@@mignas I would say there were no big differences, but some that were quite significant to the various countries' experiences - for instance yugo was vastly more free of Russian domination
@RolandasVegele-ri3fz The president of Hungary, Katalin Novák, supports Ukraine. She even met with Zelensky twice in Ukraine and she paid respect to the victims of the Bucha massacre.
Russia has made it crystal clear, that having a part of your population that speaks only Russian, is a very dangerous thing. I have full understanding of the Lithuanians and their harsh language rules. It's self preservation.
It should be the same in EVERY country. Supposedly, you leave your country for a better life...then assimilate rather than bring your old ways and language behind or go back !!!
The rules are not harsh yet at all. The Russians have everything in Russian here. But they should be made as “harsh” as in all other countries, not Russified by Moscow as soon as possible. Otherwise, Russia will come to kill us, claiming we are not good enough and not different enough to NOT BE renade into Russia proper.
I spent a few months in Lithuania, great place, and began to learn why the people were so disgusted with the Russians. Can't say I blame them a bit. Lithuanian is a tough language!
@@andy99ish check history,russians banned Lithuanian language,all names shops,streets was in russian,books,newspapers in Lithuanian language was under law..who bigger nationalists???
@@souldoc123 I can remember that in the Lithuanian SSR public writing was first in Lithuanian, then in Russian. The Soviet Union was awful but not nationalistic. The Russian Empire was also not markedly nationalistic. And if there were periods of nationalism - decide if you want to copy the worst moments of Russia OR be European.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw That is the silent, creeping occupation of Sweden... Over 1/5 of the Swedish population isn't from Sweden and almost all of these gangs and clans are from foreign origin.
Very necessary to watch for proper understanding Of why RF 🇷🇺 is doing now . Corruption abuse Bullying Harassment A few words That come to mind when I hear Russia or USSR 🇷🇺👎
For your information Lithuania WAS already a highly industrialised country even during the Soviet Union. Making radios, cars, furniture, etc. Do they still produce these goods ? Another thing, why has Lithuania been white washed of the most horrible collaboration with the nazi's in 1941-1944 in killing other Lithuanians, Russians, and especially the jewish population of Lithuania ? Why they never mention to naive westerners what the Lithuanians and Ukrainians did to the jews ?
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw I suppose your Polish grandfather was not living in Poland? Because Poles are even more hostile towards russia. How can you be friendly towards someone who tried to exterminate you.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Idk, after 300 years of occupation, you kind of become resentful, especially of foreign government policies. And what camp? in 1941 we were under Nazi occupation, right after being occupied by the soviets for 1.5 years. So you either joined the Nazi's, remained communist (which caused mass deportations of Lithuanians) or anywhere in between the very difficult period and political occupation. There are countless historical text's describing the attitude in the Baltics in that exact period. Yes, some did indeed join the Nazi's. But when you have to choose between one evil and the other, there is no right choice
Dniester is a river. Region had settlers from muscovy due to the centuries of Ottoman attempt to conquer northwards. Learn to spell words remotely resembling their sounds.
Whatever. I hate to speak for Africa. Perhaps an African would like to tell us how marvellous it was under British. French, Belgian, Portuguese and German rule. The way their resources were stolen and plundered and countries impoverished and indebted. Apart from that it was great.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw I was a young adult (in Scotland) as the British empire in Africa was dismantled. I think it one of the best things I lived through. Later the Soviet empire got dismantled too - even better. The remaining difference is: the UK is not attempting to regain control over Africa: Russia (the USSR was always really mainly Russia) is attempting to again control over its former empire.
@carelgoodheir The Soviets never had an empire in Africa, apart from indulging in intermittent political sh*t stirring which many countries do. Almost all their ex central European satellites now belong to NATO. The ex Soviet central Asian republics are a bit on the fence. They are not formally allies of the Russian Federation and haven't sent troops to Ukraine. Neither has Belarus and Lukashenko is Putin's closest ally. Even Lukashenko now has come out and said a peace Treaty should be signed to end the war. Of course it may be Putin using him as a mouthpiece but the fact remains nobody is Dalling over themselves to join old Vladimir's adventures in toytown imperialism. He even calls the Chinese who make excuses. Like a hoped for date who can't go out because "she's washing her hair". I've heard that African countries go to Russia because they can buy cheap subsidised military hardware, ships, planes etc. Good luck to them. They will find in the coming years that the ships, boats and tanks are cheap for a reason. They're $h*t. The wheels are coming off the Russian economy. Most of their tanks are now scrap metal. They are begging North Korea for weaponry !!!! North Korea. !! And they are emptying army stores and MUSEUMS for T62 and WW2 T34s probably to shore 🙄 😄 😅 😑 🤣 their tank divisions. Putin is a great threat. Mainly to Russia. If Russia tries to invade Finland ( a direct border) they may be VERY dangerous. The Finnish army will be 😃 😀 😄 laughing so hard, they might do themselves a serious injury.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw because you were colonized you should be more sensitive to other countries faced similar fate and be sorry for it. Instead you cheer for Russia. Pure ignorance or egoism. ....
I live near Tuskulėnai park and the memorial Chapel. I visited it at least two times when it is open for visitors during the Day of the Dead to pay tribute to the victims whose bones are laying there. Each time when I pass it on my way to the office at my job and back I say a short prayer in my mind. And will do it for my life time.
