feeling really sorry for all yall westerners rn. anyway, support my channel and become a member here: th-cam.com/channels/19xLluI7dG093Gmw57BhHw.htmljoin
London is basically the British Moscow anyways. Think about it: 1. Everyone outside of London and Moscow seems to despise it and see it as "not the real Britain/Russia" 2. It's mostly owned by Russian oligarchs (yes, London too. Eaton Square is sometimes known as "Red Square" due to how most of the area is owned by the Russian oligarchs 🙃)
Isn't this typically the case when discussing national capitals? Is Berlin a fitting representation of Germany? Is Paris for France? Tokyo for Japan? In most countries, the capital city tends to draw the most investors and consequently the most money, making it usually the most vibrant city in the entire country. There are exceptions such as Washington D.C. or Brasilia, but in many, if not most nations, this holds true.
Just so people can understand why Soho looks like this. When there is an event/carnival approved by the local parish in a major UK city, the council drops litter fines/inspections in an approved area for the given timing of the event. If 30k/100k attend, no amount of trashcans/bins could really make an impact. So legally, the event organisers like Pride UK or whatever carnival pay a private company like Serco to clear up with machines right after the event, so then its opened up to cars in the morning. No tax money is used in this.
I was in Soho on a weekend in March this year, it was cleaner than Rebenshtein Street or Dumskaya Street in St. Petersburg (the most party streets in St. Petersburg). This is despite the fact that in St. Petersburg there are more police and much less freedoms (in London no one will take me to the police station if I stand next to a bar and drink beer, but in St. Petersburg this is a common situation). In addition, there are many more tourists in London than in St. Petersburg
They generally get rid of bins for events and in crowded areas, first during the IRA bombing campaign and then al qada. It does depend on the council though i think.
@@nemosiusтебя часто в Питере в тюрьму сажают? Может ты что-то делаешь не так? Обычно никого просто так не забирают в участки, мой тебе совет, не нужно бить людей на улице или воровать чужие кошельки, тогда и проблем таких у тебя не будет
@RRaymer Well I haven't been in SoHo for about 10 years but I worked very near there and the place was always a dump even on weekdays and much more so on weekends. Every side alley smells of piss, cigarette butts everywhere, just effin disgusting.
I've lived in "bad neighbourhoods" here in Finland and the "worst places" in Finland were 90% of the time very very clean and very nice looking places and an outsider would never guess the difference between Helsinki and those "bad" places.
First time I went to Amsterdam there was shit all over the place. All garbage cans were covered with hills of trash bags wherever we walked the first day. I thought wow I never knew Amsterdam was like this. This a side of Amsterdam they don't show in the tourist guides.Then in the evening we found out that the garbage handlers happened to be on strike when we rolled in.
Same experience in Amsterdam and it was absolutely the tourist trashing the place. Brits in particular, loud, drunk or high kicking garbage down the alleys. Hooligans
As an American let me say, my country is full of problems. The thing is, every country is. The difference is I can openly say that without fear or repercussion and I can act on that belief. I can admit our wrongs and face the shame, then move forward with the knowledge of the past to guide me in the future. Can they? Lets all do better to be better humans.
As a Russian, I can agree that every country has its own problems. But in Russia there is a myth among liberals that the USA is heaven on earth, that it is ideal there, that money grows on trees.
@@Ls151000 As a Russian, I will say that this is really a big problem, but not when the government simply recognizes all liberals as foreign agents, or traitors funded by the West, which went back to the USSR, when in fact it was just a tool that allows you to remove all unwanted, competitors, etc. In our country, they just look away and do not solve anything, but only create the appearance of work that they are correcting something, or deny the existence of problems and shut up all the objectionable, because all problems will disappear if eco-activists disappear and it will be possible to continue to shit Russia
@@Ls151000 This is very interesting phenomenon in general. There are many americans who see the problems they have in US and also hold delusional ideals about russia or eastern europe in general, some crazier ones even dream of communism. I am from slovakia. During the communist era, people thought the same way, they saw US almost as an paradise, because they knew how government is lying to them about the west, and saw the nice things west had and wanted to be like US. After the revolution, in the 90s, there were literally people wearing union jack and US flags, drinking coca cola, wanted hamburgers etc... but as time went on, because of free press, because people travelled all over the place etc... they realised how every country has its problems and we should not idealise any country really. Now, even liberals here make fun of US and most rational people dont want for our country to look like either russia or US (which have way more in common than they realise) and we rather take inspiration in countries like austria, denmark etc... (comparably small countries) or to be fair mostly culturally closest one - czech republic (which takes most of their inspiration from germany). It seems like 90s never ended in russia and there is this same mentality, where people either hate US and dont know why, or they love US and dont know why, still stucked in this post cold war mentality. What is interesting tough is, how curreent russian propaganda seems to misunderstand this phenomenon all together, that if the more they are going to demonise and lie about the west the more people will dream about the west, just like in soviet union.
Free speech within limits of the law is a great thing. US have Free speech except after the 9/11/01 attacks, when America Wanted revenge. 9/11 was performed by islamic extremists, Al Quaida could not be immediately located so the US decided to Attack Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. If you questioned the wisdom of the attack you were treated like a traitor Of America. Noone wants to be a traitor. At that moment Free speech became almost zero. Look what the senseless wars in the Middle East got America. Not much good.
Man I love your way of telling stuff to the western community and glad to see the support you have, as a Slav myself it's nice to see someone telling how the things truly are out here. Hello from Poland guys.🇵🇱
My family left Poland for America two or three generations ago, and I don't know how it is there, but at least I don't have to worry about Russia trying to annex me. Glad you're building up your military over there right now just in case
I was stationed in Europe in the 60's with the US Army. The cities of Europe were always cleaned up after festivities and the streets were kept in good order.
Back in those days everyone who couldn't get a job, could a least get a job with the city. Greenkeepers, street sweepers etc. Ofc, everything was clean back then. Now they hire as little as possible and cities are dirty and crime is higher because unemployment is also higher. And it's getting worse and worse.
Ironically, pretty much everything you've said also applies to Moscow - because it does not only consist of these nice downtown areas, most of it are residential and industrial districts where broken pavements and snow not being cleaned is a norm. I will forever remember how in winter I used to walk my kid to school every morning through my neighborhood's yards traversing huge snow banks and dodging cars in scarcely lit darkness.
Can you show me these broken streets? I am a resident of Moscow and I don’t see this. Such comments are written by Ukrainians from stinking, painted Kyiv
@@Felix-bj1pe dude, where did I say "broken streets"? Very much not cleaned enough during snowfall though, especially in the yards. I used to live in Golovinskiy dustrict and a tractor would go through the roads in my yard, cleaning them enough for one car to pass, but if I had to walk by at the same time, I was forced to step aside into deeper snow every single time. And ice was not cleaned enough either, so slipping falling was a regular hazard as well. Admittedly, it might be better in other neighborhoods depending on how effective their administration is, but mine wasn't very lucky in regards of winter cleaning.
@@PzFalconer I agree with you on this. Snow removal is a problem. But we need to take into account the fact that there is no city in the world of such a size, and such a large population, that is covered with snow 5-6 months a year
@@Felix-bj1pe touche, totally agree on this one. I think the crux of our disagreement may be in that my initial point was not "Moscow bad, streets unwalkable" and more like "in most neighborhoods Moscow has the same problem as StPB and most other Russian cities, it isn't some Magical Paradise for hipsters and soyboys where there are no problems while the rest of the country drowns in snow". Still, despite all of this, bad climate etc. I love and miss my home city immensely and really hope I may yet return one day.
Your problem is that you judge Russia as well as the West. Apparently, you think that if nothing is improving in the West, and it gets worse every year, then it should be the same in Russia. In fact, in Moscow, there have been no broken sidewalks in any of the districts for a long time, any residential areas are well lit with new LED lights, the snow is cleaned perfectly.
cтолица мира explained these videos the best, at least about the US. He said in the US, homeless people tend to congregate in the center of cities, because the cities DO attempt to take care of them to some degree. He said in Russia, they have the same problems, but these people either get beat up in the center, or they get put on a bus and shipped somewhere else out of view of the cameras. So both countries have problems, but one hides them better.
this is not true, I live at the Rimskaya metro station, there is a huge center for helping homeless people. There are a lot of homeless people here compared to other parts of Moscow. I also checked the information, there are more than 10 homeless assistance centers in Moscow. The idea that homeless people are shot or sent to Siberia is a lie.
Simply put, both the good and bad of a city can actually be true and can live up the expectations. It's just that, unlike Russia and China, at least there isn't a dictatorship forcing the camera away from the bad of NYC.
There is no dictatorship in New York that will take you to a mental hospital without your permission. In Moscow, all homeless people were forcibly taken outside the Moscow Ring Road. (highway)
@@mrteagg that is very old info .....in the 70's and 80's .....there was huge amounts of cheap housing blocks biult and Moscow homlessness fell down for that .......but i heard in LA that the police is demolishing homless camps in the centre of LA
As someone with Ukrainian colleagues who has family at the front for fighting a war to have a normal free country for their kids, I thank you for debunking crazy Kreml propaganda like this. It helps the authentity that you are russian who actually lived a real life out in real Russia and not in Moscow.
@jipikayej Before this phase of the war, i.e in 2020 the Ukraine had half the GDP per capita, as the Russian Federation and was far behind the RF on the Human Development Index. Before the war the Ukrainian government banned political parties and put the lead opposition politician under house arrest. It also conducted a war against people who it claimed as its own citizens, people who had been voting to have autonomy and to be able to use their own language officially since 1994.
In the US we do not hide our problems, they are always out front for everyone to see because that is the only ways things can get fixed. Americans bash America more than anyone because we want to make things better. What is really eye opening how outsiders that move to the US see things completely different. Sometimes we forget how good we really do have it and that is why so very many people from all over the world are trying come here. Perfect? Far far from it. But, compared to a large portion of the world the US is a pretty good place to live.
It is not because you dont hide it because they cant be hidden and there is no need to be hidden. Drug usage isnt illegal in America while in some other countries it is. Again In Japan being homeless is illegal so homeless people hide in nooks and crannies to be not seen. If America didnt try to hide their problems, this problem wouldnt be huge like this anyway and you wouldnt say this. Stop deluding yourself. America doesn't want to make anything great they just want to extort their citizens to get money, thats why government do not accept doing social homes, rehabilitation programs and keeps taking public school money to give private ones. This is why you guys have private insurance and medicare are not allowed to negotiate drug prices like other countries do.
Why did the streets of San Francisco get cleaned up for the Xi visit? Isn't that hiding the problem? Also crime statistics and dangerous ghetto areas. But it's not considered hiding the problem because it is "right" whereas in Russia its "wrong"?
4:10 as a Turk I feel this so much. Whenever I go back to my hometown there’s twice as many buildings and half of them are just empty and useless. I have nothing wrong with governments funding construction projects when they help the people or provide some service that isn’t being provided normally, but it’s basically an open secret that politicians are getting major corruption money from these contractors.
As an American, the footage from Philadelphia appears to be the middle of COVID lockdowns when people did not want to go out or spend time in homeless shelters, and deferred medical care that wasn't absolutely necessary to avoid risking infection in hospitals from the sheer number of infected people, and was filmed in one of Philadelphia's most notorious neighborhoods. And if you were to go there now, it still wouldn't be perfect, but even that place would not necessarily be like in the video.
Native Philadelphian here. 1) Lower Kensington (where every Philly is a hellhole video is shot) is not representative of Philly at all. This is where police dump the poor, indignant, and ill. 2) the state of Lower Kensington is the direct result of the Philadelphia Eagles demanding a new stadium and rich people refusing to pay for it, instead slashing social services for the poor. 3) the human beings portrayed in videos of Lower Kensington are struggling with addiction, but they are still human beings. We choose to let them rot in this disgraced state - this is our shame on display, not theirs.
_'2) the state of Lower Kensington is the direct result of the Philadelphia Eagles demanding a new stadium and rich people refusing to pay for it...'_ I think you missed a step in there. It's this: And the gov't still going ahead to build the stadium without new financing to pay for it. This is the gov't fault. That said, the sport team is a private company and it ought to build its own stadium. This is not unique to Philadelphia. We had stadiums built for the Seoul '88 Olympic games and then built 10 more for the '02 World Cup (one in Seoul and one near it) even though half the matches were played in Japan that also built 10 stadiums.
Also a native Philadelphian. Kensington is truly horrible, but many of those people who are struggling with addiction refuse the help of outreach workers who try to get them into treatment. The city and its surrounding suburbs have about 5 million people and you will find beautiful and down trodden neighborhoods, just like everywhere else.
Simply put: You don't compare Moscow to London for accuracy. Instead compare Dundee to Kyzyl. That is where the difference is: in the places that aren't used in propaganda and don't collect all the money from the rest of the country.
well, to be fair, there are other nice and clean cities in Russia like St Pete, Kazan, Ekb, Vladivostok, Vladimir, Suzdal etc. Many of them.. but Russia is huge though. Where's UK is way smaller and easier to take care of. That being said, I went to Blackpool in 2010s. Can't say it was the cleanest of the places.
This happens in the States too, my conservative Republican family members will post pictures of a ghetto in Detroit and say "This is how Democrats run things" then show a clean, well maintained house in the suburbs and claim "This is how Republicans run things"
My brother in law was telling me how horrible (whatever the poster child scapegoat liberal city it was at the time) was and how many homeless people were there before proceeding to tell me how Florida is the best place ever. Thankfully he shut up when I told him I’d actually been to multiple parts of Florida several times and everywhere I went you couldn’t throw a rock and not hit a homeless person.
