I found an underground base, Soviet food and a Russian market in Ho Chi Minh

I call Ho Chi Minh my second hometown, because I've lived and worked here after graduating from university in Russia. Here I started my KZread channel and this city gave me an opportunity to start traveling the world. I can't wait to share my love for Ho Chi Minh with this video.
Ho Chi Minh is the largest city in Vietnam, and it’s a business and financial hub of the country. You might have heard different names of this city: Ho Chi Minh and Saigon. Saigon was the capital of French Indochina and then of South Vietnam until the fall of Saigon in 1975. Then the communist government renamed Saigon in honour of the president and the leader of the Vietnamese revolution Hồ Chí Minh.
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Time codes:
00:00 Welcome to my second home - Ho Chi Minh City
00:48 Some history of the city
02:16 My Vietnamese friend who speaks Russian
03:56 Cu Chi tunnels (undeground city)
05:19 History of the American/Vietnamese war
10:30 What it's like to grow up in a communist country
11:55 The Russian market in HCMC
14:46 Let's eat! in a Soviet retsaurant
20:17 Vietnams broke my stereotypes about Asia
21:00 My story in Vietnam
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  • @ElifromRussia
    @ElifromRussia11 ай бұрын

    📍 My videos from Vietnam: kzread.info/dash/bejne/k4pppdJ7hK3ThtY.html - How to find a job abroad | Teaching English abroad without degree kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmR7xM2Jm9XLh9Y.html - I found Soviet heritage... in Hanoi, Vietnam kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaKJltGEnLfYpM4.html - My life in Vietnam (visa run, rice field works) | Is it safe to travel solo as a female?

  • @JP-gi7dw

    @JP-gi7dw

    11 ай бұрын

    Ho chi Minh was not a commie and there has never been a communist country in the world so please stop saying things that aren't true..

  • @kevinken2576

    @kevinken2576

    11 ай бұрын

    vietnamese english is good

  • @johntranq.n-truong1208

    @johntranq.n-truong1208

    11 ай бұрын

    I love you Eli.. you're a critical thinker

  • @JP-gi7dw

    @JP-gi7dw

    11 ай бұрын

    @@johntranq.n-truong1208 a critical thinker would not repeat lies and falsehoods..💯💯 Let's see what happens when she talks dirty about the political system of Viet Nam.. 😂😂

  • @Naturelover-zj5xf

    @Naturelover-zj5xf

    11 ай бұрын

    Suggestion || At top of your home page, display link to your brother, Mansur, KZread account. || This will bring lots of fun to all your KZread fans. And will accelerate your KZread views. Greetings from Oregon, USA

  • @quangduong535
    @quangduong53511 ай бұрын

    Cô bạn đồng hành người Việt Nam rất am hiểu về lịch sử Đất nước... Tình anh em giữa 2 Đất nước Nga - Việt Nam mãi trường tồn, khi các bạn Nga đến thì hãy xem như Đất nước của các bạn. Chúc bạn có những trải nghiệm vui vẻ trên Đất nước tươi đẹp Việt Nam chúng tôi

  • @tuananhtranhuu
    @tuananhtranhuu11 ай бұрын

    Before 1990 Russian was the top foreign language that was taught in Vietnam especially in the northern, so many upper 50 y.o Vietnamese can speak Russian

  • @josephgee2515

    @josephgee2515

    11 ай бұрын

    Is that why that generation spoke French???

  • @hailiemai7213

    @hailiemai7213

    11 ай бұрын

    @@josephgee2515 : The educated elders only. Those who went to school before 1954.

  • @josephgee2515

    @josephgee2515

    11 ай бұрын

    @@hailiemai7213 Ahhh, thanks for explaining. And that historical number and year of 1954, got it. Thanks again.

  • @jerryle379

    @jerryle379

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@josephgee2515french and Russian was main foreign language teach up to 1980s , later replace by English

  • @phanle2870

    @phanle2870

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@josephgee2515​​My grandfather was taugh by French in highschool, but then he learned Chinese to work in a Chinese restaurant in a boat. My father learned Chinese when he went study oversea in Beijing then comeback Vietnam and jointed to Radar & Missle force to protect Hanoi from America's B52 bombing strategy in 1972. I was born in 1976 after the war and studied Russia untill high school, but then studied English when I go to University then worked for a Japanese company!

  • @fatalmokrane
    @fatalmokrane11 ай бұрын

    This series about vietnam is really good.

  • @ElifromRussia

    @ElifromRussia

    11 ай бұрын

    Thank you , I’m very glad 😊🙏🏻

  • @userverseven3516

    @userverseven3516

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ElifromRussia Will you be able to travel to China (in Manzhouli)? China is also a country that adopted Marxism-Leninism from Russia.

  • @zhaoyun3153

    @zhaoyun3153

    10 ай бұрын

    @@ElifromRussia Thank you, Eli.

  • @joserizal6773
    @joserizal677311 ай бұрын

    I visited Ho Chi Minh City last May 2023 for 5 days i tour the beautiful City and the Cu Chi tunnel and then went to Manila. I am planning to go Vietnam in November 2023 to visit Hanoi the old city and the French Quarter and Halong Bay...Watching from California, USA 😊

  • @trungduong4040

    @trungduong4040

    11 ай бұрын

    Welcome to Vietnam. Hope you will have plenty of great experience.

