A HISTORICAL VIDEO GONE BAD IN RIGA LATVIA 🇱🇻 (Part 2)
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- A HISTORICAL VIDEO GONE BAD IN RIGA LATVIA 🇱🇻 (Part 2)
Join me on this soon to be historical visit of Riga's central train station in Riga Latvia.
We take the long walk around to the Riga Central Market and speak to a young Latvian that gives us an insight on the impact of the war in Ukraine in Latvia.
Finally we go for lunch in an authentic Soviet place, where we enjoy their amazing Fish Salyanka.
If you enjoy adventure videos in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, then grab your Vodka, some Zakuski and join me as we visit the soon to be hisotrical Riga Central Station.
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I like the Russian guy who sells the kabab/spices. Think he is very intelligent. It is not easy to learn another language. His history of Latvia in WWII era is typical of people who dislike the Latvian rule. It was sad that the Latvian were occupied originally by the Russians than the Nazis and then the Russians again in WWII. They took over the lands for fifty years.
I like your interaction with the people because it makes me feel as if I'm there too. I'm American but my ancestors are from Eastern Europe so i really appreciate your content. I Try to support you as much as i can. I like and comment. Oh, and forget that I'm still drinking Vodka it's my favorite alcohol. Within reason of course.
Thank you so much my friend that is so kind of you to say.
I really appreciate the support, as the channel is still growing and I hope to be able to do this full time soon, so the more support the sooner I can get there.
Im with you on the Vodka mate!!! Perhaps our paths will cross and we can have some excellent Belorussian vodka one day.
Where in America are you from?
@@J.E.E A small state called Delaware. Ya know, Where Joe Biden is from 🤐
The guy who confronted you probably misses the Soviet union.... And westerners to him represent those who split it up.
As always you show your intelligence, education and respect
You really know what is travelling and be mixed with others cultures and ethnicities
Respect from Pisa
Italy
Ciao Justin
Thank you Catlo, so nice of you to comment.
Respect is the most important, the rest comes with experience!!!
Thank you for watching and commenting 👌👍
Great video, loved the interaction with the gentlemen who is not only a polyglot but also has some heavy duty skewers. Nice work 👍
Cheers Dave,
Always appreciate the support!!!
Great video! 👍 I like how to interact with people ! I love this little market too
Hello Mate,
The market is fantastic and I love meeting new people!
Happy you are enjoying the content.
Thanks Justin , another great video You are so correct in identifying the disconnect between politicians and the general populous. The UK politicians feed from the same trough irrespective of their politics and are only interested in furthering their own selfish causes Keep the videos coming mate !
Paul that is so true.
I find the gap so big that the current disconnect makes the French aristocrasy look angelic at the time of the revolution.
Billionairs waiving to us from space whtils the world is locked down, in crisis and worrying about what tomorrow will bring!
I am not against Billionairs, or free markets, as a matter of fact I appreciate the success they have, but the lack of respect is what makes me crazy!
Thank you Paul as always for your support!
Another good video as seen through a person with no agenda but to share the experience. Cheers Justin and as always thanks for sharing!
Thank you mate and thank you for supporting the cahnnel with you interation and comments.
All the best mate.
@@J.E.E Cheers
Have only just found your channel Justin, really enjoying your laid back, thoughtful and interactive style.
Have travelled a lot of eastern Europe,but not as yet to the Baltic countries.
Спасибо, Джастин, за как всегда отличное видео и трезвый взгляд на ситуацию. Солянка выглядит очень аппетитно. Музыка Цоя снова в тему.
Вам спасибо Марина...
Я обожаю солянка 🤣
Цой жив!!!
another enlightening video, always very interesting, real and concrete… and an appropriate soundtrack. thank you
Thank you Simone for you kind comment my friend!
@@J.E.Et's not 40% Russian in Latvia, possibly in Riga, but not the whole country, and unless you understand the history you will never understand why Latvians want to be free from foreign control and properly independent. It would be better if you communicated with actual Latvians not a guy like this calling himself Latvian complaining about Soviet occupation monuments being torn down.
