Stalin era joke, three men in gulag, (prison) one asks "why are you here", man says "I told a joke about Ivanov!" He asked, "how about you!" "I wrote a joke about Ivanov!" Last man, "I'm Ivanov!" That neighbor you don't like! Wink, wink!
These Chuck Norris wannabes only know how to use violence against the weak 😖. They'll be two FSB agents in civilian clothes, paid by the state to spy on ordinary people they label enemies of the state. The wolf may change its skin, but not its old habits.
Sta mislis sta rade ukrainci Rusima , na zalost nije bolja situacija u celom svetu.Dal ti prokljuca krv kad ameri i izraelci tamane zene decu i starce u palestini i celom svetu.2014 ukrainci su palili zive ljude u Odesi i do sada ubili preko 16000, dece u Dombasu i Lugansku, jel ti tad prokljucala krv.
Not for them remember they are not that exposed to.this war as we are. That's why they use telegram and get brainwashed there thinking they winning . Now when it's on their territory u cant hide that anymore. All those puppets from Russia 1 start to speak about IT and people are barely reqlising just now. Some of them.
@@simonmeszaros2770 Sure we all share the same vices. The thing is, there are levels. When my country was part of USSR, we were snitching on one another like mad. So many people got hurt by the secret service due to that. When we left USSR, our secret service changed its priorities and wasn't looking for denounciacions on neighbours anymore. The difference was night and day. Please don't downplay this difference, because in doing so you are downplaying the immense endeavour of eastern european countries that shed this russian denounciacion mentality. It is russian, it came to us from Russia, it was imposed by russian puppet regime, first targeting "kulaks", then targeting any political opposition.
@@janb3625 absolutely agree. you are right here. i am also always saying that it was not kommunism or socialism or capitalism what made our countries suffer as these are colours. It was russian imperialism, its embracement of terrorism as a way of governing. But in light of what people are doing i cant help myself to see it all around me wherever i am, albeit in not such extense. Whay i wanted to say here is that human nature is similar, and having external enemies is no better. Yes Europe was shed of it for quite some time, but i can recollect ocassions of european interventionism. We became part of it under new paradigm.
@@TGWazoo1 Yes , a russian extrem far right nationalist named Strelkow did it too in Ukraine to start the war against the whole native ukrainian population.
Yeah, I think I’d take full advantage of stupid laws like this. But thankfully I don’t have to because I live among sane people who would not put up with this. I don’t like that this is happening to the Russians but you can’t help people that don’t want to be helped.
They would probably say they aren’t fans of the practice. And then would ask why this British reporter is so concerned with the Russian government suppressing free speech when the UK is busy doing the same thing?
@@JakeBrumby Ali imate pola drzave koji se izjasnjavaju kao Rusi i vise od pola Ruske teritorije na kojoj zivite vi koji se izjasnjavate kao ukrainci.Naravno to morate vratiti milom ili silom.
@@JakeBrumby You’ve been lied to about Russia for many years. The worse part is, Russia’s been taking the high road at the very same time so it doesn’t feel the same way about you. You don’t deserve this.
@@NYPDface What's this got to do with skin? Xenophobia would be the word you were looking for. And exactly what is xenophobic about calling snitches horrid people?
It's the oldest trick in the playbook for warmongering! t The warmonger uses derogatory names to dehumanise his target nation stiring up hatred for his enemies from within, and so it goes, on and on and on. Humans have a limitless capacity for stupidity and evil.
if there is one thing i have learned about russians, its that they project everything they do onto others. to a thief, everyman steals. this perfectly sums up most of russian society
bbc and cnn 4-6 years ago made documentary videos about how neo-nazis were gaining popularity in Ukraine. look for them on official TH-cam accounts, they are still available
Thank you Steve as always for important reporting from Russia. Seems we are heading back to the days that Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Huxley wrote novels about.
It never left. The same old guard stood behind this fake “free speech” era. Everything was in place for this to happen again. They never went away. They took political jobs and waited.