  • @skog44
    @skog4411 ай бұрын

    Thanks again Eli. You are a breath of fresh air that we all need so badly these days!

  • @noelh2918
    @noelh291810 ай бұрын

    This opened my eyes about Vietnam. I had no idea what it is like today. Great video Eli.

  • @CasiyKNguien
    @CasiyKNguien10 ай бұрын

    I love russian language, it sounds like music to my ears. It so so cool to see a VIetnamese speaks Russian. I wish one day I could speak so fluently like that .

  • @Gilvids
    @Gilvids11 ай бұрын

    Good for vietnam for fighting back. I did not realize they went through so much during that war. Theyre very resilient people. RESPECT!

  • @phillip6078

    @phillip6078

    11 ай бұрын

    Who are you preferring to? I was borned in the South after the war. The one event I can remember as a kid was my older brother drew a flag of one country in which he got in trouble for. My family left Vietnam to America to escape Communism.

  • @fatalmokrane

    @fatalmokrane

    11 ай бұрын

    @@phillip6078 you're just a traitor that support the country that burned and destroyed vietnamese people.

  • @Ktaurus26

    @Ktaurus26

    11 ай бұрын

    @@phillip6078south Vietnam was literally a puppet state and a joke. Even if you hate communism that still doesn’t change the fact that regime took orders from the USA

  • @lexuanson1616

    @lexuanson1616

    11 ай бұрын

    @@phillip6078 No Vietnamese wanted war. No one wants their country to be a colony. No one wants their country to be invaded and divided. When World War II period (1941-1945) in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh cooperated with the US to expel the Japanese army from Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh admired the American idea of freedom and democracy very much. Vietnam is the only country in the world that has cited part of the US declaration of independence in its own declaration of independence in 1945. America's action to liberate all US colonial territories including the Philippines has made Ho Chi Minh further more believes in the values of freedom and equality of the United States. Ho Chi Minh wrote 11 handwritten letters (still preserved until now in museums in the US and Vietnam) sent to the US president at that time to ask for the help from the US to persuade France (which was liberated by the US army from Nazi Germany in WW2) to free the Vietnamese from the French colonial regime. But the Americans betrayed the values of freedom and equality and supported French to continue to colonize and occupy Vietnam. The Vietnamese have no choice but to stand up for themselves and seeking the helps from Soviet Russia and communist China. While the entire Vietnamese nation took up arms to defend the country, your parents chose to run away and now blame the communists of Vietnam.

  • @fdisciple7634

    @fdisciple7634

    11 ай бұрын

    @@phillip6078 That's what they tell you but in reality it was the sanctions that made the conditions so bad that people had to leave to try to make a living.

  • @Earthman99999
    @Earthman9999911 ай бұрын

    It's been ten years since I last visited Ho Chi Minh City and I see more modern looking big buildings in this video. The city looks great. Out of all of the other places I've traveled to... IMO the Vietnamese are over all the nicest People and usually always smile. Love their bakeries and coffee in Vietnam. Hope to one day return to visit the country.

  • @JP-gi7dw

    @JP-gi7dw

    10 ай бұрын

    You better hurry.. Viet Nam is being pressured by AMERICA to become another pawn in the game of power and wealth against China and Russia.. 💵💵💯💯

  • @goldmaple5290
    @goldmaple529011 ай бұрын

    Vietnamese are very gentle and nice people. I'm glad you had a chance to experience Vietnam, Eli

  • @richardkerner5817
    @richardkerner58173 ай бұрын

    Молодец Элина, прекрасный репортаж, интересно и непредвзято. С тех пор как я открыл для себя Твои репортажи на ЮТюбе, стараюсь смотреть каждый день. И каждый день Ты открываешь много нового и неожиданного! Спасибо, детка!

  • @thelovertunisia
    @thelovertunisia10 ай бұрын

    Vietnam is like the phoenix, it rose out if its ashes.

  • @gabriellagirardi4741
    @gabriellagirardi474111 ай бұрын

    Great video Eli. I think that your videos are so well done and this one is just awesone. Vietnam is a nice country and Vietnamese people is so kind and I can understand your love for this country besides the fact that you spent some time working in Ho Chi Minh. That underground base is reminiscent of terrible past times and you have been so brave to go there.Thank you very much.

  • @fred993a
    @fred993a11 ай бұрын

    Thank you Eli for another excellent travel video. You are the best!

  • @natashacollier5248
    @natashacollier524811 ай бұрын

    Your friend is so interesting. She speaks Russian impeccably without an accent, no nasal stops between syllables. But her English is spoken with a Vietnamese accent with those stops and ending a word on a vowel rather than a consonant. I wonder if it’s because she was taught English by a native Vietnamese speaker?

  • @sonofsollen2193

    @sonofsollen2193

    3 ай бұрын

    Age of learning makes a big difference. If she learned as a child, and I think she said she made school friends, that could be why. A childs mind is very very capable of learning a new language, and infact can develop some abilities that an adult simply cant, at least not without a ridiculous degree of training. Perfect pitch is a good example of this.

  • @harrydecker8731
    @harrydecker873111 ай бұрын

    That was another entertaining and eductional video. I loved the surprise opening! I so enjoy your videos, Eli, because you keep taking us to different parts of the world to see different cultures and meet different people. Your videos continue to show us how kind and gracrious people are all over the world. One has to ask why there has to be war. Most people really want peace. We're happy that you chose to make videos as your career, Eli, and that you have a KZread channel, Eli. You are truly a beacon of light.

