Quote: Anna: ❤ "It is not about standing with Ukraine. It's not about helping Ukraine. It's about stopping the greatest criminal on the planet that undermines all the things that are important for the secure functioning of the world."
@@AkenValle Where did you get that information? The Ukrainian front is hard in the areas where Putin wants land. Ukraine still has reserves who could be committed. Germany recently announced a new large military aid package, as did the US.
@@mylessalmon2569 why are you lying? Guardian, nyt, Washington Post, Reuters. Every single one in this week posted articles how Ukraine don't have manpower. But you somehow invented reserves. Why?
Most sane Americans are well acquainted with the brilliant host Jonathan Fink of Silicon Curtain, (among others) and our dear friend Anna from Ukraine.
I lived in Russia ten years and you are exactly right about the disregard of communal spaces. It seems like they feel the wilderness begins at the apartment door. Also Russian campers trash the wilderness.
@@murphy7801 because its their mentality....Ive never met a more indifferent, selfish, culture of people in all of the of place I have spent significant time in.
Btw that's one of the many reasons I don't like Czechia being called "Eastern European". Our communal spaces aren't perfect but we take care of them. There are gardens in front of our apartment buildings and I have staircase cleaning duty this week.
@@murphy7801 They're busy thinking and drinking and talking about their own matters and they forget about their surroundings. It's a survival mode. Taking care of your environment comes from a sense of stability, hope for the future, need to represent your community/country well and feeling connected to your whole country (I want things to look good in case someone from a different region comes) - which traditionally are things very much missing from the Russian experience. Also, it's a combination of arrogance and humiliation. There was zero education about personal responsibility, they were humiliated by their overlords no matter what they did, so they have no reason to behave well.
Anna is amazing and possitive too and so interesting. This interview is bringing that out very clearly. She is amazing. MOre people need to bring her more viewers. Also I am finding Silicon Curtain is always good and trustworthy.
I also lived in Russia as a student and visited regularly until before the war. I can only agree with you 100%, despite my admiration for Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and many other great Russian composers, even from the Soviet period... Still, some beautiful flowers have bloomed on this dunghill. I hope to hear more of the Ukrainian culture in the future. This year I heard for the first time in my life Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 "Peace will defeat war", a shocking masterpiece! Long live Ukraine!
Anna is the personification of good standing against evil. Her enduring daily vlogs, intellectual approach spiced with patriotic emotion is a great weapon for Ukraine. Merry Christmas Jonathan 🍌 and Anna 🍌. (Being 'Austrian" is old dodge about WW2 complicity) 🦝🌻🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
In the Nordic countries we celebrate Christmas Eve on the 24th and we too have rooted in the folk belief that the foresters can get angry if we don't appease them. It is important to set out porridge for the farm elf to keep him in a good mood. Merry Christmas Anna, Jonathan and all other good people in this community. Cheers from Sweden
Lovely to hear about Ukrainian folklore ... and so apt right now! Thanks Anna, I often watch her videos. Wonderful interview, thanks again Jonathan, you never disappoint. Slava Ukraini!
In my Ukrainian school, our foreign literature class was taught by a teacher who had come from Russia. I came from a poor family and had to entertain myself, so I learned to read very early, around the age of 3.5-4. I loved books about Neznaika, pirates, and was a huge fan of Gogol. I laughed out loud reading “Dead Souls,” “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka,” or his short stories. During our first foreign literature class in 5th grade, I told the teacher she was wrong-Gogol was Ukrainian. Her face turned red, and she asked why we were studying Gogol in foreign literature. I responded by asking why, when I told my Russian acquaintances the story “The Nose,” none of them laughed. I had lived in a village until 5th grade, and for us, poor kids who usually had nothing sweet except sugar, the time of Christmas carols and sweet candies felt magical. She scolded me in front of the whole class, trying to show how foolish I was, but I refused to agree with her and refused to let the Russians claim Gogol. She hated me until the end of school and tried to fail me. But when she asked, “What did you read over the summer?” I would answer with “Three volumes of Neznaika and ‘Age of Pirates: Captain Blood’.” She called me to the front of the class to retell what I had read, and that was my moment to shine. I enjoyed recounting everything in detail, and after the summer holidays, I was the only one in class who could retell what I had read 😂
I first heard about "Dead Souls" from Vlad Vexler, citing the last pages "Oh Rus - where are you riding to in your crazy horse cart...". I found it so impressive that I bought the book, and now it returns here again!
