My grandma is Russian but married a Czech and moved to then Czechoslovakia, and since my grandma had a big influence in raising me I speak russian. One time I decided to visit my grandmas birthplace Saint Petersburg and also place a flower on graves of my great grandma and grandpa but their graves weren’t in the city area but in a small poor village near city connected by one shitty busline, some gopniks started harassing me and I actually defused situation with pretending I speak russian very poorly and am just a humble tourist from another slavic country, thank god it worked.
@Деревенщина из Сибири - Абакан yep its true. but as a "guest" it can be different.. even i inhospitable places like the caucasus or siberia.. the amount of conflicts i enountered were very low.. even from quite aggressive gopniks or rough looking zeks.. and this was late 1990s russia and early 2000snds... it was more curiosity or a desire just to talk to the foreigner, but yeah if your a russian.. probably conflict..
We used to have very similar Chavs in the UK, would start conversation being deliberately confrontational then friendly, almost just testing you to see if your an easy target.
It is the same. I once read a story about a guy from the UK who won a jackpot like £ 1 million and spent it all on booze and prostitutes. Then I saw the photo. His facial features are different, but his appearance is 95% consistent with gopniks. I thought - man, when did we manage to export this disease to the UK? xD
I agree, I remember being a teenager many moons ago, and chavs/and neds would display many of the same traits, tactics and behaviours as gopniks. Literally the UK version.
When I visited Moscow in 2019 on my last day I have met a Gopnik. He approached me in the same way as the article described. We started talking and since it was my last evening in Russia and I was flying back to Slovakia during the night I had the "brilliant" idea to give him rest of my Russian coins which came up to around 150 Rubles. Instantly he was my BFF and he told me he came to Moscow from some town in Siberia to look for work and If someone gave me any shit in the neighborhood I just had to shout for him and he would come to my help. Was nice guy in the end, immidiately went to buy beer and enjoy his evening.
Siberians are great people he probably was trying to help you or just want to talk with you. I was in St. Petersburg and I met with a Siberian engineer while I was touring for the bridges opening closing stuff during the night which is a touristic thing. Then he offered me a beer in a nearby pub and we met with 2 girls he was married so after a while he went back to his hotel never interested in the girls and gave me money cause I might need it while hanging out with the girls I try to reject but he insisted so much that I took it, couldn't remember the exact amount but it was maybe more than 1000 rubels definitely it was more than 50$. I met lots of Siberians in Russia and all were great people.
When working in Kazan recently a gopnik asked my friend for a cigarette, I said only if we could have a picture together of us squatting. But then he was following us around asking for more cigarettes. I ran into a few Russia MMA coaches I knew, and said “look, I found a real life gopnik.” They laughed. When the Gopnik dude asked them for a cigarette, they replied in Russian, from what I could understand “Fuck off or I’ll smash your face in.” He ran away. That’s how you deal with Gopniks. 😂
You did not deal with them, your juiced up fighter buddy did. Where are regular people supposed to pull them out of their ass? Because you gave the gopnik everything he wanted until the tough guy actually intervened. Not such a success
@@kiki88561exactly like skinheads in my country. I've never heard about someone (unless he was a kid) being attacked by a single skinhead. They are shit-scared when alone. However when they are like 5 or more, then they start to be tough because, well number counts.
The best way to deal with a bear is announce your presence and then offer it nuts and grapes. I feel the same tactics might not work for a gopnik. “Hey, Mr Gopnik, have some nuts!” might lead to losing more than you bargained for.
I find it so funny, there are Gopniks in every country, just going by different names. In the UK, in the 70's they were "skinheads", although confusingly, that look was adopted by punks, so it was hard to know which was which for a while. In the 80's they became football "casuals". Then in the 90's the name Chav arose. Chav is the most similar to Gopnik I think. So there are some similar conversation starters, I think. "Are you looking at me?" "Are you looking at my girlfriend?" "Did you spill my drink?" Ugh a million variations on this, and almost any answer can get you beaten up. Makes me glad to be female, but the female chavs are not very much different. "Are you looking at my baby?" etc. 😆 Seems many people have no ambition other than to be aggressive and feared.
Thugs be thugs regardless of era or place. Had the same in Sweden, only time I got a beating for being a nice guy (that was literally what he said, "hey, you're actually a nice bloke", right before punching my nose. What's up with their nose fetishism anyway?!)
Man I used to pretend that "I was waving to someone i know at the nearest apartment window" to avoid thugs. Which always tend to work. This signals that i am being watched and part of that neighberhood.
Formere Gopnik here... so what we were doing was: - We were sending a kid maybe like 10-12 years to ask for cigarettes while all the older gopniks where somewhere in the shadow. So the kid was asking for a cigarette, 2 cigarettes, the hole pack, money, until the guy he was asking from became rude. When that guy was like "Fuc up kid" then the older guys come in with question (why are you rude to the kid) and the beat up was starting. The targets where guys out of the city who where living in the communal building, usually students, because we knew they are nobody and they can do nothing to us.
@@niklavsmelnbardis403 I wouldn't say it was exactly like that, half were practicing judo/wrestling/greco-roman fights or something similar it was all a matter of a phonecall. So if even caught alone... it would be just a matter of time until solving the question, but nobody was such an idiot to just go for the locals without at least asking who they are or from where. We were hanging next to the communal building because we knew for sure there is nobody from the locals there. P.s. Just curios, are you from Riga or Province.
in early 2000snds - russia i traveled in the company of some people from dagestan.. always conflict with gopniks.. they - the dagestais have their own "dzigit" ... caucasus- gopik thing.. but there was always fights.. the dagestani guys would just hit first before the discussion because they did not respect the "rules of the zone" as the gopniks do.. just hit first. less problems. it was a wild time. i traveled from makhachkala to khabarovsk with them as a travel companion, much adventures ad may crazy stories. .
Gopniks also avoited people from Kavkazia because there is huge revenge culture in that area because even a nerd from Dagestan for exemple might come back with his entire extended family to seek revenge and I am talking about regular people with jobs...it is even worse if those people do not have a regular job !!!
this actually happened to me in Ukraine. I got kicked out of a bar then I started wandering around the streets in an edgy neighborhood, this huge guy(his name is Roma I think its short for Roman) dressed as the Russian Mob(leather jacked blue jeans, shaved head)comes to me. He started asking me questings, it was annoying so I told him:" don't annoy me with your questions" do you know a place where I can get some vodka and hang out, a few minutes later we started swapping stories and he took me to this underground bunker where they sell homemade vodka and started introducing me to his friends and "Americano" (I'm not American tried to explain it to him multiple times but logic isn't his strong suit). A week went by and I went to get vodka from a similar place that I found by accident and everybody is looking at me. then someone started yelling"American" and people were shaking my hand as if I was the Boss of Bosses. then we became friends, we hang out together, when it was snowing we had snow fights, and one time he pulled a knife on me and he said: if anybody fucks with you call me and I'll fuck them up"
@Jake Johansson dude, you sound like the CNN. why are you so triggered. I said that because we all are familiar with the russian mobster style in american movies, and the guy is actually from russia, not ukraine and he isnt a mobster, just a cool dude that is a real badass.
@@Vailslife I guess so, probably I used too strong word. My point was there are some breed of people (post soviet 35+ y.o. usually with low income and poor education) who idealising everything western and people from the west aswell. It's a strange to become a free bodyguard for the western guy whom you see the first time. May be they see strangers too rare.
When I lived in maskačka in Riga, Latvia, this encounter happened to me several times, as a Russian speaker I did okay, not really talking much, and avoiding contact or anything. Just blankly staring and nodding, they asked were I was from and a few other vague questions. After a few minutes I asked them what they wanted. They asked for a cigaretti, I said I recently quit smoking. They applauded me (probably mockingly) and went on their way. Very scary late at night, but luckily Latvia isn’t as dangerous as rural Russia. It’s crazy how Russian Maskačka still feels.
5 years ago I met a nice Latvian girl who was working in the Hotel beach bar she told me about Latvia and warned to be careful if I go there about Gopniks and told that they are even stealing car side mirrors.
In Lithuania we called gopniks "forsas" or "marozas". They are almost extinct species. Most of them emigrated to UK and Ireland around 2004 and did crimes there. Thank god we cleaned up. But they can still be found in a few big city neighbourhoods. Mostly in Vilnius and speaks russian tho...
We have thugs here, too. I think the best advice is to avoid meeting them. A navy Seal suggested that if you do run into such a person, the best choice is to run. He then went on to explain how once involved, well, that's why they train in martial arts. Confrontation is no joke and can quickly become overwhelming.
