Wow, this was so good. He made such a good point about the women protesting by asking Putin for better conditions for soldiers. I was glued to this every minute.
I taught EFL to students in Ukraine and everyone was always apologizing for their English. My response was always, "You speak much better English than I do Ukrainian. If I don't understand you, that's my fault." That admission put them at ease and they would speak English at every chance.
Thanks for a great interview! Maxim is one of the most famous and adequate politicians in Russia, who has a huge number of supporters. I hope that in the new Russia and its political field, Maxim will take a worthy place. I will definitely vote for Maxim :)
I'm Russian, live in Moscow. I couldn't leave Russia when the everything started. Among my acquaintances there are many people who do not support Putin, but we face harassment and insults from all sides - from opponents and supporters of the war. Maxim Katz is the only politician who does so much for us! We love and appreciate him very much, and are looking forward to him becoming head of Russia. He has a lot of useful and important things to say on his channel
Thank you for the opportunity to listen to Maxim Katz. I had not heard of him before, but I did learn another view. I think you do the best analytical presentations on your topics. I look forward to them. This was okay.
It is very sobering to hear this interview. But I am pleased to hear an "opposition" Russian voice. Thank you, Anders, for your courage and perspective in extending the number and variety of voices on this important but horrifying subject
@@chezmoi42 i cheked it, seems legit. although he does not understand senator McCarthy. i vouch for "russian media monitor" they are very accurate, and these days the official russian media is almost enough for a person with critial thinking.
@@sillysad3198 Thanks for the recommendation, i'll check her out. Please tell me who the H understands Kevin McCarthy (who has never been a Senator, AFAIK). And I'm not sure what you mean by "the official russian media is almost enough for a person with critial thinking."
I am happy to see Maxim being introduced here in English. I have always wondered how fluent he would be in this language. He expresses himself well. I have been watching Maxim since June or so, and I send him a few bucks a month on Patreon. I decided I want to help him out since he's suffered a huge income loss due to youtube demonetizing Russia and Belarus views, which as he said, comprise about 60% of his audience. He does a daily editorial style newscast with English subs, but he also hosts a very substantial media offering in Russian only. That side has multiple commentators and analysts. It's like an indy news channel, it seems to me. I have learned a great deal about Russian culture and history from Maxim. Finding him was a bit like putting down an anchor when I felt like I was drifting, for me. I needed to see and hear someone like Maxim because the mere existence of people like him, inside or outside Russia, means that there is real hope for peace and something better whenever this war is over. Putin will make war for as long as he can, but there are people like Maxim influencing Russia and working hard to steer it in a much more healthy direction. He's a good man that deserves a lot of support. In fact, he is modest about the amount of criticism he gets. He gets quite a lot of criticism from all sides, and I really can't understand why that is. He always takes it in stride and never speaks a negative word in return except to those who deserve it (Putin and company, for example). I think he is a pretty good ambassador for the part of Russia that is not completely insane, and I hope we will see more people like him stepping into the English media sphere.
Horrible that UA-cam or Google decided to de-monetize creators who criticize Putin, who fight back against his terrorism. Most Russians oppose the "war". Sanctions are cruel against the people with the least power to stop Putin. UA-cam should only deplatform those who post pro-war content.
As an American who was posted in Denmark, Italy, and Bosnia, it's always funny to talk with Europeans who feel guilty that their English isn't perfect. Meanwhile, I'm thinking "Hey, at least you know another language unlike most of my countrymen who were born in America."
I'm American and I was married to a German wife (now deceased). I attempted to learn and speak German with her family. It was very frustrating because they corrected each mistake I made in grammar or pronunciation. I couldn't get through a sentence without being corrected. In fact, German culture tends to correct people for any behavior not consistent with the norm. American culture rarely corrects anyone for anything, particularly for pronunciation or grammar. I think that is why Germans who live in the US still have a heavy accent after many years. If nobody corrects then they assume they must be speaking correctly.
We don't feel guilty. It is just a common starting phrase whenever we speak another language. Bear in mind that most Europeans speak 2 or 3 other languages than their mothertongue as we are taught at school from an early age. Am Danish, learned English (British), French and German before I was 16.
@@DickReed43 I am Danish and lived in Germany for almost a decade. You are so right! Many of them are always correcting everyone around them about the most silly meaningless things.... Even correcting total strangers.
@@DickReed43 And the "norm" is not known everywhere.... I lived in Hamburg for a few years. You enter a small store and a customer is paying at the cash register. So you line up perhaps towards the right-hand side so as not to block the way in the shop. Then another German comes in and stands to the left at the same distance from the first customer. You become a little wary: what is he doing? When the first customer has finished, the second customer quickly steps forward in front of me and addresses the cashier. If you apologize and say that it must have been your turn, you will be told that here in this shop people ALWAYS line up to the left........ :)
This is your best interview / podcast yet, in my opinion Anders. While not uplifting and positive your guest is imminently qualified and has some great insights. Thank you for putting this together. I would follow Maxime's English channel and look forward to the existing episodes with subtitles. A great guest.
How could this be his best video yet?His videos usually have fascinating new insights, but we didn’t learn anything new here. Everything in the interview has already been discussed ad nausea. For example: that Russians have trained to be a-political, that they don’t think protesting can produce any changes, that the corrupt officials just want to go back to corruption as usual, that those against the war flee rather than protest, etc. We knew all this. The only point I found interesting was his perspective was about the videos protesting for better conditions and equipment for their husbands, brothers, sons, etc. as soldiers.
I stumbled upon Maxim Kantz youtube last sept and have followed every one of his videos since then. He speaks in Russian but you can understand his video by turning on the english subtitles. He makes very good points about how dumb and stupid it was for the russhisty to invade ukraine. You can also clearly see that he is against the war and in putin ina mo (filipino swear word) in particular. I recommend that you tell people you know about Maxim and that there are many russians who are against the war.
@@Princip666 seeing how putin ina mo (Filipino swear words) imprisons and poisons the opposition politicians, he did not fail but rather made out of the russhisty with his life. And what narcotics are you on? Lukashenko IS a dictator. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have known that he is called "Europe's last dictator".
