Tourism In Europe's 'Real Fake' Countries
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2023
- Visiting the unrecognised nations of Kosovo and Transnistria.
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"God save the queen" with a picture of a revolting slop of a sandwich has to be the funniest shit ive seen today
that's why God didn't save the queen..
That statue of Bill Clinton made me audibly laugh, lol
Another one, of Monica Lewinsky, should be crowdfunded to stand next to it.
There's also a statue of George W. Bush somewhere in Albania. Good stuff.
And a Bill Clinton avenue
Should have had Monica kneeling in front of him😂
Puppets praising their puppet master.
It's amazing how compelling it is for one guy to just walk around and film stuff on his own. Thanks for putting in the effort, it makes for great viewing.
Remember when Tim used to do this?
What happened to A Pimp?
@@bartsanders1553 Pim Tool? Yeah. Nowadays all he does is sit and hide in his "compound" sperging over Twitter posts and CNN articles.
What is compelling about this? It's just interesting.
Bald and Bankrupt is the best for this.
I was part of the KFOR force about ten years ago. I have been to almost all of the same place you were at. Everything you said was correct. Both Albanians and Serbians are nice people, except to each other. The war was frozen by NATO and when the forces leave it will just start back up again. The food is fantastic (both Serbian and Albanian). A comment on all of the cars in Kosovo being really nice and new, they are all stolen. Talking to some Interpol people they mentioned how they don’t ever check to see if a car is stolen from someplace else in Europe, because literally 99% of them are. This is why they can afford Bentleys and Lamborghinis. They didn’t have to pay original price. That is also a testament how much organized crime is rampant in Kosovo, both Albanian and Serbian.
Thanks for the great video! Fantastic as always.
"Both Albanian and Serbian" except that NOW thanks to Albanians and NATO there are only 2% of Serbian (yes ethnic cleaning supported by US and EU when it suit them) ppl there, which mean this is 98% organized Albanian crime.
No 99% are not stolen 🤦🏻♂️
@Invader
Okay? Anything besides a “No you” to back that up?
there are only two three bentleys owned by wealthy working families in whole Kosovo ... lamborginis usually come during the summer when our swiss migrants come from swiss for summer holidays , even then most of those cars are rented from rent a cars .. not even 3 lamborginis are owned by local normal people.
@@simonnachreiner8380 Only a complete moron would think 99% of cars are stolen in Kosovo. You can’t even register a stolen vehicle there it’s nearly impossible these days.
Prayers for our Lord Miles, he's still stuck in Afghanistan.
Play stupid games win stupid prizes
@@Chips-Dubbono
@Private Piles he probably is, we don't know
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He is leading the afghan forces into Iran.
Hey sheriffs aren't American, they are English. It comes from "shire reeve"
The sheriff of Nottingham anyone? You know... of Robin Hood fame? That didnt exactly take place in Montana.
Seriously, has he never heard of Robin Hood? The Sheriff of Nottingham?
Isn't he English? He should know really
@Name Surname The Callum is a Russian spy theory gains credibility.
@@namesurname624 I see where you guys are coming from, but I can assure you that the vast majority of people who live where I do automatically think of America when they hear the word Sheriff (and we used to have the English here) so it makes sense that he'd think the same
The reason why the north of Kosovo looks more backward than the south is that there is no way for the Republic of Serbia to carry out construction work on reconstruction because the authorities in Pristina do not allow it, and the Albanians do not care to invest in parts where Serbs live. And those 900 million per year that you said go only to solidarity aid to the Serbs in Kosovo.
It looks more backwards cause its far less stable and there is no real legal authorities governing it. Its just a tool in the hands of Serbian government to destabilize Kosovo nothing more and the people there are used and treated as such
North Kosovo represents servias soul 😂
.Reason Pristina look so much better is that socialist Yugoslavia government invested heavy money in Pristina to please Albanian there ..i know because i lived then in central Serbia in town similar to size off Pristina and infrastructure in Pristina was 10 times better even GDP in my city was bigger
@@dzonikg Really? Does Pristina look better than Belgrade?
@@dzonikg SFRY disintegrated in 1991, that was 32 years ago. No matter how much she invested in Pristina and neglected Kragujevac, 32 years is a long period for it to still be felt. It is enough not to invest 5 years in a place, it is immediately felt and seen. The reality is that Pristina has built a lot since 1991, because it has the opportunity, while the north of Kosovo does not have that luxury. If Kosovo seceded in 2008, let's take that year as the last one where investments were made in the north of Kosovo, that's 15 years and that's a huge time period for infrastructure.
