Why Lithuania Destroyed the Soviet Union

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  • Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
  • Most people usually associate the end of the Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But it took another two years for the Soviet Union itself to collapse.
    This is the story of how Lithuanians helped to bring about the destruction of the USSR.
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Комментарии • 504

  • @vitalybilo
    @vitalybilo Год назад +210

    As a Ukrainian i draw inspiration from the lithuanian heros we too fight for our freedom wish it was as clean as lithuania's fight.
    God bless you peaceful warriors!

    • @vitalybilo
      @vitalybilo Год назад +7

      @bitininkugaming5372 Oh yea! I can't see what's stoping us from rereviving it this would be such a slap to Russia!

    • @GordonIsFreeman
      @GordonIsFreeman Год назад +10

      As a Lithuanian i have never ever been so happy for Ukraine as i am now. We will fighting this war together. Believe me we as Lithuanians do as much as we can to donate for Ukrainian military as much as we can. My monthly salary is -200euros for donations for 2 different organisations one is 1k fund that is 150euros and 1 is blueyellow 50 euros every month. We will win this together brother. And when Russia will be over in our plannet my main holiday destination will be Ukraine. As its now Turkey how bad as it sounds but Russians there even learning their kids to order something in English because they're afraid to speak Russian, other Russians in Turkey started to speak Ukrainian language. And as my holiday in Turkey starts 29th this month i ordered t-shirts that says "I donated for (in ukrainian flag written words) BAYRAKTAR. And i will order more just to trigger those fucks.

    • @vitalybilo
      @vitalybilo Год назад +7

      @@GordonIsFreeman HAHA! Thanks brother your comment has brightened my day!
      Vilnius is my holiday destenation of choice followed by panevezys where i go to escape from the world and just disconnect from everything this city feels insulated from everything.
      After this is over i am going for a loooooong long panavezys.
      And about your help believe me that we are watching and we KNOW what you are doing WE ALL KNOW and we will not forget this! Not now not after the war i would say "thank you" but "thank you" doesn't cut it!Not even close!
      About Russia they tried to invade our capital and do a 99% referendum annexing the ENTIRE COUNTRY like they did with the baltics we already knew where this was going so we kicked their teeth in and even if tommorow they take what they stole Ukraine lives and will forever exist!
      So yea after we finish we detach from Russia and strengthen our baltic alliance this is our plan !We have a long future ahead of us!
      Btw i'm 1/4 lithuanian myself😜
      Love my Ancestral homeland!

    • @GordonIsFreeman
      @GordonIsFreeman Год назад +1

      @@vitalybilo come to Kaunas let's have a beer!

    • @vitalybilo
      @vitalybilo Год назад +1

      @@GordonIsFreeman Oh for sure!
      Just can't get enough of this country anyways!

  • @talkintothemic
    @talkintothemic Год назад +43

    I was very recently in Lithuania to conduct street interviews for my RUclips channel. After talking to many people there about their concerns about Russia potentially attacking them too, I came away with admiration and respect for the country of Lithuania and its people.
    They don't take BS from anyone and will stand up to any country - including China and Russia - for what they believe is right. Their support (most of them anyway) for and spirit of solidarity with Ukraine was almost palpable.
    Lithuania is a small country in size, population, and economic output, but they don't bow to any political pressure. RESPECT. 💪👏
    Oh, and Vilnius is beautiful and people are very friendly. 😃

  • @stephaniedustin5059
    @stephaniedustin5059 Год назад +261

    My grandmother fled Lithuanian when the Russians moved in. She was very happy to see her home country be free again.

    • @mitchyoung93
      @mitchyoung93 Год назад +11

      Which SS division was her husband in?

    • @kristijonasniaura542
      @kristijonasniaura542 Год назад +50

      @@mitchyoung93 Stop it, get some help:)

    • @ben10laden90
      @ben10laden90 Год назад +23

      @@mitchyoung93 Rather SS than red

    • @UncleRuckus7600
      @UncleRuckus7600 Год назад

      More than half the world is calling, putin a nazi right now

    • @JohnSmith-uk6wh
      @JohnSmith-uk6wh Год назад +10

      @@ben10laden90 Wow, the anti-communist is a Nazi, who would have guessed

  • @sigissigis1939
    @sigissigis1939 Год назад +359

    As a Lithuanian I am proud of my ancestors who fought for freedom without them I think we'd still be in the SSR.

    • @SuperMarkizas
      @SuperMarkizas Год назад +14

      Ancestors? Majority of those people are still around

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад +11

      which freedom? Lithuania still has NATO troops in the country and de facto no independent country at all.

