My previous video about moonshining with grandpa: kzitem.info/news/bejne/qXdql3iQh6F6rHY My video about Michael Gorbachev rule: kzitem.info/news/bejne/o32D0ZmGo6KDbKA Hello, comrades! My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA. Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR. My book about arriving in America in 1995 is available on Amazon: www.amazon.com/s?k=american+diaries+1995&ref=nb_sb_noss Please contact me at sergeisputnikoff@gmail.com if you would like to purchase a signed copy of “American Diaries” You can support this project here: www.patreon.com/sputnikoff with monthly donations Support for this channel via PAYPAL: paypal.me/ushankashow Ushanka Show merchandise: teespring.com/stores/ushanka-show-shop If you are curious to try some of the Soviet-era candy and other foodstuffs, please use the link below. www.russiantable.com/imported-russian-chocolate-mishka-kosolapy__146-14.html?tracking=5a6933a9095f9 My FB: facebook.com/sergey.sputnikoff Twitter: twitter.com/ushankashow Instagram: instagram.com/ushanka_show/ Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/The_Ushanka_Show/
@phdlifechannel3100
3 жыл бұрын
Hello Comrade, hello from Serbia, or to be retro, from ex-Yugoslavia. There was an interesting case of an ordinary man, a metal worker who became the most famous guy in Yugoslavia because his face was on our national banknotes. However, he started to drink like a maniac and died young. Did you have some similar case in USSR? I gave my best to translate a short part of the only documentary about him, that summarizes WHY there were so many heavy, heavy alcoholics. It's not easy to properly translate the speech of a drunk man, but you will probably understand 70-80% just by listening: kzitem.info/news/bejne/1p-t2KuJoZF7ZqA&pbjreload=101
@opl500
5 жыл бұрын
The Soviet economy was literally ethanol powered.
@Martin1jg
5 жыл бұрын
Pepsi was paid in vodka and old warships for a period lol
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
Martin Yes. Pepsi wanted to sell in the USSR, and Stoli wanted to sell in the USA. And so they made a deal...
@pumpkinsdontcry
5 жыл бұрын
Q: What do Russians get when mixing Holy Water with Vodka? A: The Holy Spirit
@Maelli535
5 жыл бұрын
Gave you like, but it's an old joke - see "Bad Jokes", with Woody Harrelson!
@nancyhey1012
5 жыл бұрын
😃
@stevemolloy1289
5 жыл бұрын
Ha ha, America is fucked. No really, you are.
@serbianwarcriminal5686
5 жыл бұрын
that is genius
@kirbyculp3449
4 жыл бұрын
What do call a ghost that has holes? Holey spirit.
@bellsTheorem1138
5 жыл бұрын
Q: How do you make moonshine? A: Prohibition.
@remcovanvliet3018
5 жыл бұрын
That, or exorbitant taxation.
@eddgrs9193
5 жыл бұрын
It was illegal to make your own alcohol in Romania too, I remember my father and my uncle were making plum schnapps in my village . They were making it during the night, so they would not attract attention. Of course you could smell it from 1km away. Soon the neighbours were there, then the policeman came too (who was supposed to take care that something like this doesn't happen) , and every time it turned into a grill party at night.
@EuropeYear1917
2 жыл бұрын
My great-grandfather was the mechanic that kept the fleet of Fords used by the mob in Colorado Springs for rum running in working order during American prohibition back in the 1920’s. I salute your comment!
@michaelkofman3881
4 жыл бұрын
Sergey, I was born in 1986 in Minsk. We left for the US in 1989 so I barely remember anything. Growing up, my favorite stories my parents told were of their childhoods in Soviet Belarus. We still regularly discuss it. Thank you so much for creating this channel. Your stories enrich my представление of daily life.
@voodoochild1975az
5 жыл бұрын
Ukrainian Samogon story.... I was given some as a gift to try it, a few liters in water bottles. They stayed in the fridge for a while. I stumbled home from a night out downtown around Kreshatik area... yes, I drank too much that night... I went to sleep... I woke up a few hours later parched... soooo thirsty... total cotton mouth. I open the fridge, grab a water bottle and start chugging down that ice cold.... oh shit. It was as if time slowed down as I was gulping it down. I realized it was not water, not what I wanted... in fact, kind of the opposite of what I wanted. It was the Samogon I was given. Its pretty good stuff mixed, but I can't recommend chugging samogon straight at 3am when expecting water and dying of thirst. Learn from my mistake, label clear samogon clearly ;)
@vladimirerfan7721
5 жыл бұрын
voodoochild1975az it happened to me a few times too 😀
@Alexandru1996_
3 жыл бұрын
This is literally the reason why in Romania we mostly use coca cola or pepsi bottles for any kind of home made drinks. Never water bottles cause accidents can happen
@bettyswunghole3310
3 жыл бұрын
When I was at university, a friend of mine got very drunk and fell asleep. He woke up next morning horribly thirsty and found a large, refreshing looking glass of orange juice next to his bed, which he swigged down...unfortunately, it was actually 10% OJ and 90% vodka which had been prepared especially for him!
