'I Will Defend It With My Life' | ALLIES in ESTONIA
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2022
- Estonia is a country that has been occupied several times, but by 1991, they'd had enough. Now a free and independent state for over 30 years, we asked Estonian soldiers what their country is like, what freedom means to them and what would happen if someone tried to take it away.
Filmed during Exercise Hedgehog in May 2022, our producers Amy and Joe wanted to take time out from filming the military aspect of the exercise and try to understand more about the country they were in, and it's relationship with Russia.
If you want to watch the other video we filmed during exercise 'SIIL', head over to our ACCESS playlist or click the link below:
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Stay strong Estonia and all fellow baltic states. Poland will always back you! Greetings!
Respect to Estonia 🇵🇱🤝🇪🇪
Respect Estonia 🇪🇪 ❤ 🇺🇸🦅
I have worked with Servicepersons from the Baltic states during Op Telic, they were 'salt of the earth'. They have the 'neighbors from hell' living next to them and they are ready.
What telic did you do?👍
@@rjar1651 Op Telic 1 and 2, then 10 and 11. I was RAF so overlaps 😁
@@David-tm4yj busy man 👍 I did 9
@@rjar1651 I had no choice, everyone else was going to the party 🤣🤣
@@rjar1651 The guy is a complete fool. Did Estonia defeat the Bolsheviks and the Germans? This is the joke of the century. Estonia was occupied by England. And so Estonia is a legitimate part of Russia.
Important to note: in large exercises like this you have 4 distinct groups of people working together. First you have active military personnel. Second is conscripts, third is reservists (i.e. people who have gone through conscripts and are now in reserve) and the fourth group is the defence league. These are volunteers who train on a more-or-less regular basis to defend the country. I personally have gone through conscription and am now in reserve.
This is interesting, intelligent and informative in a subtle manner. Thank you.
NATO has woken up. Thank God 🇬🇧
@MarkUKMTT Lots of truth there but we've only just paid off lease lend with the US in the UK from that war and now have to get busy as the Ukraine war is one worth fighting and all in armed forces want off the leash
We're right here with you :)
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Thank you for sharing
Estonia is such a beautiful country. Especially Tallinn looks like something out of Star Trek because they are so modern but still has a lot of old, wonderful buildings. Can't wait to get back there.
Visiting Estonia today. Such a lovely and brave nation 🇪🇪
As an aside, Estonia looks like a very nice place. That town could have been in somewhere like the Czech Republic and the countryside looks lovely.
The reason is simple- we have no multicult in rural areas. It's great, I don't even bother locking my car doors :)
@@chriskoort5717 This is the legal territory of Russia. Like the Indians in America.Only Russia needs it more. This is the exit to the Baltic Sea. Revel. the British would have hanged all Estonians long ago. Well, they want to die. What to do. Starting from 2021, Estonia will receive 4.8 billion euros from the EU for 1.3 million people over 7 years. On the scale of Russia, this is 600 billion euros. And compensation from the EU and the USA of 100 trillion euros, dollars for Lenin, Hitler and Yeltsin's support in 1993.
@@chriskoort5717 What do you mean by "mulicult"?
Estonia is gorgeous place my partner is Estonia much love for them from uk
Long May there be peace in Estonia. Slava Estonia, Slava Ukraine.
Enough about ukraine
@@2137xd ah yes, its past its time, lets forget about innocent people dying.
@@ashleygoggs5679 exactly
@@2137xd = cockwomble.
@@Vote_Reform_2024 🤣🤣🤣did we forget that in order for russia to take these lands they had to take them by force... so these people killed in Donetsk and Luhansk are killed by russians. Nowhere on the internet are there bodies scattered all over the place signifying deaths like in bucha for example. Russia says there are dead civilians without a shred of evidence... how do you honestly believe that shit?
As an Estonian it brings me joy seeing our country getting some recognition despite how small our country is.
Elagu Eesti!
I have fought alongside of the best militaries in the world and I can say for certain that Estonian army is one of the best.
Excellent video, well done!
Elagu Eesti ❤️
“THE COST OF FREEDOM IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE”
' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty - to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” Abraham Lincoln
Greetings from Poland, your allie Rzeczpospolita Polska. NATO We've got your back.
An entirely moving video.
Cheers 🍻…..🇨🇦🫡🇪🇪
Stay strong Estonia 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇬🇧💪
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1918-1920 independence war with soviet ruSSia and even with german Iron Landswehr. .Both got beaten
Iron division and Landeswehr*
@@kapsaline The guy is a complete fool. Did Estonia defeat the Bolsheviks and the Germans? This is the joke of the century. Estonia was occupied by England. And so Estonia is a legitimate part of Russia.