To my American mind, Transnistria feels like a Soviet themed Disney World that takes itself way too seriously... And I'm totally here for it.
They should honestly open it to public and invite people to come visit their Soviet past/present loads of money could be made that way
@@Samdui01 Don't they? I was there in 2015, cycled through. There was little tourism, but with strongly increasing numbers. The Soviet-style image is the only tourist reason to go there.
"And I'm totally here for it" is such a Reddit liberal thing to say.
@@SirWetBiscuit
Meh. If it fits it fits.
sounds more like american woke disney land
I love the fact "Europe" is basically one parking ticket away from another Balkan War.
One thing that can be learned from the video is that diversity hasn't made things better, more so, it seems to be what caused all these conflicts. So the whole Europe is now facing a guaranteed war in the future, a diversity war again. I don't love this fact though.
I mean, its been a while, we really should do another one again ngl
@@dimitrijearsenijevic5597 Please don't. I see your surname ... but I'm going to assume you are joking anyways.
@@RobespierreThePoof nah, the original Balkan war trilogy was never finished, we need to do so. The 90s don't count, it was just Yugoslavia
@@dimitrijearsenijevic5597 good luck with that bud
Для завершения коллекции ожидаем тебя в Южной Осетии и Абхазии ;)
И в нагорном Карабахе.......
@@user-ey7wn1qc1dНКР, да
Неожиданно много русских смотрят Калума
12:30 - you're NOT allowed to record any damage done towards Serbs, in this example towards Churches because that would portray them as people who are trying to demolish everything towards Christianity and as such they're seen as bad people, which they are. Speaking from experience. I've lost a few of my friends simply because they're Christian....and a Serb. Rest who survived mostly emigrated to Scandinavian countries.
@user-gg9uu9kx9w Don't worry, England is being Islamized by the day. London, Birmingham, Luton, High Wycombe and the rest will be converted to the Third World or Islam. Have it!
@@user-gg9uu9kx9wHope the same happens to your people 😊
lmao that church was built as an imperialist monument in the middle of a city full of Albanians as a symbol of state's full control over the "province". Too bad people will fall for your pathetic propaganda due to how he framed his video.
Callum, I suggest you visit Abkhazia and South Ossetia on your next trips abroad. It woud be cool to see you turn this into a sort of series where you travel round various semi-recognised republics.
Let him to travel to Kurdistan as well 😮
you mean russian recognised
@@thatindiandude4602Nagorno Karabakh
@@chevyjay399 that are also independent countries and recognized by like Serbia I think
I believe they are extremely difficult for a westerner to get in. You have to go via Russia because Georgia won't let you enter them from their side
Chicago, Florence, and now Albanian Kosovo... It's amazing how organized wealth and crime can improve standards of living outside the purview of the government!
Chicago, where is the wealth? Those "thugs" in Chicago think they're wealthy when they hold up $10,000 dollars while living in totally subsidized housing. They aren't nothing.
the government is organized wealth and crime
Kosovo is Serbia
@@dthxxivKosova je NATO
What's the story with Florence, one of my favourite places to visit?
ACTUAL journalism. Amazing stuff.
@Claudia Furlan if you’re going to drop some snark in the comments, at least make it of an intellectual standard that ever so slightly surpasses grade school level.
@@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL this video is full of incorrect information but typical British spreading fake information
That's not journalism...
that's vloging
A journalist wouldn’t be so biased
@@IrmaWorma to call this Anglo a journalist is to call Assange a terrorist
This loser promotes false narratives
Dude that Byzantine monastery was beautiful.. orthodox icons are next level compared to art of modernity
Its not Byzantine monastery its Serbian moneatery.
To the question of should it be maintained or left original, I can see the argument for both, but if it’s been in constant use since whenever it was made, idk why you wouldn’t keep maintaining it.
@@Eirik_Bloodaxe if you don't have money, you should put a protection layer on the walls (no need to clean it) and then you can paint whatever you want with proper reversible paints (no oil for example), they don't cost too much.
If you have money, you can decide whether or not clean it or fully restore it, but still you put a protection layer.
Simply painting over it without a concern for the original picture and paints it was written with is wrong
@@al1sa920 I bet they didnt have money even for the layer. So its either painting or left it to decay. And for me second option is worse.
@@Chikanuk I googled and found a store in St. Petersburg selling isolation varnish in unmarked bottles for 100$ per 1L.
