It is amazing that Tucker had to travel all the way to Russia to visit a supermarket for the first time.

Tucker was born into a rich family, he has no idea how an average American lives. His Russia visit illustrated this well.

Oh Tucker. You went from being an American joke to an international laughingstock.

The biggest thing here is comparing prices of groceries to average wages. The groceries are very similar in cost to America, it is the wages that are so much less. Thank you for making this clear - people need to see this.

Brave souls to record this and put it out on the internet. I pray for their safety.

In my 3rd world country of the Philippines we also have that amazing technology of the shopping cart not moving on an incline walkalator ages ago. Haha!

Tucker Carlson had obviously never been to an American super market. It showed when he thought escalators for shopping carts (or coin-released carts, for that matter) is somehow a novel idea.

(25:29) "I just don't feel like having explosive diarrhea." (25:33) "Cause explosive diarrhea very bad. Very bad." The entire population of this world agrees with you, Ivan.

This man outed more people than Katt Williams. Salut, sir.

Thanks for being as real as you’re allowed/can be. All the best

Tucker Carlson was excited by trolleys where you have to use coins. Just wait until 2054 when he discovers self service checkouts! It'll blow his mind! 🤣🤣🤣

Carlson said a weeks' worth of groceries costs $103.82. He didn't tell you the average Russian earns about $330 a week before taxes.

Tucker probably doesn't go to American grocery stores. He's very wealthy and someone either shops for him or he orders online.

Ivan, you crack me up! Potato's Straight out of Reactor 2. 🤣🤣🤣

Ivan, I really enjoyed your video. I live near Sacramento, California and I truly believe we are all the same no matter where we live in the world. Blessings to you and your family!

I hope this man doesn’t disappear or defenestrate someday.

"Just like Coca Cola, but very very sweet." Oh, so it's Pepsi, then.

Sanctioned Ivan - Dude - you rock! Your English is _EXCELLENT!_ Thanks for posting this informative video. Blessings.

Tucker's visit to the fast food place and supermarket remind me of Lucille from Arrested Development. "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?"

What strikes me most of all is the lack of people shopping. I live in a provencial little city in the EU and no matter what grocery store I go to and no matter if it's on a weekday morning or afternoon, there are way more people in the store shopping and all of them have their cart actually filled where as here the store looks pretty empty and I don't notice anyone with a cart that is even filled enough to actually stand out.

We don't have these magic escalators in western countries...🤣🤣🤣

I live in Thailand and those trolly wheel-grip escalators that Tucky is raving about have been a common sight in big-box chain stores for 20+ years. Swansong McFear Carlson is indeed the TV Dinner of "journalists".

This is pure gold. Well done. Subscribed. "Inflation of cucumbers" made me smile.☺

Powdered MILK? What a time to be alive! Does Tucker know about this amazing technological breakthrough?

It's funny how everybody on the planet blames their own country's leader for inflation despite the fact that it's a global issue in every country.

I fear for this young man's safety. Thank you for yor bravery, sir.

I used to live up the road from the San Diego community where Tucker Carlson was raised. It is the most expensive by income area in the western hemisphere right next to parts of Malibu, NYC Central Park west and a few others. He went to college at Trinity College in Connecticut which is 500,000 US for an undergrad degree with a loose focus (aka "English"). It's also where Ivanka Trump went to college. Carlson has been fired from every major news network and is responsible for more lawsuit money at Fox than any other human being at any network in US history.

Please stay safe. The work you do in bringing a fresh perspective from behind the New Iron Curtain is excellent.

Seeing that 10 cent toilet paper "radicalized" me. Tucker said that seeing a Russian supermarket would "radicalize" you against US leaders. All it did is radicalize me more against Tucker.

The level of sarcasm in this video is glorious

Tucker brought his own water from ALDI just in case Putin added his special electrolytes ☠️ 😂.

I first encountered an Auchan supermarket in Paris in the early 1980s. These trolley-locking conveyors existed then, so 40 years ago. Tucker Carlson's astonishment was like a Monty Python sketch, except he was serious. TC needs to get out more.

Carlson is a clown. We all hold him in utter disdain.

Thank you for correcting Tuckers lies.. So refreshing to hear facts instead of Tuckers propaganda

"Chernobyolean potato straight out of reactor #2" I just LOVE this guy! Nice work, Ivan.

I know this is kind of off topic from the point of the video but I have to rant about stores closing before "closing" time. If you advertise that you close at 10 but then you stop serving customers at 9:30 then you're really advertising your "go home" time. Nobody cares when you go home. We only care when you stop serving us. If you stop serving us at 9:30 then your closing time is 9:30! Imagine if stores told you they open at 6:00 but when you show up at 6:10 they tell you they actually get there at 6:00 and it takes an hour to warm up the grills and get everything ready so they don't actually seat you or start serving you until 7:00. But they "open" at 6 because that's when they start their shift.