Solzhenitsyn was an anti-communist but a pan-slavic russian imperialist. He dreamed of a unified empire of all slavic people with russians at the head. He's been idolized in the West because of his anti-USSR dissident status. And nobody dug too deep. Everyone loves a rebel. Nobody loves to find the skeletons in the closet. Solzhenitsyn's "beef" was not with imperialism but rather with soviet collectivism and "internationalism" (which for those who know Eastern Europe - carries a heavy implication of xenophobia). As soon as the USSR fell, he started pushing imperial narratives of russian greatness. He became even worse later in life, aligning more and more with what we now perceive as the "putinist" philosophy. Even as a younger USSR dissident, he wrote extensively how Ukrainians and russians are one people and that our (Ukrainian) desires for self-identification are foolish dreams. In 2009, Putin laid flowers to his grave. Solzhenitsyn is generally positively viewed in the russian imperialist fetish crowd (to which putin belongs). He also promoted one of putin's now-favorite myths that "Lenin created Ukraine". Quote: "As Serhii Plokhy (Harvard historian) puts it, Solzhenitsyn was the unofficial leader of the Russian nationalist intelligentsia. He lamented in The Gulag Archipelago that ‘in the Kyivan period, we constituted a single people, but since then it has been torn apart’. On Ukrainian independence: ‘let them live and try it out for themselves. It will soon become apparent to them that not all problems are to be solved by separation’. He was hopeful that Ukrainians would soon see the light and recognise that they shared a destiny with Russians." Gulag Archipelago also heavily implies that Jews were to blame for many atrocities in the USSR (including labor camps), which led to a lot of academics accusing him of anti-semitism. Unfortunately, the Western public knows very little of the real nature of russian so-called intellectual culture. Other examples: Pushkin wrote numerous poems calling for imperial war and the glory of russian conquest (see his Evgeniy Onegin poems); Doestoevsky's views on national/political issues can be seen in this quote: "Any Serbian or Ukrainian that promotes their language or literature poses harm to our [russian imperial] society." These examples are just scratching the surface. You can't separate russian culture from their centuries-long gen*cidal imperial project. No matter how much more comfy we would feel if it was so. More one Solzehnitsin from Professor Plokhii here: th-cam.com/video/1qmK8xKN874/w-d-xo.html
@@dropbridgeI’m sure some of this is true. But look at yourself 5 years ago for example. Do you think Solzhenitsyn’s opinions hadn’t changed during his life?
@@yuriichernenko794 His views became more extreme later in life. In the 90s, towards the end of his life's journey, they were closely aligned with the current russian government's vision of a panslavic empire. There's no redemption arc here. But that's not even the point. As an individual, I believe people aren't set in stone. I believe in change. In learning. In redemption. Solzhenitsin didn't find those. But my point isn't about him, but rather that the majority of Western people look at russian intellectuals and culture with a completely uncritical eye. We hold our own intellectuals, artists and historical figures to a higher standard because we believe in the common good, in learning from the past and not repeating its mistakes. We examine the Western history of imperialism and try to learn how to build better societies. We acknowledge that eugenics were popular in Western science and we don't want to repeat that. Yet when I see the Western discourse on russian culture and intellectualism, all I see is the love for the exotic, the love for the myth of "a good man in bad cirucmstances." While in fact, these were living people with demons, flaws, sins, mistakes, and so on that deserve to be examined. Until that is done, until Western people who admire Solzhenitsin, Pushkin, Dostoevskyy, Tolstoy etc. learn the full picture of these representatives of russian culture, and about russian culture in general (and its dark imperial heritage)... until that happens - the discussion around the fate of russia, Europe, war on this content, freedom, democracy, culture - will be deeply flawed and will have no future. Because it will be based in fantasy, not reality. And to rectify that, new voices need to be heard - the voices of the colonized cultures, and not the colonizer culture (russia) that "hogged the spotlight" for around 400 years. I would suggest prof. Timothy Snyder as a starting point for learning that view.
I would like to know if the news shows you when in Ukraine people are sent to prison because they made a post on a social network in honor of Victory Day. Is this what you are fighting for?
This folks didn`t got benefits from its behavior ; they did it because they are abel to do it and didn`t have to fear to got blamed by their own family & friends .
@@lynnedwyer6716 Actually no. Okhranka was established in 1881 and it was to squash ultra-leftists that were popping up. They eventually failed and with the February 1916 revolution the Okhranka was dissolved and replaced by CHeKa (emergency commission) of the Bolsheviks. There was no such agency prior to Okhranka.
little do you know you're watching western propaganda. you don't even know what she's accused of in reality, all you know is what this video tells you.
I hope Putin is overthrown at the conclusion of this mess. I doubt it, but any chance for her to not serve that time. Especially at her age. Average life expentacy is 69.4 years there🙄 It hasn't changed since 2021, so the its not the war making it less. In 2005 it was 65.5. That totally sucks
The widow is likely upset as her husband can no longer loot washing machines and flat screen TVs from Ukrainians. Imagine thinking you can invade a nation and not be a legitimate target.
I remember a propaganda video in which "inconsolable" widows lasciviously caressed the medals of their fallen husbands. Never have I seen less sad widows in all my life.
sickening. The old DDR springs to mind, just so unbelievably sick. Russia continues in its old Soviet spirit. It's vile, it just can't be grasped by any normal human being.
The more I see and hear of Russians, the more disappointed I am. It used to be said that Hitler was representative of his people, I think the same can be said of Putin.
@@yuriichernenko794 If I was your friend and suddenly attacked you one day for no discernable reason, you might think that perhaps not your friend after all. It is true that relations between nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were cordial up to 1941. Russia allowed Germany to have a Russian airbase on Russian soil where Luftwaffe pilots could be trained away from the prying eyes of Britain and France. Then there was the infamous Molotov/Ribbentrop pact which allowed both countries to carve up Poland in 1939. I take it this was the document you were alluding to. And even after Operation Barbarossa commenced, railway trucks from Russia carrying oil, steel and coal were still rolling into Germany. Russian army commanders were paralysed at the outset because Stalin could not bring himself to believe that Hitler would stab him in the back. This is all true but it has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making. Hitler's attitudes and opinions were fairly typical of most Germans at the time. I feel the same can be said of Putin ie that his views and mindset is not very different from the people he nominally represents.
