I would add that since the protest in 2020-2021 many thousands of the opponents of the regime found themselves in prison, and many tens of thousands more fled the country. I think this could've influenced the opinion polls a bit. Also, beside the Kalinouski Regiment, there are two more Belarusian volunteer formations (both probably smaller): - The Pahonia Regiment; more closely connected with the mainstream opposition in exile led by Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya and supposedly containing some defectors from the Belarusian governmental forces. - The so-called Belarusian Volunteer Corps; formed around a battalion that split off the Kalinouski Regiment. They seem to be the most radical.
Lol, look, another funny case here. You pretend to care for Belarus freedom and yet you have a profile photo representing aggressive polish imperialism, and polonization of Russian lands, including my beloved Belarus. As we say here, “either take off your cross, or put on your pants.” You can’t be both.
The decrease in the population is very very small and those volunteers got their sh*t pushed in being one of the foreign groups of volunteers with the highest casualties. Not only that just like russia, belarus has welcomed thousands russian speakers from ukriane who fled there by their own choice
@@Silver_Prussian their own zmagar analysts literally said that 98% of Belarusian population will greet kalinovsky regiment with hostility, and take up arms in territorial defense of Belarus, or join the army. White red white flag brought our country so much pain and suffering. Under its nazi collaborators, every 4th Belarusian died in WW2
Russian trolls everywhere. So don’t give a penny for their bs. It is in genetic of Belorussian people to be free and be part of Europe. It is dying Russian Empire who trying to brainwash everyone, but simple question can show the truth. If you will choose to enjoy freedoms of EU or freedoms of RUSSIA what will you choose? (Majority will bet on EU)
Firstly, thank you for the video. BUT. 09:42 - we had the same amount of "struggle" that our neighbours had. All post-soviet republics(including eastern block) gained independence almost the same year. And not because "years of struggle". And yes, we also had protests, demonstrations and resistence. Also, we got independence not under the shown green-red flag, but under white-red-white one. Current "official flag" identical to soviet one will be brought back 5 years later only after lukashenko will become president and make several rigged referendums. The rest is ok.
Im not blaming you for not knowing that, but you made a big mistake on how the opinion of the pro-west Belarusians got shaped. The thing is that a huge chunk of the Belarusian population traveled and worked a lot mainly in Poland and also in Lithuania. Those folks simply had the ability get the taste of a modern democracy on their own skin and those folks let their relatives know that things are better westwards. In other words in the case of "pro-west" Belarusians it was not the media that shaped their opinion, but by empirical evidence. This is precisely why such a big chunk of the Belarusian population has really high democratic values. No media influence could do that simply because democracy doesnt play on "primal instincts" like totalitarian political systems do. Also that polling done by Chatham House is off as hell if we actually compare it to the protests from 2019. An easy way to skew a polling like this is to conduct that polling in just very specific areas of a country (in this case the more east you will do the polling the more pro-ru it will be).
Agree. Good points. Recall a glib news story that East Germans watching western TV show Dallas helped overthrow the regime by selling people that the west was a better economic system. Personally, think it was seeing Mercedes Benz being used as taxis on West German TV that did the trick.
Belarus is more a 50/50 country Half the population especialy the young adults fascinated by the west. And speaking good english are pro europe usa But the other 50%. The ones born during ussr era. The ones who speak russian but not english. The ones into russian patriotism The ones who go a lot to Moscow/st Petersburg/sotchi either as an expat-tourist-student (Minsk Moscow is a very fast trip by plane or car. People who live in east belarus go to moscow even fast. So they tend to go a lot there and have advantageous long visa agreement) Those people are very pro russia
@@mathewvanostin7118does that mean that the population is getting more and more pro west over time? I mean if I understood you right, there is a big generational difference here
How convenient, the highest number of belarusians working and living abroud ( no, not just people who have Belarusian ancestry) is in russia because the nation offers the possability for economic growth of the individual as well. And the argument ,,things are simply better there" is a lie people tell to suit a certain narrative or to delude themselves into thinking that. Those people you talked about have inevitably discovered something they arent pleased with but have chose to ignore it. The grass just seems greener on the other side but its not. Politicians in democratic states absolutlys prayon human irational and impulsive decisions as well as emotional messeging just like any other regime. Medias can absolutly shape a narrative just like they have already with ukriane, the pandemic the terrorist attacks by innocent asylum seekers, illegal the migrant flood, the libya war, the syrian war, the iraq war all of these have been portrait in a certain way for the mases to consume the information and think in a certain way. If you are gonna cry how this poll/research is biased or not scientific i might as well call you George Bush
@@mathewvanostin7118uhhh no thats a really simplistic and inaccurate way to describe the opinion of the people there, not that you can accurately do that because you cant interview more than 9million people. Not only that but most dont understand anything about politics, most just have already preconceived notions of who are the ,,good guys" and who are the ,,bad guy" completely based on personal feelings ot facts
Belarusian indecisiveness is also noticeable in its language. Btw İ am not saying that this is bad or good. İt just is. Belarusian standard language, including the spelling and writing system, isn't "fixed". İt has different alternatives and varieties. You can see it as weakening people's motivation who want to learn it (Which standard shall İ follow?), but on the other hand you can also see the language as having a greater deal of freedom and flexibility, perhaps in a way comparable with the situation in Norwegian where you also have several options even in the standard written language.
So does Ukrainian....different regions write differently to each other separate from standard Ukrainian. And compared to Ukraine far more of Belarus's dialects have died out due to Russification. The differences for Belarusian are largely in Latin scripts, cyrillic script is standard unless you use Tarashkevits which changes orthography but vocabulary is still the same
They settle for stale bread for fear of having no bread. With just a little push in the right direction, they could enjoy delicious fresh bread each and every day.
That's how dictators stay in power. They keep their subjects fearful of what could be if the dictator were to lose power, but never expose them to the opportunities they have when not being under the dictator's thumb.
@@maksim05makarov It is not a surprise that their comments make no sense to you as someone who is familiar with Belarus as they are just making it up based on common western cult imperial ideology from afar.
@@maksim05makarovit's a metaphor, my dude. and do us all (and yourself, tbh) a favor - stop using the language of the enemy: you have English (which you clearly understand, wandering these parts of RUclips) and Belarusian - that should be more than enough to express your thoughts.
Your channel is way too underrated. I don't think I learned anything new, but most people aren't very knowledgeable of this topic. Keep up the good work! ❤
Thanks for this video. I never knew that the largest group of foreign fighters was Belorussian. But yeah, absolutely clear that the people of Belorus are watching what happens in Ukraine. How the war plays out in Ukraine will set the tone for how the people act against or for the Lukashenko govt.
Your infant mortality rates are off by a factor of 10. The figures you quote are per 1,000 not per 100. There's a huge difference between 3.6% and 0.36%.
Thank you for another incredible video.... I would question, however, how many people in Belarus answered that question as they did supporting Russia for their actions in Ukraine out of fear of reprisal...
The small but crucial period from 1992 to 1995 before rise of Lukashenka, the attempts of restoring national Belarusian language and culture that were completely stopped by Lukashenka and divert back to Russification are completely ignored by the video author. Its a shame. Author seems fully ignorant of Belarusian language, he spells the Belarusian surnames in Russian transliteration, half baked video sadly.
For such a small video, it's not that bad. In a short time it gives a good set of facts. Among other things, it mentions, albeit briefly, the period before the arrival of Lukashenkо and Russification. Perhaps the author simply did not focus on these periods due to the limited timing. But here it is shown how the unreformed economy of Belarus and financial dependence on Russia lead to political lack of independence. I am also pleasantly surprised that an episode of the "trade wars" that Russia waged with many of its neighbors is mentioned here. Of course, everyone who makes a video should remember that for a long time the Russian-language versions of the names and toponyms of Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other republics were used in the world. In the same way as it is now customary to write Kyiv, and not Kiev, Belarusian names should also be written. It is worth paying tribute, the author of the video did not say Belarussia (the word Russia is used), but Belarus (Rus is used). Which is already good.
Cause belarus is russian The same way california is english despite its spanish past. Or how Lousiana and hawaii are english despite their french and polynesian past 400 years of ussr and russian empire. Thats 16 generations. It does have assimilation effects And all slavic cultures are the same culture. Its just it evolved into different dialect and took different loanwords influence Its just standard russian is based on moscow slavic dialect. Serbian on Belgrade slavic dialect. Czech on prague slavic dialect etc
Fun fact: The historic Belarusian national emblem is Pahonia - a knight on a horse, and it is a Belarusian variation of Lithuanian Vytis. They're almost identical even today. You can see it on the historic white-red-white Belarusian flags in this video, e.g., at 3:37.
