Extraordinary insight and quite relevent in the long term effects of such causes that are still being felt both individually and nationally, including regional.
As an aging adult with cPTSD, your observations about Scars and Scar Tissue certainly resonate, at deep levels. Back into my subconscious I will go, mining with a new metaphor. Thank You Elvira.
Thank you for another insightful piece. As I listened to your comment about the Soviets defining Western material success as a result of plunder, oppression and violence, it struck a chord - where had I heard that before? Believe it or not, going to university in the USA in the '80s, I heard those exact phrases proclaimed by professors and parroted by students. I would love to get your perspective on any connection you see between today's culture of self-loathing in the West and the Soviet themes you grew up with.
That’s another fantastic topic for a video! The Soviets poured immense resources into captivating the imagination of Western leftists. I’ll dive into the details in a future video.
Elvira, my parents were fortunate enough to evade the propaganda since they grew up in western Ukraine during Soviet times and had no tv and minimal education. By the time they emigrated to the US in 1950 they had avoided the indoctrination and started life in America with a clean slate.
I am Canadian and admit to knowing nothing about Russia, as we were never taught about it and world maps had little on them in regards to cities and regions. Most of us didn't know until recently that Russia had regions and provinces other than Siberia! Please consider doing a series about Russian regions and ethnicities - we'd find that very interesting.
Thanks for the support and a video idea - Soviet Union's uneasy relationship with various ethnicities and regions would be an interesting topic to dive into.
@@elvirabaryYes, I think a lot about these themes. I would really like more honesty in the world, but it seems hard. Truth is layered like an onion. Underneath a truth there's another layer of another truth. In this globalized world those layers mix, become blended making it hard to know what to believe. Current propaganda doesn't try to instill a truth, more create uncertainty by amplifing something that's partly true.
@@elvirabary It's interesting to hear the opinion of someone who actually lived there, the left idealises the Soviet Union so much, they describe the fall of the Union as the banishment from the garden of Eden. Keep posting great content!
That is pretty bad propaganda. The Canadians did not wage war on the First Nations and they did not confine them to bad reservations. Most of the land claims in Canada are still unsettled by law to this day. Now in the US that book would have fit very well the true history of the many wars of annihilation between European immigrants and Native tribes. The ownership of large tracts of land was the primary source of wealth and power in Europe for hundreds of years so naturally the immigrants brought that with them. Native people in North America fought each other long before the europeans arrived. The arrival of the horse primarily from Spanish invaders created a new level of war for Native Americans. The US politicians depended on the support of the newspapers and the voters who were all immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Native Americans had no standing in the courts because they were not legal citizens until the early 20th century.
Thanks for your comment. It would be very interesting to compare the treatment of Native Americans in US and Canada, in which areas it was the same and in which it was different.
The US was developed much earlier and more aggressively than Canada. The two situations cannot really be compared. Most of Canada is like the Siberia of North America. The US was more like the prime relistate that everyone wanted and was willing to fight for. Big difference. All that being said, it was very cruel what the European colonists did to the Native Americans in order to seize the power and develop North America. No way around that.
@@elvirabary Canada is small time in terms of indigenous maltearment compared to US or Spaniards.On Canada; 19th century guilt towards Metiis, Indian Residential schools and Gaelic Scots, Still, these are small levels of genocide compared to the Holodomor!
Fascinating.
I’m happy to have found your channel.
Thank you!
I'm so glad you overcame the trauma of lies. You are such an inspiration. Thank you.
Thank you for your support!
Extraordinary insight and quite relevent in the long term effects of such causes that are still being felt both individually and nationally, including regional.
@@freyatilly thank you!
Thank you Elvira, I was also raised in Soviet Armenia and completely identify whit your historical assessment of our childhood traumas.
Yep. Same scars.
As an aging adult with cPTSD, your observations about Scars and Scar Tissue certainly resonate, at deep levels. Back into my subconscious I will go, mining with a new metaphor. Thank You Elvira.
Thank you for watching and your support!
Elvira! Your personality and humour are a tonic!
Thank you for sharing this!