Maxim is my favorite Russian politic. He is really rational and can explain hard things by simple words. And his ideas about how all we should to act against the Putin are right and would be effective, if implement them
I suppose the lack of vast vocabulary helps to keep the terminology simple. I'd actually love to have more politicians describe their ideas in a language they only know the basis of. Would be much harder to hide behind fancy words when you don't know any.
Two of my absolute favorites, what a treat. Thanks! Very hard and thoughtful questions and genuine and interesting responses. Max, your English was fine and sometimes the accent adds to your authenticity so don't sweat it.
A very interesting interview anders thankyou , maxim makes a very valid point about promoting russian media outside of russia , and that russian speakers will have more of an impact on the russian mindset , this has huge potential , hoping the west will look at this more closely .
As a Russian citizen I can confirm that Maxim's videos are one of not so many things that help us keep hoping and coping with all the crazy terrible nonsense that is happening.
Ты, с прогаженными мозгами, дальше надейся на кацев и навальных. Они же предлагают тебе сидеть на диване, а не с молотовым сносить. Ставлю все свои стремления на люстрацию всей руснявой "оппозиции"
@@dpelpal Well I think that a Russian language is better with *English* subtitles is better since he wants to come back to his motherland. So speaking Rusian is the best of two worlds for now.
Seeing that there are people who do not blindly follow Putin is a breath of fresh air. Russia needs more people like this if it will ever recover and be part of the civilized world.
I hope you do understand that Katz lives abroad. He relocated his entire team. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been as brave. Also, he saved some anti-war people from being handed to Russia by Thai government not so long ago, and I really like that he tries to contact as much politicians around the world as possible, including Finland, Germany, Baltic states etc., despite not having too much resources, many people from Russian opposition used to have much, much more, but, unfortunately, didn’t manage to use it as efficiently. He’s also one of the main people that made Russian presidential elections look like a joke (which they ofc are) long before they started by mobilizing his supporters to leave signatures for Nadezhdin, which collected twice as much as needed, yet wasn’t allowed to participate.
Thank you to both of you! It is very good to hear insights from a sane Russian. There's a looong way to go before there is a prosperous and peaceful relationship with Russia and the west, hopefully by mid-century. Maxim touched an interesting point, if (that's a big if) putin's follower will try to build relationships with Europe, how will it be received. I think everyone here is expecting some serious self-reflecting from the Russian side, really on a grassroot level, but somehow I believe their view will be more like let bygones be bygones and we are innocent. That will just pave way for another martyrdom like WWI did for Germany.
if Putin did not start the war on February 24, would you have any questions for the Russians? So why are they there when Putin started the war? How did his performance change people? There is nothing but xenophobia in such accusations.
I‘ve been watching Maxim since 2021 and even worked with him in one election campaign. I respect him a lot, thank you for introducing him to more people
I know there is a hope to end interviews on a high note, but your guest is quite right, people are dying every day, and it's not going to stop anytime soon. In fact, it shouldn't stop anytime soon, because unless there is one very strategic death, stopping now rewards Russia. Excellent interview, I won't say I enjoyed it, but it was worth every minute of my time.
20:30 This sounds like reading the script for "Servant of the People". Brilliant election campaign for Zelensky. Hopefully, the change in Ukrainian culture suggested in that series will now become reality. I think that is the real and personal threat Putin sees in Ukraine, the possibility of an honest and democratic society that unlike "the decadent West" can not be censored away or kept out though cultural or language barriers. The last thing Putin wants is a population getting ideas: "they were like us, talked like us, we were really close, like siblings. Now, they have removed the stronk leader, and they still prosper. They got rid of vrany and corruption, and their lifes is better. Not just for the already rich, for all." "Ukrainians used to be like us, perhaps we can become like them?! Perhaps we can decide ourselves who will sit in Kremlin, and if we think he does not do a good job for the people, we decide for someone else."
That's 100% right. It's one of the reasons why putin started started this war. No to let Ukraine become a prosperous county, so Russians won't get those ideas.
Thank God this interview wasn't done by traditional media. Anders just let Maxim talk freely, some of the most important insights and opinions that was brought forward here would have never seen the day of light in traditional media, Maxim's train of thought would have been interrupted.
Congratulations, you’ve got a subscriber from Russia (and not even from Moscow, if sbd is thinking, “normal” people exist only there, lol) P. S. UA-cam recommendations might give you more, I suppose, this interview’ll be in recommendations of Max’s audience that also watches content in English, I guess, for me it worked that way)
You should also invite Ekaterina Shulman for an interview. This is a Russian political scientist. Along with Maxim, she expresses a very adequate and balanced point of view. And it is also useful to listen to it for those who are really interested in what is happening with Russian society inside Russia.
It's good to have the point of view of the Russian opposition. If Katz has many Russian viewers, it means that the popular inclination is not as pro-war or even indifferent as we might assume.
I'm so happy you brought Maxim over, I'm a big fan of his work and his channel. He is incredible at explaining Russian politics. This interview helps introduce Maxim to more western audiences (all his videos have excellent English subtitles).
Historycally, the Russian governments and tzars practically always didn’t let and didn’t encourage the masses of the Russian people to sincerely express themselves in politics, but stopped and scared them away from doing that.
What a great interview and objective insight! Of course I fully stand behind Ukraine and I have all the understanding if no Ukrainian has the slightest sympathy for anything russian. I agree with Maxim, as long as Putin is in power, relations with Russia cannot be normalised. As long as the aggression continues, Russia as a nation is straight the enemy of Ukraine and thus of all the West, because there can be no other position, legally and morally, than to be fully on the side of Ukraine. But what is great about this interview is the understanding, that the enemy is the regime, the government and all that pull strings, but not any individual just because they are born russian, or speak russian, or live in Russia, if they do not support such a Russia. Yes it will be a long, long way for Russia to be recognised as a normal nation and neighbour. While the West fully needs to support Ukraine to a complete military victory, which is inevitable if the West indeed supports accordingly, we should also be supportive of those individuals and groups that do want a different Russia, a democratic, rule of law, peaceful, non-imperialistic Russia. Hardly imaginable for a long time to go, but a worthy cause. When Putin is once gone, which luckily might not take too many years, there is a window of chance opening for rapprochement. The work of people like Maxim is really important, because they are, to put it metaphorical, the custodians of the seeds from which a decent Russia can grow.