@@jacehackworth6413WHAAAAT?? Florida couldn't possibly have any socio-economic issues!! Ron DeSantis says BASED THINGS on Twitter!! That means his state must be AWESOME!!! I AM VERY SMART
I live in Philadelphia and there's also incredibly nice parts of Philly with beautiful rowhomes, incredible brickwork and colonial architecture, great parks like Rittenhouse; they literally picked Kensington, an area with a terrible situation of Fentanyl / heroin addiction ... very sad situation there with not enough being done about it ... but not all of Philly is like that
Russia is really good at making the place seem very nice if you cherry pick or just have a very touristy route. I remember travelling to Russia 20 years ago and the touristy places (usually around the Kremlins in the cities look impeccable. On the flipside on my travel home I had a layover in Frankfurt in Germany and traveled to the main train station to have a look around the city. People were begging, robbing, aggressing people in plain sight and there were tons of ads to sell your golden tooth for quick cash and the city stunk of smog. So yeah on first glance Russia seemed much safer and Germany like a "failed state". However if you walked a bit away from tourist centers in Russian cities, suddenly there were not only bad streets, but no real streets at all, just dirt roads with wooden shacks. Even in the town centers intersections would flood regularly just because of some rain and just in general the place looked like a mess to live at. This is true everywhere in each city, the smaller the city, the fewer good looking roads existed. Conversely in Germany, the main station in Frankfort is probably one of the worst places to go and walking a few streets away from it the feel actually improves a lot. Interesting tidbit, Eastern Europeans aren't necessarily malicious if they say that Western countries are dirty and run down. It comes from the way they travel. Most people can't afford long city trips, so they pay for a once a lifetime bus tour with 10 capitals in 5 days or similar. They are used to the capital being the nicest and most "fake nice" place in their own countries, so they expect the same to be true for Western European cities. So it is only logical to assume that if EU capitals look bad, that the rest of the country looks 100x worse, because that is the case for their home countries. While in reality Western countries usually have uglier capitals and if you go out to smaller towns, there may not be much in terms of entertainment, however they become more peaceful, cleaner, less violent etc. While in Russia the villages become more "peaceful" too, less distracting electricity, running water or heating in houses, no distracting concrete and bricks for building, just moldy wood, less distractions by having too many jobs available or even real roads to get anywhere. (Might be exaggerated, I go by Belarus in recent years, there in most villages it is pick and choose, never more than half of these things being in working order). There is a lot of ignorance going on in tourists from both places, however if you use your brain a little, you notice the discrepancies quickly. If you only visit one city outside of Moscow you just wonder wtf Moscow even is. It bears no resemblance to anything in Russia. And on a personal note, I can see why Russians speak that way of Moscow, it seemed like a snobbish rude place to me, even if the other places were poorer they felt humanly much more welcoming than Moscow. But I might be wrong, I know enough Russians who defend Moscow as one of the nicest places to live in Russia, but I honestly didn't see it, except of course for earning more money, however it is also so much more expensive than other places that I wonder how many actually really profit from that fact.
Russia in 90s was in really bad place and they admit themselves it was the lowest point in their existence, worse that Stalin's repressions, wtf are you talking about, it has obviously grown for the better since...
You've probably been in Moscow a long time, if that's what you think. Russia is changing a lot for the better. Most Russian villages are semi-abandoned settlements in which there is neither agriculture nor industry and 50 people live, half of whom are summer residents. Do not compare them with the industrial and agricultural large villages of Western Europe, which are economically efficient and therefore look good.
This is what I felt like when I went to Chicago two years ago. We stayed in a more wealthy area which was well kept but when going to the south side you could see how run down and poor the area is. Basically every city tries to have one area that looks nice for the visitors and then the rest of the area is where everyone else lives in bad conditions. These videos are just cherrypicked.
@@kiplingwasafurry1108 Well, for example, there are no bad areas in Moscow where people live in bad conditions. You can see for yourself what the area that Muscovites consider the worst looks like. th-cam.com/video/EwaSRE-M5EM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rUigxEQU-ACLceCG There are normal living conditions there.
I have a Russian friend who became a US citizen and then got her parents out of Russia. Her father couldn’t believe that he could park his car on the outside his new home in the US and it wouldn’t get stolen. In his town in Russia he had to park his car in a secure rail yard 11 miles from his home.
honestly, I think that's actually a thing of the past (the 90s). my stepdad has been parking his car outside our commieblock for like a decade and nothing ever happened
@@roman_nfkrzI also suggest that you do another one but about the connection between Holodomor denial and Pro-Kremlin sentiment. Holodomor denial is Ukrainophobia and it deserves to be treated as a Hate crime, as Hate Speech, as a crime and as Repulsive and offensive the same way as Holocaust denial.
I was recently sent the first video; sent by a Russian asking me if London is like this. I explained that like all major cities, there are problems, and trash is usually cleaned before morning. Still, as usual it's a pleasure to watch you produce an informative and well balanced video on the subject.
As a Londoner, I go to Soho reguarly. I've never seen it with this much trash, since I don't go there during big events such as Pride Parades. But I often see trash disappearing from a spot, within an hour after returning.
The UK may have some tough spots but being from the States I was always impressed by how limited space for development kept things nice. Here we build to last a couple decades then let it fall apart, the money moves further out. The automobile driving development made its marks on our culture. We're finally getting to the end of that, much changing in my lifetime. The 90s were the height of the throwaway sprawl. The slums being redeveloped. As a teenager the worst neighborhoods were the former neighborhoods of the rich in the 20s, with 5 floor walk up townhomes and urban castles turned burned out dope holes.
I'm from London and have been out in Soho on Friday/Saturday nights more times than I can remember and have never seen it look like this, so yeah clearly there was an event before, probably Pride like Roman said. I'll put it this way, there's a reason so many rich Russians (and Arabs, and Chinese, etc) spend so much time in London - because it's an incredible city
I've studied in Dresden. In June there is a big celebration in on of the districts in the Neustadt over a whole weekend. It is called Bunte Republik Neustadt and the streets were literally covered in trash 15-30cm deep on Sunday evening. All of this was cleaned by Monday morning at 5 or 6. And that's normal. Stuff like this is cleaned immediately in Germany.
I live in Sweden and we have similar phenomena in big cities like Stockholm or Gothenburg. Still, I would prefer it if people didn't THROW TRASH EVERYWHERE just because they're drunk, even if some worker will clean it later.
OMG, that is so true. Neustadt after BRN can look like a warzone… For a day… And then - poof - everything is clean, everything is back in place, like it did not happen… First time I saw it, I thought it would take them good couple of days to clean it up, not couple of hours like it did (tbh, it must have been really intensive couple of hours…)
@@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation i think its very important that u have days for people were they just can relief themselfs a bit a lil trash kills no one but brings herlla fun if u dont think about stuff like that every minute at the party and if its paid like the even in london here as someone mentoined in the comments by the pride orginaziers so no tax money is used i think its perfect.
Plus their favourite argument that all European women are ugly will be completely destroyed Well actually I was brainwashed into thinking like that too. I really thought that European women are much uglier than Russian
Oslo Stockholm or ex Russian village _ Hesinki are just some ret@rd backyards compared to Moscow, Moscow was recognized as the best city in 2019 - 2023 by UN , you are just villagers in any terms, most of your euro population still living in villages on farms, meanwhile 90% Russians living in towns , that's why all what you can do , just comparing your big villages with Russian Dachas rural areas , to rise your ego.
I went to the Mardi Gras festival in St. Louis (USA) a few years ago and it was just like the trashy area in London that you showed. The next day I visited the same area and there were cleanup crews everywhere, picking up the tiniest scraps. Obviously there are bad parts of town here, and even dangerous parts, but life in America is in general what you make of it. You have freedom of opportunity to a great extent but nobody is going to guarantee that things are to your liking. There is an old proverb: If you want something done right, do it yourself.
@@MrDEWaters Your country loves to attack small defenseless countries and is constantly at war. But sooner or later, poor knowledge of the geography of Americans and dementia in the ranks of the decrepit political elite will make themselves felt and the United States, instead of attacking some Jordan, will attack Iran and then some of the Americans will fall under forced mobilization. By the way, in Russia now only volunteers are recruited for the front. So what else opportunities do you have comparing with Russia?
4:33 As a brit, Most of the UK looks like that on a Saturday night all year round, pride or not, but is cleaned up by the next day. Plymouth is one of the cleanest cities I've ever seen. Even during Covid.
Human psychology is kinda dumb that way. If you just repeat the lie enough it eventually works to some degree at least. It requires active countermeasures to prevent, unfortunately
@@Infodumptruck yeah like the hollo caust narrative...never ending...the 11th commandment we must believe...although cities in US/UK/Can are as the Russian says they are...like it or not
I lived in central Lisbon (near the castle and Alfama) for just short of two years. On my last evening, Lisbon held its annual street party, loads of people, drinking, street food etc.etc.until the early hours. I had to be up before 5 am to get a taxi to the airport. By the time I got downstairs to the taxi, the cleanup crews had been, clearing the rubbish and washing the streets. Same in Berlin and Paris and London etc.etc. It's how _civilised_ countries tend to operate.
Problem is that many people are not so civilised to drop their garbage in the bin. Busy shopping streets stay pretty clean, but when there’s a party is OK just to drop the rubbish on the street. Isn’t that weird? I live in The Netherlands and there is a tradition of using fireworks during new year. The local cleaning squads would have to clean the streets the next day. The mentality/awareness of most people luckily changed, meaning that they will clean up the street themselves. Why wouldn’t that be possible with street parties? Maybe there’s hope for humanity;-)
In my town they have carnival the streets turn into a slop of confetti crushed candy and other crap. it takes a few days to clean because some people keep partying for over 24 hours and often the weather will be so bad the next day they can't even clean. so it will take between 3 to 7 days normally. but after the first few days its already a lot cleaner but there is still junk in the corners
@@Thesummerismagic12 "but when there’s a party is OK just to drop the rubbish on the street. " It is a simple fact of reality that large events have far more people and therefore users of a space than typical daily street use. The trashcans WILL absolutely be over capacity. Nothing weird about that. "that they will clean up the street themselves." Those cleaning squads still come out the next day. Do you think sloshed NYE celebrants are immediately able to clean up after themselves in the dark?
@@Thesummerismagic12 no, they remove the bins on purpose for big events, in case of any terrorist potentials. To keep people safe, and so some poor street cleaner does not get harmed. Littered streets are not really dirty they are just super untidy for a bit and can be cleaned up. So it is messy versus safety and safety wins every time. All the paper waste you see comes from thousands and thousands of advertising leaflets that most people do not even read.
It's an effectively organized cleaning system, but that still doesn't excuse littering in my opinion. Don't throw your trash in the street, even if "someone else will clean it later".
This is so true! I spent 19. 5 years in Moscow and travelled around 84/85 of Russia's regions. Some places really are depressing - the suburbs of Vladivostok, Vorkuta, or Murmansk. Before people make. an excuse, there are plenty of places outside Moscow such as Novokuznetsk, Kemrovo, Omsk, Ivanovo where the standard of living is noticeably lower than in Moscow
If some regions make you sad, then this is not a problem of living standards, but of urbanism and aesthetics. The average standard of living in Russia is not lower than in Western Europe, but the appearance of cities is not so pleasant, it is 100% true.
@@КирЕрмаков-з9ь actually, it's DRAMATICALLY lower! The HDI of Russia is in the 0.700s while in the US, it's 0.927 and ranges from 0.900 to 0.980 in western and Northern Europe.
@@Dave05J The Human Development Index is a typical product of Western propaganda, which disguises itself as a scientific study by an independent apolitical public organization, but in fact is based on lies and manipulation, like many other Western ratings that are funded by the West itself. Don't be naive, broaden your horizons, explore alternative sources and don't let yourself be deceived. And remember: Russia is the best country to live in.
Just pointing out though... Your winter in St. Petersburg isn't that far off from here in Canada... Slush, ice, falling ice, bad cleaning, icy sidewalks, snowed in cars etc. is very much a winter problem... For countries with real winters.
Yup, Western Canada facing the Pacific is definitely more wet but good luck if you live above the treeline or in the Arctic circle. Even the prairies can have pretty nasty winter seasons
Pride parade in Vienna is actually the coolest day we have in the whole year. Lots of fun, nice people and good vibes. Would gladly compare it to any other day in Moscow.
I had to travel to russia for work and the first time I went there I stayed some time in Moscow first and thought, wow this is quite a nice place. Then I arrived in Nischny Novgorod for work and... I was shocked how awful it was. I really didnt expect it to be so bad, that changed my perspective quite a bit.
What year were you in Nizhny Novgorod? What was the problem with Nizhny Novgorod? A pile of garbage? Graffiti on the walls, lots of homeless people and beggars? Pickpockets, scammers, prostitution on the streets? Street gangs and shootouts? Are there a lot of drug addicts high? Human excrement scattered on the streets and the smell of urine? Lack of proper public transport to get to any place in the city? Poor service in restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, banks?
Where exactly have you been in Nizhny Novgorod? I mean I've been living there my whole life (until 2022) and it depends, right now the city center is quite pretty and definitely not bad (I'm not talking about the quality of the tiles, I'm only talking about their look). The local kremlin, hills, rivers, sunsets, if you go deeper thou into such arias as where the local automobile factory is located, that's horrible, i agree, but I mean that is not the worst city in Russia for SURE. Bolshaya Pokrovskatya st, Rozhdestvenskaya st, all the city center is very good looking. And I mean I've been traveling, I've been to such cities as Prague, Budapest, Barcelona, Viene, Stockholm etc So I can compare. No doubt you can't compare Nizhny with Barcelona, but you totally can compare it with Alicante, and in my personal opinion the old towns can level. Distant areas are all f*cked up in all Russian cities, and not only in Russian ones
The propaganda is EVERYWHERE thx for calling it out. I see a lot of "street tour" videos of big Chinese cities that look WAY nicer than most of China actually is
Average NAFO bot out here comparing a city to a mountain range. How is it that you people always come up with shit like "uuhh, well look, this one place in this GIGANTIC country is underfunded, so the whole country is shit, because there are shit parts". It's pointless to say something to shit on russia or China when the exact same applies to the west.
