LIVE: Life in Post-Soviet Armenia

Armenia is still struggling to come out from under its Soviet past. Let’s talk about it.


[@bobbysocks7152]

Glad you got safely to Armenia. Congratulations on the birth of your baby granddaughter.💕

[@SumKnight-iw4rw]

We live vicariously through you. 👍🏽

[@cindyhurd5488]

And the saddest part of all of this is our youth have been told capitalism is BAD and SOCIALISM is GOOD 😔

[@mamamia8284]

My family came from Ukraine, most of this info about life in the Soviet Union sounds right based on my family’s stories as well from back then. Also, with terrible healthcare that was “free” but not really free because the doctors wouldn’t treat you without getting a “bribe”. Communism is the worst . Thanks for this video, really interesting!

[@takejesus]

Congratulations to you all on your new baby girl!👣💝

[@EMBERS-BECAME-BRIGHT-JOY]

Thank you Chuck and Nathan.

[@mikegurv1818]

Thank you. Armenians are beautiful people.

[@mimi94154]

Congratulations Nathan!!! She is so beautiful n precious 💕

[@nathanholton5441]

Thank you

[@rplata4242]

Congrats Nathan and the whole Holton family on your baby girl! 💕Thank you Chuck for the info, always feel like I’m in history class when I tune in! Awesome!👍🏼 goodness Nathan looks just like Dad!

[@patmacy3133]

Congrats on the new granddaughter. Interesting history lesson. I learn a lot from you always. 🇺🇸

[@joniceferguson4863]

Hi Nathan. Cingratulations on your new baby!❤

[@nathanholton5441]

Thank you

[@Thestrongalwayssurvive]

I grew up doing laundry by hand and hanging it up. Sometimes, when the wringer washer was working, we used it after filling it up with buckets of water, we carried it because there wasn't running water where i grew up. We had an outhouse because of no inside plumbing, and we heated with kerosene heaters because the buck stove was too dangerous to use. We never had much, but we loved each other, and we grew up good. Daddy would work from dusk to dawn on the farms around us, and I would get to go and help sometimes. I enjoyed going and working with dad. Because of him, i grew up with a good work ethic. I have never seen anything wrong with growing up with not having much, but the way I grew up would probably feel like paradise to some in other countries. Once I got with my husband, had running water, inside plumbing, and cable television, i felt fancy lol. I remember the one time my parents had it rough, and we was homeless for a period of time, but dad made it seem like a vacation by staying near a creek and giving us kids rides on his back, him on his hands and knees, which i know now had to cut and hurt his knees. You don't need a lot in life to be happy as long as you have God and a loving family.

[@elisehougesen6871]

Difference is it was your own! And more importantly, you had God! Soviets had drab factory jobs & no God in their hearts! Only fear of The State!

[@jamesrobinson7446]

So glad God protected you. Great reporting in Burma. Thank you.

[@thursaziegler2351]

Thank you Chuck. This has been so interesting and informative. If I was younger, I sure would love to go on your trips. I have been to Isreal and Petra..but in the 90s. Now I can travel through watching your videos. May God bless you and keep you all safe. You have a Beautiful Family.

[@Lillymar-r5v]

This was really interesting, thx chuck and Nate.

[@kimlevesque6103]

Congratulations Nathan! Blessings ❤

[@nathanholton5441]

Thanks

[@jimmarlett8191]

Nice to meet Nathan😊👍

[@nathanholton5441]

Nice to meet you all too

[@Evelyn-yw3yy]

Always great information.A real close-up look at what is really going on in all these different places in the world.Head and shoulders above what we are being fed by the so-called media .The world would be so much better off if the reporting you do would go out into the air waves of local so-called news. It would be healing for the nations.We need it so badly.Truth has a way of healing and cutting thru deception. Great,great job,Chuck.Really,really great job.

[@user-yv3ql6ql4x]

Good morning from New Jersey.

[@KarolM1964]

I'm a brand new follower, and this is the second video I've watched. I really like your style of communicating with your audience. Very informative and very relaxed. Before I continue to pick my way through your videos, I'd like to say congratulations on your new grandchild!🎉

[@raphaelarea1055]

Todaraba for this highly interesting report and all you do!!!!! Surprise that you can stand up your cam there and report without anyone minding! 🎉😂❤🙏🏽🙏🏾🎤🙏🏿

[@suzanneives-manley151]

I went to Moscow, Kiev and Odessa in June/July 1988, summer of my 11th grade. I loved it but was sad to see so much gloom. Thanks for this segment.

[@mariacoenraad3590]

You are an amazing reporter & a vessel filled with His glory. Thank you for teaching us the insightful risky trips around the world you embark. Divine protection & His Shalom

[@charmainelillicrapp1176]

Love all you do and inform us on bro Chuck. I feel I go around the world with your posts.

