Soviet birth control video: kzitem.info/news/bejne/qH-ct3-Lj3p-hYo Hematogen for sale: www.amazon.com/Hematogen-Classic-Supplement-Natural-Vitamin/dp/B084HGC7VN/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_1/138-3786199-9921228?pd_rd_w=GCe6H&content-id=amzn1.sym.1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_p=1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_r=G74EYHPE0BFD9XPBJ3PH&pd_rd_wg=5Afj2&pd_rd_r=a5fed3f8-64ff-4584-8408-49925983eb04&pd_rd_i=B084HGC7VN&psc=1 Thank you for watching the Ushanka Show! My name is Sergei Sputnikoff. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. The Ushanka Show was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My books about arriving in America are available at www.sputnikoff.com/shop (Russian or English versions) or on Amazon: www.amazon.com/dp/B0BNQR1FBC?binding=paperback&searchxofy=true&ref_=dbs_s_aps_series_rwt_tpbk&qid=1688731325&sr=8-1 Please contact me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” Fan Mail: Ushanka Show P.O. Box 96 Berrien Springs MI 49103, USA You can support this project with SuperThanks tips, or: Via Patreon here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff Viia PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show
@shatnermohanty6678
8 ай бұрын
Did the USSR had collective farms that cultivated Medicinal plants ? Also , Ginseng is one of the exports of North Korea . Did the Soviet union have trade in Ginseng from North Korea ?
@HVACSoldier
8 ай бұрын
I used to see the “whitewashing” of trees, in the US, 30 or 40 years ago. I was told that it was to kill pest.
@Chad-Giga.
8 ай бұрын
No it is to protect from sunburn
@danirizary6926
8 ай бұрын
It is still common today on some trees, in some regions. It protects from sun-scald, as well as some parasites and fungus/mold.
@squarewave808
8 ай бұрын
Wild, I don’t remember ever seeing this in the US. Maybe it was more common in certain parts of the country? The only thing I regularly saw was this ring around oak trees that supposedly prevented some sort of parasite from crawling up the trunk. Actually I still see those today.
@Davey-Boyd
8 ай бұрын
I recall still seeing it done in rural Spain a few years ago
@dannyboy-vtc5741
8 ай бұрын
@@danirizary6926yeah, i see it sometimes in croatia too, it's rare compared to few decades ago, yeah never heard that about the sun and it's much sunnier than in russia, it was mostly done on fruit trees, apple and oeach especially, sometimes plum too, yeah parasites and fungi, but also orevents rabbits and rodents from chewing the bark, hence it was mostly done mid winter, before soring and before the snow season. Nowadays who has an orchard has also modern type of protection and deterrants, but can be seen, most often in villages when soneone has jist one or few fruit trees in his yard. Also it was sometimes done on tree rows along streets, but only for some tree species and only when they were still small. This type of bleaching all the trees in a park i've never seen, even 40 or 50 years ago.
@GeorgeLiquor
8 ай бұрын
It never ceases to amaze me how so many people who never experienced the Soviet Union (and probably weren't even born when it existed) will criticize an actual Soviet citizen's description of it
@kcgunesq
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, treatment of common viral infections was not much different in the US in the 70's and 80's (or really, even now in many cases). Instead of mustard sheets, we had Vick's Vapor Rub.
@billpostscratcher2025
8 ай бұрын
We have Mustard Plaster in USA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustard_plaster Vicks replaced them as more "scientific" than "folksy" and we were bombarded by Vicks adverts, all but ending Mustard Plaster
@kerrynball2734
8 ай бұрын
Vic's still works
@gintarasvaidziulis2153
8 ай бұрын
My mother worked in soviet drug store as accountant. We could get deficit medicine. In Lithuania drug stores are called vaistinė , in soviet times it was named in lithuanian and russian.
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
Do you remember what medicines were deficit? I couldn't find any info
@predatortheme
8 ай бұрын
@@UshankaShow I think he means medicines used to treat deficiencies, like vitamins, neurological deficits, metal deficits (lack of metals, binding factors , covitamins) etc
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
@@predatortheme No, "deficit" items were things that were hard to find and purchase.
