Eli from Russia: Promoting Russian Victory during Invasion of Ukraine

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[@Anonymous_User_Incognito]

I've watched her channel for quite sometime, way back before the current war. She has and continues to show life within Russia and her travels to other countries too. Since the start of this war she's referenced it several times, as best she could under the current limitations of doing so within Russia. Not once has she EVER promoted, agreed, nor condoned Putin/Russia's actions. She even interviewed a pro-Putin American whack-a-doo living in Russia. Her facial expressions alone when he spoke let you know exactly where her heart is. She has a lot to lose if she escapes Russia- family and finances. My sister-in-law is from St. Pete now living in the US. She got out several years ago but is now cutoff from her family and finances she left behind because of Putin's war. Not all Russians are bad my friend. It appears you've attempted to get views by disparaging someone else with a larger and more popular viewer base. I'll cover your same treatment of NFKRZ on that video's comments. If you want to berate Russian vloggers that are pro-Putin, go take a whack at Sergey Baklykov and his channel Baklykov. Live kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5OpfmqPZqdpeck This guy originally had some pretty decent content walking the streets of St. Pete showing Russian life. I had to unsubscribe from him when he became an arrogant, condescending, sarcastic, douchebag with his attempts at comedy in multiple videos mocking his unaffected lifestyle under sanctions. He's a full on "whatabouter" whenever he's questioned about the invasion of Ukraine. Pro-Putin POS that deserves your negative review. Leave Eli and NFKRZ be, they are a few of the good ones. Just watch ALL their videos in their ENTIRETY not just snippets you can mold to meet your agenda that all Russians suck and are propagandists.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

I chose their videos because they are Russians who don’t appear to support the war but were not willing to take risks to oppose it and both whined on KZbin as if they were ‘victims’ … the only way ultimately to have peace is if there is a change of system in Russia otherwise Russia will continue to attack its neighbors when they disagree with them. As for other ‘worse’ Russian KZbinrs, sure I could react to all of them but what’s the point if they openly support the war? 🤷🏼

[@Anonymous_User_Incognito]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience So you do understand the possible consequences of those risks for them if they were to openly and singlehandedly express their dislike for the war/Putin, right? Unfortunately it will take the masses of unhappy Russians to change their country not just a couple of vloggers spending 15yrs in the gulag for posting a video on their channel that Putin sucks. Again, your videos appear to be an attempt to garner views by bashing popular Russian vloggers that OPPOSE Putin's war and are stuck in a shitty situation. And yes, they are victims of being born into a backwards ass country with a bastard ruler and it's hell trying to change the system because that's how they designed the system.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

@@Anonymous_User_Incognito it’s their country and their entire careers are built around commentary on Russia and in fact, Eli actively promotes Russia as a destination for foreigners … I made the analogy to Niemöller’s poem because it’s apt in this case. Too many Russians have turned a blind eye to this war of imperial aggression because they are not willing to do anything about it in spite of the consequences … same as in Germany in the 1930s …

[@Anonymous_User_Incognito]

And the crickets chirped. 🦗 The End

[@forestmanzpedia]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience I have been watching NFKRZ since 2016 and he is from the young generation whose parents did not like to publically about politics. This has left a mark on him because he did mention somewhere in his videos Russians in the Soviet era people disappeared when they spoke against the government something which Eli also mentioned in her Gulag video (if I remember correctly). NFKRZ is unlike other brainwashed Russians and he showed it time and time again by talking about the corruption of buisness men and politics numerous times even before the war started. Even before the war started Roman has been very careful with his wording for many years when he talks about Russian politics which is something he also mentioned in one of his videos when the war started. Russian citizen like him, even if they live abroad, try to either avoid political conversations on camera or are very careful with their wording because they dont want their relatives get in trouble with authorities something Roman also explained. This is exactly why Russians like Eli, Niki, Roman etc. can't directly tell their viewers donate money for Ukraine.

[@ovicog25]

You forgot to mention the annexation by Stalin of Bukovina and Bessarabia back in 1940 from Romania

[@DavidHerron]

For Conor's education - it was when the USSR stole North Bucovina and Bessarabia from Romania that Romania decided to join the Nazi cause. It might be that Antonescu was predisposed to join the Nazi's because he himself was (as far as I know) ultra-right-wing, and was able to accept the Legionnaires into the government (only to eject them a couple months later when they tried to overthrow the government). Another aspect is that Romanians have been fighting for survival against Slavs for hundreds of years.

[@ovicog25]

@@DavidHerron nothing to do with the Nazi cause, more to do with the Ribbentrop- Molotov pact when Hitler took a big of Transilvania and Stalin Bukovina and Bessarabia , 2 thugs redrawing the borders of Europe as they wanted. “On June 24, Nazi Germany, which had acknowledged the Soviet interest in Bessarabia in a secret protocol to the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, had been made aware prior to the planned ultimatum but did not inform the Romanian authorities and was willing to provide support” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_occupation_of_Bessarabia_and_Northern_Bukovina

[@rjames3981]

He also forgot to mention the persecution and murder of Jewish people in Romania under the pro German WW2 Romanian regime. Romania and Bulgaria then joined the Red Army in 1944 and took part in the conquests of Budapest and Hungary and Vienna and Austria.

[@rykson161]

How man nations did America annex ? Hawaii? Where else ?

[@SFD230]

I would like to see him and Eli sit down and have a discussion about this

[@RK-cj4oc]

She would not be able too. Her " beautifull" country would arrest her because sitting down to discuss war propaganda would entail her having to admit there is a war. And she always dodges any question about the suffering of the Ukrainian people at the hands of russia because she knows she will be arrested.

[@AndreaBorto]

@@RK-cj4oc she is paid by kremlin for soft propaganda.

[@yvettakollega5791]

@@RK-cj4oc She deleted my comments on a couple of her videos bringing attention to the fact that her and her friends are enjoying themselves travelling around Russia while her country's army is killing people like her in Ukraine. In another comment I noted how the areas she is travelling to and videoing were conquered the same way that Ukraine is being conquered today. Deleted. There are other small hints she is pro-regime.

[@Jericho19111]

@@RK-cj4ocsame will be in eu if she will tell good about Russia

[@RK-cj4oc]

@@Jericho19111 Not true at all. KZbin is litterally western, yet she can post with impunity. Tell me where in europe you will be arrested for saying russias invasion of Ukraine is a war? Or do you mean " whehh we cannot say that ukrainians should be genocoded"? Which. Of course not.

[@drakelang8342]

Darth Vader " Eli, I am your Grandfather!!!"

[@dominicvioli7098]

Oh I keep forgetting to mention this to you. I may have missed it but have you ever watched Russian Roulette the 100 part series by VICE and specifically Simon Ostrovsky. He was in the donbas from crimea through MH17 ..I mean if people think Patrick Lancaster is showing real deal on the ground reports. This vice series blows that out of the water. It won an Emmy it was so good. I mean it even shows him being detained by seperateist and held and tortured for 3 days

[@DavidHerron]

Highly highly recommend watching the Russian Roulette series - which actually started with the Russian takeover in Crimea. There was a related documentary he created, Selfie Soldiers, that documented postings on VK (Russia's equivalent to Facebook) by Russian soldiers, traced some of them into their involvement with the Battle of Debaltseva in 2015, and then he flew to far East Russia to a Tuvan city to try and talk with one of those soldiers. Simon is currently reporting for PBS News Hour and NY Times,

[@dominicvioli7098]

@@DavidHerron I really don't think you could have done a better job at documenting what was happening there. Simon is perfectly suited for the role. He knew when to push and when to pull. And he always seemed to be in the right spot. I also appreciate the fact that he spent what seemed like a pretty equal amount of time showcasing the seprestist and the ukranians. When you watch a bunch in a row the juxtaposition between the two factions is really apparent. Nearly Everytime he's around seperateist hes in danger. Hes told not to film,men are wearing mask, being abducted lol. I know the seperateist have alot more to lose but I guess that's the point right. When youre on the side of truth and good you don't have to worry about those things.

[@dominicvioli7098]

@@DavidHerron also when this invasion happend everyone was scrambling to learn somting about the conflict and all I kept hearing was about John mershimer why the west is to blame. And no one was talking about Russian roulette. I know why. Because it's easy to pop on a 1 hour lecture that tells you everything you want to here. Its alot harder to watch many videos that leave it up to the viewer to extract mortality

[@gillesspony4264]

Yes Russian Roulette and particularly Simon Ostrovsky's work is just an amazing piece of videoing history!! By far the best reporting I have even seen (it needs a degree of incredible bravery to achieve what they did!)

[@pekkajohannesvirkkula7473]

For me, Victory Day only represents bad values ​​as well and enslavement. As well Tolaritarianism and the glorification of war.

[@SL-ed6kq]

Eli is a professional TV journalist. She's doing her job well.

[@DavidHerron]

You touched on the issue of whether Russia is committing Genocide in Ukraine CURRENTLY. I have read the UN Convention on Genocide carefully, and have compared it to Russia's actions. The Convention does not focus solely on deaths, but for example creating conditions where so horrid for a population that they flee, or the act of taking children from their native population and giving them for adoption into a host population. Both are ways to eradicate a culture without taking the step of large-scale murder. I would like to hear your take - as a lawyer who formerly worked in International Relations - on what I've just said. And, yes, I 100% agree with you having carefully read Timofey Sergeytsev's article in Ria Novosti, that in the Russian Elite there is a call for mass scale killing and/or reeducation of Ukrainians meant to eradicate the Ukraine government/culture/language/etc, and having read carefully the Wikipedia article on Russification in Ukraine, I know that this has been a project of Russian Empire / USSR / Russian Federation for 300+ years. When I read up on Ukrainian Nationalism in the Wikipedia - I came away not knowing about Bandera's ideology, but knowing clearly that he stood for the principle of Ukraine being ruled by Ukrainians. The red/black flag coupled with the "Blood and Soil" phrase seems to have a different meaning from the similar Nazi phrase. Who are the Fascists? The ones who are effectively fighting to protect their government and cultural identity from aggressors? Or the ones who want to destroy another culture, believing that other culture is less-than? I think it's the latter.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

I’ll make a video on this next week 👍🏻😀

[@neilrusling3438]

Russians do their usual plan of acting all confused and innocent as if they have no idea why every single nation around Russia hates them and many despise Russia for the vast amounts of death and destruction they caused. After "liberating" half of Europe from German control Russia just replaced one type of dictatorship with another in many ways worse. The Germans system never put the entire planet at imminent risk of being murdered in nuclear war. Soviet Russia was so evil they simply had to develop nuclear weapons which they knew was a risk to all humanity, even now Russia is busy developing more nuclear weapons that could be used even though there is no situation where launching nuclear weapons is better than not using them.Even if Russia is attacked the better option for them and the world is to not launch their nuclear weapons, so there is no point in Russia having them. Its time all those Russian nukes were removed now that Russia has demonstrated they dont have the intelligence to have a single nuke, never mind thousands of them. The entire world would be so much better off not being threatened with total death and destruction twice a week by Russia. I think its time for the Russian empire to be broken up into around 23 new nations so that the those held under the dictatorship of Moscow can at last be the masters of their own destiny and vote for a government thats not thousands of miles away. There are nothing but advantages to breaking up this evil Russian dictatorship, its better for the planet and the people under the Russian empire, the quicker the break up of Russia the better for everyone.

