@@dimashevchenkoua Indeed. Just got back from a 10 day visit in winter. There are so many beautiful buildings, parks, museums and other things to see that you will need far more than 10 days. The people are extremely friendly and transport by metro is not transport by metro, but transport in one of the most impressive systems I have ever seen: in the peak, you can be facing a frequency of a metro EVERY minute. You pay for your metroride with plastic tokens, your metro smartcard, accepted bankcard/creditcard or your mobile phone, all 3 contactless. In the Netherlands, we took some stupid experiments with paying your fare in public transport by mobile phone, spent 6,4 BILLION Grivna on it, only to pull the plug within a year as the experiment had completely failed. 'Why don't your citizens protest against such a waste of money?' Was the first question my friend (who invited me to Kyiv) asked. It was at that point I realised that 'we' in The West, tend to think that we are extremely innovative, while 'The East' has completely passed us by many steps already. Go there! I do think it's a daunting city if you don't know anyone there. I have the luck of knowing someone who lives there, took me on a tour through the city and could use my Euro's (you cannot pay with them anywhere). She paid for my hotel, I gave her my Euro's (she could use them in some sort of way) and thus I did not have to find an exchange office somewhere in the city. Be prepared for subways that are shopping centre's on their own, sometimes so big you can easily get lost (I did many times at Arena city)
Lovely during Soviet times huh? With half the population starving and not being able to have access to basic things like toilet paper? Being less than 100 Km from world's worst nuclear disaster without knowing about it until MONTHS after it happened? Lovely huh?
Especially for Ukraine as here o Ukraine as a real state as it is built on the very wrong foundation and definitely not Mother Russia's or Vladimir Putin's fault.
@@Radowid_the_Redanian ukraine is not russia it is its own nation but now it is as lost as russia because they lost what really matters, the governament of the people, the soviet union.
@@promaster4758 it’s not. The political nation nation is based on 4 things: 1) Georaphic location; 2) Economical ties, based on geographical location; 3) Language; 4) National psychological portrait, based on language of population. Now, let me explain: 1) Geographically Ukraine is a huge landmass, where around 130 nationalities live; 2) Economical ties after the crash of the Soviet Union look simply like this: all remained production lines were dependent on Russia, yet the newly became owners of Ukrainian based parts of production lines stored all their wellness in the Western: especially British, American and Swiss banks and real estate. Where is Ukrainian population is this scheme is a huge question. 3) Language. Despite propagandist statistics, the majority of Ukrainian population speaks Russian as a native language. Ukrainian language is spoken in Western Ukraine, while the majority lives in central and eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian language is observed by most population as a political language, not a mother tongue. All Ukrainian state elite speaks Russian, lol. If tomorrow Ukrainian government will recognize Russian as a state language, trust me, Ukrainian language will simply disappear from everywhere. 4) Due to Russian mother language, population’s psychological portrait doesn’t differ much from Russian Federation: these people were brought up by Soviet and Russian movies, they listen to Russian music, and they think in Russian and funnily they see their dreams in Russian. Today’s Ukrainian hysteria will not last long enough to change this portrait. Доречі, я сам з Києва, мову в школі вчив. Не дивлячись на те, що російська мова - моя рідна, я володію українською, але я, як і усі мої знайомі, не спроможний думати цією мовою. Вона просто не потрібна для чогось, окрім заповнювання офіційних документів. Switching back to my Arabic English, Ukrainian political nation is an artificial formation, which has only two purposes for the elite of Ukraine: separate from Moscow and steal Ukraine’s wealth directly. People of Ukraine are too divided, 130 nationalities, the majority of which speaks Russian as their native tongue. And the Soviet Union? Ukrainian SSR was considered by its population as nothing more than an administrative autonomy. Nobody cared until recently.
@@Radowid_the_Redanian read the marxist definition of nation better. You can find it in the principles of leninism by Stalin. Stop saying stupid russian nationalist things to try to null the Ukrainian nation. Ukraine and Russia are both nations and they should work together as they used instead of fighting for stupid imperialistic interests.
@@promaster4758 if you did not read my comment, i simply used Marxist understandings of a political nation. Four aspects: geography, economy, language, national psychology. Political nation will exist in bourgeois society as well as in a socialist one. Marxism and Marxist propaganda are different things, dude, cmon. Dialectical materialism denounces the religious understanding of entities, yet the Marxist propaganda is, nevertheless, a religious propaganda. Bolsheviks cried about imperialism, nationalism and so on at first, but during the Stalin’s reign they simply realized, that the only way to rule a modern country without an established political nation, which can integrate people in itself, is an absurd. “The Soviet human” is a political nation too, dude. You can experience it yourself by studying Soviet propaganda: in 1920s it was internationalistic and leftist while in 1930s it became rather Russian nationalistic, yet with a friendship of people. Movies were produced about Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky and Alexander Suvorov. On the famous 1941 parade in Moscow, Stalin mentioned Russian national heroes: Minin, Pozharsky, Suvorov and Kutuzov as an example of heroism. This is called nationalism. And despite friendship of the people and so on, the Russian political nation was the basis of the USSR. And imperialism? Imperialism is a corporate market expansion. Soviet Union was a huge corporation, which expanded it’s influence all over the world. Yet, it was more honest to small countries, than West, it did not rob them, it provided them an ability to prosper, yet, this is still basically an imperialism. Nationalism and imperialism will exist always, even if the terminology will differ. Speaking of Ukraine: political nation did not form in there. There is only one formed political nation in post-USSR - the Russian one.
