Soviet apartment review. Would you live here?

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Crazy Russian Sergey

Crazy Russian Sergey

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@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
135$+40$(water, gas, electricity) Would you live in this apartment in Saint-Petersburg?
@enriquemaldonado6426
@enriquemaldonado6426 4 жыл бұрын
If it's in a central location, absolutely!
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
@@enriquemaldonado6426 It's not the center but not the outskirts as well. And 12 minutes walk from metro
@MyPartytime69
@MyPartytime69 4 жыл бұрын
IIRC, Saint-Petersburg is one of the most expensive places to live, less than Moscow but about like Paris and London. OK my info is >5yrs old. But still. Hell yeah, that's a helluva good deal.
@enriquemaldonado6426
@enriquemaldonado6426 4 жыл бұрын
@@CrazyRussianSergey I think, still worth it!
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
@@MyPartytime69 Before the pandemic this apartment cost would cost 190$ +50 dollars water gas electricity but prices got lower because everyone is leaving city to their hometowns or to parents. And also the Russian curency fell a bit.
@GeorgeGlass298
@GeorgeGlass298 4 жыл бұрын
Why does this video seem like it's satire but not at the same time?
@bonesshed.
@bonesshed. 4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering that !! lol .
@MrFnietocaso
@MrFnietocaso 4 жыл бұрын
I though so to...
@sofia-p7d4t
@sofia-p7d4t 4 жыл бұрын
It is not. I was born in the SU and this is how most of the people lived and still do, at least in Russia. In other countries they went long way...
@IvanPavlov
@IvanPavlov 4 жыл бұрын
I was wondering the exact same thing!!
@josephtorres3229
@josephtorres3229 4 жыл бұрын
Does feel like satire, for sure. IDK,, I liked it.
@viccruikshank2441
@viccruikshank2441 4 жыл бұрын
The rug really does tie the room together.
@donallmccrudden4812
@donallmccrudden4812 3 жыл бұрын
Duuude🤪.don't urinate on the carpet Mr lebowski
@holliisixx
@holliisixx 3 жыл бұрын
I assume the purpose is insulation, besides decoration
@lilgrlQ1
@lilgrlQ1 3 жыл бұрын
It's a pretty rug!
@William_Fields
@William_Fields 2 жыл бұрын
Vic, how delightful!
@nocommentary9928
@nocommentary9928 4 жыл бұрын
As American to be honest I would not mind living in one of these apartments. For a single person it is honestly all I would personally need. You could easily clean it up a bit and make it look pretty nice. Sure as shit beats being homeless as well. Thanks for showing us your home. Cheers!
@muslimsocialist9310
@muslimsocialist9310 3 жыл бұрын
I'm an American to.. I'd live here..In fact lived in a hotel room with a similar layout.
@ranjanbiswas3233
@ranjanbiswas3233 3 жыл бұрын
Gopniks live in these kinds of areas so.........
@yeboscrebo4451
@yeboscrebo4451 3 жыл бұрын
I’m an American who has lived in many such apartments when I lived in Ukraine for years. These apartments are concrete prison cells. No human should live like that. The typical American home is like paradise compared to these apartments
@JK-ml2rc
@JK-ml2rc 3 жыл бұрын
@@yeboscrebo4451 atleast not cardboard boxes. In america most walls are made of cardboard. Basically it doesn't take alot to break a wall. But in russia you will never break a wall because it's concrete. 👍🏻
@yeboscrebo4451
@yeboscrebo4451 3 жыл бұрын
@@JK-ml2rc Most walls here are not made of cardboard. Most walls here are made of wood framing and layers of insulation and drywall. When I lived in apartment complexes in Ukraine, cockroaches from the neighbors would crawl through the cracks in the concrete into my apartment. It was absolutely disgusting.
@PaulReinhard
@PaulReinhard 4 жыл бұрын
"Soviet clocks which are stuck on the exact time when Soviet Union collapsed." LMAO
@Jas111ld
@Jas111ld 2 жыл бұрын
I don't remember that. he forgot that Soviet Union wasn't only russia .