    • @lukedagon
      @lukedagon Год назад +27

      @@rlupara It's not like Lithuania is in NATO, totally

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад +3

      @@lukedagon it is illigaly in NATO

    • @immersegrafx
      @immersegrafx Год назад +43

      @@rlupara ah yes, delusions, my favorite

  • @KunigaikstisVilgaudasII
    @KunigaikstisVilgaudasII Год назад +75

    Thank you, sir, for this amazing and respectful video. Cheers from Lithuania.

  • @willowwonderful478
    @willowwonderful478 Год назад +82

    My father is Lithuanian, and I am SO proud to hear his stories about being under SSR, and gaining freedom. LONG LIVE LIETUVA!

    • @ugnikalnis
      @ugnikalnis Год назад

      Do not be ashamed of your heritage embrace it n be proud of it! We Embracing our History n we are Proud of it!!! You have a enormous Blood heritage in you!!!

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Год назад +1

      Lithuania has a long and proud tradition of fascism, anti-semitism and violence against Jewish people. In one of its very first independent actions, before even fully breaking free of Moscow, Lithuania’s parliament formally exonerated several Lithuanian nationalists who had collaborated in the Holocaust and had been convicted by Soviet military courts after the war. The right-wing paramilitaries who had carried out the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jews were now hailed as national heroes on account of their anti-Soviet bona fides.

    • @willowwonderful478
      @willowwonderful478 Год назад +1

      @@ugnikalnis Yes, I am very proud to be Lithuanian. I know the language and I am moving there in a couple of months. I am very proud of my country! 🇱🇹🇱🇹❤❤

    • @cIIII91r_
      @cIIII91r_ 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xxwomp womp

  • @livingonparkavenueinmanhat775
    @livingonparkavenueinmanhat775 Год назад +147

    I am an American. There are no words to express my admiration for the people of
    Lituania. After everything that these brave people went through - they decided to fight
    for their freedom, for their national identity, and for their traditions. LONG LIVE
    LITUANIA! - USA

    • @Me-th1nv
      @Me-th1nv Год назад +3

      it's Lithuania. Not Lituania

    • @algirdasradzevicius188
      @algirdasradzevicius188 Год назад +1

      IT'S Lithuania, please stop butchering my country's name

    • @Me-th1nv
      @Me-th1nv Год назад +5

      @@algirdasradzevicius188 They could be dyslexic too. Or didnt notice the letter. Dont be pressed abt it

    • @godfreyofbouillon966
      @godfreyofbouillon966 Год назад

      @@algirdasradzevicius188 wow so mad that a guy made a typo in the English name of Lietuva or maybe used Italian / Spanish name for Lietuva which is Lituania? Nobody's butchering anything go take a deep breath and dont be such a moron.

    • @sarunas3483
      @sarunas3483 Год назад +1

      Now its dying and nobody is fighting

  • @Rblock777
    @Rblock777 Год назад +167

    Made me proud, even as a Latvian
    Russians would say this is propaganda, because they refuse to believe or just ignores that they were allies with the Nazis

    • @SuperMarkizas
      @SuperMarkizas Год назад

      They learned from nazis, it's historically proven with photos that they cooperated. Cunts even took over the concept of concentration camps

    • @LD-op1du
      @LD-op1du Год назад +9

      Ye not like Latvians had their own waffen SS battalion lol

    • @Astuar
      @Astuar Год назад

      That is how russians react to protests in occupied territories of Ukraine. They just can't believe people would fight for freedom. Most still think this must be some "external secret influence" and some secret service infiltrators push people to resist.

    • @Rblock777
      @Rblock777 Год назад

      @@LD-op1du There would be no battalions made if Nazis and Russia stayed home and didnt attack Europe together while brain washing with propaganda?

    • @nerzhul2455
      @nerzhul2455 Год назад +4

      SS Latvians were true aIIies with nzis, not Iike poIiticaI one Soviets had. Im proud of R U army today.

  • @inet222u
    @inet222u Год назад +36

    Thank you for this great video❤I will never forget how uplifting it felt to stand in the Baltic Way hand in hand with my family (I was just a little girl then), even as a child I understood that freedom can't be taken for granted,it is something under constant threat and we have to cherish it and protect daily.I wish my grandma was alive today to see how Lithuania progressed in this free world....we have to remember all the repressions,torments,killings,humiliation that were inflicted on our countries during russian occupation in order to be free,to not give up to temptations of cheaper gas from ruZZia or give up to fear.I admire how bravely Ukraine is fighting for their freedom,that just shows us how valuable freedom is,it is not just nice worlds❤

    • @antanassmitas6206
      @antanassmitas6206 Год назад

      ❤❤❤

    • @vitalybilo
      @vitalybilo Год назад +2

      As a Ukrainian i have to say you nailed it!Breaking away from occupation isn't easy but you did it like the baltic tigers that you are! one day will all be free and look back on out occupier as a distant memory.
      Aftet all this is over we shall join you in the free world! Love and respect from Ukraine!
      I'm going to a vacation in vilnius and panevezys after all this shut is over 😍🫡

  • @Trashste
    @Trashste Год назад +339

    "Lithuania Destroyed the Soviet Union" - Your goddamn right

    • @globe0147
      @globe0147 Год назад +22

      After all, Lithuania ruled the Slavs.