Maxim makes a solid point in support of a well armed civilian population that can at least pose a threat to a potentially authoritarian government. When a government holds all the power they have no incentive to change. Peaceful protests only go so far in a dictatorship.
But guess who's coming back from Ukraine in large numbers? RF veterans with extensive weapons experience who might be a little disgruntled with the shambles they had to endure
@Zolton The Magnificent certainly militarized and surely getting a gun in Russia is just about having the roubles. Not exactly a society known for its red tape
Anders - well done to you and Maxim for aligning the diaries to make this happen. When ‘all of this happened’ I felt the need to learn more than the rather shallow mainstream media had to offer so initially consumed a rather scattergun diet of YT but fairly rapidly downsized to a select few channels who I believed did (and still do) produce a quality output: 1. Maxim Katz. 2. Vlad Vexler. 3. Anders Puck Neilson 4. Reporting from Ukraine. 5. LVIV Media.
Im German and see quite a bit of parallels with the Nazi times and Hitler, (note that I’m realizing as far as I can that Nazi Germany was VERY bad for the whole world and Putin isn’t yet at a holocaust leveled of things it’s different times and it’s a different media propaganda world these days) My father was 14 when germany surrendered and he told me that at the first sight of US soldiers he spat on the ground and ran. He had grown up under that regime and was fully engaged in hitleryouth and all of that. That was his world up to then. I’m glad to say he turned that page rather quickly and was a social democrat most of his life, but it needs a solid event to shake a country that indoctrinated out of it. And looking at the number of old nazis that remained more or less untouched after the war… I hope Russia does a better job after Putin. As for Putin himself, I think his situation isn’t that different from hitlers either.back to the wall not able to see a peaceful way out for himself… 🥶🥶 I hope Russia gets over him before it escalates to nukes.
Such an amazingly different situation and perspective between the east and the west. .We just see things very differently. I'd say much of it is decades of hard won experience in how things actually work in the east.
Interesting to hear a russian point of view. I'm not surprised by the seeming disconnect in Maxim's opinion thinking that the next government will be different or that a new government will care what the people care about. Thought provoking.
My favorite bit by Maxim so far is him saying TV Rain in Latvia have to explain why they support the war while in Israel you can live regardless of your political views. He couldn't describe his stance better than this.
It’s not the same comparison. Latvia was subject to repression and deportation by a Moscow led government. It views the conflict as one that could gravely spill over and endanger its survival. A better comparison for the degree of freedom would be around how Israel would react to reporting favorably on issues like Palestinian self determination. With the caveat that even there, Israel has an outsized force advantage compared to Latvia.
@@Luciachan23 I didn't compare Latvia to Israel. I wanted to highlight that russians don't feel comfortable in Latvia where you can't support the war. But they do pretty good in Israel where they can support it. It tells us more about these "good" russians and where they stand in the war.
@@p0pka_enota Ah, then apologies as I misunderstood the stance! I've heard plenty of "critique" of the Baltic State policy as illiberal or hypocritical and the implication that they should follow the path of other "liberal" states who allow Russian political actors more leeway. They argue this as as if their political actions broadcast using local infrastructure, shouldn't be weighed at all against local concerns. Again, my misunderstanding! That was not what you were saying.
Very exciting guest you found, Anders. Maxim gave an insight from a different angle we don't come around often these days. The interview gave me a lot to think about, and some new understanding (I hope). It's important to get information seen from different perspctives. For me this interview was a welcome addition, and at the same time disturbing and refreshing. Thanks for sharing with us.
@@dpelpal Thanks for the recommendations of 3 Максим Кац videos: - 5 Myths about Russia - Propaganda - Navalny's Oscar I can't get my browser to translate the UA-cam video titles into Englsih so I can't find them myself, but I will ask Maxim himself in his community section for links to the three. That should work. Your comment I'm replying to has disappeared , or I can't see it (some UA-cam technical issue, long explanation, but happens once in a while to anyone, so not of anyone's fault). But I see it in my "Notifications".
@@larsrons7937 That sucks. I'm assuming you're Danish, do you use English as your browser/youtube setting? I can see the titles in English with mine set that way (mine's set to american english, btw). But here here links. 5 Myths about Russia: ua-cam.com/video/kiIrijhPyDY/v-deo.html Navalny's Oscar: ua-cam.com/video/1VH4CwB7GqU/v-deo.html Speaking truth to Power: ua-cam.com/video/HPTItufDCec/v-deo.html
@@dpelpal Thank you so much for the links. Half the time my post disappears if I post any links, even if UA-cam links. No. 3 is "Speaking truth to Power", is that the "Propaganda" video you mentioned, or is that a different video? Yes I am Danish. I checked and my browser settings seem to be in Danish, but many sites are in English by default. So I guess it's set to Danish but accepts English as well. I often use MS Edge, I.d.k. why, because I'm not that good friend with Bill Gates. 😄 I have UA-cam in English, but any video titles are in the originally uploaded language. Often I can guess but I'm not very good at reading Cyrillic letters.
Put in simple terms, Russia does not have the demographics to support a sustained war like they did in the past. Russia's population has been in drastic decline since the fall of the Soviet Union. @ 30:31 "They don't have weapons." (to use guns to rise up and protest the war). Politicians in America know that the people have the means to rise up if need be. Very sad that Russians don't have the means. By the way, Vlad Vexler here on UA-cam said much the same thing about the Russian people and their disinterest in politics. Vlad Vexler also a good, thoughtful channel. Bottom line is the only way this ends is if Putin goes.
“The people” isn’t a coherent group that would provide any sort of check on a government no matter the rate of private firearm ownership. Elections and democratic rituals and norms fill that role. When Congress passes laws they aren’t thinking about how many handguns are in circulation. They do think about their districts voting trends though.
@@ebrim5013 Still, I worry about America. Am old so will not experience it but would like to see what the picture is in 10 years. A lot has changed and there is a new power namely social media together the number of guns could turn against democracy.