So if you do some research, talk to other people doing restorations, I bet you could find a bucket of this stuff for 700-1000$.
I understand these people trying to make ends meet and I'm not trying to be ignorant, but if you respect your heritage, you should find some money. Serbs are religious people, they would collect enough money through some gofundme in a day
The term "sheriff" actually originates in England. "Historically, a sheriff was a legal official with responsibility for a shire, the term being a contraction of "shire reeve" (Old English scīrgerefa). The sheriff would manage a county on behalf of the king. Typical duties would include the collection of taxes."
I dont know whats so good about your videos but they simply are amazing. Hope this one will be too
I hope you enjoy :)
@@Britannica1
As long as we get more footage of your feet, Kolm, Ill be happy.
@@Britannica1Callum you got to go to China next this year that would be crazy
@jsh8734hH you've found two
HEY IK U
I love how Kosovo isn't even a recognized country and still has its illegal immigration woes.
I guess there are just some things you can't avoid, eh?
Not once NATO got involved, no, as they’re doing once AGAIN. Interventionist foreign warmongering for the profit & power of the 1%, at the struggling taxpayers’ expense is a great grift, innit?
Its internal migration
And centralisation due to economic prospects not some external immigration
Oh, you can avoid it; European leaders are just filthy traitors to their people.
I love how you have the Belgrade church in your profile you animal fooker
Kosovo is recognized by the majority of UN nations.
I alway forgot that Bill Clinton is a war criminal. Lol
All of the good presidents are
Bill Clinton is not a war criminal. He saved us Albanians from annihilation. I came here to Texas as a refugee from that war and still live here. If you think I am making this up, I will gladly meet you anywhere in a public space and share details. Serbs burned a close relative of mine and his wife. We know this because we found her burned remains years ago. We still haven't found his, but considering they were last seen together, we all know he met a similar if not worse fate. Without Clinton stepping in, all of us were going to meet the same fate.
One sides's freedom fighter is another side's war criminal.
And a rapist.
What did he do that was a war crime?
I think we all know why you cannot film Serbian historical churchs! Some Albanians do not want to accept that Serbians have also historically been living for hundreds of years in this region alongside Albanians!
>Callum going to towns over to check if all of Eastern Europe doesn't have trash on steets
LARPing as a Japanese tourist😂
For some reason I immediately thought of belgium and luxembourg
based
kek
based
Belgium is just Kosovo on Peaceful mode.
With the declining birth-rate in Europe, Kosovo is a look at whats to come...
"Why should we give back what is ours" - how long 'till this will be uttered in Sweden, Germany, UK...etc.?
Have fun in Europastan.
Except in this case, the Serbian are the New Europeans, since the Slavs migrated to the Balkans long after the Albanians.
Many Kosvar Citizens don’t purely think about ethnicity, serbian is even an official language along with albanian, so the statement „its ours“ could be seen from the perspective of the state like serbs include the predominantly albanian territories of presheva valley bujanov etc.
@@levongevorgyan6789 typical albanian delusion
@levongevorgyan6😂😂😂😂789
The KLA was regarded by the US state department as a terrorist group until 1998 when it was de-listed...
false
Unironically Callum's standalone content is much more interesting than the entirety of Lotus Eaters. Loved this. Watched from start to finish.
I don’t think most of the lotus eaters put themselves in a situation where they’re going to get black bagged by customs.
Lotus Eaters is good. They recently had a great episode on surrogacy and the harms of the extreme Liberal attitude.
But, uh, I agree. Watching a guy go to a country that technically doesn't exist is both entertaining & informative. Also makes me grateful to live where I do.
Hopefully, he'll like your comment.
@@Pan_ZThese kinds of places are what I think of when the customary "If [insert anyone] gets elected, I'm leaving! Because literally anywhere else would be better," is uttered around election time.
It would be more interesting if Harry didn't self insert his mass immigration broken record in every topic and sargon would gargle less kosher seamen.
Sheriff is a local monopoly which controls pretty much all commerce in Transnistria
Ironic considering Sherif is a corruption of the old English word.
“Shire reave” aka the person in charge of governing each shire for the king.
Why did Americans use SHERIFF as a term for A Rural “policeman”
@@DaraGaming42 Our Founding Fathers were Englishmen, and thus drew heavily from English Law. My guess is the term sheriff had already morphed into being a sort of law enforcement officer.
I've learned more about Kosovo and Transnistria from Calum in this video than I have from 30 years of main stream media coverage.
