One Day In Life of a Soviet Milkmaid #ussr, #soviet

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Life of a regular collective farm worker in the USSR. Soviet peasants in the socialist economy. Real stories from the Soviet Union.
My books about arriving in America are available on my site:
"Ushanka Show" is a collection of stories about life in the USSR.

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Hello, comrades!
My name is Sergei. I was born in the USSR in 1971. Since 1999 I have lived in the USA.
Ushanka Show channel was created to share stories as well as my own memories of everyday life in the USSR.
My book about arriving in America in 1995 is available on Amazon:
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UshankaShow

When I was from 5 to 10 years old in the 70s. I used to visit my grandparents farm during the summer in Minnesota and I used to get up early in the morning and help my grandpa milk cows by hand.

jeffbreezee

"Made from the milk of *male* goats."
Hold up

KardasheviteUltravisionary

My mom early work career was "milkmaid" "karjakko, lehmäkarja=cow herd" in finnish. Hard work, without vacations. Cows game angry if not milking at exact time. They knew clock. Her hands were otherwise hard and smelled of a cow. Often inflamed by excessive washing of equipments. No soft hands nearby in my childhood. She hated cows and loved bulls.

jarikinnunen

If you've never seen a dairy with a robotic milking operation, I can get you a tour of one about an hour and a half away from you, though maybe the coronavirus situation has put a stop to that for now. I'll check. Aside from that there might be restrictions if you've recently been in another country.

Here in the upper midwest in the late 19th century, many farmers who switched from wheat to dairy. Wheat prices were low here when Kansas was opening up as the main wheat country. But it was tough for farmers to make that change, because it meant being married to those cows and staying with them every day for 365 days a year. It was very difficult to get someone you could trust to milk them properly while you went away for a few days, so many people went years without a vacation. I still have some relatives in that business and it's hard to schedule family gatherings because everything is arranged around their milking schedule. Of course nowadays farming here is mostly collectivized, in a manner of speaking, though not quite like in the USSR. A farm is usually a big business with employees rather than being owned and operated by a family.

johngorentz

Hello. I'm a guy from Norway born in 1990. I have developed an fascination on the Chernobyl accident. I love the fact that you have your Russian language teaching in your videos. I wish that you could make a video teaching us all some language that is useful to know while traveling in ex soviet countries. Like when arriving at a hotel or at a bar and stuff like that. Thank you for your amazing content on YT.

arilshagen

Hey Sergei, I was wondering if you can dedicate the upcoming video revolving around the Soviet people's view on Mongolia and North Korea? I really like your videos on the life inside the Soviet Union.

Koala

Thanks for sharing Nila’s story.
Wow what lady hers and your mum’s pensions aren’t that bad.
In Moldova for agricultural workers the old age pension is 40 euros or 45 USD
and from what I heard their pensions are funded by the Russian government.

Svetlana-says-it-as-it-is.

Another good and detailed episode JW Cheeseburger. "Yippie I Yo Ki Ya" !!!

carystapleton

Thanks for another great video!
A couple of followup questions, if you have a moment:
1. Did she retire in 1991 due to the disbanding of the kolkhoz with the collapse of the USSR, or was the timing just a coincidence?
2. In the previous video I think I remember you pointing out there was a decrease in the amounts of labor time recorded in her book in some years. If the amount of work days never really changed over her whole working life, do we know what accounts for the decrease in labor time?

leenvisser

Great topic, Mr Cheeseburger! I really like your videos when you follow the life of a Soviet citizen - I still say that someone could make a fascinating TV miniseries based on the cruise diaries of Nelly the angry Soviet wife. Netflix, are you there??

jamesw

My parents grew up in the 30s and 40s in Canada. They started off with this technology. Thankfully capitalism changed that and they got machines eventually.

paulthiessen

Fun fact: before Gorbachev was made Secretary General, his responsibility within the Politburo was agriculture.

xandervk

I bet that some people today would be super upset if they worked for 40 years and got a tiny pension and could not afford a smart phone or that super fashionable $70 Che Guevara T-shirt.

tristanholland