I'm gonna tell a story here. I'm a guy living in Canada, and during my Highschool days, I was a part of the "Theatre" programs. Pretty fun stuff. I came from the hard cities, the ones like Chelyabinsk, dried up, factory town that smells like shit. I moved away to an old retirement community with my family, got new friends, started highschool, the Theatre stuff. Shortly after my 17th birthday, we had a "Drama fest" Where people from all around the province were shipped in for this massive event. Walking around behind my highschool, I saw some guys I knew from when I lived in the Shitty Town, I got excited and tried to talk to them. *WELL* it turns out, they didn't like me anymore, for "abandoning" them which... Lead to some hostilities. They were smoking, drinking beer, meanwhile, I'm looking like a cop on Day 1. They started circling me and yelling at me, so I decided to do the one thing I knew would get them to fuck off. *I threw a brick at them!* So this brick goes hurdling towards the first guy who then immediately disengages and attempts to cool down the situation. I prepared another brick for anyone who got too close but they decided I wasn't worth it, I guess.
Roman that's my entire childhood growing up in Greece, lots of former USSR countries gopniks and albanians lived by this "code" but I knew how to crack them. Almost every day I would tell the annoying gopniks that I need 20 cents or something to buy cigarettes so they stopped asking me for change or cigarettes cause they would feel obligated to give to me when I ask or something.
as an estonian i had experience with some of them, dude came up to me asking why u speak estonian i was like because im estonian living in estonia and after i said that he got agressive AF and tried to punch me i dodged it matrix style and my friend just jumped on him so he calms down after that he said ok ok boys i was just kidding and he left.
Gopnik in the broadest sense is just a poorly educated person with bad manners who loves a sporty style of clothing and listens to russian rap or russian chanson (20 years ago). The red adidas jacket is not a gopnik style, it was too fashionable for a gopniks. They prefer dark shades.
@Matthew Ackerman I do not know. I have Finnish and Ingrian-finnish roots, but I had a great-grandmother who had the surname Karjalainen before marriage😁. My original surname is Pelkonen. It's just that in Soviet times, the Ingrian Finns were given documents with the wrong spelling of surnames.🙄
Awricht min! I'm no aficionado of adidas gear...but...I think oor boyeee has stumbled upon a rockin 1970's vintage tracksuit top. Looks like it's worth a months wages in Chelyabinsk . Hullo fae Perth! ✌❤😁
@@drunkenmmamaster419 nope different they were just junkies. Neds are just the Scottish term for chav. Often just drink on parks and and engage in mischief when they're teens. Mostly harmless just like chavs though.
I've only been to Chelyabinsk once in my life, and though Russian lore might have you thinking that the people there are super hardcore - they're actually pretty nice. The car crashes I saw there boggle my mind to this day though: usually you'd see people smashing into each other at intersections, but in Chelyabinsk they find a way to get into monstrous crashes on wide prospects with three lanes in either direction without any entry-exit points. Just some random information for you.
@@S2nnuVEVO it's like they're playing death race or something. I've seen similar crashes in Moscow, but those involved Mercedes AMG and other fast cars, and they were easy to explain (AMG owner was driving at plane takeoff speed and got cut off). But in Chelyabinsk it was freaking Ladas and Toyota Corollas slamming into each other as if they were trying to die on purpose.
This reminds very much of the Monkey Island 3 insult sword fight. "I'll leave you devastated, mutilated, and perforated." -> "Your odor alone makes me aggravated, agitated and infuriated."
Feel the same way in Scotland. The neds are virtually extinct. End of an era. Also hilarious that there was a article on how to survive around gopniks. There used to be a similar website called "glasgow survival" that basically spoke about young teams (ned / gopnik gangs) and how to not end up smashed or stabbed up in Glasgow haha
Aye ness or chavs are pretty much a dying breed or either totally finished in some parts of scotland, Glasgow still has a good few but that's expected with the Maryhill or coatbridge mobs from north and south, smaller places like ayr or Irving aye sure defo still a presence.. as for where I live in the capital needs are hardly if ever seen anymore it's mostly just alcoholic crackhead culture now lol
Friend of mine met a gopnik and he said to him: ''Hey I have a good impression about the Russian people and I hope that you will not make it change ?'' All was good
Basically Gopniks are like a prison, first of all, don't end up in that situation, second of all, run and hide if you can or try to answer with casual/ short/ easy to understand for all IQ's answers and, last off all, defend your self/ display your dominance.
I have lived in Latin America for 23 years , we have similar problems here , the solution is to attack instantly , jump kick the leader in the head (I know taekwondo) and if possible the number 2 in the same jump . I was surrounded by 6 bandits in Columbia and I did exactly that , the leader was unconscious , the number 2 was on the ground trying to crawl away , and the other 4 were running away , and it took less than 5 seconds. I have done the same with a group of 2 and 4 as well . you have a few "golden seconds" of surprise . try to take out 3 of them if you can before they can react , don't waste time hitting their body just a single hard kick to the head . Also I think it helps if you smile while you are taking them apart.
@@robertlackey7212 no sensei pardon me. I dare not to stimulate you into annoyance and wake up your inner dragon that has caused chaos on cities making it resemble Hiroshima after it got nuked. Here, drink some water from my japanese bottle gourd.
I had an experience with a Balkan gopnik. I am from the Balkans, as I've said, and I remember it was around 11 in the morning. Me and my friends sat down in a local bar where we usually drink before or after school (coffee or beer). The school is located in a neighborhood known for its shadiness, we sometimes even call it the Bronx of our city. So, anyways, we were sitting there drinking and chatting. We see a guy in a red shirt enter the bar, looks relatively normal. He orders a beer and all is well. Then I had to go to the bathroom to take a leak, bear in mind the bathroom is really small one of those standup stalls (forgot how its called in English) and one normal toilet separated by a door and thin wall. I go to the standup one and I'm doing my buissness, suddenly the door opens and hits me in the back. I ignore it, someone else is gotta go I guess. It's the guy in the red shirt, but instead of going to the second bathroom he stands behind me, the room is tiny so he's breathing down my neck basically. He then speaks up, the conversation went like this (I was taking a leak during all this) : "Hey kid, wanna snort?" "Uhm, no thanks." "You sure?" "Yep" After that he entered the other stall. I then finished, washed my hands and went back. I told my friends what happend and they were suprised. The guy exited about 5 minutes later and he was high as a kite, he hollered at us like we were some gangsters and offered us his number, he was like "If you have any problems entering any club in the city, call me up" We said no, he wrote his number anyways on a piece of paper, we handed it back. Then he called someone his phone and said he was having some problems in a bar... Then he left. We never saw him again.
@@chronos5090 how do you call gopniks over there? And are you familiar with russian word быдло? (I know it's not really russian, it's rather polish, but still)
That reminded me of one anecdote One gopnik searches for what to do. Oh! there's a guy coming my way. I can pick on him for any reason. [Guy approaches facing his head down] Gopnik: Hey! Got problems? Guy: No Gopnik: Give me 5 euros Guy: Ok. Here's 5 euros I don't want any trouble. Gopnik: give me your car keys Guy: here you go. I don't want troubles Gopnik: "Hmmm it didn't work..." Ok. Open a can of cola for me! Guy: Here you go. I opened it. Gopnik: Now close it! Guy: ... [Directed by Robert B. Weide]
Well, me and my friend once ended gopnik encounter peacefully. We were drinking shampagne in the “mvd yard” (it seems that’s a block away where you rent now) celebrating a successful exhibition start in okno gallery and the gopniks thought we were emo kids or some gothnicks (we looked like ones), and they tried to be aggressive and I said something like we’re no one who you can label, but free artist. Their thought process, rather rusty could be seen from outside, they got sad and dull, and eventually wished us not drinking too much and went away.
There was one time in Zurich (Switzerland) where a group of 7ish guys came up to me and my friend, they were actually looking to rob someone. But we kinda handled it well cause we both had smiliar friends in our home city. The key is dont view them as treat. Recognize their behaivour but dont act emotionally on it. Starting martial arts of any kind will give you this.
Awesome tutorial, but bit late. I moved to Vilnius and I encountered and actual Gopnik at the entrance of 'Khrushchyovka' that I rented. That gopnik literally behaved like in this tutorial. I did press his hand and he asked who am I.... afterwards tried to beat me up.
In Detroit when someone says come here in a shady neighborhood, you pull out your 44 magnum and say, do you want my two friends Smith and Wesson to come over too?
