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The Most Exhausting Restoration I've Ever Made | Soviet Computer Control Panel
Welcome back to our laboratory! A few days ago, we went to the Kyiv electronic junk market and, by pure accident, found this incredible thing. This is a vintage control panel from a Soviet mainframe computer, the ES-1050. The panel has almost three hundred signal lights and more than a hundred switches. There's a lot of work ahead, but I believe that once repaired, it will look truly gorgeous.
00:00 - Intro
00:55 - What is this panel?
02:01 - I wish they used LEDs
03:33 - Disassembling
06:42 - Restoration
09:30 - Installing color lenses
11:15 - Wiring and test run!
13:04 - Outro and a question for you
13:51 - Obligatory cat performance
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DOSIMETER in a KEYCHAIN! | '91 BIRI-2 Radiation Detector
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Today, we will take a look at the BIRI-2, a keychain indicator of ionizing radiation made in Ukraine in 1991. It is one of the earliest (and smallest) devices of this kind produced after Chernobyl and still works just fine. We conducted a little test-run and believe it can still be helpful in 2024. Of course, our cat decided to participate as well! 00:00 - Intro 00:37 - Unboxing and first look ...
Evacuation Announcement of Pripyat | 38 Years Since the Chornobyl Disaster
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When this video is published, it will have been 38 years and 6 hours since the message you are about to hear was transmitted through street loudspeakers in Pripyat, Ukraine. By 8:00 PM on April 27, 1986, apart from the operative staff, no residents remained in this city. As it later became apparent, what was supposed to be a three-day evacuation after the Chernobyl disaster turned into an etern...
This is how it works: Mechanical Diorama of Chernobyl Museum
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Last year, we created a brief video tour for you at the National Museum of Chernobyl, and at that time, we promised to reveal its great secret. The place itself is a must-visit if you are in Kyiv, but besides its incredible collection, there is something truly unique: a one-of-a-kind 3-stage diorama that displays the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant before, during, and after the 1986 disaster. Eve...
Relic of Pripyat's Afterlife: DKS-04 Professional Dosimeter
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Recently, our colleague borrowed us a vintage DKS-04 dosimeter, which is one of the earliest professional devices produced in the USSR. It has an interesting modification that was made at the dosimetry lab that was based at the very center of the at time already abandoned city of Pripyat. 00:00 - Intro 01:07 - Production of dosimeters after the Chernobyl disaster 04:32 - Specifications of DKS-0...
Made in Ukraine - Electronika 21-10 Programmable Clock Test-Run!
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Today, we will take a look at the Electronika 21-10 - a late Soviet / early ex-Soviet electronic programmable clock that was produced in Ukraine since 1991 for a couple of years. Besides its basic timekeeping and alarm features, it can also control up to three low-power devices through 16 user-defined programs. We find it particularly cool because the design of its controls gives us a sort of S...
This is THE WORST PRINTER I've EVER seen | Soviet SM6337.02
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Today, we will take a look at the SM6337.02 - a vintage Soviet dot matrix printer made in Russia in the late 1980s. In my life, I've seen a lot of computers and devices manufactured in the USSR, but this one features an unbelievably low quality level. Technically, it is an Epson-compatible peripheral device with RS-232 and Centronics interfaces, and it comes with a few built-in fonts. However, ...
How a little East German Computer Monitored a Nuclear Tomb | Robotron 1715M TEST RUN
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Today, we take a look at the Robotron-1715M, a remarkable vintage computer made in DDR (East Germany) and powered by a Zilog Z80 processor clone. Beyond a significant historical value (and limited capabilities), the same machines served a crucial function in 1986, acting as an integral component of the initial self-diagnostics and radiation monitoring system within the Chernobyl Sarcophagus of ...
We've got a vintage WIRE WRAPPING tool and it is AMAZING!
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We have acquired a late Soviet NP-48 wire wrapping tool, which significantly accelerates the process of making electronic connections. Instruments like this were commonly used in the assembly of large mainframe computers during the 1970s and 1980s. Therefore, we intend to employ it for our unique retro-computing project - the restoration of one of the last existing ES 1060 mainframe control pan...
Exploring Chernobyl: Immersive Walkthrough in Pripyat