[@ulisirius9027]

We should replace Putin by russian Kennedy and "post- Putin" England will become a nuclear shithole.

[@ulisirius9027]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience Some backyard lawyers and pettifoggers have real problems now.

[@johanmetreus1268]

"this has been a project of Russian Empire / USSR / Russian Federation for 300+ years" To expand, Russification isn't limited to Ukraine: you see the same pattern in the Baltic states, Crimea (the Tartars), Ossetia, Transnistria and so forth. Alas, not entirely unique to Russia either. The Swedification of Scania when annexed form Denmark was particularly brutal, but as late as in the 1960's, the pupils in Tornedalen routinely had their fingers smacked with a ruler for speaking anything but Swedish, which is the direct reason neither I nor my cousins speak meankäli as our parents did not pass that along to us.

[@MrTravelWriter]

Before the war, I thought her travels were not super interesting, but interesting enough. However, I got off the boat when the war started and mass graves were discovered, but she was in a store complaining about how sanctions had made it a little more difficult for her to buy her favourite products.

[@eloelo8625]

And saying obvious lies about that the medicines are under sanctions.

[@paudsmcmack3117]

Speaking like a true citizen i guess. I wonder what Americans would say if any kind of sanction hit over Iraqistan

[@TF_Tony]

@@paudsmcmack3117 Whataboutism much? Also, since when did the US try to annex Iraq for ethno-nationalist and later expressed genocidal reasons? Who said an American blogger complaining about hypothetical sanctions while not openly opposing the invasion that sparked them would be free from blame? You might want to rethink your moral compass, mate. All imperialism is bad, especially that which openly terrorizes civilians as its main or even only goal. Just because US bad doesn't mean Russia good. That's child logic.

[@overtimedemo4399]

@@TF_Tony I mean we just install puppet leaders for one and force an entire nation out of thin air pushing out people that have been since the crucifixion (basically creating a hatred between usa flag toting patriots and all middle eastern people) but I guess we can sit on our high horse, that was a while ago. I wonder who bombed nordstream, and just take a look at all those American politicians doing business in Ukraine. It's easy to tell somone to watch thier moral compass when yours is neglected as well. Obviously Putin is invading but we are all fools to think that's the only thing happening here. Especially when eastern allies unite

[@alexbayer2365]

@melky dew she can complain. Because sanction working on average citizens of Russia, not Putin.

[@vladchetvertak3394]

I don't know whether you know it or no, I won't be surprised if you familiar with it, but this concept of the "Great Patriotic War" was made up in 1965, in twenty years time after World War II ended. That year, it was the first time when Victory Day (it was intentionally "postponed" from 8th of May to 9th) was widely celebrated in Soviet Union. Before this, there weren't even an attempts to celebrate it, because a lot of survivor veterans were still relatively young and perfectly remembered all the horrors of this war. That there wasn't a lot to be proud, it was just a long sequence of mass murders, rapings, lootings and other war crimes from both sides. They knew that actually war isn't only about heroism, honour, nobility and bravery; it's mostly a blood, dirt, fear, intestines sticking out of stomach, torn up bodies, cut off legs, hands and heads. But new generation was growing up, and Communist party decided to create such a holiday for them "to get them remembered a great feat of Soviet people". For this purpose, they dropped off only a part of world war since 22nd of June 1941 when Germany invaded USSR, and called it a "Great Patriotic War". Soviets skipped an "awkward' part of it when they divided seized territories of Eastern and Central Europe with Germany: they've already basically participated in the war not only by seizing but also by murdering (Katyn' massacre) and deporting many thousands of Poles, Ukrainians, people from the Baltic states (mostly Latvians) to Siberia and sending them to Gulag. They deliberately diminished a role of American lend lease to create a facade of "decisive contribution by USSR in defeating a Nazism" by writing in a history books that an overall share of lend lease was only 4% while actually it was just huge. Soviet Union simply couldn't have resist without lend lease. And gradually a Victory Day became the main holiday in Soviet Union, probably, right after New Year. And there was an interesting tendency observed in Soviet Union and Russia: the less achievements they had, the bigger and pompous this "holiday" became, with all these foolish parades, they tried to create an impression for their citizens and for all the world that USSR was almost the only one who defeated Nazis. Especially in the latest years of Putin it acquired blatantly ugly forms with fake veterans and the same fake "grandfathers on sticks" (with photos of them) in the hands of "immortal Regiment" procession participants (and most of them didn't even knew the names of their "grandfathers" who were fighting in this war). So, the last 5-6 years conscious people call it a "победобесие" ("victory-madness"). But most of Russian people, and this Eli among them, take this "victory-madness" for granted, not even thinking that maybe it's worth to celebrate it in some other way. Just as a Memorial Day, without these noisy processions.

[@ulisirius9027]

Beside Britain should be excluded from England. England is a norman, anglo-saxon country, they are frisians with some french words.

[@user-ko5ew5vw6u]

Don't touch our holy holiday! None of your damn business! We have a memorial day on June 22, when we were attacked. And Victory Day is May 9, when we won, and it's none of your business how we celebrate it!

[@TheHesseJames]

@@user-ko5ew5vw6u you can do whatever you like as long as you aren’t scheming to assault your neighbors.

[@Old-USRefugee]

@@user-ko5ew5vw6u You are all murderers, every one of you! победа на Украине

[@sangria1able]

@@user-ko5ew5vw6u You celebrate by lying to yourselves, as usual. Read some accurate history books from anywhere else in the world about the horror that Russia is and has always been.

[@alfredneuman6488]

A number of those cannons were gifted to Australia and I have seen a pair of them in Centennial Park in Sydney. These cannons had been used in the defense of Sevastopol in 1854 and 1855. The Russians had scuttled eight major warships to protect the harbour. Nearly 700 ships cannon from these warships were removed and became additional artillery located in defensive redoubts around Sevastopol.

[@macmakka8214]

But guns at Point Nepean that protect Port Philip bay that leads to Melbourne have a sign saying they were installed in early 1900,s to counter the threat of Russian invasion 😃

[@macmakka8214]

A you Tuber with 350K subscribers says what’s necessary to maintain the growth of the Chanel , why poke the bear when the You Tube income funds a nice Lifestyle

[@alfredneuman6488]

@@macmakka8214 I would say that bear has had a few pokes in her lifetime.

[@MrMike855]

I don't want to take away anything from her grandfather's service, or assume the worst, but it is really strange for her to bring up that he fought against Ukrainian "nationalists" after Russia invaded Ukraine, and then to just say he's a hero to her.

[@yvettakollega5791]

Not strange. Honest.

[@pablobroon]

The successor to the Polish Home army continued on resistance to Soviet oppression until the early 1960's. In post war Soviet films they are the bad guys - the bandits. But Andrzej Wajda's early films give an alternate view, particularly the classic Ashes and Diamonds. Some of the Ukrainian films give an inkling of the complexities of a country in effectively a civil war among nationalists, Soviets and Romanians. I doubt many countries have historically unwilling suffered so much at the hands of others than Ukraine and Poland. Until you have visited these countries you cannot really appreciate the true meaning of horror.

[@dominicvioli7098]

Largest percentage of any population lost during WW2 was the poles. 16 percent of the nation I believe. In modern day US that would've equivalent to around 60millon Americans.

[@rjames3981]

The Ukrainian nationalists massacred 100,000 Poles in 1943/44 in Galicia and elsewhere Important also to note that hundreds of thousands fought alongside the Red Army too in WW2. The Czechoslovakian Legion who liberated Kiev with the Red Army, Berling’s 200,000 strong Polish Pro Communist Army, the Belarusian and Jewish Partizans, the Bulgarian army that was involved in the capture of Vienna, the Yugoslav Partizan army, the Greek Partizans and the Romanian’s who fought with the Red Army in Hungary. Even the Finns changed sides in 1944 and ‘booted’ the Germans out.

[@user-ko5ew5vw6u]

As a percentage, you're doing great! That is, not enough Soviet people died? In total, some 27 million people.......What country are you from?

[@marianomarini775]

You can aprecccitte the true meaning of horror un the banana republica invades by usa laike Panamá Honduras el Salvador , ir un Alepo destroyed por un any Coty of Irak , Afganistán , Vietnam , Hiroshima etc , you ass

[@davidlynch9049]

@@rjames3981 The Russian high command ordered that massacre, you brainwashed Russian simpleton.

[@preeteetsutsu1134]

my grandfather was a child when WW2 happened ( around 10 years) . he lived in a village in the south of Romania and both the German and Russian army have passed through his village. He said that Germans were nice and that they really liked eggs and they would always BUY eggs from the people from the village. But when the Russians came , the people from the village would soil the girls to make them unattractive and even hide them in the attic because the risk of being raped was very high. They soviet soldiers would just TAKE their food, animals and everything they wanted . I'm not trying to endorse the Nazi Germany, but Soviet Russia was probably as worse as Nazi Germany.

[@MrMike855]

That really isn't the best comparison when you consider that Romania was an ally of Germany at the start of the war, and you had a fascist leader. Still, the Red Army was made of complete savages that would rape and pillage the lands they "liberated".

[@Li_Tobler]

My Ukrainian granny had the same experience (born 1940). She said that the Germans were extremely intimidating (mostly bc of the language) and she was scared shitless of them when they entered their house. But she admitted there was nothing to be scared of - they were as polite as they could be, given the situation, only took what's necessary and without coercion, didn't kill or torture anyone in the village. I know that German army still committed atrocities in other places, but it was still MUCH, much rarer occasion than with ruZZians today

[@Daniel-ih4zh]

@@Li_Tobler why would nazi germans kill and loot Ukrainians who supported them?

