The shop is GUM roughly translated state universal magazine. Predates the revolution and is more diverse than the Cape Waterfront. Great improvement since my first visit in 1989😂
Howzit Roman, nice to see you getting out and about. I'm from Port Elizabeth originally but I've been in the UK for the last 28 years. I spent 2 weeks in Moscow in 2012 for work, I loved it, so much history everywhere.
I'm a Afrikaner who went to the UK London 5 years ago thanx to SA's BEE Policies I stagnated dispite more experienced and qualified then my bosses at Koeberg.. I met my Russian GF(Now wife) there, London is basically a 1st world S.hole, I came to Russia in 2021, I live in Sochi (Southern Russia) same weather as Capetown!!! But way safer, cleaner, better infrastructure etc!!! I'm earning about the same as I did in CT, But living costs is way cheaper here so it's like I'm earning much more!!! I don't live in a gated community ether just a normal suburb, everything is cheaper here petrol, taxes, electricity, water, Municipal taxes are reduculously low, food etc.. I feel much more connected to the Russians then English, Our cultures is way much closer they are very conservative, proud, religious(Orthodox)and warm(Russian soul) my kids has the best futures here... Sochi is perfect 👌 for us South Africans aswell even Crimea with the warm weather!! Moscow is awesome but during the winter it's very cold, Still 100x better then London.. Yes diversity is not the strength here 😂 I could go for weeks without even seeing a black person and when I do it's either a student or tourist!!! But I go to SA every year and see enough of them, my parents still lives there both my sister and brother lives in Australia they now have their own families... Please do not listen to western media, come for yourselves!!! You'd only be fed propaganda, Most Cities are top tier not just Moscow!!! I can't understand how UK is 1st world and Russia 2nd 😂, It makes really no sense!!! GDP per capita is nominated in U$, We use Rubles here not U$ and comparing cost in UK it's 5x more expensive aswell, you earn more but taxes are 2.5x higher, food is 3x higher, everything!!! Litterally!!! You can live on U$1000.00 perfectly comfortable here in Sochi, That would be impossible in UK!!! I earn U$3 500.00 per month in UK it's less then average, here it's alot of money I save 40% of that and still make a good living, In UK I won't safe anything and it would be impossible to live on the level I live here
@@Amanzi379 Oh you spend time in jail in South Africa and in the UK or even the USA if you say something bad. Anyway, there is nothing negative to say about Russia. Same with China and the Chinese prefer it that way. Why do you want people to become American so badly?
@@Amanzi379 I just told you that's propaganda!!! People here complain just like in SA about things... It's not a Communist country 😂, It's not the USSR... It's even more democratic then SA, People here vote for their president... Putin has no political party
Interesting place Russia, watched alot of videos from Bald and Bankrupt traveling through Russia and the former Soviet states, excellent videos to go and watch.
While it took the Russians some 30 odd years to bring their country from the Soviet days to what it is today, it took the ANC about the time to bring the country on its knees.
@@Amanzi379 not true. Saint Petesburg, volgograd, Sevastopol, sochi, vladivostok, novosibirsk, the suburbs in moscow. There are some autonomous region of ethnic minorities that are rubbish, but most the country is very modenrized and beautiful.
12:35 although they can both sound nice. This is in fact music from the church in the background. Orthodox music, not Soviet music. Which i think makes it even more beautiful.
Been to Eastern Country which has that Soviet influence and bad reputation. I was pleasantly surprised to find the opposite…Great people , great infrastructure, great food. Can’t wait to visit Russia next.
Wow Roman you are really enjoying your long deserved break and thank you for sharing this with us ........ Russia is a beautiful Country and would have loved to have moved there in my younger day's but a little bit too old and broken but hopefully my son's have the opportunity to do what is necessary to go and explore the world a lot better than my wife and I have never done actually we have never even too Capetown but our boy's have been there quite a few time's already and too go to Capetown has always been on my wife and my bucket list and the rest of South Africa because there is no more beautiful country than our own and hell we have the best corruption in the world 😂😂😂 ...........
Thanks so much Roman, such a pity about the invasion of Ukraine and the negative vote at the summit BUT, this channel isn't about that! Also, try watching Eli from Russia who has covered a lot of Russia with her vlogs too.