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Recently, we rediscovered a presumably lost HDD containing some technical footage of our Chernobyl explorations from past years. This video is a compilation of shots taken in 2020-21 when we were guiding small groups of visitors in the Zone, accompanied by comments about locations and their history. What you will find in this episode: 00:00 - Intro 00:36 - Driving along Lenin Avenue 01:03 - Yar...
First attempt to wire up the 300 Kg HDD of Chernobyl SKALA
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Welcome to the continuation of our exploration of the Chernobyl SKALA computer system! This time, we'll look at a massive, nearly 300 kg Bulgarian ES-5061 hard disk drive and its accompanying portable test instrument, the TIDU-3P. This drive is the exact same type that was used in the DIIS system of the SKALA computer, as well as in the early "Shater" (Marquee) and "Finish" information systems ...
We recreated the very first robot of Chernobyl Reactor Sarcophagus!
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Another chapter of Chernobyl's history comes to light as we explore the half-mythical tale and successfully recreate the legendary toy robot of 1986! This makeshift machine was based on a toy rover, to which a radiation detector, vidicon camera, thermometer, and lights were attached. Back in 1986, it conducted primitive radiation and thermal surveys within the Sarcophagus of the destroyed Chern...
Chicken attack! Chernobyl SKALA Punch Tape Reader Restoration!
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Welcome to the continuation of our exploration of the Chernobyl SKALA computer system! This time, we'll be putting its super-fast punch tape reader into action. We have the exact same type of device that stands in the SKALA machine room at Chornobyl NPP - an FS-1501, made in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s. Ours, however, was held in captivity by evil chickens for almost 20 years, so extreme restor...
This electricity experiment kit is A PURE NOSTALGIA
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If you wondered why I needed that 3R12 battery I mentioned in the video about AZ-5 switch, this is the answer - it is for this little nostalgic item from the past that I recently received as an accidental gift (thanks, W.P.!). It's an educational set made here in Ukraine in 1988 by one of Elektronmash factories, and it allows you to build simple electric devices and study electromagnetism. Back...
Driving to Pripyat to find some forgotten Chernobyl tech
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Driving to Pripyat to find some forgotten Chernobyl tech
I FINALLY FOUND IT! Behold Elektronika MS 1504, the ONLY SOVIET LAPTOP EVER.
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I FINALLY FOUND IT! Behold Elektronika MS 1504, the ONLY SOVIET LAPTOP EVER.
What is inside the AZ-5 SWITCH and other Chornobyl controls?
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What is inside the AZ-5 SWITCH and other Chornobyl controls?
Chernobyl Control Room 4 BEFORE and AFTER the DISASTER
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Chernobyl Control Room 4 BEFORE and AFTER the DISASTER
Exploring SKALA: Chernobyl Reactor Control Computer
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Exploring SKALA: Chernobyl Reactor Control Computer
This Soviet Microprocessor lab looks like a nuclear briefcase!
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This Soviet Microprocessor lab looks like a nuclear briefcase!
This Little Retro 80386 PC is Getting a New Look and Life!
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This Little Retro 80386 PC is Getting a New Look and Life!
Part 2. Pripyat Before and After the Chernobyl Disaster.
Переглядів 27 тис.11 місяців тому
Part 2. Pripyat Before and After the Chernobyl Disaster.
Chernobyl Before and After the Disaster
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Chernobyl Before and After the Disaster
Inside Chernobyl: 14 years in 200+ images
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Inside Chernobyl: 14 years in 200 images
Forgotten robots of Chernobyl: a short documentary
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Forgotten robots of Chernobyl: a short documentary
THESE CCTV CAMERAS recorded the CHERNOBYL DISASTER
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THESE CCTV CAMERAS recorded the CHERNOBYL DISASTER
37 YEARS OF CHORNOBYL: April 26 memorial event on the BORDER OF THE DISASTER ZONE
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37 YEARS OF CHORNOBYL: April 26 memorial event on the BORDER OF THE DISASTER ZONE
Restoring the Chernobyl Computer Paper Tape Punch!
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Restoring the Chernobyl Computer Paper Tape Punch!
We found THIS in an abandoned school in Pripyat
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We found THIS in an abandoned school in Pripyat
DP-64, the LAST signal you will see in a NUCLEAR WAR
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DP-64, the LAST signal you will see in a NUCLEAR WAR