    • @Trashste
      @Trashste Год назад +16

      @@globe0147 we waz kangs

    • @globe0147
      @globe0147 Год назад +24

      @@Trashste WE WUZ DUKES ANS YOUS WERE SERFS 🇱🇹🇱🇹

    • @likeris2
      @likeris2 Год назад

      in your wet dreams.

    • @antanassmetona4054
      @antanassmetona4054 Год назад

      @@globe0147 fuck them slavs, northern european supremacy on top frfr

  • @martso9288
    @martso9288 Год назад +29

    if i recall, there were 13 or was it 14 direct casualties, being crushed under tank tracks and hundreds injured

    • @unknowone3676
      @unknowone3676 Год назад +11

      There's a documentary that talks about one of those casualties, she was a pregnant women, her husband left to defend the freedom of Lithuania, later, she also joined in the main street of Vilnius, where she was driven over by a tank, even though Lithuanians fought with their most peaceful weapon - their resolve... She was later delivered to a hospital, she was told that neither she or her baby has any chance of survival... On her deathbed she proudly spewed out her last words - "My death wasn't in vain, doctor, freedom will not be taken away from us! Not anymore!"

  • @JamieBar
    @JamieBar Год назад +13

    Iceland 🇮🇸 was the first country to recognize the independence of Lithuania 🇱🇹, Estonia 🇪🇪 and Latvia 🇱🇻 in 1990-91

    • @vytautassulcas6494
      @vytautassulcas6494 9 месяцев назад +2

      yah, thats why Vilnius has Iceland street in his old town ;)

  • @latviabalkanumuzika1514
    @latviabalkanumuzika1514 Год назад +39

    Latvia 🇱🇻 ❤Lithuania 🇱🇹

  • @romenas9830
    @romenas9830 Год назад +21

    My father drove partisans through military checkpoints to press house inside his Lada trunk . All of those partisans knew that they are driving into a closed position in which they probably will die. Nevertheless they did that with commitment and knoweledge that they gonna do everything that is posible. ♥ Lithuania ♥

  • @marinablueGS
    @marinablueGS Год назад +38

    Thanks for this inspiring story! We sure do need some inspiration right now.

  • @lizazagirova
    @lizazagirova 10 месяцев назад +9

    The saddest part is that after 3 decades I’m learning about WHY ussr was dissolved. Me and my family are Ukrainians and no one I know knew that story

  • @giedres797
    @giedres797 Год назад +41

    Great, thanks! I’m proud to be Lithuanian!❤

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Год назад

      Lithuania has a long and proud tradition of fascism, anti-semitism and violence against Jewish people. In one of its very first independent actions, before even fully breaking free of Moscow, Lithuania’s parliament formally exonerated several Lithuanian nationalists who had collaborated in the Holocaust and had been convicted by Soviet military courts after the war. The right-wing paramilitaries who had carried out the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jews were now hailed as national heroes on account of their anti-Soviet bona fides.

    • @veteranpg3d156
      @veteranpg3d156 Месяц назад

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Fuck off, look at your profile. Women and Politics lmao

  • @davidfilonenko90
    @davidfilonenko90 Год назад +85

    thanks Lithuania love from Ukraine💌

  • @vaidotassakalauskas3681
    @vaidotassakalauskas3681 Год назад +38

    I was driving my mother on a motorcycle, who was distributing handwritten notices to a meeting of the local movement "Sąjūdis".

  • @alioltu
    @alioltu Год назад +45

    proud of Lithuania

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад

      proud of ferry tales?

    • @alioltu
      @alioltu Год назад +10

      @@rlupara what fairy tales lmao im proud of lithuanias history what fairy tale is that

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад

      @@alioltu initialy you wrote proud of lithuania now of lithuanian history.

    • @alioltu
      @alioltu Год назад +11

      @@rlupara well yeah... when your proud of a country it most of the times means your proud of the history

    • @antanassmetona4054
      @antanassmetona4054 Год назад +17

      @@alioltu this guy rlupara is a ruzzian troll, no reason to listen to him.

  • @seneca983
    @seneca983 Год назад +11

    Ah, so it was Lithuania that did it. That's pretty impressive.

  • @Stan732
    @Stan732 Год назад +13

    Lithuania inspired many, first or all many Ukrainians who voted for independence on Dec 1 1991. Few days later the monster union USSR was dissolved. Technically it was the choice and free will of Ukrainians finished USSR off.