Ukraine historically fought against muscovite empire, includin its soviet form 1917-22, never surrendering. This is why stalin targeted Ukrainian s, killed their folk musicians in late 1920s - folk music is largely protest music. It is why holodomor starvation of Ukrainians, why late 1930s violent suppression, why Ukrainians fought against soviet russians in 1940s, serking, like Finns, any allies. It is why Ukrainians fought for freedom following that war into 1950s. It is why they are so different than russians, and immdfiately chose severance from soviet federation in 1991. The democratic ideals that congealed across all generations in Maidan Square protests, define the difference in empathy, care for others, that has always existed in Ukrainians. While this video spotlights Lithuania, part of the mentioned commonwealth that fought against muscovy, Ukraine, with its language more like Polish than russian, sided with them, hundreds of years past.
I run a hotel in a skiing resort in Austria in the heart of europe and since many years I have guests from estonia and the other baltic states and for me they are europeans as all others ...as germans, italians or we austrians.... they are very cultivated civilised people which I like talking to ... We always have nice chats about this or that topic and they explained me a lot of russia I didn't know....
Every place on earth is west of somewhere else. We need to get beyond this. Why does Russia with its many time zones feel the need to have more territory on this earth, and what is it doing with what it has, and why does little Jiminy Cricket Putin speak for millions of people?
Because they let him. He certainly should be able to focus on all the resources he has there, in the largest country on earth! If he would focus on developing his own countries resources and infrastructure, more equally educating all of their people in central and eastern Russian as well as Western, think how much more well off future generations of Russians would be! But that’s not what he’s interested in. He just wants more resources, riches and glory for himself right now.
They need more fresh land because they already made a shithole out of what they already have. But when they get more land, the shithole only makes bigger.
russia wants to expand despite having a ton of land because most of their territory is sparse, remote, unusable and cold. The large majority of russian population live in the west of russia closer to europe where its warmer and better farming than they do the east of russia
They could just trade what they do have for food. It isn't like the other countries are going to give it up without a fight maybe rendering a good deal of it unusable.@@williamgill5286
Well done, Baltic States, congratulations. It is nice to see that you have cleansed your countries of the Soviet legacy. The new federal states in Germany can take a leaf out of your book. In East Germany, you so often stumble across the legacy of the Soviet Union and the GDR. Formally, the GDR was not a member of the Soviet Union, but it can be said that the GDR was an unofficial member of the Soviet Union, as nothing worked in the GDR without the Soviets. The GDR government was always dependent on Moscow. One should also not forget that the Soviet Union stationed the entire western group of its armed forces in the GDR.
@@SalyLuz-hc6he I am aware of that. Putin was not at all popular with his KGB colleagues, behind his back they called him a poison dwarf. Poison dwarf is a German expression for a malicious, spiteful person, especially someone who tries to compensate for his or hers physical smallness with malice and spitefulness.
How much more suffering is EU and NATO going to let Russia get away with. It should have been stopped when NATO was created! Thank you all people who are speaking and showing what happened, the suffering and the will of the Lithuanian people being free.
@lunkis WHAT should have been stopped when NATO was created, exactly ? Your post makes no sense whatever. You are aware that NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance I take it ?
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw NATO was formed too stop Russia and other dictators from doing what Hitler did and what Putler is doing now in Ukraine?! So why haven't they given all the weapons and ammunition Ukraine needed from the start to defend themself. It should have happened in 2014 when the terrorists invaded Crimea.
The Moscow people offered Kaliningrad plus territory to the Lithuanian Soviet Republic because it was part of the USSR at the time obviously. After the USSR collapse the land would continue as part of modern Lithuania.
In a perfect world people would study and understand history, including chapters like that of Lithuania. Unfortunately so many people are culturally and historically illiterate and understand history only to the extent that it reinforces their own agenda. I don't think the people of Russia in whatever form, be it czarist, Soviet, or the current neoczarist format, are bad people. I think they have a wonderful culture and interesting history. Part of that history though, is a series of really bad governments that they feel compelled to impose on others. The same can be said of many nations throughout history. That does not make it right, it just means we need to do a better job of teaching.
@@Andris-ml4oo Sure, they tolerated them. Except in 1825 (Decemberist Revolt), 1866 (The Uprising of Polish Exiles in Siberia), the Revolution of 1905, and of course the ever-popular Revolution of 1917, which was the transition from the czarist period to the Soviet period. That's a partial list.
@@Seventeen_Syllables The repeated tragedy in Russia is that better regimes didn't come from these uprisings. Kerensky's was better, but it was swept away almost at once. There was a more democratic moment after the fall of the USSR, but very bad economic decisions led to hunger and a renewed taste for authoritarian rule.
@carelgoodheir Poverty, a collapse in living standards leading to despair, grasping western corporations hoping to pick up ex Soviet mineral wealth for pennies, plus greed and corruption. Then Putin emerged as a "strong man" who would give Russia back its pride and strength. The populist playbook. It works well with ignorant sad desperate poor people. It has worked for 🍊 orange Donny himself. Putin promised to Make Russia Great Again. He's slightly overreached himself in Ukraine, but that's a risk dictators take
TZUM - the universal Russian MIR project of magazine (store) that is prevalent as a copy of western counterpart as London Harrods or NY Virgin. But worse.