Such a pleasure when you have these talks with Anna ! During these conversations, those anecdotes tell sometimes more than we thought we knew about Mordor, and how we generally don't understand how they function. Keep on doing a GREAT job, and I wish you both a Merry Christmas !
I really love these conversations especially today. First time I spend christmas alone (with my Dobermann) in my 47 years of existance beause of the flu. Keep up the good work and merry christmas to both of you. Kind Regards from Belgium
Thank -You for Spending Christmas Day with Me. I have also thanked Brandon Mitchell, Jake Broe and Professor Gerdes I have lost alot of friends and family to Canadian MAGA carlson TUCKER Fox News Trumputinoid "Freedom Convoy" Brotherhood . The Hero's of Ukraine will Define Democracy for the entire Planet 🇨🇦☮️🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
I am not sure that I understand what you are saying regarding the Freedom Convoy, are you saying that if you question their claims that they will cut you out of their lives? Myself I was very surprized to hear my nephew say that he thought that Putin was the good guy in this war going after the so called US biolabs, and thought to myself your Latvian grandfather must be rolling in his grave. we still chat fine, but he keeps prety quiet on the international political front with myself. But also impart to him about being civil and continuing to dialogue even when stronlgly disagreeing with others. That is a skill that people seem to be losing in the younger generation, people fear differing from others and just can't seem to do it very well if at all.
@@peterhumphrysPlease research the Lyrics of "The Crash Test Dummies" song Peter Pumpkin Head or watch the Peter Pumpkin Head Video featuring "Jeff Daniels" a Lifetime Conservative Never Trumper ☮️
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An absolute GEM of an interview describing with humour and pathos the vast difference between Ukraine and Russia! Congratulations Jonathan and Anna! Merry Christmas 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦SLAVA HEROYAM🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦SLAVA UKRAINI🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🎉🥂
-" I dont want NATO on my borders, so Ill annex Ukraine and go to border with Poland, a NATO country." Thats some 4d chess from master strategist Putin if I ever saw one Merry Christmass to all my european brothers and sisters from Croatia. Slava Ukraini!
merry Christmas to you Jonathan and Anna, what a perfect combo for this day! Last night i watched a few min's of Anna and felt so much better. (btw, Anna's elegance and passion is like nothing i've ever been exposed to, she has all the right stuff!) The struggle for Ukraine is, i sense, about to actually start getting 'meaningful' support finally after such pain and agony over particularly the last half year of dramatically increased Russian atrocities and destruction. Ru has been actually seemingly sorta measured over time, only destroying so much. That literally gave the allies an option to start to intervene much harder, but they didnt take it, bcuz they are not comprehending strategic thinking, game-theory-thinking and other concepts. Those of us who are middle aged and studied enough history, probably fairly accurately sense what's up. If the allies haven't been secretly readying a full defense of Ukraine militarily, then they/we are the biggest fools in modern history, and i will NOT be part of that. If i were not past my physical prime, i'd have paid to be trained to fight, so id be truly capable, bcuz many men like me have the killer spirit, but no training at all here, bcuz our gen was not steeped in military culture at all!
That is quite disturbing. The suffering on basic needs, and then - on the other hand - making TH-cam videos from this content. OK, he's trying to help, but it reflects the state of the RU society, I guess. There is none.
