Sadly that's not the case anymore to me patriotism is another form of politicization of maintaining and worshiping the nation state. In of itself is cancerous
Yeah and in America what's wrong is the fact the government is too busy focused on expanding the military industrial complex and filling the pockets of war profiteers by pushing a proxy war and funding neo-Nazi batallions. Bet you didn't think about that wrong, huh?
Indeed, a patriot wants what is best for their country, wants their country to be the best that it can be, and that means trying to fix your own country's problems.
“You guys just stop! Let ME explain to YOU what Russia is doing…” a woman from Vermont (does not even speak Russian, never been east of France) shutting up 2 guys: Georgian and Lithuanian, who grew up/ lived in their home countries and came for grad school to USA. True story. Happened in Boston some years ago. I wanted to jump off the bridge.
@@537monster they don't as journeys show you how different the world is and everyone has it right to live peaceful on their own ground. War wouldn't be possible with a higher educated society in Russia, or stupid propaganda
Oh absolutely. I love being told (as a Pole) that I shouldn't support Ukraine bcus Wolyhn or that Katyn was done by Nazis, or how Poland is an imperialist bottomeater because we fought for territories we perceived as "Polish" because we weren't even invited to drawing borders in 1918
None of us say that. Every country should be able to chose for itself, as should: Cuba, Bolivia, Vietnam etc. And most of us just want to tell people how the west either exaggerates numbers, or when not, It's still hypocritical since the US commits many of the same atrocities, and the claim of "anti-communism" as a war goal is just used for imperialist exploitative war. However in this case, Russia is obivously doing exactly that, also many communists don't seem to get that Russia ≠ Soviet Union. No matter how much one idolizes it. This is pretty stupid and goes completely against marxist doctrine. This is just another imperialist war, just this time it's Russia.
@@brain_bank48 Why do all of you always need us to prove ourselves to you? Like what, I have to be a specific age, have to have worked under the hard conditions were complain about, and be an economics major as well, just to be *allowed* to hold the opinion of being a socialist??? I've heard that like ten times already. Get original.
@@6000. Cause historic mass-casualty events, end up with an economy that ranges from mediocre to impoverished regardless of the resources available, form a corrupt government that oppresses the average citizen more than a capitalist could ever dream doing i.e. what happens every time tankies run a country?
I’ve never understood stripping people of their identity bc they don’t agree with the majority/ other people. Even as a black leftist I don’t strip black conservatives of being.
As a Chinese American, thank you sooo much for making this video Roman. Even though English is my first language and your second, I never could’ve articulated this topic as well as you just did, you basically said everything that I’ve ever wanted to say whenever tankies come up to me praising China 😂😂
i love it when tankies go "look at the trains and cities and GDP and culture, so advanced!" whilst willingly ignoring the crippling work/school days, treatment of migrants, and the broken housing markets of China, not to mention all the forms of repression and restriction. but of course, they conveniently know better and are also the preeminent expert on everything haha
I remember having a debate about politics in online classes and I started talking about China and there was a girl saying that I was racist against chinese just because I said that the Chinese government is authoritarian and inefficient. Just because I hate the chinese government, doesn't mean I hate the whole country.
“Russian Guy Reacts To Out Of Touch Westerners Telling Him How He Must Feel About The Country That He Grew Up In And Lived In For His Entire Life As If They Know Better” is THE FUNNIEST thing I have seen on YT. I rewound it and rewatched it like 10 times. Brilliant and so funny. But I know it’s not at all funny. Sorry for your loss. The war has effected me too. Peace and love from Latvia❤️🇱🇻💙🙏💛🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻
Stop! NOT A RUSSIAN GUY , BUT ... RUSSIAN OPPOSITIONIST . WITH SUCH A TABOO , ALL PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS AS MUCH OF A PERSON IN HIM AS THERE ARE PIANO SKILLS IN ME .
@@ИванЮткин-ц1ю so he is not a "real " russian ? That is as some german right wing and nazi would say , that i am not a "real " german because i am liberal, i am for equal rights and so on
@@ИванЮткин-ц1ю Очень громко. Вы, конечно, можете гордиться неумением играть на фортепьяно, но это, и опозиция к навязанному правительством мнение, не делает вас человеком. Скорее - Zомби.
@@miriamscheuch7356 I don't even know why you kept reading this comment. Just by taking a quick glance at the big letters and three dots, there's no way to take this comment seriously. This is probably a bait or something like that. Otherwise they wouldn't try to get your attention by writing like this.
I have seen lots of interviews with Russian people over the last few months. They all look terrified at the prospect of answering a political question . You are intelligent, informed, witty, brave and fair-minded. The hope of Russia lies with people like yourself
man I'm Ukrainian and my grandparents fled to escape Stalin and got so fucked up because of his regime. I'd joke about the USSR but man these folks I absolutely hate. My grandfather didn't deserve this.
My husbands Ukranian grandfather lost most of his family during the Holodomor. They were purposely starved to death. He immigrated to Canada but that pain and horror stayed with him throughout his life.
I'm a Russian. Had to deal with so many people like these myself over the years, but it's always just funny to see them trying to explain to me that i'm not a russian or shit like fake russian while they live in a nice American suburb and etc. Sometimes i feel like they are schizo type of ppl or mommy's boy type of ppl, whatever works lol
I wouldn’t say nice. Just suburbs. Honestly living the the American suburbs SUCKS. You can’t walk anywhere because you happen to live directly in the middle and thus need to drive through a mile thick layer of houses just to get groceries.
The amount of other Americans who I've spoken with who have never left America and yet have very misguided opinions about foreign countries is astonishing. For example, my grandmother was surprised when we took a family trip to Ireland that they had running water and bathrooms. Like.. what freaking planet are these people living on?
As a fellow American . . . yeah! Timmy from Farmville Ohio, who has never left his 12,500 population town, says "We (America) are giving money to Russia, so they can disperse it properly to Ukrainians, because they are really Russian. . . not Ukrainian" It is scary how uneducated my country is. . . Sorry brother! I asked
I'm Mexican American for some perspective; when your country is massive and SO MANY different groups of people come in + the propoganda that we're the best country ever it kind of makes sense that people have these particular views of other nations.
I'm from Bosnia and I love your work. You give me hope that one day our messed up countries might become modern democracies. Keep up the good work and don't mind the tankies.
Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, Russians, Belarusians, Zimbabweans, Iranians, Ukrainians, and even North Koreans, all united for one cause: Having to deal with these irritating, self-centered and unbearable people.
Lol, pretty sure africans rejecting woke america. specially zimbabwe... American far left, literally tried to brainwash and enforce woke transgender cult and lgbqt agendas and flags into their country... and they sayd fck off... or was it Nigeria ?
You think that the economic situation in Cuba is caused solely by the government? Let me give you some history, first they had a US backed dictator called Batista who kept slavery legal and served the elite of his country and the foreign elite in the US. Castro freed these slaves but also nationalized industries, therefore they got a little thing called an embargo. And the amount of terrorism the US acted out against Cuba is insane. And North Koreas situation was mainly caused by the US as well, they did even have more economic growth than the South for years until the USSR collapsed. And what's your alternative? All the fascists the US propped up instead? You think that the South Korean dictatorships were a nice place to live? Being not just a communist but an alledged one got you massacred and killed. And Iran? When did Iran have a communist leadership? Are you seriously saying Mosaddegh was a communist? You probably need to study history some more. Or keep wanting the US to 'bomb everyone into freedom', hurray! Another fascist dictatorship, but oops, this time it really was 'in the name of democracy'.
Wrong; just because you have first-hand experience doesn't specifically means you're right, some people can't see past propaganda or what they believe, they prefer to be blind than to see and believe the truth. American Politics is a perfect example of that.
OMG I flippin love you, man. For real. Your videos have helped me so much this past year. I live in Latvia, my son’s father is Russian, and it’s so complicated and wack. Complicated for us all..Look at you! Your smile and sarcasm and laughter and information make my day always. 🤗F*** THE HATERS! And Slava Ukraini💛🙏💙
This is the craziest thing I've ever seen... People who don't even know how russia works critique you for your views, even though you lived in Russia for practically your entire life.... absolutely incredible. I salute you, Roman...
@@magirktheone Russia silences you when you criticize politicians, local authorities and etc . If you really push your luck, you get lead and you are labeled as foreign agent/extremist. Canada silence you when you state your opinion or historical or biological facts... also all of the things i just mentioned above about, very much like Russia. Yeah, if you also push it a bit, they will try to off you with euthanasia ! P.S.- Epstein didn't kill himself.
Roman, I am American and I grew up being friends with a Russian immigrant boy and his family, they are some of the greatest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and they showed me early on how wonderful the Russian people are. You and your channel have showcased to me even more that, despite the shortcomings of the government and some of the individuals in Russia, the people of Russia are some of the most interesting on the planet, I hope that someday you can return home and make it the place that the Russian people deserve. In my eyes, you are a true Russian patriot for caring about your fellow man, love from the US ❤️
@monkeypro113 The Ukrainian people are right now finding out how "wonderful" the Russian people are. These friends of yours were first and foremost decent and polite human beings and not because they were Russians. Large part of russians are filled with hate and keep having misanthropic fantasies about war.
NFKRZ : *lives in Russia his whole life, telling us what it's like to live there based on his experience* these people : yea I don't think you're right
@@Badbufon Nah Tankies are the best socialists on the internet, They are hilariously insane. My favourite on youtube is the Finnish Fella who uses "offical soviet production numbers" under Stalin to "prove" that the USSR was great until Stalin was secretly murdered and the soviet union only went to hell when it tried to liberalise its economy. I still miss the Dutch dude who used to "report" on a communist "revolutionary" group and their "victories against the fascists" in Turkey.
I’m a British guy who lived and worked in Obninsk, Russia from 1996 to 2009, my ex-wife and daughters are Russian, so I understand very well what it’s like to live there. I think your videos are great, please keep them coming! I hope you get to return to your home country asap when the current regime has gone (this too shall pass).
I agree, but sadly there are lots of people think you have to disagree with your government in order to be a patriot, or rather you have to disagree with anything the opposing political party says
imagine calling a putin true russian because he murdered hundreds of Russan journalists, murdered countless Russian politicians, sent tens of thousands of Russians in jails for political reasons, took away Russians ability not to lie without fear of execution or 15 years in prison time, took away idea of independent media. JUST IMAGINE...
Aren't those leftists supposed to get rid of nationalism? Looks like they're happy to use right wing tactics of accusing people of being traitors when suitable.
I am Russian to and I currently live in the USA. I have met many westerners, that have very surface level knowledge about Russian, telling me what Russia is about how it is to live there. I am also baffled, by some of them worshipping Stalin and USSR. I don't understand it.
Privileged people from the west love trying to tell you your lived experiences are wrong. Meanwhile, these mfs live in some nice comfy little bubble and have never even really experienced anything..
And what was wrong with Stalin? He saved USSR. Lenin destroyed the empire and he made the empire a superpower and people with the mind of this traitor destroyed the USSR to have a chance to a US pet just like ukrs are currently perishing to get a chance to US
“You’re making up an imaginary version of me that you’re battling against” enough said! Roman, you’re the most grounded, intellectually and emotionally matured individual I know in your age group ever! Don’t let yourself suggest you otherwise. Safe to say even more than most people up to their 40s I know. I’m in the tourism industry and I meet hundreds of people on a monthly basis. Kudos to you my Russian friend!
As soon as the video showed people really calling NFKRZ not an "actual" Russian, subbed immediately; if this guy is able to make my fellow Americans seethe in their Reddit threads this much - it's fucking love at first sight mate.
Get the feeling you are patriotic but in the genuine way that a lot of people don’t recognise: you care about Russia and the Russian people and want them to do well. That is true love of your country, not just blindly licking the boots of whoever is in charge and refusing to acknowledge things aren’t perfect. People who really love their country acknowledge its problems and strive to improve things. Patriotism isn’t about waving a flag while screaming that your country is perfect: it’s working to make your country the best it can be.