One of the biggest problems of today is that people of the world (people of different backgrounds in the West vs Ex-USSR people, and I'm speaking predominantly about Russians here) have their worldviews and base values placed very very far from one another. This is about everything: a psychology, a view on a way how a person should live and act in various situations, basically how a person should function within a society around this person. This is very deep and probably never-properly-described-yet problem. One of manifestations of this difference is a hint of unfolding 'democracies vs autocracies' situation, where both counterparts are assured to death that their own position is right, and those who live in Russia fail to see that current 'mainstream' political way in Russia leads to 'nowhere' at best (and to a major world-size grim disaster at worst).
Mr. Anderson, Sir, I want to thank you once again for your military expertise and your intelligence. I wish that I could meet you and your wife if and when you visit New York City. My wife would be privileged to take you to dinner and show you Manhattan through the eyes of natives. Best regards Paul Messina, New York City, New York
Interesting comments on freely supporting Russian speaking opposition media and not pressuring them to push Euro centric viewpoints. I think this is important because any change in Russia necessarily must come from the Russians themselves.
Things that I think Maxim haven't mentioned but he could do: West should absolutely support Ukraine and don't discriminate people by the fact that they have russian citizenship. First, obliviously, would help to ruin Putin's regime and the second will have russians feeling that they're not alone in their fight against oppressing goverment. Both of these are very important.
That's the thing with Katz. He does not support Ukraine at all. He also has terrible views about Ukraine and is low-key neoimperialistic as well. Just being anti-Putin is not enough. He's judging european values while in no position to do so. He talks about Ukraine and what should be done to/in Ukraine like it's an object, not a subject, which is all too common. He is popular on UA-cam apparently and claims to be a major opposition figure, but makes no actual attempts to gather momentum except complaining about everything, including the West. To me, he is just another fake liberal and "allowed" opposition. Someone, who doesn't get dangerous to anyone, someone who just calms the masses in front of their computers and feeds them pseudo-oppositional hot air.
This is one problem of common conception of the Russian Army. Generation of Russian chest thumping war movies, RT propaganda, have made many think of the Russian Army like the Red Army of 1944/45. Which forged in blood and steel on the anvil of the Wehrmacht and high on Uncle Sam's logistical steroids was a somewhat competent fighting force. The truth is it's closer to the Tsarist Army of 1904/05, the one the Japanese wiped the floor with, a conglomerate of corruption, nepotism, incompetence, alcoholism and abuse. The Putin governments social reach into the Russian population as also more similar to the loose grip of the late Tsarist empire, then the iron fist of stalinist times.
@@RainerMichelle i hope russia will lose like in 1918 but it is funny that russians decided to repeat 1905 merely 9 years after the event. and then repeated it several times over rght until killing their Empire second time in 1979 in afganistan
@@RainerMichelle it doesn’t look like he’s wrong. Unless something changes dramatically, Russia will be out of Ukraine in a few years, maybe even this year. Without more mobilization, Russia might be thrown out in a few months.
ww2 the Russian army had great demographics to fight, young population, loads of young men. And this was a war of defense, not aggression, so level of motivation is very different.
Listen to Maxim and practice English! it must be my birthday😃
Hi from Belarus and many thanks to Maxim and his team for their work ❤️
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Great interview, clarifies many of the issues that opposition politicians face in Russia at the moment
Wow, this was so good. He made such a good point about the women protesting by asking Putin for better conditions for soldiers. I was glued to this every minute.
I taught EFL to students in Ukraine and everyone was always apologizing for their English. My response was always, "You speak much better English than I do Ukrainian. If I don't understand you, that's my fault." That admission put them at ease and they would speak English at every chance.
That's our cultural post-soviet thing
Thanks for a great interview! Maxim is one of the most famous and adequate politicians in Russia, who has a huge number of supporters. I hope that in the new Russia and its political field, Maxim will take a worthy place. I will definitely vote for Maxim :)
I'm Russian, live in Moscow. I couldn't leave Russia when the everything started. Among my acquaintances there are many people who do not support Putin, but we face harassment and insults from all sides - from opponents and supporters of the war. Maxim Katz is the only politician who does so much for us! We love and appreciate him very much, and are looking forward to him becoming head of Russia. He has a lot of useful and important things to say on his channel
Thank you for the opportunity to listen to Maxim Katz. I had not heard of him before, but I did learn another view. I think you do the best analytical presentations on your topics. I look forward to them. This was okay.
It is very sobering to hear this interview. But I am pleased to hear an "opposition" Russian voice. Thank you, Anders, for your courage and perspective in extending the number and variety of voices on this important but horrifying subject
too bad this guy is fake.
Another good channel is 'Inside Russia'.
@@chezmoi42 i cheked it, seems legit. although he does not understand senator McCarthy.
i vouch for "russian media monitor" they are very accurate, and these days the official russian media is almost enough for a person with critial thinking.
@@sillysad3198 Thanks for the recommendation, i'll check her out.
Please tell me who the H understands Kevin McCarthy (who has never been a Senator, AFAIK).
And I'm not sure what you mean by "the official russian media is almost enough for a person with critial thinking."
Highly recommend his UA-cam channel it is insanely good!
I am happy to see Maxim being introduced here in English. I have always wondered how fluent he would be in this language. He expresses himself well. I have been watching Maxim since June or so, and I send him a few bucks a month on Patreon. I decided I want to help him out since he's suffered a huge income loss due to youtube demonetizing Russia and Belarus views, which as he said, comprise about 60% of his audience. He does a daily editorial style newscast with English subs, but he also hosts a very substantial media offering in Russian only. That side has multiple commentators and analysts. It's like an indy news channel, it seems to me.
I have learned a great deal about Russian culture and history from Maxim. Finding him was a bit like putting down an anchor when I felt like I was drifting, for me. I needed to see and hear someone like Maxim because the mere existence of people like him, inside or outside Russia, means that there is real hope for peace and something better whenever this war is over. Putin will make war for as long as he can, but there are people like Maxim influencing Russia and working hard to steer it in a much more healthy direction.