@@doubleplusgoodthinker9434 I understand. And I believe that leaders of modern history are products of their societies. First they dance to people’s songs and then they force people to dance to their own.
@@genericuser2339he was dying on the floor for unknown amount of time and nobody dared to enter his office. (or nobody wanted). Poisoning is still an option, too. I doubt Russians want to investigate it at all. Mythology is their favorite religion.
@@mattkennedy6115True, Trump is but a useful idiot. Unfortunately, he's influenced by & admires the other despots of the world. Any idea of the variety of measures he tried to implement to undermine the previous election? It's quite the long list.
Same i hated america and china i still do hate them abd tought Russia will be a good option until Ukraine war started and the mins boggling brain rotting propoganda I have seen disgusted me
There’s more to a snitch event than politics and patriotism. It’s a chance to win a feud, help a grudge, get land or money or some sort of advantage. Nothing to so with patriotism.
They see that they are loosing. Fear. They really think the west wants to destroy them. Propaganda and brain washing g over years can do this. We need to learn from them - what not to do. First tRump goes to jail. Second, vote the maggots out.
Sounds very familiar: I am German my grandfather told how he was slagging off a guy in the maxi party before the war on a personal level in his village. The next day he was woken up in the morning by a group of people in that party and threatened. This was before the war!
Most of my family originally from Ukraine fled Stalin's USSR, others were tortured, died of starvation, or began living 'under the radar'. ruzzia has gone full circle back to the days of medieval witchhunts.
@olderbutnowiser6701 Unlike Jinping, Britain's leadership doesn't look like they just smelled somebody else's fart. Look at Xi. He always has the facial expression of a midget on a elevator at a IBS convention.
20's Russia, 30's Russia, 40's Russia,... 70's Russia... I don't count 80's and 90's for obvious reasons but they went back to old customs. They literally still Soviet Union, with another name, with exactly the same rules of the 20's military ideology.
Another chapter in Russias sad history…..a beautiful country with wonderful people…..the same people who are always voluntarily throwing away opportunities to run their own lives….to be free to express, think, vote and demonstrate….who dream of being free, but will not fight to be free….who select strongmen to run their country and lives….which leads to disaster….an unwanted war with huge losses, a police state and a 68 year old doctor being arrested and facing a 15 year prison sentence on a rumor. …a woman reported…no evidence….by.her neighbor and facing 10 years on an allegation. …and an old man physically assaulted by two younger men…..because he said an opinion they didn’t like and the police did nothing. Welcome to Putins Russia…..the spirit of Stalin and the Soviet Union is alive and well. It’s like a country of sheep whose armed forces and security services protect and support one man Putin……NOT THEIR OWN PEOPLE….which is what a military is supposed to do.
In Stalinist times, the word 'донос' ('denunciation') was part of everyday speech. I suggest people viewing this go back into history and read up about Pavlik Morozov, on Wikipedia there is an article. Also look up 'Bezhin Meadow', film directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
@@lynnedwyer6716 The title is "It Can't Happen Here", and it's relevant in terms of Putin's rise from obscurity to dictatorship, and since this video is about Russia etc.
Steve's just uploding BBC videos. The BBC reporter (forgot his name) just makes mostly street footage and sends it to UK. It's the UK that edits it and makes it into a story - any story they like.
@@issigonis975 a mean concentration camps were invented by GB lol, i mean they have no moral right to criticize anyone after all those atrocities they have committed in Africa alone not mention modern Julian Assange case
@@xfxox Go read up about the reason for the 'camps' in the Anglo-Boer war. Then go find out where the Germans got the idea for theirs. In fact try going back into all the bad things in history to attack another country. Stalin gave Hitler a run for his money on that one. As for Assange I don't give a toss so I am hardly going to bother looking that irrelevance up. This seems to be a look squirrel argument.
Ya know I think that criminals kind of have a point about the no snitching thing. I dont think that its really worth telling the authorities in any country anything.
Living under the Tzar was no different. Maybe worse. At least here they make a small effort to not let people starve in the street. They can starve in their small pension rickety old village houses. Without gas, electricity in many cases. Terror is an old practice in this country. That’s how the Tzar remained in power through generations until the people had enough. Unfortunately, they never reached democracy.
A truly sad reminder of how political history repeats itself 😢
Yes, how the west devolves in its superiority complex. 2:45 and now feel completely ok again to reveal their race theories.
OH my god, that's so depressing....
yeah, true though.
Stalin era joke, three men in gulag, (prison) one asks "why are you here", man says "I told a joke about Ivanov!" He asked, "how about you!" "I wrote a joke about Ivanov!" Last man, "I'm Ivanov!" That neighbor you don't like! Wink, wink!
Yes, western colonial countries will never stop.
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Those two bullies ganging up on that old timer! Made my blood boil.
These Chuck Norris wannabes only know how to use violence against the weak 😖. They'll be two FSB agents in civilian clothes, paid by the state to spy on ordinary people they label enemies of the state. The wolf may change its skin, but not its old habits.