Before the war I used to spend one or two months every year in Kyiv, because I studied Russian and for me it was easier and more pleasant to go Ukraine than to Russia. It was then when I discovered that my favourite "Russian" artists and writers were Ukrainians, almost with no exception, and it all made sense to me because I discovered it was the Ukrainian culture (and people) what I liked and felt very close to me, and not the Russian. I went even further, realising little by little that the so called Russian culture does NOT actually exist! the more I digged into it the more I saw most of it was stolen or rebranded (just like they do with natural resources). Btw, it was very notorious and ironic that when I tried to practise my Russian in Ukraine everyone helped me a lot, even unknown people on the streets, whereas in Russia what I got was people always making fun of me when I tried to practise my Russian (just to mention one of the many massively unpleasant things I experienced with Russians). I started to brutally loath Russia, even before the war, and not because of Ukrainian influence, after being a lover of Russian culture for two decades. But the new love for "Ukrainian culture", something so fresh for me, totally made up for that. Btw, it was then when I realised that in most soviet-Russian fairytale movies they always make obnoxious remarks about Ukrainians (calling them ignorant peasants, and things like that)... that tells you a lot.
Dear Anna and Jonathan, your last topic in the discussion (about opposition Russian speakers) was a real Christmas/NewYears present. Why? I struggled 3 years about this question because I know Anna's position on this and I see Jonathan's approach of open discussion. This made me doubt to find my own position, because I like both of you very much. Thankfully this question was put on the table. Successful New Year!
Blymey Jonathan, you really got into your flow (about "norm") in this episode, to the point of nearly silencing Anna, which is hard to do! Blessings both of you for the work you do. I so hope a new Russia will emerge from the ashes of Putin's rule.
In 1978 I went through East Germany. The different between East and West was black and white. East look like war ended as just finish no repairs. This was along main road as could not detour. In 2023 I went back to Berlin and tried to find the photo taken in 1078. I could not believe the difference a paint job did to a building, difficult to recognise Slava Ukraine
And the sad thing is apearently the DDR , was way better than life in russia, which is scary. Bevause it still got that stasi horror and opression and destroyin any trust
Great explaination what ruzzia really is. Please share this video everyone. ❤Thank You Anna and Jonathan❤ for great conversation, Happy Christmas to YOU💙💛
It's also funny that in a village in Russia you could easily tell who was Russian and who was a Volga German ;-)), even though the Germans were discriminated against there too. You could tell by the houses and gardens, and that was probably still relatively recently, before many Volga Germans had left Russia again.
Here in Sweden we have Russians who are really good at Swedish - illegals. Often they open Russian Orthodox churches near socially important businesses or airports 🤔
I am one of Anna's regulars and the only opposition figure I am aware of is yer man Pomerov who leads the armed resistance, the only good muscovites ?? Heroyam Slava
In 2007-2013 I worked with both a Ukrainian (Lydia) and a Russian (Tatyana) who'd migrated to the US recently. While they didn't know each other they could both speak Russian as a common language. Lydia did mention that the translation sometimes didn't work and had to use the English word. I could see them both struggling with it but they both wanted to learn. While I don't know either language I was one of the few who had almost zero problem with understanding their Ukrainian or Russian accents in English. For the record though I very much prefer the Ukrainian accent. Much better than the harsher Russian or even Belarusian. (German is also too rough, fwiiw.)
Regarding Anna's request. I would like to hear what she thinks of Ilya Ponomarev. I think he makes sense when he talks about the way how a change can be achieved in Russia
I have to say that Ukraine is being unfairly criticized for nonrenewing the gas pipeline going through Ukraine. I would have shut off the gas flow the day we were attacked. I understand this will be a $5 billion blow to Russian income over the year. I'm also glad to hear that Ukraine has received the first billion dollars of cash to allow Ukraine to direct it to the most useful military arms. Slava Ukraine!
Ilja Ponomarev is one of the people you should meet and have a show with, ask your questions and understand him more. He was the only political leader who went to Ukraine and is contributing now to the military in favor of Ukraine.
@SiliconCurtain yes I saw him on your program. I'm sorry but I forgot to correct that I was addressing this as a response to Anna because of the comment that she still not trusts any russian political opposition figures, but I think there are russians who are truly on the side of ukranians and yes can be trusted. I understand it is hard from Anna's point of view as a ukranian but this man and others have proven that they can be trusted. As russians they are doing their part in this unfair war I believe, and yes I believe opposition can do much more, especially inside Russia to awaken the zombified and oppressed population, and unfortunately this has to be through negative reinforcement.