@puschelhornchen9484
5 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia drink consumes you... Oh wait thats every where.
@LetsTakeWalk
5 жыл бұрын
Prohibition does not work. See America, see the USSR, see War on Drugs.
@Rastafaustian
5 жыл бұрын
Alcohol uh, finds a way.
@Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.
5 жыл бұрын
This is a bit of an underrated channel doesn’t matter if you repeat things here and there, I thank you for this and keep up your hard work so people like me, those born way after and whoever is feeling nostalgic and so on can enjoy your videos.
@ericgoingoverseas5064
5 жыл бұрын
Sergei, I dont care if it's a repeat. You added more details in this one that are cute. I have been reported to the authorities twice for making homemade wine. Yes, today in America. Distilling is illegal in the state of Iowa Period. Wine making for personal use is fine as long as not over 100 gallons. (I was ignorant of that the first time, willing dumped 30 gallons to avoid bigger issues.) Selling homemade wine or serving it in a tavern is illegal. Why? The government cant tax it, or regulate it. Distilled booze can only be purchased in stores and taverns. Again, taxes and regulations. The " Revenuers" are alive and well. But few of my countrymen are willing to do the work of homemade anything anymore. Those of us who do, are known and kept an eye on. 😊
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
Distilling is illegal in all 50 states. That doesn’t mean it’s not done in all 50. 😏
@ericgoingoverseas5064
5 жыл бұрын
@@5roundsrapid263 Never knew distilling was illegal in all 50 states, appreciate the info.😊 I dont sell it eather, but if I happen to leave a bottle out on the counter........and someone happens by...leaving me something laying on the counter in the bottles place.... Home made bread, tractor parts, pecan pies, etc. I traded them, fine line I never crossed.😉
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
Eric Going Overseas Some states turn a blind eye, and some are very strict. I live in one of the former.
@remcovanvliet3018
5 жыл бұрын
Spasibo, tovarisch. You are a good story teller. Greetings from the Netherlands.
@johnorlitta
5 жыл бұрын
That hello Mr. Gorbachev part was great!
@LOUDcarBOMB
5 жыл бұрын
Dude your content is really intersting because of your perspective on the USSR living in it (like talking about hobbies, and the government being against alcohol). One thing of helpful criticism that I see is that you should cut down on the amount of showing your social media throughout of your video. The reason I say this is that I think that it is distracting from what you are saying and showing in the background to what you're talking about. I believe (and a lot of the other big KZitemrs I've seen) that you should have your social media stuff (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Patreon, Paypal, etc.) being shown at: the beginning, at the end, or both. Your content is super cool and keep on going strong!
@theeccentrictripper3863
5 жыл бұрын
I just found your channel and damn is it interesting stuff! Thanks for providing an interesting and unique perspective.
@SeresTheZocker
5 жыл бұрын
The wonders of the internet
@michaelfilimon8510
5 жыл бұрын
OMG! I’m inflight right now and can’t wait to watch this!!! Sergei, you are an amazing creator and have such great and authentic content! I know that I wasn’t ever in the CCCP but the way you tell the story from your POV, I’ve actually binge watched your videos before!
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@ESPLTD322
5 жыл бұрын
In the state of Georgia, you can’t buy alcohol from 12AM-6AM, but I think that’s the only state. A lot of counties in the south, mainly Alabama or Georgia, you can’t buy alcohol on Sunday. Or even at all, in a few.
@johnniebee4328
5 жыл бұрын
New York has that rule for Liquor and Wine, but not for beer. Sunday was no liquor and wine until about 2006 and now Sunday is after 12PM but not before.
@jorinton
5 жыл бұрын
Hey I m from Slovakia and as you know Czechoslovakia was a communist country and I despise communism because it destroyed both our nation and economy, but its VERY interesting to see your...insight on life in USSR. Thanks!-
@briansarah2745
Ай бұрын
I absolutely love your channel so interesting
@RogerThat787
Жыл бұрын
When does Ushanka Vodka hit the black markets of Michigan!!!!ove the videos and thank you for posting.
