What Russians [ACTUALLY] think about the Ukraine war.
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- The Russia vs. Ukraine war has been going on for nearly 2 years now. This year, new Russian opinion polls asked what Russians think about the war in Ukraine. And while it showed that more Russians want an end to the war, the answer is not that simple.
In this video, we take a look other factors that influence whether Russians support the Ukraine war. We talk about Russia’s social problems, violence in Russia, Russia war protests, all of which influence how Russians react to the ongoing war. To do this, we look not just at the available data, but also at independent Russian documentary footage to show the overall mood in Russian society today - and especially about the war in Ukraine.
Film excerpts used:
«Ни за что пацаны гибнут». Бурятия о потерях на войне. К чему приведет мобилизация? (ENG sub) - • «Ни за что пацаны гибн...
«Путин помиловал убийц наших детей». Тру-крайм из России наших дней - • «Путин помиловал убийц...
Валентина Мельникова: «Требовать от этих людей невозможно ничего» // «Скажи Гордеевой» - • Валентина Мельникова: ...
"Пентагон" cz. I - • "Пентагон". Первая сер...
"Пентагон" cz. II - • "Пентагон". Вторая сер...
"Пентагон" cz. III - • "Пентагон". Третья сер...
"Пентагон" cz. IV - • "Пентагон". Четвертая ...
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What a depressing society
@Gweilo44 A useless nation
No Need To Visit
@@gabbyt98 USA has 400 genders just imagine 😂😂 teaching that to kids
Indeed. It is awful that a society can fall soo deep. Seems utterly hopeless.
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg Indeed. Absolutely not, I'm just as eager to visit Russia as I am to visit north-Korea!
Well - with which new 'BFF-status' has made n-K pretty much a client state of Russia. Urgh...
Imagine having your only son that you've seen grow near you every day, cared for, fed, laughed with, sent to this slaughter by people who don't give to shits about you or your son, and then wish you bombed innocents to avoid his death, instead of being blindly angry with the shit and corruption in your own country... Wow...
Yes, Americans see it all around,because Iraq and Afghanistan veterans commit suicide daily. Number one cause of death for veterans is suicide. Ever wondered WHY?
@@ladybug2x2y22z 🐑
@@ladybug2x2y22zwhen did you get released from the colony?
And who invaded Afghanistan first?..... totally destabilizing the country and bringing the Taliban to power?
@@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg and who passed 20 years trying to get talibans out and failing, after helping them for 10 years to defeat Russia?
Russia is morally in the middle ages.
Stone Age , not even middle age
Russia appeared on the map after the middle ages.
Not that far advanced!
I think they reached another realm of reality in terms of cruelty. Press only covers little compared to what really happens. I did see a couple of images of the baby's in Israel and that is something I will never forget, but I am convinced now that the worst of all still comes from Russia. It is really really bad.
No, what happens is that you don't know what Americans are really like, but I am their neighbor, I live in Mexico, on the border with the United States, I speak English, I have family there, I have a visa, I have friends there, I watch their news , I have visited for tourism. The United States IS NO LONGER what it was in the 80's and 90's, today it is a sad decadent country TOTALLY WITHOUT MORALITY, and I say this even knowing that my family lives in it, THE UNITED STATES is a decrepit country WITHOUT MORALITY, it only has money and weapons , but he has no values, family, morals, religion, and he no longer even has patriotism because his army currently has a DEFICIT in hiring soldiers.
"We should've bombed them in 2014". Blaming a country, which was minding its own business, for defending itself... 🤦🏽♀
Imagine losing family members in a pointless war which, even if won, won't actually improve your situation, and yet still not making you angry enough to revolt.
Amazingly twisted logic...
They are patriotic or is that only a concept for Americans? Crimea it self could provide millions of dollars for the Russian economy and in turn improve the lives of millions of Russians. That doesn't justify the war but saying it has no meaning is just as stupid. Invading neighboring countries to enrich your own was the norm for thousands of years. Think about what your country took from others in the past and how you are enjoying it's benefits today.
That's what cowards do. They always blame the wrong person. Face down licking Putin's boots. Knowing the truth but too cowardly to admit it (even to themselves). All of Russia needs to be liberated allowing them to regain honor integrity and self-respect.
@@dhanu_4539Russky mir propagandist
America fought what was ultimately a pointless war in Afghanistan, and a war in Iraq that left America in a worse position than before it started from a geopolitical point of view. It certainly didn't trigger a revolt here. Successful revolts are rare, and are usually in connection with an improving society not one in decline like Russia.
NATO started the war.
The war will not end while the people of Moscow and St. Petersburg do not feel a serious impact from waging war.
Putin’s political goals are incompatible with the economic ones. Eventually, something will have to give.
