Rural Russians name a country they like (besides Russia) 

We also have another similar video that we published 2 months ago! Rural Russians name a country they DON'T like: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AmGZvlnhs84.html

Russia is a huge country. Their time zones span 11 hours... and 11 decades.

The lady saying: "I've never been abroad, but I know, our Russia, its better." Sums up this videos tone pretty well.

The ending with the young man is saddening. "I've been drinking because they took our guys." Heartbreaking. Hello from New Mexico, USA.

2:34 "Afghanistan, we've won them all" who's gonna tell him?

I am originally from Bosnia. From a small poor village. Since I have been living in Austria, I have become aware of how poor Bosnia actually is. But when I was in Russia in 2018, also in the rural area, I only realised how good we actually have it in Bosnia. No running water, no sanitary facilities, no sewage system. Russia is rich, but also so poor.

This village is like a time warp. I've never seen anyone carry buckets of water like that.

Honestly reminds me of some of the rural areas of Michigan (my home), both in their clear dilapidation and in that they're filled with people who are convinced nowhere else is better in the world. I think everyone is better off hearing from others around the world, even perspectives you may not know or enjoy, and that's why I love your channel!

I mean, when you see the conditions these people live in, can you really be surprised by their answers? I can't say I'd care much for foreign countries if I were born into a situation like this

I’m from Poland and we all know how it looks like in Russia but watching this really breaks my heart. Those people could have had really better life if not for corruption. It all looks sad and grey but you must notice how beautiful the architecture of some of the houses is. Once again, thanks for showing the truth Danill. Greetings from Poland

This is probably the best/ most mind-blowing 1420 video ive ever seen

You have a level of courage to do this. Keep doing the good work out there

I've lived and seen every part, region of Turkey, from the biggest cities like Istanbul to some villages without electricity and running water. I've also lived in Poland for a while. So from all that experience I can say ignorance is really a bliss. The more opportunities and the bigger the cities, there were always more complains and sadness. I'm not saying these people live the life they deserve of course not. I feel really bad for them because they don't get to live their lives fully. But I will say, in those towns where there was no electricity and water, the smallest things made people's lives. I remember I had a basketball and invited the kids from the town to play, I've never seen happier people in my life. I hope these people could also experience those small things at least. Love from Turkey to all those people.

That drunk guy at the end man... drinking because all his friends are gone. And volunteering because he has nothing left. I feel for him

Rural Russia is like a time warp. The juxtaposed position of the people filling water buckets from a well, yet saying Russia is the best place is something to behold. I’m practically lost for words. And the drunk at the end volunteering to go to the front, kind of sums up Russia.

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL, thank you so much. You are just great. You are so cool to do all these interviews that are so different from each other.

I appreciate this video from an entertainment point of view. This was amazing, please do more ❤

My favourite episode, the interviewer did well not to laugh. They are all very patriotic and love their motherland but it looks like a village from a horror film

Seeing this makes me feel so grateful to live in my country in the times we are now. Our villages and general life in Estonia had conditions and looked pretty much the same like in this video, when we were under USSR. If you go to these rural areas in Estonia today, after we have been independent again for 31 years, there are new roads everywhere, street lights, roads for pedestrians, houses that have been renovated and have working water and electricity systems and activities for people to do besides drinking away their misery. Citizens can apply to get financial support for the work they need to do on their households etc. Until you go/visit elsewhere or have access to see and hear the possibilities and rights that you should have, you cant even wish or require them and you will just blindly accept the minimum your manipulative ruler is feeding you.