@roverworld7218
5 жыл бұрын
I guess when your stuck on a hard situation with no way out: living in an apartment in a given city and not being allowed to move anywhere else without government authorization, no real options to change your job and no advancement unless you knew the right government/party leaders. It's obvious that this led to mass frustration which in turn led to alcoholism as an escape. A modern example just south of the border. Yucatan was the world's leader in Sisal fiber production. This native Mayan agave was once called "the green gold" and made millions. But in the 1930s first a "Soviet" inspired Mexican president (Lazaro Cardenas who also expropriated the oil industry and created the monster, moneywasting and corrupt PEMEX) overnight expropriated the private plantations and turned them into collective farms (ejidos) but sisal farming and manufacture was too complex for local, many illiterate, farmers to handle so the State government had to send "administrators" (managers) to oversee things so turning farmers into de facto underpaid government employees. Result: drinking skyrocketed. And years later after nylon came on the scene and a series of bad moves including "socially just" donations of sisal agave seedlings and sharing technology with "brother third world nations" like Tanzania and Brazil by leftist administrations in the 1970s, which led to the later filling via private farms the demand for sisal that still existed after nylon by offering cheaper fiber and this ruined the local economy. Result: in 1982 the federal government decided to "diversify" the agricultural production of the State and did so by literally clearing the fields and planting corn, beans and tomatoes. All crops grown better elsewhere in Mexico and for which at the time there was only a domestic/regional demand and to "retire" older Sisal farmers/workers with seniority. Result: mass unemployment, the ejidos new crops failed and suddenly you had 40 year old retirees who spent a very paltry pension on..... you guessed it ALCOHOL! Yucatan had at the start of the 2010s an average 200 cases of deaths due to alcoholic congestion, or simply put cases when you drink so much hard licor that you literally die from "alcohol poisoning" when your liver can't take it. And this does not include other causes of death related to alcohol! The only ones that have made money in the Yucatan since 1937 are bar and liquor store owners and beer and rum distilleries. One family had a small beer distillery in the 1930s and when it sold it to a national brewer in the 1990s they were rich enough that they ended up owning the local Coca-Cola bottling and distribution franchise and the Volkswagen and Audi dealerships. All thanks to a lot of alcoholic, unemployed and frustrated Yucatec Mayans who saw their traditional way of life destroyed by the government precisely to "improve their lives" and saw no way out with few choices except migrate to Cancun to be a mason for paltry wages and bad safety conditions, be a servant to foreign tourists or go to California or Canada. What can I say! NOW I FEEL LIKE A DRINK. Well it's hot outside anyway, cheers!
@noobster4779
4 жыл бұрын
Alcohol was a massive problem even before the soviet union in Zarist russia. It was actually a way to control the peasants because only the nobility could produce alcohol legally. Beeing rewarded with the license tp produce vodka by the zar was basically the best thing a member of nobility couold get as a reward. The Problem simply carried over, because even if the soviet union wasnt "ideal", it sure as hellw as better then zarist russia for the average person.
@travishabursky4362
5 жыл бұрын
I can see where the word samogon originated from from a western perspective. Moonshine is whiskey made by moon light that is not aged for close to 10 years. As whiskey ages, the alcohol content falls to about 80-100 proof and it acquires that brownish-gold coloration. Making alcohol by yourself, while rushing the process of making it. I am unsure if vodka is aged or not, so I may not be correct in my conjecture.
@CzornyLisek
5 жыл бұрын
Samogon literally mean "alcohol made by yourself"
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
Vodka isn’t aged like whiskey. It wouldn’t be vodka. US law actually says that. Wood makes liquor brown, and it’s never aged in wood.
@David_Bower
5 жыл бұрын
Gorbachev had it in for alcohol since the victory day celebration party of 1979 which got out of hand when Brezhnev had a few too many and decided to start practicing for his meeting with Honecker later in the year.
@Rekindle1976
5 жыл бұрын
I enjoy learning about your people and culture through these videos.