Let me tell you, you didn’t learn shit about Kosovo. Go and read some real history instead of listening to these charlatans.
Transnistria actually seemed so cozy despite being so poor. You can really see the general sense of self respect the people there have.
that's literally only because you haven't looked into it at all... there's a ton of mainstream and alternative media covering all sides of the Kosovo and Transnistria history, if you care to look for it. Just because you found one person you like, or your favourite person has an opinion on it, doesn't mean it's automatically the ultimate truth.
@@ANPC-pi9vuMan, my perception of poverty is so warped because of my childhood.
transistria, abkhazia, south ossetia, crimea, lugansk, donetsk, all vote for their own independence and the west wont recognize them... mosovo votes for their independence and the entire west recognizes them even when the rest of the world does not.. same exact situations between them all so ask yourselves why. This is fine to me, politic moves based on what helps your country/allies and what hurts your rivals.. but dont brainwash the world into thinking its about "democracy" and "freedom".... The US literally threw a coup to overthrow the democratically elected president of ukraine in 2014 and then they said they are defending democracy.... nato should stop playing god with other countries and let them all figure it out on their own like it has been for thousands of years.
Bender actually has an interesting place in Swedish history.
Back in 1709 we were at war with Russia. After being defeated at Poltava (in modern day Ukraine) The Swedish King Karl XII decided to seek protection from the Russians and headed south into The Ottoman Empire.
The Sultan granted him to stay in Bender, and so The King and around a thousand of his men remained there until 1713 when The Sultan's patience finally had run out.
A small army of around ten thousand men where sent to evict the Swedish freeloaders. Which they did after artillery barrage and eventually setting fire to the buildings.
Some 200 Turks and 30 Swedes were lost in the fighting, The King and his entourage was arrested/captured but were released shortly after and told to head back home.
It would be interesting to see Callum rate nations based on their sausage rolls.
He needs to find a nation that sells them first, you cannot call a hotdog a sausage roll. :P
@@TheArchivistArchive You can call it whatever you want if you own the company, just don't break copyright law. "This is a vienna sausage!" My dude, that's literally bologna turned into miniature hotdogs and then put in a can.
The “they like the star” comment from Callum’s Romania friend was priceless.
Every UN country is a communist country; regardless of what they say.
Hello! thank you for the release, and especially for seeing my restaurant! I hope to see you again!))
To best explain Balkan cuisine, you take the basic concepts of Turkish and Arab food, you add fresh mediterranean ingredients and you use Austro-hungarian cooking techniques and you get one of the best cuisines on the planet!
Sounds tasty.
the fact that they couldnt find a single historical symbol or color scheme to put on the flag that everyone would agree on and feel represented by, and they just slapped the map of the region plus a couple stars on top is shows you its not a real country
Kosovo is literally one of the most mono ethic countries in the world. And it’s not Serbian.
Honestly Serbia is just mad they falsed at their 47th attempted at genocide.
That reminds me of country names like "Equatorial Guinea". If you look at the political map you can relatively easy find it because it's small, insignificant and located on the equator
kosovo is just a region
It's either Serbian or Albanian
And nobody wants it to exist except USA
@@AL-lh2ht Totally not biased at all.
@@AL-lh2ht Look at this Albanian glaoting on how they performed ethnic cleansing successfully unlike those damned Serbs.
That statue and _HUGE_ banner for Bill Clinton....
Wow. I didn’t know that _existed_ somewhere on this planet.... and I don't know how I feel about it.
To celebrate all 60 000 Serbs etnic cleansed from that town in 1999 including my grandparent who live their whole their life
Callum once again doing more journalism than actual journalists.
I think it's funny that you think Sheriff grocery stores are an oddity when you come from a country where Iceland is the same thing.
So true.
Any word on lord miles calum?
@@Britannica1 what’s your next trip plan for you should go to China and Taiwan before war breaks out there
@@Goodamnl1294 he should go to the fakest country of all, Belgium.
@@maninthemask6275 He’s still in Afghanistan 🇦🇫 in a Taliban prison
Camp Bondsteel has a strategic purpose, and it definitely isn’t about regional security !
Interesting. I don't know anything about Camp Bondsteel. Could you elaborate on your statement?
50:27 "iz good wiz girl!"
Callum: *wistfully imagines himself as a young soviet man taking his Russian girlfriend for a drive while listening to propaganda music*
When you said that you ran into a Romanian tourist while in Transnistria, I was expecting it to turn out to be Vee.
