Russia before and after Putin | Eugenia Kuyda and Lex Fridman
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2 Russian intellectuals living in the US, discussing Russia in English and this clip gives you understanding of how it happened...
well, i would watch 3 hours long podcast in russian between them, but would you?
@@VM-hl8ms The irony again, I know Russian, you know Russian, we communicate in English). Its not about language, but about how much brain power flees Russia and for a good reason..
@neuig keiten i wouldnt really call Lex a Предател, but then again im not Russian not even close to that, but he is a logical thinker and a decent academic i think im sure he will not think about it too much if faced with the opportunity to go back to Russia and help in any way possible given the right circumstances.
Say what you want but Putin is one of the most competent and rational arguing president's we have in the political world.
@@Larrypint Yea may be, but he only has one problem - Russian ppl are not his priority - oligarchy is. On top of it, its kinda easy to be "most competent" when you kill or imprison any oposition and control all the main stream media..
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I went to McDonalds during the coup attempt in August 1991. I don't think we stood in line for more than 30 min. but the restaurant was pretty much packed. It was a surreal experience to be eating a hamburger and looking outside at the chaos.
I was there just to see in 1990 and as an American kid it was a surreal experience to see the huge line outside, as well as the architecture of the silver pyramid rising from the broken roof was clearly symbolic. The month I spent traveling in the ussr changed my life.
@@Flintknappingtips really, there was the silver pyramid, it's a very interesting
Came for the politics, stayed for the love and romantic stories ❤️
Haha, yeah I kind of forgot that I clicked on the video for Putin.
@Larry Myers in Russian strip club?
great interview Lex, we want more stuff about Russia and soviet communism
The Russian Federation is a parliamentary democracy.
Hint: If you know the government, media and experts are lying to you? Why would you believe anything those same liars tell you about Russia and Putin? ;)
@@theknave4415 i agree, governments and media always need to create a villain, first, it was the Soviet Union then it was Islamic jihadists, and when needed Putin, because if they don't create an enemy and a villain to scare their citizens, the citizens will soon release that their enemy is within their system and not a foreign entity .
Say what you want but Putin is one of the most competent and rational arguing president's we have in the political world.
@@Larrypint i couldn't agree more, no one can deny the fact that Putin has transformed Russia from a failed state in the 90s into a stable country and also restored Russian position as the main player in the global political arena, personally, i have been living in Russia for 10 years and things here are not as portrayed in western media, for sure a lot of Russians complain about some internal policies and the management of the economy, but generally speaking, most Russians agree with Russia's foreign policy
@@ajdiaz6799 I agree too with his foreign policy too, specially in Syria.
Yea i can so feel lex crushing on this gal.
He’s a robot. He doesn’t have emotions.
He liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiikes her
The underlying context of what you guys spoke about really got me in the feels.
Oh man, I felt that Dandy (Nintendo) story...
I had one, too, and I played it on our black and white Soviet-era TV. The video/connection quality between the console and the TV was so bad, that I had to hit the TV every few minutes for it to show the video better. Nevertheless, I played it and loved it! Would've been devastated if it was taken from me. Even though it did not work properly, it was amazing!
I also remember my cousin telling me a story about a console that you could carry in your pocket. But, I could not believe that something like that would be possible! hahaha Only years later, after moving to Germany, I realised he was talking about the first Gameboy, of course! :D
Thank you for reminding me of the much-cherished childhood memories :)
I remember those days! Me and my brother played that dandy for hours, eventually the adapter overheated and broke down. My dad then built one himself with spare parts that were lying around, it even had a wood casing. I also remember trying to play Dr. Mario on a black and white TV - super frustrating! Then we moved to Germany in 1997 and insta upgraded to a brand new Play Station. Good times!
Line was an hour and a half during first week! it was 1990 and I was in line on day one.
I sense some chemistry here Lex! ;)
yeah.. this is how lex dates. keeps a record. who said what.
