I spent the day riding around the Darnyts’kyi region of Kiev, Ukraine on bicycles with Mr. Bald and Bankrupt in search of Soviet Mosaics. Along the way, we speak to Babushkas, have a pull up contest, ride along the Dnipro River, visit a pet cemetery, and look for Gopniks. Thank you to @baldandbankrupt for making this video with me, it was a ton of fun!

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    all right we’re going through not the touristy area here that everyone sees when they make a video about flipping cube we’re going through the rough and ready sleeping regions of dynamics most people are too afraid to go there but with johnny fd at my side i reckon i can do it right turn johnny literally how is your bike holding up under your 120 kilogram frame uh that’s surviving oh there’s gears up oops so mr ball just challenged me to a soviet pull-up challenge pull the bikes over let’s see how many we can do how many wrecking you can do when your little legs reach up here can you get up here oh he’s the shorter one the soviet climbing okay we’ll come catch you down [Music] haha check out the old soviet bars oh the jacket’s off he means business he’s taking it seriously oh i didn’t realize little do you know that’s 120 uh look at him look at him can he get up there though that’s the thing can you reach it oh little johnny go on it come on then oh he failed on the fourth one oh what a pity what a pity oh he was so close he was so close ah sorry congratulations you beat me you beat me okay what’s the price uh the prize is well think about the price i’ll buy you a prize before the end of the video or make me a prize any better don’t even think about presenting me with your runners-up gifts we gotta decorate your uh there you go it’s gonna fall out in two seconds but you’re welcome sir the made armed revolution you could say that the uh well the situation for many many ukrainian people of course has become a lot worse you see a lot more people go through things and stuff like that like pensioners like pensions here are so tiny unfortunately some people just get left behind anyway let’s keep the positive mood let’s go over there try not to kill myself while filming it right it was like little bmx off-roading here comes big johnny oh my god on the nail bike he’s off-roading slowly johnny slowly oh god he’s wobbling straight to the water perfect like a professional so i somehow managed to survive that uh offer a little bmx challenge that mr bald fearlessly flew down and now it’s actually a nice little ride by the river in that recycling around there was built under coolshot as the ideal soviets like living quarters they built everything on this little island we’re going around for a soviet citizen the idea was they were going to have like little river ports for hydrofoils and like canal boats around this canal for like the citizens of kielya to travel around so this is through and today it’s usually a place to fish by old codgers check them out on the other side of the river is zero chance if you can get up there i’m buying episode harder for a month man that’s an ultimate guard that is a pimp mobile back in soviet times if you were like a little bit kind of like a bit of a white boy you know you had evolved there’s a little market passing through now as well but i wonder these i bet you if i just put this in black and white these markers would look like it was the same as so many times huh this is where rubbish is make today great okay it makes your day great yes i like it did you get told off by publishing johnny’s been terrified babushka that you can buy they bring the people the publishers bring their products in the villages and stuff like honey they like they make all their own stuff maybe you can buy some like salmon gold or something would you like some summer guns there yes i’m gone but we can make some if you have enough [Music] time what are you gonna do with eggs i don’t know what we’re going to do with these eggs but i feel sorry for the publishers here on a sunday mm-hmm so we’re going to give them as a present to somebody else oh nice we need our protein every day so that’s what we do that’s why we have so much protein we’re gonna give it away wow wow i’m getting all the eggs she’s giving me all her eggs today is um mr bald is looking for 50 eggs that’s a lot of eggs who can we give it away [Music] so we’re just leaving these uh babushka with 50 eggs behind us i wonder what they think of uh these two random porn guys riding bicycles around this part of town handing out eggs that’s not even easter where are you at mr bold i lost him because i’m too fast for mr bold or maybe he saw something interesting back there i don’t know what yet the speed racer is coming by johnny how have you been in the ukraine three years off and on but this time just two months so what words do you know in ukrainian or russian that we can um you can tell me uh sm cover hey stop reading stop reading actually we’re going to look for a soviet mosaic do you know how to say that in russian that’s how much russian i know after three years over here guys i’ve seen a soviet playground can we check it out yesterday you didn’t have to stop so bruh by taking your card for a slow hold jesus i don’t know these ladder breaks are just too strong paul is taking me to a rubbish bin x3 johnny how is it oh let’s see who’s heavier by sitting on the soviet sea suit johnny gets sweaty after 30 seconds of activity right let’s see who’s heavier beyond johnny okay you ready for this i’m ready for it am i ready for this he’s the is the three grit oh no i don’t got it oh it’s gonna break out oh johnny’s heavier johnny’s heavier there we go heavier that’s pretty deep bring me up oh my god oh my god does that break that’s [Laughter] wow there’s so much fun you can have just like driving around riding around the back streets of kiev you never know what you’re gonna find including a little baby soviet swing and a little soviet baby [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Laughter] this is unbelievable it’s on the line you see we could kick the roof you made it challenge one eyeball the seat down it ain’t about the money [Music] [Laughter] it looked like he missed again get out of it one thing you can’t fault me on his mind where’s richard have i ever introduced you to uh my friend adolf hello have you ever met adolf don’t say those words you’ll get demonic oh i’m trying to figure out adolf cat whenever i’m in here i always come and see my main adult we’re walking through a pet cemetery this is adolf he died in 2008 unfortunately and this is his brother dictator oh wow yeah a couple of laps no doubt how do you find this just going around and yeah ukrainians love their animals and this is the pet cemetery this is actually interesting it’s like right inside the road it’s kind of like a nice place so i’ve always known that hanging out with bald would be an adventure but this has been crazy like i haven’t even showed you half of things because i’ve been trying to ride this bicycle ball while filming but it’s been fun and i never would have came on this side of the city it’s like literally crossing the tracks or crossing the river but it’s super interesting and i never thought a million years i’d be walking through a pet cemetery ukrainian pet cemetery these are nicer than most of the headstones in the us or many of the melodies and definitely better kept with flowers and everything look at this this dog was more loved than a lot of humans johnny come check out this one this is huge the head mafia guy of darnitza region before was called and this was his dog that he used to terrorize the locals who didn’t pay up on time they didn’t pay their roof krisha and this is nesh when nesh died in a shootout between the um darn it sir and try ishna gang well the owner built a statue this is nesh hello yes he’s a scary looking guy not as scary as this look at this cat right behind nesh yeah fierce cat no trains coming what do you think of graffiti are you a dynamo fan uh all right johnny let me know when you found the toilet there’s one right here oh really johnny’s found a toilet oh there’s always a bathroom ready when you’re in um do you need a number two on number one that’s it no one’s looking don’t worry no one just be quick a barbecue might see you [Laughter] she was looking we’re just casually passing by old army missiles and trucks is that a hummer [Music] and we’re coming up on harold’s favorite restaurant good old mcdonald’s around this corner somewhere we’ll start seeing some soviet stuff and hopefully a soviet mosaic or two [Music] right there the sun’s but maybe i don’t know what mosaic sounds like so this is the kind of place there would be a soviet mosaic out here in the nether regions of the city we are really in the middle of nowhere like i’ve never i have no idea where we are and i never came about myself are you enjoying it you know actually i am this is actually quite adventurous it’s good to see the real kid where they’re they’re real people speaking of kevians isn’t it jeff this the pretty sure half these guys [Music] what is exciting is what’s on the edge of the comments i’m going to show you now something you’re going to love i think your subscribers are going to like what we’re going to show [Applause] a soviet mosaic in the heart of garnitzer region check it out on the side of this chemical college what are we looking at what are we looking at well show the viewers the amazingness of the soviet mosaic you know what i have to admit it’s actually nicer in person i don’t know if it was this crazy journey that made it worth it but it’s actually quite impressive it’s impressive now just think this is the size of a science college here in darnitza region old soviet chemical science college and so you’ve got some people up there making formulations doing some sciency stuff what boffins do favorite people than me and johnny that’s it different colors it survived after all these years show them let them see it da guys i’m going to be honest whenever i watch bald these are these soviet mosaics like inside the road randomly in countries i’m always thinking like what’s the point why why does he do this but i will say that in person it is actually a lot more interesting part of his journey of getting there that’s always going to be fun but second the soviet architecture makes everything just make you feel small that was kind of the whole point of the soviet architecture is to show how powerful they were how you know big and strong so the fact is when you’re standing here under it and you look up and you see how tiny and middle school you are then actually it feels grand somebody must be famous must be a famous soviet scientist into the soviet underpass i think we are the daughter to complex today and we are back so after a long day of cycling over 50 it felt like it’s a long way it’s a long way did you enjoy your little trophy adventure i actually really enjoyed this really yeah this should be a this should be an airbnb adventure or whatever what was your highlight what was your favorite part i think we’re just running down that river it was beautiful all the people that we met that was nice some beautiful bubbles there was some beautiful rubber bands yeah yeah again sometime let’s do it so bikes are safe just knock them up [Music] 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    1. Wow. As a person who was born in Kiev and lived there till my 30-s I can say that I haven't seen that pet's cemetery. Amazing.
      And so much nostalgie… actually the chemistry research institute is just a few hundred meters from the house where I grown up (you actually passed it at one moment).

