My Soviet Tourism playlist: ua-cam.com/play/PLNq3y0OU1_Bbvd8dr4mitz8-ZawOw1rBF.html Thank you for watching the Ushanka Show! My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1681667995&sr=8-1 Please contact me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show
Thanks 👍 Listening to the whole story without interruptions is way more interesting! Thanks, Sergey, for what you're doing! People, listeners and viewers! Do put more likes to Sergey's videos!!!
Watching your videos made me realize that we lived in opposing countries in the 80's, but we had a lot in common. Also, when you were in the USSR learning english, I was here in the US learning кириллица. Your channel is one of my most cherished subscriptions here on UA-cam!
I find this story fascinating. Most interesting. Like all of your stories. Thank you Conrad for your effort. Just to let you know. I am working on a package that I will send to you in the morning. In the package I am including some items that you may find interesting. Enjoy. Have a happy summer.
Hello Sergei. I consider your channel a happy find: during my childhood and adolescence I was always curious about what was happening and what it was like on the other side of the "iron curtain". As a Brazilian, living in a pro-US military dictatorship, all the "information" we had came from stupid action movies. After the popularization of the internet we had a lot of information, but not so much about the daily life of the people of the Soviet Union. So I am very happy to have discovered your channel. Thanks for the job! Greetings from Brazil!
@@UshankaShow Dublin in the 1970’s expensive is something I never heard before. As for for her comment about everyone being Catholic which is inaccurate there was and still are Protestants and Jews in Dublin the cathedral she talks about is likely Christchurch cathedral or St Patrick’s cathedral both Church of Ireland (Anglican). I wonder were they allowed to pop into pubs and cafes.
Sergei - When I was a kid in 1985 We Traveled to visit our relatives in Norway who lived in a small Town on the 2nd most popular Fjord. We were in a boat and saw a large Cruise Ship. My Norwegian Cousin turned the boat towards the ship so we could say hi to the passengers on the deck. All of the sudden we saw The Soviet Hammer & Sickle Emblem on the boat. My Mother & us started screaming "Turn Around or they might sink our boat & kill us!!" My Cousin thought we were crazy & when we got 20 feet from the Cruise Ship The Soviet Passengers all Waived to us! We were so confused and my Cousin said "The are very nice and a new Soviet Ship comes to our town at least twice per month". From that Day Forward I became fascinated with The Soviet Union and the People!
I’m building a diorama of the Berlin Wall checkpoints. I am putting miniature contraband such as blue jeans in this Volkswagen van that’s trying to bribe the boarder guards. I was wondering what brands of electronics would be good to make miniature boxes of? I’m familiar with the major brands but I was wondering were there any German brands or European brands or was it basically smuggle in Sony & JVC?
Yeah it’s like just before Brezhnev died and I even have the infamous poster. I also have a nude East German calendar in the guard house for the allied side. It’s up above the doorway in the inside. I even out the correct license plates on the cars. I’ve been trying to find a decent set of Soviet die-cast cars or even a Trabant.
West German electronics brands in the early 1980s would have been Grundig, Braun, Blaupunkt or SABA. Dual for turntables. The Braun Atelier series was designed by Dieter Rams and is a classic. But in the early 1980s, many younger people would buy Sony, Tecnics, or pioneer, it was cheaper and didn't have the same brand as Dad's fifties tube radio in the workshop. I cannot speak on the historical accuracy of East German nude calendars (did they exist or was that something that had to be smuggled in?), bribing the guards (was that doable or would it just land you in East German jail?), or smuggling in electronics (Did that happen? Or was it too hard/uneconomical? Was there a market in East Germany for western electronics? East Germany had electronics, they just were expensive a. f. for the East Germans, but that would apply even more for anything smuggled in, right?)
