How War In Ukraine is DERUSIFYING Baltic States
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- 🇱🇹✨ Explore how Lithuania and the Baltic states are actively derussifying and standing strong against Russian influence. 🇱🇻🇪🇪 Learn about their historical struggles, current political actions, and unwavering support for Ukraine. 🇺🇦✊ Understand why these countries are drawing a clear line in the sand, rejecting Russian cultural and political presence, and leading the charge for a free and independent future. 🌍🚫 #Derussification #Lithuania #Latvia #Estonia #StandWithUkraine #BalticSolidarity #NoToRussianAggression #HistoricalStruggles #PoliticalActions #EuropeanUnity #BalticResistance #Independence #SupportUkraine #EuropeanRobotics #Lithuania #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine #Derussification #BalticSolidarity #NoToRussianAggression
#themilitaryshow
The video didn't get in to why there are so many Russians in the three states. It's because Russia deported non-Russians and imported Russians in a deliberate attempt to undermine national movements during the Soviet era. Kinda makes sense these countries tell those unwanted imports to either assimilate or emigrate.
Lithuanians had less of them cause Partisans were a lot bigger in Lithuania and also becasue of it or for some other reason even communist leaders in Lithuania were like ya better not have Russians in our territory or else some shit will blow up.
Yes, a classic russian tactic, they did the same thing in Crimea during WW2, and are doing the same in Mariupol now
Here you are quite wrong; in the Soviet Union there was a practice of distributing young specialists who had graduated from university. That is, upon graduating from university, you had a guaranteed job, where they usually had to work for up to 5 years. Places were distributed depending on their academic performance, excellent students could choose their place of work from the list, for example, an excellent student from Latvia could get a job in Moscow, of his choice, or stay in Latvia, but a student with average results could be sent, for example, to Vladivostok. But after you worked for 5 years, you could get a job wherever you wanted. And this system worked for decades. For example, my mother is from Karelia, but her parents are from Moscow and Kranodar. My cousin's mother is from Kazakhstan. Came to work as a surveyor after graduating from university.
@@tsugumorihoney2288 are you for real? literally hundred of thousands or people from Baltics (but also poland and other countries occupied by soviet union) were packed on wagons and sent to siberia as soon as ww2 was over, thousands died and they were replaced by russian population that was brought in to weaken any national spirit that was left in these countries
this has nothing to do with any student distribution program lol
and still join the EU
DeRussification is completely legitimate. They were forcibly Russified in the first place, so as an ethnic country, they are entitled to restore it to what it should be.
ruSSian "culture" is an oxymoron. I have more culture in a cup of yogurt.
Sounds exactly the same as denazification to me… you know like how you can be racist to black AND white people…
Call it by whatever name you like
When you do it in your own country it’s cool… when you try to do it in somebody else’s country… its a problem
i can not wait to see your face in 10 years with your EU style etno state
inshallah
salem aleikum
@@vvv-o9y Au contraire, it's Europeans first from now on.🐪
Greg,
I agree
While visiting Vilnius Lithuania, I toured the former KGB headquarters which is now a museum. I can fully understand the deep seated distrust and outright hatred of anything Russian by the Lithuanian people.
They have a longer history...um.... contacts, than dating back to the USSR. Russia had imperial ambitions in the region. Not that the world's only one in the era, but one of the few that so openly with them still, despite the 21st century.
Yes but you do not understand now they are watching you via your stupid "smart" phone the jews 100 times worse than the then KGB who lacked this technology
Continue further - say that you understand the deep anti-Semitism of the Baltic states due to the fact that most of the NKVD officers were Jews. Oh yeah, the current agenda doesn’t allow me to say that.
My grandfather was deported when he was 7 by the russians. Their whole, Lithuanian family was deported to Siberia, for no reason. I have changed my surname yet, but i will, only two of the people are still alive bearing that name. Russians wanted to, - erase it. The family had too many intellectuals. He ate one piece of a chocolate bar in 3 years while there. He remembers it being the most tasty thing ever :D
Their build themselves houses out of the woods in the forest. Local russian villages, came and took those houses away...
After 3 years, a note was delivered, that, ,,Okay, - you can come back''.
Sad truth is even though the headquarters do a magnificent job of representing and teaching it, it only scratches the surface
As a resident of Latvia, I can mention a few more steps we have taken regarding derussification. Two years ago, we dismantled over 100 monuments that glorified the Soviet era and the Red Army. We are gradually eliminating Russian-language media. Cars with Russian license plates are not allowed in Latvia.
It is forbidden in Latvia to praise Russia or its war activities in any way. We have no shortage of Russians who feel deeply connected to Moscow and Putin. The overall direction of our country sends a clear signal to these people: the Russian times are over. From now on, Latvian culture and language will be our priority; the era of bilingualism is in the past. Russian speakers who do not feel a sense of belonging to Latvia and are dissatisfied with Latvia's steps have the option to leave the country and head east if their hearts so desire.
Saules mūžu Latvijai!
Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👍
based
love from Australia
Bravo, you guys are in NATO, no need to fear a Russian response
😃👏👏👏💪🤛
And meanwhile Latvia charging Latvians with 40% tax and leaving residents with empty pockets while government stealing and living the dream
I am Polish. And I can only say: well done, Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian brothers. We see how much you support Ukraine and how much effort you spend for your own and Europe's safety. Proud to have allies like this. We know we can rely on you and be assured, you can also rely on Poland.
Poland is the most reliable ally to us aswell!
Thank you, we care about you, too. Let's stick together.
🎉
love from Estonia 🇪🇪❤️🇵🇱
Love from Latvia to 🇱🇻
A salute and solidarity to our Baltic brothers. Never again shall Russia oppress our countries. Love from Finland.
love back from estonia ❤❤❤
Love from Latvia, perrrrkele vittu❤
And from Lithuania :)
Know how many Russians care about baltics existing? Zero.
Russia never oppressed Finland.
The Baltic states have balls of steel. Well done 👏 🇬🇧
Because they’re part of NATO and have guaranteed protection of the US.
Racist States
Because putler finds it a reason for a "special military operation", just look at how hitler did it to czechoslovakia, its all the same.@@aleck5andrs443
@@aleck5andrs443 keep on yapping. As a fellow Latvian, I can se most of your points are kinda bs, or at least willfully ignorant.
After the fall of the Soviet union, nobody promised anything to the Russian speakers in Latvia. Russian was a language everybody knew, and business dealings with Russia were still easier than looking towards the west in the early days, so Russian remained as a second language, and Russian speakers just assumed a comfortable status quo.
The biggest thing is, nobody is forcing Russians to speak only Latvian. The "people too old to learn the language" have been here for decades and had plenty of time to learn. Also, the only people forced to take the Latvian proficiency tests are people who willingly denounced their Latvian citizenship and took on a Russian one to get their pension earlier, or Russian citizens that live here permanently. Russian schools taught Latvian too, and Russian has never been an official language here after the collapse of the USSR. All Russian speaking people had absolutely enough time to at least learn some Latvian, yet many didn't. Tough shit.
Historically, during the USSR times, Latvian traditions were forbidden officially, however, they were practiced within families. Schools taught Latvian, yes, but nothing about the culture or history post Russian empire. If they did, it was the doing of a creative teacher. Nobody celebrated any of it officially.
The vast majority of the Russian people here were imported in the 40s and 50s, after 100s of thousands of Latvians were deported. German was more common than russian as a 1st and 2nd language until the USSR occupation. Most of the Russian speakers in Latvia haven't been here for generations, and they still have had plenty of time to learn the language.
The teacher point is just idiotic, the older generation of teachers from back in the USSR times were actually considered great teachers, they've simply retired. By the time I finished school in 2017, only a small handful of them were left, vs back when I started in 2005.
You said it yourself, Russian is the unifying factor between those nationalities in Russia. So, how about, learn the local language? You can practice your traditions and speak Russian in your home all you want, just be bilingual (or more) like almost every single Latvian.
So, in short, nobody is prosecuting you for speaking Russian. At worst, you might be "prosecuted" (not exactly) for NOT speaking Latvian.