  • @realhawaii5o
    @realhawaii5o Год назад +18

    0:45 Romania too.
    That's what gave the Moldovan SSR most of the territory (with the exception of Transnistria which the Soviets already had) and created the country of Moldova as a result.

  • @grosstraktor4216
    @grosstraktor4216 8 месяцев назад +2

    my classmates father died at that day, i was young didn't realise the importance of that fight, now i weep for him

  • @craigsurette3438
    @craigsurette3438 2 месяца назад +3

    I met a old Lithuanian folklorist who spent years in a Soviet prison simply for doing the work of preserving his own people's indigenous culture and pre Christian religion
    The Soviets were horrible to the Lithuanian people, and everyone else they occupied
    Hearing his stories and stories like his told by other survivors , are why I can never in my conscience get behind anyone who even remotely supports Communism of any sort

  • @saldussapnai3464
    @saldussapnai3464 Год назад +16

    Im werry thankfull for thouse Lithuanians who stood up togehter whit other countryes, becouse havining this wounderfull cullture in my chilldhood living home in Lithunia was the best, i know our hearths is still STRONG deep inside like that, whit supporting Ukraine!:)

  • @armandasvitkauskas9239
    @armandasvitkauskas9239 Год назад +8

    iam Lithuanian and rest in peace the 14legends who died

  • @pal6636
    @pal6636 Год назад +7

    The Russian people need to see this and understand what they need to do to have their freedom back. If a country witll less than 3 million can do it then 140 million are even more effective .. in 1991 no one in Lithuanua said " " cant," "wont" or " it is too hard "

  • @michaelarrowood4315
    @michaelarrowood4315 10 месяцев назад +5

    This is exactly why the United States and all other free democratic states should be doing their utmost to help the Ukrainians win their freedom from Moscow. It's the same fight, just a different phase - yet some politicians in Washington who would claim to be Ronald Reagan's heirs are having trouble understanding that Ukraine's stand is a stand for freedom. It's clear which side we need to be on - whose side are they (and their leader) on?

    • @paladinsix9285
      @paladinsix9285 8 месяцев назад

      Yes. It is important to resist Putin and his Russian cronies aggression. However, the USA Must Defend its Own BORDERS too!
      More than a Million LEGAL Immigrants a year adds to our growth. However, more Aliens invaded the USA in 2023 that American Citizens were Born! That's just the ones who had contact with Immigrations or Border Patrol, and then RELEASED!
      The USA is INVADED Every Year by more Foreigners than have Invaded Ukraine 🇺🇦 Every Year of POTUS Biden several MILLION INVADERS Occupy the USA, murder Citizens of the USA, and consum Billions of Dollars 😳
      The USA Must Defend itself, or we Won't be there for anyone else!
      The GOP (Republicans) are will to send more resources to the Ukraine, But only If the US Government Enforces Our Border too!!!

  • @spottyty
    @spottyty 6 месяцев назад +2

    A huge amount of people here especially the older people and people outside Kaunas and Vilnius actually miss the Soviet times which is crazy but also understandable because they grew up in those times so..

  • @longjidalu3845
    @longjidalu3845 9 месяцев назад +4

    Indeed God bless America for upholding a higher awareness of self and worth. The Lithuanians have a duty to safeguard what was won at such a costly price.

  • @gabrialylok3339
    @gabrialylok3339 Год назад +10

    Thank you for this. As a lLithuanian, I feel inspired.

  • @bruhman2089
    @bruhman2089 Год назад +19

    As a Lithuanian, im happy for the fact we have freedom and sovereignity thanks to my parents and all the others in that era

    • @rlupara
      @rlupara Год назад

      You have no freedom and you are non sovereign. Look at the facts. Lithuania has democracy? No. Lithuania has own army ? No. Lithuania is neutral country? No. Lithuania has own currency? No. Lithuania has prosperity? No. Lithuania has independent politics? No. How Lithuania has freedom and sovereignty?

  • @MCEdziits
    @MCEdziits Год назад +10

    We had barricades in Latvia too :)

  • @Dabhach1
    @Dabhach1 6 месяцев назад +2

    That was an absolutely amazing time in history. Nobody under forty has any idea about that time. That’s why it breaks my heart to see young people falling for socialism today.

  • @ignatiolu863
    @ignatiolu863 Год назад +10

    The destruction of soviet union happened because they were economically low. There was deficit everywhere in the stores, sometimes there was no food entirely (not even a slice of bread). The timing of Lithuania (and soon, other occupied countries) fighting for their freedom was perfect and struck a fatal blow to those red orcs. Nowadays they want to take what they think is theirs through sheer force, but we are prepared to face them and die for our beloved motherland.