@@J.E.Elease also stop celebrating ' soviet ' crap, the more it gets removed the better, why not learn and show real Latvian culture and speak to real Latvian people; the language, the folk dancing, the food, the song festival, the traditional designs etc Yiu are essentially experiencing Russian - Latvian culture rather than original real Latvian culture, do you know the difference ?
I am surprised that you only have 17k subscribers, I believe your channel is top quality and if you only advertised it a bit around east Europe( google advert) you would see a significant increase in subscribers.
Keep uploading I love ur videos
Thank you so much mate👌👍
Brilliant video mate. Love - Peace - Unity ✌🏻
Thank you mate👌👍
If it were only that simple, Putin is like Hitler to the true people in these countries you have to understand.
Some people are letting go of their sanity and going to the side of letting themselves be dominated and thats very worrying. Congrats and thanks from Brazil!! Stay safe Justin!!
Thank you Fabin,
I agree, we should all hold onto our sanity at the moment!!!
All the best my friend
@@J.E.E The issue is if we all where not a little crazy, we would all go insane! lol
I was in Latvia about 10 years ago and I remember all those areas, brought some memories back.
Thank you for watching and I hope they were happy memories!
Amen! To peace and understanding! 🖖🍹
Amen!!!
Hi Justin,
As a Latvian, I really appreciate your position on the whole situation. There is so much populism right now on all sides of the spectrum, and hate is being thrown around left and right just to get some points. All of this creates a ticking time bomb for future generations, which is sad. We all should live in peace and understand that culture and language should be separated from the actions of certain individuals.
Peace and all the best to you.
Hi Justin! Thank you very much for your video. For peace in everything! Sometimes it's hard not to feel hatred, but in all cases, hatred is what destroys us. But we are people and our mind is more important than strength and power. Any military action may have a political meaning or the logic of personal ambitions, but they do not have any human sense.
I totally agree Den, I can't think for one second how this was allowed to happen...
Better 10 years of diplomacy over ond day of war.
Thank you for watching my friend!
Viktor Zoi's patschka zigaret, love it! :)
The start of the video is where I walk every morning XD
Nice mate... Thank you for sharing and watching👍👌
Victor Tsoi пачка сигарет background - very appropriate!
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Ļoti labas beigas,daudz taisnības pateici👍
I maybe wrong, but seems to me Armenia was the friendliest one out of all these eastern block countries. You made more content there than the others.
Justin you're one of the good guys!
What is the song called you are playing around 3 minutes into the video?
Hello mate,
It is a cover performed by a street busker here in Riga, but the original is Viktor Tsoi
czcams.com/video/7Cf9BuOegJQ/video.htmlsi=xS7ygA122RwxTsWb
Enjoy
Ok Justin my friend, Greg here in IN and I just watched round two...! You are right about this new woke society, ridiculous....! These people NOT living in reality... Keep making these wonderful videos I like them and the main reason is your presentation...! Be safe Justin...!
Hi Greg,
Thank you my friend for your kind comment again.
Whilst climbing the youtube mountain, it is very helpful to get the encouraging support to keep things going.
My objectig is to keep it genuine and share my experience, with all the good, the bad and the ugly.
I feel more at ease now on camera than in the begining so thank you for the compliment.
You also take care my friend and be safe.
@@J.E.E As time goes on and people learn of you and your videos Justin your subscribership will definitely grow, I am sure, because it is very interesting to see what is going on in these European countries and you do an exceptional job presenting it...!
Just give it some time, I'm telling people myself about your channel because it's that good... Greg
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Justin, you are more Latvian than I am :D
Love that food..but not more than once in a year
Svetlana seems to be very charming!
She is cute... She decided she wanted to sing for me!!!
Thank you mate!
@@J.E.E women from this part of the world are amazing! Aren’t they brother?!
@@J.E.E Well I have heard all terms, now I will say we sang a wonderful duet, or was it a solo? LMAO Always fun seeing the interactions.
There can be many different views.
But the fact is that Russia is an agreor.
It cannot and must not be forgotten.
No matter how you look at it in the west, we are at the forefront here.
We have been occupied by the Russians and we never want to experience it again.
