Season 7
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A daring traveler uncovers hidden stories in forgotten lands, challenging his fears while forging unexpected connections across cultures.
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I have always admired the Russian gopnik lifestyle, the beer, the fashion, the freedom and so when my Slavic friend Alina arrived in Minsk I asked her to teach me the ways of the gopnik.
Two months ago on a cold morning I headed into the radioactive Chernobyl forests north of the Belarusian town of Vetka. Now I was back to re-trace the people who had invited me into their home and generously shared their food with me.
Whilst driving the back roads of the Belarus radiation zone an old man flagged me down and before I could say anything he had climbed into the car and started barking instructions.
If you want to be accepted as a man in the Slavic world you have to know how to cook a good shashlik and make a vodka toast.
With only a day left until my time was up in Belarus, I had one final mission to complete. To head back into the radiation zone and find an old friend of ours.
Bald and Bankrupt is an English travel vlog operated by Benjamin Rich, also known as Mr. Bald. The defining characteristic of Rich's travels is his interest in the post-Soviet states. However, he travels worldwide.