Greetings from Iowa, USA! I just happened across your feed and let me tell you, I was very entertained... You definitely have a great presence on camera and you seem like just a normal guy. Also, the one thing that really made me decide to hit "Like" and "Subscribe" was when you talked about your reason for shopping at this particular store (the first one): "Because they have the cheapest CAT LITTER around" (paraphrasing). OMG! That is partly why I shop at my local Walmart! I guess people are mostly the same no matter where we come from in this world.. and why we need to be more accepting of others and less ready to make war.. Thank you for sharing your part of the world with us, Ivan and Evelina.

"We got a potato from Chernobyl." I'm loving this guy!

You are kind and delightful to listen to. Thank you for taking us shopping and showing how you truly live.

In the UK I have never seen food of any kind tagged or in a security box. Here we do put tags for expensive bottles of alcohol. With you explaining things and how much a typical Russian earns its now understandable why the shelves are never empty. All the affordable food goes immediately but there is plenty of unaffordable food remaining which has a long shelf life left so that shelves never look empty. Russia should be a rich country and the people or Russia should be able to live life comfortably. Life under Putin is so so sad.

Once you realize that the minimum wage in Russia per hour is about $6 USD, the prices are expensive. 1 kg (~2 lbs) of meat is equivalent to 40 minutes of work.

Thank you so much for making this video. I just wanted to say that most of us Americans that have half a brain are aware the average Russian does not make a lot annually and that those groceries were not inexpensive. Thanks again!

Nice video brother. Saying a friendly hello to the good people of Russia. I am sorry for all the headaches and hardships your government is causing you. The world knows you the citizens are not to blame. Keep the faith brother.

Thanks for the real life experience. Please do more! People need to see this. They need to remember to count their blessings.

Great work Ivan! Thanks!

"We've got potato from Chernobyl..." 😄😄😄 That was some potato and you joking about its origins was PERFECT.

You explain this well. So the average Russian earns about $15 a day. So $30 on groceries for 2 people is 2 days wages of one person. That's more than a months wage for groceries! I spend $400-$500 month for 2 people, so in comparison it's 3-4 days wages of one person for a month of groceries for 2 people (on a low income). I'm a pensioner, we (couple) have 7 pensions, our groceries are covered by the smallest of all our pensions. Our smallest pension is more than an average Russian pension. In Canada, a low income wage is $130 a day. Many of our prices are the same, like $1.20 for a cucumber, $6 a pound real butter, except meat and dairy and bread is more but our wages are 8 times higher. Alcohol is very expensive and heavily taxed. Petro/Gasoline is about $7.50 a gallon and heavily taxed. Comparing Russia's food inflation to Canada....I won't complain about Canada anymore!

Love your Tucker comments comrade !

"detailed investigation into cucumber prices" 🤣👍

Prices seem similar to where i am in Canada but the wage differences makes it more affordable here when min wage here is $15..60

It is a long time since I have heard someone mention " explosive diarrhea ". Very amusing ! 😂😂

a pack of pistachios is about $8 in the US too.

I saw a lot of things that are the same price here in the US. I saw some things that were a lot more expensive, like the butter & tomatoes. I saw a couple of things that are cheaper but, when you compare our wages to yours, it's expensive. Thank you for debunking Tuckers insanity.

In Spain 99% of supermarket milk is UHT, therefore, it does not require storage in the refrigerator. It is just a treatment that is carried out by raising and lowering the temperature of the milk to "kill" all the bacteria. Once the container has been opened it should always be in the refrigerator, but unopened it will last for many weeks.

You are genuinely hilarious. I lost it at the Chernobyl potato

It was perfectly normal for horse meat to be used in pet food in the US until the late 70s. In the film „The Godfather“, the horse head that was used for the scene with the head in the film producer’s bed, that was a real horse head. It was sent to the film set from a dog food factory. Thankfully, a horse wasn’t killed just for a scene in the movie.

A propos toilet paper: there is an old joke from the Soviet Union (also in Soviet occupied GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and more) that goes: Q: why is our toilet paper so rough? A: so that each and every arse stays red.

Excellent reporting, I just hope you don't get picked up for this. Stay safe Ivan!

Universe, protect this man, at all cost. He is doing Humanitarian work, and not without risk. I hope his dad is somebody over there!

Bro, for some reason, you came up as a suggestion on my screen, I took the chance… Bro, you are awesome…. And thank you for actually telling the truth. Yes, it is cheap for Carlson since he is rich…. But he never mentioned the difference in income from my country, the US, and yours! Seriously, it takes a half a day’s pay to go to your “McDonalds”…. That is insane…. Tuckfuck lies in the USA and every other place that will permit him to open his mouth. I subscribed right away… I just hope you are going to be safe…. Also, I saw the locking cart in the Dominican Republic!!🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️…. He should have said… “look mommy, I am fake shopping for myself for the first and last time, even for real”!! By the way…. Stop touching radioactive potatoes. You’re awesome dude.