Yes indoctrinated cowards!
They let the old man go - but did they arrest the two attacking him? No. Of course not.
Sta mislis sta rade ukrainci Rusima , na zalost nije bolja situacija u celom svetu.Dal ti prokljuca krv kad ameri i izraelci tamane zene decu i starce u palestini i celom svetu.2014 ukrainci su palili zive ljude u Odesi i do sada ubili preko 16000, dece u Dombasu i Lugansku, jel ti tad prokljucala krv.
@@lynnedwyer6716you don’t touch loyal honorable people
'Heading in a dangerous direction '. I think that ship sailed a long time ago
Not for them remember they are not that exposed to.this war as we are. That's why they use telegram and get brainwashed there thinking they winning . Now when it's on their territory u cant hide that anymore. All those puppets from Russia 1 start to speak about IT and people are barely reqlising just now. Some of them.
Russian mushrooms prefer to be kept in the dark and fed manure
Denunciations is a Russian way of life. The Ex wife didn't get her free bag of onions and is taking her frustration out on the Doctor
its human way of life. looking for enemies . does it matter if internal or external?
@@simonmeszaros2770 No, it's a Russian way of life.
@@simonmeszaros2770 Sure we all share the same vices. The thing is, there are levels. When my country was part of USSR, we were snitching on one another like mad. So many people got hurt by the secret service due to that. When we left USSR, our secret service changed its priorities and wasn't looking for denounciacions on neighbours anymore. The difference was night and day. Please don't downplay this difference, because in doing so you are downplaying the immense endeavour of eastern european countries that shed this russian denounciacion mentality. It is russian, it came to us from Russia, it was imposed by russian puppet regime, first targeting "kulaks", then targeting any political opposition.
@@janb3625 absolutely agree. you are right here. i am also always saying that it was not kommunism or socialism or capitalism what made our countries suffer as these are colours. It was russian imperialism, its embracement of terrorism as a way of governing. But in light of what people are doing i cant help myself to see it all around me wherever i am, albeit in not such extense. Whay i wanted to say here is that human nature is similar, and having external enemies is no better. Yes Europe was shed of it for quite some time, but i can recollect ocassions of european interventionism. We became part of it under new paradigm.
@@simonmeszaros2770 In this larger context I agree with you. Otherwise we would risk becoming like McCarthy with his persecutions during Cold War.
How backward is this!
No wonder Ukraine wants to turn it's back on this overbearing idiocy.
😂😂😂😂😂 same thing happens in Ukraine.
Look up ТЦК ОПГ
@@TGWazoo1not if they want into the EU. We have the rule of law, and human rights.
@@TGWazoo1 Who is alleging what? Links to verified sources?
@@TGWazoo1 It is not. Name your sources, otherwise all you utter must be presumed BS.
@@TGWazoo1 Yes , a russian extrem far right nationalist named Strelkow did it too in Ukraine to start the war against the whole native ukrainian population.
The most important thing worth to mention is that 99% of these accusations are fabrications made because of personal gains.
Exactly. They could just say anything about a family member of a neighbour.
The politicians don’t care if it is true. They are interested in frightening and controlling the people.
Personal gains or retaliatory anger from some imagined conflict
The fact that saying you don't like a war your country is fighting, can get you 10 years in prison, shows you how much of a democracy, Russia is not
Yeah, I think I’d take full advantage of stupid laws like this. But thankfully I don’t have to because I live among sane people who would not put up with this.
I don’t like that this is happening to the Russians but you can’t help people that don’t want to be helped.
Generational snitching, in a nation of snitches. Just sad.
USA has a nation of plaintiffs
@@06howea1Rent free in your head. You are OBSESSED. Sad!
Rat-society
best short answer summary.
🐀 ~accurate description of Russians~
Be careful. Every society can become like that.
Except it didn't happen so far. Because it's not Russia. @@thesilkpainter
@@pR0ManiacS Really? 1939 Germany?, Argentina?, Brazil?, Chile?, Romania? It could happen in the USA if Trump is elected and asks for it.
What do Scott Ritter and Tucker Carlson have to say about this?
Carlson is so gobsmacked by the existence of shopping carts in a Moscow supermarket that he'd say it's a small price to pay to live in Putin's utopia.
…and 🐁Trump.
If there are no prepubescent children or racists involved, those two are not interested.
@@Slavaisusukhrystu ouch! LOL!
They would probably say they aren’t fans of the practice. And then would ask why this British reporter is so concerned with the Russian government suppressing free speech when the UK is busy doing the same thing?
And that is why i tell my Russia supporting friends that i do not wish my kids to live in such a system! Even if our democracy is not perfect!
Only Orcs want to live in such a country.
You have Russia supporting friends? We don't have such people in UK.
None that I’ve heard of here in the USA either (except Trump🐁& Carlson🐁)
@@JakeBrumby Ali imate pola drzave koji se izjasnjavaju kao Rusi i vise od pola Ruske teritorije na kojoj zivite vi koji se izjasnjavate kao ukrainci.Naravno to morate vratiti milom ili silom.