Oof
@banana hamhock 😂 I agree!
I think she's married, bummer for lex ... Lol
@@thehomiebearfifa3528 nooo, please to don't tell me that! :-(
There were most definitely more than 2 movie theaters in Moscow in the year 2000, and even long before then. I think she misspoke or was thinking about something else... Would be really ridiculous haha... I most definitely remember going to a number of different cinemas growing up in Moscow in the 90s, they were everywhere...
probably meant US-style cineplexes
Joshua Bojos You probably think Canadians live in igloos 🤣
Joshua Bojos Of course
Even in the year 1900 Moscow had more than two movie theaters
She grew up in the village near Moscow, which makes 2 theaters an exaggeration
I’m just kidding, or am I? I don’t know
i need to watch the full episode im fascinated
Amazing story, thanks for sharing!
Thank you for this delightful clip
it wasn't a restaurant. it was a stalovaya. a cafeteria.
my grandmother worked in one of those in Lvov...this how we were able to get certain foods.
Two movie theatres in Moscow in 2000? Did I hear her right? She was probably too young to know all the others.
So true, Moscow is full of theaters, cinemas,concerts and festivals.
New Zealand watching.
Keep interviewing this really works. Also you subject and title will get lots of views. Looking for a geopolitical title and then you get university dean in nuclear physics granddaughter in love with a video game as our generation emplarced the early AI approaches of technology to our endocrine system. And yes we will interview each other in time.
Yes, we will ;)
This is a wholesome little clip. Good stuff, Lex
10:30 Did she say her parents traded her Nintendo for a bag of weed, and then gave her the weed?
Ha I think it was wheat
@@eriksedore6619 Oooooh
thoyo your smoking too much weed man
@@stiandybvad8391 lol
@@6006133 Joe "Have you tried DMT?" Rogan
She mentioned a Dandy TV show towards the end of the clip. I bet she's talking about "8, 16, 32". Does anybody remember that? They had contests and everything, you could send in game-related artwork and win video games and game consoles. I loved that show!
3 hour line to mcdonalds?!?!?!?!?!?! gawd DAMN!
Theo Von doesn't look bad with long hair
These Dendy consoles cost like 50 bucks, at some point entire wage of my father (and he wasn't paid it anyway, delays for 6+ month were common). My grandma got her 1000 Deutsche marks of reparations for being a slave 1943-1945 and bought me one. That might be by this day the happiest day of my life, thank you, babushka and rest in peace.
This is a date isn't it 😂 lex
The talk about past... Some personal episodes from 90th about live in disintegrating country, it's past, today Russia is quite different and the world around steps in quite turbulent phase...
Everything is relative
I really enjoyed this vid!
Ohhh, geeet a rooooom
Lex, tell her you are a black belt.
I'm desperate. I'm kidding. Or am I? 🥶🥶
Thank you godbless
Who would argue that life was better for Russian after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Millions of people die and there was a dramatic drop in the standard of living for average Russians. I was great if you happened to purchase a former state-owned oil and gas company for a couple hundred thousand and become a Russian oligarch within a couple years. But for the average person, they gained nothing from it.
Lex, as you find your way to the Ether, many of us are here waiting for you.
They're getting married
A big bag of weed for a bootleg Nintendo.....what a deal. Russia was lit!
@K C joke
Coming from a poorer country to the USA you always remember that first time you had McDonalds. I still remember. It was 1989.
« On the verge of poverty » ha ha ha
You can see the sadness in their eyes and voices as they reminisce about life as it began to change. Is the whole world about to fall back into the darkness as the Chinese Communist model takes hold in the world?
It’s not going to be very good. I pray the U.S. stands united through 2020 moving forward.
Agree
They call it "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics". The CPC made a contract with it's people. "We will make you rich, but not free...". The thing to keep in mind is that China are becoming, and practically are, a new superpower. And one whos Economic health is robust. Unlike the USSR, China never sought "World Revolution". But it goes much deeper. They have a mentality of trauma from "100 years of Humiliation". Hong Kong, past colonisation from the West.
