How Looting Ruined the Russian Army

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  • @icarusproject
    @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +40

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    • @Berkana
      @Berkana ปีที่แล้ว +1

      9:00 you said that Ukraine is the poorest country in Europe. That isn't actually true. Albania is the poorest country in Europe. But Ukraine isn't exactly rich either. However, it is worth pointing out that Russia is the largest country on earth by a long shot, possessing 1/6 of the dry land on earth, and yet they're obsessed with conquering their smaller neighbors.

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Silver_Prussian "Misleading videos"
      There's literally footage from inside the house of the Russian soldier who looted the security camera
      cope, fascist.

    • @RazorsharpLT
      @RazorsharpLT ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Silver_Prussian Instead of learning from these mistakes and improving your own army - you put your head in the sand and yell "NONONONONFAKE NEWS NONONO"
      You embody the Russian mentality perfectly. I guess this is why you could barely conquer a city 10km away from your own border.

    • @Donnirononon
      @Donnirononon 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Dude you have to link that stolen smart camera livestream

    • @victoryfirst2878
      @victoryfirst2878 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      POETIC IRONY MY BEHIND POETIC STUPIDITY IS MORE LIKE IT, PERIOD !!!!

  • @davidmonro3270
    @davidmonro3270 ปีที่แล้ว +588

    A German migrant told me that after the war Russian soldiers, who were the first into Germany, had not ever seen a banana.They gathered up light bulbs to take home thinking they could get light from them. Nothing has changed.

    • @christopherb4015
      @christopherb4015 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Like Nutella

    • @napster7825
      @napster7825 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      I once read an account of Solviet soldiers in Berlin near the end of ww2, where they stole faucets off of sinks, thinking they would always produce water.

    • @billybeads3328
      @billybeads3328 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@napster7825 When i was an apprentice in the 60,s one of the tradesmen told me the same story as he was in the British Army during the war and how the Russians were amazed that in Germany you turned on a tap and water came out

    • @snakeplissken2148
      @snakeplissken2148 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      after the fall of the soviet union, the russian troops also left their east german barracks. they took everything with em! the pretty normal barrack buildings looked like lost places after that. toilet seats, plumbing, windows... everything was taken. i do know some normal, educated and friendly russians. but the mainpart of their armed forces must be built of individuals that are more likely to be some kind of savage animals.

    • @pauls3204
      @pauls3204 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      All above are correct
      My step dad was with his C/O when a Soviet equal C/O was handing over control of a section of Berlin to UK army.
      The Soviet apologised for his “ bumpkins” stealing the taps toilet seats light bulbs etc .

  • @DandyE44A
    @DandyE44A ปีที่แล้ว +635

    In my native Bulgaria there is a popular expression dating back in the soviet era that "Russian" is moreover a diagnosis rather than a nationality.

    • @Antek104
      @Antek104 ปีที่แล้ว +76

      Its the same in Poland: "Ruski to nie naród - to diagnoza" :D Cheers to Bulgaria!

    • @TomasFunes-rt8rd
      @TomasFunes-rt8rd ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Ah yes - the Russians : those people who won you Bulgarians your freedom from the Ottoman Empire.

    • @unifiedhorizons2663
      @unifiedhorizons2663 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TomasFunes-rt8rd who invaded Bulgaria a neutral country after ww2
      USA is loved by Vietnam because after all evil we did where helping and have invested billions into their ecom
      russia invaded bulgaria and made it worse off

    • @mihailmilenkov6223
      @mihailmilenkov6223 ปีที่แล้ว

      The same Russians who cut chunks of Bulgaria for the benefit of neighbours

    • @worldspam5682
      @worldspam5682 ปีที่แล้ว +78

      ​​@@TomasFunes-rt8rd oh no, another "rusia won something in the past" comment 😅

  • @johngaither9263
    @johngaither9263 ปีที่แล้ว +347

    Russian paratroops were informed the day before they were to attack the Ukrainian airport near Kiev. The used cellphones to inform family and friends of their mission. The calls were intercepted by the Ukraine military who greeted them violently when they arrived. Nearly all of the paratroopers were either killed, wounded or captured rather quickly.

    • @richg4051
      @richg4051 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      it not like the US was telling them that weeks before.

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No Afghanistan 🇦🇫 captured airport!

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don't believe it for a second a kid would not do something so silly, they know Ukraine is listening and vise versa.

    • @philipeduardovich7834
      @philipeduardovich7834 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      One of this paratrupers company was eliminate near Kyiv on second day by soldiers who were mobilased day before.

    • @rogermitchell6272
      @rogermitchell6272 ปีที่แล้ว

      B.S Ukraine is having its are handed to them. Their military is about decimated. And old Sleepy Joe has with out congressional approval sent in U.S forces into this generation's vietnam
      My generation's big lie to get the u.s weapon companies more money.. people better wake up my family has buried members in ww1 ww2 all over Europe
      Ukraine is none of our concern let them do their on fighting . USA needs to stay the hell out of all of Europeans problem.
      Like middle east they are at way with each other for centuries.

  • @oliverklosoffe8537
    @oliverklosoffe8537 ปีที่แล้ว +330

    “If I fall asleep, wake up 100 years later and somebody asks me, what is going on in Russia, my immediate answer will be: drinking and stealing” - Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin.

    • @deteiser
      @deteiser ปีที่แล้ว +25

      Make it 200

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It is a quote of Pyotr Vyazemsky, not by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin. Please correct it.

    • @whateverbuddy
      @whateverbuddy ปีที่แล้ว

      And a colossal amount of incest.

    • @todd3285
      @todd3285 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@houseplant1016 What difference does it make ? I hope it doesn't keep you up all night . On second thought I hope it does !!

    • @houseplant1016
      @houseplant1016 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@todd3285 Would you like it if your work's credits were given to someone else?

  • @kellywright540
    @kellywright540 ปีที่แล้ว +364

    My Dad fought in Patton's Third Army and was part of the occupation until February of 1946. He didn't talk much about the war but every now and then, he'd tell a funny story or recall an observation, he passed away in 1986. I knew that he wasn't very impressed with the Russian soldiers that he had met and he told us a story about one Russian soldier who kept flushing a toilet. Through an interpreter, he asked how many potatoes would this hold. When he was asked why, he replied that this is what this is used for, washing potatoes. He said it was funny at the time but later on thought how dirt poor these people had to be to not even have indoor plumbing. And remember, he told us this story that happened in late 1945. Apparently something's haven't changed in the last 78 years...

    • @tomgreene7942
      @tomgreene7942 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      No, I've been to Tomsk Siberia in 1991, there were mostly high rise buildings with plumbing. But there are also many hand crafted beautiful homes, that predate the revolution, I heard with no plumbing. It was a lot more modern than I expected, for the most part, with electric trams, cars, and cable radio (speaker actually, one station all the time, can't turn it off, part time microphone perhaps?).