@@JakeBrumby You’ve been lied to about Russia for many years. The worse part is, Russia’s been taking the high road at the very same time so it doesn’t feel the same way about you. You don’t deserve this.
What a good reporting. Thank you, Steve!
Stalinism lives on.
What a horrid people!
That’s racist.
@@NYPDface What's this got to do with skin? Xenophobia would be the word you were looking for. And exactly what is xenophobic about calling snitches horrid people?
@@Pipppo Saying an entire group of people (an ethnic group) are horrid is racist.
And they call Ukranians Nazis....even used that as a pretext to invade the neighbor!
It's the oldest trick in the playbook for warmongering! t
The warmonger uses derogatory names to dehumanise his target nation stiring up hatred for his enemies from within, and so it goes, on and on and on.
Humans have a limitless capacity for stupidity and evil.
if there is one thing i have learned about russians, its that they project everything they do onto others.
to a thief, everyman steals.
this perfectly sums up most of russian society
bbc and cnn 4-6 years ago made documentary videos about how neo-nazis were gaining popularity in Ukraine. look for them on official TH-cam accounts, they are still available
Thank you Steve as always for important reporting from Russia. Seems we are heading back to the days that Orwell, Solzhenitsyn, and Huxley wrote novels about.
It never left. The same old guard stood behind this fake “free speech” era. Everything was in place for this to happen again. They never went away. They took political jobs and waited.
Doesn't Solzhenitsyn support the war?
Solzhenitsyn was an anti-communist but a pan-slavic russian imperialist. He dreamed of a unified empire of all slavic people with russians at the head. He's been idolized in the West because of his anti-USSR dissident status. And nobody dug too deep. Everyone loves a rebel. Nobody loves to find the skeletons in the closet.
Solzhenitsyn's "beef" was not with imperialism but rather with soviet collectivism and "internationalism" (which for those who know Eastern Europe - carries a heavy implication of xenophobia). As soon as the USSR fell, he started pushing imperial narratives of russian greatness. He became even worse later in life, aligning more and more with what we now perceive as the "putinist" philosophy.
Even as a younger USSR dissident, he wrote extensively how Ukrainians and russians are one people and that our (Ukrainian) desires for self-identification are foolish dreams. In 2009, Putin laid flowers to his grave. Solzhenitsyn is generally positively viewed in the russian imperialist fetish crowd (to which putin belongs). He also promoted one of putin's now-favorite myths that "Lenin created Ukraine".
Quote: "As Serhii Plokhy (Harvard historian) puts it, Solzhenitsyn was the unofficial leader of the Russian nationalist intelligentsia. He lamented in The Gulag Archipelago that ‘in the Kyivan period, we constituted a single people, but since then it has been torn apart’. On Ukrainian independence: ‘let them live and try it out for themselves. It will soon become apparent to them that not all problems are to be solved by separation’. He was hopeful that Ukrainians would soon see the light and recognise that they shared a destiny with Russians."
Gulag Archipelago also heavily implies that Jews were to blame for many atrocities in the USSR (including labor camps), which led to a lot of academics accusing him of anti-semitism.
Unfortunately, the Western public knows very little of the real nature of russian so-called intellectual culture. Other examples: Pushkin wrote numerous poems calling for imperial war and the glory of russian conquest (see his Evgeniy Onegin poems); Doestoevsky's views on national/political issues can be seen in this quote: "Any Serbian or Ukrainian that promotes their language or literature poses harm to our [russian imperial] society." These examples are just scratching the surface.
You can't separate russian culture from their centuries-long gen*cidal imperial project. No matter how much more comfy we would feel if it was so.
More one Solzehnitsin from Professor Plokhii here: th-cam.com/video/1qmK8xKN874/w-d-xo.html
@@dropbridgeI’m sure some of this is true. But look at yourself 5 years ago for example. Do you think Solzhenitsyn’s opinions hadn’t changed during his life?
@@yuriichernenko794 His views became more extreme later in life. In the 90s, towards the end of his life's journey, they were closely aligned with the current russian government's vision of a panslavic empire. There's no redemption arc here.
But that's not even the point. As an individual, I believe people aren't set in stone. I believe in change. In learning. In redemption. Solzhenitsin didn't find those. But my point isn't about him, but rather that the majority of Western people look at russian intellectuals and culture with a completely uncritical eye.
We hold our own intellectuals, artists and historical figures to a higher standard because we believe in the common good, in learning from the past and not repeating its mistakes. We examine the Western history of imperialism and try to learn how to build better societies. We acknowledge that eugenics were popular in Western science and we don't want to repeat that.
Yet when I see the Western discourse on russian culture and intellectualism, all I see is the love for the exotic, the love for the myth of "a good man in bad cirucmstances." While in fact, these were living people with demons, flaws, sins, mistakes, and so on that deserve to be examined. Until that is done, until Western people who admire Solzhenitsin, Pushkin, Dostoevskyy, Tolstoy etc. learn the full picture of these representatives of russian culture, and about russian culture in general (and its dark imperial heritage)... until that happens - the discussion around the fate of russia, Europe, war on this content, freedom, democracy, culture - will be deeply flawed and will have no future.