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @user-hc4gd6km5m
    @user-hc4gd6km5m 8 годин тому

    Дуже кльово, молодець це ж і роботи, але красиве❤

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 8 годин тому

      Дякую! Думаю, піде в один з музеїв.

  • @ArcticVXR1
    @ArcticVXR1 8 годин тому

    Imagine some "being" visiting our planet 100's or even thousands of years after the humans become extinct (if we ever do) and all they find is the remnants of what we once were... just buildings and cities overgrown with vegetation and that's it :( Yeah, this video sent me on a wild one ha. But all in all, i have always found Chornobyl fascinating! Slava Ukraini.

  • @mertozsoy
    @mertozsoy 10 годин тому

    where do you find these Dismantling from the reactor?

  • @mertozsoy
    @mertozsoy 10 годин тому

    gördüğüm en iyi kanal "chornobyl family"

  • @user-tu8wj5iy6y
    @user-tu8wj5iy6y 14 годин тому

    It was not engineering problem. It was a money problem (imagine your country ruining but you must to produce something ). I often hear here, in Russia, that we could have both Socialism and smartphones today, they are not contradicting things...

  • @silhouette_de_verdad
    @silhouette_de_verdad 15 годин тому

    Так загадково та чудесно, неначе ти у якійсь грі чи в іншому світі. Я знаю одну таку людину, яка хоче зробити фантастику в неначе зруйнованому світі, піду скажу їй про це) (Це був жарт, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. топ!)

  • @BalautaMarius-Cosmin
    @BalautaMarius-Cosmin 17 годин тому

    Very nice soldering and materials used. Soviet naval comm equipment had the same quality and rather strange looking yet strong and precise. Was in primary school mid 80s, and close to my school was company repairing naval communication devices and not only, from VHF to radars. They had a big building and all the items to be scrapped were deposited in courtyard. That was my Heaven, getting very interesting things, especially these special ones. The same precision and attention to details was given to those systems. Entire racks with high power RF tubes, SEL-SYN systems and other real interesting stuff. The solder alloy contains also silver and the purple paint on the joints is also special, prevents oxidation. For example a high voltage probe for a special voltmeter to measure direct output of an RF tube for VHF was rated ant 6Kv and contained an extreme complex but symmetrical network of resistors. Each resistor was 10Gohm, all soldered with silver alloy and disposed very precise on the internals of the probe looking like a skeleton, to avoid arching. Of course everything was bearing the well-known quality mark OTK, for mil-specs equipment. As already being said, the 2 double triodes inside the detector are probably used to obtain the high voltage for the ionization chamber. Or they might be high gain amplifiers for the signal coming out the electrodes withing the chamber. Most sure that the detector is very sensitive and well in range, even after so many years. And yes the parts inside detector should not be touched to avoid their contamination from fingers. The germanium transistors, probably multivibrator-oscillator, not sure if some documentation is available. Nice piece of equipment Alex.

  • @gabotron94
    @gabotron94 23 години тому

    It would be a great background for the studio. I imagine the wall behind you getting covered over time in this kind of things. Also to interface them, I'd go with shift registers: the common 74HC595 can be chained for an arbitrary amount of outputs, all of which you update with one set of 3 or 4 wires at up to a couple megabits if you like. I believe there's not only a Soviet counterpart, but also a version with high voltage outputs for VFDs and Nixies.

  • @PrinceWesterburg
    @PrinceWesterburg День тому

    It must have been created at their research institute in Ukraine

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 22 години тому

      Good attempt, Ivan. Too bad, you are wrong.

  • @TheKopalhem
    @TheKopalhem День тому

    well, regarding the millions of dollars back in 1985 - I absolutely have to notice: they were not privately owned)) (as well as the laptops, by the way)

  • @Helltormentor
    @Helltormentor День тому

    You got a new subscriber, greetings from Finland! I was almost 12 years old when Chernobyl happened and I think I remember there was quite a bit of panic and confusion in our family too. We lived near western coast of Finland...

  • @TheSleepyCraftsman
    @TheSleepyCraftsman День тому

    That's awesome. 👏

  • @DanilSay
    @DanilSay 2 дні тому

    Графік відключення світла на такій панелі виглядав би епічно🤯… аж поки світло б не зникло

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily День тому

      Сумний жарт, але влучний. Хоча якщо чесно, від "Крони" працює дуже довго.

  • @markamd1
    @markamd1 2 дні тому

    Your Grandparents probably made this Printer, go easy on them

  • @jituvaid7022
    @jituvaid7022 2 дні тому

    Nice city

  • @lukepilarit1532
    @lukepilarit1532 2 дні тому

    its probably stolen from IBM that needed 4 years for a printer - 4 Years for a PRINTER

  • @YamatoHD
    @YamatoHD 2 дні тому

    Rusnya can't do quality anything

  • @beakytwitch7905
    @beakytwitch7905 2 дні тому

    I really enjoyed this ! Firstly you tracked the engineering history, and as a person who also does this, it is fun. Secondly you have a lovely sense of humour with discussion of Dollars and "polite conversations with cold-eyed people"... Subscribing... 😂❤😊

  • @capy_bite
    @capy_bite 2 дні тому

    Вау! Здорово

  • @lorillsilverlock3857
    @lorillsilverlock3857 2 дні тому

    I would love to reverse engineer the electronics maybe try to get it to a usable state

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 2 дні тому

      We gave it to our friend, he is doing some technoshamanism with it...

