Simply ask them if they should finally invade Jekaterinenburg. Will be funny to listen to those that wann invade Jekaterinenburg cause those might also invade Moscow too once you ask.
Not sure I understand your disclaimer in this video: that "Russian world" is "not that serious." Perhaps you mean to use a different English word? It sounds like something that IS being taken seriously these days, especially by the Kremlin. Are you trying to say that it is not always connected to Russian imperialism?
As a Lithuanian native I can say this - we don't have problems with a Russian speaker as long as he is a decent human being - if you came here and started talking how Lithuania or any other Baltic state needs to be united with the Russian World, prepare for a very negative reaction. Especially if this type of conversation would take place with a young person. We love our cultures, languages and traditions. There is a reason the Baltic states opted to join NATO, we just simply want to exist further, in peace. With no fears of another invasion. And ever since our independence we are just building our society and values again and I'm really excited to see where time will take us. And if the worst case scenario happens and Russia opts to invade our peaceful countries, I can guarantee - the resistance would be fierce and widespread.
As a Swede I hope we will join Nato soon so we can fight together for your countries if that happens. Russians need to understand that it is agression and authoritarianism we are against, not the russians who respect these values.
Same here. I don't understand why russians are mad at us for our ruzzophobia. You f*kers want to remove Ukraine from the map, don't give us all that bullshit about fighting nazies. You are the real evil. From the roots. And you want other countries to look at your atrocities and be like, ok, ruzzians are a bit crazy but we love them, come visit us. Yea, don't think so
I’m a russian-speaking Latvian and never had any problems, because I still communicate in Latvian when needed. And that’s how it should be. I have my culture that is a bit of both, but I absolutely respect full Latvians that do not speak Russian or don’t want to. Why tf should they? We’re in Latvia.
I guess it's depends on whether you call civil war friendship. My grandfather from Talivka , on the border to ruzzia fought the tsar (Russian Empire) for independence followed by the fight against the Bolsheviks to stop the annexation into the SU. during the Holodomor he was taken to a friendship camp aka gulag for protesting against the Holodomor. My uncle was then deported aka resettled to Central Asia. All in good order, in friendship ... seriously?
Russians considered ''friendship'' only under their domination. If one tried to disagree and to opose they were immediately anounced as ''enemy of the state'' and sent to the places where you can see only checkered skies . That soviet myth about friendship of soviet nations was and still is an absolute bul..it and used as disinformation in propaganda purposes.
''I'm not embarassed to say that on camera that I recently had a mobilized buddy come back, he told me not to believe what they tell us on TV.'' Thumbs up to this dude, not afraid of the truth.
On the other hand, this guy also assumes that Russia will now have the conquered territories of Ukraine, which means that Russia has some right to steal the territories of an independent state.
@@marktuyet if so , he could sabotage russian war efforts , a Simple molotov cocktail into train repair depo or into govermental offices could go a long way
@@kkivela I understood him to say Russia's war has been waged unimpressively and that Russia has given up on its original goals and that "at best" it will stop at the borders of the "alleged" new territories .. I don't think he meant that Russia has any right to steal Ukraine's territories.
Propaganda hasn't started giving them crap about the nazis in the Baltics yet, so their doublethink lives without a pre-installed system about what they're supposed to think.
Yet what about the claims that ¾ of the Russians endorse the ‘special operation’? Just BS? If true, ¾ is an extraordinary high level of danger and for me and more than good enough to nuke everybody in Russia without the slightest afterthought.
@@jasc4364 75% is probably true. Well most just assume their leaders must be doing what needs doing and are not thinking about politics much because it's fruitless and dangerous. But real opposition is probably less then 25%. It's hard to blame them given the years and years of propaganda they've heard. This is a well developed science by now.
@@JamesGreen57447 Daydreamed. As a result, Ukraine will lose the war, China will become the new hegemon, and the NATO alliance will either start World War 3 or break up. What awaits Russia and the EU, only God knows.