Great video! 👍🏻 One of the main reasons for the Soviet collapse was the fact that because their economy was sh*t they reluctantly decided to allow foreign tourists into the country, despite all of their stringent regulations and precautions the Russian ppl. soon realized through their interactions with these tourists that they had been lied to for decades! Soon there evolved a booming black-market economy for anything Western especially 'blue jeans' music and movies, {edit: Oh, and Jack Daniels! 😁} from this they learned that a good life and luxuries were freely available in the west and that most could afford them, where-as they couldn't even dream of it! Comparing the low quality of life and the lack of amenities and products they had been taught and thought was a high living standard in the USSR. many were shocked by the reality. I remember seeing footage of the amazed and excited East German ppl. who for the first time were allowed to enter West-Germany to stroll the well-lit streets even at 3 or 4 am. And all the shops were still open, later they commented on the shock they felt after receiving the love and open arms of the West German ppl. towards them, for the West Germans it was like at last reuniting with long lost family! . . .I'll never forget seeing their reactions. This is what brought down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain soon afterwards! A similar awakening has apparently happened in Belarus especially if the ppl. can spend some time in the West. 💡 Slava Ukraine 💙💛 Glory to their Heroes 🎖
Why you guys always systematically make borders of Suomi (Finland) wrong after the independence? 7:56 Viipuri's region was taken away by Stalin only after the second world war 1940. It was was in russian Empire taken from Sweden for a while before Russians took the whole country from Sweden, and it was remerged with Suomi within Russian empire, but only Stalin made it so that the people there in Viipuri region were changed.
@@antons5302 How will the final destruction of statehood in Syria help the Syrians? We have already seen the example of Libya, where after the overthrow of the dictator, the country was actually destroyed and still cannot unite. There is no reason to believe that in this case it will be something else. Moreover, we perfectly saw how, with the weakening of Assad's power, the country was literally flooded with terrorists. You want to remove the regime you don't like, not to help the Syrians. Be honest.
@@deputykirsanov7314 also i love beautiful and prosperous Alaska (our 49th state!!!), think of how backward and corrupt it would be if it was still part of backward and corrupt russia
Important fix: Belarus means White Rus, not White Russia. Russia is not Rus. Historically Russia was called Moscowy or Grand Dutchy of Moscow before Peter changed the name official to Russia. Very few parts of modem day Russia were Rus. Novgorod for example, was annaxed by Moscowy, already an established state in Moscow. Novgorod was far more democratic than Moscowy, and Moscowy took tbat away from them bu subjugating Novgorod.
Also on the topic of Novgorod Veche Republic, it consisted of both eastern Slavs and different Finnic people, such as Veps, Bjarms and Karels. The government type can be roughly identified as one of a trade republic like the Venetian one. The Veche consisted of different interest groups who held the power and they could invite and vote for a military general to defend themselves and organize the military force, a governor and an archbishop. Well, all these candidates should have had a certain background of course and rural peasants still didn't get much, as their opinion was almost worthless, but merchants, landowners, artisans and guilds, for example were quite important as they were the blood of the trade. Still considering the time-period with it's norms and ethics, it is pretty impressive. You may say that they had bells of steel to be able to do that. Well, they actually did had a bell. One bell that was signifying that the veche has been summoned. It was their symbol of republican sovereignty and independence from it's neighbours. Well, it was i a sense cut off, when Ivan the 3rd took it with him to Moscow after he subjugated it. What is funny is that the region is still the most liberal and one of the most developed in current Russia. That and being the historical centre of many revolutionist movements leads to consequences. I haven't seen any recent studies on the matter, but from what I heard from a few friends of mine in Russia: the level of force that "regulatory forces" are likely to apply even in Moscow to the St. Petersburg is much less drastic.
Furthermore, the city of Novgorod would often invite pagan Lithuanian princes to be their military protectors while they traded. Pretty interesting and practical approach.
In 1547, Ivan IV assumed the title of “Tsar and Grand Duke of all Rus'” (Царь и Великий князь всея Руси, Tsar i Velikiy knyaz vseya Rusi) and was crowned on 16 January,[20] thereby turning the Grand Duchy of Moscow into Tsardom of Russia, or "the Great Russian Tsardom", as it was called in the coronation document,[21] by Constantinople Patriarch Jeremiah II[22][23] and in numerous official texts,[24][25][26][27][28][29] but the state partly remained referred to as Moscovia (English: Muscovy) throughout Europe, predominantly in its Catholic part, though this Latin term was never used in Russia.
Yet another pseudo historical trool running his mouth in the comment sections of every video remotely related to Russia. Spouting bullsh*t which is so easy to prove wrong. Nah man the Principality of Vladimir Suzdal which was in the Kievan Rus doesnt ring a bell ? Moscow being in that principality latter succeeding it. Nah, none of thata true apperantly.
If Lukashenko _and_ Putin had left office in 2010, then they both would've been remembered very fondly. But when men hold onto power longer than they can be allowed, things like this happens.
@@Anastasiya-Shtern I don't know. I feel that Russia's domestic policies have done more to harm their citizens rather than help them, and Belarus being so brutal against protestors is not a good idea either.
@@madcat789 We in Russia know better what we need, and we will figure it out without you. And it would be better for you not to feel, but to get a good education, so that it would not be so easy to brainwash you with false news.
Support for Russia’s military operation in Ukraine: 30% Definitely don’t support. 14% Mostly don’t support. 24% Not Sure. 15% Somewhat support. 18% Definitely support. Source: The results of a public opinion poll conducted between 15 and 27 March 2023 by Chatham House. On one hand these are shameful numbers, on the other hand remember that after 2020 the regime destroyed all the independent media and is blocking websites of those that operate abroad.
I agree that Ukraine's victory will be decisive for Belarus. As well as for Moldova (the return of Transnistria) and Georgia (the return of territories seized by Russia). To a lesser extent for Armenia, Kazakhstan and other countries. All these countries will be able to get rid of old conflicts and be freer in their development. The memory of the common stay in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then the Commonwealth still has a strong influence on politics and partnership between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. These countries even hope to create a common project - Intermarium, as a kind of revival of a more equal Commonwealth. In the future, a free Belarus could become a part of this space.
it all depends on how bad russia loses even though I'm very pro Ukraine (duh) I don't think that all the occupied territories, puppet states and dependent countries will be freed, sadly. Like Georgia for example, holding the 20% of their territory isn't very demanding since those are just relatively small pieces of land bordering russia so it's super unlikely that russia will lose so bad that they'll have to withdraw from them. And poor Georgia is simply too small and weak to take those back by itself, even when russia is weakened. On top of that Georgia doesn't have a bigger stronger neighbor that would help them with the issue (like Moldova has Ukraine and Romania)
@@lpatryk2004 To the north of Georgia is the North Caucasus, where a number of peoples who have long wanted to secede from Russia. If Russia is weakened enough to lose these territories, they will become a buffer between Russia and Georgia. Turkey and Azerbaijan, which are also Muslim countries, can play their role in the separation of the Caucasus (Turkey played a significant role in the return of Karabakh to Azerbaijan). But, all this is only potential. It's hard to say how things will develop.
Without Russia Central Asia will either fall under Communist China or start infighting each other, wdym? They already attempted to fight each other the last year. If you are illiterate don't start writing RUclips comments
1. Transnistria isnt a part of russia also should we forget that 1/3 of the population there is actualy ukrianian and supported the separation not only that but there were ukrainian volunteers 2. Both abkhazia and south ossetia are not part of the russian federation and both have expressed their distaste to be part of georgia again and georgia has never ever made any attempt to reconcile and convince them they should go back. Unfortunately they arent seen as Kosovos by the west to gain independence. 3. Neither kazakhstan nor armenia will benefit from this nor will they be better in any shape or form in the western sphere of influence and the conflict with azerbaijan will not magically end as the west has absolutly failed to do anything or achieve anything that would even resemble cease fire at the same time buying azeri oil and gas while talking how important it is to stoping money flow to fund ,,russian aggression" No word here on Azerbaijan ,,democracy" human rights, treatment of pows and so on. Dang i though those were important virtues the eu had to uphold ?
@@Silver_Prussian, of course, when you ethnically cleanse over 300 thousand Georgians from their homes using Russian-supplied weapons and don't allow any dissenting opinion, separatism becomes justified. 🤡
Russia in its current state as a capitalist oligarchy would never recreate the communist soviet union. They can create a new russian empire, if anything, but without the communism, it's not the soviet union.
