeah, the woman with the baby in the park invaded a country. idiot.
"Evil triumps through the inaction of the people of Good"
Unfortunately yes
Is your channel sponsored by RT? Do you work or have you ever worked for RT?
We are not sponsored by anyone and none of us have ever worked in any form of media before. We will make a video soon about our channel and our team.
Q. Do people get the politicians they deserve?
Q. How do you think, if Putin is a dictator who was getting rid of his own citizens, how were European leaders able to buy gas and oil from him?
A. Hypocrisy of European people and their stupidity and ignorance
@@your_faith-r1r The pot calling the kettle black. Such a joke that you accuse Europeans when Russians have committed mass murder. European leaders didn't want to believe how evil Putin was. They thought they could appease Putin by buying his gas and oil, but that never works. Psychos take everything you have to give, and then stab you in the back.
1953 - East Germany
1956 - Hungary
1968 - Czechoslovakia
1980 - Poland
1992 - Georgia, Moldova,...
...
Now - Ukraine
I'm sorry, but it's no wonder that, after previous experiences, those states are taking precautionary measures.
And: Unfortunally it is big different between thinking of people in Moscow (like in the video) and in the countryside. 😞
Совсем жиденький список. Учитывая что в советское время Украинская ССР в этом тоже участвовала. А теперь глянь на список США и Нато
@@valentinaegorova4117 It is a logical answer? :-D "US make this same, so we can do too." But: "US are world badliest state! We are not the same!" :-D :-D Really no wonder, that little states do prevention... against Russia and against US too.
Sorry, I don't know any attacked state attacked by Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia (and Czechoslovakia too) in last 50 years.
Excellent video. New subscriber 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏👊👊👊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Famous words: perestroika and glasnost. We all know what that means. New word I learned here is strakh (fear). And we westeners don't know what real fear is. We are more or less safe.
I’ve met many many Russians while I was working at a hotel. They were always kind and friendly. It’s not them that’s the problem. Like most countries- it’s the governments that’s causing issues. 😢
What good are these interviews? You ask questions in English they reply in Russian and the audience has no idea what they said.
Turn your subtitles on.
@@timothyclaffey9138 As if those couldn't be tampered with.
Zero self-reflection
If your political leaders and your army acts like a bunch of mad dogs, what do you expect? That the rest of the world will invite you in for a cup of tea and a biscuit?
Europe all this time buying gas and oil from Putin’s regime. We don’t support it. Don’t being so hypocrite.
Well everyone still loves Americans after they led Iraq, Syria, Libya and many others in ruins. Bit of a hypocrite a huh?
Question for the Russians: In 1994 Ukraine gave up their 5000 nuclear bombs with the assurance from Russia, that Russia would not invade Ukraine in the future. Knowing the Ukrainian national character (some would say nazi character) do you think they withheld some nukes in case of emergency and if so, do you think they will use them when Russia starts using tactical nuclear bombs in the 'special operation'?
Weren't the codes of those nuclear warheads always in russian hands? So even if they still have a few they wouldn't be able to launch them.
@@donkey9113 Can't they just take them apart and reassemble them with their own computers and codes?
@@AndreiPopescu, that would almost certainly result in a mushroom cloud.
@@donkey9113 It is very simple for those in possession to block all signals to the weapons and then reconfigure them.
@@colinallen8924 Nonsense. To booby trap them in any manner would pose an enormous risk to any country hosting them.
Terroruzzians
Russians React to European Countries Closing Their Borders? Wonderful news!!!
What they do not seem to understand is that it is in their hand. Their freedom is in their hands. Only the people can do something, but not only a few thousands, millions and all over the country. But as they say 《We are apolitic. I prefer not to talk about it. I cannot respond to your question.》.
Good people ruled by 🤡
This is how I imagine watching interviews with German civilians in 1939 would be like.
Yes, but in 1939 there was no Internet. The russian people could know what happens in Ukraine but they do not want.
Exactly and these Savages will not care about anything happening to people on the outside world until it starts happening to them directly!!
@@horsthorstmann7921 well Putin is taking care of the internet problem. That way Russians can't see what's happening outside of Russia just like North Korea.
or
or with US and EU citizens in Iraq in 2003, or Libya in 2011 or Yugoslavia in 1999.
Oh i forgot, it is different...
make Moscow look like Mariupol. Slava Ukraine 💙💛 GBUA
And Make New York like Baghdad?
Be a logical.
Let the Russians experience what the Ukrainians are experiencing now. Russians enjoy traveling while Ukrainians are dying under Russian shelling.
Ask yourselves if being afraid to speak in your own country is right and who is responsible. Not the people but dictators.
ask them if they would hold the same views if it were their country being invaded. ask them if they prefer stocking their cupboards with food stolen from others.
Ukrainian supermarkets are stocking food aid stolen and sold on the black market from the west.