@predatortheme
8 ай бұрын
@@UshankaShow Ah, interesting, thank you for explaining it and keep up your nice videos, they are extremely interesting :)
@davidjernigan8161
8 ай бұрын
Growing up in Florida in the 70s we had Eckard drugs. The first thing inside was the photo department and tester for vacuum tubes. Pharmacy was in the back, even the mom and pop drugstores had the pharmacy in the back usually with a raised floor
@bettyswunghole3310
8 ай бұрын
Wow! Cigarettes and alcohol for sale in a pharmacy...?!? 🤯 Even the UK hasn't sunk *_that_* far (yet...).
@MrDiddlebug
4 ай бұрын
Canadian pharmacies still sell cigarettes in some areas, but I think most provinces have banned it now. I don't know if booze was ever sold at pharmacies. Not as far as I can remember.
@northwesttravels7234
8 ай бұрын
US drug stores are like casino hotels where you have to walk past acres of gambling to get to the hotel desk. Some cruise ships place casinos, liquor, and jewelry stores where you have to walk through to get where you need to go.
@adamjmorgan
8 ай бұрын
Hi Sergei, I posted this on another video just now but I think it's even more applicable to this video: I enjoy very much when you include shots of Soviet print media in your videos. If I could make one suggestion it would be to experiment with adding translated English captions to these shots since many of us do not read cyrillic. I think this would add a lot of educational value as well. Thanks!
They just didn't use them so they can have more liberated workers
@Fridelain
7 ай бұрын
Latex fetish wear, that's skin tight, is lubricated with either oil or talcum to help it slide into place and not tear from stretching, and it's down to personal preference. Both work.
@wertywerrtyson5529
8 ай бұрын
When they made pharmacies here in Sweden called also apotek private about 15 years ago they also started selling a lot more things. But it’s not like in the US. And certainly no alcohol or cigarettes at the pharmacy.
@DavidSusiloUnscripted
8 ай бұрын
Those jars are pretty much Chinese therapy called cupping. It is still done today even in the US and Canada.
@tgurlamber5874
8 ай бұрын
I am so glad you pointed out the major US drugs stores use sufficient space for booze and tobacco. Its a shame. My pharmacy does not carry tobacco or booze. A real pharmacy. As always, thank you for educating us. ❤✌
@coolidgp
8 ай бұрын
What's even wilder is retail pharmacies like Walgreens became nationwide chains because they sold medicinal alcohol during prohibition.
@ObIitus
8 ай бұрын
Well, alcohol and tobacco are drugs, so they sold in drug store.
@mollymollie6048
8 ай бұрын
Same age as Sergei, but US born and raised. For cuts or canker sores, as a kid, you’d always get your Mom coming at you with “The Orange Stuff” to disinfect all open wounds. It burned like fire, but then was numbing for a little bit. So, trying to be a good step-mother as an adult when my young step-son had cuts/scrapes, I went to the drugstore to buy The Orange Stuff, aka Mecurachrome…and I couldn’t find it! I went and asked the pharmacist (thinking, what am I supposed to use if not that?) and the pharmacist informed me that it had been banned. When asked why, he said “it’s made from Mercury and Chromium…it was putting concentrated heavy metals into people’s blood…” Ummm….scary as I had such a badly scraped knee when I was about 5, I had to be on antibiotics, and The Orange Stuff was put on that L knee constantly, so I got a lot of it. Fast forward to the future, and every single time I go through the metal detector at the TSA my left knee/thigh sets it off, and I go over to the side, being used to this, and get wanded down. 🤦♀️ I don’t even what to look at what the long term effects of heavy metals in the body is cause I know it’s bad. P.S., always be nice to the TSA person, they’re doing their job to keep you and everyone else safe, not cause you grief. I’m a female, they always offer another female TSA person to wand/pat down, or to go in a private area, and I’m fine right there with whoever it is. Never been treated badly and they were always professional and polite. Thanks TSA!
@FlintIronstag23
8 ай бұрын
I remember my grandmother had an old bottle of mercurochrome. It had a cap with a glass rod attached to spread it on the wound. Luckily my parents didn't use that stuff at home. For cuts it was the brown bottle of hydrogen peroxide or Bactine. Bactine didn't sting but the peroxide was more interesting to watch as it bubbled on your cuts. It made it seem like it was actually doing something. The other childhood memory was a blue jar of Noxzema with its distinctive smell that got used when I was sunburned.
