You Won't Believe This Is Europe In 2019! 🇧🇾
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- Опубліковано 7 бер 2019
- 🇧🇾 I finally made it to the virtually deserted village of Horoshevka where only a few residents remained and was told that I had taken quite a risk in getting there...
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"the old woman is waiting for the post to bring her a new bucket because a gypsy stole it"
it couldnt get anymore eastern european than this
I would be more scared of the gypsies bands then the wolves!
@@Taffer-bx7uc Actually, the one of the women, who said the warning, is gypsy.. You can hear it. Instead of "Da" (Yes) she goes "Dhha, Dhha".
Lmaoo😂😂😂
@@Taffer-bx7uc Wolves never attack humans gypsies do ...
@Mwaniki Mwaniki I'm from Hungary. Most of these things can happen in a poor Hungarian village, too (except for the wolves, I think)
I was quite shocked to find this video on youtube because this village Horoshevka is a village where my father was born in 1957. However, he moved to the other part of Belarus when he was about 5 years old. On the monument there are 16 names of my relatives with last name Skachkov that died in Second World War on 3:15.
It was so exciting to see my fatherland where I have never been. And of course I know where I will go this summer.
Many thanks to the author of this channel!
Well then, you must go there Vitally!
Wow that's so cool!! Hope you will go there to explore your roots. ❤
I loved reading your reply! When he showed us the monument with all the deaths having the same last name, entire families wiped out.... and all the villages have the same memorials.... The reality of it all sunk in. Its very touching. It seems in America, especially with the younger generation, those having roots originating from that part of the world, they seem to have had the truth twisted. Maybe the reality of it all shielded from them or just not ever told. Leaving some unaware it even happened at all.
@@josephtokarz7305 yes that is so true. I grew up in Germany and have been in America since 1998. All that I saw on TV about America growing up was far from how it actually is. Coming here and exploring my roots on my fathers side has been quite a journey! I wish you well, much love and light. ❤
Glad you got to see where your father was born!
This was so much more interesting than a flashy tourist video. Real life.
Real life? Maybe if you live in a trash country
You won’t see Bald and Bankrupt in malls, fashion shows, multinational cafeterias or any kind of western establishments. Instead, he dives deep into places that no regular tourist visits. He’s well known for striking conversations with random people, bringing a smile on their faces and surprising them with their own language.
@@jutgediisp3407 Real life in the meaning it was not directed.
@@jutgediisp3407 this is literally a middle of nowhere village. They are naturally dying out. Just FYI we have these here in West Europe too, and I've seen them in N-America as well.
@@jutgediisp3407 yeah. just like 70 percent of the world population
The folks are so nice. What a shame their lives are so hard. God bless them.
So true
La division c est ça
Mort car rien de sincère
I’m wondering why their government isn’t helping? I mean there isn’t even that many people in these villages.
@@Jimmy-er2mc well lukashenko lost his way a bit, he really need to focus on provinces too, people suffer there
Even in a deserted village, there are still flowers in front of the war memorial. That is some spirit.
That whole memorial reminded me of the movie come and see
I see it as a reminder of just how sick people can be over material items, resources & ultimately religion.
Humans ultimately do respect the dead more than the living yet we are blind to this by our many egotistical issues.
@@Adizzle235 yes but it's also important to understand the absouloute shit these people went through in ww2 and probably still would have if the Germans had won. Those dead soldiers practically saved their lives and people.
The war took a lot away from the soviets. 20 million people in the USSR died during the war.
Plastic...
When you're from Eastern Europe and nothing shocks you anymore
Exactly bro!👍🤷♂️
right?
Yeah I come from Romania and it's nothing like Americans think of Europe
Can we be friends lmao, I wanna make an Eastern European friend. What's ur Insta @
@Caleb that is even worst.
Wow, seeing all those names on the memorial really hurt. Whole families were wiped out during WWII. 😢
Well they are 95% men.
It caused women to really step up in soviet union. It led to rise of women in power. It's sad to see life after the union fall into "traditional and religious".
It's like a massive step back.
@@bswo0sah the percentage of women was probably like 30-40 %. So many women died from starvation, massacres and extermination.
@@AsiaMinor12 losing women also the reason why this places are so deserted. You can replace men, but you cant easily replace women.
@@randomdude8202 and why is that? If anything its harder to replace men simply because men are stronger and can do more work.
About 25% of population of Belarus died in WWII
13:31 You didn't translate this for your British subscribers:
"Are you waiting for your daughter?"
"Huh?"
"Waiting for your daughter?"
"I can't get it."
"Waiting for your daughter?!"
Shaking with her head showing that she still didn't understand a word.
I'm Russian, and I still didn't get that dialect
@@Slavyach97 стракать - сустракать - встречать; дачка - дочь; чуць - слышать. И это не диалект. :)
@@vitalypetkevich3803 Oh right, Belorussian, no wonder I didn't get
Thanks mate.