  • @bertanelson8062

    @bertanelson8062

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes!

  • @bibekjung7404

    @bibekjung7404

    11 ай бұрын

    KABEEEER ALMIGHTY GOD 🙏🙏🙏

  • @JesinaNeverCried_for_Argentina

    @JesinaNeverCried_for_Argentina

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes, and I'm too honest for exaggerated comments like above..But I like the tendency of the comment above!

  • @cmsevilla56
    @cmsevilla5611 ай бұрын

    Great video Eli! Your insights about Vietnam are a breath of fresh air. Thanks

  • @hugomitre9096
    @hugomitre909611 ай бұрын

    Hello Eli! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. Much respect and admiration from California!

  • @Syammauryaz
    @Syammauryaz11 ай бұрын

    Respect to Uncle Ho and the Vietnamese people from India. Still amazed at how they were able to defeat U.S and its many allies.

  • @goatfokerkadyrov7528

    @goatfokerkadyrov7528

    11 ай бұрын

    They didn’t defeat us , our own people said no to war -that is a function of democracy

  • @chrisfloyd919
    @chrisfloyd91911 ай бұрын

    I got a surprise introduction into the modernisation of Vietnam when I saw a program about Vinfast electric vehicles & examples of the parent company's other developments.

  • @jerseycitysteve

    @jerseycitysteve

    11 ай бұрын

    Ironically, the modernization of Vietnam is exceeding Russia.

  • @nicholathomas4168
    @nicholathomas416811 ай бұрын

    Great video Eli. I absolutely love your real life videos.

  • @BigBear59
    @BigBear5910 ай бұрын

    A super awesome video Eli…always love your work …and Vietnam is certainly a very interesting country…Thanks for sharing…until soon …Alex🇬🇷

  • @ustit-vuohta6695
    @ustit-vuohta66959 ай бұрын

    I must say I am impressed by you Eli. You were in a CCCP restaurant eating a lot of food, and then you said you were going on a walk to burn those calories. And then you showed up eating a big baguette on that walk. That's really impressing! 💫 💪

  • @aintnomeaning
    @aintnomeaning10 ай бұрын

    You are really great at finding and explaining all these elements to use who haven't been to Russia or the East and only Western Europe/America. I really enjoy your videos, especially these covering outside of Russia!

  • @rupertbhenry3659
    @rupertbhenry365911 ай бұрын

    Excellent and a very marvelous and amazing adventurous Video Vlog! And the young lady that company you to the Tunells are very knowledgeable of the area and the past War! Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful City! Eli, you did a great and good job on this documentary Video Vlog that you have created! Keep up the good work!!!👆🌏🎥🎞

  • @franklinmiller3402
    @franklinmiller340211 ай бұрын

    Thank you Eli. I loved this video about Vietnamese people. I was in the last of the draft (USA) when my number did not come up. I went to college instead. It remained a mystery to me why we were there. Having said that I'm glad that those days are over.... very sad. Lost too many friends for a war we had no business being involved in. Anyway the Vietnamese people are hard working and I would love to visit there someday and just enjoy the culture..... PS. Would also love to visit Russia....have only high regard for Russian people....😊

  • @peggenlejoncar9529

    @peggenlejoncar9529

    11 ай бұрын

    Usa allways have a profit with all war they shape over the world, "they" find out the reason to the citizens of usa to go and have war.

  • @stevenjohnston3496

    @stevenjohnston3496

    11 ай бұрын

    Frank, I too barely missed the war, but have never questioned why the U.S. was there. We were there to stop the expansion of communism , an evil system that took the lives of millions of people around the globe. Our purpose was pure, the execution poor. I too love the Russian people(my wife is all Slavic) they sacrificed millions of their people to the communist monster. I suspect that Eli is nostalgic for Russia, but not really for the U.S.S.R. It is rather amusing to hear the talk about the market economy. Looks like we won after all!!!

  • @lexuanson1616

    @lexuanson1616

    11 ай бұрын

    @@stevenjohnston3496 No Vietnamese wanted war. No one wants their country to be a colony. No one wants their country to be invaded and divided. When World War II period (1941-1945) in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh cooperated with the US to expel the Japanese army from Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh admired the American idea of freedom and democracy very much. Vietnam is the only country in the world that has cited part of the US declaration of independence in its own declaration of independence in 1945. America's action to liberate all US colonial territories including the Philippines has made Ho Chi Minh further more believes in the values of freedom and equality of the United States. Ho Chi Minh wrote 11 handwritten letters (still preserved until now in museums in the US and Vietnam) sent to the US president at that time to ask for the help from the US to persuade France (which was liberated by the US army from Nazi Germany in WW2) to free the Vietnamese from the French colonial regime. But the Americans betrayed the values of freedom and equality and supported French to continue to colonize and occupy Vietnam. The Vietnamese have no choice but to stand up for themselves and seeking the helps from Soviet Russia and communist China.