My mother worked in a R&D institute, where she was responsible for planning mechanization of coal mining. And she often had business trips to Czechoslovakia and GDR and few times been to West Germany. Everyone was envious but also jumped on opportunity to ask her to bring shoes or electronics. Miners had a lot of money(depending on 'plan" and qualifications, 1000+ roubles a month for an engineer responsible for a critical machinery and about half for front line miners but still outlandishly high salary by Soviet standard), but not much to spend on, especially considering their profkoms("labour committee") provided subsidized tickets, vacations etc. In Czechoslovakia and GDR, they had a lot better array of goods than USSR but West Germany was like alien planet. Everything available without any queues or reservations.
Mom owned a Lada 1300 I remember, she bought it in the 80's ... was built like a tanks, you had to blow it up to get rid of it, but they could last long tough. She later changed the car but it had quite a run for it 🙂 When it came to Sugar here in Norway, it was and still is considered bad for you so they tax it and it was seen as a luxury so thats why they taxed it so much. During the war, the first to liberate Norway was soviet that chased and came through Finnmark, we say soviet but it is said that the first soviet soldiers that came was from Ukraine. At a time where the germans used Scorced earth tactics and burned down villages and killed animals and basically destroyed towns. The population of Finnmark that was from norwegian government encouraged to escape the forced evacuation by the Germans, had to endure a pretty hard winter that was coming, they had no housed to live in, they had no livestock to live of, they pretty much had nothing more than the cloths they had on them while they ran for the mountains so they lived in caves and small huts made of materials they could find around. The soviets came as liberators, in the first town Kirkenes they gave of their food and protected the civilians. THAT is why in the north russians (or soviets if you like) was more seen as liberators, and not to be feared.... even up to today ,even that we (I live in Finnmark) do support Ukraine and have basically closed off the russians up here.)). The norwegian troops that came after the soviets, where not that kind to the civilians up here... they treated them badly to be said kindly. That is why you find some monuments around for the soviets soldiers. That said ... there used to be graves around most of Norway with soviets soldiers burried, some from being POW's and other fallen in battles. After the war because the norwegian government was worried that Soviet would use these gravessites to conduct spying around Norway ... they decided to move all the bodies into 1 site.... in a operation called "Operation Asphalt" ...
When are you gonna drop then audiobook version of your American Diaries? I want to hear it in your voice (I’m also desperately lazy about reading physical books these days).
In the 1980s I used to drink with Ukrainian sailors in the port of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Once a month a huge grain ship would arrive from the Ukraine and unload into wast grain silos at a huge mill. The sailors would get shore leave for 5 hours. We would trade AA batteries for vodka.
Could it be due to the fact of maybe foreign investors could that be what they were trying to do with the advertising I don't pretend to understand all of that but is that a possibility? 40:11
Originally this sounded like you recorded it a long time ago but it says 2 months ago so I'm guessing you put it all together into one and uploaded it again. And I can't sit here for 2 hours so it's taken me a couple of days or maybe 3 I'm hoping I will get to the end but it's already midnight. I think it is really weird that people are unsubscribing because they don't like Just one video or a group of videos. Maybe you will come back later with more interesting videos although I think these ones are interesting, personally, I'm just tired and I am like the princess and the pea, I think there is a piece of salt underneath my hip and I can't find it and it's very uncomfortable. I think I just found it anyway. So like Nelly I am hoping to get home soon because then I won't have to remember to come back to this video again. But still it's interesting. I just have to remember that I was in the middle of it. It's like the one about all the leaders of the USSR, I'm going to have to come back to that because 2 hours is too much. Those episodes of Chernobyl were 1 hour each plus a few minutes and even that was pretty long and it had a plot and somebody wrote it and they tried to make it suspenseful. This is just a diary written by a lady who