"...nato promissed, that it will not atack, because atack-word is the opposite of defend-word, nato allies have been ansportsmanlike and american propels are only atackers
Say what you will, but no tent cities, graffitti, civil unrest or unsafe streets or insane costs of living are there like here in America...just saying.
Belarus is not "Fractured" as westerners would like to believe. There are some noisy minorities (probably financially backed by the west) that get a disproportionate amount of attention.
Yes, I agree, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya all needed saving and today all of those country are great example of success for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY. I can't wait for Belarus, Russia, China and
@@GeoPerspective That would be great! I read that the EU is quietly considering further action against Hungary (on to of withholding payments) and some say that it might even include suspension from the EU. The potentials there are quite worrying. Thanks for all of your work. I'm fairly new to your channel, but it is a good one. 👍
The intro was too long in my honest opinion. In addition the narration seemed a bit unengaging to me owing to the gaps between mid-sentences in some spots. Regarding the content, no mention of how Lukashenko attempted to make himself the ruler of Russia through the union state is dissappointing. Besides these, a great video!
@@GeoPerspective It's fine, you had some technical difficult after all. Also my biggest problem was with more the narration rather than the content itself (which I could understand with the technical problems), which in turn definitely brought the interesting view that Lukashenko is using the country's indecisivness in regards to identity to divide the country instead of uniting against him.
@@GeoPerspective I'll pick the most noticeable parts (in my view): Around 2:00 The bit after 4:04 up to the intro ending speech 5:00 sounds ever so slightly off The bit listing Belarus' neighbors had ever so slightly inconsistent differences in time between the sentences 6:11 has the bit aorund Polatsk is a bit off to my ear 9:45 "Indpendence, was just thrust upon itand the recent assimilation with Russia" I believe that you should be able to hear at least some of the bits not sounding exactly right when you focus on them, with the transition between different sentences/audio clips being just ever so slightly off. While it is still perfectly understandable, it leaves for example me getting thrown off every once in a bit while watching the video due to hearing unnatural transitions between sentences.
So far, Lukashenkо is alive. Belarus retains remnants of political independence that are rapidly evaporating. For example, Lukashenkо is trying to prevent a full-scale involvement of Belarus in a war with Ukraine. But there is a lot of pressure on him. On February 24, 2022, Belarusian troops, together with the Russian army, entered the territory of Ukraine. But when the war did not go according to plan, they quickly returned. In other words, Lukashenkо retains some control over the Belarusian army. But there are doubts that all commanders are loyal to him.
At 0:29 you misconstrue the population of Paris(the city) with the actual population of the "greater area of" Paris, the population of which is 12.27 million people. So your point about Minsk being a large city is actually wrong, it's a fairly small European Capital.
@@tidbit1877 so it’s 18 biggest city in Europe, I don’t think it’s actually “unimportant” considering that Minsk population doesn’t include metropolitan area
Praying for the people of Belarus. I hope that they can gain their freedom along with Ukraine and Russia. Those people have suffered enough throughout their histories. 🇺🇸🤝⬜️🟥⬜️
Как же промыли мозги. А сейчас почему белорусы не свободны? И кто сказал , что украинцы свободны? Народ Ирака стал свободным, а может Ливии? Ваша свобода это свобода от ума. Так что идите куда подальше со своей свободой
@@GaryGraham-sx4pm Беларусь сохранила промышленность, сельское хозяйство и самое главное свою национальную идентичность. У людей есть свобода передвижения, свобода слова в рамках закона и никакой культуры отмены. Нет эмигрантов сидящих на шее честных налогоплательщиков. Не решайте за нас как нам жить!
Good video but seriously he needs to learn to speak at a constant speed. It's really hard to listen with him speeding up and slowing down and randomly stopping all in the same sentence..... I'm still subscribing because this channel deserves it..
At 1:00 and in the other parts of the video you are pronouncing the word "Belarusian" incorrectly. The correct way to say it can be found at 21:08 in the same video. This may seem insignificant, but by pronouncing it as "Bela-Russian", you are rubbing the Belarusians the wrong way and encouraging the imperialist ambitions of Russia.
It seems that you are speaking on behalf of all Belarussians. How did that come about? Could you teach me about Russia's imperialist ambitions? Like, what makes their ambitions specifically imperialist? Is Nato an anti-imperialist organization?
@Bananas Are Berries And you are a perfect example of an imperialist mindset. Not so long ago, a certain someone also claimed that Ukrainians supposedly became so Russian, that they should be called Malorussians, Novorussians or whatever was his sick fantasy. And again, this can be probably just ignored when it's just a "joke" in some silly chat on the Internet. But it's not funny anymore when real invasions or annexations start. In the past, we used to not pay too much attention when the Russians persistently insisted on labelling Belarus as "Белоруссия" (Belorussia) or saying "на Украине" (a grammar construct, which intends to imply that Ukraine is supposedly not a country). Turned out, this was a way to express their imperialist views all along. And today there's nothing covert about it.
@Bananas Are Berries You may be not an imperialist yourself, but you are surely affected by the imperialist narrative and happily spreading it further. Which isn't doing anyone any favour. Regarding the "majority", it's just a bluff. The authorities are trying very hard to suppress any way to even hint person's political views. Even via something as bizarre as hunting down those, who are merely dressed in red-white clothes.
Belarus has name RUS WHITE or LITUANIAN. LItuanos of ITALY origin setle during NERONE TIME and founded LITUA BETWEEN SAMOGITIA AND KIEVAN RUS after mongolian invasion RUS was in ruble and Italians that called themselfes LItunos aborbed part of RUS that part become RUS LITUANOS OR WHITE. LITUANOS AB ITALIS ORIGINEM WRITEN ON STATUT GRAND DUCHY LITUANIA 1529
_Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:_ _Rus' ought not to be confused with modern “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus' but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus'._ _Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, “Russia” is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise._ _Its name “Russia" received only in the 18th century, when Peter I simply changed Muscovy’s name into the “All Russian Empire” (Russia originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Rus')_ _Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian._ _Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'. They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'._ _In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus' ownership._ _“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and Russian (Muscovite) historians have been trying to say for years. A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot. Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village._ _Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what Russia (Muscovy) did in regards to Rus'-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!_
Bruh, that's just an ultimate bullshit. Dude's knowledge of history is questionable at best. Yes, he said that Ivan III, the Grand Prince of the Grand Principality of Moscow, adopted the title "Sovereign of all Russia", but he forgot the more important event - fucking Proclamation of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547. So renaming "Muscovy" to Russia in 18th century is wrong. Plus already in the 16th century the Grand Principality of Moscow was called Russia on different foreign maps. - "In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that." That's also wrong. Among the first to acknowledge this were Danish kings and the Habsburgs, so it's also wrong. - "Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian." Just sourceless bullshit. - "“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round." Who appeared first - Russia or Ukraine? I think that answers what is wrong with that statement. - "A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot." and "Rus'-Ukraine" I think this russophobic statement and another retarded statement shows where loyalties of this commentator lies. - "Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village." Yes, Kiev was founded in the 4th century, but these trans-ukrainians completely forgot the fact that Kiev wasn't founded by the Rus', but conquered in 882. - "Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'." First of all, Rus' state originated near Novgorod, in Ladoga. Then the capital moved to Novgorod, and, ~20 years after the foundation of the Ancient Rus' state, it moved to Kiev. So Novgorod and other were the part of the original Rus'. There are 2 possible reasons why they are mentioned as a separate entities. 1. Ancient Rus' was organised more akin to a tribal confederation. 2. It was because of stupid succession law, where the eldest son would receive the title of the Grand Prince of Kiev, being the formal head of the Ancient Rus' state, and other sons would receive some local principalities to rule, the younger son was, the less important principality he would receive. But brothers always had their own interests, 'cause in case of death of the eldest son, the second one receives the title of the Grand Prince of Kiev, and every other one also "rank ups". And because of that there were constant conflicts between brothers, so it was somewhat logical to separate them in the chronicles. Also, Novgorodian Rus' or any other could have used to describe a region and not a state. - "They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'." No, it wasn't. Yes, they had differences because of the different biomes they inhabited, but they were united economically, linguistically and religiously, so they weren't fundamentally different from one another and that was one of the reasons that Rus' managed to reunite again in form of the Tsardom of Russia. So yeah, this fucker just rewrites history in favour of Ukraine, 'cause real Ukraine doesn't have any real history, so some retards just try to create one by constant lying...