  • @zenden6564

    @zenden6564

    11 ай бұрын

    When you are there, the best thing is the 'no hard feeling's.... (Given the atrocious war carnage on the ordinary people) The next is their natural free market spirit is very strong, arguably stronger than in our late stage Western countries, & the third is no Feminism but the women just very strong and cheerful without it, thank-you. P.S. from PBS web: "Ho first led an insurrection against Japanese occupiers. In 1945, Ho's commandos took Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital. In one of the ironies of history, Ho Chi Minh paraphrased a future enemy's benchmark of freedom - the U.S. Declaration of Independence -- while addressing an enormous crowd after the success against the Japanese. Ho proclaimed: "All men are born equal. The Creator has given us inviolable rights: life, liberty, and happiness!"

  • @lily_san457

    @lily_san457

    11 ай бұрын

    ​​@@stevenjohnston3496gười cộng sản chưa giết ai,chưa xâm lược nước nào,nhưng người mỹ mang bom đạn khắp nơi trên thế giới không nước nào là không tham dự,đừng có đổ lỗi cho cộng sản,hãy hỏi bố mỹ mày đã làm gì trên toàn thế giới,không cứ cộng sản,hãy xem Iraq là một ví dụ điển hình.

  • @trungduong4040
    @trungduong404011 ай бұрын

    I''m about to visit HCM city soon. I'm from Ha Noi in the north and the last time I visited HCM city, I loved this place so much, just walking along different streets to experience the daily life there.

  • @user-kt8rj7kh2s
    @user-kt8rj7kh2s11 ай бұрын

    Cảm ơn bạn vì bạn yêu đất nước chúng tôi và dành sự trân trọng đến vị lãnh tụ hồ chí minh thank you

  • @PhuocTr
    @PhuocTr11 ай бұрын

    That sweet potato is actually Yuca a.k.a Cassava, very popular in South America countries

  • @jackieow

    @jackieow

    11 ай бұрын

    Raw cassava leaves and roots contain chemicals that turn into cyanide. It has to be eaten cooked, and it has to be cooked by somebody who knows how to take care of the cyanide problem.

  • @Sr.ChilePepper
    @Sr.ChilePepper11 ай бұрын

    The exchange at 16:07 reminds of a similar anecdote I had with a Russian engineer at work back in the 90s. I knew full well what USSR meant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but when I would watch international hockey I would see the Soviet sweaters have CCCP emblazoned on them. One day I asked him, "What does CCCP mean?" He replied; "It means USSR." to which I replied "I know it _stands_ for USSR, but _what does it mean_ ?" For some strange reason thinking it actually stood for something more. He replied once again "It means USSR!" and looked at me wondering if I was as stupid as I sounded. I was starting to ask for a third time when I realized that it was in fact the Russian abbreviation for USSR.

  • @kathleengriffin3616
    @kathleengriffin361611 ай бұрын

    This was very interesting Eli - I knew three young men who fought in the US war - two died there. They were drafted - no choice. One was in Chu chi so this was a revelation about the tunnels. Terrible war we were lied into that took too long to stop. 23:02

  • @bryanemmel6516
    @bryanemmel651611 ай бұрын

    Eli, thank you so much for the interesting, informative and very precious look at Vietnam today and a glimpse of what they went through during the awful war years. I was in the U.S. military working in communications intelligence during rhe early years of that disgusting war and I get tears in my eyes thinking about the terrible things we did there and why there was absolutely no reason for doing it. Ho Chi Minh was a great leader who perseverred through WWII, then fought the French until Dien Bien Phu and was betrayed by the Americans who reneged on the plan to hold elections in 1956 because they knew that Ho would have won in a landslide. I'm heartened to see the country doing so well after losing 3.5 million people to this act of terrorism. I'm also grateful to the support that the Soviet Union gave to the Vietnamese cause.

  • @goatfokerkadyrov7528

    @goatfokerkadyrov7528

    11 ай бұрын

    Jane Fonda is that you?

  • @bryanemmel6516

    @bryanemmel6516

    11 ай бұрын

    @@goatfokerkadyrov7528 Says thepussy boy who never spent a day in the military.

  • @smilinder01

    @smilinder01

    10 ай бұрын

    @@goatfokerkadyrov7528once a colonizer, always a colonizer.

  • @user-gd9bi2hg5m
    @user-gd9bi2hg5m11 ай бұрын

    забавное совпадение - рядом с моим домом в Санкт-Петербурге несколько дней назад открыли памятник Хо Ши Мину

  • @NhungNguyen-yn8sg
    @NhungNguyen-yn8sg11 ай бұрын

    Tôi yêu Việt Nam tôi yêu mến con người Việt Nam 🇻🇳

  • @kenshep1075
    @kenshep107511 ай бұрын

    Your hard work and this video really deserved to be liked Eli, keep it up!

  • @shachora5900
    @shachora590011 ай бұрын

    i love vietnam too and have been to many of the places you showed on this video. i feel the same way you do. thanks eli

  • @jrnjacobsen8331
    @jrnjacobsen833111 ай бұрын

    Eli, it was very interesting to learn about this proud people which is not informed in the mainstream media and base for your start of business.

  • @Frankd22003
    @Frankd2200310 ай бұрын

    The tunnel was enlarged and cemented for tourists easy to access. The tunnel in its true form was much smaller and ground soil on all around. Once you get down and under venomous snakes, centerpiece (huge), and all kind of small creatures are your companions, one bite, sting and you're done.