  • @vernor2767
    @vernor2767 3 дні тому

    Ну советы накопировали, наворотили, нитошто БАРЕНСКИЙ ОРИГИНАЛ

  • @lionelfelix6631
    @lionelfelix6631 3 дні тому

    This seems like an AMAZING Arduino project. You have massive patience and the result is beautiful.

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 2 дні тому

      Thank you! Check a public post on our Patreon about ES-1060 control panel restoration...) that is even bigger x 10 times:)

  • @marksmadhousemetaphysicalm2938

    Ah so this is who made HP inkjet printers…it does explain some things…

  • @maximsl
    @maximsl 3 дні тому

    How they said with a deep longing - какую срану прорсали! 😂

  • @maximsl
    @maximsl 3 дні тому

    Lefhanded russians did something with hammers and proudly name it as a Printer ! ☝😃

  • @maximsl
    @maximsl 3 дні тому

    SOVOK ! 😂

  • @gabec77geo
    @gabec77geo 3 дні тому

    Nice content. I will chip in. During the time we developed photos at home (like everybody). Almost all the equipment was from East Germany. Once I managed to buy a russian digital countdown clock for exposition time (instead of the mechanical). Simplified version of what you shown. The clock display actually exposed the photo paper too.

  • @pjisonline
    @pjisonline 3 дні тому

    It's so fascinating to see this. I'm wondering how it is possible that all this nature grows, trees, plants and bushes and doesn't seem affected at all by the radiation?

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 3 дні тому

      It is a simple and at the same time a complex question as effects of radiation greatly vary by received dose, characteristics of emission, proximity to sources as well as in the case of plants - their radiosensitivitty. Levels which the modern Zone features are below deadly effects, it is about chronic inner exposure because trees accumulate nuclides through roots. So some effects in modern condition may appear but in a very long perspective. A very good historical example is red forest where levels were astronomical. In 1986 it had four subzones which differed on damage to trees, undergrowth and so. It proved, that e.g. pine trees are very sensitive to high doses while many other types of trees feel well. We are going to translate one very epic book about it on our Patreon.

  • @hardlifeofapo
    @hardlifeofapo 3 дні тому

    20:27 strong Locoscript vibes

  • @ptrck99
    @ptrck99 3 дні тому

    This is so amazing. Impresionante, un saludo desde Montevideo, Uruguay.

  • @user-zc3vl3px7y
    @user-zc3vl3px7y 3 дні тому

    This is absolutely disgusting what happened in Chernobyl this never should have happened this is all because of one man made a very big mistake a lot of people had died ain't got radiation poisoning I hope this man was charged for This Disaster the world forever

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 3 дні тому

      This was not a mistake of a one man (that was a version convenient for soviets). It was a result of a systematically wrong approach of the soviet system itself, starting from designers and up to construction and operation.

  • @anuskas9244
    @anuskas9244 3 дні тому

    I remember this... I'm from Poland. I was a little child. Employees of the Sanitary and Epidemiological Station came to our homes and gave Lugol's iodine to drink... and in schools they also gave it to children. We were informed very late. There was no internet, no one knew what was happening there. Probably two days have passed since the disaster, a radioactive cloud was already hanging over all of Europe. I remember that each of us was afraid. Only later did they show what happened on TV. I couldn't believe it😥You live peacefully, go to work and school, you probably have your first love, you get married, a child is born, you meet your friends in the evenings, you plan your future, your city is very modern and suddenly... You lose everything and many of your friends die 😥