    • @juno6602
      @juno6602 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Patton's assessment of Russia and Russians was absolutely spot on.

    • @KohaAlbert
      @KohaAlbert ปีที่แล้ว +4

      ​@@tomgreene7942it's so bizarre to hear that "krapp"(pronounced the exact same as "crap") was still a thing in there.
      No, those didn't work as part-time microphone, more like rupor extensions - only one directional. An announcer more than anything else - otherwise those played just classical music.
      Those should have had volume button.
      These were installed by commies, presence was checked, lackage or (repeated) nonworking condition upon inspection punishable.
      If I'm not incorrect - earlier on they had central announcers.
      Pa: Tomsk isn't exactly example of rural region.

    • @KohaAlbert
      @KohaAlbert ปีที่แล้ว +24

      Germans vs Russians - say what you say about Germans and we all know where their sins resided, but they generally behaved well-mannered and civil - Russian troops were notorious for savage behavior and looting...

    • @alexanderchenf1
      @alexanderchenf1 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tomgreene7942 for a privileged English speaker traveling on deluxe, I am sure he’s impressed with the part of Russia that he bothered to see in comfort

  • @cyruslupercal9493
    @cyruslupercal9493 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    You forgott to mention they stole all the grain from the silos.
    Not just petty looting, but industrial scale theft.

  • @markbanash921
    @markbanash921 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    In his book on the fall of the Third Reich, William Shirer wrote that as the Soviet Army advanced on Berlin in 1945, there were reports of Russians breaking into houses and seeing water faucets and light bulbs for the first time. They pulled the faucets out of the wall and looted the light bulbs because they thought they would work all by themselves when they got them back home.
    They also looted the costumes from the UFA movie studio. There were also reports of Russian soldiers wearing ballet outfits.

    • @captaincurt3180
      @captaincurt3180 ปีที่แล้ว

      Flippin Ruskies have been trolled by Leninist commies for so long that they have no sense of reality.

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 ปีที่แล้ว

      Raging dumbasses. No wonder Patton had no respect for them, they're a nation of THIEVES. Stolen Atomic tech, spy tech, anything western tech. What I find endlessly amusing is in the past when they tried to reverse engineer something stolen from U.S., get the metallurgy all wrong, and blow up the entire apparatus usually killing all the excess vodka drinkers standing around admiring their handiwork just moments before.😅

    • @haroldbell213
      @haroldbell213 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dumb bunch of savages

    • @uss-dh7909
      @uss-dh7909 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I don't care what flag you wave, that ballet outfit thing is hilarious.

    • @MyRegardsToTheDodo
      @MyRegardsToTheDodo ปีที่แล้ว +18

      The Russians also looted tons of art from German museums, most of that still wasn't returned (it's either hidden away in Russian archives or on display in Russian museums). They weren't better than the Nazis, even kept three of the concentration camps running for years, after conquering them (partially with the same inmates, there was atleast one inmate who died in a concentration camp under the Russians after being imprisoned there by the Nazis). The camps were eventually closed in 1949 or 1950, after they were handed over to the German Democratic Republic and they faced some quite severe international protest.

  • @kris301
    @kris301 ปีที่แล้ว +241

    Calling them 'orcs' is so accurate. One of my favourite photo's so far was the downed helicopter with washing machines in the wreckage.

    • @rocoe9019
      @rocoe9019 ปีที่แล้ว

      You shouldn't insult orcs like that ! They don't deserve to be compared those filthy maggots!

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was being used as a bomb a washing machine explodes when dropped from a great hight.

    • @ilaser4064
      @ilaser4064 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@patkearney9320 🙄🤡

    • @TheGrace020
      @TheGrace020 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@patkearney9320 🤓

    • @stevenhart9004
      @stevenhart9004 ปีที่แล้ว

      Actually calling Russian's Orcs does more damage to Ukraine than good. Because the west is given a fanciful fantasy movie vision, instead of the brutal reality of calling Russians terrorists for their genocidal attack. If Ukraine learned to call Russians terrorists, it carries far more weight in the international community who are extremely anti terrorist ever since the world trade center was targeted. Name them for what they are. Russian Terrorist War Criminals committing Genocide while attacking a sovereign territory, for an Internationally Wanted War Criminal Terrorist leader.

  • @CommissarMitch
    @CommissarMitch ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The Airpod story is a perfect example of why you should have your soldiers well drilled and disciplined.

  • @T0tenkampf
    @T0tenkampf ปีที่แล้ว +205

    In about 1983 I had a Ukrainian history teacher who brought in a friend of his who was a German woman living in Germany at the time that Russian troops invaded during WW2. She told almost the exact stories about theft of plumbing, sinks, and toilets. She said the troops were Mongolian or one of the Asiatic Russian peoples and that they thought the water magically appeared from within the pipes. 40 years of Russian governance has not changed a thing for them in regard to evolution as a culture, apparently.

    • @314rft
      @314rft ปีที่แล้ว

      Repressive authoritarians prefer to keep the populace dumb so they're less likely to fight back. Considering Russia has almost never not been ruled by tyrants, this isn't surprising.

    • @user-ny7ks2sr8w
      @user-ny7ks2sr8w ปีที่แล้ว

      Strange. After all, Ukrainians say that it was their Ukrainian front that captured Germany. So Ukrainians are Mongols.

    • @Dysputant
      @Dysputant ปีที่แล้ว

      When russian had to leave Poland after communism has fallen families of russians literally took EVERYTHING from houses.
      They even take down brick coal furnaces. Ofc they bring nothing when coming in.

    • @mawi4112
      @mawi4112 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      my jugendfeuerwehr teacher told a similar story it's a myth or something which was very widespread stupidity

    • @jwoods1732
      @jwoods1732 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Sounds a lot like South Africans lmao

  • @warhorse03826
    @warhorse03826 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    I read that at chernobyl they were using the contaminated dirt from the trenches they dug to fill sandbags...which they slept on. the director of the zone saw what they were doing, and told them "dig deeper, you idiots!". apparently ukranian sarcasm doesn't translate well...they kept digging. most of them ended up in a belorussian hospital with radiation poisoning and died.

    • @MrReymoclif714
      @MrReymoclif714 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not too much publicity attached to the bivouac in the forest guys?

    • @warhorse03826
      @warhorse03826 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@MrReymoclif714 no, not much. but the story is out there. sad part is most of those troops had no idea what happened at chernobyl, or how to deal with radiation. they had no idea what was making them sick.

    • @drspunkymonkey9982
      @drspunkymonkey9982 ปีที่แล้ว

      Funny but more BS!

    • @venator5
      @venator5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Unlikelly. The radion levels outside the 4th block are normal. Actually the level is bellow the place I live. So it would not be enough to make them radiation sick.

