Aliide Naylor - The Baltics are Vital Democracies that Border a Revanchist Russia Ruled by a Tyrant.
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- Aliide Naylor is a British journalist, author, and editor who has specialised in Russia and frontline European nations since 2011. Her freelance reportage has been published by a variety of outlets, including Vice, The Times, the Guardian, Tortoise, POLITICO Europe, and many more. Whilst she has extensive experience working on Russia, Europe, and international affairs, she also covers topics as diverse as technology, society and culture. Her first book, 'The Shadow in the East: Vladimir Putin and the New Baltic Front', was published by Bloomsbury in January 2020.
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The Baltics are vital democracies in North-Eastern Europe, but with a belligerent Vladimir Putin to their east - plotting his war on Ukraine - and 'expansionist' NATO to their west, these NATO members have increasingly been the subject of unsettling headlines in both Western and Russian media. But beyond the headlines, what is daily existence like in the Baltics, and what does the security of these frontline nations mean for the world?
Based on her extensive research and work as a journalist, Aliide Naylor takes us inside the geopolitics of the region. Travelling to the heart of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania she explores modernity in the region, investigates smuggling and troop movements in the borderlands, and explains the countries' unique cultural identities. Naylor tells us why the Baltics have been vital to the political struggle between East and West, and how they play a critical role in understanding the long running tensions between Russia and Europe.
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I've said this for years. If you want a proper picture of how the Russians operate, you need to listen to the people of the Baltic states. These people know very well, far better than most, what it's like under Russian occupation.
If you don't trust folks from Baltic states ask people from Finland!
We lost 20% of our population under Soviet Occupation. It affects every Estonian, every family. We never lost our language, culture, voices, resilience and resistance. Long live Forest Brothers. Slava Ukraine. 🇪🇪🇺🇦
@@nevco8774Baltics were 50+ years under Soviet occupation and many more under Russian Empire. With due respect and love our brothers and sisters in Finland didn’t experience anything close to this.
@@EEX97623 I wanted to stress something to counter the RuZZian propaganda: remember in Soviet Union there were all people called "Soviet People" according to Brezhnev.
That means a gullible population in the West can be duped by today's propaganda that Baltics were entirely converted to Soviets so are not trustworthy. On the other hand Finland was never part of "socialist" world. They were never brainwashed. Their fate was not decided by Ribentrop / Molotov. Instead they fought a serious war of independence against former colonial power in 1939-1940 WITHOUT international support as Ukraine does today. Indeed all Baltic territory and people are free today. However a considerable portion of Finnish folks STILL suffer today in 2024 under RuZZian occupation in the place falsely called Karelia. Even Soviet regime under Joseph Stalin recognized they are fighting in 1939 Karelo-Finnish troops.
All that written I am stressing out that ALL ethnicities conquered into RuZZian empire suffered to certain extent especially those who never wanted to bent under like Baltic folks did. I would point out the Western Ukrainean fighters against Soviet Union who opposed the evil until 50ties the way Baltic folks did.
Yes, RuZZia managed to break considerably the bones of desire for freedom of Belarusians, Moldovans, Armenians, Georgians. It does not mean those folks prefer to live under RuZZian boot. Kudos to the most successful who are free and value freedom like Baltic folks, a true inspiration even for Belarusians and mark my words - for the future free city of Königsberg and the region around it.
You can tell the same about Poland
In Lithuania we're thinking in terms of decades lost to communism under russian occupation that Finland was so lucky to have avoided and just look at them now... Moreover, we still remember being under tzarist russia, our language being supressed (we had to print it abroad and smuggle it back in (we call it "knygnešystė") and by the way I know russia likes to think they "civilised" us but actually our first university (Vilnius University) predates russia's first by roughly 150 years and was built during the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth era (by the way the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was the first European state to adopt a written constitution, and the world's second after the US). This is not to say that we're competing with the Romans or the Brits in any of these but merely to demonstrate that we have always been part of the Western civilisation and we have always been open and eager to learn from others. Had we been left alone, I'm sure we'd be in a different place now, but russia had to "civilise" us with their backwardness is now claiming we're not a real country, not a real nation, they built everything for us, civilised us and if we disagree they call us nazis.
yes! most of us americans who are educated at least, know quite a bit about you and the high quality of Lithuanian ppl. At least the liberals here today will try like hell to make sure any U.S. admin comes to the aid of the Baltics etc, and not one centimeter, nor one single life taken by Ru will be acceptable. Many of us have been watching Ru/ussr closely since around the late 1970's and now we're beyond sick and tired of them: they need to be contained ASAP.