Сказки от сьвядомого дэбила-щеневмерлика. Московская Русь тоже была частью Руси, и люди себя там всегда звали русскими, как и везде на Руси. Никакой разницы нет совершенно. Учи историю и читай документы тех лет. Там везде будет московская Русь, назваться «Белой русью»
Ukrainian vs Russian is basically Cantonese vs Mandarin. Ukraine represents the early Kiev Rus the same way Cantonese represented the early Chinese language before the nomads and Manchurian repeatedly took over China and influenced the Chinese language. So serious pro-independence Hong Kongers and Cantonese best volunteer in the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Freedom from oppression can only come when freedom from russian tyranny has occurred. Do not give up as liberty is indeed a way of life that empowers all.
You mean American oppression who's deep state & CIA meddle in countries like starting coups. They invade many sovereign countries, kill millions based on lies like WMD and for so called democracy? Occupy countries with their 750+ bases and push their woke ideology on countries 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Great video! Belarus was actually called Lithuania, until the Russian Empire took the country. After the USSR fell, the modern Lithuanians took the name, and claimed that they where the ones who created the Grand duchy of Lithuania. However, it is clear that most of the Grand duchy of Lithuania was in Modern day Belarus, where the language and culture was Belarusian.
@grvcbnmyefcsgkmvsdf Oh yes, sorry, i forgot to say it was a multinational state. My point is that everyone should agree that GDL was both the history of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland. I don't think that we should erase GDL from any county's history that took part in it.
I was looking for this. Knew one of you clowns will show up to claim Belarus is the "real" Lithuania lmao. You should be grateful we don't mind sharing this history with you instead of stealing it, but that is what Russians do at the end of the day. Go ahead and spam your bullshit, but the real name of Belarus before it was Belarus is Gudija.
😂😂😂 What a joke, I mean the title of this video. Ukraine? 😂😂😂 the most corrupt country in the world. Political prisoners, opposition non existent, incarcerated journalists, ....😂😂😂😂 Ukraine and its democracy 🤣🤣🤣
No Belarus now, probably better for Ukraine if the Belarusians are able to take control of their military and split Russian forces between Ukraine and Belarus.
Под свободой тут понимается исполнение программы Тихановской ? Та в которой она обещала «избавится от всего что не приносит прибыль» то есть медицины и образования ?
Maybe it's better to redraw the borders of some ex Sovjet states in order to stop this cycle... Some countries will lose some territory but gane a population thats ethnical same and other countries will win some ethnical the same population that now living in another country because of how the USSR was broken up not because they wanted too ..what gives problems again and again and wars and border classes with no resolution in side...
😂 "Belarus also known as White Russia" No shi*. That's what Bela Rus means... Also Kievian Rus did not develop Slavic culture. It is derived from Slavic culture and developed East Slavic culture.
OMG ... Russians, Belorusians, Ukranians - they all one nation - Russians, their languages are all one language - Russian, with all territorial, influenced by other languages and culture, historically mixed peoples.
@@patrickb1811 I meant that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians genetically do not have significant differences, but, having different languages and cultures, they are different nations.
@@---jv6vf No difference genetically? I wouldn't say that really. Belarusians and Ukrainians yes, true. But Russians? Least Slavic country of them all. Look up genotypes and you will see that Russians are heavily 'mongolized' also with a lot of finno-ugric genetics. What they have in common is that they belong to the same ethnolinguistic group.
Belarus is free with Russia … what can Ukraine become expect a vassal of either west or Russia? It’s best for it to seek neutrality and be as a silent mouse.
That’s true. Russia actually strengthened our sovereignty in the last decade. Don’t listen to these propagandists. We haven’t really given away a single inch of sovereignty, on the contrary, we are strengthening it.
@@tnickknight Obviously Belarus and Russia can be free only if they both are anti-Western. No matter Putin, Lukashenko or anybody else are ruling them.
I would add that since the protest in 2020-2021 many thousands of the opponents of the regime found themselves in prison, and many tens of thousands more fled the country. I think this could've influenced the opinion polls a bit.
Also, beside the Kalinouski Regiment, there are two more Belarusian volunteer formations (both probably smaller):
- The Pahonia Regiment; more closely connected with the mainstream opposition in exile led by Svetlana Tsikhanouskaya and supposedly containing some defectors from the Belarusian governmental forces.
- The so-called Belarusian Volunteer Corps; formed around a battalion that split off the Kalinouski Regiment. They seem to be the most radical.
That's how you deal with colored revolution. Lukashenko knows the job.
Lol, look, another funny case here. You pretend to care for Belarus freedom and yet you have a profile photo representing aggressive polish imperialism, and polonization of Russian lands, including my beloved Belarus. As we say here, “either take off your cross, or put on your pants.” You can’t be both.
The decrease in the population is very very small and those volunteers got their sh*t pushed in being one of the foreign groups of volunteers with the highest casualties.
Not only that just like russia, belarus has welcomed thousands russian speakers from ukriane who fled there by their own choice
@@Silver_Prussian their own zmagar analysts literally said that 98% of Belarusian population will greet kalinovsky regiment with hostility, and take up arms in territorial defense of Belarus, or join the army. White red white flag brought our country so much pain and suffering. Under its nazi collaborators, every 4th Belarusian died in WW2
Russian trolls everywhere. So don’t give a penny for their bs.
It is in genetic of Belorussian people to be free and be part of Europe. It is dying Russian Empire who trying to brainwash everyone, but simple question can show the truth.
If you will choose to enjoy freedoms of EU or freedoms of RUSSIA what will you choose? (Majority will bet on EU)
Firstly, thank you for the video. BUT. 09:42 - we had the same amount of "struggle" that our neighbours had. All post-soviet republics(including eastern block) gained independence almost the same year. And not because "years of struggle". And yes, we also had protests, demonstrations and resistence. Also, we got independence not under the shown green-red flag, but under white-red-white one. Current "official flag" identical to soviet one will be brought back 5 years later only after lukashenko will become president and make several rigged referendums. The rest is ok.
Im not blaming you for not knowing that, but you made a big mistake on how the opinion of the pro-west Belarusians got shaped. The thing is that a huge chunk of the Belarusian population traveled and worked a lot mainly in Poland and also in Lithuania. Those folks simply had the ability get the taste of a modern democracy on their own skin and those folks let their relatives know that things are better westwards. In other words in the case of "pro-west" Belarusians it was not the media that shaped their opinion, but by empirical evidence. This is precisely why such a big chunk of the Belarusian population has really high democratic values. No media influence could do that simply because democracy doesnt play on "primal instincts" like totalitarian political systems do.
Also that polling done by Chatham House is off as hell if we actually compare it to the protests from 2019. An easy way to skew a polling like this is to conduct that polling in just very specific areas of a country (in this case the more east you will do the polling the more pro-ru it will be).
Agree. Good points. Recall a glib news story that East Germans watching western TV show Dallas helped overthrow the regime by selling people that the west was a better economic system. Personally, think it was seeing Mercedes Benz being used as taxis on West German TV that did the trick.
Belarus is more a 50/50 country
Half the population especialy the young adults fascinated by the west. And speaking good english are pro europe usa
But the other 50%. The ones born during ussr era. The ones who speak russian but not english. The ones into russian patriotism
The ones who go a lot to Moscow/st Petersburg/sotchi either as an expat-tourist-student (Minsk Moscow is a very fast trip by plane or car. People who live in east belarus go to moscow even fast. So they tend to go a lot there and have advantageous long visa agreement)
Those people are very pro russia
@@mathewvanostin7118does that mean that the population is getting more and more pro west over time? I mean if I understood you right, there is a big generational difference here
How convenient, the highest number of belarusians working and living abroud ( no, not just people who have Belarusian ancestry) is in russia because the nation offers the possability for economic growth of the individual as well.
And the argument ,,things are simply better there" is a lie people tell to suit a certain narrative or to delude themselves into thinking that. Those people you talked about have inevitably discovered something they arent pleased with but have chose to ignore it. The grass just seems greener on the other side but its not.
Politicians in democratic states absolutlys prayon human irational and impulsive decisions as well as emotional messeging just like any other regime.
Medias can absolutly shape a narrative just like they have already with ukriane, the pandemic the terrorist attacks by innocent asylum seekers, illegal the migrant flood, the libya war, the syrian war, the iraq war all of these have been portrait in a certain way for the mases to consume the information and think in a certain way.
If you are gonna cry how this poll/research is biased or not scientific i might as well call you George Bush
@@mathewvanostin7118uhhh no thats a really simplistic and inaccurate way to describe the opinion of the people there, not that you can accurately do that because you cant interview more than 9million people.
Not only that but most dont understand anything about politics, most just have already preconceived notions of who are the ,,good guys" and who are the ,,bad guy" completely based on personal feelings ot facts
"Bigger than Paris". Paris has like 11 million, just because it chose not to annex the suburbs doesnt mean the metro region doesn't exist
Yeah but it's bigger than Warsaw, when Warsaw has a bigger GDP than entire Belarus.
