War & Privilege: My Refugee Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video, I'm sharing my story as a refugee. I'll discuss the war in Ukraine, the refugee crisis, and my experiences as a displaced person.
As a refugee, I've seen first-hand how war and privilege can destroy people and families. I hope my story can help raise awareness about the refugee crisis and the need for humanitarian support. If you're interested in learning more about the war in Ukraine, or simply want to hear my story, please watch this video!
Hey there:) I'm excited and nervous to share my personal journey with you in this video. Back in 2014, life was a rollercoaster as my family went from being financially well-off to becoming refugees. It was a wild ride but I believe it is worth sharing.
This video isn't just about hardship; it's a reminder that privilege can exist even in the midst of struggle. I want to shed light on the Ukrainian crisis and show that refugees like me come from diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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Girl I am over here bawling my eyes out over $50 you sent your parents and I’m not even a sensitive person.
Albina, we need your dad to be a guest on either this or the media channel - he sounds like an incredible role model!
Wow, you’re my son’s age - and still I’m learning from you. You’re right - growing up in a healthy family environment was great for you! My life has been full of challenges, and I overcame so much, but I’m still struggling to recover from the events of 2020-2021. Thanks so much for sharing your story, I’ll never forget
Hey Albina, Gleb here. I can’t stress enough how hardworking and smart you are. I’m sure many people will find inspiration in your story and for sure will get some experience. For me the main message of this video is to never give up. Your parents must be so proud of you. Thank you for sharing such a valuable experience. Hope the war ends soon and we can visit our homes once again. Слава Україні🇺🇦❤️
Gleb, thank you so much for your kind words and support
also, once the war is over, you and I have to meet in Kyiv and celebrate :)
Dear Albina, thanks for sharing your personal story with such honesty! What I found amazing, is how your parents managed to make back their money back relatively quickly again.
This tells us that what makes an entrepreneur is not only access to capital, which certainly helps, but it is the mentality and knowledge of how money works.
I have met several families with business backgrounds who had lost their wealth (mainly due to revolutions and upheavals) and eventually they always manage to build up great wealth again, starting from scratch.
Apart from this : your parents should be very proud of you, and your country should be proud of you!
I spent one month travelling to Ukraine before the annexation of Crimea to Russia and I really enjoyed the country!
You are very smart to acknowledge how blessed you are and even wiser to use those tools to improve your circumstances with those blessings you've received.
I've never been money-wise privileged but I do understand leaving your home country at a young age because it became unsustainable to go on there for the moment, and the consequences of having to suddenly live alone and the burdens that it mentally adds
You speak so beautifully about your parents ❤❤❤ You deserve all the joy in the world
Thank you for sharing your journey Albina. God bless your family 💕
i first stumbled upon your videos on tiktok and was impressed at how eloquent you are and how much wisdom you seem to possess. was happy to find out youre ukrainian and twice as happy to find out youre from the eastern side. donetsk here, so the vid hits close to home. sending you tons of positive vibes and i just know we'll able to go back home someday🥺💜 keep up the good work, your content and execution is beyond impressive!
So much love to you🫶🏻 I remember coming to Donetsk so often as a child, and at some point I dreamed of living there. I hope you are safe and sound and thank you for your kindness 🫶🏻
Wow! Thank you for posting a video like this on TH-cam and on this topic. It's eye-opening and dispels a lot of assumptions the general public has about privileged kids. You're also very intelligent!
This video was so moving. I love Privileged Few but I also love this type of down to earth content. I hope you keep making videos like this!
I'm in a similar situation. My parents are both self made-people from little towns in the Luhansk and Donetsk regions and they work hard to this day to give me the opportunities in Kyiv they didn't have growing up. And I also believe I have to live up to their heritage of hard work and family values.
i hope you and your parents are safe and well. Also, your parents sound like such an amazing people, wishing you all the best on your journey💜
Been enjoying your Ttk content. Now, here I Love to get to know you & how you grew up in such a loving-caring environment, what a kind soul you are and how you can totally see your character development & strength through your experiences ☺️✨ You got this Albina! Tho’ as you mention your parents doing outstanding things, I do believe you are too: your transparency and genuine intention to make people better.. gurl you’re truly inspiring me🙌🏽 Thank you
Lizzie, thank you for such kind words, I really appreciate your support and encouragement
I‘m from Luhansk too and haven‘t been there for 9 years, hope one time it will be free and I will visit it at least. It insane to what point this 9 years took me, never imagined me living in Vienna and running a video production company.
Love you content on TikTok! Keep going❤️ Happy to see you on TH-cam too!
Irene, your achievements sound so inspiring. I am sure one day we will meet in Luhansk❤️ thank you for your kind words and support
Hi Albina, found your account from Tiktok, just wanted to say how much success I wish for you on your next endeavors and thank you for being transparent, intentional & authentic in your content and what you share. Teaching us a ton, go shine your light .