Mann, the graffiti, the trash everywhere, the dismal landscape...
I had certain expectations for Afghanistan, and I appreciated Russia, but the Serbian portions of Kosovo feel like a downgrade.
Thanks for informing us, Callum! I appreciated this video, and I eagerly await your next ventures?
Chile, perhaps, to visit the legacy of Pinochet? Possibly Cuba or Venezuela?
Yes, Callum and TLE should seriously check out, and have ss a guest, if at all possible, the Honduran-born anti-socialism/Marxism activist Gloria Cross-Alvarez. She’s incredibly brave, smart, and so beautiful, too.
Well whole situation made them behave and "take care" on their environment like that.
Imagine living under occupation
And constant danger
Cleaning wouldn't be on your mind
Not to insinuate anyone, but it reminded me of Luhansk and Donetsk difference where in Luhansk people were stripping ukrainian symbols, getting rid of ukrainian language, being patriotic and all that. And in Donetsk people were much more calm about all situation and environment was cared for much better.
Maybe that's just a coincidence and in Donetsk people just had more money they could spend on infrastructure. Albanians in Kosovo clearly have more money than serbs too
@@al1sa920Albanians in Kosovo don't have to live with the constant threat of violence and isolation like Serbs there do
Im from Subotica much love to you brother♥️🇷🇸
Learning just from your video its so bizarre that Kosovo which is recognized by almost half of the world and often depicted on political maps as independent state feels less as its own country than Transnistria, a client-state of Russia. We live in very strange times, huh?
Let's take a moment to wish Lord Miles a very safe expedient release from Afghan customs.
We need a Lord Miles watch.
well I guess that's why he wasnt posting on ifunny anymore lmao. He had visited Russia I think and then went to Ukraine. After that he went to snake island, and finally said he was heading to Afghanistan. He only posted a couple times before I stopped seeing him
Lesgooo Transnistria swag!
I work with a few Serbs, this gives me a lot more insight into things, thank lad, you're a goldmine.
Your experience in Kosovo is kinda like Northern Ireland. Where some parts of our country are very Irish and Catholic whilst others are very British and Protestant. Like we have those kind of things very polarised places. Like I can't word it but I feel the kind of things they would feel and all.
Same is true around the world in every tiny crevasse.
I love these videos! There's so many places in our own planet that most people don't even know about. It's fascinating to see these places and learn about their history.
Great video!
For fun, you could try out Northern Cyprus or Somaliland! They are both in a similar category.
I mean, I wouldn't go to those places, though you may enjoy 'journalizing' them.
There is no point visiting ~60% of Africa including Somaliland
British consular support is non-existent, regardless which country you’re in. They won’t get involved in any legal affaire.
meanwhile they're claiming they are helping Lord Miles
@@WingMaster562 Do we even know if he's still alive?
@@madi8000 Im not in the loop of his discord, patreon,youtube and telegram channels.
@@WingMaster562 I see. We can only hope he's alright.
Love your work, Callum. Keep it up!
Not only are you my absolute favourite presenter on the lotuseaters but i also discovered your Channel a few Weeks Back and quite frankly cant get enough of you! Keep Up the great Work and keep traveling. Once i got enough Money i am Sure to Support you!
Callum used to just be some kid that Sargon hired as his secretary and only worked behind the scenes. Crazy how far he’s come eh?
You're missing a few things about Transnistria. 30% Russian was a few years ago. Now the number has bumped up a bit because although a ton of Russians fled the area and decided to learn Romanian and live peacefully inside Moldova, more ethnic Romanians fled than they did since the war broke out.
There's also a sentiment in Romania that if Basarabia would return, it would have to be conditioned with giving up Transnistria. It's a border that hardly makes any sense, was never really historically a part of Greater Romania, and without it would put the Moldovan border neatly along the Dniestr river. Remember, this was a territory attached artificially by the USSR when the Moldovan SSR was created, to ensure that if the SSR ever leaves the union, it would remain unstable. Just cut it out from the territory and form closer bonds with Romania. We have already provided generous amounts of resources and want this bond, too! Moldovans will always have a special relationship with Romania, even if annexation of the territory isn't in the cards.
P.S. Sheriff supermarket, as well as Sheriff Tiraspol (football club), Sheriff petrol, several bakeries, Sheriff vodka, and Sheriff advertising are all part of the "Sheriff" conglomerate, essentially a mafia in Transnistria owned by a former KGB officer and a political backroom dealer. All of the funny money from Russia that gets funneled into Transnistria goes through them. Much like how Kosovo is financed by mafia bosses, so is Transnistria :D In a way you can think of this as Russia's version of Kosovo.