Why did they choose not to anyways?
surprisingly great understanding of the topic. thx, keep up the good work. жыве Беларусь!
Glad you liked it!
Жуе белы гусь
Praise the algorithm for recommending small channels
It certainly is pushing the EU/anti-Russia message.
Excellent presentation. Very informative. Great video too.
Belarusian indecisiveness is also noticeable in its language.
Btw İ am not saying that this is bad or good. İt just is.
Belarusian standard language, including the spelling and writing system, isn't "fixed".
İt has different alternatives and varieties.
You can see it as weakening people's motivation who want to learn it (Which standard shall İ follow?), but on the other hand you can also see the language as having a greater deal of freedom and flexibility, perhaps in a way comparable with the situation in Norwegian where you also have several options even in the standard written language.
So does Ukrainian....different regions write differently to each other separate from standard Ukrainian. And compared to Ukraine far more of Belarus's dialects have died out due to Russification.
The differences for Belarusian are largely in Latin scripts, cyrillic script is standard unless you use Tarashkevits which changes orthography but vocabulary is still the same
During soviet times there were made changes to the official Belarusian language in order to make it more similar to Russian.
Жыве Беларусь! Žyvie Bielaruś!
Zyvie Bielarus is the Belarusian version of Slava Ukraini?
@@RunawayTrain2502 yes. "Long live Belarus!"
Žywie wiečna!
Жыве вечна! ❤
Она и так живет без змагаров, и хвала Богу что они тут больше не живут, а чистят унитазы в Польше
The production quality and script is excellent
Thank you for the great overview, which I’ve been wondering about!
They settle for stale bread for fear of having no bread. With just a little push in the right direction, they could enjoy delicious fresh bread each and every day.
That's how dictators stay in power. They keep their subjects fearful of what could be if the dictator were to lose power, but never expose them to the opportunities they have when not being under the dictator's thumb.
С учетом того что в Беларуси одни из самых лучших продуктовых товаров я без понятия о чем вы.
@@maksim05makarov It is not a surprise that their comments make no sense to you as someone who is familiar with Belarus as they are just making it up based on common western cult imperial ideology from afar.
@@maksim05makarovit's a metaphor, my dude. and do us all (and yourself, tbh) a favor - stop using the language of the enemy: you have English (which you clearly understand, wandering these parts of RUclips) and Belarusian - that should be more than enough to express your thoughts.
@@kabyzdoch ok. But isn't there a comment translator on RUclips right now?
Thanks for true analysis around the Belarus situation. ❤
Your channel is way too underrated. I don't think I learned anything new, but most people aren't very knowledgeable of this topic. Keep up the good work! ❤
Thanks for this video. I never knew that the largest group of foreign fighters was Belorussian. But yeah, absolutely clear that the people of Belorus are watching what happens in Ukraine. How the war plays out in Ukraine will set the tone for how the people act against or for the Lukashenko govt.
They also have the highest casualties as well, something should have been mentioned.
@@Silver_Prussianso you are telling me, if there's more people, more people will die from that group? Wow
Your infant mortality rates are off by a factor of 10. The figures you quote are per 1,000 not per 100. There's a huge difference between 3.6% and 0.36%.
Thank you for another incredible video.... I would question, however, how many people in Belarus answered that question as they did supporting Russia for their actions in Ukraine out of fear of reprisal...
yes, its an interesting question we can't really know
The small but crucial period from 1992 to 1995 before rise of Lukashenka, the attempts of restoring national Belarusian language and culture that were completely stopped by Lukashenka and divert back to Russification are completely ignored by the video author. Its a shame. Author seems fully ignorant of Belarusian language, he spells the Belarusian surnames in Russian transliteration, half baked video sadly.
And using percent for cuild death rates... rookie mistake.
For such a small video, it's not that bad. In a short time it gives a good set of facts. Among other things, it mentions, albeit briefly, the period before the arrival of Lukashenkо and Russification. Perhaps the author simply did not focus on these periods due to the limited timing.
But here it is shown how the unreformed economy of Belarus and financial dependence on Russia lead to political lack of independence. I am also pleasantly surprised that an episode of the "trade wars" that Russia waged with many of its neighbors is mentioned here.
Of course, everyone who makes a video should remember that for a long time the Russian-language versions of the names and toponyms of Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and other republics were used in the world. In the same way as it is now customary to write Kyiv, and not Kiev, Belarusian names should also be written. It is worth paying tribute, the author of the video did not say Belarussia (the word Russia is used), but Belarus (Rus is used). Which is already good.
Cause belarus is russian
The same way california is english despite its spanish past. Or how Lousiana and hawaii are english despite their french and polynesian past
400 years of ussr and russian empire. Thats 16 generations. It does have assimilation effects
And all slavic cultures are the same culture. Its just it evolved into different dialect and took different loanwords influence
Its just standard russian is based on moscow slavic dialect. Serbian on Belgrade slavic dialect. Czech on prague slavic dialect etc
@@mathewvanostin7118stupidity at its highest extent
Troll
Fun fact: The historic Belarusian national emblem is Pahonia - a knight on a horse, and it is a Belarusian variation of Lithuanian Vytis. They're almost identical even today. You can see it on the historic white-red-white Belarusian flags in this video, e.g., at 3:37.
It's not a variation it's an original. With the original colors, elements etc.
@@dodge6571, they're slightly different, though.
Great video! 👍🏻
One of the main reasons for the Soviet collapse was the fact that because their economy was sh*t they reluctantly decided to allow foreign tourists into the country, despite all of their stringent regulations and precautions the Russian ppl. soon realized through their interactions with these tourists that they had been lied to for decades! Soon there evolved a booming black-market economy for anything Western especially 'blue jeans' music and movies, {edit: Oh, and Jack Daniels! 😁} from this they learned that a good life and luxuries were freely available in the west and that most could afford them, where-as they couldn't even dream of it! Comparing the low quality of life and the lack of amenities and products they had been taught and thought was a high living standard in the USSR. many were shocked by the reality.
I remember seeing footage of the amazed and excited East German ppl. who for the first time were allowed to enter West-Germany to stroll the well-lit streets even at 3 or 4 am. And all the shops were still open, later they commented on the shock they felt after receiving the love and open arms of the West German ppl. towards them, for the West Germans it was like at last reuniting with long lost family! . . .I'll never forget seeing their reactions.
This is what brought down the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain soon afterwards! A similar awakening has apparently happened in Belarus especially if the ppl. can spend some time in the West. 💡
Slava Ukraine 💙💛 Glory to their Heroes 🎖
thank you so much for binging my content and comments :D big video coming this weekend I think you will like, stay tuned
@@GeoPerspective 😁 👍🏻 . . . ? . . . Urrm. Me giving a 👍🏻 is not to be taken as an agreement on my part to buy anything!
🤣🤣
Why you guys always systematically make borders of Suomi (Finland) wrong after the independence? 7:56 Viipuri's region was taken away by Stalin only after the second world war 1940. It was was in russian Empire taken from Sweden for a while before Russians took the whole country from Sweden, and it was remerged with Suomi within Russian empire, but only Stalin made it so that the people there in Viipuri region were changed.
Go regain it lol
Hey your finally getting the recognition you deserve
yes, somethings is finally happening :D
-if Ukraine wins Belarus wins , Moldova wins, and possibly Georgia wins
-i don't see the downside :)
Also Syrians might win, Iranians might win etc.
@@antons5302 How will the final destruction of statehood in Syria help the Syrians? We have already seen the example of Libya, where after the overthrow of the dictator, the country was actually destroyed and still cannot unite. There is no reason to believe that in this case it will be something else.
Moreover, we perfectly saw how, with the weakening of Assad's power, the country was literally flooded with terrorists. You want to remove the regime you don't like, not to help the Syrians. Be honest.
It’s already an “if”? What’s wrong? That counter offensive not going according to plan?! 😁😁😁
None of these nation win anything exept submitting the ,,new world order" in the words of ukrianian woman
@@deputykirsanov7314 also i love beautiful and prosperous Alaska (our 49th state!!!), think of how backward and corrupt it would be if it was still part of backward and corrupt russia
Important fix: Belarus means White Rus, not White Russia. Russia is not Rus. Historically Russia was called Moscowy or Grand Dutchy of Moscow before Peter changed the name official to Russia. Very few parts of modem day Russia were Rus. Novgorod for example, was annaxed by Moscowy, already an established state in Moscow. Novgorod was far more democratic than Moscowy, and Moscowy took tbat away from them bu subjugating Novgorod.
Ahaha, Ukrainians are already stealing history from Russians.