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 _obedient_ is what you meant to say/write ! Being Patriotic... In good moral & humain ways of following legal laws and civil principles, YES (a few occasional accidental ignoring of some minor/small law done infrequently isn't so bad if you are aware of those around you & the area/location & specific situation when safe to bend it one small rule a little, but don't be a cock about doing so telling all public around you either...) In being or acting against morality in a despicable & an uncivilised manner, to enable political group or groups whom want to enslave their own or other peoples to their particular oppressive ideological preference, NO. Real Patriotism is trying to be good towards your peoples and nation, & Its political processes & procedures (with a hope towards improving the whole for the future,) By learning as much of its histories, good, bad, ugly, the depraved, the great & theme beautiful, to be a good citizen and not a blindly blinkered sheeple of narrow minded isms - that many 'patriots' crying and screaming online and at political rallies Usually are. Being Human is difficult enough without worrying about lower IQ politically unstable mentalities waiting for a good excuse/allowance so they can.. attack, rape, torture and kill you for their shallow mindedness. ...because that's always how those persons do in such situations 8 times out of 10 looking through history.
@@sofiajohansson8537 Not entirely sure why you would pull Snowden into this. I really don't see him as a pro-russia kind of guy. He doesn't have much of a choice but to stay there.
I'm an American who has been studying Russian for a few years because I am fascinated by the language and culture and was introduced to it by a russian immigrant friend in middle school. I'm Scotch-Irish and Sicilian, no slavic or Russian blood. I've always loved the Russian people but hated their government. Part of why I learned Russian was to visit Ukraine too since a huge number of Ukrainians in the east speak it as a first language and many more speak it as a second language. Now Putin has ruined all of that. As a westerner who is actually knowledgeable about Russia, I wish all Russians were like you. My Russian friends are like you but cannot/ still do not want to leave their families and education behind. My impression from you, 1420, the russians I've personally spoke to online and in the USA, and my knowledge of Russian culture and history in general, is that most Russians don't care about politics or just repeat what the government says to avoid getting in trouble because they value stability and their families over political freedom. P.S. I'd rather visit Chelyabinsk than Paris but that's because I want the real experience of being chased by gopniks after refusing to give them my cell phone and drinking with БОМЖ in alleyways
Yes, you are really accurate about russians. Most of us dont just dont care, but even try to stay away from politics intentionally, bc politics are seen as dirty and dangerous games of powerful people. And when asked people say anything that seems acceptable by the government, so they wont get in trouble.
Yeah, family values with highest abortion rate in the world ? Russians are the most atomized people in the world, so them got into dependency on state, so them cant resist even the most stvpid propaganda. Kind of any form of civil self service organisation prohibited and hunted down by state to non-existence
It's hilarious when people that didn't live in Russia start telling people that did, like Roman and myself, how to feel and what to think about it. Another great video, Roman!
@@pas0003 I GUESS THE SEPERATISTS THAT LIVED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES IN EAST UKRAINE JUST DIDN'T EXIST DID IT? RUSSIA JUST MAGICALLY SHOWED UP 3 TIMES IS THAT RIGHT?
@@MrDICKHEAD28 that's exactly right! There were no separatists, battles, fighting, war, rape, looting, genocide and demolishing of entire cities, before RuZZia showed up. That's exactly right. Exactly the same as Georgia, Chechnya and now Ukraine. This is the RuZZian specialty. Genocide and destruction. This is RuZZians biggest export to the rest of the world.
spot on. Like the German generation with Russian roots here in Germany. These people are nuts. They only know stories from their grand-grandparents who had been given money to re-settle in Germany after the end of WWII. Never have been living there, most cannot even speak Russian but are telling the rest of the population and especially Russians how to feel about current Putin Russia. Madness
"My opinions were not invited to this debate" - best line I've heard in ages! Definitely a mike-drop rebuttal, lol. You're awesome. Thanks for another splash of ice cold reality to counter the insipid idiocy of those who believe their opinion is the only right one, as they spew nonsense about things they have little or no real knowledge about. Been watching since Bald days - when I have some extra bucks, I'll be sending you some to help with what you're doing. Thanks, Roman!
@@MoctezumaStudios Absolutely! Have you been watching his adventures through South America. They're fantastic, informative, sad, and fun all at the same time.
I’m just an old leftest in the USA and I’m so glad I stumbled onto your channel. Loved the video and got a lot of laughs and sighs as I relate to so much of the stupidity you point out that people in my country who’ve never left like to spew. Keep up the good work.
"The people in the west who go the hardest for Stalinism would be the first to be destroyed by it" reminds me of a tankie friend I had. He was 1000% sure that, after a leftist revolution, HE would be teaching theory to others... instead of, you know, getting send to the tractor plant since he (at that time) had no degree nor job experience. All he did was reading theory and arguing with other larpers online. But yet he was certain he'd be put into a position of authority Edit: disclaimer for y'all, this comment is about the "I AM the ONE TRUE LEFTIST! I don't need to connect with anybody; larping online is enough" type of people, NOT about people who really try to connect and force change to make the world a better place
I've had to read people saying this kind of "uwu I teach theory on the commune that is my job" mess for years and all I can think is "Great, I'll be doing all the work at my job, while everyone else sits around and talks, after the revolution too." 😅
he was right. if he took a gun and did a successful revolution with his tankie friends, he'd be esteemed party member, a politician, perhaps even a hero, and he'd be sending people to tractor plants at the point of the rifle after redistributing their wealth, of course
He actually might get these jobs. Tankies are sellouts to authortain regimes that will grab any chance to join the secret police and spying on everyone.
@@BlankPageEmperor1334 I mean I kinda get it, after a leftist revolution (how realistic THAT is is another thing lol) it WOULD be important to teach theory. But if these people that mostly are neither socially nor politically connected (because they prefer to larp online and call other leftists libs instead of doing praxis) REALLY think THEY will be the ones teaching theory, they're naive at best and terminally-online weirdos at worst lol
Yeah imagine how hard it would've been for them to join a labor union and get out and network with other people to get them involved in community work. Let alone starting a revolution lol
I had a coworker from Russia and he went to visit his mother and to also update info for his work visa. Most expats I know from China, Mexico, or other EU countries will bring their entire family for these trips so they can also visit relatives, but he would not bring his wife and child with him to Russia. When I asked him why he said it just wasn't a good idea for them to go there. I admit I pressed a bit more and he said he would be afraid that since his wife was not going on the same official business, the Russian customs agents may find a reason to keep her and their child there even though they have a passport. That told me all I needed to know.
Yup. Because of Tankies any time I mention my left leaning political stance I have to explain how I'm literally not a Communist. "I'm a socialist, not a revolutionary..."
Because of Social-Democrats everytime I mention I support socialism I have to explain that Socialism requires the destruction of the old state machineries and the creation of a revolutionary popular one. I am literally a communist.
I’m from Ukraine and for the past two years I’ve watched every single one of you’re videos and I always look forward to you posting and I agree that these westerners don’t know shit
interesting comment that westerners don’t know shit !! Thats certainly agreeable !!! If the west could wise up and stop sending billions of military arms to a totalitarian regime the world would be in a much better place .. thank the liberal democrats !!
Honestly the amount of Westerners who want to have marxism government; in the nations of the west is honestly very disturbing. I thinking that nations of west will at this rate end up having marxist governments and learn the hard way the kind benevolence ot marxism; the peoples of Central & Eastern Europe suffered in darkest for decades under marxism. Yet people in the West choice to not listen or see the truth of what marxism is does to nations & peoples.
Although he defended Russia too much early in the war by talking about sanctions without talking about the Ukrainian genocide, I realise he's been pro-Ukrainian at least after that.
I agree with the below comment. True patriotism is not only being proud of WHAT THERE IS TO BE PROUD OF (not much in the case of Russia) but also admitting your country's flaws and criticizing them if deemed necessary.
These people can be perfectly summed up with this quote "Too many people have opinions about things they know nothing about, and the less they know, the more opinions they will have"
People are strange, especially here in the USA. They clueless about history and how governments work. Keep up the good work Roman, I appreciate your information about what is going on in Russia.
I think the fascinating thing about America is just how *confident* we are in being wrong. Like, even in the face of hard evidence directly disproving something, your average American will simply stick his head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist. How do you think Donald Trump won in the first place?
The more I see people from different countries online reacting, the more I’m convinced that this is a universal phenomenon that we all think only exists in our own countries
This is what happens when you live in a western society that you have freedom to speak your mind. You don't realize how thankful you should be. It's precisely due to freedom of speech that we can criticize our goverments and institutions at all when they are bad. We need to keep that in mind
You cant criticize the gov in western countries. In Canada you will get arrested or killed, same in the USA. Politicians will make police arrest you. The worst country that has the highest arrest of political prisoners is the UK right now, way above Islamic countries.
I´m glad you wrote that, so I dont need to. The freedom to speak your mind and have extreme opinions against the rulers have immense importance. Even the neonazis , the Putinistas and the in closet wannabe fascists have a voice somehow. These extremist are best met with the majority of sane people that also have free speech. And so we create a real debate, on a very broad scale and almost everyone is engaged. Compare that to nations like Russia,china, Iran and the like, that have spent much effort and supression to keep the population distant from own opinions and making them apolitcal sentient beings. They are all full blown authoritarian , often brutal and play on fear
Hey man! I am a Latvian guy, I've been born in CCCP! I love your videos and I do follow every word you're saying! Soviets also tried to vanish out our nation. And no - we have no victims syndrome, but it is necessary to talk about what happened to prevent such something happening again anywhere on this planet. It is sickening to know there are some soviet-stalin-putins fanboys also in the west. I am also a fluent Russian speaker, so I share the same thoughts with you when watching Russian state media - nothing but a fat layer of bullcr*p! Keep doing your thing!
Pilniba piekrītu. Romans ir malacis. Runajot par Krieviju - man ir absoluts pesimisms. Putins nosprags, protams, bet putinisms paliks. Ta nekad nebus normala valsts.
*insert tankie saying how latvia fell for the western imperialism and betraying their friends in russia even though russia kinda forced them to join the USSR at gunpoint*
The comment about how you dehumanize Russia felt so weird to me. I didn't know anything about Russia before watching your channel, and if someone had asked me about Russian people before that, all I could have come up with would've been stereotypes from western movies. You do a great of showing Russia as, you know, a place with different people in it.
I'm from the usa and I went to Russia in 2005. I loved it and it's NOTHING like we are told here in the states. At least it wasn't for me. I met some super nice people and saw so many interesting things and at that time anyways, the cost of things were CHEAP. Lots of history there.
As a 60 year old "boomer", I find your videos entertaining, educational and funny. Sure, you laugh at your own jokes or sarcastic comments but then so do I. We were once the long haired social democrats that you identify with today. Some of us still are. Keep up the good work and thank you for thinking of me.
As a Russian living in Russia right now…It’s so crazy how these people actually think that you’re lying or making up something about this country.I wish you were….Я уже схожу с ума от неопределенности и страха перед будущим
I was born in Belfast and I've spent my whole life here and more than once I've encountered people online supporting the terrorism we had during the time called 'The Troubles' (and they also cheer the sporadic political violence we have today). These people have never been to Belfast or experienced how awful it sometimes was during those times for people in Northern Ireland. They certainly don't seem to realise that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland despise that period of time which ruined so much. I can understand what you mean about people having very strong, rose-tinted ideas about the USSR being a utopia but never actually having to live through it.
@@SamAronow nice, now we just need england to apologise for funding and deploying unionist terrorists groups and the police. It's hard to view the irish as the antagonist when the war happened in ireland.
