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ground. how can you explain love. i've been to 82 countries i did in 12 that i came here and on those 3 days i just felt at home. i love cold weather i like the culture like the history i like everything about it. and i know there. are people listening to this again it's a bit of a paradoxical already i'm a big cuckoo and i'm thinking like russian but the place gets you. i made my decision to come here because i felt i could build
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a new life here. i am a russian far. more deals a minute through signals that small team doesn't get hoarded unionised. here . not all of. them in emotion poured it. on the door to your. great britain july 17th 949 the sun is born to a young. polish immigrant and his english wife frieda marjorie chumley even though
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the family was already multinational the parents can. never before seen that one day a child would become a russian. i'm russian i'm an immigrant to this country but i'm russian and it's my home and no one can something bad about it they should firstly look at themselves. john lives here in the village of. a region that's not his house it's not hotel john built for tourists he decided to take up residence in an old county. today i'm living here in russian it's called the perry hall the coded door between to cut off next to cut sheds in this room a natural fact is where the milking operating. equipment was this is where we started. farming life more now than 26 years ago if you look at the roof it's the roof of a normal corona nic that this is a home. to sell steel and he's lived and worked in 12 countries rich handsome and
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successful seeking to russia for the 1st time in december 1991 on a 3 day business trip those were tough times the sivia union had dissolved and the long queues outside the grocery store all in all he wasn't expecting a lot of good to come out of that trip. i came here expecting will save us to have a neck that came from the areas to their shoulders and being drunk it was that kind of image it was interesting and people after paris troika everybody was very hospitable because it was a new life capitalism hadn't arrived so people had more free time went to a couple of bars went back and resigned it said i want to go to russia i jumped at this opportunity i jumped to do it so quickly up because i was frightened of losing it i was 42 at the time i just felt at home. today john kept his he owns one of the biggest farms in russia that has more than 4000 cows and produces one and a half tons of milk
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a day. but all of a degeneration and you still need a way to get all that you did he need to buy it there was to. give him enough money to be thief is not see through. the book but to mostly just get over me put into a bolshevist it's the. same in the spirit of unity. but the most we got both young funky it begin to think that yes the way to get over what you have not. the war your oid. sic show. and he kept pretty is need for some legal up and die in comfort or die in court or die him her or she
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spawn him yes yes the i need nobody me. i just said i'm not. your. god here but. it took john a while to become a. when he 1st lived in russia he sold steel and coal and even part of the coal mine for that free and rich british man life was relaxed and easy until one day he decided to give it all up and buy one abandoned collective farm and then another in fact john might never have become a farmer if it wasn't for. a free man but i think god decided that this man is no good to be free so within 3
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months i was in a bar on to a scar free man i was looking across and there was a blonde lady and i think i was going to buy her a drink i took one step back in the one new channel of the building on the 4th. at north. and i said oh i'm very sorry do you speak english i'm here and so was of course i said oh i'm sorry can i buy you a drink in because of course there's the only 2 words she knows. i don't know about the at the ocean with that of a quid you know it's just not go out at the. theatre once. so will go by which. there is a way because the do that and. talk the talk now with ramos well pro-style it would all go gaga yes brasil yes which is you need to someone not of.
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your daughter mrs about 3. we got to know each other very quickly there are lots of questions but my questions are mainly what did you do when you were young whatever because i had this image you know here i am an international business go through i heard about these new russians. in the group known as will and you go out as the c.e.o. but also using should i use not that i'm through being young. and we're going to go in because i didn't go you know what the russians ancient angelis kenya was you would be. the flagship but i wouldn't back to nina's flat one day and so i opened a photograph album and there i found photographs of a normal person 13 going to the north with dogs going down to the kafka skiing and having parties with their friends i virtually cried out of shame because
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this horrible image newnham will go out it is the young go by all those but he had to think what else there were in the upstairs and you can go idea yeah i'll go i don't know i guess you know go where it will be a good one i think. matter why and it's just this what it's sometimes to be true. as you might if. you do most all of this up in each other. you know mine. by by. second or yes. when you see. meter of no voter ought to. be it will mean you're lovable just coffees the small drink feel many times oh yes i. think it was.
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the new. year yet it was the other i've. got no condition is. just not as good as all that it's just so. good to see. dead. why do you. do. about the new porch of the 5 new. work i've jumped. up on though i just alarm of the. moment i just looked up and i was gone yes a good thing i set you free will but the. option to do. is go to the border and you go with us but still with. us and we say yes and you know stuff that you are incredible here with
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them is that. but it's some little got some momo should fly i'm going to go out in . the arctic a shit if i wish someone else likes and i'm going to stop by here. and we're going there what i have to go on with success goes i know. all of the children help out on the farm but the daughters go to school so they only help during the weekends and holidays the sons on the other hand all rule is working. there's not enough. bread in these old is not you know the oldest son step on works on the farm too but he hasn't always spent a long time in exile in his father's homeland. so are you. well . i gave my son amount of money took him to a country town called and said you don't live here i took his russian postpones
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well the pandemic no certainly no blood is just blind to nationalities. as americans we don't have a charity we don't have the facts in the whole world peace to take the. people. judging. come in a crisis like this this time to time so we can do better we should. everyone is contributing each of our own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenge is critical to response has been so many good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we are in it together.