@fazole
5 жыл бұрын
I remember seeing some news story about Russian pilots or aviation crew drinking the deicing fluid used on aircraft because it contains alcohol, but it is toxic too. I worked in E. Europe in the months following the fall of the USSR. Back then alcoholism was rampant, but it was not seen as all that strange. At 7:00am you'd see men passed out in a cafeteria, or sleeping on benches--not homeless, they just missed the train or bus after all night at the bar. Beer was very cheap. Everyone made their own alcohol too. In fact, you could "rent a still" and make your own hard liquor--really hard like even going into the out building where the still was, would intoxicate you. It was a strange thing to see athletic people who would get falling down drunk and smoke like chimneys. I went on an all day bike ride through the countryside that turned into an all day pub crawl! Also, when you get really good at continuous drinking, you seem to be able to stagger for miles (kilometers) w/o falling down. I've seen guys walk for maybe 1.5 hours staggering home through snow carrying 4 LARGE beer bottles in each hand. Never fell down! Back then, price controls were ending and food became more and more expensive, so beer was bread. However, after a year of seeing rampant alcoholism and being in the bar myself almost every night, I only saw 2 (short) fist-fights. The Moravians are truly great and warm people.
@irasthewarrior
5 жыл бұрын
If you threat men like workhorses and don't give them the chance to affirm themselves to become better men to live better lives, what do you expect ? I'd be an alcoholic too. I'd drink myself into oblivion. The same crap was going on in communist romania. My father was an alcoholic and a heavy smoker while his wife was nagging him to death because of her personal frustrations and her h*itty life. He was growing graps at his parents house to make a crappy wine to keep him going.
@ericgoingoverseas5064
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's the modern divorced male in Western Countries. No respect, or appreciation just a workhorse to support the X wife and the state system demands. His kids might get a little something if theres anything left over.
@MoriAnimations
5 жыл бұрын
Love this channel! It's so interesting, you're a great story teller
@oatlord
5 жыл бұрын
Not sure why someone would complain about your English. It's good.
@cristerowarrior1450
5 жыл бұрын
Great video
@theoriginalt-paine3776
5 жыл бұрын
Also, the Privyet Gorbachev thing is amazing! I love that, a little bit of Soviet defiance! Ukrainians, Russians, most former Soviet peoples have a great sense of humor.
@AK-706
5 жыл бұрын
Hello Gorbachev !!!!
@sulphurous2656
5 жыл бұрын
I can't exactly blame him in hindsight looking at how things in Russia are today, when it comes to men there aren't many of them and those that are tend to be rather old and VERY alcoholic...
@Tipperito
5 жыл бұрын
Ahh the good ol samagon, my dad makes it to this day, I learned from him how to make it myself, good stuff!
@MrBuccaneers1
5 жыл бұрын
Good stuff Comrade Sergei, keep it up!
@visionofwellboyofficial
8 ай бұрын
Alcoholism was so rampant in Mongolia.
@wildbill9919
5 жыл бұрын
Uncle Jesse of the Dukes of Hazzard would have fit right in with this era USSR.
@MrChainrule
5 жыл бұрын
The rubber gloves are an interesting innovation. I'm sure anyone who can rig up a still could improvise an airlock but why bother when you have such a simple solution at hand.
@dragonsword7370
5 жыл бұрын
"...simple solution at hand." That's funny!
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
Balloons work too.
@orim298s
5 жыл бұрын
So 25% of Soviet GDP was based on the sale of alcohol. Why did they not think that limiting drinking would affect the economy? A disconnect between policy and reality. So every man was drinking, just to escape from real life of the Soviet economy. Are you going to do a video about Soviet computers? Both mainframes and personal computers from the 80's-90's.
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
Sorry, my knowledge of the Soviet computers is around zero.
@steliosarvanitis5606
5 жыл бұрын
...and that kids is way the USSR collapsed, not the cold war mambo jumbo you are feed from western outlets;p
@steliosarvanitis5606
5 жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow pitty, because in USSR had the best Spectrum ZX clones and the most wanted nowadays.
@orim298s
5 жыл бұрын
@@UshankaShow What about calculators? I think you said that you were studying to be a engineer of some type. Did you have access to calculators in school? I had a Sharp EL-502 scientific calculator in 1978 in school.
@dragonsword7370
5 жыл бұрын
I think the intended consequences would have been higher productivity in the factories and fields, with lowering the hospital care costs of alcoholism caused problems.
@Putaspellonyou
5 жыл бұрын
Not a new thing in Russia. In Peter the Great's time, serious alkies would sell their last set of clothes for one last drink. Then they'd freeze to death...
@robertjarman3703
5 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, the Tsar of the Russian Empire, Nicholas the II, also tried a prohibition, and combined with the loss of the tax money from it, and the massive expense of WW1, he couldn't pay the army to be loyal, greatly aiding the revolution against him.
@Sephirajo
5 жыл бұрын
Yeah Tsar Nicholas was a pretty shit manager in a lot of ways and boy did it come back to bite him
@EuropeYear1917
2 жыл бұрын
This is true, OP!