[@LestWeForget-LestWeForget]

Happy to know that you and Connie are with the new family. Enjoy this precious time together.

[@jeuliablinke8949]

Great program!

[@glendacisneros982]

Hello Chuck! I'm happy to see that you made it safely to Armenia to be with your family!! I'm glad that your passport is okay!!!!! Passports are so important! Congratulations again on little Aurora!! Give Connie, Nathan and his wife our regards 😂❤❤❤❤ GOD BLESS until next time 😅 Ooh...thank you for all the information on the former soviet union!! Very interesting!!

[@starburstsolaris6805]

God bless.and keep these people safe.

[@susanfitch1994]

Facinating Chuck.. thank you.

[@barbarapavel4592]

My day is not complete if I don't see at least one of. Chuck'a videos. I never got to travel out of the US, so I am seeing and learning so much. I really like it when Chuck talks to children and animals in his special voice!

[@garthnelson2829]

Thanks!

[@hotzonepodcast]

Welcome!

[@grantturnpenny200]

Very interesting! Thankyou

[@BelindaMILLER-pi6rq]

Congratulations on you precious new beautiful granddaughter. 🤗💕🪽🙏🎉

[@miamihilbink]

Thank you very much!

[@lorenzobolletta7703]

God bless you Chuck and your family. Thank you for the insight in Armenia ❤

[@joycefarmer2013]

Watching from Texas

[@joanmikeska8484]

Me too!

[@joantaylor468]

Ua too

[@joanmikeska8484]

@@joantaylor468 how funny! Your name is Joan too and you are from Texas?

[@donnanason597]

Thank you for sharing. Congratulations to Nathan and Rubina.

[@nathanholton5441]

Thank you

[@sandraschoenfeldpleasestay5398]

❤❤❤❤❤ glad to see you. Missed your broadcasts.

[@williamwright7485]

Fascinating reporting!

[@paulababb7362]

Chuck, I remember seeing clothes done like that in black and white movies set in New York city

[@netieloewen8835]

Congratulations Nate & wife ❤

[@sandylong1529]

So wonderful to see the world with you! I have been to India 16 times or so & I love the people & the food is awesome!!

[@markw.d.8288]

Wonderful to see you with your son Chuck

[@imeldaspangler7088]

Congratulations for a new baby Nathan 🥰

[@Eagleflyboy172]

My husband's last Duty station in the USAF was in Berlin when there was an east and west and a wall . Moving between West Berlin and East Berlin was like going from a color movie to a fully Black and White movie. Definitely gray.

[@marlenekillgore4340]

I am settling an estate now for my parents, hope you do more in coming years, ...trips yo Armenia...

[@margieshaw1081]

Thanks for sharing so much info! Had no idea. Enjoy your family!🤗💕

[@PaulaHutton-r8k]

So glad you have arrived safely. Bless you and your family there 🙏🏻

[@Nursfaith]

Bless you, hug that little baby🙏🙏🙏

[@JamesKerr-ku5sx]

Super “tour” Best to your family and gandaughter

[@shaneormichelleshepherd3227]

Chuck your so funny 2 kids adopted from Kazakhstan. We went for our 1st adoption in November very cold we would bang on the hotel wall and say turn on the hot water so we could shower lol. They usually turned it on. We rode in Romania on a Soviet era train 12 hrs, our pillows were stuffed with hay. All apartment buildings were the same both countries. I was in East Germany 6 months after Berlin wall fell stark contrast between East and west Germany horrible way of life 😢

[@elisehougesen6871]

Thanks for the truth!

[@adreana8296]

Aww God bless you and your family😊😢🎉😮😊

[@makeitcount179]

LoL...." after market improved"....love your explanation😊

[@thinkforyourselfjohn3163]

Thank you for sharing all this history with us Chuck. Your son is a cutie. Congratulations on your new grand baby. God Bless all of you.

[@colleenpriest7838]

Hello Chuck. Good to see you "landed" and all is well in Armenia!!! Enjoy your time with your family and new granddaughter!! How long before you will be in Israel? Until the next time....stay well....GOD bless

[@AotearoaAnge]

I went to Albania in 2002 and it was the same, the homes were in apartment blocks like that with stairs, no elevators. At the time it was bad enough that they didn’t have consistent power or running water during the day, and that was in 2002. The poverty was confronting too.

[@alkelliher]

What you’re explaining about the former Soviet union is seemingly eerily familiar to what is slowly happening to the United States. And it’s creepy.

[@paulatipton5181]

Always glad to hear your experiences!