They will be talking about your visit for years 😍
Generations
The legend of an English man wanderer who spoke their own language...
they will talk about his visit til they die that will be soon not years
@@Trolololitarian_RepubLICK The legend will grow about how he faced down bears and wolves and was a survivor of WW2
@@2bobaf 😂🤣😂
>abandoned village where only a couple of babushkas live
>gypsy thieves are still active in the area, stealing buckets
😆
It is unbelievable, isn't it? And they thought it was a good idea to steal a bucket from babushka's well.
@@abidhasan5721 it's not funny, it's a sad truth
This is going to sound weird, I'm from New Jersey . Do you remember the movie King of the gypsies with Shelley Winters? Well my grandmother and grandfather and my mother and my father are buried in that same cemetery where they film that movie! The king of the gypsy is buried there at least one of them. I remember being a child, in those days that's what you did on Easter you went to go visit the Dead and we used to get so excited because we couldn't wait to go see the king's grave in which it would be decorated with Easter eggs all kinds of stuff! The name of the cemetery I believe is Mount Olive Cemetery in Newark, Elizabeth Nj on the borderline! Those are very good memories for me believe it or not.
@@winros3042 They're Indian in heritage
"Don't go on these streets alone. There are wild pigs and wolves here."
*proceeds to walk alone further into the nomansland
That was a risky move. Anything could have happened.
1:40 sees a barking dog, proceeds to got closer to him. this guy just wants to die :D
he has a big charisma and personality, but BIGGER bulls :D
maybe he bought himself a gun from a fishing store already
6:13 Are you seriousely taking a hike in a Belarus in a winter in freaking Converse shoes?
I said the same thing😀he should've known better considering this is not his first rodeo in this part of the world 🤦🏻♀️ 😉
Winter time and that’s what he is wearing on his feet 😅
He’s British, we all do things like that in winter, not sure why.
i was thinking the very same thing
@@Brandon_J Well, one thing is winter in GB and other thing is winter at Belarus. Belarus actually is not that cold as Russia, but still, quite cold.
Babushka: "Don't walk alone on roads. There are wild pigs and wolves"
Bald guy 5 minutes later: *Walking alone on road.
dude wears chucks and gives 0 fucks
And if so? A wolf meets a wolf!
What choice did he have? He just walked 5km there :)
Babushka: "Don't walk alone on roads. There are wild pigs and wolves"
Bald: "Um, can you lend me a car please"
@@jgcornell Judging by his other videos i'm pretty sure that he doesn't scare so easily. So even if he met a wolf i think HE would scare the wolf instead.
Lmfao. I'm dying of laughter
New objectives aquired:
- Kill the pack leader of nearby wolves.
- Retrieve the bucket from gypsy thief.
this does seem very similar to fallout
LMAO 👏
Open nightclub in old culture house.
Man thats so perfect !
Best comment. Seriously.
Bald I just wanna say that I’ve been trying to learn Russian on my own for the past two years now and i can honestly say that I can rely on these videos to get a better sense of the language. Apart from being a great source of information on how things actually are on that part of Europe it fills my heart when you give these people a chance to talk to a foreigner in their own language, which I hope I can also do some day for them! Massive respect to you bald, hope to meet you some day
I am just amazed by the fact that I can sit in my home and see all this with my own eyes.
Thanks for this amazing content.
As a Belarusian i like that you pay respect to our culture and you are informed of what life is like and the amount you know of our history
salut!sunt roman si imi pare rau de ce se intampla.Oameni abandonati de stat.Trist
@@etajudoi omu a zis CA e din Belarus! Crezi CA intelege ce ii spui tu mai ghita ? :)) Fara suparare
@@yurianvise1672 Sa-ti fie cunoscute minunile traducerii computerizate.
Respect to you, great loving people.
I was in Minsk 8 months ago wonderful country with good people, I hope this difficult times will pass in Belarus. I really want to go back again!
I love the woman who says "It is hard here" and then proceeds to discuss the socio-economic factors of her village for a couple minutes while shouldering a big bundle of hay and not even setting it down to rest like I would have. These people are beauties.
Because they are way less brainwashed than our generation and the millenium generation. They had no klima Greta to tell them the earth is flat and our planet is cooling down.
@@kirstendl1724 Stop injecting politics into everything.
@@demoniack81 amen
Putting the hay on the ground and then lifting it again will be harder than keeping it in a comfortable position all the time.
@@TheMrKMen Agreed. Also, she is so used to it that putting it down for a minute is neither here nor there.
I'm from Belarus and I would never thought there are some villages here like this. The village of my grandparents looks way better.
Answering the most common question in the comment section:
1. No, we do don't wanna be united with Russia. We wanna be independent and have good relationships with the rest of Europe and with East also.
2. Yes, we speak Russian mostly. But that's caused by centuries of being under russian government (Russian Empire and USSR). Belarusian is still my first home language.