Not just the invasion and ANNEXATION of Ukraine, numerous other invasions over last 30 years. Russia is a shithole, there is NO amount of money you could pay me to visit or live there. Almost all Western businesses have left, including from Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, not just European and American. The Kremlin also treats its people like Zombies and disposable, with very limited freedoms. Freedom of speech does not exist and almost all social media has been banned.
I never believed the narrative of the west. Russia is doing the right thing. They also have a lot of freedoms as long as you don't cause kak. The architecture looks amazing and it's not cramped into a small space... Beautiful.
Funny how many people do not know what actual freedom means, it does not mean you can do as you please. It means you live in peace because you do what is right and you are correct. Democracy needs to disappear and the monarchies need to return.
What narrative? They just say the president launched an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring country. They're obviously not going to be reporting on the cleanliness of their cities.
I live in Sochi Russia like the 26th biggest city, It's beautiful clean and very modern.. Been to Kazan a few times aswell, also top tier city, No city in SA can compare, with natural Beaty Capetown is similar as Sochi is also Mediterranean weather, but over all Capetown lacks far behind in terms of safety, Infrastructure, affordability, Cleaness etc...
@@GlenFarmer-c6i Try Krasnoyarsk, Krasnadar and so forth. 😂 Russia is massive and generally only the "European" part is in good nick. That's because all the taxes and natural resources flow from the colonial periphery to Moscow and surrounds so that Putin can have his Potemkin villages.
@@blahblahblah-ju8sb I don't think it's colonial, looking at all the homelands/Republics and their autonomies with their own governments, languages, cultures, traditions etc it's way different from most other countries... That's why it's called Russian Federation... Kazan is also in Tatastan Republic and it breathtakingly beautiful, very well developed, very safe and clean... I don't find them be "colonized " infact they are very proudly Russian
Ja I think we were told a lot of nonsense about Russia over the years. Until I started doing some research about Russia I thought it was an aggressive country with snow.Thanks for sharing.
Guys, their gdp per capita is lower than every european country, and European mean by a long shot. It’s like saying “Yoh, South Africa is so cheap, they must be running things well over there”. Try criticising the government in Russia and see what happens to you. People there are poor because their government are thieves. Yes there are things that are better in their society like clean streets and no homelessness.
No. Search videos with black people sharing their experiences of Russia. Just today a video popped up with an African guy going for a walk in Moscow late at night to see if he will get into any trouble. Totally safe for everyone. Well, of course one should be careful and consider surroundings always but generally very safe.
You should have an anti Russian podcast. Like your anti anc goverment podcast in Russia. Then tell me the streets are clean. The streets won't even be in the conversation. Go to all the countries that got their independence and ask them why they fought to the death to leave.
Who exactly fought to death to leave? May be you go and learn history - real history, not western anti-russian propaganda you are clearly have been fed.
In case you missed it Russia abandoned communism many years ago to pursue capitalism. It was on the news...something about breaking down a wall around that time too.
Hahaha, there is an American on you’re doing his travels now , he was just in Moscow. Saint Peterburg and Kiev. According to him , “it’s all the same just Kiev seems to be stuck in the 90s a bit.”
Man! I cannot tell you how insanely envious I am of you right now!!
I love this first hand journalism.
Re-uploaded without the music ;)
Thank you, this is much better.
The shop is GUM roughly translated state universal magazine. Predates the revolution and is more diverse than the Cape Waterfront. Great improvement since my first visit in 1989😂
Bro you were still good...to many whiners but this is great as well. Keep up the good work
Much better thanks!
Was there in 2016. Ridiculously beautiful and fun place. Enjoyed it immensely.
My first time and was fairly surprised at how great it was. A world class city.
Pity its a repressive and murderous shithole.
Wow, baie dankie vir die insigewende video
Howzit Roman, nice to see you getting out and about. I'm from Port Elizabeth originally but I've been in the UK for the last 28 years. I spent 2 weeks in Moscow in 2012 for work, I loved it, so much history everywhere.