There's a reason why the spaces you are showing in broad daylight, in the afternoon, are so depopulated compared to cities like Chișinău and Bălți. Or even compared to Kosovo. This is just a 4000-square-kilometer money laundering op with a mostly bureaucrat population, administering a state where bureaucrats are paying other bureaucrats to finance a bureaucracy that's entirely just pretending to rule over a large population (at one point it had one), centered around and underwritten by Sheriff.
I'd love to talk with you more about it, if you'd wish. There's a lot of funny and sometimes also tragic shenanigans that go on in this part of the world.
P.P.S. Your presentation of Transnistria was so, so much better than B&B's. That guy was all just "Oh look, a Soviet doorknob! A soviet rock next to a soviet tree! Wow, look, a soviet pantihose!" I saw you make an allusion to that with the pillars and I nearly laughed my head off. Keep it going, man. There's so much to learn about this part of the world that few people really talk about. Please feel free to contact me if you ever need a liaison in Romania that can show you around. My wife and I have a nice villa we can host you in, too, as long as you don't mind our baby getting cranky once in awhile.
Good drugs man!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Especially "Russians moving to became mighty and rich Romanians"😅👏👍
That is a pretty strong acid you sit at, almighty romanian gypsy😁
Considering the instabilities caused by border disputes having a recognized geographic border on a mountain or a river makes a lot more sense than fighting over a country with an economy the size of a Tesco Extra.
Well, I thought about separation, border on the river and move on. But is not that simple, there are still Romanian villages on the "left bank", like Cocieri, Molovata, Pohrebea, Dorotcaia, and so on. Also Tighina/Bender, it is on the "right bank", and to some extent is being claimed by the separatists. Also, there are significant Romanian population all over the region. That's why constitutional government doesn't put border checkpoints along the river, because it would look like a limitation of travel for our citizens, the illegal checkpoints are only controlled by the separatists. Also there is military depo, and illegal foreign military presence, which are a huge destabilizing factor.
So I would prefer total demilitarization of the zone, and some special status like it was with Gagauzia.
But there is also hard way, after constitutional government of Moldova will secure energy supply avoiding separatist controlled area, it could impose restrictions on import and export for companies and other entities in the separatist region, that it will collapse in matter of days. But it still is a cost for government, hard to cover without foreign aid.
I know people are disparaging of transnistria, but there are more famous countries with smaller / similar populations....Iceland for one..and no one questions iceland's sovereignty.😮
Dude, always a great and informative trip. Thank you for sharing.
Make me proud to see a brave English man travel and show the real world keep it up good sir
"Premiers in 23 hours"
I'll come back and check it out in a week or two if I remember you posted it.
It's live
The bill clinton statue makes it easy to know which side to support
As a Russian, I can confirm we have some habit to slap different ideologies in one place. At some point it became a meme: some guy slaps some democratic+imperialist+soviet symbols in one flag and calls it "my ideology"
Actual responses:
-"Wth is even is that and how is it supposed to work?"
-"Based"
-"Beyond based"
>his thoughts
>what the fuck are they
they dont have those billboards of communist USSR and Imperial Russia next to each other because they believe in the ideologies... they are just proud of their history... you are acting like they still conform to those beliefs and trying to pick a hole in it... Its no different than Americans being proud of George Washington, who was a slave owner.... and also being proud of Barak Obama, a black president... it doesnt mean Americans believe in both slavery and black presidents... they are proud of history and accomplishments... its no different. Whether hate communism or the Tsarist monarchy, you cant deny that they were not big historical impacts, and that is what Transnistria is proud of.
I can confirm that you're pretty dumb to attribute this nonsense to Russians
Another nice travel document about some weird places.
Actualy Kosovo look like its problem on slow burner which after some time can explode. Transmistria look like a place where nothing realy happend and if you left them alone you never hear about them.
Kosovo is already about to go off. The UN just sent more 700 troops because of the licence plate dispute. As for Transdniestria, word has it that in this recent summit in Moldova, the president gave the OK to Zelenskyy to use Ukrainian troops to try to retake the enclave.
@@purplehaze8557 it wouldn’t surprise me if Ukraine got the go ahead to invade “Moldova “… to free it from the evil Russians.