Ditto 👍
More sanctions.
The sanctions leak like a seive.
@@laars0001 Russia is under sanctions for the last ~500 years. Aren't you tired?
So, the mother of the murdered young woman thinks she can forgive the murderer if he pays his debt to society by murdering innocent Ukrainians?
What these films tell me is that when I thought Russia was on the cusp of becoming a "normal" western country after the end of the cold war I was a complete idiot.
Вы мыслите в верном направлении. Так и есть.
OP - you're not the only one. Sorry. If it's any consolation, they maintain an extensive "Russki mir" operation (usually through books and movies) to make it look like a faraway beautiful exotic (OK definitely northern) place filled with interesting people. The youtube channel StarMediaEN has a lot of that kind of material.
Theyre just human stuck on the wrong side. Russians are not evil. Theyre just helpless and think they cannot change anything. So if the war going to continue, its better hoping they win than they lose. Although winning involve killing an innocent Ukrainian, its better than their son dying.
Not saying its right or wrong. Just that we should try to see their perspective too.
Russia is a good example of what fascism looks like in the 21st century.
How's the weather in the land of stupid? 😮
@@LambofSufferingtell us you, as the citizen of that land.
Where did you study history?
ты хотел сказать украина
Вы правы. Привет из России.
They sound dead inside.
Zombies.
Orcs
They are a bunch of automatons, until their country is roundly defeated and humiliated their barbaric behaviour will continue. As a people they have a slave mentality.
Read Gogol
Dead souls online
Those groups celebrating the deaths of their loved ones as hero’s is simply mind boggling.
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Amazing documentary. Really informative
There's a vid out there that shows some commander giving a rah rah speech to his troops. We will all die but we will be remembered as heroes for centuries and have monuments made to us. Look at the faces of the guys he is yapping at.
Awaiting on the Check.
@@PeterNebelung Their fate was to travel through the digestive tract of a Stray Dog
With this mindset then the war will go on and on and proliferate, evil is winning. its beyond words to describe the utter insanity on display in this film. like a whole nation of billions has gone collectively mad. We live on a planet that we must unite to save and yet these people see only nationalism, their own circumstances and trust in an evil man who would tear down the world for his fantasy. We have seen this before in the 1930s. Its beyond tragic.
Putin plays on emotion , in fact he is as crazy as the little german moustachu was.
Fast forward to the 2nd decade of the XXI century, "The Gulag archipelago" is still everywhere.
Fortunately, it's not a nation of "billions." They are only about 130 million now, and dropping in population precipitously as Putler is driving the sane people out of the country, and killing off the 'loyal' men who should be home begetting the next generation.
The kremlin gobljn cannot outlive the world
*Millions. That is true - Everyone should have access to education and an open discourse without state censorship to try and solve issues in a peaceful manner without the need for authoritarianism or totalitarianism.
And they dare talk about Western decay. OMG.
western Decay is Palestine. Ukraine supports that genocide FYI.
Тут сто процентная чушь
@@SavanecAIЧушь, что расеяне не поддерживают войну?
The West has decayed in other ways. Each country with it's problems...
No one said Russians were very bright.
Conditioned for slavery, so sad, so hopeless.
Nope conditioned for greatness, war, and conquest.
@@RussianOccupier190 The word "slave" literally comes from the word "slav".
@@EvilMAiq but Slavs are not slaves anymore that was centuries ago long before Russia was even a state and Slavs are not just Russians but Ukrainians, Belarusians and many other peoples.
If you just swallow every insult and do nothing, then nothing will ever change! Exactly what is wrong with Russia in one paragraph: "The building they live in is literally falling apart. There is no plumbing or heating, but the residents are scared to ask the administrator to improve their living conditions. They're also scared of appealing to local authorities convinced that would only make their situation worse. The Russians can adapt themselves to anything and are unwilling to fight for their rights." In the west we'd be screaming and marching and demanding changes. Complaining to everybody. Yelling and fighting. Things change because of a refusal to just accept things as they are.
They don't deserve word rusians being written with capital R.
That wouldn't happen in the west. An apartment block would be condemned by building inspectors if it was in that bad of shape, people wouldn't have to march and demand changes.
Im a American baby boomer. Myself and people my age never ever gave one thought about russia. Now thanks to you tube i can see the many different ways they live. One thing I noticed was the infrastructure' or the lack of it. Roads are horrible. It looks like they build building first and no sewers. Or paved roads.😮 And so many apartment building. Wow .
@@allenhill1223 They've always been like that. Rural Russia was always like a poor cousin of Appalachia. Roads are not paved because it costs too much so they rely on rail. That is where Putin is raising his troops.