is now dead. But still interesting. Just not for 2 hours. But just weird that people unsubscribe for that. Maybe UA-cam was different back whenever you originally posted it. I messed with my algorithm a lot lately and I'm getting more boring things and a lot of Russia. And then I keep scrolling down and I end up with old movies and 2 hours of rain to put you to sleep. I'm literally not kidding. Sometimes it's 8 hours. Maybe those are the people I should unsubscribe from! It's not like I can't find them if I need them. I'm already using 2 hours of rain and 8 hours of waves splashing on the shore while I listen to episodes of Gray's Anatomy until I've listened to them so many times that my mind wanders and it won't shut off. And then I listen to Konstantin. I think the other night I listened to your last live q&A and I fell asleep for an hour and then I woke up and found out the had finally all the info on the indictment in Georgia and then after that I couldn't fall asleep anymore until 4:00 in the morning. Sorry for the lack of paragraph breaks. Denmark is a hard country to think of the name of when you said it it took me a minute, but even worse is Holland / Amsterdam / Dutch. Why does that have to be so confusing? I couldn't tell for sure whether they got to see regular houses in England because it sounded like they didn't leave London I would think the reason that they could understand in the Polish stores is not just because Polish is similar to Russian but also because Poland being a satellite country of USSR people had to know Russian very often if not always. I don't know how much but I'm betting a lot. Like in Ukraine wait you're from Ukraine. So which language did you learn first? How did they do that? Anna says that the language from Belarus is really beautiful but that nobody speaks it anymore hardly at all because of Russia. One sad thing about being born in America is you are mostly monolingual un less your parents have lots of money or until you get to a certain grade in school then you finally get to learn another language. It would be easier to learn when you are young. But Americans mostly speak English and then secondarily probably Spanish and I don't practice my Spanish very much. I learned it in high school and that was 45 years ago. But it's easier than French. When I was in junior high we only had French. I had to wait two more years to get Spanish and they told me I couldn't drop French. But that was okay. When I was in 12th grade I dropped French. They put me in advanced classes when I was in 11th grade and everything was too hard. But I kept Spanish. So I had 4 years of Spanish and 5 years of French. It should have been four and six but they messed it up. Do you realize that it was just last year when it occurred to me that I could read The Little Prince in English if I wanted to? It's just that I don't want to. I read it in French in 11th grade and I still don't know what it was about. But I'm guessing I wouldn't be interested. But really that's what did it for me. I was finished, they made it too hard when they didn't have to. When I got sick in 12th grade and went to the hospital and then came back They said I didn't have to come back to school and most of the teachers said I didn't have to take a final and the only teacher was my Spanish teacher. She said I could either have a conversation with her for 20 minutes in Spanish or I could take a final. I took the final. It was easier. Like you said when you were home sick or actually you didn't say it but, it's exhausting to talk in another language for a long time. And also I was shy. One time I did talk to my friend on the phone in Spanish for 20 minutes and then I just wanted to go to sleep. But that was maybe in 1985 and I graduated in 77. So 8 years later? It was hard but it was not impossible it was just really tiring. I hadn't practiced in a long time.
Thank you for another very interesting video! 👍 It's a pity that we will never know if the angry wife was happier after the divorce from her naughty husband. I am very curious how the story of this family had continued after this trip 😃 When will the kindle version from your book will be available? I can't wait to read it. Greetings from a viewer from Austia 😊
The MS Estonia that sank in 1994 was a different ship. She was originally named Viking Sally and sailed between Finland and Sweden as a ferry ship for around twelve years before it was sold to Estline. I remember taking a cruise to Stockholm onboard Viking Sally in the late eighties.
Soviets got a few passenger ships from Germany as a war trophy, this one could be one of them, and they didn't convert it to war ship somehow. They didn't need such a ship for carrying passengers, so they used it, as a cruise ship for communist party elite.