@@australianpainter42069 Ah yes because all of China looks like Beijing, just going to forget the miles upon miles of poor farmland. Also love the quotation marks you placed for "people," really shows your true colors, mate lmao.
@@australianpainter42069clearly you, a real "person" didn't watch the video or didnt understand it. Or you're just an apologetic propagandist yourself. Go away troll. And if you're doing this voluntarily, shame on you.
As a viewer of your videos who is from Philadelphia I can assure that the footage used is from a section of the city called Kensington or "K and A". It is legit the biggest drug haven in the country. If you go through on ANY DAY there are literal human zombies walking or flailing around 24 hours a day. But of course this an area that comprises . 01% of the total size of Philadelphia so yeah, not the best complete representation. Also, the second you said; "I'm going to show you a video comparing Moscow to Philadelphia" I said; "I guarantee it's going to be a clip showing Kensington" because it is that commonly known to locals like myself that it is easy bait for propaganda. Surprised the clip didn't say how Philadelphia is the birthplace or democracy, the Constitution, etc.
I was living in Beijing during the floods earlier this year. Not only was all media coverage of it blocked, but the police and the military actually went out to put barriers in front of some of the worst effected areas. the forbidden City was underwater (first time in history) but no one saw this on the news. Millions of businesses in the region went out of business and havent come back, and my apartment was a disaster zone. The underground parking is still inaccessible and my building was one of tens of thousands effected. You wont see any of that without looking for it but you will find lots of propaganda showing happy tourists in Beijing. Most of the shops are closed of course, including my favourite restaurant near the centre. It was set up by an American-Chinese woman, who spent nearly a million dollars renovating and investing in it, she got no compensation when it was all destroyed and washed away, and ended up being arrested for posting about it online. I havent seen or heard of her since. Thats what you get folks if you want freedom of expression in an authoritarian country. I moved to Taipei last month. never been happier.
When I've been to Moscow in 2018, I liked it, but also noticed, that, if you leave the "presentation roads", even if you go a little longer or further down the nowaija arbatskaja, its becoming a complete different town and its getting way dirtier. This is all over Moscow the same. Its also the same with my beloved Piter. Leave Nevskii and go to Vasilievski Island, or down south towards Kuptchino or North towards Ozerki, its big, but some buildings are worn out. They might've been beautiful, but thats been long ago. And it doesnt take much to see this. Just go from Isaaks Cathedral towards Blagoevchenskij Bridge, not along Anglevskaja Bereschnaja (English Embankment) but the smaller streets. I've nearly been hit by a falling part from a house. It hit the ground fewer than 20cm right behind me or seconds late. And then I went to some more rural Russian Towns (not far from Wologda & Voronezh). There is beauty, wild landscapes and historic sites but also broken electric lines, rotten houses which would've been abandoned for ages in Europe but here people were living. No real roads, mud everywhere. The bunch of rats which crossed the street in the night only two streets away from Red Square became suddenly funny again, did fell this much out of touch. Russia is a beautiful country, but with incredible issues and everybody there knows about the paper covers in front of the buildings on streets prepared for tourist.
1. Россия - лучшая страна для жизни в мире. 2. Никакие здания в России не подготавливают специально для туристов. Их просто закрывают на время реставрации. 3. За 20 лет жизни в Москве видел крысу только пять раз. 4. Никакой грязи на окраинах Москвы нет, мусор может быть только в тех местах где производится строительные работы. 5. Самые бедные люди в России живут в плохих старых домах в то время как самые бедные люди в США живут в палатках прямо на тротуарах.
Roman, you are doing great work. This strategy was copied by the Chinese as well and apparently tiktok is a great weapon in their PR campaign to build a similar narrative of good China vs rotting West. Given your proficiency in Mandarin I was wondering if you can make a video comparing the Russian propaganda and the Chinese stuff, which should be very interesting.
There are also other channels like that guy from South Africa that shows things the Chinese government wouldn't want you to see, like for example how they handled the recent flood
@@TrolligiShanghai is always given as the example of the most western of Chinese cities, to the point it's almost nothing like the rest of the country
I'm an American who went to London back in May. It was a very clean city and the atmosphere was beautiful. The inly complaint I have is that the concrete and pavement is really hard. I mean, your feet will be in excruciating pain after walking for about 10 minutes or so.
That’s your biggest complaint? What cities have soft sidewalks? It’s concrete, occasionally brick or cobblestone. Sounds more like you had horrible shoes! Did you have shoes on ?
@@Cocoisagordonsetter You Serious ?Concrete is hard there too? Then Where in the world is the Soft Concrete ? Asphalt is actually softer then concrete, and being black it absorbs the sun more, thus is hotter. I guess you have to deal with it year round opposed to east coast in summer. Are there people that walk barefoot on it? I always think Why when there is grass next to it to walk on. Maybe they mastered walking on Hot Coals? Be Safe out there, Don't want you getting 3rd degree burns!!
The paving slabs around the palace and that area were quarried from solid stone from Lancashire. The Empire State Building is built from bricks or Norrie bricks which are made in Accrington uk same area .British bricks are the best it’s a fact
Love your straight talking videos. If you travel enough and meet enough people from different countries, you'll realize were all the same just wanting to live our lives but the Governments and Media create the problems
From my experience there is usually tons of litter and rubbish all over the street and pavement in London, they get cleaned up regularly but the people don't want to use bins so they just keep on littering making a mess for no reason, even though there are bins on every corner.
As always, a fair and realistic representation of the topic. Nowhere is perfect and every country will have very nice areas and others that are struggling.
Thank you for being fair and I always respect your good work. The Russians (not all of them) make the West small in order to feel big themselves and that has always been the case, probably comes from the old Soviet times, the eternal competition and that's how you can keep national pride high. This arogance and ignorance gets on my nerves so much. I had contact with Russian-Germans who went back to Russia because of the Ukraine war. They said Western women can no longer be feminine enough, even in Paris they don't wear dresses anymore and it's nice to see beautiful women. It's just strange that they themselves were simple and plain people and wore pants, but with them it's always something different.
Bruh ! The Europeans (not all of them) make the EAST small in order to feel big themselves and that has always been the case !! You know how i know !? ... Im from Europe !!! Salut
@@gabe8390 Bruh learn some history first !! Of old european imperial powers and how smug they wore , not only towards Eastern Europe wich they tried numerius times to conquer and expand to... That Austrian painter coined well that old europan dream of expansion to the east as "Lebensraum" !. But the pinacle of colonialism and its justifications was " make the Colonies small in order not only to feel big themselves, but to jusitify their colonialism and imperialism !!
@@gabe8390 I know all europeans , i know they mentality , i know how they look upon other people !!! that smug colonial mindset of them being superior of everyone else is still prevalent today !!!
@@TheBorg01 You mean the Vikings who were in Russia. Putin also likes to talk about history recently. Then you will know about Russian history, why Russia is so big and why many colonies in the Soviet Union were subjugated. For Info: In Serbia, where Roman is currently, the communist party dissolved last year 2022 because a new left-wing party was founded and still likes Russia.
I would love to see comparisons to anything else than Moscow in Russia. Outside Moscow and St. Petersburg centers this country looks like a 3rd world place.
And it is. Considerable percentages of the country do not have running water and sewage connections to their houses. It's why Russian soldiers had a lot of publicity as they looted toilets from Ukraine.
Have you ever been to the Vasya In The Hay channel? He documents places around Kaluga (pretty close to Moscow) and how he tries to help the down and out there. Pretty grim. Vaga Vagabond who's more about rail travel, but he goes ALL over the country and he doesn't try to hide or highlight "unpleasantness" www.youtube.com/@ivantrainsLIVE
most of Russia looks like a low income neighbourhood in western Europe. it reminds me of the place some people i knew lived while they saved up to buy a house or certain people who waste all their money. i was considering living in such a place but i got very lucky and found a cheap house.
It is an exagerration. Only villages and poorest towns look like third world. or a stereotype of third world which we usually imagine. Most middle-size and large towns are OK. ALthough there are exceptions
I am an ethnic Russian from Lithuania and been living in the UK for the past 12 years and frankly, I have never seen much difference between countries on average and I've traveled a fair share in my life, including quite a few trips to Russia. All countries have good cities and bad cities, same as all big cities have good areas and bad areas. For example, Moscow looks better than smaller towns, but some areas are much better than the others. Same goes for London, there are good areas and bad areas. Then if you move out of London, you have cities like Luton or Stoke that are much much worse than the capital, but even they have nice areas. I live in Stoke and some places are straight from horror movies with trash, rubbish, chavs, potholes, drug addicts, broken glass etc., but you walk for 10 minutes and get to a nice clean green area. And it's not a Stoke problem, it's a global problem. Moscow will always be better than Chelyabinsk and London will always be better than Stoke and comparing them all is plain stupid, especially for propaganda purposes. Wherever you live, cherish good places and try improving bad ones. Amen.
Stoke? Stoke-on-trent? Ha! Nice. What a small world! Hello from down the A50 motorway! But yeah. I can personally back your words up there. Every bit of it its true. Good old stoke. Heh.
Interestingly i find a lot of russians coming to britain and ukrainian refugees were initially terrified of the idea of living in villages, because over there villages arnt middle class like here but full of the kind of social problems we associate with inner city estates here
@@bastig333 Nah, I still live in the UK, it's been my home for almost half of my conscious life. I have been to Germany a few times, one time stayed for a relatively long period, south of Munich. Again, same story applies - there are good bits, there are bad bits, all towns/cities in all countries share the same thing.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 I came way before the immigration inflation, so cannot agree or disagree, but personally I've never been scared of living in smaller towns. Possibly cause I am a bit of an introvert and prefer smaller quieter towns over big cities. But frankly, I lived all over the place, London, Portsmouth, Stoke, you name it, and the further North you go, the better people get and so do surroundings, if you can see past fancy shops and bright lights. I would never trade Stoke for London - yes, London has nicer bits here and there, but on average Stoke is better by a mile if you are a person who likes a genuine comfort of life and can't be arsed with chaos.
You should visit Canada in winter! The roads and sidewalsks during winter and early spring are the exact same mess as in Russia! You should compare countries with SIMILAR CLIMATE CONDITIONS! There are puddles, black ice, and you have to hopp over huge puddles and huge piles of snow! And I mean in large cities and the national capital as well as in small ones.
As a person who has been really into the history of Russia from the Tsardom to The 2010s you’ve been helping me understand what normal life is like compared to and understand the country and its peoples more and keeping me updated on recent events inside the country. Thanks.
BRO DON'T JUDGE RUSSIA BASED ON SOME RANDOM TH-camR WHO'S DESPERATE FOR A WESTERN VISA. MAYBE IF YOU WOULD LIKE, YOU CAN GO AND EXPERIENCE IT BY YOURSELF. NOT ALL OF THEM ARE BAD PPL
@@teonguyen7955 APART FROM IT'S POLITICAL ISSUES, THE NATION ISN'T THAT BAD AS HOW OUR FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD JACKASS IS TRYING TO PORTRAY IT TO BE. TRUST ME WHEN I SAY, RUSSIA IS A DREAM TO MANY. GO TO SOME PARTS OF AFRICA (NOT ALL) YOU'LL KNOW THAT RUSSIA IS A DREAM. UNLIKE ROMAN OVER HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT A SHAKING TILES 😒🤦🏾♀️💔
You: "I lived in a provincial city of 1.000.000 people." Me, that never lived in a town with more than 10.000 people: "that's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind."
I know so many people who moved to my city of 5m because its the big city, and I also know so many who grew up here and left because it felt too small. I can only wonder what someone who grew up in a city of 20m feels, where can they go haha
Hello Roman. Your videos are ALWAYS right on the mark. I find them among the best educated and informed of any on YT. Your brand of satire is pure gold! Excellent work. PS Your English is impeccable.
I'm from Bosnia and I lived until recently in Berlin for two and a half years. It shocked me that most of the neighbourhoods, except for the really boujee ones on the outskirts, are often way worse than Sarajevo. Trash, feces, used up condoms and needles everywhere. People are throwing out their old furniture on the street and nobody is picking it up for weeks sometimes, then other people just start piling their trash, used diapers etc. on that furniture. Its fucking disgusting. On top of that, there are a lot of aggressive and deranged people walking on the streets, harassing people and just being generally dicks. But it is definitely NOT in all Western cities like that. Munich is wonderful, clean and people are waaay more civilized and pleasant for example. Thats just my observation. I moved to Vienna now and its a whole different world. Sure, you can cherry pick some shitty parts like Favoriten in the 10th district, but even that is a fucking Japanese hospital compared to Berlin.
According to Florian Klenk of "Falter" weekly most Austrians don't recognize how good they have it here. He thinks the conditions here are more comparable to scandinavian countries rather than Germany.
@@SyndicateBastard Ohh the new comers. Blame them all for the personal shortcomings. When the district mayor started to limit spending on utilities... Whilst Germans can't tax rich people, who really evade tax...
Yeah, Berlin has some very bad neighborhoods. But on the flipside, rent is also generally cheaper there compared to other big cities (Munich, Vienna etc.)