One downfall of the current Denocratic system of the West, is that you have leaders who think of time in Election Cycles. 4 years, and to get another 4 they just need to keep enough people happy to vote them back in for another 4. However, when you have a superpower that has One government, with a leader for life, patience is a virtue, and you can play the long game.
President Xi has for all intents and purposes, a lifetime to honour his contract of reclaiming Taiwan. And despite the propoganda on both sides, they will more than likely see a non-violent solution to that problem. Whereas Taiwan needs the Security of a Superpower that has a very damaged politcal system. A system being eroded more easily now thanks to a political hierarchy that is now seen as more of a celebrity competition, than a meaningful leadership.
China had suffered a bit of blow-back lately. But keep in mind it's really only because they have pushed a little too hard to quickly. But it should be feared by the USA's psyche in more than just economical terms. If they see Western Democracy as that unstable and disunited to go so blatantly hard, we should all probably take a look at what we are doing in our Countries that give them that impression.
Up until the late 20th Century, regardless of which parties we supported, we still wanted whatever leader or party who was in power to succeed. Because that meant, for the most part, our society was succeeding, our economies ect., But now we treat our leaders like it's a football match. And if you want the opposition to fail, because they have majority representation, over matters, that while socially important, globally geo-politically are nothing more than red herrings, then one must ask how you now define patriotism.
@@LucielStarz123 The Chicom economy is actually the historical concept of Fascism, the merger of state and corporations with the support of traditional values. Maybe with a dash of National Socialism if you consider the state crackdown of the Uigher and other ethnic minorities.
Mate with this person Lex!
Guy interviews a female and says "like" more than a 14-year-old girl. Get yourself together, man.
Yeah, I'm sure a PhD AI scientist doesn't have his shit together just because he uses the word 'like' frequently, seems legit .
Wow. Opening of the Starbucks was a bighest thing in her life in 2007, this is sad. I remember a lot of other things happening. 2 cinemas in moscow in 2000 is a 146% lie. This girl is just not fit to talk about Russia.
Google hyperbole
@@sonicregurgitation wow, much funny, very ironic.
Amazing to hear Russians talking about how McDonalds was fetishised there as they were so deprived of things that we take for granted as almost nothing. Of course, I remember the excitement when the very first McDonalds opened here in London in the 70s. Different circumstances though ...I wonder how McDonalds is seen in say Moscow today? Interesting. And swapping guns for sugar? Fantastic.
A Moscow dweller here. Though I remember having almost painful excitement trying out Macdonald's for the first time and becoming addicted to it for a few of years afterwards, today I feel reluctant. It's the novelty that matters and that's a part of our biological machinery, I think. I still pass by for a cup of coffee or drive thru with friends, but it's just not the same anymore) Hard to tell whether it's because of the quality deterioration or because there's no more childhood experience attached to it. Anywho, cheers from Russia)
@@hohonuts Wow..thank you for your super interesting reply ....I find it fascinating how a symbol of Western freedom like McDonalds when first introduced into to a former communist country can later be either regarded as inconsequential or actually a negative which McDs is almost reviled as worldwide now...I agree with you, I think it's the symbolism and novelty rather than the product. Anyway love to you from London and thanks.
@@markwardel6751 I might've phrased that oddly.. On the contrary, if McD for any reason, other than consequential bankruptcy, suddenly ceased to exist on the territory of Russia that would be a disastrous sign! I think, I'm not the only citizen to marvel at the efficiency standards that this fast food chain has introduced to the world. To this day it's case is unparalleled, in my humble opinion, on the whole post-Soviet territory. The work ethics and the innovative impetus behind that is truly astounding! I hope you get me right, it's not about 'counter-imperialistic' anti-Western vibes, it's strictly about the personal experience of novelty. It's become mundane, just like PC or iPhone did, not disregarding it's true progressive value, which historically was of high praise among Russians, I believe. Best regards!