In Ukraine, the people are passive. Just imagine that burying sons before victory is encouraged, but speaking out against it is prohibited. Now the state is hunting men. And they are angry that they lost the land that Khrushchev gave to them together with the Russian people, without asking the people’s opinion, they were tolerated until Ukraine was different from Russia, but in 2014 he said his opinion, because Ukrainian officials are going to de-port them or punish. They set an excellent example: see the azov children’s camp, the ban on the Russian language in 2017, avenue named of Bad dera and Schuchevich in Kiew. Western Ukrainians, whose grandfathers were on the side of Germany and organized Lviv 1941 or Volyn 1944) are sick with revanchism, and consider the eastern grandfathers who were on the side of the USSR against Germany to be bad, and they demolish monuments to Soviet soldier while the eastern ones remain silent, thereby betraying their ancestors. And this is all in a half democracy, and not when you go to prison for a month for a blank piece of paper, you will be fired from your job, and you and your children will go hungry. And the products cost the same as in Lidl, and the salaries are 300$ -- 200$ per food for 1 person for month.
I learned a lot from this video and support Ukraine even more now. Thank you for this enlightening presentation.
Aloha and Mahalo
Slava Ukraine
You can support whatever you want, but why write Nazi slogans here?
Mahalo!
Avdiivka - гэта перамога!
@@EUGEN093
普特勒是邪恶的
榮耀 烏克蘭
as a Ukrainian thank you
Its like a nation of cannibals, looking out only for themselves with no actual social connections.
You're a tool
Eye opening. Seems many Russians have "learned helplessness" ie the sense that nothing will change so why try. That and a good deal of fear. Perversely, its thus very inability to stand up for their rights that allows the state to do what it wants.
Allow people to live . Get NATO out.
Throughout history, Russians had a very special relationship with people who wield power. Tzars and emperors were referred to as “The Lord’s Anointed”, the one who reigns by the divine right, and their power was believed to be sacred. That's why these days the Russian “government” is thought to be a separate, almost miraculous entity, something entirely different from the people. As a result of this unhealthy relationship with the government, the regular Russian person is born with a rare genetic malfunction: an inborn submission to any authority.
@@spudwesthNATO is a great defense alliance. ❤️🇺🇦❤️
Yes, that's the mindset of most people
@@spudwesth why so Russia can continue to conquer the Ukraine?
Now this is an important documentary!
at 23minutes - brainwashed and misguided anger. They started the war and now they weep?
A great eyeopener. I've seen some clips that showcases the typical 'Russian psycho' before - but I believe it really is worth repeating, especially since 'it' is simply soooo incredibly far and beyond from the typical 'Western psyche'. So far and beyond that's it's really hard to fathom, hard to comprehend.
The 'defeatism' and the cognitive dissonance that is required of anyone to be able to go on and live, or perhaps rather survive is really....well frankly - astonishing, frightening and paralyzing. Just a short snippet:
'"We're all afraid. Everyone. All the time!"
----5 seconds later:
"We're not afraid - we're not afraid of anything or anyone!"....
It's sad to see how morally bankrupt, and generally destroyed the human psyche can become...
Easy to descend into the depths of misery or hell.
Yes. I've never been able to understand how Russian soldiers, treated like absolute garbage at the front line, still obey orders and go, fight and die! It's been utterly incomprehensible to me, but after watching this, I realise that the biggest mistake one can make analysing Russia is starting with the assumption that they have a normal psyche. They don't. They have the psyche of a long brutalised peoples. They are in a state of collective psychosis and trauma.
И твоя психика явно настолько под пропагандой лжи, что уже не может отделить факты от фейков, что поделать?
@@amorosogombe9650They're slaves, always has been. They'll do whatever those in power tell them to, because they'vd been trained to do so since birth.
In her book ‘In Search of the Free Individual - The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul’, Belarusian Nobel Prize-winner Svetlana Alexievich wrote “the Russian soul is an enigma. We lived together in a country where we were taught to die beginning in childhood. We learned death and dying. We weren’t taught that humans are born for happiness, or love. It was drilled into us that humans exist in order to give of themselves, in order to burn, to sacrifice. We were taught to love people with weapons.”
Jesus. This documentary is the best documentary in 2 years. Kudos.
This video tells me that Russians fight for one reason only. It’s called money.
Russia's land grab is all about possessing and controlling Ukraine's fossil fuel resources. Once Ukraine will be able to access and fully develop its own natural resources that would start to threaten Russia economically. So Russia has very strong economic reasons to invade Crimea and take the Donbas region - to control the natural gas and shale oil in those regions.
The Russian government’s own forecasts expected its oil and gas production to be undermined both by depleting reserves and the effects of technological and economic sanctions imposed by the west after the 2014 Crimea invasion. Even its most optimistic scenario predicted a short-term modest increase in oil production and then plateauing from 2024 to 2035. In the more conservative scenario, oil production was expected to decline.