@@ulipeterson6112 Don't know about that. From what I was hearing until some years ago Munich, Hamburg and a few more big german ones were generally more expensive than Vienna. Less true for Berlin. Germany has sold off all public housing to private companies many years ago, so the results are not exactly surprising.
I lived in North East London and born in Homerton Hospital, Hackney. I have seen so much difference between countries in Europe. Love your content Roman.
3:26 What surprises me even more than the implementation is the choice of pavement type in a place with so much ice and snow. It seems to me this is the most difficult type of pavement to maintain outdoor in this particular weather, and most likely to slip. But I might be wrong. Is it designed to drain water?
I love how the comments under that cartoony propaganda all sound like literal bots and its an insult to bots because current A.I is smarter than these people tbh
You made a video or two with Bald and Bankrupt, when did you come to the conclusion that his intentions aren't really "sightseeing" when he visits Eastern Europe?
Fun fact - we have exact same guy in Poland but he targets Latin America and makes tons much more money than BaB. Many of his fans actually view him as a model for his exploitations of women and viewers.
He did the dirty on roman a bit, blocked him a few years back without any reasin or message, then the internet found out about balds previous charges back in britain and roman rightfully cut ties
Roman escaped from russia, Bald would suck Putin and Stalin dick for some rubles so we can all guess that they werent compatible. @@Ukraineaissance2014
Thank you Roman for sharing your video… we in the Western countries do have issues… myself living in Vancouver Canada… we have a big homeless and drug addiction problem which is basically across Canada… big issue is the Fentanyl epidemic that is affecting the drug addicted population… Even in Russia … drug addiction is a serious problem
As someone who’d lived in the states for some time-I only have one question that’s been getting at me-why is Russia obsessed with us? I have never seen such “we’re better than those guys over there!”, not even once. There are problems here you say? We know, thanks
@@donaldtrumplover2254 Wouldn't be surprised. Back then when they were known as being the biggest chunk of the USSR, they were a super power to be reckoned with and going toe to toe with the U.S. in the Cold War. Now they're more or less a shadow of their former Soviet glory while the US managed to remain as a super power that holds, for a lack of a better term, a level of prestige.
I want to see a comparison between the villages one hour away from Moscow vs villages one hour away from London/Berlin/New York That's when you realize how backwater of a country Russia is
For me london's main attraction is how fancy it looks. Obviously the centre, but even places like canary wharf, for how soulless and corporate it is, still is very impressive
As a Pennsylvanian, I am simultaneously proud and not proud. That wasn’t even the worst footage of Philly because certain parts of it has been shitholes for a while now, but behind much of that footage is actually an iconic, historic, and beautiful city. A google image search is all It takes to find that out.
As an Iranian-American who was born in Iran and grew up in the US, I also studied in London during law school and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. That was nearly 15 years ago. The London of today is *not* the London that I once knew, and it’s appalling what 15 years of Tory rule has done to the UK. Even with all their hooting and hollering about Brexit, it was the Tories who imported all these Islamist terrorists into the country. I’m thankful AF to live in California, and not in a country where terrorists can openly hold rallies with hundreds of thousands of their groupies. With that being said: I would rather be free and homeless in the West than live anywhere inside of Russia, China, or any Muslim country. Freedom is priceless.
@@ZuhairEDP because as an immigrant, I and this poster actually try to assimilate instead of stirring shit. That’s why of all the groups, Muslims tend to be the worst. A christian, a jew, an atheist, a hindu, and a buddhist could live in the same neighborhood But add a muslim with their asinine shariah laws? That’s when doodoo hits the fan.
I can top your Russian hood story. Once when I was in St. Petersburg as an exchange student I saw a homeless man outside walking past the school with literally one of his eyes hanging down from his eye socket. And everybody was like "dont get involved". I still cannot believe it 20 years later, but on the other side a lot has improved since then.
Yeah not far from where I live in Saint Petersburg, rather close to the centre, they couldn't clean the dead pigeon's corpse from the sidewalk for week. It happened this autumn. After that when I see that there are Russians who say EU is dirtier I facepalm🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
😅во первых как это говорит о чистоте города Во вторых если это что то там и показывает то это сугубо ваша вина ведь раз он вас так раздражал почему не вызвали сан инспекцию или на крайний случай сами бы не выбросили одев перчатки 🤔даже интересно что за случай 😮 а может это выдумка
I dig how Roman keeps it real and sincere, unlike North Korean defector Yeonmi Park. She's got legit reasons to spill about the nightmare in North Korea, but she's totally sold out to American right-wing propaganda. She's pushing this illogical idea that you should just swallow the crap in a capitalist society because, hey, it's better than North Korea. On the flip side, my dude here uses his experience to help us cut through the BS, no matter where you're at. He's all about speaking from a global community perspective.
I hate her so much. Yeah we know, north Korea is a bad place, we get it... But she literally just went in the opposite direction. She appreciates America.... But not the people in china who smuggled her out of Korea and got her to a safe country (for a north Korean)
Yes unfortunately a lot of these north korean escapees start talking about how usa is do great etc etc. But they came out of a very poor country so its expected.
Yeonmi Park is a liar and a farce. She comes from a very well off rich family in North Korea and was nicknamed the "Paris Hilton" of north korea by her friends there. Google this if you don't believe me!
NO! NO! NO! If you want to see a CLEAN city it’s not in the west or Moscow it’s Tokyo! It’s the most pristine city. And they don’t even have public trash cans on the street. You keep your trash and take it home or go in to a restroom to throw it away. Tokyo is insanely clean!
It's the same "country vs capital" sentiment everywhere. People from smaller cities and the countryside feel misrepresented by the super-urban "big shots" (as they might call them) and it's always a bit true, too. In austria the people say "Vienna is different" when they want to put it polite and "We'll trade Vienna for South Tyrol!" when they don't (south tyrol is german speaking, but got taken away from austria and given to italy over a century ago). Of course, that's just teasing.
American and veteran new yorker here!! Just got done my honeymoon in London and Paris , both are great cities... beautiful people lovely cultures, cant complain haha
Actually, germany put empty cans and bottles NEAR the bin because there is a deposit on them. Thisway, people who need money can collect them easily and bring them to whatever store is selling beverages, and get 25 cent for each one-way bottle or can. When buing certain beverages in Germany you pay those 25 cents extra for one-way containers, so that the can or bottle is brought back for recycling. This is also to encourage multi-use bottles, which have a lower deposit.
This reminds me of being in Liverpool following their victory in the Championship league a few years ago and passing off its streetscape then as indicative of the city as normal. It does get very dirty during these festivals but they are only usually to this standard for the duration of the parade. after that the city normally gets cleaned up
omg this is so messed up. im crrying because of how completely relatable it was to hear your struggle walking in the snow. where i live some stupid person decided to lax on the desnowing and it became impossible to walk to go anywhere in the morning you would end up with 1 foot of snow accumulating extremely fast and like it was so incredibly stressful to just live a normal life. i feel so validated right now. and im so sorry thats what you were going through so often when you lived over there. godspeed homie
NFKRZ: "Guys, please prepare to clean up the grime and shit off the streets, it's almost winter, there's going to be tons of snow." Chelyabinsk: "Откуд знаешь, Шайтан!?"
I had the chance to be in San Petersburg. In Russia, I experienced things you would never think possible anywhere else. At the international airport, the security guard yelled at me in russian until I finally understood what was being asked of me :D Even though she knew I didn't understand russian, she still didn't miss the opportunity to yell at a confused Westerner :D International airport in russia :D And while the subways in St Petersburg are certainly cleaner than in NYC (but not as clean as in Kazakhstan :P ), I prefer countries where it's not normal for officials to shout at tourists.
I am a Londoner. It is an absolutely beautiful city. Vibrant, thriving, interesting, excellent infrastructure, diverse, generally pretty clean. There are some rough neighbourhoods and it is too expensive to live in but the above is still true.
im from Argentina, Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, and this is basically too, in propagandas, they sell that the city is always clean and perfect, when in reality, in day or night, is always full of garbage and rats the size of chihuahuas.
![[TH] 2024 PMGC League | Survival Stage วันที่ 1 | PUBG MOBILE Global Championship](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/FVFT-PFwU80/mqdefault.jpg)
feeling really sorry for all yall westerners rn. anyway,
support my channel and become a member here: th-cam.com/channels/19xLluI7dG093Gmw57BhHw.htmljoin
You’ve never even visited the west Moscow is a lot better than London and I bet it’s a lot safer at the moment to.
@@sigmaputin6888 When did you go to London? Which parts are not safer?
@@DEVOPS_R_USknife attacks are everywhere, and londoners cannot defend themselves. A country of victims.
@@sigmaputin6888 yes he has
@@sigmaputin6888😂
London is basically the British Moscow anyways. Think about it:
1. Everyone outside of London and Moscow seems to despise it and see it as "not the real Britain/Russia"
2. It's mostly owned by Russian oligarchs (yes, London too. Eaton Square is sometimes known as "Red Square" due to how most of the area is owned by the Russian oligarchs 🙃)
It’s because there’s hardly any British people in London that’s why
@@sigmaputin6888you’ve clearly never been to London
Yep, they even look very similar
There's hardly any Russians in Russia@@sigmaputin6888
Isn't this typically the case when discussing national capitals? Is Berlin a fitting representation of Germany? Is Paris for France? Tokyo for Japan? In most countries, the capital city tends to draw the most investors and consequently the most money, making it usually the most vibrant city in the entire country. There are exceptions such as Washington D.C. or Brasilia, but in many, if not most nations, this holds true.
Just so people can understand why Soho looks like this. When there is an event/carnival approved by the local parish in a major UK city, the council drops litter fines/inspections in an approved area for the given timing of the event. If 30k/100k attend, no amount of trashcans/bins could really make an impact. So legally, the event organisers like Pride UK or whatever carnival pay a private company like Serco to clear up with machines right after the event, so then its opened up to cars in the morning. No tax money is used in this.
I was in Soho on a weekend in March this year, it was cleaner than Rebenshtein Street or Dumskaya Street in St. Petersburg (the most party streets in St. Petersburg). This is despite the fact that in St. Petersburg there are more police and much less freedoms (in London no one will take me to the police station if I stand next to a bar and drink beer, but in St. Petersburg this is a common situation). In addition, there are many more tourists in London than in St. Petersburg
They generally get rid of bins for events and in crowded areas, first during the IRA bombing campaign and then al qada. It does depend on the council though i think.
Serco... an absolute stain. I still can't believe their rail division earned the franchise to run Northern rail along with abellio.
@@nemosiusтебя часто в Питере в тюрьму сажают? Может ты что-то делаешь не так? Обычно никого просто так не забирают в участки, мой тебе совет, не нужно бить людей на улице или воровать чужие кошельки, тогда и проблем таких у тебя не будет
@RRaymer Well I haven't been in SoHo for about 10 years but I worked very near there and the place was always a dump even on weekdays and much more so on weekends. Every side alley smells of piss, cigarette butts everywhere, just effin disgusting.
I've lived in "bad neighbourhoods" here in Finland and the "worst places" in Finland were 90% of the time very very clean and very nice looking places and an outsider would never guess the difference between Helsinki and those "bad" places.
I mean Finland is a bad example.
The worst ghetto in Helsinki still looks better than most Metropolis'
finnish "bad neighborhoods" are better than everywhere i've ever been to or traveled to
A lot of bad neighborhoods are actually not that bad
Me too. I even saw a kid throw candy wrappers on the ground once!
@@theirishempire4952 In other words Europeans are overreacting. The kind of crime they are dealing with is literally nothing.
Can confirm. I live in LA and it's all just Skidrow. I wish we were living like people in Norilsk and had a live expectancy of 40.
☠️
I mean LA is kind of a shithole actually
And sadly.
Both are shit cities
Funnily enough the life expectancy in LA is probably 40
First time I went to Amsterdam there was shit all over the place. All garbage cans were covered with hills of trash bags wherever we walked the first day. I thought wow I never knew Amsterdam was like this. This a side of Amsterdam they don't show in the tourist guides.Then in the evening we found out that the garbage handlers happened to be on strike when we rolled in.
Same experience in Amsterdam and it was absolutely the tourist trashing the place. Brits in particular, loud, drunk or high kicking garbage down the alleys. Hooligans
I was in Rotterdam, not Amsterdam. Rotterdam is cleaner than most of Germany.
Most of the times its very clean here!
@@paperandmedals8316lmao sounds like british people
@@bigkillerwhale1801 it’s just the alleys at night time in the red light and it’s all tourist trashing the place.
As an American let me say, my country is full of problems.
The thing is, every country is. The difference is I can openly say that without fear or repercussion and I can act on that belief.
I can admit our wrongs and face the shame, then move forward with the knowledge of the past to guide me in the future. Can they?
Lets all do better to be better humans.
As a Russian, I can agree that every country has its own problems. But in Russia there is a myth among liberals that the USA is heaven on earth, that it is ideal there, that money grows on trees.
@@Ls151000 As a Russian, I will say that this is really a big problem, but not when the government simply recognizes all liberals as foreign agents, or traitors funded by the West, which went back to the USSR, when in fact it was just a tool that allows you to remove all unwanted, competitors, etc. In our country, they just look away and do not solve anything, but only create the appearance of work that they are correcting something, or deny the existence of problems and shut up all the objectionable, because all problems will disappear if eco-activists disappear and it will be possible to continue to shit Russia
@@Ls151000 This is very interesting phenomenon in general. There are many americans who see the problems they have in US and also hold delusional ideals about russia or eastern europe in general, some crazier ones even dream of communism.