  • @MocnyBrowarek
    @MocnyBrowarek 3 дні тому

    The secret of soviet, or should I say - communist quality lie in this Polish saying from the times: "Czy się stoi, czy się leży 1500 się należy" - which means: No matter if you work or just sleep (at work), you will be payed 1500. The thing is - in communism work is mandatory. If you were caught just walking or enjoying yourself at public space between 8:00 and 16:00 o clock by militia (police but communist) - they would beat you and then drive you to work. If you were unemployed - they would beat you again and find you some work. As a worker you literally could not be fired and your basic rule was to show up at work. That means that most workers in comunist countries were either lazy, drunk or didn't care. From what I heard - people working at the shipyards often had injuries or even died because it was dangeorus job, and they did it while drunk. I mean - you were paid the same amount no matter how good or bad you was at your job, no matter if you did anything or just show up at 8:00. Of course some people would work very hard, accomplishing 200% or 300% more then anyone else - why? Because in communist countries the only way to buy a car was to be either in "one party" or "przodownik pracy" - which means you worked your ass of. Also you could find people that just did they work as they should and of course military would get the best stuff. Communism is really shitty, shitty, shitty invention. It might be paradise for lazy people and lunatics - but even they had to fight over very limited quantity of low grade, gray and rough toilet paper that hurts as hell when you swipe your butthole.

  • @GWorxOz
    @GWorxOz 3 дні тому

    Cannot understand a word he is saying.

  • @villejmoisio728
    @villejmoisio728 3 дні тому

    Kummasti se vaan on ryssälle kelvannut esim. Ikkunat. Ei paljon haittaa säteilyt ,kun saa omakustannushintaan.

  • @dreamcast303
    @dreamcast303 3 дні тому

    This plastic "texture" and "dirt" is from injection plastic to the form during production. This is caused by overheating of the plastic, which results in these burns. During the production process, they obviously did not monitor the temperature of the material during injection.

  • @riajhasib8810
    @riajhasib8810 3 дні тому

    I can see "heil Stalin" written on some of the electronics IC!

  • @YukariAkiyamaTanks
    @YukariAkiyamaTanks 4 дні тому

    Very fascinating video!

  • @user-lh3uz1cp7y
    @user-lh3uz1cp7y 4 дні тому

    I'd press my own sh!t into a piece of paper so I could run it through this printer cause that's how sh!tty it is.

  • @pineapplesareyummy6352
    @pineapplesareyummy6352 4 дні тому

    I hope the Soviet Union will return one day.

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 3 дні тому

      You do not need to wait - emigrate to russia and enjoy. Just be ready that you gonna have surprise discoveries every day, and I am not sure if you'd like 'em.

    • @pineapplesareyummy6352
      @pineapplesareyummy6352 3 дні тому

      ​@@ChernobylFamily Russia isn't Soviet Union. 😢

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 3 дні тому

      By approach it outbeats the USSR. I am sorry, have a wide empirical experience, and after all, I was born in the USSR. F it all, unhuman unnatural construct. I mean, if you are from the West, it may look soo adorable, but inside it was... a nightmare which they well worked never to show to outsiders.

  • @pgabrieli
    @pgabrieli 4 дні тому

    well, at least back in the USSR, the military got good tech. today in russia, I'm not so sure! 😂😂😂😂

  • @Odysseusnobody
    @Odysseusnobody 4 дні тому

    Extra plastic called flash

  • @Odysseusnobody
    @Odysseusnobody 4 дні тому

    Texture is calledsplay i believe

  • @FrozenHaxor
    @FrozenHaxor 4 дні тому

    And here I thought the only soviet data recovery device was a briefcase connected with two wires to the prisoner's private area 😆

  • @frstwhsprs
    @frstwhsprs 4 дні тому

    0:32 I think Spock likes it!

  • @user-gn1ru4ck4t
    @user-gn1ru4ck4t 4 дні тому

    1000

  • @viggenajs3408
    @viggenajs3408 4 дні тому

    For what use would a Soviet citizen need a printer for? Owning a printer means that you're an enemy of the state. Are you going to print some anti-CCCP material?

  • @noth606
    @noth606 4 дні тому

    I would hazard a guess regarding the image quality, it may be impacted by the rather sharp bends at the back of the rover/robot unit where it does a kind of loop. Coax video signal cables can self interfere sort of when bent over itself. At any rate it is rather easy to check if this is the case I think.

  • @x689thanatos
    @x689thanatos 4 дні тому

    It's always incredible to see old military or industrial stuff like that. With so many wires perfectly side by side. An insane job to built it, as it have been to fix it. It would be fun to have this pannel controlled by something like a raspberry pi, with patterns for the light bulbs, that could be changed with the switchs. But it would require again a huge job

  • @shahzadhaider9195
    @shahzadhaider9195 4 дні тому

    At least they built something.... Why you are crying?

    • @ChernobylFamily
      @ChernobylFamily 4 дні тому

      If you had been born in the USSR like me and had only such "creation", you would react similar. There are things which you have to experience to understand. Unfortunately.