On 23 August 2023, exactly two months after the rebellion, Prigozhin was killed along with nine other people when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of Moscow.
Russia lost this war in its first week. Just think about Russias position in the world and what it needs. It already has more territory and resources than it can use. What Russia really needs is a larger and more educated population and more technological development. Back in 2021 Russia could have easily made peace and frozen the conflict as it existed at the time and just concentrated on exporting their oil and gas and getting rich.
From Venice I give you all my solidarity I have learned to much from your story and and I have to say that you are so gentle so cautious and so well educated That surprise me every time I see you
Thanks for discussing Gogol satirical portrait of Russia in his writings. He and Bulgakov taught me in the west how to read for messages the authors were trying to get past soviet censorship
Kharkiv is truly a hero city. I am in awe of these people.
russia its a terrorist state
Merry Christmas, Jonathan and Friends ❤
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"It is not about standing with Ukraine. It's not about helping Ukraine.
It's about stopping the greatest criminal on the planet that undermines all the things that are important for the secure functioning of the world."
Well said.
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he brings out the best in her. and its so beautiful. Slava Ukraine. so much soul.
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intellectuals in their environment.
@@mylessalmon2569 propagandist. Situation on front is catastrofic
@@AkenValle Where did you get that information? The Ukrainian front is hard in the areas where Putin wants land. Ukraine still has reserves who could be committed. Germany recently announced a new large military aid package, as did the US.
@@mylessalmon2569 why are you lying? Guardian, nyt, Washington Post, Reuters. Every single one in this week posted articles how Ukraine don't have manpower. But you somehow invented reserves. Why?
Anna is such a great commentator. Thanks for having her on!
Most sane Americans are well acquainted with the brilliant host Jonathan Fink of Silicon Curtain, (among others) and our dear friend Anna from Ukraine.
I lived in Russia ten years and you are exactly right about the disregard of communal spaces. It seems like they feel the wilderness begins at the apartment door. Also Russian campers trash the wilderness.
Do you think they trash the wilderness because so much space or is it something else?
@@murphy7801 because its their mentality....Ive never met a more indifferent, selfish, culture of people in all of the of place I have spent significant time in.
They are just rotten.
Btw that's one of the many reasons I don't like Czechia being called "Eastern European". Our communal spaces aren't perfect but we take care of them. There are gardens in front of our apartment buildings and I have staircase cleaning duty this week.
@@murphy7801 They're busy thinking and drinking and talking about their own matters and they forget about their surroundings. It's a survival mode. Taking care of your environment comes from a sense of stability, hope for the future, need to represent your community/country well and feeling connected to your whole country (I want things to look good in case someone from a different region comes) - which traditionally are things very much missing from the Russian experience.
Also, it's a combination of arrogance and humiliation. There was zero education about personal responsibility, they were humiliated by their overlords no matter what they did, so they have no reason to behave well.
Anna is one of the best youtubers when addressing ruzzian hybrid warfare
She teaches in a university.
Quote: "Everything that Russia touches turns to sh*t."
So true. Thank you Jonathan and Anna for this excellent conversation.
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UA hit Orc's again, Putin's outraged, so he declared he'll keep doing what he was already doing!😅 (Elf dictator!)🇺🇦🩵
It's the anti-Midas touch
Both of you, brilliant!
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Thank you Jonathan for inviting Anna again.
Merry Christmas Anna and Jonathan from Connecticut.
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Anna (Yt Channel - Anna from Ukraine - highly recommend) is an international Treasure!!!!!! Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦!!!!
Anna is amazing and possitive too and so interesting. This interview is bringing that out very clearly. She is amazing. MOre people need to bring her more viewers. Also I am finding Silicon Curtain is always good and trustworthy.
Thank you, Jonathan and Anna. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 💙 💛
Merry Christmas Jonathon and Anna. 🔱Slava🇺🇦Ukraini🔱
Two True Heroes. Be safe - Slava Ukraini Heroeim Slava 🇺🇦🇩🇰🇺🇦
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I would expect your photo to be upside down, but it is only sideways! #odd😮
Merry Christmas. Appreciate your work.