@@markwardel6751 Mcdonalds symbol of western freedom?
What are you insane?
@@hohonuts Wtf..?!
McDonalds and the rest of these garbage food chains are responsible for the obesity and diabetes epidemic in USA, probably most of the cancers ,the mind deterioration diseases, and the heart attacks too.
If they dont go bankrupt, which they would if any sensible country prevent them from advertising(like before it was done with cigarettes) and impose food quality standards, they should be closed down.
Any country that imposes strict food quality standards and engage in a ferocious educating campaign about the consequences of sugar, corn syrop , vegetable oils and fats and fried foods, will be saving in less than a decade 10% of its national income.
Only a mad man eats at McDonalds after he has some basic nutritional and metabolic science understanding.
Just as an FYI - I went to the first McDonald’s in Russia a bit after it opened. I remember it being pretty good! Glad I’m in the US now, where the McDonald’s is trash and the government is less authoritarian.
I visited McD in St Petersburg in 2010 or so. One fun addition to otherwise known franchise practice was they had a girl who was walking among us in queues and she took our orders so they could prepare it in time. So crowded! But the quality was on par with EU and other European countries.
College kids from the US need to see this interview. Things we take for granted a were considered luxury in Russia. Students in the US are pissing and moaning because they want socialism. This right here sounds pretty close. Be careful what you wish for kids.
Stuff they talk about are not from socialist soviet times but from capitalist nineties.
"I really like now Lex Fridman a lot his really good looking man for me am I the only ones thinking of it .?!"
Wait so he is originally Russian? I never knew
Yep, he was born in USSR
yo you should look up lex's podcast with his father, a really good 3 hour conversation.
@@nortongartino4602 I don't really enjoyed his podcast, he is too awkward
Jesus .. the choice between duck hunt on nes or food. What a life
@@CRAIGC55lol wut
@@CRAIGC55 sad to know people think like you. Unless when you say "comunism " you mean something else than i actually means
@@CRAIGC55 there's a lot of poverty at the moment
@@Themata a worldwide pandemic will do that.
@@mrdesperado9521 indeed. Are you suggesting there wasn't a lot of poverty last year?
ok, great clip & loved the stories. just from my perspective though, 2007 opening of first Starbucks in Moscow (as stated in the clip, might be not true), was completely not a "journal cover" news worthy. granted, I was still in high school and never went to Russian coffee shops yet. as a perspective- most of the people didn't give a single F for a coffee shop (or any other food business) opening in Moscow back then. People were into sports, politics, science, finance, or whatever else was relevant back in 2007 to them.
Greetz from Germany. Putin is one of the most competent and rational arguing president's we have in the political world.
@@Larrypint paid shill
@@outdoorloser4340 ?lol I am a German horologist.
@@Larrypint who spends his time bouncing around comment sections praising Putin? Ok
@@outdoorloser4340 lol we could say the same about every other president. I was just giving my opinion to the main comment and the topic. who spends time bouncing around comment sections to call other people "paid shill"^^
2:15 when she said skateboard all day, my view of her instantly changed.
She seems like a really interesting person
Lex !
Meanwhile I still don't have McDonalds.
I went to Moscow McDonalds in '91
was an amazing experience. Best big mac I've ever had (tasted amazing after waiting for 3 hrs)
They are cute
did I see some flriting going on? hmm
Thats what you call a misleading Video title
Great content nevertheless. У каждого ребёнка из 90х есть своя история про dendy
Say what you want but Putin is one of the most competent and rational arguing president's we have in the political world.
I agree, he seems far more competent than most political world leaders.
This did not age well
Russian Wolowitz started searching for a video from strip clubs from 90s Moscow.
They have come a long way.
3:38 Midnight Gospel lol
I know they’re both of Russian ancestry but they look incredibly similar once you notice it
Edit: even their mannerisms are the same! I don’t know if they should get married or be worried they’re brother and sister 😂
I always ask what world people want. America isn't a paradise, this the mistake foreigners make. There is the myth of America and there is the reality of America.