  • @chevychase
    @chevychase11 ай бұрын

    Great video! I am glad you are enjoying life in Ho Chih Minh City! Best wishes from Kentucky US

  • @bobgoodall1603
    @bobgoodall160311 ай бұрын

    Great video its really changed since I was there 15 years ago cars were just becoming popular, it was mostly bike motorbike and pedestrians. I did go to the tunnels and ate the rations but didn't shoot the rifles they had. I know for a fact that there was no way to fit into the first space you did....but I did go on my hands and knees down the unlit tunnels. I was surprised no one else from the group would do it. There were other things like silk tapestries of Ho Chi Minh made on jacquard looms, which were stunningly beautiful and almost impossible to believe they were not paintings but tapestry. Loved it.

  • @asierlanchodiego7203
    @asierlanchodiego720311 ай бұрын

    Wow, that was such a cool installment of your travels through Vietnam! I find it super interesting that three different cultures have left distinct traces in the country: Russians through trade, the French through colonisation and USians through sponsored war efforts. :)

  • @chanalex8358

    @chanalex8358

    11 ай бұрын

    China of course.

  • @tonylong525
    @tonylong52511 ай бұрын

    You do the best travel videos I've seen. I suspect it has something to do with your open mind and open heart.

  • @marmar7255

    @marmar7255

    4 ай бұрын

    Eli is very intelligent and smart girl.

  • @Mariupol_is_Ukraine

    @Mariupol_is_Ukraine

    13 күн бұрын

    @@marmar7255 and I thought that she is a terrorist, spreading propaganda for her employer, the russian mafia state.

  • @Omar-kw5ui
    @Omar-kw5ui11 ай бұрын

    What absolute heroes the people of Vietnam are. They fought against American imperialism for their freedom. Living in absolute abhorrent conditions, living in tunnels, and never giving up. Huge respect!

  • @josephgee2515

    @josephgee2515

    11 ай бұрын

    New World Order War Mongers are Not All "American". They also control both parties Omar. I wish you would educate yourself more.

  • @advanleeuwen672

    @advanleeuwen672

    11 ай бұрын

    Yes, they fought for their country. Like Ukraïnians do every day.

  • @jameskirk9996

    @jameskirk9996

    11 ай бұрын

    Omar, i am a 69 year old man in the USA. I remember the Vietnam conflict, and just missed the draft. We never wanted war and most Ameticans are involved with ridding our country of the glibalist deep state war machine. We are unapologetic about

  • @jameskirk9996

    @jameskirk9996

    11 ай бұрын

    ...electing Donald Trump and healing our country.

  • @advanleeuwen672

    @advanleeuwen672

    11 ай бұрын

    @@jameskirk9996 please not🙏🏻

  • @truckeronprivatetour4730
    @truckeronprivatetour473011 ай бұрын

    Gooood Moooooorning Eli 😁 This was again a good, infomational and very interesting video.👏👏👏 You are my most favourite russian! Please, stay as you are, and who knows, mayby we will see us once in real life.😉 With friendly greetings from the Ruhrgebiet in Deutschland👋👋

  • @durry23
    @durry2311 ай бұрын

    Im most impressed that you could get 15 mins of CuChi footage without someone cutting loose with an AK in the background. For those that dont know theres a tourist firing range a couple of hundred metres behind where she was sitting.

  • @tanwei1931
    @tanwei193111 ай бұрын

    Wow Eli you are such a hardworking and busy traveling girl making new video one right after the other. I envy you when many people (in the west) are struggling with paying their mortgages and groceries due to crazy high interest rate you are able to travel and making all these great documentaries. I heard a lot of good things about Vietnam but it's too far (I mean expensive plane tickets) for me to travel there so I'm very happy you are making these videos about Vietnam great job! 👍

  • @user-ui2jd9wf9o

    @user-ui2jd9wf9o

    10 ай бұрын

    Where are your from?

  • @vladimirspiridonovich222
    @vladimirspiridonovich22211 ай бұрын

    Thank you for sharing, the Vietnam War was the first war that I learned about as a kid. I was born two years after the war ended but I remember it was all they ever talked about here in America until the Gulf War and then later when my country invaded Iraq. They taught us that the North Vietnamese were bad because they were communists but I came to respect these people because they were only reacting to foreigners who were trying to subjugate them. Growing up I came to accept not just the good and bad but also the ugliness of my country. 🇺🇸

  • @chowwh308

    @chowwh308

    11 ай бұрын

    Good to see a sensible american here. Yes..the ugly side of US is getting more pronounced in recent time. The empire mentality has been carried too far by inept leadership in WH and its neo con oligarchy handlers behind them.

  • @heinzgassner1057
    @heinzgassner10576 ай бұрын

    Another GREAT video. Congratulations ! ❤

  • @Shining237
    @Shining23711 ай бұрын

    Absolutely amazing video!! Thank-you Eli ❤️

  • @stanislawkowal4657
    @stanislawkowal465711 ай бұрын

    Hi Eli, all countries have there bad and good points. I'm totally amazed how the Vietnamese have changed there country to one that is looking with a positive attitude and looking into the future. 👒👒👒

  • @opiumtrail7032

    @opiumtrail7032

    10 ай бұрын

    their*

  • @stanislawkowal4657

    @stanislawkowal4657

    10 ай бұрын

    @@opiumtrail7032 Sorry, my brain is all over the place with Covid

  • @Jules-bf2wu
    @Jules-bf2wu11 ай бұрын

    Loved the video!❤ Got a little claustrophobic during the tunnel scenes. Thanks for sharing!