I agree. Similar situation with Latvia to. Just look at depths of our cultures to. Our cultures shows of sophisticated societies!
I visited Estonia before the RU invasioin of Ukraine and spoke with academics, journalists and random citizens. Estonia has developed and innovated remarkably during the last decades. They are much oriented toward Scandinavia [Finland in particular], economically, culturally and in attitude. Being a small country, alliances like EU and NATO are considered vital.
The large Russian speaking minority is a something of a challenge now, but back then co existence looked peaceful. Hopefully Putin's imperial obsessions will be blocked and the Baltics can
return to some kind of normalcy
The Russians are treated dreadfully. They are mostly elderly and poor as they are not citizens and scratch out a meager existance somehow. This persicution is totally against the UN charter. These people are too poor to stay and too poor to go but of course this is hidden from the world. In the past they would be taken to the forrest...?
Finland is a Nordic country, not technically Scandinavia, although Finland and Estonia were both part of Sweden at one time. Estonia and Finland are both Finnic nations; if not for Soviet occupation of «the Baltics», Estonia would more likely be in Nordic region. Estonia and Finland share same national anthem hymn (so despite being banned by Soviet occupation regime, in Tallinn the Estonian national anthem could be heard by daily radio broadcast of the Finnish anthem from Helsinki across the Gulf of Finland). Estonian and Finnish are Balto-Finnic languages-not only unrelated to Baltic, Slavic, or Germanic languages, but unrelated to any Indo-European language.
To the south of Estonia (in what is now Latvia) used to be Finnic Livonia. Grand Duchy of Finland, Estonia, Livonia were the only parts of the Tsar’s realms to have universal literacy at start of the 20th century-when Russians across the empire were still almost universally illiterate. However, today Livonian language is extinct.
Estonia and Finland share ancestral Finnic mythos/runic folklore-Estonian national epic _Kalevipoeg_ modeled on more famous Finnish national epic _Kalevala_ ; title names sharing etymology. For many centuries, Estonia and Finland were connected by land with other Finnic tribes/lands between them, viz. Ingria and Karelia, ancient Finnic homelands (along with Swedish fortress town Nyenskans/Nevanlinna demolished by Tsar Peter) cleared in 18th century to build fake European-imitation synthetic city St Petersburg.
Ultimately Moscow (Russian Empire/Soviet Union) genocided Ingrian Finns, occupied East Karelia; Stalin also occupied significant part of historic Finnish Karelia as consequence of 1939-40 Winter War invasion, destroyed city of Viipuri/Viborg, imported Russians to replace population-ethnically cleansed Karelia fell from 62% Finnic in 1920 to only 7% Karelian in Russian Republic of Karelia in 2010. And USSR occupied Estonia for half-a-century, leaving behind 25% Russian minority-because Russians don’t have enough space elsewhere to live, they must displace tiny nation of Estonia with only 1 million people.
So Finnic peoples were ethnically cleansed, genocided and torn asunder by Russia-today Finland and Estonia are the only Finnic nationstates still in existence.
Estonia needs to do what's right and cede Narva back to Russia
@@ThisHandleWasTheOnly1Available Estonia needs to deport all ethnic Soviets to Moscow («Russian» is a fake identity usurped from the name of Rurik’s Varangian Rus of eastern Fennoscandia, who have nothing to do with the Moscow Khan horde).
@@InqvisitorMagnvs - actually Finland is also part of Scandinavia, since it is a peninsula that starts at Finish Bay - Ladoga - Onega - Onega Bay (White Sea). There is no natural division between Finland and Sweden/Norway. Look at a map!
As for language: yes the main language in Finland is Finnish, part of Finnish-Hungarian language group, but Swedish (spoken by about 10% of the population) is also an official language. The people of Åland is 100% Swedish.
so thankful to hear about the Baltics...I wish the wider American public was more aware
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Great job! 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪🇬🇧❤
We should be listening to the Baltic countries, they know russia best and have had to deal with them for generations.
Thank you, Jonathan. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Amazing guest, Jonathan! Totally agree with Aliide Naylor 👏👏💙💛💙💛✌️✌️✌️♥️♥️♥️
If Russia had merely spent one-third as much on building any of its neighbors as it has on trying to constantly destroy them, its influence over the past few decades would likely have already absorbed the love and admiration and adoration of any number of surrounding nations. One has only to remember that France has largely become a lasting world power not by war and conquering, but by diplomacy and culture and marriage! - j q t -
I was in Estonia in the 1970s. I soon learned to greet people in English to establish I was not Russian. Then they were OK about speaking in Russian with me.
Shame you missed our own beautiful language, and didn’t see the rebirth and growth since the 1990s. Greetings from
Estonia.