It’s fascinating to see how rural people live and their attitudes in modern Russia, probably not much has changed in their living conditions for decades. My only visit to Russia (actually the former USSR) was in the early-mid-1980s when I took the International Train from Beijing to Moscow, where I spent several days, then the onward train to London from Hook of Holland, passing through Poland, the former East Germany (passing through East then West Berlin - what a contrast!), then West Germany and on into the Netherlands. What struck me most when passing through the USSR, we joined the trans-Siberian at Ulan Ude, was the absence of paved roads in most of the villages the train passed through and even some of the larger towns/cities where the train stopped only had a few paved roads in central areas near the railway station. It was only in the section from Moscow to the Polish border that there were more paved roads in villages/towns we passed through, although even there were mostly unpaved roads. I was particularly interested by a remark from one of your interviewees about successes of the USSR military mentioned Afghanistan amongst them - well that is certainly a ‘novel’ interpretation of what happened there, as indeed it would be for my own country (the UK, I am British) in the last 150 years and more recently the US/UK and western allies in Afghanistan too, no foreign power/army has ever succeeded except very temporarily in subduing far less conquering that country. What is particularly interesting in your video interviews is both how patriotic most people are (most people in western countries are too), but how ignorant most seem to be about the world outside Russia (or the former USSR) and how the media/propaganda to which they have access colours their views. Also how hard their lives are, specially older people who have mostly never seen or even imagined anything much different.

amazingly great journalism 👍

I come from Italy and I have travelled there extensively. If you would go ask these same questions in a remote, impoverished village in southern Italy, they would all make a list of countries and places that are better and immediately point out all of the problems of village. All of this despite them having sewers, running water, electricity, roads, and being much more advanced compared to this russian village. If these people were to actually understand how poor they are and how rich Moscow is, and how much better off Russia could be, they would revolt immediately. I guess ignorance is bliss

Fascinating to see how different rural Russia is to the cities. Almost a totally different country/culture

This is my new favorite channel.

Классно же. Классная атмосфера. Последний кадр просто. Теперь когда в интернете будет кто комментарии забавные, буду его вспоминать

Putin lives in luxury, these people have no running water. Classic tyrant.

There is nothing to say about this video, it says it all itself! Thanks 👍🏻

I almost fell out of my chair laughing my ass off at 1:30 that old man is quite the character 😂

Quality reporting!

One can never overstate the importance of having running water.

Seems like it is difficult to have an intelligent conversation with folks in rural areas. Good job and thanks for your patience and persistence in your work.

scary stuff. thanks for doing these videos.

"Nothing beats Russia!" *Proceeds to cart water from a well like medieval peasants*

Vodka and state TV appears to be the national anesthetic

I always wondered what would happen if you had a time machine and gave people living in the 18th century a TV. Rural Russia seems to come close.

Absolutely extraordinary! These people live in some kind of alternative universe!

Excellent and daring reportage. Thank you. Keep up the good work. Water and Vodka seems to be a theme. Ignorance and fear too.

Russians: Europe will be freezing without our gas! Also Russians: *has no gas, running water or electricity*

Nice to ask people living like it is 1950s if they feel superior to other countries :)

5:11 looks like badass babushka who carries full buckets with her arms stretched, just because she can 💪

I feel like you could make the same video in rural USA and people would have similar answers

All your videos speak for themselves, but this one is a whole book. Thank you! Stay safe!

No running water in a village in a rich country in 2022? "It's better to be silent" from the elderly woman who's going to have to carry her water to her house. "I've been drinking 5 days in a row, blyat!" from the man who's going to volunteer for the army.

I did a 5000 km road trip in a borrowed car through Russia a few years ago. Once you leave the modernity of Moscow and St Petersburg most of rural Russia is just like this village, as are the people. City dwelling Russians seldom venture into rural villages.

The strength in that woman's shoulders! Thanks for doing these videos. I feel it must be good to understand each other more as people.

I’m a 36yr old midwestern American and I remember being told that The Netherlands was a drug filled lawless land of depravity. It sounded fucking, great to me as a 20yr old when I was preparing to backpack Europe (this was in 2007). I found out that NL was the nicest, cleanest and most beautiful country I had ever been to. There’s a lesson there and it stuck with me very deeply.

Thank you for the video exposure. I feel sorry and sad and a bit more empowered. Tough to watch but should be seen by more.