Человек просто специализируется по экстриму, поэтому выбор именно этой деревни очевиден. Конечно, Беларусь преобразилась и расцвела за последние годы и таких мест становится все меньше, но к нашему стыду и сожалению они все еще есть и их наверное довольно много. Хотя конечно и деревни моих бабушек/дедушек выглядят совершенно по-другому. Но вот эта Хорошевка видать зона отселения, поэтому государство в нее вкладывать не хочет и не будет, что в принципе понятно, жалко только хороших наших бабусечек... И еще.. я уже больше 10 лет живу в Британии и скажу вам по секрету, здесь тоже зимой в кантрисайде бывает стоооооолько грязи))))))... и брошеных домов здесь можно найти достаточно много и даже целых поселений , особенно на севере... и городов страшных, серых, депрессивных тоже очень много, поверьте... Но в целом, конечно, уровень жизни здесь выше, да, они богаче (по крайней мере материально), что и неудивительно - они первоначальный капитал сделали во времена своего "великого имперского прошлого", а мы люди мирные и скромные, всего своим трудом пытаемся добиться, а это как известно не путь к богатству и роскоши... Как-то так... (Хотя, судя по вашему уровню английского, вы наверное тоже где-то в Британии живете... или поблизости :)))
@@angelak-r4885 Расцвела? Это вы конечно загнули. Она загнивает с каждым годом во всех сферах, которых касается нелегетимный.
difficult to be independent when the west sees your country only as a way to hurt Russia.
Propaganda bot 🤖 Belorussian people want to be with Russian people, we are one, a lot of us mixed
@@fairytail907 you are not even Belarusian, even if you were, your opinion is not everyone's opinion
Спасибо Автору за видео моей деревни, низкий поклон, человеку от души, спасибо что отразил нынешнюю нашу жизнь в этом совремном мире, дай бог тебе здоровья.
Вы там живёте? Или на Радуницу рюмку водки только ставите покойнику?
That first conversation with the woman hauling hay felt like something out of a video game where you walk up to an NPC and they start eagarly spouting exposition about the area you're in. Even the abruptness with which the conversation ended and she went on her way was pitch perfect.
Holy fuckin shite, that just made my day 😂
Loreno III "down the road is a small factory" (location has been added to map)
ahahahahahhahahahahaha gold
Weird. Millennials see everything through the lens of videogames. All I saw was something that couldn't be any further from evoking me anything from this 21st century. I'm so glad I was born in and lived through a different era, when things were more, should I say, "organic"!
@@Byezbozhnik dude, there's no need to go all boomer on us. We're all enjoying this.
7:15 wow that baby died 1943 and someone is still putting flowers on the grave... how thoughtful
@@user-yy8rm1yf9y yes, even in Romania
@@user-yy8rm1yf9y born and raised in Canada, I have great respect for your strong family values, don't see it much in Canada other than Asian and Indian immigrant that appear to have caring family's but the whites ( me) it's pretty much every man for himself.
Makes me feel like a POS. I have never visited the graves of my grandparents since they passed away. I think about them every now and then but I don't visit their graves.
@Not Me I am Italian and it also happens in Italy, especially in southern Italy. When my grandmother was alive, she changed flowers and cleaned my grandfather's and uncle's graves every week. But usually every family does it twice a month and, as @Not Me said, we put flowers if someone was a good family friend (or relative of it), or sometimes instead of putting flowers, we simply touch the grave to say hello (Christians touch the grave and they make the Sign of the Cross)
Same in Serbia, I still do it.
I cried looking at the memorial so sad , to all the soldiers of the eastern front we love you and you won’t be forgotten ❤️
I teared up a little when he was explaining the benches by the graves. I'm from Bangladesh which has a history of war as well where over 3 million people died. I could somewhat relate to that emotion as well in that moment.
Tell your people to not get blinded by your religion and stop hating india who saved you guys and your bangla language from getting extinct. Love from india.
Grannies are same everywhere. Adamant but cute and full of love.
naughty too, don't ever forget that
@@Newtube_Channel Gross, man.
@@Sean-um2os how is that gross? What he said was pretty innocent, it seems your mind is gross
@@homiespaghetti1522 bruh I'm responding to @Skylark 's comment
@@Sean-um2os naughty is a bad word for grandma's . Mischievous I think he meant
25% of population wiped out. We complain so much about our “hard” lives in the west. What these people must have gone through defies imagination.
This is so true. I saw a post yesterday about someone complaining about no parent/toddler spaces available at the grocery store. First world problems eh? We take it all for granted. It’s such a shame.
It was WW2. Everyone lost people. And sometimes a population can take that kind of hit and it be a positive. Look at England. The black plague killing off so many people directly lead to the peasants revolt and put in motion the beginnings of the middling class. There's also places like this and worse all over the world even today. Even in the West. They're fed and have roofs over their heads. They don't seem to be suffering. What is it that makes you think these people are worse off than anyone else?
Seriously, when you claim that this kind of living defies imagination, I have to wonder if it's just your own life that's been privileged because this ain't that bad.