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Great interview. Thank you so much. More people need to open their eyes about what Russians are doing.
🇺🇦🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸 Pootin is desperate- time to turn up the heat!!
Aliide Naylor speaks here about asymmetric bilingualism. I had a conversation not so long ago with an ethnic Russian Estonian. He spoke of feeling marginalised by not being able to speak Estonian, but his answer to this problem was not to emigrate to Russia or to learn Estonian, but to learn English and settle in the UK. It seemed to me to be a bizarre mindset.
Completely! Going from one shitehole to an emerging shitehole!
💙🙏💙 THANK YOU💙 I just saw a list of “the best countries to live in” or some such similar title. The 19th country was Latvia!!!! The land of my ancestors!!! Imagine that. 🦅PS: I also just read a list of world countries that give free college to students and Estonia was on that list!!! Also in Finland students are paid to go to college (supported). We all know Finland as a Baltic country also - it is listed as “the happiest” country in the world🦅
Thank you, Jonathan and Aliide Naylor, for your very interesting conversation. I wish Europe would listen to the Baltics and Finnland. We need to stop the madcaps - the only thing that ever came out of the terrorist state, was death and destruction.
🇺🇦 Перемоги і миру всім українцям! 🇺🇦
Thank you so much from Latvia. It's so good to have someone outside of our own countries defend us.
Thank you for introducing me to Aliide Naylor. Great guest!
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We need more voices like Aliide's in the msm. Great guest.
❤❤❤love your guest❤❤❤. Love your interviews 👍
Disinformation is a super common problem these days. We all need to be careful and be on guard so as not to be deceived by misinformation. Something I’ve found helpful is this I’ve included :
“Before believing or forwarding a story, even one that is popular or repeated in the news, verify that it is true. How?
Evaluate the reliability of the source. News media companies and other organizations may slant a story because of their commercial or political bias. Compare what you see in one news outlet with other sources. At times, friends may inadvertently pass on misinformation through email messages or social media posts. Therefore, do not trust a news item unless you can check the original source.
Make sure that the content is current and accurate. Look for dates, verifiable facts, and strong evidence to support what is being said. Be especially cautious if complex information seems to be oversimplified or if the report is designed to evoke an emotional reaction.
“Fact-checking now is probably becoming as important as hand washing.”-Sridhar Dharmapuri, a Senior Food Safety and Nutrition Officer for the U.N.”
Thanks folks
Great interviews!
Thank you for the great interview. Very much appreciate it.
There is a reason why in Finnish verb "Ryssiä" (Muscovy) , roughly meaning "to totally fail something".
Russia will have to be defeated like Hitler was. Other nations imprisoned within Russia will have to become free, sooner or later. Russia (what remains of it) has to change beyond recognition, it has to be humbled. Otherwise things will be getting worse and no end to it. Regards, that's a beautiful interview.
Another great interview. Im very curious about post Russian Revolution Baltic history and will be picking up Ms Naylor's book.
Thank you.
Thankyou for interviewing Aliine Naylor this has been really worthwhile to me in understanding how the oppression of family history and families sharing of culture empowers the bully while at the same time it destroys personal belief in themselves and their heritage
Excellent guest. Thanks!
Article 5 = Budapest memorandum
Moscow horde´s war record :-
1856 defeated by Britain and France
1905 defeated by Japan
1917 defeated by Germany
1920 defeated by Poland, Finland, Estonia and all Baltic states
1939 defeated by Finland
1969 defeated by China
1989 defeated by Afghanistan
1989 defeated in the Cold War.
1996 defeated by Chechnya
2022 defeated by Ukraine
WW2 won USA/Britain , meanwhile Stalin's officers were shot or sent to the Gulags. Millions went to the Gulags, including Solzhenitsyn
Moscow's only victories come from invading smaller countries :-
a) Hungary 1956
b) Czechoslovakia 1968
c) Moldova 1992
d) Georgia 2008
In Latvia we have a saying about Soviet Union - Evil empire.
Great work- great guest
Excellent talk. Thank you.
One thing I want to mention regarding F-16. There's no doubt the west has been slow to provide some forms of military aid. However, the story about F-16 is more complex than most.
The battlefield has to be shaped for their use, which is one reason Ukraine has been hitting Russian radar installations recently. That's good.