@mollymollie6048
8 ай бұрын
@@FlintIronstag23 Yep, the little glass bottle with the glass rod, that was it! My parents were older than average when I came to be, and I remember begging my mom to get Bactine (the school nurse had it, and it didn’t hurt) and my mother thought it was too expensive, why get something when you’ve got something already that’s tried and true. Yep, Noxema for sunburns (worked, that smell tho, lol, I can smell it now!!) Vicks Vapo Rub on the chest for a cold (plus heavy doses of Robitussin…I’m still a Tussin fan, lol, the taste of it, it just works…and the smell of Vicks in the humidifier now, instead of plastered onto your chest, works wonders.) It’s funny to remember those specific looks and smells of stuff from back then…Johnson’s Baby Shampoo, Coppertone sun lotion, etc, when you had one type of everything to choose from, takes you back!
@recumbrider643
8 ай бұрын
Amazing to hear how many Russian words are very similar to German words.
@simhaari
5 ай бұрын
Those are almost all Greek Latin or French loanwords. Apteka for example. In English, we get apothecary from that same Greek root
@DavidSusiloUnscripted
8 ай бұрын
I also use activated charcoal for upset stomach due to food poisoning. The brand is Norit. I’m sure it’s still available in Russia today.
@seanshepard2000
8 ай бұрын
Pharmacy technician here who works for one of the chains you showed (but did not say by name, lol) - so, we stay in business because of the fact that the pharmacy part is a massive money maker. What gets billed to insurance companies would blow your mind! Your fly shot that you get for free? Well that's an easy $130ish to the insurance company ... that $5 blood pressue med you pay for? That could be as much as $300 for the insruance - and that's just the low dollar stuff. We stay in business because medical care in the this country is all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$. Some of the prices should be illegal - they are obscene, but if you have decent insurance, you can maybe only pay $50 for a med that we bill around $3000 for. THAT'S how we stay in business. Not saying it's right or wrong, just saying that's how it works here
@nebblepoppishire3037
8 ай бұрын
Recently found this gem of a channel, do you have experience with vaccination in the USSR? What were the vaccines for if they were given? I’m sure since you’ve lived in the US you know we do tons of them until adulthood for various bacterial and viral diseases- was it a similar story in the USSR?
@shaggybreeks
8 ай бұрын
A nurse would go to people's apartments to deliver health care to kids. That should be everywhere.
@komitadjie
8 ай бұрын
Man, I'm with you on the hilariously over-priced crap at "drug stores" in the US. It didn't work with my family, we just moved our prescriptions to a better shop. In our case, a good grocery store that also has a pharmacy. Also, the stutter... XD That's great!
@dennisyoung4631
8 ай бұрын
Have seen that word - in Cyrillic - in some stores in the Portland Area.
@The_Not_So_Great_Cornholio
8 ай бұрын
Not that big box drug stores aren't overpriced, but drug stores going way back were like small grocery stores where you could find bath/body/hair/tooth/eye care products, but also toys for kids, candy, packaged food, soda fountain, make-up, etc. The pharmacist is always at the back. There was an old one in my hometown that was still operational when I was a kid. It's one of the most comforting places in my childhood memory. Walgreens and CVS suck, however. A pharmacy is where you walk in and all there is is medical supplies on the walls, OTC medication, and the pharmacists. That is different than a drug store.
@johnsimon2988
8 ай бұрын
The people that do the most shopping of non prescription goods are the poor. The poor that live close to the store. They can't afford automobiles, auto insurance, petrol, etc so need to shop within walking distance of where they live. There are a lot of poor people in the US like this. That's how the stores succeed, off the backs of the poor.
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
Iodine is still available for cuts, but not mercurochrome.
@Fivegunner
8 ай бұрын
In Serbia it's "рецепт" as well. I think it is because in old times pharmacist used to make drugs based on recipe they had.
@mousseman8239
8 ай бұрын
"Rezept" is used in recipe and prescription in German as well, so my suspicion is that the Russian language took over the term from German, like so many other words.
@kcgunesq
8 ай бұрын
The truth is that many of these large chain pharmacies are *not* making much money. Part of the issue is that insurance companies make most medicines barely profitable to dispense. Good for consumers, but bad for companies that need to hire well paid pharmacist along with multiple techs.
@Kisel228-fp8iz
8 ай бұрын
Aren't they also shafting the customer quite often?
@kcgunesq
8 ай бұрын
@@Kisel228-fp8iz Shafting? The non RX merchandise is definitely more expensive than going to a grocery store, but everyone knows that. So I don't know about any shafting. The RX prices are set by the insurance companies and aren't likely to vary much from store to store.