Lithuanian here. I'm genuinely surprised by the lack of Russians wanting us to join Russia Mir, compared to the previous Poland video. I am sorry to say that recent events in Ukraine has changed my perception of Russians. Before 2021, I only disliked the Russian government, but now, the general indifference and political apathy of perhaps 80% of Russians makes it really hard to appreciate their culture. I wish we could just live in peace, trade and live happily ever after.
Poland achieved great success after the overthrow of communism. Unlike Russia, the 1990s are viewed differently there, in Russia having a black legend. The quality of life (considered through all elements, not just wages) is incomparably higher there. Russia views such phenomena with envy and doesn't really know what to do about it. The simplest ideas come to mind...
Oh my ancestors wouldn't agree with u too after what u very done in karelia with finno ugrjsh population here, and hey, I am finno ugrjsh of Russia, we never can understand why u r like that
As Latvian this video give me hope! If you are a good person, we do not discriminate whether you are Russian or not.The biggest problem is the Russians in our country who haven't learned a word of Latvian in 30 years and behave like pigs. It just gives a bad impression of everyone else. Practically all Russians who have entered Latvia from Russia in the last 15 years are very nice and warm people.
FYI, just one example, a Russian journalist and TV host, Dmitry Kiselyov, lived and worked on major TV channels in Ukraine for years; that time, he was exceptionally nice, peaceful, respectful, warm, and polite towards Ukraine and Ukrainians, after a few years in Ukraine he returned back to Moscow where he burst on daily basis with anti-Ukrainian hate speech, Russian imperial propaganda, xenophobia, chauvinism, then he incredibly actively supported Russian invasion to Ukraine in 2014!
Check out Russian media monitor channel, if you haven't, and watch the poisous garbage, lies and propaganda. It's disgusting. Translated to english,. I was amazed this video showed more intelligent open minded Russians. There's a lot the other way usually.
You have to feel sorry for the the frog that is slow boiled until it's too late. One year on some Russians, like the frog, are only just starting to sense that all is not well. Their 3 day special invasion operation hasn't reaped the spoils they'd hoped for. They've lost so much for so little gain and nobody,that matters, wants anything to do with them.
1. It is doublethink like in Orwell. Why they can't say the same thing about Ukraine? 2. Or is it a war defeat that makes them think in civilized terms? Which means one thing... keep helping Ukraine until Crimea is liberated.
@@pawekurowski Have you forgotten that criticism of the special military operation is punishable by 15 years in prison? They can say what they say about Estonia because it's not covered by that law. They expect you as the listener to connect the dots.
The lady with the red, white and blue beenie with glasses seems like such a good person. And she's right. Successfully leading with competency and compassion will bring people to your side. Those are the kind of people we need in power. Pretty much every person, everywhere on the planet just wants to live a comfortable life with enough food to eat, a roof over their heads and good times with those they love.
I was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it, bravo. Russia is repellent, not attractive. The people should know this and do something to change it.
"Soft power" is vastly more effective at bringing people over to your side than military power. Of course, for it to be effective, you have to be selling something that people might want to buy into...It is hard to imagine that very many people want to buy into rule by corrupt oligarchs, but Q-Anon (another of Prigozhin's projects?) is doing the best that it can.
I am from Latvia, I was glad to hear few reasonable people, especially 2 ladies starting at 11:14. But what me amazed is how still many mention that in Soviet time all republics lived friendly….😂 yeah so I would correct it and say lived “friendly” as we were occupied and forced to live under communist regime with no other option. I see with many people in Russia that even if they are against war in Ukraine, but the imperial mentality is very strong though!!!! We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇱🇻
It’s interesting to see all of the former Soviet countries collectively do not want to go back. Some would say it’s because of western influence but I believe it’s because they have a shared experience.
The last gentleman sounds more informed than all the generals and Putin put together. He obviously gets his news from sources other than Russian state TV. Hopefully more & more people join his ranks. Thanks Daniil!