As a Serbian I condemn what IRA was doing at that time, as some of my countrymen did countless crimes because of Kosovo or because of the Yugoslavia came apart. But I really wish you Independence from UK and English rule but without any violence of course. Sadly the further north I was in the UK is York but one day I hope I can visit your beautiful country.
Those black book style quotes, its even worse than not admitting the problems in soviet union. Becauses its misinformation and anti-communist propaganda of the lowest and most dishonest type. Go actually study about soviet union instead, how about it.
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujanot as a people but as a country which generally means their government. But even then most Europeans have alot of shit to say about other Europeans wether western or not.
I’m an old boomer, from the west & I absolutely luv watching your videos because u teach me! I like to think I have an open mind to understand that Russia actually has people from all sides of politics like other countries….they’re just not really allowed to talk about anything except the leader in power at the time
If you haven't found 1420 channel I would suggest it for you. They interview real Russians everyday with their opinion on the war and yes many people are afraid to answer but you as a viewer can clearly see Russia is devided.
I'm pro America and a proud American I love my country and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I also think that people who do live around the world are just normal human beings like you and me. Although they might live in a region with diffrent economic and political governments I think it's healthier to put anger towards the leadership and not the everyday citizens.
This man is a perfect example of the young, intelligent, and unfortunately completely politically marginalized segment of the Russian population. I hope things turn around so people like Roman can be the future of that country.
It's sad a lot of them like him are arrested or have to flee. It just makes it harder to change the country and just leaves the crazy 'patriotic' ones that are destroying freedom and there own country.
Roman, I started following you about a week ago. The vitriol of some of your commenters is a mystery to me. It seems like a lot of projection coming from people with a variety of axes to grind. I find you authentic, open, curious and willing to reflect on what you encounter. I’m 82, a US west-coast liberal and I learn a lot from this channel and a number of others, including a number of other ex-patriots’ programs and 1420, which interviews Russians in different cities and exposes the wide range of opinion, from reticence and indifference to absolute Putin loyalists and total despisers. I’ve lived a long time and consider this the most fraught time I’ve ever experienced. I’m trusting in good people like you who have plain old common sense to help the human race make it, because that’s what it comes down to in the end.
As an American living in Czech Republic who gets similar comments and insults from 'patriotic' Americans when I criticize MAGA/Trumpian elements of my homeland I can relate to this video, Roman.
It's the same with nationalists in general. Whether its the US, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, India, the Philippines etc. Once I was criticizing Modi, the Hindu nationalist leader of India and got swamped by Hindu Nationalists accusing me of hating India, as if Modi was India himself lmao. Replace that with Trump, Putin, Erdogan and it's the same deal
Its crazy how americans will move to countries with better healthcare and cost of living that the states refuses to impliment for its own people and these 'expats' fully support maga/trump from their cushy european homes. Absolutely wild.
As a person growing up in Poland, one of the most russophobic countries in the world (I’m not saying it’s without reason) your channel is pretty much the only non-biased perspective on living in and what’s happening in Russia that I’ve seen Then again, I’m half-Westerner, so I guess I’m brainwashed by a fellow sell-out (:
I don't know. Rucysystyka ( i really don't know how to translate in English, Russian Studies, i guess) it's very popular subject at university , at least in my part of Poland. I know a lot of Russian punk bands coming to play in my city, ect. At least in my environment there weren't any anti- Russian sentiment against Russian people or Russian culture. Russian government, that's completely different story, obviously.
He is biased against the Russian government. Let's not pretend he is a fully objective non-biased observer. Though I agree and share his bias and believe normal people would agree with him.
As a Russian I don't like use of phobia? Since phobias presumably unreasonable fears, and this goddamn government has gone out of their ways to show outside world that there is reason. Also. Word used too much by propaganda.
Well I get what you are saying but I don’t know why do you support communism? I am Romanian I can tell you for a fact our later years of communism were bad. We had one of the lowest living standards in Europe and we had rationed food and other things. I would never want that to happen again to my country.
"Russian Guy reacts To Out Of Touch Westerners Telling Him And Teaching Him how He Must Feel About The Country That He Grew Up In And Lived In For His Entire Life As If They Know Better" ... yeah, that's the Japanese Light Novel title for this video.
My country has been occupied by Russia and I totally hate when random people from different regions who have zero experience with it try to argue that there was something good (or at least not bad) about that.
@@silencestation557 how can u say no to free vodka & shitty life? Without it, you would never know how good you could have? ...... there is some polish reverse sarcasm there? I hope🤦♂️
It was good only for people with no skills, elementary education and loyal to the regime. If you had some knowledge and skills you were already dangerous for the regime.
The mental gymnastics these people have to go through FML. I have nothing but respect for you Roman, you took the difficult path and stood up for what you believe in. I wish nothing but the best for you my friend ❤️.
I'm a Westerner. I feel bad for you in the position you're stuck in. Thanks for not grouping all of us in with the freaks you've highlighted here. Hang in there and stay strong!
i'm also a westerner too (technically, i'm Greek), and i feel bad for the position NFKRZ and other Russians are in as well, especially with the constant Russophobia or hatred on an entire group of people when it's pretty much the government
My roommate in college was from Venezuela. She said that she once dated a tankie who told her she was lying when she explained just how fucking horrible it was to live there. I understand America is not the most amazing place to live, but making up ideals about shithole countries to fit your political narrative and then trying to convince citizens of said countries that their criticisms are invalid is so mind boggling to me.
I'm a western communist, and I love your content. A person's experience is a person's experience no matter what I think about the topic at hand. I think the biggest issue with everyone on all sides is something you mentioned in this video, that being "not having a clue about nuance". It's ok to like communism and analyze former and current communist countries by pointing out what was bad, what was good for the time and place, what to learn from, and what might be packed with misinformation (or not). What matters is here and now. How could we apply things from there and then to here and now and how could we change it to make it better? And as a side, I HAVE stepped foot in Bulgaria, a former Soviet-aligned country, and got to see all sorts of different perspectives from people who either lived, or had family that lived under communism. I plan on seeing many more countries in my time.
I'm also a commie from Eastern Europe and I've been subscribed to NFKRZ for more than a year. I agree with most of his takes, but not all communists are pro-Putin tankies. This needs to be said.
I'm American, I'm Socialist, I love Slavic culture and first came to your channel (and other Eastern European channels) to explore that. But there is a difference between appreciating a culture and being okay with them invading their neighbors. America shouldn't do it, China shouldn't do it, Russia shouldn't do it. Period. It's annoying when so called "leftists" only point out how bad the West is as if China and Russia are the beacon of progress solely because they are anti-West.
what do you mean by "Slavic culture"? there are mainly cultures of individual Slavic nations, which are connected almost exclusively by Slavic branch of languages
Same. I’m glad we have a lil Trotskyist community here with NFKRZ. This is why socialist movements in the US are dying out: Twitter “full communist” influencers who aren’t even workers
Most of the socialists I know feel pretty much the same way about tankies. I'd say my policy preferences are mostly social democratic, but I know a lot of socialists
@@daniellmarcussen2599 Makhno helped bolsevics beat white army in South Ukraine. Anarchists aided Bolsheviks and communists. Maybe unwilling but they did it.
You are a kind, intelligent, and sincere young man. You are honest, and they are struggling with the truth. You have fled your homeland because you are both oppositional to what is unjust and preserving yourself (from the Russian government) May you have happiness, good health, and long life. May they understand nuance, and obtain compassion.
Hi Roman, I'm a diaspora Chinese who is anti-CCP. I have noted that a lot of Western leftists and tankies very wrongheadedly support the CCP's excesses as well as the memory of the old USSR, including Stalinism. They often tend to ignore lived-experiences of those people who know exactly what went on during those eras, and (as you highlighted) use strawmen to attempt to destroy our expression of our lived experiences. It is both extremely disappointing because some of them purport to be sympathetic towards the plight of POCs and other persecuted minorities, but at the same time trample on our narratives.
No we don't. You obviously have a bad experience and I'm not here to invalidate that. It's just that we promote a more nuanced view on the world. Media here, to portray it's narrative, often falls back into pretty racist rhetoric to justify it. I have related stories too. My communist family had to flee under nazi germany. Some of my *at-the-time-east-german* family was partially sent to soviet gulags. This is both horrible. Still it tells us nothing about the inherent doctrines of communism/marxism. There's an actual discussion to be had here. However, when our narratives commonly rely on biased CIA informations or similar, It's easy to be uncritical. This doesn't mean we support China or everything it does. It does mean that we are against imperialist action of the US, and hypocritical arguments on their side, when they commit the same atrocities. We don't use strawman arguments at all. People think that communism killed 100 million people, which is *actually* used as an argument - not a strawmen. This however, is untrue. Or atleast lacking in nuance. The 100 million number comes from the "black book of communism", which purposefully used stupid calculations, like: counting dead nazis. Not to say that communist regimes have "all just been good fun", but there's never any substanciated claim about how many of these deaths actually relate to *inherently communist* policies. No, Stalins purges weren't. If we do similar calculations for capitalist countries "how many people died in wars perpetrated by *capitalist* countries?", you would come to a similar number. I'd even argue that there *are* more subtanciated *actually inherently* capitalist actions, which resulted in deaths. The wars against much of left-leaning or socialist leaders in middle america? Caused by *american corperate* interest. Something inherently capitalist. Anyways...
I'm sorry you've had this experience. Most leftosts I know see that those with power are the problem, and note the abuses of power by those governments. Free Tibet, recognize Taiwan as a nation.
@@theyabib3323 Oh please, western leftists are incapable of being materialists. Just like nazis on jews, tankies will tell that ukrainian genocide did not happen, but it's good it's happening now because somehow entire ethnic group can be nazi. Russia is now trying to recapture their colony which they lost pretty much when bolsheviks got into power and rejected traditional russian oppression of minorities. But western leftist will try to justify the current imperialist war because it is somehow hurting their "evil" government. Why internationalism when you can have anti-anglo nationalism, with added bonus of killing easten europeans instead of you, amirite?
I just want to show my support. I was really surprised when I learned Russia began invading Ukraine. I thought we were in a modern enough era that the idea of expanding borders was long gone, honestly. This last year has taught me a lot about war in general, as well as some about the history of Ukraine and Russia. You are, in my humble opinion, one of the heroes of this scene. It takes a true patriot to be willing to endanger his cushy seat, to try and help out the segregated. Thank you for your willingness to endanger your own well-being to get some of this vital first-hand knowledge out to the world. There are people like me who feel terribly about the war and wish there was more to be done. It may seem confusing, but it is comforting to hear this type of information. Reassuring me that the madness going on is just madness. Being told by someone who has the experience, this stuff is propaganda, is very relieving. I can't wait for this all to end.
Communists still exist in Bulgaria? Do they exist in other former Warsaw Pact countries too? How does it feel to submit to a highly authoritarian regime where you have no say in your decisions and are essentially a vassal state to another country? This is why people revolted in 1956 and 1968, yet these communists would support the Soviet’s decision to “send in the tanks” hence the term tankie.
Lived 8 years in Russia, Moscow. I think I might be slightly older than Roman but I can say everyone his age thinks exactly like him. The channel would be boring if it just showed normal usual human activities that Russians do like everybody else (restaurants, grocery shopping, etc.) instead he chooses to show things that can actually make people think, be surprised, shocked, etc. To me Roman is a more genuine Russian patriot than those we can see on national TV in the news nowadays. I love Russia very much and I wish people in power did the same.
9:11 as an American this point by the tankies made me cringe. Almost all of these people advocate US cities like NYC or LA spending millions/billions of dollars to reorganize and adopt a European model, but a Russian can’t envy the same thing for themselves? Clown world
Roman, just ignore these weirdos in the net, they just waste your precious time! Keep up with your great work! Kindest greetings from Vienna, Austria, your video of your visit there was great! Slava Ukraini, Svoboda Rossija!