@Kisel228-fp8iz
8 ай бұрын
@@kcgunesq What I mean is that some items like Insulin are MORE expensive with insurance than without.
@kcgunesq
8 ай бұрын
@@Kisel228-fp8iz I'll take your word on it as I don't have that experience.
@rogerhowell6230
8 ай бұрын
Even nurses in USA today are surprised to hear about penicilin shot in the butt when I was a child.
@daviddowns7552
16 сағат бұрын
I had one in my arm for strep throat about 30+ years ago
@danielcurtis1434
8 ай бұрын
Even in the US, I don’t understand why they don’t add 2% lidocaine to those painful antibiotic injections??? Or better yet give you lidocaine 15 minutes before your antibiotic? Would solve the immediate pain and some corticosteroids or NSAIDS could carry through the recovery. Stuff like meloxicam maybe ketorolac would probably be a godsend?
@pilotsmoe
2 ай бұрын
We do, I've only given Bicillin (penicillin G) with lidocaine(am a nurse), it's just that the needle is fucking huge, and it takes time for the lidocaine to kick in.
@johnorlitta
8 ай бұрын
Here in NJ, we have Rite Aid stores, Walgreens and CVS. CVS stopped selling tobacco products back in 2020, but I believe that Walgreens and Rite Aid still do,but are phasing out sales of it.
@Nickelbag610
8 ай бұрын
Maybe it's just my Rite Aids but they don't sell tobacco anymore. They do have nicotine gum and patches though. But those are usually to stop smoking. Alcohol they definitely do still have all of it is beer not liquor but it's still alcohol. Can't speak on Walgreens or CVS as I don't go there.
@LinasR
8 ай бұрын
Aspirin is Bayer patented (?) name of the drug mentioned in full name starting like acetil something acid :)
@daveshrum1749
8 ай бұрын
Almost all the "medicines" that I see are what we would call Holistic medicines or just straight-up quack snake oil cures. Did Soviet citizens not have access to real modern medicine even with a doctor's prescription ?
@mikaellindqvist5599
8 ай бұрын
In Sweden the name is Apotek.
@madmanmapper
8 ай бұрын
"Receipt" was also used historically in English for a cooking recipe. (Did you ever look at a word for a little too long and it starts to look like it's spelled completely wrong? Like 'recipe' - who spelled it like that O_o)
@snapdragon6601
8 ай бұрын
I've been following the current war in Ukraine since the beginning of the full scale invasion. I have been watching a KZitem channel that translates calls which have been intercepted from the Russian side. In most of the calls they're speaking to their friends who are stationed on other parts of the front line or to their relatives back in Russia about the poor levels of medical care the wounded have been getting. The one medication I've heard quite a few soldiers mentioning which actually does seem to be available to them is called Promedol. I had to look it up on Wikipedia since I've never heard of it before. It says that it's a synthetic opioid invented in the USSR in the 1950's that's used as a painkiller. Apparently it was never approved for use in North America or Western Europe. Were those types of prescriptions closely regulated in the Soviet Union like they are here in the US?
@jackhogston6119
8 ай бұрын
That sheet with the mustard on it is called a 'mustard plaster' in English. Like the Brits call our Band-Aid a plaster. I don't know when mustard plasters might have been used in the U.S., but to the best of my knowledge it was long before my time, and I was born in the early 50s. For all I know, they might still be available.
@jacobtrapp3772
8 ай бұрын
Great video comrade!! Thanks for all of your interesting and unique outlooks on modern us society and former USSR society
@lisakeitel3957
8 ай бұрын
I saw the white washing of trees in the small Dominican Republic, in the caribbean. But not anymore.
@stevenfugate4454
8 ай бұрын
Rite aid makes sure you have to walk through the toy Isle with your kids so you have to buy a toy that 400 percent mark up on the actual price of it kills me
@larryhankins3586
8 ай бұрын
I remember growing up in the US in the 50's and early 60's seeing trees with the whitewash, told it was to kill bugs and protect the trees, but never see it any more.
@richardkammerer2814
8 ай бұрын
We saw this mostly at weekend cottages outside the city. It might have been more of a decorating fad than any helpful process.
@th232r6
8 ай бұрын
I worked for riteaid for a while in CA, prices where insane! But the alcohol was probably the best deal in my small town (I don't drink). My motto for rite-aid was, "all the stuff you never knew you never needed" It was union and the lowest paying job ive ever had.