[@ifGarage]

My great grandfather from my grandfather’s side of the family was a soldier in the Romanian army during WWII lots of interesting stories about the war. However my great grandfather’s father (my great great grandfather) was a winemaker in Romania and he said when the Russians passed through his village, the Russians would just enter into any house or establishment and took whatever they wanted. They found out about my great great grandfather’s wine cellar and they stormed in there and drank nearly all the wine from their dirty stinky boots. That’s right, they took their boots off and used them as cups. My great great grandfather also said most of them were wearing clocks around their necks for some odd reason. Now my great great grandmother from my grandmother’s side of the family owned a small pub during WWII and she said the Russian troops drank at her pub until they were past out drunk, and surprisingly they even paid for the drinks. However they overstayed their visit and my great uncle (my great great grandmother’s nephew) was getting mad that they were still in the pub, so he grabbed a bunch of soda foam and sprayed it on all the Russian soldiers until they cleared out of the pub. My great great grandmother said she was scared for her nephew’s life when he started spraying them with foam thinking that the Russian soldiers would kill him for that, but they were so drunk that couldn’t even stand let alone put up a fight.

[@terencemorgan4506]

You fail to mentioned that Nazi Germany and Romania were allies in WW2. How many USSR citizens and soldiers did Romania troops kill and victimize during WW2? 🤔 It’s propaganda here to compare German and USSR troop attitudes towards Romanians during WW2. Bottom line is many young males pump up with blood lust of war are going to victimize their enemies regardless of national origin. Even America the so called greatest military on Earth has had many incidents of it’s soldiers committing war crimes in Iraq and Vietnam.

[@RPSartre01]

Ah yes Eli, our favorite KGB stooge.

[@vyhozshu]

kgb doesnt exist genius. also this guy judging by his acct description is just a western sexpat who uses the poverty in these regions to take advantage of women, and his channel started to teach other western men who are too repulsive to women in their own country how to take advantage of the locals looking for a better life.

[@pauldove966]

The difference is Roman (who you heavily criticised in your last video) is clearly anti-war and anti-Putin. As is Niki Proshin and Natasha.

[@kabardinka1]

Roman has made express anti-Putin/anti-repression comments long before the invasion of Ukraine. Since moving to Georgia, I think he's been extremely out front about what he thinks about the war. I agree... just because he has a lot of humor in his videos, don't compare Eli and Roman.

[@olafhandrick8156]

Well,I agree with that notion. He escaped military duty. Where Eli actively invites people to Russia,tries to sell language courses Russian.

[@ulisirius9027]

Ukraine is a banana republic a abscess in the middle of Europe this rotten construction must be corrected. The corrupt and criminal elites of Ukraine must be replaced.

[@ulisirius9027]

@@kabardinka1 Watch PaulCraigRoberts newest texts on his site.

[@pauldove966]

@@ulisirius9027 Yes, you're right, corruption in Ukraine has been a huge problem. The only country more corrupt in Europe is Russia. However, Ukraine's new EU candidacy will make make a big difference. The European Commission has made Ukraine’s candidate status conditional on seven main overhauls in the country’s judicial system and government. Ukraine will have to guarantee an independent judiciary, weed out high-level corruption, adopt laws on the media, limit the influence of oligarchs and improve legislation on money laundering and protecting minorities.

[@snappymcburpy7629]

Let us not forget the Katyn Forrest massacre a mass murder of Poles committed by the NKVD (Russians) then blamed on the Nazi's. Certainly power unrestrained by individual morality somehow leads to a policy of extermination.

[@alexandros4703]

Yes, the Russians denied Katyn for years, like they deny everything, just like they denied Bucha and like they are denying the non-targeting of civilians and civilian infrastructure. According to the Russians, the Ukrainians are bombing their own cities. And that's how the Russian population is brainwashed by the Kremlin regime.

[@d993s]

Those were communist jews

[@snappymcburpy7629]

@@d993s The Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of nearly 22,000 Polish military officers and intelligentsia prisoners of war carried out by the Soviet Union, specifically the NKVD in April and May 1940. If they killed them because they were communists then the Russians should have considered killing themselves. If they killed them because they were "jews" then they are as bad as Nazis . Which is it ? The fact remains Marxism is responsible for millions of deaths and is as bad as Nazism.

[@d993s]

@@snappymcburpy7629 agreed. Some people attempt to separate communists, jews, and nazis, but they are all part of the zionist plan

[@d993s]

@@snappymcburpy7629 also, only a small % of Russians were communists, the Russians were used and demonized just as the Germans were. Read some Solzhenitsyn

[@ericgoingoverseas5064]

Conner , her grandfather was a soldier. No one asks the soldier thier opinion of anything. He served his country. Sne has every right to be proud of him. Whatever happened with him during the wars was ordered. Not asked.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

Would you say the same for the granddaughter of an SS soldier who was implicated in the Holocaust? 🤔

[@ericgoingoverseas5064]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience Yes in point of fact I would. As a distant relative of some of the very same soldiers you refer too. Like so many, many years later, you assume everyone knew and was on board with what happened. Therefore everyone was guilty. So tell me, if you were drafted into that horrible mess. You actually had a remote idea of what was actually going on..... You would face a firing squad or a single pistol shot in the head t to not be involved? Maybe you are that strong in your convictions, I have no idea...... I will tell you a very very small fraction of men actually are.......especially in that decisive moment. Just food for thoughts.....😁

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

@@ericgoingoverseas5064 exactly and that’s why those who served in such armies deserve no sympathy … everyone has a choice about whether to serve in a genocidal imperialist army or to avoid it or to activity become a dissident …

[@ericgoingoverseas5064]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience Well, then perhaps you are indeed one of those very very few. I hope you never have face that choice. Ultimately, in that situation your words and and beliefs are absolutely meaningless. You could stand up bravely and take the bullet. They would dump your nameless body in a mass grave. The world will never know what happened or what you stood for.

[@ericgoingoverseas5064]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience Honestly, as strong as your beliefs are..... Why didn't you volunteer for military service with Ukraine?

[@gregmathews715]

As for Ellie perhaps she is trying to make everyone in the world outside of Russia become aware that the huge continent of Russia has many cultures, the most of which we are ignorant of. But all these people on that large continent are in the land of far away and themselves kept ignorant

[@chutasynth]

Amazing video, the content is accurate and realistic. Thanks Conor. It would be great a similar video on the Spanish Z propagandists, the worst thing I saw in my life in KZbin.

[@TheMonika1951]

She claims her videos are not a Russian propaganda. If her video about Grozny, this story of a Thousand and One Nights, is not a Russian propaganda, then I don't know what is.

[@leenafox6942]

Another great video. Thanks!

[@blafonovision4342]

I am a regular Eli watcher. I have found her channel a non-political travel channel. We are all allowed to be non-political.

[@AndreaBorto]

I disagree. If you mean showing Z or supporting Putin,you're right. But if you read between the lines, she did a lot of videos against the sanctions from a selfish point of view, tim kirby's interviews(he is a putin supporter nut speaking only about politics) then the spetnaz video (she deleted it,basically she glorified russian army) it is enough to deduct she is pro military /government/ not so war supporter but only because it damage her business. She doesn't care about ukrainians.

[@blafonovision4342]

@@AndreaBorto she may or may not care about Ukrainians. But her channel is not about Ukrainians. It is about her travels as a Russian woman, both within Russia, and without. And that is just fine. Not everything has to be about the war. As for the Spetsnaz, they have a long history unrelated to the current war against Ukraine. Indeed, from all accounts, Putin has ruined the Spetsnaz in Ukraine.

[@AndreaBorto]

@@blafonovision4342 maybe you missed a couple of my points. There are a lot of russian channels about life in russian villages, russian cousine, or bloggers like eli. None of them are subject to western criticism. Why? Well, if you stick to russian cousine, nail art, gardening of course is a nonsense attacking them. Showing a russian village can be just a doc. ELI massively promoted russian destinations suggesting people going for holidays, work, living. You are promoting your country which has an organisation called state. If you are apolitical you shouldn't ever posting video about spetnaz, victory day, tim kirby, do you understand this point? Other russian vloggers posting general content about their life in russia took distances from the war and eli or svetlana from russia were the only silent. So if they spoke against despite putin's law about free speech, if she doesn't speak it means she supports the war. She did 3 shorts criticizing the war but only because sanctions hurt her business. And she was angry at the west too. Surely this doesn't make her a good person,after all she just wanna be flattened, have lot of money and thinking only about herself. If you think the sweet mask she has on camera is enough to classify her as a good girl you have a problem understanding people. If she can spend 5000-10000 dollars for every trip,plus having usa bonds it means she could have 100k or 200k in bank accounts. Strangely huge amoubt of money at 26yo, with a demonetized youtube channels. She should have millions of subscribers for such figure.

[@andrewlesterthomas5581]

She has actively made propaganda from the start: interviewing RT anti-western journalists, promoting Russia as resiliant to sanctions and much more. She is a state owned mouthpiece with blood on her hands! And you are an accomplice by supporting her!

[@jay1jayf]

@@AndreaBorto You're unhinged. She doesn't owe you a platform. She's an individual, lmao.

[@ogurenedebaki2044]

It's extremely hypocritical of an Irishman to criticize a Russian civilian for not being sufficiently anti war while living in Russia Most Irish citizens living Ireland either said that English are bearing the brunt of the colonization or they refused to report the IRA members or activities to the authorities

[@Lizardo451]

Russia and Germany were collaborating long before 1939.

[@ramonmercader5862]

Nope, the USSR did have commercial and military agreements with the Weimar Republic but not with nazi Germany. This until the non-aggression pact that occurred right after the Munich agreements where Chekoslovakia was broken up by Nazi Germany and picked off by Poland.

[@monikaantonikj7983]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣u

[@d993s]

Yes they were, before the ziocons ruined everything

[@rodriotero1559]

Poland is the enemy of Europe

[@ulisirius9027]

On YT: Ewald Stadler Die westliche "Werte-"Gemeinschaft und der Bischof in Weiß -

[@vgshwk]

Conor great video. From the people who have left Russia and the Russians who have died in Putin’s war Russia has an unclear future. Ukraine and their people have a difficult future but I have no doubt that their spirit will persevere.

[@ulisirius9027]

I think that we will see. Dollar (Taler) could have an unclear future too. This time that could happen....

[@angeurbain6129]

Eli is a very charming person and she is basically unpolitical. You should stop doing this kind witch hunting against her. What you do is very shameful.

[@AndreaBorto]

no way. It seems oyu haven't look well on her videos aobut his family. She is the daughter of a military veteran(now defunct) who introduced her as promoting spetnaz, victory parade, and military is fully ally of Putin nowadays. She also hosted two weird interviews with a usa dissident tim Kirby, substancially promoting Putin's agenda.

[@danielhutchinson6604]

@@AndreaBorto When we review why and where the British Empire attacked Russia in Crimea, we can see that then as now the attack came from the West. Putin as a KGB Analyst appears to understand the economic and sociological motivations for the G-7 attack that appears once again. Any casual study of Russian History does reveal several attempts by Western Europe to gain access to Russian Assets. Hitler was given a harsh lesson, British Smartypants Yoohootubers should consider that fact?