Because it will be based in fantasy, not reality. And to rectify that, new voices need to be heard - the voices of the colonized cultures, and not the colonizer culture (russia) that "hogged the spotlight" for around 400 years. I would suggest prof. Timothy Snyder as a starting point for learning that view.
And this, my friends, is why the free world helps Ukraine as much as they can. (Not as much as they should though …)
I would like to know if the news shows you when in Ukraine people are sent to prison because they made a post on a social network in honor of Victory Day. Is this what you are fighting for?
1930s here we come
No. Here they have gone. tRump has been a wannabe Putin for a long time. Vote Blue 2024 - Kamala, Kamala, Kamala.
fighting an 80year old... cowards
How can this still be happening in the twenty first century?
Because, deep down nothing has really changed in Russia from imperial times
This folks didn`t got benefits from its behavior ; they did it because they are abel to do it and didn`t have to fear to got blamed by their own family & friends .
Just as it happened in every other century.
It never left. Tzar had secret police picking up people that disagree with being slaves.
@@lynnedwyer6716 Actually no. Okhranka was established in 1881 and it was to squash ultra-leftists that were popping up. They eventually failed and with the February 1916 revolution the Okhranka was dissolved and replaced by CHeKa (emergency commission) of the Bolsheviks.
There was no such agency prior to Okhranka.
Brings back sad memories of times past in eastern europe and other places.
The commonality is Russia.
Never again to katsap's occupation.
Respect to Steve Rosenberg.
It’s all true. I’ve come to despise my own people.
I wonder how Putin's regime allows this British journalist to operate in Russia? 🤔
Starting to be ashamed of being half-russian as well...
She's a hero of humanity.
little do you know you're watching western propaganda. you don't even know what she's accused of in reality, all you know is what this video tells you.
I hope Putin is overthrown at the conclusion of this mess. I doubt it, but any chance for her to not serve that time. Especially at her age. Average life expentacy is 69.4 years there🙄 It hasn't changed since 2021, so the its not the war making it less. In 2005 it was 65.5. That totally sucks
I have always appreciated your reporting from Russia, but…..sometimes I worry about your safety.
Same. I can't understand why he hasn't been expelled from Ruskyland? Stay safe Mr Rosenberg
dictatorships facts of life
What a fun country. Such wealth, such joy, such a clustermuck.
"MY HUSBAND DIED FIGHTING IN UKRAINE!!!!" Yeah, that's how most soldiers die. "HOW DARE YOU, I'M REPORTING YOU TO OUR BIG BOSS!!!!"
The end is near when the "witch hunt" begins.
Who on earth would live in that regime. Certainly not Ukraine
The widow is likely upset as her husband can no longer loot washing machines and flat screen TVs from Ukrainians. Imagine thinking you can invade a nation and not be a legitimate target.
I remember a propaganda video in which "inconsolable" widows lasciviously caressed the medals of their fallen husbands. Never have I seen less sad widows in all my life.
Well said.
The hell you blabbering about? Both soldiers on both sides are just victims
@@slent5346Russian soldiers are mostly volunteers or contractors. So they are victims of their own stupidity.
Poor old man treated in a barbaric way by two cowards.
Horrible society.
Good to see that Steve Rosenburg credits his producer and cameraman for their contribution to making this video. This is excellent work.
This is Russia we know and we are desperatly don't want to be in.
History repeats itself.
It's deep Russia traditions even before SSSR.
The tzar had secret police doing the same thing.
Hi Steve, great reporting and so important in days like these,you must have a powerful guardian angel, much respect, stay safe.
Just despicable and wretched.
"I've seen this happen in other people's lives, and now it's happening in mine"
So I sat back and buried my head in the sand. Right - until they come for you it’s always someone else.
"first they came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't communist" poem comes to mind.
Just like in germany in 1940
more like the Soviet Union during the 30s.
Try going back to the Tzar. He was not a beneficent leader. Had secret police picking up people that did not agree with him.
Or in the USA during the senator McCarthy reign of terror.
@@RodolfLeclercno nothing like that.
Such a sick sick nation.
revolting, by any standard
No, Putin is " Very Smart " according to a Stable Genius
sickening. The old DDR springs to mind, just so unbelievably sick. Russia continues in its old Soviet spirit. It's vile, it just can't be grasped by any normal human being.
The return of the anonymous denunciation from Stalinist times 😢 Plus ça change 😢
The more I see and hear of Russians, the more disappointed I am. It used to be said that Hitler was representative of his people, I think the same can be said of Putin.
You need to check what a good friends Hitler and Stalin were and what a wonderful documents were signed.
@@yuriichernenko794 If I was your friend and suddenly attacked you one day for no discernable reason, you might think that perhaps not your friend after all.
It is true that relations between nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were cordial up to 1941. Russia allowed Germany to have a Russian airbase on Russian soil where Luftwaffe pilots could be trained away from the prying eyes of Britain and France. Then there was the infamous Molotov/Ribbentrop pact which allowed both countries to carve up Poland in 1939. I take it this was the document you were alluding to.
