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The problem with marxist ideas is equqlity to all sounds good but when someone is unable to perform the same as everyone else then what is the solution? That is where things get dark.
12:37 you mentioned the climate in Ukraine was cooler in the summer when you were a young, strange I remember the British summer back in 70s was a lot hotter than it is now, well that's how I remember it, and ye deodorant wasn't a thing around my area until the mid/late 80s I think mens cosmetics and scents back in the day were only an American thing, I think GB and USSR men just smelled like men, sweat, cigarette and alcohol, and that's just before lunch lol. But seriously probably because men in USSR and GB were just harder men, not as pampered as our US opposites were.
When I was a kid we were lucky if we had a bath once a week, we would have a strip wash with cold water each morning before school, the only way to heat water was the coal fire so no hot water until fir was lit. Being British and of a certain age brushing teeth was optional and not really encouraged, my dad was a coal miner, that was a nationalized industry the same as the utilities were back then, oh and the busses and trains were owned by the state so ye they were shit lol Actually I remember having a bath in front of the coal fire in a tin bath in the living room when I was a kid.
Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure Propiska is the same as the Hukou system in China (still exists, although much less important now than it was 20 or 30 years ago).
0:52 truant was a word used in the 1960s in the UK. I don’t know if it is still in common usage. If you skipped school, unauthorised absence, would be said to be playing truant. Truant is also a noun applied to the pupil playing truant. I’ve never heard it used regarding workers.
I remember seeing this as a kid, and being scared stiff! Now that I am much older, I understand it better, but also i understand the time period it was made in. The cold war had gone on for so long, so much cloak and dagger. This is literally the time people started to look at it differently, it was a kind of propaganda, that helped the people actually want an end to the Iron Curtain. Reagan, and Gorbachev got together after this. It's kinda like how they show things today, to try and sway everyone's opinion. But people are much more informed now then they were back then lol.
This is not what I expected, I always had the impression, that average citizens could not have a firearm. Also why it makes sense that you see the High leaders hunting etc. What really blows me away is the lack of animals in Ukraine! Maybe peeps hunted them down low key in the past?
I was in Sochi in 1994. I stayed for several days in the apartment of an elderly lady who cooked delicious meals for us, and we spent quite a bit of time talking in her kitchen about the old Soviet days of her youth. I walking around the town and enjoyed the amazing weather and gorgeous scenery. It was a lovely trip!
Comrade Sergei, I live in the northern Indiana area, kinda close to where you live. I am wondering if you know of anyone who teaches Russian in the area? I am going to school to be a missionary and it will be very helpful to speak Russian. I was learning it when I was younger. Thank you sir for your videos!!!
Here are my answers before I heard your explanations: 1. There are four people. Note the number of spoons, dishes, names on the work schedule, even if one of the names is blocked by a bush. 2. They arrived a few days before. There is already a cobweb between the tent and the tree. 3. Well, the paddles may be a dead giveaway. They probably came by canoe. I guess Soviet-era cars did not have roof racks that could carry small boats, and not everyone had a car. So, I’m guessing that, with four people and two paddles, they came in two canoes. But that would be from the nearest dock. If they had traveled from another region, it would have to be by train. Maybe they rented the boats nearby? 4. Hard to know how far they are from the nearest village. They don’t seem to have much in the way of provisions, however, and would they carry such a big melon from a long distance away? Or would they even have access to such a big melon (or pumpkin?) from home? They probably bought it at a nearby market. 5. There hardly seems to be a wind, and the plants are not even bending. The only indicators are the fire and the banner atop the tent, both of which seem to be blown to the right. As for the wind’s direction, would it be from the south? The trees seem lusher on one side than on the other; perhaps that’s the side that faces the sun. 6. Morning? Or late morning? It’s hard to tell the time of day, as most items don’t have shadows. But the boy doing the cooking has a shadow (though not a very long one), and the melon and the bag by the tent have shadows, albeit modest ones. So, it can’t be noon. Since I’m guessing that south is to the left, and the sun is thus to the east, it must be morning. 7. Where you asked where Alex went, the implication is that he’s not in the picture, so he must be way in the back chasing butterflies with the butterfly net that you see there. 8. Petr was in charge yesterday. Assuming that Alex is not in the picture, except for his butterfly net, and noting the cobweb that’s there, showing that the campers have been there for a while, I’d say that it’s probably the 9th, so on the previous day Petr was in charge. Note that Alex’s name is not seen on the list, so it must be the one that’s blocked by the bush; his day is evidently the 10th. 9. Probably August 9. I checked a couple of sites on Google and found that melons are in season in Russia in August. The day couldn’t be the 10th because it was probably Alex who was slated for duty on the last day, as his name is not listed for the first three days (Kola, 7; Petr, 8; Baca, 9), and he’s busy chasing butterflies. Also, the open bag in the background has a “B” on it, indicating that it might be Baca’s and in use, while it’s evidently Kola who’s busy with the “K” bag to the left.
Damn! I was wondering if that thing sticking out of the "B" bag was a tripod, but it didn't look enough like one to be convincing, so I dismissed it as a possibility. That threw me off in terms of who was on duty today and yesterday. I thought that Baca was using items from his open bag, though the cooking supplies wouldn't all be in his bag alone. I also assumed that the 8th was too early, that they had to be there at least a few days for the spider web to form. So the date was August 8, not August 9.
Hello tovarich Sergueï ! My answers : 1 - four teenagers 2 - several days prior 3 - by boat 4 - (... seems far from any village but, dunno) 5 - wind is blowing from south to north 6 - it's 13 o'clock / 1 pm 7 - alex is gone doing some kind of chore 8 - Vasya (Вася) was on duty yesterday. 9 - (the month of the year when people can catch butterflies maybe ? Dunno...) Let's see the the results now 😊