    • @aoki6332
      @aoki6332 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@venator5 the Chernobyl soil are dangerous though not only from the radiation but mostly from radionuclides that are almost everywhere and can cause harm once disturbed like digging it

  • @XbotcrusherX
    @XbotcrusherX 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    1:54 minor correction, it is not "actively leaking". The predominant reason for the exclusion zone is from radioactive debris being spewed out for miles during the *initial* steam explosion when the reactor melted down.
    Most of the exclusion zone is actually quite safe to be in... Unless you go around in heavy equipment disturbing large amounts of contaminated soil kicking up dust and take random pretty souvenirs.

    • @AwesomeFish12
      @AwesomeFish12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Or pick and eat fruit and mushrooms.

  • @Jackc8201
    @Jackc8201 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    I watched an interview of a Russian soldier who said he didn't want a toilet because he would have to clean it out every day. I'm pretty sure they don't know that you hook them up to this thing called "plumbing".

    • @chrisbrent7487
      @chrisbrent7487 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      It is shocking that at country with so much natural resources that used to export so much oil and gas can't provide gas to most of its citizens and most don't have plumbing. Many still have to walk ages to a village well to get water. One piece of graffiti left inside a house near Bucha sticks with me. It said "who allowed you to live this well?
      "

    • @verbold1979
      @verbold1979 ปีที่แล้ว

      believe or not but russian soldiers in ukraine dump their crap into the bath instead of the toilet that was next to it.

    • @happyhermit8174
      @happyhermit8174 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Who needs to watch The Bugs Bunny Show when we can just watch Russia? That's all, Folks!

    • @JS-ip8xm
      @JS-ip8xm ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @DJTV Well, I know what a Rolls Royce is and yet don't have one ....

    • @Guillaume2606
      @Guillaume2606 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @DJTV Congratulations! You "ik" what plumbing is!! Well, what "ik" it then???

  • @andrewphillips8341
    @andrewphillips8341 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Sparky the Russians dug trenches and dugouts in the radioactive grounds near the reactor site. They were already getting dosed with radiation.

    • @theovanderstorm3171
      @theovanderstorm3171 ปีที่แล้ว

      And probably shitting blood by now due to radiation damage to their inner bowel tissue.

    • @gourdguru
      @gourdguru ปีที่แล้ว +13

      apparently the way i hear it, they literally could have dug into other locations in the area and it wouldn't have been good, but it would have been a mild risk, and they basically just by chance dug in the worst spot in the area. so it was ADVANCED failure, they were failing at peak efficiency.

    • @FrstSpctr88
      @FrstSpctr88 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It gets worse if you somehow get radioactive material in your body.
      By digging, they throw radioactive dust into the air, which they then breath in. If they're really careless, start eating lunch in the digsite during digging, they surely ate radioactive dust too.

    • @NJPurling
      @NJPurling ปีที่แล้ว +8

      They were digging trenches in the Red Forest. Which marks the direction the wind blew the material erupting from Reactor #4. Digging through particles of 'hot' graphite that's been waiting there since 1986. The Ukrainian staff on site obviously didn't care to warn the Russians....
      Ivan: My p***k is glowing.
      Yuri: Csuka! It is.
      Ivan: I am not having any more of that vodka you stole. What the hell was in it?

    • @tbird4a
      @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว

      somehow that tidbit doesnt seem true, that was a yr ago and no word of radiation poisoning to Russian troops

  • @Vlad_a450
    @Vlad_a450 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    How harsh you are with the Russians... And you should be! ))) Greetings from the Ukraine!

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Greetings from the U.S.!

    • @timkeenan7419
      @timkeenan7419 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Greetings from Canada

    • @JS-ip8xm
      @JS-ip8xm ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Слава Україні!

    • @neilfoster814
      @neilfoster814 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Greetings to all brave Ukrainian people from the UK! We support you 100%! 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇧🇺🇦

    • @dewaldsteyn1306
      @dewaldsteyn1306 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      how do you have time and wifi to watch vidoes if your country is in war?

  • @Jim-ly5hv
    @Jim-ly5hv ปีที่แล้ว +14

    My grandfather told me people in his village, during WW2, used to put rat poison in cider and beer and leave it to the Germans. Many dies or got super sick from it.

  • @debrakleid5752
    @debrakleid5752 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    The Russian soldier who stole the iPods was identified as they tracked him back to his house apparently.

    • @314rft
      @314rft ปีที่แล้ว

      Karma. Hope he was instantly taken as a POW.

    • @darylobey8867
      @darylobey8867 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Classic soviet move 😂😂😂

  • @mrkbroster87
    @mrkbroster87 ปีที่แล้ว +91

    Don’t interrupt your enemy, when they making a mistake as stated by Napoleon Bonaparte

    • @FrostBiteeeee
      @FrostBiteeeee ปีที่แล้ว +5

      That’s funny because that’s exactly how he lost to Russia.

    • @mrkbroster87
      @mrkbroster87 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@FrostBiteeeee and battle of Trafalgar and Waterloo against the British. He should of followed his own advice.

    • @sankaplays3098
      @sankaplays3098 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thats actually from Tsun Tzu not Napolean Bonaparte. You sound like a fool misqouting these things, and the Russiand did apply this correctly in Bahmut when the Ukrainians fell back out of the pincer right into mortar fire and lost multiple squads.

    • @kurtnulf3362
      @kurtnulf3362 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes but remember Napoleon still lost in the end

    • @mrkbroster87
      @mrkbroster87 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sankaplays3098 I not a fool, I can and do have the ability to admit that I wrong, please don’t insult me. Also, it was attributed to both of them, and both came to the same conclusion, at different points in history without Bonaparte reading Tsun Tzu. Remember comments must be respectful.

  • @fredpuntdroad8701
    @fredpuntdroad8701 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    The Potempkin Villages thing is incorrect.
    Potempkin came up with those because he was siphoning funds for developing regions Russia occupied. If the czarina or anyone else wanted to check what he was doing with so much money, they'd get taken to a Potempkin village and think the money was well-spent.
    Meanwhile, Potempkin was stealing most of the money for himself, just like even today you can buy Russian army MREs online, at the same time some of their units are left starving.
    Neither is Chernobyl correct. It's safe. I've been there as a tourist. Radiation levels have dropped and some areas are background level.
    The Russians got f*cked because they dug trenches in the Red Forest, one of the most irradiated parts of the entire area. Dust from digging was inhaled, and once radioactive material is inside your body, that's when you get radiation poisoning.
    Not that it matters: Russia no longer exists.
    Inspired by the Russian 'referendum' in occupied Ukraine on which Ukrainians couldn't vote, Dutch television maker Arjan Lubach held a referendum on whether Russia should be annexed by the Netherlands. 😆
    As 100% of people who voted, thought that Russia should be annexed, as since 1 october 2022, Russia no longer exists as the Netherlands annexed it.
    Now we just need new names.... Can't keep calling it Moscow. Hmm.... Moskamsterdam? Mostrecht?