@@Shinoby172 not really you know how many kids get disemboweled in Canada because the gun laws are so bad that doesn’t change anything you’ll get 7 years for riding w a gun attempted murder for one in the head plus a year for every bullet, if it’s a high capacity mag ur gonna fight 15 and mfs still tote guns illegally because people tote guns illegally not because u can easily get guns I wish I was in the US we have no form of self defence someone can break in my house and murder my family and if I get lose from the restraint and kill them guess who’s doing the time, me because the laws are garbage the US is only bad because of bad people and circumstances and not only that when your media reports in every single thing you think everything worse just like how in Canada they barely report anything so u wouldn’t know about the bad parts until u come live in the hood
@@Imstillaround9x19 man i'm from europe, here if i'm walking alone in the streets in hoods the worse thing i can get is a robbery with a knife, cause a small percentage has guns. That's called society: for me if everybody have weapons is jungle, cause if you must defend yourself is just because people has guns. If nobody has, you don't have to protect yourself, easy as that.
This is so weird to me because when I lived in Honolulu random people would ask me my name, where I was from, what neighborhood I lived in, what I liked best about Hawai'i, what church I went to, etc. just to start conversation but "back in the day" in Russia that's apparently how you get mugged.
The bit about shaking hands had me retrospectively worried 'cause I remembered I was once approached by some shady thug (in Poland so not a gopnik but a local equivalent) who asked to shake hands or he would beat me up. I complied and he started asking why I didn't recognize him (never seen the dude in my life). Then it kind of trailed off and he was visibly too drunk to continue so he just kinda drifted away. Got lucky this time, those guys often don't even bother asking and just start swinging at you.
Poland, being in very very similar cultural circle, has gopnicks too. We usually call them skinheads or football hooligans tho. They're almost the same as gopnicks...
@@AmberyTear I've yet to meet actual an russian gopnik, but I believe you. Judging by the demeanor and look of polish hooligans it pretty much matches that of gopniks.
@@AmberyTear skinheads are far-right guys and football hooligans are, what they are, football hooligans, aren't they? Like they also are (or were) a thing in Russia, but gopniks are still different from them.
Gopnik Roman before he robs you: @14:00 Also, missed the opportunity to aggressively demand patreon donations in Russian while waving a knife around menacingly at the end of the video. I am disappointed. 😔
I am from the USA, and I found this quite informative! As you mentioned in the description, most of what Americans know about the _gopniki_ comes from these huge memes about the "Slav-squat", Adidas, hard-bass, and "cheeki-breeki" (which, from what I hear, is Russian for "okay", of the "everything's" type). However, as I have long realized, memes could only get one so far (in fact, what is known in the West as the "Slav squat" is actually called "doing the crab" in Russia itself!). Thanks for the information about these overmemed societal problems!
I am quite curious what happens when gopniks find out they are talking to a stranger from a different country. Will it make the situation better or worse?
I had this, I'm a small guy, three guys asked for my background I felt threat and went off on anything that moved. I from Moscow but compete professionally in mixed martial artist and kickboxer in USA I teach striking classes in American Top Team, Florida. This happened in Moscow
There's only one good thing about gopniks' existence: great reason to stay in shape - going to the gym, taking a boxing classes, looking after your health in general
I’m from Russia originally, but live in US now. I’m struggling to explain how much Russian/Soviet crime code behavior is ingrained into Russian culture. It was dominating tv in 90s. It was even romanticized at certain level. I guess having big prison population doesn’t come out unscathed. Then I look at the USA prison population, the biggest in the world and wonder how would that play out in the long run.
But wait, didn’t Roman say that no one outside of those who have been to prison know about the criminal code? But I’m interested in what this impact is. Roman only touched on it briefly. But the whole romanticism of it reminds me of gangster movies in the US, or classic shows starring “Bancho” characters or Yakuza in Japan, where I live.
@@wannabehistorian371 It shows in language, lots of people know the slang on some level. That is why Roman said to not engage in the conversation. You know some basics, but that is not enough. As child in late 90s, I was asked those questions (who are you in life) on to many occasions. Habitants of poorer neighborhoods, especially kids playing on the streets would be exposed to criminal slang in one form or another, through kids of excons or local gopniks. I learned to pay attention to swear words I use, swearing at excons, even unknowingly could get you in trouble, Russian swear words in prison slang could be taken very seriously, as excon you can’t ignore it. As young gopnik you could get in trouble, especially in your district, for not following this code, older generations of gopniks/criminals form groups their own groups, that could potentially watch over criminal activities of the young ones, in many cases they collect money to send it to prison. Sometimes they assist in selling stolen goods. In my personal opinion, big part why homophobia is so prevalent in Russia is the prison culture. Roman mentioned cast of people in prisons that are “untouchables”. He didn’t go into it, but it is mostly gay people, as prisoner you try to avoid them at all cost. Just act of sharing food or utensils with that cast in prison can get you in serious troubles. The topic of sex is quite taboo in prison as well. You could get disowned for just mentioning that you performed oral sex on your girlfriend/wife. There is anecdotal evidence that sport-wear as trend in Russian comes from prisons, as it was in many cases somewhat allowed in the prisons, cheap cloth with no belts. You could think of “sagging” among US youth as analogue to addidas sportswear. Gangster rap analogy in Russia is criminal music called “шансон». Many taxi drivers and blue collar workers would be into this kind of music, it is the way to show that they are “with it”. I have to admit, I’m in no way expert on this topic, and a lot of things have changed since 90s/early 2000s. There are many more subcultures for young people to choose. There is internet,computer games, etc.
@EE DR Thank you for info, I don’t claim that I have solution for enormous amount of people tied in US legal system, but Imho decriminalizing drugs would right step. War on drugs/alcohol failed miserably, it raised level of organized crime to new level across the world, especially in Mexico. I’m more fascinated with consequences in a long run. I feel that you can’t just dismiss large group of marginalized people without consequences for the culture. This might be not appropriate example, but look at civil right movement, it took place decades ago, but we still deal with outcomes. Some processes take decades to see ripple through nation. I understand that culturally Russia and US are quite different. I can only judge from my personal isolated experience, but I can’t stop wondering what kind of cultural impact we will see in the future in US.
hahah very good boys hahahahaha, the gopnik is a soviet disease.. kazakhstan too seemd lousy with the kyrgiz too.. only communist country linked to the ussr i didnt see them was mongolia.. they have have their regular moody nomadic alcoholic sort of guys
I grew up in Harlem New York and it was almost this bad back in the 2000’s a couple fights and running but that’s it lmao now everyone kinda minds their business but I really enjoyed the video keep it up Roman!
Nice vid, though I would say that Roman did not exactly explain the difference between asking and inquiring. Afaik, to ask for something in the russian criminal world you have to be in the position to ask. As in you have to be superior to the person from whom you're asking. It is all about the criminal hierarchy. You only answer to the superiors and if somebody else is trying to ask from you, then they are in the wrong according to the thief's code and you are in the right to ask from them for the violation or to take it to the superiors. BTW the kings of russian criminal world are called the Thieves in Law where "the law" stands for the Thieve's Law - the aforementioned unwritten rules of the criminal world. Only particular categories of criminals could become the elite, and they were mostly the literal thieves - those, who were pickpocketing, stealing from stores, apartments and breaking into safes. Hence the name. The laws include non-conforming to the rules and norms of the society, staying out of long-term relationshops with women and relatives and out of family life in general, being totally apolytical, avoiding to serve in the army and not protecting any government interests, non-cooperation with the law, not cooperating with the prison administration, not participating in hooliganism, rapes and murders (but Thieves in Law they can still murder people to protect their own honor and to carry out the Thieve's Law), they have to keep the Thieve's Law and solve the problems between their subordinates, relentlessly pursuit any violators of the rules even if those were forced to violate, the Thieves in Law have to show honesty and respect towards their criminal equals, to be able to gamble and repay their own debts in time, and they have to attract the youth to the criminal world. This is where the gopnics come from btw. If the Thief in Law is out of prison right now - he will try to organize the criminal world outside because any normal life is forbidden for him. He had basically sworn to sacrafice it when he was crowned (literally - I think they recieve a tattoo of a ring in the shape of the crown on their finger). This is where russian mafia and organized crime in general comes from. The gopnics are just the lowest ranks in the chain of command.
There's different ways to survive an interaction with a gopnik, carry around cigareti, semushki, flask of vodka or a knife , depending on how brave you are 😂
please make a video called "A Complete Guide on Dealing with Gypsies" im poor farmer from Gyor Hungary and i get roobed 0.02 secünd whevn i go outside my sháck
I would love more stuff like this :) Also...you leave Chelyabinsk???? D: that's like Bald leaving his converse or his sunglasses. NGL been here since like 4/500k I think, and watching your evolution, improvements, and experiments has been a journey unto itself. Keep up the work, next stop 1 Mil!