Its fascinating that USSR had bigger cruiser fleet in 70s then rest off europe..in 70s cruising in europe was totaly unknown ,it only gained track from 80s. In Yugoslavia people cruised on USSR ships..they were marketed in travel agency's..u would have USA ships for Caribbean and USSR cruise ships for europe...off course prices were astronomical and awerage worker could not afford it
Why wouldn't passengers just buy a bunch of gold or silver coins/jewelry and use that to bring extra money on a trip? A man could have a simple solid 24k gold chain necklace or pocket watch thats got $10k of gold in it, or a woman with some expensive rings and earrings idk how available platinum was in the soviet union but a pair of platinum earings could be $5k+ easy in raw materials if theyre in the old school 70s big gaudy styles which used alot more material. So like if let's say it takes 12 24k gold half dollar sized coins to equal $20k youde only need less than half that in platinum coins Being gold is not magnetic or detectable on machines you could just hollow out your shoe soles put 5-10k of gold coins in it and then glue the shoe back together and you've got Up to 20k in your soles, you have $10k around your neck, a 10k time watch and your wifes got whatever she wants to snuggle in by wearing it. Back in the 1970s the USA only stopped gold standard in the 1973 or 1977 so like ir took time for other countries to follow suit so at the time ALOT of countries legally accepted gold as legal tender and you could go to any bank and swap gold for cash if not that pawn shop type places and jewelry resellers were also around
Yeah, every whore would be a slut, but not every slut is a whore, but the terms are often used (somewhat incorrectly) interchangeably all the time in (no so polite) conversation to refer to any woman in a vulgar manner. I have also heard blyat translated simply as "bitch" or even just "fuck" in the non-sexual sense, which makes less sense, but given blyat seems to often be used as a general term of aggravation or exclamation, I can get it. One of those things that you could just say is "a mean thing to say or general term indicating you are pissed off" as the english translation it feels like.
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You are such an innocent! I can only imagine that your wife was just so happy you can't tell a slut from a whore. You guys are cute.
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Enjoyed so much...thank you❤❤
Thanks 👍 Listening to the whole story without interruptions is way more interesting! Thanks, Sergey, for what you're doing! People, listeners and viewers! Do put more likes to Sergey's videos!!!
Watching your videos made me realize that we lived in opposing countries in the 80's, but we had a lot in common. Also, when you were in the USSR learning english, I was here in the US learning кириллица. Your channel is one of my most cherished subscriptions here on UA-cam!
A four-week vacation trip on a cruise liner, Wow! They must have been high up on the Aparatchick party faithful pecking order.
I dont find your videos boring at all. It's just straight from the horses mouth about life in a different time and part of the world. 👍
I find this story fascinating. Most interesting. Like all of your stories. Thank you Conrad for your effort. Just to let you know. I am working on a package that I will send to you in the morning. In the package I am including some items that you may find interesting. Enjoy. Have a happy summer.
Thanks! I'll be checking my PO Box then!
Hello Sergei. I consider your channel a happy find: during my childhood and adolescence I was always curious about what was happening and what it was like on the other side of the "iron curtain". As a Brazilian, living in a pro-US military dictatorship, all the "information" we had came from stupid action movies. After the popularization of the internet we had a lot of information, but not so much about the daily life of the people of the Soviet Union. So I am very happy to have discovered your channel. Thanks for the job! Greetings from Brazil!
Obrigado!
I agree❤❤❤
Yes
@@UshankaShow Dublin in the 1970’s expensive is something I never heard before. As for for her comment about everyone being Catholic which is inaccurate there was and still are Protestants and Jews in Dublin the cathedral she talks about is likely Christchurch cathedral or St Patrick’s cathedral both Church of Ireland (Anglican). I wonder were they allowed to pop into pubs and cafes.
Loooove this!!!
Very interesting video... I watched all of it
Thanks!
Enjoyed every second of it
Sergei - When I was a kid in 1985 We Traveled to visit our relatives in Norway who lived in a small Town on the 2nd most popular Fjord. We were in a boat and saw a large Cruise Ship. My Norwegian Cousin turned the boat towards the ship so we could say hi to the passengers on the deck. All of the sudden we saw The Soviet Hammer & Sickle Emblem on the boat. My Mother & us started screaming "Turn Around or they might sink our boat & kill us!!"
My Cousin thought we were crazy & when we got 20 feet from the Cruise Ship The Soviet Passengers all Waived to us! We were so confused and my Cousin said "The are very nice and a new Soviet Ship comes to our town at least twice per month".
From that Day Forward I became fascinated with The Soviet Union and the People!
