730 Days in Stroybat, the Most Savage Outfit of the Soviet Army

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  • Soviet Army. Military service in the USSR. How long was military service in the Soviet Union?
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  • @UshankaShow
    @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +3

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  • @RogerThat787
    @RogerThat787 7 місяців тому +27

    100K, baby we made it. Congratulations!!!!!!

  • @JohnDoe-oj3ev
    @JohnDoe-oj3ev 7 місяців тому

    Great video, especially about the two torn sheets. how familiar it is.

  • @Ronilac
    @Ronilac 7 місяців тому +2

    After invasion "CA" was read as well as "Camping Afghanistan"

  • @maximusthezoura
    @maximusthezoura 7 місяців тому +9

    congrats on 100k!

  • @31Tetrahedron19
    @31Tetrahedron19 7 місяців тому +3

    I remember reading in "Inside the Soviet Army" by Viktor Suvorov, that Soviet citizens drafted to these units were considered be "politically unreliable" types.

    • @Radbot776
      @Radbot776 7 місяців тому

      Yea religious and criminals and people that did not swear an oath to the USSR

  • @rieger.design
    @rieger.design 7 місяців тому +9

    When I joined the army, ace of base just released their popular song - you're in the army now.
    My God. That was so depressing.

  • @andrefiset3569
    @andrefiset3569 7 місяців тому +3

    No vodka ration?😳

  • @nickjones9278
    @nickjones9278 7 місяців тому +3

    Shovels! Was this unit the birth of WAGNER!?

  • @alexeyvlasenko6622
    @alexeyvlasenko6622 7 місяців тому +2

    My aunt used to live in Tuapse, in the Black Sea region, and when she was a teenager, she would often walk from her apartment to the beach in front of all the Stroibat soldiers, who were working on some construction project there. They would make lewd comments about her, and she made a point of writing down all those comments in her diary. I've seen those entries in her diary. Let us just say that they would make a sailor blush.

  • @AnnaRytell
    @AnnaRytell 7 місяців тому +6

    Yay! I guessed it right! The notebook was about the mandatory military service. We had that in Poland too. The best item associated with that mandatory military service was the metric tape measure (150 cm), which soldiers used to buy 150 days before the end of the service and cut off one centimeter per day.

  • @SonOfTheDawn515
    @SonOfTheDawn515 7 місяців тому +1

    5:08 being deployed or in the field training showers weren't available or very few chances to use them being out in sector. Most bathing was done via baby wipes and this was US army (2005-2010 11B)

  • @Bread.Offender
    @Bread.Offender 7 місяців тому +2

    Congrats on 100K! Saw your Reddit post, you got yourself one more sub.

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +1

      Awesome, thank you!

    • @Bread.Offender
      @Bread.Offender 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@UshankaShowYou're welcome. I actually watched some of your videos, and they are quite enjoyable. Seeing your stuff pop up in my recommended page is always great. Have a great day!

  • @steliosarvanitis5606
    @steliosarvanitis5606 7 місяців тому +1

    Ussr amazes me and confuses me at the same time, nothing works, bureaucracy is rampant and still, they know who to conscript and release from the military.P

  • @eursiaameria9393
    @eursiaameria9393 7 місяців тому +2

    Are you going to go to Cuba now, Comrade Sergei?

    • @TheCaptainSlappy
      @TheCaptainSlappy 7 місяців тому

      With a population of 100,000+ internet peasantry, Komrade Grazhdanin Sergei (The Peoples Scooter Mechanic) recently became a regional power, independently chartered as a trade corporation, recognized globally to do trade with Cuba. And also Nebraska and some parts of North & South Dakota. So Oblast Ushankagrad is built around Ushankagrad Promzona ISUC (Industrial Sergei Unit Center) overseen by Duma-S (Department of Sergeis).
      This is a new style of youtube states system, evolved from the old territories that used to use witchcraft as legislative systems...but also as the police (moving away from the Haitian, Filipino and most European/US/British style of administration where we used to rub chicken feet together while chanting "...chicken bone chicken bone" to deflect invasions and propaganda by other youtuber warlords).
      Some have said Duma of Sergeis are a more logical & efficient system. A kind and beneficent overlord...with great tax rates! (One thumbs up per video per peasant!)
      It can truly be said...a REAL Ushankagrad has never been tried.
      Current industrial projections show a large increase in Peoples Scooter production.
      Trade increase is expected as well, with import/exports of Scooter Parts to bolster said production schedules at the University of Segei.
      Internal projections show a slow, but steady increase in Potato production as well, which is great, because nobody likes turnips.