    • @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx
      @RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Год назад +1

      Lithuania has a long and proud tradition of fascism, anti-semitism and violence against Jewish people. In one of its very first independent actions, before even fully breaking free of Moscow, Lithuania’s parliament formally exonerated several Lithuanian nationalists who had collaborated in the Holocaust and had been convicted by Soviet military courts after the war. The right-wing paramilitaries who had carried out the mass murder of Lithuania’s Jews were now hailed as national heroes on account of their anti-Soviet bona fides.

    • @Liukas642
      @Liukas642 10 месяцев назад

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx nice copy paste, how much is the kremlin paycheck?

    • @Groovinator
      @Groovinator 6 месяцев назад

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx so? you support palestine right?

    • @theholypeanut8193
      @theholypeanut8193 5 месяцев назад

      @@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx No, Lithuania does not have a tradition of fascism, anti-semetism or violence against Jewish people. While the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth existed, they were the most tolerant state in Europe and didn't do anything bad against Jews specifically for being Jews and even allowed them to practice their own religion freely. One of the main emmigration routes for Jews was to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth itself.

  • @Wingalaxi
    @Wingalaxi Год назад +3

    Excellent presentation. Thank you.

  • @druzbamoralis
    @druzbamoralis Год назад +17

    Thank you for mentioning my country which i love dearly

  • @DIE_Brothers
    @DIE_Brothers Год назад +6

    As a Lithuanian I can say all of this is true!

  • @eglunasklimavicius9771
    @eglunasklimavicius9771 7 месяцев назад +1

    ❤Aciu. At that time I was a 17 year old. Remember like today! Thank you!

  • @SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat
    @SayWhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat Год назад +21

    Oh please there was blood. Russian nazies used guns and tanks on lithuanian people in January 13th.

  • @tonyjaz
    @tonyjaz Год назад +11

    Well done! Freedom is never Free!

  • @vaidasvezelis8497
    @vaidasvezelis8497 Год назад +2

    This is big thing. Thank you for pointing it out!

  • @dieguitooo7782
    @dieguitooo7782 Год назад +4

    Very interesting video!

  • @helendavis9787
    @helendavis9787 Год назад +30

    Very informative. I remember when that happened, some what. Brought a tear to my eye. I hate seeing our country going so far in the wrong direction.

  • @TheRoomforImprovement
    @TheRoomforImprovement Год назад +10

    This’d make a good movie.

    • @joelisvysniauskas4653
      @joelisvysniauskas4653 Год назад +12

      actually there is a movie, its called "mr. Lansbergis" its a documentery mostly using actual fotage from the events

  • @KarolisStanaitis
    @KarolisStanaitis Год назад +4

    I am Lithuanian and I AM PROUD

  • @tuams
    @tuams 6 месяцев назад +1

    Same thing happened in Latvia.

  • @ironwolf1773
    @ironwolf1773 Год назад +4

    Thank you 🇱🇹

  • @matushka__
    @matushka__ Год назад +11

    Vee-ta-toos is my new favorite way to pronounce "Vytautas"

  • @rudolfsgills
    @rudolfsgills Год назад +3

    A great video, but where can I find the picture in 1:59 the man standing agaist the tank?

    • @fantasmagorijos
      @fantasmagorijos Год назад +3

      google images "sausio 13 vilnius". that man was not the only one who did that.

  • @EEX97623
    @EEX97623 Год назад +7

    ❤ the Baltics ❤

  • @margeanblake4356
    @margeanblake4356 9 месяцев назад

    I enjoy these segments! Thank you Nick😊

  • @viktoraskesminas8033
    @viktoraskesminas8033 Год назад +6

    „Why Lithuania destroyed “. Emmmm - why not :)

  • @SeventySoyer
    @SeventySoyer Год назад +4

    The tree of freedom needs an occasional watering with a blood of an oppressor.

  • @thefrench8847
    @thefrench8847 Год назад +2

    Now their population is just 2.73 million people keep on decreasing
    1 million decrease from Soviet time.

    • @Brugar18
      @Brugar18 Год назад +1

      the decrease rate is slowing down and if in soviet union leaving the country was as easy as it is now I could bet that more people would have left

    • @Aistis1918
      @Aistis1918 10 месяцев назад

      ​​@@Brugar18it's not slowing down. It's been reversed. LT population is icreasing since 2019. OP is lying. Currently Lithuania has 2.85 mil people.

    • @Brugar18
      @Brugar18 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@Aistis1918 yes it is, the rate of emigration is currently half of what was 10-15 years ago

    • @Aistis1918
      @Aistis1918 10 месяцев назад

      @@Brugar18 That's what I am saying.

    • @Brugar18
      @Brugar18 10 месяцев назад

      @@Aistis1918 ok

  • @maryge7667
    @maryge7667 Год назад +13

    So, I was on the street too. BUT there were many traitors, cowards and scaremongers in Lithuania during those fateful days. And they are still alive.

