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Cô bạn đồng hành người Việt Nam rất am hiểu về lịch sử Đất nước... Tình anh em giữa 2 Đất nước Nga - Việt Nam mãi trường tồn, khi các bạn Nga đến thì hãy xem như Đất nước của các bạn. Chúc bạn có những trải nghiệm vui vẻ trên Đất nước tươi đẹp Việt Nam chúng tôi

Before 1990 Russian was the top foreign language that was taught in Vietnam especially in the northern, so many upper 50 y.o Vietnamese can speak Russian

I visited Ho Chi Minh City last May 2023 for 5 days i tour the beautiful City and the Cu Chi tunnel and then went to Manila. I am planning to go Vietnam in November 2023 to visit Hanoi the old city and the French Quarter and Halong Bay...Watching from California, USA 😊

Good for vietnam for fighting back. I did not realize they went through so much during that war. Theyre very resilient people. RESPECT!

It's been ten years since I last visited Ho Chi Minh City and I see more modern looking big buildings in this video. The city looks great. Out of all of the other places I've traveled to... IMO the Vietnamese are over all the nicest People and usually always smile. Love their bakeries and coffee in Vietnam. Hope to one day return to visit the country.

I love russian language, it sounds like music to my ears. It so so cool to see a VIetnamese speaks Russian. I wish one day I could speak so fluently like that .

Respect to Uncle Ho and the Vietnamese people from India. Still amazed at how they were able to defeat U.S and its many allies.

Молодец Элина, прекрасный репортаж, интересно и непредвзято. С тех пор как я открыл для себя Твои репортажи на ЮТюбе, стараюсь смотреть каждый день. И каждый день Ты открываешь много нового и неожиданного! Спасибо, детка!

Vietnamese are very gentle and nice people. I'm glad you had a chance to experience Vietnam, Eli

Thanks again Eli. You are a breath of fresh air that we all need so badly these days!

This series about vietnam is really good.

Your friend is so interesting. She speaks Russian impeccably without an accent, no nasal stops between syllables. But her English is spoken with a Vietnamese accent with those stops and ending a word on a vowel rather than a consonant. I wonder if it’s because she was taught English by a native Vietnamese speaker?

Thank you Eli. I loved this video about Vietnamese people. I was in the last of the draft (USA) when my number did not come up. I went to college instead. It remained a mystery to me why we were there. Having said that I'm glad that those days are over.... very sad. Lost too many friends for a war we had no business being involved in. Anyway the Vietnamese people are hard working and I would love to visit there someday and just enjoy the culture..... PS. Would also love to visit Russia....have only high regard for Russian people....😊

Great video Eli. I think that your videos are so well done and this one is just awesone. Vietnam is a nice country and Vietnamese people is so kind and I can understand your love for this country besides the fact that you spent some time working in Ho Chi Minh. That underground base is reminiscent of terrible past times and you have been so brave to go there.Thank you very much.

Hi Eli and good day to you and your beautiful Vietnamese girlfriend. I must tell you that I am old fan and long time subscriber of yours. I lived through the Vietnam war years and was not happy about this conflict and my country’s participation in this war. I was caught in the middle of this. U.S. had the draft, I just finished college, and had to do something. So I joined the Army Reserve, weekend warriors as we were never called. I served 7 years, never had to go to Vietnam to fight this unjust war, so lucky. Fact, Ho Chi Minh really admired the Democratic form of Government. He once approached the American President and told him so but was ignored. So that is why the north Vietnam 🇻🇳 government turned to China to get rid of the French. If you are interested I can provide you with the facts that support my findings. Take care and let me know. Now Vietnam 🇻🇳 is an ally and trading partner with USA.

The exchange at 16:07 reminds of a similar anecdote I had with a Russian engineer at work back in the 90s. I knew full well what USSR meant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but when I would watch international hockey I would see the Soviet sweaters have CCCP emblazoned on them. One day I asked him, "What does CCCP mean?" He replied; "It means USSR." to which I replied "I know it _stands_ for USSR, but _what does it mean_ ?" For some strange reason thinking it actually stood for something more. He replied once again "It means USSR!" and looked at me wondering if I was as stupid as I sounded. I was starting to ask for a third time when I realized that it was in fact the Russian abbreviation for USSR.

