Borsch Bandit

81st Anniversary Soviet Victory Over Fascism - Happy Victory Day 🫡

Comrades, I hope over the 3 years of content on various platforms I've communicated my enormous respect for the immense Soviet sacrifice laid down to give us a world free from the tyrannical rule of Nazi Germany.

I have uploaded a Youtube Short on this, and also would like to remind that last year I was in Kaliningrad to mark the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day, where I spent an enormous time producing a documentary to tell the story and lessons from the history of the Battle of Königsberg.

This documentary is still available on my channel, give it a watch if you haven't already!

PS: I leave in a couple weeks for Belarus 🇧🇾, where I will be for a month, uploading casual vlogs on a near-daily basis. I hope this will help to reinvigorate my channel with a fresh content style. I'll explain more very soon.

4 hours ago | [YT] | 13

Borsch Bandit

Happy International Workers Day! 🫡🚩

This is the day we remember that it is workers like YOU 🫵 who is to thank for keeping this world running.

This is the day we remember all of the men and women who have sacrificed everything to give us the working rights we have today, and continue the struggle for working class liberation all around the world.

I am also happy to unveil the new channel logo, which was illustrated by hand by a very talented artist. Their work is available on all platforms via linktr.ee/artsymarxist . I personally use a coffee mug of one of their works, and I highly recommend checking her out to see if anything interests you to support their work.

I'll be uploading a new video very soon to explain upcoming channel developments, keep an eye out! 🫡

1 week ago | [YT] | 29

Borsch Bandit

Happy International Women's Day to All of My Women Subscribers! 🫡🚩🌷

It's been a while since I have uploaded a Youtube Short,

So to mark today's holiday, I made a Youtube Short telling you the history of how communists and the Soviet Union created International Women's Day.

Make sure to contact all of the working class women in your life to make sure they feel valued and respected on this day. 🫡

2 months ago | [YT] | 27

Borsch Bandit

🫡🫡🫡 Thank you to everyone for such a great early performance on a video! 🫡🫡🫡

We just cleared the first 24 hours of this upload, and thanks to many of you, this is already one of the best performing videos when compared on the first 24 hours of analytics data.

I have really enjoyed reading your comments so far, and these comments really do help grow the channel which is very much appreciated.

Most importantly, I'm also happy to hear so many of you enjoyed the video, that's why I make these, so feedback is always welcome.

2 months ago | [YT] | 40

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Polish Video 🇵🇱 is officially scheduled to upload tomorrow after work! (5pm GMT)

I want to thank everyone who is still sticking with this channel, and supporting this content whether on here or on Instagram.

I know my upload frequency hasn't been the best, but I have some tricks up my sleeve to improve this drastically with the next video. Hopefully this will be one of my last "long haul" edits for that reason.

Best way to support this work is by leaving a comment and sharing with others, it really helps! Please like the video as well if you enjoyed it. All feedback appreciated.

I'm looking forward to revamping this channel for a very productive 2026,
all thanks to those of you still reading this posts!! 🫡

2 months ago | [YT] | 24

Borsch Bandit

Happy New Year!!

Thank you to all of you who supported this channel this year through its ups and downs.

Here is my rough outline of plans and goals for this channel this year.
Let me know what you think!

The theme this year will be to ditch my perfectionism and streamline editing speed. Its still challenging as I work a full time job on top of this content creation.

2026 -

January - Release Poland Vlog

March - Release Czechoslovakia Vlog

May - Extensive trip throughout Belarus - Maybe 2 or more Long form Vlogs

July - Week in Moscow - Long form vlog

October - Long form vlog in Pridnestrovie

4 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 21

Borsch Bandit

Merry Christmas to all of my Subscribers, who celebrate it on the 25th of December!
☦️🎄🎁🎅✝️

Of course many of you also celebrate Christmas in January marked on the Orthodox calendar. I will wish those of you Merry Christmas again very soon!


Its been a great year, although I'll admit I didn't get as much out on Youtube this year as I wanted, but like an Iceberg, a lot of skills and development in making better content have happened behind the scenes.

We learn from our mistakes and grow for a better future.

When this year started, I didn't even have 1,000 Subscribers, and now we have a monetised Youtube Channel and I am so grateful for all 3,500+ of you.

We also have grown a very popular and very active Instagram account to 17,000 Followers! If you haven't followed me on there, make sure to do so!

A lot of activity over there.

The Communist Remnants in Poland video is almost done and is coming out very soon before the end of the year!

Big plans for the channel in 2026, and its all thanks to you, so thank you again and have a Merry Christmas!!


-Borsch Bandit

4 months ago | [YT] | 19

Borsch Bandit

🚨 Next Video Sneak Peak - Polish People's Republic 🇵🇱

We are back in action with content no one else is making.

We went to Gdańsk, Poland, a city rebuilt by the Communist Polish government from the ashes of a nearly completely destroyed and formerly German city of Danzig, to become the home of the Lenin Shipyard, which would ironically become a flashpoint for the Solidarity movement that would destroy communism in Poland.

Not much is left from Communist Poland, after the government's extensive effort to "De-Communise" the country, or is it? I think you'll be surprised..

That's what we will be exploring in this next video.

Editing is in progress, I am in talks with licensing rare footage from this time from the rights holder.

In the meantime, my Instagram has exploded to 14,000 Followers where we are building a vibrant community, if you haven't followed me on there yet, @borsch.bandit. I cross post all of the reels to Youtube Shorts for those of you not on IG.

Youtube is still the main project though, we are back on the road in 2026 with a packed travel schedule, and this will be the era of an even better season of content, we'll talk about that soon!

Thank you once again for your continued feedback and support! 🫡

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6 months ago | [YT] | 17

Borsch Bandit

🫨 Why Do I Believe Youtube Autodubbing Hurt My Channel? 🫨

You might’ve noticed my recent documentary hasn’t even hit 1,000 views—despite great feedback, strong watch time, and even some generous Super Chats.

So what happened?

In May, YouTube quietly launched an autodubbing feature, automatically translating videos into other languages. When I uploaded my documentary in September, it was affected. Sounds great in theory—but it completely tanked my Clickthrough Rate (CTR).

How? It broke the recommendation system. YouTube started pushing my Soviet and WW2 history video to totally unrelated audiences—people watching random films like BINDU - FULL MOVIE—instead of relevant viewers. CTR dropped to 1%, killing the video’s momentum.

After disabling autodubbing and improving the thumbnail, CTR rose to 2.1%, but impressions have stalled. It’ll take time for this one to recover, just like my East Berlin and House of Soviets videos eventually did.

I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who watched, liked, commented, and donated. Your support means everything. This isn’t a loss—it’s just a setback. I’ll keep creating, learning, and moving forward.

The next video’s already in the works, and my 2026 travel schedule is packed. We’re not going anywhere!

6 months ago | [YT] | 9

Borsch Bandit

👏 Its the Weekend! Watch the New Documentary If You Haven't Already!

https://youtu.be/wl4tj1AGCUY

I poured my heart and soul into making this, for a very important lesson.

Watch, like, comment and share to help our channel grow!

"Why This German City Doesn't Exist Anymore"

8 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 24