@OK-hw1kx
@OK-hw1kx 4 жыл бұрын
The apartments in Soviet Union mostly were given for free. My mom was a teacher in the college, and when i was 5 years old she got a free two bedroom apartment from her job. The way you live and keep your place clean and tidy is only your problem!!!
@loganc6818
@loganc6818 3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, that's what I was thinking. He needs to clean and repaint, but it's not a bad apartment.
@JoaoSantos-ur1gg
@JoaoSantos-ur1gg 2 жыл бұрын
If only teachers were able to afford two-bedroom apartments in most capitalist countries.
@andrejsb.8184
@andrejsb.8184 Жыл бұрын
In the occupied countries, which were not officially part of the Soviet Union - i.e., the Baltic states, apartments were mostly given for free to Russian citizens, not locals - Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians (which were considered "second class" citizens at the time of occupation). This has created a situation in the Baltic states where many locals still do not own their own housing, and are forced to rent, often from Russian citizens or their children.
@OK-hw1kx
@OK-hw1kx Жыл бұрын
@@andrejsb.8184 What a bullshit, I can say quiet an opposite. The nationals always had a priorities.
@mrsmerily
@mrsmerily Жыл бұрын
Being given does not mean you owned it, could sell it and move on. Dont live in a farrytale socialist utopia. Also if you graduated your school the government told you where to go... in big cities where young people wanted to live you did not get apartment that easily at all but government said you need Hinsdale County, Colorado and teach there and you will get apartment and you will not get job anywhere else then would you like it? @@JoaoSantos-ur1gg
@kedeglow2743
@kedeglow2743 4 жыл бұрын
$12.50 for rubber gloves, $8.00 for a nice bucket, $14.00 for scrub brushes, $7.50 for TSP (sugar soap), $60.00 for paint, $15.00 for new curtains. Yep, I'd live there.
@henrykwieniawski7233
@henrykwieniawski7233 4 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget extra noise insulation!
@kedeglow2743
@kedeglow2743 4 жыл бұрын
@@henrykwieniawski7233 If you can survive a college dorm room you can survive this.
@floxy20
@floxy20 3 жыл бұрын
It would be even cheaper to commit a crime, plead guilty and get thrown in jail.
@kedeglow2743
@kedeglow2743 3 жыл бұрын
@@floxy20 And that sounds like a lot more fun,...?
@lucasc5622
@lucasc5622 3 жыл бұрын
where the fuck are you buying a pair of gloves for 12 quid, 14 for some brushes?
@unitedconstructionllc5403
@unitedconstructionllc5403 4 жыл бұрын
You bring childhood memory to me, I'm not Russian, but i was living with a Russian community in my country , bcz of them I learned simplicity, efficiency and adaptation to hardship . Russian are humble and friendly.
@eastfrisian_88
@eastfrisian_88 4 жыл бұрын
I feel the same way, in my neighbourhood there were Russian-Germans who came back to Germany in the 90s. We even had two Russian shops in the district town where you could buy furniture and wallpaper from the Soviet era and the flats looked quite similar in style, which also reminded me a lot of my childhood.
@MRRED7777
@MRRED7777 4 жыл бұрын
sure they are until drink vodka
@muslimsocialist9310
@muslimsocialist9310 3 жыл бұрын
@@MRRED7777 I've had soooooo much fun and have gotten in soooo much trouble from drinking too much vodka..
@muslimsocialist9310
@muslimsocialist9310 3 жыл бұрын
@@eastfrisian_88 I'm actually friends with a few German-Russians..And my crush we've been friends for years she's German-Ukranian from Canada..
@muslimsocialist9310
@muslimsocialist9310 3 жыл бұрын
And we're both poor asf, and hate Capitalism lol
@icouldjustscream
@icouldjustscream 4 жыл бұрын
I've lived in worse....in Canada. No plumbing. Drew water from a mountain spring. Had an outhouse. Small gas stove for heat. Minimal electricity, 2 bare bulbs and 2 outlets. Roof leaked, plastic covered broken windows. Your apt is a palace!
@INTEGRITY273
@INTEGRITY273 4 жыл бұрын
Sounds like rural Ontario in the middle of muddy bush.
@icouldjustscream
@icouldjustscream 4 жыл бұрын
@@INTEGRITY273 Ontario?! That's where the fancy folk live! I'm from the backwoods of NB.