Your humility and attitude of appreciation for your parents, and all of your experiences, plus your willingness to learn from each situation, is incredibly inspiring. And it’s also a testament to how much love you must have felt from your parents. I would feel so proud if I were them! 🩷
Thank you for sharing such an sensitive and impactful story. Like you said in the video,majority of people don't realize what actually war can do to you. Even though we learn about in school. You were definitely raised with love and care. Looking forward to ur new content!
Thank you so much for this video, you inspire me not to give up. Through the war, I have to move from Ukraine to the USA and your experience motivated so much me.❤
I am so sorry you had to experience the horrors of war.. I hope you heal in no time ❤️🩹 where in the US are you moving?:)
@@aliyevaalbina Thank you very much for your kind words. My family and I are in California now.
When you said “Am I an Oligarch “ 😂 beautiful story, thanks for sharing ❤️ your parents did a great job raising you!
I've been watching you in TikTok and now it's such a good thing that you've got a TH-cam channel 😭💗!! I will be sure to always encourage you 🌝💗
you are so kind, i really appreciate your encouragement :)
This made me so emotional! You should be so proud of yourself for sharing this!
thank you so much for reminding me that this is how parents should be while i'm still suffering from my chaotic family. i'm not gonna blame my parents for what they did to me, but i wanna change it for myself and for my future generations. i owe you a lot. hoping the best for your families, love you ❤
I’m so sorry you had such a difficult experience. My heart goes out to you. I am rooting for your success, I’m so confident you will achieve everything you desire
So proud of you girl! This really touched me, I cried and I felt sorry for your traumas, but the story itself is beautiful
You speak with such emotion , I almost cried with you 🥹
thank you for feeling my emotions
I'm so happy you have a youtube channel to share your story in a longer format! ❤ looking forward to your content here and on tiktok, so get a glimpse into your experiences! All the ups and downs, and everything you went through has made you strong and independent.
Much love and support! ❤
Dragana
Your story is so great to hear, and you family sounds so amazing! ❤
The closeness and full support of you and your education hits close to home, because my parents were the same! My mom is romanian and my dad is serbian, so the balkan famoly values.
My parents were and are middle clasa, hard-working people, and they always did their best to give me the best life they could: to always have what I needed, to focus on my education, to instill good values, to teach me to be a good and kind person, and to do better in life than they did. And even now, when I have a great career in IT, they still helped me out by leaving me their appartment, making me food when I go visit, etc.
@@draghyv3996 Dragana, it is so nice to see you here
Subscriber #32! Can’t wait to see you grow! I love your content and can tell you’re a beautiful person on the inside, just as you are on the outside.🧡🧡
this is so exciting! thank you for joining me on this journey
You made me cry by the part you said you send them money, Im from Venezuela and the situation here is bad too, so im really scared of my parents wealthy and I dont know what to do for helping them and Im getting so stress because Im a teenager (15) , theres no many things I can do for helping them and everybody in my enveroment are doing well and I dont want them to know that im happening by difficult financial situation while they are living so normal. I want to talk about this with someone, but I dont want to give more "stress" to my parents. Im so scared of what other people would think about me or my family ( we use to be more wealthy). I'm in a private school, i feel cuilty because i Know it's expensive and Just having the Best grades feels like it's not enough.
So hear you mades me feel that im not the only one who's living this 🥹 You have no idea how hear you its helping me 💞 thank you for being so transparent
( Sorry for the gramatical mistakes, im still learning english too)
hello!! i wanted to thank you so much for this video and all your content in general. ive been through a very similar experience of losing everything so suddenly but in my case because of a dictatorship, so hearing how you and your family were able to get through such tough and lonely times makes me feel seen and understood and motivates me to keep going through life. For the longest time ive also felt crazy because i was the only one out of my friends going through a hard time financially and dealing with uncertainty as a 14 year old, so i felt so embarrassed about our situation therefore made me feel lonely. so i cant stress enough how meaningful it is to me that you are sharing your experience. looking forward to your future content here on youtube!!!
Thank you for such kind words and support ❤️ I am sorry you had to go through such difficult times and I hope that you and your family are well and happy now 🫶🏻
You are my inspiration. ❤
hey! from tiktok here, u inspire me so much to be a better person and strive for the things i want to do. one day i hope to meet u in real life and become friends ◡̈ the environment tou grew up in sounds so wholesome and im so glad that everyone is safe and pulled through the hard times together❤ atay strong and glory to ukraine
thank you so much for following me here through TikTok
Hi, Albina! Love your videos. Keep it up.
You are a very intelligent, resilient, persistent, and brave woman.
So much beauty and intelligence in one person✨
you are so kind, thank you
Found you from TikTok. I’m about to watch every single video on the treadmill. let’s start this adventure together.