Not for high achievers in a resource starved country
Wrong meaning, there is more to life than material. I was referring to the social fabric of American society. What the people believe about themselves. Historical narratives have bread crumbs of truth. But want believe things about themselves and their society that simple aren't true.
Americans always equate happiness with material comfort. Riddle me this will history chronicle stories of robust growth post WW2 or stories of real history such as the Vietnam war, the great recession or 9/11. Also it's the moral and social fabric that keeps societies together. Not the amount of wealth a economic model can generate.
A tale of two Eulogies which is more likely about a man. He was a great business man and made a lot of money, or he was a loving father, husband and son. People remember the personal more than the professional.
Good to watch, was that.
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Lex asked what we’re strip clubs like before Putin then tried to save it by saying culture and restaurants too
I did not know russian literature and culture was so rich..
Eugenia is gorgeous. This is why replica is so addictive. She created it 🙏🤘👍
She seems like a nice person, but I'm certainly not into this idea of getting intimate and sexual with robots or AI. This is the kind of stuff that broken people seek out when all else seems lost. It's sad, and I understand that we all have itches to scratch. But I think broken people are going to create a very broken and relatively terrifying world as time goes on.
People who have not lived in Russia in the '90s (being at the time under the age of 12, visiting, etc does not count), have a twisted perspective on Putin and his time in power (especially people who are foolish enough to believe wester media narratives). People who have lived through that time and have a shred of objectivity left know better - know what Putin has truly done and an almost inevitable dark fate Russia faced, as a result of events of the late '80s and '90s, if he (or someone like him) didn't appear.
Russia could have turned out like Yugoslavia if he did not step in. We Yugoslavs know how it was.
why would't they just talk in russian...
@@wildwallsart5622 Почему бы им просто не говорить на русском...
@Amida Butsu да я понимаю это, я больше в шутку в каком то смысле, было интересно если бы они хотя бы пару минут на русском поболтали
Great insight into Russia 👍
Reminds me of the gameshow episode of the Big Bang theory....
"In Russia l am a nuclear physicist and in America l am cleaner.....😉
Does she want Russia to be like the America described in this Carlin's rant? th-cam.com/video/KLODGhEyLv/w-d-xo.html .
Even an intellectual savant like Lex, who understands complexities I will never truly grasp, and tinkers with artificial minds, can hardly contain the primal nature that's instilled in his DNA like all of us for too long 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣 he was smitten, got all rosy cheeked and shit 🤣🤣 we love you Lex hahahahaha you mad man
this podcast should be called sexual tension
Now here in canada were going down the path that leads you to this hell
They need to get together lol
woah
Lex shooting his shot
Clickbait title: not cool.
Moscow looks much better today than NYC. Not to mention a lot safer!
This is so true. My dad is a professor in Ukraine and he makes 200$ a month. High quality people are treated like dirt there.
Sorry buddy, but Ukraine is thoroughly Americanized
Bag of weed or wheat?
Wheat
Lex you flirtin???
I wish Russia and the US were closer. The history is shitty on both sides but the similarities are much more prevalent than the differences. I hope future generations will mend relationships because there are evils (so called allies) that will always want to see both fall!
Love the russia stories. The Nintendo! Awwww! 😂
Lovely people
Lex you are so cute. ❤️
terrible title
they look like brother and sis
Americans often talk a lot about 'Russian beauty', apparently this is not an example anything remotely like that.
Cute couple
Sorta got the Nick Mullen shark eyes going on. Looking for a soul but........
Hell yeah dude.
Lex likes her :)
После Путина ... кто из нас будет живой когда етот момент наступит ?
Is he high?
he always look stoned
@@jorgevasconcelosmadetomove that's not what I meant lol
Is that a man
Lex is so damn good looking 👌
Putin ❤️