@thejinn99
7 ай бұрын
If you can, find a small pharmacy run by an owner operator. I've been using one for the last few years and I notice there is much less of a wait. At some corporate pharmacies like CVS/Walmart/Walgreens, there can be a line 5-10 people deep. I think they may be understaffed, because I've never seen anyone slacking, everyone was busy doing something. Also the price of the other stuff like band-aids or cough syrup is way more reasonable, though the selection does tend to be limited. But in between doing this and just shopping for what I need online, I've saved a lot of money.
@seiph80
2 ай бұрын
5:18 That's exactly how it is in Spanish, too. _Receta_ can mean both "recipe" and "prescription." What some people will say to be really specific is _receta médica_ which would roughly translate to "medical recipe," but in reality if the listener knows you're talking about medicine then it becomes a bit redundant.
@erikprank4611
8 ай бұрын
I remember such Soviet-era drugs like analgin (pain reliever) and kaltseks (for colds).
@TheBengalDragon
8 ай бұрын
Forgive me if I’m mistaken, but didn’t Rite Aid just file for bankruptcy or some thing?
@americanmade4791
8 ай бұрын
Mustard plasters don't help--warmth helps. A warm towel folded and placed on your your chest feels good and might bring a little short-term relief, so a lot more heat must actually cure, right? The heated jars don't really work either, but they are applied to your back while you lie on your stomach. In that position you cough less and the phlegm comes up easier. Toiletries and cosmetics ARE expensive at CVS and Rite Aid--you are paying for the convenience. In America convenience is worth a lot. American drug stores have not been merely pharmacies for a hundred years--not since pharmacists realised that they could sell banned alcohol and restricted beverages as medicinal. And yes, that's capitalism: selling people what they want at prices they are willing to pay. Want to travel further and make another stop to wait three times as long at the register to buy twice the quantity you need? Go to Wal-Mart.
@gen_xecutioner
8 ай бұрын
I think I found a doppelganger for the hot blonde teacher you mentioned a while back. Her name is Oksana Boyko.
@MJW60777
6 ай бұрын
Every Rite Aid and most CVS stores in my area (southern tier NY) have all closed down in the last year. Even one of the Walgreens (closest to me) stopped its pharmacy services a few months ago.
@denpobedy7881
8 ай бұрын
love gorchitsa, mustard and horseradish mix. great on sandwiches..
@ponetastic
8 ай бұрын
Interesting. I guess cupping is still a popular treatment in China.. sounds like black magic to me...
@viktoreisfeld9470
8 ай бұрын
I think Apteka comes from Apothecary. But, maybe you are right?
@jerrimenard3092
8 ай бұрын
Drugstores here in the USA are horrible. Yes, you get a pharmacy but all the things they sell are bad for you. Candy, beer, cigarettes, tabloid newspapers, hardly any of it is health related.
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
Apothecary is what they used to call the stores that sold remedies. I think in the UK, they still call it apothecary or chemists.
@bettyswunghole3310
8 ай бұрын
To be fair, even if the guy was stuttering he still needed XL condoms...
@androidtexts6948
8 ай бұрын
Anteka reminds me of Brighton Beach Brooklyn
@nomoneyglobal
8 ай бұрын
You answered your own question. They stay in business because the drugs are overpriced at the gouge people for prescriptions and they sell all the junk alcohol and cigarettes and eat on the side
@SalihGoncu
8 ай бұрын
Whitewashing the tree trunks save them from maggot infestation. Done in Turkey too.
@starbuck1776
7 ай бұрын
I’m a pharmacist who works for one of the big chains. The reason they stay in business is that 80 to 90 percent of the profit is prescription sales.
@NathanHedin
8 ай бұрын
Rite Aid is bankrupt, so you're not wrong...
@denpobedy7881
8 ай бұрын
Late wife said you were real deal. She was Moscow home girl and liked your articles. Pay no attention to suka.
@shaggybreeks
8 ай бұрын
Another Russian vblog, the lady presenter says the white paint is to keep "hares" from gnawing at the bark. She and her husband went to a store and bought some of the paint. You can buy it ready to use, or as a powder to be mixed with water. The fun part of her video was the way she pronounced "hares" with the Russian "H". I could not figure out what "kharess" is/are. I apologize to the presenter for my not remembering the name of her channel.