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому

      Did I promise to go to Cuba? I don't recall

  • @jonathanwhiteside816
    @jonathanwhiteside816 Місяць тому

    In the 1980's I was in the Canadian army and just out of my teens. My buddy of the same age decided to use his holidays to travel to Russia. Surprisingly he had no trouble being admitted. The sly dog took a wallet full of money, cassette tapes of rock musicians and more importantly, a suitcase full of ladies' Levis and Jordache jeans. With those, he had his pick of the prettiest Russian girls. He had the time of his life going to underground discotheques and parties. No hassles from the Russian authorities. When he got back to Canada and opened his big mouth, he got charged because it was against regulations for serving members to that. Not only that, he got thoroughly interrogated by the intelligence services. But he said it was worth it!

  • @denpobedy7881
    @denpobedy7881 5 місяців тому

    86-89 on DDR grenze watching GSFG and DDR troops, who looked at us. Then peace broke out.

  • @Obrez1
    @Obrez1 6 місяців тому

    Yazov is kind of a famous person in "the New Order" community. If you and the other people doesn't know what "the New Order" is: it's an alternate universe where the Germans won WW2 and push the Soviets back to the Urals. What remained of the Soviets splinter into gazillion warlord states and one of those state is the Black League, led by Yazov.
    "The Black Leage" has only one goal: Eradication of the Germans. Literally. He's ideology is so cynical that it made him a fan favorite.

  • @thestrangechannelofjeff7426
    @thestrangechannelofjeff7426 7 місяців тому +2

    I just learned that a soviet soldier took more baths then I do

    • @jamesofficial6829
      @jamesofficial6829 5 місяців тому

      With my severe depression I'm at about once a week and nobody seems to notice or care. Although I did get one complement of how good I smelled from another guy. I'm like okay if sweat piss and ass smell good to you something is wrong with you.

  • @paulthiessen6444
    @paulthiessen6444 7 місяців тому

    Soviet soldiers making scrap books. Not something I would have thought

  • @peterpanini96
    @peterpanini96 7 місяців тому

    Keep it up nice stories... the chicken sound is a soviet majeestic sound... unless crazy chikens start doing noise at 01 :00 every single day then you make soup and soup make yu crazy. 😂

  • @w.loczykij5354
    @w.loczykij5354 4 місяці тому

    Many ppl fail to see the difference between bathing and washing. If you know what are you doing - you and ppl around you will be fine

  • @Poorexampeofhuman
    @Poorexampeofhuman 7 місяців тому +1

    Because when I was a kid we had a gareden, our Father tell us how to provide some of our own nutrition through gardening. I was wondering if gardening was a value to you and your childhood as it was as much as it to me in my childhood. We were taught how to grow a garden how to save vegetables to last throughout the year

  • @Poorexampeofhuman
    @Poorexampeofhuman 7 місяців тому +1

    I wish I could just donate a couple of hours I don't have much. But I do value you and your channel very much.
    You have brought so much more understanding to my upbringing as I was born in 82 in the United States here in Michigan. Make sense the way you describe life in the Soviet Union. I really appreciate your channel and I wish that I could give to you in a way that I can afford.

  • @mtljbc6568
    @mtljbc6568 7 місяців тому

    I tell you man, there is sonething about Russian showels.

  • @nickjones9278
    @nickjones9278 7 місяців тому

    90s S was soviet in origin. Amazing.