It's like a weeaboo except instead of just being weird around Japanese things, is more "politically involved"... and also weird around USSR things At least weeaboos set foot into Japan at some point, meme or otherwise, mainly without subtitles lol
Imagine licking Putin's ass without even getting paid! Russian propagandists lick it for a huge salary, even kremlin trolls receive their 15 rubles, and those tankie losers do it for nothing!🤣
One thing I hate about tankies is their obsession with nationalism. They keep shouting no war but class war, except that's just a slogan and means nothing to them.
I find a lot of those tankies are usually the kids from the middle and upper class pretending they know so much more than the rest of us leftists. They love pretending to know everything including when it comes to experiences of marginalized groups since they once read/watched something on it
you must not understand marxism. class is practically the most important part of marxism and materialism. you can criticize marxism, but at least know a tiny bit about it first.
What I also hate from the “America did X, Russia should be able to do X too” camp, is that they act like America entered Iraq and Afghanistan unopposed. There were numerous anti-war lobbyists, groups, and politicians across the country. Not to mention multiple NATO nations refused to participate and arguably everyone hates the fact America went stumbling around the Middle East. Not many liked the invasions then and now with foresight of decades on barely anybody likes it at all. The US rolled over both countries like a steamroller to an orphanage and as it turns out many people cheered for the orphanage. Russia just happens to not have the ability to steamroll the orphanage and its allowing the moral dilemma of asking “well you know, we already did allow several orphanages to be steamrolled before. . .”
i've been watching you for four years now and I love you Roman. My heart broke when you had to leave your home, your family and your friends. You are loved -just know that.
I was labelled a "self hating Queer" and "Piece of sh*t" by tankies or commenting that the USSR banned homosexual relations and was institutionally homophobic under a photo on twitter with someone holding a combined Soviet Union-Pride hybrid flag 😂.
@@someone-ou5us doesn't fucking matter, modern Russians are pretty racist against asians from post USSR countries. That shit doesn't come out of nowhere
@@someone-ou5usRacism was low, but ethnic discrimination was severe under Stalin. Stalin slaughtered minorities such as Ukrainians, Finns, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians through terror famine and the GULAG system.
When you know that you’re being hated on by people who practice hate every day of the week in their own lives, you know you’re doing something right, keep up the great videos Roman, it’s just too funny they tell you what being Russian is like, as they sit in their basements ( if they have one) or, little rooms, in who knows where in the west, or Russia, looking at their computers, because they have nothing else going for them in life.
Well said! I live outside of Washington where there was an antiwar protest that blamed the US and NATO for the invasion of Ukraine. It was poorly attended but they are trying again this month. I'm really annoyed that a former member (Roger Waters) of my favorite band (Pink Floyd) actually spoke at that recent rally via video. He's really gone off the deep end with that speech along with that previous speech he gave to the UN Security Council on behalf of Russia. I'm sad because I grew up on Pink Floyd music and Roger Waters is siding with Putin while he currently lives in New York City. (Imagine being pro-Putin and pro-Russia while living in the wealthiest area in the wealthiest city in the US. 🙄) And don't even get me started on those embarrassing open letters to Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska asking her to convince her husband to stop fighting back against the Russian invasion...
Did you listen to what Roger Waters said? He didn't say anything that is untrue, just politically contentious. Criticism of the US and NATO's actions in the East, especially their efforts to thwart peace talks, is NOT support of Russia. I thought he made that clear enough. This war could have ended before Christmas were it for the US's profiteering.
I think there was a similar protest in NYC organized by the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation). Someone that I knew from high school was there. It was so cringe inducing; neither of the two rallies had a single Ukrainian speaker. Really shows where people's priorities lay.
Just keep doing what you are doing, Roman. If you weren't providing logical, common-sense opinions, you wouldn't have attracted as many subscribers as you have. Not to mention you have the right to express your opinion to the entire world, despite what authoritarian-minded people think. The world actually needs more young, critical thinkers like you.
To me, patriotism means stand up against what's wrong in one's own country
Sadly that's not the case anymore to me patriotism is another form of politicization of maintaining and worshiping the nation state. In of itself is cancerous
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Yeah and in America what's wrong is the fact the government is too busy focused on expanding the military industrial complex and filling the pockets of war profiteers by pushing a proxy war and funding neo-Nazi batallions. Bet you didn't think about that wrong, huh?
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Indeed, a patriot wants what is best for their country, wants their country to be the best that it can be, and that means trying to fix your own country's problems.
“You guys just stop! Let ME explain to YOU what Russia is doing…” a woman from Vermont (does not even speak Russian, never been east of France) shutting up 2 guys: Georgian and Lithuanian, who grew up/ lived in their home countries and came for grad school to USA. True story. Happened in Boston some years ago. I wanted to jump off the bridge.
Yeah, exactly. The denial of agency to countries affected by Russian aggression is the common thread running through tankie thought
Embarrassing. Wtf. It’s just western privilege in a different costume
Brave of you to assume these people ever even leave the US.
@@537monster they don't as journeys show you how different the world is and everyone has it right to live peaceful on their own ground. War wouldn't be possible with a higher educated society in Russia, or stupid propaganda
@@537monster LOL touche
“A patriot stands by his country always, and his government when it deserves it.” - Mark Twain
The Russian government deserves people standing by it. I'm Russian and I stand by my government.
@@yumallahAnother troll I see
@@Simonix23 No, I am being truthful and sincere here.
@@yumallah poor you.
@@yumallah hope to see you on front lines soon! might run into a bradley or himars though
There are Western communists who tell Eastern Europeans that they are ungrateful for rejecting an "experiment".
That's the most dehumanized that i've ever fucking felt. 🇧🇦🇭🇷
Oh absolutely. I love being told (as a Pole) that I shouldn't support Ukraine bcus Wolyhn or that Katyn was done by Nazis, or how Poland is an imperialist bottomeater because we fought for territories we perceived as "Polish" because we weren't even invited to drawing borders in 1918
None of us say that. Every country should be able to chose for itself, as should: Cuba, Bolivia, Vietnam etc.
And most of us just want to tell people how the west either exaggerates numbers, or when not, It's still hypocritical since the US commits many of the same atrocities, and the claim of "anti-communism" as a war goal is just used for imperialist exploitative war.
However in this case, Russia is obivously doing exactly that, also many communists don't seem to get that Russia ≠ Soviet Union. No matter how much one idolizes it. This is pretty stupid and goes completely against marxist doctrine.
This is just another imperialist war, just this time it's Russia.
@@brain_bank48 Why do all of you always need us to prove ourselves to you?
Like what, I have to be a specific age, have to have worked under the hard conditions were complain about, and be an economics major as well, just to be *allowed* to hold the opinion of being a socialist???
I've heard that like ten times already. Get original.
@@theyabib3323 He said there are, implying that there are some, but not all.
A tankie calling someone else “terminally online” is peak irony
What would a tankie do if ‘he’ ran a country?
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@@6000. run it to the ground
@@6000. he would give women the death penalty if they refused to be his girlfriend. millions would perish
@@6000. Cause historic mass-casualty events, end up with an economy that ranges from mediocre to impoverished regardless of the resources available, form a corrupt government that oppresses the average citizen more than a capitalist could ever dream doing i.e. what happens every time tankies run a country?
I get called "not a real American" too because I engage in what I consider some of the best aspects of being American, like criticizing America
I’ve never understood stripping people of their identity bc they don’t agree with the majority/ other people. Even as a black leftist I don’t strip black conservatives of being.
@@Amberxxbbunni "black leftist" you gotta emphasise the black part still, which obviously means you see some kinda distinction....
@@shelbyspeaks3287 pretending race doesn't exist doesn't help anyone
@@shelbyspeaks3287 stop injecting stupid anti-woke grievances into every conversation you have. Nobody was talking about any of those things. 🙄
@@shelbyspeaks3287 can you say that again in a more comprehensible manner
As a Chinese American, thank you sooo much for making this video Roman. Even though English is my first language and your second, I never could’ve articulated this topic as well as you just did, you basically said everything that I’ve ever wanted to say whenever tankies come up to me praising China 😂😂
i love it when tankies go "look at the trains and cities and GDP and culture, so advanced!" whilst willingly ignoring the crippling work/school days, treatment of migrants, and the broken housing markets of China, not to mention all the forms of repression and restriction. but of course, they conveniently know better and are also the preeminent expert on everything haha
@@linkly9272 So true
I remember having a debate about politics in online classes and I started talking about China and there was a girl saying that I was racist against chinese just because I said that the Chinese government is authoritarian and inefficient. Just because I hate the chinese government, doesn't mean I hate the whole country.
@@linkly9272 Classic wumaos.
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“Russian Guy Reacts To Out Of Touch Westerners Telling Him How He Must Feel About The Country That He Grew Up In And Lived In For His Entire Life As If They Know Better” is THE FUNNIEST thing I have seen on YT. I rewound it and rewatched it like 10 times. Brilliant and so funny. But I know it’s not at all funny. Sorry for your loss. The war has effected me too. Peace and love from Latvia❤️🇱🇻💙🙏💛🇺🇦🌻🌻🌻
Stop! NOT A RUSSIAN GUY , BUT ... RUSSIAN OPPOSITIONIST . WITH SUCH A TABOO , ALL PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS AS MUCH OF A PERSON IN HIM AS THERE ARE PIANO SKILLS IN ME .
@@ИванЮткин-ц1ю so he is not a "real " russian ? That is as some german right wing and nazi would say , that i am not a "real " german because i am liberal, i am for equal rights and so on
@@ИванЮткин-ц1ю Очень громко. Вы, конечно, можете гордиться неумением играть на фортепьяно, но это, и опозиция к навязанному правительством мнение, не делает вас человеком. Скорее - Zомби.
@@miriamscheuch7356 I don't even know why you kept reading this comment. Just by taking a quick glance at the big letters and three dots, there's no way to take this comment seriously. This is probably a bait or something like that. Otherwise they wouldn't try to get your attention by writing like this.
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You are not a traitor. You are patriot because you want the best for Russians.
Yeh, what about other nations inside russia m8?
@@gutstallion free Chechnya
For Russia the bigger problem is regionalism not minorities nationalism.
@@tktktkam947 who are u?
@@gutstallion One doesn't negate or imply the other.
I have seen lots of interviews with Russian people over the last few months. They all look terrified at the prospect of answering a political question . You are intelligent, informed, witty, brave and fair-minded. The hope of Russia lies with people like yourself
man I'm Ukrainian and my grandparents fled to escape Stalin and got so fucked up because of his regime. I'd joke about the USSR but man these folks I absolutely hate. My grandfather didn't deserve this.
My husbands Ukranian grandfather lost most of his family during the Holodomor. They were purposely starved to death. He immigrated to Canada but that pain and horror stayed with him throughout his life.
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@@marvin2678 The audacity.
@@marvin2678 🚫🇷🇺🔥☭🔜🗑️🚮
@@marvin2678 stupid?
I'm a Russian. Had to deal with so many people like these myself over the years, but it's always just funny to see them trying to explain to me that i'm not a russian or shit like fake russian while they live in a nice American suburb and etc. Sometimes i feel like they are schizo type of ppl or mommy's boy type of ppl, whatever works lol
or just bots sometimes. Stay strong !
How can an American conservative support putins neo Bolshevik regime?
imagine
Sweet Russians call them mommy’s boys to.
I wouldn’t say nice. Just suburbs. Honestly living the the American suburbs SUCKS. You can’t walk anywhere because you happen to live directly in the middle and thus need to drive through a mile thick layer of houses just to get groceries.
The amount of other Americans who I've spoken with who have never left America and yet have very misguided opinions about foreign countries is astonishing. For example, my grandmother was surprised when we took a family trip to Ireland that they had running water and bathrooms. Like.. what freaking planet are these people living on?
As a fellow American . . . yeah!