I'm a Afrikaner who went to the UK London 5 years ago thanx to SA's BEE Policies I stagnated dispite more experienced and qualified then my bosses at Koeberg.. I met my Russian GF(Now wife) there, London is basically a 1st world S.hole, I came to Russia in 2021, I live in Sochi (Southern Russia) same weather as Capetown!!! But way safer, cleaner, better infrastructure etc!!! I'm earning about the same as I did in CT, But living costs is way cheaper here so it's like I'm earning much more!!! I don't live in a gated community ether just a normal suburb, everything is cheaper here petrol, taxes, electricity, water, Municipal taxes are reduculously low, food etc.. I feel much more connected to the Russians then English, Our cultures is way much closer they are very conservative, proud, religious(Orthodox)and warm(Russian soul) my kids has the best futures here... Sochi is perfect 👌 for us South Africans aswell even Crimea with the warm weather!! Moscow is awesome but during the winter it's very cold, Still 100x better then London.. Yes diversity is not the strength here 😂 I could go for weeks without even seeing a black person and when I do it's either a student or tourist!!! But I go to SA every year and see enough of them, my parents still lives there both my sister and brother lives in Australia they now have their own families... Please do not listen to western media, come for yourselves!!! You'd only be fed propaganda, Most Cities are top tier not just Moscow!!! I can't understand how UK is 1st world and Russia 2nd 😂, It makes really no sense!!! GDP per capita is nominated in U$, We use Rubles here not U$ and comparing cost in UK it's 5x more expensive aswell, you earn more but taxes are 2.5x higher, food is 3x higher, everything!!! Litterally!!! You can live on U$1000.00 perfectly comfortable here in Sochi, That would be impossible in UK!!! I earn U$3 500.00 per month in UK it's less then average, here it's alot of money I save 40% of that and still make a good living, In UK I won't safe anything and it would be impossible to live on the level I live here
Amazing story! Hope to visit Sochi next.
So Double Oh Doos (the OHM guy) is lying about koeberg being all about meritocracy?
Pity you can't say anything negative; if you do, then you spend 15 years in jail. Why doesn't Russia allow its citizens to make any comments?
@@Amanzi379 Oh you spend time in jail in South Africa and in the UK or even the USA if you say something bad. Anyway, there is nothing negative to say about Russia. Same with China and the Chinese prefer it that way. Why do you want people to become American so badly?
@@Amanzi379 I just told you that's propaganda!!! People here complain just like in SA about things... It's not a Communist country 😂, It's not the USSR... It's even more democratic then SA, People here vote for their president... Putin has no political party
Interesting place Russia, watched alot of videos from Bald and Bankrupt traveling through Russia and the former Soviet states, excellent videos to go and watch.
Bald and bankrupt, it's a scavenger.
Without background music much better
No one drunk bear on the streets. It’s not Russia!
It’s not western controlled demolition of Russia in 90s
but free Russia
I was wondering if you could find out how our South African farmers are doing that left for Russia and Georgia.
Beautiful city!
While it took the Russians some 30 odd years to bring their country from the Soviet days to what it is today, it took the ANC about the time to bring the country on its knees.
The rest of the country looks like rubbish.
@@Amanzi379 not true. Saint Petesburg, volgograd, Sevastopol, sochi, vladivostok, novosibirsk, the suburbs in moscow. There are some autonomous region of ethnic minorities that are rubbish, but most the country is very modenrized and beautiful.
@@Ne0dymm not what I saw.
@@Amanzi379 which city or oblast did u go to?
@@Ne0dymm do you want me to list all the grim towns? Have you been to Russia?
Awesome video
Looks civilised
12:35 although they can both sound nice. This is in fact music from the church in the background. Orthodox music, not Soviet music. Which i think makes it even more beautiful.
Been to Eastern Country which has that Soviet influence and bad reputation. I was pleasantly surprised to find the opposite…Great people , great infrastructure, great food. Can’t wait to visit Russia next.
Been looking forward to seeing a positive spin on Russia to counter all the russophobia
This is not positive spin, just what I saw.
@@MorningShot Well is your eyes deceiving you like they want us to believe?
Russia will have positive spin when putin stops sending his young men to die for no reason
R20,000 for the average flat in South Africa??! Far fron accurate.
CNN said Russia is a evil place!