Amber Tenoever I was talking about what they had gone through in the very recent past. Yes, Ww2 was hard for everyone, Britain lost about 600 thousand combatants and civilians. That number died in the siege of Leningrad from starvation alone. Things got so bad many were reduced to cannibalism. Overall, the Soviet Union lost 27 million people, and this came after Stalin’s purges that claimed at some estimates, 20 million. Did anything good come from that? I doubt it. Belorussia and Russia are still ruled by thugs, who siphon off most of the country’s wealth and leave ordinary people in a dire state. The warmth and stoicism most Russians display is a testament to their courage in the face of unimaginable hardship. I choose my words carefully.
Just cause something bad happened to other people doesn't invalidate your own problems, grow up
Im from Ukraine and I Love Eastern Europe. Greetings to all Slav people
Дуже приємно
Greetings to you brother.
Im Polish slav
So you're from Eastern Europe and love Eastern Europe? I would've never guessed!
@@nexusi6867 but many Eastern Europeans hate Eastern Europe, so..
That women interviewed thorough the video seem really warm and loving, they put a smile in my face :)
Wow this is the village of my wife ^^ She is so moved to see it again ...
Me too
Aww
Wow...😀
I imagine you saying "my wife" is like Borat
Did she ever get her bucket back?
Half of my family perished during the great war. And you, sir, had the decency and the courage to talk about it. Thank you.
btw why aren’t you using term ww2?
It was called The Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union.
sirloinofice i know but why not just ww2
@@tusidex5228 why don't you call it the great patriotic war? Some people are not the same as you.
Last deck of a sinking ship called globalization
Im loving ur channel so much !
The tradition with the bench and table near the grave is in every post sovietic country.
Love from Moldova! ❤🇲🇩
Never seen it in Czechia (although that was never actually part of ussr proper), but I think it's really beautiful.
Same for Romania 😂
It's orthodox faith tradition.
It's more like an Orthodox tradition!!!
It's a beautiful tradition. In the United States sometimes there will be a bench commemorating people, but actual graves usually don't have them.
He is not scared of what’s ahead, not scared of the old abandon houses, wild spirit. God bless you on you adventures!
Babushka: "You must not walk out here because of wolves."
Next clip:
*continues walking*
AND he gets all stucky in mud... which slows him down & makes him more vulnerable! Yes, not smart!
I waited for the wolves to the end... :(
Stfu nazi
Next episode: getting vaccinated against rabbies in Belarus
A lot of people ln the world know the word,, babushka''
Bald be very careful there. The radiation is know to cause your hair to fall out. We wouldn't want that to happen to you.
Don’t worry, this British Queen has many fine wigs lol
Looool
Did you ever being in the Belarusian? No then shut you mouth. Belarusian people are very friendly and the capital city are so beautiful and clean streets.
@@svetlana8362 who are you directing your irrelevant comment too, calm down kid
@@svetlana8362 Jesus what a moron...
Makes you realise how different life is for us all.
I'm in Manchester UK and would never see anything like this without your video - many thanks
Thank you for showing the real life we never get to see on MSM. My heart goes out to these people. They are true survivors.
This is fantastic journalism which shows people like me what life is like in Belarus. This is one of the great things about UA-cam that you cannot see anywhere else.
UA-cam is not to be trusted, lots of content gets squashed in the UA-cam algorithm :( also some things cannot be shown because UA-cam will have kittens! I'm very glad Mr bald exists though and hope he stays here forever! Same with harald baldr.
What you have to remember however is this is the villages, if you go into Minsk or Gomel, its more closer to many European cities, like czech republic, a lot cleaner though. People think some of the cities look run down, but the reality is the weather conditions mean they are under constant repair from the elements, so everything sometimes looks a bit rusty.
@@schrodingersferret4092 Minsk is a very nice city for sure, but this is still kind of crazy no? I don't think you would see conditions like this (no shops anywhere, post comes by a truck) in many places in Europe even in the country side
@@lorcster6694 I was talking about Minsk. The shops close (in the small villages) because people don't buy from there, if there were enough customers they would exist, and as you can see its only the elderly at these shops, the younger generations have moved to the town where the work is. Many of these villages have less than 100 people living there. Trucks are more economically viable. The children of the elderly will visit them every other week and bring the more modern gadgets and luxuries in from the cities for them.
Agreed
It's funny how the old lady is speaking Russian with you but switches to Belarusian when she's speaking to her friend :)
(in case anyone wondered, their dialog translates to "I've came to meet my daughter - What? - To meet my daughter! - Can't hear you! - TO MEET MY DAUGHTER!!1 - *nods*")
Thank you for the video, enjoyed it! Was a great pleasure to see someone so interested in the life of my country.
nice
Pretty much everybody on the face of the Earth speaks a different language depending on context
@@davidp.7620 well, russians dont. Most of us aren't bilingual.
And most Americans aren't bilinugual @@davidp.7620 So I don't get your comment
@@moedinerez9944 "Americans" refers to a tiny part od the world.