    • @West_Coast_Gang
      @West_Coast_Gang ปีที่แล้ว +26

      We need a new amsterdam that Britain won’t steal

    • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
      @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@West_Coast_Gang ha

    • @orionide4032
      @orionide4032 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please go back to chernobyl and dig a trench. See if its safe lol

    • @nikiTricoteuse
      @nikiTricoteuse ปีที่แล้ว +9

      That's great trolling by the Dutch.

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +15

      A big part of Potemkin Villages were “villages” consisting of nothing more than well-painted façades to be erected all along Catherine's route that she would spot from a distance, with perhaps a few well-supplied villages as stopping points to show her "how the money was being spent."
      So both are true. But in either version, it's still a very good parody of the Russian military :)

  • @funnyfarm5555
    @funnyfarm5555 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    The war in Ukraine is a great boon for a select part of the upper crust Russian citizenry. If you live in a poorer section of Russia the the only boon you will get is a conscription notice that says no training required, send straight to the front.

  • @Remon_
    @Remon_ ปีที่แล้ว +28

    Note on chernobyl: The nuclear plant does not "leak" radiation anymore, the levels aren't too high apart from some hotspots. All the radiation there is settled on the ground and is still decaying. When they went there they kicked up all the settled dust up again and so on, into the breathing air there.
    Most trees afaik are semi normal, not sure if you are referring to the red forest, which is one location in chernobyl, not to mention those trees arent really growing, they are dead.

    • @stevenhart9004
      @stevenhart9004 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Although Chernobyl is stabilized, and you can go on tours, you can only stay for short periods. Half an hour is recommended to be safe from memory. However surrounding ground is very dangerous and will be for thousands of years. Putin forced the digging of trenches in radioactive ground and those soldiers will all die eventually form thyroid cancer most likely, but will have further radiation poisoning problems. As for forests, even in Bavaria far away from Chernobyl people could not safely eat deer from the forests in the 90s because of fall out problems, and probably now too, because their is radioactive dust still hidden everywhere in the forests.

  • @ZombieDowneyJr
    @ZombieDowneyJr ปีที่แล้ว +112

    Great way to put a comical spin on a terrible situation. Keep it up, man.👍

    • @ChiTownGuerrilla
      @ChiTownGuerrilla ปีที่แล้ว

      Informative but laden with propaganda.

    • @ZombieDowneyJr
      @ZombieDowneyJr ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ChiTownGuerrilla Facts and propaganda aren't the same thing. Do you and Putin go to the same gym or something?

    • @Cheersssssw3e
      @Cheersssssw3e ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ZombieDowneyJrbro it does have some propaganda it’s not that hard to see it

    • @ZombieDowneyJr
      @ZombieDowneyJr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Cheersssssw3e Guessing you don't actually know the definition of the word. That's ok, you do you. 😁

    • @ZombieDowneyJr
      @ZombieDowneyJr ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Cheersssssw3e I'm not your bro, I'm not a bro. Facts with satire are not propaganda. If you want to see what propaganda looks like, go watch Fox News.

  • @teekey1754
    @teekey1754 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Methanol instead of ethanol (regular alcohol). No need for other poisons.

    • @darrellcook8253
      @darrellcook8253 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Gives it more kick! As in kick the bucket. Drink up soldiers! It makes you brave and pure.
      Hee hee.

    • @Skaldewolf
      @Skaldewolf ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I fear a true Muskovite is resistant to methanol-poisoning. The normal therapy is simply being kept drunk of clean ethanol, until you excreted the methanol. If you always keep drinking, methanol won't harm you.

    • @teekey1754
      @teekey1754 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Skaldewolf You might be right, I'm afraid :)

  • @steringp1434
    @steringp1434 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    To be fair, my grandfather was in the American army in WW2. He said that at boot camp some of the American soldiers had never seen a toilet bowl before. They were from the Appalachian mountains, real hillbillys. Apparently they didn't know what a toilet bowl was for. He saw one of them squat down in front of a toilet bowl and splash the water onto his face to wash himself.

    • @hodaka1000
      @hodaka1000 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      ... and now eighty years later Putin's poodles are drinking from toilet bowls

    • @thomasfarmer8686
      @thomasfarmer8686 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Oh we usually use water from the seament pond for that. Them dummies.

    • @davidmullins1905
      @davidmullins1905 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      What happened to him?

    • @ERTChimpanzee
      @ERTChimpanzee ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@davidmullins1905 I assume Jimmy died.

    • @stewpacalypse7104
      @stewpacalypse7104 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@durrdurrier503 baloney!

  • @crytp0crux
    @crytp0crux ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Russia is the only country where you can be guilty of "not looting".

    • @DLR084
      @DLR084 ปีที่แล้ว

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @cphank3722
    @cphank3722 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    My 7th grade teacher back in the early 60s was assigned to guard a POW camp full of German prisoners in the West Texas desert during WW2. They didn't have to lock them up. The German speaking American guards convinced the Germans that escape would result in them being captured and tortured to death by wild Indians. In reality, the native Americans in the area were long gone or had assimilated into white culture.

    • @snakeplissken2148
      @snakeplissken2148 ปีที่แล้ว

      You damn Yankees killed em All or forced em into Reservation! Another term for "being long gone or assimilate" 🤣

    • @1LEgGOdt
      @1LEgGOdt ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And if I recall in another case Captured German soldiers being sent by Rail to POW camps in the south commented on how they didn’t know that Hitler had already been to America because of how they saw the blacks being treated in the same manner as the Jews were.
      Then there were cases that were the complete opposite where in one case as German POWs were building the camp that they were going to be staying. After the guard houses were built, the American Guards and Wardens had to leave those buildings and sleep in the same accommodations as the Germans as they still had to stay in Field Tents in accordance to the Geneva Convention on the Treatment of POWs.
      And in another POW camp in the States, the Germans were allowed to take one of the buildings and turn it into a Theater where they were allowed to put on performances of plays. And they had to do everything from memory. From the music, to the play’s script, to the sets and Costumes. And on Opening night some of the American Guards and Officers would bring their wives or girlfriend to see the performance.
      And at other POW camps, some German POWs were allowed to go to the local bakery, barbershop to get a haircut, to the local US Post Office to send letters home or to pick up a letter or package from home, go to the public library, or even the local high schools, community colleges or universities to get a better education if they do wished.
      And even the US Government had their own reeducation programs but instead of it being forced, it was voluntary and they had German POWs who could read, write and speak English very well teach those classes to other Germans who were in the camps and wanted to learn English or get that better education.
      And after the Ended, some of those former German Soldiers, Pilots, and Sailors, made the choice to stay in the States, or go back to Germany and return with their family to live in America. And it was just on how they were treated while they were in those POW Camps.