I wish you could do a series of interviews with the second guy. He’s hilarious 😂

My grandmother lived about 20 miles outside a small town in the USA. I spent a couple weeks one summer with her on her farm in the late 1960s. The road by her place way paved. Her driveway was gravel. The home was from about 1900, but had been upgraded with electricity, well with electric pump, indoor plumbing, etc. Her neighbors were good people who would look out for each other. No drunks were seen on the street or nearby town. Rural life can be a nice way to live. Although it does limit your exposure to other countries, foreigners, technology, cultures, etc. With the mobilization, Russia appears to be echoing The Hunger Games, where people from the poor districts must offer up their children to die, while the rich in Moscow and Saint Petersburg enjoy their luxuries like plumbing.

These videos are very educational

Imagine living in that town and thinking "there's nothing better than Russia"...

"I love Russia - Russia is great!!!", as she carries water from the well to her home.

In the 1990s I was travelling through Russia. Nothing has changed in the rural areas, no development. Greetings from Austria

Awesome work my friend. Maybe mention China next time if you could?😅 thanks!

Thank you Daniil it’s scary. How little they know. How ready they are to go to war😢

Wow, speechless. This is some amazing content. Very depressing though. Now I understand why Russian guys from these areas go to fight in my country - because they have nothing better in their life, they have nothing to lose. And obviously they would steal as much as they can. Hard to believe in this stuff in the 21st century, but it’s true. Didn’t realize how much better off than these areas we were in Ukraine until the war had started. What a contrast. I really don’t want to see these guys roaming around my hometown Odessa though. Scary…

This is how Ukraine was in my rural village back when I was little. Now 20 years later almost all the younger people have traveled to Europe and work there and come back to rebuild in Ukraine. Its almost insane how quickly the culture has changed in less than a generation.

Wow, ok, i see. Thank you for this window.

This video is art

Thank you so much for filming this! My grate-grandma was from similar village but it was a century ago... so sad to see nothing has changed. When grandchildren were asking her questions about the past she used to tell them to stay quiet and not to ask too many questions (because she was scared that the authorities would come for them) - Seems like this hasn't changed too, so sad. And most of these people will never know the truth 😥

The last guy is the reason why Russia has no chance to win this war.

as a mexican , i honestly feel they are really admirable for being so patriotic for their own country! respect +

I visited Russia about 20 years ago. I didn't make it to St. Petersburg, but I found a stunning contrast between Moscow, and the smaller cities and suburbs around, as well as the small towns. I was stunned to find outhouses in the suburbs of moderate sized cities. Or, only a single cold water faucet. Or, one place had hot water in the winter (heated through the furnace), but only cold water in the summer. The people seemed kind enough, and didn't seem to have animosity to Americans. I did meet a Ukrainian on the train, who also seemed kind, and welcome in Russia. The rural people had to know that they don't carry water from a communal well in Moscow, but perhaps don't realize how uncommon that is in developed countries. Imagine how the billions of dollars spent on the Russian War Machine could be better spent.

"You can live this life, but you better stay silent"

Fuck, this was hard to watch. These villages are soo eerie, like time never changes; a german ww2 soldier popping into view would have not seemed out of place.

My word, that is a depressing place Daniil! It makes the UK look like Monaco! You are a brave man making these videos.

Out of curiosity, in 1998 I did the same in the village Kirova in Belarus to turn the handle to lift up a pail of water. What is still amazing to me, the people in Rural Russia still think that there is nothing better in the entire world as Russia, even they have a standard of living which my German village had around 1912.

Sometimes I watch these and think our values and priorities in life aren’t so different. Then I watch ones like this and just stare in disbelief for 9 minutes. Please keep them coming

Fascinating to see the difference between urban and rural areas

We are starting to get people like that too here in Australia

I live in Csnada and was shocked to see how these people live. No running water, sewage systems,mud roads and the number of drunks. It makes me feel very fortunate for what I have. The thing that shocked me the most was the blind love they have for a country that obviously dosen't give a damn about them. They remind me of zombies. I feel bad for them.