    • @nerzhul2455
      @nerzhul2455 Год назад +1

      That's scary that they are aIive... Have you tried mou/stache guy methods? It's your ideoIogy afteraII

    • @creinaman4041
      @creinaman4041 Год назад +5

      @@nerzhul2455 nah we are just gonna send them to siberia its your ideology afterall

    • @Rellziuq
      @Rellziuq Год назад +3

      @@nerzhul2455 Kremlin bot

    • @sheggers3990
      @sheggers3990 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@nerzhul2455 yeah sure but didnt you guys deport hundreds of thousand of ethnic people from different ethnic groups? also that was like fifty yeaes ago, we are a democracy now, and look at you, still stuck with the same soviet mindset attacking other countries that ironically was even a longer time ago.

    • @bhaashatepe5234
      @bhaashatepe5234 2 месяца назад

      @@Rellziuq without Yeltsin, you would still live in the USSR.
      ===
      Honoring Yeltsin in Tallinn
      Last week, a new monument was unveiled in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. The bas-relief mounted on Nunne Street, in Old Town, bears an inscription in three languages-Estonian, Russian, and English: “In memory of Russia’s first president, Boris Yeltsin, to honor his role in the peaceful restoration of Estonia’s independence in 1990-1991.”
      ====
      On January 13, 1991, as Soviet tanks rolled into Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, to crush the pro-independence movement, Boris Yeltsin, then speaker of Parliament of the Russian Federation, flew into Tallinn in what many Western diplomats considered a “crazy” move. In open defiance of the Kremlin, Yeltsin signed a treaty with Estonia recognizing her “inalienable right to national independence” (he later signed similar treaties with Latvia and Lithuania). While in Estonia, Yeltsin met with Soviet troops stationed there and urged them to disobey the Soviet leadership, should it give an order to move against peaceful demonstrators, as had been done in Vilnius and Riga. Yeltsin publicly condemned the Soviet aggression, spoke out in favor of independence for the Baltic States, and, reaching out to his Lithuanian counterpart, Vytautas Landsbergis, disrupted the Kremlin’s plans for an economic blockade of the republic.
      In August 1991, Boris Yeltsin, who, alongside hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Moscow, confronted the leaders of a hard-line Communist coup d’état, played a central role in defeating that attempt-which meant freedom for Russia and for all the other Soviet republics. On August 24th, on behalf of the Russian Federation, President Yeltsin officially recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It took the United States until September 2nd to do the same.
      Not a single representative of the current Russian authorities participated in the unveiling ceremony last week. The memory of Boris Yeltsin-both of the domestic political freedoms and of the pro-European foreign policy-is not welcome by the Putin regime. “When some rogue in the Duma once again raises his voice about the Baltics’ ‘disrespect’ for Russia … I will remember that shameful scene,” wrote Sergei Parkhomenko, a prominent Russian journalist. “[I will remember] a large crowd of Estonians who came to express gratitude and respect to Russia and her president, and the cowardly absence of Russian politicians and diplomats.”

  • @whatsup3519
    @whatsup3519 Год назад +3

    Super video

  • @glenarnold5058
    @glenarnold5058 17 дней назад

    Seems more like the question is supposed to be "How."

  • @daviddavisass6704
    @daviddavisass6704 Год назад +2

    nice video

  • @dacealksne
    @dacealksne 9 месяцев назад +2

    Based Lithuania

  • @johndewey6358
    @johndewey6358 8 месяцев назад +1

    Lithuanians are great freedom-loving nation.

  • @502opz346
    @502opz346 Год назад +2

    Thats a false claim, barricades started all at the same time in all 3 Balitc state capital cities at once. Baltic way was coordinated in all 3 countries at the same time. Baltic countries folled each other and supported. The real USSR destroyer was Germany's Berlins wall when it broke down ! That was the trigger for the rest of the countries !

  • @ABX-bb3jb
    @ABX-bb3jb Год назад +4

    Yes,soviet-kaput🇱🇹💪😁

  • @abdulsidibeh8108
    @abdulsidibeh8108 Год назад +2

    Why not neutral ?To free your self from east or west...

  • @edvardseglitis7128
    @edvardseglitis7128 9 месяцев назад +1

    Nick with yet another quality short form video ! Love from Latvia !

  • @julijakeit
    @julijakeit Год назад +1

    We were lucky we had Gorbachow (who regretted the 1991 'special military operation) and not Sputler. By that time USSR was ridden with economic, political and social problems.