What about memorials that were dedicated to the murdered Jews in Lithuanian. Are the memorials still standing? My grandfather came from Birzai… not all of his family made it out. They were murdeered in the nearby woods and buried in a ditch…
Not only all the mass muder places bare signs towards the memorials (you can find them in every city and almost every tiniest village, they are all marked from the main roads). With every year there are more and more memorials built - soemtimes the whole Shtetls (e.g. Šeduva). Most of the Synanoge or Jashiva places, that were strangely destroyed by soviets, are marked and known, there are constatnly conferences and reasearches; a couple of years ago the whole cultural year in Lithuania was destined to the Jewish heritage; most of the cities and towns that had an important Jewish community organise memorial walks/marches to the massacre places to commemorate the victimes annually; if you come to Vilnius, you will find quite a couple of beigel places or Jewish coffee shops and the big Jewish museum is on its way to be built). There is a huge memory work being done towards the Holocaust history and the heritage of Jewish community.
Yeah they are there, i regularly make road trips around Lithuania for work.. and sadly the roads are littered with Jewish mass murder memorials..Of course cant forget the context of that the front between these 2 crazed countries(ruzzia and nazi germany) during world war 2 has moved back and forth through these lands a couple of times..
Exactly agree with you. Lithuania is trying to "change" but without apologising for the horrific crimes that they themselves commited against the Jewish population.
@@a.p.3004 Without apologizing? Whos suppose to apologize? Also what do you know of the politics of the period in Lithuania between 1939-1943. It was a period of constant occupation, our government got replaced multiple times, we were occupied by the Soviets, than Nazi's than soviets again. People had an EXTREMELY complex choice in political and geopolitical decisions. Yet you simplify it to black and white. Lets put it simply: You get invaded, teachers, educators and government officials get deported together with their families. Anyone disagreeing with the government gets tortured or killed and all protests are burned to the ground. Men are forced to fight (my own great grandfather died fighting the Nazi's). All religious objects and any other gathering places are destroyed or heavily monitored Than you get occupied again, but this time, the torturing and killing of nationals is way less, regardless, cooperation pays well, but you are still treated as 2nd class citizens. Propaganda is immense and tactical, as well as the government gets immediately replaced. Some people choose to collaborate, while others literally register to the Nazi army to gain access to weapons and desert it within weeks. Knowing full well that by 1942, most people knew that the Soviets are on their way back and that Nazi's are sending anyone and everyone to concentration camps. Then, in 1943, you get occupied by the Soviets again. Deportations come back and increase. All Nazi collaborators are hanged or shot, or retreated with the rest of the Nazi's. The government get replaced AGAIN. This time with a tighter and more brutal grip. Despite all of this, we teach about the holocaust. We shame the Nazi collaborators. We make memorials for all the Nazi killings. We mark all the places of genocide. After 50 years of occupation we are finally sovereign and reinstate museums and make documents public about any collaboration and genocides caused. What do you want us to do? We apologized with blood and tiers. The population that collaborated with the Nazi's were ALL punished. Yet you SIMPLIFY an EXTREMELY difficult geopolitical region, you generalize the actions of a few people to the whole country. Even historical and political experts are still arguing to this day about the genocide in the Baltics and Lithuania. Yet you seem to know everything and make your judgment in one sentence. Before you dare to reply, at the very least watch this presentation that barely scratches the surface: "ruclips.net/video/ygsnG3Ygoxw/видео.html" Now, did Lithuanian's aid the genocide? Yes. But did we apologize? Oh you have no idea
funny as fsb try to do input even in this video with some russian language, try to sneak in that image that Lithuanians are actually russian speaking... Well good job fsb you doing great. Also forgot to mention that russia-moscow never took responsability for gulags exhales kgb tortures and finacial cultural damage, and refused to pay for repairs claiming it was CCCP and CCCP no more exists, while taking part in G8 to replace spot of CCCP ?
That would not be prudent. Bulgaria and Serbia also use the Cyrillic alphabet, the former is in NATO. What matters is the school curriculum, so that Ukrainian youth would know that Ukraine was a republic before Russia ever existed. And Russians have an inferiority complex about Lithuanians and Poles, because they had universities before Russia ever did.
Ukrainian alphabet is not the Same as the Ruscist alphabet there’s no need to change it. Also Ukraine is not a Latin country they are a Slavic country also.
Cyrillic alphabet is much older than muscovy. It was a ptoduct of two Greek monks who attempted to make symbols representing unique slavic language sounds. Cease your narcissism.
banned, if I'm not mistaken, but the russian radio station is broadcasting from kaliningrad, the radio signal is very easy to catch. That's why people can listen. Also with russian TV it is banned but people with satellite antennas can freely watch russian tv channels.
putin must stop and let everyone live in their own country in peace. putin in his head is crazy living in some kind of middle age time or he feels like a viking ? Grow up
If you want to stay in the country you have to learn the national language ---- except for Austria there it is just "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!" --- so you are better off if you came right from the North of Germany ---- so immigrating to Austria probably feels like parachuting or splashing down in a secret language war --- off course you still can insist that the locals are just dumb and uneducated --- acutally we probably have the highest rate of people who never read a book in their own language because Austria is a German national country --- which means that "Beil", "wach", "nein", "es", "eng", "wahr", "wir", "mir" etc. mean something totally different than what a dictionary or Google try to tell you
LITHUANIA is cleared of the SOVIET legacy))) не до конца очищена . еще остались больницы ,школы ,библиотеки , детские сады построенные во времена СССР ,это обязательно нао "очистить"))) то есть снести
Jeigu norit pasakyti, kad sovietai pastatė Lietuvą ir šelpė ją, tai ligoninės ir darželiai buvo statomi ir tarpukario Lietuvoje. O sovietinės okupacijos metu Lietuva rublių iš Maskvos gaudavo daug mažiau, nei sumokėdavo pati. Ir taip kiekvienerius metus nuo pat 1944 iki 1990. Kada atlyginsite okupacijos žalą?