Huy sosy pydar
Cheers from Poland to our brothers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia!
love to Poland from Estonia! 🇪🇪❤️🇵🇱
The map at the beginning was a bit wrong. Before the France fell, Germany and USSR had already ravaged through the neighbourhood attacking PL and the Baltic.
@@miyonami love poland to frome estonia
As a Brit, The UK fully stands with the decisions administered by the 3 Baltic States! I am all for these actions for Derussifying the countries to hold the Russian Federation accountable! Much respect from The UK
🇬🇧❤️🇪🇪
🇬🇧❤️🇱🇻
🇬🇧❤️🇱🇹
Lost two uncles in Oct of 1945 in Lithuania, They went to sign up for police services. Russians sent them to Siberia. Never heard from again. Age 19 and 21. First generation Canadian here in Canada. No love lost from Baltic people.
Is Canada still the best country in the world? Speaking as a long-standing mourner of my parent’s retreat back to Belfast, N. Ireland in July 1958 after less than 11 months. My lucky brother Howard was born in June 1958 and he reclaimed his Canadian citizenship in 2000, never to return to the UK. 😢
Damn, so sad. I lost 99.999% of my bloodline. They went to buy some bread from store and got sent to Syberia for walking too slow and i never heard of them ever again 😢😢😢 100% true story 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
My grandgrandmother from Latvia was sent to Siberia, but she came back.
@@EdwardPCampbell Well it's slowly being overrun by Indians and our Prime Minister is running us into the ground, check back when we get a new PM
I can feel ya. A lot of Ukrainians also were sent long time ago even before sovidet union to gulags to siberia. modern ruskis cannot understand, from where in siberia the "borsch" red soup. It is Ukr national meal. Maybe because of tens of thousands were sent there once a long time ago.
As a Ukrainian, I am eternally grateful for these three sane nations. Will never forget your help ❤
I'm sorry not many troops are helping besides training, how bad is it over there? I honestly can't tell how far russia is rn and I wanna know if ukrain got this? I've always been wary of Russia do to its nature in its history
@@IzukuMidoriya-qn8hp they are now trying to breach Kharkiv and Sumy defense lines, probably to divert personnel from Kramatorsk region, but thus far they haven't achieved much, although they are now wiping city of Vovchansk from the face of the earth, like they did Avdiivka, yesterday their column inside russia heading towards Sumy region got blasted heavily, the convoy was similar to what we seen in Kyiv region at the start of the war
I understand you are grateful, but I worry about Lithuania punishment Russians and Belarusians in their country (simply for where they come from) being used as a catalyst for Russia to "rescue" them
@@DavyCDiamondback none will punish anyone if you are normal
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
To be fair, Russia is like a toxic ex you don't want anything to deal with anymore
Only that nobody willingly joined Russia in any part of their history. Nobody would want Russia as their partner. :D
Saying that Russia was an ex is implying that there was some sort of romantic relationship to begin with. In reality it's just a kidnapper who went unpunished eyeing his victims all over again
hard to call that an "ex", more of a stalker who kidnapped you, keeps telling you that you should be thankful for the kidnapping, and is perfectly vocal about how they could kidnap you anytime again if they so wished. not hard to believe why the Baltics are doing everything in their power to prevent it.
@@elisterr What are you talking about? Millions of residents of Donbass and Luhansk region are doing everything in their power to disconnect from the garbage dump of Ukraine and join Russia.
@@oranje-vrystaat3182 Yeah, no. Quite the opposite actually, since al the men were drafted to serve the pigs in Moscov, both of those state's population hates Russia now more than ever. They voted for zelensky during the late 2010's even, and even before 2022. What does this tell you?
"Having Russia as a neighbor is like living in the same house with a rabid dog".
Mircea Eliade- Romanian Historian
I would rather say: "Living next to russia is like anti-cancer therapy. It destroys the body in the hope of stopping relapses.”
Like his words hold any weight or meaning, bro didnt even live in communist romania nor was he ever in russia to tell how it actually is
@@Silver_Prussian Did he live in Romania while Russia ran a proxy war in Moldova? That would seem sufficient.
@@Silver_Prussian Whataboutism rulez!
@Silver_Prussian Moskal))
Seeing how Ruzzia treats its own soldiers and how historically the Soviet Union treated the Baltic citizens, is it any wonder why the Baltics want nothing to do with the Ruzzian Mir? Look how the Baltics have prospered as part of the EU and NATO compared to their lack of prosperity as part of the Soviet Union.
Not only that their true historical heritage is more in common with the Nordic countries, Norse and Uralic cultures, which ruski have tried to destroy. They have done a good job to there is alot of people who are unaware of this.
@Booz2020 Slava to Freedom and to all Free People
Taiwan is true China!
Seeing how the ukraine treats its own citizens and makes a new slavery system is same as the insanity of the baltics states. I can't even understand why Baltics so support fascism like in the ukraine
Seeing how the ukraine treats its own citizens and makes a new slavery system is same as the insanity of the baltics states. I can't even understand why Baltics so support fascism like in the ukraine
0:51 Hey, that's us! Thank you for using our decision as an example!
you are heroes!
Kudos. You did the right thing and I hope someone out there remembers and gives you the opportunities you deserve.
Thank you for support us! If you ever need 2-3D animation video for your team - I’m at your service for free
gerai padaret bachurai
Great gesture! I hope that you will have another even better chance to break into robotic industry :) stay sharp and keep being awesome! Greetings from Poland!
so sorry for those courageous Lithuanian school students.
they should have been rewarded for showing they have a moral compass and for standing up for what is right.
they have more spine than the competition organisers.
This story got huge in Lithuania. They were afterwards rewarded by the mayor of Vilnius, visited by the Lithuanian PM, got a lot of publicity, and even got a standing ovation during a basketball game.
Doing whats right rarely gives individual rewards, what it does is build a good society for everyone.
As Estonian, I really think that RUSSIA TODAY represents worst possible behaviour- barbarism.
Gaasikambrid teeme neile
@@maacha286 lol try it. You will regret it.
@@hulking_presence sibul
cry
@@hulking_presencekaka
The selflessness and solidarity of the Lithuanian robotics students is amazing! Respect to them!
Nice baltics were popular for their cars and electronik one of the best countries in USSR now they clean toilets in europe and sell tuna,what a disgrace,what a fall
Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia, small in real estate but looming large on the world stage when it comes to fighting the evil intent and protecting the west. My hat is off to them, they are definitely brave and proud people.
Too bad most young people left these countries
Mostly left Russian soldiers with there families since 1991. But for example in Estonia population only dropped from 1.4 in 2000 to 1.3 in 2024.
Wrong . @@cactuslietuva
If they are invaded by russia (again) then there will be many who will be honored to help defend them. never again will the world sit by and let oppressive and tyrannical nations try to subjugate there smaller neighbors by fear and force. the baltics are now strong enough to fight for their survival.
Supressing minority rights is evil in my book.
Deportation numbers were wrong:
The total number of deportees in the period 1944-1952 is estimated at 124,000 for Estonia, 136,000 for Latvia and 245,000 for Lithuania
deportations started in 1941, and numbers are higher
The video I think was just talking about the numbers until the Germans took over, not what was deported the second time the Soviet Union got control.
I understood these numbers are about 14 of June 1941 deportations, not about all of them.
Those are numbers people who died , not deported
they also deported Russians too they also killed 25000 Russian scientists Russian teachers Russian business people so Russian people was suffering as much as we did , russian shops was empty they did not have what to eat same as we did not. So dont make this shit onoy about soviet union acupied countries , communists did same thing with they own people as with everyone else
Those who have lived under the heel are justified to be wary of the boot. I stand with the Baltic States and Ukraine and hope one day the common people of Russia learn and rise up against the dictatorship and system of corruption they live under.
Thanks for wishing us to die
@@alexander8877 Stop your hysterics.