See if you can get yourself a Vostok watch while you are there. I have a few of their Russian military dive watches and they're fantastic.
wow...looks awesome...as i thought it might. cant6wait for my trip there. god bless brics 🇧🇷👊🏽🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦+
Hope you enjoy it!
BRICS IS EVIL
Would love to move to Russia if the language wasn't so difficult🤣🤣.
Did u only spend one day there…? U need a month to experience it all… what about the metro??!!
Hmmmm... Might consider moving there after this.
Wow Roman you are really enjoying your long deserved break and thank you for sharing this with us ........ Russia is a beautiful Country and would have loved to have moved there in my younger day's but a little bit too old and broken but hopefully my son's have the opportunity to do what is necessary to go and explore the world a lot better than my wife and I have never done actually we have never even too Capetown but our boy's have been there quite a few time's already and too go to Capetown has always been on my wife and my bucket list and the rest of South Africa because there is no more beautiful country than our own and hell we have the best corruption in the world 😂😂😂 ...........
I just love visiting Russia...so much history especially in St Petersburg ❤
You got the wrong emoji, maybe change it to the Book of Satan. Because you're actively supporting the murder and displacement of people.
So interesting, especially that they don’t concentrate on the social sciences, very wise!,
Thanks so much Roman, such a pity about the invasion of Ukraine and the negative vote at the summit BUT, this channel isn't about that!
Also, try watching Eli from Russia who has covered a lot of Russia with her vlogs too.
Not just the invasion and ANNEXATION of Ukraine, numerous other invasions over last 30 years. Russia is a shithole, there is NO amount of money you could pay me to visit or live there. Almost all Western businesses have left, including from Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, not just European and American. The Kremlin also treats its people like Zombies and disposable, with very limited freedoms. Freedom of speech does not exist and almost all social media has been banned.
Wow it's so amazing, let's see happens to you when you have a different thought to your Russian master.
🤦🏻♀️ Прекращай смотреть СМИ
If you can leave, have age go for it✌🏻✌🏻
Bucket list for sure
Anc cadres have properties there, show us😜😜
It will be interesting to see what you have to say about Paris if you go there now.
I never believed the narrative of the west. Russia is doing the right thing. They also have a lot of freedoms as long as you don't cause kak.
The architecture looks amazing and it's not cramped into a small space... Beautiful.
Funny how many people do not know what actual freedom means, it does not mean you can do as you please. It means you live in peace because you do what is right and you are correct. Democracy needs to disappear and the monarchies need to return.
Are they doing the right thing? Why don't they allow people to express their opinions or 15 years in jail.
What narrative? They just say the president launched an unprovoked attack on a neighbouring country. They're obviously not going to be reporting on the cleanliness of their cities.
@@Amanzi379не ври укро бот. Достали своим враньём
@@Amanzi379 Russia is the freest country in Europe.
Niiiice!!
Go to any city besides Moscow and St. Petersburg and make another video.
I live in Sochi Russia like the 26th biggest city, It's beautiful clean and very modern.. Been to Kazan a few times aswell, also top tier city, No city in SA can compare, with natural Beaty Capetown is similar as Sochi is also Mediterranean weather, but over all Capetown lacks far behind in terms of safety, Infrastructure, affordability, Cleaness etc...
@@GlenFarmer-c6i Try Krasnoyarsk, Krasnadar and so forth. 😂 Russia is massive and generally only the "European" part is in good nick. That's because all the taxes and natural resources flow from the colonial periphery to Moscow and surrounds so that Putin can have his Potemkin villages.
@@blahblahblah-ju8sbSounds like any other country. When was your most recent visit to other parts of Russia?
@@joyholtzhausen8976 Not quite, he is right about Russia looking dodge outside of the main tourist areas.
@@blahblahblah-ju8sb I don't think it's colonial, looking at all the homelands/Republics and their autonomies with their own governments, languages, cultures, traditions etc it's way different from most other countries... That's why it's called Russian Federation... Kazan is also in Tatastan Republic and it breathtakingly beautiful, very well developed, very safe and clean... I don't find them be "colonized " infact they are very proudly Russian
Did you stay in the Cosmos Hotel ?😁
It is b/c of Jacob Zuma not the DA.