Last "gentleman", who casually said they should stop on whatever line russia has already annexed in Ukraine, not because it's wrong, but because Ukraine (suddenly!) fights back, instead of pulling out all together out of a sovereign country? You have really low standards.
@@noname-kf5xs if you read the translation of this guy’s commentary in the video he called the occupied territories “alleged” parts of the Russian federation which implies he does not agree with the annexation of these territories into the Russian Federation. He is pushing back on the dominant theme in Russian media that all the actions taken by Russia are legal and that the people of Ukraine welcome the invaders. I assume that he would be the kind of person that eventually will accept the return of Crimea to Ukraine along with all the other occupied territories. Let’s not be too harsh on our allies in Russia who are on the right path.
@@noname-kf5xs You seem to have a really low ability to comprehend the comments of a person who has to judge every word against the possibility that he could be thrown in jail for fifteen years for "criticizing the special military operation." In that light, I find him to be extremely sensible, moral and astute. Clearly, if it were up to him, Ruzzia would withdraw all of its forces from Ukraine tomorrow and live in peace going forward.
@@RichardTaylor1630 I'm half-russian myself & I speak fluent russian. I will dare to say I have a better ability to comprehend russians than most people from the Western side of the world. The "allegidly Russian" wording at 15:57 is biased in translation. What he says is "на границе этих областей, которые мы заявили что теперь это территория російськой федерации". Word to word, it translates "on the border of these regions, which we declared now that this is the territory of the Russian Federation". You can check with google translation the accuracy of the sound and translation. There is no "allegidly Russian" bit, whoever subbed this video had added that on their own. Russians went to war with Ukraine and got stuck with it for a year, while expecting to be done in 3 days. They know they look bad to the outside world, they won't make themselves look even worse on camera. That's why pretty much all of people in this video, minus the old lady, repeat the same mantra "war bad", but once you ask them whether they WANT Baltics included in russian federation, they sure do. This guy's argument is based on "my buddy went there, we're losing so we need to stop", not on "we invaded a sovereign peaceful country and ruined millions of lives, we need to stop". Ask yourself what his "buddy" did in Ukraine. People in Bucha didn't shot themselves in their heads on their own, kids in Mariupol's dramtheater didn't drop the bomb onto themselves either.
@@dylanharper1274if you are serious, since I know not everyone speak english fluently. existential is just an adjective to existence, basically anything that relates to existence. and existential dread is an actual thing people have like depression, it's when someone exists in a state of despair and uncertainty.
In Lithuania we have a sizeable population of russians who were born here but refuse to speak Lithuanian. It's like they are waiting for the soviets to come back.
Well russians in Lithuania doesnt make up big percentage of entire population. But these so called russian-speakers are very concentrated in certain areas. In fact Lithuania is the least colonized with russians among the Baltic states.
Whenever I hear Russian propaganda talking about Russian World, I am reminded of Transnistria. 30 years of 'cooperation' with Russia has made Transnistria the poorest region in Europe. Imagine what 30 years of EU would have meant.
It doesn't help that Русский мир translates as both Russian World and Russian Peace... and crushing dissent in order to implement culture changes can still be deemed a "peaceful" result in the long run (as was the Russian-led Soviet ethos).
Yeah I've been there and it's as depressing as it gets. Everything is either controlled by the "sheriff" or black market. Young people are especially struggling.
That's because Moldova was the poorest in Europe (2nd poorest now since the Ukraine has taken first place). Nothing to do with any Russian cooperation. It's blockaded by the rest of Moldova and isn't connected to Russia by land. Take a good look at countries like Kazakhstan or Belarus that have prospered thanks to Russian cooperation. Both countries are far ahead of pro-western Ukraine in every aspect of development. Whatever pitiful little crumbs the EU throws its vassals have to be paid back for a hundred fold with national dignity, sovereignty and independence.