@INTEGRITY273
@INTEGRITY273 4 жыл бұрын
@@icouldjustscream Sounds like you don’t travel.
@JohnSmith-eo5sp
@JohnSmith-eo5sp 3 жыл бұрын
Where in Canada is this? And when? Sounds a bit more like parts of rural Appalachia
@icouldjustscream
@icouldjustscream 3 жыл бұрын
New Brunswick. NB is the poorest Canadian province. Lots of 'working poor' people. The northern portion of the Appalachian mountain range runs through NB. The poverty stricken live in the hills or the hood. Even though I'm not poor any longer, I prefer the hills.
@RussianMermaid
@RussianMermaid 4 жыл бұрын
And I remember how many interesting newspapers we found during the renovation of my parents` apartment 😀
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
Soviet apartments are the keepers of history!
@omeshwarmishra3231
@omeshwarmishra3231 4 жыл бұрын
I'm 23rd subscriber of your chanel i watched all video your new video is holiday picnic and fist video is tea in Russia in easy Russian chanel
@RussianMermaid
@RussianMermaid 4 жыл бұрын
@@omeshwarmishra3231 it's so nice, thank you very much! 💙😊
@williamk.7672
@williamk.7672 4 жыл бұрын
Oh man, it reminded me when I was little, I left USSR in 1990 to Australia. Me and my parents lived in an exactly the same apartment. Great video!! Bring it on!!!!
@alexcarter8807
@alexcarter8807 4 жыл бұрын
"They cannot invade us because of our power plags"
@electrogestapo
@electrogestapo 4 жыл бұрын
Where can we plug our iPhones, huh? This is crazy, lets go home to our decadent western homeland and watch Netflix.
@TheAllMightyGodofCod
@TheAllMightyGodofCod 4 жыл бұрын
@@electrogestapo only netflix? Our decadent homeland is a free country and so we have Netflix, Amazon, Hbo, and Hulu....subscription because we want to be able to choose. Yes, all at the same time.
@libertygiveme1987
@libertygiveme1987 4 жыл бұрын
@@electrogestapo Don't speak of things you know NOTHING OF!!!! At least we have Freedom. Well, we did until "China Joe" got in!!!!
@mernok2001
@mernok2001 3 жыл бұрын
@@electrogestapo A phone charges has 4mm2 pins,so it will fit in old russian sockets.
@smmiile
@smmiile 3 жыл бұрын
@@libertygiveme1987 Comrade Biden will have us in high rises in the suburbs in our own Soviet apt soon.
@maximiliandort3489
@maximiliandort3489 4 жыл бұрын
short answer: yes. long answer: also yes. i live in a 24 m² aparment and i pay 300€/month (germany). this place just needs to be scrubbed and new wallpaper and you're golden.
@mihirm3632
@mihirm3632 3 жыл бұрын
yes, it had no repairs, everything is breaking apart. Would have been much better when it was constructed
@nilsfinken
@nilsfinken 4 жыл бұрын
Humorous, honest, and informative. Thanks! 😊
@Aikynbreusov
@Aikynbreusov Жыл бұрын
This apartment must be so pretty and modern and clean when it was new..
@ramedina
@ramedina 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this, really detailed and authentic.
@urthcreature
@urthcreature 4 жыл бұрын
This is great! :) Very interesting and I love the humor, the big window, the cats, etc :)
@judyrau5309
@judyrau5309 4 жыл бұрын
You are funny
@joshuahalsell5152
@joshuahalsell5152 3 жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was looking for! I was born in 1982 so this is a trip to see post cards in the era of my first memories! But my family was in West Germany and dad was in US Army in those times, but I always wondered what life was like on the other side of the wall, I have a little idea now...but I imagine the building looked a little bit newer than it's now current state, thanks Sergey!
@AnticipatedHedgehog
@AnticipatedHedgehog 4 жыл бұрын
Beautiful! I really hope these apartments are preserved as a time capsule to look back on history.
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
I have 100 years old house in the village. Will go there to film one day
@yeboscrebo4451
@yeboscrebo4451 3 жыл бұрын
These things are NOT beautiful. Compared to western standards, these apartments are like smelly prison cells
@wendycoombes5223
@wendycoombes5223 4 жыл бұрын
This just needs cleaning to make it more like a home,many people sleeping under cardboard would like an apartment like this.