Seemed to be quite a few Soviet miggies flying about in the air 😂
Or do they just call them "Mini MiG’s"?
Moscow is sooooo nice!
Our Manganese wealth looks great.
Zuma was there shortly before the launch of his new party.
No wonder it looks much better then here.
They use Tremosai
Ja I think we were told a lot of nonsense about Russia over the years. Until I started doing some research about Russia I thought it was an aggressive country with snow.Thanks for sharing.
Dit lyk soos Alberton
Ek kan jou waarborg dat Alberton het nie Metro's en skoon strate nie ;-)
lol
The Sandton version of Alberton😂
Thanks for this video. I know of a few Russian haters I can send this too. 😂
and well done you support apartheid. a oppressive system that works when everything is clear just like apartheid but worst.
it won't change a thing, don't have your energy wasted.
Russia is a beautiful country. Thank you, Roman.
Terrorist country
Nice that you got to see it before the nukes
lol ?
По твоей башке разве что
No shacks ther unlike..😮
Exactly and no bs and very clean also unlike.....
step a foot outside moscow and youll be surprised
Moscow is largly are slav only area, go to the other cultures and you will see a big different and what real oppression looks like.
@@toyotagazскорее ты удивишься, потому что порядок везде
Probably better to watch a video of moscow from a professional video blogger.
Really interesting video! Its cool to see what the situation is like on the ground. Did you bankcard work btw?
Nope but didn’t try.
Good video thanks. Dude, please get some lipbalm.
Guys, their gdp per capita is lower than every european country, and European mean by a long shot. It’s like saying “Yoh, South Africa is so cheap, they must be running things well over there”.
Try criticising the government in Russia and see what happens to you.
People there are poor because their government are thieves.
Yes there are things that are better in their society like clean streets and no homelessness.
Where in Russia do you live?
Their debt per capita is also a lot lower than the UK and the US, no idea about the others. The rest of your comment is just bull.
@@joyholtzhausen8976 What difference does that make, the numbers tell the story?
Пересказываете западную пропаганду?
В каком регионе России проживаете? 🤔🤔🤔
Beautiful , they have it all, international terrorist leader and a fantastic country with a lot of history 😂❤🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Международный террористический лидер это США, Англия и Израиль. 🤡🤡🤡
Is there a lot of racism??
in Russia yes haha the have only slav areas and houses they openly dislike black people and other cultures.
Rather xenophobia towards the caucasians and people from the Central Asia
No. Search videos with black people sharing their experiences of Russia. Just today a video popped up with an African guy going for a walk in Moscow late at night to see if he will get into any trouble. Totally safe for everyone. Well, of course one should be careful and consider surroundings always but generally very safe.
Не любим идиотов и русофобов. 🤡🤡🤡
Love Russia... definitely a bucket list trip...
You should!
A pity about the war in Ukraine.
Stay away from windows pls😅
Both Russia and Ukraine are safer for civilians than SA.
Yeah, can't be too careful when the CIA is everywhere 😉
You should have an anti Russian podcast. Like your anti anc goverment podcast in Russia. Then tell me the streets are clean. The streets won't even be in the conversation. Go to all the countries that got their independence and ask them why they fought to the death to leave.
Who exactly fought to death to leave? May be you go and learn history - real history, not western anti-russian propaganda you are clearly have been fed.
I could think of no worse place to visit.
Oh wow an antiCommunist 😂😂 complimenting a communist country😂😂😂. But you don't want this for SA
In case you missed it Russia abandoned communism many years ago to pursue capitalism. It was on the news...something about breaking down a wall around that time too.
Bro if it wasn't for their skin colour most of them would struggle in life, they are not intelligent at all😂
This comment is 33 years too late.
Russia support capitalism hahah and they use communiism to oppress people and take way their rights haha.
My goodness , 1986, right, Russia left communism, it failed, but you still want to try it out and think it will work 😂
Yeah Moscow is awesome in Summer . But Kyiv is even cleaner with better food and way friendlier people
Hahaha, there is an American on you’re doing his travels now , he was just in Moscow. Saint Peterburg and Kiev.
According to him , “it’s all the same just Kiev seems to be stuck in the 90s a bit.”
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