Another big factor is the need to train Ukrainian pilots, and a recent talk by Justin Bronk on Ward Carroll's channel shed light on something I've not heard elsewhere. Justin is the most knowledgeable person currently in the public sphere about the air war in Ukraine, so I weigh his words heavily. He explained that flying an F-16 is far different from flying the types currently in Ukrainian inventory. An experienced pilot can be taught to fly a new aircraft type, but when the stress ratchets up as it does in combat, they tend to fall back on what they've done for many years, it's a very normal human reaction. The Ukrainian pilots are excellent pilots, and they initially sent their best and most experienced to be trained on F-16. But due to their old habits, ALL of them failed the training. This isn't being widely reported because it sounds embarrassing. It's really just human nature at work and not an indictment on the skill of the Ukrainians. (Ward Carroll is a retired American naval aviator, and he stated this rang true to him based on his own experience as well).
In many ways it is easier to train a new pilot to fly a type than to train an experienced pilot to fly a type that is so different from the type they've spent their career on.
At the moment, that is the biggest cause of delays with the F-16. The skies above Ukraine and Russia are very dangerous. It would be murder to put pilots who aren't ready, up in the F-16s and expect them to handle a high threat environment and survive. F-16 will be in Ukraine when their pilots are ready. Rushing will get pilots killed and aircraft lost. That's where we're at right now.
Yes, agree. I have heard similar, and to be honest it makes sense.
Polish pilots who were retrained on F-16 said the same in their interviews, so this is quite plausible.
Thanks
Thanks for the info and another great guest , Johnathan, keep up the great work … 🇺🇦
British Pilot's could easily protect the skies from outside Ukraine. The soft leadership is turning it's head
The leadership is turning it’s soft head , mebbe ?
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Russian ethnics in Latvia are not a 30% of the population, but 48%. Aliide Naylor committed a small mistake.
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The difference between the Baltics and Slovakia appears to be what Allide explains as lack of notalgia and lloking west in Baltics and what appears to be an eastern looking forward and nostalgia in the rural people of the Fico Slovakians. It is similar toTrumpists in the USA where MAGA is like believing in the Hollywood productions that never portrayed US reality that they think of as the good old days.
Good. Hint to her: get rid of the «vocal fry»
So the fate of the free world depends on your personal country? How convenient.
It is rather bizarre that all of those fantastic European speakers always start the Muscovite occupation and opression of Estonia from 1940, while Livonia was occupied by Muscovy since 1704, about seventy years before Ukraine. And even before the Germanic and Swedish expansions it was already occupied by Ukrainians, Tartu was founded in 1030 by Ukrainian, Ruthenian king Jaroslavъ, then duke of Novgorodъ.
The Russians just want to get back to the good ol days. And yet everyone has a holiday
Please reduce your talk time about the Soviet Union by about 90% and increase your talk time about the Russian Empire by about 100%. I am an American working in Ukraine, have been doing so for about. People here are not concerned about the return of the Soviet Union... They are concerned about the return of the Russian Empire. The Return of Moscovy Culture. Understand what Moscovy Culture you will understand what everyone in Eastern Europe is concerned about.
🇷🇺do ANYTHING TO ACQUIRE SEA PORTS--well past Putin:(
Nothing good ever comes from the east. Old Finnish proverb
Actually Russians aren't allowed into Baltic, after the full scale war. So we do not have large Russian influx. Escaping mobilization is not valid reason to enter Baltic countries!
When all is said and done, Russia is a puppy compared to the former colonial and neo colonial powers on the other side of the globe.
Free Julian Assange!
Unfortunately the level of vocal fry was too much. Had to bail out of this one.
Much love to Russia from Slovak Republik!
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So the vast majority of all successful (in every way) nations and european nations who made modern life possible (including indirectly for you!), are incorrect about the atrocities Ru has committed against Ukrainian citizens against a Ukr that had harmed no one (!) , and the documented (incl. by U.N. officials) fact that Ru troops and GRU tortured half the population of the not small city of Kherson. Second major report on Mariupol recently was released: Ru had choked off Mariupol's residents from leaving yet continued bombing and starving/dehyrating them in the first genocide in city-scale since WW2 on a european city/nation! Or how about the U.N. documented torture dens (including sex torture w/ little bins of pulled teeth) & indications of widespread torture and sexual assault of over 90K ukrainians early in the war, during the first six months or year?) Apparently you r unaware that Ru/ussr has been the only country with a very large secret police of a very skillful nature re propaganda and threat/use of violence to pursue imperial aims to push values/concepts of a medieval nature. Your ignorance is going to risk SK's being ultimately eventually ejected from both Nato and the EU!
It may be best for you movr back to Chelyabinsk and love russia from within.
Here’s your very expensive russian egg, good little troll 🥚
Meanwhile, you hide behind NATO and exist on subsidies from the EU.
Aliide Naylor isn't too well to understand in her speaking...
💛💙💜💙💛 thanks, Jonathan and guest!! I'm listening uninterrupted 😊
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