  • @user-cs4fg7bh4r
    @user-cs4fg7bh4r Год назад +2

    There were 13 innocent students died that day

  • @Troy-ol5fk
    @Troy-ol5fk 23 дня назад

    1:59 looks familiar

  • @mclukas44lol25
    @mclukas44lol25 2 месяца назад

    Lithuania didn’t destroy the Soviet Union. It was barely mentioned in that video. Mostly the Soviet Union destroyed itself with the Cold War and communist hard liners+ Yeltsin that wanted really a democratic change

  • @benassafranauskas6216
    @benassafranauskas6216 Год назад +2

    And you shold say Vytautas not Vytatus

  • @michaelman957
    @michaelman957 9 месяцев назад +1

    God bless Lithuania

  • @ironwolf1773
    @ironwolf1773 2 месяца назад +1

    Lithuania is North Europe.

  • @ddddd175
    @ddddd175 Год назад +13

    LITVA RAZVALILA CCCP MOZEM PAVTORIT !!!!

  • @Linciuga
    @Linciuga Год назад +3

    Here is a topic if you didint made video do about Singing Revolution in Lithuania aciu :)

  • @nooneels_
    @nooneels_ Год назад

    the same year we got indepentent my grandpa died because of a berch tree that collapsed

  • @LegendOfTheOld
    @LegendOfTheOld Год назад

    As a german I know the true story of who brought the USSR to it's knees. 1989 David Hasselhoff performed "Looking for Freedom" infront of the iron curtain, which made it crumbled this day ...if only he came by earlier.

    • @lukasg1571
      @lukasg1571 10 месяцев назад

      As a german you should be concerned about rebuilding bundeswehr

  • @exlibrisas
    @exlibrisas Год назад +7

    Oh I wish it was solely our doing. We helped for USSR to crumble, but it was due to many many factors. Anyway, great to see something positive about my country, since in the world's public consciousness it's only negatives.

    • @jonasblet
      @jonasblet Год назад +3

      Negative only in your mind my friend

    • @SscorpionN
      @SscorpionN Год назад +6

      @@jonasblet I agree. It's mostly negative from the far East perspective but when it comes to the Western world, I see and hear a lot of positive opinions about Lithuania. I have quite a few American friends and they all say only positive things about Lithuania. Some of them are even planning to come visit :)

    • @pauliusk6969
      @pauliusk6969 Год назад +5

      @@SscorpionN Of course, come to visit, Lithuania is a small country, but we have some places, that you cant find anywhere else (hill of crosses in Siauliai for example) and it would be once in a life time experience to see them. Travelers are always welcome here.

    • @bhaashatepe5234
      @bhaashatepe5234 2 месяца назад

      @@SscorpionN
      ===
      Honoring Yeltsin in Tallinn
      ====
      On January 13, 1991, as Soviet tanks rolled into Lithuania’s capital, Vilnius, to crush the pro-independence movement, Boris Yeltsin, then speaker of Parliament of the Russian Federation, flew into Tallinn in what many Western diplomats considered a “crazy” move. In open defiance of the Kremlin, Yeltsin signed a treaty with Estonia recognizing her “inalienable right to national independence” (he later signed similar treaties with Latvia and Lithuania). While in Estonia, Yeltsin met with Soviet troops stationed there and urged them to disobey the Soviet leadership, should it give an order to move against peaceful demonstrators, as had been done in Vilnius and Riga. Yeltsin publicly condemned the Soviet aggression, spoke out in favor of independence for the Baltic States, and, reaching out to his Lithuanian counterpart, Vytautas Landsbergis, disrupted the Kremlin’s plans for an economic blockade of the republic.
      In August 1991, Boris Yeltsin, who, alongside hundreds of thousands of people in the streets of Moscow, confronted the leaders of a hard-line Communist coup d’état, played a central role in defeating that attempt-which meant freedom for Russia and for all the other Soviet republics. On August 24th, on behalf of the Russian Federation, President Yeltsin officially recognized the independence of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. It took the United States until September 2nd to do the same.
      Not a single representative of the current Russian authorities participated in the unveiling ceremony last week. The memory of Boris Yeltsin-both of the domestic political freedoms and of the pro-European foreign policy-is not welcome by the Putin regime. “When some rogue in the Duma once again raises his voice about the Baltics’ ‘disrespect’ for Russia … I will remember that shameful scene,” wrote Sergei Parkhomenko, a prominent Russian journalist. “[I will remember] a large crowd of Estonians who came to express gratitude and respect to Russia and her president, and the cowardly absence of Russian politicians and diplomats.”

  • @BertaButeFlick
    @BertaButeFlick 5 месяцев назад +1

    We are small but rabid nation.

  • @danrook5757
    @danrook5757 Год назад +2

    Those egg heads that dont support ukraine, should watch this.

