Having finished my hunt for the mosaic of Lisichansk, I headed back out of the mean streets of the suburbs on foot and on the way found the note so rare sight of some gopniks about to kick off. Well I went to work and employed my skills as a gopnik whisperer to calm the situation….
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Probably reason the statue survived is because Donbass rebelled against the new nationalist government that came to power after maidan, and decommunisation did not touch it. (Although I can see that Lenin's statue was demolished. There was no demolition of soviet statues prior to 2014. In my city there was a statue of Lenin standing in the city square all the way u till 2014, when it was pulled down. Now it's just a flat square with nothing in it.
It's our country's history, cant just demonize it. That's what soviets did when they came to power. Destroy and rename everything that reminded of Imperial Russia. Now the new government is doing exactly the same, the hated soviets did.
A gopnik fight. How much better can it get? O, yeah!!
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. – Book of Matthew
Mr Bold I lived most of my life in "La Matanza" Buenos Aires province, I think I can handle ex USSR with hot Baltic beauties and cheap food. I hope you come here some day. Bring the Belarusian hottie with you. Greetings from Argentina.
Your training is super obvious here, same in the ukrainian metro.
Obviously you will never tell us, but we know 😉
Pleasant day, sites to see. Oh look, a drunken brawl is afoot, let's insert ourselves into it!
I love it how the daily bald episode on my birthday is called Gopnik Wars! DWL
how crazy Bald is, walking around ruins, where probably understroyed ammunition lying all over the place.
You tell them это опасно сдесь ночью. And they don't even care:D Tipical Russian/post soviet attitude 😒
You should come to Latvia. I will introduce you
Man, How come you haven't been to Bosnia yet? It's probably the most awesome mixture of Balkans, it's a small Yugoslavia, people are hilarious (resiliant to suffering due humor). I'd be more than Happy to host you in Brčko & Sarajevo. I'm a Geographer and Slavophile, I have a friend from England who visited and managed to stay for 1,5 years and he will be coming back to do a documentary. I think you would really enjoy it and would make for some amazing content!
I absolutely want to do an adventure with you 🤠
OMG I can't believe you sang the Littlest Hobo theme… 😁😁😁
God bless the Free World
Bald, you are very lucky I am pretty sure that the gopnik with the dog was Igor the psycho.
“Oh in English it’s John!” 🤣
Notice that everywhere you go soon after is destroyed by war, now it’s lisichansk, and you just toured britain…
Sad to see Lisichansk in the news for all the wrong reasons. Tragic beyond words.
Only Bald will see random people in an old Soviet town fighting and get excited and join in and try defuse it, hahaha, love this guy.
Now Lhyssichansk is full of Gopiks
Wow this is cool. I’ve just found this channel and I get to see this place before it was destroyed even more. I hope one day you can walk here again when the Ukrainians rebuild it.
Russia just recently re-acquired this town. Interesting.