"We don't need nothing but the Motherland!" (Carries buckets of water from the well to the house.) Bloody hell, these people are blind to how badly their own country treats them.

Wow what images..its like a different world to me.

Look, I don't want to sound like I'm trying to defend Russia or anything, but I feel like is more based on the fact that they are rural and old. Ask an old man living in a swamp in Mississippi, and you could probably guess their answer.

It's sooo good having to get your water in a bucket and take it home. Then there's the village tyre hanging from the tree. Oh how the hours fly by.

Love the guy at 1:26 lol and the funniest thing is that he propably isn't sarcastic despite the fact that he seems sarcastic.

It’s truly different than what I’m used to. But I love to hear the people’s opinions of other nations even if they don’t like mine.

“Russia is the best country” Have you been anywhere else? “No”

This video is a masterpiece... These people are like tragic heroes of the classic old russian novels, still existing in the 21st century. I feel so depressed after watching this video... What a MASTERPIECE

Я из Московской области с ужасом смотрю на то, как они живут.

Their pride to their motherland is amazing

This reminds of Resident evil 4 with the villagers... Insane

I’m just happy you volunteered to help them, kindness goes a long way

One word - wow.

Maybe you could have asked them about china, Kasachstan, Poland. Would be quite interesting to see.

It is real life Day Z, the barking dog was the most intelligent entity.

As a European, i have never seen such a place. It’s really terrifying. I think that people who live in such places are led into a huge mistake about their own superiority, but they have never seen how people live elsewhere, for example in the much-hated Europe. Cruel.

The absence of curiosity is astonishing!

01:22 that Mindset bro 🤣

Моя родная деревня. Очень грустно видеть. Автору большой респект!

What loyal and obedient serfs.

I've seen similar videos of people going out to the rural countryside in America and a vlogger would ask similar questions to the residents if they like any other country besides the United States. Majority would say the US is the best country in the world or would say that they've never traveled abroad. Americans and Russians aren't as different as I thought when it comes to patriotism.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone from any country be unable to name another country that they like until now. Americans, French, British, Japanese, they all come up with an answer.

400 miles from Moscow and no running water with outside toilet. That's real Russia. Very very deep😭😭😭

I come from Chuvashia and seeing this makes me feel impossibly bitter. At the same time I think that everyone from large Russian cities must watch this video. You'd say these are marginal people but that's actually what I see every time I visit my parents. It's not just a couple of people. It's a pity but no conversation is possible if someone is THIS narrow-minded. I'm pretty sure one of the main reasons behind this is extreme poverty. One thing said in this video that stung me especially is "better stay silent". This is something I hear all the time among my relatives who are all Chuvash. I find this characteristic for our ethnic group and that can partially be explained with our history. A republic with poor economy, no resources, highly dependent on donations from Moscow. People whose ancestors (most of them) were smashed about a thousand years ago. This logic not to show up so that it wouldn't get even worse seems to exist on a genetic level. I feel so sorry and ashamed that many Chuvash people are like that. Russia gives Chuvashia as little as possible and they still praise it. There are certainly Chuvashs who are strongly against the war and the attitude presented in the video. There's even quite well-known (among Russians at least) movement called "Angry Chuvashia". I'm waiting more people to get angry and finally speak.

"Чем дальше общество отдаляется от правды, тем больше оно ненавидит тех, кто её говорит..." Дж. Оруэлл

They look like Dostoiévski characters.. specially the drunk old man.. nice. Here in Brazil we say we are the south american Russia, and i can see a lot of similarities in both countries.. big territory, far from all the rest of the world, they have siberia we have amazon forest, both countries are very christians yet have secular habits etc.. love to all russians, from Rio de Janeiro. 🎉

fuck man this is some powerful journalism

I see you are filming Gogol's "Dead Souls". Very promising start! Method acting is also at its finest! The movie will garner a ton of applause, critical acclaim, palme d'or and a few Oscars to boot. Oh, wait, that's a documentary for Russkij Mir.

I think this is the first video from you guys that’s actually made me cry. I don’t need to say more, the film says it all.