Also on the topic of Novgorod Veche Republic, it consisted of both eastern Slavs and different Finnic people, such as Veps, Bjarms and Karels. The government type can be roughly identified as one of a trade republic like the Venetian one. The Veche consisted of different interest groups who held the power and they could invite and vote for a military general to defend themselves and organize the military force, a governor and an archbishop. Well, all these candidates should have had a certain background of course and rural peasants still didn't get much, as their opinion was almost worthless, but merchants, landowners, artisans and guilds, for example were quite important as they were the blood of the trade. Still considering the time-period with it's norms and ethics, it is pretty impressive. You may say that they had bells of steel to be able to do that. Well, they actually did had a bell. One bell that was signifying that the veche has been summoned. It was their symbol of republican sovereignty and independence from it's neighbours. Well, it was i a sense cut off, when Ivan the 3rd took it with him to Moscow after he subjugated it.
What is funny is that the region is still the most liberal and one of the most developed in current Russia. That and being the historical centre of many revolutionist movements leads to consequences. I haven't seen any recent studies on the matter, but from what I heard from a few friends of mine in Russia: the level of force that "regulatory forces" are likely to apply even in Moscow to the St. Petersburg is much less drastic.
Furthermore, the city of Novgorod would often invite pagan Lithuanian princes to be their military protectors while they traded. Pretty interesting and practical approach.
In 1547, Ivan IV assumed the title of “Tsar and Grand Duke of all Rus'” (Царь и Великий князь всея Руси, Tsar i Velikiy knyaz vseya Rusi) and was crowned on 16 January,[20] thereby turning the Grand Duchy of Moscow into Tsardom of Russia, or "the Great Russian Tsardom", as it was called in the coronation document,[21] by Constantinople Patriarch Jeremiah II[22][23] and in numerous official texts,[24][25][26][27][28][29] but the state partly remained referred to as Moscovia (English: Muscovy) throughout Europe, predominantly in its Catholic part, though this Latin term was never used in Russia.
Yet another pseudo historical trool running his mouth in the comment sections of every video remotely related to Russia. Spouting bullsh*t which is so easy to prove wrong.
Nah man the Principality of Vladimir Suzdal which was in the Kievan Rus doesnt ring a bell ? Moscow being in that principality latter succeeding it.
Nah, none of thata true apperantly.
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Very interesting video
Subscribed 😊
If Lukashenko _and_ Putin had left office in 2010, then they both would've been remembered very fondly.
But when men hold onto power longer than they can be allowed, things like this happens.
We will definitely re-elect them in the 24th year so that you do not relax) They are the best leaders of all countries over the past 80 years.
@@Anastasiya-Shtern I don't know. I feel that Russia's domestic policies have done more to harm their citizens rather than help them, and Belarus being so brutal against protestors is not a good idea either.
@@madcat789 We in Russia know better what we need, and we will figure it out without you. And it would be better for you not to feel, but to get a good education, so that it would not be so easy to brainwash you with false news.
@@Anastasiya-Shtern and then I remember Russias extremely high alcoholism rates, divorce rates, degenerate youth culture, corruption in public office
@@niftyp2320 You're confusing it with your country. Come to us now and you will be convinced that you are being deceived.
Support for Russia’s military operation in Ukraine:
30% Definitely don’t support.
14% Mostly don’t support.
24% Not Sure.
15% Somewhat support.
18% Definitely support.
Source: The results of a public opinion poll conducted between 15 and 27 March 2023 by Chatham House.
On one hand these are shameful numbers, on the other hand remember that after 2020 the regime destroyed all the independent media and is blocking websites of those that operate abroad.
Ох уж этот рэжим, все покоя беглым не дает. Иди туалеты чисть в роднай польшче, змагарок, и не лезь в дела моей Беларуси. Твоего мнения мы не просили
Just like the fascist Kyiv regime
I agree that Ukraine's victory will be decisive for Belarus. As well as for Moldova (the return of Transnistria) and Georgia (the return of territories seized by Russia). To a lesser extent for Armenia, Kazakhstan and other countries. All these countries will be able to get rid of old conflicts and be freer in their development.
The memory of the common stay in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and then the Commonwealth still has a strong influence on politics and partnership between Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania. These countries even hope to create a common project - Intermarium, as a kind of revival of a more equal Commonwealth. In the future, a free Belarus could become a part of this space.
it all depends on how bad russia loses
even though I'm very pro Ukraine (duh) I don't think that all the occupied territories, puppet states and dependent countries will be freed, sadly. Like Georgia for example, holding the 20% of their territory isn't very demanding since those are just relatively small pieces of land bordering russia so it's super unlikely that russia will lose so bad that they'll have to withdraw from them. And poor Georgia is simply too small and weak to take those back by itself, even when russia is weakened. On top of that Georgia doesn't have a bigger stronger neighbor that would help them with the issue (like Moldova has Ukraine and Romania)
@@lpatryk2004 To the north of Georgia is the North Caucasus, where a number of peoples who have long wanted to secede from Russia. If Russia is weakened enough to lose these territories, they will become a buffer between Russia and Georgia.
Turkey and Azerbaijan, which are also Muslim countries, can play their role in the separation of the Caucasus (Turkey played a significant role in the return of Karabakh to Azerbaijan). But, all this is only potential. It's hard to say how things will develop.
Without Russia Central Asia will either fall under Communist China or start infighting each other, wdym? They already attempted to fight each other the last year.
If you are illiterate don't start writing RUclips comments
1. Transnistria isnt a part of russia also should we forget that 1/3 of the population there is actualy ukrianian and supported the separation not only that but there were ukrainian volunteers
2. Both abkhazia and south ossetia are not part of the russian federation and both have expressed their distaste to be part of georgia again and georgia has never ever made any attempt to reconcile and convince them they should go back. Unfortunately they arent seen as Kosovos by the west to gain independence.
3. Neither kazakhstan nor armenia will benefit from this nor will they be better in any shape or form in the western sphere of influence and the conflict with azerbaijan will not magically end as the west has absolutly failed to do anything or achieve anything that would even resemble cease fire at the same time buying azeri oil and gas while talking how important it is to stoping money flow to fund ,,russian aggression"
No word here on Azerbaijan ,,democracy" human rights, treatment of pows and so on. Dang i though those were important virtues the eu had to uphold ?
@@Silver_Prussian, of course, when you ethnically cleanse over 300 thousand Georgians from their homes using Russian-supplied weapons and don't allow any dissenting opinion, separatism becomes justified. 🤡
Russia in its current state as a capitalist oligarchy would never recreate the communist soviet union. They can create a new russian empire, if anything, but without the communism, it's not the soviet union.
Russians do not want the re-creation of the USSR, they just want a quiet life without the threat of NATO and nationalist urkaine gone crazy
"...nato promissed, that it will not atack, because atack-word is the opposite of defend-word, nato allies have been ansportsmanlike and american propels are only atackers
Say what you will, but no tent cities, graffitti, civil unrest or unsafe streets or insane costs of living are there like here in America...just saying.
moldova, romania or baltics next?
Coming for sure
No, Ireland
if odesa falls, then moldova, romania and balkans, then baltics
@@GaryGraham-sx4pm big IF, but NO.😂
Revolution more probably, or even civil war 😮.
@@rositasultana3958 What revolution?
Lukashenko, the poor man's Dr. Doom.
Belarus is not "Fractured" as westerners would like to believe. There are some noisy minorities (probably financially backed by the west) that get a disproportionate amount of attention.
and then what was Jan 6 protest in US , why are the protesters in jail ?
Yes, I agree, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya all needed saving and today all of those country are great example of success for FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.
I can't wait for Belarus, Russia, China and
Lukashenko huylo😂
Thanks for another great video, but let us not forget the Orban the authoritarian leader in Hungary.
They seem to be drifting the way of Belarus.
I may look into that
@@GeoPerspective That would be great!
I read that the EU is quietly considering further action against Hungary (on to of withholding payments) and some say that it might even include suspension from the EU.
The potentials there are quite worrying.
Thanks for all of your work. I'm fairly new to your channel, but it is a good one. 👍
Orban is the most based leader in the entire, pathetic circus we call ths eu
@@Silver_Prussianrussian bot spotted, opinion rejected
The intro was too long in my honest opinion. In addition the narration seemed a bit unengaging to me owing to the gaps between mid-sentences in some spots.
Regarding the content, no mention of how Lukashenko attempted to make himself the ruler of Russia through the union state is dissappointing.
Besides these, a great video!
my harshest critic :D, sorry I didn't include your suggestions.
