Why Are So Many Russians Flocking to This Former Military Base in Siberia?

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No Country for Old Men (2008): Welcome to Eniseisk 15, a secret radar site turned state housing project for the elderly and disabled.
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In the depths of Siberia, amongst the ruins of a former Soviet military base lives a hidden community. Although hundreds of kilometres from civilization, people are volunteering to come and live here.
Eniseisk 15 was once a secret radar site that detected missiles launched from space but was dismantled after an arms agreement with America. Now it is being used to house disabled people along with elderly people who volunteer to receive free housing here from the state. Conditions are difficult though, with no employment opportunities for the young and no medical care for the elderly. Yet compared to surrounding villages "the housing here is comfortable. You don't have to chop wood, you don't need to heat the stove and the toilet is inside the flat," explains the local councillor. Maybe that explains the increase of people wanting to move to this desolate, remote village in Siberia.
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@michaelsabella5924 6 жыл бұрын

At 3:24 my heart goes out to this man, almost brings tears to my eyes to see a human being suffering like this - So incredibly sad. I'd like to live there for awhile and help some of these poor folks... Its now 2017 I pray to God this man survived...

@mitchellcummings758 5 жыл бұрын

ESFitnessSavage let him believe what he wants asshole. No one needs your opinion

@garycooper9207 9 ай бұрын

Sometimes the death is better and more gentle than living

@derar123 6 жыл бұрын

I watched this documentary soo many times and I don't know why

@mitchellcummings758 5 жыл бұрын

Here i am again i have no clue why I am interested in Russia

@scottrobinson9752 4 жыл бұрын

I watched it 2 years ago and just spent a week looking for it again. Finally found it. It's sad and fascinating.

@badrkan228 4 жыл бұрын

me to I am watching it again and again there is some magic in it

@marenmarcochris Ай бұрын

Me too. I love kind of focus. Especially from Russia

@sandaime134 7 жыл бұрын

i feel sorry for them especially the elderly.

@franksaney2390 7 жыл бұрын

scary. kinda puts things in perspective and makes me thankful for what I have.

@thomasg1729 7 жыл бұрын

I feel so sorry for them because they are trapped in such a bad conditions .

@ohmeowzer1 6 жыл бұрын

I’m happy here in America...those people are amazing and I give them a lot of credit that’s a hard life

@737tech 7 жыл бұрын

I really liked my trip to Moscow Russia. But when I talked to a man he told me that I haven't seen Russia, he said Russia is very poor, I started to notice that when I got outside the city, and as this video also shows. I hope they can fix their problems.

@josephinefairlie9007 7 жыл бұрын

Very interesting sociological documentary with excellent cinematography.

@tavatumbass 7 жыл бұрын

спасибо за честный фильм .

@Grumpy_old_Boot 7 жыл бұрын

Damn, that ended on a bleak note.

@mh-jn9lr 6 жыл бұрын

i guess oleg is noleg

@stone1andonly 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting documentary, made more entertaining by the fact that those autogenerated captions were insanely funny!

@ohmeowzer1 6 жыл бұрын

Bleak and cold..that poor man carrying his wheelchair up the stairs ,,that is horrible..his poor Mom ..that is just horrific..the life there is good that woman said ? Is she drinking to much vodka?

@bartonknight2254 5 жыл бұрын

Beth g I think Mom's way passed Vodka. 😎

@user-wy2iw5vy5u 6 жыл бұрын

No place for mistakes. This is a bedroom community. Canada has its own like this but less severe weather.

@brayidk3522 2 жыл бұрын

I know I’m not the most empathetic but I like to think I can be at times. When I was looking into his eyes at 21:40 I seen nothing but pain.

@gilbertpaiz8096 6 жыл бұрын

Come to Northern New Mexico...you will be in absolute shock!...

@jzk3919 8 жыл бұрын

In Budapest the government mameluks (buerocrat slaves) would him evicted, take the apartment too - no matter how many abandoned buildings are abound.

@alibaax5346 3 жыл бұрын

My sympathies go to these elderly people, am saddened to see this

@brendonbre8745 3 жыл бұрын

What's the name of the music that starts at 01:05 and ends at 01:27?

@ChronicCraftsman 2 жыл бұрын

The woman at 5:10 says that this is a normal place for a pensioner to live! If that’s normal what would be bad? wow the Russian government really doesn’t give a shit about its people. It’s sad.

@tallcedars2310 7 жыл бұрын

Cronic unemployment? Why do we rely on employment to keep ourselves busy? Can we not live without jobs and simply grow gardens, barter and survive? Money is not the only way to survive, our ancestors proved that. The young are seduced by the city life and I can see why, but if we told them the truth they may decide to return and live the good life? Talk to the children and tell them they won't be able to get ahead, very few can, it's by design.

@FredLimestone 6 жыл бұрын

Grow a garden? in fucking Siberia ? hahaha

@gromosawsmiay3000 6 жыл бұрын

have you been in siberia, I was and you? they can use greenhouse, also potatoes grow very well on siberia, I know winter is strong and long but vegetation period is from may till september and people on south syberian countryside knows how to plant vegetables and prepare for winter.