Timmy from Farmville Ohio, who has never left his 12,500 population town, says "We (America) are giving money to Russia, so they can disperse it properly to Ukrainians, because they are really Russian. . . not Ukrainian"
It is scary how uneducated my country is. . .
Sorry brother!
I asked
Actually Americans are some of the most well traveled people in the world, look it up.
@@willowmalone9215 There's just so many of us that we have a lot of money to travel, but also enough money to stay complete dumbasses.
I'm Mexican American for some perspective; when your country is massive and SO MANY different groups of people come in + the propoganda that we're the best country ever it kind of makes sense that people have these particular views of other nations.
Ireland 💀💀💀
I'm from Bosnia and I love your work. You give me hope that one day our messed up countries might become modern democracies. Keep up the good work and don't mind the tankies.
Hello from Croatia! :-)
Ćao :O
As long as you stay away from christian Europe, you do whatever you want in your musl Bosnia, but far from us, civilised people. Capish?
@@drot13 Pula is my favorite place on Earth. Love from Stockholm 🥰
Hi Aleta. Agree with you 100%! Cheers from Albania
Cubans, Venezuelans, Nicaraguans, Syrians, Russians, Belarusians, Zimbabweans, Iranians, Ukrainians, and even North Koreans, all united for one cause: Having to deal with these irritating, self-centered and unbearable people.
Lol, pretty sure africans rejecting woke america. specially zimbabwe...
American far left, literally tried to brainwash and enforce woke transgender cult and lgbqt agendas and flags into their country... and they sayd fck off...
or was it Nigeria ?
You mean those countries sabotages by the US, got it.
You think that the economic situation in Cuba is caused solely by the government? Let me give you some history, first they had a US backed dictator called Batista who kept slavery legal and served the elite of his country and the foreign elite in the US. Castro freed these slaves but also nationalized industries, therefore they got a little thing called an embargo. And the amount of terrorism the US acted out against Cuba is insane.
And North Koreas situation was mainly caused by the US as well, they did even have more economic growth than the South for years until the USSR collapsed.
And what's your alternative? All the fascists the US propped up instead? You think that the South Korean dictatorships were a nice place to live? Being not just a communist but an alledged one got you massacred and killed.
And Iran? When did Iran have a communist leadership? Are you seriously saying Mosaddegh was a communist?
You probably need to study history some more. Or keep wanting the US to 'bomb everyone into freedom', hurray! Another fascist dictatorship, but oops, this time it really was 'in the name of democracy'.
It's not for me to say for sure, but I think you want to include Mainland Chinese in that group too
@@samwindmill8264Oh God, I forgot to mention the Chinese and Hong Kongese
Telling people with first hand experience that they’re wrong.
Now that is a Reddit moment if I’ve ever seen one.
Bless you.
Indeed. I uave stayed too much on Reddit. I need a break
I thought people online were caring, understanding and empathetic...
100%
Wrong; just because you have first-hand experience doesn't specifically means you're right, some people can't see past propaganda or what they believe, they prefer to be blind than to see and believe the truth. American Politics is a perfect example of that.
The main reason I still watch NFKRZ after 7-8 years is because he genuinely speaks for himself and is not a shill.
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Same, it’s always nice to see another Russian such as myself who is against the Putin regime
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I watch NFKRZ because of orman ablo rage compilation
Plus he is one funny mfer!!!
Welcome to the club
@@oceanlover1663honestly not too surprising. Tankies are authoritarian as fuck. So there's an overlap in both channels for them.
I sub to you and loved your chat with Roman. Jia You Hao Peng You!
@@oceanlover1663 He had a great chat with Roman about Propaganda...check it out!
So we can drink tankie tears from a tub.
Oh yes you must get this a lot considering your coverage of China.
OMG I flippin love you, man. For real. Your videos have helped me so much this past year. I live in Latvia, my son’s father is Russian, and it’s so complicated and wack. Complicated for us all..Look at you! Your smile and sarcasm and laughter and information make my day always. 🤗F*** THE HATERS! And Slava Ukraini💛🙏💙
This is the craziest thing I've ever seen... People who don't even know how russia works critique you for your views, even though you lived in Russia for practically your entire life.... absolutely incredible. I salute you, Roman...
Exactly, they have no clue what Russia is. I know a guy from from US, pro-Trump, that admires Russia for being last free country in the world...
Jokes on you if you think west isn't sliding slowly into more Russian like state. Authoritarianism is well on the way. Look at Cucknada.
@@ruslankazimov622 please, stop talking shit. Russia is closer to N Korea, than to Canada.
@@magirktheone Russia silences you when you criticize politicians, local authorities and etc . If you really push your luck, you get lead and you are labeled as foreign agent/extremist. Canada silence you when you state your opinion or historical or biological facts... also all of the things i just mentioned above about, very much like Russia. Yeah, if you also push it a bit, they will try to off you with euthanasia !
P.S.- Epstein didn't kill himself.
Roman, I am American and I grew up being friends with a Russian immigrant boy and his family, they are some of the greatest people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting and they showed me early on how wonderful the Russian people are. You and your channel have showcased to me even more that, despite the shortcomings of the government and some of the individuals in Russia, the people of Russia are some of the most interesting on the planet, I hope that someday you can return home and make it the place that the Russian people deserve. In my eyes, you are a true Russian patriot for caring about your fellow man, love from the US ❤️
@monkeypro113 The Ukrainian people are right now finding out how "wonderful" the Russian people are. These friends of yours were first and foremost decent and polite human beings and not because they were Russians. Large part of russians are filled with hate and keep having misanthropic fantasies about war.
NFKRZ : *lives in Russia his whole life, telling us what it's like to live there based on his experience*
these people : yea I don't think you're right
they also have strong opinions on cubans, tankies are the worst lol
Tankies are as stupid asf. They neither travel to countries they praise nor try to understand its culture
yooooo your pfp lmfaaao
NFKRZ DIDN'T LIVE IN DONBASS
TRY AGAIN
@@Badbufon Nah Tankies are the best socialists on the internet, They are hilariously insane.
My favourite on youtube is the Finnish Fella who uses "offical soviet production numbers" under Stalin to "prove" that the USSR was great until Stalin was secretly murdered and the soviet union only went to hell when it tried to liberalise its economy.
I still miss the Dutch dude who used to "report" on a communist "revolutionary" group and their "victories against the fascists" in Turkey.
I’m a British guy who lived and worked in Obninsk, Russia from 1996 to 2009, my ex-wife and daughters are Russian, so I understand very well what it’s like to live there. I think your videos are great, please keep them coming! I hope you get to return to your home country asap when the current regime has gone (this too shall pass).
Obninsk really? I live here!
@@infinit-minecraftshorts8192 i hope you're doing well in spite of the circumstances
@@infinit-minecraftshorts8192 as a German I pray you haven’t been conscripted yet
You are a patriot. You can love your Country and people, whilst completely disagreeing with it's Government's action. Respect.
I agree, but sadly there are lots of people think you have to disagree with your government in order to be a patriot, or rather you have to disagree with anything the opposing political party says
YOU MEAN JOEY BITE-10
imagine calling a putin true russian because he murdered hundreds of Russan journalists, murdered countless Russian politicians, sent tens of thousands of Russians in jails for political reasons, took away Russians ability not to lie without fear of execution or 15 years in prison time, took away idea of independent media. JUST IMAGINE...
@@frontendprotogy6749 THERE IS NO PROOF PUTIN DID IT 🙂
Aren't those leftists supposed to get rid of nationalism? Looks like they're happy to use right wing tactics of accusing people of being traitors when suitable.
I am Russian to and I currently live in the USA. I have met many westerners, that have very surface level knowledge about Russian, telling me what Russia is about how it is to live there. I am also baffled, by some of them worshipping Stalin and USSR. I don't understand it.
Neither they themselves understand it, if they would they wouldn't support those dictators.
Privileged people from the west love trying to tell you your lived experiences are wrong. Meanwhile, these mfs live in some nice comfy little bubble and have never even really experienced anything..
We need more people like yourself to stand up to these idiots.
Traitor.
And what was wrong with Stalin? He saved USSR. Lenin destroyed the empire and he made the empire a superpower and people with the mind of this traitor destroyed the USSR to have a chance to a US pet just like ukrs are currently perishing to get a chance to US
“You’re making up an imaginary version of me that you’re battling against” enough said!
Roman, you’re the most grounded, intellectually and emotionally matured individual I know in your age group ever! Don’t let yourself suggest you otherwise.
Safe to say even more than most people up to their 40s I know.
I’m in the tourism industry and I meet hundreds of people on a monthly basis. Kudos to you my Russian friend!
As soon as the video showed people really calling NFKRZ not an "actual" Russian, subbed immediately; if this guy is able to make my fellow Americans seethe in their Reddit threads this much - it's fucking love at first sight mate.
I dated a Tankie once. Imagine her shock when I told her I didn't like Stalin.
I…I can’t believe not liking Stalin isn’t a preference? Lmao
Just there to seize her means of production eh? 😏
Let me guess: that girl's face was like 😱🤯🤬👿☠️
What a weird comment.
@@hannahbeanies8855 We at Infrared are 100% Stalinist 100% Maoist ☀️🦍
Get the feeling you are patriotic but in the genuine way that a lot of people don’t recognise: you care about Russia and the Russian people and want them to do well. That is true love of your country, not just blindly licking the boots of whoever is in charge and refusing to acknowledge things aren’t perfect. People who really love their country acknowledge its problems and strive to improve things. Patriotism isn’t about waving a flag while screaming that your country is perfect: it’s working to make your country the best it can be.
Does pateitism nit mean being ibidient to the state??
Excellent take
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 what?
@@RichRacc hehad stronk :(
@@definitlynotbenlente7671 _obedient_ is what you meant to say/write !
Being Patriotic...
In good moral & humain ways of following legal laws and civil principles, YES (a few occasional accidental ignoring of some minor/small law done infrequently isn't so bad if you are aware of those around you & the area/location & specific situation when safe to bend it one small rule a little, but don't be a cock about doing so telling all public around you either...)
In being or acting against morality in a despicable & an uncivilised manner, to enable political group or groups whom want to enslave their own or other peoples to their particular oppressive ideological preference, NO.
Real Patriotism is trying to be good towards your peoples and nation, & Its political processes & procedures (with a hope towards improving the whole for the future,)
By learning as much of its histories, good, bad, ugly, the depraved, the great & theme beautiful, to be a good citizen and not a blindly blinkered sheeple of narrow minded isms - that many 'patriots' crying and screaming online and at political rallies Usually are.
Being Human is difficult enough without worrying about lower IQ politically unstable mentalities waiting for a good excuse/allowance so they can.. attack, rape, torture and kill you for their shallow mindedness.
...because that's always how those persons do in such situations 8 times out of 10 looking through history.
As a westerner, I'm deeply disappointed by their words. We do not claim them
If they wanna go to Russia so badly they should just move there, we don’t need them.
As a fellow Westerner the loony left are everywhere.
Actually they could get a one way ticket to Russia, like Snowden, I wonder how many come knocking on our door a week later...
@@sofiajohansson8537 Not entirely sure why you would pull Snowden into this. I really don't see him as a pro-russia kind of guy. He doesn't have much of a choice but to stay there.
Send them to Russia it’s what they want we all will be happier! Well those of us who don’t go to Russia 😂
I'm an American who has been studying Russian for a few years because I am fascinated by the language and culture and was introduced to it by a russian immigrant friend in middle school. I'm Scotch-Irish and Sicilian, no slavic or Russian blood. I've always loved the Russian people but hated their government. Part of why I learned Russian was to visit Ukraine too since a huge number of Ukrainians in the east speak it as a first language and many more speak it as a second language. Now Putin has ruined all of that.