@elainew2230
@elainew2230 4 жыл бұрын
Yes.. some cleaning, bleaching, some paint... strip off old paint etc... it would look a lot better.
@NostalgicMem0ries
@NostalgicMem0ries 3 жыл бұрын
to be honest it needs simple inside renovation like cleaning all walls and ceiling, paint it with nice color or use wallpapers on walls, so fix and cleaning in bathroom, maybe change to modern heating system, new radiators and its pretty good to live, for whole house they need to make few renovations too with roof and balcony, with walls from outside heating leakages
@PaisleySzuSzu
@PaisleySzuSzu 4 жыл бұрын
"So talk to each other" ha ha ha. Yes it would be wonderful to even see St Petersburg!
@tonymcneil978
@tonymcneil978 4 жыл бұрын
Not bad for $150. I've seen worse in San Francisco for 10x as much. Could be nice with a little fixing up.
@mihirm3632
@mihirm3632 3 жыл бұрын
yes, it had no repairs, everything is breaking apart. Would have been much better when it was constructed
@primordialmeow7249
@primordialmeow7249 4 жыл бұрын
Love your "Soviet kitsch" tour and humor! Yes, I would rename myself Natasha and be very mysterious and live in this cute apartment circa 1960s.
@francociano1594
@francociano1594 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for allowing us into your apartment it looks comfortable and cozy. Your english is very good. Thanks
@marjanoviccc
@marjanoviccc 3 жыл бұрын
what?like yeah his english is good,but apartment is horrible!!who would live here? WHO!even for a free,NO
@caravandevotee5720
@caravandevotee5720 3 жыл бұрын
I had an office in the USA that had an echo and was definitely not soundproof, so we put a carpet on the wall and it really did soundproof the office 👍🏼❤️
@Neon2110
@Neon2110 4 жыл бұрын
Bald and bankrupt would approve how Soviet this apt is
@susanquinlan7426
@susanquinlan7426 4 жыл бұрын
If I had a budget to do some redecorating I would live there. Love the heating system.
@jpman2173
@jpman2173 4 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't mind living there especially with that kind of price? I used to live in 28 sq m apartment in Seattle and I was paying $850/month.
@BlueblueN
@BlueblueN 4 жыл бұрын
jp man yeah, but think of the salary you made in Seattle vs here. You have to look at your buying power vs cost of living, not just the rent price
@mauzer6004
@mauzer6004 4 жыл бұрын
Basically this place with you russian wage would probably take the same % of you income or more as your apartment does in Seattle.
@icecrystal0094
@icecrystal0094 4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget that you can hear Everything, literally, one of your neighbour decides, how great it would be to put some cables in the wall at 5 AM. So he starts making tons of noise you can't sleep, also no A/C. Heat sucks. Everyone knows you, so if you do something, they will know. Atleast this is the case in hungary
@BlueblueN
@BlueblueN 4 жыл бұрын
IceCrystal 009 OP lives in the US and the walls there are made of carboard, you can punch a hole in them, so I don't think it's any worse. To me, personally, the most annoying is when neighbours decide everyone needs to hear them fuck.
@lorij6796
@lorij6796 4 жыл бұрын
jp man Maybe safer to live in a country stronger than USA. Things are not so good at this time.
@QoraxAudio
@QoraxAudio 3 жыл бұрын
Looks better than the apartments I can't afford over here! 😅 Greetings from the Netherlands.
@rust44
@rust44 4 жыл бұрын
My dad paid $10 a month for a place in Belgrade in the 80s. He’s paying more than 100x that amount rent in Toronto now. It’s crazy.
@michaelsemyanovsky9638
@michaelsemyanovsky9638 4 жыл бұрын
I doubt you can even rent a room for less than 400$ in Toronto... The prices are crazy. As a student I have to live with my parents because living on campus is unaffordable.
@FLKRM
@FLKRM 3 жыл бұрын
@@michaelsemyanovsky9638 pff. 60% of my friends in Russia living with their parents till 30-40 y.o., some start renting after second kid in family as it's hell experience to live 5-6 people on 45-50 sq.m.