As a baltic person, it kinda baffled me when you said "bring ruskiy mir before western influence", we as Lithuanians drifted far away from "ruskiy mir" and keep on drifting even further. I'd like all the Russians listen to the 9th person 8:03 and understand why WE DONT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA. Also he is aware of China. The most well informed person in this video
I think the "indoctrinated" part was just somewhat badly translated. Don't know much russian myself, so can not confirm to be the case. Though the same person speaks in at the end of the video and from the subtitles it would seem that he might think that the already occupied regions could be considered russian. That part was mentioned in a different comment thread and some other people said that what he actually used words like "alledgely russian" and other adjectives that made it clear that he in no way approved invading Ukraine, so I would rather lean towards assuming that the guy speaking was very reasonable. Translating is hard, something will always be lost in the translation. Not trying to be negative here, this channel is great, be safe and keep doing what you are doing!
Unfortunately, this video features only one informed and honest person with no imperial Russian arrogance or ignorance but common sense and knowledge of history!
@@moisiewe What does it have to do with anything? You think if someone does something you're automatically entitled to do the same? If someone is wrong, you're allowed to be wrong as well? Childish, dumb, irresponsible and ignorant.
@@squeakycleannnn I'm talking about double standarts, everyone is ok with 1 000 000 dead in Iraq (invaded with no reason even when UNSC said big fat "no), it's ok when usa is occupied 1/3 Syria,but everyone is complaining about Russia for some reason.
I am a Russian speaking Latvian and it was somewhat refreshing to see these people talking about us. One guy even knew about Soviet occupation of the Baltics! We don’t hate each other in Latvia, I have many Latvian friends and many families in interracial marriages. We are bilingual and we speak both languages fluently. One thing I can tell for sure that we are not Russians in a cultural way. The only common thing we have with Russians from Russia is language like British and Australians for example, but our ways of thinking, culture, traditions are very western. This could be the reason why some Russians may perceive our attitude as hostile, it is not, it is just more individualistic and liberal vs Russian conservative consciousness.
Not true at all. Russians, or slavs in general form their owns groups and rarely interact with natives here. Marriage between slavs and balts is not common, as previously mentioned, both groups form their own circle of friends, therefore relationships outside it don't happen often. Exceptions would be slav majority regions. Let's not fool ourselves, I can tell a Latvian from a Russian in a glance. From facial features to the way they dress, it's sometimes subtle but nevertheless we are and always will be different.
The lady at 11:27: exactly. Instead of invading other countries, focus on making Russia a place that people WANT to go to and you'll find friends around the world.
That's exactly what Russia and Putin tried to achieve in the beginning, but the idea of strong economically and military Russia was a nightmare for USA/NATO, they always need an enemy to satisfy the needs of the MIC. Just watch the Munich meeting in 2007 and make som conclusions.
@@dmitriyivanov9854 Again, this is the exact misunderstanding between Russia and the rest of the world. Strong does not merely mean military might. Respect does not mean fear. To others, strength is found in taking care of your own people--not in invading others. Strength means working infrastructure, roads, running water to every house, old people who can heat their homes. Strength means diversified industry at home. Strength means the ability to allow diverse opinions instead of putting it all into the hands of one unchanging government leader, with no room for dissent. And also, strength means taking responsibility for one's self instead of pushing the problem off onto someone else (NATO, the US, etc.) and saying it's all their fault, or using whataboutisms to justify things. Respect means not fear and intimidation, not control, but the ability to live peacefully with one's neighbors. To allow other sovereign nations to do their own thing in their own borders instead of deciding they aren't real countries and sending missiles at their hospitals, schools, and homes. Those actions will never create respect, but rather, the opposite. It's continually surprising to me how much Russia talks about the West/the US being "the enemy" when prior to this invasion, the West spent very little time even thinking about Russia, much less being obsessed with trying to oppress the country. Look, I don't know the answer to how Russia can solve its problems. That's a Russian question and it's got to be solved in a Russian way. But starting an invasion of another sovereign nation is NOT the way to solve the problems inside Russia. Instead, it just kills off your bright young men, impacts your labor force, and makes other nations not want to interact with Russia anymore. Which is a really unfortunate thing for a lot of people, both in and out of Russia. It makes me sad. I still have individual Russian friends, but my opinion on the nation as a whole has definitely changed, and the respect I once had has evaporated.