[@AndreaBorto]

@@danielhutchinson6604 seems you are twisting history for a purpose. Russia was first attacked by Napoleon when raw resources we need today were in little use. It was mainly a Napoleon's wish to punish the zar and expanding french empire . Then the west helped the white faction again the bolsheviks. Then the west HELPED Stalin against the nazi attack, the ONLY time russia was really attacked with a genocide wish and for its resources. After than, peace and free markets allowed the west to have access to cheap russian oil gas and other goods. Then the west renounced to russian oil becaise its profits finance the war in Ukraine. De facto nobody is dreaming of attacking Russia for its stuff, all the opposite: we are trying to leave them alone. This is a fact, you can't deny or twist it. Then if you think 2014 euromaidan was a coup d'etat, I ask you if it was normal of moscow put his puppets since 1991 to 2014 in ukraine. The truth is the only imperialist agent here ard the Muscovites.

[@yaralord6336]

Thank you

[@JohannesNikitin91]

Thank you! Finally someone is doing video about that propaganda channel "Eli from Russia"... Btw in episode where Eli visits in Karelia she do not mention anything about Finland... Sortavala and Ruskeala where she visits were part of Finland in 1944. Then Russia occupied those territories.. Ruskeala is Finnish language, means "brown place". This is also a red flag wake up call because she calls those places "Russian places"! When she is doing those "informative videos" she definitely have readen even a little bit about the real history. She takes Ruskeala tourist train from Sortavala. The train is like "kinda historical train" with Russian imperialism and Soviet union mixed all together. It looks old but its not historical... Btw If you ever read Eli's comment section in KZbin, it actually looks silly, because it is almost everytime full of "I love you Eli" "keep going!" "finally some true stories from Russia" etc. It smells like Kremlin soft power or at least Savushkin street troll comments...

[@user-wk8tq8qc1p]

Unfortunately, those comments are not from russian trolls. There are a lot of sick people among Westerners and even in the US there are guys who dislike their governments so much that they consider russia as being falsely accused and the only "savior from treacherous West". Take guys like Seagal or Monson for example. Others just have russian wives that like putin and they want to follow along with them and are scared to make those chicks unhappy. russian propaganda spread too deep into Western societies.

[@wehosrmthink7510]

She is a well designed Russian troll operation. Her commenters are ridiculous sycophants that are clearly paid.

[@AndreaBorto]

eli from Russia is a propaganda channel disguised as an independent blogger. KZbin demonetized her and did something on algorythms so her channel users are not growing anymore so fast. Too much TV quality and high budgets for travelling. But she isn't alone, lot of similar channels all funded by Kremlin. Despite the average finnish soldier is more efficient and cold resistant than russian ones, the low demographic let Russia seize half of finnish territories, mainly Karelia. Vyborg is clearly a finnish city.

[@wanderinginrussia6813]

Very professionally edited camera work, including what seems to be video shot by an expensive drone, interviews with literal Russian propagandists without telling us who they work for, her odd access to the Russian special forces during conflict, the fact that she travels literally everywhere in Russia and tries to paint as nice a picture of Russia as possible, all while running a KZbin channel of only 300,000 subscribers with a job as a coordinator of a Russian speaking club for foreigners? Combine that with what you've said in this video and I can come up with only one conclusion: YES. Something is weird about her channel. Exactly what that is, I don't know. I've unsubbed from her. The interview she did with the American who works for RT without mentioning even once that works for RT made me question everything I'd seen on her channel before.

[@olafhandrick8156]

Interestingly her topics preemptive of Putin speeches. Siberia should be the new travel destination according to Putin. Her trolls attack everyone who has a critical view of her clips

[@michcalder88]

I remember she did a video about the LGBT community in Russia and claimed that it's safe to visit Russia if you're LGBT. She was deffo talking out of her ass on that one.

[@dimik3855]

@@michcalder88 If you are LBGT and want to visit Russia, you should make sure you're ready for any problems and challenges. There are many places in this world that won't welcome you with open arms, so get over it.

[@olafhandrick8156]

Hi Conor, Well researched and eloquently presented. Her response to that is not exactly reflective. I commented previously at one of her clips and got trolled. I speak fluent Russian and do understand wetscher.

[@ulisirius9027]

Shit happens? What is will researched?

[@lokmanmerican6889]

At 13:09 Eli actually quoted 27 million Russians died, not just 23 million.

[@harunmusa8693]

🇷🇺

[@harunmusa8693]

Wut M1 Abrahams Tank doing?

[@craigweis1675]

I always enjoy Eli's Russian stories.

[@surijosuperbaby]

He is a clown and REALLY jelous and delusional. And seems to believe that only Russian were fed with lies about wars and the West is the free world , the world of truths, that didn´t raped Africa, the Americas, Asia and india for centuries. Eli has the right of loving her country. By the way; take a look at " Lost in Moscow" youtube channel,, it is FANTASTIC.

[@dms7834]

Eye opening! Comrade Eli needs to watch!

[@misiknuo]

Eli From Russia is great you tuber i can wait her new videos from newest Russian Territories..especially Odessa city founded by Catherine the Great.

[@andrearheintgen8523]

@@misiknuo KZbinr Russian Puppet

[@ulisirius9027]

No, to think, like Dugina thinks. Weisheit wird sie durchdringen.

[@Old-USRefugee]

@@misiknuo Another Russian, the world can do without!

[@SLDM1962]

Finland was a war of attrition, and the Finns paid more dearly than most can imagine.

[@laurenk6741]

I've watched a few of her travel videos and are really good. She doesn't hide things like the poor standards of living or avoids the more undersirable districts. The Real Russian Club done a really good video called propoganda explained which explains the ramping up of the Victory day propoganda in recent years and the effects on the people.

[@pauldove966]

Thanks for recommending the Real Russian Club video on Victory Day. It was very candid about how Putin has perverted the day into a celebration of militaristic aggression. Yes, Daria can express her disgust because she is now in Colorado not Russia. But Niki Proshin who is still in Russia made exactly the same point in his Victory Day video live from Moscow! Niki finds a way of being critical of Putin while minimising the risk to himself. Eli on the other hand not only shows no criticism of Putin or the invasion whatsoever, her videos that address the special operation are super defensive and self-pitying and constantly accuse westerners of Russophobia.

[@surijosuperbaby]

She is great. This guy has a clear problem. He also seems to believe that only Russians are fed lies about WW2, etc. WHICH IS A JOKE, right?? For him West is the free world , the world of truths, that didn´t raped Africa, the Americas, Asia and india for centuries and Holomodor some secret that no one knows about... And, seriouly, Eli has the right of loving her country. By the way; take a look at " Lost in Moscow" youtube channel, it is FANTASTIC.

[@ulisirius9027]

Shit happens? Which conditions?

[@TheHesseJames]

@@pauldove966 that’s a fair assessment of her videos. I don’t condemn her for that though, she is Russian after all and it is difficult to admit that your country has been turned into a shit hole by ruthless fascists, but she should just stick to her travel vlogs. Her timid comments on Russias assault on Ukraine are helping nobody.

[@wendellbatts2477]

Well, I always suspected Eli was getting state support and encouragement on some level, if not direct monetary support, to promote Russian culture to a younger and, strangely, more western audience. And frankly before the war started, I thought she was doing a good job at it. That is why I watched and even subscribed to her channel. Initially I think she was embarrassed by Putin's bloody conceit. But by now, she has simply fallen back into her default position, which is nationalistic. Always enjoy a Connor video.

[@martinfox3478]

No one gets to make a KZbin video on the Spetznaz as she did without some help and sympathy. The remarkable video that was removed from her channel once the war started.

[@ulisirius9027]

Nationalistic what is??? National or globalist??? Mmh?

[@MattyC62185]

Well, she has to be careful what she says show she does not wind up on the government shit list. Drill lies that she does not have access without a VPN which I’m pretty sure she’s using one to even be on KZbin in the first place. I remember her doing a video with Niki Proshin Who has since left Russia. She hast to be careful what she says to not land her or her family in prison

[@matearas7787]

​@@MattyC62185not an excuse

[@baturgunl504]

She is a young meryl streep . 1 of the sexiest actresss in all history of Hollywood

[@andyperry7884]

when i was young..the vietnam war..we demonstrated in grovesnor square...why no marches outside the russian embassy.!!!!.....it would give young russians the courage they need...why are we not demonstrating .....young russians need a lead

[@candykane4271]

I kinda forgot about your channel, glad I heard all this. Scary ….

[@willhart4762]

No victory for anyone in this war, both Russia and the Ukraine are suffering devastating losses...no winner even if ends.

[@ulisirius9027]

Odessa should become russian too.

[@rudolfkasanpawiro644]

Thanks for analyzing the views of Eli.

[@Shekhinah74]

Sorry to hear Kirby was sent to see a psychologist, while at high school, because he was unstable and a would be threat. I understand Eli being uncomfortable around him... "He grew up in a rundown suburb of Cleveland, where his father struggled with deadbeat clients in the furniture-refinishing business and saw their house plummet in value when the neighborhood was hit by white flight, he says. Mr. Kirby says his upbringing as a white minority in his neighborhood left him "uncomfortable" in polite society and hostile to authority. In high school, he says, he was forced by school administrators to pay weekly visits to a psychologist after he was identified by fellow students as someone "who would pull off a Columbine shooting."

[@hamsterg0d]

Hmm, thanks for your insights. I like Eli's channel but haven't seen those episodes.

[@ulisirius9027]

Which episodes? Some advisors have strange habits. Others should be thrown out very fast. Putin' s Russia is doing that in Ukraine: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/n4KoqZp3gdtsras

[@nerdyali4154]

Russia did not win the war by itself. Russia likes to ignore the fact that the Western Allies had to commit huge naval and air resources to keep supply routes open, keep Japan off Russia's back and deny Germany important metals,oil and access to Russia''s back door. The strategic air war gave Germany no other choice than to put most of it''s resources into air defence, keeping a vast amount of materiel away from the Russian front. Russia relied on US vehicles for transport and the aircraft they received could have been enough to tip the scales. Stalin was so concerned about the narrative that he had the labels changed on American rations. Basically, Russia only had to operate in one theatre thanks to the Western Allies.

[@user-ko5ew5vw6u]

Everything is clear with you...That is, if it were not for the Americans, the USSR would have lost the war...America likes to appropriate victories for itself. Most Americans and Europeans think that it is not Russia but the Western allies who won the war, naturally led by the glorious United States....Young Japanese are often told that the Russians dropped atomic bombs on them, not the USA.....