    2. Hahaha big Johnny suffering so hard on that shitty bike 🙂 seriously tho, Bald and you are such a joy to watch please keep doing what you do and keep travelling together I will watch it all!

    3. Guys are too obsessed with the Soviet Union. It seems that Ukraine and Ukrainians do not exist for them. It's not very pleasant. Ukraine exists not only thanks to the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, destroyed Ukrainian cultural, business, and scientific elite. Many were shot or killed in concentration camps. And before that there was a great famine of Ukrainians, when people ate each other to survive. The Soviet Union was an occupation of the country. And the Maidan Revolution did not lead to poverty of pensioners. It is not true. The crisis in Ukraine was caused by the occupation of part of the territory by Russia in 2014. Rusanivka is not only Soviet Union creative. This is just a part of the city that was built by Ukrainians in a certain historical period.

    4. When installed, in our country everybody used them as rug beating stand. Not so much biceps but hell of a lot of dust 😀 I can still remember the smell of a fresh beaten -then vinegar-brushed carpet in the apartment every Saturday. Specially in the winter, when you had to lay down your rug or carpet in the snow, beat it, brush it, put it on the stand and beat it again. Man, it takes me back. If you objected to your Mom, you ended up getting all the whooping instead of the carpet. #PreciousMoments

    5. I inspect playgrounds with safety standards in Greece. These equipments in playground wouldn't comfront with a single paragraph 😅

    6. Who names their dog “Adolf”….
      Ukrainians have so many Nazis, they tell you right to your face. Bald must have experienced it there also

    7. Ukraine looked like one of the most livable places in the world I've ever seen from what I've seen on videos … war is hell on earth

    8. Bald…you blamed the pensioner's situation on the Maidan revaluation. You are proving yourself to be a Putin bug in Ukraine's struggle for independence (the Maidan revaluation has nothing to do with that guys pension). I have followed you for years; but this statement proves that you have no sense of identity. You will fuck any country that will let you fuck them. Putin kicked you out of Russia; I feel like Ukraine should kick you out of Ukraine. You are a sellout; a "for hire" instagrammer. I uses to respect your videos as as someone that lived and worked in the former soviet union. Now I know that you, like many websites claim, are a worthless piece of shit that exploits wherever you go. You made money on the blood of Ukrainians.

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