  • @Poorexampeofhuman
    @Poorexampeofhuman 7 місяців тому

    I want to kno what can i grow in my garden in Michigan that would be in you garden in the Soviet Union? Well just what would be in your family garden in Ukraine?

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому

      ua-cam.com/video/wipH9EVZVBs/v-deo.html

  • @redneckraconteur
    @redneckraconteur 7 місяців тому

    Blyad! 100k! XOPOWO!

  • @jonathanisjohn
    @jonathanisjohn 7 місяців тому

    take baths once a week is wild😂
    in east asia we take shower everyday sometime twice a day in summer

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +2

      Well, climate can make a difference. You don't sweat much when it's -20C in the winter

  • @Elcore
    @Elcore 7 місяців тому +1

    I'm so glad the Cool S was a thing in the USSR too.

  • @andershansson2245
    @andershansson2245 7 місяців тому

    Luga is 2,5 hours from Saint Petersbug (Leningrad), would thesse guys get leave in the former capital of Russia, or did they have to either a) stay in Mukhosransk (Sticksville) Luga, or b) go to Pskov and/or Veliky Nogorod (both ancient towns, but NOT the country's 2nd largest city!)..?

  • @Poorexampeofhuman
    @Poorexampeofhuman 7 місяців тому

    I feel lucky I was 299.

  • @Seacheroftruth
    @Seacheroftruth 7 місяців тому

    Keep up the good work Tovarishch! With every episode, you answer at least one question I had about Soviestkogo Soyuz! Idk if you were like me, but I grew up frightened/fascinated with how you guys lived on the "other side," of the iron curtain. Propaganda was TERRIBLE and for some reason, I didn't believe most of it!

  • @D.von.N
    @D.von.N 7 місяців тому +1

    Gosh, I thought you were going to talk about the 730 days of the current invasion. The timing wasn't coincidental, ws it?

    • @richardkammerer2814
      @richardkammerer2814 7 місяців тому

      Oh, hell, probably a coincidence as this madness will go on and on.

    • @karlshorstzwei
      @karlshorstzwei 7 місяців тому +1

      ​@@richardkammerer2814Rather dark, no? In theory (if not extended indefinitely for obvious reasons, if a conscript of either army had been drafted the day the war started, he should be discharged by the end of the week. I doubt Vova (either of them) is gonna let them leave the trenches, though.

  • @paulsherick1979
    @paulsherick1979 7 місяців тому +1

    When are you opening the Vodka your Dad bought? I don't want to miss it!!😊

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +1

      Waiting for the Silver Button to arrive first

    • @paulsherick1979
      @paulsherick1979 7 місяців тому +1

      @@UshankaShow understood👍💪

    • @paulsherick1979
      @paulsherick1979 7 місяців тому +1

      @@UshankaShow I'll being having a drink with you during that live stream.. Salute

  • @Doom_Lara
    @Doom_Lara 7 місяців тому

    Omg Sergei you made it. Amazing!

  • @colinjohnston5734
    @colinjohnston5734 7 місяців тому

    Holy cow I can’t believe you only have 100k subs! This channel is more high value than most 1M channels.

  • @peterdinklage-jy4dl
    @peterdinklage-jy4dl 7 місяців тому

    technically they were all "savage" back then lol

  • @kkctx
    @kkctx 7 місяців тому

    There's art in choosing a title. The one for this video is brilliant..

  • @nickadams2451
    @nickadams2451 7 місяців тому

    Sergei I love the writing in the notebook at 4 minutes in. Really love the cursive.

  • @OxhornLimeworksLtd-ik8qu
    @OxhornLimeworksLtd-ik8qu 7 місяців тому

    Wow 100k congratulations. I was here when there was under 10k.

  • @Jimmyinvictus
    @Jimmyinvictus 7 місяців тому

    Congratulations on 100K!

  • @AnnaRytell
    @AnnaRytell 7 місяців тому +1

    Whaaaaat?! Bath once a week?! Eeeeeew!!!