@aleksandarvujanic7914
@aleksandarvujanic7914 3 жыл бұрын
Now in Belgrade you can not find apartment with 30-40 square meters on some districts 10-15 kilometres far from center for less then 150 euros or 170-180 dollars.
@aleksandarvujanic7914
@aleksandarvujanic7914 3 жыл бұрын
Also our payments are about 400 euros per mounts, so almost half of your payment goes to paying rent. Not to mension that you need taxes, 150 euros in average. So you have 100 euros left for food, clothes and alot more. So we live much harder then other European countries.
@Luciano-IL
@Luciano-IL Жыл бұрын
So,go back to Belgrade........
@Anhnma
@Anhnma 4 жыл бұрын
You're hilarious, lol. It's actually a good place for that amount of money, now I know that I can afford something like that if my dream of living in Russia comes true. Greetings from Mexico komrade.
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
Gracias!
@iceberg789
@iceberg789 4 жыл бұрын
except that, it's falling apart and in need of some serious cleaning, it looks was livable in those days.
@kate.x.allen87
@kate.x.allen87 4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting and informative. Great job! I watch a lot of Bald and Bankrupt on KZbin and you might find his content interesting too. Love the gas mask!
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
Haha. Thanks! I watch Bald since I went to Belarus in May 2019 and he was there and I found his channel. Maybe my favorite youtuber right now
@kate.x.allen87
@kate.x.allen87 4 жыл бұрын
Mine too! Even though his uploads have become less frequent this year because of the "global situation".
@NationandState
@NationandState 4 жыл бұрын
Please clean your vent covers. get a rag or napkin, wet it and then rub the metal until the 30 years of dirt comes off.
@ckpemac5268
@ckpemac5268 3 жыл бұрын
I second that. I care about Sergei's health so I'm replying in order to boost your comment.
@NationandState
@NationandState 3 жыл бұрын
@@ckpemac5268 Agree. :)
@bluemountaindrivepae
@bluemountaindrivepae 4 жыл бұрын
Similar to my $585 American studio apartment. No pigeons shitting on me lol.
@bjsouth9719
@bjsouth9719 Жыл бұрын
Very informative tour. I enjoyed it. Love the carpet!
@richdelgado3405
@richdelgado3405 3 жыл бұрын
Americans: That apartment is a joke! Way too small! Also Americans: Have you seen our new tiny house?
@arielauwu9767
@arielauwu9767 3 жыл бұрын
Im not Russian but this apartment reminds me of my grandmother's house, nostalgia made me smile :')
@jonlouis2582
@jonlouis2582 4 жыл бұрын
Very interesting. A lot nicer than some of the dumps I have lived in.
@katsmith-riply9862
@katsmith-riply9862 4 жыл бұрын
i really love that groovy soviet postcard! awesome video.
@ДжакетиЛув
@ДжакетиЛув 3 жыл бұрын
My previous apartment in Sofia, Bulgaria looked like that. Actually, your apartment has much more furniture than where I lived.
@randywatson8347
@randywatson8347 4 жыл бұрын
It has it's charm. Stuff can be fixed with cheap solution. To be honest I like the challenge of low cost improvements.
@garychiappa3676
@garychiappa3676 4 жыл бұрын
Looks great if you cleaned and painted!
@eastfrisian_88
@eastfrisian_88 4 жыл бұрын
My first flat 32 square metres in an old building from 1880 on the 3rd floor (4th floor for Americans), 54 stairs up, was similarly cheap and at least as noisy as a Soviet flat. Last renovated in 1982. When trucks drove through the street without permission (was forbidden), the glasses in my kitchen cupboard shook. I moved out seven years ago, nowadays the same flat costs almost twice as much rent and all they did was slap new paint on the wall and write "renovated" in the ad and idiots fall for it.
@andrewstiller1662
@andrewstiller1662 4 жыл бұрын
Looks similar to my current apartment. Yes, I could live there (after a little cleaning).
@andrejmucic5003
@andrejmucic5003 Ай бұрын
Thanks!
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey Ай бұрын
Ohh Andrew! Thank you! I see you liked this old video!