7:57 that was one of the nicest things i saw in my life. This is so beautifull! We must always keep our memories of your loved ones alive. Such nice people! Greetings from Brazil!
Love the tables/chairs at the graves. I'd love to be able to sit and have a beer with my Dad (RIP).
Then do it
"A gipsy stole my bucket" That's a song right there.
Massivecarcrash it’s a musical ,with dancing girls dressed up as farm girls
Massivecarcrash well get the Moldova tourist board to finance it .
Massivecarcrash - The Horoshevka Blues
"A gypsy stole my bucket
It was really bad
Now I can't get any water
It is really sad.
But I wouldn't leave Horoshevka
It is all I know
Not even to go to Minsk
For a picture show.
We might have our problems
A missing bucket or two
But let me tell you this, bud
We are living better than you... "
@@virvisquevir3320 A+, buddy.
Massivecarcrash - Horoshevka Rough Justice aka Karma Horoshevka Style
A Gypsy stole my bucket
So I said 'fuck it!'
I ordered a new one by the post truck
It was so special it made my luck
I got my old one back
So I told the Gypsy to 'suck it!'
12:45 she called you 'detochka' (smth like "precious little child"), this is like the sweetest moment that ever happened to me on UA-cam.
ikr
But it didn't happen to you, did it?
@@honestabe5153 bruh
Honest Abe do you often try to steal other people’s happiness? You’re obviously an emotional vampire. Spiteful.
@@honestabe5153 now say 10 nice things and go to your room
Your videos make me want to travel through russia, belarus and all them places. All the people you meet seem so sweet. Bless them.
These people amaze me. Its hurts so much to even try and imagine what they've been thru. Its mind-boggling. Thank you for highlighting these people.
Could be a Skyrim quest: a gypsy stole a bucket from my well, so we can't drink or make food. Recover the bucket for 200xp. - straight out of 1600s....
This is fallout bro
It's not funny bro, I live in a similar village in Serbia, gypsy's are a big problem, they are all misbehave and often carrys knifes
@Ahmed Almutairi Can't target an ethnic group.
Seriously, I can't think of any place where the gypsies wouldn't be seen as troublemakers.
@@matusmotlo3854 why do they live exactly in Eastern Europe ? I mean, they are everywhere, but it seems that that region is one of their favourite
Khajit stole bucket...lol
In many bulgarian villages the picture is the same... and we are not only in Europe, but also in EU!
Do you blame the EU for that circumstance?
It is EU to blame.
it's not a member country of UE
How comes that? Bulgaria is member country of EU.
@@prikipriki30 I don't think the EU is to blame because I don't remember България being better before but the EU isn't helping this good country at all and they should help Bulgaria more, that's what the EU is for!! 🇧🇬 🇪🇺
This was one of your most interesting videos, at least for me. The culture runs strong. It is lovely to see how they "hang out" with those who've passed, so to speak. I think that's a great way to remember people.
Damn that memorial really puts into perspective what a lot of these villages went through and not too long ago either. So sad thanks for sharing Bald
I am actually born from Belarus, I lived in a somewhat city life but went to these villages to visit my grandma, It is true those places didn’t have much but they always felt like home and It was always nice to basically disconnect from city life
@@Jangnono psh
Key Lime
Very nice. What kind of foods did your grandma make for you? Just curious...
Must be rather nostalgic for you to see the area again. Your English is great. Very impressive. Americans unfortunately do not learn to speak other languages. Taught too late in public school and few ever travel to practice. Have you visited England or the USA? You have come far from your roots.
Texas Tea we made the classic mix of Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian foods, for example herring under a fur coat, ukha, we even pickled our own vegetables since our family owns a datcha
Sydni Moser Me and close family actually moved to Canada but we rarely visit USA
It looks like a place time forgot but the people are genuine and warm even after so much hardship. Admirable!
In fact genuine and warm because their lives are based around the people they live with, not the images on a TV or smartphone, video games and internet.
@@virginiaoflaherty2983 Life was better back then. Now it seems so complex a lot of the time.
The people seem so kind and hard working. They know their neighbors, good lives are not based on one's material wealth, yet love in their hearts.
I often find that people who undergo great hardship are much more wholesome than people who know not what it is to toil and struggle. Just go to Beverly Hills and see how people treat each other, they are more fearful and neurotic than people who live in the worlds most decrepit slums!
@@rorymonaghan950 Amen to that! Let me also add in contrast to those lovely folks in the video, the majority (not all) of people I meet everyday are passive aggressive. Maybe it's because I'm in the NE? LOL!
Yep! I'm sure that life's hard out there, but I'm sure that the passive aggressiveness can be attributed to more than that. There is a HUGE sense of entitlement in the first world, and people here think they always deserve better. They are entitled to a new car, a new house, a new and better this or that. Yet, these villagers living in the homes of their ancestors are grateful for all they have. They only desire a new bucket for their well when the old one is stolen, not simply because the next door neighbors have a fancier bucket... American's generally have live easier than most of the people of the world, but somehow, we remain less filled at the same time. Just shows that material wealth is simply not the answer.