@@GeoPerspective It's fine, you had some technical difficult after all. Also my biggest problem was with more the narration rather than the content itself (which I could understand with the technical problems), which in turn definitely brought the interesting view that Lukashenko is using the country's indecisivness in regards to identity to divide the country instead of uniting against him.
could you pick out a spot where the narration was at its worst?
@@GeoPerspective
I'll pick the most noticeable parts (in my view):
Around 2:00
The bit after 4:04 up to the intro ending speech
5:00 sounds ever so slightly off
The bit listing Belarus' neighbors had ever so slightly inconsistent differences in time between the sentences
6:11 has the bit aorund Polatsk is a bit off to my ear
9:45 "Indpendence, was just thrust upon itand the recent assimilation with Russia"
I believe that you should be able to hear at least some of the bits not sounding exactly right when you focus on them, with the transition between different sentences/audio clips being just ever so slightly off. While it is still perfectly understandable, it leaves for example me getting thrown off every once in a bit while watching the video due to hearing unnatural transitions between sentences.
@@alehaim thank you for the timestamps
where can I find this map?
If Ukraine loses next will be Belarus.
Russian brother Belarus forever in the world 🇧🇾🇷🇺
I live in Denmark: I would like to be liberated from the EU/US/NATO empirical complex - I guess we can't all have what we want...
What exactly is wrong with Denmark in its current state that you’d want this to happen?
@@crsx1861 I should think that I have already stated that - clearly...
@@megetmorsomt No you haven't. You've just made a vague statement
@@crsx1861It is very clear and concise - thank u very much...
@@megetmorsomt Denmark is one of the best-doing countries in the world. What do you have to gain by allying with Russia?
I like the way you say Soviet
White Russia is a wrong translation, it’s white ruthenia which represents its belonging to ruthenian region instead of the russian one
But is Luka alive? Is Belarus an independent country or controlled by the Russian Federation? Who controls the Belarus Armed Forces?
So far, Lukashenkо is alive.
Belarus retains remnants of political independence that are rapidly evaporating. For example, Lukashenkо is trying to prevent a full-scale involvement of Belarus in a war with Ukraine. But there is a lot of pressure on him. On February 24, 2022, Belarusian troops, together with the Russian army, entered the territory of Ukraine. But when the war did not go according to plan, they quickly returned.
In other words, Lukashenkо retains some control over the Belarusian army. But there are doubts that all commanders are loyal to him.
At 0:29 you misconstrue the population of Paris(the city) with the actual population of the "greater area of" Paris, the population of which is 12.27 million people. So your point about Minsk being a large city is actually wrong, it's a fairly small European Capital.
lol it’s in top 10 European capitals
@@vanad1um maybe Capitals but not cities, Germany alone has many cities that have3 a larger population; Minsk is fairly unimportant.
@@tidbit1877 so it’s 18 biggest city in Europe, I don’t think it’s actually “unimportant” considering that Minsk population doesn’t include metropolitan area
@@tidbit1877 lol and Berlin is the only German city with bigger population
@@vanad1um Frankfurt.
Change will come
How did you get an Irish accent?
My school teachers and classmates I guess 😁
Praying for the people of Belarus. I hope that they can gain their freedom along with Ukraine and Russia. Those people have suffered enough throughout their histories. 🇺🇸🤝⬜️🟥⬜️
Как же промыли мозги. А сейчас почему белорусы не свободны? И кто сказал , что украинцы свободны? Народ Ирака стал свободным, а может Ливии? Ваша свобода это свобода от ума. Так что идите куда подальше со своей свободой
@@Алексей-ы5м1н happy election day everyone
belarus without its soviet era governance would be a great country
@@GaryGraham-sx4pm Беларусь сохранила промышленность, сельское хозяйство и самое главное свою национальную идентичность. У людей есть свобода передвижения, свобода слова в рамках закона и никакой культуры отмены. Нет эмигрантов сидящих на шее честных налогоплательщиков. Не решайте за нас как нам жить!
@@Алексей-ы5м1н Иди спать, Ватник.
Good video but seriously he needs to learn to speak at a constant speed. It's really hard to listen with him speeding up and slowing down and randomly stopping all in the same sentence.....
I'm still subscribing because this channel deserves it..
thanks for the feedback
At 1:00 and in the other parts of the video you are pronouncing the word "Belarusian" incorrectly. The correct way to say it can be found at 21:08 in the same video.
This may seem insignificant, but by pronouncing it as "Bela-Russian", you are rubbing the Belarusians the wrong way and encouraging the imperialist ambitions of Russia.
Thank you for pointing out the correct pronunciation
It seems that you are speaking on behalf of all Belarussians. How did that come about? Could you teach me about Russia's imperialist ambitions? Like, what makes their ambitions specifically imperialist? Is Nato an anti-imperialist organization?
@Bananas Are Berries And you are a perfect example of an imperialist mindset. Not so long ago, a certain someone also claimed that Ukrainians supposedly became so Russian, that they should be called Malorussians, Novorussians or whatever was his sick fantasy. And again, this can be probably just ignored when it's just a "joke" in some silly chat on the Internet. But it's not funny anymore when real invasions or annexations start. In the past, we used to not pay too much attention when the Russians persistently insisted on labelling Belarus as "Белоруссия" (Belorussia) or saying "на Украине" (a grammar construct, which intends to imply that Ukraine is supposedly not a country). Turned out, this was a way to express their imperialist views all along. And today there's nothing covert about it.
@Bananas Are Berries You may be not an imperialist yourself, but you are surely affected by the imperialist narrative and happily spreading it further. Which isn't doing anyone any favour. Regarding the "majority", it's just a bluff. The authorities are trying very hard to suppress any way to even hint person's political views. Even via something as bizarre as hunting down those, who are merely dressed in red-white clothes.
Belarus has name RUS WHITE or LITUANIAN. LItuanos of ITALY origin setle during NERONE TIME and founded LITUA BETWEEN SAMOGITIA AND KIEVAN RUS after mongolian invasion RUS was in ruble and Italians that called themselfes LItunos aborbed part of RUS that part become RUS LITUANOS OR WHITE. LITUANOS AB ITALIS ORIGINEM WRITEN ON STATUT GRAND DUCHY LITUANIA 1529
Glory to freedom🇺🇦⬜️🟥⬜️⬜️🟦⬜️
Russia never will have freedom
The population of greater Paris is 11m...
_Something important to know, for all who are interested in history and/or support Ukraine:_
_Rus' ought not to be confused with modern “Russia”, which derives its name from the Rus' but historically is a completely different state, which almost all its existence was at war with the Rus'._
_Just like the Holy Roman Empire was actually Germany, “Russia” is actually Muscovy, despite their best attempts to convince everybody otherwise._
_Its name “Russia" received only in the 18th century, when Peter I simply changed Muscovy’s name into the “All Russian Empire” (Russia originates from Rosia, name used by the Greek Orthodox Clergy in regards to Rus')_
_Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian._
_Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'. They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'._
_In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that. From that point on Muscovy started to make false claims on Rus' ownership._
_“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round, despite what Soviet and Russian (Muscovite) historians have been trying to say for years. A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot. Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village._
_Germany used to call itself the Holy Roman Empire, that didn’t mean they became the Romans, and all of a sudden had a right to claim whole of Italy and its history, but yet, that’s exactly what Russia (Muscovy) did in regards to Rus'-Ukraine, which is a horrible injustice!_
I only see a horrible lie here. There just a Ukrainian myth. It have nothing common with actual history.
Bruh, that's just an ultimate bullshit. Dude's knowledge of history is questionable at best. Yes, he said that Ivan III, the Grand Prince of the Grand Principality of Moscow, adopted the title "Sovereign of all Russia", but he forgot the more important event - fucking Proclamation of the Tsardom of Russia in 1547. So renaming "Muscovy" to Russia in 18th century is wrong. Plus already in the 16th century the Grand Principality of Moscow was called Russia on different foreign maps.
- "In 1493, Muscovite duke Ivan III appointed himself to be the Great Ruler of All Rus'. No other kings acknowledged that." That's also wrong. Among the first to acknowledge this were Danish kings and the Habsburgs, so it's also wrong.
- "Under the reign of Cathrine II Muscovites where even punished for continuing to identify as Muscovites, and were forced to call themselves Russian." Just sourceless bullshit.
- "“Russia” is an offshoot of Ukraine and not the other way round." Who appeared first - Russia or Ukraine? I think that answers what is wrong with that statement.
- "A Slavicised Finnic, then later, Mongolized offshoot." and "Rus'-Ukraine" I think this russophobic statement and another retarded statement shows where loyalties of this commentator lies.