Been to many parts of Russia 2 times 10 years ago there were a few people which dress like that but they never created any problem to me actually they helped to me few times for addresses etc. People were kind and helping. I was in Rostov and a drug addict who speaks English very good just started to talk with me and he was onto something asking questions with a very good English but his look and dress was in a very poor condition. After 5 minutes a young very beautiful women from a bank a bank worker just got out and grab my arm and take me inside the bank. She didn't speak English and my Russian was very poor at the time. She told me to wait in the bank for a while and later she told I can go. So that was it. She probably know the guy and want to protect me. Well Russian women are hilarious. And when I was in Kiev in the old town I was waiting for a bus to back to Kiev city center and a guy tried to rob me by acting as if drunk he was just trying to grab my wallet or bag. There were many people on the bus stop but 4 women helped me and told the guy to stop. And if you go to a remote town or village locals are very kind in Russia. My only problem was free vodkas and beers of Russian people cause everyday day or night when I eat in a place it was ending up locals offering me free drinks and one more and one more. So I drank so much vodka for a few months that I never ever drink vodka for the last 10 years and not planning to. My experience in Russia was great and in all countries ordinary people are nice if you visit another country be nice to people be positive you will see that people will share with you their food, help. Siberians are one of the warmest people of the world keep that in mind if you go to Russia.
I didn't watch the whole video but Life of Boris brought resurgence and stereotyped the gopnik culture and shows how fun they look. Heels in the sky means you're a western spy. I never heard of Gopnik until he showed up in my recommendations.
Even though I don't agree with some of you political views, I really appreciate your "matured" mentality towards subjects. Like stating that reading a tutorial on the internet won't save you, is straight up fact. Keep up with the great content 🙌
Scotland calls them neds, England calls them chavs, Republic of Ireland calls them knackers and the North of Ireland calls them spides. 8:40 I'm guessing the difference between "Do you have money?" and "Can I have money?"
Also your friend's story sounds like Bert's "The Machine" story where he said "I'm the machine!" to Russian gangsters and they basically had the same reaction lmao
I could have used this 2 months ago when I had a couple of Gopnik customers, I made the mistake of saying please just trying to be polite and they made fun of me hahahaha
Here in Brazil we have a similar thing,there are many ways to call these type of guys (such as "zé droguinha","maloqueiros","favelado") but here in northeast we call them "Pirangueiros".
I can't belive the Classic adidas Gopniks are now an endangered species....
its sad ik
Haven't seen one in a decade
Boris will try to revive them!
They r now UK Roadmen, god save us all 😭😭😭
Man splashed up the ops, dumb yutes bruv, kts… mans so vexed, big man will dash up your yard init
Poland makes me feel some way bro...
Roman moving out of Chelyabinsk is the end of an era
Our man is movin’ on up. 👍🏻
change is okay don't phear it
@@気にしない-o8q I'm not saying it's not OK, in fact I am curious about where he's going next
my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
There is still a hope that he's moving to Norilsk
My grandma is Russian but married a Czech and moved to then Czechoslovakia, and since my grandma had a big influence in raising me I speak russian. One time I decided to visit my grandmas birthplace Saint Petersburg and also place a flower on graves of my great grandma and grandpa but their graves weren’t in the city area but in a small poor village near city connected by one shitty busline, some gopniks started harassing me and I actually defused situation with pretending I speak russian very poorly and am just a humble tourist from another slavic country, thank god it worked.
yeah russias dont like to bother "guests"... hahaha weird but true.
@Деревенщина из Сибири - Абакан yep its true. but as a "guest" it can be different.. even i inhospitable places like the caucasus or siberia.. the amount of conflicts i enountered were very low.. even from quite aggressive gopniks or rough looking zeks.. and this was late 1990s russia and early 2000snds... it was more curiosity or a desire just to talk to the foreigner, but yeah if your a russian.. probably conflict..
I just came to pay my respects to Russian friend who I met in Czechoslovakian prison..
That's exactly what I did😂 when a gopnik was trying to make buy him a bus ticket.
@Деревенщина из Сибири - Абакан Also heard that if you speak English, fsb will follow you around.
Russia is a post-apocalyptic RPG, but one of the good ones where you can put every point in Charisma and still manage to survive
In America you can have 1 Charisma but still max out Speech. Also, Guns matter a LOT more than Melee.
@@MK_ULTRA420 ah so Fallout, not too far from modern day America if I'm honest
@@acreativename7999 We'll see what happens to Alaska lol
Body language is everything
Also street smarts are everything! Book smarts alone are going to get you nowhere especially in the ghetto in Russia
Roma, you're wrong about gopniks wearing Adidas. They wear Abibas.
Omimas*
Adi Bass
southern gopniks wear al abbas
Adios
Gopniks did not wear red jackets, this is nepopacanski
Sounds like the best course of action is to just say "Guys, I'm from Chelyabinsk". That's my takeaway from this video.
If you're in Chelyabinsk though, then you're fucked
I think if you’re American or European and said this they’d be so confused that it just might work lol
We used to have very similar Chavs in the UK, would start conversation being deliberately confrontational then friendly, almost just testing you to see if your an easy target.
I actually heard about Chavs from my friend in the UK, and my first reaction was "Hey, they are literally gopniks"
Chavs are b tec gopniks
It is the same.
I once read a story about a guy from the UK who won a jackpot like £ 1 million and spent it all on booze and prostitutes.
Then I saw the photo. His facial features are different, but his appearance is 95% consistent with gopniks.
I thought - man, when did we manage to export this disease to the UK? xD
not as harmful as roadmen, they stab you even if you dont have money
I agree, I remember being a teenager many moons ago, and chavs/and neds would display many of the same traits, tactics and behaviours as gopniks. Literally the UK version.
When I visited Moscow in 2019 on my last day I have met a Gopnik. He approached me in the same way as the article described. We started talking and since it was my last evening in Russia and I was flying back to Slovakia during the night I had the "brilliant" idea to give him rest of my Russian coins which came up to around 150 Rubles. Instantly he was my BFF and he told me he came to Moscow from some town in Siberia to look for work and If someone gave me any shit in the neighborhood I just had to shout for him and he would come to my help. Was nice guy in the end, immidiately went to buy beer and enjoy his evening.
Sometimes I wonder if they'll actually come to your help if you call for it
Siberians are great people he probably was trying to help you or just want to talk with you. I was in St. Petersburg and I met with a Siberian engineer while I was touring for the bridges opening closing stuff during the night which is a touristic thing. Then he offered me a beer in a nearby pub and we met with 2 girls he was married so after a while he went back to his hotel never interested in the girls and gave me money cause I might need it while hanging out with the girls I try to reject but he insisted so much that I took it, couldn't remember the exact amount but it was maybe more than 1000 rubels definitely it was more than 50$. I met lots of Siberians in Russia and all were great people.
@@Mfrt-e7n Greatly doubt it
@@Jartran72 Why wouldn't they? It's a great chance to beat someone up.
When working in Kazan recently a gopnik asked my friend for a cigarette, I said only if we could have a picture together of us squatting. But then he was following us around asking for more cigarettes. I ran into a few Russia MMA coaches I knew, and said “look, I found a real life gopnik.” They laughed. When the Gopnik dude asked them for a cigarette, they replied in Russian, from what I could understand “Fuck off or I’ll smash your face in.” He ran away.
That’s how you deal with Gopniks. 😂
You did not deal with them, your juiced up fighter buddy did. Where are regular people supposed to pull them out of their ass? Because you gave the gopnik everything he wanted until the tough guy actually intervened. Not such a success
@@Jartran72 truth be told I wanted to keep him around, as a pet….
You didn't take into account the possibility of there being like 15 of them. THAT is when shit gets real.
@@kiki88561exactly like skinheads in my country. I've never heard about someone (unless he was a kid) being attacked by a single skinhead. They are shit-scared when alone. However when they are like 5 or more, then they start to be tough because, well number counts.
@@wkm345 My experience always... and always what I heard too.
This feels like when people try to give advice to escape a bear, "sure you can try these but really you're probably dead already."
Do the 2 finger trick on the bear ala Crocodile Dundee :)
@@leeduma1443 stick the fingers up the bear's ass?
The best way to deal with a bear is announce your presence and then offer it nuts and grapes. I feel the same tactics might not work for a gopnik. “Hey, Mr Gopnik, have some nuts!” might lead to losing more than you bargained for.