Thank you for another insightful piece. As I listened to your comment about the Soviets defining Western material success as a result of plunder, oppression and violence, it struck a chord - where had I heard that before? Believe it or not, going to university in the USA in the '80s, I heard those exact phrases proclaimed by professors and parroted by students. I would love to get your perspective on any connection you see between today's culture of self-loathing in the West and the Soviet themes you grew up with.
That’s another fantastic topic for a video! The Soviets poured immense resources into captivating the imagination of Western leftists. I’ll dive into the details in a future video.
You are a new daily insight for me as a valued reflection of your humanistic life as a writer
Elvira, my parents were fortunate enough to evade the propaganda since they grew up in western Ukraine during Soviet times and had no tv and minimal education. By the time they emigrated to the US in 1950 they had avoided the indoctrination and started life in America with a clean slate.
I am Canadian and admit to knowing nothing about Russia, as we were never taught about it and world maps had little on them in regards to cities and regions. Most of us didn't know until recently that Russia had regions and provinces other than Siberia! Please consider doing a series about Russian regions and ethnicities - we'd find that very interesting.
Thanks for the support and a video idea - Soviet Union's uneasy relationship with various ethnicities and regions would be an interesting topic to dive into.
Self-awareness requires courage or, an overwhelming urge to change, improve.
As a Canadian, I can’t say that the books weren’t wrong to some degree. The west does have a lot at the cost to others.
But still it was a different generation of Canadians.
This gives great insight to the Russian mindset. Thank you for making this video .
Thanks for watching!
Where did you learn English? You are very easy to listen to.I like your videos.
Don't miss my latest video "The Soviet Russia Money Culture EXPOSED" here: th-cam.com/video/8UqMjQMSD3U/w-d-xo.html
I didn't realise the extent of the propaganda, everything was controlled
The funny thing is that they learned it from American marketing gurus.
@@elvirabaryYes, I think a lot about these themes. I would really like more honesty in the world, but it seems hard. Truth is layered like an onion. Underneath a truth there's another layer of another truth. In this globalized world those layers mix, become blended making it hard to know what to believe. Current propaganda doesn't try to instill a truth, more create uncertainty by amplifing something that's partly true.
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Poor old Shostakovich!
Can you talk about Gulags and censorship in Russia today? Or would that get you arrested?
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Would you say you miss the Soviet Union?
No. It was a gloomy and unhappy world.
@@elvirabary It's interesting to hear the opinion of someone who actually lived there, the left idealises the Soviet Union so much, they describe the fall of the Union as the banishment from the garden of Eden.
Keep posting great content!
I think my exwife was trained by the kgb
LOL
This practice is continuing in the west, only now it is not the KGB who are propagating it.
About a third of Reddit looks like KGB contribution.
I think it's called the FSB now.
That is pretty bad propaganda. The Canadians did not wage war on the First Nations and they did not confine them to bad reservations. Most of the land claims in Canada are still unsettled by law to this day. Now in the US that book would have fit very well the true history of the many wars of annihilation between European immigrants and Native tribes. The ownership of large tracts of land was the primary source of wealth and power in Europe for hundreds of years so naturally the immigrants brought that with them. Native people in North America fought each other long before the europeans arrived. The arrival of the horse primarily from Spanish invaders created a new level of war for Native Americans. The US politicians depended on the support of the newspapers and the voters who were all immigrants or descendants of immigrants. Native Americans had no standing in the courts because they were not legal citizens until the early 20th century.
Thanks for your comment. It would be very interesting to compare the treatment of Native Americans in US and Canada, in which areas it was the same and in which it was different.
The US was developed much earlier and more aggressively than Canada. The two situations cannot really be compared. Most of Canada is like the Siberia of North America. The US was more like the prime relistate that everyone wanted and was willing to fight for. Big difference. All that being said, it was very cruel what the European colonists did to the Native Americans in order to seize the power and develop North America. No way around that.
@@elvirabary Canada is small time in terms of indigenous maltearment compared to US or Spaniards.On Canada; 19th century guilt towards Metiis, Indian Residential schools and Gaelic Scots,
Still, these are small levels of genocide compared to the Holodomor!
Your amazing elvira ,I'm 71 will you marry me 😂
Thank you for your compliment! :)