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Подтверждаю из России. Идейных мало.
@@Olga-1409-ruа много идейности надо, что бы не поддерживать войну, убийства людей?
Четыре года на физтехе, но как-то не замечал такой кровожадности. Что с вами случилось?
@@ltpetrenko Со мной ничего не случилось. А вот с зомби, что вокруг меня, реально произошло что-то не то...
They are like cattle who just bowing their heads, and do what their master tells them. I wonder if they feel comfortability in their misery, or if they are just plain broken.
They stopped thinking decades ago.
I'm a dairy farmer. My cattle know how to do as they please as soon as the opportunity arises.
no just dumb
"It's Putin's war"
The 100 000 000 Putins:
yes it seems that there are a lot of them!
God bless Ukraine family and volunteers 💙💛
Oh my God! The last lady... I can't believe... She is laughing while speaking how she would killing Ukrainians...
Toilet thieves have no room for morals.
"Putin helps everyone" That is insane.
Correct, Putin is helping everyone to their craves !
Putin is helping himself.
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Russian don't gave freedom to tolk/ and acting::::::
Unfortunately, the average Russian’s quality of life has improved because of Putin, so this is all they can see. They are so insulated that they can’t see the big picture, or consider their impact on the rest of the world.
What did this video teach me is that Russia is absolutely unsalvageable. Such a passive population, so used to be abused by its government has no hope.
What’s worse is that the don’t want their own freedom, which is ok, but simultaneously they want their neighbors to be as submissive to their tzar
I disagree. This kind of oppression cannot last forever. But the next Russian government must do much better.
@@davidwagner6116 The Russian government doesn't care about the citizens of Russia if they did they would have freedom of speach.
Yes but mind the diff betw "forever" and 2000 years. In human scale, it's negligible (and they've been slaves for 1000 yrs already)
I wish all russians to live through what Ukrainians experience under russian occupation
Ukraine occupies the Czech region of Carpathien Rus from 1945 and does not want to return it. It is a country of 13,352 km2 (5,155 sq mi) which is about the same size as Crimea. Historically, this territory never belonged to Ukraine. In addition, this territory was granted to the Czech Republic by American President Woodrow Wilson as early as 1917. ua-cam.com/video/KqXQfJ1bkGo/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared
It's called donbnass the Ukraine bombed them 4 years
It's called the Donbass and there are plenty of videos of normal civilian lives on the internet. And then there are the videos of the victims of Ukrainian army shelling.
Under the user
@@coolcat5798After russian backed separatists started the conflict in Donbass
THANK YOU CANADA for the $60M for Ukrainian training on F-16 fighter jets.😊
Thank the people that built them too my friend 🇺🇸
@@devincorns409yes 👍🏼
Yup, and then they can't fund the Toronto Police Services and the 911 call response time is 22 minutes...
@@xyema-mpa-ma-ma And they never used those F-16s anyways AAA is too thick.
@@xyema-mpa-ma-mabetter than 87 minutes
This just proves what Vlad Vexler has been saying since the begining of the war.
That was a difficult watch.
My thoughts after watching this is the Russian population is submissive.
I did not see a glimmer of hope for the future.
It's all rather depressing.
Who said this documentary is objective? 😂 They choose certain people for interviews. Author of this documentary got political agenda.
@@ladybug2x2y22zpoor ruzian, don’t get too upset, keep watching your ruzian tv that is feeding the comfortable objectivity to you 😂
@@ivandankob7112 I enjoy Ukrainian news lately.
@@ivandankob7112 Not everyone in the comments is a Russian. Some people just see the problem from different points of view.
Потому что это видео чушь собачья! Боже, как же это злит.. 😑
I am glad I have come across this channel recently. Somehow so far, it speaks the truth and things are.
Surfdom is alive and well
*serfdom
Charlie don't surf.
I just lost all my respect for the russian people. True weakness is letting someone physically weaker stomp on you without acting.
"Take my son, take my life, take my house, take my heat, take my water supply, but dont protest cause that will make it worse" is what i hear these people saying.
They'd rather decieve themselves than riot
Do you really think police is weak?
@@DashieDeNo, but they are weaker than the combined might of those who could protest
@@SkyHighMelody and how do you organize a mass protest in an authoritarian country?
@@DashieDe Look to China or Iran for inspiration, they know how
@@SkyHighMelody I respect what they do and it matters but mass protest like in Belarus don't weaken strong regimes, they happen when regime is weak and people feel that there's real chance for change
Until they realise and acknowledge that Tsar Khuylo is responsible for all the lost lives and other problems, there is no hope for the russian people to move forward.