I’m building a diorama of the Berlin Wall checkpoints. I am putting miniature contraband such as blue jeans in this Volkswagen van that’s trying to bribe the boarder guards. I was wondering what brands of electronics would be good to make miniature boxes of? I’m familiar with the major brands but I was wondering were there any German brands or European brands or was it basically smuggle in Sony & JVC?
Yeah it’s like just before Brezhnev died and I even have the infamous poster. I also have a nude East German calendar in the guard house for the allied side. It’s up above the doorway in the inside.
I even out the correct license plates on the cars. I’ve been trying to find a decent set of Soviet die-cast cars or even a Trabant.
West German electronics brands in the early 1980s would have been Grundig, Braun, Blaupunkt or SABA. Dual for turntables. The Braun Atelier series was designed by Dieter Rams and is a classic.
But in the early 1980s, many younger people would buy Sony, Tecnics, or pioneer, it was cheaper and didn't have the same brand as Dad's fifties tube radio in the workshop.
I cannot speak on the historical accuracy of East German nude calendars (did they exist or was that something that had to be smuggled in?), bribing the guards (was that doable or would it just land you in East German jail?), or smuggling in electronics (Did that happen? Or was it too hard/uneconomical? Was there a market in East Germany for western electronics? East Germany had electronics, they just were expensive a. f. for the East Germans, but that would apply even more for anything smuggled in, right?)
My mother worked in a R&D institute, where she was responsible for planning mechanization of coal mining. And she often had business trips to Czechoslovakia and GDR and few times been to West Germany. Everyone was envious but also jumped on opportunity to ask her to bring shoes or electronics. Miners had a lot of money(depending on 'plan" and qualifications, 1000+ roubles a month for an engineer responsible for a critical machinery and about half for front line miners but still outlandishly high salary by Soviet standard), but not much to spend on, especially considering their profkoms("labour committee") provided subsidized tickets, vacations etc.
In Czechoslovakia and GDR, they had a lot better array of goods than USSR but West Germany was like alien planet. Everything available without any queues or reservations.
1000 rubles was pretty alien-like too, especially as it was official wage, not black side hustle
Thank you for putting this video together, it was fascinating!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Mom owned a Lada 1300 I remember, she bought it in the 80's ... was built like a tanks, you had to blow it up to get rid of it, but they could last long tough. She later changed the car but it had quite a run for it 🙂 When it came to Sugar here in Norway, it was and still is considered bad for you so they tax it and it was seen as a luxury so thats why they taxed it so much.
During the war, the first to liberate Norway was soviet that chased and came through Finnmark, we say soviet but it is said that the first soviet soldiers that came was from Ukraine. At a time where the germans used Scorced earth tactics and burned down villages and killed animals and basically destroyed towns. The population of Finnmark that was from norwegian government encouraged to escape the forced evacuation by the Germans, had to endure a pretty hard winter that was coming, they had no housed to live in, they had no livestock to live of, they pretty much had nothing more than the cloths they had on them while they ran for the mountains so they lived in caves and small huts made of materials they could find around. The soviets came as liberators, in the first town Kirkenes they gave of their food and protected the civilians. THAT is why in the north russians (or soviets if you like) was more seen as liberators, and not to be feared.... even up to today ,even that we (I live in Finnmark) do support Ukraine and have basically closed off the russians up here.)). The norwegian troops that came after the soviets, where not that kind to the civilians up here... they treated them badly to be said kindly.
That is why you find some monuments around for the soviets soldiers. That said ... there used to be graves around most of Norway with soviets soldiers burried, some from being POW's and other fallen in battles. After the war because the norwegian government was worried that Soviet would use these gravessites to conduct spying around Norway ... they decided to move all the bodies into 1 site.... in a operation called "Operation Asphalt" ...
Again, super interesting video and subject. It is also funny to hear how many words Finnish (my native language) has incommon with russian
I enjoyed this so much .. heartfelt and wonderful story...sorry about subscribers....please do more stories ..THANK YOU ❤❤
Thank you, I will
When are you gonna drop then audiobook version of your American Diaries? I want to hear it in your voice (I’m also desperately lazy about reading physical books these days).