I personally don’t want it, as like 9/10 people i know. Putin is the reason why east of russia isn’t conquered by chinese troops and west of russia doesnt depend on cia. And you very wrong about lose of russia. As long as slavic russian state exist there will be war in europe
At least the Russian invasion of Ukraine had the positive effect of uniting the European nations and bringing them together.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@Dino-hv7rnyou can laugh but it IS happening.
@@iandennis7836 i just watching all things from Nuland action in 2014. I'm not happy all knows what can be. When midgets are biggest actors on scene... Something went wrong
@@iandennis7836 indeed, it is happening, I'm so happy about it....
@@Dino-hv7rn it's happening bro. And just so you know, russia is so screwed you have no idea!
I feel that the Baltic States are totally correct in their actions. We in the west, need to get on board and listen to what they are telling us. 🇪🇪 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇬🇧
you guys don't listen at all.
@@purpplekushh Not only that, small countries of a union aren't taken seriously. That's what I gathered from this video. Or rather small countries aren't on the same level as the big complacent countries.
better even if we had listened earlier
Trying to force Lithuanians to work alongside Russians is like trying to force someone to work alongside their abuser! It's pretty disgusting actually and I fully support those Lithuanian teams for refusing!
Most of russians abroad are against the war overall, and you want to punish 14 year olds for something they can't control?
It’s not like, that’s literally what it is to us.
@@hawktalon2433 - True, true.
Might wanna keep the baltics out of competition until they grow up then
@@uralcrusader5621 might wanna keep ruZZians out of competitions until they develop their own parts for robots.....
I'm from Lithuania, and I can assure you that the derusifying has been happening for a long time. When the war happened it just went into overdrive and sped up.
@voidlandguy as Lithuanian I can say that you will be safe, BUT.. probably a lot of people won't be happy to face you, especially young generation. If you know other languages like English, I advice you to speak in English
Lithuania lost at least 130k people to deportations during deportations
Baltic states are correct in their actions.
We always were. And we had been saying since 2014 that russia will bring war. Yet no one listened...
Baltics states bring lots of cringe today. The most silly things happens there
@@andrebyche31 lol. Like what?
@@deividasnavickas like removing the education in Russian for children from Russian families, the suggestion to destroy St. Alexander cathedral in Tallinn and things like that
@@andrebyche31 anything of any resembles of russia must go.
The Baltic states are correct.
@andyhurrell I wouldn't call it a divorce, more like escaping a kidnapper.
@@saywhaat595 escaping an arranged marriage
Well no shit
Baltic States are the Greatest example!!!🇱🇹 🇱🇻 🇪🇪
Big love from Croatia for the 3 Great countries in the Baltics! Keep being your unique selves!
Funny thing is to people that aren’t from the Baltic this probably seems extreme and unnecessary but to me i think it’s really not enough I just can’t stand the 70 year old Russians always yelling about how bad it is in Latvia and how that pitiful excuse for a country they call their motherland is so much better and if they could they would just go back to it but no matter what you do you can’t get them out of here they would probably rather die than go back to Russia but they definitely can’t stop saying how much they hate it here Dievs svētī Latviju
YEAH, same here with our Ruskis 🇱🇹 I get surprised how we're kind enough to spare their feelings
Doesn't seem extreme to me. Being from the US, a country built on immigration, the difference with Russification and normal immigration couldn't be more stark. I work with a lot of South Asian and Indian immigrants. They're looking to improve their lives and the lives of their children, and they enrich our culture and our economy. It's not like India is trying to impose some large-scale demographic change in the US or using it as a pretext for invasion. That would be silly. Russia on the other hand - this has been their game for time immemorial. "Protecting" Russians is always among their excuses for naked imperialism. They have a long history of using this strategy to destroy nations and peoples. For Poland, the Baltics, or any other country that has the misfortune of bordering Russia, the slow invasion is an existential threat. They have to do everything in their power to preserve their own security, language, and culture.
Help them to leave...😂
do not forget that NAzi Gemrany AND the Soviets, todays Russia, started WW 2 together by splitting Poland !
I am also annoyed when this is overlooked. Russia started the damn ww2, and it was on Germany's side, yet it is seen as a good guy, only because they did a switcheroo at some point in the war. So did Romania, but Romania is still rightfully considered a loser of the war. One good deed doesn't absolve the rest. But with Russia there isn't even one good deed. It's not like they gave Poland back all the lands they took from Poland in WW2, yet they had the audacity to force the Polish into an alliance afterwards.
@@nydydndamn, so true. Im also annoyed that everyone ignores the fact who actually sponsored Nazi germany back in 1940's. Nobody is talking that USA actually started ww2 and instead just stick to the belief that the following action of invading poland was actually a reason.
yeah, it's weird how the Russians acted like they were the heroes all these years. With them calling WW2 the great patriotic war lol what a joke :D They were lesser of 2 evils, the allies had to work with them against the Nazis that's it.
Italy did too... The thing though is (not the splitting of Poland thing) that the Axis powers did have a point that British and French imperialism were oppressive forces. (They used this as justification for becoming oppressors as well), but when peoples caught wind of the Holocaust, they decided Britain was the lesser evil. Italians thanked America as great liberators (And this attitude of America as a force for liberty caused us to believe we could act as world police until Vietnam made us question everything... Never the less, 9/11 happened and we used that as an excuse to justify Liberating Iraq, thinking we'd be greeted as heroes like in Italy... but our Cold War victory was always shortlived, as the only superpower, it was easy to paint America as the biggest threat to the world, and Russia seized on this in Syria... and is still trying to convince Ukraine that America is never coming to rescue them and that Mother Russia still "loves" them)
Russia is history's biggest nazi collaborator
I was born in Latvia in a Russian family and I have to say that derusification is totally understandable. Knowing the history of russification of Baltics it's no surprise that sooner or later Latvia would fight against the bilingualism. It's kinda sad though, that a ton of people are getting fired because they don't speak Latvian on a certain level, but I think in long years of living in Latvia they should've already learned the language by now and not only speaking Russian, for example, cause they live in Daugavpils(the most russian-speaking town imo). I myself learned Latvian from the young age and even though Russian was my first language, I will not fight my way into speaking to someone in Russian(like some do).
I'm Latvian. 20 years old, so too young to have been affected by the soviet times. Also history was never something I was interested in. But every time I'm reminded of what happened, I feel like I was attacked personally, so this gives me a pleasant sense of... not even revenge - more like poetic justice.
Kāda nu tur poēzija. Man vienīgi pietrūkst video apskatā teiktā, ka papildus Ukrainas atbalsta akcijai, tas ir spiediens uz absolūto valodas ignoranci, kura piemīt krieviem Latvijā. Nespēja iemācīties un vēlme pateikt pāris vārdus latviski pat 2024. gadā ir vnk pilsoņkara aukstais variants. Un mātuška viņiem nespēs vairs palīdzēt ))
It runs through our genes lol. I may have not experienced the soviet times myself, but i hate that my parents and grandparents had to.
Baltic states as independent states will take any measures to safeguard their independence and security, even if we presume that EU and NATO will not take it seriously. There still other options on table and individually and in cooperation with other states we are already taking preventive steps. The actions of Baltic states are only normal, considering situation in Europe and in wider world.
Never again should Russia touch baltic states , we deserve our freedom hundreds of years fought for it.
@@user-ph4wi4sy2phundreds? Dude. Your righteous fight took billions of years. You know why dinosaurs went extinct? Because Russia was desperately losing against baltic union and had to release a meteor to earth.
@@user-ph4wi4sy2pthese are not baltic states. These are 3 independent and different countries!
@@lauriL90 whats the point of your comment this is a name for countries near the baltic , who were baltic tribes as "baltic states" google this
@@user-ph4wi4sy2pit doesn't really matter...
All my respect and admiration for Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and Poland! Such AMAZING AND COURAGEOUS PEOPLE. 👏🇵🇭👏
Thank you from Poland! 🇵🇱❤️🇵🇭
And no one can cast shade on the 3 Baltic Nations for making it difficult for Russians in their countries. Russia has a habit of declaring any patch of land a Russian once walked through to be historical Russian land and invading.