- "Kyiv was a developed cultured capital when Moscow was just another swamp village." Yes, Kiev was founded in the 4th century, but these trans-ukrainians completely forgot the fact that Kiev wasn't founded by the Rus', but conquered in 882.
- "Lands that Russia (Muscovy) claims were part of the original Rus', but actually weren't, are Novgorod, Suzdal, and Ryazan, since in historical texts of XI-XII centuries they are mentioned as separate entities from Rus'." First of all, Rus' state originated near Novgorod, in Ladoga. Then the capital moved to Novgorod, and, ~20 years after the foundation of the Ancient Rus' state, it moved to Kiev. So Novgorod and other were the part of the original Rus'. There are 2 possible reasons why they are mentioned as a separate entities. 1. Ancient Rus' was organised more akin to a tribal confederation. 2. It was because of stupid succession law, where the eldest son would receive the title of the Grand Prince of Kiev, being the formal head of the Ancient Rus' state, and other sons would receive some local principalities to rule, the younger son was, the less important principality he would receive. But brothers always had their own interests, 'cause in case of death of the eldest son, the second one receives the title of the Grand Prince of Kiev, and every other one also "rank ups". And because of that there were constant conflicts between brothers, so it was somewhat logical to separate them in the chronicles. Also, Novgorodian Rus' or any other could have used to describe a region and not a state.
- "They can be considered parts of extended Rus', although their culture was distinct from main Rus'." No, it wasn't. Yes, they had differences because of the different biomes they inhabited, but they were united economically, linguistically and religiously, so they weren't fundamentally different from one another and that was one of the reasons that Rus' managed to reunite again in form of the Tsardom of Russia.
So yeah, this fucker just rewrites history in favour of Ukraine, 'cause real Ukraine doesn't have any real history, so some retards just try to create one by constant lying...
@@ВладСередюк-ф9ч incorrect, you are more than welcome to fact check everything. All I’m offering is the truth.
Сказки от сьвядомого дэбила-щеневмерлика. Московская Русь тоже была частью Руси, и люди себя там всегда звали русскими, как и везде на Руси. Никакой разницы нет совершенно. Учи историю и читай документы тех лет. Там везде будет московская Русь, назваться «Белой русью»
Ukrainian vs Russian is basically Cantonese vs Mandarin. Ukraine represents the early Kiev Rus the same way Cantonese represented the early Chinese language before the nomads and Manchurian repeatedly took over China and influenced the Chinese language. So serious pro-independence Hong Kongers and Cantonese best volunteer in the Ukrainian War of Independence.
Ok.... I need an explanation! Is Lukashenk"A" or Lukashenk"O"??
linguist here - Lukashenka in russian because russian reduces unstressed vowels. Lukashenko in Belarusian because vowels don't change.
good to know
@@quain5063 Jst the opposite! Belarussian is spelled phonetically, they say A and write A
@@quain5063 wrong, vice versa
@@enolaholmes3930 now I'm more confused 😂
Freedom from oppression can only come when freedom from russian tyranny has occurred. Do not give up as liberty is indeed a way of life that empowers all.
You mean American oppression who's deep state & CIA meddle in countries like starting coups. They invade many sovereign countries, kill millions based on lies like WMD and for so called democracy? Occupy countries with their 750+ bases and push their woke ideology on countries 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
No this is how we got into this I don't want to fight a war for freedom in Eastern Europe. I'm already supporting Ukraine I don't want anymore.
They have: Putin
Great video! Belarus was actually called Lithuania, until the Russian Empire took the country. After the USSR fell, the modern Lithuanians took the name, and claimed that they where the ones who created the Grand duchy of Lithuania. However, it is clear that most of the Grand duchy of Lithuania was in Modern day Belarus, where the language and culture was Belarusian.
@grvcbnmyefcsgkmvsdf Oh yes, sorry, i forgot to say it was a multinational state. My point is that everyone should agree that GDL was both the history of Belarus, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland. I don't think that we should erase GDL from any county's history that took part in it.
I was looking for this. Knew one of you clowns will show up to claim Belarus is the "real" Lithuania lmao. You should be grateful we don't mind sharing this history with you instead of stealing it, but that is what Russians do at the end of the day. Go ahead and spam your bullshit, but the real name of Belarus before it was Belarus is Gudija.
😂😂😂😂
Free Julian Assange.
😂😂😂 What a joke, I mean the title of this video. Ukraine? 😂😂😂 the most corrupt country in the world. Political prisoners, opposition non existent, incarcerated journalists, ....😂😂😂😂 Ukraine and its democracy 🤣🤣🤣
No Belarus now, probably better for Ukraine if the Belarusians are able to take control of their military and split Russian forces between Ukraine and Belarus.
Belarusians not “Belorussians”. This is not the Soviet Union.
Lol. What is the west saying?
Под свободой тут понимается исполнение программы Тихановской ? Та в которой она обещала «избавится от всего что не приносит прибыль» то есть медицины и образования ?
Everybody happy in Belarus
Jess olorand Diktator Baiden nou Diktator no interes .auf evri Lend .contry ❤
Dinosaur Despots
Maybe it's better to redraw the borders of some ex Sovjet states in order to stop this cycle... Some countries will lose some territory but gane a population thats ethnical same and other countries will win some ethnical the same population that now living in another country because of how the USSR was broken up not because they wanted too ..what gives problems again and again and wars and border classes with no resolution in side...
Oh Russia would love to do that. Absorb all their neighbours because people that speak russian live there.
Yes, Bolsheviks dumb border legacy must be destroyed. Novorossiya and Malorossiya are Russian. Ukraine should only keep one city: Lvov
We believe national goal of Belarus is to join the Nazis club similar to Ukraine Nazis now😅
The Nazis are in Russia.
Belarus peaked under the Lithuanians
Вы нас угнетали, дэбилы. Слава Графу Муравьеву-Виленскому, он дал Белорусам землю и власть и опустил летувашвайнов
If some country under russian control its not free.but if a country under control of usa (nato), its free.😂😂😂😂
😂 "Belarus also known as White Russia"
No shi*. That's what Bela Rus means...
Also Kievian Rus did not develop Slavic culture. It is derived from Slavic culture and developed East Slavic culture.
Belarus let Russian troops invade Ukraine through their territory, but sure, not a pawn of Putler
Seems to me that lukashenko is a great leader
lukashenko is a belarusian serial killer like vladimir putin
@@mauriciolizarbe4835 pig
Why?
OMG ... Russians, Belorusians, Ukranians - they all one nation - Russians, their languages are all one language - Russian, with all territorial, influenced by other languages and culture, historically mixed peoples.
They aren't, Ukrainian and Belarusian are distinct languages and cultures from russian, proven by Ukrainian brave fight for democracy.
Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians are one people, but different nations. Try to understand the difference.
@@---jv6vf No they are not one people. It's like saying Czechs are one people with Poles or Serbs are one people with Croats.
@@patrickb1811 I meant that Russians, Ukrainians and Belarusians genetically do not have significant differences, but, having different languages and cultures, they are different nations.
@@---jv6vf No difference genetically? I wouldn't say that really. Belarusians and Ukrainians yes, true. But Russians? Least Slavic country of them all. Look up genotypes and you will see that Russians are heavily 'mongolized' also with a lot of finno-ugric genetics. What they have in common is that they belong to the same ethnolinguistic group.
Belarus is free with Russia … what can Ukraine become expect a vassal of either west or Russia? It’s best for it to seek neutrality and be as a silent mouse.
Shut up boy!.
Theres a 3rd option. Become part of the west. Thats not the same as becoming a puppet, and will be amazing for ukraine.
Man, that boot must taste delicious
That’s true. Russia actually strengthened our sovereignty in the last decade. Don’t listen to these propagandists. We haven’t really given away a single inch of sovereignty, on the contrary, we are strengthening it.
What a goon.
Stay #Lukastronk
Breaking away from Russia would be a disaster for the Belarusians. I hope they find a better leadership soon
@JasperKlijndijk Ha, ludicrous! You could've said the same about Latvia many years ago...but you'd have been wrong then too.
Putin is that you 🤣 They already voted to leave the Ruzzian orbit, their elected President is in Lithuania
@@tnickknight Who said she is anti-Russian?
@@TheBobVova she has expressed a very clear desire for a free Belarus, not under the thumb of the criminal Putin.
@@tnickknight Obviously Belarus and Russia can be free only if they both are anti-Western. No matter Putin, Lukashenko or anybody else are ruling them.
💜Look at the crap Belarus did with Bald and Bankrupt💜
Lukashenko didn't mind what bald said. But he couldn't handle Alynchik bashing him every time someone mentioned Belarus to her.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryansk_Oblast