@EuropeYear1917
2 жыл бұрын
@@Sephirajo Hey now! You try running the world’s largest empire, and see how easy it is to manage things! It’s amazing that the previous Tsars and the later Soviet General Secretaries were any better at doing it, to be fair.
@Sephirajo
2 жыл бұрын
@@EuropeYear1917 defending a family of antisemites who helped spew forth then protocols is not a hill you want to die on 😒
@adamlemus7585
5 жыл бұрын
I recognized that thumbnail. The guy I bought my Mosin Negants from showed me that movie.
@brendanstanford5612
5 жыл бұрын
What is the movie?
@adamlemus7585
5 жыл бұрын
Brendan Stanford Here ya go “moonshiners” kzitem.info/news/bejne/rqWa3Z6poX-jhG0
@Tony-nd9xf
5 жыл бұрын
Howdy! I am a new viewer to your channel, and I've got to say that I really do love your content. I hope you keep it up!
@ocudagledam
5 жыл бұрын
Ah, good old Gorby! He made one quarter of the national budget disappear, he made a big branch of industry in some of the republics disappear, undoubtedly causing discontent and giving rise to nationalism there, he made some of the few staple items that previously hadn't been in short supply (sugar) disappear... and in just a few years, he made the USSR disappear. I'm not suggesting that his battle against alcohol was the sole or main thing that brought down the USSR during his reign, but just imagine the effects a guy this talented, who could cause so much damage by doing one thing, was able to achieve in 6 years. Although, this thing alone: you eliminate 1/4 of the national budget (and don't replace it with anything else) in a country where everything, every worker's pay, every social benefit, entire healthcare, every industrial investment... comes from that exact budget, imagine the effect of a quarter of all that money disappearing and just no longer being there, year after year. BTW, what was the thing with the complete ban over weekend? There's a bunch of countries in the west where people don't sober up for a minute between Friday afternoon and Sunday night, they seem to be doing fine.
@johnniebee4328
5 жыл бұрын
Too bad about destroying the vineyards in Georgia. They make some really good red wine like Saperavi
@GeorgeSemel
5 жыл бұрын
Talk about stupid. No doubt those Vineyards were there for decades if not centuries. Speaking of Vineyards, it's become a big thing here in CT winemaking. There are even a few craft Brewers too. One in my old home town. My dad owned a Distillery in the years before and after World War II. Long gone now. Was a major employer in those years. Things changed after the War. By the time I was born in 1955 it was shut down. but the physic plant was still intact growing up.
@zerokoolTV
5 жыл бұрын
The Glove thing had me going hahahaha Hello mr president hahahah good one.
@baroqueguitarist5673
4 жыл бұрын
Love your channel. Growing up in the USA I was always curious about daily life in the USSR. It's hard to trust the media and movies like Moscow on the Hudson because of obvious cold war bias. I appreciate your unbiased view and personal account with text books/original paperwork to really show life accurately. I love the USA and our system but I can't help but be curious about daily life of a completely different system of government.Thanks for doing this channel and preserving that time in history.
@theoriginalt-paine3776
5 жыл бұрын
Ok, I'm not a communist, and I wouldn't want to live under communism. I think there are thing we as capitalists could learn from Marx's critque, and work together to assist, and create opportunities for disadvantaged persons and communities, but damned if it isn't extremely interesting to get such a humanized picture of the other side. I've just been watching these videos. The one about war mongering USA peace loving USSR was really great, the way you talk about fearing nuclear conflict is exactly the same way my dad talks about. So much different, so much the same. Keep making these man, I wanna know everything, I want to get a real picture of one individual's life under Soviet rule.
@samsungandroid4715
3 жыл бұрын
Grape fields also cut down in Kazakhstan
@YouScroob
5 жыл бұрын
Last year, while on the train from Lviv to Khmelnytskyi, a couple of young Ukrainian guys offered to share their Camagon with me.
@dragonsword7370
5 жыл бұрын
Was it good? Or did it taste like jet fuel filtered through dirty underwear?
@dameanvil
9 ай бұрын
01:52 🍺 Gorbachev initiated an anti-alcohol campaign in 1985 in the Soviet Union due to rampant alcoholism, with an average consumption of 10.5 liters per person, equivalent to around 200 bottles of vodka per adult male annually. 04:05 🍷 The anti-alcohol measures involved drastic tactics such as a 45% increase in alcohol prices, limited purchase times (2 p.m. to 7 p.m.), and a significant reduction in alcohol production by cutting vineyards, leading to a collapse in vodka and wine production. 05:59 📉 The campaign caused a 25% budget loss for the Soviet Union (approximately 62 billion rubles), but it did result in positive changes like increased longevity, reduced crime related to alcohol, and a small baby boom due to less alcohol consumption. 07:07 🥃 The restrictions led to a surge in homemade moonshine production, noticeable when sugar disappeared from stores, and people used inventive methods like sealing fermentation jars with rubber gloves, creating a humorous phenomenon called "Hello, Mr. Gorbachev."