  • @sydhardie9339
    @sydhardie933911 ай бұрын

    You have ALL the fun Eli. And we have fun watching you ! thanks !🇦🇺🌹

  • @vinhphuc61
    @vinhphuc6110 ай бұрын

    I am Vietnamese thank you for making videos about our country. Read through some comments that someone intentionally or misrepresented to cause division. The war is over and now is the time for us to work together for economic development. Vietnam is a developing country, so people still have many difficulties. However, always welcome friends from all over the world to visit Vietnam. Thank you for loving Vietnam.

  • @seashelle73
    @seashelle7311 ай бұрын

    Eli I appreciate your love of people and you navigated a sensitive topic well. My Father-in-law was an American helicopter pilot in the war and he finally, 40 years later, traveled back to Vietnam to heal. I think videos like this can help others with that process too.❤

  • @harrisonchevy4452
    @harrisonchevy445211 ай бұрын

    Hi Eli and good day to you and your beautiful Vietnamese girlfriend. I must tell you that I am old fan and long time subscriber of yours. I lived through the Vietnam war years and was not happy about this conflict and my country’s participation in this war. I was caught in the middle of this. U.S. had the draft, I just finished college, and had to do something. So I joined the Army Reserve, weekend warriors as we were never called. I served 7 years, never had to go to Vietnam to fight this unjust war, so lucky. Fact, Ho Chi Minh really admired the Democratic form of Government. He once approached the American President and told him so but was ignored. So that is why the north Vietnam 🇻🇳 government turned to China to get rid of the French. If you are interested I can provide you with the facts that support my findings. Take care and let me know. Now Vietnam 🇻🇳 is an ally and trading partner with USA.

  • @danielhartwig6333

    @danielhartwig6333

    11 ай бұрын

    U.S.A the international TERRIOST of planet earth 🌍 there should be a warrant of arrest by international community of all Presidents for crimes except TRUMP! Debt settlement must take care of Vietnamese people 1 for 1..... GOD bless B.R.I.C.S.

  • @lolcajdjfls

    @lolcajdjfls

    10 ай бұрын

    Ho Chi Minh never turned to China to get rid of the French... The Vietnamese really don't like China at all

  • @jenm2597
    @jenm25979 ай бұрын

    This was very interesting for me to watch because my hometown (San Jose) has a huge Vietnamese population, with a lot of people who came after the war. Signs and school documents were always in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. It was also a different perspective on the Vietnam War than I got while growing up in the USA from people who fought in it on the American side. I appreciate this different look at things.

  • @nminh_th
    @nminh_th11 ай бұрын

    thanks eli, i love your videos about my country ❤

  • @Damian1975
    @Damian197511 ай бұрын

    I know many people who emigrated from Poland under communism and they appreciate the American capitalist. Way of life

  • @partizanSquad

    @partizanSquad

    11 ай бұрын

    Couldn't care less about your polish friends. Was this a reason for murdering millions in vietnam, korea and laos ? A lot of social progress came from communists, or fear of communism rising (so you can thank communism too) Paid vacations, healthcare, free education. It's downhill for our social rights in europe since the fall of the soviet union, look at the state of the NHS in UK now. USA didn't face consequences of both world wars the way asia and europe did. That's due to its geographic location, not some sort of superiority, or exceptionalism. So keep quiet et be humble.

  • @bryanemmel6516

    @bryanemmel6516

    11 ай бұрын

    What does that have to do with this video?

  • @JeffreyStockwell
    @JeffreyStockwell11 ай бұрын

    How did you go into that tunnel! Scary. Super reporting from two professional journalists!

  • @markruitenbeek
    @markruitenbeek11 ай бұрын

    This is just what I needed 🙏🏽

  • @HANA-ro1pt
    @HANA-ro1pt11 ай бұрын

    MY Vietnamese friends went back to Vietnam because US is so expensive.I miss then very much . hope to visit then one day!

  • @Addihawas
    @Addihawas11 ай бұрын

    Great video,, thank you!!! ❤

  • @jashanmalsj
    @jashanmalsj11 ай бұрын

    Super coverage of HCMC. Loved the Soviet influences and thanks for sharing the Russian cuisine with us. I know a couple of dishes but looking to try many more.

  • @johnburke5384
    @johnburke538411 ай бұрын

    A lovely video Eli and another lovely place I would love to visit. I am once again, a wiser person after watching an Eli video !

  • @trekpac2
    @trekpac211 ай бұрын

    I love your program, Eli, learning about Russia and also about your other travels.

  • @reecedobson4740
    @reecedobson474011 ай бұрын

    Your friends reaction to Russian food was pretty funny lol 😂

  • @trungduong4040

    @trungduong4040

    11 ай бұрын

    Quite funny for me, too. I guess a lot of Vietnamese people prefer food with strong flavors, lots of spices. I ate at the same restaurant in the video, and I really like the food. I think the Russian dishes in the video have the right taste for me.