As a westerner who is actually knowledgeable about Russia, I wish all Russians were like you. My Russian friends are like you but cannot/ still do not want to leave their families and education behind. My impression from you, 1420, the russians I've personally spoke to online and in the USA, and my knowledge of Russian culture and history in general, is that most Russians don't care about politics or just repeat what the government says to avoid getting in trouble because they value stability and their families over political freedom.
P.S. I'd rather visit Chelyabinsk than Paris but that's because I want the real experience of being chased by gopniks after refusing to give them my cell phone and drinking with БОМЖ in alleyways
Yes, you are really accurate about russians. Most of us dont just dont care, but even try to stay away from politics intentionally, bc politics are seen as dirty and dangerous games of powerful people. And when asked people say anything that seems acceptable by the government, so they wont get in trouble.
Yeah, family values with highest
abortion rate in the world ? Russians are the most atomized people in the world, so them got into dependency on state, so them cant resist even the most stvpid propaganda. Kind of any form of civil self service organisation prohibited and hunted down by state to non-existence
It's hilarious when people that didn't live in Russia start telling people that did, like Roman and myself, how to feel and what to think about it.
Another great video, Roman!
AND IT'S HILARIOUS WHEN THEY DON'T MENTION ANYTHING ABOUT THE DONBASS WAR
@@MrDICKHEAD28 you mean Russian invasion of Donbass/Luhansk/Crimea? Yeah...
@@pas0003
I GUESS THE SEPERATISTS THAT LIVED THEIR ENTIRE LIVES IN EAST UKRAINE JUST DIDN'T EXIST DID IT?
RUSSIA JUST MAGICALLY SHOWED UP 3 TIMES IS THAT RIGHT?
@@MrDICKHEAD28 that's exactly right! There were no separatists, battles, fighting, war, rape, looting, genocide and demolishing of entire cities, before RuZZia showed up. That's exactly right.
Exactly the same as Georgia, Chechnya and now Ukraine. This is the RuZZian specialty. Genocide and destruction. This is RuZZians biggest export to the rest of the world.
spot on. Like the German generation with Russian roots here in Germany. These people are nuts. They only know stories from their grand-grandparents who had been given money to re-settle in Germany after the end of WWII. Never have been living there, most cannot even speak Russian but are telling the rest of the population and especially Russians how to feel about current Putin Russia. Madness
"My opinions were not invited to this debate" - best line I've heard in ages! Definitely a mike-drop rebuttal, lol. You're awesome. Thanks for another splash of ice cold reality to counter the insipid idiocy of those who believe their opinion is the only right one, as they spew nonsense about things they have little or no real knowledge about. Been watching since Bald days - when I have some extra bucks, I'll be sending you some to help with what you're doing. Thanks, Roman!
Bald is also a Legend 💪
@@MoctezumaStudios Absolutely! Have you been watching his adventures through South America. They're fantastic, informative, sad, and fun all at the same time.
@@judycolella5554 I was starting to feel worried about him being near the border and the area for too long. Love that guy :D
Being hated by morons is how you know you are doing something right.
My philosophy is that if basement dwellers on Reddit are hating on you, it’s a good indication that you’re on the right track in life 😂
@@Entername-md1ev so you mean 90% of reddit ?
@@GNMbgThat's a topkek goal my man 😂
That's how you know you're getting through to people, when the opposition turns it's attention to shutting you up.
Nah, if you're doing something wrong people will hate you too, I'm sure.
I have yet to encounter a single tankie who leaves me with the impression that they’re doing okay. Not a single one.
All the tankies I’ve encountered HAVE to be at least 14 years old, if not younger. I refuse to believe a 20 year old can be that radical and stupid.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 Oh, believe me, they can, even older. Their idiocy and spite knows no bounds.
I’m just an old leftest in the USA and I’m so glad I stumbled onto your channel. Loved the video and got a lot of laughs and sighs as I relate to so much of the stupidity you point out that people in my country who’ve never left like to spew. Keep up the good work.
"The people in the west who go the hardest for Stalinism would be the first to be destroyed by it" reminds me of a tankie friend I had. He was 1000% sure that, after a leftist revolution, HE would be teaching theory to others... instead of, you know, getting send to the tractor plant since he (at that time) had no degree nor job experience. All he did was reading theory and arguing with other larpers online. But yet he was certain he'd be put into a position of authority
Edit: disclaimer for y'all, this comment is about the "I AM the ONE TRUE LEFTIST! I don't need to connect with anybody; larping online is enough" type of people, NOT about people who really try to connect and force change to make the world a better place
I've had to read people saying this kind of "uwu I teach theory on the commune that is my job" mess for years and all I can think is "Great, I'll be doing all the work at my job, while everyone else sits around and talks, after the revolution too." 😅
he was right. if he took a gun and did a successful revolution with his tankie friends, he'd be esteemed party member, a politician, perhaps even a hero, and he'd be sending people to tractor plants at the point of the rifle
after redistributing their wealth, of course
He actually might get these jobs. Tankies are sellouts to authortain regimes that will grab any chance to join the secret police and spying on everyone.
@@BlankPageEmperor1334 I mean I kinda get it, after a leftist revolution (how realistic THAT is is another thing lol) it WOULD be important to teach theory.
But if these people that mostly are neither socially nor politically connected (because they prefer to larp online and call other leftists libs instead of doing praxis) REALLY think THEY will be the ones teaching theory, they're naive at best and terminally-online weirdos at worst lol
Yeah imagine how hard it would've been for them to join a labor union and get out and network with other people to get them involved in community work. Let alone starting a revolution lol
I had a coworker from Russia and he went to visit his mother and to also update info for his work visa. Most expats I know from China, Mexico, or other EU countries will bring their entire family for these trips so they can also visit relatives, but he would not bring his wife and child with him to Russia. When I asked him why he said it just wasn't a good idea for them to go there. I admit I pressed a bit more and he said he would be afraid that since his wife was not going on the same official business, the Russian customs agents may find a reason to keep her and their child there even though they have a passport. That told me all I needed to know.
Yup. Because of Tankies any time I mention my left leaning political stance I have to explain how I'm literally not a Communist.
"I'm a socialist, not a revolutionary..."
Because of Social-Democrats everytime I mention I support socialism I have to explain that Socialism requires the destruction of the old state machineries and the creation of a revolutionary popular one. I am literally a communist.
You can be a communist and not a tankie
You can be a communist and not an idiot
Communist ≠ tankie ≠ revolutionary. All communists are socialists. I'm a communist and not a tankie. I hate Russia and China.
A patriot does what is best for his country.
As far as I'm concerned, you are doing what is best for Russia.
I’m from Ukraine and for the past two years I’ve watched every single one of you’re videos and I always look forward to you posting and I agree that these westerners don’t know shit
interesting comment that westerners don’t know shit !! Thats certainly agreeable !!! If the west could wise up and stop sending billions of military arms to a totalitarian
regime the world would be in a much better place .. thank the liberal democrats !!
Honestly the amount of Westerners who want to have marxism government; in the nations of the west is honestly very disturbing. I thinking that nations of west will at this rate end up having marxist governments and learn the hard way the kind benevolence ot marxism; the peoples of Central & Eastern Europe suffered in darkest for decades under marxism. Yet people in the West choice to not listen or see the truth of what marxism is does to nations & peoples.
@@Synths-n-Guitar bbut how about these people there learn from historrryy??
Although he defended Russia too much early in the war by talking about sanctions without talking about the Ukrainian genocide, I realise he's been pro-Ukrainian at least after that.
@@Isaac-ho8gh Dude, hes own life got destroyed so he's been talking about that, it's he's own vlog after all, he was pro-Ukraine from the beginning
Z lovers and Tankies supporting a pointless war and embarrassing themselves
Ztards
All day everyday. 🤦♀️
Communists don t support the war, we just know who provoked Russia
You’re supporting nato imperialism which has killed millions of civilians
Tankies - Z Russians - People with an IQ < room temperature 🤝
I agree with the below comment. True patriotism is not only being proud of WHAT THERE IS TO BE PROUD OF (not much in the case of Russia) but also admitting your country's flaws and criticizing them if deemed necessary.
These people can be perfectly summed up with this quote
"Too many people have opinions about things they know nothing about, and the less they know, the more opinions they will have"
Fallout NV
The Dunning-Kruger Effect summarized
@@jakubpociecha8819
you beat me to it. Dunning-Issues for sure
Seems like everyone on social media nowadays.
But that goes against the principle of discovery.
People are strange, especially here in the USA. They clueless about history and how governments work. Keep up the good work Roman, I appreciate your information about what is going on in Russia.
A lot of people from the us are racist and they don't even see themselves as racist i.e. getting offended on someone else's cultural traditions
to be fair that's a lot of people all around the world.
I think the fascinating thing about America is just how *confident* we are in being wrong. Like, even in the face of hard evidence directly disproving something, your average American will simply stick his head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist.
How do you think Donald Trump won in the first place?
The more I see people from different countries online reacting, the more I’m convinced that this is a universal phenomenon that we all think only exists in our own countries
Those are kinds of people who dont reread history books
This is what happens when you live in a western society that you have freedom to speak your mind. You don't realize how thankful you should be. It's precisely due to freedom of speech that we can criticize our goverments and institutions at all when they are bad. We need to keep that in mind
Yes, and even the stupid opinions like these can be heard
Its a double edged sword but still definitely worth it
You cant criticize the gov in western countries. In Canada you will get arrested or killed, same in the USA. Politicians will make police arrest you. The worst country that has the highest arrest of political prisoners is the UK right now, way above Islamic countries.
Are you talking about the same west that barred people from entering restaurants if they didn't take experimental "vaccines?"
I´m glad you wrote that, so I dont need to.
The freedom to speak your mind and have extreme opinions against the rulers have immense importance. Even the neonazis , the Putinistas and the in closet wannabe fascists have a voice somehow. These extremist are best met with the majority of sane people that also have free speech. And so we create a real debate, on a very broad scale and almost everyone is engaged. Compare that to nations like Russia,china, Iran and the like, that have spent much effort and supression to keep the population distant from own opinions and making them apolitcal sentient beings. They are all full blown authoritarian , often brutal and play on fear
Aa a russian, who lived in this shit their whole life, I would love to switch places with these people
Understandable
"You're not a real Russian!" -Americans
If he is russian as he claims, where is his bear?
@@Grigorii-j7zthat’s the also stereotype made up by westerners😂😂
Hey man! I am a Latvian guy, I've been born in CCCP! I love your videos and I do follow every word you're saying!
Soviets also tried to vanish out our nation. And no - we have no victims syndrome, but it is necessary to talk about what happened to prevent such something happening again anywhere on this planet.
It is sickening to know there are some soviet-stalin-putins fanboys also in the west.
I am also a fluent Russian speaker, so I share the same thoughts with you when watching Russian state media - nothing but a fat layer of bullcr*p!
Keep doing your thing!
Stop bullshitting. The USSR did not try to "Vanish" your nation. Unfortunately your pathetic culture and language was preserved by the Soviets.
Pilniba piekrītu. Romans ir malacis.
Runajot par Krieviju - man ir absoluts pesimisms. Putins nosprags, protams, bet putinisms paliks. Ta nekad nebus normala valsts.
i hate to break it to you, but to me it seems that Latvian politicians are a quite good example of people with a victim syndrome.
*insert tankie saying how latvia fell for the western imperialism and betraying their friends in russia even though russia kinda forced them to join the USSR at gunpoint*
@@dajdasdq 🤦♂
The comment about how you dehumanize Russia felt so weird to me. I didn't know anything about Russia before watching your channel, and if someone had asked me about Russian people before that, all I could have come up with would've been stereotypes from western movies. You do a great of showing Russia as, you know, a place with different people in it.
I'm from the usa and I went to Russia in 2005. I loved it and it's NOTHING like we are told here in the states. At least it wasn't for me. I met some super nice people and saw so many interesting things and at that time anyways, the cost of things were CHEAP. Lots of history there.
