Small channel telling stories from living in the USSR. His lived experience isn't negative enough for me to worry about him being a chud. He seems positive, although critical of the USSR. I haven't watched enough to know if his whole channel. is great There are just so many specific details he provides in his videos that feels like it would be really hard to fake.
I think it was specifically communism101 he was banned from, now that you mention it.
Yeah, like I said, not a defense or attack on this youtuber, he COULD be a shithead and I just don't know. But Communism101 has an overly utopic view of the USSR, where materialism takes a backseat to rhetoric. The USSR and China have both had massive missteps in the past century and it's undebatable, and many of them are worth discussing. The Four Pest campaign was objectively bad, but reasonable with context of the knowledge those people had. If it makes an AES sound bad, they won't allow it. The comment threads about the Four Pest Campaign are empty and only filled with actual communist propaganda. That's how I feel about this channel so far. He's not necessarily a communist, especially because he grew up in Ukraine later in the USSR's history. He has a perspective that's going to make him more negative, but it doesn't seem like he's trying to inject any ideology in his accounts.
It's crazy too because one of the best ways to bring libish people into the fold is to make actual valid critiques of AES & the USSR. It lets people see you're not a utopian shill who thinks that everything was just singing kumbaya in Soviet life. People won't dismiss the "quadrillion" dead bullshit until they have a satisfactory answer to "ok so what were/are the social problems within <INSERT_AES_COUNTRY>?”