China's New Trend: The Rise of Fake Russian Goods Shops!

China Fakes Everything Russian Store Edition. Fake Russian stores in China are popping up everywhere in recent months and it's something that has even caught the attention of regular folks who think this is strange. Well, it turns out, another one of those fake and scams in China. These videos show actual Russians visiting these stores only to find that most of the items they've never even heard of or seen in Russia before. This is a name of a person. His name is Maxim. He's a friend of mine. I still have the authentic one. This is the one I got when I was a kid. It's 29 yuan. In China, it's about 4 yuan. Hello, Poles! I'm Sasha from Russia. I don't know this one. I've never seen it before. Yeah, I've only seen the chocolate one in Russia. This is Chinese. Tiramisu. This is delicious. I like it. It's Chinese. I don't know about the others. But in this store, you're the most authentic Russian product. Yeah. You're the most authentic Russian product. This is from another country. Another country? Yeah. It's not Russian? No, it's Armenian. It's from another country. It's Russian? Yeah. Oh, we can understand Russian. Yeah, we can. In this store, Sasha is the most Russian product. In a typical CCP scam fashion, these are actually made-in-China products labeled and branded as made-in-Russia. Just because you have white and blue and a polar bear on the storefront doesn't mean that these things are really from Russia. And unfortunately, this has become what people in China are calling an IQ test. Because are you blindly following this propaganda to love Russia? Or are you rational enough to still consider flipping the product around to see where it's being made? While the stores are selling some items from Russia, most of them are made in China. Hello. Well, unfortunately, they're not. China literally fakes everything. What they're essentially doing is making it seem like the product is made in Russia, plus a 10 times the original price of the same items that you would actually find in Russia. Or in this case, they literally put potato chips written in Russian on the label and calling that a product. Like, we have the technology today to be able to just hold up the phone's camera to the product and it will translate it to you. Or we have Napoleon chocolate. Yeah, I'm sure this Russian leader loved his dark chocolate when he was losing the battle of Waterloo, right? By the way, Napoleon's French, not Russian. Or you've got candy that's made in Ukraine but are being sold in a Russian store. Is that irony or is that just plain dumbness? It's extra embarrassing because these are real Russians going into the stores and finding out that most of the products are not from Russia. This is one of my favorite ones. On January 3rd, a Russian woman in Shanghai was shopping in one of these stores, pointed out that many of the goods in the stores were not from Russia, and she was kicked out by the clerk. The woman then asked why do Chinese people need to deceive each other? Well, Russian woman, let me tell you, this is just a typical thing that happens here. Also posted on the same day, another Russian woman went to another store in Guangxi province this time, and the store suddenly lost power when she was halfway through her shopping, and the person said, well, it's because you're here. So basically they just google translated whatever they thought was the case of a Chinese word into Russian and slapped that onto a label and called it a product. It honestly reminds me of one of those North Korean documentaries where you go into the store that they're selling like American goods or whatever goods that they have and you're the only customer there. Like it's such a Potemkin Village type of vibe. Just because they've slapped on a Russian doll on the label or, you know, they got Russian writing, it literally takes you five seconds to just google translate. Well, I guess they don't have Google, but they have, you know, Chinese search engines, you can do that now, and to just check the manufacturing location. Hence why it's being called an IQ test. Take beef tendon sausage, for example. A Russian man made a video saying that Russians don't eat beef tendon sausage. Now, the main reason why these stores are popping up is it's literally people taking the opportunity to make some fast cash from another sort of trendy hype that they're pushing, which is since 2022, the invasion of Ukraine, China has ramped up its propaganda that they are the brothers in arm with Russia and, you know, the Xi and Putin, this friendship with no limit is what's triggering this big hype, right? Because currently, if you love China, then you also have to love Russia. And that's why people started to make these stores because, you know, you want to support your brother, right? Your comrade. When the war first started, the official shop of the Russian National Ministry, all of its items were sold out so quickly because people thought that was the way to buy up their products to support the war effort. And it was also during a period where we saw a lot of Russian pretending to be Russians online influencers like this guy here. He lives in Henan and he pretended to be a Chechen Russian man who also speaks Chinese. And eventually people found out he was faking this. He was actually not Chechen. He was Chinese. There was also the Russian girl, Nana, who pretended also to be a Russian girl, but in actuality was a Chinese woman as well. To offset the global sanction on Russia, China did purchase a lot of Russian goods and in turn tried to use their own currency to trade with Russia. So basically offset some of that sanction effort from the United States and others. But now what's been happening is it's evolved into sort of the societal behavior, which when it comes to China, everything can be a scam. You can have fake Russian goods. You can have fake everything else. Combined with the increasing focus on supporting Russia through its propaganda with a nationalistic prospect as well. Well, you have a perfect formula for some people to make some quick cash. And that's pretty much it. Alright, that's it today for the short episode on why there's fake Russian stores in China. If you enjoyed the content, leave a like, comment below your thoughts, and subscribe to our channel. Until next time, bye-bye.