@@durnastelikas5314 Да , вы правы . В межвоенный период независимости тоже строили . Но и в Советский период тоже много строили . Снесите это все .Необходимо полное "очищение "))))
@@stroiteljlabai norėtume nugriauti, nes didžia dalimi tai baisūs namai, bjaurojantys mūsų puikius miestus ir miestelius. Bet kita vertus, kodėl mes turime griauti tai kas buvo pastatyta už mūsų pačių pinigus?! Mes juos renovuojame ir modernizuojame, nes tai pigiau negu nugriauti ir statyti iš naujo! Tikiuosi sovietinės architektūros bjaurasties tuoj neliks arba ženkliai sumažės ;)
Lithuania was originally part of Poland. Poland was defeated by Prushia and Austria and Russia. So Poland had territory tanked away from them. Napoleon liked Poland and had a good Relationship with them. And even had Polish Lancers "Calvary" in his Grand Army.
That's utterly wrong. Lithuania did not belong to Poland it belonged to Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Stop saying that because its insulting for the people of both modern countries. And it didn't got defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia, but the Polish nobles literally partitioned the whole country do due to wealth influence impact of those countries.
please dont talk nonsenses. Lithuania was separate country, Lithuanian in Polish Lithuanian commonwealth had own army, budged, nobles and so on. Commonwealth was created by Lithuanian duke Augustas. He was founder of Polish-Lithuanian country. Many battles vs swedes and russians at that time was won only by Lithuanian army under polish lithuanian flag. Its well documentated. If not Polish greedy nobles.... i doubt russia could exist till this day. And as one dude just said, commonwealth wasn't defeated my external forces mainly, it was inside wars. and When three countries saw it, they decided to destroy largest country at that time in Europe. Please learn
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Every former Soviet state, every former Warsaw Pact Country UNDERSTANDS the Ukrainian heartbeat. 💓
Russia embraces Christian and western heritage and culture while the west is becoming more and more communistic or fascistic everyday.
But you have to let the few who disagree vote as well
Fully agree from Hungary!
Long live Ukraine! 🇭🇺❤🇺🇦
Theres little to no difference between being a soviet state, warshaw pact member or state of yugoslavia. They all were under strict russian control.
@@mignas I would say there were no big differences, but some that were quite significant to the various countries' experiences - for instance yugo was vastly more free of Russian domination
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Lietuva irgi jėga 💪🇱🇹
Respect to all Estonia,lietuva, Latvija,from 🇫🇮🇪🇺
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Lithuania is also written with a capital letter...
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I have my full love and respect for the people of Lithuania from Hungary!
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@RolandasVegele-ri3fz The president of Hungary, Katalin Novák, supports Ukraine. She even met with Zelensky twice in Ukraine and she paid respect to the victims of the Bucha massacre.
Meanwhile they support Hungary minister who actively does everything to support russian war, cool hypocrisy your nation has
Long live Lithuania ❤
Russia has made it crystal clear, that having a part of your population that speaks only Russian, is a very dangerous thing. I have full understanding of the Lithuanians and their harsh language rules. It's self preservation.
It should be the same in EVERY country. Supposedly, you leave your country for a better life...then assimilate rather than bring your old ways and language behind or go back !!!
The rules are not harsh yet at all. The Russians have everything in Russian here. But they should be made as “harsh” as in all other countries, not Russified by Moscow as soon as possible. Otherwise, Russia will come to kill us, claiming we are not good enough and not different enough to NOT BE renade into Russia proper.
Nah, its just dmb old nationalism.
I spent a few months in Lithuania, great place, and began to learn why the people were so disgusted with the Russians. Can't say I blame them a bit. Lithuanian is a tough language!
Lithuanian is more beautiful sounding than the Orcs tounge Russian.
So you are praising aggressive nationalism ?
@@andy99ish whom imperialism other than Ruassias?
Oh, and might be chinese also.
@@andy99ish check history,russians banned Lithuanian language,all names shops,streets was in russian,books,newspapers in Lithuanian language was under law..who bigger nationalists???
@@souldoc123 I can remember that in the Lithuanian SSR public writing was first in Lithuanian, then in Russian.
The Soviet Union was awful but not nationalistic. The Russian Empire was also not markedly nationalistic. And if there were periods of nationalism - decide if you want to copy the worst moments of Russia OR be European.
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From Gotland, Sweden;
Україна 1991! Glory to LITHUANIA! Слава Україні! ❤
Yeah. Whatever. Perhaps the Swedes should sort out their own gang problems first.