He's a good man that deserves a lot of support. In fact, he is modest about the amount of criticism he gets. He gets quite a lot of criticism from all sides, and I really can't understand why that is. He always takes it in stride and never speaks a negative word in return except to those who deserve it (Putin and company, for example). I think he is a pretty good ambassador for the part of Russia that is not completely insane, and I hope we will see more people like him stepping into the English media sphere.
He totally changed my view of Russia! "Anchor" is a great term for him.
@@dpelpal Yes, like a news anchor! It's funny because I didn't even mean to make that double entendre. :)
Yes I have been following Maxim since i stumbled upon his channel last september.
Exactly - Maxim is The President of "The non insane Republic of Russia".
Horrible that UA-cam or Google decided to de-monetize creators who criticize Putin, who fight back against his terrorism. Most Russians oppose the "war". Sanctions are cruel against the people with the least power to stop Putin. UA-cam should only deplatform those who post pro-war content.
As an American who was posted in Denmark, Italy, and Bosnia, it's always funny to talk with Europeans who feel guilty that their English isn't perfect. Meanwhile, I'm thinking "Hey, at least you know another language unlike most of my countrymen who were born in America."
Very true
I'm American and I was married to a German wife (now deceased). I attempted to learn and speak German with her family. It was very frustrating because they corrected each mistake I made in grammar or pronunciation. I couldn't get through a sentence without being corrected. In fact, German culture tends to correct people for any behavior not consistent with the norm.
American culture rarely corrects anyone for anything, particularly for pronunciation or grammar. I think that is why Germans who live in the US still have a heavy accent after many years. If nobody corrects then they assume they must be speaking correctly.
We don't feel guilty. It is just a common starting phrase whenever we speak another language. Bear in mind that most Europeans speak 2 or 3 other languages than their mothertongue as we are taught at school from an early age. Am Danish, learned English (British), French and German before I was 16.
@@DickReed43 I am Danish and lived in Germany for almost a decade. You are so right! Many of them are always correcting everyone around them about the most silly meaningless things.... Even correcting total strangers.
@@DickReed43 And the "norm" is not known everywhere.... I lived in Hamburg for a few years. You enter a small store and a customer is paying at the cash register. So you line up perhaps towards the right-hand side so as not to block the way in the shop. Then another German comes in and stands to the left at the same distance from the first customer. You become a little wary: what is he doing? When the first customer has finished, the second customer quickly steps forward in front of me and addresses the cashier. If you apologize and say that it must have been your turn, you will be told that here in this shop people ALWAYS line up to the left........ :)
This is your best interview / podcast yet, in my opinion Anders. While not uplifting and positive your guest is imminently qualified and has some great insights.
Thank you for putting this together. I would follow Maxime's English channel and look forward to the existing episodes with subtitles. A great guest.
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How could this be his best video yet?His videos usually have fascinating new insights, but we didn’t learn anything new here. Everything in the interview has already been discussed ad nausea. For example: that Russians have trained to be a-political, that they don’t think protesting can produce any changes, that the corrupt officials just want to go back to corruption as usual, that those against the war flee rather than protest, etc. We knew all this.
The only point I found interesting was his perspective was about the videos protesting for better conditions and equipment for their husbands, brothers, sons, etc. as soldiers.
I stumbled upon Maxim Kantz youtube last sept and have followed every one of his videos since then. He speaks in Russian but you can understand his video by turning on the english subtitles. He makes very good points about how dumb and stupid it was for the russhisty to invade ukraine. You can also clearly see that he is against the war and in putin ina mo (filipino swear word) in particular.
I recommend that you tell people you know about Maxim and that there are many russians who are against the war.
His guest is a failed politician living in Israel, who thinks Lukashenko is a dictator.😆
@@Princip666 seeing how putin ina mo (Filipino swear words) imprisons and poisons the opposition politicians, he did not fail but rather made out of the russhisty with his life. And what narcotics are you on? Lukashenko IS a dictator. Unless you have been living under a rock you will have known that he is called "Europe's last dictator".
Excellent. Thank you.
Maxim is my favorite Russian politic. He is really rational and can explain hard things by simple words. And his ideas about how all we should to act against the Putin are right and would be effective, if implement them
I suppose the lack of vast vocabulary helps to keep the terminology simple. I'd actually love to have more politicians describe their ideas in a language they only know the basis of. Would be much harder to hide behind fancy words when you don't know any.
Two of my absolute favorites, what a treat. Thanks!
Very hard and thoughtful questions and genuine and interesting responses.
Max, your English was fine and sometimes the accent adds to your authenticity so don't sweat it.
A very interesting interview anders thankyou , maxim makes a very valid point about promoting russian media outside of russia , and that russian speakers will have more of an impact on the russian mindset , this has huge potential , hoping the west will look at this more closely .
As a Russian citizen I can confirm that Maxim's videos are one of not so many things that help us keep hoping and coping with all the crazy terrible nonsense that is happening.
Ты, с прогаженными мозгами, дальше надейся на кацев и навальных. Они же предлагают тебе сидеть на диване, а не с молотовым сносить. Ставлю все свои стремления на люстрацию всей руснявой "оппозиции"
Thanks for that recommendation. Maxim's channel seems to be one I can recommend to Russian speakers.
Great interview, very informative. Hopefully, Maxim does go forward with English vlogs, we could certainly do with first hand information on Russia.
He could be a huge force if he did more interviews and spoke to western audiences more!
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Well I think that a Russian language is better with *English* subtitles is better since he wants to come back to his motherland. So speaking Rusian is the best of two worlds for now.
Actually his Russian channel with English subtitles is perfect. The subtitles are the best on YT and capture the mood, nuance and idiom perfectly.
Seeing that there are people who do not blindly follow Putin is a breath of fresh air. Russia needs more people like this if it will ever recover and be part of the civilized world.
I hope you do understand that Katz lives abroad. He relocated his entire team. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have been as brave. Also, he saved some anti-war people from being handed to Russia by Thai government not so long ago, and I really like that he tries to contact as much politicians around the world as possible, including Finland, Germany, Baltic states etc., despite not having too much resources, many people from Russian opposition used to have much, much more, but, unfortunately, didn’t manage to use it as efficiently. He’s also one of the main people that made Russian presidential elections look like a joke (which they ofc are) long before they started by mobilizing his supporters to leave signatures for Nadezhdin, which collected twice as much as needed, yet wasn’t allowed to participate.