In the 1980s I used to drink with Ukrainian sailors in the port of Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland. Once a month a huge grain ship would arrive from the Ukraine and unload into wast grain silos at a huge mill. The sailors would get shore leave for 5 hours. We would trade AA batteries for vodka.
By the way thank you for throwing in some of your own book. I haven't bought it yet because it's not my money to spend so I try to be frugal
I’d love to hear more about the angry wife and her cruise
Wonder how Nellie was glue to keep the fruits from spoiling
1:19:55 you're aware that the picture shows members of a UK anti-semitic nationalist group "The National Front" NOT striking workers?
Could it be due to the fact of maybe foreign investors could that be what they were trying to do with the advertising I don't pretend to understand all of that but is that a possibility? 40:11
Originally this sounded like you recorded it a long time ago but it says 2 months ago so I'm guessing you put it all together into one and uploaded it again. And I can't sit here for 2 hours so it's taken me a couple of days or maybe 3 I'm hoping I will get to the end but it's already midnight.
I think it is really weird that people are unsubscribing because they don't like Just one video or a group of videos. Maybe you will come back later with more interesting videos although I think these ones are interesting, personally, I'm just tired and I am like the princess and the pea, I think there is a piece of salt underneath my hip and I can't find it and it's very uncomfortable. I think I just found it anyway.
So like Nelly I am hoping to get home soon because then I won't have to remember to come back to this video again. But still it's interesting. I just have to remember that I was in the middle of it. It's like the one about all the leaders of the USSR, I'm going to have to come back to that because 2 hours is too much. Those episodes of Chernobyl were 1 hour each plus a few minutes and even that was pretty long and it had a plot and somebody wrote it and they tried to make it suspenseful. This is just a diary written by a lady who is now dead. But still interesting. Just not for 2 hours.
But just weird that people unsubscribe for that. Maybe UA-cam was different back whenever you originally posted it. I messed with my algorithm a lot lately and I'm getting more boring things and a lot of Russia. And then I keep scrolling down and I end up with old movies and 2 hours of rain to put you to sleep. I'm literally not kidding. Sometimes it's 8 hours. Maybe those are the people I should unsubscribe from! It's not like I can't find them if I need them. I'm already using 2 hours of rain and 8 hours of waves splashing on the shore while I listen to episodes of Gray's Anatomy until I've listened to them so many times that my mind wanders and it won't shut off. And then I listen to Konstantin. I think the other night I listened to your last live q&A and I fell asleep for an hour and then I woke up and found out the had finally all the info on the indictment in Georgia and then after that I couldn't fall asleep anymore until 4:00 in the morning. Sorry for the lack of paragraph breaks.
Denmark is a hard country to think of the name of when you said it it took me a minute, but even worse is Holland / Amsterdam / Dutch. Why does that have to be so confusing?
I couldn't tell for sure whether they got to see regular houses in England because it sounded like they didn't leave London
I would think the reason that they could understand in the Polish stores is not just because Polish is similar to Russian but also because Poland being a satellite country of USSR people had to know Russian very often if not always. I don't know how much but I'm betting a lot. Like in Ukraine wait you're from Ukraine. So which language did you learn first? How did they do that? Anna says that the language from Belarus is really beautiful but that nobody speaks it anymore hardly at all because of Russia.