[@maxbounce5736]

Someone seems to have learned his history from TikTok…

[@dominicvioli7098]

Did you put a green filter on this video or is Ireland really just that green 🍀......btw nice haircut. I hope you have your barber a nice tip. It's not easy to taper that thin Irish hair lol 😂

[@IzzyChopChop]

Glad you called her out

[@catalinuss]

Hi Conor. I'm also watching Russian bloggers living in Spanish speaking countries and all of a sudden, they seem to have been activated as Russian propagandists. They can be split into 2 categories: the ones that are directly supporting the Russian politics (usually they made videos regarding the 9th of may filled with patriotism) and others that are ambiguous and don't adopt a clear tone. For day-to-day news from Russia I watch the subtitled videos of Maxim Katz - he has a very clear position. I also watch the videos of Ilya Varlamov: he's a bit nostalgic for the Soviet Union, mocks the current politics and realities of Russia and criticizes (although on a more subtle tone) Putin's war.

[@jamiemacdonald208]

In the memoir by George Robertson, the former UK Labour politician and Secretary General of NATO, he recalls a conversation he had with Putin in the early 2000s. Putin asked why Russia hadn't been invited into NATO. Robertson replied. You don't get invited. You need to apply. That Russian exceptionalism has now fed into the Russian nationalism which permeates through Russians. I see it in Russian friends and in some of the Russian KZbinrs I watch. The worst thing about nationalism is that it creates an enemy. And for that enemy there is no empathy. With people adopting grievance, victimhood and self absorption. Admittedly we have English exceptionalism here embodied by Johnson, but it seems on the wane, but that is for another discussion. I've watched Eli's content for quite a while, through her time studying in Italy, and particularly since the invasion. She demonstrated the same exceptionalism. In one she was upset that people were commenting in an aggressively rude manner about her and her parents. I'm not condoning people being aggressive in their comments, but she seemed affronted. The exceptionalism of how dare you. Where she became the victim rather than the real victims in Ukraine. The strength of feeling seemed to completely surprise her, when such an act of aggression by Russia on Ukraine, completely unprovoked, was obviously going to raise passions and anger when innocent people are being bombed and killed. She also did a video where she was shopping for refugees in Russia that had fled Ukraine. But didn't seemed to see any irony in that, that they wouldn't have had to flee if it wasn't for the invasion. As one Russian friend said to me, who had studied both in a Russian University and one in the UK. In Russia they teach you what to think, rather than to think. That was completely different in the UK. You were taught to research, analyse and weigh probabilities of different views. So the march of the Immortal Regiment is a moving sight to see. But it is only a partial history. Of sacrifice and victory, that feeds into the grievance that the west doesn't understand it was the USSR that won the war. Their grievance has some truth to it, but until there is also a understanding of what went before and after to have the bigger picture, then it is fertile ground for Putin to whip up nationalism and convince many there are nazis everywhere but in the Kremlin.

[@pauldove966]

"She also did a video where she was shopping for refugees in Russia that had fled Ukraine. But didn't seemed to see any irony in that, that they wouldn't have had to flee if it wasn't for the invasion." I think Eli's understanding was that the refugees were poor Russian-speaking civilians from the Donbas who had been brutalised by "Azov Nazis" for years but have now been rescued by that nice Mr Putin in his special operation. Remember one of the commonest propaganda tropes is that Kyiv has deliberately bombed 14,000 innocent Russian speakers in the Donbas. It's still endlessly repeated in KZbin comments by Kremlin bots and western useful idiots alike. And I'm sure Eli believes every word.

[@waynekershaw59]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/bJfdZaWtgreNZ6M, This woman totally gets it, as I try to imagine myself as a Russian citizen horrified by my Govt’s aggressive action in Ukraine. What would I do, considering all the new repressive laws has enacted. Well I’m not sure but I applaud this woman, trying to do something, cause in the end, being silent is being complicit. If I was sleep at night with a conscience, then I’d need to do something.

[@surijosuperbaby]

oh boy...LOL Covid was a reality show and demonstration when it comes for the " free world" support of research, analyse and weigh probabilities of different views, wasn´t it??

[@nerdyali4154]

@@surijosuperbaby It was also a demonstration that no matter how hard they tried, authorities in the Weest could not suppress information in the way that the CCP can.

[@scottwillie6389]

Your post reflects the typical Western ignorance about the war. Russia has been receiving refugees from the war since 2014. Western Ukraine has a nationalist ideology and views the people of Eastern Ukraine (who are genetically identical to them, btw) as "Orcs" to be exterminated. In the UK, all you get is propaganda. It is a full on New World Order society where statues to the past are destroyed and even the events of last week are memory holed if they conflict with the narrative the government is pushing this week. In Russia they teach actual history. Even a not terribly educated Russian knows more about the history of Ukraine than a Western "expert" who works for the US State Dept or British Foreign Office.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

I have watched these Russian interviews Russian street interviews for three months now, and I must tell you, while many of you seem sweet and inoffensive, there's no way I can't notice, NO ONE IS BOMBING THE STREETS YOU ARE FILMING ON. Or ANYWHERE in Russia. That no one since WW2 has actually invaded Russian soil, even then when YOU THOUGHT that included countries that have since decided, since the WALL fell, they wanted NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU. That they were sovereign countries. Yet, you have repeatedly attacked them. And the West has, stupidly chosen to look the other way. For various reasons, often civil war .BUT NOW, YOUR , AND I REPEAT, YOUR GOVERNMENT, has gone WAY TOO FAR. Ukrain was SUPPOSED to be a sister country. But from Feb 24, YOU HAVE BEEN, for ALL PRACTICAL PURPOSES, NOT JUST NAZI GERMANY, but so much WORSE than Nazi GERMANY.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

SO ...all you "supposedly sweet people. I have to notice.. you are ALL IN CITIES where the western ECONOMIC influence, and affluence, are happening. The Russian boys that are dying, many horribly, burned to death in tanks, ARE ALL RURAL. The economic blooming of Russia never made it to RURAL RUSSIA. That is 5/6 of Russia. Most are economically desperate. The military seen as the only economic way out for THEIR FAMILY. THOSE ARE THE RUSSIAN BOYS, DYING HORRIBLY IN UKRAIN. But ALL OF YOU, FAT AND HAPPY IN THE CITIES...are unaffected by this. THE DEAD, ON BOTH SIDES. ARE STILL...DEAD. Your lack of interest only affects...their friends and loved ones. Because, you seem to feel, there is no end to...poor Russian boys. SO WHY SHOULD IT AFFECT YOU. IN WW2 Stalin threw Russian bodies against the Germans, until the Germans ran out of ammunition. Only the soldiers at the front had guns. The ones at the back were told "take the guns off the dead". What the hell makes you think you're NOT the guys at the back??? And since when did you become a country when POOR RUSSIAN BOYS ARE NOT YOU ???

[@diannshoemaker6419]

@@andrewp8675THE WEST ONLY BOMBS PEOPLE WHO BOMB US FIRST. We are, for the most part, too busy going to parties and living our lives, to bomb anyone else. Plus, we think, for the most part, a lot of you are...nuts.So we try really hard not to spread ourselves too thin. Possibly, we might have another look at you. But I doubt it. There are just so many people AHEAD of you.

[@JohnBuck-rc5te]

You are right sir or Miss. I am sorry for my governments involvement. You are a peaceful people and we are in the wrong. I am truly sorry.

[@diannshoemaker6419]

@@JohnBuck-rc5te I'd like to explain something, since you seem a fair man, and receptive. No one except for Napolean and Hitler, has ever been stupid enough to think invading Russia was a good idea. And they lost. Badly. And inspite of the paranoia carefully nutured by all you past leaders, to unify Russian people against a common enemy, to take their mind off their REAL problems.... ...There is NO ONE in the West who spends any time plotting to invade your. country. It is not even remotely a "thing", much less part of our culture. I would have noticed. The two World Wars were ghastly for everyone. Europe and America were determined that the human race would, FINALLY, never make that mistake agiain. Nuclear War was unthinkable, to the sane. We would learn, also finally, to play nicely with others. As well as insure the safety of those now civilized enough to agree to this. Nice often comes off as weak, to a would be aggressor. The EU and NATO agreements, as well as others across the World, would be mostly ALL ABOUT THAT. Unfortunately Russian leaders took exception to that. Communism they decided, would consume the World. So there was STILL someone who would destroy our way of life. I don't mean perfect. We are hardly that. But we try. The Cold War years were terrifying. The posibility of Nuclear War should terrify anyone. And if you look at a map of the time, you'll see, In sheer land mass alone, Russian influence, Communism, China included, seemed to be winning. In Asia, Africa, and South America. Our President Kennedy would see Russian Nukes in Cuba, right on our doorstep. Much smaller proxy Wars would be fought because of it. We won in South Korea. We lost in Vietnam. It was 20 yrs between WW1and WW2. IT would be 40 yrs till 1990. And it was an uneasy peace, held together mostly with glue. We ALL knew that. So it was with great relief in the West, when the WALL fell. Frankly, we were as startled as you. But you might listen to a Rock song at that time, that sums up our hopes for Russia, and Russians. It's"Winds of Change". It's poignant and sweet. America has an extroidinary habit of extending a hand to former enemies, fairly quickly. A sort of all's forgiven lets move forward. Possibly because we are such a polyglot of nationalities. Or maybe because it is most practical.Japanese and Germans would be far better off, inspite of actually LOSING.. They would have a new very beneficial, direction. And they would run with it. This would be Russia, we thought. Putin would play Mr Nice Guy, to the World. Russia was in tatters, with hopes but no real direction, or idea how to get there. Putin saw Russia seriously needed both Foreign investment, and foreign expertise. Unlike Germany or Japan, capitalism was not only an alien concept, but illegal.You were clueless. We gave you McDonald's. They never expected a profit.They were too far from their wholesale supply line. It was illegal to take rubles out of Russia, anyway. But McDonald's said, Hi. We are America. We are not scary. We are fun. We are only hamburger. You'll like us. And you did. McDonald's would be followed by others, and an introduction to the wonders of capitalism. Goods unheard of before A better, more comfortable life. There would be, we thought, a real possibility of World Peace. Of leaders with shared goals and values. Of mutual commerce that would bind us together. But Putin would play MR NICE GUY, until he didn't. Moldova and Georgia weren't NATO members.There was little we could do. But that would be a dress rehearsal for the invasion of Ukraine. But, unlike the other two, Ukraine was in a position to fight back, themselves. "I don't need a ride out," Zalenski said. "I need ammunition." Which is where we are now.

[@listentv1754]

Go and report her to your mother 😂😂

[@joeambaye8681]

I am glad that Eli is proud of her country and doing a good job at promoting it.

[@IzzyChopChop]

she's a ginger orc.

[@yvettakollega5791]

promoting Putin's Russia. Yes, if you are fascist, you would enjoy that.

