I'm Vaga Bond, a traveler from Russia. This channel was created to upload videos in English about my adventures all over the world. I travel by hitchhiking, freight hopping, foots but sometimes as a regular passenger. I believe the things I do is a part of my way to success because I genuinely like them.
Link to my Russian channel: kzread.info
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I visited Sakhalin in 1991 a few months before the Soviet Union fell. I am American and I escorted my Japanese wife, 3 year old child & 26 dancers of my wife's modern dance troupe. We snuck in the back door on a freighter out of Wakkanai. The KGB was not at all active in Yuhzno-Sakhalinsk where we were and I don't think they were even aware that we were there until the end of our 2 week visit when a reporter from Pravda published a story about us. It was funny because in preparation for our trip the only way we could communicate with people on the island was by telegraph to INMARSAT via Russian warships then radioed to couriers on Sakhalin. We even stayed in a military hotel for a couple nights. You'd think the KGB would have picked up on us at that point but the USSR was in turmoil at that time and we were small fish. Lovely people there. Many were political or very well educated intellectuals in exile. Lots of remnants of Japanese occupation and the descendants of their Korean sex slaves who now make up a good 15% of the population. Also, the markets were all empty but the dinner tables were always full of the best foods obtained on the black market. The best goat-milk ice-cream on the planet plus various homemade flavored vodkas were ever-present.
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Backpacker kumar ❤
акцент ужасный.
Reznov died in vorkuta.
I enjoyed the video, especially the trains and tracks. I like trains as a hobby so it was really neat to see some of the modern ones as well as the Soviet ones.
The U S has the Salton Sea, Russia has Norilsk
10:47 갑자기 마이쮸ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 반갑네요
Смешно слышать... хотьбы бы школу, хоть бы аптеку.. а кто содержать то будет.. а?? Сколько учеников, сколько прибыль от аптеки,а?
That sounds like Americans. Look how things are going there…
No wonder why Chechenya is so empty. Russia killed a huge amount of civilians 1996-1999. Putin's puppet dictator Kadyrov might not live for long, tho, but I bet there's no one any better replacing him. Sad indeed what Russia has done to other ppl's historical land. And Chechenya is definitely not the only one.
Russia is not the historical land of Russians but a historical land of many nations/people/tribes that Moscovites conquered and enslaved. Also sent to Siperia..
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I was thinking about these islands yesterday wtf Those Islands should be Japanese land. They would take beautiful care of it and make it blossom
Basically Volga Germans were the Jews of Soviet union
You shouldn't publish an interview with the driver. I assume he was not aware that he was being recorded, and unfurthermore, that it was published on KZread. Maybe, at the moment, he is being thrown into prison and undergoing prosecution.
Родной город Волгоград, родной Красноармейский. Люблю и ненавижу
31:00 Hehe Russia has shrinklation as well it seems
Your videos are always full of history and local info. Your research doesn't go unnoticed, and your English is really improving. Thanks for the content.
this guy is completly fearless im mindblown by his dsposition to do this trip and explore freely, even sleeping in a tent outside!!!!
It’s so strange to see the places I visit almost every day in the video of some foreign guy
Why can't Putin be like you? Thanks again, my friend.
Thanks for the vid. Very interesting video for me since my forefathers were Volga Germans. I´m Argentine and my family spoke German at home. Sergio Denis (his real surname was Hoffmann) was of Volga German descent kzread.info/dash/bejne/k3Vnrs-Ae7u_o5c.html Greetings from Paraná (Entre Ríos), Argentina.
This is a very interesting journey. This is very helpful documentation for German families who used to live in the area.
Why can't people think? "Homeless people living in some of the houses" ?! If they are living in a house they are not homeless OMG!
Hi my friend I follow your videos and I like most of them, but you made a very BIG mistake when you release this video the first time cause you didn't cover his face.... hopefully the f......g kadyrovs guy don't go after him. Just be careful exposing people ....of course if there is their consent is ok
Disgusting accent
very interesting. i really enjoy your videos. so much to learn end explore. thanks a lot!
Great video
Good afternoon. I'm from Volgograd myself. The city is in terribly bad condition, you saw it all yourself. Poverty everywhere, darkness and desolation are the result of thirty years of rule by the current government. Mamaev Kurgan was restored in a very careless manner - to their own pocket, stains are appearing on the monument, the Gergard mill will soon fall apart, and all the floor tiles near the Panorama Museum of the Battle of Stalingrad are cracked. These are the “patriots” they are in words.
Ваня, А где для нас контент?
so amazing! please take care and dont stop making your art and sending your message.
" I am the immortal Sugimoto!"
Good stuff bud. thank you!
It's always a good day when you upload!
Do you think they are keeping a close eye on you because you are in the border region during a war?
I wonder why all the churches are so clean on the inside and not full of rubble and roofs?
Had the russians not turned into murdering communists in the 1920’s my great grandfather would have become the first prime minister of the independent or at least autonomic nation of Karelia. However, due to communists they fled to Finland while other relatives were murdered. I was born and raised in Finland but never felt like a Finn but a Karelian. I’m personally very sour towards communists and any mass ideologies for that matter 🙏
Every were there is an namerican trouble is coming ..
Could not really ask for a worse neighbor than Russia. It truly is sad how little you care about human life. We had a good thing going and you just decided to ruin it. Well done.
My paternal grandfather is from near Engels, my maternal grandfather from around rostov-na-donu, and my maternal grandmother from around mariupol, but all newborn when the wars started and they got deported to siberia, afterwards moved to Kazhakhstan, learned about their history and culture through their own parents, but were more integrated with russian and soviet society, and their children (my parents) one step more but not completely, we are still aware of our history and heritage. If you were ever in Germany before 2022, and met a russian speaking person who then said they were from Kazhakstan, good chance is that they are volga-german or more generally "Russlandsdeutsche". I was always fascinated by my family's history, and through them I got this kind of exposure to some aspects of "soviet" and "russian" culture like food and shows, and that sparked my interests in the former USSR and Russia. I have set myself the goal to once fly with my mom and parents to Kazhakstan and """revisit""" the old country, and before I wished to start a great tour through the whole former USSR, but since 2022 the prospects for that became uncertain.
Great stuff, Ivan. Very informative.
There's a fantastic chapter about the Germans in Russia and elsewhere in Thomas Sowell's book Migrations and Cultures.
You didn't need them since you were NEUTRAL. So don't pretend you were threatened by Nazi Germany...
very interesting! prost!
My late grandpa served in Petrozavodsk/Petroskoi in 1941-44. He called it Äänislinna. I visited it 2000, by bus from Joensuu.
10:00 This pic is from another massacre, reds killed political prisoners in Viborg during civil war.
was just thinking about you earlier. im here for this. question for anyone here who might know. used to work with a russian with the last name blair. is that german or no?
Scottish surnames aren't so rare, but they are usually russified
The ethnic cleansing of Germans after Ww2 was the worst ethnic erasure in history. 😔
Deportations began even earlier than 1939. During the great famine, the Ukrainians call it Holodomor, many German farmers were accused of being Kulaks and deported to Central Asia if they did not participate in the centralisation of agriculture. Many died due to hunger as well. Such a sad story.
So the Volga Germans were deported as soon as WW2 started and the reason for that was paranoia? Does that mean that they (if they wanted to) did not even get to collaborate with Nazis? Because the reason for the killing and sending Germans in Yugoslavia to work camps in 1944 was because some of them were actual collaborators and helped Nazis to kill people.
One day Sakhalin will return back to Japan