As a 60 year old "boomer", I find your videos entertaining, educational and funny. Sure, you laugh at your own jokes or sarcastic comments but then so do I. We were once the long haired social democrats that you identify with today. Some of us still are. Keep up the good work and thank you for thinking of me.
As a Russian living in Russia right now…It’s so crazy how these people actually think that you’re lying or making up something about this country.I wish you were….Я уже схожу с ума от неопределенности и страха перед будущим
Крепись
Да, Крепись мой друг.
Обнял
Надеюсь, у вас будет возможность уехать из России. Сегодняшняя Россия это не Россия для русских.
Much love to you. Stay strong 🖤
I was born in Belfast and I've spent my whole life here and more than once I've encountered people online supporting the terrorism we had during the time called 'The Troubles' (and they also cheer the sporadic political violence we have today). These people have never been to Belfast or experienced how awful it sometimes was during those times for people in Northern Ireland. They certainly don't seem to realise that the vast majority of people in Northern Ireland despise that period of time which ruined so much.
I can understand what you mean about people having very strong, rose-tinted ideas about the USSR being a utopia but never actually having to live through it.
I'd like to apologize on behalf of my home state, California, which was apparently one of the main centers of financing for the PIRA in the 1990s.
@@SamAronow nice, now we just need england to apologise for funding and deploying unionist terrorists groups and the police. It's hard to view the irish as the antagonist when the war happened in ireland.
What a cuck, just like Roman lmao. Jesus have mercy on your prod soul
@@SamAronowTo be fair, it as a complicated war. Both irish nationalists and ulster loyalists alongside the British military did brutal things.
As a Serbian I condemn what IRA was doing at that time, as some of my countrymen did countless crimes because of Kosovo or because of the Yugoslavia came apart. But I really wish you Independence from UK and English rule but without any violence of course. Sadly the further north I was in the UK is York but one day I hope I can visit your beautiful country.
I am a Cold War veteran and it would be bad news for a “tankie” to cross paths with me!
Imagine going from "Minimum wage is too low in the US" straight to "Therefore Stalin murdering tens of millions was totally fine."
Seems reasonable to me
But that just way to generalized and is applicable to maybe 1 person, how did you think this is reasonable to type?
Hardly no one in the US thinks that way. Have you ever actually been here?
Yeah we should have let the nazis win instead, US loved nazi germany
Those black book style quotes, its even worse than not admitting the problems in soviet union. Becauses its misinformation and anti-communist propaganda of the lowest and most dishonest type. Go actually study about soviet union instead, how about it.
"You will be treated badly in the west!" Roman literally had his nose broken for refusing to buy booze for Gopniks
Most Western-Europeans do look down on East-Europeans.
Wasn't it also because Roman has long hair?
@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujanot as a people but as a country which generally means their government. But even then most Europeans have alot of shit to say about other Europeans wether western or not.
I’m an old boomer, from the west & I absolutely luv watching your videos because u teach me! I like to think I have an open mind to understand that Russia actually has people from all sides of politics like other countries….they’re just not really allowed to talk about anything except the leader in power at the time
That's not even true by itself
@@samueloak1600 i would say its a hope
If you haven't found 1420 channel I would suggest it for you. They interview real Russians everyday with their opinion on the war and yes many people are afraid to answer but you as a viewer can clearly see Russia is devided.
Boomer with the name "Celestial Dragon"...
X to doubt
@@sofiajohansson8537Headshot channel also good street interviews
I'm pro America and a proud American I love my country and wouldn't want to be anywhere else. I also think that people who do live around the world are just normal human beings like you and me. Although they might live in a region with diffrent economic and political governments I think it's healthier to put anger towards the leadership and not the everyday citizens.
This man is a perfect example of the young, intelligent, and unfortunately completely politically marginalized segment of the Russian population. I hope things turn around so people like Roman can be the future of that country.
It's sad a lot of them like him are arrested or have to flee. It just makes it harder to change the country and just leaves the crazy 'patriotic' ones that are destroying freedom and there own country.
Lot of people just quite. It's not marginalized segment. Difficult to say something if you can get in jail for saying that
He's a great example of the "Brain Drain"
@@TheKrololo or killed.
@@Hollywood2021 what you mean
Roman, I started following you about a week ago. The vitriol of some of your commenters is a mystery to me. It seems like a lot of projection coming from people with a variety of axes to grind. I find you authentic, open, curious and willing to reflect on what you encounter. I’m 82, a US west-coast liberal and I learn a lot from this channel and a number of others, including a number of other ex-patriots’ programs and 1420, which interviews Russians in different cities and exposes the wide range of opinion, from reticence and indifference to absolute Putin loyalists and total despisers. I’ve lived a long time and consider this the most fraught time I’ve ever experienced. I’m trusting in good people like you who have plain old common sense to help the human race make it, because that’s what it comes down to in the end.
👏👏👏👏
As an American living in Czech Republic who gets similar comments and insults from 'patriotic' Americans when I criticize MAGA/Trumpian elements of my homeland I can relate to this video, Roman.
I'm Latvian who likes Trump but many of his supporters are as$holes.
It's the same with nationalists in general. Whether its the US, Russia, Turkey, Brazil, India, the Philippines etc. Once I was criticizing Modi, the Hindu nationalist leader of India and got swamped by Hindu Nationalists accusing me of hating India, as if Modi was India himself lmao. Replace that with Trump, Putin, Erdogan and it's the same deal
@@Spongebrain97 Yeah, those who join cults of personalities are always difficult to deal with. They're essentially just bootlicking with extra steps.
what's living in czech republic like? seems like a really cool country from what i've read.
Its crazy how americans will move to countries with better healthcare and cost of living that the states refuses to impliment for its own people and these 'expats' fully support maga/trump from their cushy european homes. Absolutely wild.
As a person growing up in Poland, one of the most russophobic countries in the world (I’m not saying it’s without reason) your channel is pretty much the only non-biased perspective on living in and what’s happening in Russia that I’ve seen
Then again, I’m half-Westerner, so I guess I’m brainwashed by a fellow sell-out (:
I don't know. Rucysystyka ( i really don't know how to translate in English, Russian Studies, i guess) it's very popular subject at university , at least in my part of Poland. I know a lot of Russian punk bands coming to play in my city, ect. At least in my environment there weren't any anti- Russian sentiment against Russian people or Russian culture. Russian government, that's completely different story, obviously.
@@Mesjasz russian studies
He is biased against the Russian government. Let's not pretend he is a fully objective non-biased observer.
Though I agree and share his bias and believe normal people would agree with him.
As a Russian I don't like use of phobia? Since phobias presumably unreasonable fears, and this goddamn government has gone out of their ways to show outside world that there is reason. Also. Word used too much by propaganda.
Its not a phobia when russians commiting genocide and threatening to use nukes on the world.
as a communist myself, this almost feels unreal, god im sorry that these idiots have painted you a bad picture of communisum
Well I get what you are saying but I don’t know why do you support communism? I am Romanian I can tell you for a fact our later years of communism were bad. We had one of the lowest living standards in Europe and we had rationed food and other things. I would never want that to happen again to my country.
@@darius_alex2043 lol I aint a commie anymore, I fell hard for propaganda back then
@@Russianfilms1991 That makes sense.
@@darius_alex2043 "Western Sources"
@@Russianfilms1991 Wait what sources? Now I am curious.
Tankies love to demonstrate just how useful they can make their idiocy
They're just bootlickers with different hair styles.
China; "Hold my Baijiu."
@@MasterMalrubius Baijiu?
@@Kstang09 they’re just imperialist trash. they don’t like American style imperialism, but love Russian imperialism. 🙄
@@samueloak1600 probably baizuo, "white leftist"
"Russian Guy reacts To Out Of Touch Westerners Telling Him And Teaching Him how He Must Feel About The Country That He Grew Up In And Lived In For His Entire Life As If They Know Better"
... yeah, that's the Japanese Light Novel title for this video.
Man of culture, I see...
More like an Isekai title
My country has been occupied by Russia and I totally hate when random people from different regions who have zero experience with it try to argue that there was something good (or at least not bad) about that.
I suppose you're from a former Soviet Union country. A Baltic state?
@@KuyaBJLaurente Yes, I'm from Estonia
@@silencestation557 how can u say no to free vodka & shitty life?
Without it, you would never know how good you could have?
...... there is some polish reverse sarcasm there? I hope🤦♂️
It was good only for people with no skills, elementary education and loyal to the regime. If you had some knowledge and skills you were already dangerous for the regime.
@@silencestation557 i agree . My family got killed by Lenin . I'm glad that some went to the U.S they were 🇱🇹
The more I listen to your perspective the more understanding I achieve 🤔
You are great 👍
The mental gymnastics these people have to go through FML.
I have nothing but respect for you Roman, you took the difficult path and stood up for what you believe in. I wish nothing but the best for you my friend ❤️.
I'm a Westerner. I feel bad for you in the position you're stuck in. Thanks for not grouping all of us in with the freaks you've highlighted here. Hang in there and stay strong!
Fr man Idk how some of those people are also living in the west
I'm a western too ..wanna ask you why all of sudden some of us westerns are having a soft spot and making Russia important?????
@@meralEdwtDawlatly - Wait, what?? Russia and the USSR have been important for centuries. What are you talking about?
@@meralEdwtDawlatly Look at the map of the forests in Germany, then at the map of Siberia and think about why your Ikea sofa is so cheap.
i'm also a westerner too (technically, i'm Greek), and i feel bad for the position NFKRZ and other Russians are in as well, especially with the constant Russophobia or hatred on an entire group of people when it's pretty much the government
My roommate in college was from Venezuela. She said that she once dated a tankie who told her she was lying when she explained just how fucking horrible it was to live there. I understand America is not the most amazing place to live, but making up ideals about shithole countries to fit your political narrative and then trying to convince citizens of said countries that their criticisms are invalid is so mind boggling to me.
Lol
I’ve had this happen when trying to explain some of the issues in Africa to Americans (I lived in Africa when I was younger) it’s super funny
@@jjcoola998 yeap. You're 100% right.
We got our problems for sure but still better off than 80% of the world
This is like the definition of a tankie IMO
I'm a western communist, and I love your content. A person's experience is a person's experience no matter what I think about the topic at hand.
I think the biggest issue with everyone on all sides is something you mentioned in this video, that being "not having a clue about nuance". It's ok to like communism and analyze former and current communist countries by pointing out what was bad, what was good for the time and place, what to learn from, and what might be packed with misinformation (or not). What matters is here and now. How could we apply things from there and then to here and now and how could we change it to make it better?
And as a side, I HAVE stepped foot in Bulgaria, a former Soviet-aligned country, and got to see all sorts of different perspectives from people who either lived, or had family that lived under communism. I plan on seeing many more countries in my time.
I'm also a commie from Eastern Europe and I've been subscribed to NFKRZ for more than a year. I agree with most of his takes, but not all communists are pro-Putin tankies. This needs to be said.
I'm American, I'm Socialist, I love Slavic culture and first came to your channel (and other Eastern European channels) to explore that. But there is a difference between appreciating a culture and being okay with them invading their neighbors. America shouldn't do it, China shouldn't do it, Russia shouldn't do it. Period. It's annoying when so called "leftists" only point out how bad the West is as if China and Russia are the beacon of progress solely because they are anti-West.
Exactly. I'm a socialist as well, and tankies seriously disgust me.
Bizarre, as most slavics outside of Russia hate socialists with a burning passion.
what do you mean by "Slavic culture"? there are mainly cultures of individual Slavic nations, which are connected almost exclusively by Slavic branch of languages
Same. I’m glad we have a lil Trotskyist community here with NFKRZ. This is why socialist movements in the US are dying out: Twitter “full communist” influencers who aren’t even workers
Most of the socialists I know feel pretty much the same way about tankies. I'd say my policy preferences are mostly social democratic, but I know a lot of socialists
As a Romanian anarchist, tankies make my blood boil, nothing makes me crave violence more than when I deal with those fascists.