As a Latvian, it was interesting to watch this video compared to previous multiple videos, a lot of them were very negative but I have to admit, I respect some of the responses like 8:20, its nice to see acknowledgement of Baltic States history, our so called "hatred" towards Russians didn't came with out a reason but a lot of Russians don't see that or even learn why a lot of countries are resentful towards Russia. I was ready to see very negative attitude from people but I was wrong. It's a breath of fresh air to see logical people for a change, most of the times I see a lot of delusion and cognitive dissonance from Russians. Respect also for last dude and this lady 11:28. Also she's right about making their own lives better so neighbors are interested without invading, too bad their state uses other means.
Most Russians think this war is absurd. Don't believe what Putin (or Ukraine for that matter) tells you regarding popular support for the war. They are under a dictatorship.
"making their own lives better so neighbors are interested without invading" this is what russians will never understand. every eu country that joined nato did it willingly not by force. if i were russian i would ask myself, how come that so many slavic people turned to west instead of russia. we slavs speak the "same" language and have simmilar culture after all.
I used to live in Lithuania, lots of people speak Russian. Everyone is basically afraid of ending up like Ukraine and feel a lot of history repeating. Stalin annexed them in 1940 and they were incorporated against their will into the USSR. They want to move past that time and develop in their own way, and now they see Russia pulling the same thing with Ukraine that happened with them. That's why they've been so aggressive to Russia, they do not want 1940 to happen again, and if Ukraine falls, it's going to be either Georgia or them next. But you can visit them no one cares if you speak Russian, most of the older generation speak it while the younger generation speaks English. There's a bit more nationalism now post "special military operation", particularly in Lithuania. A guy in my class when I studied there last year was Russian, and he said he didn't notice any change in hostility towards himself being a Russian. So long as you're not pro-Putin and support Ukraine, no one cares there.
@@m.m.6670 This is similar to the situation of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia. Almost all the older people are able to speak it, but the younger generation whose first language is not Afrikaans tend to be reluctant to learn it as a second language due to traumatic stories from their older relatives. And of course it's not a global language, so less useful abroad.
Russophobia in baltics. Well. im latvian. You know how many times a year I'm demanded by russians to speak Russian, when they approach me and i tell em I'm not russian? Guess the reason i have never seen all 4 of my grandparents and they took a one way trip to siberia on a train, and russians moved in their houses? What about them trying to influence our government and push for russian as second official language, so every latvian is obligated to learn it? When is russia going to acknowledge the horrendous war crimes it committed against us and pay for them? We ain't visitors in our own country, yet sometimes it feels like we are. I don't mind the russians who at least try to speak Latvian, but I've ever met only one, the rest very likely cant even put a short sentence together in our language, yet have lived here for decades or even born here.
@@cu6upckuu48again , why not comment on the reply. The difference is the American tourist and short term visitors are here temporary whilst the discussion is about Russians who live in said countries and refuse learn. Yes any other nationality that plans to live long term in any country is expected to learn the language
@@cu6upckuu48 which ex soviet country you live so I know where these overlords are that are permanent and don't learn the language. You do understand just cause troops are signed to a country doesn't mean they don't rotate them like in every 6 months aka no one is gonna or is expected to learn the language. And the difference between them and Russians is that they could do it but they don't, but russia sure has tried multiple times.
@@cu6upckuu48 sure , only exsisted 10k years , Russians will merge with globalism as well. But you never replied, which ex soviet country are you from ?