    • @Shineynsparkles
      @Shineynsparkles 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn’t know we took in German pow’s into camps in the 60’s …re-educated them and them let them and their families re-patriot here
      My only question …during the 50-80’s American occupied area by the Berlin Wall but why take on so many German POW’s even after WW2 ?

  • @chrislong3938
    @chrislong3938 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    A Russian soldier phoned home and was talking to his mother saying"We have a real meat grinder here!!!"
    The mother answered, "We don't need a meat grinder!!! Grab a fridge!!!"

  • @hederoth7883
    @hederoth7883 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I am deeply offended by the comparison of my proud Viking ancestors to the Ruzzian army. Vikings were civilized in comparison. 😂😅😊

    • @JohnSmith-gd2fg
      @JohnSmith-gd2fg ปีที่แล้ว

      It was eventually possible to civilize the Vikings, and in the end the result was Norway, Iceland, Denmark and Sweden. But it took hundreds of years.
      It will take thousands of years to civilise Russia at the current rate of progress.

  • @eduardoquirino8131
    @eduardoquirino8131 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I read about an old Ukrainian lady who offered food to the Russian soldiers. The hungry Russians happily accepted and ate the food not knowing these were poisoned. The Russian soldiers died well fed.

    • @JohnSmith-gd2fg
      @JohnSmith-gd2fg ปีที่แล้ว

      The Russians (having invaded Ukraine on various pretexts that have changed on an almost daily basis since) then complained that it was illegal to poison soldiers.
      Fine for them to kill civilians though! And rape, loot, torture....

    • @tbird4a
      @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว +2

      you read comic books

    • @danrook5757
      @danrook5757 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I saw the video for this, its true

    • @usmarine2100
      @usmarine2100 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tbird4a nah i dont think they died but they all did get sick it was baked goods like cookies and pies she put rat poison in the mix trying to kill them.

    • @user-jh2id1og5p
      @user-jh2id1og5p 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@deanjustdean7818 nah screw those orks

  • @MrVicAdams
    @MrVicAdams ปีที่แล้ว +191

    I am Ukrainian, living 100km from the frontlines for 1 year. And i approve this video. 🤌

    • @sankaplays3098
      @sankaplays3098 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@who_ever Yeah really good idea to flip off the Russians who are coming to take over your country. You sound like a smart man that would be dead within a day.

    • @Dahudrox
      @Dahudrox ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Respect!!! Go Ukraine! 🇺🇦

    • @ntvypr4820
      @ntvypr4820 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@who_ever Me and my family too!!🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕
      That should fix 'em!

    • @stuartwhelan233
      @stuartwhelan233 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Stay safe vic

    • @deletedchannel4
      @deletedchannel4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Love and Support from Italy 🇮🇹♥️🇺🇦 🙏

  • @dolphin8397
    @dolphin8397 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Russians :”poison vodka ?! That’s a war crime” 😂

  • @zebjensen4251
    @zebjensen4251 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This story puts a whole new spin (one of dramatic irony)on the expression looter shooter.

    • @ashsherman
      @ashsherman ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Love the analogy

    • @zebjensen4251
      @zebjensen4251 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ashsherman thanks. The only difference is that there looting and then getting shot at rather then the other way round.

  • @nos4me
    @nos4me ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Should’ve mentioned how they dug trenches in the forests of Chernobyl.. also kangaroo is normal to eat in Australia and definitely doesn’t make you sick

    • @stevie-ray2020
      @stevie-ray2020 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I'm one Aussie who loves kangaroo-steaks! Nice lean meat, but easily over-cooked making it rather tough & chewy!

    • @patkearney9320
      @patkearney9320 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@stevie-ray2020 I tasted it once I believe it was the tail tasted fine not chewy.

    • @hhero4841
      @hhero4841 ปีที่แล้ว

      also from what i heard from a drunkard aussie friend, kangaroo meat is like dog meat, he said it was nasty.

    • @stevie-ray2020
      @stevie-ray2020 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@hhero4841 Like beef or lamb, the better cuts of meat are definitely quite delicious, while the worst cuts end up in the pet-food aisle of the supermarket!

    • @Rig0r_M0rtis
      @Rig0r_M0rtis 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@hhero4841 nah it's nice and lean and a little sweet, like deer

  • @gabrieljoseozanan6989
    @gabrieljoseozanan6989 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    "If you don't steal from your boss, you're stealing from your family" - the average worker under the Soviet Union

    • @EllAntares
      @EllAntares ปีที่แล้ว

      Weelll, not exactly, but bosses were ones who steal first, so it was kind of propagated norm.

    • @elypowell6797
      @elypowell6797 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is what communism produces every single time and it blows my mind there are people in the USA who promote communism.

  • @EvilPaladin11
    @EvilPaladin11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I'm kinda sad that this wasn't actually sponsored by loot crate.

  • @n1msu
    @n1msu ปีที่แล้ว +51

    Also just want to give you a high five for citing the sources you've used to help produce this video. This is something that is hardly ever done on 'factual' vlogs now, which is worrying as it kinda shows many people don't know what critical thinking is.

    • @EuropeanQoheleth
      @EuropeanQoheleth 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      There is such a thing as factual. No reason to put it in scare quotes.

    • @user-eq4fe7zu9b
      @user-eq4fe7zu9b 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If all this is true about how decrepit and worthless the Russian army is, WHY ARE THEY WINNING? They're basically winning against a force that is funded, supported by, and given 120billiong dollars worth of equipment by 50+ other , western countries AND STILL WINNING.
      Quit the asinine propaganda, please.

  • @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714
    @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One of the very rare cases of John Deers predetory buisness strategies helping.

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161
    @fratercontenduntocculta8161 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    You're production quality is better than most syndicated television! You got another subscriber!

  • @nunyabizness-gn3kp
    @nunyabizness-gn3kp ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the vodka strategy is really smart, should leave out fake ammo for them to loot and mix in with their good ammo that just wrecks their guns if they try using it

  • @TroPy1n
    @TroPy1n ปีที่แล้ว +6

    wondered if they called John Deere's customer support when shit didnt didnt work. Would have loved to have told them that illegal theft of land and material voids the customer service agreement in the most sardonic or words

  • @LMaudy
    @LMaudy ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember Wagner advancing on Ukrainian pos in a trench, a chad Ukrainian downed 2 Wagners around a corner and ran away, the rest of Wagner turned the corner and shot their own guys on the ground, multiple times, all of this caught on drone. Can’t make this up it was sheer incompetence

  • @theguybehindyou4762
    @theguybehindyou4762 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I’ll never be able to take most modern warfare games seriously again after this conflict.