Thank you! We Lithuanians love Sweden! ❤
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw That is the silent, creeping occupation of Sweden... Over 1/5 of the Swedish population isn't from Sweden and almost all of these gangs and clans are from foreign origin.
Very necessary to watch for proper understanding
Of why RF 🇷🇺 is doing now . Corruption abuse
Bullying Harassment A few words That come to mind when I hear Russia or USSR 🇷🇺👎
Starvation and uneducated in basic free civilisation and slaves come to mine.
Fast-forward almost 34 years later, Lithuania is now a highly developed country and has never looked back.
For your information Lithuania WAS already a highly industrialised country even during the Soviet Union. Making radios, cars, furniture, etc.
Do they still produce these goods ?
Another thing, why has Lithuania been white washed of the most horrible collaboration with the nazi's in 1941-1944 in killing other Lithuanians, Russians, and especially the jewish population of Lithuania ?
Why they never mention to naive westerners what the Lithuanians and Ukrainians did to the jews ?
Lithuania ( including Poland and Ukraine and irate Cossacks, had been aligned against muscovy long before the 20th or 21st centuries.
It's complicated.
Read some detailed history beyond Wikipedia.
What has made Lithuania so hostile towards Moscow and Russia?
Moscow and Russia.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw I suppose your Polish grandfather was not living in Poland? Because Poles are even more hostile towards russia.
How can you be friendly towards someone who tried to exterminate you.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw Idk, after 300 years of occupation, you kind of become resentful, especially of foreign government policies. And what camp? in 1941 we were under Nazi occupation, right after being occupied by the soviets for 1.5 years. So you either joined the Nazi's, remained communist (which caused mass deportations of Lithuanians) or anywhere in between the very difficult period and political occupation. There are countless historical text's describing the attitude in the Baltics in that exact period. Yes, some did indeed join the Nazi's. But when you have to choose between one evil and the other, there is no right choice
And the only country to have some sports uniforms supplied by The Grateful Dead. Gotta love a country that loved the Dead...
Get rid of Kaliningrad, and Transnistria.
Dniester is a river. Region had settlers from muscovy due to the centuries of Ottoman attempt to conquer northwards. Learn to spell words remotely resembling their sounds.
Learn what you are talking about.@@briseboy
Oh, I'll take in charge Königsberg. For 80 years not having touched any rent;
@@harryhole5786Love these books.
@@heathermccall8015 ah, no, I do not like those books.
I hope Afrika will watch this and take notes to stop their ignorance about great Russia.
Whatever. I hate to speak for Africa. Perhaps an African would like to tell us how marvellous it was under British. French, Belgian, Portuguese and German rule. The way their resources were stolen and plundered and countries impoverished and indebted. Apart from that it was great.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw I was a young adult (in Scotland) as the British empire in Africa was dismantled. I think it one of the best things I lived through. Later the Soviet empire got dismantled too - even better. The remaining difference is: the UK is not attempting to regain control over Africa: Russia (the USSR was always really mainly Russia) is attempting to again control over its former empire.
@carelgoodheir
The Soviets never had an empire in Africa, apart from indulging in intermittent political sh*t stirring which many countries do. Almost all their ex central European satellites now belong to NATO. The ex Soviet central Asian republics are a bit on the fence. They are not formally allies of the Russian Federation and haven't sent troops to Ukraine. Neither has Belarus and Lukashenko is Putin's closest ally. Even Lukashenko now has come out and said a peace Treaty should be signed to end the war. Of course it may be Putin using him as a mouthpiece but the fact remains nobody is Dalling over themselves to join old Vladimir's adventures in toytown imperialism. He even calls the Chinese who make excuses. Like a hoped for date who can't go out because "she's washing her hair". I've heard that African countries go to Russia because they can buy cheap subsidised military hardware, ships, planes etc. Good luck to them. They will find in the coming years that the ships, boats and tanks are cheap for a reason. They're $h*t.
The wheels are coming off the Russian economy. Most of their tanks are now scrap metal. They are begging North Korea for weaponry !!!! North Korea. !! And they are emptying army stores and MUSEUMS for T62 and WW2 T34s probably to shore 🙄 😄 😅 😑 🤣 their tank divisions.
Putin is a great threat. Mainly to Russia. If Russia tries to invade Finland ( a direct border) they may be VERY dangerous. The Finnish army will be 😃 😀 😄 laughing so hard, they might do themselves a serious injury.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw because you were colonized you should be more sensitive to other countries faced similar fate and be sorry for it. Instead you cheer for Russia. Pure ignorance or egoism.
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Cheer for Russia ? I agree about ignorance. YOUR ignorance. Learn some basic English comprehension before posting.
I live near Tuskulėnai park and the memorial Chapel. I visited it at least two times when it is open for visitors during the Day of the Dead to pay tribute to the victims whose bones are laying there. Each time when I pass it on my way to the office at my job and back I say a short prayer in my mind. And will do it for my life time.
Ukraine historically fought against muscovite empire, includin its soviet form 1917-22, never surrendering. This is why stalin targeted Ukrainian s, killed their folk musicians in late 1920s - folk music is largely protest music.
It is why holodomor starvation of Ukrainians, why late 1930s violent suppression, why Ukrainians fought against soviet russians in 1940s, serking, like Finns, any allies. It is why Ukrainians fought for freedom following that war into 1950s. It is why they are so different than russians, and immdfiately chose severance from soviet federation in 1991.
