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i guess they... threw a kitchen sink into it

🤣

Soviet sinks have a long history in Bald and Bankrupt videos.

Let that sink in!

He loves Soviet sink

Didn't mean to be boring too much but just to make it clear :) MVD where M stands for Ministry (Министерство). V is for Internal (Внутренние). And D is for Affairs (Дела). So its MVD or you would call it Ministry of internal Affairs. It's a regular police actually.

adventurizer*!

Yeah that sink was indeed a stunning relic

Walks 30 km like it’s nothing, you can see he was trained for this 😂

@@promontorium Even just a rusty old sink is interesting to me. They probably aren't made anymore, pretty rare.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

this is what got him banned right?

YOOOOO HI

It's the man who visited all 47 prefectures!

yall should do a video together

OMG its mr affable himself!

Hope we get "Journey Across Japan - Escape to a japanese Spaceport" soon. Love your content Chris

Hey Johnny! 35:24 I was thinking of you when Bald said "well one thing we've learned today is that it's easier visiting a spaceship than the space church". No dodgy burgers or gopnik dogs either! Cheers and hope you're doing well.

Preach🙌🙌

True. It was a crazy adventure and the real deal. We can see how emotionally rewarding it was for them to. That even alone contributes alot to this film. The passion is real. Thats why we love them.

For sure Johnny, for sure.

It doesnt get any better than this on youtube. Thats my very honest opinion.

Noob question, Lana isn’t the girl that’s in this video is it? They look similar but I have no idea. Thanks

Agreed!

You should see the one where he goes to Lunik 9, the Romani slum in Slovakia

It should sure get an award for stupidity and arrogance. 30 km walk with almost no supplies, tough terrain, no cover, there could have been sensors, landmines, high fences with barbed wire, guard dogs at large, sentries with orders to shoot on sight.............. that is how it was back in the Cold War era of the 20th century............ but I guess this is now the RU-vid era of the 21st century............. so they were released after a few hours with a small fine................ it could have been 20 years in the gulag............ but I do admit the 2 of them pulled off the biggest "spaceport tourism" visit ever.

Yeah, he sould change the name of the channel to "Bald and Soviet"

He’s been captured and cloned…this isn’t the real Ben. It’s a Russian cyborg programmed to infiltrate and capture western secrets, he uses Bluetooth and Wi-Fi to download his stored information to a secret computer hidden in Lenin’s casket. Once his mission is complete he will self destruct in a chosen city rumoured to be Lichfield in Staffordshire. All this information was obtained using French espionage from the NorthFace database, who are cooperating with the Russians and created his blue armoured jacket with prototype hand warmers inside. You’ve been warned. If I go missing it was Ben

the bald part is not very ironic though

I could feel your excitement when you finally got it. Wow Ben, fantastic video. Loved it.

He makes his money pretty much in the first 4 minutes 😆

Alina showing up is a standing joke in bald videos. Clearly they traveled together but she is hidden from view until the Alina grand reveal.

@@rorywilliams5131 Clearly!

soviet sink > two burans

The only thing I'd say you forgot was "running" into Alina in the middle of nowhere. I love that it's become some little gag.

@@Cris-em9tn Yes, I'm amazed by the coincidences with you two, especially when you found her taking a leak in an abandoned farmyard miles from anywhere and halfway through your journey, then waiting for the same goods train across the Sahara. It must be because your fans have described your posts as "magic".

@@capcompass9298 Clearly they are so connected on a spiritual level, they always find each other without even trying. Hahaha it's always fun to see how he'll just 'find' her- at a cafe? Taking a wee outside? Who knows!

Certified Bald Classic lmao

When the camera panned over revealing that they managed to get to the Buran, I didn’t expect to actually feel the emotion but I did

Sorry to hear you have hard times, from one stranger to another, hope your life gets easier and you, and to all here, find permanent happiness.

We all are on this journey together! Don’t forget that you aren’t alone. Reach out to anyone on here if you need someone to talk to. I’m sure we are all mostly friends here. Goodluck with your personal journey!

One of these days I think I'm just gnna rebinge Bald. I just thought about the one where he was biking around, bought a bottle of vodka and climbed a Soviet tower.

Offcourse you are welcome

Not a single question in my mind that you do all this for real. Thank you so much for everything you bring, Wow

me too! never a boring second in his videos..or yours! 😁

Hi Peter!

OMG , pppeter i just discovered your channel recently and thought it reminded me a bit of bald and bankrupt and came to the conclusion that your youtubing must of been influenced a bit by him. this has just confirmed. love your videos btw

*just confirmed it

Well doen mr. Bond and Bankrupt

exactly!!💯

True, and same for me

same

Space might be the final frontier..but it's made in a Hollywood basement...sleep well

best RU-vidr around.