@pookoos 6 жыл бұрын

People DO have gardens in Siberia. They also raise animals, just as they do in other cold Arctic climates.

@gromosawsmiay3000 6 жыл бұрын

but why people from Cuba want to live in USA, but people from USA do not want to live in Cuba...that the question... xD. look at national dept in westeuropean countries and you know who is working for them,new EU member states, do you know what is average salary in poland, romania etc. and why corporations are closing factories in west europe and opening in central europe...

@JimBob-oy9bs 6 жыл бұрын

Tripserpentine you're full of shit

@rafaelcamilo4887 6 жыл бұрын

Could not the camera men assist this gentlemen?

@eastsider7301 2 жыл бұрын

Good god that was depressing ASFFFF ‼️

@toolkeeper 7 жыл бұрын

Nearby towns: Lesosibirsk, Zheleznogorsk (BUT), Krasnoyarsk Coordinates: 57° 52'23 "N 93° 2'35 ' E let me know if this is correct.

@leonarddavies288 2 жыл бұрын

No this is wrong so so wrong

@pasteface3266 6 жыл бұрын

Wish i could help them all.

@christophmahler 3 жыл бұрын

Time to restore the RADAR...

@MegaSnow121 6 жыл бұрын

What sad lives, no matter whose fault they are...

@goldsilverandiamonds 8 жыл бұрын

It's sad they were on the right track after the far of the Soviet Union. They were developing a relationship with the West and the U.S. learning about business and Capitalism and starting to build a new economy that was on the path to wealth and long term prosperity and then they voted in Putin and the Communists again and now they are just as bad off as ever. I feel bad for the Russian people, they are fairly smart, creative and hard working people but they continue to vote in bad people and bad government systems and ideas that hold them down and keep them poor. The need a Capitalistic revolution not a Communist revolution.

@alexanderzmichrivsky5864 8 жыл бұрын

Putin a conservative populist(similar to trump in some ways...)he is not a communist... He established a 13% flat tax(one of the lowest tax rates in the world! He has attempted to abolish parts of the health care system(before putin all hospital got state funding and many health providers had abused this system) now only a small precent get state funding and only for importent proffessions and most health care providers have been privatized! Putin has been very good to russia! This video is just a propoganda peice...i can show you many videos of detroit...if you want...

@goldsilverandiamonds 8 жыл бұрын

***** Putin is a leftists, an former KGB agent who would love to rebuild the Soviet Empire. Russia has severe poverty throughout it. It's economy is crippled and its GDP is a joke. Sure the U.S. does have some cities that are wastelands.....thanks to leftist politicians who love a big government with lots of control over the people, just like Putin does.

@aluisious 8 жыл бұрын

Putin is not a Communist. All that ranting, based on nothing.

@goldsilverandiamonds 8 жыл бұрын

aluisou Sorry, Putin is a communist who has dreams of putting back the old Soviet Union with a few adjustments.

@franklle 8 жыл бұрын

Maybe to you, he is a communist. But in actual fact, he's not. That's what I get out of this conversation ^_^

@kshhashim 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my God

@MrAureli224 6 жыл бұрын

that guy Oleg is a drunk and hard to deal with. No social workers like to deal with belligerent drunks

@phyllisdevries5734 5 жыл бұрын

I want to move to a village in Russia. I presently live in a village in Alaska

@user-kv7jo3nl5h 3 жыл бұрын

WHY????

@Chinunit22 8 жыл бұрын

this place is like a Slab City in California

@ccC-rj7xd 7 жыл бұрын

@user-qs9im5es9p 7 жыл бұрын

I see the adds are longer and more anoying since google red came out.

@fishing4truth91 6 жыл бұрын

Cheap rent & an over abundance of Vodka?

@druoleary 6 жыл бұрын

Massively depressing.

@ghostofcato3052 6 жыл бұрын

This is so sad to see these wonderful people suffer...I wish I could help all of them! God bless Russia! Bruce.

@michiganmissy3925 7 жыл бұрын

NOBODY in their right mind wants to live in an abandned Radar station. Now that village of traditional Izbas looked like a dream. but the bombed out highrises? level the whole area and put up some trees.

@georgewu5 7 жыл бұрын

When I lost my job in 1976 after I did the bi-centennial celebration of the four museum shops for Smithsonian, I lived in a freezing winter alone in upstate New York, building my Chinese restaurant in no man's land, which was a big mistake that my wife divorced me after that.. I never wanted to live in the cold with no heating system again. When I went to the diner a mile away where was heated warmly, I said to myself, " This is civilization ! " I got panic when I see all the snow here in the video again ! George Wu, AIA, ARCHITECT,NCARB 2017-8-25

@MuantanamoMobile 6 жыл бұрын

Man that was quite bleak, hope all is well now though :)

@alexanderkasady6839 6 жыл бұрын

Russia is one of the poorest countries in the world, yet possesses an immearurable amount of natural wealth in oil, natural gas, timber, furs, diamonds, gold, rare and precious metals, the list is endless. Why? Because the handfull of billionaires who rule Russia, Putin's cronies and fellow thugs, sell Russia's wealth of raw materials and keep the proceeds in their own bank accounts. Nothing is spent on new heating plants, pensions for the old and infirm, housing, roads, bridges, etc. Russia remains a backward and under-developed country because of the criminal greed of its' ruling elite, with Putin at the top. He's the 'Thief-In-Chief".