What absolute heroes the people of Vietnam are. They fought against American imperialism for their freedom. Living in absolute abhorrent conditions, living in tunnels, and never giving up. Huge respect!

This opened my eyes about Vietnam. I had no idea what it is like today. Great video Eli.

Good job Elly !!! …. Working for Chrysler , here in Michigan, i met a vietnamese men, kidnaped from his village and sent in america .He was a little kid when americans killed the whole vilage, and spreded chimicals over the forests. Not even now , 2023, there is no worms or bugs in the soil of his vilage ! …. Just think about….

Vietnam is like the phoenix, it rose out if its ashes.

That sweet potato is actually Yuca a.k.a Cassava, very popular in South America countries

This was very interesting Eli - I knew three young men who fought in the US war - two died there. They were drafted - no choice. One was in Chu chi so this was a revelation about the tunnels. Terrible war we were lied into that took too long to stop. 23:02

I am Vietnamese thank you for making videos about our country. Read through some comments that someone intentionally or misrepresented to cause division. The war is over and now is the time for us to work together for economic development. Vietnam is a developing country, so people still have many difficulties. However, always welcome friends from all over the world to visit Vietnam. Thank you for loving Vietnam.

I''m about to visit HCM city soon. I'm from Ha Noi in the north and the last time I visited HCM city, I loved this place so much, just walking along different streets to experience the daily life there.

Hi Eli, all countries have there bad and good points. I'm totally amazed how the Vietnamese have changed there country to one that is looking with a positive attitude and looking into the future. 👒👒👒

It upsets me so much thinking what my country of America did to both the Vietnamese people and to our own soldiers that we sent there for no good reason. There was zero accountability too when it was over. Generals like Westmoreland should've gone to prison for the rest of their lives because of Vietnam. Some politicians too.

I would never have imagined HCMC to look so "Westernized." Thanks to the most gorgeous youtuber in the world, Eli. for this insight.

Eli, thank you so much for the interesting, informative and very precious look at Vietnam today and a glimpse of what they went through during the awful war years. I was in the U.S. military working in communications intelligence during rhe early years of that disgusting war and I get tears in my eyes thinking about the terrible things we did there and why there was absolutely no reason for doing it. Ho Chi Minh was a great leader who perseverred through WWII, then fought the French until Dien Bien Phu and was betrayed by the Americans who reneged on the plan to hold elections in 1956 because they knew that Ho would have won in a landslide. I'm heartened to see the country doing so well after losing 3.5 million people to this act of terrorism. I'm also grateful to the support that the Soviet Union gave to the Vietnamese cause.

You are really great at finding and explaining all these elements to use who haven't been to Russia or the East and only Western Europe/America. I really enjoy your videos, especially these covering outside of Russia!

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Wow, that was such a cool installment of your travels through Vietnam! I find it super interesting that three different cultures have left distinct traces in the country: Russians through trade, the French through colonisation and USians through sponsored war efforts. :)

Thank you for sharing, the Vietnam War was the first war that I learned about as a kid. I was born two years after the war ended but I remember it was all they ever talked about here in America until the Gulf War and then later when my country invaded Iraq. They taught us that the North Vietnamese were bad because they were communists but I came to respect these people because they were only reacting to foreigners who were trying to subjugate them. Growing up I came to accept not just the good and bad but also the ugliness of my country. 🇺🇸

I just watched a part series of vietnam war. The war was just so brutal and the bombardments by the B-52 bombers forced them to go underground.... But the suffering from the pple 😢😢 was so hard to watch... Its nice to see the progress they've made and hope the south and north people healed

Thank you Eli for another excellent travel video. You are the best!