@@cinnaminson0653 a strong man does not have to lie to justify his actions, a strong man is able to admit mistakes, a strong man does not have to put tens of thousands fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, children, toddlers and babys to an early grave just to get his way.
“The soviet republics were friendly”? As far as I remember, Russians viewed themselves as superior and called the caucas’ region dark skinned people “churki” (a racist slang) and all the rest of nations as Moscow’s slaves. As a Latvian I can say we don’t have a problem with Russian speakers, they just have to respect our language and culture which many of them don’t. They’ve maintained their historical syndrome of superiority. Indeed, the guy in 8:03 knows actual history many russian speakers here will deny.
I’m constantly reminded that the soviet states have a very different recollection of the USSR than the Russians have. And the gap has widened since these countries joined the western world and our ‘propaganda’ 😁.
One example during the times when Lithuania was occupied by the soviets russians who moved here were telling to lithuanians to "speak in human". It seems that lithuanian language to the russians it's not human language and lithuanians aren't humans...
"called"? that should be in present tense cause i hear that slur thrown around a lot. ESPECIALLY from my (slavic) family that actually live in the caucas region in the south, which is pretty much a melting pot of different cultures. truly brainrot.
@@closeup6263They dont need democracy, they need competent and pragmatic leadership. Singapore is a de facto dictatorship yet its a prosperous country
As a German I agree that one should always know your country's history and that it's very important to acknowledge your dark past. In Russia many people don't seem to really know how bad Stalin was or how Russia opressed all its neighbours. It has to do with the law that forbids "spreading disinformation about the Great Patriotic War" (It prohibits telling the truth in most cases). I mean imagine such a law in Germany...
@@wol06fi89 Germany is such a great example of what good it can do. USA Credit for having literally a black history month (ofc a lot of improvments must still be done).
He seemed like not having a healthy sense of how tragic the whole operation has been though. Despite the historical facts he had apparently learned at some point so kinda sus.
@@squeakycleannnn cant really tell as of the tone, but at least he understands thay they were to blame and at the ens he gave the good analogy of people not liking anything (Russia in this case) if it is forced
@@wol06fi89 So, Russia does not honestly analyze its history. The Memorial started an investigation into Stalin's crimes, but Putin's administration stopped it and made Stalin a hero. The current regime in Russia is a Nazi regime.
Do you know what they mean by "Baltics are friendly"? They come to our countries and demand the Russian language everywhere they go- as if they never left Russia. That's what "friendship" is for them. I can't imagine walking into a Moscow cafe and expecting the waitress to understand my orders in Latvian. But for some reason, Russians expect this and call it "friendliness" :) Even after they have lived here for a long time, they don't speak the language, because "we understand Russian anyway, so why bother learning an useless language?". Nobody else does that, Estonians, Swedes, Chinese- all learn the language. But not these people, that's why they call us "friendly" :)
there are lots of ethnical russians living even nowadays in Turkmenistan and they do not speak Turkmen, the state official language of the country. But we still try to display them some tolerance even though we are not supposed to do them any favour.
Constantly makes me crazy how Russians who live all their lives in Latvia are unable to learn even basic Latvian, it's such disrespect and then they wonder why Latvians don't like them, because they are selfish. They think world spins around them! I have meet only couple of people would do their best to learn and speak Latvian and I respect that, because it's not easy language, but they trying. I myself am half Russian and speak in all three languages, yet most millennials and gen z don't even bother learning Latvian, because their selfish parents told them to not bother learning language. I wish all those people just moved back to Russia, as they keep complaining how everything here is terrible and how Russia is such amazing country.
@@alise4041 I've experienced a Russian person who even didn't understand any latin letter eveh she lived here more than 50 years. It is just an attitude issue.
Seems like Russians are getting tired of the war whether they’d like to admit it or not. If it’s taking them this long to take Bakhmut then there’s no realistic scenario for which they reach Kyiv.