This is exactly what Americans do to Native Americans (so called Indians) , Russia never invaded Europe, but it was invaded 5 times from the West, and today is the 6th one, so NATO get out of Russia now!
@@alexandrosonassis3436 what? was russia any kinder to it's own population even? let alone to those it conquered when I went all directions away from moscow to create a ''buffer''. The mindset of russian rulers has historically been ''make russia bigger, influence bordering nations either by peace or by force'' and rince and repeat until they felt they had enough hundreds of kilometers of territory away from their capital, so they can do what any ruler has done in history. Exploit them to the best of their ability. Democratic countries have just had this exploitation switch from the government, to companies.
@@alexandrosonassis3436 Russia never invaded Europe? Say that to Poland. Or Czechia. Or Slovakia. Or Turkey. Or Ukraine. Or the three Baltics. Or Finland. I mean how do you think they acquired Kaliningrad.
@alexandrosonassis3436 Ah the power of "what aboutism". People like you seem to try and excuse terrible behavior by bringing up completely unrelated events from the past. Tell me just what does America's history with its native tribes have to do with Russia invading its neighbors today? I suppose a case could be made that the native population of Siberia was treated just as badly by the Russians as we treated our native population here in America but that's not what you tried to do there. You are trying to say that because the USA did terrible things to is natives that Russia is somehow excused from responsibility for terrorizing it's neighbors, which is a ridiculous concept to try and argue. Try harder to at least come up with some BS that isn't so childish and ridiculous to argue your point.
@@alexandrosonassis3436 You think sending equipment to Ukraine is an invasion?
Oh man, are you in for a rude awakening when the US Air Force starts flying over and the US Navy parks itself in Sevastopol. 😆
The Baltic Way had 2 million participants, not 500,000.
wow more than entire population of latvia
@@marzo21 Yep, it was about one third of the native populations of the three states, i.e. without the Russian colonists.
Not only 500 people participated
check your history. It is not like Nazi Germany and USSR acted independently ("Stalin seizing moment"). Under the Molotov-Ribentrop Pact they partitioned Eastern Europe between themselves. They together invaded Poland, held joint victory parade, and after under the same pact USSR invaded Baltic States and Finland. Until 22 June 1941 they were allies.
You missed Bessarabia, seized by ultimatum to Rumania and building Moldovia by merging it with present Transnistria. Still influencing today History.
Yup, Russia was an ally of the nazis, and only fought against Hitler because Hitler betrayed the Russian führer.
And you have also missed what happened before Pact.
How Poland has occupied part of Czech, how Poland tried to negotiate about joint attack on USSR with Germany. How Britain and France delayed as much as possible signing agreement of joint defense against Germany, and trying to force Germany to move east, to invade USSR.
You see, if you taking out some historical point without context and judging it by today's moral standards, well you are illiterate and inkompetent.
@@alexsevlan that may be what you learned in Russia, but it's mostly false or a biased presentation. As an example, how would have Germany invaded Russia before 1939 since Poland refused it. Therefore, Russia didn't need any defense deal with France and the UK.
@@alexsevlan How do you explain USSR ultimatum to Rumania, requiring territory cession? What is the official Kremlin position?
As a longtime advocate for this area_especially Estonia and Ukraine_I have been alarmed over how Putin and Russia are growing
more and more eager for conquest,and it certainly should alarm the entire world!
Decades ago, I read about how Russia was engaged in a doctrine of conquest,and I have been thinking,"How well that describes
Russia today!" Russia MUST be stopped! Larry Carroll
Alarm me? A person who doesn't even live on a continent with a land connection to Russia? No.
One important part why the Baltics are so keen about Derusification was the crackdown by Gorbachov on the Baltics on demonstrations for independence in 1991
Tanks were ordered into to the Baltics and in Lithuania shots were fired onto unarmed civilians killing them.
They fought back fiercly in a battle were soviet soldiers and tanks were killed/destroyed.
The sitation escalated so badly that the Soviet troops were withdrawn to prevent several civil wars in the Soviet union.
Its a relative unknown fact that that failure to repress the soviet baltic states led to the coupe to overthrow Gorbachov and shortly after the breakup of the Soviet Union
I was playing icehockey in Estonia during the singing revolution and there for i always say Eesti when speaking Estonia never Viro as rest of Finnish do.
And that led to Putin taking over. So we can blame the Baltic states for Putin. Thanks for the info.
@@aCycloneSteveyou cannot blame us without knowing what would have happen. If SSRS existed still in this day our territory map would look drastically different and knowing history there would be more slave nations than there is now.
@@AssemblyNot 🙂I'm trolling you.
it never happened
When I was in the Baltics I kept hearing that that old people spoke German, the adults spoke Russian, and the kids spoke English. Latvia and Estonia have a really interesting history.
When was that? Never met a single elder person that knew any german. No one ever did. Lithuania operated on lithuanian and russian languages only. And push on english languages started around 2005
@@deividasnavickas klaipeda- makes sense
@@DrIstoris Maybe a couple in klaipeda. But Memel and Prussia was long before.
@@deividasnavickas my great grandparents were from that part, they could speak german( although not great).
@@DrIstoris well good for them. I never met anyone of elder age that knew german. Founding some exceptions in klaipeda would also conclude that Lithuanians speak Polish, because there are a few in Vilnius that speak it.
Im from lithuania and I dont know about others but my history teacher thought me very well of the struggles and pain that russia caused to older generations and of how hard they fought for freedom. So while I was born in a free country, I fully support and understand the need to derusify the country.
They are 1000% right.
Finland's doing the same, on account that while we didn't get hit as hard by the Soviets as the Baltic states, we very much haven't forgiven the Winter War, and never will: Tens of thousands of fallen Finnish soldiers and around 100 000 Finns lost their homes, including my maternal grandmother who took part in the Continuation War as a part of Lotta Svärd. Part of me even hopes that the Finnish flag will fly over the town hall of Vyborg (Viipuri) once more. I'm glad we're closer than ever to our southern neighbors.
We Latvians support Ukraine just like Lithuania and Estonia! We are like a family!
I visited Estonia in 2016 and even back then young Estonians I met would tell me they thought Russian invasion of the baltics was an inevitability in their lifetime. Shocked that the rest of the EU didn't take them seriously.
Latvians kick ass in terms of derusification. Ejiet brāļi!
Much respect for the Baltics from Bulgaria!💪🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹
Greetings to Bulgaria from Turkey!
I think Ukraine is an eye-opener for Europe, and unless they stop over-looking it Russia will invade more territory. MUGA!
Nobody is overlooking it. That is the same thing Hitler did.
Well, this is sensible content but I hate when the op is watching and I can’t troll Russians with despicable comments 😂
Indeed, this is how it looks. Time to wake up.
Ukraine is just victim of USA's interests, wake up to reality western bot
Rocky and Bullwinkle had it right years ago.
No kidding. Because NATO keeps expanding and arming border nations as proxies.
The Baltic States are grown up and act with decency and grandeur. 'We' (I'm Dutch) can learn a thing or 2 from these young and brave 3 countries.
Actually Lithuania (1253) is much older than Netherlands
@@bladerunner4425 You are completely right, my bad.
@@bladerunner4425actually go back even further, the first time lithuania was even mentioned in texts was in 1009
young ?
@@LaurisLR90 Chill
You forgot to include second wave deporation numbers because Latvia alone had 60k people deported to siberia not 35k combined with ltu.
Also Lithuanians had 130k from 1945-1953 and about 50k Killed cause we resisted like crazzy...
And you forgot about 3rd wave of deportation, when 100% of all 3 countries were sent to Syberia on foot. The whole process was translated straight to Stalins office and his evil laugh was playing all over the USSR through large speakers. Poor civilians had to walk 100 days without food, water, and air. Yes, evil communists restricted them from breathing. Such crueltly lead to 99% casualties, leaving only 2 men and 2 women of each nation. They eventually reformed the whole population and returned back to their homeland in 1991. Thats 100% true story that cannot be lie cus it demonizes the USSR.
You forgot about latvia toppling a giant Russian obelisk in the capital city.