And even after Operation Barbarossa commenced, railway trucks from Russia carrying oil, steel and coal were still rolling into Germany. Russian army commanders were paralysed at the outset because Stalin could not bring himself to believe that Hitler would stab him in the back.
This is all true but it has absolutely nothing to do with the point I was making. Hitler's attitudes and opinions were fairly typical of most Germans at the time. I feel the same can be said of Putin ie that his views and mindset is not very different from the people he nominally represents.
@@doubleplusgoodthinker9434 I understand. And I believe that leaders of modern history are products of their societies. First they dance to people’s songs and then they force people to dance to their own.
Putin thinks he's Stallin.
Wannabe. So he will go in a similar way.
@@lynnedwyer6716I hope not, check your history books. Stalin died naturally of a stroke. Wanna wait that long for Putin?
@@genericuser2339he was dying on the floor for unknown amount of time and nobody dared to enter his office. (or nobody wanted). Poisoning is still an option, too. I doubt Russians want to investigate it at all. Mythology is their favorite religion.
Steve Rosenburg and Steven McDonald in China are the only BBC correspondents that I have any time for and enjoy their reporting .
Trump's United Hates of America if he got back in
You don’t even know what you’re talking about
@@mattkennedy6115 I think he do!
@@mattkennedy6115True, Trump is but a useful idiot. Unfortunately, he's influenced by & admires the other despots of the world. Any idea of the variety of measures he tried to implement to undermine the previous election? It's quite the long list.
Sick country. Sick government. Sick media. Sick.
I thought that Russia was a great country for its culture. Now I consider it a savage jungle, only with nuclear weapons and computers.
Same i hated america and china i still do hate them abd tought Russia will be a good option until Ukraine war started and the mins boggling brain rotting propoganda I have seen disgusted me
As the Soviet dissidents and Intelligentsia called it, "upper Volta with rockets"
Nice little nesting dolls though.
Culture became great after connecting to Europe
There’s more to a snitch event than politics and patriotism. It’s a chance to win a feud, help a grudge, get land or money or some sort of advantage. Nothing to so with patriotism.
Attacking an 87-year old man. How low can you get......... 😞
They see that they are loosing. Fear. They really think the west wants to destroy them. Propaganda and brain washing g over years can do this. We need to learn from them - what not to do. First tRump goes to jail. Second, vote the maggots out.
Steve - thanks for your reports. Nuff said.
Nice of you to spend some time with Dimitry and look at his photo album
Bringing back good old-fashioned traditions, I see!
Sounds very familiar: I am German my grandfather told how he was slagging off a guy in the maxi party before the war on a personal level in his village. The next day he was woken up in the morning by a group of people in that party and threatened. This was before the war!
Exactly. You were the first who believed that humans are nothing more than evolved apes. Then the laws of the apes became quite applicable.
Russia was never destalinized and we can see it in the culture to this day unfortunately
Putin actually revived Stalin as a legendary character few years before invasion
Most of my family originally from Ukraine fled Stalin's USSR, others were tortured, died of starvation, or began living 'under the radar'. ruzzia has gone full circle back to the days of medieval witchhunts.
If you vote orange the U.S. will look like this. . .
Yup. He’s already said he plans military tribunals for “traitors” who don’t support him.
I'm voting Kamala🌊We're not going back to the wanna-be dictator. He has been building his own denunciation culture
This is the pure truth
@@rhondabailey9238I don’t love Harris, but voting for Trump is voting for basic fascism.
That was heartbreaking, but it is better to understand than pretend nothing is happening…
It’s sad and China is not far behind
I thought you were going to say Britain then.
@@olderbutnowiser6701 Actually the entire world, 30 years of rainbow and unicorn, and now it is the turn of fire and blood. Human nature.
@olderbutnowiser6701
Unlike Jinping, Britain's leadership doesn't look like they just smelled somebody else's fart. Look at Xi. He always has the facial expression of a midget on a elevator at a IBS convention.
@@olderbutnowiser6701 who are you? Why are you so weird?
Just take a look at Kursk, now when it's European, the standard living has gone up and they all embrace us!
20's Russia, 30's Russia, 40's Russia,... 70's Russia... I don't count 80's and 90's for obvious reasons but they went back to old customs. They literally still Soviet Union, with another name, with exactly the same rules of the 20's military ideology.
It’s when a regime starts to fall…
I hope. But seems like it’s the Russian tumbler toy regime. People keep asking for a “strong leader” who’ll take care.
All those BLIND MICE in RUSSIA😵💫
Insane russia
Ruzzia adjective suits these people quite accurately…
Another chapter in Russias sad history…..a beautiful country with wonderful people…..the same people who are always voluntarily throwing away opportunities to run their own lives….to be free to express, think, vote and demonstrate….who dream of being free, but will not fight to be free….who select strongmen to run their country and lives….which leads to disaster….an unwanted war with huge losses, a police state and a 68 year old doctor being arrested and facing a 15 year prison sentence on a rumor. …a woman reported…no evidence….by.her neighbor and facing 10 years on an allegation. …and an old man physically assaulted by two younger men…..because he said an opinion they didn’t like and the police did nothing. Welcome to Putins Russia…..the spirit of Stalin and the Soviet Union is alive and well. It’s like a country of sheep whose armed forces and security services protect and support one man Putin……NOT THEIR OWN PEOPLE….which is what a military is supposed to do.