Thank you, Jonathan.
Welcome Anna.
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I also lived in Russia as a student and visited regularly until before the war. I can only agree with you 100%, despite my admiration for Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and many other great Russian composers, even from the Soviet period... Still, some beautiful flowers have bloomed on this dunghill. I hope to hear more of the Ukrainian culture in the future. This year I heard for the first time in my life Lyatoshynsky's Symphony No. 3 "Peace will defeat war", a shocking masterpiece! Long live Ukraine!
Try Mykola Lysonko's "Taras Bulba", I think you'll like it
Quite right. Russian *culture* has much to recommend it. The political brutality of modern Russia is damnable. Such contrasts!
Wonderful to hear you both 💛💙💛💙💛💙
Anna is the personification of good standing against evil. Her enduring daily vlogs, intellectual approach spiced with patriotic emotion is a great weapon for Ukraine.
Merry Christmas Jonathan 🍌 and Anna 🍌.
(Being 'Austrian" is old dodge about WW2 complicity)
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Merry Christmas Yoda.
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@EricaFiore Merry Christmas Erica Fiore.
In the Nordic countries we celebrate Christmas Eve on the 24th and we too have rooted in the folk belief that the foresters can get angry if we don't appease them. It is important to set out porridge for the farm elf to keep him in a good mood.
Merry Christmas Anna, Jonathan and all other good people in this community.
Cheers from Sweden
In Japan they put two pine branches outside the front door to keep the spirits happy.
Jonathan, Anna, great program, thank you Slava Ukraine 🙏🙏👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇦💙💛👍👍👍👍👍
Lovely to hear about Ukrainian folklore ... and so apt right now! Thanks Anna, I often watch her videos. Wonderful interview, thanks again Jonathan, you never disappoint. Slava Ukraini!
Listening to Jonathan is very educational due to his vast knowledge as of literature, history, as for his masteful use of English.
it's a great point! He is unparallelled on YT or anywhere! I appreciate him greatly!
Thanks to the both of you! ❤
Anna is looking beautiful as usual
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Great to see you both… Merry Christmas, both of you, 🤘🤘👍👍👏👏🫶🙏🫡🇺🇦🐈⬛
In my Ukrainian school, our foreign literature class was taught by a teacher who had come from Russia. I came from a poor family and had to entertain myself, so I learned to read very early, around the age of 3.5-4. I loved books about Neznaika, pirates, and was a huge fan of Gogol. I laughed out loud reading “Dead Souls,” “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka,” or his short stories.
During our first foreign literature class in 5th grade, I told the teacher she was wrong-Gogol was Ukrainian. Her face turned red, and she asked why we were studying Gogol in foreign literature. I responded by asking why, when I told my Russian acquaintances the story “The Nose,” none of them laughed. I had lived in a village until 5th grade, and for us, poor kids who usually had nothing sweet except sugar, the time of Christmas carols and sweet candies felt magical.
She scolded me in front of the whole class, trying to show how foolish I was, but I refused to agree with her and refused to let the Russians claim Gogol. She hated me until the end of school and tried to fail me. But when she asked, “What did you read over the summer?” I would answer with “Three volumes of Neznaika and ‘Age of Pirates: Captain Blood’.” She called me to the front of the class to retell what I had read, and that was my moment to shine. I enjoyed recounting everything in detail, and after the summer holidays, I was the only one in class who could retell what I had read 😂
I loved “Dead Souls”. You might not expect it to be such a wonderful comedy. I highly recommend it.
I first heard about "Dead Souls" from Vlad Vexler, citing the last pages "Oh Rus - where are you riding to in your crazy horse cart...".
I found it so impressive that I bought the book, and now it returns here again!
you then must have read Peter wrangle's biography. Recently now published in english.
Merry Christmas Jonathan and Anna❤
Thanks Jonathan for having Anna on! Looking forward to the film!
Such a pleasure when you have these talks with Anna ! During these conversations, those anecdotes tell sometimes more than we thought we knew about Mordor, and how we generally don't understand how they function. Keep on doing a GREAT job, and I wish you both a Merry Christmas !