This was absolutely necessary and fascinating. Thank you both.
Really good video! Bringing more attention to this man is really important!
That’s a great interview, thank you both!
Thank you both 👍
Thanks for a very good interview with lots of valuable insights and interesting perspectives. Maxim, don’t worry about your English, it’s great! 😊
Thank you so much for the interview!
Thanks a lot. I wouldn't have found him if it wasn't for this interview.
Maxim your English was very succinct and fully understandable.
Maxim Katz is awesome, I watch all his videos with English Captions
Thank you to both of you! It is very good to hear insights from a sane Russian. There's a looong way to go before there is a prosperous and peaceful relationship with Russia and the west, hopefully by mid-century. Maxim touched an interesting point, if (that's a big if) putin's follower will try to build relationships with Europe, how will it be received. I think everyone here is expecting some serious self-reflecting from the Russian side, really on a grassroot level, but somehow I believe their view will be more like let bygones be bygones and we are innocent. That will just pave way for another martyrdom like WWI did for Germany.
A lot of russians who oppose the war already proclaim their innocence. I think you're right.
if Putin did not start the war on February 24, would you have any questions for the Russians? So why are they there when Putin started the war? How did his performance change people? There is nothing but xenophobia in such accusations.
@@АнтонДудкевич You don't even seem to know when putin started the war.
Very interesting interview. Thanks
Great video. Thank you, both of you!
Always waiting for your videos and analysis
I‘ve been watching Maxim since 2021 and even worked with him in one election campaign. I respect him a lot, thank you for introducing him to more people
I like what he said about protesters in Russia. We should encourage this humble type of protest.
Love the new interview style
I always said that the 1000 tanks that Putin is missing now, is actually houses and apartments in Italy or London.
I know there is a hope to end interviews on a high note, but your guest is quite right, people are dying every day, and it's not going to stop anytime soon. In fact, it shouldn't stop anytime soon, because unless there is one very strategic death, stopping now rewards Russia.
Excellent interview, I won't say I enjoyed it, but it was worth every minute of my time.
20:30 This sounds like reading the script for "Servant of the People". Brilliant election campaign for Zelensky.
Hopefully, the change in Ukrainian culture suggested in that series will now become reality.
I think that is the real and personal threat Putin sees in Ukraine, the possibility of an honest and democratic society that unlike "the decadent West" can not be censored away or kept out though cultural or language barriers.
The last thing Putin wants is a population getting ideas: "they were like us, talked like us, we were really close, like siblings. Now, they have removed the stronk leader, and they still prosper. They got rid of vrany and corruption, and their lifes is better. Not just for the already rich, for all."
"Ukrainians used to be like us, perhaps we can become like them?! Perhaps we can decide ourselves who will sit in Kremlin, and if we think he does not do a good job for the people, we decide for someone else."
That's 100% right. It's one of the reasons why putin started started this war. No to let Ukraine become a prosperous county, so Russians won't get those ideas.
Excellent interview. Thank you!
that was a cool interview
Thank God this interview wasn't done by traditional media. Anders just let Maxim talk freely, some of the most important insights and opinions that was brought forward here would have never seen the day of light in traditional media, Maxim's train of thought would have been interrupted.
Congratulations, you’ve got a subscriber from Russia (and not even from Moscow, if sbd is thinking, “normal” people exist only there, lol)
P. S. UA-cam recommendations might give you more, I suppose, this interview’ll be in recommendations of Max’s audience that also watches content in English, I guess, for me it worked that way)
agree with you) I came according to the recommendations of UA-cam (subscribed to the Maxim channel :)
Meget interessant. Særligt vinklen om militærets mål om “fred så vi kan leve af vores korruption”, og pointen om hvad der sker efter Putin🤞
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Outstanding to get a Russian perspective
Very interesting interview, thanks!
Wow I've been watching Maxim's channel on and off for 2+ years and this is the first time I've seen him speak English
FINALLY!!!!! Someone finally has Maxim Katz on! His UA-cam channel is the BEST!!!!!!!!
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You should also invite Ekaterina Shulman for an interview. This is a Russian political scientist. Along with Maxim, she expresses a very adequate and balanced point of view. And it is also useful to listen to it for those who are really interested in what is happening with Russian society inside Russia.
Absolutely, she is a true gem. Grigory Yudin, also known as Greg Yudin would be good choice too.
ЮДИН, КАЦ, Шульман. Одни евреи@@olgap.
Great work to get this perspective, encouraging, and unique! Good job for putting this out there!
Maxims youtube channel is AMAZING.
Damn I'm looking forward to this one!
Excellent broadcast!
Thanks great interview.
Bravo Anders and Maxim
Very informative interview
Good discussion.
Ty for this, very informative, godt arbejde som altid Anders👍
Max posts with great humour and it’s a joy to read the subtitles
They are excellent, the best on You Tube. He has a great team working with him.
Some youtubers are just soo good at interviewing. This is a perfect example. And I love it!
Maxims channel is one of the absolute best. If you want to REALLY learn about russia, highly recommend watching it starting from 4 months ago.
Maxim's video on Russian propaganda is the best youtube video I've ever seen in 17 years.🤷♂️
"Propaganda" by Maxim Katz ua-cam.com/video/sJCttIsCzvY/v-deo.html
which one?
Interesting interview, much appreciated. Maxim is a very skilled communicator and maybe one best sources for an anti-Putin russian perspective.
Thanks for informing us of his síte.
His video called "Propaganda" is the BEST
It's good to have the point of view of the Russian opposition. If Katz has many Russian viewers, it means that the popular inclination is not as pro-war or even indifferent as we might assume.
This is the point of many of his videos. They have excellent subtitles, highly recommend all of them!
I'm so happy you brought Maxim over, I'm a big fan of his work and his channel. He is incredible at explaining Russian politics. This interview helps introduce Maxim to more western audiences (all his videos have excellent English subtitles).
Maxim is a great guest, thank you for this interview
Max is a big deal!!💥
Great interview. Thank you to both Anders and Maxim for informing about the situation inside of Russia.