A few years ago while conversing with a former Viet Cong Captain in Hoi An, Viet Nam, I was surprised when I noted that many of the Vietnamese High School students now study English as their Foreign Language. He said "Yes, that's better than when I went to school, at that time we had to study Russian in North Vietnam for our Foreign Language!" I told him that I felt sorry for him, since one of my foreign languages was also Russian, which I learned at the Defense Language School in Monterey, CA!

The tunnel was enlarged and cemented for tourists easy to access. The tunnel in its true form was much smaller and ground soil on all around. Once you get down and under venomous snakes, centerpiece (huge), and all kind of small creatures are your companions, one bite, sting and you're done.

i love vietnam too and have been to many of the places you showed on this video. i feel the same way you do. thanks eli

That was another entertaining and eductional video. I loved the surprise opening! I so enjoy your videos, Eli, because you keep taking us to different parts of the world to see different cultures and meet different people. Your videos continue to show us how kind and gracrious people are all over the world. One has to ask why there has to be war. Most people really want peace. We're happy that you chose to make videos as your career, Eli, and that you have a KZfaq channel, Eli. You are truly a beacon of light.

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I got a surprise introduction into the modernisation of Vietnam when I saw a program about Vinfast electric vehicles & examples of the parent company's other developments.

I know many people who emigrated from Poland under communism and they appreciate the American capitalist. Way of life

The entrance was makes very small to prevent America soldiers going through because most of the American soldiers are very big and the tunnels are Also makes very small.

" Regular people never want any of this, someone makes them fight for ideas. "

Wow Eli you are such a hardworking and busy traveling girl making new video one right after the other. I envy you when many people (in the west) are struggling with paying their mortgages and groceries due to crazy high interest rate you are able to travel and making all these great documentaries. I heard a lot of good things about Vietnam but it's too far (I mean expensive plane tickets) for me to travel there so I'm very happy you are making these videos about Vietnam great job! 👍

Your friends reaction to Russian food was pretty funny lol 😂

Cảm ơn bạn vì bạn yêu đất nước chúng tôi và dành sự trân trọng đến vị lãnh tụ hồ chí minh thank you

Hello Eli! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video. Much respect and admiration from California!

Hi Eli, there is another less famous tunnel system than Cu Chi. You might be interested in Phu Tho Hoa Tunnel in Tan Phu District of Ho Chi Minh City. Not so many people know about it.

Tôi yêu Việt Nam tôi yêu mến con người Việt Nam 🇻🇳

Excellent and a very marvelous and amazing adventurous Video Vlog! And the young lady that company you to the Tunells are very knowledgeable of the area and the past War! Ho Chi Minh City is a beautiful City! Eli, you did a great and good job on this documentary Video Vlog that you have created! Keep up the good work!!!👆🌏🎥🎞

1968: You're just going to love the 'Nam. 2023: You're just going to love the Bahkmut.

Great video Eli! Your insights about Vietnam are a breath of fresh air. Thanks

Hi Eli! You made a little impression on me when you came out of that hole. 😨🤣 I am happy that Vietnam today is a united country and I hope that they have not brought with them the remnants of political ideals that now belong to those times. The Vietnam War lasted 20 years and was one of the most horrific ones mankind has ever seen. We must never forget what atrocities the Vietnamese people have suffered whether they were from the north or from the south, however, today Vietnam is united and in 50 years it has shown that it wants to get up again and from the experience of war caused by political ideals, it has matured the common idea of ​​adopting an administrative socio-economic and political system that suited the whole country. In practice there has been a real evolution. Seeing those tunnels dug underground and walking through those battlefields makes a certain impression and I imagine how those soldiers lived in that state. All in all, Vietnam is a country that is increasingly improving its economic and social conditions that, as the girl said, many foreign entrepreneurs invest in Vietnam so much that today this country has become quite competitive. As I have noticed, the Vietnamese, or a part of them, owe a lot to Russia from a political, administrative, economic, social and culinary point of view and, for all these reasons, one can find one more reason to study the Russian language so that even in Vietnam you can speak Russian with someone. 😁 Speaking of Pelmeni, you Russians have made me obsessed with eating Pelmeni that where I am I can't find them in supermarkets and now that I've seen this video, my obsession has returned. 🤤😭😭😭😭 To get this obsession out of my head again, I don't know how many times I have to bang my head against the wall. 😡🤣🤣

Im most impressed that you could get 15 mins of CuChi footage without someone cutting loose with an AK in the background. For those that dont know theres a tourist firing range a couple of hundred metres behind where she was sitting.