Tsar Khuylo put his big Khuylo in Ukraine. Put in, Put in.
they won’t because putin actually represents interests of the majority of the population. Many from the minority who openly oppose the war don’t see a point of revisiting the history of russian imperialism, which is the source of the problem. Having been deprived from human rights and decent standard of living for centuries their population developed conformism as a method to survive. They rationalize actions of their ruler who compensate their miserable lives by letting them associate themselves with a source of power they’re deprived from in their lives. “Yes, we’re poor, but with our tsar/stalin/putin/.. we’re strong and the west is scared of us”. This is an immense source of satisfaction for those people. They learn to direct their internal frustration, anger and blame to the outside world, not to their rulers, who they love/fear/respect. That’s why the infamous Bucha massacre happened, why we see brutality of russian soldiers towards Ukrainian civilians and POWs, etc. It’s a deeply sick, miserable, isolated, hopeless population.
Quoting someone from the comments “they sound as if they were dead inside”.
I wish there were more videos like this.
Russians outside of Moscow and St. Petersburg and the other large cities seem to be continuing to live in a medieval world where the ruler has all power and the peasants are even afraid to get rid of the ruler who is bad. It does not seem to be any rule of law,even as their was in Soviet times. From what I have read, as long as one stuck to Soviet law as it was written petty issues could be solved legally with the larger issues always we’re on the side of the state. Putin has devolved everything to the most basic primitive almost a slave-like level. the peoples spirit is totally broken until they actually equate their country with their dictatorial leader and have no faith in each other much less the government. Russians in general seem to be generous to each other as long as it does not involve sacrifice or potential sacrifice against higher authority. As indirectly pointed out in this documentary the people who are the poorest are those outside the center and they are also the ones who are losing their lives in the Ukraine war. The soldiers have very bad PTSD and just like a lot of the Vietnam veterans and veterans of the Middle East They don’t feel alive unless they’re actually in the fight with their comrades by their side. When they return from the war they see nothing for them in civilian life because it’s just a mass of hopelessness and depression.
боже что ты высрал, откуда в твой пустой голове взялся этот бред? Это тебе байден рассказал?
Вы совершенно правы. В России полностью уничтожена судебная и правозащитная система. Здесь очень страшно людям, которые способны мыслить.
@@Olga-1409-ru если мне тут не страшно, я по вашему не способен мыслить?
@@СергейБулатов-п7з Есть замечательная русская поговорка, не мечите бисер перед свиньями. Именно поэтому мне вам сказать нечего.
It looks like you have missed the point of this video entirely!
I know I'm thinking like a westerner but I feel no sympathy for them. They are still culpable.
What do you think about Americans during the Iraqi war? It was waged under the false pretense, as a result 500 thousand people were killed, a previously rich and prosperous country became dirt poor. Are all Americans culpable?
@@KiraNt4Yes US people are at fault Same as the people in Nazi Germany
That's so sad hearing the parents of the deceased soldier say that his tank was basically unoperational and he couldn't even move on the battlefield and as a result was killed from it and they say "Who is to blame? No one." They would be justified to blame everyone from his squad Commander all the way up to their beloved President Putin for sending these young men to be sacrificed without even giving them a chance in hell to perform their missions.
Hitler did the same thing to the German people 😢
Fascism makes people think that humans have no control when the controllers made them think that
Shame on all Russians!
Почему всем? Мы, адекватные россияне, здесь в заложниках. Мы ничего не можем изменить. Нас мало, но мы есть.
@@Olga-1409-ruне адекватные вы, раз вместо борьбы за свою свободу ноете в комментариях на европейцев
@@ivandankob7112 Ага, сейчас пойду! А российские мужики пусть и дальше пиво хлещут на диванах. Либо дохнут в Украине или просто не доживают до пенсионного возраста. Их же все устраивает. А бабам предлагается на баррикады идти.
@@ivandankob7112 Вы мне, слабой женщине, которая мухи в жизни не обидела, предлагаете пойти под пули росгвардии и омона?
@@ivandankob7112 how many accounts do you need for spreading your fascist hate?
1984 meets Animal Farm meets Lord of the flies. I’m glad I don’t live in Russia. No no no no no no no.
Mostly they just want to stay out of jail...
Russia us such a drab, hopeless and nihilistic place. Disgusting and heartbreaking.
Russia is literally the biggest country on the planet with thousands of ethnic minorities and different cultures, cuisines, styles of dress, natural wonders… it’s not all drab and hopeless, the government is straight out of 1984 tho. That part is disgusting and heartbreaking indeed
@@lukasp5892
A country being big and multi cultural doesn't protect its population from propaganda, learned helplessness, poverty, alcoholism and one of the lowest birth rates in the world (with good reason).