This imperialism must end.
Thank you my friend for your comment and views.
I completely understand the Latvian view on this matter, and the anger some people have towards Russia.
Lets hope for peace and this to end as soon as possible.
“Hatred is more contagious than COVID” - that is very well put, unfortunately.
Oh dear, I'm visiting Riga in June and had planned to visit that flea market, but you mentioned it is shut down now? That's a huge shame. I don't suppose you have any suggestions of other similar flea markets in Riga please? We are hiring a car and plan to drive to Zeltini for a day too. Great videos by the way, thank you so much!
Виктор Цой снова стал актуальным в России
Для меня он всегда был актуальный, 👍👌
Hi Justin. Your videos are very nice fantastic, I also admire your Russian :) On July 21, I will be in Riga, and if you are there, I want to see you
Gatis Kandis is a legend🙌put some respect on he's name😁
I agree mate, I think he is the dog's bollocks!!!
All the best mate.
exactly! 👍 ....very rare these days 😆
Peace to you.
And to you mate 👃👍
Who is playing song on the background?
I love kabobs, BBQs a international love. Much love to all the people who are just trying to live in peace.
Hi Vic,
BBQ season is starting soon... I am planning of making so intreresting vidoes!
Peace my friend!
Thank you so much for the video.
I understand the situation in Russia and Ukraine much better now. And I understand myself a bit better as well. Especially my own sadness of living in a very crime infested South Africa, where syndicates and political gangs already changed everything that I once knew as a child.
I am very relieved, that South Africa is free from the apartheid regime, but eventually many precious and valuable characteristics went down the drain, as history is being destroyed. Today you need to make lots of money, to experience normal things, that was once totally free. Someone from Pretoria, South Africa, must please help me if I am wrong, but now many others and myself lost our freedom of movement in the process. Crime is limiting our freedom to do normal living, like walking in a park. Today Pretoria's unique feel is cancelled by lots and lots of busy malls, where people can meet. It became a city to work, and a place to study. And that is it. Once it was a city for tourism. I do understand the sorrow when everything is being destroyed, to make space for a new era of strange things. It is so sad, and difficult to harness yourself mentally and emotionally.
Still, thank you so much for your valuable videos. 💗🕊
Justin whats the black bread your eating at the end, does it have a name? reason i ask I ate that stuff in USSR back in t986 when i have a School Vacation over there, I cant for the life of me remember what it was called
Hello mate,
There are several black breads here as they are much more popular than white bread
My favorite is one called Borodinsky ... Might very well be the one you ate.
Thank you so much for watching
We need more practitioners of peace like Justin.
Lets spread some common sense!
Thank you mate for the support 👌👍
Lady back @2:01 weared similar outfit like you. You could have talk to her about similar outfit. As she was watching you😉😊👀
You mande a point abaut our politicians 🤦♂️ 💯 % true
I guess people who did not live in soviet union should understand, that we remove everything soviet and all of these old places and ''authentic'' stuff because we just hate them so much! Anyone who lived in soviet union just want to get rid of all this crap and never again look at it. It is probably hard to understand for a tourist point of view cuz it is kinda funky and odd, but yeah, we generally hate it and would love to wipe everything soviet off our country. In general, soviet union time was super depressing and bad for our country and people should understand that, we did not have freedom of speech and you were not allowed to be Latvian so to speak...
we in poland got the same attitude as you because russians have no brothers they are ruthless to every one look at ukraine the same story over and over again
The early soviet architecture is great though because Stalin was the fan of the classics I found out. The 1950s architecture is called stalinistic. There are many great examples of that in latvia and elsewhere. For example spilve airport buildings is amazing and both daugavpils and liepaja university buildings as well, it's just nice to look at something like that. They follow the classic principles. Sovetico later modern architecture sucks though
Russian music in background and interviews with russian people in Riga about Latvia? And there is some 20% russians in Latvia, not as many as mentioned in video.
As you say we shouldn't judge people due to their governments. We need to stop the hate from spreading. Your government doesn't care about you.