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
It's actually slaked lime, not paint
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
If you look up herbal remedies, nettles are recommended for allergies either as a tea or as cooked greens.
@mikefilimon1584
8 ай бұрын
“Whitewashing” trees also happened in Romania.
@jackieneale5424
8 ай бұрын
So funny about the white tree trunks, Trees don't need the paint, but I see people in Ukraine and Russian village still do it
@mikekokomomike
4 ай бұрын
at 01:57 Yes, it is capitualism. We capitulated to the powers in charge.
@scotthuff3517
8 ай бұрын
I “heard” that whitewashing trees also helps deter criminals from hiding behind and blending in with trees at night.
@icascone
8 ай бұрын
8:50 That is called "cupping" in English...
@ChetanChop5086
8 ай бұрын
how do you get so much time to research? do you have a team working for you?
@rdallas81
8 ай бұрын
In soviet union, treatment hurts worse than the disease or ailments! Thats why them soviets are so tough!
@he162a
8 ай бұрын
In Russia, store drugs you...
@richardkammerer2814
8 ай бұрын
Hahaha. It weakens the resistance to spend hard cash.
@Screwball70
3 ай бұрын
I wonder if dry cow blood be seen as safe for kids these days with mad cow disease lol, or is that just a British disease?
@Oldiesyoungies
8 ай бұрын
palushikanavich....hello friend! tell us about ussr sentiment towards the usa from 1950s to regan and 1990s....did the ussr hate usa, were they upset we went to the moon first? sputnik, afganistan....we were very scared of the ussr in the 1980s,,,, how did the ussr feel about usa? thank you
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/zKyjrKJjr2ueqH4
@mrk45
8 ай бұрын
I briefly lived in Russia, and one thing I noticed was the sheer abundance of "aptekas." Sometimes it seemed there was a pharmacy on every corner.
@kerrynball2734
8 ай бұрын
When we were sick as kids it was just a case of lay in bed with a wet fash washer on your head. No medicine at all.
@mabiwarrior
8 ай бұрын
As a farmer in California I see tree paint every year in the orchards of all the farms.
@ismetyalimalatli7581
8 ай бұрын
Once again, in Turkish it is called "reçete" (ç=ch, as in cheese ormchess). Sometimes it is used metaphorically as solution to a problem.
@ismetyalimalatli7581
8 ай бұрын
Oh, and white washed trees, yes, of course.
@brad9529
8 ай бұрын
Cigarettes and alcohol are drugs.
@SigEpBlue
8 ай бұрын
I always thought "apteka" was from the same base of "apothecary," which means "one who prepares and sells drugs or compounds for medicinal purposes".
@dannyboy-vtc5741
8 ай бұрын
Is it not? Here in croatia we use the term apoteka coloquially, it was more used during the ex yu times, but our standard expression and how is labelled now and then is ljekarna, from lijek, meaning cure, medicine.
@northwesttravels7234
8 ай бұрын
Rite Aid is still cheaper than QFC grocery stores next door.
@richardkammerer2814
8 ай бұрын
Rite Aid sells booze at Michigan state minimum prices.
@williammckinney4090
8 ай бұрын
Did Soviet pharmacies have a monopoly on feminine products too, or were they available elsewhere (or just not at all)?
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
We had no such things, as far as I know.
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
It is interesting that many of the remedies you described (mustard poultice, cupping) are the remedies used in the US but back around 1900.
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
Ouch!
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
@@UshankaShow people still sometimes use them, but not commonly.
@thisZelse
8 ай бұрын
@@joanhuffman2166 Oddly enough, one place I still see mustard poultices (we call them mustard plasters in the Commonwealth) is in Chinese grocery stores in Canada that have a pharmacy section. Cupping and moxibustion (cupping with extra pseudoscience) are also popular among Asian communities here.
@joanhuffman2166
8 ай бұрын
@thisZelse I've heard the name plasters before also but forgot. So, the practice is found among the Chinese as well. I wonder if they learned it from Westerners or if we learned it from them?
@thisZelse
8 ай бұрын
@@joanhuffman2166 A very good question, and not one I have an answer to - it's certainly possible they were introduced by the Brits, either via trade or via Hong Kong. The UK's influence on HK can lead to some fascinating stuff, like their love of Ovaltine and Horlicks and a sort of British-Chinese comfort food diner called cha chaan teng.