My 93 year old Grandmother was shocked at 9 dollar hamburgers in Las Vegas. That’s about an hour’s minimum wage wage in the US. I can make them better at half the price at home.

I love this. Tucker is viewed in the US as a political shill. A talking head that spews propaganda. It's good to see a real person's point of view. Stay safe. Don't let them silence you.

Burger Patof : Taste BS and smell BS…😂😂😂😂

I have to say, Sanctioned Ivan, your comedic timing is amazing! This a very entertaining and educational video! Great work, Sir!

Hey Ivan, looks like the KZfaq algorithms are being kind to you becaue you randomly came up on my suggested videos. I'm from the Los Angeles Metro area here in Southern California and we hate Tucker Carlson. In any case, I love the content and you are hilarious. I subscribed right away and will be following your videos. Cheers!!

Ivan, you are sooo entertaining. Also love how steady the camera is. Makes viewing so much better. Keep it up. Also notice your subscribers are growing - congratulations 🥂

Craziest part is u have to pay to use a supermarket cart but guess all that fancy tech is expensive. Just ignore Americans complaining about prices, most of us don’t realize how spoiled we are. Hope things get better there, thanks Ivan!

You guys were smart to take over American/western country businesses and rebrand them into Russian companies.

Here in Canada I've never seen a wheel locking cart escalator because every single grocery shopping store is always 1 floor.

They have those escalators all over Mexico like in Super Che which is like a Walmart in US. They have to have those types of escalators because parking is on the ground floor and the food and sale items are upstairs above the garage.

Thank you for this video. It's nice to see some honesty about Russia. Americans complain about grocery and gas prices, when prices for such commodities are low here compared to most other countries. Those prices should not be on people's minds as they really aren't where most of our paychecks go to. Same with taxes: we pay far fewer in taxes then other countries, but Americans love to complain about them. No, the issue is Rent/Housing and Healthcare. Landlords are not held accountable, and thus can afford to screw over their tenants. Large corporations are buying up houses (no Federal laws, only local laws in some parts of the US) and driving up the prices. Americans pay more for Healthcare then any nation in the World, and yet not everyone can afford it. We literally pick jobs based on their Health Insurance benefits, a holdover from the Great Depression when Companies didn't want to pay much to their employees. You could go bankrupt because you were unlucky enough to get cancer. But, of course, Rent/Housing and Healthcare are matters that Politicians (particularly Republicans) want to ignore because they're in bed with Lobbyists paid for by Insurance, Big Pharma, etc. For the wealthiest country on the planet, America shows no love to the poor. Of course matters could easily be worse. We could look like Russia, run by an Oligarchy. Precisely the type of authoritarian government Republicans would love for us to live under. That's why you got Tucker Carlson and other right-wing demagogues simping for Putin. They hate democracy as they want themselves, the rich, to hold all the power.

Bro massive respect for this video!! Tucker is so embarrassing 😂 great stuff!

"Explosive diarreha" that made me laugh,, I like your sense of humor.

Just discovered you! Like your humor and you're good at reporting. I appreciate how you break prices down to one's earnings, compared to the average American's earnings.

Tucker says he was radicalized by the prices of horse meat in the Russian food. Is there any doubt he's collecting rubles?

Haha. I truly enjoyed your commentary. "...wooden cat litter. Supposed to be cheaper since we have so many forests, but most of that is sold to China. Thank you very much!..." lol

Some bread is "stiff" by design. like sourdough bread with a crispy crunchy outside and a chewy inside :)

McDonalds in the U.S. isn't cheap for the average citizen either. And the prices are climbing fast. I refuse to pay that price for a stomach ache.

The real middle class is some where around 50K in the USA for a house hold.

Thank you so much for making this video. It was clever, insightful and quite funny. You touched on topics that have great meaning in this "current economy" and where greatly emotionally understanding and displaying great cultural awareness!

The cheapest McDonald's combo/share meal in Australia is the "Bundle for 2", which is about $28.50 AUD (approx. $18.50 USD) depending on where you are. That's about 1.2 hours of work at the Australian minimum wage of $23.23 an hour. This bundle includes four burgers, chips, and drinks. Australians can get enough for two people for three meals at under half a day's wage. Mind you, that's at minimum wage, not the average or median, and we consider McDonald's super expensive with inflation now, to the point it's as expensive as going out to a decent restaurant.

This guy is hilarious, would do well in US standup

You are real funny ! The chernobul (chernobyl) potato got me ! Congratulations ! I subscribed !