The democratic ideals that congealed across all generations in Maidan Square protests, define the difference in empathy, care for others, that has always existed in Ukrainians.
While this video spotlights Lithuania, part of the mentioned commonwealth that fought against muscovy, Ukraine, with its language more like Polish than russian, sided with them, hundreds of years past.
Just to remind you that Nikita Kruschev and Leonid Brezhnev were Ukrainians NOT Russians. Ukraine was as much Soviet as Russia. Perhaps even more.
There will always be collaborators, cowards looking to advance their situation.
The reason for studying history is 2 use the knowledge 2 stop bad things when they try 2 happen again
I run a hotel in a skiing resort in Austria in the heart of europe and since many years I have guests from estonia and the other baltic states and for me they are europeans as all others ...as germans, italians or we austrians.... they are very cultivated civilised people which I like talking to ... We always have nice chats about this or that topic and they explained me a lot of russia I didn't know....
Every place on earth is west of somewhere else. We need to get beyond this. Why does Russia with its many time zones feel the need to have more territory on this earth, and what is it doing with what it has, and why does little Jiminy Cricket Putin speak for millions of people?
Because they let him. He certainly should be able to focus on all the resources he has there, in the largest country on earth! If he would focus on developing his own countries resources and infrastructure, more equally educating all of their people in central and eastern Russian as well as Western, think how much more well off future generations of Russians would be! But that’s not what he’s interested in. He just wants more resources, riches and glory for himself right now.
They need more fresh land because they already made a shithole out of what they already have. But when they get more land, the shithole only makes bigger.
russia wants to expand despite having a ton of land because most of their territory is sparse, remote, unusable and cold. The large majority of russian population live in the west of russia closer to europe where its warmer and better farming than they do the east of russia
They could just trade what they do have for food. It isn't like the other countries are going to give it up without a fight maybe rendering a good deal of it unusable.@@williamgill5286
Well done, Baltic States, congratulations. It is nice to see that you have cleansed your countries of the Soviet legacy. The new federal states in Germany can take a leaf out of your book. In East Germany, you so often stumble across the legacy of the Soviet Union and the GDR. Formally, the GDR was not a member of the Soviet Union, but it can be said that the GDR was an unofficial member of the Soviet Union, as nothing worked in the GDR without the Soviets. The GDR government was always dependent on Moscow. One should also not forget that the Soviet Union stationed the entire western group of its armed forces in the GDR.
And poutine was a young KGB officer in eastern Germany.
@@SalyLuz-hc6he I am aware of that. Putin was not at all popular with his KGB colleagues, behind his back they called him a poison dwarf. Poison dwarf is a German expression for a malicious, spiteful person, especially someone who tries to compensate for his or hers physical smallness with malice and spitefulness.
How much more suffering is EU and NATO going to let Russia get away with. It should have been stopped when NATO was created!
Thank you all people who are speaking and showing what happened, the suffering and the will of the Lithuanian people being free.
The EU is not a military alliance, nor should it be. NATO and bilateral military deals will have to hold Russian expansion back.
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WHAT should have been stopped when NATO was created, exactly ? Your post makes no sense whatever. You are aware that NATO is a DEFENSIVE alliance I take it ?
@@carelgoodheir692 yeah, they are treated like they are. EU have alot of power, I think they have too much power, they should use that for good
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw NATO was formed too stop Russia and other dictators from doing what Hitler did and what Putler is doing now in Ukraine?! So why haven't they given all the weapons and ammunition Ukraine needed from the start to defend themself. It should have happened in 2014 when the terrorists invaded Crimea.
Литва місто Каунас бажає братській Україні перемоги над московськими ордами.Слава Україні!!!Слава ЗСУ!!!
Situation in Lituania is quite the same as the one in Romania
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Administration is as important as policy. Results require effort & measurement matters if outcomes are important.
Immediately after 1991 Lithuania aimed to join EU+NATO.
It took 13 years to join NATO.
The older soviets seem to be very hostile, mean spirited and narcissistic.
Those adjectives also describe Vladimir Putin. He was an active KGB officer in eastern Germany.
The Moscow people offered Kaliningrad plus territory to the Lithuanian Soviet Republic because it was part of the USSR at the time obviously. After the USSR collapse the land would continue as part of modern Lithuania.
Russian forced friendship, Soviets believed that! 😵
Lietuva holds a special place in their hearts for Ukraine and Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraine!
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Because of that Russian ocupators people don't have to eat... and that dictator toking about peace
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Bravo laisva Lietuvą
In a perfect world people would study and understand history, including chapters like that of Lithuania. Unfortunately so many people are culturally and historically illiterate and understand history only to the extent that it reinforces their own agenda. I don't think the people of Russia in whatever form, be it czarist, Soviet, or the current neoczarist format, are bad people. I think they have a wonderful culture and interesting history. Part of that history though, is a series of really bad governments that they feel compelled to impose on others. The same can be said of many nations throughout history. That does not make it right, it just means we need to do a better job of teaching.
Who put those governments in place, and tolerated them? The people!
@@Andris-ml4oo Sure, they tolerated them. Except in 1825 (Decemberist Revolt), 1866 (The Uprising of Polish Exiles in Siberia), the Revolution of 1905, and of course the ever-popular Revolution of 1917, which was the transition from the czarist period to the Soviet period. That's a partial list.