I am from slovakia. During the communist era, people thought the same way, they saw US almost as an paradise, because they knew how government is lying to them about the west, and saw the nice things west had and wanted to be like US. After the revolution, in the 90s, there were literally people wearing union jack and US flags, drinking coca cola, wanted hamburgers etc... but as time went on, because of free press, because people travelled all over the place etc... they realised how every country has its problems and we should not idealise any country really. Now, even liberals here make fun of US and most rational people dont want for our country to look like either russia or US (which have way more in common than they realise) and we rather take inspiration in countries like austria, denmark etc... (comparably small countries) or to be fair mostly culturally closest one - czech republic (which takes most of their inspiration from germany).
It seems like 90s never ended in russia and there is this same mentality, where people either hate US and dont know why, or they love US and dont know why, still stucked in this post cold war mentality. What is interesting tough is, how curreent russian propaganda seems to misunderstand this phenomenon all together, that if the more they are going to demonise and lie about the west the more people will dream about the west, just like in soviet union.
Free speech within limits of the law is a great thing. US have Free speech except after the 9/11/01 attacks, when America
Wanted revenge. 9/11 was performed by islamic extremists, Al Quaida could not be immediately located so the US decided to
Attack Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. If you questioned the wisdom of the attack you were treated like a traitor
Of America. Noone wants to be a traitor. At that moment Free speech became almost zero.
Look what the senseless wars in the Middle East got America. Not much good.
@@Ls151000really ?
Man I love your way of telling stuff to the western community and glad to see the support you have, as a Slav myself it's nice to see someone telling how the things truly are out here. Hello from Poland guys.🇵🇱
Poland is a beautiful country because you haven’t had mass 3rd world immigration like the west has
Ok but poland is not the west
@@sigmaputin6888that’s not the reason? but okay, far-right dude
nice one, you deleted your idiotic comment. saves you a tiny bit of face
True, true grretz from 🇭🇷
My family left Poland for America two or three generations ago, and I don't know how it is there, but at least I don't have to worry about Russia trying to annex me. Glad you're building up your military over there right now just in case
I was stationed in Europe in the 60's with the US Army. The cities of Europe were always cleaned up after festivities and the streets were kept in good order.
@@Elatenl chill, let the man talk his tales, I am listening
Sir thank you for your service
Back in those days everyone who couldn't get a job, could a least get a job with the city. Greenkeepers, street sweepers etc. Ofc, everything was clean back then. Now they hire as little as possible and cities are dirty and crime is higher because unemployment is also higher. And it's getting worse and worse.
Ironically, pretty much everything you've said also applies to Moscow - because it does not only consist of these nice downtown areas, most of it are residential and industrial districts where broken pavements and snow not being cleaned is a norm. I will forever remember how in winter I used to walk my kid to school every morning through my neighborhood's yards traversing huge snow banks and dodging cars in scarcely lit darkness.
Can you show me these broken streets? I am a resident of Moscow and I don’t see this.
Such comments are written by Ukrainians from stinking, painted Kyiv
@@Felix-bj1pe dude, where did I say "broken streets"? Very much not cleaned enough during snowfall though, especially in the yards. I used to live in Golovinskiy dustrict and a tractor would go through the roads in my yard, cleaning them enough for one car to pass, but if I had to walk by at the same time, I was forced to step aside into deeper snow every single time. And ice was not cleaned enough either, so slipping falling was a regular hazard as well. Admittedly, it might be better in other neighborhoods depending on how effective their administration is, but mine wasn't very lucky in regards of winter cleaning.
@@PzFalconer I agree with you on this. Snow removal is a problem. But we need to take into account the fact that there is no city in the world of such a size, and such a large population, that is covered with snow 5-6 months a year
@@Felix-bj1pe touche, totally agree on this one. I think the crux of our disagreement may be in that my initial point was not "Moscow bad, streets unwalkable" and more like "in most neighborhoods Moscow has the same problem as StPB and most other Russian cities, it isn't some Magical Paradise for hipsters and soyboys where there are no problems while the rest of the country drowns in snow".
Still, despite all of this, bad climate etc. I love and miss my home city immensely and really hope I may yet return one day.
Your problem is that you judge Russia as well as the West. Apparently, you think that if nothing is improving in the West, and it gets worse every year, then it should be the same in Russia. In fact, in Moscow, there have been no broken sidewalks in any of the districts for a long time, any residential areas are well lit with new LED lights, the snow is cleaned perfectly.
cтолица мира explained these videos the best, at least about the US. He said in the US, homeless people tend to congregate in the center of cities, because the cities DO attempt to take care of them to some degree. He said in Russia, they have the same problems, but these people either get beat up in the center, or they get put on a bus and shipped somewhere else out of view of the cameras. So both countries have problems, but one hides them better.
this is not true, I live at the Rimskaya metro station, there is a huge center for helping homeless people. There are a lot of homeless people here compared to other parts of Moscow. I also checked the information, there are more than 10 homeless assistance centers in Moscow. The idea that homeless people are shot or sent to Siberia is a lie.
Simply put, both the good and bad of a city can actually be true and can live up the expectations. It's just that, unlike Russia and China, at least there isn't a dictatorship forcing the camera away from the bad of NYC.
There is no dictatorship in New York that will take you to a mental hospital without your permission. In Moscow, all homeless people were forcibly taken outside the Moscow Ring Road. (highway)
@@mrteagg Good?
@@mrteaggThey tried to abduct kids from their parents if they didn’t get the clot shot!
@@LaVaZ000 Is it good to kidnap people illegally? This is what Russia is all about, dude.
@@mrteagg
that is very old info .....in the 70's and 80's .....there was huge amounts of cheap housing blocks biult and Moscow homlessness fell down for that
.......but i heard in LA that the police is demolishing homless camps in the centre of LA
As someone with Ukrainian colleagues who has family at the front for fighting a war to have a normal free country for their kids, I thank you for debunking crazy Kreml propaganda like this. It helps the authentity that you are russian who actually lived a real life out in real Russia and not in Moscow.
@jipikayej Before this phase of the war, i.e in 2020 the Ukraine had half the GDP per capita, as the Russian Federation and was far behind the RF on the Human Development Index. Before the war the Ukrainian government banned political parties and put the lead opposition politician under house arrest. It also conducted a war against people who it claimed as its own citizens, people who had been voting to have autonomy and to be able to use their own language officially since 1994.
Ukraine was the most developed country of USSR but it's corrupt elite ate it.
ukraine lost ahhahahahah
@@mitchyoung93weak orcbot argumenting
@@kohnr3381ruzzian propaganda machine lost hahaha
In the US we do not hide our problems, they are always out front for everyone to see because that is the only ways things can get fixed. Americans bash America more than anyone because we want to make things better. What is really eye opening how outsiders that move to the US see things completely different. Sometimes we forget how good we really do have it and that is why so very many people from all over the world are trying come here. Perfect? Far far from it. But, compared to a large portion of the world the US is a pretty good place to live.
Americans are by far the most sensitive western country when it comes to other nationalities insulting them.
It is not because you dont hide it because they cant be hidden and there is no need to be hidden. Drug usage isnt illegal in America while in some other countries it is. Again In Japan being homeless is illegal so homeless people hide in nooks and crannies to be not seen. If America didnt try to hide their problems, this problem wouldnt be huge like this anyway and you wouldnt say this. Stop deluding yourself. America doesn't want to make anything great they just want to extort their citizens to get money, thats why government do not accept doing social homes, rehabilitation programs and keeps taking public school money to give private ones. This is why you guys have private insurance and medicare are not allowed to negotiate drug prices like other countries do.
It is kinda funny, how both US and Russia bash america for their problems 😁 at least something you agree upon
@TheBigBad2 In the US most of us don't even know we have problems because we see the problem situations as normal.
Why did the streets of San Francisco get cleaned up for the Xi visit? Isn't that hiding the problem? Also crime statistics and dangerous ghetto areas. But it's not considered hiding the problem because it is "right" whereas in Russia its "wrong"?
4:10 as a Turk I feel this so much. Whenever I go back to my hometown there’s twice as many buildings and half of them are just empty and useless. I have nothing wrong with governments funding construction projects when they help the people or provide some service that isn’t being provided normally, but it’s basically an open secret that politicians are getting major corruption money from these contractors.
I've been in Turkey more than 10 times, ang gotta give credit for placing trash bins every 20 meters, and trucks cleaning it every morning
How wasteful. Not even using those buildings for public housing?
As an American, the footage from Philadelphia appears to be the middle of COVID lockdowns when people did not want to go out or spend time in homeless shelters, and deferred medical care that wasn't absolutely necessary to avoid risking infection in hospitals from the sheer number of infected people, and was filmed in one of Philadelphia's most notorious neighborhoods. And if you were to go there now, it still wouldn't be perfect, but even that place would not necessarily be like in the video.
Native Philadelphian here.
1) Lower Kensington (where every Philly is a hellhole video is shot) is not representative of Philly at all. This is where police dump the poor, indignant, and ill.
2) the state of Lower Kensington is the direct result of the Philadelphia Eagles demanding a new stadium and rich people refusing to pay for it, instead slashing social services for the poor.
3) the human beings portrayed in videos of Lower Kensington are struggling with addiction, but they are still human beings. We choose to let them rot in this disgraced state - this is our shame on display, not theirs.
lol in london, the region called South Kensington is one of the wealthiest and most bussin parts of london
*indigent
But I'm sure most of them are (rightfully) indignant, too.
_'2) the state of Lower Kensington is the direct result of the Philadelphia Eagles demanding a new stadium and rich people refusing to pay for it...'_
I think you missed a step in there. It's this: And the gov't still going ahead to build the stadium without new financing to pay for it.
This is the gov't fault.
That said, the sport team is a private company and it ought to build its own stadium. This is not unique to Philadelphia. We had stadiums built for the Seoul '88 Olympic games and then built 10 more for the '02 World Cup (one in Seoul and one near it) even though half the matches were played in Japan that also built 10 stadiums.
Yuck Philly
Typical Blue state hellhole except you gaits stay in your mess and don’t migrate.
Also a native Philadelphian. Kensington is truly horrible, but many of those people who are struggling with addiction refuse the help of outreach workers who try to get them into treatment. The city and its surrounding suburbs have about 5 million people and you will find beautiful and down trodden neighborhoods, just like everywhere else.
Simply put: You don't compare Moscow to London for accuracy. Instead compare Dundee to Kyzyl. That is where the difference is: in the places that aren't used in propaganda and don't collect all the money from the rest of the country.
You have to remember that Russian economy was destroyed in 90's.All the development you see in Russia only happened in last two decades under Putin.
well, to be fair, there are other nice and clean cities in Russia like St Pete, Kazan, Ekb, Vladivostok, Vladimir, Suzdal etc. Many of them.. but Russia is huge though. Where's UK is way smaller and easier to take care of. That being said, I went to Blackpool in 2010s. Can't say it was the cleanest of the places.
I'm from Kyzyl seems like a fair comparison😂
Callum's Corner in the thumbnail representing British people, I love it 😂😂😂
This happens in the States too, my conservative Republican family members will post pictures of a ghetto in Detroit and say "This is how Democrats run things" then show a clean, well maintained house in the suburbs and claim "This is how Republicans run things"
I hate that, because as somebody they have family in Detroit, most a Detroit is not even that dirty
Ah yes, the republican party who are well known for caring very much about the environment and not trying to removing environmental protections.
@@justincaver324but the ghetto peoples from gangs admit it tho😭😭
My brother in law was telling me how horrible (whatever the poster child scapegoat liberal city it was at the time) was and how many homeless people were there before proceeding to tell me how Florida is the best place ever. Thankfully he shut up when I told him I’d actually been to multiple parts of Florida several times and everywhere I went you couldn’t throw a rock and not hit a homeless person.
@@jacehackworth6413WHAAAAT?? Florida couldn't possibly have any socio-economic issues!! Ron DeSantis says BASED THINGS on Twitter!! That means his state must be AWESOME!!! I AM VERY SMART
I live in Philadelphia and there's also incredibly nice parts of Philly with beautiful rowhomes, incredible brickwork and colonial architecture, great parks like Rittenhouse; they literally picked Kensington, an area with a terrible situation of Fentanyl / heroin addiction ... very sad situation there with not enough being done about it ... but not all of Philly is like that
I was expecting them to use Chestnut Hill and then bam it's Kensington
Ironically, Kensington in west London (which I assume the part of Philly is named after) is quite a nice area
@@5uper5kill3rz I live in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and I can confirm it's a great place to live.
Go birds! 🦅
@@johnt3psuGo Phils!
Russia is really good at making the place seem very nice if you cherry pick or just have a very touristy route. I remember travelling to Russia 20 years ago and the touristy places (usually around the Kremlins in the cities look impeccable. On the flipside on my travel home I had a layover in Frankfurt in Germany and traveled to the main train station to have a look around the city. People were begging, robbing, aggressing people in plain sight and there were tons of ads to sell your golden tooth for quick cash and the city stunk of smog.
So yeah on first glance Russia seemed much safer and Germany like a "failed state". However if you walked a bit away from tourist centers in Russian cities, suddenly there were not only bad streets, but no real streets at all, just dirt roads with wooden shacks. Even in the town centers intersections would flood regularly just because of some rain and just in general the place looked like a mess to live at. This is true everywhere in each city, the smaller the city, the fewer good looking roads existed.
Conversely in Germany, the main station in Frankfort is probably one of the worst places to go and walking a few streets away from it the feel actually improves a lot. Interesting tidbit, Eastern Europeans aren't necessarily malicious if they say that Western countries are dirty and run down. It comes from the way they travel. Most people can't afford long city trips, so they pay for a once a lifetime bus tour with 10 capitals in 5 days or similar. They are used to the capital being the nicest and most "fake nice" place in their own countries, so they expect the same to be true for Western European cities. So it is only logical to assume that if EU capitals look bad, that the rest of the country looks 100x worse, because that is the case for their home countries.