[@jwhbrussels791]

Her blog is apolitical and it is good to have that in this context. Keep the culture out of the current mess... I know the baltic countries and Poland hate ruskies without speakîg of ukrainians but it is not a sufficient reason to ban culture even russian. As a western guy I think all her video are interesting on my opinion. I speak german even if my family suffered during WW2…

[@AndreaBorto]

You are naive and you don't know about soft power - and you don't have enough acknownledge of russians' attitude. They call you dyurok or asinine, useful idiot. Be careful.

[@yvettakollega5791]

No, it's not apolitical. When she says that she is Russian when she is actually Turkic, you can be sure she is speaking the Russian state propaganda language. Or when she shows her grandmother saying how much better life was during the times of the Soviet Union she is broadcasting Putin's propaganda too.

[@mathish1477]

Profoundly, sh just dud a series in Australia during a embassy tussle we were gaving here. She left only day after the government decided not to let the russians keep their new building.

[@daviddamascus9657]

Hello. Pleasure to have encountered your channel. I have some questions for you or for anyone reading this that has some knowledge on this situation. Ive watched many of Eli's videos and enjoyed them so my knee jerk reaction was to think that you were being overly critical of someone using generalizations. However, I am also critical enough of myself to wonder if maybe I'm being niave. For example, she claimed 23 million Russians died in WWII. You contend that she should have said Soviet citizens because Ukraine, Beleruse (forgive my spelling) were part of that number. The impression this leaves me with is that you dont think this is a generalization that she would make? Refering to Ukrainians as Russian soldiers in WWII? I'm a U.S. citizen so if I said nearly 420 thousand New Yorkers lost their lives in WW2 would I be making a comparable mistake to her rather than saying 420 thousand U.S. citizens? Also, is not much of her favorable language do to concern of government reactions such as her interview of spitznatz (again, spelling..sorry) or her favorable view of her relative who fought in Ukrain? I admit that you make a good point about your concern for propoganda when you bring up the fact that she is speaking in English so who her audience is makes a huge difference when talking about who her relatives in armed service were and what they did or when interviewing Russian soecial forces. Thankyou to whoever responds to all this. I know its long, with spelling errors and shot out from the hip. Im typing this from my phone.

[@toddmaggio2032]

Just discovered your channel tonight and love what you do.

[@dmytroovchynnikov4724]

Thank you very much for this video. I was born in Russia, in 2012 I moved to Belarus working there for an US company. In 2021 I moved to Ukraine. Today I'm living in Argentina. I needed to exit from Ukraine because I had a permanent resident permit of Belarus. People in Russia need to know the opinions of neighboors, they need to travel much more than they do now. Only the true knowledge will make them self-aware.

[@shooster5884]

I'm glad you made that point about 20 million Soviets who died in WWll because more Ukrainians died than any other nationality in the Soviet Union.

[@nolife4035]

thats not true at all . Ukraine had 6,850,000 total deaths while Russia had 13,950,000, u look so pathetic trying to lie

[@gregmathews715]

But brilliant comments Connor, with characteristic Irish wisdom

[@miguelgonzales8879]

Good clarification. Among the dead of WW2 there were people from present Russia, BUT also Ucranians, Belarusians and other countries.

[@SamsRussianAdventures]

I wouldn’t say that the Soviet Union collaborated. They both knew that they needed more time to prepare for a war.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

Agreeing to divide the territories in between before invading from opposite sides (secret protocols to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact) is clearly a form of 'collaborating' don't you think?

[@oransherf1089]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience i respect u go to israel...rgrd oran;;;;;

[@ulisirius9027]

You had the pro Anglo- Saxon faction inside the NSDAP others wanted work together with Russia. Newer research shown that Stalin wanted really made a war. Germany had to act in this way. But even than I think, that was a failure.

[@polishnorwegianandspanish9145]

That is a very good analysis

[@goforsteve3042]

Also, they annexed the East o Romania, today R. Moldova. People only mention baltic states and Poland. min 15

[@swim8454]

The best analysis of vloggers on war in Ukraine. Thank you!

[@rjames3981]

Try Brian Berletic Of The New Atlas and/or Jimmy Dore, George Galloway or Jackson Hinkle.

[@KidHuevotes00]

The best is Gonzalo Lira II channel from Ukraine telling Nazis in their face they are losing the war

[@ulisirius9027]

No, best one in America is PaulCraigRoberts. Mmh.

[@lauripakarinen6062]

Even though history of my country i.e. history of Finland, has been some kind hobby for me, I do not like the situation that we have to discuss on WW2 era and what happened that time so much. The whole world should build better future instead of being stuck in the past. However, I think we have no choice because Russia is spreading its misinformation and blatant lies what happened back then. I guess we could still accept e.g. victory day celebration in Russia without criticism if history were not distorted to give reasoning for modern day atrocities by Russians. After all, even though Finland lost in WW2 (but never surrendered) after being surrounded by two horrible dictatorships (Nazi Germany and Communistic Russia), it was better that Germany was defeated. Certain Russian special forces known as partisans in Finnish history writing committed horrible crimes for Finnish civilians such as killing very young children and rapes before kills (just like what takes place in Ukraine now) during continuation war 1941-1944. Of course, I do not know if Eli's grandfather was part of these criminal military units (I do not know if special forces equals to partisans in Russian history writing) but if he were, maybe Eli should not be just less proud of grandpa's actions but totally ashamed and sorry for his grandpa being possibly a murderer and raper. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_partisans_in_Finland By the way, in Russian counterpart wiki-page, Russian writers start in the first paragraph "The raids killed hundreds of Finnish soldiers and civilians (many of whom were armed)." Well, people of small villages were all killed among those were tens of young children and women and elderly men. Why that is not emphasized in Russian language wiki-page? Besides, what I have learnt about Russian partisans they mostly tried to attack unarmed civilian villages and reported to their superiors about "eliminating garrisons". That is why I consider "many of whom were armed" part in Russian wiki-page very misleading in its starting paragraph based on Russian partisans willingness to kill civilians. Hopefully, Russians meet the true nature about their deeds in WW2 on some day.

[@charliefarley9658]

Interesting, thanks for that.

[@johanmetreus1268]

One in this should mention that the partisan groups had quotas given by high command to fulfil, so if their sector did not contain actual military, they went and attacked villagers instead to avoid charges of treason, much like the NKVD had their quota of spies to catch that got filled regardless if there was any actual spies or not. What I am getting at here is that these actions can not be attributed to simply some front line men going rogue, it was a system designed by default to produce such actions; whether that was deliberate or not is up for debate given the remarkable lack of organisation that characterised the Soviet system. Applebaum's book Gulag gives an excellent insight of this, and also shows the parallels to the Nazi concentration camp (dis)organisation.

[@davidmeland5440]

Conor - which American are you taking about on Eli's channel? Tim who moved from Cleveland about 20 years ago?

[@dan_hitchman007]

Yes. She made another recent video with Tim who sounds like a complete right wing wackadoo.

[@apjpisared]

Unrelated and I'd never be a 'client' of yours but you are good with tourist and geopolitical videos. Maybe you can look into Kazakhstan in future. I am thinking of it as an alternative to studying in Ukraine in 2023/24, given what is happening.

[@Diamonddavej]

26:17 Alexei Zhuravlyov, leader of the far right Rodina (motherland) party, which he founded along with former deputy prime minister of Russia and current head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin and others in 2003, originally created by the Kremlin to steal votes from the even more deranged National Bolshevik Party in the 2003 elections (founded by Aleksandr Dugin and others) before that party was banned in 2007. Rodina later merged with several other parties in 2006, it is now used by the Kremlin as a controlled opposition.

[@kevbrown1867]

Got your Zelensky green T shirt on LOL

[@emmanuelgoldspleen2905]

Ewwwww, don't remind us of that clown! Conor wears it much better than Zelensky, thanks.

[@1ytcommenter]

and looks the like the same as the selenskyj clown LOL

[@alexandros4703]

@@1ytcommenter Zelensky's name will be remembered and commemorated long after reviled putrid Putin's name is forgotten and resigned to the garbage bin as a mass murderer and war criminal.

[@VL1975]

@@emmanuelgoldspleen2905 Sounds like you're a clown.

[@d993s]

He’s also a comedian like Bell endski, giggling about Bandera and playing it off

[@johncoughlan1435]

Eli also did a video of Koningsberg after the Poles stopped calling it by the Soviet name

[@gengrant5291]

She is more dangerous than I thought

[@__beer__]

This is a great video, I stopped watching her videos not long after the war started. It became obvious that she was pro ru. This video has given a lot of context! Thanks

[@ulisirius9027]

Mmh, globalist Empire against multipolarism. Mmh

[@georgegarcia566]

Ditto re: done with her videos once she started taking about the war.

[@v1das007]

Almost all of them are... Even if they pretend otherwise.

[@ulisirius9027]

@@v1das007 Ukronazis will be abolished.

[@ilonacannavo1074]

she is Russian , what do you mean she is pro Russia ?

[@redraiders]

I followed Eli from Russia since before the war. She is the only Russian youtuber that I no longer support. Not openly supporting the war but I don't get the vibe that she is against it either. Her new videos make me uncomfortable. To be fair, most other Russian youtubers have left Russia and are more willing to speak out.

[@aeganratheesh]

Just like Connor, she is pumping out propaganda from her country

[@Ikke999]

It is my opinion that she tries to be objective, although that is difficult. I like her videos for her honesty and professionalism.

[@TheMissing8]

Have you watched Yeahrussia? That girl is the shit.

[@redraiders]

@@TheMissing8 she is the best. Big fan

[@TheMissing8]

@@redraiders She keeps it real.

[@oransherf1089]

have a safe trip..;;;

[@infectedvoice4670]

I've noticed the same behaviour in Spanish speaker Russian influencers (I speak Spanish) and they say don't criticize Russia or Putin because you don't know the reasons behind the invasion and stuff. They do not openly express support to Russia, Putin nor say poor Ukrainians or something, but you can feel their attitude through their content and use their beauty/looks to mesmerize simps and make them to side Russia. I personally I'm neutral in all that kind of stuff, but because I recognize the wrongdoings of the CCP, Russia and the west, I know Russia messed it up deeply this time.

[@NYJGreatness]

I've always wondered if even one Russian actually knows that the Soviets and Germany started WW2. Also, I wonder if they know that Russians would most likely be speaking German if it were not for the US and the British. I look at their May 9th parade as someone who starts a fire then puts it out with the help of his neighbors and strangers.

[@rjames3981]

Important to note that the Soviets (led by a Georgian) only did a deal with Germany after their offer of a common front against Germany was rejected. In 1938 (despite France and Britain backing down at Munich) the Soviets continued to offer military assistance to Czechoslovakia including 700 fighter aircraft and parachute regiments (if requested). This they hoped would force Germany to back down. Germany was weaker in 1938 than a year later. (Partly because they took all the Czechoslovakian military equipment) Despite interest from the Czechoslovakian military the civilian government refused the Soviet offer, and simultaneously Poland attacked Czechoslovakia along with Germany. (Poland took 3 regions and already occupied the southern 3rd of Lithuania inc. Vilnius) Realising they couldn’t trust Poland or the West the Soviets did a deal with Germany.