If any in Europe or indeed the wider NATO bloc still regard the Baltic states as being alarmist and over reacting then they need to give their heads a wobble. I’m looking at you in particular Germany 🤨
Their chancellor already forgot everything just like his money laundering scandal.
In Europe and elsewhere they love Russian oligarchs for their money being brought to their banks and many other businesses. Money talks....
Do you mean East Germany? I „experienced“ it. Wasn‘t too bad as a child. But grown up, I‘ll never forget all the Russian soldiers with deeply sad look in their eyes.
What exactly did you not understand about the permanent deployment of several thousand German soldiers in Lithuania?
mad respect to the Lithuania robotics-team. 😎👍🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹
LITBOT robotics team is here in the comment section. Find them probably near the top.
Estonian here. Good video, thanks! Just to add some context, our occupation by Russia started before the USSR. We gained our independence from the Russian Empire in the aftermath of WWI and were re-occupied by the Soviets in WWII. Already during the Czar russification programs were instituted (forced education in Russian, changing local's surnames to Russian sounding ones and much more). During the same period the Alexander Nevsky cathedral was built in Tallinn. Certainly among the biggest cathedrals in Estonia it was positioned directly opposite the residence of the Governor of Estonia, with the intent of proclaiming Russian magnificence and the importance of the Russian Orthodox church in (at the time) Protestant Estonia. This is just one of many examples. There is nothing the Russians did out of "good will". All actions were intended to make the local populations subservient and to weaked any possible resistance.
Folks in Europe have long memories, and here in the U.S. people can't even remember what happened last week.
Wrong. Folks in Europe don't remember history. That's why they are constantly repeating it. For example, Great Britain disarmed itself after WW1 and had to be rearmed by the U.S.A. when WW2 broke out. Then, it disarmed itself after WW2 and is now scrambling to rearm. Just like the rest of Western Europe. Very short memories.
@kennyhagan5781. Cool story, bro. Speak for yourself.
@@ShanLiB THIS!
@@ShanLiBEast/North-Europeans do remember, Russia is still a neighbour and you never know what they decide to do again. West-/South-Europeans have been bought with Russian money and they are far enough from Russia.
You find the same thing if you look at the news in other countries that are not under existential threat. People care about the most recent political stuff and the general economy.
There are a few more points to bring up on this subject:
1. After WW2 the Soviet effort to eliminate all resistance in the Baltic states took the lives of hundreds of thousands of native citizens in each of the three countries. They have good reason to be sensitive on this subject.
2. The separatist movement in the Donbas region of Ukraine involved ethnic Russians siding with the Russian government and taking up arms. Determining who was the aggressor depends on which reports one believes. The point is the ethnic Russian population was mobilized against the Ukraine. All three Baltic states have large ethnic Russian populations that could pose a similar risk in the future.
3. The restrictions they are imposing can be interpreted as “assimilate or leave”. At least they are giving the residents that choice.
4. Like the ancient Babylonians, the Soviets used the transplanting of ethnic Russians to control states they conquered. This is a brutal empire tactic that I see as illegitimate. My opinion is that removing the descendants of these transplants is a legitimate counter move. Please note that after WW1 the Allies made a point of creating countries for populations in central Europe, Poland, the Baltic states, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, etc. Before and during WW2 the Nazis had proven that ethnic German populations were exploited as an excuse to conquer. So after the war the Allies decided that the Germans had to be removed from East Prussia, the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, and probably some other places. This was harsh and brutal for the Germans displaced, but after 2 world wars it was deemed necessary.
5. There is much discussion about NATO expanding too close to Russia, and the Baltic states and Finland being a little too alarmists. I’m half a planet away from that region, so don’t have an adequate basis for judgement on the issue. I do know this, the people there are hard working and sensible. They live in the Eastern European neighborhood. They are in the best position to know what threat they face. I trust their judgement. As far as who they want to align with, the wishes of the populations of the Baltic States and Poland, etc get first vote. They paid for that right in blood, lots of it.
Interesting. Did you know that Kremlin implanted Russian operatives everywhere, mainly like university students, so those would recruit there students - future government employees?
(4) which is why today kazakhstan or central asian (uzbekistan, etc), or far east has white slavs. USSR took steps to erase cultures and identity, school age people were russified (teaching russian culture, history). They messed up historic borders and demography of azerbaijan and armenia, which is why they are in constant conflicts.
USSR end game was to erase cultural identity and create everyone like russians. If there was no elderly and with more time, they would have succeeded.
It's not just their neibhors, you can ask what caucasus states like chechenya or dagestan think of russians.
USSR is a great machinery that creates manipulating, lying, cheating, thieving type of culture. TV would plant you bs - how great everything is (when it's not lol). Every country that succeeded USSR had government corruption problems, because of people coming from that era. Looking west and joining european union, moving away from rotten minded people has been working wonders. If you look at Scandinavia - people support government and things are transparent. Baltics wants nothing to do with our eastern neighbors who up to this day celebrates 100yo victories (lives in the past not future).
USSR is a great machinery that creates manipulating, lying, cheating, thieving type of culture. TV would plant you bs - how great everything is (when it's not lol). Every country that succeeded USSR had government corruption problems, because of people coming from that era. Looking west and joining european union, moving away from rotten minded people has been working wonders. If you look at Scandinavia - people support government and things are transparent. Baltics wants nothing to do with our eastern neighbors who up to this day celebrates 100yo victories (lives in the past not future).
Igor Girkin, the guy who Putin sent in to Ukraine, and who ironically later ended up in a Russian prison, later explained that there was not sufficient separatist support in the east. Which was why Russia had to send in troops and mercenaries to keep the fighting going. Its one thing to be pro Russian. But quite another to support a war against people you live next door to.
Update: Estonia will change all schools into Estonian speaking, eliminating Russian as teaching language starting from autumn 2024.
Well, the city of Narva is 97% russian speaking. The government cannot do this, re minority rights.
@@yts4106 that's not how it works haha
@@purpplekushhthat is how it works “haha” my ass
@@purpplekushhthat’s how it works “haha” so funny kid
@@crazygamingyt7245 kiddo, we in Latvia already changed to Latvian, and also deported few Russians 😂😂 few of them already cried in EU courts 😂
De-Russify the EU!
EU soon turning 3rd world. 😂
@@keith48993
Russia will be 3rd world...oh, wait. It is already. 😁
@@keith48993 I doubt this will happen, Ivan!😂
@@oneshothunter9877💯👍 So many dark-skinned men were brought to Russia from all over the 3rd world countries, they are now new citizens of RF.
@@sweetvictory5643 have you ever been to eu?
That was not only educational, it was motivating and moving. Thank you.
Unfortunately, it had quite a lot of mistakes. Looked to me like he presented a different city as Vilnius, probably Tallinn.
He pronounced names utterly wrong.
The Baltic Way where people joined hands had 2 million people participating, not half a million.
"Russian minority" is misleading because there´s quite a lot of people there of mixed ancestry and from other Soviet republics, so the correct term is "Russian-speaking minority".
"The shutting down of Russian TV" can be misleading because they only shut down most Russia-based TVs, but not their own Russian-speaking TVs or Russian BBC.
And there are heaps of radio stations in Russian.
And the pro-Russian parties being obsolete is, unfortunately, totally wrong.
Not to mention the annoying fact that like everyone else, he completely omits Baltic history before 1800, which is interesting and important for understanding of the Baltics. The Viking raids, the Old Prussians, the Swedish occupation, the Fenno-Ugric nations, the mediaeval Lithuania...
Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians weren't naive to think that the Nazis would give them freedom. Rather, the Soviets had been so horrible that they thought that the Nazis couldn't possibly be worse, at least for ethnic Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians - which they indeed weren't.
Maybe because they weren't as threatening as the Poles
@@jyy9624What does your comment mean?
“As threatening as the Poles?”
You understand what happened to the Polish people during WW2, right?
@@jyy9624 The Poles?