  • @Redneckphilosopher6969
    @Redneckphilosopher6969 4 месяца назад

    It’s time the same for a state in the USA to do the same. I am tired of the drugs being lose. I am tired not being able to buy a home. I am tired of the political divide in America. I am tired of the endless wars. I am tired of people not trusting each other. I am tired of big government. Let each state rule themselves. The republic is not free and I want to break free.

  • @benassafranauskas6216
    @benassafranauskas6216 Год назад +2

    Laisvė yra laisvė it means fredom is fredom in lithuanian language .

  • @indrekinc7998
    @indrekinc7998 Год назад +3

    actually it started in 1987 from Estonia

  • @simonasvan140
    @simonasvan140 Год назад +2

    And we'll do It again!😈😈😈

  • @j.140
    @j.140 Год назад +1

    And to make it clear .... I am very happy the Baltic States and others got their independence from USSR. I also hope Ukraine and other ex USSR will keep their freedom and independence.
    I just cannot understand how someone would mention Reagan in a video about freedom and democracy. Tell the people in Guatemala and el Salvador that suffered the genocide

  • @世界は私のキャンバスです
    @世界は私のキャンバスです 2 месяца назад +1

    LIETUVA, LATVIJA, ESTIJA!

  • @hansericsson7058
    @hansericsson7058 Год назад +1

    True that!

  • @familygash7500
    @familygash7500 7 месяцев назад +3

    I love how like 85% of this video's comments are just Russophobic slander.

    • @niczkowski
      @niczkowski 6 месяцев назад +6

      anti communist*

  • @somethingsomething7679
    @somethingsomething7679 9 месяцев назад

    The longest human chain in the world, yet not disturbing let alone blocking the road

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 8 месяцев назад

      ...
      Jesus Christ saves
      He had mercy on me he can save all who all seek him today He made away through calvery repent of all sins today
      Romans 6:23
      For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      Holy Spirit can give you peace purpose and joy and his will today
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

  • @weedybitz420
    @weedybitz420 8 месяцев назад

    I am Lithuanian... reason why we got country back was because lithuanians went out on streets with nothing, they held hands as tanks were moving closer, as tanks crushed people in front of them they didnt run stayed holding hands until russian tanks stopped.

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 8 месяцев назад

      ...
      Do you know Jesus Christ can set you free from sins and save you from hell today
      Jesus Christ is the only hope in this world no other gods will lead you to heaven
      There is no security or hope with out Jesus Christ in this world come and repent of all sins today
      Today is the day of salvation come to the loving savior Today repent and do not go to hell
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      Romans 6.23
      For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

  • @user-ig9yr4nl2l
    @user-ig9yr4nl2l 9 месяцев назад +1

    I love the video, but the pronunciation is really bad

  • @GeorgeNzioki-ls6nn
    @GeorgeNzioki-ls6nn Год назад +1

    That freedom wa ssold to America that is their problem mit Russias

  • @gregcorricello8997
    @gregcorricello8997 Год назад +1

    Commenting for algorithm

  • @gilbertjmarquez
    @gilbertjmarquez Год назад

    Regardless of what anyone thinks of the Soviet Union, I just want to say Ronald Reagan did Not stand for for freedom, he stood for corporate expansion

  • @user-RedStar
    @user-RedStar Год назад +1

    It didn't. Influence of this tiny land spot is exaggerated. It was the meeting of separatist Ukraine Russia and Belarus on December 8 1991 that dismissed USSR

  • @martinyan2260
    @martinyan2260 Год назад +1

    my god you butchered those names horribly

  • @MelAegis
    @MelAegis Год назад +3

    As a lithuanian, the funniest shit ever for me is listening to english speaking people trying to pronounce lithuanian words

  • @captainberdinator
    @captainberdinator 8 месяцев назад +1

    First, Lithuania destroyed Russia in 1612. Now, 1989-1990.

    • @christopher9727
      @christopher9727 8 месяцев назад

      ...
      Jesus Christ saves
      He had mercy on me he can save all who all seek him today He made away through calvery repent of all sins today
      Romans 6:23
      For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
      Come to Jesus Christ today
      Jesus Christ is only way to heaven
      Repent and follow him today seek his heart Jesus Christ can fill the emptiness he can fill the void
      Heaven and hell is real cone to the loving savior today
      Today is the day of salvation tomorrow might be to late come to the loving savior today
      Holy Spirit can give you peace purpose and joy and his will today
      John 3:16-21
      16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
      Mark 1.15
      15 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.
      2 Peter 3:9
      The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
      Hebrews 11:6
      6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
      Jesus

  • @ctreid87
    @ctreid87 Год назад +1

    Beard Wednesday!

  • @manometras
    @manometras Год назад

    Well, Lithuania did not destroy it, Lithuania just said leave me alone or f-ck off to it.
    Why didn’t it continue to exist is another question. They could have continied eating grass if they wanted to.