Russia is a toxic country where the people exist to serve the government rather than the other way around. Being big just makes the situation worse for more people.
@@lukasp5892
The prevailing mentality is that the population exists to serve its leaders, rather than the other way around. There is a learned helplessness that permeates all of society. Alcohol abuse is rampant. They have the lowest life expectancy for men in all of Europe, and the lowest birth rate.
The country being big doesn't protect Russians from any of that. It only means more people are affected.
@@lukasp5892the government is not like 1984 that would be China in Russia can access outside sources of information like UA-cam or google and I have seen some videos of Russian UA-camrs inside Russia talking shit about the government and nothing happens to them.
@@lukasp5892 I don’t think Russia is nearly as repressive as Iran in Iran you will be executed if you disagree with the government in Russia you will at worst get a few years of prison so even though Russia is a police state is not nearly as repressive as China’ Iran or other authoritarian countries and to present Russia as this 1984 dystopian nightmare is just dishonest.
So glad to see this channel in English 🤗❤ Thank u!
How can they think when their media is cobtrolled by the state?
wow u need media to think?
30 years of access to internet.... you just need to want.
There are people in Russia who have enough money, who were also in America and Europe. And still they continue to support Putin. Someone has to start first. Everything big started small.
This is all very depressing. So many depressed people without a clue…
That soldier got paid only half of what was promised and he himself (???) has already bought a train ticket to go back to war? I will never understand why these pwople are not totally pissed off and still support the regime. Absolutely unthinkable anywhere else.
even a mother who lost her daughter to a Russian murderer wants him to rot in jail or be sent to the front, which suggests that even if not explicity supporting the war agaisnt Ukraine she will do absolutely nothing to stop it or influence its course
then the other mother is pretty much the same, if he, the murdered of my lovely daugther, loses his lousy soul for the homeland at the front that would be of some comfort to her; uggh, Russia loses some of its worst while Ukraine loses some of its best people, tragic and likely quite avoidable.
It seems that Russians are monsters by in large, and yet one must pause to ask if we are also given certain faciliating circumstances
Rus exercitum delenda est!
You are way too suggestible, and this disgusting propaganda was created for gullible people like you.
I'm from a western country. This is really worse than i thought : deapressing!
Ukraine has never done anything wrong towards Russia
dead wrong buddy - it dared to improve on its own, not as a "gesture of good will" .... clearly, you cant comprehend the greatness :)
You are a liar!
@@bartoszbaranowski604 omg, what a load of CIA sponsored 💩
@@MonikaDow "Joined 3 May 2023" - surely not a Kremlin stooge. It aint shit, just economical data. Fact that you try to twist it as "CIA sponsored" is telling. Proves its true....
@@MonikaDow "Joined 3 May 2023" - surely not a Kremlin stooge. It aint shit, just economical data. Fact that you try to twist it as "CIA sponsored" is telling. Proves its true....
A broken people...
Great people with maners that are patriotic that actually care about their country and are willing to fight for it.
Looking at some of these interviews I can't shake the feeling that Orwell was right. Read 1984 and it all will come together.
A lot of these people sound inebriated.
That is because they are.
Russians are notorious drunks.
Author of documentary CHOOSE certain group of people due to his political agenda,same way as USSR showed homeless Americans freezing in carton boxes under the bridges.
Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
These people praise Putin, I’m dumbfounded by their statements. How can you praise a government that keeps you in such poverty. Instead of trying to take over Ukraine the money could be spent helping his own people, but those people expect someone else to come to the rescue?
If they can't haul themselves out of the shit they're living in, at least they can spread it beyond their borders
What a subhuman existence. I Wish that European media had balls running this documentary on the news.
Вы правы. Нечеловеческое. Мир должен знать об этом.
Almost feel sorry for the average Russian. ALMOST. it’s your country. MAKE IT WORK MAKE IT HAPPEN. WAKE UP.
Incidentally, Putin is trying to make Russia great again. So they're just relying on Him in it
They are doing it by taking back their land and destroying any western influence over their country.
Russia the populace is 50% gangrenous. It is on the spectrum of state failure.
Racist.
@@alexsilent5603 The people aren't the problem. The people *_have_* the problem.
@@MultiCappie This is not what you've said before.
@@alexsilent5603The entire "country" became a jail the way it was under Stalin. The system is relying on "thives in law".
@@alexsilent5603 The state as a body has lost its circulation to its limbs. This causes gangrene in biological bodies. It's a metaphor.
Orcs - non- human zombie horde
This was great documentary 👍 I liked it alot. You painted a complex picture of what most likely is going on in russia
Just goes to show what russian propoganda is doing to the minds of these people.
Seeing as they'd be jailed if they use the word War, we can't expect average Joe Ivan, who's parabellum to speak his mind.
