TRANSNISTRIA (Geography Go)

Seriously, we hitchhiked in.

Thanks @gus1thego for tagging along on this adventure! Lol we almost died a few times.

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[GeographyNow]

This is the type of content I love making. I'd rather "DO" geography than talk about it in a studio.

[jgreg]

Barbs has now joined the pantheon of “YouTubers who went to Transnistria to see what the Soviet Union was like”

[alexanderx]

As a Romanian, the fact that you had to drive back 6 hours to get a freaking permit to cross a border screams typical Romanian bureaucracy. Enjoy😂

[wholesomebaker]

Man you missing so much on Transnistria lore. Like the fact that the whole place is basically ruled by one man, ex-KGB officer and now oligarch, nicknamed "Sheriff" who owns anything that is profitable in Transnistria. All his businesses are also of course called "Sheriff"

[bcube]

One thing I notice IMMEDIATELY is that when I went to Tiraspol in October 2022 the three flagpoles in the main square (seen at min 09:14) were displaying the only 3 countries that recognise Transnistria as a legit: Abkhazia, South Ossetia aaaand....Nagorno Karabakh. I see that now the flag of Artsakh is missing as the country stopped existing. Kinda heavy.

[mickyslowtrain]

“flights to Moldova are very expensive” in Europe we have something called trains which cross borders and the train from Bucharest to Chisinau is an awesome experience

[davideisenberg]

Even before the war with Ukraine you couldn't use foreign credit cards in Transnistria. Their currency (Transnistrian Rubles) can't be traded within the international financial system. For the same reason you can't use foreign cards at ATM's. There are however more currency exchange places than anywhere I've ever been. You just go to any of them and you can easily exchange currency (USD, EUR, Romanian or Moldovan leu, Ukrainian hryvnia, Russian rubles, Polish zloty, etc.) The rates are generally very fair.

[liliya_aseeva]

7:18 it's not a yugo! It's a VAZ-2101 'penny'! It is the start of Zhiguli/lada model line. It was modeled on FIAT-124 and produced in Togliatti Samara province

[samfeldstein]

I like how the polar bear on the Milk Burger wrapper is celebrating a birthday and this video was uploaded on my birthday and polar bears are my favorite animals

[zobug]

I visited Transnistria in May and had a very similar experience where everyone was extremely confused as to why I was there. When I crossed into Transnistria near bender, at the border, the guards kept questioning me about why I wanted to visit when I was an American and said I was the first female American solo traveling there. (I went on a day trip). I highly recommend taking a matrushka from chisinau to tiraspol in the future as it’s what most locals do and is an experience in itself!

[ethanherxmedia]

I’ve never seen a more Danish looking Dane than Gus

[sameoldpanda]

8:16 apparently that's a moldovan police officer who died in the Transnistrian war. RIP

[kacperwoch]

I can imagine how much preparation Barbs did before going. He said "I'm going to Soviet Union" and that was the whole plan.

[gonnabefree]

There is actually an American tour guide called Tim that lives in Transnistria. He tours vilages and the soviet remains. Really cool guy

[nwt]

Oh my god!!!! as a geography geek, I always wondered how this partially unrecognised territories looked like inside... Thanks Barbs for showing us!!!

[kjul.]

It's hilarious how absolutely non-existent your planning for this trip was, I mean geez :D

[blabudu]

No way Barbs almost recognised Transnistria

[denisevlogiev]

I'm not surprised you liked the Romanian people they are great I've met a few and as a Bulgarian I'm proud to have them as neighbours.
The whole Transnistria trip seemed like a cool holiday and it's nice to see a place rarely anyone visits or talks about.

[cele]

oh my god PLEASE do more of these stupidly planned travel videos with Gus, they're your best videos and good post-Zimbabwe material.

[ourmatthew]

Transnistria is so free that they deported me for reading text messages close to the KGB building