@@purplehaze8557 Which is kinda shitty. Cause even Moldova said and confirmed there is no Shelling coming from the region at one point. And Transmistria has been doing a lot to help Ukranian Refugees in the area. Even if they are Pro Russian backed, as well as have Russian Troops stationed there.
The difference is serbia actively sends paid criminals and even their own officers to threaten kosovar serbs and to destabilize the republic.
As for transnistria there hasn’t been much until recently where moldova accused russia in attempting a coup aided by transnistrians
Thanks, great content and living history lesson.
I wonder if the bill clinton statue stays up after recent events 😂
I don't think Albanians will stop worshipping him either way
it absolutely baffles me how western historians always downplay and/or ignore the crimes of the Ottoman Empire.
They aren’t a white Germanic/Slavic race - that’s why.
Love this in depth boots on the ground reporting. It is fascinating how you can pick any two bordering countries, anywhere in the world and a little digging would uncover strange and relatively undocumented socio-cultural systems based on their history.
It is always cool to watch your travels these are so much fun to watch and see places I do not have the guts to travel to myself.
guts? Everywhere in the world is the same. China, Vietnam, Laos, Amsterdam, England, Germany, USA, Columbia South America.... ALL THE SAME. The only differences are very minor.
Despicable how the Serbs of Kosovo were shafted by us(the entire West) right from the get go and now also appear to be getting shafted by the establishment in Belgrade too 😠 the similarities of the situation they and the Loyalist people in Northern Ireland find themselves in are uncanny.
the balkans really are a different world from western europe
Heard about Lord Miles through Rimmy Downunder, then found you through a video Lord Miles made, and so far I've been thoroughly enjoying every video you make
Great documentary my man. Keep it up. But to project an air of, "don't kill me I'm british', may I recommend a bowler and umbrella next time? Worked a treat in India so should still be fine now 😀
'We will just build more war memorial wall now instead of having to do it next time'
Is the most eastern European thing I have ever fucking seen. Jesus 😂
As a serbian I can only say thank you for saying pure truth and just hope that you will have so much success in your youtube career! Cheers my guy❤
I don't know if you had a chance to learn about the pre-Soviet history of Bender, but a pretty interesting moment in its past came during the early 18th century, when the King of Sweden, Charles XII (the one from the Sabaton album) was defeated at Poltava and fled with a few men into the Ottoman Empire. He was welcomed by the sultan and set up shop near Bender, but after five years of sitting about he had become viewed by the Sublime Porte as a pest and so the decision was made to evict the king. The resulting battle, commonly known as "the kalabalik" was a farcical affair, with Charles ultimately being captured after tripping on his own spurs. He was thereafter deported back to Sweden.
Bender's crest is a lion with Karl's face by the way))
Does anyone know what the song at 0:42 is?
Great work as always Callum. Keep up the good work!
37:50 It is a city honor board. Like "employee of the month" thing but for a city. Common soviet practice in a culture where your contribution to society can't be measured by money.
They're the ones who won the latest city-wide contest "Acceptance"
@@mirurururuvein Not really. More like "Recognition". Translating is an art 😊
I remember when I visited the first thing I noticed was the stark contrast between Chisinau & Tiraspol. Seriously, Tiraspol felt modern, organised, slightly intimidating but my Russian is quite good so that helped. I really wish I had seen more of Transnistria like you did and am now very tempted to go back. Chisinau, however gave me a wonderful souvenir - the worst food poisening I've ever had and I had to delay leaving because of it!
Thanks for another great video!
There is actually a close to universal definition of what a country is, montevideo convention: land, people, and authority. The recognition by another state would only be declarative, not substantive
Great stuff, Colm.
dont care where you go, i know the videos will be awesome fun and interesting...do more of these please!
2:55
“Look guys we have the power of anime and nationalism on our side we can’t lose”
Classic line
Funny how Transnistria "exists" a lot less than Kosovo, yet it's actually a decent and peaceful place that doesn't need active military troops to keep it together. And as a romanian, that little fact you shared at the end made me completely rethink how I feel about them as a whole... If the "peace keepers" are just locals, they probably just want to exist and live their life, they're not planning to invade anyone soon
In the 90s, the Yugoslav army went in after the initial attempts by the ethnic Albanians to drive out ethnic Serbs. This was the spark that started the war. Just this week there's similar troubles as the ethnic Albanians are illegally installing Albanian officials in ethnic Serb areas.