[@lusciousphilosoph6392]

The war began with the so-called "strange war", more precisely, with the approval of the actions of Germany by Western countries as opposed to the statements of the Soviets, which, of course, the author of the video will never say. And even earlier, the British quite co-operated with the Japanese in looting over China

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

Explaining why Stalin decided to do a deal with Nazi Germany doesn't change the fact that the Soviet Union attacked several countries like Poland etc in unison and agreement with the Nazis ... it puts 9 May in perspective ...

[@lusciousphilosoph6392]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience No need for explanation. Considering the previous actions of the Western "colleagues" in countering the growing military potential of the Reich (de facto with their approval), the Soviets were well aware that they were left essentially alone. It makes no sense to portray Poland as a victim, given that with all her inherent greed, she absorbed Czechoslovakia together with Germany and to the accompaniment of France / Britain, when the USSR directly condemned it - it makes no sense. The portrayal of Bandera as a "controversial figure" is extremely ludicrous. It would be better if you/Vy continued to give advice on pickups in Eastern Europe.

[@quintinout]

What bullshit ! By the time d day happened Russia had lost millions of men and had been pushing the Germans back to Berlin by the end of 42.

[@Four_Words_And_Much_More]

I hope you consider that Eli is inside Russia. How could she do anything other than what she did. She does not have freedom of speech which is why she showed that mask. She does not have what she wants. She had very few options except to show that. She had to show support for the Russian propaganda IF she was going to remain free and a public figure in Russia. Cut Eli some slack. Everything you say is true. But please give the gift of a generous spirit to those less fortunate than you and I. Eli is one of those people. Thanks.. The good Karma will come back for you.

[@VL1975]

"But please give the gift of a generous spirit to those less fortunate "....tell that to the dead Ukrainians.

[@Four_Words_And_Much_More]

​@@VL1975 The exact same gift is given to the Ukraine people in the form of advanced weapons better than the Russians have. Your ignorance is profound. When you think generously, you think generously.. I cannot change the evil in the world. The only thing I can do is think clearly about it on both sides. If I hope to make a positive change in the world to change the course of evil, I must change myself first. The same applies to you and all mankind. Do not hate, because you become like them. Do not tell me about war. I am a combat veteran. I know this evil from being there face to face with death in person. I chose life. I chose to think clearly and correctly. I invite you, join me.

[@VL1975]

@@Four_Words_And_Much_More OK Michael Jackson.

[@markkelly9095]

@@VL1975 tell that to Ukrainian refugees she supporting.. stop your hate!

[@alungibbon3396]

Are you sure you didn't film this in western Ukraine, it looks sunny, warm & it's not raining.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

From western Ukraine to western Ireland ... 😃

[@oransherf1089]

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience may god bless u..;;;;

[@kabardinka1]

Not an Eli fan myself. She did two very highly propagandistic videos on visiting Chechnya which, honestly, look as if they were done with the cooperation of the Kadyrov Tourist Board. She interviewed someone who was (as far as I can tell) part of Kadyrov's security forces about "what's Chechnya like." Is it naivete? I seriously doubt it. She had another video asking Russians if LGBTQ people should be concerned about visiting Russia. None of the people she interviewed were LGBTQ (or, at least, willing to ID as such). The Spetsnaz one (which I think has been taken down) was just disturbing... like she was just doing outdoor recreation instead of trying to discuss government forced who've committed genocide. She also mentioned how Russia is "helping" Ukrainian refugees without explaining how those refugees are either pro-Russian from Donbass or were Ukrainians who were forced (really kidnapped) to go to Russia by the Russian military. They're mostly being warehoused in the Russian Far East. I would categorize that as ethnic cleansing. Her remarks about the Russian invasion are almost exclusively concerned about "Russophobia". Again, if you saw a German fraulein making such films about Germany in 1941, you would call it ugly propaganda.

[@fluidice1656]

Exactly! Also, Eli is AGAIN platforming a xenophobic misogynistic genocide-promoting PoS from the US, Tim. Her mask is slipping. Hers is not a neutral channel - it's obvious that she is a Putin shill when she's promoting this American psychopath. She has used her channel to promote Russian mass murder and r@pe of civilians in Ukraine, and should be ashamed for that for the rest of her life.

[@AndreaBorto]

She made clearly on her telegram channel that she doesn't understand russians that flee fhe country in order to continue videos without the kremlin 15 years of jail and she doesn't like who call shame on Russia.In a few words she's not apolitical she keeps pro-putin and nationalistic point of view and that's her choice, she can have these ideas .the only ugly fact is the subtle propaganda in her videos, made showing only the nice side of Russia, the fact she never expressed human concerns about ukrainian civilians literally blowed up, I mean even if I have an enemy I wouldn't like to hear burning mothers or killed children. She said she's not proud of what is going in ukraine but she have not taken the step of rebutting kremlin's war. About her economical.means and the never stopping travelling inside Russia,well I think she was approached by some gov people and offered money and logistics if she travel around Russia promoting tourism which is not a bad thing but please in Cecenia Italy and Usa issued a warnong not to travel in these regions so are our govs totally stupid? I don't think so, there must be risks over there so it is not good if you try to lure me. While youtube payments are difficult (but not impossible) her youtube channel alone right now gave her at least 2000€ per month and they are all AMERICANS supporting her prop so it's ridicously. Anyway,it was a pity if you want to discover a culture and you get involved watching something that deceive your vision of Russia.

[@davidb5477]

Connor I really appreciate how you how you have gave me and your viewers an education of the history of the Soviet Union during WW2 and compared it to todays war in the Ukraine and compassionately used Eli’s video to explain the Russian mentality of today. This video illustrates how intelligent you are and what drew me to your channel in the beginning. I applaud you on this video and I wish you continued success.

[@alexandros4703]

hear, hear, well said 👍 The Russian BOTs are going nuts 😆 they hate to hear the truth, it ruffles them so much that their only defenses are insults and scorn.

[@rjames3981]

Important to note that the Soviets (led by a Georgian) only did a deal with Germany after their offer of a common front against Germany was rejected. In 1938 (despite France and Britain backing down at Munich) the Soviets continued to offer military assistance to Czechoslovakia including 700 fighter aircraft and parachute regiments (if requested). This they hoped would force Germany to back down. Germany was weaker in 1938 than a year later. (Partly because they took all the Czechoslovakian military equipment) Despite interest from the Czechoslovakian military the civilian government refused the Soviet offer, and simultaneously Poland attacked Czechoslovakia along with Germany. (Poland took 3 regions and already occupied the southern 3rd of Lithuania inc. Vilnius) Realising they couldn’t trust Poland or the West the Soviets did a deal with Germany.

[@davidb5477]

@@alexandros4703 Thanks appreciate it.

[@ukraineunited56]

@@rjames3981 What's this, a history lecture?

[@tammykennedy4165]

I think this clown is just upset because Russia killed or captured all of his azov nazi buddies🤣🤣

[@augustosantiago6769]

I just want to say...WOW!!! What a great source of objective info this channel is. And, I always have the exact feeling about Eli from Russia. She is a girl who doesn't feel any remorse and never show any empathy with what is happening in Ukraine, and someone who will feel very comfortable talking about the last fashion trend in Paris or London in the middle of a funeral without any problem :-( Thank you very much for your work.

[@comatoseps1382]

Yep she is definitely a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[@vyhozshu]

objective info.. from a sketch western sexpat pickup artist?? lmaooo

[@shooster5884]

I am mixed about Eli.. I had been watching her travel videos around Russia before the invasion of Ukraine. She makes some very good ones. I didn't think that she was political. Most people have a pride in their country.. maybe take for granted what they are taught about their country's history etc without putting thought into it. She did interview a horror of a foreigner in Russia who was stomach churching in his attitude to Ukraine and his support for it's destruction by Putin. She let him speak but later did a joint video with another Russian vlogger who has since left the country and they discussed that interview because she got a lot of hate comments and accused of bring financed by the government or tourist board and a supporter of the war. She described how she has always been totally self made instead and self supporting. I keep in mind when assessing Russians that many are non political, don't get involved, as most people don't in other countries, and if they do they risk fines, loss of jobs or possible imprisonment. How many Russians, not exposed by their job on social media, have just continued doing their job, living their lives, and if they are against the invasion of Ukraine don't say it for those reasons but are not cancelled for it because they are not online figures? There seems a huge divorce in Russia between the political gangster rulers and elites and the ordinary civil society. People seem to just get on with their lives and avoid what the government may or may not be doing and public debate cannot happen. Is Eli just doing that? Like probably most Russians? Just continuing with her video job as always? Is she guilty for not becoming a political opposition vlogger instead? I don't know the answer. Am I to judge her on that? It's often easy for people in safe places, not directly affected by what is going on in another country to judge others.. others who may have to tread a fine line we don't fully know about.. between family, job, public and private survival requirements... Maybe not possible to talk about certain matters without falling out with family.. or even having to leave your country possibly never able to return.. as we know many Russians have been forced to do losing everything.. How many in Europe or North America would be willing to do that? I don't know what Eli's views truly are on the invasion of Ukraine and I don't feel I can make a judgement of her apparent apolitical stance, or silence on political matters in Russia.. I'm not the one who would be putting my livelihood at risk - or possibly rejection by family if they are brainwashed by propaganda - by making an anti government statement if those are my feelings. In comparison I know people not under the dangers of speaking out in the West and who could inform themselves but who have been brainwashed by Ritter and Redacted into believing the Putin propaganda about Ukraine.. which shocks and appals me.. Who is more guilty eh?

[@comatoseps1382]

@@shooster5884 Yeah, but she has on her own made statements about "Russophobia" and the like, which we all know is the propaganda creation of the Kremlin. Any dislike of Russia in the West is the direct result of its actions, and there is no independent phenomenon of "Russophobia". She makes her income from KZbin, so will not directly state her position as it would lose her 90% of her revenue, but her position is clear nevertheless.

[@rykson161]

Eli seems very unbiased ! Very neutral and she loves Russia ! This guy is a punk ! Eli is very normal ! Should she cry for Ukraine while Ukraine shows her men being blown up ?

[@alinsoar]

The worse reeducation method made by Russia was the Pitești phenomenon.

[@petersaulnier3526]

hi Conor thanks for your videos.-- an idea -- JfK jr has been making many statements on this war. not many of which i 'd agree with,, but maybe you could take on a few of those statements & break them apart. you do well in debate and seem well informed on the subject. JfK jr is beginning a long campaign..