@BlackEpyon
@BlackEpyon 4 жыл бұрын
$150/mo? That's my electric bill. Those kitchen floor tiles? My basement in British Columbia, Canada has those exact same tiles. I don't know what it is about 50+ year old buildings and those tiles, but they're EVERYWHERE.
@kevincinnamontoast3669
@kevincinnamontoast3669 4 жыл бұрын
Lovely apt. Enduring hardship is good for your character.
@silvionovakovic5867
@silvionovakovic5867 2 жыл бұрын
You can be happy with this place and the price. People in many countries has not such chance.
@VinylToVideo
@VinylToVideo 4 жыл бұрын
Has this place been cleaned since Soviet times? Yikes!
@miskov1213
@miskov1213 4 жыл бұрын
I've spent my childhood in Eastern Poland in a single family house. Brick built, 1 floor (although 'sticking out' above the ground. The cellar was both partially under and above the ground so the ground floor was kinda on the 1st floor). My parents had it built somewhere in the 70s. I can see many similarities: telephone plugs, antresola, radiators, carpets everywhere and the immortal doorbell that will outlive us all. Despite the fact that it wasn't state built, it has plenty architectural designs similar to that shown apartment. I find that quite interesting. This video really was like a trip down the memory lane.
@GarfieldTheater
@GarfieldTheater 4 жыл бұрын
TY. 6:19 Wondering if that is a "Khrushchyovka" type building.
@ClellBiggs
@ClellBiggs 4 жыл бұрын
From my mid to late teens I lived in a camper. This is a step up from that, so yes, I would live here.
@dannymiewdg
@dannymiewdg 2 жыл бұрын
what shocks most is the horrible state of neglect and decay
@constantindumitrascu859
@constantindumitrascu859 4 жыл бұрын
man, all those orange stains are OIL you can tell a babushka cookt a lot of soup in there borscht is in the air
@racewiththefalcons1
@racewiththefalcons1 3 жыл бұрын
Countless Americans would *_LOVE_* to have apartments available at this price.
@reyrey6295
@reyrey6295 4 жыл бұрын
I spent Childhood in one of these in the 90
@mariakristinahawl1640
@mariakristinahawl1640 4 жыл бұрын
Your carpets are really beautiful.
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
I will clean them in a snow soon!
@emmaathome2902
@emmaathome2902 3 жыл бұрын
This is better than the bedsits and flats that were in Earl’s Court in the 70s. Looks fine to me, you just have to clean, furnish and do a few repairs..like anybody else does.
@johnjustin8944
@johnjustin8944 3 жыл бұрын
I like your apartment. The heating system is great! Also, the bigger a place is, the more there is to clean and more utilities to pay. I think the price is great!
@lilgrlQ1
@lilgrlQ1 3 жыл бұрын
Is always good to have a sense of humor in such situations! 😂
@User-dc6sm
@User-dc6sm 3 жыл бұрын
ah common it's a good apartment, have you seen new jork standard worker apartment's
@Romulu5
@Romulu5 4 жыл бұрын
Huh. We just moved in a soviet style apartment. A little bit of tlc and they are better than new ones. I can t punch through a wall and wave to my neighbour...
@viscountwiggums7709
@viscountwiggums7709 4 жыл бұрын
I’ve lived in a 1 bedroom Chicago apartment with three others for $800 a month. By the time my family said “f this place we can do better” there was a giant hole in our bathroom ceiling, rotting wood, mold, cockroaches everywhere, the toilet had been ripped out for some reason, it just got worse. Our landlord demanded money plus some... and we just left. It was hell on earth. For $135 a month for this? And barely those problems..... I wouldn’t complain. But reading some of the comments it seems like $135 was a chunk of money taken out of peoples’ wages?
@alexyakobchuk4785
@alexyakobchuk4785 4 жыл бұрын
The ruble unfortunately does not have the same buying power of the US dollar. however. The Russian economy is very different from the US, and the function of the ruble has different value depending on what its spent towards.
@yeboscrebo4451
@yeboscrebo4451 3 жыл бұрын
The slums in Chicago are slums for the same reason that Soviet Russia was a giant slum
@freeman10000
@freeman10000 4 жыл бұрын
I found the Soviet electric meter at 3:04 most impressive.