@@eksiarvamus I'm saying the better treatment wouldn't have lasted, and romantic notions of nazi civility are misplaced
@@Andrew-mp9hu why do you think blood thirsty commies and nazis did that
My reserve unit went to Latvia back in May of 2022. We stayed in a hotel in Liepaja which hosted the Ukrainian refugees. It was a surreal feeling at the time and when I talked to some of the locals, they would often talk about such anger towards Russia and their local ethnic Russian citizens trying to start riots wherever they reside.
i still find it funny lithuania rejected kaliningrad cause it didnt want 1 million russians giving it a headache😂.
edit: kaliningrad got sort of independance by annoying lithuania.
And Lithuania was rightly to do so. The Baltic states still to this day have russian minorities inside their borders who still ask for Russia to invade and reincorporate them, so imagine the damage of what a million russians could do.
It was right choice. They could of done some funny stuff like expelling all the Russians from there but that prob would of wink wink angered Russia. They could of also made Kalingrad Puppet state of Lithuania and basicly forced all russians in Kalingrad to learn Lithuanian langauge and it could work in long term but it's risky in many ways. (anyways having 33% population russian is a bit of a problem not ganna lie but since Estonians and Latvians managed they could still do it even in a peaceful way while making everyone learn Lithuanian and slowly phase out Russian Language in Schools)
again "offer" was brought up to a puppet goverment who's interests we're soviet not lithuanian so again there wasn't a choice there was only one option from the beginning
@@GekkoaWeakest orc trolling I have seen today.
@@blazunlimited don't think saying facts counts as trolling but considering we're talking about orcs perhaps you're right facts trigger them
I'm a Bulgarian, and I really wish we had our shit together more like the Baltics do.
Entire EU should learn from baltics and actively derussify, especially here in Italy
So Evil russia never ceased to be evil, amazing!
In the "evil" department, America makes Russia look like jesus christ.
Cognitively speaking, biden makes Putin look like a quantum physicist.
BTW: How long have you worked at the state department?
😂👍
that's just a bitter truth
I think you are the Evil, Russia is an amazing country, nation and civilization.
Sweden's Army, Navy and Air Force has been made to protect the country from one enemy in the east, and it is not Finland.
Well it wasn't hard to guess which direction Russia was heading once an ex KGB secret policeman was back inside the kremlin
We need to support Ukraine.
What $200 billion isn't enough?
What for? That's pointless. We DON'T need to support it
By funding a proxy war that uses the population there as cannon fodder in an unwinnable (by sheer numbers) war? Make it make sense.
@@johnhammink2716 remember that the Ukrainians are fighting to continue existing as a nation and people.
Even if it becomes an attrition war they can't afford to stop if it means that Russia can regroup and try again next year.
Also by that time western help would probably have gone completely cold.
@@andrebyche31from kūtspakaļas ciemapinčiem like you
Visited the Baltics in 1994, and then again last year. Great to see the huge improvements all over, and more on their way (road and rail integration, for example). From what I saw, the region is culturally a natural, integrated, part of Europe.
what a europ-centric approach, as if roads and rails built on money from eu's budget signal a belonging to heavenly garden european civilisation surrounded by jungle. youre really comparing baltic culture of discrimination and treatment of its population as non citizens to cultural level of Europe? if so then i didnt know it was in such a bad state
Yeah, they were part of Europe for most of their history. They had contact with Poland, Germany, Sweden, because Russia was just a remote small underdeveloped country for most of their history. I´m Czech and we had Polish-Lithuanian kings for some decades in the Middle Ages.
2:08 Your "history lesson" at the beginning is omitting the fact that Stalin's Russia was allied with the Third Reich at the start of the war. That's how it all began; they invaded Poland from both sides. Stalin did not "build up the Soviet Union's defences against the Nazi forces", he allied with the Nazi forces.
Thank you, I was going to write this here. Stalin didn't wait until the fall of Paris, Hitler and Stalin agreed to divide eastern Europe together, Stalin got East Poland, the Baltics and Finland. There were only 2 weeks between the russian invasion and the Nazi invasion. The nazis and the soviets held a joint military parade in Warsaw
USSR Invaded Poland 2 weeks after German invasion, on this time Polish government ceased it existence, and yes it were made to mover Soviet border to the west more, cuz of future war.
@@tsugumorihoney2288 The Polish government seized to exist on September 28th, the Bolsheviks invaded on September 17th. And also, had the soviet communists not ally with the nazis, Hitler wouldn't have dared to invade Poland and risk a war with France and the UK.
@josefskuratovsky1519 yeah yeah, same like he dared to invade Chezechoslovakia before it, not UK and France support it... You are so naive
@@tsugumorihoney2288 Did you study logic from russian schools? CZ didn't have military pacts with the UK and France. And that's exactly what happened, when Hitler invaded CZ, Europe went for appeasement, but when attacked Poland, they declared war. Ahhh I can't believe I'm arguing with not just a troll, but a stupid one
🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪🤝
🇳🇴🤝🇷🇺✌
@@keith48993 RU=middle ages but with vodka
These Baltic states have my support in these endeavors 100%!
Good info, thank you. Europe didn't care as long as Putin invaded countries to the south and east. Ukraine is European and on their NATO doorstep... so 'groan', "we have to do something". They should have seen it for the opportunity that it is.
I wish Truman had allowed Patton to take Moscow in '45. It is just as important to know who your enemies are as it is to identify your true friends.
the political will was not there for it and they assassinated patton to make sure he could not push that.
Western Europe hoped (naively) that peace could be guaranteed via economic integration.
That took turning a blind eye to what was seen as "lesser" offense, since it was action taken within Russia's "sphere".
Ukraine, however, was the final line that broke that overly optimistic hope, and frankly, it is about time. The sooner we can help any nation that suffered under the USSR stand independent and free of Moscow, the better
@@andreasottohansen7338 agree, they wanted pacification through economic dependance, but they only made themselves dependent on russia, which it uses as a weapon and always had intended to use it
You are wrong the criminal organization of NATO invaded Russians first, you ignore the fact that the majority of populations in the country formerly known us Ukraine is an artificial multinational state for instance on the West there are Romanians, Hungarians and Polish population, but jewish dictator Zelensky banned Russian language how can you ban a native speaking language, the mistake of Putin was he did not liberate Russians on 2014, and wasted 10 years for nothing. People freely voted to join Russia but you seem to ignore that
Yes, of course, they would have let him capture Moscow. It was not just their own people who eliminated this madman.
Good on the Baltics, the rest of europe should follow their lead.
I’ve noticed this in my family. My step mother is an ethnic Russian Ukrainian. Since the war started she has started using the Ukrainian language much more.
I don't speak Neither Ukrainian nor Russian. What's the difference between them if I mind asking?
@@radiationhazardsfather6310 not really sure myself. I don’t speak either myself, just American English
@@radiationhazardsfather6310 Ukrainian is slightly more similiar to Polish than to Russian IMO. As a Pole I needed 3 weeks to master Ukrainian. 70% of the words are the same.
Ничего, скоро перестанет
@@radiationhazardsfather6310difference that ethnic ukranians doesn’t speak ukranian, only ukranian poles that live in zakarpatye region
Latvian here. russian was never 2cond language. 2cond language in schools is english language. 3rd language you could choose russian, german or different if school can provide. Mostly 3rd was russian as we didnt have enought teachers of different languages.
"Derusification" is strange word, as we are not close even to russians, we were ocupied in ww2, lot of us were send out to siberia or laber camps in russia(mote people were sent to russia, than it's mentioned in this video), people who resisted or shoved Latvian natianalism were shot. We got our freedom and we all the time remove russian simbols what were pressed on us. russian language from schools needed to dissapear already before, but to have peace with russia we prolonged it. What we really did was after russian attack on Ukraine we removed all soviet/russian monoments, as we couldnt remove them before as russia tretened us for removing them.
One correction. In soviet times Latvia similarly as other USSR Republics had russian as official language. It was taught in schools as obligatory. It was Russification.