It’s amazing how engaging and friendly these people are to a random foreigner cruising through. This is one of the most enlightening channels on UA-cam
You guys inspired me to go to Colombia and I just booked my trip at the end of January, I’m so excited. What a great series
Europe 2019: “I have no water at my house because a GYPSY STOLE THE BUCKET FROM MY WELL.”
Poisoned the well.
belarus isn't in europe
@@giovannimittino4769 Since when?
@@hanskazan31 belarus never joined the european union
@@hanskazan31 Giovanni Mittino is technically right because Europe isn't really a continent therefore not a real place. Continents are surrounded by water. j/s
For some reason I fell in love with this village and that old woman. I could sit and listen to her tell her stories all day long.
@Andrew Smith there's wolfs and gypsies
@@RIFLQ who are gypsies???
Explain a little bit more ?
Commando602 Nope the baba’s are annoying as hell
@User yeah man I'm dead serious
As I've said before, I love these videos. A part of the world I've always wanted to visit, but never would be able to. Thank you~
People are beautiful no matter how main stream media portray them. All u need to do is go and meet them in person
That lady in the beginning carrying heavy weight like it's nothing, putting Crossfitters to shame.
Its a straw, man. Dry grass. The pile is unhandy to carry ofc but not that heavy propably around 10-15 kilos.
International Harvester whats the whole joke about crossfitters? I dont get it lol. Is it that they’re sissies or something?
@@Fred-wt7lq There is bizzare feud between fancy crossfitters and hardcore fatlifters. Arguing who is the boss of the gym.
@@steirqwe7956 15 kilos on the back of an old lady who probably weighs 33 kilos
That's the strength you gain when you become babushka.
That old lady was absolutely delightful. I think the internet just adopted an Belorussian grandmother. 👍🏻
I love her!
Babushka
I didn’t know you were sick, I’m glad you made it through, hope you heal completely. I need more videos
My dad died 9 years ago and that bit about the graveyard and those benches and tables made me cry and smile at the same time! 😌🥺It's a great idea, and truly from the heart.
Not sure how I ended up watching this video, but I absolutely loved it!
i thought is was an other emigration whining vid from the title and got so presently surprised!
Same
There can't be many English people that speak Russian at all, language skills are impressive
Blyat intensifies...
Podmigivayet 😊
@@E_Legal_Alien sucka intensifies...
Oh I've been struggling to get out of your videos for past 3 hours! Long live bald for entertaining us
watching this made me so emotional... made me think about those who lived there of the past and looking at it now really hits a persons emotions. very sad. god help humanity............ pretty sad is that meeting simply and generous loving people that you will never see again. thanks for sharing
Damn, it's crazy watching you go to these old belarussian villages, my grandma is from a really small village in Belarus called Yureli, with a population of like 8 (? maybe less now). As a kid I used to visit that village often and I couldn't imagine anyone from the west actually coming over and being interested in these. You're a legend dude
only eight people? that makes me so sad.
Only eight people? That's heaven for me!
@@user-xr6sv8vt1d yeah! i'll update you when there's less
Went to visit my grandparents in 2017, 2018. 2019.
Every time we came, it was less population...
I think now, in the end of 2020, its 4 or 5 left. And my grandpa passed away on halloween 2019 ((((
I think I heard him say 'Yureli' in another video. There may be a video on it.
it may look plain and may look like a bleak place to live in, maybe even depressed, but kids who grew up like this had the best childhood. We didnt need any unnecessary toys, any technology, we knew how to have fun with sticks and stones. I'm happy to grow up in a place like this
Nah my childhood was heaps better I bet ya 😂
@Mike Hunt he’s reminiscing in humility and you grew up to be a scumbag
i agree, and i grew up and live in canada, my childhood was similar due to my age, we didnt have cell phones and the internet when i was a kid, we used our imaginations.
@@SnipeZz33 Someone woke up on the wrong side of his wooden plank didnt they haha
Its just facts. Bet my childhood was heaps better
@@MikeHunt117 who cares about ur childhood
In Italy i Met young people from Belarus that used to spend Summer holidays with italian families. They looked to me nice, friendly, talkative (they learnt italian fastly). Much more friendly,then some other populations from central Europe.
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Italian are rude
this grave yard culture is amazing, I like it !
I grew up in a belurussian village before moving away with my family and you're videos brought back a lot of good memories, thank you!
TheRoyalSh0t good memories? You sure?
@@Bulskee I'm very sure
@@TheRoyalSh0t from the outside looking in it looks depressing as a whole but home is home and always brings good memories. Glad you got to see this.
@@mirekpilsudski One who hasn´t lived this thyself or with family ties won´t understand that.
I´ve seen more poverty in some "shining and new" houses in much more industrialized countries.
@@ronin47-ThorstenFrank very well said
I have been visited parts of the USA like this. Same poverty, different flavour.
Wait, really? Where are those?
@@rotkiw8031 heh, texas, Arizona, sweet home Alabama and etc.