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️ Podcast
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Merry Christmas to both of you!
I really love these conversations especially today. First time I spend christmas alone (with my Dobermann) in my 47 years of existance beause of the flu. Keep up the good work and merry christmas to both of you. Kind Regards from Belgium
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Get better soon!
Greetings from Bulgaria! Everyday I am trying to convince friends of mine that we must not look for help from Kremlin
Love to you both.
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ANNA THE GENIUS,….PROSPEROUS
NEW YEAR ANNA,..WE LOVE YOU!!!
Bravo, very informative and interesting interview. God bless
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Such a perfect video, happy xmas!
Great to see Anna on the show again 😊
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Glory to All of the Heroes of Ukraine … 💙💛💙
And Thanks Anna and Johnathan for the Stream … 💙💛💙
Thank you so much Anna and Jonathan for this great moment ! Greetings and Love from France ! 💙🌻🤗
Our pleasure!
@@SiliconCurtain My treasure !
Merry Christmas to all and Slava Ukraini!
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hi guys hi anna Slava Ukraine😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎😎
Thank -You for Spending Christmas Day with Me. I have also thanked Brandon Mitchell, Jake Broe and Professor Gerdes
I have lost alot of friends and family to Canadian MAGA carlson TUCKER Fox News Trumputinoid "Freedom Convoy" Brotherhood .
The Hero's of Ukraine will Define Democracy for the entire Planet 🇨🇦☮️🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
I am not sure that I understand what you are saying regarding the Freedom Convoy, are you saying that if you question their claims that they will cut you out of their lives? Myself I was very surprized to hear my nephew say that he thought that Putin was the good guy in this war going after the so called US biolabs, and thought to myself your Latvian grandfather must be rolling in his grave. we still chat fine, but he keeps prety quiet on the international political front with myself. But also impart to him about being civil and continuing to dialogue even when stronlgly disagreeing with others. That is a skill that people seem to be losing in the younger generation, people fear differing from others and just can't seem to do it very well if at all.
@@peterhumphrys"Freedom Convoy" is 'Russian Propaganda'
@@peterhumphrysYMCA Yeshua Must Come Again Evangelical Trumputinoids are being Played By the Messianic Peter Pumpkin Head 🎃
@@peterhumphrysPlease research the Lyrics of "The Crash Test Dummies" song Peter Pumpkin Head or watch the Peter Pumpkin Head Video featuring "Jeff Daniels" a Lifetime Conservative Never Trumper ☮️
☘️ Happy Christmas Anna . Best wishes to you 🙏🥂
👀👌 💛💙💛💙💛💙💯💯💯🖖✌💪Edit: An interesting conversation, story telling and history re-discovery etc. . To bad many of us only learn more about Ukraine while Putin is trying to destroy what he can't controll or annex. Ty Anna & Jonathan, keep 'm comming !
lovely! thanx
Thank you Jonathan and Anna!
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Merry Christmas Mr. Jonathan...
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@@SiliconCurtain Merry Christmas, thank you for this interview with Anna.
So beautiful. In body mind and spirit. ❤
Thank You, Jonathan and Anna
An absolute GEM of an interview describing with humour and pathos the vast difference between Ukraine and Russia!
Congratulations Jonathan and Anna!
Merry Christmas
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Somehow one can say we are living in a wonderful time allowing to communiate in this way
-" I dont want NATO on my borders, so Ill annex Ukraine and go to border with Poland, a NATO country."
Thats some 4d chess from master strategist Putin if I ever saw one
Merry Christmass to all my european brothers and sisters from Croatia. Slava Ukraini!
Yeah you're too right. The bunker goblin contradicts himself at every turn. He's about the most boring man alive.
多謝！
Some really nice stories guys. Well, not nice, informative. Really enjoyed it.