I too enjoy VN but I only like to visit the cities. I most like living the tiny towns like Cat Tien, Bao Loc and the winding country roads. Good job I hope you do more there.

Great video Eli. I absolutely love your real life videos.

Eli, it was very interesting to learn about this proud people which is not informed in the mainstream media and base for your start of business.

ELI SHOULD BE NAMED OFFICIAL RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR.

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Great video its really changed since I was there 15 years ago cars were just becoming popular, it was mostly bike motorbike and pedestrians. I did go to the tunnels and ate the rations but didn't shoot the rifles they had. I know for a fact that there was no way to fit into the first space you did....but I did go on my hands and knees down the unlit tunnels. I was surprised no one else from the group would do it. There were other things like silk tapestries of Ho Chi Minh made on jacquard looms, which were stunningly beautiful and almost impossible to believe they were not paintings but tapestry. Loved it.

A friend took his new VN wife on a trip in Canada. After.. She said.. "please... No more mashed potatoes"

Hello, good morning I am glad you had a great time in Vietnam ,and glad you are safe and well. Take care

The Russian Cafe... Really dig it.... Never been to HCH before, and i was thinking heading to Hanoi soon... Hmm... So it's going to be toss up then.... Anyway, love your work ... Take care , stay true.. and keep it up, Cheers!!

Many foreign enemies have set foot on my mother land ( French, Chinese, Mongolian, Japanese, Koreans, and Americans) and set it on fire. But the love for our freedom and identity united us and defeat, it them all !

You have ALL the fun Eli. And we have fun watching you ! thanks !🇦🇺🌹

Great work as usual Eli from Russia, war is not good on any side waste of life and everything else I love Your vlogs cheers Michael Australia keep up the great work.

Contrary to what some might believe, the actual reason most people call it Saigon, is because its easier, not because of some weird political belief 😂

MY Vietnamese friends went back to Vietnam because US is so expensive.I miss then very much . hope to visit then one day!

big respect to viet nam for what they did to americans

You do the best travel videos I've seen. I suspect it has something to do with your open mind and open heart.

Great video! I am glad you are enjoying life in Ho Chih Minh City! Best wishes from Kentucky US

Also, i find it awesome that former soldiers on both the US and Vietnamese sides have come together now as kindred spirits instead of hated enemies.

I must say I am impressed by you Eli. You were in a CCCP restaurant eating a lot of food, and then you said you were going on a walk to burn those calories. And then you showed up eating a big baguette on that walk. That's really impressing! 💫 💪

Hi Eli brave Russian, since 6 months i have been following your channel, could you please explore and tell regarding Culter of Central asian countries? When will be you visiting there like, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan etc ?

Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City. I love Russia, love Putin and love Eli. 😍

Hanoi, NOT Saigon was the capital of French Indochina until 1954 when the French left. That is why the palace of the French governors-general was in Hanoi.There's a brief period Saigon and Dalat were used as the capital of French Indochina due to Japanese occupation. One quick Google search would show this.

Lived in Saigon and Danang for about a year just before Vietnam was overtaken by Vietcong (Northern Communist regime) in the early 70s. At age of 4, still remember Vietnam as a beautiful country with lovely people(neighbor kids). Now Vietnam has become a powerhouse just about to overtake China. Go go! Vietnam!