Great Success! Really interesting perspective. Keep up the great content.
Great to hear Maxim speak English. Well done both of you .
Very interesting discussion. I always love your videos.
Bravo Kadz💪🙏
Historycally, the Russian governments and tzars practically always didn’t let and didn’t encourage the masses of the Russian people to sincerely express themselves in politics, but stopped and scared them away from doing that.
Being a professional poker champion would be invaluable when dealing with Vladimir Putin.
I love Maxims take on things and am grateful for the subtitles he puts on his channel.
What a great interview and objective insight! Of course I fully stand behind Ukraine and I have all the understanding if no Ukrainian has the slightest sympathy for anything russian. I agree with Maxim, as long as Putin is in power, relations with Russia cannot be normalised. As long as the aggression continues, Russia as a nation is straight the enemy of Ukraine and thus of all the West, because there can be no other position, legally and morally, than to be fully on the side of Ukraine. But what is great about this interview is the understanding, that the enemy is the regime, the government and all that pull strings, but not any individual just because they are born russian, or speak russian, or live in Russia, if they do not support such a Russia.
Yes it will be a long, long way for Russia to be recognised as a normal nation and neighbour. While the West fully needs to support Ukraine to a complete military victory, which is inevitable if the West indeed supports accordingly, we should also be supportive of those individuals and groups that do want a different Russia, a democratic, rule of law, peaceful, non-imperialistic Russia. Hardly imaginable for a long time to go, but a worthy cause. When Putin is once gone, which luckily might not take too many years, there is a window of chance opening for rapprochement. The work of people like Maxim is really important, because they are, to put it metaphorical, the custodians of the seeds from which a decent Russia can grow.
A free press would help in the process of stimulating a political awareness.
Maxim makes a solid point in support of a well armed civilian population that can at least pose a threat to a potentially authoritarian government. When a government holds all the power they have no incentive to change. Peaceful protests only go so far in a dictatorship.
Exactly why I'm glad we have #2A. Russian autocracy ain't gonna happen here anytime soon.😏
But guess who's coming back from Ukraine in large numbers? RF veterans with extensive weapons experience who might be a little disgruntled with the shambles they had to endure
@@geopolitix7770 Do they come home armed?
@Zolton The Magnificent certainly militarized and surely getting a gun in Russia is just about having the roubles. Not exactly a society known for its red tape
@@geopolitix7770 Not a lot of them are coming back, it's an absolute meat grinder there.
A very, very interesting interview, congratulations !!
Anders - well done to you and Maxim for aligning the diaries to make this happen.
When ‘all of this happened’ I felt the need to learn more than the rather shallow mainstream media had to offer so initially consumed a rather scattergun diet of YT but fairly rapidly downsized to a select few channels who I believed did (and still do) produce a quality output:
1. Maxim Katz.
2. Vlad Vexler.
3. Anders Puck Neilson
4. Reporting from Ukraine.
5. LVIV Media.
Кац красавчик ❤
It is NOT a CONFLICT, it is a WAR.
Im German and see quite a bit of parallels with the Nazi times and Hitler, (note that I’m realizing as far as I can that Nazi Germany was VERY bad for the whole world and Putin isn’t yet at a holocaust leveled of things it’s different times and it’s a different media propaganda world these days)
My father was 14 when germany surrendered and he told me that at the first sight of US soldiers he spat on the ground and ran. He had grown up under that regime and was fully engaged in hitleryouth and all of that. That was his world up to then. I’m glad to say he turned that page rather quickly and was a social democrat most of his life, but it needs a solid event to shake a country that indoctrinated out of it. And looking at the number of old nazis that remained more or less untouched after the war… I hope Russia does a better job after Putin.
As for Putin himself, I think his situation isn’t that different from hitlers either.back to the wall not able to see a peaceful way out for himself… 🥶🥶 I hope Russia gets over him before it escalates to nukes.
Great interview.
Such an amazingly different situation and perspective between the east and the west. .We just see things very differently. I'd say much of it is decades of hard won experience in how things actually work in the east.
Interesting to hear a russian point of view. I'm not surprised by the seeming disconnect in Maxim's opinion thinking that the next government will be different or that a new government will care what the people care about. Thought provoking.
Maxim actually explains why he thinks that way in one of his videos. I'm unconvinced, but that's because unlike him I don't believe in people
Fedt garn!
But it is very understandable that Baltic states are not friendly of ruzzians, they know what could happens and what happened to them
My favorite bit by Maxim so far is him saying TV Rain in Latvia have to explain why they support the war while in Israel you can live regardless of your political views. He couldn't describe his stance better than this.
It’s not the same comparison. Latvia was subject to repression and deportation by a Moscow led government. It views the conflict as one that could gravely spill over and endanger its survival. A better comparison for the degree of freedom would be around how Israel would react to reporting favorably on issues like Palestinian self determination. With the caveat that even there, Israel has an outsized force advantage compared to Latvia.
@@Luciachan23 I didn't compare Latvia to Israel. I wanted to highlight that russians don't feel comfortable in Latvia where you can't support the war. But they do pretty good in Israel where they can support it. It tells us more about these "good" russians and where they stand in the war.
@@p0pka_enota Ah, then apologies as I misunderstood the stance! I've heard plenty of "critique" of the Baltic State policy as illiberal or hypocritical and the implication that they should follow the path of other "liberal" states who allow Russian political actors more leeway. They argue this as as if their political actions broadcast using local infrastructure, shouldn't be weighed at all against local concerns.
Again, my misunderstanding! That was not what you were saying.
They did not support the war
Anders! Happy to see you live! Maxim is a fascinating fellow. Gratitude for featuring him!
Love this! Very informative.
Very exciting guest you found, Anders. Maxim gave an insight from a different angle we don't come around often these days. The interview gave me a lot to think about, and some new understanding (I hope). It's important to get information seen from different perspctives. For me this interview was a welcome addition, and at the same time disturbing and refreshing. Thanks for sharing with us.
Maxim's youtube channel is AMAZING.
@@dpelpal Thank you for the recommendation. I bookmarked the channel for later review. It seems like a channel I will recommend to others.