  • @steveagola9317
    @steveagola931711 ай бұрын

    I just watched a part series of vietnam war. The war was just so brutal and the bombardments by the B-52 bombers forced them to go underground.... But the suffering from the pple 😢😢 was so hard to watch... Its nice to see the progress they've made and hope the south and north people healed

  • @user-us5iv8jw9b

    @user-us5iv8jw9b

    11 ай бұрын

    Đúng vậy Chiến tranh Nga Ukraine trả ăn thua gì so với Chiến tranh Việt Nam Hôm qua có một KZread người Việt đến Odessa và tôi thấy mọi thứ vẫn sinh hoạt bình thường. Chiến tranh Việt Nam mỗi 1km vuông phải hứng 6 tấn bom của Mỹ 😢 Không biết Nga đang huy động bao nhiêu cho chiến tranh với Ukraine Nhưng Mỹ từng đưa 60% sức mạnh vào chiến trường Việt Nam Chưa bao gồm Việt Nam cộng Hòa và lính Chư hầu

  • @connieclark6914
    @connieclark691410 ай бұрын

    Thankyou for sharing with us! Loved the city !!❤

  • @hannaalexander2046
    @hannaalexander204611 ай бұрын

    Inspiring and informative video. Thank you Eli ❤

  • @jonguyen4411
    @jonguyen441111 ай бұрын

    Hi Eli, there is another less famous tunnel system than Cu Chi. You might be interested in Phu Tho Hoa Tunnel in Tan Phu District of Ho Chi Minh City. Not so many people know about it.

  • @Wildrover82
    @Wildrover8211 ай бұрын

    Hello Eli. Love your content. Hello and best wishes from Ireland. 🇮🇪👋

  • @ElifromRussia

    @ElifromRussia

    11 ай бұрын

    Hey, thanks! ✨🙏🏻

  • @verygoodvibes
    @verygoodvibes11 ай бұрын

    banmi...oh that looked so good! i love you eli.

  • @xuanphongtran3702
    @xuanphongtran370211 ай бұрын

    Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City. I love Russia, love Putin and love Eli. 😍

  • @kiper_in_trance
    @kiper_in_trance11 ай бұрын

    Вьетнам наши настоящие братья

  • @votong2289

    @votong2289

    11 ай бұрын

    Exactly. Love Russian from Vietnam.❤

  • @chrisosullivan6965
    @chrisosullivan696510 ай бұрын

    This is the best travel channel on KZread...because it is so much more than just about travel...

  • @AndreaBorto

    @AndreaBorto

    10 ай бұрын

    Yeah it is more on PROPAGANDA

  • @vumanhtoan4681
    @vumanhtoan468110 ай бұрын

    Tôi rất thích những KZread nào làm video ở VN khi gọi TP Hồ Chí Minh và chứ không phải TP SG cũ . Bạn đã tôn trọng lịch sử VN thì người VN sẽ luôn rất tôn trọng điều đó và luôn nở nụ cười như những người Bạn tuyệt vời !!!

  • @tbur8901
    @tbur890110 ай бұрын

    " Regular people never want any of this, someone makes them fight for ideas. "

  • @zonacrocone4804
    @zonacrocone480411 ай бұрын

    I would never have imagined HCMC to look so "Westernized." Thanks to the most gorgeous youtuber in the world, Eli. for this insight.

  • @zetusaquarittarius

    @zetusaquarittarius

    9 ай бұрын

    Wow you are such a hater, no it is not…

  • @sammayet9002
    @sammayet900211 ай бұрын

    Interesting, informative and epic ❤❤❤

  • @ElifromRussia

    @ElifromRussia

    11 ай бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed it 🙏🏻✨

  • @snakemanmike
    @snakemanmike11 ай бұрын

    Wow. It sure has changed since I was there in 1971.

  • @Nicky.Slunsky
    @Nicky.Slunsky10 ай бұрын

    Great video, Eli! I'm going to HCMC next month for a few days and this has made me even more excited.

  • @LouisWaweru
    @LouisWaweru11 ай бұрын

    Thank you, Eli. This opened my eyes a bit more. I’ve always considered myself open-minded, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve noticed my preconceptions having a bigger influence on my thinking than they should. Watching these videos forces me to become more aware of that. Keep keeping us in check.

  • @paolodenis5898
    @paolodenis589810 ай бұрын

    17/07/2023 Since the end of June, (UN states) Russia has not issued a permit for the passage of grain carriers through the Black Sea. The last ship with a cargo of grain, which received such a permit, left the port of Odessa on the morning of 16 July. The grain deal was not renewed: the rest of the world will see that Russia has refused to provide countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia with the food they need at affordable prices... S T O P P R O P A G A N D A

  • @junglesuperstar9270

    @junglesuperstar9270

    10 ай бұрын

    Almost 100 per cent of grain went to Europe . Around 3 per cent only went to poor countries . And that’s a fact .

  • @paolodenis5898

    @paolodenis5898

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@@junglesuperstar9270T A K E R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y No more hypocrisy after 600 days of invasion Russian world brings with it weaponised lies as well as fear, death, and destruction No more sabotaging Western democracies Eli enough with complicity with the Russian regime Denounce the dictator Putin and his murderers S T O P P R O P A G A N D A S T O P T E R R O R ENOUGH G E N O C I D A L ACTS AGAINST U K R A I N I A N PEOPLE (In memory of Andrei Dmitrievič Sakharov)

  • @rodwilkinson5682
    @rodwilkinson568211 ай бұрын

    A beautiful educational video as usual,thank you Eli,

  • @vaughansamuelson6552
    @vaughansamuelson655211 ай бұрын

    Your videos are so informative. Thank you, and keep it up.

