Posted on 05/07/2022 2:41:09 PM PDT by Kriggerel
Bald/Ben’s quest for Soviet cultural artifacts is about to experience the holy grail - a visit to the gulags.
He put a message on his page:
Pinned by bald and bankrupt
bald and bankrupt
5 hours ago
In a Soviet gulag. Please don’t try saving me, I’m very happy here. Just send me some babushkas, a few viagra tablets and some vodka. See you in a few years. Cheers
I heard he just wound up getting fined £60.
Not a cheap lesson, but a hell of a lot cheaper than the gulag.
“I heard he just wound up getting fined £60.
Not a cheap lesson, but a hell of a lot cheaper than the gulag.”
Russia does not want the bad PR from locking up such a prominent YouTuber. Yes I have seen is videos. He is very good. Very funny and sarcastic. But very nice to the people he encounters in former Soviet nations. And they always feed him good food. The babushkas do.
Avoid this Soviet Exclave!
3,732,925 views-——Jan 15, 2022
If you look at a detailed map of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia you will see some strange shapes appearing in the very south of the country. These are the Soviet formed exclaves belonging to both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They were formed in the 1950s to answer the question of what to do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmKRNQfp_Y0&t=2s
Probably gained a bunch of new subscribers.
He was in Syria last month. Definitely lives on the edge.
The Cuba episodes were really good, probably the best insight as to what it’s really like there.
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