While in reality Western countries usually have uglier capitals and if you go out to smaller towns, there may not be much in terms of entertainment, however they become more peaceful, cleaner, less violent etc. While in Russia the villages become more "peaceful" too, less distracting electricity, running water or heating in houses, no distracting concrete and bricks for building, just moldy wood, less distractions by having too many jobs available or even real roads to get anywhere. (Might be exaggerated, I go by Belarus in recent years, there in most villages it is pick and choose, never more than half of these things being in working order).
There is a lot of ignorance going on in tourists from both places, however if you use your brain a little, you notice the discrepancies quickly. If you only visit one city outside of Moscow you just wonder wtf Moscow even is. It bears no resemblance to anything in Russia. And on a personal note, I can see why Russians speak that way of Moscow, it seemed like a snobbish rude place to me, even if the other places were poorer they felt humanly much more welcoming than Moscow. But I might be wrong, I know enough Russians who defend Moscow as one of the nicest places to live in Russia, but I honestly didn't see it, except of course for earning more money, however it is also so much more expensive than other places that I wonder how many actually really profit from that fact.
Russia in 90s was in really bad place and they admit themselves it was the lowest point in their existence, worse that Stalin's repressions, wtf are you talking about, it has obviously grown for the better since...
That was 20 years ago, right now in 2023 there's plenty of decent cities in Russia, every year the authorities work on restoring old cities and towns
You've probably been in Moscow a long time, if that's what you think. Russia is changing a lot for the better. Most Russian villages are semi-abandoned settlements in which there is neither agriculture nor industry and 50 people live, half of whom are summer residents. Do not compare them with the industrial and agricultural large villages of Western Europe, which are economically efficient and therefore look good.
This is what I felt like when I went to Chicago two years ago. We stayed in a more wealthy area which was well kept but when going to the south side you could see how run down and poor the area is. Basically every city tries to have one area that looks nice for the visitors and then the rest of the area is where everyone else lives in bad conditions. These videos are just cherrypicked.
@@kiplingwasafurry1108 Well, for example, there are no bad areas in Moscow where people live in bad conditions. You can see for yourself what the area that Muscovites consider the worst looks like. th-cam.com/video/EwaSRE-M5EM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rUigxEQU-ACLceCG There are normal living conditions there.
I have a Russian friend who became a US citizen and then got her parents out of Russia. Her father couldn’t believe that he could park his car on the outside his new home in the US and it wouldn’t get stolen. In his town in Russia he had to park his car in a secure rail yard 11 miles from his home.
honestly, I think that's actually a thing of the past (the 90s). my stepdad has been parking his car outside our commieblock for like a decade and nothing ever happened
Yea and they teach your kid at school that being trans is okay,bring drag queens to hold speech, and you pay for that school as well.
@@roman_nfkrz Please block @sigmaputin6888, he's a traitor to the UK
@@roman_nfkrz And i suggest that you make a video about Pro-Putin traitors like @sigmaputin6888 and others who spy for the Kremlin
@@roman_nfkrzI also suggest that you do another one but about the connection between Holodomor denial and Pro-Kremlin sentiment.
Holodomor denial is Ukrainophobia and it deserves to be treated as a Hate crime, as Hate Speech, as a crime and as Repulsive and offensive the same way as Holocaust denial.
I was recently sent the first video; sent by a Russian asking me if London is like this. I explained that like all major cities, there are problems, and trash is usually cleaned before morning. Still, as usual it's a pleasure to watch you produce an informative and well balanced video on the subject.
As a Londoner, I go to Soho reguarly. I've never seen it with this much trash, since I don't go there during big events such as Pride Parades. But I often see trash disappearing from a spot, within an hour after returning.
@@lucinae8512 I live in London as well, and I agree with you. There is rubbish here and there but generally streets are clean and people are normal.
@@lucinae8512 No dude, this isn't that much more than a normal weekend.
The UK may have some tough spots but being from the States I was always impressed by how limited space for development kept things nice. Here we build to last a couple decades then let it fall apart, the money moves further out. The automobile driving development made its marks on our culture. We're finally getting to the end of that, much changing in my lifetime. The 90s were the height of the throwaway sprawl. The slums being redeveloped. As a teenager the worst neighborhoods were the former neighborhoods of the rich in the 20s, with 5 floor walk up townhomes and urban castles turned burned out dope holes.
That's my face!
ayup Callum, how's India going for you?
It's because you represent the west at its worst!
You and Roman should give Russian propoganda the spinning elbow.
No it isn't, that's Sanjay Bennett. Number 1 Indian carer/cleaner
Poo
I'm from London and have been out in Soho on Friday/Saturday nights more times than I can remember and have never seen it look like this, so yeah clearly there was an event before, probably Pride like Roman said. I'll put it this way, there's a reason so many rich Russians (and Arabs, and Chinese, etc) spend so much time in London - because it's an incredible city
I've studied in Dresden. In June there is a big celebration in on of the districts in the Neustadt over a whole weekend. It is called Bunte Republik Neustadt and the streets were literally covered in trash 15-30cm deep on Sunday evening. All of this was cleaned by Monday morning at 5 or 6. And that's normal. Stuff like this is cleaned immediately in Germany.
Don't go to Berlin, a tip.
Im german this is true we through big partys likely chance your going to make it half way home before you pass out on a pench in the park
I live in Sweden and we have similar phenomena in big cities like Stockholm or Gothenburg. Still, I would prefer it if people didn't THROW TRASH EVERYWHERE just because they're drunk, even if some worker will clean it later.
OMG, that is so true. Neustadt after BRN can look like a warzone…
For a day…
And then - poof - everything is clean, everything is back in place, like it did not happen… First time I saw it, I thought it would take them good couple of days to clean it up, not couple of hours like it did (tbh, it must have been really intensive couple of hours…)
@@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation i think its very important that u have days for people were they just can relief themselfs a bit a lil trash kills no one but brings herlla fun if u dont think about stuff like that every minute at the party and if its paid like the even in london here as someone mentoined in the comments by the pride orginaziers so no tax money is used i think its perfect.
They should also compare Moscow to Oslo, Stockholm & Copenhagen, but I guess that would be just too embarrassing and sad for the Russians.
Plus their favourite argument that all European women are ugly will be completely destroyed
Well actually I was brainwashed into thinking like that too. I really thought that European women are much uglier than Russian
Can you name at least 3 things why these cities are better than Moscow?
Oslo Stockholm or ex Russian village _ Hesinki are just some ret@rd backyards compared to Moscow, Moscow was recognized as the best city in 2019 - 2023 by UN , you are just villagers in any terms, most of your euro population still living in villages on farms, meanwhile 90% Russians living in towns , that's why all what you can do , just comparing your big villages with Russian Dachas rural areas , to rise your ego.
@@КирЕрмаков-з9ьhe can’t
New nfkrz vid got me gooning and I haven’t even gotten 20 seconds in yet.
What 😭
Wow bro same here
I went to the Mardi Gras festival in St. Louis (USA) a few years ago and it was just like the trashy area in London that you showed. The next day I visited the same area and there were cleanup crews everywhere, picking up the tiniest scraps. Obviously there are bad parts of town here, and even dangerous parts, but life in America is in general what you make of it. You have freedom of opportunity to a great extent but nobody is going to guarantee that things are to your liking. There is an old proverb: If you want something done right, do it yourself.
Wouldn’t except that from St. Louis ngl lol
You should have seen the Tokyo streets after the Halloween night
What opportunities are there in the United States that Russia does not have?
Right now, we have the opportunity to live our lives without being forced to join the army. I hope that doesn't change.
@@MrDEWaters Your country loves to attack small defenseless countries and is constantly at war. But sooner or later, poor knowledge of the geography of Americans and dementia in the ranks of the decrepit political elite will make themselves felt and the United States, instead of attacking some Jordan, will attack Iran and then some of the Americans will fall under forced mobilization. By the way, in Russia now only volunteers are recruited for the front. So what else opportunities do you have comparing with Russia?
4:33 As a brit, Most of the UK looks like that on a Saturday night all year round, pride or not, but is cleaned up by the next day.
Plymouth is one of the cleanest cities I've ever seen. Even during Covid.
It's insane to me how simple the propaganda is in Russia and also how effective it is. Insane. So many people just lost to propaganda.
Human psychology is kinda dumb that way. If you just repeat the lie enough it eventually works to some degree at least. It requires active countermeasures to prevent, unfortunately
this is at 1930s Italy level
@@Infodumptruck yeah like the hollo caust narrative...never ending...the 11th commandment we must believe...although cities in US/UK/Can are as the Russian says they are...like it or not
If you think Russians are stupid, look at western right wingers that support Russia.
The vast majority of views and comments on that channel are from bots. So it's not that effective as they want you to think
I lived in central Lisbon (near the castle and Alfama) for just short of two years. On my last evening, Lisbon held its annual street party, loads of people, drinking, street food etc.etc.until the early hours. I had to be up before 5 am to get a taxi to the airport. By the time I got downstairs to the taxi, the cleanup crews had been, clearing the rubbish and washing the streets. Same in Berlin and Paris and London etc.etc. It's how _civilised_ countries tend to operate.
Problem is that many people are not so civilised to drop their garbage in the bin. Busy shopping streets stay pretty clean, but when there’s a party is OK just to drop the rubbish on the street. Isn’t that weird?
I live in The Netherlands and there is a tradition of using fireworks during new year. The local cleaning squads would have to clean the streets the next day. The mentality/awareness of most people luckily changed, meaning that they will clean up the street themselves. Why wouldn’t that be possible with street parties?
Maybe there’s hope for humanity;-)
In my town they have carnival the streets turn into a slop of confetti crushed candy and other crap. it takes a few days to clean because some people keep partying for over 24 hours and often the weather will be so bad the next day they can't even clean. so it will take between 3 to 7 days normally. but after the first few days its already a lot cleaner but there is still junk in the corners
@@Thesummerismagic12 "but when there’s a party is OK just to drop the rubbish on the street. " It is a simple fact of reality that large events have far more people and therefore users of a space than typical daily street use. The trashcans WILL absolutely be over capacity. Nothing weird about that.
"that they will clean up the street themselves." Those cleaning squads still come out the next day. Do you think sloshed NYE celebrants are immediately able to clean up after themselves in the dark?
@@Thesummerismagic12 no, they remove the bins on purpose for big events, in case of any terrorist potentials. To keep people safe, and so some poor street cleaner does not get harmed. Littered streets are not really dirty they are just super untidy for a bit and can be cleaned up. So it is messy versus safety and safety wins every time. All the paper waste you see comes from thousands and thousands of advertising leaflets that most people do not even read.
It's an effectively organized cleaning system, but that still doesn't excuse littering in my opinion. Don't throw your trash in the street, even if "someone else will clean it later".
This is so true! I spent 19. 5 years in Moscow and travelled around 84/85 of Russia's regions.
Some places really are depressing - the suburbs of Vladivostok, Vorkuta, or Murmansk.
Before people make. an excuse, there are plenty of places outside Moscow such as Novokuznetsk, Kemrovo, Omsk, Ivanovo where the standard of living is noticeably lower than in Moscow
If some regions make you sad, then this is not a problem of living standards, but of urbanism and aesthetics. The average standard of living in Russia is not lower than in Western Europe, but the appearance of cities is not so pleasant, it is 100% true.
@@КирЕрмаков-з9ь At first sight maybe but then what's the average salary in Russia compared to Finland? Germany and the Netherlands for example?
@@КирЕрмаков-з9ь actually, it's DRAMATICALLY lower! The HDI of Russia is in the 0.700s while in the US, it's 0.927 and ranges from 0.900 to 0.980 in western and Northern Europe.
@@Dave05J The Human Development Index is a typical product of Western propaganda, which disguises itself as a scientific study by an independent apolitical public organization, but in fact is based on lies and manipulation, like many other Western ratings that are funded by the West itself. Don't be naive, broaden your horizons, explore alternative sources and don't let yourself be deceived. And remember: Russia is the best country to live in.
Just pointing out though... Your winter in St. Petersburg isn't that far off from here in Canada... Slush, ice, falling ice, bad cleaning, icy sidewalks, snowed in cars etc. is very much a winter problem... For countries with real winters.
Yup, Western Canada facing the Pacific is definitely more wet but good luck if you live above the treeline or in the Arctic circle. Even the prairies can have pretty nasty winter seasons
In Canada, the owner of the property has to clean the snow themselves. If someone falls and is injured, you can get sue. It's part of the law.
Pride parade in Vienna is actually the coolest day we have in the whole year. Lots of fun, nice people and good vibes. Would gladly compare it to any other day in Moscow.
Pride as a notice is banned in Russia.
I had to travel to russia for work and the first time I went there I stayed some time in Moscow first and thought, wow this is quite a nice place. Then I arrived in Nischny Novgorod for work and... I was shocked how awful it was. I really didnt expect it to be so bad, that changed my perspective quite a bit.
😁😁😁😁
go to Saint Petersburg, best city
@@triphophaven 🤡
What year were you in Nizhny Novgorod? What was the problem with Nizhny Novgorod? A pile of garbage? Graffiti on the walls, lots of homeless people and beggars? Pickpockets, scammers, prostitution on the streets? Street gangs and shootouts? Are there a lot of drug addicts high? Human excrement scattered on the streets and the smell of urine? Lack of proper public transport to get to any place in the city? Poor service in restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, banks?