  • @KoIossov
    @KoIossov11 ай бұрын

    Vietnam and Russia, brothers forever

  • @herbertcourtesie2459
    @herbertcourtesie245911 ай бұрын

    This episode Is one of the most interesting due to the honest approach with which you engaged the free and friendly people. Honest answers and opinions about how they see themselves as a nation. Love to all these honest and freedom loving people. To you,Eli, for this video 10/10. Cheers!

  • @ralphwiggum250N
    @ralphwiggum250N11 ай бұрын

    I like the way Eli speaks. Clearly.

  • @wolfmule9914
    @wolfmule991411 ай бұрын

    Hello, good morning I am glad you had a great time in Vietnam ,and glad you are safe and well. Take care

  • @sahriyadkamal9903
    @sahriyadkamal990310 ай бұрын

    Vietnamese people are brave like russian... ❤❤❤

  • @BreakawayBites
    @BreakawayBites11 ай бұрын

    The Russian Cafe... Really dig it.... Never been to HCH before, and i was thinking heading to Hanoi soon... Hmm... So it's going to be toss up then.... Anyway, love your work ... Take care , stay true.. and keep it up, Cheers!!

  • @francescocursio4523
    @francescocursio452311 ай бұрын

    Hi Eli! You made a little impression on me when you came out of that hole. 😨🤣 I am happy that Vietnam today is a united country and I hope that they have not brought with them the remnants of political ideals that now belong to those times. The Vietnam War lasted 20 years and was one of the most horrific ones mankind has ever seen. We must never forget what atrocities the Vietnamese people have suffered whether they were from the north or from the south, however, today Vietnam is united and in 50 years it has shown that it wants to get up again and from the experience of war caused by political ideals, it has matured the common idea of ​​adopting an administrative socio-economic and political system that suited the whole country. In practice there has been a real evolution. Seeing those tunnels dug underground and walking through those battlefields makes a certain impression and I imagine how those soldiers lived in that state. All in all, Vietnam is a country that is increasingly improving its economic and social conditions that, as the girl said, many foreign entrepreneurs invest in Vietnam so much that today this country has become quite competitive. As I have noticed, the Vietnamese, or a part of them, owe a lot to Russia from a political, administrative, economic, social and culinary point of view and, for all these reasons, one can find one more reason to study the Russian language so that even in Vietnam you can speak Russian with someone. 😁 Speaking of Pelmeni, you Russians have made me obsessed with eating Pelmeni that where I am I can't find them in supermarkets and now that I've seen this video, my obsession has returned. 🤤😭😭😭😭 To get this obsession out of my head again, I don't know how many times I have to bang my head against the wall. 😡🤣🤣

  • @nocancelcultureaccepted9316

    @nocancelcultureaccepted9316

    11 ай бұрын

    Vietnam could be a better country for tourism if the people stopped throwing garbage everywhere and stopped scamming and stealing the tourists.

  • @tuannguyentrong1697
    @tuannguyentrong169710 ай бұрын

    Xin chào bạn, tôi là người việt nam, tôi rất ngưỡng mộ và yêu mến người dân nga. Đặc biệt rất ngưỡng mộ ngài tổng thống vladimia phu tin của đất nước bạn.

  • @npyxl
    @npyxl21 күн бұрын

    this series about vietnam is really good

  • @watchingthehawks355
    @watchingthehawks35511 ай бұрын

    The entrance was makes very small to prevent America soldiers going through because most of the American soldiers are very big and the tunnels are Also makes very small.

  • @jackieow

    @jackieow

    11 ай бұрын

    America looked for small soldiers and gave them pistols and flashlights to go hunting Viet Cong in the tunnels. They were known as tunnel rats. Some of the tunnels were fancy enough to have underground hospitals and operating rooms. The tunnel system of Cu Chi had portals with tiny covers, like the one shown, that emerged inside the barbed wire of American fire bases, so the Viet Cong could sneak inside any time they liked.

  • @HappyHermitt

    @HappyHermitt

    11 ай бұрын

    Like ants

  • @tubalcain1039
    @tubalcain103911 ай бұрын

    1968: You're just going to love the 'Nam. 2023: You're just going to love the Bahkmut.

  • @stuartwray6175

    @stuartwray6175

    11 ай бұрын

    "You're just going to love Nam/Bakhmut - eh?

  • @tubalcain1039

    @tubalcain1039

    11 ай бұрын

    @@stuartwray6175 It was in the movie 'Platoon' (1986)

  • @yas2733
    @yas273311 ай бұрын

    Such comrades...warms the heart.

  • @ericleen7941
    @ericleen794111 ай бұрын

    Really liked your video again, interesting topic and quite informative as always! ))

  • @Joseph-le5zk
    @Joseph-le5zk11 ай бұрын

    ELI SHOULD BE NAMED OFFICIAL RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.

  • @jamesmccullough1395

    @jamesmccullough1395

    11 ай бұрын

    For what?

  • @BETOETE

    @BETOETE

    11 ай бұрын

    ​@@jamesmccullough1395good will ambassador, to imprive the image of this beautiful people with very interesting histoty.