Serbian bots hard at work. Stop spreading lies. You hope on people being lazy to google to understand what really happen. Lies and deception seems to be written in your russian DNA.
Hilarious lies 😂
Under convicted serb warcriminal Milosevic countless rights were taken away from albanians making them second class citizen in their own homes.
This oppression went on for years causing many peaceful student protests for more rights all of them were brutally met with violence from the servian police (kosovos current prime minister was one of the peaceful protesters and was sentenced for multiple years into servian jail for peacefully protesting) after these students were constantly met with violence and even k*lled.
Many saw that liberation could only be achieved through armed measures like in slovenia croatia bosnia etc
And to this day the ultranationalists rule servia, vucic used to be milosevics propaganda minister and actively stirrs up trouble in Kosovo by sending in police officers and nationalist ultras to incite violence and chaos in the republic.
Thank You again for the very informative trip, also glad you enjoyed Hungary even if just briefly :P It is a lovely place, tho definitely could do with less corruption, but I guess that is a running theme in East Europe. Stay safe on your future travels!
Ex Yugoslavia: This is how the rest of Europe will be in a few decades.
Love these travelogues/documentaries you bring us Callum. Well done young man!
This is the second video of yours that I've watched the entirety of with great interest. I love the "being there with you" feeling I get. I could easily piss away an entire day binging your trips, and I'd come out better for it in the end. Thanks for your efforts.
Anytime I get the notification of another one of your vids, Callum, I know it's going to be the highlight of that day. I had no idea Transnistria existed.
I had no idea either until a few years ago.
Somehow you are doing a way better job than the (corporate) media. Very interesting and informative. Just like journalism used to be: showing us the world just as it is and leave narratives and framing out.
great video, this is exactly what i love about the channel, not to political, just some historical background, some good old estethic nostalgia and some tourism
Thanks for another amazing video. You've become one of my favourite people on youtube for this. Keep up the excelent work!
Speaking of country not recognized.. I invite you to come visit Taiwan! We have very nice people and lots of fruits here. :)
🇹🇼 🤝🏻🇽🇰
Mate, these short docos in random places are the fucking best. Good work!
your channel alone made me curious about the history of eastern Europe, thank you.
Just a word of advice, whenever you're in an Orthodox country, and you have the opportunity to go into an abandoned church, please refrain from going into the Altar, otherwise, great vid :)
Great job, Callum! Awesome history and modern politics lesson. Seems like the Albanians would invade the Serbian side of these two obviously distinct countries as soon as any peacekeeping forces left the area.
Transistria seems like a slightly safer place, not that I’d fancy a holiday there!
You got some brass balls visiting both places like that! Well done!
The contrary serbia has literally made promises of invasion if there is an absence of peacekeeping units. The serbs in the north of Kosovo are allowed to rule themselves no ones stopping them but they have to respect and acknowledge the kosovar institutions.
@@soul8938 They may chat a load of shit, yet they are woefully outgunned and extremely poor compared to the Albanian side.
They say these things because they know that peacekeeping forces are extremely unlikely to leave the area. It makes them feel tough.
Callum you are such a legend. These videos are very informative yet entertaining.
"legend" is stretching it a bit
Kosovo is Serbian IMHO. We are the baddies again UK.
Its funny that to refer to a specially dangerous and shady peron in spain we say is albanokosovar lol
Great trips, really enjoyed the knowledge shared on the areas, I went to Montenegro in March, it’s was a lovely place which felt very normal world, I actually didn’t want to go back home, nice people also
I love that North Korean pop music has become the norm for this channel
11:14 lmao the bill clinton statue is radioactive (note all the pixel specks from the camera)
usually when radiation hits a camera it produces "speckles" on the screen from the radioactive atoms hitting photons
Random fact
Most of Northern Kosovo where Serbians still live was not a historical part of Kosovo region, communists transferred administration of Leposavic and Leska from Central Serbia (Raska Oblast) to Autonomous Kosovo-Metohija Oblast in 1959 without any rational explanation or consent of Serbians who lived there.
Transnistria seems pretty chill compared to Kosovo.
I think the main reason for that is that Transinstria was a revolt against the Romanian Nationalist goverment in Moldova...It was less of an ethnic conflict more of a war for rights evident by the Gagaguz people also rising up against the Moldovan goverment and only 'returning' after being granted autonomy.
@@command_unit7792"Romanian Nationalism" ruskies stole the region from Romania imported several ethnic groups into the region to colonize and now they're playing victim. You're actually worse than NATO in more ways than one.