@robertkerr3059 6 жыл бұрын

nothing wrong that some government vodka rations cant fix,

@DD-bn2mx 7 жыл бұрын

good construction lol

@xres1329 6 жыл бұрын

Looks better place than some others in Northern Scandinavia and Canada. With proper spirit and zest it will be just like Jokmokk.

@yvonnelivingstone517 2 жыл бұрын

Putin you should be looking after your people instead of a war in Ukraine

@Fantomas2110 7 жыл бұрын

страшная реальность

@jgedutis 7 жыл бұрын

If people don't have purpose in their life, they resort to drugs and alcohol to fill the void. In Soviet Russia the only purpose is to forget the times you were tortured or coerced into telling the security forces on family thought crimes.

@nightfox84 7 жыл бұрын

That's really sad. Russian government should deal with these people first, stop bragging about their military. Not saying American are better, but at least , people have way better living stander than that.

@satieeveryn7409 8 жыл бұрын

2:54 "Danke" I thought they were Russians.

@davidjames666 8 жыл бұрын

These alcoholics need to help themselves. Plus the supply needs to be cut off.

@MancstaSam 8 жыл бұрын

wow your all heart! living out there in the freezing wilderness of siberia is enough to drive anyone to drink!

@davidjames666 8 жыл бұрын

+Sam Firth ok then. I'll have more heart. These guys should continue drinking. When they get sick, someone will drive them 100 km to the hospital, and the elite of the country will set up a go fund me page to pay for the transplant.

@ellenorbjornsdottir1166 8 жыл бұрын

They should drink LESS.

@bartonknight2254 5 жыл бұрын

Someone really should introduce these poor people to some good old American Crack Cocaine. Now "that" would qualify as a darkumentary. 😎

@mr.muffin4163 7 жыл бұрын

I remember watching a documentary about Siberia. an how they use to send prisoners there from they over crowded prisons to die.

@bartonknight2254 5 жыл бұрын

Mr. Muffin Right! When we were kids that's what they told us. Siberian death camps. (prisons) Many a time I would try to imagine up a mental picture of that prison. Hmmm... was that all propoganda? 😎

@ivoryonions4340 6 жыл бұрын

RT won't show stuff like this on their channel

@403patriot3 8 жыл бұрын

tell me more about 'white privilege' at least in africa and south america you don't lose limbs from the intense cold

@moskit76 7 жыл бұрын

Pan tera Yes white privilege on it's best.African Americans would love to move from they "getto" to this shinny town.

@motherandsondiaryuk9672 7 жыл бұрын

little pecker in poorer countries there is community and everyone watches out for each other unlike the man who was on a drinking session with the locals who left him to nearly die outside and he was lucky enough to lose he's feet to alcoholism I don't think in 3rd world countries alcoholism or drugs is a problem it is mostly food and bills which is why the communities help each other everyone is equal when it comes to being poor but there is no equality in drugs or alcohol from those suffering

@yumengyan1520 7 жыл бұрын

I feel less sorry for the guys after I know he lost limb because of drunk. Am I a bad person?

@gaybama5957 6 жыл бұрын

I guess you're a perfect specimen of a man/woman and never made a mistake in life, some mistakes are much more costly but we all make them, get over yourself

@bartonknight2254 5 жыл бұрын

Yumeng Yan Its your job to learn, dear ... not to judge. Sometimes it's very hard to learn not to judge. We all have the same struggle. Your bright side is that you're questioning yourself. We don't know the least of what brought any of these people to where they are. Would we judge that same person if they were climbing the steps of their mansion after parking their Mercedes? Hard questions. Curiosity didn't kill the cat, superficiality killed the cat. God bless you, dear. 😎

@alexshield7532 7 жыл бұрын

sick shit

@twitter03 8 жыл бұрын

Quite desperate video,hope they can live better..these old people suffered a lot already,from USSR time to now

@spacetragedy 6 жыл бұрын

god help them what a misserable place to gave to live..

@trumpafarian7129 7 жыл бұрын

This is the most depressing thing I've ever seen.......

@user-gv7so4uk5p 6 жыл бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldlia6Wi0a6Udn0.html хотите узнать про Россию то вот канал обычной семьи. из провинциального города. на английском. а выискивать говно специально не надо. его и у вас предостаточно уж поверьте.

@radioactiveemissions3859 6 жыл бұрын

Russia -Master of disaster!

@MrDrofinnah 7 жыл бұрын

i think i would like it in Russia... it is over crowded here... to many muslims...

@plovyklatyra 6 жыл бұрын

MrDrofinnah forward to 4:45

@samsondelilah3803 6 жыл бұрын

Russian need to drink vodka at all time to warm up the body n help to forget the life hardship since no heater n no job to support people to have the normal life