"No way to improve your life" and seemingly enjoying it. 4 centuries and counting. These people are not of this planet.
They mostly don’t seem to care
Why should they?? Is not like it’s their problem is it?
Well done...an impressive video.
So hard not to laugh and point fingers at Ruzzia
as a Ukrainian thank you
Damn, if I say it with a double Z, UA-cam automatically deletes it :(
Ruzia is a laughing stock
This war only benefits one man, Putin.
Putin's not one man
07:49: Reporter: Is your wife happy?
Him: I don't have a wife. I filed for divorce yesterday or the day before yesterday.
This is an insane statement from somebody who must be completely depleted of any life. It's almost like in Albert Camus's L'Étranger: "My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't remember."
It's so tragic that suffering seems to be the Russian condition, both historically and contemporaneously.
Thinking is frowned upon in Russia
No in the US.
@@spudwesth, you do realize that your leader is killing you?
Starting senseless wars, pardoning and setting murderers free.
Russia was not under attack. putin made bad decisions and miscalculations.
putin is an international war criminal for his behaviors.
It is amusing that you comment about the US in your response. If only it was just one country. Most of the Western world is against your beloved putin. Surely that tells you something.
Do you have a toilet in your house or do you still have an outhouse?
putin is destroying Russia.
Do you not see the masses of educated people who left Russia for a better life, while putin was talking about spitting them out like flies. Do you not realize that these were educated and skilled people... this was a major brain drain on Russia. I'm not even talking about the nearly 400,000 young Russian men that have died while trying to invade Ukraine.
Do you know anything about American soldiers coming back from wars like Vietnam? Or serving active duty on Iraq, etc...? Do you not see movies of war veterans suffering PTSD. Not being able to adjust to life after the war (or their tour)... these guys hit the bottle (in your case vodka) and sometimes even go nuts and end their lives in a killing spree. This is what is going to happen with Russian soldiers returning from the front... a war that wasn't necessary. Russia is dying.. and it's going to get worse...
If you thought eggs were expensive a little while back... just wait another 6 months. If you thought food had become expensive in Russia... wait a year. Oil revenues are going down... all Western tech (well most responsible companies) have pulled out of Russia. You no longer have Western companies to service your Oligarch's luxury German sedans. You no longer have companies that can manufacture or repair aero planes... have you not noticed the high number of them falling out of the sky? The decrease in serviceable planes. Are there any airlines that still operate internationally from Russia? The planes are probably not air-worthy and are no longer allowed to land at foreign airports...
Please... do yourself a favour... stop dreaming... wake up and smell the coffee. Take a long hard look at what the situation really is. putin led your country into a war that didn't exist... he badly overestimated his power... and underestimated corruption... the country once held in regard as the second strongest/best army in the world is now the ass-end of jokes. Thousands of your beloved VDV's (Special Forces/Parachute Battalion soldiers) died for nothing.
I almost feel sorry for those Russians that just can't see past the sad lives they're leading due to their unwavering support for their dictator. Be like the woman that left "The Pentagon" and stop relying on the welfare of the state.. and improve your life.
Unfortunately this is entirely correct. We will see to having this fixed, probably after the war - as soon as we get a decent chance to survive violent war-seasoned decently armed criminals, some of which are getting ready for political power as we speak. Could have a reasonable cooperation sooner, but some actually wealthy and powerful people do not want that, for some obscure reasons...
Vodka from breakfast till bedtime 🤔
Yes, this is Russia.
and the Saratov region is in European Russia near Moscow and Ukraine. Yep holy shit. its gets worse the further east of Russia you go. yep imagine no power for heating when it goes to minus 50 C.
Not as much of a problem as you might think, people have been living this way for a long time and are set up for it. Huge stockpiles of firewood are accumulated in anticipation of a long winter, food supplies are similarly accumulated. I have heard that many Russians actually love winter as it is time to relax and live off the labors of the summer season.
@@robertshiell887 yep noticed that ever since the Soviet times. and youd think it would improve in 2024, its the 21st century not the 30s.
@@johnwalsh4857 There are people in North America that still live that way as well, but of course most of them are doing it by choice.
@@robertshiell887 Yes I know that and living even worse but its by choice. not like these people.
Where can I watch the "Pentagon" with English subtitles (or dubbing)? Thank you
ua-cam.com/video/FqR4QkB6n8k/v-deo.html
Dzięki wielkie. Rozesłane.
Thank you, very informative.
great scope on the topic, well supported by balanced rhetoric
Good job Centre for Eastern Studies ! 👍
Who is behind them must research it's very smelly my 👃 never lie me
The don’t care at all. There not humans.