Agreed… thanks for watching my friend! 👍👌
Evening Justin 🙂
Hi Natalie... Was so nice to meet you and Wayne!!!
Hope to see you again soon on your future Eastern European travels👌👍
Very interesting video . I’ve been visiting Latvia quite often . I do understand the past and the terrible events of Russian occupation. However , if Latvia wants to move forward it won’t be alienating a part of society. The past is painful but it’s not going to make your future better .
Spreekt u Nederlands ook? LOL. Your accent is good, een beetje Vlaams 😀
that whole new addition used to be a post office.... i remember the place before they renovated it.... There were more parks and greens and less bullshit
very very good video..highly informative..thank you...in your honest opinion..i am a black british man and am wanting to visit riga at the end of this month june..in your honest opinion..as a black man and with the situation in russia and Ukraine..will i be safe..as in..is it worth visiting riga now..is the atmosphere ok for foreigner and those of colour..please be honest
Hi Justin! Nice video, but that guy Gatis is wrong in some points. And there is not 40 % russians in Latvia but 25 %, 4 % Belorussians, 2% Poles, 2,5% Ukrainians.
You forget the percentages of morons, not to mention margin of error. LOL really?
Didn't understand your question. What you mean really? I don't like when people staiting statistics wrong, that's all.
@@artursupelnieks9447 Lighten up Francis! You need to enjoy more and stress over silly things less. Have a nice day
Thank you so much Artur for you input.
All the best my friend
LOL... That is universal mate with no geographical prejudice!!!
I am from Latvijas
Sveiki!! 😃👍 Thank you so much for watching and commenting!!
Nobody "rules" me but _me._ :).
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Are you still in Latvia? Can I meet you at Origo?
Sure mate... I will be there tomorrow during the day
63% Latvians, 25% Russians and others...
Thank you Normand for clarifying I highly appreciate it.
Thank you for watching mate
the guy 10:00 he does make some valid points but the thing is Russians make same aggressive statements to Latvians as well. Keep in mind that to Latvians, the Russians were not really seen as liberators then aggressors. Obviously history has a lot to play in this. I believe that both sides should respect the fallen regardless of who's right or who's wrong, they were both victims of political power games that we must not repeat again. The relations with Russian-Latvian nationals has always been sour and got even wrose when russian language would have become a national language in latvia. We gave Aleksejs Roslikov a chance in hopes of a peaceful start between two nationals only to end up becoming a BIG mistake. And now the Ukraine situation only made peoples worries even more justified. There's a term for the guy in the first part of your video that attacked you, in fact even russian have a term for them and they're called vatniks or ватник in Russian. note I have nothing against russians I have friends that are Russian. Hope you enjoyed your trip in Latvia! Sorry for this mess it currently is at the moment!
Well Done , i was living in London since 1993 and well I have to say i really don't like , but anyway .. I'm from Lisbon , hope one day you come here to teach you some Portuguese 😂 !
And show you one of the oldest cities in the world.
Take care Mate , PEACE 🤍
Thanks Mate !
Please stop celebrating ' soviet ' crap, the more it gets removed the better, why not learn and show real Latvian culture and speak to real Latvian people; the language, the folk dancing, the food, the song festival, the traditional designs etc You are essentially experiencing Russian - Latvian culture rather than original real Latvian culture, do you know the difference ?
You are right, it seems to be quite common on this channel and others, some people for some reason go looking for this soviet stuff, for some reason find it attractive. Me not so much at all apart from the early beautiful 1950s stalinistic architecture such as the spilva airport building that he showed on this channel. It was great to see. But yes there are many latvian language and culture things and places to be shown for sure. And others, all the baltic german stuff thats left, it's amazing. Latvia jew stuff, he already showed the synagogue in rezekne. But he could also go to the tragic riga great choral synagogue site for example. There once stood one amazing building
BTW I Know Gatis @8:00
40% russian speeaking ( russians ukraenians moldavs etc ) .. russians are just around 20%
Thank you for clarifying my friend.
This is against Putin agressivenes towards neighboring countries. In Russia, no freedom of expression etc.