  • @JK360noscope
    @JK360noscope 7 місяців тому

    u da best

  • @chasjetty8729
    @chasjetty8729 7 місяців тому

    Thanks again friend.

  • @VinMartinelli
    @VinMartinelli 7 місяців тому

    So Awesome Sergei

  • @bodyloverz30
    @bodyloverz30 7 місяців тому

    Congrats!

  • @D.von.N
    @D.von.N 7 місяців тому +1

    Re bath: before running water was common, people didn't bath or shower every day. In medieval times they maybe had a bath 2x a year and masked body odour with herbs and flowers, various perfumes. Local body wash was at most, like the mentioned over a sink: hands, arms, face, armpits, maybe a bit of front of torso where people could reach, and maybe feet. Nudity was a taboo. Some Brits still have separated taps over a bath tub and take bath 2x a week. No shower.

    • @Elcore
      @Elcore 7 місяців тому +4

      Not true. Most people in medieval Europe bathed far more often than twice a year - it varies a lot per region and class, but about once a week is a good benchmark. They bathed less in the 17th and 18th centuries because ideas about cleanliness were changing and clean water was less accessible for people living in cities (most people still bathed more often than twice a year, but that's a believable figure for the aristocracy; ironically the lower classes bathed more often). Nudity is more complicated; it was and remains a taboo, but people in medieval Europe tended to sleep naked, so why would bathing naked be an issue?

    • @tripsaplenty1227
      @tripsaplenty1227 7 місяців тому +2

      most of russia doesn't have running water yet.

    • @D.von.N
      @D.von.N 7 місяців тому

      @@Elcore I guess it varied from class to class and century to century, but it certainly wasn't as straightforward job as it is today, with running water. I still remember as a child, in my grands without running water, bringing water from the well pumped by hand into the kitchen in two big buckets. Bath wasn't a regular thing there just 40 years ago.

    • @helgeschneider9069
      @helgeschneider9069 7 місяців тому

      in the roman empire open baths were supported by the goverment. the use was free.

    • @D.von.N
      @D.von.N 7 місяців тому

      @@helgeschneider9069 wasn't it more for social purposes than hygienic alone? What I wanted to say is that in the less distant past of humanity bathing was even less frequent than once a week, which surprised the person mentioned in the video.

  • @peacefulamerican4994
    @peacefulamerican4994 7 місяців тому

    A great vid!

  • @user0307
    @user0307 7 місяців тому

    Could you mention the names of the possible non Russian soldiers?

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +2

      Sure! From top left:
      Dzhabbarov, Ibbadulayev, Kulzhibiov, Dileyan (Armenian), Oganesyan (Armenian).
      Next row: Kayrollyn, Aliev (Azeri), Khabasov and Bukatov (Buryats maybe), Akhmadov, Tatevosyan (Armenian), Mamedov, Amirzhanov.
      Third row: Dzhafarov, Suleymanov, Yelubaev, Salmanov, Aydargalyn, Taubiev.
      Bottom row: Dzhabbarov, Tovmosyan (Armenian)

    • @helgeschneider9069
      @helgeschneider9069 7 місяців тому

      @@UshankaShow hello, was it typical to send the soldiers most far away from there hometown how often could they go on vacation to the hometown? never in these two years? we had soldiers in gdr...... i am nearly sure they never get back in there hometowns in these two years.

    • @UshankaShow
      @UshankaShow  7 місяців тому +2

      It looks like it was done on purpose. My friends ended up serving: Vladivostok in Far East, Poland, and Moscow

    • @helgeschneider9069
      @helgeschneider9069 7 місяців тому +1

      @@UshankaShow in two years, he needed to change his location three times.....unbelievable.
      i also think it was on purpose.....so in the case of protests the soldiers had less fear to fire on the people, as it would be not there own relatives.

  • @EatRawGarlic
    @EatRawGarlic 7 місяців тому

    Поздравляю!

  • @fuckooooooooooooo
    @fuckooooooooooooo 7 місяців тому

    Russian military builds character