Yeah, Russian was clearly the language no. 1 in the Soviet "republics". There was even a law, that the parents who were speaking any third language (f.e. if Georgians migrated to some Baltic state) were obliged to put their children into Russian language school, to ensure that the melting pot works in favor of Russification only. The vast majority of the migrants didn't learn any of the local language, and several structures, like police (miliciya), railroad and so on, were dominantly Russian. You were forced to talk Russian in your own homeland.
It is your fatal mistake to fight against Russia. Russia today all it wants is free trade and partnership, what you say if was true, it is related to Communist Jewish Bolsevick state of USSR of which the biggest and most numerous victims were the Russians themselves. On 2001 President Putin proposed that Russia will join NATO at first Clinton said spontaneously "what a great idea" 4 hours later he came back saying this is not possible to happen! the jews who control NATO want to use you as meat to create WWIII between Russia and NATO , Putin is a peace loving man but you left him no choice. Answer, if Russia was part of NATO Latvia would feel any threat and by whom? So NATO which is a criminal organization do not want peace they want perpetual wars look what they did to 100s of innocent people and nations look what they did to the Iraqis, the Syrians, the Libyans , the Afghanis, they invade everywhere in the world, Russia never invaded anybody yet, they go only where they are invited by legitimate Governments or occupied peoples
@@forgottenmusic1 brainwash was extrem these days
Yeah, I (23 male, Lithuanian) don't know a single person close to my age that would know russian, unless they have russian family members.
The US should give these two teams free pass. They should contact the US organizers of the competition.
They tried to cancel two other teams. Teams that have done nothing to them. Teams that would have hated them forever. Is that how you build peace?
@@aCycloneSteve Pretty much, these type of restrictions are in place to put pressure on the population and hopefully those people will put pressure on their government to move towards peace. Else their government will just continue their aggression.
@@aCycloneSteve Yes, that is how you build peace.
@@aCycloneSteve By RuZZia's actions, it's clear that RuZZia hates the Baltics already. There's no helping that.
Killing your competition is cheating. Killing your competitions teachers is cheating. Destroying your competitions schools is cheating. Kidnapping your competition is cheating. How hard is that for you to understand? The Baltics countries were in the right. A competition or sporting event that allows cheaters is not real. A competition that allows cheating is not a real competition. A competition that allows cheaters is not promoting peace or unity. A competition that allows cheating accomplishes nothing but enabling evil to persist.
@@aCycloneSteve Yep. You want to live in peace, don't fucking invade.
As Slovak I feel ashamed that soo many in my country forgot the 1968...
It's even more embarrassing that they forgot 1938.
The most fun part about Latvia, there was a huge monument in capital city Riga, to soviet union, or great war or whatever. Huge, 40 meters high or something.
And it got dismantled! For years people tried to do it!
The war nicely took away the attention nicely :)
It all comes down to who is the owner of the house?! Latvians. And russians can be guests if they wanted to, but they make themselves a security threat. They dont realy get how it is to live with law working. They understand thieves, mafia, and taking stuff over! Its just how they are. Even good harted russians are like that... So... Law is the law. Europe is in a good place! And Russia is a swamp in comparisson!
So, did you just assume that Russians, just by the mere fact of being Russians ethnically, are somehow unable to follow laws? I can understand a general distrust towards the country and its politics (rightfully so), but straight up dehumanizing the entire ethnicity as some sort of barbarian reeks of extreme xenophobia and just ethnic hatred. Thankfully, RUclips commentators are not representatives of everyday people and their average attitudes towards people of other ethnicities, races, etc.
Not only the Baltic states have scars after the Russian and USSR terror. The entire Eastern Europe have scars, even Orban's Hungary...
yeah but unfortunately the Hungarians seem to have a poor memory
@@filippobianchi4743 not the people, only the traitor politicians like Orban, if you read his biography...
Saules mūžu Latvijai!
How about Lithuania and Estonia?
@@user-Yarnok All the same.
Yes, I remember the little Baltic States community in Sydney all those years ago in my suburb who had escaped the Soviet Union's grasp and fled to AUS. Very welcome and valued they were here then and now !
Somebody has to support these fine young patriotic Lithuanians.
Considering how many young people around the world these days are choosing not to have children of their own because of financial stress, I really hope the various European armed forces are paying their soldiers enough to fix that problem. They need to get back to that golden 2.1 in order to have enough soldiers in the next generation to continue to defend their nationhood.
@@tealkerberus748 Why? Just to appease an economic system built on eternal growth which is obviously unsustainable. Populations has ups and down through history. Dont play into the narrative that serve no other function than to suppress wages. And more to the point you make - a German soldier is making way more than a Russian and he isnt forced to die in some pointless meatwave assault in a war of aggression.
oh they were greeted as heroes back here. I think the President met them. Various talk shows, story got even viral globally as it is proven by this video. Bummer,- this year was their last chance for competing before graduating school, they had built that particular robot for 5 years.
@@tealkerberus748 Guess my comment about population growth being a pawn in modern capitalism was just deleted
As an estonian i appreciate how accurately you represent our history.This is why we have in our heart to defend ourselves from russia by any means necessary.
Gotta hand it to Putin. Instead of trying to divide Europe, he singlehandedly helped the EU to make stronger ties and bonds 😂😂
Putin even made Sweden abandon its neutrality. Not even the combined efforts of Hitler and Stalin could convince the Swedes to pick a side, but Putin succeeded!
You ignore that 80%++ of Europeans are against NATO/EU nazis and want PEACE with Russia, Russia is EUROPE and sanctions against Russia destroying Europeans as we speak
Putin is known forever in history as the grand master strategist.
The golden age of the most united Europe ever, not *under* a military dictator but *against* one.
You missed one key element of the derussification:
In the Baltics (especially Latvia and Estonia), there are lots russian settlers/cicvil occupiers.
They expect the local peoples to speak russian to them and to get everything served in russian.
As a Latvian in Riga it is almost impossible to get a job without knowing and using russian, even if you speak lots of other foreign languages.
Imagine Turks in Germany demanding you speak Turkish to them....
Also, russian culture has been used as a soft power tool since the 90ies. Qnd it of course means you need to understand russian to consume it.
So basically a continuation of soviet traditions of russian dominance and chauvinism.
Russian is simply the lingua franca of it's former territories, just like French is in huge parts of Africa or English in practically every where, even beyond its own colonies.
Far easier to have someone speaking the unique "everyone knows this around here" language than not
@@uralcrusader5621vatnik found
@@Anti_Septikum am I wrong?
@@uralcrusader5621no estonian below 40 knows russian
@@Anti_Septikumcap
Right at the start (the history lesson) I had to wonder.
I live in Finland. Then, as now, Finland had a long border with the USSR/Russia. There was therefore no need for Stalin to take over *any* of the Baltic States (let alone the southermost, Lithuania) in order to attack Finland.
The ultimatums to the 3 Baltic States were thus a power grab for ... the Baltic States. At roughly the same time, the USSR issued a proposal to Finland for an unequal exchange of territory which would have pulled the Finnish border back from Leningrad and thus required them to give up the first line of border defences in addition to making the Finnish capital closer to the new border.
Has Finland given any thought to shortening that border? That big peninsula on the Russian side - your land border would be significantly less if that were part of your territory. Something to consider for the "peace" deals after the current Russian aggression blows up in their face. Take the shortest line from water on one side to water on the other, and call it good enough.
@@tealkerberus748 If you mean recovering the Karelian peninsula between Lake Ladoga and the Baltic and thus including Viipuri - once the second largest city in Finland - of course there have been organisations representing the people that had to leave that area who have continued to push for it to be returned.
BUT, the reason that the USSR wanted it (border too close to Leningrad) still applies today so it won't happen.
There was one minute chance in the early 90's after the collapse of the USSR to try to get at least Viipuri on the Finnish side of the border, but no attempt seems to have been made. Russia would in any case have been worried about setting a precedent - for instance with Japan wanting some islands to the north of present day Japan back.
@@MikeWal2 If the current situation does develop into full blown world war, Russia isn't going to be in a position by the end of it to object to how close a border is to its cities.