@nerissacrawford8017
3 жыл бұрын
7:40 They look like Punk Rockers!
@andraslibal
5 жыл бұрын
The US has a lot of restrictions on buying alcohol you can't just buy anywhere and you can't consume anywhere either. In Indiana you can't buy alcohol on Sundays, or election day, nobody under 21 can buy alcohol, you can't have an open container in your car you can't drink on the street (except Bourbon street in New Orleans) etc.
@kredit787
5 жыл бұрын
I remember some were drinking perfume.
@kirbyculp3449
4 жыл бұрын
Shoe polish on toast, liquified by the sun.
@mrsquishyboots
5 жыл бұрын
Liquor stores are state owned in Oregon. You can bid to run the franchise...it gets odd. Closes at 7pm. Not open on Sunday. Moonshine is a rural art. Criminals spend their time with meth and cannabis.
@5roundsrapid263
5 жыл бұрын
It’s like that in several states and Canadian provinces, the government runs the stores. Most people who make homebrew do it for fun, not profit.
@azl5226ff
5 жыл бұрын
Great shows. I have a recommendation for a topic. The police and Fire department service in the Soviet Union. I’m a firefighter and was always curious about how the two services worked under Soviet power.
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
kzitem.info/news/bejne/zKF41pqqamVoh3o
@ilvibos3512
5 жыл бұрын
Samagon means “self-distilled” in the simple language distillation is call gnat’ or gon in meaning to drive and refers to forcing alcohol in to distillation
@jamesthomas5109
5 жыл бұрын
Hello from England comrade, big fan and new subscriber. Slava Russiya.
@elgus1147
5 жыл бұрын
1....Salutes giving a Slava Rossiya 2....Recipient is Ukranian
@jamesthomas5109
5 жыл бұрын
@@elgus1147 ?
@Rus-bw2oq
5 жыл бұрын
@@elgus1147 The Ukraine is Russian.
@corvusduluth
5 жыл бұрын
Molodyets Ushanka Show. Samogon, and home grown tobacco. Spasiba za video.
@thomasmyers9128
Жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in moonshine country East Tennessee…. Largest still ever busted was about 4 miles from were I live…. It was underground… then they built a barn on top of it…. sometime time in the early-mid 1970’s
@ParkerUAS
5 жыл бұрын
If the USSR has not dissolved and with the precedent being the leader ruled until death, Gorbachev would still be in power at age 88. Even more impressive is that he would now be 34 years in power, passing Stalin by 3 years and counting.
@aznluvr7
5 жыл бұрын
Great video Sergei. I was listening to a Russian lesson one time and the teacher was teaching about the prefix Сам and gave the example Moonshine and prefaced it as, and I would advise you never to drink it.
@chigal0926
5 жыл бұрын
Pelosi leader of the US, lord help us all.
@GeorgeSemel
5 жыл бұрын
Ah, the photo's of Nikita Khrushchev with the Corn! When he toured the US, they took him to Iowa, and it made an Impression on him. Pepsi got into the Soviet Union for the purpose of reducing the vodka consumption. I knew that they do drink in that part of the world, but I never thought it was that much. A bottle of vodka would last me a good two or three years. The people with the moonshine was flipping the bird to Moscow on this issue. Your videos are becoming for me as habit-forming as watching Russian Dash Cam Videos. There is a lot of health issues with heavy Consumption of Alcohol, more so with our problem drugs. I never really understood why a person would want to destroy themselves in such a manner. Then again, I may be drinking to much milk- I am good for almost a quart a day.
@rollmeister
5 жыл бұрын
The alcohol culture persists to this day in Russia.
@hemidas
5 жыл бұрын
''History repeats itself twice; first as a tragedy then as a farce."
@TheStarcoMarco
5 жыл бұрын
Why Gorbachev didn't send those alcoholic individuals who wanted to make their own alcohol to Gulag?