Where exactly have you been in Nizhny Novgorod? I mean I've been living there my whole life (until 2022) and it depends, right now the city center is quite pretty and definitely not bad (I'm not talking about the quality of the tiles, I'm only talking about their look). The local kremlin, hills, rivers, sunsets, if you go deeper thou into such arias as where the local automobile factory is located, that's horrible, i agree, but I mean that is not the worst city in Russia for SURE. Bolshaya Pokrovskatya st, Rozhdestvenskaya st, all the city center is very good looking. And I mean I've been traveling, I've been to such cities as Prague, Budapest, Barcelona, Viene, Stockholm etc So I can compare. No doubt you can't compare Nizhny with Barcelona, but you totally can compare it with Alicante, and in my personal opinion the old towns can level. Distant areas are all f*cked up in all Russian cities, and not only in Russian ones
The propaganda is EVERYWHERE thx for calling it out.
I see a lot of "street tour" videos of big Chinese cities that look WAY nicer than most of China actually is
We are living in a veritable "golden age" of propaganda, mis/disinformation and bullshit. What a time to be alive.
Yeah they should film only shitty areas so "people" like you wouldn't say that it's propaganda 🤦♀️
Average NAFO bot out here comparing a city to a mountain range. How is it that you people always come up with shit like "uuhh, well look, this one place in this GIGANTIC country is underfunded, so the whole country is shit, because there are shit parts". It's pointless to say something to shit on russia or China when the exact same applies to the west.
@@australianpainter42069 Ah yes because all of China looks like Beijing, just going to forget the miles upon miles of poor farmland. Also love the quotation marks you placed for "people," really shows your true colors, mate lmao.
@@australianpainter42069clearly you, a real "person" didn't watch the video or didnt understand it. Or you're just an apologetic propagandist yourself. Go away troll. And if you're doing this voluntarily, shame on you.
As a viewer of your videos who is from Philadelphia I can assure that the footage used is from a section of the city called Kensington or "K and A". It is legit the biggest drug haven in the country. If you go through on ANY DAY there are literal human zombies walking or flailing around 24 hours a day. But of course this an area that comprises . 01% of the total size of Philadelphia so yeah, not the best complete representation.
Also, the second you said; "I'm going to show you a video comparing Moscow to Philadelphia" I said; "I guarantee it's going to be a clip showing Kensington" because it is that commonly known to locals like myself that it is easy bait for propaganda. Surprised the clip didn't say how Philadelphia is the birthplace or democracy, the Constitution, etc.
Yep, same here. Right away I was waiting to see the “zombies”.
I've watched a bunch of these Kensington videos and they all show the same few blocks, seems to be a pretty small area where the druggies hang out.
I was living in Beijing during the floods earlier this year. Not only was all media coverage of it blocked, but the police and the military actually went out to put barriers in front of some of the worst effected areas. the forbidden City was underwater (first time in history) but no one saw this on the news. Millions of businesses in the region went out of business and havent come back, and my apartment was a disaster zone. The underground parking is still inaccessible and my building was one of tens of thousands effected. You wont see any of that without looking for it but you will find lots of propaganda showing happy tourists in Beijing. Most of the shops are closed of course, including my favourite restaurant near the centre. It was set up by an American-Chinese woman, who spent nearly a million dollars renovating and investing in it, she got no compensation when it was all destroyed and washed away, and ended up being arrested for posting about it online. I havent seen or heard of her since. Thats what you get folks if you want freedom of expression in an authoritarian country. I moved to Taipei last month. never been happier.
god bless the ROC (Taiwan)!
嗚哇超酷的！你是怎麼來的😮
When I've been to Moscow in 2018, I liked it, but also noticed, that, if you leave the "presentation roads", even if you go a little longer or further down the nowaija arbatskaja, its becoming a complete different town and its getting way dirtier. This is all over Moscow the same. Its also the same with my beloved Piter. Leave Nevskii and go to Vasilievski Island, or down south towards Kuptchino or North towards Ozerki, its big, but some buildings are worn out. They might've been beautiful, but thats been long ago. And it doesnt take much to see this. Just go from Isaaks Cathedral towards Blagoevchenskij Bridge, not along Anglevskaja Bereschnaja (English Embankment) but the smaller streets. I've nearly been hit by a falling part from a house. It hit the ground fewer than 20cm right behind me or seconds late. And then I went to some more rural Russian Towns (not far from Wologda & Voronezh). There is beauty, wild landscapes and historic sites but also broken electric lines, rotten houses which would've been abandoned for ages in Europe but here people were living. No real roads, mud everywhere. The bunch of rats which crossed the street in the night only two streets away from Red Square became suddenly funny again, did fell this much out of touch. Russia is a beautiful country, but with incredible issues and everybody there knows about the paper covers in front of the buildings on streets prepared for tourist.
Vasiliewski is dirty af too. I spend here all the time
What country is the other places in?
@@Darkest_matter I dont understand your question.
@@Darkest_matterall of those were specifically Russia.
He talked about close cities near Moscow, capital of Russia
1. Россия - лучшая страна для жизни в мире.
2. Никакие здания в России не подготавливают специально для туристов. Их просто закрывают на время реставрации.
3. За 20 лет жизни в Москве видел крысу только пять раз.
4. Никакой грязи на окраинах Москвы нет, мусор может быть только в тех местах где производится строительные работы.
5. Самые бедные люди в России живут в плохих старых домах в то время как самые бедные люди в США живут в палатках прямо на тротуарах.
Roman, you are doing great work. This strategy was copied by the Chinese as well and apparently tiktok is a great weapon in their PR campaign to build a similar narrative of good China vs rotting West. Given your proficiency in Mandarin I was wondering if you can make a video comparing the Russian propaganda and the Chinese stuff, which should be very interesting.
well, there are nice places in China like Shanghai (I grew up there) but they’re not nicer than most European cities
There are also other channels like that guy from South Africa that shows things the Chinese government wouldn't want you to see, like for example how they handled the recent flood
Proficiency in mandarin? What?
@@TrolligiShanghai is always given as the example of the most western of Chinese cities, to the point it's almost nothing like the rest of the country
China and Russia cooperate on propaganda efforts. They borrow each other actors even
I'm an American who went to London back in May. It was a very clean city and the atmosphere was beautiful. The inly complaint I have is that the concrete and pavement is really hard. I mean, your feet will be in excruciating pain after walking for about 10 minutes or so.
Soooo...
The Concrete and Pavement in London is really hard....
JESUS CHRIST ON A MOTORBIKE!!!!
@MrBassman15 No dude, it is not clean. The mall and St. James park maybe. But they can't even keep Hyde Park clean. The place is sh*t.
That’s your biggest complaint? What cities have soft sidewalks? It’s concrete, occasionally brick or cobblestone. Sounds more like you had horrible shoes! Did you have shoes on ?
@@Cocoisagordonsetter You Serious ?Concrete is hard there too? Then Where in the world is the Soft Concrete ?
Asphalt is actually softer then concrete, and being black it absorbs the sun more, thus is hotter. I guess you have to deal with it year round opposed to east coast in summer. Are there people that walk barefoot on it? I always think Why when there is grass next to it to walk on. Maybe they mastered walking on Hot Coals?
Be Safe out there, Don't want you getting 3rd degree burns!!
The paving slabs around the palace and that area were quarried from solid stone from Lancashire. The Empire State Building is built from bricks or Norrie bricks which are made in Accrington uk same area .British bricks are the best it’s a fact
Nice and unexpected to see Callum on your thumbnail, I'm sure he will love it being the poster boy for depressing Britain. 😂
Sanjay’s gonna be fuming
@@JB-wh9ux 😆
Russia: Has worst pavement
Balkan Roads: Hold my Rakija
Adevărat lol 💀
Love your straight talking videos. If you travel enough and meet enough people from different countries, you'll realize were all the same just wanting to live our lives but the Governments and Media create the problems
Love your content Roman.
From my experience there is usually tons of litter and rubbish all over the street and pavement in London, they get cleaned up regularly but the people don't want to use bins so they just keep on littering making a mess for no reason, even though there are bins on every corner.
I've never understood people who litter like that, total lack of class
@@YBM2007it’s just simple laziness
Its funny how the majority off comments come from russian bots, with english names or just numbers !
Спасибо, что рассказываешь людям всё как есть на самом деле!
privet putin-xx#xx#xx#x
@vladislavdracula7534 либераха? А кто это?
Everyone beeeeeennn knew yall being poor and struggling
@vladislavdracula7534да вроде он все норм показывает. Последний раз в Лондоне я был в 2018 году, и какого-то ужаса я там не увидел
Ооочень субъективно.
As always, a fair and realistic representation of the topic. Nowhere is perfect and every country will have very nice areas and others that are struggling.
I see Callum and I click.
the thumbnails got in me in tears, why is tic tac callum adams there 😂
😆 Lol, my thoughts exactly. 👍
Thank you for being fair and I always respect your good work. The Russians (not all of them) make the West small in order to feel big themselves and that has always been the case, probably comes from the old Soviet times, the eternal competition and that's how you can keep national pride high. This arogance and ignorance gets on my nerves so much.
I had contact with Russian-Germans who went back to Russia because of the Ukraine war. They said Western women can no longer be feminine enough, even in Paris they don't wear dresses anymore and it's nice to see beautiful women. It's just strange that they themselves were simple and plain people and wore pants, but with them it's always something different.
Bruh ! The Europeans (not all of them) make the EAST small in order to feel big themselves and that has always been the case !! You know how i know !? ... Im from Europe !!! Salut
@@TheBorg01 Old communists from Europe have the same opinion. There is a difference between coming from Europe and being a real European. Salut.
@@gabe8390 Bruh learn some history first !! Of old european imperial powers and how smug they wore , not only towards Eastern Europe wich they tried numerius times to conquer and expand to... That Austrian painter coined well that old europan dream of expansion to the east as "Lebensraum" !. But the pinacle of colonialism and its justifications was " make the Colonies small in order not only to feel big themselves, but to jusitify their colonialism and imperialism !!
@@gabe8390 I know all europeans , i know they mentality , i know how they look upon other people !!! that smug colonial mindset of them being superior of everyone else is still prevalent today !!!
@@TheBorg01 You mean the Vikings who were in Russia. Putin also likes to talk about history recently. Then you will know about Russian history, why Russia is so big and why many colonies in the Soviet Union were subjugated. For Info: In Serbia, where Roman is currently, the communist party dissolved last year 2022 because a new left-wing party was founded and still likes Russia.
Man you are a wildfire for humanity...take care and carry on - guess you are not alone - love your integrity and your content
I would love to see comparisons to anything else than Moscow in Russia. Outside Moscow and St. Petersburg centers this country looks like a 3rd world place.
And it is. Considerable percentages of the country do not have running water and sewage connections to their houses. It's why Russian soldiers had a lot of publicity as they looted toilets from Ukraine.
Have you ever been to the Vasya In The Hay channel? He documents places around Kaluga (pretty close to Moscow) and how he tries to help the down and out there. Pretty grim. Vaga Vagabond who's more about rail travel, but he goes ALL over the country and he doesn't try to hide or highlight "unpleasantness" www.youtube.com/@ivantrainsLIVE
do a comparison to Yakutia
most of Russia looks like a low income neighbourhood in western Europe. it reminds me of the place some people i knew lived while they saved up to buy a house or certain people who waste all their money. i was considering living in such a place but i got very lucky and found a cheap house.
It is an exagerration. Only villages and poorest towns look like third world. or a stereotype of third world which we usually imagine. Most middle-size and large towns are OK. ALthough there are exceptions
I am an ethnic Russian from Lithuania and been living in the UK for the past 12 years and frankly, I have never seen much difference between countries on average and I've traveled a fair share in my life, including quite a few trips to Russia. All countries have good cities and bad cities, same as all big cities have good areas and bad areas. For example, Moscow looks better than smaller towns, but some areas are much better than the others. Same goes for London, there are good areas and bad areas. Then if you move out of London, you have cities like Luton or Stoke that are much much worse than the capital, but even they have nice areas. I live in Stoke and some places are straight from horror movies with trash, rubbish, chavs, potholes, drug addicts, broken glass etc., but you walk for 10 minutes and get to a nice clean green area. And it's not a Stoke problem, it's a global problem. Moscow will always be better than Chelyabinsk and London will always be better than Stoke and comparing them all is plain stupid, especially for propaganda purposes. Wherever you live, cherish good places and try improving bad ones. Amen.
Stoke? Stoke-on-trent? Ha! Nice. What a small world! Hello from down the A50 motorway!
But yeah. I can personally back your words up there. Every bit of it its true. Good old stoke. Heh.
Do you live in Germany now?
Interestingly i find a lot of russians coming to britain and ukrainian refugees were initially terrified of the idea of living in villages, because over there villages arnt middle class like here but full of the kind of social problems we associate with inner city estates here
@@bastig333 Nah, I still live in the UK, it's been my home for almost half of my conscious life. I have been to Germany a few times, one time stayed for a relatively long period, south of Munich. Again, same story applies - there are good bits, there are bad bits, all towns/cities in all countries share the same thing.
@@Ukraineaissance2014 I came way before the immigration inflation, so cannot agree or disagree, but personally I've never been scared of living in smaller towns. Possibly cause I am a bit of an introvert and prefer smaller quieter towns over big cities. But frankly, I lived all over the place, London, Portsmouth, Stoke, you name it, and the further North you go, the better people get and so do surroundings, if you can see past fancy shops and bright lights. I would never trade Stoke for London - yes, London has nicer bits here and there, but on average Stoke is better by a mile if you are a person who likes a genuine comfort of life and can't be arsed with chaos.
You should visit Canada in winter! The roads and sidewalsks during winter and early spring are the exact same mess as in Russia! You should compare countries with SIMILAR CLIMATE CONDITIONS! There are puddles, black ice, and you have to hopp over huge puddles and huge piles of snow! And I mean in large cities and the national capital as well as in small ones.