If some or most speak Russians doesn’t mean they’re Russians or in favor of Russia authoritarian government. If only kremlin is not a power hunger if the government just focus on its economic growth without harassing its neighbors there would be peace in EU.
Unfortunately my friend it is rarely the people's will.
Thank you for sharing and all the best to you!
Justin i want to,meet,you
No problem mate!!! We can meet tomorrow during the day in the market of you like
Why is no one speaking Latvian? What’s with the Russian??
Not sure about anyone else, but as for me I am not able to.
As for the Russian, I happen to like the language and can speak it, hence why I use it to communicate!!!
How come the English doesn't seem to bother you? Or is Russian the only foreign language you do not tollorate?
Ingrid with all respect, Justin speaks the universal language of love. Rumor has it he is multi lingual as well. He is a master of sign language as well. He is able to flip you off in 7 different foreign hand signs. ;-)
I live in Canada. I speak English and French out of respect for both cultures. Your inability to speak Latvian in Latvia shows disrespect for the country, don’t you think?
@@ingridcain you seem rather opinionated and judgemental.... I speak six languages fluently... Et si tu préfères on peut parler en français ... Tu ne me connais pas, tu ne sais pas si je suis entrain d'apprendre le letón... Donc s'il te plaît, arrêt de perdre mon temps avec tes stupidité... I am too busy to spend my time with petty stupidities, in case you need help and your québécois is not that good
@@ingridcain Snowflakes are the problem NOT the solution. PC is fake outrage covered by a simple mind. Adults speak as such respectfully, with out some clowns thinking they have all the answers.
I wish all people could look at the situation this clearly. There are so many Russians who oppose Putin’s war. And we have to remember that it’s the particular people who are to blame for this and not the language, culture etc. I think most people understand that but there’s always a minority who takes it too far. Unfortunately, that minority can create huge problems, just like in case of Putin.
I hear about canceling all things Russian and thought what will it exactly solve? Shall I stop my kids from watching Masha and Bear now as well? 😀 Even kids would understand it doesn’t make sense.
Hi Ines,
I could not agree more with every part of your comment.
Those minorities are unfortunately be a catalyst for something really bad, ugly and dangerous.
Thank you for your support and comment
Z V
Slava Rossija!
west side no understand how dangeruos is Ruzzia!
Im latvian and she is realy poor
Hi, why do you play russian music in a clip about Riga? Riga is Latvija, not in russia. russians come in baltic states in1940 y in tanks, and began genocide against local citizens.
Hello Martin.
90 percent of the music I use in my video I record on the streets of the city I am in.
I think it gives it an authentic feel!!!
And considering what we are experiencing at the moment in the world I think Tsoi is perfect for my video.
Thank you for sharing your feelings though and a part of Latvian history.
@@J.E.E Justin, You are velcome in Latvija and Rīga.I glad to see You here like as a tourist. Viktor Tsoy was russian singer, he has nothing to do with Latvija.
@@martinsvalters2351 Thank you Valters for being so welcoming... I think Latvia is an amazing country!!!
What music would you suggest? I like Bob Dylan or perhaps Bob Marley?
I am not quite sure what you are saying to me??? I must use only Latvian music or are you telling me the I must not use Russian music?
Please clarify and then we would have a good starting point to resolve the issue you are having.
@@J.E.E My favorite band is AC/DC for decades 🙂
@@martinsvalters2351 Speak plainly comrade Martin. You dont have anything to say so you should be quiet.
Justin, I am from Riga living in UK. I will never go back to Riga just because Russian culture has been cancelled and Russian language is ruled out. Riga will never be a happy place to build up a family because it is doomed to be haunted by war. One can’t be happy in a country where 40 per cent of population are alienated due to their ethnic origins. Imagine if in Wales, Nothern Ireland and Scotland one day the local ethnic groups ban the use of English. I am not too sure if you were going to like it. The volcano of civil war bubbles in the bowels and one day hissing lava will flow all over poor Latvians.
I know that you don’t want become political in your videos but I thought that I’d leave a comment to give you a better picture on Latvia’s life and it’s bitter future if the policy of hate is to continue.
Otherwise I’d like to thank you for doing your videos.