Better stay away from that fascist narrative.
not all Russians are bad,
They are humans the difference is they are not pussi*s like most westerners
God bless Ukraine family and volunteers 💙💛
Their pentagon looks real rough.
Pure evil in their hearts
No they are just trying to do the right thing for their country that’s all there is nothing evil about invading other countries.
Learned helplessness because they found it easier to just avoid even the thought of pain without ever finding out the real facts
Thank you for sharing this. It is important context for the spectators of this war
Asking Russians what they think is like asking stupidity what it knows.
Nice job👍🏻
If a guy who m*rders because he believes the beautiful girl in front of him will reject him, goes and d*stroys a beautiful lifestyle Russians believe impossible to attain in Russia, then I'm ok with the horror my daughter went through. Omg
Wonder if youtube finds any offensive words in this post.
Ehh?
@@technofreeek she she's ok with if her daughters' murderer gets out of prison to go fight in Ukraine.
@@technofreeek he murdered her because he saw her as too beautiful to want to hang out with him
Alcoholic, scared, depressed and hopeless people.
Why in the world would I care what Ivan thinks?? He has been an utter nuisance for 100s of years.
I see a lot of desperate people trying to cope in various desperate ways. I don't think this is a problem of "learned helplessness" as it used to be, but of actual. People have so little already of course they are afraid to do anything that threatens losing that very little bit. Especially after losing a loved one.
I agree, it clearly goes beyond learned helplessness. Not only do they believe their circumstances are inescapable but they live in fear of losing what they have and fear of being punished for trying, which is operant conditioning.
In abusive relationships this can only be overcome when the victim believes in a solution, the pain of staying outweighs the pain of leaving and they either believe they will lose what they have either way, have nothing left to lose or the fear of losing what little they have outweighs the fear of punishment.
It makes sense that this is why historically mothers tend to be the ones who protest. They either lost their child or believe they will lose their child either way and I can’t imagine anything worse.
It’s a terrible situation... I don’t know enough about Russians or politics, but I know enough about people to believe there will eventually be a tipping point, it will unfortunately take a lot of pain and moral courage
Nato must leave.
@@spudwesth leave where..? 🫤
@@spudwesth "Leave" where? NATO isn't IN Ukraine right now. What would be really good would be for NATO to show up in force and clean Putler's clock. But Biden is too timorous to do that.
No. There is no such thing as actual helplessness. It is a choice to cower and do nothing.
If hundreds of thousands rose up and opposed the regime that would be the end of Putin. Yes. This would cost many their lives, but overall fewer than the number of casualties in Ukraine.
This is learned helplessness.
Spot on summary of Russia. Not all of them are this level garbage, but those who are not, are a tiny minority and most of them probably already have left that hellhole.
22:58 yeah, you should be blaming Putin. He did bomb them in 2014 that’s what started the whole thing. Perhaps he should have kept his military within their own borders and not taking over other peoples territories. Perhaps instead of paying for this war, he could’ve helped the needy Russians or do they expect Ukraine to come to their aid?
The percentage of people in favor of peace talks does not necessarily equate to percentage of people who condemn the war or oppose it in principle. It may include people who think Russias war is justified, but Russia has won enough ground already to be in position to negotiate an advantageous peace for them without further sacrifices.
They all appear drunk
Small correction: Russia annexed 5 Ukrainian territories. Not 4.
5000 ruble new year help from government….that is 54 dollars.😂
That's a huge sum in Russia
Russia dropped out years even centuries ago and they can't drop back in again, Putin will make sure of that.
Apart the rus 30:48 sians living in Moscow,St Petersburg and maybe a few other big cities the rest of them are living in the same conditions like the people of North Koreea.No hope at all and nothing to look for in the near future...
Great documentary!
Thank you for your painstaking research. Truth is one of the main casualties in this war.
I hope the person from the "Pentagon" stays where she lives, just for the last thing she says in the video!
I so wish I could tell this grieving couple how sad we feel for their loss. I wish I could tell them NATO is a defense only treaty. NATO has no army. NATO has no air force or navy. It has members who agree not to attack one another. These members simply agree to decide if they will help and if so what that help will be. Maybe it is food. Maybe it is electronic equipment. Maybe it is blankets or bandages or socks or permission to use a country's air space or an airport for landing. Ukraine did nothing wrong. Putin started this war because he wanted Crimea and the oil and natural gas in Eastern Ukraine. When that wasn't enough he massed hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Belarus, right at the border and close to Ky insisting he was not going to invade Then he had to have the oil in Eastern Ukraine
The families' thinking in relation to the war is complex indeed. But the solution to the war is that the aggressor bring the Russian troops home. Russia can be content with the land they have, the nation they are. They will then have the money to spend helping the disabled survivors, the families of the deceased, and those with post battle trauma.