Beautiful, beautiful story. Very inspiring you’re a beautiful soul and with what you have already done so far I believe you’ve made the world a better place I’m sure you’re only getting started.
This was an eye opener story about business owners, wars, and the affects of the fam😢
I’ve been watching all your videos and loving it! love from Brazil
Elyda, thank you so much
Thank you for sharing you have such a sweet relationship with your family
Thank you so much for sharing your story with such authenticity!
Eve, thank you for listening to my story
Hello, just left your Tictoc account… I’m going to follow You; You sound very mature for your age, you said you have opinions on the war; I’m sure I will learn a lot from You and your husband about your culture. God Bless and Stay Safe 🙏🙌🏻🙏
Here from TikTok, thank you for sharing
Thank you for listening to my story
Love your videos, so proud of you, positive vibe that you send touch my heart so deeply. Keep vlogging dear Albina ❤❤❤
Amazing story!
Bro❤️
Yayyyyyy girl straight from your tiktok
Hello! Thank you for being here
I totally get you! I come from an upper middle class family (from my father's side, my parents are divorced since i was a baby) but i live in the country with the most unstable economy of the world (Argentina). When I was a teenager i was lucky enough to study abroad in England and later in Asia, with a 70% scholarship. The year I moved to Asia is when the economic crisis started. I had to drop out because my parents couldn't afford the 2nd year. Later, I had to drop out of university because the inflation was too high and their salaries were decreasing. I started working and it was a decent salary for a 20 years old with no experience, but still it wasn't enough to pay my apartment's rent in the city. So I had to leave everything, my job and the city, and go back to my hometown which is a very small town with no opportunities on the field I study.
There, I found a job and could keep a rent for 3 years. But the rent got so high that recently i had to move to my mother's house. From studying abroad to living at my mom's... imagine my depression state.
But I'm trying to stay strong, finishing my studies (virtually because there are no universities here), working my day job and also working on a new project so i can make money online. I feel like a need to be location independent. I totally relate to the frustration with your country.
My mother also rents her house, and she is afraid of not being able to afford it anymore. I want to provide for her and my teen sister so -at least- we can keep a roof over our head.
We are lucky we had good education. That is the basis for everything. Wish you the best! And I also wish me the best 😅❤
You’re amazing❤
You are!❤️
70k so expensive for Syracuse 😢
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You go so much trough. Its inspiring how your parents find their way back to their own new business.
One thing is very interesting to me.
I am from Europe, my whole live I am living here so. I remember how the world knew in minutes about Crimea. In seconds about the invasion last February 2022.
But not about an invasion back then in 2014. I think its very questionable if really Russians did an invasion, why the news doesn’t spread all over the World, like the other times. I think its really interesting to do the research about that fact.
is your family still based in ukraine? i’m so so worried about ukraine and your family 🇺🇦 😢 beautiful people .. many refugees in my country germany now and they are all soo so nice and hardworking but i see their suffering in their eyes and they always tell me how much they miss home .. so so sad
What a story ❤
У вас цікавий досвід і світогляд. Щирість та відсутність наносного викликає довіру і резонує. Наче серіал про багатих та сильних в реальному житті. Але точніше, все ж "сильних і багатих". Багато питань закриваєте, якими задавався. Ця сторона соціуму мені не доступна поки що.
your goal is working out well
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Блін дивитись це відео поки я роблю макіяж було помилкою
Хахах вибачаюсь і дуже дякую що подивились 🫶🏻
Omg yess finally🥹💗💗
finally here
I like your videos
Thank you, Sara🫶🏻
first
YAY
Interesting, what “invasion” are you so vaguely talking about in Lugansk in 2014? Our relatives in the north of LPR have been living under Ukrainian shelling till 2022 till the actual Russian invasion. Not to mention my moms hometown in Donbass that was actually invaded by troops that pledged to coup government in Kiev and are still up to this day terrorizing the local population. Want to feel sympathetic given all the crying and pledging, but the narrative twisting is very questionable.
are we suposed to feel sorry for you ?
no one is forcing you to do anything here lol, she just told her story, watch or not is only your decision
I’m in love with your took ton videos, it actually help me a lot, to just reflect and take decisions and advices about how I want to build my future.
And most especially my future wealth. You being so transparent with us is JUST a gem ! Thank you 🦋🤍
Thank you for your kindness and good luck on your journey, I am rooting for you
Love that you’re not the typical influencer with the influencer accent to gain followers. We appreciate that you are honest in your tiktok and videos and that you share knowledge and awareness about privilege especially now that it is easy to feel so depress, be envious and feel unworthy or unsuccessful when others seem to have it all and easy. Thank you so much for being a real one 🫶🏻
Thank you so much for your kind words. You perfectly described my goal - I really want to create more visibility and transparency about these taboo subjects so people feel better