@@Andris-ml4oo Well, it's not like you would topple your government either, if some foreigner disliked it.
@@Seventeen_Syllables The repeated tragedy in Russia is that better regimes didn't come from these uprisings. Kerensky's was better, but it was swept away almost at once. There was a more democratic moment after the fall of the USSR, but very bad economic decisions led to hunger and a renewed taste for authoritarian rule.
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Poverty, a collapse in living standards leading to despair, grasping western corporations hoping to pick up ex Soviet mineral wealth for pennies, plus greed and corruption. Then Putin emerged as a "strong man" who would give Russia back its pride and strength. The populist playbook. It works well with ignorant sad desperate poor people. It has worked for 🍊 orange Donny himself. Putin promised to Make Russia Great Again. He's slightly overreached himself in Ukraine, but that's a risk dictators take
Good video! Actually the last resistance fighter in Latvia came out of woods and legalized in late 90ties!
There was a wild man living in the forest in Pennsylvania a few years back. Whatever lights your candle.
@@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw So what? We are talking about Baltics!
And I'm talking about deranged people carrying on with a fight that finished years before.
nice experimenting with the ambassadors introduction, but please, don't take that road any further.
TZUM - the universal Russian MIR project of magazine (store) that is prevalent as a copy of western counterpart as London Harrods or NY Virgin. But worse.
ruzzia and bolsheviks were the worst things that happened to Baltics and eastern Europe...
What about memorials that were dedicated to the murdered Jews in Lithuanian. Are the memorials still standing?
My grandfather came from Birzai… not all of his family made it out. They were murdeered in the nearby woods and buried in a ditch…
Not only all the mass muder places bare signs towards the memorials (you can find them in every city and almost every tiniest village, they are all marked from the main roads). With every year there are more and more memorials built - soemtimes the whole Shtetls (e.g. Šeduva). Most of the Synanoge or Jashiva places, that were strangely destroyed by soviets, are marked and known, there are constatnly conferences and reasearches; a couple of years ago the whole cultural year in Lithuania was destined to the Jewish heritage; most of the cities and towns that had an important Jewish community organise memorial walks/marches to the massacre places to commemorate the victimes annually; if you come to Vilnius, you will find quite a couple of beigel places or Jewish coffee shops and the big Jewish museum is on its way to be built). There is a huge memory work being done towards the Holocaust history and the heritage of Jewish community.
Literally from the largest cities to the smallest villages you see Holocaust memorial signs in Lithuania.
Yeah they are there, i regularly make road trips around Lithuania for work.. and sadly the roads are littered with Jewish mass murder memorials..Of course cant forget the context of that the front between these 2 crazed countries(ruzzia and nazi germany) during world war 2 has moved back and forth through these lands a couple of times..
Exactly agree with you. Lithuania is trying to "change" but without apologising for the horrific crimes that they themselves commited against the Jewish population.
@@a.p.3004 Without apologizing? Whos suppose to apologize? Also what do you know of the politics of the period in Lithuania between 1939-1943. It was a period of constant occupation, our government got replaced multiple times, we were occupied by the Soviets, than Nazi's than soviets again. People had an EXTREMELY complex choice in political and geopolitical decisions. Yet you simplify it to black and white.
Lets put it simply: You get invaded, teachers, educators and government officials get deported together with their families. Anyone disagreeing with the government gets tortured or killed and all protests are burned to the ground. Men are forced to fight (my own great grandfather died fighting the Nazi's). All religious objects and any other gathering places are destroyed or heavily monitored
Than you get occupied again, but this time, the torturing and killing of nationals is way less, regardless, cooperation pays well, but you are still treated as 2nd class citizens. Propaganda is immense and tactical, as well as the government gets immediately replaced. Some people choose to collaborate, while others literally register to the Nazi army to gain access to weapons and desert it within weeks. Knowing full well that by 1942, most people knew that the Soviets are on their way back and that Nazi's are sending anyone and everyone to concentration camps.
Then, in 1943, you get occupied by the Soviets again. Deportations come back and increase. All Nazi collaborators are hanged or shot, or retreated with the rest of the Nazi's. The government get replaced AGAIN. This time with a tighter and more brutal grip.
Despite all of this, we teach about the holocaust. We shame the Nazi collaborators. We make memorials for all the Nazi killings. We mark all the places of genocide. After 50 years of occupation we are finally sovereign and reinstate museums and make documents public about any collaboration and genocides caused.
What do you want us to do? We apologized with blood and tiers. The population that collaborated with the Nazi's were ALL punished. Yet you SIMPLIFY an EXTREMELY difficult geopolitical region, you generalize the actions of a few people to the whole country. Even historical and political experts are still arguing to this day about the genocide in the Baltics and Lithuania. Yet you seem to know everything and make your judgment in one sentence.
Before you dare to reply, at the very least watch this presentation that barely scratches the surface: "ruclips.net/video/ygsnG3Ygoxw/видео.html"
Now, did Lithuanian's aid the genocide? Yes. But did we apologize? Oh you have no idea
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funny as fsb try to do input even in this video with some russian language, try to sneak in that image that Lithuanians are actually russian speaking... Well good job fsb you doing great. Also forgot to mention that russia-moscow never took responsability for gulags exhales kgb tortures and finacial cultural damage, and refused to pay for repairs claiming it was CCCP and CCCP no more exists, while taking part in G8 to replace spot of CCCP ?