I think he filtered out the people with hardline view. The other day daniil was complaining about how some people used some clips of his video which favoured war while leaving out people who are negative about the war
I sympathize with all the people who found themselves in the occupied territories of Ukraine. They had their happy life and one day they were invaded by deceit their life has turned into a nightmare and now they have to live with their tormentors
It will be a very long time before Russia decides not to bring its brand of death, destruction and misery to a neighboring country. It has to be contained.
My wife’s Estonian. Her grandmother was deported to Siberia twice. Her mother was born there in the tundra. Let it be said that the people of the Baltics are among the most socially tolerant on god’s green earth. They do in fact co-exist well with the Russian speaking populations of the three tiny states. Strange considering the hell Russia put these small republics through. The Russian minorities are actually quite prosperous there. Such a high level of social integration is rare. Some might resent the ethnic Russians but do that in such a subtle manner that it’s hardly noticeable. Those interviewed were pretty liberal. Which is a great relief.
You’re wrong. I’ve lived here almost all my life and things go improve. And it’s not depressing. It’s just like any other county. Maybe you should stop listening to what your media tells you.
@@God_Like_666where exactly do you live in Russia? I have friends all over Russia, young and old. None of them say that anything moves forward. Russia regresses by day.
I am Russian from Saint Petersburg but now I live abroad. A have not traveled Russia a lot, but from my prospective yes, most parts of the country seem to be depressing, that’s true, but Moscow and Saint Petersburg were very nice places to live, especially if you have a good salary. Saint P is very beautiful, public transportation is very nice, taxi is cheap, lots of bars, coffee shops, many interesting museums. It used to be easy to travel to Finland and Estonia for a weekend, it was really easy to get a Finnish visa, especially before the pandemic. It’s a safe city, safer and cleaner than many places in Europe. The average wage isn’t impressive but it’s more than possible to earn a decent amount of money. Sadly Putin destroyed everything and now it’s defo better to leave Russia. But for the war, that would be a joyful place to live. Come visit once Putin is imprisoned, you’ll like it for sure
@@God_Like_666 I visited Russia in Soviet times - utterly depressing. I guess nowadays the big metro centres are rather better, but I'll bet out in the boonies nothing has changed. Even in the metro centres, there's a crunch coming when the monetary reserves run out sometime this year - then it's back to 1990. Try not to be condescending toward people. It's one of the more distasteful of Russian characteristics. You don't know on what basis people form their opinions. People have brains, and some people use them.
11:24 "We need to make a life for ourselves, and then our neighbors will be drawn to us without invading" "Peace at home, peace in the world" -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Estonian here. Russians have done unimaginably terrible things to my family in the past. But we don't hate Russians. Only when they start to think that Estonians and Russians are the same, we will stand our ground. Russians are not our brothers, never have been. We just want peace and let our culture finally flourish after so many years under occupation.
"Russians have done unimaginably terrible things to my family" - yeah, right, as Stalin (georgian), Beria (georgian), Hruschev (ukrainian), Brezhnev (ukrainian) are all russians. facepalm. A lot of people mix words russian and soviet - which is a total nonsence, as Russia was occupied by Soviet government (during the civil war of 1918-1922) same as any of the Baltics countries.
@@RavetsU exactly. nazi politics is the one to blaim, not german es a nation. Although germany polulation during holocaust was A LOT more homogenous than USSR population. Try to beat it.
@@MiSt3300 rather rare to find a Russian who can freely tell the truth while getting interviewed. folks seeing clearly what's going on avoid street polls in authoritarian and especially totalitarian states, keep their mouths shut. it's fact that too few brave people are ready to express their real opinion on camera. there was an incident where Russians told their point of view for the poll by DW were found by the police and got in trouble afterwards. the majority is scared to death, while brainwashed people supporting their governments feel completely comfortable knowing that they won't encounter ramifications. that's why you cannot trust any results of the opinion polls in countries with severe regimes. sociology doesn't work in countries alike as it's way too distorted.