Well yeah, considering that USA is literally bigger than whole europe. It is likely there would be poor villages as well.
@@ilikechocolate3741 Europe is bigger in population and bigger in area than US, so you're wrong here mate.
Rotkiw just go to Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas, New Mexico, South Dakota en you’ll find towns with less than 500 people, pretty much jobless and living in poverty. The US is not all gold and glitter.
The respect and warmth towards the traveler is something moving. It has deep historical foundations but it is also very present-day.
Thank you for showing us something I would never know. Oh bless her, just waiting for a bucket. Such friendly humble people.
Hey Bald, I'm sure this comment will get buried, but I just wanted to say - thank you for what you're doing - sharing the stories and lives of these people around the world. In the West we lose sight of how good we actually have it and I fear it will lead to our demise. These stories give (some) of us perspective and help to keep us grounded. Thank you.
Absolutely true. The comment's not buried by me. Cheers my friend. WT
You are right. I watch these things so when I look in my living room I am more greatful for the things I have because so many people in the world really have nothing and not even sure where food for the next meal will come from. Even the poorest in this country is better off then being poor in many countries. However that does not mean we don't have tons of things to work on because when you have a good solid working class you have a happy country. When you have the top 1% of American wealthiest taking 90% of American wealth you get resentment and anger which is happening today in this country. While I do not believe everything should be free and government provided or communism I do believe the government does have some responsibility when they do not provide equal opportunities and thus people who are poorer never get a chance to move up no matter how hard they work. It is absurd the companies like Walmart make billions in profit ( now pay hardly anything in taxes) and then the American people basically supplementing there wages because they cannot live on the horrible wages. Basically it only profits the rich and since the middle class pay a higher rate in taxes then the rich do today it hurt the bedrock of our community. Without a fair and good education in poorer communities happens then the next generation never moves ahead.
Not me, A lot of us americans came from poor just like this right here in the USA.
3:53 this lady represents grandmas here in ex Yugoslavia region. Grandmas who are slowly disappearing. Mine died in 2009. :( When I see them all I want is to protect them and hug them (granddads as well).
Villages like this are also dying out, because of destroyed countries and greedy politicians, people are forced to leave them.
My mom's village in Croatia is empty now, because of the war.
Heartbroken.
I love your kindness
Pa vidi niko vise nece da zivi na selu tako da ono ..
@@BokulaA well not really, a lot of people do but the agricultural and livestock market is really shit and they fuck you over every chance they get and also the roads are really bad and you have a bus line running once a day, a lot of people do but it is more expensive/risky to do that.
@@angeloreyes1951 and loads of young people dont want to live in village, they want to live in cities.... Dont put all the shit on hte goverments, when the people are shit in the first place ;)
Never will forgot times when as young boy with my Grandma we were collecting limeflowers from old tree behind farm. Slavic Grandmas-beautiful and unique species.
I've just come across your channel. Respect to you for showing the world most westerners don't know about, such poverty, such remoteness, isolation. We take so much for granted where I live. Thankyou for how you speak to the people, you show us how most have nothing but are great and honest people.
I love watching these videos it makes me wanna stop complaining about my life thank you so much for sharing ❤️🌹
Your videos are always natural and are like good tonic for a complex world we now leave in. Love your videos because they are real and natural. Thanks bro.
You know you're in Eastern Europe when old ladies wear headscarves all the time.
My grandma wore a headscarf pretty much any time of day, unless there was a special occasion. Western Europe, Germany, but that practice has been forgotten/abandoned long ago.
mimun e could be true. I had a Georgian great grandma and I don’t remember seeing her without her headscarf
In Ireland, my granny also wore a headscarf. God be with the days..
I suppose Sicily is also eastern Europe? Grandmas wearing headscarves is a common European thing. It's not an "eastern Europe" thing. It's everywhere, but it's going away as they die off.
@@lajoswinkler pretty clever if you ask me, they never have to worry about having a 'bad hair day'.. 😊
I am so addicted to these videos.Whenever I have a long day of work, I come home cook some meal and watch this channel till I sleep.Everyday a new adventure, I love it.
Beautiful village, greetings from BHUTAN
Looks awesome there
Wow! This Belarus series is amazing and tells so much stories from the past thru dilapidated buildings, graveyards and people living there. I would say this is the real UNTOLD HISTORY and STORIES. You are doing amazing job Baldy sharing the real stories of Belarus. Thank you.
"A gypsy stole the bucket from my well" is one of the most random and hilarious things I've ever heard.
I Feel bad for the lady though.
From Moscow to Paris, Gypsies are a pain. Let me quote our fascist grandpa Le Pen: "Les rom sont comme les oiseaux, ils volent naturellement", gypsies are like birds they steal/fly (same writting and pronounciation in french) by nature.
Well, stories about governments and people culling gypsies go back a millennium. Albanian ones are pretty funny.
pgthinker007 Good luck because with the advent of birthright citizenship throughout the world gypsies are now in the open.