The earliest recollection I have of the same exact style escalator that allows the shopping cart to ride the stepless escalator was at TSS (Times Square Stores) in Queens NY back in 1981. SInce the store was there before I ever stepped foot in it, I'd imagine it was built way before that. It's a pretty simple and mundane system. The brackets that hold the wheels hang low and extends into a bent tab that act as feet for the cart but is just a centimeter or less off the ground. The wheels have deep grooves in it that allows it to sink into the grooves of the escalator grooves. When you roll the cart onto the stepless escalator, the grooves in the wheels allows it to fall into the escalator grooves and the little brackets sit on top of the high ridge of the escalator which essentially forms the escalator floor and the cart can no longer roll. Basic old school tech. Modern stores that requires shopping carts to go up and down escalators uses a safer system where the cart rides on a separate escalator adjacent to the regular stepped escalator. Unless the store is located in a dense area where it requires multiple stories or a parking lot on a different level, its something that you don't see often as it's not necessary. Retail stores that require shopping carts in neighborhoods where space is abundant will not need it as they'll simply use a retail space located on the ground floor. Some stores that have multiple floors might even use an elevator where space is even more at a premium.

Ivan. You are such a comedian where it counts. You had me burst out laughing a few times on the remarks you made and kept a straight face. Yes on the other hand one can be grim reaper showing the expensive prices as well. The pistachios you showed would cost more here but still definitely expensive even for us at $8.00. I can imagine who can afford it there. Cucumbers and toothpaste is almost comparable to Canadian $$. Tucker Carlson seemed marveled you had to pay a coin to get a cart which you get back when you put cart back. This surprised me coz this has been around for years. Even in Greece when I went grocery shopping I had to use coin to get shopping cart. Obviously Tucker Carlson does not go grocery shopping unless he shops somewhere where coin is not needed for cart as in Walmart or Costco.

Loved your video. The pokes at Tucker were hilarious cause we know he's such an offensive jerk who lies every time he opens his mouth. Seeing the price comparisons for food/wages was really interesting and important to the West to understand Carlson lying rhetoric, especially right now with the global insanity playing out. I have Russian friends who live here in Canada and go back to visit family from time to time, so had some idea of prices. McDonald fun tidbit - early 1970s in Hamilton, Ontario the original hamburg was CAN dollars .25cents, cheeseburger was .35cents. Same hamburg is now $1.39 with our minimum wage at $16.55. What a great conversation starter in the thread to see the inflation issue is global and we all paddling same boat in parallel ways.

That unknown meat was textured and colored vegetable 'protein' with beef flavor. Here in the U.S. that's what the cheapest 'hamburger' patties are made with. Not bad if prepared correctly, cooked from frozen on a contact grill on a bed of dried onion flakes and with some water and more flakes on top. It'll pass for a descent burger. This is what they use for school lunch programs to save money.

How are you not (yet) conscripted into the army and 200? Yeah, a burger name change but they still use all the same ingredients.

Hi Ivan, Thanx for exposing #ucker Carlson's lie regarding the impact of sactions on prices in Russia.! I have been wondering why your shows haven't addressed more meaningful subjects and I'm happy to see the change. Your baker friend: I would like to know if the prices he pays for ingredients like flower have increased. paul in North carolina

Food has been hitting insane prices here in Kelowna British Columbia, Canada this past year. For a loaf of sourdough bread we pay $6.00. at a dedicated bakery. For a loaf of generic sliced bread in a supermarket it is still $4.25. I would estimate a 30% hike in groceries across the board compared to 12 months ago. Salaries in Canada have risen by 3.45% over the same 12 months. The math tells the tale. This seems to be a trend around the world. The ordinary working guy keeps loosing ground here in the west.

Great video. Thank you posting it, Be careful, don't get mobilized ! Good luck !

Thanks for taking us along👍

The chap in this video is very courageous considering how people who've leaked military losses in Ukraine have 'gone missing', and even Russian civilians who've dared to oppose the war in ANY way have also vanished into the ether. Sir, you have my humble respect!

This was such a great juxtaposition to Tucker's video! Thank you!!!

You are very entertaining, IVAN. Can't wait to see more!

The saying is, "look Ma, no hands"! 🤣🤣🤣

I subbed immediately after your opening music! 👍🏼🥰 Your channel makes me remember a kid’s show on our Public Broadcasting Station, ‘Big Blue Marble.’ As we get older, and are influenced by our government, and our peers, we forget that Humans are pretty similar all over the World…usually kind, sometimes with a great sense of humor (Ivan!), and an understanding that if We all had the ability to communicate in a meaningful way, we’d probably all get along, for the most part. Stay safe!

Looks like being a vegan in Russia these days is not a deliberate choice.

Our stores in the USA have those shopping cart conveyers. (In large cities where space is limited). Usually if a store has that conveyer there is a parking garage below the grocery store..

Lest we forget... Slava Ukrainia! Vote Putin out - if you can. btw, you make a much better American than that little Tucker.