Back to the USSR😢
In Stalinist times, the word 'донос' ('denunciation') was part of everyday speech. I suggest people viewing this go back into history and read up about Pavlik Morozov, on Wikipedia there is an article. Also look up 'Bezhin Meadow', film directed by Sergei Eisenstein.
Go back to the Tzars. Secret police arrested you in your home, on the street, at work. No one could speak the truth ever in this country.
Russia is backward..& going in wrong direction.. towards the stone age😊
Equally alarming is what is happening in the UK with people being arrested for online comments.
Equally? you joking i Hope, its much worst, cannot compare primitive Russia with Advanced and Civilized West :)
@@ChasseurTueur the thing about having morals is you apply them equally to all situations
Just luke No.Korea
Pootin is no different to Starlin, they are one in the same!!!
Don’t be stupid.
@@mwd331actually he’s close. Putin started to glorify Stalin in media a few years before the invasion. First he was calling Stalin “ambiguous”.
Basically a witch hunt, neighbors anger you, lie to the government about them and problem solved.
Something is going on with the young people's minds in Russia....
Good report. Sad situation. The way things are going in the US that could happen here.
Disagree.
@@plunderpunk2 I hope you're right.
It Could Happen Here. A book by Sinclair Lewis.
@@lynnedwyer6716 The title is "It Can't Happen Here", and it's relevant in terms of Putin's rise from obscurity to dictatorship, and since this video is about Russia etc.
No it's a lack of freedom
They have never known Freedom
That country is not worth it. They should reject the actual system and call for a serious reform.
WTF has Putin done to Russia - He has made it a hated nightmare 😂
Dear Mr Steve Rosenberg, it's of great mystery to me how you and BBC are still reporting from Moscow.
What's your secret?
Silencing the truth is not to be approved of
I am most definitely not an operative of the state machine, please, tell us your exact location and we will send flowers
Steve's just uploding BBC videos.
The BBC reporter (forgot his name) just makes mostly street footage and sends it to UK.
It's the UK that edits it and makes it into a story - any story they like.
respect the elderly people no matter what they think , the old man was no threat to anything at 87 years old was he ?
Snithes get stitches... in their own time.
Lol at least they werent arrested for a tweet
Are you here for the comedy value?
@@issigonis975 a mean concentration camps were invented by GB lol, i mean they have no moral right to criticize anyone after all those atrocities they have committed in Africa alone not mention modern Julian Assange case
@@xfxox maybe go study history that is the only suggestion I can make.
@@issigonis975Second Boer War concentration camps. And what about Assange you did not answered?
@@xfxox Go read up about the reason for the 'camps' in the Anglo-Boer war. Then go find out where the Germans got the idea for theirs. In fact try going back into all the bad things in history to attack another country. Stalin gave Hitler a run for his money on that one. As for Assange I don't give a toss so I am hardly going to bother looking that irrelevance up. This seems to be a look squirrel argument.
Anyone else think this could happen under MAGA rule?
Nope and deflecting won’t help you Boris. We can all see what Putin represents
It’s definitely in the same direction.
@@Jon962-h4iTrump is OPENLY supporting Putin and Orban. Are you insane?
@@Jon962-h4i I have no idea what that means.
What an honourable free country
Ya know I think that criminals kind of have a point about the no snitching thing. I dont think that its really worth telling the authorities in any country anything.
Well they have a „strong“ history on that. The „greatness“ of Russians on full display…
Это типа они надеются протянуть 10 лет у власти:))))
Same old Soviet shit.
Being Russian, this is why I keep distance between me and them.. "screw you over" type society. Scary.
Poor russia.......dragged down and into putins darknes........ A russia eating itself........
A century of bolshevism.
Stalinism at its best ....or worst
Freedom of speech , at a cost.
Free speech as long as you freely toe the party line.
No sanctions on Russia can do as much damage on the Russian economy as Russia does it themselves.
A distinct Lenin smell about this, I like Russian people a lot, but am always amazed at their complacency about corrupt governments.
Living under the Tzar was no different. Maybe worse. At least here they make a small effort to not let people starve in the street. They can starve in their small pension rickety old village houses. Without gas, electricity in many cases. Terror is an old practice in this country. That’s how the Tzar remained in power through generations until the people had enough. Unfortunately, they never reached democracy.
IN Cuba happen the same
Talk about a dystopian society. Assaulting an old man for speaking his mind about a war - these 2 guys really are some next level cowards.
You can always find a couple of idiots in any country. I’m more concerned about witnesses.
Russia, Iran, North Korea.
No difference
The examples were about just settling feuds.
such as the woman who snitched on her neighbour with the clear intent of stealling the property under dispute.