@dannykeeler4018
8 ай бұрын
😂 in Russia u don't drink vodka vodka drinks you
@christopherrestivo1867
8 ай бұрын
Weird question. I build ship models and such in my free time. Was there any similar hobbies in the USSR?
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
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@malcolmanon4762
8 ай бұрын
Lol at hte lady with a Scotch Whisky bag ay 04:45
@Whatsthedealsquirter
7 ай бұрын
Your my favorite ruski👍
@Johnwick52923
8 ай бұрын
“I discovered he was stuttering” 😂
@Nomansland672
8 ай бұрын
The ending was super funny 😂
@DannyGruesome
8 ай бұрын
I never goto those overpriced stores.
@xavierisrael3320
7 ай бұрын
Please stop with the AI art lmao
@metafeedburner
8 ай бұрын
Never use a cheap preservative.
@MarkHurlow-cf2ix
8 ай бұрын
Mustard poltis ,
@richardhighsmith
8 ай бұрын
I saw white paint on the trees in Tbilisi yesterday. Now I know why. Thanks. Also, many of the medicines are from Russia and have Russian labels. The 400mg Ibuprofène was French and knocked out some muscle aches quite effectively.
@denpobedy7881
8 ай бұрын
Thanks for mentioning Jack London. Wife loved him and Gemingway, Twain, Joe Conrad. So culturney.
@androidtexts6948
8 ай бұрын
I feel bad Ukraine was tricked into trying to join nato.
@UshankaShow
8 ай бұрын
I feel bad Ukraine was tricked to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange of empty promises of the US and Russia
@FlintIronstag23
8 ай бұрын
You might not have to worry about Rite Aid too much longer. They filed for bankruptcy in October 2023 due to their debt and all the lawsuits against them for their part in the opioid crisis. A bankruptcy judge ordered Rite Aid to fully reorganize its operations by March 1, 2024. If it fails to fully reorganize by the deadline, the company could face liquidation.
@Limbzbiscuits
8 ай бұрын
I was forced to eat fish oil 2 a day for my entire childhood, still can’t eat fish today, because all i can taste is the liquid golden fish oil😆 I remember every day crying telling my mom I don’t want it but she said it’s gonna make me smarter so I have to have it
@dannyboy-vtc5741
8 ай бұрын
I was raised in croatia, then in ex yu, i'm 50 yo now, maybe we had that before, but even in my time, we had like pills of that, it was some kind of gelatinous blisters filled with fish oil that would allow you to swallow it without tasting the gross stuff, not too keen of fish myself, if i have to, a trout from freshwater fish, and few better types of salt water ones, clams, muscles, oysters and such stuff i love, but fish, if i have to, but rarely the first choice, maybe sometimes ob the coast when fresh quality fish is put on the coal right from the boat, and with nice olive oil and the smell is what attracts you from the far instead of deterring you, i guess everything can be good to eat if prepared well..
@Limbzbiscuits
8 ай бұрын
@@dannyboy-vtc5741 we had those same pills, but I always got a spoonfull of that oil, maybe it was cheaper to buy a bottle than a packet of pills
@jackieneale5424
8 ай бұрын
Just recently the CVS and Walgreens across from the local hospital both closed.. I transferred my prescription to the hospital pharmacy & it's Amazing! Why didn't I do that sooner?
@stephenkneller6435
8 ай бұрын
“XXXXL size”… lol
@iginheo
8 ай бұрын
"Charlatan"
@Cossack277
8 ай бұрын
I remember my wife and I went to Berdansk for our Honeymoon. I had sprained my ankle on the beach and it swelled so bad I had real difficulty in walking. We went to the closest Apteka…she explained to the young lady behind the counter and showed her my ankle. She came back from back room with 3 brown, small glass bottles and three syringes. It cost us $3 usd then. This surprised me that syringes were given and then 3 bottles of medicine for them. I asked my wife ( do you understand how to do this? She said ( of course! All mothers know this. She said it contains no narcotics but will help with the swelling. I do not know what was in this, but my gums went numb and the pain instantly went away. I told my wife , this would never happen in the states…for the strict guidelines on needles. This was the only time I needed the Aptika…though later when my mother in law became sick , I had to visit more often. In our city of Zaporoxia and Berdansk they were always very clean stores. I enjoyed looking around to see all that they sold there, and at that time very cheap.
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