Ukraine follow the same path, change your cirylic alphabet in latin !
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That would not be prudent. Bulgaria and Serbia also use the Cyrillic alphabet, the former is in NATO. What matters is the school curriculum, so that Ukrainian youth would know that Ukraine was a republic before Russia ever existed. And Russians have an inferiority complex about Lithuanians and Poles, because they had universities before Russia ever did.
It’s different. Our language is Baltic, Ukraine’s is Slavic. Also, how do you even change your alphabet lol
Ukrainian alphabet is not the Same as the Ruscist alphabet there’s no need to change it. Also Ukraine is not a Latin country they are a Slavic country also.
Cyrillic alphabet is much older than muscovy. It was a ptoduct of two Greek monks who attempted to make symbols representing unique slavic language sounds.
Cease your narcissism.
Lithuania still not managing to close "ruzzkoje radio" station. Still do not understand why
banned, if I'm not mistaken, but the russian radio station is broadcasting from kaliningrad, the radio signal is very easy to catch. That's why people can listen. Also with russian TV it is banned but people with satellite antennas can freely watch russian tv channels.
Thats democracy for you, you cant ban free speech, no matter what it adheres to
I don't like the crazy sound effects between the chapters. They spoil the video.
Great documentary. Annoying sound effects
putin must stop and let everyone live in their own country in peace. putin in his head is crazy living in some kind of middle age time or he feels like a viking ? Grow up
stop with the sound effects, its very unproffesionel
If you want to stay in the country you have to learn the national language ---- except for Austria there it is just "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles!" --- so you are better off if you came right from the North of Germany ---- so immigrating to Austria probably feels like parachuting or splashing down in a secret language war --- off course you still can insist that the locals are just dumb and uneducated --- acutally we probably have the highest rate of people who never read a book in their own language because Austria is a German national country --- which means that "Beil", "wach", "nein", "es", "eng", "wahr", "wir", "mir" etc. mean something totally different than what a dictionary or Google try to tell you
Tens of unrenovated soviet era comiblocks in introduction fit the title perfectly =D
Hiding the reality would make this video hypocritical.
Deus Vult ! 😇
LITHUANIA is cleared of the SOVIET legacy))) не до конца очищена . еще остались больницы ,школы ,библиотеки , детские сады построенные во времена СССР ,это обязательно нао "очистить"))) то есть снести
Jeigu norit pasakyti, kad sovietai pastatė Lietuvą ir šelpė ją, tai ligoninės ir darželiai buvo statomi ir tarpukario Lietuvoje. O sovietinės okupacijos metu Lietuva rublių iš Maskvos gaudavo daug mažiau, nei sumokėdavo pati. Ir taip kiekvienerius metus nuo pat 1944 iki 1990. Kada atlyginsite okupacijos žalą?
@@durnastelikas5314 Да , вы правы . В межвоенный период независимости тоже строили . Но и в Советский период тоже много строили . Снесите это все .Необходимо полное "очищение "))))
@@stroiteljlabai norėtume nugriauti, nes didžia dalimi tai baisūs namai, bjaurojantys mūsų puikius miestus ir miestelius. Bet kita vertus, kodėl mes turime griauti tai kas buvo pastatyta už mūsų pačių pinigus?! Mes juos renovuojame ir modernizuojame, nes tai pigiau negu nugriauti ir statyti iš naujo! Tikiuosi sovietinės architektūros bjaurasties tuoj neliks arba ženkliai sumažės ;)
I'm happy you got rid of your Soviet menace. Now you have to try to get rid of the EU menace and the NATO menace to be really independent LITHUANIA.
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Kvaila propaganda.
Lithuania was originally part of Poland. Poland was defeated by Prushia and Austria and Russia. So Poland had territory tanked away from them. Napoleon liked Poland and had a good Relationship with them. And even had Polish Lancers "Calvary" in his Grand Army.
That's utterly wrong. Lithuania did not belong to Poland it belonged to Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth. Stop saying that because its insulting for the people of both modern countries. And it didn't got defeated by Prussia, Austria and Russia, but the Polish nobles literally partitioned the whole country do due to wealth influence impact of those countries.
? You must be the russian bot people are talking about
Perfect lie😂. Russian bot 😂
the British army also has Lancers that have a red over white flag on the end and the same hat style, so not just the Grand Army of Napoleon
please dont talk nonsenses. Lithuania was separate country, Lithuanian in Polish Lithuanian commonwealth had own army, budged, nobles and so on. Commonwealth was created by Lithuanian duke Augustas. He was founder of Polish-Lithuanian country. Many battles vs swedes and russians at that time was won only by Lithuanian army under polish lithuanian flag. Its well documentated. If not Polish greedy nobles.... i doubt russia could exist till this day.
And as one dude just said, commonwealth wasn't defeated my external forces mainly, it was inside wars. and When three countries saw it, they decided to destroy largest country at that time in Europe.
Please learn
What a bullshit
Cry about it
@@anthonymanderson7671legit Ukraine state propaganda lol read the note there
I can't find episodes 1 and 2 of this series 🫤
I was wondering about those as well!!