Merry Christmas to you from Indonesia
merry Christmas to you Jonathan and Anna, what a perfect combo for this day! Last night i watched a few min's of Anna and felt so much better. (btw, Anna's elegance and passion is like nothing i've ever been exposed to, she has all the right stuff!) The struggle for Ukraine is, i sense, about to actually start getting 'meaningful' support finally after such pain and agony over particularly the last half year of dramatically increased Russian atrocities and destruction. Ru has been actually seemingly sorta measured over time, only destroying so much. That literally gave the allies an option to start to intervene much harder, but they didnt take it, bcuz they are not comprehending strategic thinking, game-theory-thinking and other concepts. Those of us who are middle aged and studied enough history, probably fairly accurately sense what's up. If the allies haven't been secretly readying a full defense of Ukraine militarily, then they/we are the biggest fools in modern history, and i will NOT be part of that. If i were not past my physical prime, i'd have paid to be trained to fight, so id be truly capable, bcuz many men like me have the killer spirit, but no training at all here, bcuz our gen was not steeped in military culture at all!
Merry Christmas from South Africa, please ignore our ignorant government crap. Most of RSA support you.
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loved any second of this interview. merry Christmas, happy new year hopefully bringing something good to Ukrainia, to you Jonathan.. and Anna ❤ ...
I've been watching Vasily in the hay, quite an eye opener into Russian life! A joyful Christmas to all.
That is quite disturbing. The suffering on basic needs, and then - on the other hand - making TH-cam videos from this content. OK, he's trying to help, but it reflects the state of the RU society, I guess. There is none.
@@alexanderlehner1849i read him as playing the victim and blocked him.
Before the war I used to spend one or two months every year in Kyiv, because I studied Russian and for me it was easier and more pleasant to go Ukraine than to Russia. It was then when I discovered that my favourite "Russian" artists and writers were Ukrainians, almost with no exception, and it all made sense to me because I discovered it was the Ukrainian culture (and people) what I liked and felt very close to me, and not the Russian. I went even further, realising little by little that the so called Russian culture does NOT actually exist! the more I digged into it the more I saw most of it was stolen or rebranded (just like they do with natural resources). Btw, it was very notorious and ironic that when I tried to practise my Russian in Ukraine everyone helped me a lot, even unknown people on the streets, whereas in Russia what I got was people always making fun of me when I tried to practise my Russian (just to mention one of the many massively unpleasant things I experienced with Russians). I started to brutally loath Russia, even before the war, and not because of Ukrainian influence, after being a lover of Russian culture for two decades. But the new love for "Ukrainian culture", something so fresh for me, totally made up for that. Btw, it was then when I realised that in most soviet-Russian fairytale movies they always make obnoxious remarks about Ukrainians (calling them ignorant peasants, and things like that)... that tells you a lot.
Dear Anna and Jonathan,
your last topic in the discussion (about opposition Russian speakers) was a real Christmas/NewYears present. Why?
I struggled 3 years about this question because I know Anna's position on this and I see Jonathan's approach of open discussion.
This made me doubt to find my own position, because I like both of you very much.
Thankfully this question was put on the table. Successful New Year!
Loved the story of the drunk car driver!❤
Me too. Topsy turvy world.
The "devil" is not 3 meters tall and he doesn't have a horseshoe as a chewing gum.
Merry Christmas to both of you and the beautiful community! ❤
Blymey Jonathan, you really got into your flow (about "norm") in this episode, to the point of nearly silencing Anna, which is hard to do! Blessings both of you for the work you do. I so hope a new Russia will emerge from the ashes of Putin's rule.
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I feel with Russia’s war, they’ve been trying to make us eat the norm everyday too!
A very Merry Christmas to Anna & Jonathan 🎄♥️🇺🇦
In 1978 I went through East Germany. The different between East and West was black and white.
East look like war ended as just finish no repairs. This was along main road as could not detour.
In 2023 I went back to Berlin and tried to find the photo taken in 1078.
I could not believe the difference a paint job did to a building, difficult to recognise
Slava Ukraine
And the sad thing is apearently the DDR , was way better than life in russia, which is scary. Bevause it still got that stasi horror and opression and destroyin any trust
Seasons Greetings, Guys! 🤗👍🙏
How kind of Both of You to give up you Precious Time especially this time of the year! ❤
Merry Christmas Jono and Anna 🎄
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Fall Empire Fall!
Happy feast of sun return to all. the frost gods have been beaten back for one more year. Hoping that this year brings a just peace.