@FATHOLLYWOODB123
@FATHOLLYWOODB123 3 жыл бұрын
I love it! Minimalist, simple, and modest! Definitely would live in one, preferably a Brezhnevka and not a Khrushchevka, but either one yes I would love it! Just for the nostalgia! And the price is the best part!
@jakehedwin7411
@jakehedwin7411 4 жыл бұрын
It may not look like much but it is better than alotta places honestly. Plus I love the aesthetic although it does need some new wallpaper lol. But grreat vid nice of you to post and share history.
@reyrey6295
@reyrey6295 4 жыл бұрын
For us this is new wallpaper. It can serve for another 50 years dont worry
@Ed-xv5jl
@Ed-xv5jl 4 жыл бұрын
That apartment could be so much nicer with very little effort. Stresses me out that the wallpaper is flaking, paints chipped, plaster is cracked, and nothings been done about it 😂 bruh that's gotta be some $20 fixes
@DrogowitPomorski
@DrogowitPomorski 4 жыл бұрын
I lived in a post soviet flat from 7 to 18 y old. For that price, and with my current salary? Sure ye! I would save up for land im Bułgaria in 1-2 years lol Now im in UK and live in about 26m2 flat for 540 British pounds for rent, 140 tax, and on top of.it.i have electricity and water to pay..... At least 800 a month in winter!!!
@GM-xo7yy
@GM-xo7yy 4 жыл бұрын
British govt taxes you on renting an apartment? I've heard their taxes are insane.
@aileenmoore7503
@aileenmoore7503 4 жыл бұрын
@@GM-xo7yy the £140 is what is called Council Tax and is a once per year payment. It is used by the local council authority to pay for street cleaning, refuse collection, sewage disposal etc.
@esthermarcen7587
@esthermarcen7587 3 жыл бұрын
it needs an upgrade that is all, in spain at the same year or time in history i do think you will find very similar construction if you were poor or working class,
@floydlooney6837
@floydlooney6837 4 жыл бұрын
That apartment would be $800 a month in my town.... except it'd have been torn down years ago
@libertygiveme1987
@libertygiveme1987 4 жыл бұрын
Can you afford to buy some paint, and maybe some new curtains and Wallpaper?! I don't know what they allow you to do to a 'Rental', if anything, but surely you can buy some Curtains and clean it up a bit.
@djlondon7956
@djlondon7956 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah I'd share that apartment with you Sergey. No worries!
@adriancatalinmarin8320
@adriancatalinmarin8320 3 жыл бұрын
Though my childhood apartment was nicer due to my mother's obsessive cleaning, I stayed in a rental for 3 years in Bucharest exactly like this one. Horrible, horrible place, but living alone in a 2 room apartment with my own bathroom and kitchen for 100 euros per month was heaven. That place got me out of my college dormitory where I shared a room with 5 other guys. This kind of places are like gold to poor students.
@lardissantissime
@lardissantissime 2 жыл бұрын
SPB? You can get rid of the old postcards and build on this (for so low money in an amazing city).
@mikebooth930
@mikebooth930 3 жыл бұрын
Fine sandpaper on porcelain baths to get rid of the rust mate, works a treat.
@somewhereupthere785
@somewhereupthere785 3 жыл бұрын
Omg you are so funny!! I love how weverything is Soviet.....Soviet lamp, Soviet clock, Soviet toilet paper holder...
@grandtheftavocado
@grandtheftavocado 4 жыл бұрын
Get rid of the wallpaper and really scrub the place. Put down some hardwood floors, and re-tile the bathroom, and it's ok.
@mihirm3632
@mihirm3632 3 жыл бұрын
yes, it had no repairs, everything is breaking apart. Would have been much better when it was constructed
@Dac_DT_MKD
@Dac_DT_MKD 3 жыл бұрын
That is how my grandparent's house in the village looks like, if not even worse. Though they haven't lived there since 1982 where the construction company where my grandpa used to work gave him an apartment.