@@user-bu5hd1bq5l England didn’t occupie any regions in that close region in that century and never has. The brits were there with their warships to support Estonia, as Estonia was an inportant trade allie at that time and had done a lot of so to say lobby work in Brittan. Even went on to buy submarines after the independence war.
The Estonians and the Finns are some of the oldest groups of people in Europe, the first Europeans to say so. With the first of them being recorded around 12 000 years ago, with them belived to be there from allready 14 000 years ago. The Estonian state as it is, first appeard in around 1200 AD, when the before seperated local groups united to figth the invaders. Otherwise trough history Estonians lived in smaller spread out groups. Some that even survive nowdays with their own culutre like the SETO’s, Võru people, and the Island cultures.
Otherwise most of the more modern century Estonia spent itself time under the Swedish rule, with only the east of Estonia often being occupied by Russia, tho to small portions to be called an real part of Estonia at that time.
Sweden was the longest occupier, then comes russia with something like 200 years less than Sweden counting in the Soviet time too. And then smaller stuff like the Danish years that were in thr start when mainstream religion was brougth in and pushed upon the Estonian population in the north in around 1400 AD. The Germans on the other hand came to the south and to the islands around the same time. These groups of people came to become Lords and they and their familie trees came to live under the diffrent rules of time trough history until 1880-1900-1920. 1880 was important as a lot of rigths were given to the Estonian people then, followed by huge developments in technology, schools and industry. At that time Estonia was under the Russian Tsar, and because if it’s proximity to St. Petersburg, I t became one of the centers of Russian industry at the time, with one of thr worlds biggest factory being built in Narva. This play didn’t play in favour of the Russian Tsar tho, because of his bad management and the losses of the war had led him to have the reds try to overthrow him in Russia, what also spiked long awaited rebellion in the occupied territories to. The reds failed to get to power in Estonia, but succeeded in Russia, what led them to later on invade Estonia and all the other Russian occupied territories at that time, what were in the hands if the white Russians and the local people. In Estonia the Estonians declared independence in 1918 what led to the reds invading Estonia. The managed to push out to the half of Estonia and near Tallinn, as the army wasnot prepared or trained or armed. The morale was low both amongst the people and the army, but it was in the end the students who ran out of schools and onto the battlefields with any weapons they could get their hands on. The reds were stopped and then pushed back, with the weapons that the English had donated at the same time in Tallinn. This included ww1 stuff lime machine guns and so on. Modern weaponary compared to what the reds were using.
The reds were pushed back, and Estonians liberated their lands, and even beat the German Iron Landswehr divisions to the south that was planning to occupy Latvia. This meant that the Estonians took Riga while in the other end of the country they were trying to get St. Petersburg.
The Estonians never managed to capture St. Petersburg, but they came into the city borders, and they managed to capture the city of Pskov too. What happens then was that the Estonians did not wish ti push further, and they had no wish for an puffer zone. So they made the reds as the losers of this conflict sign and Peace treaty, the Tartu Peace treaty, that statet that the Russian army would never invade Estonia again and Estonia would get to keep it’s historical lands. It took only 20 years until the reds broke the treaty and invaded again. In the ww2.
Even to this day Russia is breaking the Tartu Peace Treaty by occupying Ivangord, and Petseri.
So your understanding of the local history of Estonia is completely wrong, bs or your brainwashed…
@@user-bu5hd1bq5l No Estonian government actually offered to be part of Great Britain but they declined. Also finns were much more important than Brits in our war of independence.
Also white Russians helped us a lot.
You are just salty
@@kapsaline The white Russians helped organize the police in 1918-1919, but Estonia then shot at them when they attacked 15,000 against 65,000 in the autumn of 1919, which Lenin collected and there are still plenty of reserves in St. Petersburg. And then they retreated to Estonia, but they were not allowed in. Also, England did not help the White Russians, although there simply a decisive approach of British troops would simply lead to the flight of the leaders to Moscow. Finland could defend itself, using the terrain, but in Estonia there is no such terrain, lakes, huge stones. It was just a verbal threat to Lenin from England. England, France demanded even from Admiral Kolchak's Whites to separate the Baltic Sea coast and deprive Russia of access to the Baltic Sea, although at the same time England bombed Ireland and has access to the sea 100 km from any city. A month ago I found out about the 1872 Tsaritsyn or Volgograd railway, from the Volga River to the port of Riga. I have just been connected since 1898 with the city of Borisoglebsk on the railway and then the Mud station 70 km from Voronezh, this is therapeutic mud. Therefore, the mother of her sister's husband, a Lithuanian woman, still traveled by train Riga to this Mud station. It intersects here with the road to the south, the Black Sea, the Caucasus.