Before World War I, Ho Chi Minh's time in America led him to believe the United States was interested in the standards of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution for freedom and democracy. He found out however that America was too insincere and hypocritical about living up to those standards. He went to the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 and tried to get Woodrow Wilson to support Vietnam against French colonialism, just like the fledgling United States petitioned France for help to get British colonialism off the backs of the Americans in the 1770's. But Ho got no support from the hypocritical Americans and so in desperation he turned to Stalin as the only other possible source of aid. He knew Stalin had a history of mass murder, but Vietnam was desperate including mass starvation from having all its rice stolen by the French at gunpoint. So Ho did what he felt he had to do. During World War II the U.S. and Ho Chi Minh's forces were allied against the Japanese in a serious and sincere friendship alliance, due to the common interests. After the war, Ho declared Vietnamese independence in a proclamation based on the U.S. Declaration of Independence. He was hoping his American ally military friends could lobby with Franklin Roosevelt and then Harry Truman for an alliance with the United States, as Stalin had gotten even more murderous over the years and besides the United States was a richer country anyway. But Roosevelt and then Truman were pressured by Great Britain and especially France to keep Vietnam enslaved in French colonialism. Rather than observe America's so-called principles of freedom and liberty and democracy, the U.S. presidents made selfish cynical deals to sell out the little guy who was right and help the oppressor who was wrong. That was the last straw, and so Ho Chi Minh never looked back to expect any fair deals from the country that had betrayed him twice. And with the future course of world events, that got 58,000 American military personnel killed in Vietnam for nothing along with larger numbers of innocent Vietnamese. Few people realize how Russia has helped the United States in the past when the U.S. was weak. During our Revolutionary War Catherine the Great was asked by British King George III for Russian troops to help fight against the American colonial freedom forces. She refused to help with this oppression, unlike the situation with the German Hessian forces that came over in ships to fight against American independence. Then in our Civil War of 1861-1865, Russia was the only country to send personnel to help Abraham Lincoln defeat the Confederacy, fight slavery, and preserve the union. Russian spies were helpful spotting Confederate troop movements and reporting them to Union military commanders, which assisted in the planning for successful battles that won the war. Queen Victoria was giving serious thought to sending her troops over to help the Confederacy, and so Czar Alexander II had a Russian fleet off the coast of California to protect the gold there, and another Russian fleet off the Eastern seaboard ready to blockade Confederate ports in the Atlantic and Caribbean if needed. The Russian fleets made port calls in 1863 at New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., and San Francisco where they were received with great public support and enthusiasm. To which U.S. Navy Secretary Gideon Welles added, "God bless the Russians!" Since then arms merchants have been scheming to stir up trouble between nations including between the United States and Vietnam or Russia, but that is only because they make money off the suffering of the innocent. We can all thank Eli she is showing ordinary people there is a better way, and if we lobby our governments to be smarter more and greedy less, we will all have better lives.

Hola, te veo desde México y de verdad que me gustaría que hablaras tu idioma. También habló el inglés y no tengo problema en entenderlo, pero tú idioma materno es muy bello. Hay traductores al español o al inglés según la región donde se reproduzca tu vídeo, así que yo creo que no habría problema. Espero aprender ruso en algún momento de mi vida. Gracias

This was very interesting for me to watch because my hometown (San Jose) has a huge Vietnamese population, with a lot of people who came after the war. Signs and school documents were always in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. It was also a different perspective on the Vietnam War than I got while growing up in the USA from people who fought in it on the American side. I appreciate this different look at things.

Watching you out of love for Russia 🇷🇺 and love your videos now

Vietnam and Russia, brothers forever

Your hard work and this video really deserved to be liked Eli, keep it up!

Harry Truman wouldn't even open Uncle Ho's letters. WoodWAR Wilson snuffed Uncle Ho in Versailles. I ate Borscht with goats milk for every meal in several months during Ice Shelf Program in Greenland 1974😊

The Vietnamese peoples have shown themselves to be resourceful and really tough, having ridden themselves of French rule then won a war against the most well resourced and modern military in the world. They are a third world country, once laid waste by wars may still be communist have somehow adapted to the market economy and are really pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Unfortunately the consequences of the war continue for those Vietnamese people who were sprayed with defoliants like Agent Orange, intended both to destroy their crops and the foliage that offered them cover from aerial attack. The dioxin poisoning from that killed civilians and caused horrific birth defects that some Vietnamese still live with today. After the sustained misery the Vietnamese faced to win their independence, it feels incredibly graceful of this woman to suggest these decades of war no longer affect the relationship between the Vietnamese, Americans and French peoples. I sure hope she's right. Thanks again for another great ethnographic documentary Eli.