@johnmcintosh5465
@johnmcintosh5465 4 жыл бұрын
Russian people are resilient and that's too be admired, but there are many people who have a little more luxury than this living in St Petersburg. I like the Russians especially the ones that are hardworking class decent people ❤️✌️
@sharonwilliams5701
@sharonwilliams5701 3 жыл бұрын
Way too funny 😂 this guy is a riot
@levi7187
@levi7187 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing with us Sergey!
@patrickbrookings
@patrickbrookings 4 жыл бұрын
You're a funny guy! This was interesting. I'm actually from Belgium, but I live in Ukraine now. My apartment is about 90 USD/m. Obviously there's a lot of similarities, so it's all very recognisable to me. с Новым Годом!
@CrazyRussianSergey
@CrazyRussianSergey 4 жыл бұрын
З Новим Риком!
@sgtreznov9869
@sgtreznov9869 2 жыл бұрын
9:06 i love that phone socket, they are so easy to connect, it dosent give me so much problems, my home phone is a soviet made vef ta 68 with that plug, that is still working since 1976, voice is clear and it it's easy to fix
@INSIDERUSSIA
@INSIDERUSSIA 3 жыл бұрын
Мне нравится чувство юмора )
@vladislavfeldman6562
@vladislavfeldman6562 3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of 1970's Odessa. This guy has some high connections to get an apartment for himself, the four of us had a16 sq.m. room, but if we stayed in Russia, we had only 22 years left , in our waiting line for an apartment. Of coures we paid a lot less rent, it was about $12.50 every 3month plus water and electricity and gas another $5.00 every 3 month and after a 6 year wait the plumbers came to fix and renovate the bathroom. the 200 year old apartments we lived in required renovations every 50 years or so.
@anjelica9520
@anjelica9520 3 ай бұрын
It will be a nice & cozy apartment if you clean it up, maybe renovate a bit. Don't know how I end up here but I don't regret, quite entertaining. I like ur accent. Best wishes...
@sadiporter2966
@sadiporter2966 3 жыл бұрын
You could use some wire mesh to prevent pigeons from coming in, it would still allow for airflow.
@sebastianbache8862
@sebastianbache8862 2 жыл бұрын
Your dead pan jokes are too funny. Enjoyed the soviet apartment tour.
@asmresonance6072
@asmresonance6072 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video. I hope more people get to see this. Cool apartment tho
@jrch5563
@jrch5563 4 жыл бұрын
Your apartment has loads of potential.
@somerset3078
@somerset3078 4 жыл бұрын
For many of us, that s luxury
@ZieSpiralOut
@ZieSpiralOut 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I would... looks about as nice as the apartment I pay 900 dollars a month for. And I live in Memphis, TN. USA. which is a not so great, crime is sky high kind of city. Things are getting more and more expensive here.
@PiEndsWith0
@PiEndsWith0 3 жыл бұрын
RIP apartment in our memories
@kakampink101
@kakampink101 2 жыл бұрын
how nice of you showing everything
@Kataa887
@Kataa887 4 жыл бұрын
The memories... Looks like an old Hungarian house /apartment. Mine looked like this when I moved in.
@beebkapeepka
@beebkapeepka 4 жыл бұрын
It could be a nice home after you spend some (large? how large?) amount of money and clean and update everything. I have no idea how much it would cost but man, strive to do it for yourself. You will feel much more comfortable. Have a good New Year 2021!
@dogie1070
@dogie1070 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the most interesting Soviet apartment tour! No Tears for Moscow🦈🥃🥃
@punkin01ful
@punkin01ful 3 жыл бұрын
I would live there. I live in a similar size apartment in Minnesota and pay $1,050 per month. With some cleaning, scraping and painting your place could look nice.
@oaxaca1948
@oaxaca1948 9 ай бұрын
I could live there but I would have to get 3 gallons of paint and paint from top to bottom and go somewhere else to take a bath. or tear that tub out of there. LOL
@cancersyringe8458
@cancersyringe8458 4 жыл бұрын
Croatian here, 7:36 I used to have that EXACT lamp in my house before renovating it. Funny thing is, it's not a flat, it's a one-family private house. I guess the communist style spread in rural areas aswell.
@jaredchow3487
@jaredchow3487 2 жыл бұрын
Tbh I would love in it. I like a simple life. As long as there is internet, a computer and tv a decent bedroom and I can make some good food. I am happy enough
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