@@dpelpal Thanks for the recommendations of 3 Максим Кац videos:
- 5 Myths about Russia
- Propaganda
- Navalny's Oscar
I can't get my browser to translate the UA-cam video titles into Englsih so I can't find them myself, but I will ask Maxim himself in his community section for links to the three. That should work.
Your comment I'm replying to has disappeared , or I can't see it (some UA-cam technical issue, long explanation, but happens once in a while to anyone, so not of anyone's fault). But I see it in my "Notifications".
@@larsrons7937 That sucks. I'm assuming you're Danish, do you use English as your browser/youtube setting? I can see the titles in English with mine set that way (mine's set to american english, btw).
But here here links.
5 Myths about Russia: ua-cam.com/video/kiIrijhPyDY/v-deo.html
Navalny's Oscar: ua-cam.com/video/1VH4CwB7GqU/v-deo.html
Speaking truth to Power: ua-cam.com/video/HPTItufDCec/v-deo.html
@@dpelpal Thank you so much for the links. Half the time my post disappears if I post any links, even if UA-cam links.
No. 3 is "Speaking truth to Power", is that the "Propaganda" video you mentioned, or is that a different video?
Yes I am Danish. I checked and my browser settings seem to be in Danish, but many sites are in English by default. So I guess it's set to Danish but accepts English as well. I often use MS Edge, I.d.k. why, because I'm not that good friend with Bill Gates. 😄
I have UA-cam in English, but any video titles are in the originally uploaded language. Often I can guess but I'm not very good at reading Cyrillic letters.
Put in simple terms, Russia does not have the demographics to support a sustained war like they did in the past. Russia's population has been in drastic decline since the fall of the Soviet Union. @ 30:31 "They don't have weapons." (to use guns to rise up and protest the war). Politicians in America know that the people have the means to rise up if need be. Very sad that Russians don't have the means. By the way, Vlad Vexler here on UA-cam said much the same thing about the Russian people and their disinterest in politics. Vlad Vexler also a good, thoughtful channel. Bottom line is the only way this ends is if Putin goes.
“The people” isn’t a coherent group that would provide any sort of check on a government no matter the rate of private firearm ownership. Elections and democratic rituals and norms fill that role.
When Congress passes laws they aren’t thinking about how many handguns are in circulation. They do think about their districts voting trends though.
@@ebrim5013 Still, I worry about America. Am old so will not experience it but would like to see what the picture is in 10 years. A lot has changed and there is a new power namely social media together the number of guns could turn against democracy.
One of the biggest problems of today is that people of the world (people of different backgrounds in the West vs Ex-USSR people, and I'm speaking predominantly about Russians here) have their worldviews and base values placed very very far from one another. This is about everything: a psychology, a view on a way how a person should live and act in various situations, basically how a person should function within a society around this person. This is very deep and probably never-properly-described-yet problem. One of manifestations of this difference is a hint of unfolding 'democracies vs autocracies' situation, where both counterparts are assured to death that their own position is right, and those who live in Russia fail to see that current 'mainstream' political way in Russia leads to 'nowhere' at best (and to a major world-size grim disaster at worst).
Maxim's youtube channel has taught me more about Russia than any other source.
His videos "Propaganda" and "Five Myths about Russia" should be required viewing for anyone following the war.
Mr. Anderson, Sir, I want to thank you once again for your military expertise and your intelligence. I wish that I could meet you and your wife if and when you visit New York City. My wife would be privileged to take you to dinner and show you Manhattan through the eyes of natives. Best regards Paul Messina, New York City, New York
Interesting comments on freely supporting Russian speaking opposition media and not pressuring them to push Euro centric viewpoints. I think this is important because any change in Russia necessarily must come from the Russians themselves.
Things that I think Maxim haven't mentioned but he could do: West should absolutely support Ukraine and don't discriminate people by the fact that they have russian citizenship. First, obliviously, would help to ruin Putin's regime and the second will have russians feeling that they're not alone in their fight against oppressing goverment. Both of these are very important.
agree with you!
That's the thing with Katz. He does not support Ukraine at all. He also has terrible views about Ukraine and is low-key neoimperialistic as well. Just being anti-Putin is not enough. He's judging european values while in no position to do so. He talks about Ukraine and what should be done to/in Ukraine like it's an object, not a subject, which is all too common.
He is popular on UA-cam apparently and claims to be a major opposition figure, but makes no actual attempts to gather momentum except complaining about everything, including the West. To me, he is just another fake liberal and "allowed" opposition. Someone, who doesn't get dangerous to anyone, someone who just calms the masses in front of their computers and feeds them pseudo-oppositional hot air.
Pure evil by design will always promote lethargy and exploits lethargy. This is how truly evil acts are maintained and prepare for.
APN = Best on the web!
Tak. 😊
This is one problem of common conception of the Russian Army.
Generation of Russian chest thumping war movies, RT propaganda, have made many think of the Russian Army like the Red Army of 1944/45.
Which forged in blood and steel on the anvil of the Wehrmacht and high on Uncle Sam's logistical steroids was a somewhat competent fighting force.
The truth is it's closer to the Tsarist Army of 1904/05, the one the Japanese wiped the floor with, a conglomerate of corruption, nepotism, incompetence, alcoholism and abuse.
The Putin governments social reach into the Russian population as also more similar to the loose grip of the late Tsarist empire, then the iron fist of stalinist times.
this is funny, it is exactly what Girkin said in the early stages of the war, he predicted that Russia will lose like against Japan 1905🤡
@@RainerMichelle i hope russia will lose like in 1918
but it is funny that russians decided to repeat 1905 merely 9 years after the event.
and then repeated it several times over rght until killing their Empire second time in 1979 in afganistan
@@RainerMichelle it doesn’t look like he’s wrong. Unless something changes dramatically, Russia will be out of Ukraine in a few years, maybe even this year.
Without more mobilization, Russia might be thrown out in a few months.
ww2 the Russian army had great demographics to fight, young population, loads of young men. And this was a war of defense, not aggression, so level of motivation is very different.
@@AK-74K this was a war of defense, not aggression, so level of motivation is very different.
LOL.
you need to go to school,
1939-1941?
Thanks Anderss and Maxim, TTFN