WEIRD PLACES - TRANSNISTRIA

[Arūnas]

Yes, I have a strong feeling that the former USSR will be an inexhaustible provider of my "WEIRD PLACES" series. Fascinating...

in one "oblast", for example "Udmurt Oblast" you have 60 nationalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udmurtia#Ethnic_groups
but in Russian version:

В республике проживают представители более 60 национальностей.

[Sebastianus Rex]

in one "oblast", for example "Udmurt Oblast" you have 60 nationalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udmurtia#Ethnic_groups
but in Russian version:

Sounds like it is worth an investigation...apparently there seems to be a tribe of red haired eurasians over there. Thanks for the tip bro !

[Komintasavalta]

Some of the kids in the first photo have semi-VUR hooded eyes, but I don't think they're Udmurts, because the labels on their shirts are in English. Also NEEs don't smile with their mouth open.

[Ion Basescul]

My friend visited this country as a tourist, she told me it is like a huge open-air museum of comunism. Everywhere some policemen followed her ...

It is not a country and because of this limbo state of being unrecognised, human rights are not even guaranteed there. Easy to get arrested and never be heard of again. Which is why many people from Moldova never put their foot there, despite it being on the "border" with Chisinau.

I visited and it's dreadful. Their whole population is less than 1/2 of Chisinau, to put things into perspective. Tiraspol (their capital) has a smaller population than the sector of Chisinau that I live in. And that's according to the stats gathered by them, which arguably cannot be trusted. I wouldn't be surprised if in reality it's like 1/3 or less. There are plenty of car plates from there here and almost none of ours there, which speaks volumes about their success.

[Faklon]

Yes, I have a strong feeling that the former USSR will be an inexhaustible provider of my "WEIRD PLACES" series. Fascinating...

The first guy, bald and bankrupt, has many videos of weird places.

Spoiler!

Remids me of Tom Scott who also makes such videos.




But a more extreme Chav/Gopnik version.

[Ion Basescul]

The first guy, bald and bankrupt, has many videos of weird places.

Spoiler!

Remids me of Tom Scott who also makes such videos.




But a more extreme Chav/Gopnik version.

Very dubious guy

[Rumata]

Became suddently talked about in the Media this week because of the football club Sheriff Tiraspol who shocked everyone by winning at the stadium of Real Madrid for the European Champions League group stage.

Soviet football stronk I hope CV agrees.

[Ion Basescul]

Soviet football stronk I hope CV agrees.

More like kleptocratic.. they have debts of billions to Gazprom, because they never paid a dime for natural gas.
They get gas from you, and use it to fuel our power station on the Dniester that is controlled by them since 91. They sell the generated electricity back to us, because our brainlets are too corrupt to diversify. It's only this year that we are starting to get interconnected with Romania's grid system. And the money buys them the team. We are literally funding their state project, while pretending that we are attempting to get the territory back.
The icing on the cake is that due to being unrecognised and officially part of Moldova, the debt is ours on paper.

[Rumata]

More like kleptocratic.. they have debts of billions to Gazprom, because they never paid a dime for natural gas.
They get gas from you, and use it to fuel our power station on the Dniester that is now controlled by them. They sell the generated electricity back to us, because our brainlets are too corrupt to diversify. It's only this year that we are started to get interconnected with Romania's grid system. And the money buys them the team. We are literally funding their state project, while pretending that we are attempting to get the territory back.
The icing on the cake is that due to being unrecognised and officially part of Moldova, the debt is ours on paper.

Imo, about any post-Soviet governmont is kleptokratic, mate. I'm inclined to make an exception for Lukashenko. I really don't care about professional sport even if it were Soviet one. My post was more for fun and light trolling.

[Ion Basescul]

Imo, about any post-Soviet governmont is kleptokratic, mate. I'm inclined to make an exception for Lukashenko. I really don't care about professional sport even if it were Soviet one. My post was more for fun and light trolling.

Yes, but not even close to that scale.