Și eu
For a moment I was shocked, wondering what "anarchist tankies" are until I grammatically understood the sentence :p
I wish we had Makhno and Durutti to take care of them.
@@daniellmarcussen2599 Makhno helped bolsevics beat white army in South Ukraine. Anarchists aided Bolsheviks and communists. Maybe unwilling but they did it.
@@Kannot2023 Did they really? How?
You are a kind, intelligent, and sincere young man. You are honest, and they are struggling with the truth. You have fled your homeland because you are both oppositional to what is unjust and preserving yourself (from the Russian government)
May you have happiness, good health, and long life.
May they understand nuance, and obtain compassion.
The overwhelmingly positive feedback for Roman’s video gives me yet more hope for humanity. Thank you, Roman and Repliers!
Dude you are doing great things and you're entertaining, don't feed the trolls dude! Love from from the Falklands
I have no idea, how Roman still has not heard about Russian trolls. There are so many articles, documentaries and even books covering that stuff.
Damn, a rare specimen in the comments
Question. Do you get shit from salty argentinans??
Hi Roman, I'm a diaspora Chinese who is anti-CCP.
I have noted that a lot of Western leftists and tankies very wrongheadedly support the CCP's excesses as well as the memory of the old USSR, including Stalinism. They often tend to ignore lived-experiences of those people who know exactly what went on during those eras, and (as you highlighted) use strawmen to attempt to destroy our expression of our lived experiences.
It is both extremely disappointing because some of them purport to be sympathetic towards the plight of POCs and other persecuted minorities, but at the same time trample on our narratives.
No we don't. You obviously have a bad experience and I'm not here to invalidate that. It's just that we promote a more nuanced view on the world. Media here, to portray it's narrative, often falls back into pretty racist rhetoric to justify it.
I have related stories too. My communist family had to flee under nazi germany. Some of my *at-the-time-east-german* family was partially sent to soviet gulags. This is both horrible. Still it tells us nothing about the inherent doctrines of communism/marxism. There's an actual discussion to be had here. However, when our narratives commonly rely on biased CIA informations or similar, It's easy to be uncritical. This doesn't mean we support China or everything it does. It does mean that we are against imperialist action of the US, and hypocritical arguments on their side, when they commit the same atrocities.
We don't use strawman arguments at all. People think that communism killed 100 million people, which is *actually* used as an argument - not a strawmen. This however, is untrue. Or atleast lacking in nuance. The 100 million number comes from the "black book of communism", which purposefully used stupid calculations, like: counting dead nazis. Not to say that communist regimes have "all just been good fun", but there's never any substanciated claim about how many of these deaths actually relate to *inherently communist* policies. No, Stalins purges weren't.
If we do similar calculations for capitalist countries "how many people died in wars perpetrated by *capitalist* countries?", you would come to a similar number. I'd even argue that there *are* more subtanciated *actually inherently* capitalist actions, which resulted in deaths.
The wars against much of left-leaning or socialist leaders in middle america? Caused by *american corperate* interest. Something inherently capitalist.
Anyways...
@@theyabib3323 don’t you mean uncritical?
@@Dave102693 yea my bad
I'm sorry you've had this experience. Most leftosts I know see that those with power are the problem, and note the abuses of power by those governments. Free Tibet, recognize Taiwan as a nation.
@@theyabib3323 Oh please, western leftists are incapable of being materialists. Just like nazis on jews, tankies will tell that ukrainian genocide did not happen, but it's good it's happening now because somehow entire ethnic group can be nazi. Russia is now trying to recapture their colony which they lost pretty much when bolsheviks got into power and rejected traditional russian oppression of minorities. But western leftist will try to justify the current imperialist war because it is somehow hurting their "evil" government. Why internationalism when you can have anti-anglo nationalism, with added bonus of killing easten europeans instead of you, amirite?
I just want to show my support. I was really surprised when I learned Russia began invading Ukraine. I thought we were in a modern enough era that the idea of expanding borders was long gone, honestly. This last year has taught me a lot about war in general, as well as some about the history of Ukraine and Russia. You are, in my humble opinion, one of the heroes of this scene. It takes a true patriot to be willing to endanger his cushy seat, to try and help out the segregated. Thank you for your willingness to endanger your own well-being to get some of this vital first-hand knowledge out to the world. There are people like me who feel terribly about the war and wish there was more to be done. It may seem confusing, but it is comforting to hear this type of information. Reassuring me that the madness going on is just madness. Being told by someone who has the experience, this stuff is propaganda, is very relieving. I can't wait for this all to end.
Well said. Thanks.
As a Bulgarian living in Bulgaria at the moment... I feel you. The Bulgarian Commies hate me
Communists still exist in Bulgaria? Do they exist in other former Warsaw Pact countries too? How does it feel to submit to a highly authoritarian regime where you have no say in your decisions and are essentially a vassal state to another country? This is why people revolted in 1956 and 1968, yet these communists would support the Soviet’s decision to “send in the tanks” hence the term tankie.
@@therealspeedwagon1451 dictatorship ≠ communism
I think you mean tankie, not commie.
Lived 8 years in Russia, Moscow. I think I might be slightly older than Roman but I can say everyone his age thinks exactly like him. The channel would be boring if it just showed normal usual human activities that Russians do like everybody else (restaurants, grocery shopping, etc.) instead he chooses to show things that can actually make people think, be surprised, shocked, etc. To me Roman is a more genuine Russian patriot than those we can see on national TV in the news nowadays. I love Russia very much and I wish people in power did the same.
“NFKRZ isn’t a real Russian!”
*The western college student typed on the IPhone his parents bought for him.*
A patriot is called to stand up and defend his country
yes, even from itself
And how do you propose the Russians citizens do that? By arming themselves and marching down Moscow?
@@MrJemoederopeenstokj Russian Muslims have already started doing that.
@@MrJemoederopeenstokj How did they do it the last time when they brought down the Soviet Union?
@@fba90130 Yeah bro, let us get a new Lenin rq out of this saturated, scared, depoliticized mess.
@@MrJemoederopeenstokj how to fix soviet union:
9:11 as an American this point by the tankies made me cringe. Almost all of these people advocate US cities like NYC or LA spending millions/billions of dollars to reorganize and adopt a European model, but a Russian can’t envy the same thing for themselves? Clown world
9:11 lol oh god
Roman, just ignore these weirdos in the net, they just waste your precious time! Keep up with your great work! Kindest greetings from Vienna, Austria, your video of your visit there was great! Slava Ukraini, Svoboda Rossija!
Imagine being a Russia simp without even being from there
Not even for the women, for the authoritarian government!
It has to be a deep-rooted submission fetish.
It's like a weeaboo except instead of just being weird around Japanese things, is more "politically involved"... and also weird around USSR things
At least weeaboos set foot into Japan at some point, meme or otherwise, mainly without subtitles lol
Imagine licking Putin's ass without even getting paid! Russian propagandists lick it for a huge salary, even kremlin trolls receive their 15 rubles, and those tankie losers do it for nothing!🤣
One thing I hate about tankies is their obsession with nationalism. They keep shouting no war but class war, except that's just a slogan and means nothing to them.
I find a lot of those tankies are usually the kids from the middle and upper class pretending they know so much more than the rest of us leftists. They love pretending to know everything including when it comes to experiences of marginalized groups since they once read/watched something on it
They're realy just red fascists. Nothing leftist about them.
you must not understand marxism. class is practically the most important part of marxism and materialism. you can criticize marxism, but at least know a tiny bit about it first.
Tankies aren't real communists or marxists, since both are internationalist anti patriotic ideologies
Tankies are the worst. Sorry you had to interact with them. 🤢
I love how 90% of these tankies arguments can be turned the other way around
What I also hate from the “America did X, Russia should be able to do X too” camp, is that they act like America entered Iraq and Afghanistan unopposed. There were numerous anti-war lobbyists, groups, and politicians across the country. Not to mention multiple NATO nations refused to participate and arguably everyone hates the fact America went stumbling around the Middle East. Not many liked the invasions then and now with foresight of decades on barely anybody likes it at all. The US rolled over both countries like a steamroller to an orphanage and as it turns out many people cheered for the orphanage.
Russia just happens to not have the ability to steamroll the orphanage and its allowing the moral dilemma of asking “well you know, we already did allow several orphanages to be steamrolled before. . .”
i've been watching you for four years now and I love you Roman. My heart broke when you had to leave your home, your family and your friends. You are loved -just know that.
I was labelled a "self hating Queer" and "Piece of sh*t" by tankies or commenting that the USSR banned homosexual relations and was institutionally homophobic under a photo on twitter with someone holding a combined Soviet Union-Pride hybrid flag 😂.
Don't mention Soviet racism to them they'll lose it
@@martinthedrainedsedlak Not a tankie but I think racism was quite low in the USSR compared to countries like USA
@@someone-ou5us doesn't fucking matter, modern Russians are pretty racist against asians from post USSR countries. That shit doesn't come out of nowhere
@@someone-ou5usRacism was low, but ethnic discrimination was severe under Stalin. Stalin slaughtered minorities such as Ukrainians, Finns, Lithuanians, Estonians, and Latvians through terror famine and the GULAG system.
@@commscan314 Very true
When you know that you’re being hated on by people who practice hate every day of the week in their own lives, you know you’re doing something right, keep up the great videos Roman, it’s just too funny they tell you what being Russian is like, as they sit in their basements ( if they have one) or, little rooms, in who knows where in the west, or Russia, looking at their computers, because they have nothing else going for them in life.
Well said! I live outside of Washington where there was an antiwar protest that blamed the US and NATO for the invasion of Ukraine. It was poorly attended but they are trying again this month. I'm really annoyed that a former member (Roger Waters) of my favorite band (Pink Floyd) actually spoke at that recent rally via video. He's really gone off the deep end with that speech along with that previous speech he gave to the UN Security Council on behalf of Russia. I'm sad because I grew up on Pink Floyd music and Roger Waters is siding with Putin while he currently lives in New York City. (Imagine being pro-Putin and pro-Russia while living in the wealthiest area in the wealthiest city in the US. 🙄) And don't even get me started on those embarrassing open letters to Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska asking her to convince her husband to stop fighting back against the Russian invasion...
This war is horrible. If you think the USA hasn't meddled in this hornet's nest, you are naive.
Same here! Another PF fan since the 70s, & so disappointed in Waters.😔
I wanted to punch Waters when he did that. I was a fan for over a decade and that really made me upset.
Did you listen to what Roger Waters said? He didn't say anything that is untrue, just politically contentious. Criticism of the US and NATO's actions in the East, especially their efforts to thwart peace talks, is NOT support of Russia. I thought he made that clear enough. This war could have ended before Christmas were it for the US's profiteering.
I think there was a similar protest in NYC organized by the PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation). Someone that I knew from high school was there. It was so cringe inducing; neither of the two rallies had a single Ukrainian speaker. Really shows where people's priorities lay.
Hilarious. Keep strong.
From Denmark to Russia with Love! Keep strong Roman your attitude to life as cynical as it is, is refreshing.
Just keep doing what you are doing, Roman. If you weren't providing logical, common-sense opinions, you wouldn't have attracted as many subscribers as you have. Not to mention you have the right to express your opinion to the entire world, despite what authoritarian-minded people think. The world actually needs more young, critical thinkers like you.
As a midwestern america man who pretends to be a fictional military from sonic the hedgehog as a joke, I support you, roman empire.
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*sad r2d2 noises* ):>
lmao underrated comment!
I love your views and videos. Would love to show you around Germany one day. Keep up your great work, and thanks for doing everything you do! ❤
Social democracy is the only way to a positive future. I enjoy your takes and videos. Thanks