[@MrKkprince]

She is for sure working for the russian government or she has a sort of ‘controlled cooperation’

[@ulisirius9027]

Perhaps it would be a nice idea for me.

[@urbonx]

She was not promoting nothing englishman. She was showing something that would be interesing for everyone. Stop your sick mansplaining. Also you're english and white. Your people have enough blood of innocents.

[@surijosuperbaby]

THEY ARE THE WORST.... ENGLAND INVADED ONE TIME OR ANOTHER ,90% OF THE WORLD AND TO THE DAY USES THE US AS WAR MUSCLE... THE BRITISH CROWN OWNS 1/6 OF THE PLANET, TAX FREE, AND LAUDRIES MONEY TO THE ROTHCHILDS THAT, BY THE WAY, SPONSORED HITLER SO THEY COULD HAVE A BUNCH OF PEOPLE, LIKE CATTLE, READY TO INVADE PALESTINE WITH WESTERN CULTURE... Israel wasn´t about or for the jews, the same way now this war now is not about Ukraine.

[@martinfox3478]

It's hilarious calling him "Englishman" when he from a country that was invaded by Great Britain. You don't know your history, do you?

[@urbonx]

@@martinfox3478 Both are pigs.

[@sunnyday157]

👏👏👏 couldn’t agree more. Leave the girl alone.

[@sandor7594]

16:35 I am 77 years old Hungarian. In 1956, this text was we read on the walls: Russians go home! Nowhere was this: the Soviets go home! For us, every person from the Soviet Union was listed as Russian, we called everyone Russian. Ukrainian-Russian, Kyrgyz, everyone was just 'Russian' for the Hungarians.

[@AndreaBorto]

I agree with orban about lgbt+ and immigration from islamic/african countries. But still I don't get how you save your people from an evil delivering then to another. I do not hate russians, I hate the imperialistic mindset expressed by putin's mafia willingly to invade Europe or make us satellites. I don't understand what the average hungarian think about russia today

[@dfsworldwide]

You should do a video on China wargaming an Invasion of Russia

[@ulisirius9027]

Yes, that would you like my Dear, wouldn't you?

[@Dude-iz2dw]

Conor, how much do you know about Bandera to claim that the nationalists took part in the Holocaust?

[@rjames3981]

Check out the Babi Yar massacre, the Lviv Pograms (and also the massacre of 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists in 1943/44 in Galicia)

[@UHaulShorts]

snide hit piece

[@davea6314]

The Charge of the Light Brigade BY ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. II “Forward, the Light Brigade!” Was there a man dismayed? Not though the soldier knew Someone had blundered. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. III Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. IV Flashed all their sabres bare, Flashed as they turned in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wondered. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right through the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reeled from the sabre stroke Shattered and sundered. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. V Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon behind them Volleyed and thundered; Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell. They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death, Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred. VI When can their glory fade? O the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! Citation link: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45319/the-charge-of-the-light-brigade

[@ramonmercader5862]

The non-agression pact between nazi Germany and the USSR is the consequence of the Munich agreements between nazi Germany, France and the UK. Stalin offered 100.000 troops to curtail Hitler's expansion but the western powers expected nazi Germany to invade the USSR, the Lebensraum and General Plan Ost was well known to them. For this, they declined. So you are projecting the standard anti-communist western propaganda.

[@davea6314]

@@ramonmercader5862 Your comment makes you look like a fool because this poem was written in 1854, long before the USSR came into existence and long before evil Hitler was born.

[@atomicshadowman9143]

@@davea6314 Tell me you skipped the first three minutes of this video?

[@davea6314]

@@atomicshadowman9143 I think that you meant to reply to Ramon, not me.

[@atomicshadowman9143]

@@davea6314 I did....weird. I'll fix that right now.

[@StickmanCyclops]

She states her entire KZbin Channel was demonetized on April 7th, 2023.

[@VL1975]

Interesting family history! I just discovered Eli in the last month or so but I got the impression she didn't like the war. But she does seem very pro-Russian and your explanation clarifies her mindset. I mean her grandfather was in Russian special forces! So I couldn't imagine she isn't against Putin's war.

[@samuelglover7685]

I stumbled on one of her videos -- one was more than enough -- where she was yammering on about volunteering to help refugees from Donetsk and Lugansk. Not once did she mention why those people were refugees: It's a footnote to the current war, but a day or two before the Russian invasion, those people were rousted from their homes and told to hit the streets and head east, because (according to the Kremlin) an invasion *from* Ukraine was imminent. It was a pure propaganda stunt, ginned up to manufacture a cassus belli. Arguably those refugees (nearly all pensioners, women, children) were the very first people to be displaced by Putin's little adventure -- in the name of "protecting" them, naturally. And darling little Eli mentioned this not at all. It was enough to convince me that she's got no integrity, so why bother watching? Anyway I'm glad to see her dishonesty and complicity skewered in this video.

[@roboutaboutintas5444]

She is Russian!

[@VL1975]

EDIT: If you watch other videos, she's very careful not to call it a war. I think she's against it but obviously can't say it.

[@samuelglover7685]

@@VL1975 There are other Russian KZbin producers *in* Russia who've made it clear that they're against the president-for-life's invasion, even if they have to avoid using the (suddenly verboten) word "war". Not her. She's complicit. And again, the vid that I saw was a self-serving performance about her supposedly helping refugees without a single mention of *why* they were refugees. Dishonesty? Cowardice? Does it matter?

[@kabardinka1]

All she ever says is "don't blame all Russians for what their government does." She's NEVER expressed any kind of concern or remorse over the fate of the Ukrainians... it's mostly about how horrible "Russophobia" is.

And the man on Russian TV did not say that 2 million of Ukrainians need to leave Ukraine. He was referring to 2 million people from Donetsk and Luhansk regions that were threatened by Azov Battalion.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

He indicated that they would kill 2 million Ukrainians if they did not leave … it’s genocidal talk which has seeped into the rhetoric of many close to the Kremlin …

​@@ConorClyneTsarExperience Do you really think that someone would say it on government TV? Donbas region under pro-Russian separatist control has around 2 million inhabitants. He was obviously referring to them. You should admit that you were wrong about this. For the sake of the truth.

[@ConorClyneTsarExperience]

@ Nope, he said 5% of the Ukrainian population of 40 million (which is 2 million people) ... and yes, they really do talk like that on Russian state TV ... next week I'll deal with the genocide issue in Ukraine in a video ...

@@ConorClyneTsarExperience I can understand Russian and I clearly hear what he says. So you are definitely wrong about this.

[@catalinuss]

@ Yes, I believe that it was stated on the Russian public television - that is aligned with the full discourse of the public media in Russia (threats of WWIII, threats of using nuclear weapons, threats to wipe off British isles etc etc etc.). Those 2 millions were not Donbass people, those are ukrainians that are "irecoverables", as they stated.

[@Granty_lad55]

She’s doing soft power for Russia

[@nunogonzalez4037]

Eli was also another russian KZbinr that also come to my knowledge during the war. Her videos are well done and allows to acquires some insight of Russian culture and everyday life and customs on the country. In That video about the celebrations of the Patriotic War she make reference to another russian youtuber friend that simultaneously report on the celebrations in Moscow (Niki Proshin). It is an interesting video that shows that the citizens of Moscow did not have access to the celebrations in the red square. kzbin.info/www/bejne/l4CwcpmGi7ycjJo

[@VL1975]

So what's your point?

[@kabardinka1]

Nikki has actually mentioned way more about protests and his (possible) disagreement with the Russian invasion than Eli ever has. Nikki is very cautious and fragmented in his discussion of this, but he does bring it up. Eli makes it sound as if she's upset about something but she's never mentioned any concern about the invasion other than the horrible impact of 'Russophobia'.

[@surijosuperbaby]

@@kabardinka1 Nikki is a boring fool that believes in the western " Free World" concept and propaganda and is afraid of loosing followers if he does not of the majority of the " I support the current thing" expect. I actually stopped following him and commented on Eli that he was getting way too annoying with his whining. If I felt the need of hearing bad mouthing Russia, all I have to do is turn on some TV. I follow Russian youtubers, like I follow others from other countries, to see their lives and countries, open my mid to diferent points of view, and not to hear ECO from western talking points. Actually I find quite interesting the people that FLOCK to Russian channels in the hopes of seeing them talking badly about their own Country and into the belief that the only reason they they don´t is because they are afraid of being arrested... lol . Some westerns are a walking joke and literally can´t see that many Russians love Russia. Watch a Channel called " LOST IN MOSCOW"... Full of clean and beatiful places, happy people,loving parents, really joyfull children and a general sense of relaxation LONG GONE in most western cities.

[@user-ko5ew5vw6u]

Do you seriously think that the words of this Proshin are authoritative for us. A person is simply sick with Russophobia! Yes, it is really difficult for ordinary Muscovites to get to the stands on Red Square for the holiday during the parade itself, since there are delegations from all regions of our vast country, heads and representatives of many friendly states and you will agree that we must ensure their safety! And after the parade, TENS of THOUSANDS of Moscow residents calmly pass with photos of their relatives who died in the war as part of the immortal regiment!

[@surijosuperbaby]

Nikki is an VERY INFANTILE westerns pleaser , that says what westerns with Russophobia want to hear. And also he seems to believe that the so called free world really exists … Go tell that to the Canadian truckers , Dutch farmers , German and British journalist that got their assets frozen for trying to use their so called freedom of choice and expression … Lol

[@wert4ful]

Her Father was a Officer in the military, so of course she is a bit biased. I enjoy her Travel Content and not everybody has a moral obligation to always show their stance🤷‍♂️

[@pauldove966]

When tens of thousands of innocent Ukrainian civilians are being slaughtered right now because of Russia's insanely aggressive invasion, then a KZbinr like Eli who makes money out of promoting Russian culture and heritage - including several videos about the special operation and sanctions - absolutely has a moral obligation to tell the truth about Putin's depravity.

[@AndreaBorto]

may your home be the next place where a SO will happen

[@wert4ful]

@@AndreaBorto Possible🤷‍♂️ The military of my country is very badly equipped due to funding cuts in the last 20 years

[@culturupgrade]

Thanks for opening my eyes regarding her! Subtle propaganda is the most dangerous one.

[@riley124]

You refer to Eli as a 'girl'. Would you like to be described as a 'boy' making videos? I think not. She is a woman. You have the right to be critical of Eli but in doing so do not use gender as a starting point for being dismissive. It undermines your valid premise that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is wholly wrong and the Russian people should recognise how the past is being used as justification for Putin and his acolytes to wage an imperialistic war. A nostalgic lens distorts this reality and you are right to highlight this.

[@ameerm4899]

Stop trolling Eli. She is just a girl. I watch her videos and she didn't promote anything like that. Russians are hurt because they were one big country and now everyone divorced Russia