  • @joblo341
    @joblo341 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not only did the russians steal stuff from Chernobyl, their commander made them stop there and dig trenches and set up camp in the "red forest". The commander stayed inside the safe reactor area while his soldiers learned how to glow in the dark.
    Russians occupied a barracks. They found a closet next to the washroom, chopped a hole in the floor and used that as a latrine...

    • @tbird4a
      @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว +1

      you got that info from where?

    • @joblo341
      @joblo341 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tbird4a
      Sorry, I haven't found the link specific about the commander, but troops disturbing the soil is documented in multiple places.
      The specifically disturbing part is that there are proper procedures for working in nuke contaminated places. "Real" armies know and practice them. This army did nothing but needlessly expose it's solders to the hazard. Since the accident was not reported inside russia, the young soldiers had absolutely no idea of what happened there (before their birth) and the risk they were exposed to. These soldiers were being sacrificed, just like the hundreds of thousands of "liquidators", people the soviets sent in with minimal protection to "clean up" immediately after the disaster (NOT an "accident", it was an intentional "stupidity"). The "Clean up" process was collect and bury objects and exposed surface soil. Buried objects that could have been disturbed by the trench builders ...
      Here is one:
      twitter.com/DefenceU/status/1511709947809181698
      This article is rather long, and gets metaphysical in places, but I found it a worthwhile read:
      Trenches in Chernobyl
      aeon.co/essays/what-did-the-russians-dig-up-when-they-dug-trenches-in-chernobyl
      2022 04 06- Trenches dug by russian troops dug in most irradiated areas
      twitter.com/Nrg8000/status/1511614133476945920
      Russian Soldiers Dug Trenches In Chernobyl's Radioactive Soil, Says Ukraine As War Enters Day 50
      th-cam.com/video/Gq3J1LFYqtY/w-d-xo.html
      Ukraine Says Photos Show Russia Dug Trenches in Chernobyl’s Radioactive Soil
      www.voanews.com/a/voa-exclusive-ukraine-says-photos-show-russia-dug-trenches-in-chernobyl-s-radioactive-soil/6518700.html
      Chernobyl horror as Putin troops inhaled 'clouds of radioactive dust' while seizing plant
      www.express.co.uk/news/world/1587679/chernobyl-russia-ukraine-war-soldiers-clouds-radioactive-dust-ont
      Unprotected Russian soldiers disturbed radioactive dust in Chernobyl's 'Red Forest', workers say
      www.reuters.com/world/europe/unprotected-russian-soldiers-disturbed-radioactive-dust-chernobyls-red-forest-2022-03-28/
      Not quite saying that but related
      www.express.co.uk/news/world/1587679/chernobyl-russia-ukraine-war-soldiers-clouds-radioactive-dust-ont

    • @tbird4a
      @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว

      @@joblo341 amazing you can post links here

  • @FrstSpctr88
    @FrstSpctr88 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    In Finland, "ryssiä" which is a modification of a borrowed word, we use it to say that someone fail on something because of their own stupidity.
    And also when talking about russians failing on something because of stupidity...

  • @patricknakasone9376
    @patricknakasone9376 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Leaving poisoned food/drink behind for enemy troops to find is an ancient tactic.

  • @fruchu
    @fruchu ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In Poland we have a saying that russia is a state of mind. This video shows this very well.

  • @gaoxiaen1
    @gaoxiaen1 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    When the Red Guards went into the cities during China's Cultura Revolution, they were thrilled by the convenient "bowl washers" that they found in every bathroom.

  • @davidmulenga4028
    @davidmulenga4028 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    About those tractors and other John Deere equipment, it may not be a loss at all as some farmers in STATES who were fighting for their right to repair found that there were software hacks that they were able to buy from Russian hackers.

  • @Meister_Wingler
    @Meister_Wingler ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I wonder why you don't have more subscribers. You made a good quality video and I hope to see more of these 👍

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Appreciate it! Plenty more where this one came from :)

    • @mrhawu6697
      @mrhawu6697 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the reason he does not have more subscibers is that not everybody likes Ukrainian propaganda.

  • @glenwhite4565
    @glenwhite4565 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very witty analysis and commentary. Kudos!

  • @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723
    @alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Ivan green reactor water from Chernobyl is very healthy! :D

  • @terjeygard7328
    @terjeygard7328 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Spot on, most of it. And, not least, ironic and funny! Thanks! Slava Ukraina!

  • @welshpete12
    @welshpete12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    IN 1945 when the Russians invaded Germany . The locals were amazed when soldiers stole water taps . Stuck them in walls expecting water to come out !

  • @korsu1234
    @korsu1234 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the best vid for long time😂thx

  • @cameroncurrie7208
    @cameroncurrie7208 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    In the Canadian army looting killing unarmed people ect is jail for you. And when the looted stuff wears out and you still have severe PTSD they won't spend a dime on you.. and by the way i haven't seen one Lada yet.

    • @MoosefromCanada
      @MoosefromCanada ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ok, veterans affairs sucks…you need help just holler dude! Lots of us out here that are in Same boat

    • @BatkoNashBandera774
      @BatkoNashBandera774 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      but hasn't the VA always sucked, asking from South of your border.@@MoosefromCanada

    • @MoosefromCanada
      @MoosefromCanada 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@BatkoNashBandera774 Yeah they give you money and send you on your way! If you have boobs it’s even worse! The ignorant cows that work at VA here are beyond rude, snarky and downright oblivious . I’m also straight ! Yes, im about to either go postal or pull pin! Justin Trudeau is an elitist snob . Now we have far right wackos here ‼️😖. Danielle Smith and Tucker Carlson ….👀. What in the actual F*$k‼️🤬🤯

  • @cageybee7221
    @cageybee7221 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    2:00 "Ivan, you can't drink that shit it will give you cancer in 20 years."
    "sergei, tell me honestly, do you think we'll live that long?" *sips coffee*

  • @pete2109
    @pete2109 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Excellent video and many many true words my friend! Russia is a very backward state and hopefully will remain that way for a long time, I feel sorry for the suppressed citizens of Russia who have been blinded by propaganda that spill from the mouths of military idiots who cream money away from these people! Thank you for great content 👌👍💪 Slava Ukraine 🇬🇧🤝🇬🇧

  • @TheBigk1964
    @TheBigk1964 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great sense of humour. LOVE IT!

  • @vanillaicecream2385
    @vanillaicecream2385 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    kangaroo is perfectly fine, its a really lean meat with a lot of flavour...... if you aren't a starving peasant who's lived off potatos and canned food for the past 16 years otherwise you're lucky your camo has brown patterns

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Just couldn’t resist the “down under” joke :)

    • @mrkbroster87
      @mrkbroster87 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I had kangaroo, very delicious.