@gamecubekingdevon3
4 жыл бұрын
however, i don't understand why they don't either transferred the personnal that no longuer worked in alcohol production to make them work in other domain (to produce other kind of consumer goods instead, to still make people buy stuff and keep the state's budget) or export the alcohol they did not wanted people to consume (and if no way to export it, use it as a combustible or as cleaning substance)
@shelby3822
5 жыл бұрын
"part of the dealio" lol first time I heard you use that term
@bnbcraft6666
5 жыл бұрын
Have you ever thought of doing a few episodes of life in Tsarist Russia
@m0314700308891515
5 жыл бұрын
My step dads family are "White" Russians that fled the country in the early 1920s and eventually stopped running in Alaska They always made braga to keep around the house because driving 40 miles to town for booze was too expensive.
@johnblackstone5261
5 жыл бұрын
Most of those Russian towns in Alaska have like less than 500 people in them so I bet it's a small world there
@Alexandru1996_
3 жыл бұрын
Last summer one of my collegues from work brought us samagon for her birthday...that was the moment when i decided that this stuff is not for me. It smelled like something burnt, can't really describe in words. And the taste, oh my god. I ussually drink țuica and palinca so is not me not being able to drink high percents of alcool, it is just the flavors, some of thwm make me sick. Like whisky and cognac. 🤔🤔 Palinka stronk!
@kisansab9129
5 жыл бұрын
In soviet russia you dont drink alcohol , alcohol drink you !
@TheEudaemonicPlague
Жыл бұрын
It isn't true that you can buy alcohol twenty-four hours a day in the US. Most US states have at least a few hours of the day when you cannot buy alcohol, though, even in those states, sometimes towns or counties can have different rules--but most local governments align with state law. At any rate, most states ban sales for a number of hours starting from midnight to maybe four A.M. until somewhere around six A.M. to nine A.M. or even later, with Sunday being the most restricted day of the week. Where I live, packaged alcohol for off-site consumption cannot be sold after midnight, and resumes somewhere before noon (I'm usually not even awake in the morning, let alone buying alcohol). I remember, a bit over forty years ago, when a bunch of my friends and I were partying all night, I had to borrow someone's car to drive to a liquor store about ten miles out of town to buy beer at seven A.M., instead of waiting hours without anything to drink.
@UshankaShow
Жыл бұрын
It's true in my Michigan neck of the woods
@zappababe8577
6 ай бұрын
6:36 What happened if families had many children, being as all the apartments were so small? Were there any larger apartments to be had? Or perhaps people were just having one extra child, and being as at least two of them would be the same sex, they could share a bedroom, or even a bed? (My Nan was one of four sisters, and they all shared one bed! In a one-up, one-down back-to-back house with a shared outside toilet and laundry room (with a big boiling pot, everyone had to use). Sorry, went a bit off topic there! 9:04 "Hello Mr Gorbachev!" I love the dry and satirical Russian sense of humour!
@OffGridInvestor
5 жыл бұрын
I have a still. Only used it once but it's fairly high capacity. I was looking at this big plastic drum I have today that I have been moving around my laundry that I was using for a roof leak 2 months ago. I was wondering when I bought it and now I remember. It was for making the moonshine. About 60 litre container and I got about 1.5 gallons of vodka at 58% purity (normal vodka is 38%). Still have most of the other gear. Big glass flasks and stuff.
@mikehh8020
5 жыл бұрын
Where I live in the USA, you can't but alcohol between 1:00am & 6:00am.
@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe
Ай бұрын
Soviets under Stalin just got hammered to wear away all the terror?
@justinpaul3110
5 жыл бұрын
That's awesome🤣🤣
@kennysolstrand7201
5 жыл бұрын
One bottle per every three days huh..so basically they were their own third man on those bottles:P
@OffGridInvestor
5 жыл бұрын
ACTUALLY 10.5 litres is about 2.5 US gallons. There's 3.8 litres per US gallon and 4.5 litres per British Imperial gallon (about the only time something British is bigger than the US version).
@gigglehertz
5 жыл бұрын
I've used a balloon as an airlock when I made hard apple cider. You don't have to tape it airtight because it burps out the CO2.
@poli4869
4 жыл бұрын
stopping russians from drinking Vodka? why don'T we talk about migranting to Mars instead😍
@brodalf4969
5 жыл бұрын
No links below, however found it anyway. ... ;)
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
What links did I promise? We can fix that
5 жыл бұрын
Gorbachov arrived too late. :-
@Thx1138sober
5 жыл бұрын
Want to make alcohol? Go to the store and buy a bottle (64oz) of plain apple juice and remove the cap (save cap for later), pour out about 1/2 cup, add 1/2 cup of sugar, put kids party balloon over the bottle opening, set bottle in the dark for 14 days. Remove balloon and place cap back on the bottle. You now have a 64oz bottle of hard cider that has about the same alcohol content as beer.