I salute your words sir

Definitely the best video yet. Such a shame that Russia doesn't take more pride in it's previous soviet (peaceful) achievements. Those spacecraft deserve to be preserved in a museum.

Finding it is easy, there are several sites that show coordinates of military bases, the difficult thing is to get there and even more to enter them.

it really highlights how instantaneous, and unexpected, the collapse was

Bolivian cartel adventures was epic too :)

They don't have the ability to move the shuttles anymore and they can't even get the door to the facility open. They have been sitting there since 1995.

I was thinking exactly the same, and why Russians guard and pay annually for that place

@@caracallacz I heard Russians shoot their satellites of from their that’s why they pay annually

My jaw dropped as I’m typing this wtf man this man is crazy

There's a museum like, 2km away from the building they were in

People with zero balls always mock the people attempting to achieve things. It makes them feel better about themselves.

@@baldandbankrupt Quite right sir. Still can't quite believe what you achieved in this video. Outstanding

@@baldandbankrupt Honestly, I'm blown away by your whole trip. It almost felt like a hero's journey. And that you actually got to see it in all its crystalline soviet glory-the craftsmanship, the science, the tragic decay; I mean, when could one ever grasp at the clutches of fate to behold such an opulent, regal, and shimmeringly resplendent sink like that again?

@@baldandbankrupt did you have a compass to nav?

Bald's achievements are something that many can dream of. Not even the sky's the limit for this deadly duo (Ben/Alina). Hail the Gods of Soviet Adventure 🙇‍♂️

Hasan.

Russian uber🤣

In Soviet Russia uber calls you!

@@lucianboar3489 and you drop driver home

I would just have a satelite-internet-devices for such trips. Whenever I can I would then save the files in the cloud. So even if they caught you, they cannot take the videos...

I could imagine him getting caught because he went to look at an old soviet sink

@@bigfudge2031 The real mystery for me was what the heck was the sink doing in the middle of nowhere?

@@RemyCT63 just another sink hole

I learn more from this channel about the Soviet Union than I ever learned in any textbooks while in school.

99% in america

@@centerp1ece are you jealous of her ? don't be so rude, i hope she's in more of his content

Much agreed! I'm not sure how to express it either! 🥲

Then you will love watching Shiey and Anton too

@@rizkydeshanda4235 I've begun watching Shiey recently! he is next gen bald and bankrupt lol. Still, nobody does it like Benjamin.

Agreed Sir. I started watching about two years ago and absolutely loved his Indian adventures. Little did I know back then that an amazing Soviet adventure awaited me!

Exactly! I can't even imagine what would surpass this!

Peak Soviet brain power? This was a copy of stolen US brain power. 😊

honestly my favorite youtuber, the best content out there even tv doesn't have a bald, were so lucky

@@IcelanderUSer and the US used Nazi German brain power. The real question is, where did the Nazis get their knowledge? Seek and you may be surprised what you find.

Awesome! Glad you found it!

Love this 👌🏼

Keep up the epic exploration! Hey I’m one of his female subscribers too btw! 😂

@@rob-fb5xs Go watch Vagrant Holiday 1-5 if you enjoy bald you'll like Vagrant Holiday.

Only 3%? Wow 🤣

100$ is the price for foreigners. 15-20$ is more than enough. When I traveled to Buran with illegal tourist group, we have been pay 100$ for small bus and a local scout, who delivered us to Buran building across military patrols.

You are not Mark Twain, but like him, You Speak The Truth!

A great story! You must be proud of your father for what he achieved.

From building real spacecrafts to working on movie sets. That's an interesting career change

What color Lada?

@@MikeyJMJ yea, he got a five years(a bachelor+master but combined as one degree one) degree of an airplane and helicopter designer in MAI(Moscow Aviation Institute )in 1982, and worked for the design bureau, but in the 1990 one of his friends invited him to study in VGIK(Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography) for a master's degree of movie producing and management, he was tired of the airplanes and other stuff so he decided to quit design bureau for studying in VGIK and after getting master's degree he started working on filming some teleseries for russian tv as director of a small film production company

Cool brother thanks for sharing.

I know! When I saw that sink I knew it was a good omen! How crazy was that?

I paused video and laughed my ass off

When he turned that sink over and it made a crunching ground sound the subtitles said [Music]

That was such an amazing highlight of the video

What amazing serendipity! Imagine traveling 30 km on foot through a dark desert and Bald finds an abandoned soviet sink in the middle of nowhere. Epic!