I’m 60 years old. I stood up to a mugger in Boston and a pickpocket in Dublin. Both backed off. I’m Badass!
Epic
Epic Despacito moment
@@Элвис-щ1ч Clint Eastwood in “Gran Torino” 😉 th-cam.com/video/OLdIKlXl3ZA/w-d-xo.html
Whoa, a grandpa on TH-cam?! Also, that’s pretty epic.
@@wannabehistorian371 it's not just for kids you know, about 10 years ago I grew tired of television and started watching YT. never looked back.
He's preparing for the incoming Gopnik War of 2022.
COVID biological warfare.
Zombies and gopniks team up !=8)
Ha ha good prediction
LoL 😂
I'm from 2022 lol
I find it so funny, there are Gopniks in every country, just going by different names. In the UK, in the 70's they were "skinheads", although confusingly, that look was adopted by punks, so it was hard to know which was which for a while. In the 80's they became football "casuals". Then in the 90's the name Chav arose. Chav is the most similar to Gopnik I think. So there are some similar conversation starters, I think.
"Are you looking at me?"
"Are you looking at my girlfriend?"
"Did you spill my drink?"
Ugh a million variations on this, and almost any answer can get you beaten up. Makes me glad to be female, but the female chavs are not very much different. "Are you looking at my baby?" etc. 😆
Seems many people have no ambition other than to be aggressive and feared.
Female chavs are worse than male chavs 😅
Thugs be thugs regardless of era or place. Had the same in Sweden, only time I got a beating for being a nice guy (that was literally what he said, "hey, you're actually a nice bloke", right before punching my nose. What's up with their nose fetishism anyway?!)
Man I used to pretend that "I was waving to someone i know at the nearest apartment window" to avoid thugs. Which always tend to work. This signals that i am being watched and part of that neighberhood.
Formere Gopnik here... so what we were doing was:
- We were sending a kid maybe like 10-12 years to ask for cigarettes while all the older gopniks where somewhere in the shadow. So the kid was asking for a cigarette, 2 cigarettes, the hole pack, money, until the guy he was asking from became rude. When that guy was like "Fuc up kid" then the older guys come in with question (why are you rude to the kid) and the beat up was starting. The targets where guys out of the city who where living in the communal building, usually students, because we knew they are nobody and they can do nothing to us.
...but when you all are caught one by one, you're not so brave suddenly...
@@niklavsmelnbardis403 I wouldn't say it was exactly like that, half were practicing judo/wrestling/greco-roman fights or something similar it was all a matter of a phonecall. So if even caught alone... it would be just a matter of time until solving the question, but nobody was such an idiot to just go for the locals without at least asking who they are or from where. We were hanging next to the communal building because we knew for sure there is nobody from the locals there.
P.s. Just curios, are you from Riga or Province.
in early 2000snds - russia i traveled in the company of some people from dagestan.. always conflict with gopniks.. they - the dagestais have their own "dzigit" ... caucasus- gopik thing.. but there was always fights.. the dagestani guys would just hit first before the discussion because they did not respect the "rules of the zone" as the gopniks do.. just hit first. less problems. it was a wild time. i traveled from makhachkala to khabarovsk with them as a travel companion, much adventures ad may crazy stories. .
Esti oltean din severin sau craiova cumva?:)))
Why are you a "Former"? what happened that you changed your way?
Gopniks also avoited people from Kavkazia because there is huge revenge culture in that area because even a nerd from Dagestan for exemple might come back with his entire extended family to seek revenge and I am talking about regular people with jobs...it is even worse if those people do not have a regular job !!!
this actually happened to me in Ukraine. I got kicked out of a bar then I started wandering around the streets in an edgy neighborhood, this huge guy(his name is Roma I think its short for Roman) dressed as the Russian Mob(leather jacked blue jeans, shaved head)comes to me. He started asking me questings, it was annoying so I told him:" don't annoy me with your questions" do you know a place where I can get some vodka and hang out, a few minutes later we started swapping stories and he took me to this underground bunker where they sell homemade vodka and started introducing me to his friends and "Americano" (I'm not American tried to explain it to him multiple times but logic isn't his strong suit). A week went by and I went to get vodka from a similar place that I found by accident and everybody is looking at me. then someone started yelling"American" and people were shaking my hand as if I was the Boss of Bosses. then we became friends, we hang out together, when it was snowing we had snow fights, and one time he pulled a knife on me and he said: if anybody fucks with you call me and I'll fuck them up"
👍
@Jake Johansson dude, you sound like the CNN. why are you so triggered. I said that because we all are familiar with the russian mobster style in american movies, and the guy is actually from russia, not ukraine and he isnt a mobster, just a cool dude that is a real badass.
@@РулонОбоев-н9ъ just because someone is friendly doesnt mean they have no spine mate.
@@Vailslife I guess so, probably I used too strong word. My point was there are some breed of people (post soviet 35+ y.o. usually with low income and poor education) who idealising everything western and people from the west aswell. It's a strange to become a free bodyguard for the western guy whom you see the first time. May be they see strangers too rare.
@@РулонОбоев-н9ъ I'm not Western. I'm Moroccan. Me and Roma became really good friends
I'm gonna miss Roman mentioning "in my city of Chelyabinsk" in his videos since he is moving.
he would say "in my home city of Chelyabinsk"
When I lived in maskačka in Riga, Latvia, this encounter happened to me several times, as a Russian speaker I did okay, not really talking much, and avoiding contact or anything. Just blankly staring and nodding, they asked were I was from and a few other vague questions. After a few minutes I asked them what they wanted. They asked for a cigaretti, I said I recently quit smoking. They applauded me (probably mockingly) and went on their way. Very scary late at night, but luckily Latvia isn’t as dangerous as rural Russia. It’s crazy how Russian Maskačka still feels.
Maskačkas loterija - naudas/mantas balvu nesaņem tu.
Nez kā ir Kauguros, Purčikā, Ķengaragā un Grīvas masīvā (pie klubņikas)
@@RolandBizjets Не знаю, но вероятно хардкорные))) жаль что я не выучил латышский, когда я там жил. Skaista valoda) Labdien!
Hey there 😁 Just remembered from childhood... if you tell them you quit smoking, they often ask you whether you are a sports person (sportmen). 😁
5 years ago I met a nice Latvian girl who was working in the Hotel beach bar she told me about Latvia and warned to be careful if I go there about Gopniks and told that they are even stealing car side mirrors.
"I went to prison in Chelyabinsk!" that's an interesting thing to bond over
This was amazing. I love these kind of guide to russia videos. I plan to use this in all future old school gopnik encounters 😁
Remember all you have to do is say: I'm from Chelyabinsk!
@@Tony32 What does this mean? Thanks
@@user-03-gsa3 Roman said that one guy made friends with the gopniks by saying he was from that city. Watch the video again.
@@Tony32 thx
The chavs are the British version
One time I was on an old soviet era train through Slovakia and saw some gopniks squatting next to a lada. I feel like my life is complete.
Roman got tired of being beat up by gopniks, so he's finally getting out.
In Lithuania we called gopniks "forsas" or "marozas". They are almost extinct species. Most of them emigrated to UK and Ireland around 2004 and did crimes there. Thank god we cleaned up. But they can still be found in a few big city neighbourhoods. Mostly in Vilnius and speaks russian tho...
We have thugs here, too. I think the best advice is to avoid meeting them. A navy Seal suggested that if you do run into such a person, the best choice is to run. He then went on to explain how once involved, well, that's why they train in martial arts. Confrontation is no joke and can quickly become overwhelming.
Pretty sure that's Jocko Wilinks advice. Just don't get into the situation at all, cross the street etc.
I'm gonna tell a story here. I'm a guy living in Canada, and during my Highschool days, I was a part of the "Theatre" programs. Pretty fun stuff. I came from the hard cities, the ones like Chelyabinsk, dried up, factory town that smells like shit. I moved away to an old retirement community with my family, got new friends, started highschool, the Theatre stuff.
Shortly after my 17th birthday, we had a "Drama fest" Where people from all around the province were shipped in for this massive event. Walking around behind my highschool, I saw some guys I knew from when I lived in the Shitty Town, I got excited and tried to talk to them. *WELL* it turns out, they didn't like me anymore, for "abandoning" them which... Lead to some hostilities.
They were smoking, drinking beer, meanwhile, I'm looking like a cop on Day 1. They started circling me and yelling at me, so I decided to do the one thing I knew would get them to fuck off. *I threw a brick at them!* So this brick goes hurdling towards the first guy who then immediately disengages and attempts to cool down the situation. I prepared another brick for anyone who got too close but they decided I wasn't worth it, I guess.