@camper1749
5 жыл бұрын
It'll taste like shit and probably give you botulism. Prune palinka is easy to make and doesn't taste like shit.
@mushroomsamba82
5 жыл бұрын
Soviet propaganda posters are so striking, they had a great art department.
@johnblackstone5261
5 жыл бұрын
I know I love it
@justinpaul3110
5 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure if, "hello Gorbachev," was funnier than the economy getting hammered because of lose of booze revenue. Both are hilarious.
@GeorgeSemel
5 жыл бұрын
Think about that, your economy is so messed up it depended on the Vodka sales because the Crude Oil prices at the time had tanked!
@ranaantonio
3 жыл бұрын
Was Moldova supplier for Soviet wine ?
@UshankaShow
3 жыл бұрын
yes, along with Crimea region and Georgia
@gunnarhavik6389
11 ай бұрын
How is it in Russia and membercountrys of the Sovjetunion today, are they drinking as much as before?
@johnblackstone5261
5 жыл бұрын
Picture link at 9:32 for historic purposes?
@johnniebee4328
5 жыл бұрын
Privjet Gorbachovo hahahahaha
@Maelli535
5 жыл бұрын
You show some quite sexy advertisements here (the lady loading a crate of vodka into a car and showing her "buns" at the same time, for instance) and on some other videos - are they invented, or was that really allowed in the SU? Shame about the vineyards in Georgia, BTW - Georgian wine is excellent. But I guess they've recovered now.
@orim298s
5 жыл бұрын
Yes, wine from Georgia was and is well renowned.
@Maelli535
5 жыл бұрын
@@orim298s Indeed, and I'd say it's got the edge on many western wines, even some quite well known ones!
@simachmasgof8445
5 жыл бұрын
which ones
@Maelli535
5 жыл бұрын
@@simachmasgof8445 I mostly drink Tsinandali when I'm in the region, it's a very bright, very fine, very fruity white. I've tried a good few of the others, they're all good, but Tsinandali tops the list for me. I'd say it's similar to a good Chablis, but slightly lighter and has slightly more flavour. It's possible to get it in Europe and elsewhere - Amazon lists it, for instance. Won't be cheap though, but it's worth it. Cold, but not too cold, of course. While you're at it, also try some Armenian brandy. Enjoy!
@simachmasgof8445
5 жыл бұрын
@@Maelli535 thanks cheers
@pfranks75
5 жыл бұрын
What about smoking cigarettes or drug abuse was that ever a problem in USSR?
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
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@thedankmemelord5215
5 жыл бұрын
Back during the 1980s, did the Soviet press cover the crack epidemic that was going on in the United States? Also, were there any drug epidemics or anything like that during your life in the Soviet Union?
@pumpkinsdontcry
5 жыл бұрын
No need liquid crack all day
@Tipperito
5 жыл бұрын
No, no news from america ever made it to the ussr, unless you listened to western programs through the radio illegally
@thedankmemelord5215
5 жыл бұрын
@@Tipperito I'm talking about the news coming directly from the Soviet media, like if they used that to bash the US or make fun of it.
@Tipperito
5 жыл бұрын
@@thedankmemelord5215 I know what you meant, I am saying that no news from the west came to the US, good or bad, only way we would know about such things like the crack epidemic is if we tuned into illegal west german radios or british radios during times when they were not being jammed by the soviets
@thedankmemelord5215
5 жыл бұрын
@@Tipperito Makes sense, but I'm surprised that they didn't use any of that news for propaganda against the US.
5 жыл бұрын
you always show cool photos like at 9:31. How erotism worked in USSR?:- º
@orim298s
5 жыл бұрын
Better photo is at 4:51. LOL That would be a good topic for a video.
@ultraloyalservant2felineov41
5 жыл бұрын
What drugs did people use in USSR? And USA, many Russians tend to use marijuana daily & ecstasy, shrooms, special K, & cocaine professionally & socially
@spectr_rain
5 жыл бұрын
Hm. Odd that you don't know that 'гон' is the correct word for process of making spirit, or distilling, it's not like some slang - for example, 'pot still', or just 'still' is 'перегонный куб' and that is correct name for it.
@UshankaShow
5 жыл бұрын
Nope, never thought about that word like that.
@pmcuber2626
5 жыл бұрын
What does that intro represents
@thomasmorse4678
2 ай бұрын
Didn't learn from Prohibition, eh?
@kevinbyrne4538
5 жыл бұрын
In a land where it's winter 363 days per year, there's not much to do except become drunk.
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