Great explaination what ruzzia really is. Please share this video everyone. ❤Thank You Anna and Jonathan❤ for great conversation, Happy Christmas to YOU💙💛
An excellent interesting conversion.
Thank you both
It's also funny that in a village in Russia you could easily tell who was Russian and who was a Volga German ;-)), even though the Germans were discriminated against there too. You could tell by the houses and gardens, and that was probably still relatively recently, before many Volga Germans had left Russia again.
Some of us Yanks call him the Kremlin Gremlin. He's punier than a goblin.
Here in Sweden we have Russians who are really good at Swedish - illegals. Often they open Russian Orthodox churches near socially important businesses or airports 🤔
I am one of Anna's regulars and the only opposition figure I am aware of is yer man Pomerov who leads the armed resistance, the only good muscovites ?? Heroyam Slava
1:17:55 Garry Kasparov
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Slava Ukraini !!!
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In 2007-2013 I worked with both a Ukrainian (Lydia) and a Russian (Tatyana) who'd migrated to the US recently. While they didn't know each other they could both speak Russian as a common language. Lydia did mention that the translation sometimes didn't work and had to use the English word. I could see them both struggling with it but they both wanted to learn. While I don't know either language I was one of the few who had almost zero problem with understanding their Ukrainian or Russian accents in English.
For the record though I very much prefer the Ukrainian accent. Much better than the harsher Russian or even Belarusian. (German is also too rough, fwiiw.)
Regarding Anna's request. I would like to hear what she thinks of Ilya Ponomarev. I think he makes sense when he talks about the way how a change can be achieved in Russia
posting at xmas - what a champion!
I have to say that Ukraine is being unfairly criticized for nonrenewing the gas pipeline going through Ukraine. I would have shut off the gas flow the day we were attacked. I understand this will be a $5 billion blow to Russian income over the year. I'm also glad to hear that Ukraine has received the first billion dollars of cash to allow Ukraine to direct it to the most useful military arms. Slava Ukraine!
Ilja Ponomarev is one of the people you should meet and have a show with, ask your questions and understand him more. He was the only political leader who went to Ukraine and is contributing now to the military in favor of Ukraine.
I have - two interviews with him already on the channel and more in the new year!
@SiliconCurtain yes I saw him on your program. I'm sorry but I forgot to correct that I was addressing this as a response to Anna because of the comment that she still not trusts any russian political opposition figures, but I think there are russians who are truly on the side of ukranians and yes can be trusted. I understand it is hard from Anna's point of view as a ukranian but this man and others have proven that they can be trusted. As russians they are doing their part in this unfair war I believe, and yes I believe opposition can do much more, especially inside Russia to awaken the zombified and oppressed population, and unfortunately this has to be through negative reinforcement.
Thank you Anna , you are so inspiring , like the Ukrainian Nation !
For Free Ukraine féw more centuries
On 23 August 2023, exactly two months after the rebellion, Prigozhin was killed along with nine other people when a business jet crashed in Tver Oblast, north of Moscow.
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Like Rasputin and the Tsars , ugly but like a shaman of evil 👿 a star in Russian mythology 😮😢😅
Russia lost this war in its first week. Just think about Russias position in the world and what it needs. It already has more territory and resources than it can use. What Russia really needs is a larger and more educated population and more technological development. Back in 2021 Russia could have easily made peace and frozen the conflict as it existed at the time and just concentrated on exporting their oil and gas and getting rich.
Thanks!
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 💙 💛
Great interview
From Venice I give you all my solidarity I have learned to much from your story and and I have to say that you are so gentle so cautious and so well educated That surprise me every time I see you
Anna 💓💓 V-amp 1 V-amp 2. Going well. I have something else contacted relevant. The🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 hearts will not be happy. 💙💛🔱Slavia Ukraine.
Would Mr Kasparov be a good opposition leader?
Very interesting. gj. thx.
Merry Christmas everybody.
Thanks for discussing Gogol satirical portrait of Russia in his writings. He and Bulgakov taught me in the west how to read for messages the authors were trying to get past soviet censorship