One sad thing about being born in America is you are mostly monolingual un less your parents have lots of money or until you get to a certain grade in school then you finally get to learn another language. It would be easier to learn when you are young. But Americans mostly speak English and then secondarily probably Spanish and I don't practice my Spanish very much. I learned it in high school and that was 45 years ago. But it's easier than French. When I was in junior high we only had French. I had to wait two more years to get Spanish and they told me I couldn't drop French. But that was okay. When I was in 12th grade I dropped French. They put me in advanced classes when I was in 11th grade and everything was too hard. But I kept Spanish. So I had 4 years of Spanish and 5 years of French. It should have been four and six but they messed it up. Do you realize that it was just last year when it occurred to me that I could read The Little Prince in English if I wanted to? It's just that I don't want to. I read it in French in 11th grade and I still don't know what it was about. But I'm guessing I wouldn't be interested. But really that's what did it for me. I was finished, they made it too hard when they didn't have to. When I got sick in 12th grade and went to the hospital and then came back They said I didn't have to come back to school and most of the teachers said I didn't have to take a final and the only teacher was my Spanish teacher. She said I could either have a conversation with her for 20 minutes in Spanish or I could take a final. I took the final. It was easier. Like you said when you were home sick or actually you didn't say it but, it's exhausting to talk in another language for a long time. And also I was shy. One time I did talk to my friend on the phone in Spanish for 20 minutes and then I just wanted to go to sleep. But that was maybe in 1985 and I graduated in 77. So 8 years later? It was hard but it was not impossible it was just really tiring. I hadn't practiced in a long time.
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Thank you for another very interesting video! 👍 It's a pity that we will never know if the angry wife was happier after the divorce from her naughty husband. I am very curious how the story of this family had continued after this trip 😃
When will the kindle version from your book will be available? I can't wait to read it.
Greetings from a viewer from Austia 😊
1995 and 1996 E-books can be purchased on my site, sputnikoff-dot-com
The MS Estonia that sank in 1994 was a different ship. She was originally named Viking Sally and sailed between Finland and Sweden as a ferry ship for around twelve years before it was sold to Estline. I remember taking a cruise to Stockholm onboard Viking Sally in the late eighties.
Soviets got a few passenger ships from Germany as a war trophy, this one could be one of them, and they didn't convert it to war ship somehow. They didn't need such a ship for carrying passengers, so they used it, as a cruise ship for communist party elite.
This trip was in 1978, MS Estonia was first launched in 1980.
Never change the name of Ship bad luck ⚓
"when I saw the subway stations in ny.... It was os boring and ..... Not cool." lmfao yeah our subway stations are usually gross 😂😂
There was an incursion by the Red Army to drive out the Nazis from Northern Norway in 1945. It wasn't much, but they actually left afterwards!
Its fascinating that USSR had bigger cruiser fleet in 70s then rest off europe..in 70s cruising in europe was totaly unknown ,it only gained track from 80s.
In Yugoslavia people cruised on USSR ships..they were marketed in travel agency's..u would have USA ships for Caribbean and USSR cruise ships for europe...off course prices were astronomical and awerage worker could not afford it
How did divorce work in the Soviet Union?
My friend I'm just wondering what happened to your blond hair?
I lost my blond hair when I was 12
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Why wouldn't passengers just buy a bunch of gold or silver coins/jewelry and use that to bring extra money on a trip? A man could have a simple solid 24k gold chain necklace or pocket watch thats got $10k of gold in it, or a woman with some expensive rings and earrings idk how available platinum was in the soviet union but a pair of platinum earings could be $5k+ easy in raw materials if theyre in the old school 70s big gaudy styles which used alot more material. So like if let's say it takes 12 24k gold half dollar sized coins to equal $20k youde only need less than half that in platinum coins
Being gold is not magnetic or detectable on machines you could just hollow out your shoe soles put 5-10k of gold coins in it and then glue the shoe back together and you've got Up to 20k in your soles, you have $10k around your neck, a 10k time watch and your wifes got whatever she wants to snuggle in by wearing it.
Back in the 1970s the USA only stopped gold standard in the 1973 or 1977 so like ir took time for other countries to follow suit so at the time ALOT of countries legally accepted gold as legal tender and you could go to any bank and swap gold for cash if not that pawn shop type places and jewelry resellers were also around
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Yeah, every whore would be a slut, but not every slut is a whore, but the terms are often used (somewhat incorrectly) interchangeably all the time in (no so polite) conversation to refer to any woman in a vulgar manner. I have also heard blyat translated simply as "bitch" or even just "fuck" in the non-sexual sense, which makes less sense, but given blyat seems to often be used as a general term of aggravation or exclamation, I can get it. One of those things that you could just say is "a mean thing to say or general term indicating you are pissed off" as the english translation it feels like.
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