    • @alans9806
      @alans9806 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Kangaroo needs to be quickly hot seared - if cooked slowly it turns to leather. The Russians could sole their boots with it. The tail is popular with Aborigines

    • @aaronmcgoldrick2439
      @aaronmcgoldrick2439 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cook it like venision.

    • @JohnSmith-gd2fg
      @JohnSmith-gd2fg ปีที่แล้ว

      Been a while since I had it, but it seemed pretty gamey to me.

  • @notafraidofarmedbears2386
    @notafraidofarmedbears2386 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God damn it the cut away at 56 seconds or should I say blown away had me spit out my coffee😂

  • @alexturcani3234
    @alexturcani3234 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Raiders of the lost cause... 🤣🤣🤣

  • @user-mp5hg4fr8h
    @user-mp5hg4fr8h 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The term " Nation of thieves ' gets thrown around a lot, but in this case, it's accurate.

  • @jed-henrywitkowski6470
    @jed-henrywitkowski6470 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I guess that tea was to die for!

  • @wjhann4836
    @wjhann4836 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    There was a minor "mistake" about Chernobyl: There was a complete battalion ordered to dig into a wood next to the nuclear graveyard. Some 100 soldiers were deadly contaminated. They were rushed to Belarus hospitals - only to die there.

    • @MrDaiseymay
      @MrDaiseymay ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I bet their family were told they died honourably for mother Russia, in Battle.

    • @wjhann4836
      @wjhann4836 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​ @Philip Croft Well they had to die a terrible death for nothing. Dig in into a large no go area was absolutely useless.

    • @tbird4a
      @tbird4a ปีที่แล้ว

      and you got this info from where?

    • @wjhann4836
      @wjhann4836 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tbird4a On German TV - and they got it partly from Belarus (they provided hospitals).

    • @Doolittle1954
      @Doolittle1954 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A lot of russian wounded are treated in Belarus as putin does not want their people know the high rate of casualties@@tbird4a

  • @PdizzleOne7889
    @PdizzleOne7889 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    You deserve a lot more subscribers!
    You make quality content.

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks! They’re coming, I think 🙏🏻

    • @PdizzleOne7889
      @PdizzleOne7889 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@icarusproject I sure hope so, you really deserve it.

  • @VoldraLightningfrost
    @VoldraLightningfrost ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Y u no steal bathing suit for me, Ivan?" I don't know whether to feel sad or infuriated.

    • @BatkoNashBandera774
      @BatkoNashBandera774 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "Anichka, I'll go down to the store in Srednyi and get you one. Next week it's only -41 C, oh happy days."

  • @crytp0crux
    @crytp0crux ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nice Narration and Writing. with too many good parts to call a fav... Great Video... Held its own to the end.... 👏

  • @West_Coast_Gang
    @West_Coast_Gang ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Holy shit, they stole petemkin

    • @HooDatDonDar
      @HooDatDonDar ปีที่แล้ว

      Maybe the tomb was just a facade.

    • @john_rafael125
      @john_rafael125 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@HooDatDonDar pun intended

  • @tanello2
    @tanello2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    In ww2 when soviets invaded my country they ate the toothpast thinking it was some sort of wierd tasting candy ,they allso stole wristwatches bc they didnt have any where they came from. There where a lot of stories like that. Allso when our country was occupied after ww2, the soviets who visited us from the rusland side called us " western communist state" bc we seems to have a lot more ans lot better then they had. Turns out nothing has changed in rusland ever since 1917 :D

  • @Sombreropancake-cakemix
    @Sombreropancake-cakemix ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Keep it up. This is good content. You got my subscription.

  • @antr7493
    @antr7493 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That vodka thing was pretty smart

  • @rosaria8384
    @rosaria8384 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love the comedic aspect of this video while being informative. Best of both worlds.

  • @Average_height_human
    @Average_height_human ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Damn Russian women told there husbands/boyfriends/brothers to join the military fight in a war and risk there lives for some lipstick

  • @mehrcat1
    @mehrcat1 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Kangaroo meat is edible but tough. The Potempkin villages were not build to impress outsiders but Catherine the great.

  • @timebroua
    @timebroua ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool and interesting video! Thanks. Even it seems to be sarcastic, the scary part - it’s built up on true facts.

  • @Forklift_Fella
    @Forklift_Fella ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Need some more of this. You got yourself a new Sub. Give us more "news" from the front lines. 😂🇺🇦

    • @andreelindevall1203
      @andreelindevall1203 ปีที่แล้ว

      funker530 have some helmet cam action and other kinds of videos, look it up

  • @JohnTavastian
    @JohnTavastian ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Looting is a war crime

    • @danrook5757
      @danrook5757 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      So is killing civilians.

    • @tavish4699
      @tavish4699 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      no it is not
      auqiring from the civillian populus without jeprodizing their health is allowed by the geneva convention aslong as it is ordered fro m up top and is done in an orderly manner

    • @JohnTavastian
      @JohnTavastian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tavish4699 but taking supplies or equipment from the enemy soldiers is a war crime.

    • @tavish4699
      @tavish4699 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JohnTavastian no hahaha
      why would it
      what are they gonne do with their ammo if you captured them?
      you can take supplies as much as you want from the enemy all you need to do if oyu capture one is not hurt him and feed him and not force him to work
      besides that you can do what the hell you want with him

    • @JohnTavastian
      @JohnTavastian 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@tavish4699 don't ask me. It's prohibited by international law. You can read more about it if you care.

  • @robertleach4315
    @robertleach4315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Excellent video

  • @bikechainmic
    @bikechainmic ปีที่แล้ว +2

    When ruzzia is pushed out of Ukraine, they will be laughed at for decades and become the butt of jokes.
    I remember my great Uncle talking to an intellectual russia outside Berlin in 1945. The guy was fascinated by the " wonderfull living standard even "German Peasants" enjoyed. Their conversation was interrupted by a burst of gunfire, as a russian soldier whilst trying to wash his precious potatoes in a toilet found they got flushed away. He shot the toilet in anger. Then promptly repeated the mistake in a second toilet.
    I served with HM forces during the cold war and met and talked to several "Soviet Soldiers" from non russian countries. One thing they taught me was russia was not the brains of the soviet union, but its arse-hole.

  • @Borsia
    @Borsia ปีที่แล้ว +7

    After the end of WWII there were cases of Russian soldiers stealing pipes with faucets from buildings believing that if the shoved them into their walls back home they would have running water.

    • @verbold1979
      @verbold1979 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      when russian army was kicked out of Poland they took with them everything they could lift. radiators from wall, pipes, sinks, toilets, light switches, bulbs. ex. barracks were left empty to the naked bricks

  • @uss-dh7909
    @uss-dh7909 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "Measure their status not by what they can produce, but by what they can steal"
    Is there any way you can do a video on how this applies to Chiiiiiiina stealing American.... well, pretty much anything?