Roman that's my entire childhood growing up in Greece, lots of former USSR countries gopniks and albanians lived by this "code" but I knew how to crack them.
Almost every day I would tell the annoying gopniks that I need 20 cents or something to buy cigarettes so they stopped asking me for change or cigarettes cause they would feel obligated to give to me when I ask or something.
as an estonian i had experience with some of them, dude came up to me asking why u speak estonian i was like because im estonian living in estonia and after i said that he got agressive AF and tried to punch me i dodged it matrix style and my friend just jumped on him so he calms down after that he said ok ok boys i was just kidding and he left.
Wtf lmao
The punch was actually a punchline
Are you from Tallinn? I’m Russian I was born and raised in Tallinn and I’ve had so many of these experiences too
Gopniks robbed me of my phone when I was 7 years old lol and tried to kidnap me and my friend
Gopnik in the broadest sense is just a poorly educated person with bad manners who loves a sporty style of clothing and listens to russian rap or russian chanson (20 years ago). The red adidas jacket is not a gopnik style, it was too fashionable for a gopniks. They prefer dark shades.
Basically the same as chavs
@Matthew Ackerman I do not know. I have Finnish and Ingrian-finnish roots, but I had a great-grandmother who had the surname Karjalainen before marriage😁. My original surname is Pelkonen. It's just that in Soviet times, the Ingrian Finns were given documents with the wrong spelling of surnames.🙄
So they are basically like CHAVS in the UK and lads in Australia?
@@EatMyShortsAU yep
@@naughtygawd3269 russian roadman 😅
I can confirm Gopniks are alive and well in Scotland and go by the name of NEDS. (non educated delinquents).
Awricht min! I'm no aficionado of adidas gear...but...I think oor boyeee has stumbled upon a rockin 1970's vintage tracksuit top. Looks like it's worth a months wages in Chelyabinsk . Hullo fae Perth! ✌❤😁
Yeah, like especially in Glasgow
So are they the same as Chavs in England?
So that's what they were in Trainspotting
@@drunkenmmamaster419 nope different they were just junkies. Neds are just the Scottish term for chav. Often just drink on parks and and engage in mischief when they're teens. Mostly harmless just like chavs though.
Complete guide on dealing with gopniks:
1. RUN
*1. Run FASTER than them.
**1. Or run FASTER than a friend.
Thats actually smarter because gopniks usually smoke alot and they have bad lungs sooo their stamina is bad and u can easily run away
@@tschapetin564 real life doesn't always play out as you would except tho
@@tschapetin564 "everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face"
Congrats on moving out of Chelebinsk
I've only been to Chelyabinsk once in my life, and though Russian lore might have you thinking that the people there are super hardcore - they're actually pretty nice. The car crashes I saw there boggle my mind to this day though: usually you'd see people smashing into each other at intersections, but in Chelyabinsk they find a way to get into monstrous crashes on wide prospects with three lanes in either direction without any entry-exit points. Just some random information for you.
@@SwapBlogRU thanks a ton my guy, its nice to see the homie move out
I know I cant believe it ! Thats hella sick ! Major congrats Roman ! Uve seen the world & now u know theres more out there !! ^_^
@@SwapBlogRU nah fr literally all of the “only possible in Russia” vids of car crashes are from Chelyabinsk lmao
@@S2nnuVEVO it's like they're playing death race or something. I've seen similar crashes in Moscow, but those involved Mercedes AMG and other fast cars, and they were easy to explain (AMG owner was driving at plane takeoff speed and got cut off). But in Chelyabinsk it was freaking Ladas and Toyota Corollas slamming into each other as if they were trying to die on purpose.
This reminds very much of the Monkey Island 3 insult sword fight. "I'll leave you devastated, mutilated, and perforated." -> "Your odor alone makes me aggravated, agitated and infuriated."
Lmao
how appropriate. you fight like a cow
I took your advice Roman! Should be getting out of intensive care in a couple weeks!
I like how he talks about it like a folklore ghost: "do not greet the yurei"
Feel the same way in Scotland. The neds are virtually extinct. End of an era. Also hilarious that there was a article on how to survive around gopniks. There used to be a similar website called "glasgow survival" that basically spoke about young teams (ned / gopnik gangs) and how to not end up smashed or stabbed up in Glasgow haha
Aye ness or chavs are pretty much a dying breed or either totally finished in some parts of scotland, Glasgow still has a good few but that's expected with the Maryhill or coatbridge mobs from north and south, smaller places like ayr or Irving aye sure defo still a presence.. as for where I live in the capital needs are hardly if ever seen anymore it's mostly just alcoholic crackhead culture now lol
Conversation with gopniks would make for an amazing anime battle scene
Roman leaving chelyabinsk damn he grew up so fast I will always miss the bicycle at the background
Friend of mine met a gopnik and he said to him: ''Hey I have a good impression about the Russian people and I hope that you will not make it change ?'' All was good
I have my Roman Gopnik figurine in the window guarding my door. It's worked great so far.
Basically Gopniks are like a prison, first of all, don't end up in that situation, second of all, run and hide if you can or try to answer with casual/ short/ easy to understand for all IQ's answers and, last off all, defend your self/ display your dominance.
I have lived in Latin America for 23 years , we have similar problems here , the solution is to attack instantly , jump kick the leader in the head (I know taekwondo) and if possible the number 2 in the same jump . I was surrounded by 6 bandits in Columbia and I did exactly that , the leader was unconscious , the number 2 was on the ground trying to crawl away , and the other 4 were running away , and it took less than 5 seconds. I have done the same with a group of 2 and 4 as well . you have a few "golden seconds" of surprise . try to take out 3 of them if you can before they can react , don't waste time hitting their body just a single hard kick to the head . Also I think it helps if you smile while you are taking them apart.
The smiling part is important! Never forget it just make sure to smile if you know you were gonna win.
part 2 of Things That Never Happened.
@@Stomping-On-Roses Do you have something to say Turbo ?
@@robertlackey7212 no sensei pardon me. I dare not to stimulate you into annoyance and wake up your inner dragon that has caused chaos on cities making it resemble Hiroshima after it got nuked. Here, drink some water from my japanese bottle gourd.
@@Stomping-On-Roses Thank you.
I had an experience with a Balkan gopnik.
I am from the Balkans, as I've said, and I remember it was around 11 in the morning. Me and my friends sat down in a local bar where we usually drink before or after school (coffee or beer). The school is located in a neighborhood known for its shadiness, we sometimes even call it the Bronx of our city.
So, anyways, we were sitting there drinking and chatting. We see a guy in a red shirt enter the bar, looks relatively normal. He orders a beer and all is well.
Then I had to go to the bathroom to take a leak, bear in mind the bathroom is really small one of those standup stalls (forgot how its called in English) and one normal toilet separated by a door and thin wall.
I go to the standup one and I'm doing my buissness, suddenly the door opens and hits me in the back. I ignore it, someone else is gotta go I guess. It's the guy in the red shirt, but instead of going to the second bathroom he stands behind me, the room is tiny so he's breathing down my neck basically.
He then speaks up, the conversation went like this (I was taking a leak during all this) :
"Hey kid, wanna snort?"
"Uhm, no thanks."
"You sure?"
"Yep"
After that he entered the other stall. I then finished, washed my hands and went back. I told my friends what happend and they were suprised.
The guy exited about 5 minutes later and he was high as a kite, he hollered at us like we were some gangsters and offered us his number, he was like "If you have any problems entering any club in the city, call me up"
We said no, he wrote his number anyways on a piece of paper, we handed it back. Then he called someone his phone and said he was having some problems in a bar... Then he left. We never saw him again.
trebali ste uzet broj hahahah, lakse vam tako nego radit probleme
Are you from Serbia? Or Bulgaria?
@@НатовскийШпион Croatia
@@sip6214 Ma vidjeli smo da je lik poremećen, bolje se ne asocirat s takvima. Ovak i onak je nestao nakon tog susreta.
@@chronos5090 how do you call gopniks over there? And are you familiar with russian word быдло? (I know it's not really russian, it's rather polish, but still)
this is like the oblivion meme conversations!
Exactly lol
That reminded me of one anecdote
One gopnik searches for what to do. Oh! there's a guy coming my way. I can pick on him for any reason.
[Guy approaches facing his head down]
Gopnik: Hey! Got problems?
Guy: No
Gopnik: Give me 5 euros
Guy: Ok. Here's 5 euros I don't want any trouble.