Oh and by the way its very typical for gypsies to drill holes into concrete roads and steal water and electricity from the public, local governments love to ignore that because votes.
quite a common argument in Eastern Europe. And not always false ether. My ex who is Ukrainian had gypsies as neighbors and they where pretty much as you would imagine a stereotypical gypsie family would be like. xD
I love your work. You really broaden and open my mind to the world, especially Europe, thanks.
Reminds me of my first wanderings in Western Ukraine.
Flawless language skills. Perfect editing, that makes the atmosphere vivid. BRAVO!
Never thought that English guy can be so brave! You are like an explorer. Thank you for showing ww2 memorial, it was so touching.
Greetings from Russia
Very well said!
Those who fought for the Motherland and payed the ultimate price deserve the most respect from every decent human being in Earth...!
Russia has the tradition of the march of the Imortal Regiment (if I am not mistaken the name)... that's very touching and a great tribute to those who died in order that we might be here today...
In western countries the adulteration of History has became a standard, a full time job...to say the least...!
It is good (and a hope) that there are countries and people that still know where they come from and where they are heading...
Be well, stay safe, and best wishes for you and yours...
@@GAUROCH2 the red army were rapists
GAUROCH2 o
So Brave haha, its belarus for goodness sake full of gentle potato people :)
@@user-ct7fd2xq1l The Nazis did that to their enemies, Stalin did that to his own people.
Actually large parts of rural Eastern Europe look like this
yeah, im from Bulgaria, its so weird knowing things like these are something unseen for some people
@@yavcho0511 im born romanian and most people here in Canada where i live have never seen a life chicken or lifestock in there lifes!
@@marcelcostache2504 wow that's crazy, I don't even like village life but I do agree I've learnt some useful things from doing farm work
@@yavcho0511 i used to help my granparents when i was a kid and did not appreciate it, know there gone i miss them and some of that lifestyle having all this tech does not improve your life its just opens up the work to you, and the world is very very sick.
Eating natural unprocessed food alongside your family on a small table in the country side its the best.
@@marcelcostache2504 yeah, even though I am still a kid myself (18), I used to hate helping out my grandparents cause it's dirty work u know? Feeding the animals, cleaning their pens etc., The grandparents from my mother's side are still alive, so I help them as much as I can now, even though because of school and work I can't visit often
Don’t know how I came across this vlog but found it really interesting.
Hey bald in bankable..ive watchin most of your vlog and i fell in love with it , it gives me a blast from the past things we dont know knor see in movies or even in some you tubers with all the glamour classy tech bussiness class luxury extrabagans on there vlog but you did something that people from 21st doesnt even know this places still exist and best part is your so brave wandering in this places without thinking you might encounter along the way..keep safe mate..fr👍🇵🇭
God bless these people. A rough life for sure, but a simple one where you enjoy life to the fullest at a small scale. Quite formidable to be fair. God bless Belarus and all Slav nations.
@@vih6650 The majority of residents of USSR was very religious despite government was against it. You can't just make people unbelieve by some random law, you know.
God bless all Slavs✊🏻 greetings from your Syrian Orthodox Christian brother in Christ☦️
@@vih6650 but the irony is when the soviet union collapsed, the people started to belive more and more, go see statics, the believers are increasing in Eastern Europe. People did belive in God back in the soviet union days. But the government was against it, they bombed churches, killed priests... You can't say people didn't believe just because their government was communist
@@markwassouf563 they needed something. They needed to go back to something sweet and spiritual after the horror that was the Soviet Union at times. The XXth century till the absolute very end of the millenia was full of suffering for the Russians. Maybe they never should have turned on the Tsar.
That granny is EVERYTHING!
Lovely video. Amazing that you actually went to this village.. thankful for showing how tough life is in this unbelievable place..
How happy are those people even when they live in these harsh place.
I’m a new viewer and I’m loving all the content. Watching these videos makes me feel incredibly blessed to be an American and live in the United States where I can get anything I would ever want. It blows my mind how some of these people like these ladies and Victor have to live everyday.
These sort of travelogue films are an real eyeopener view about how people are living.
wow, how beautiful that through all that desolation, darkness, cold and poverty...there are still beautiful flowers and brightness on their tombstones/gravesites. Shows that humanity, compassion and love exist through all cultures, we need to just remind ourselves of that.
I went to East Germany and Poland with one of my exchange student friends shortly after the wall fell, and after both became sovereigns again.
Honestly, I did not think I would see anything that depressing again in my life. Until Belarus in 2021.
The graveyard tradition is very cool though; quite touching.
Mr Bald. Throughout your videos you make me smile 😁.You fill a need in my soul & I get to see & do those things I don't have resources to do on my own. Thankyou.
The two Babushkas communicating when one is hard of hearing 💗💗
That Babushka was a sweet lady. I'd like to give her a hug.
Very cool indeed. Thank you for the videos, my friend!
Good to found that whatever you are shooting is not a vlog but a documentry..Many wishes..Cheers..