She's a keeper for sure.

hey TBAG

Crazy seeing you here, dude.

Jij ook hier?

Misschien leuke collab doen met bald

That's amazing in itself but the fact that the Russian military essentially gave them a ride to the nearest hotel is nuts to me.

True.I bloody cried at the very first sight of the ship🥲

@@Cma2506 Yes, I got emotional.

Y'all don't think the local authorities knew about this the whole time and arranged to meet them as they came out?

@@srt4b nope

@@srt4b glad im not the only one who thought this.

I can't recall that American youtuber where he gets lost in a jungle in Congo, trades a crocodile for a shelter in a remote tribal village and is later deported from the country as the governor thinks he's a spy. No one goes to Congolese jungles. Another one is a Russian channel "The people". He too is into such adventures.

@@ayushsaxena7770 If you happen to find the Congo video, let me know. Sounds very interesting.

They gotta be bangin man theres no way they arent

@@BuckingFuffalos69 saying what everyones thinking XD

@@BuckingFuffalos69 They are 100% banging

Any asshole can sleep in a car. Alina is the best.

Also the time they slept on a roofless train in an african desert

total BS

bro why didn't they just use bicycles lol instead of walking

That's a great story, but Baikonur was anything but hidden or secret and, having been to the area myself, to be stopped by guards you have to deliberately turn off the main road and drive towards big installations and buildings that are clearly military or industrial in nature and visible from far away.

@@CatatonicImperfect yeah been there a few times nice place

did u drunk with them or just have them the vodkas :)

Flying machines have no nationality. RIP Mriya.

@@shoeby9273 only that of physics

Probably the fact he was able too speak their language was why

@@cdoobs6763 Yeah the language and having a pretty lady with him too, both charming the police

Bald was in media before summer about this video. He explained its not a crime to enter where he did. You just need a permission. He entered without getting the permission. So since its not a crime, he was not arrested. Check daily mail and you will see.

Actually, I thought the fifty buck fine at the end was even more "wow".

@@TheNameOfJesus I thought about that. I guess they don't really care that much because they don't think most people would be willing to walk 30km through the desert and dodge the patrols. They probably sealed it up more now, too.

@@jimdandy8119 The 3 day prison sentence is probaly for people trying to acces the active areas where they have equipment actually in use, they probaly don't care much for this part

Actually a lot of youtubers have explored it. Its an amazing destination.

@@lostpony4885 Yeah, it kind of IS in a museum. It just takes a bit of effort to get there.

FACTS

@@athaphian Sadly, it would be good if it was kept in good condition and offered tours, people would have paid to see this.

@@D33Lux exactly. They would genuinely make a lot of money if they turned it into a museum and sold tickets.

Right? This was an emotional ride. I really thought they weren't gonna make it. Shit was the best documentary I've seen all year.

@@OsaculnenolajO Yes, it was really edge of the seat stuff up until they got into the hangar. I kept thinking - there's no way in, they'll get caught. I bet even the guards protecting them have never actually seen the two spaceships!

He's on his way to gain entry into Put!n's secret vault where he swims Scrooge McDuck style through his loot. Sneaking around there is easy at night. Most of their military and even tanks don't have night vision. So why would their security. 🤭🤭🤭

They smuggled a street Kitten from Cuba to Europe too.

He changed. He announced he's quitting RU-vid.

Yeah its almost like they're married or something

@@Elbowbanditest2003 wait really?

@@nubidubi23 Yes lol

@@PartyhatRS how do you know?

@@berkay5087 because he's said it in multiple videos

She’s from Belarus though… tough girls..

Alin chick has always been a legend

Amazing.

She’s so cool

Let’s be clear... they stole the plans from the Americans. The Soviets did most things first in space ... but credit where it is due ... Buran was American.

It shows how shortlived the things are modern humans create. 3 decades ago this was a place of peak human technology, 30 years no maintenance and it´s just a decaying wasteland. And the spaceport itself is still in use afaik.

I definitely could not have thought they would make it that far. I thought they'll just turn around in the morning.

@@hansoerteras3983 it shows how truly ephemeral we are. capable of the greatest and worse things, all of which will be lost in time.

Alinchik is the true hero of the video. Such a brave, strong and hot girl

Glad that she made it out of Russia

"You're OK, go on." No, that "ladder" could have broken at any time... They got lucky. This could have ended very badly indeed

@@dogchaser520 I felt the same, as someone who has fallen from a ladder and broke 3 limbs , it was close to my heart, but it was indeed worth it.