Long live estonia 🇪🇪 🤝
It looks like where I live in Maine, USA!
SLAVA ESTONIA!!
They aren't Slavic...
ELAGU EESTI!🇪🇪
@@Lochamp Elagu Eesti There better?
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It was Ukraine not Russia
Next time we wont sing... next time we have our weapons and people ready!
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God the Father loves you so much that He sent Holy Sinless Jesus (His Holy Son) to earth to be born of a virgin.Then, to grow up and die on a cross for our sins. He was in the tomb for 3 days, then Father God raised Holy and Sinless Jesus Christ (Y'shua) to Life! He appeared to people & went back to Heaven. We must receive Sinless Jesus sincerely to be God's child(John 1:12).After we get saved by grace through faith in Christ, if we truly love the Lord Jesus Christ, then we will obey Jesus(John 14:15). Mark 1:15 "And saying, the time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: Repent ye, and believe the gospel." Jesus said in John 14:15 "If you love Me, keep My commandments. "There's a real hell. It says in Revelation 21:8 "But for the cowardly, & unbelieving, & abominable, & murderers, & immoral persons sorcerers & idolaters & all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire & brimstone..." Please sincerely receive Holy Jesus and put your true faith and trust in Him today and please repent. Will you have a Real encounter with Holy Lord Jesus (Y'shua is His Hebrew Name) and stay in a Genuine relationship with Him daily please?
No!
Christianity is a joke
@@Mihail2204 nope
@@thechef7438 if it’s not a joke then how do you explain gay priests? Being gay is against the book yet they still continue to be a priest and no one does anything, you can say anything you want about Christianity and no one will do shit, try that with a better religion like Muslim and you’ll get killed
Ignore these cretin who see faith as a weakness and feel gives licence to attack others who was both polite and offered only opinion.They clearly never served is Sh*t
lol nobody mentionet finland. finland fought for estonians independency, they have same national anthem. seems like they just dont know things
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😆😆 like they have a chance
I agree, it would be suicidal for Russia to trouble these guys.
@@marviwilson1853 thanks to Ukraine and the influence of the west, estonia has sent 1/3 of their supplies to Ukraine, they’re not that strong anymore
@@Mihail2204 That's a strange conclusion to reach when you take into account that Estonia is part of NATO. Lots of soldiers arrived recently, tanks, Eurofighter jets, warships, etc, etc, etc. Due to the situation in Ukraine, Estonia has more fire power on its territory now than probably at any time in its past.
@@marviwilson1853 NATO does nothing but give supplies, I can’t wait for this “article 5” to be used only to be let down by the west and have them ignore everything
@@Mihail2204 I can assure you that is not how it goes and for that reason I hope we never see Article 5 triggered. The good news is that the Russian army is so poor and under performing that a move on NATO would be suicidal for Russia. They are struggling to fight the Ukrainian army and resistance let alone the French, Germans, British, Americans, Canadians, etc, etc. You get the point
lets keep giving taxpayer money to the ukraine immigrants
No
Why not you were one yourself now close your IP, please
Refugees for a better word in true form
@@skeletonkey6733 what do you mean “you were one yourself”? I’m not Ukrainian and the taxes in Estonia are already high enough and we have better things to worry about and use the taxpayer money for than some ukrainians
@@Mihail2204 Then these days I seam to spend more time there than you do and have clearly Putins persuance I will flag to EFIS and ESS
Could you have possibly found a more effeminate group of recruits? These look like they will surrender as soon as their phone battery runs out )
Every man in Estonia serves in the army, and they will fight if they have to. Survival is a strong motivator.
@@Kevc00 Even the baltic minorities? (you know who im talking about)
@@hazywayz7264 the numbers of Russians are low and are almost all situated at the borders
@@Kevc00 So they dont serve?
@@Kevc00 Also I have been to Tallinn, I would say half the city seems to be russian
Pretty cute try harder
Clowns 😂😂😂
eks ta üks hale propaganda ole jah; aga - meil on ka neid, kelle suhtes SAAST niisama lihtsalt ei toimi.
Russian tibla of course, who else, no surprise.
COCCU XYU bolchevik
No, the Russian army knows a little bit about what they are doing.
@@marviwilson1853 and you know everything