Gopnik: give me your car keys
Guy: here you go. I don't want troubles
Gopnik: "Hmmm it didn't work..." Ok. Open a can of cola for me!
Guy: Here you go. I opened it.
Gopnik: Now close it!
Guy: ...
[Directed by Robert B. Weide]
Well, me and my friend once ended gopnik encounter peacefully. We were drinking shampagne in the “mvd yard” (it seems that’s a block away where you rent now) celebrating a successful exhibition start in okno gallery and the gopniks thought we were emo kids or some gothnicks (we looked like ones), and they tried to be aggressive and I said something like we’re no one who you can label, but free artist. Their thought process, rather rusty could be seen from outside, they got sad and dull, and eventually wished us not drinking too much and went away.
There was one time in Zurich (Switzerland) where a group of 7ish guys came up to me and my friend, they were actually looking to rob someone. But we kinda handled it well cause we both had smiliar friends in our home city. The key is dont view them as treat. Recognize their behaivour but dont act emotionally on it. Starting martial arts of any kind will give you this.
Any chance they were actually swiss and not "society enrichers"? For some reason hard to imagine a swiss gopnik :) Do they exist?
@@basedpatriotLT probably they do exist, I think every country have these type of people
So “Hey, come here!” means the same thing in South Philly as in Russia. 🤔
Glad to see you doing well for yourself! Keep up the good work! Love the insight into Russian culture.
Followed this guide. Got beat up still. Thank you, Roman
Should've said, you come from Chelebynsk
damn that was a fast turnaround time
Try and try again. One day you will succeed, I believe in you!
Awesome tutorial, but bit late. I moved to Vilnius and I encountered and actual Gopnik at the entrance of 'Khrushchyovka' that I rented. That gopnik literally behaved like in this tutorial. I did press his hand and he asked who am I.... afterwards tried to beat me up.
In what region of Vilnius did this occur? As a person living in Vilnius, I'm a tad bit curious
@@debilman9065 I'm guessing it may be in Naujoji Vilnia or Naujamiestis.
In Detroit when someone says come here in a shady neighborhood, you pull out your 44 magnum and say, do you want my two friends Smith and Wesson to come over too?
If only the gun laws were more lax then they could say hello to my little friend tokarev’
that's not a plus man, this is why USA is so shitty
@@Shinoby172 not really you know how many kids get disemboweled in Canada because the gun laws are so bad that doesn’t change anything you’ll get 7 years for riding w a gun attempted murder for one in the head plus a year for every bullet, if it’s a high capacity mag ur gonna fight 15 and mfs still tote guns illegally because people tote guns illegally not because u can easily get guns I wish I was in the US we have no form of self defence someone can break in my house and murder my family and if I get lose from the restraint and kill them guess who’s doing the time, me because the laws are garbage the US is only bad because of bad people and circumstances and not only that when your media reports in every single thing you think everything worse just like how in Canada they barely report anything so u wouldn’t know about the bad parts until u come live in the hood
@@Imstillaround9x19 man i'm from europe, here if i'm walking alone in the streets in hoods the worse thing i can get is a robbery with a knife, cause a small percentage has guns. That's called society: for me if everybody have weapons is jungle, cause if you must defend yourself is just because people has guns. If nobody has, you don't have to protect yourself, easy as that.
Roman finally made it out the hood 😭😭
This is so weird to me because when I lived in Honolulu random people would ask me my name, where I was from, what neighborhood I lived in, what I liked best about Hawai'i, what church I went to, etc. just to start conversation but "back in the day" in Russia that's apparently how you get mugged.
The bit about shaking hands had me retrospectively worried 'cause I remembered I was once approached by some shady thug (in Poland so not a gopnik but a local equivalent) who asked to shake hands or he would beat me up. I complied and he started asking why I didn't recognize him (never seen the dude in my life). Then it kind of trailed off and he was visibly too drunk to continue so he just kinda drifted away. Got lucky this time, those guys often don't even bother asking and just start swinging at you.
Poland, being in very very similar cultural circle, has gopnicks too. We usually call them skinheads or football hooligans tho. They're almost the same as gopnicks...
@@AmberyTear I've yet to meet actual an russian gopnik, but I believe you. Judging by the demeanor and look of polish hooligans it pretty much matches that of gopniks.
@@AmberyTear skinheads are far-right guys and football hooligans are, what they are, football hooligans, aren't they? Like they also are (or were) a thing in Russia, but gopniks are still different from them.
@@Kitulous same shit different pile.
the shaking hands thing is a game because its also very rude to not shake hands.. so when they dont shake the gopnik will say "why do you offend me?"
Imagine getting into a gop-stop and you are like „wait, I have to read the tutorial first“
Good thing Jean Claude taught me the Gymkata. Hopefully there is a pummel horse or parallel bars near by.
Gopnik Roman before he robs you: @14:00
Also, missed the opportunity to aggressively demand patreon donations in Russian while waving a knife around menacingly at the end of the video. I am disappointed. 😔
I am from the USA, and I found this quite informative! As you mentioned in the description, most of what Americans know about the _gopniki_ comes from these huge memes about the "Slav-squat", Adidas, hard-bass, and "cheeki-breeki" (which, from what I hear, is Russian for "okay", of the "everything's" type). However, as I have long realized, memes could only get one so far (in fact, what is known in the West as the "Slav squat" is actually called "doing the crab" in Russia itself!). Thanks for the information about these overmemed societal problems!
Let me ensure you that ordinary russian will not use chiki-briki as an "ok" exclamation. This a criminal orginated phrase and pretty rare.
It's been a while, good to see you're still alive and relatively sane. Thanks for the quality content
In Canada we call sunflower seeds “spits”
"Who are you?" Zen-buddhist's gopnik's question😄.
I am quite curious what happens when gopniks find out they are talking to a stranger from a different country. Will it make the situation better or worse?
They have this thing with treating "guests" well but you can not count on it with everyone of course
I'm going to miss Chelyabinsk and I don't even live there...
Roman: Makes video about zombie boy of Chelyabinsk...
Roman about 5 mins later: Imma head out.
I had this, I'm a small guy, three guys asked for my background I felt threat and went off on anything that moved. I from Moscow but compete professionally in mixed martial artist and kickboxer in USA I teach striking classes in American Top Team, Florida. This happened in Moscow
Congratulations on upgrading location. I remember when I left old my raggedy industrial crack town of Newport News VA. I'm not going back there ever!
@Matthew Ackerman Yes Hispanic and Scandinavian.
@Matthew Ackerman Hyvä! Minä rakastaa Suomi. Olen 1/2 Ruotsi.
There's only one good thing about gopniks' existence: great reason to stay in shape - going to the gym, taking a boxing classes, looking after your health in general
I’m from Russia originally, but live in US now. I’m struggling to explain how much Russian/Soviet crime code behavior is ingrained into Russian culture. It was dominating tv in 90s. It was even romanticized at certain level. I guess having big prison population doesn’t come out unscathed.
Then I look at the USA prison population, the biggest in the world and wonder how would that play out in the long run.
But wait, didn’t Roman say that no one outside of those who have been to prison know about the criminal code?
But I’m interested in what this impact is. Roman only touched on it briefly.
But the whole romanticism of it reminds me of gangster movies in the US, or classic shows starring “Bancho” characters or Yakuza in Japan, where I live.
@@wannabehistorian371 It shows in language, lots of people know the slang on some level. That is why Roman said to not engage in the conversation. You know some basics, but that is not enough. As child in late 90s, I was asked those questions (who are you in life) on to many occasions. Habitants of poorer neighborhoods, especially kids playing on the streets would be exposed to criminal slang in one form or another, through kids of excons or local gopniks. I learned to pay attention to swear words I use, swearing at excons, even unknowingly could get you in trouble, Russian swear words in prison slang could be taken very seriously, as excon you can’t ignore it.
As young gopnik you could get in trouble, especially in your district, for not following this code, older generations of gopniks/criminals form groups their own groups, that could potentially watch over criminal activities of the young ones, in many cases they collect money to send it to prison. Sometimes they assist in selling stolen goods.
In my personal opinion, big part why homophobia is so prevalent in Russia is the prison culture. Roman mentioned cast of people in prisons that are “untouchables”. He didn’t go into it, but it is mostly gay people, as prisoner you try to avoid them at all cost. Just act of sharing food or utensils with that cast in prison can get you in serious troubles. The topic of sex is quite taboo in prison as well. You could get disowned for just mentioning that you performed oral sex on your girlfriend/wife.