That's how all of us live here in Russia unfortunately. Always scared to say our opinion (online and offline) :(((((

Yeah he could easily have been detained in Russia for a prisoner exchange like what happened to Brittany Griner...

What about when he took the cable cars up into the Andes and the cartel showed up on enduro bikes and took his passport? “Time for a coca break!”

I imagine they catch people in there quite alot, not a serious thing there's other on youtube who have done this

Phenomenal video

@@-jank-willson Well he does speak russian and it also helps that she is Belarussian. Different what media nowadays make you want to believe, russians are not that bad or stupid.

maybe true... check out shiey's videos. that dude has slept in some crazy places

Do you have any idea how much he earns from a single video ?

He deserves my entire net worth for his effort

@@debsattam1 I don't give a fuck how much he makes from this video. I wouldn't do this for a million bucks, the man is literally risking his live to show us a spaceship, that's just about the coolest fucking thing on the planet

@@djsilversun You won't but there are many youtubers willing to risk there entire life for RU-vid money go check The people channel

You paid $50.00 to say that and i got to reply for free.

Mate i need 50 for weed. Hook a brother up :)

Bald and bankrupt is the man on the moon!

@@davt8355 not quite he couldn't figure out the launch codes. 😊

Thomas the Tank train! EPIC!

Yeah, who knows. Maybe someday he'll even take the requisite time and record some video of the content he reports on. I bet you his VIEWERSHIP would go through the roof! Until then, I guess we'll all have to settle for whatever "wiev" he gives us!

I mean, seriously, that launchpad should have been a tourist attraction, why fine people 50$ when you could Charge them 50$?

@@hippiemuslim Hrmm, I donno. Might have something to do with $50 in Kazakhstani tenge equals 23893.75 KZT and the average month wage for a Kazakhstani is 387,000 KZT... So basically you're asking a citizen of the country to spend 2 days worth of wages to see some old ass rusty tin can that used to be in space. I don't know about you, but that sounds like a shit decision to make when given the choice. But hey, apparently there IS a market for it considering the fact YOU just said what you did.

I would agree with you .He's a very cool guy.

@@hippiemuslim Because apparently he trespassed an international border... even if he was technically still in Kazakhstan the area they visited politically belongs to Russia. I love Bald's vids but this time he probably pushed the boundary a bit too far. I mean, he is a Brit citizen and a famous personality around the World and that's probably one of the major reasons nothing serious happened... but imagine what could have happened if just an ordinary nobody from Kazakhstan or former USSR did the some thing (except for Alina, she was with him)? Pretty sure it wouldn't have been just a 50 bucks matter!

absolutely loved it

the midnight train thru Africa was pretty wild...

Probably helps when you've got a channel full of videos documenting your fascination with old soviet history, architecture, installations and cities.

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I'd rather get Bald's charisma than winning the lottery.

I would have been wary of that tea

@@mewberthildimew9037 and have permission to make a drama video there.

yh for sure, thats what made it so exciting.

Agree!! I usually read comments before watching the video to have a glimpse of what the audience had reacted. But this time, I watched the video first and it was worth it! After I watched the video, I scroll through the comments and Im so happy that I shared my emotion with other viewers. We have the same sentiments!

You should never be within 100 yards of a soviet prison. Awful place.

If I had the courage and especially charisma of bald I’d know I could blag my way out of any trouble 😂😂

While most of us would be in despair, Bald would be excited when he discovers an old soviet wash basin in his cell.

Thanks a lot.

@Z3U5 How does "Lal Selam" come here? This was purely a travel-related communication and the presenter's love and affection for the erstwhile USSR. I grew up before USSR became extinct and I must admit I do have a soft corner for that country without knowing the realities there. But the thought of a socialist country is like dream to many who try to think for the people.

Now try the active Russian space side, they probaly didnt care much as this is all the old stuff they abadoned

There are organized tours sneaking into the hangar for years already.

@@anibch1 China and the USSR killed 100 million of their own citizens in the 20th century, I don't think that's anything to aspire to.

Why are you lying? You’re not Rakesh Sharma lol

@@boofingenthusiast bruh he's just saying the only indian to go to space took off from baikonur, not that he was him.

So special for me also! The first Bulgarian to be into space blasted from Baikonur at 1979, the year i was born... Best wishes from Bulgaria!

@@blyat3422 I read it the same also. Unfortunate phrasing.

THAT'S EPIC!!!

@@babsch837 that's actually close to only 10 euros, I think 😅

@@babsch837 it’s Swedish Krona :) 100kr is approximately about 10€

@@babsch837 oh! I feel dumb now 😂

@@babsch837 hopefully Bald passes it forward when he travels

Yeah it'll go to some babushka in the end