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englishman wanting a russian passport in 1907 of course it was everybody was wanting to leave and this he did came along and wanted to live here when i was interviewed by the federal the prince a k.g.b. in those days they came to me and said well why do you want to live in russia i said fine but i'm fine that entre fraid of the maffia i said i've got the best creation this it could who was in ghost but borg. for quite some time now john has spoken of russia with terms like our people and my country he really visits the u.k. he gets pulled then too quickly and relations with his british family have become complicated too i've got brothers and sisters in the u.k. and i think it annoyed them or when i spoke to them some years ago that i said well our children meet at the border if there's a conflict comes to the border maybe my sister's son there and maybe my daughter's on the other side of it they don't understand that as an englishman. i have no
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loyalty is there i have lots of anger and disappointment i like it here i mean it is difficult for people to understand they have democracy and freedom but what freedom is doing today is close to a freedom is a right to say what you want but not to destroy anything. why the way they deface winston churchill a book no idea i think it's stupid i think it's baseless emotions history is history a maybe these memorials a tremendous what not to do i mean ok we know there was slavery if there wasn't any slavery they wouldn't be in america it's a bit hypocritical to me what was what was you can't change it history is a lesson but you must understand it you must study any person that wants to be cultural must understand history not just of their country of the world as
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a whole. it enough closely with local. interest nice years in the source of perugia but the most or you know elite 3 teaching to me is the bill of you to go in bold dome what i see it but don't call it in style the normal should be the mr stylin yeah thank you but it doesn't it. but i'm going with that what you know about cloud atlas store but sure when you get away i will what you got on that with your winning in your in the lead there is 91 or 2 this occupy 3 or you're number one if you will because of pluck a lot of what i see you. when you started nya nya. own university you have an a on a variance but you want to clean your what you need. the red zone is actually did
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it's a business for coke or with. serious . companies and it is nice not just because the sharks. other passion is cheese making and he'd only ever make cheese with milk from his own farm it too liberal. started making cheese 6 years ago when europe and the u.s. imposed sanctions on russia in response russia banned certain imports which was good news for john. i think the embargo for us was very good i think it firstly allowed the people to gain back their pride to be russian before we were
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kind of losing it and today i think in my opinion we have the embargo against them they don't sanctions against us because they lost much more. john makes a variety of jesus is about to show you some of them interestingly enough to himself john is that. they do is your local. it was a peach what. should the. italians b.c. of the job done. she needs you want her or she puts you in rest stroke bogusky various dross or for you to post a sea of. it to see a nose of it's a type but then wished on you know you have an excuse i mean it of course study soviets it experiment know it and if it was just even the cause the promise. to get you go eat there is going to get off. at work john is only ever
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referred to as johnny young which would be the route to find his english name a long time ago i don't like mr john i don't like uncle jump my real middle name is maxwell where it came from i have no idea you know in the west in the u.k. you name your son's middle name after a football team it has no meaning and also to me this is important about here it's the respect of your parents i think it's very this continuation where did you come from here the middle name you take of your father so i'm john young which means i am the son of young and i'm very proud of it. as well this is the numbers not stored on a small t.v. provision you want to stop when you meet him you also because he just really knew who the most treasured possession of the he appointed there were. a lot of little snippets to anyone because i knew i had to reply to him you would guess you'll need the role of. johnny and if it is
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a tough manager who even conducts random checks at night control in the bush. on newsnight does he not you don't see in your city so many of. us go deep i need to make sure the biggest no vehicle we disappeared. the poor. who got the go to be bald wanted to be a. good how to be dug out here the pie but it's his sons who tend to be on the receiving end their dad isn't an easy boss but apparently it's better than sitting in england. yes. it's just not your. business. just please. me. no seriously just. go and. vote vote vote vote.
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a riding school along with an equine assisted therapy facility these are the sources of income. mr. traditional russian choices and driving one is a really tall skill these days it's very complicated and not at all paul. but the computer skis on resurrecting this old tradition. pretty casual to the fools. but i didn't it's not the way could jim rolls royce it's not if you put it to nashville but yes he's after saudi arabi be a sniff to visit us see a b. is near ft me is the. heights you can see. that nash.
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when i asked nina to marry me she said i'll think about it i need to talk to my priest. friend yes but i know. the other were obsessed with. the end zone but you know one of the last. i'll fly be a pretty natural so at the well with so i said i believe in god i don't have a problem i'm still looking for god so i'll be christians and he went to the church of divine voice on the strip given a why shouldn't baptized. 15 years ago we started building this judge. in the name of the lady is found christ and we joke about that because in russian is made on all sets and when i heard this i thought it was john b.
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a lost his son was it what the hell is john miller and also what does this mean but the natural fact is the ladies of my. i've always believed in god but the catholic church honesty frightened me. and in russian we have this what struck most of the fear of god and when i was a catholic i she feared going to church oh shit every time i was going to church the side done something wrong to be struck down by lightning. and i like the russian confession here i like like many things in russia the lack of hypocrisy. i don't think i should justify why i believe i believe that even if you know to believe of the. bad laws by which everybody should live particularly today.
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i love my home here and i think that anybody that wants to come here. will be welcome to honestly it is not propaganda or not paid for this fortunately or unfortunately it's a great country that has huge horizons i like huge horizons and wherever there's a huge arise and there's always potential. i was a robot when i came here i was a typical. international businessman troubling 9 months a year sleeping 4 hours a night so this is created a much nicer man i think. i'm happy of course i'm happy but it was a photo of become 70 years old i never thought i'd see my youngest daughter reach 50 so russia's give me a long life as well. i've got everything i want but my one dream is that all my children find the same kind of happiness i do.
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a short. and american air play on hiroshima. not claim any even some political grandstanding on. our own image you don't know that chin it's. i like most americans growing up after the war the bombs were a great thing they ended the war they say hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and that's what my grandfather always said was. his reason for the decision. truman was hoping for a dual strategy one was to drop the bombs and hope that japan would surrender and number 2 the americans were trying to send a message to the soviet union there was an american war plenty in october 145 in chosen 20 targets in russia.
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