  • @jinpachibobochan3532
    @jinpachibobochan3532 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I'm the type of guy that would poison everything I own so looters may get sick when stealimg my stuff. Well, knowing I won't return back to my home intact, etc.

  • @darrellcook8253
    @darrellcook8253 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New subscriber. Good video. That's why, worthy.

  • @throstleonabush9639
    @throstleonabush9639 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Please upload more regularly your videos are amazing much love from your pal across the pond 🇬🇧❣️🇺🇸

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thanks so much! I just brought on an editor to help me crank them out faster. Love from across the pond! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

    • @throstleonabush9639
      @throstleonabush9639 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Please can you do a more video on the Chinese milita
      ry industrial complex

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Got some on the list!

    • @throstleonabush9639
      @throstleonabush9639 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you so much for your reply it means alot your really crushing it with your videos keep it up your military/economic/social issues are so on point 👍

    • @davidmallory2945
      @davidmallory2945 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hello to Britain from Am
      erica.

  • @sicknessnfilth1616
    @sicknessnfilth1616 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The poison vodka is genius act. Every nation should distill a certain amount of methanol into legit bottles In case of invader like Russia was to come and try their luck.
    Surely some marking should be used that No wrong person drinks it.

    • @drflash36
      @drflash36 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Or, for those countries who border Russia now. keep a supply of methanol handy to 'flavor your alcohol' just-in-case those Russkies invade your country there!

    • @randybugger3006
      @randybugger3006 ปีที่แล้ว

      I used to post on a board for "preppers" before it got overrun by Trump douchebags. A lot of people on there were convinced that in a SHTF scenario they could just rely on raiding to get by. They figured that it would be easy to just roll up on someone's spot and take what they wanted by force or threat of force.I explained how raiding would get them killed 100% of the time. Say I'm a post apocalyptic farmer, doing my best to keep myself fed and safe from raiders. I'm going to have two storehouses for food. One that's easy to find and one that's hidden. The easy one will be stocked full up with food I've introduced the bacteria that causes botulism to. Botulism is great because it doesn't kill right away. Usually it takes 12 hours or more to show symptoms, depending on the dose received. So the raiders come in, threaten me if I don't give them food (which I "reluctantly" do), then run off felling pleased with themselves for a job well done. Then they eat. 12 hours later some of them are feeling a little uncoordinated. 24 hours later they're suffering paralysis, to include their heart and lungs. 36 hours later they're dead. If any survive and come back for revenge, they've lost the element of surprise and now they're working with fewer numbers.
      Wells poisoned by retreating defenders have been a real thing for thousands and thousands of years.

    • @JH-lo9ut
      @JH-lo9ut ปีที่แล้ว

      When I was a teenager I knew a few guys who stole some methanol from a printworks, and drank it. Someone had told them that it was ethanol. It was used to clean the printers it was kept in un-marked plastic canisters, that were stored outside.
      A few guys died, and a some got blind.
      They were just dumb kids who wanted to get drunk. As we all did.
      I am sure that if I had been at that party, I wouldn't have questioned wether it was ethanol.
      My point is, dangerous chemicals should always be stored safely, and properly marked.
      Yeah, they did something really stupid, but this tragedy killed a bunch of teens and devastated a small rural community and it could easily have been avoided.
      It's like laying out landmines: you better make sure you know where those mines are, because there is going to be peace one day, kids are going to run across those fields.

    • @sicknessnfilth1616
      @sicknessnfilth1616 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JH-lo9ut I read your comment and I read it carefully. No sarcasm In my words I assure you.
      I live In Finland, right next to Russia.
      Those fucks has tried everything In their power to "de - exist" us when ever its mines, poison or politics. It seems through history they only fail, where we prevail. Yes we lost our territory but at what cost for them?
      I think we would be ready to "mine" our fields with poison vodga, because a finn knows a legit liquor out of a mine liquor.

    • @sicknessnfilth1616
      @sicknessnfilth1616 ปีที่แล้ว

      Btw I'm sorry about my bad English, I just graduated to process engineering and my phones autocorrect is helping me like my Best wingman

  • @random-username5
    @random-username5 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0:50 lol
    "Hope the tunes were good tho"
    *music plays*
    *boom*

  • @ChiTownGuerrilla
    @ChiTownGuerrilla ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I heard they take the washing machines for spare electrical parts that could later be used in weapon making/repair. Not so sure about the toilets.

  • @commandergree68
    @commandergree68 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great and very entertaining video

  • @mdv2043
    @mdv2043 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    You should never i mean never compare Russians to Vikings.

  • @terrywiltshire7622
    @terrywiltshire7622 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I found kangaroo very tasteful but if you eat emu eat it on a friday, that gives you all weekend to chew it before spitting it out on monday.

    • @JohnSmith-gd2fg
      @JohnSmith-gd2fg ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Like cooking a Galah.
      To do so, the recipe is to put it in a cookpot, along with a decent sized stone, and set to simmer.
      Checking every now and then, and topping up the water, you cook until the stone is soft.
      You then throw away the galah, and eat the stone.

    • @bunzeebear2973
      @bunzeebear2973 ปีที่แล้ว

      Emu is poisonous meat from the get go. It can't be cooked out. Kangaroo is a giant rat...even hard up Australians do not eat it.

  • @dablah4253
    @dablah4253 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I would assume the GPS on the farm tractors would be much like the ear buds

  • @Niinsa62
    @Niinsa62 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I think the Russian word is "smekalka". A clever solution to a problem. Like being savvy, or smart. But these Russian guys' version of smekalka seems to be a bit more like the Darwin awards kind of smarts. Please don't try to think, you'll only hurt yourself...

  • @Alfa75V6
    @Alfa75V6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it’s all fun and games ....

    • @icarusproject
      @icarusproject  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Until Russia loses an I-van

    • @timkeenan7419
      @timkeenan7419 ปีที่แล้ว

      It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.

  • @paulboger3101
    @paulboger3101 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just subscribed 👍

  • @EuropeanQoheleth
    @EuropeanQoheleth 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They stealin' eyyting out there.

  • @cs-rj8ru
    @cs-rj8ru 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    We used to know a WW2 vet that was a kleptomaniac....His MO was to take German boots and stuff with whatever he could get his hands on and ship home. 90% of his loot apparently made it without issue. That INCLUDED 9 Lugers and a good pound of gold. When he met up with the Russians at the end of the war he would steal clothing and uniforms (US) and sell them to the Russians. According to him, they all had bags full of money, many not having been paid until the war was close to over.

  • @babssilva66
    @babssilva66 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    😂😂😂😂 hilarious !!! 😅😅😅

  • @uPlayer3307
    @uPlayer3307 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Airpods are now tracking weapons

  • @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227
    @nuclearfetusdismemberment9227 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Omg i can’t believe it for steeling radiation! They haven’t been taught that?