There is anecdotal evidence that sport-wear as trend in Russian comes from prisons, as it was in many cases somewhat allowed in the prisons, cheap cloth with no belts. You could think of “sagging” among US youth as analogue to addidas sportswear. Gangster rap analogy in Russia is criminal music called “шансон». Many taxi drivers and blue collar workers would be into this kind of music, it is the way to show that they are “with it”.
I have to admit, I’m in no way expert on this topic, and a lot of things have changed since 90s/early 2000s. There are many more subcultures for young people to choose. There is internet,computer games, etc.
@EE DR Thank you for info, I don’t claim that I have solution for enormous amount of people tied in US legal system, but Imho decriminalizing drugs would right step. War on drugs/alcohol failed miserably, it raised level of organized crime to new level across the world, especially in Mexico.
I’m more fascinated with consequences in a long run. I feel that you can’t just dismiss large group of marginalized people without consequences for the culture. This might be not appropriate example, but look at civil right movement, it took place decades ago, but we still deal with outcomes. Some processes take decades to see ripple through nation. I understand that culturally Russia and US are quite different. I can only judge from my personal isolated experience, but I can’t stop wondering what kind of cultural impact we will see in the future in US.
@Johnng Fred th-cam.com/video/pNETlXRL1-M/w-d-xo.html
Starts at 7:11
There's no real solution, all you can do is avoid places where they can be, not even martial arts will help if you come across 6 of them
We also had gopniks in post-Soviet Georgia, but they called themselves "good boys" - unironically.
hahah very good boys hahahahaha, the gopnik is a soviet disease.. kazakhstan too seemd lousy with the kyrgiz too.. only communist country linked to the ussr i didnt see them was mongolia.. they have have their regular moody nomadic alcoholic sort of guys
Now we need a live reenactment roman
I grew up in Harlem New York and it was almost this bad back in the 2000’s a couple fights and running but that’s it lmao now everyone kinda minds their business but I really enjoyed the video keep it up Roman!
That little B&B pic at the beginning to illustrate was a nice touch
The stereotype is Gopniks = Addidas. The fact that you went out and bought Adidas just for this video is amazing 🇺🇸🇷🇺
He didn't even have to buy it haha
Well, something that looks like Adidas anyway .
Gopniks don't buy addidas they steal them
@@PaulLemars01 it's not Adidas it's Адидас
Last story was hilarious, very entertaining vid lmao
4:19
As a russian...i shart myself laughing when this phrase come out
I can't
It's just GAGHAHJJAHSHDHDH
What does it mean?
@Bekhzod Musaev thanks you!
Yes very good video!
*approved by Professional Gopnik*
well well if it isnt the one and only
Nice vid, though I would say that Roman did not exactly explain the difference between asking and inquiring. Afaik, to ask for something in the russian criminal world you have to be in the position to ask. As in you have to be superior to the person from whom you're asking. It is all about the criminal hierarchy. You only answer to the superiors and if somebody else is trying to ask from you, then they are in the wrong according to the thief's code and you are in the right to ask from them for the violation or to take it to the superiors.
BTW the kings of russian criminal world are called the Thieves in Law where "the law" stands for the Thieve's Law - the aforementioned unwritten rules of the criminal world. Only particular categories of criminals could become the elite, and they were mostly the literal thieves - those, who were pickpocketing, stealing from stores, apartments and breaking into safes. Hence the name. The laws include non-conforming to the rules and norms of the society, staying out of long-term relationshops with women and relatives and out of family life in general, being totally apolytical, avoiding to serve in the army and not protecting any government interests, non-cooperation with the law, not cooperating with the prison administration, not participating in hooliganism, rapes and murders (but Thieves in Law they can still murder people to protect their own honor and to carry out the Thieve's Law), they have to keep the Thieve's Law and solve the problems between their subordinates, relentlessly pursuit any violators of the rules even if those were forced to violate, the Thieves in Law have to show honesty and respect towards their criminal equals, to be able to gamble and repay their own debts in time, and they have to attract the youth to the criminal world.
This is where the gopnics come from btw. If the Thief in Law is out of prison right now - he will try to organize the criminal world outside because any normal life is forbidden for him. He had basically sworn to sacrafice it when he was crowned (literally - I think they recieve a tattoo of a ring in the shape of the crown on their finger). This is where russian mafia and organized crime in general comes from. The gopnics are just the lowest ranks in the chain of command.
Roman looks intimidating with that Adidas tracksuit 🥶🥶🥶
Objection! He's looks a target in this tracksuit. xD
The not shaking hands thing would be pretty hard for me, as in Gemany, you shake hands to assert dominance by gripping the others Hand firmly.
hahahaha wie wahr. Hab lang gebraucht das zu verstehen.
Gopnik: exists
Normal person: does anything
Gopnik: AH! ты активировал мою карту-ловушку
"You need to be aggressive"
I wonder how many gangs of gopniks are just wandering around just scared feelin theyre now in too deep hahaha
Funny and great guide, we have a lot of simillar people here in Serbia but they like to wear more Nike than Adidas :D
There's different ways to survive an interaction with a gopnik, carry around cigareti, semushki, flask of vodka or a knife , depending on how brave you are 😂
thats like walking through the woods covered in honey and slabs of meat xD
Damn Roman getting out I never thought this day would come
please make a video called "A Complete Guide on Dealing with Gypsies" im poor farmer from Gyor Hungary and i get roobed 0.02 secünd whevn i go outside my sháck
I would love more stuff like this :)
Also...you leave Chelyabinsk???? D: that's like Bald leaving his converse or his sunglasses.
NGL been here since like 4/500k I think, and watching your evolution, improvements, and experiments has been a journey unto itself. Keep up the work, next stop 1 Mil!
Been to many parts of Russia 2 times 10 years ago there were a few people which dress like that but they never created any problem to me actually they helped to me few times for addresses etc. People were kind and helping. I was in Rostov and a drug addict who speaks English very good just started to talk with me and he was onto something asking questions with a very good English but his look and dress was in a very poor condition. After 5 minutes a young very beautiful women from a bank a bank worker just got out and grab my arm and take me inside the bank. She didn't speak English and my Russian was very poor at the time. She told me to wait in the bank for a while and later she told I can go. So that was it. She probably know the guy and want to protect me. Well Russian women are hilarious.
And when I was in Kiev in the old town I was waiting for a bus to back to Kiev city center and a guy tried to rob me by acting as if drunk he was just trying to grab my wallet or bag. There were many people on the bus stop but 4 women helped me and told the guy to stop. And if you go to a remote town or village locals are very kind in Russia. My only problem was free vodkas and beers of Russian people cause everyday day or night when I eat in a place it was ending up locals offering me free drinks and one more and one more. So I drank so much vodka for a few months that I never ever drink vodka for the last 10 years and not planning to. My experience in Russia was great and in all countries ordinary people are nice if you visit another country be nice to people be positive you will see that people will share with you their food, help. Siberians are one of the warmest people of the world keep that in mind if you go to Russia.
I didn't watch the whole video but Life of Boris brought resurgence and stereotyped the gopnik culture and shows how fun they look. Heels in the sky means you're a western spy. I never heard of Gopnik until he showed up in my recommendations.
Even though I don't agree with some of you political views, I really appreciate your "matured" mentality towards subjects. Like stating that reading a tutorial on the internet won't save you, is straight up fact. Keep up with the great content 🙌
@0:30 lol look at whom we got here.... Mr. Bald Gopnik and Alina Gopnik :D :D
Great video haha. I need that jacket.. GIMME THAT JACKET! 🗡️
Scotland calls them neds, England calls them chavs, Republic of Ireland calls them knackers and the North of Ireland calls them spides.
8:40 I'm guessing the difference between "Do you have money?" and "Can I have money?"
This is any big city, These rules apply in Chicago also.
Why are the bulls so shit
I was thinking that too. "What you be about" was the Chicago-gopnik anthem of my youth.
on foenem
Except gopniks aren’t usually carrying 9mm semi automatic handguns
@@nad1ax2 Thats what makes them so important here.
Also your friend's story sounds like Bert's "The Machine" story where he said "I'm the machine!" to Russian gangsters and they basically had the same reaction lmao
«Поинтересоваться» means “to inquire”
Gopnik : black adidas tracksuit
Roman : red
Boris : yellow
PPPeter : black
Ah yeah, Peter is a Gopnik
I could have used this 2 months ago when I had a couple of Gopnik customers, I made the mistake of saying please just trying to be polite and they made fun of me hahahaha
Here in Brazil we have a similar thing,there are many ways to call these type of guys (such as "zé droguinha","maloqueiros","favelado") but here in northeast we call them "Pirangueiros".