Can you give proofs?
Many pictures, can show you some. Roads conditions are terrible in Montreal
@@SuperKillburnProof is literally the city(s) themselves. Pay a visit some day! Or look at pics.
As a person who has been really into the history of Russia from the Tsardom to The 2010s you’ve been helping me understand what normal life is like compared to and understand the country and its peoples more and keeping me updated on recent events inside the country. Thanks.
BRO DON'T JUDGE RUSSIA BASED ON SOME RANDOM TH-camR WHO'S DESPERATE FOR A WESTERN VISA.
MAYBE IF YOU WOULD LIKE, YOU CAN GO AND EXPERIENCE IT BY YOURSELF.
NOT ALL OF THEM ARE BAD PPL
@@JesseDapookay, lol
@@JesseDapo Who said anything about bad people?
@@teonguyen7955 APART FROM IT'S POLITICAL ISSUES, THE NATION ISN'T THAT BAD AS HOW OUR FAVORITE NEIGHBORHOOD JACKASS IS TRYING TO PORTRAY IT TO BE.
TRUST ME WHEN I SAY, RUSSIA IS A DREAM TO MANY.
GO TO SOME PARTS OF AFRICA (NOT ALL) YOU'LL KNOW THAT RUSSIA IS A DREAM.
UNLIKE ROMAN OVER HERE COMPLAINING ABOUT A SHAKING TILES 😒🤦🏾♀️💔
I can recommend agent nestys channel as well
You: "I lived in a provincial city of 1.000.000 people."
Me, that never lived in a town with more than 10.000 people: "that's one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind."
I know so many people who moved to my city of 5m because its the big city, and I also know so many who grew up here and left because it felt too small. I can only wonder what someone who grew up in a city of 20m feels, where can they go haha
Same, if Roman lived in a "provincial town" then I might be a hillbilly in my town of less than 6,000 inhabitants
Look at Chelyabinsk suburbs on google street view. Russia is really depressing.
Hello Roman. Your videos are ALWAYS right on the mark. I find them among the best educated and informed of any on YT. Your brand of satire is pure gold! Excellent work. PS Your English is impeccable.
I'm from Bosnia and I lived until recently in Berlin for two and a half years. It shocked me that most of the neighbourhoods, except for the really boujee ones on the outskirts, are often way worse than Sarajevo. Trash, feces, used up condoms and needles everywhere. People are throwing out their old furniture on the street and nobody is picking it up for weeks sometimes, then other people just start piling their trash, used diapers etc. on that furniture. Its fucking disgusting. On top of that, there are a lot of aggressive and deranged people walking on the streets, harassing people and just being generally dicks. But it is definitely NOT in all Western cities like that. Munich is wonderful, clean and people are waaay more civilized and pleasant for example. Thats just my observation.
I moved to Vienna now and its a whole different world. Sure, you can cherry pick some shitty parts like Favoriten in the 10th district, but even that is a fucking Japanese hospital compared to Berlin.
According to Florian Klenk of "Falter" weekly most Austrians don't recognize how good they have it here. He thinks the conditions here are more comparable to scandinavian countries rather than Germany.
That is thanks to our newcomers. No hate though
@@SyndicateBastard Ohh the new comers. Blame them all for the personal shortcomings. When the district mayor started to limit spending on utilities... Whilst Germans can't tax rich people, who really evade tax...
Yeah, Berlin has some very bad neighborhoods.
But on the flipside, rent is also generally cheaper there compared to other big cities (Munich, Vienna etc.)
@@ulipeterson6112 Don't know about that. From what I was hearing until some years ago Munich, Hamburg and a few more big german ones were generally more expensive than Vienna. Less true for Berlin. Germany has sold off all public housing to private companies many years ago, so the results are not exactly surprising.
Roman your videos are very important specially in this misinformation era. Please do not stop making your content! I will always support your videos 💪
Yeah seen many many videos of Russian reality on Natasha's channel as well. 👍🏻🇬🇧😎
Thanks for telling us (the world) the reality.
Love those low-key Bald and bankrupt disses!
I lived in North East London and born in Homerton Hospital, Hackney. I have seen so much difference between countries in Europe. Love your content Roman.
Ayup you used Callum’s corner in your thumbnail. He likes London but….
there's too many of them there
3:26 What surprises me even more than the implementation is the choice of pavement type in a place with so much ice and snow. It seems to me this is the most difficult type of pavement to maintain outdoor in this particular weather, and most likely to slip. But I might be wrong. Is it designed to drain water?
It is designed to be replaced once in a few years while you're in control of state/province/city budget.
Asphalt is not better,
I love how the comments under that cartoony propaganda all sound like literal bots
and its an insult to bots because current A.I is smarter than these people tbh
The comment on Ukraine is literally just copy-and-paste.😂
Happy to know that we all prefer to live in our own country. Cheers from Denmark🇩🇰🇩🇰
You made a video or two with Bald and Bankrupt, when did you come to the conclusion that his intentions aren't really "sightseeing" when he visits Eastern Europe?
Fun fact - we have exact same guy in Poland but he targets Latin America and makes tons much more money than BaB. Many of his fans actually view him as a model for his exploitations of women and viewers.
He did the dirty on roman a bit, blocked him a few years back without any reasin or message, then the internet found out about balds previous charges back in britain and roman rightfully cut ties
Roman escaped from russia, Bald would suck Putin and Stalin dick for some rubles so we can all guess that they werent compatible. @@Ukraineaissance2014
Many people don't know, but there a lot of muslims in russia, mega religious muslims.
Not that I have anything against hard working muslims
The West has (not) fallen
Thank you Roman for sharing your video… we in the Western countries do have issues… myself living in Vancouver Canada… we have a big homeless and drug addiction problem which is basically across Canada… big issue is the Fentanyl epidemic that is affecting the drug addicted population… Even in Russia … drug addiction is a serious problem
Whilst rent is 2000 $ a month in Vancity....
In central London they took away the trash bins a few years ago and replaced them with extra street cleaning.
As someone who’d lived in the states for some time-I only have one question that’s been getting at me-why is Russia obsessed with us? I have never seen such “we’re better than those guys over there!”, not even once.
There are problems here you say? We know, thanks
It’s an old rival thing I’m guessing
@@donaldtrumplover2254 Wouldn't be surprised. Back then when they were known as being the biggest chunk of the USSR, they were a super power to be reckoned with and going toe to toe with the U.S. in the Cold War. Now they're more or less a shadow of their former Soviet glory while the US managed to remain as a super power that holds, for a lack of a better term, a level of prestige.
@@donaldtrumplover2254 it’s pathetic
Good to see the Callum’s corner reference in the thumbnail 🤣🤣🤣
I want to see a comparison between the villages one hour away from Moscow vs villages one hour away from London/Berlin/New York
That's when you realize how backwater of a country Russia is
For me london's main attraction is how fancy it looks.
Obviously the centre, but even places like canary wharf, for how soulless and corporate it is, still is very impressive
Roman with the low key bald n bankrupt disses 😂
As a Pennsylvanian, I am simultaneously proud and not proud. That wasn’t even the worst footage of Philly because certain parts of it has been shitholes for a while now, but behind much of that footage is actually an iconic, historic, and beautiful city. A google image search is all It takes to find that out.
As an Iranian-American who was born in Iran and grew up in the US, I also studied in London during law school and it was one of the greatest experiences of my life. That was nearly 15 years ago. The London of today is *not* the London that I once knew, and it’s appalling what 15 years of Tory rule has done to the UK. Even with all their hooting and hollering about Brexit, it was the Tories who imported all these Islamist terrorists into the country. I’m thankful AF to live in California, and not in a country where terrorists can openly hold rallies with hundreds of thousands of their groupies.
With that being said: I would rather be free and homeless in the West than live anywhere inside of Russia, China, or any Muslim country. Freedom is priceless.
"I'm an immigrant, but I hate immigrants who came after me... "
@@ZuhairEDP because as an immigrant, I and this poster actually try to assimilate instead of stirring shit. That’s why of all the groups, Muslims tend to be the worst.
A christian, a jew, an atheist, a hindu, and a buddhist could live in the same neighborhood
But add a muslim with their asinine shariah laws? That’s when doodoo hits the fan.
I can top your Russian hood story. Once when I was in St. Petersburg as an exchange student I saw a homeless man outside walking past the school with literally one of his eyes hanging down from his eye socket. And everybody was like "dont get involved". I still cannot believe it 20 years later, but on the other side a lot has improved since then.
Yeah not far from where I live in Saint Petersburg, rather close to the centre, they couldn't clean the dead pigeon's corpse from the sidewalk for week. It happened this autumn. After that when I see that there are Russians who say EU is dirtier I facepalm🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀🤦♀
Also, RIP pigeon. poor bird. I think it is tragic how many birds die due to car-dependent city planning. Not to mention pets, and people
We got dead pigeon's in western europe too
@@belstar1128 does it take weeks to clean though?
@@KateeAngel Yes they just let it lay there. sometimes a random person picks it up and throws it in the bin after a while
😅во первых как это говорит о чистоте города
Во вторых если это что то там и показывает то это сугубо ваша вина ведь раз он вас так раздражал почему не вызвали сан инспекцию или на крайний случай сами бы не выбросили одев перчатки 🤔даже интересно что за случай 😮 а может это выдумка
Thank you very much, I always wished I could dig, find and understand info such as this on my own, but I can’t, so thanks again.
As a guy who grew up in philadelphia: yeah, that's Kensington. I wonder what a street 5 miles away from the Kremlin would look like.
Great comment
I dig how Roman keeps it real and sincere, unlike North Korean defector Yeonmi Park. She's got legit reasons to spill about the nightmare in North Korea, but she's totally sold out to American right-wing propaganda. She's pushing this illogical idea that you should just swallow the crap in a capitalist society because, hey, it's better than North Korea. On the flip side, my dude here uses his experience to help us cut through the BS, no matter where you're at. He's all about speaking from a global community perspective.
I hate her so much. Yeah we know, north Korea is a bad place, we get it... But she literally just went in the opposite direction. She appreciates America.... But not the people in china who smuggled her out of Korea and got her to a safe country (for a north Korean)
Yes unfortunately a lot of these north korean escapees start talking about how usa is do great etc etc. But they came out of a very poor country so its expected.
Yeonmi Park is a liar and a farce. She comes from a very well off rich family in North Korea and was nicknamed the "Paris Hilton" of north korea by her friends there. Google this if you don't believe me!
NO! NO! NO! If you want to see a CLEAN city it’s not in the west or Moscow it’s Tokyo! It’s the most pristine city. And they don’t even have public trash cans on the street. You keep your trash and take it home or go in to a restroom to throw it away. Tokyo is insanely clean!
Dude, ALL of Japan is clean. The whole country is fucking insanely beautiful
I feel like the rest of Russia’s relationship with Moscow is very similar to rest of Canada’s relationship with Toronto 😅
It's the same "country vs capital" sentiment everywhere. People from smaller cities and the countryside feel misrepresented by the super-urban "big shots" (as they might call them) and it's always a bit true, too. In austria the people say "Vienna is different" when they want to put it polite and "We'll trade Vienna for South Tyrol!" when they don't (south tyrol is german speaking, but got taken away from austria and given to italy over a century ago). Of course, that's just teasing.
As a Russian, I will say that 90% of everything said is true
American and veteran new yorker here!! Just got done my honeymoon in London and Paris , both are great cities... beautiful people lovely cultures, cant complain haha
Kongratz on your wedding. I wish you both happiness!
Actually, germany put empty cans and bottles NEAR the bin because there is a deposit on them. Thisway, people who need money can collect them easily and bring them to whatever store is selling beverages, and get 25 cent for each one-way bottle or can. When buing certain beverages in Germany you pay those 25 cents extra for one-way containers, so that the can or bottle is brought back for recycling. This is also to encourage multi-use bottles, which have a lower deposit.
This reminds me of being in Liverpool following their victory in the Championship league a few years ago and passing off its streetscape then as indicative of the city as normal. It does get very dirty during these festivals but they are only usually to this standard for the duration of the parade. after that the city normally gets cleaned up
omg this is so messed up. im crrying because of how completely relatable it was to hear your struggle walking in the snow. where i live some stupid person decided to lax on the desnowing and it became impossible to walk to go anywhere in the morning you would end up with 1 foot of snow accumulating extremely fast and like it was so incredibly stressful to just live a normal life. i feel so validated right now. and im so sorry thats what you were going through so often when you lived over there.
godspeed homie
NFKRZ: "Guys, please prepare to clean up the grime and shit off the streets, it's almost winter, there's going to be tons of snow."
Chelyabinsk: "Откуд знаешь, Шайтан!?"
I had the chance to be in San Petersburg. In Russia, I experienced things you would never think possible anywhere else. At the international airport, the security guard yelled at me in russian until I finally understood what was being asked of me :D Even though she knew I didn't understand russian, she still didn't miss the opportunity to yell at a confused Westerner :D International airport in russia :D
And while the subways in St Petersburg are certainly cleaner than in NYC (but not as clean as in Kazakhstan :P ), I prefer countries where it's not normal for officials to shout at tourists.
Philadelphian here. Kensington Ave is just ONE street. The whole city isn't like that.
I am a Londoner. It is an absolutely beautiful city. Vibrant, thriving, interesting, excellent infrastructure, diverse, generally pretty clean.
There are some rough neighbourhoods and it is too expensive to live in but the above is still true.
im from Argentina, Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, and this is basically too, in propagandas, they sell that the city is always clean and perfect, when in reality, in day or night, is always full of garbage and rats the size of chihuahuas.
American here, I’ve gone down a Russian wormhole lol; fascinating to hear your sentiments about Putin