[@debsm4864]

Good Day. Chuck , Connie and family congratulations on becoming Parents and Granparents .Thank you for history and geography of Armenia. Keeping Prays for World Peace Amen .

[@iricefle]

Love this “episode”. Thank you for the information. “Bonk, bonk, bonk, bonk” lol. So glad you got to see that oh so sweet grandbaby. Good job grandpapa. Loved seeing Nathan!

[@howardlol8721]

Chuck you are correct about the buildings all being grey and basic. I was in Ukraine twice and that is all you see. Post USSR design.

[@kimstrawn8493]

Safe travels🕊️

[@Mamma-Savage]

Congratulations chuck and Connie as your beautiful family expands❤️

[@raynonabohrer5624]

Great video. My grandfather came from russia. It's the same all over. He came from the Voga.

[@elisehougesen6871]

Thanks for the confirmation! Why some Millennials want Communism is beyond reason!

[@jolenemarek9642]

Thanks for sharing about Dubai airports and shedding light on different forms of government God bless you Chuck our brother and your family keep safe. Maybe you could join us and speak to our group when we're over there?

[@kennybranton132]

Awesome

[@unaswanepoel7623]

Thank you for sharing is very interesting. Congratulations to all with your dear baby .Una South Africa ❤

[@kimlevesque6103]

Thanks for sharing Armenia with us. So interesting!

[@Evelyn-yw3yy]

Have a great time with your family, ❤️ you and Connie much thru your awesome videos.Please Please take care , careful care.Blessings

[@scottyp1619]

God bless you and your family Chuck! Be safe!

[@Yanelis3100]

Glad you got there Safe Chuck and that you got to meet and spend time with your Beautiful Granddaughter ❤ Congratulations Nathan to You and your Wife on your Beautiful Baby Girl made God Continue to Bless your Beautiful Family 🙏

[@porsahjones3730]

Hello from Ky. Thank you for all the information!

[@kenwalters7921]

Baruch HaShem & Shalom! Glad you made it! I noticed the cat walk by earlier in the message! Domestic cats are similar worldwide! 🙏🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇱🙏

[@englishrose5826]

The clothesline was also the norm in Alberta, Canada, in the 1950s.

[@LindaStricklandMcEathron]

Good morning GOD bless you Mr Chuck 🙏

[@KittyKat951]

Congratulations Chuck, Connie, Nathan and family on your precious gift from god ❤❤ Glad to see you are in Armania Chuck. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Continued prayers for you and connie and safe travels 🙏🏻🙏🏻🥰🥰

[@marywilson3651]

Enjoy your time with your family and glad you are there safely.

[@EMBERS-BECAME-BRIGHT-JOY]

Nice looking jacket!!

[@trinityhoward4472]

Moscow seems beautiful and really clean Tucker Carlson was amazed at just how beautiful the infrastructure is in Russia today compared to the descriptions given by Americans that visited Russia for work including his father before the Soviet Union collapsed. Says a lot about communism and socialism compared to the prosperity of capitalism.

[@williamstrips3078]

Many of the heavy industries were Russian owned before the Soviet Union collapsed. The Russian owners very often took all the machinery with them when they closed the factory down.

[@rhondahart2416]

Congrats on the grandbaby! Thank you Chuck!

[@jamesrobinson7446]

Glad you made it. Prayed for you.

[@lorrihager1057]

Oh he looks like you, Chuck. Nice looking fella

[@gailnell6776]

Hi Chuck glad you made it to Armania ❤

[@starburstsolaris6805]

Mother Treasa of Calcutta hailed from Armenia.

[@bradvandonsel6265]

Glad you made it. Congrats on new family member.

[@madammim694]

geez the hazards of world traveling, thanks for what you do!

[@aerialron]

Well I am glad Im in Floriida

[@mariaruth2763]

When I was a kid ( in USA) we hung clothes out to dry in winter and would get stiff as a board😅

[@barbarajordan682]

Wow!!!

[@alewicke]

Hi, Nathan!! & Connie!!

[@parnoldish]

Thank you very much

[@truckie117]

Congratulations on the new grand baby

[@joantaylor468]

Or the new baby grand!

[@don5125]

Thanks Chuck

[@don5125]

Bless you bro 😇

[@shannonweakland4316]

Thank you for the insight and the history lesson. It is refreshing to learn from a true journalist. God bless your travels.

[@columbuschokpa8791]

Hi Chuck! Good to see you in Armenia and thank you for the beautiful coverage you just made. 👍

[@debra3409]

Enjoy your time with your new granddaughter. God’s blessings to you and your family

[@missyleah]

Sounds like the term, "You will own nothing and be happy."

[@bommake1]

thank you chuck