I strongly believe if Elina Chapman would do a blank video with no sound , the morons here will comment " it is your best video ever" or " I love ruzzia" I hope all of you can flight into motherland, be conscripted or experience living in a hut with 150$ salary.

A super awesome video Eli…always love your work …and Vietnam is certainly a very interesting country…Thanks for sharing…until soon …Alex🇬🇷

Such comrades...warms the heart.

Loved the video!❤ Got a little claustrophobic during the tunnel scenes. Thanks for sharing!

How did you go into that tunnel! Scary. Super reporting from two professional journalists!

Im an American Army vet and my father is too (he was drafted during vietnam although never deployed). Having said that and seeing the history and build up to the conflict with the french, we chose the wrong side. Ho Chi Minh tried twice to get the US to help (at the end of ww1 and ww2) both times we laughed him out of the room. All he wanted was for his people to not be treated like nonhumans in their own country. The era of colonies should have ended after ww1 in my opinion.

Vietnamese people are brave like russian... ❤❤❤

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This episode Is one of the most interesting due to the honest approach with which you engaged the free and friendly people. Honest answers and opinions about how they see themselves as a nation. Love to all these honest and freedom loving people. To you,Eli, for this video 10/10. Cheers!

Eli I appreciate your love of people and you navigated a sensitive topic well. My Father-in-law was an American helicopter pilot in the war and he finally, 40 years later, traveled back to Vietnam to heal. I think videos like this can help others with that process too.❤

Ali I remember a long time ago of seeing pictures in a magazine or a tv program of the Russians in the 1970s and 1980s when Russia was called the Soviet Union or the USSR and what life was like for the Russians in the 1970s and the 80s. I'm sure you already heard stories about it from your parents or grandparents about what it was like to live in those days? Anyways I remember seeing the Russian women in Moscow I think it was waiting in a long line up just to pick up a loaf of bread or wait in another long line to pick up meats or pick up dairy products like milk and butter etc... Something that we Canadians had took for granted on how lucky we were in Canada in the 70s when my parents would go grocery shopping for the entire family all In one grocery store. Anyways Ali I remember watching your old videos of you going grocery shopping in one of the stores in Moscow I think and watching you going up one aisle and down another aisle with shelves fully stocked with merchandise and me having flashback to the memories of the 70s and 80s of when Russia was like when it was called the Soviet Union. Another thing I remember was seeing a picture of car lot where it showed two men who were deciding on which car to buy in the car lot that had very few cars to decide from. In that time frame it is said that America had over 100M cars on the road in the United States while Russia had like 5M cars at the time. In today's time Russia now has 57, 812, 000 cars on the road. I know because I Googled it. In my country of Canada we have 26. 2M cars on the road of course we have only 40 million people in Canada we finally hit the 40 million mark. I love watching your videos Ali because I get to learn more and more about your beautiful coutry Russia and seeing it in the videos makes me feel like I am there because I know I will never be able to afford to visit Russia, so I thank you for showing these videos. It is said here in Canada that its cheaper to fly to Ireland than it is to fly to Vancouver BC from the Eastern part of Canada or fly to the Northern Territories of Canada like Nunavut for example. Anyways take care of yourself Ali by for now! Cheers 🍻 🇨🇦 🇷🇺 ❤ 😊

kudos to HO CHI, kudos to people of Vietnam, they are heroes, USA regime of imperialism was decimated and kicked out, hordes of Yankees murdered millions

Hello Eli. Love your content. Hello and best wishes from Ireland. 🇮🇪👋

Eli you country has nuclear weapons on Belarus for what, you don't talk about ah?