No Guarantee...

I'd like to think otherwise, but no, wearing a beret is not necessarily a guarantee for intelligence.

Daniil Orain is a Russian YouTuber, posting videos of "everyday Russians" about (sensitive) subjects.

One of these subjects, the Holodomor, the starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932–33 as a result of deliberate Soviet policies, gets some interesting points of view in this video:

And Vasillly may be a good boinero, well-informed he is not. 

Thanks, Frans