Indeed the ultimatums to the Baltics were not to get another angle of attack against Finland, but rather to gain access to the Baltic sea, which Russia has always wanted. Right now they only have one big port that ships can operate out of and it's surrounded by unfriendly states.
@@janlin98 There's only one reason why most of the world is "unfriendly states" to Russia, and only Russia can fix that.
Yet more than ever people talk Russian in Lithuania streets… 😢 ridiculous
Same with Latvian 😔 In the capital you hear more Russian than Latvian. And it's indeed ridiculous and sad.
It’s opposite in my country 🇬🇪 georgia. People don’t want war to start here, they want good life for themselves , so instead of supporting ukraine 🇺🇦 and try to not upset russia🇷🇺 they do nothing. Repressions have started here already (in russian style) if someone goes against them. And minority is defenceless.
Bloody hell Now I want to go there because that's exactly what I'm worried about. Another damn war starting in where I live
@@radiationhazardsfather6310 The peace of Damocles is far less peaceful to live than it is to hear about...
You mean in your jewish - georgian stalin style? Stalin killed most of slavic russian population
The Ruasian teams should not be allowed to compete in tbe US
Also the urkanian
@@andrebyche31no, just the Russian. Ukrainians are welcome.
@@andrebyche31why Ukrainian? Ukrainians did not invade Russia like Russia did to Ukraine.
@@andrebyche31 Don't be silly.
@@GQ-ih1iuhe is right though. When Ukraine becomes the 90th federal subject of Russia, Ukrainians technically should not be participating as well.
I'll add further - Lithuanian people alone have donated millions of euros to Ukraine in various crowdfunding events. Biggest being Radarom 2023 and 2024 (14mil and 9mil respectably). So 2 of the crowdfund events collected 6 fold of total population of the country.
Lithuanian people alone have donated millions of euros to Ukraine so this is where my taxes going to
Krievija, atpisies!
I remember perfectly when Baltic politicians were desperately lobbying trying to convince Western diplomats to consider their accession to the EU and NATO. I remember also some ill advised positions of some US and European politicians who basically would comment “what do these people want? Aren’t they all Russian?” Our friends in the Baltic Republics knew that the window of opportunity created by the dissolution of the USSR would not last forever. Now in my Country Italy, we have a bunch of Russian trolls who are actively poisoning the political and social landscape with the idea that western Countries with the help of NATO and EU “actively expanded towards East and “annexed” the Baltic Republics” presumably against their will. The Pope blabbing about NATO “barking at the door of Russia” did not help.
As a lithuanian, we still have a city where almost everyone speaks russian. But we have indeed started taking action and have been taking down soviet era monuments, renovating old russian buildings and teaching kids in school about our own nation more than ever. Love from the Baltics ❤
I think there is only one single city in Lithuania with a Russian majority? (Visaginas)
The only Baltic state I respect
@@joeyjojojrshabadoo7462 why the only?
In Latvia, the most Russian city is Daugavpils. And Seda (a tiny town between Valmiera and Valka)
Almoust everyone speaks doesnt means everyone is. Hell, its hard to find a person over 40 that doesnt speak ruZZian (due to the facts you know). But there is only Visaginas that is majority of ruZZians and the west part of Vilnius suburb which is more Polish but there is a catch, they vote for openly pro ruZZian candidate who pretends to be Polish.
Here is more love and support from the west side of the Baltic Sea 👍
My mom was born in Latvia under the Soviet’s and my dad is half Latvian (his mom escaped with her parents after ww2) and I am so glad to see that the Baltic states are doing this. When Ukraine was first invaded my family and I panicked (I’m American). We didn’t know what to do, all we had was news and calls from family. For years my parents have been setting aside money for my family to use as an escape fund should Russia invade. During that first week after Ukraine was invaded, we really thought they would have to use it.
Now my family and I are visiting the rest of the family in Latvia (first time since COVID) and it seems like there are almost more Ukrainian flags then Latvian! There are multiple on every bus, on all government buildings, but also little vendors in the street selling them. I’m so glad to see the strength of the Latvian people and that they won’t give in easily.
🇱🇻❤️🇱🇻
My great-grandmother was also deported to Siberia and gave birth to my grandmother and her twin brother bc her husband was a merchant marine. I’m so glad that you went over the history. She was strong woman and I wish I could have met her.
And on the topic of the baltics seeing the Germans as “liberators”, one of my great-grandfathers had the choice to join the Soviets or the Nazis, he would never had chose the ones that deported so many of his people. He just had no idea what the Nazis were like. When this is brought up to people I go to school with, it’s incredible to see that they don’t understand any of this o don’t see the Soviets as evil. It’s sad to see how uninformed people today are (that’s why I want to study history in college)
Ruzzians were a part of Hitlers gang who started WW2. That's enough to completely isolate this last remaining Faszist Empire
"What Lithuania views...." WTF is that? Yeah, Lithuania and the REST OF THE WORLD considers the Russian invasion of Ukraine to be disgusting aggression. No special view there.
Rest of the world? Unfortunately not all. As an example, look to the Indian mainstream medias, for instance Times of India. Same in Africa. By anti americanism, lot of people are supporting Putinist Russia. Even in western countries like in France (but it is only a minority).
@@FabGreg 1) As for the media you are right, but see the UN votes. India, China, or Brazil can be anti-American themselves, but not to the point of formally supporting Russia.
2) This is brutal aggression in violation of international agreements. There is no point in the material to say according to whom, because we are talking about a fact, not an interpretation.
@@PKowalski2009 Thes countries definitively not agreeing with the Russian aggression, but not acting to undermine it, and of course not fighting it.
@@FabGreg And they will face a reckoning one way or another for their two-faced approach, once Russia loses this war.
@@TheLoyalOfficer In case of confrontation to China, Western countries will be happy to have India with them. Despite present position favoring Putinist Russia.
Finland was the only one of the baltic countries that remained sovereign, but we paid a hefty toll in lives for that. We fought to survive and that is what we managed to achieve. I salute all those heroes that kept us free. I salute all Ukranian soldiers as well. Keep fighting for what you love. Slava heroyam!
finland isn't baltic,
in lives *and* territories...
I'm hard pressed to remember any bully anywhere, or at any time thow "stopped" because his or her bullying was successful.
Yeah, USA is quite a bully, I agree.
American here: I’m conflicted about how to feel about the Baltic states banning Russians. I wholeheartedly support their independence and its 100% not my place to tell a foreign country how to handle border security(something that we are having a crisis with ourselves right now lol)
On one hand, I completely understand why they want to preserve a national identity in defiance of the kremlin, and preventing any attempt for Moscow to justify claiming territory of a sovereign nation on the grounds of having a large Russian population.
HOWEVER, it definitely comes off as “problematic” at best when a nation outright bans individuals regardless due to their ethnicity, which might give Russia an excuse to invade under the guise of “defending all Russians from the racially motivated discrimination of the evil west”
The best move in my opinion for the Baltic states is to allow Russian refugees, but NOT Russian nationalists. If you want to live there, then willingly renounce your former citizenship to Russia, and VOLUNTARILY cut ties to it. This way, it will rob Russia from ANY chance of moral superiority.
Punish Russia, not Russians.
I’m a libertarian, yet I support intervention in Ukraine because I KNOW that this “support” is not enough to win, and all it does is prolong the suffering of the Ukrainian people, and we will end up spending MORE money giving “aid” rather than going in there and fully supporting Ukraine with troops.
Absolutely agree. Even in the Soviet times the Baltic people could speak their languages with no problem. Good to know that current governments had far exceeded what even communists couldn't come up with.
@@AK-kz6wc It's not illegal to speak Russian. Just being removed as a requirement for public schools.
@@PhysicsGamer Right. Considering that 30 percent of your population ( in neighboring Latvia close to 45 ) uses it as a mother tongue, that sounds like a reasonable and well thought out policy. That goes along with inclusivity and multicultural approach currently so popular in EU. It would be interesting how French Canadians would react to this if a federal government in Canada one day decided to go in similar direction with regard to its French speaking minority. Or the Swiss with their 4 official languages.