Just like half of Africa and East Asia hates UK, Netherlands and France and most of the world dislikes US. Soon, we will add China to this list, when they start "liberating" neighboring countries.
Daniil, Recently Russian politicians, including consul of Russia in Kazakhstan, were claiming that northern part of Kazakhstan was “gifted to Kazakhs”, and that Kazakhstan “might have growing number of nazis just like in Ukraine”. Could you make a video where you ask people in Russia what they think of Kazakhstan and Kazakh people in general, and should Russia take their northern cities back? I am really interested in what they think about that. Thanks.
"Criminal Code of the Russian Federation" Public calls for unleashing a war of aggression - committed with the use of mass media are punishable by imprisonment for up to five years
Me too… from Almaty. Asked the same question on recently video. And got reply from Russian in Almaty - he was upset and said that we can’t imagine how many Russians who are citizens of Kazakhstan support putin and this horrible war.
My sister in law is Kazakh Russian and she is supporting the war 😢 My brother too, he is not even from Russia but from Western Europe🙃 Before they were against the Russian gov, but have been turned by propaganda. Russian propaganda reaches wide and far...
@@rogierfrederiks8420 we have sooo many Kazakh Russians who was born here in Kazakhstan but support putin. When we Kazakh asked them directly what they will do if Russia attacks Kazakhstan we hear nothing. So my neighbours, my Kazakh Russian colleague - all of them are separatists inside my country. It was a real shock for me. fortunately not all Kazakh russians think like that. But we can feel the hidden split in society.
Daniil, a lot of older people seem to think that under the Soviet Union all peoples were respected and lived in peace and harmony with each other. But in ex Soviet republics, historians talk about mass deportations to Siberia, bringing in their place Russian speakers that held all command positions and never bothered to learn the local language, assimetrical development, territory exchanges between republics to divide and control. So it was a period in which Russians where first among peers and had a lot of advantages, but they fail to see the imbalance?
The Baltics quickly joined to NATO after US invaded Iraq ilegally in 2003, and they realize that Russia as UNSC with veto power could done the same to them, and prove right after that Georgia got attacked in 2008 and Crimea got sized in 2014.
That would be considered normal for most nations but our bar for Russians is lower than anyone else. Someone knows the history of their country: A round of applause! Someone feels empathy: Aww
The idea of returning Russian soldiers isn't even mentioned in western media. Seems like everything I'm shown says they're either surrendering, defecting, or dying.
As an Estonian, I am grateful that there are men in Russia like the one who speaks on 8.10. Estonians have nothing against those Russians who admit that Russia has occupied us in history and accept our freedom. The problem is with the Russians, who claim that they have saved us and that we voluntarily joined the USSR. Our forefathers have shared memories of how Russian soldiers deported our people to Siberia and killed and raped them. Knowing the history, people can be a little hostile towards the Russians. It's not Russianphobia; it's the fear of history repeating itself.
The problem with your knowledge of history is that you think Russia occupied you, while in fact it was the whole USSR with it's native Georgian leader. And how you describing this got me thinking that you history classes are super americanised oversimplified version of reality where USSR is a synonym of Russia and all it's political elits are ethnically Russian. Which BS for sure and it will not take you long to learn what ethnicities were featured in the Soviet elits.
@@MsThePrettiest Estonia was occupied for the first time in 1918 when Lenin was in charge, not the Georgian Stalin. The second and third time it was Stalin in 1940 and 1944. Georgia was not included in the original USSR agreement. It joined later. In addition, the capital of the USSR was Moscow. As for Americans, most of them know nothing about Baltic history. Maybe superficially. Our knowledge of history still comes from our ancestors-my grandfather, who was in Siberia for a long time. He never blamed Georgia for that. My father-in-law shared a story about his ancestor who the Russians raped on his son's dead body. These stories do not come from a history textbook but from our own lives. No teacher shares these terrible things with us. In that class, we only learned the annual accounts of who occupied us. Sometimes the Germans, and sometimes, the Russians. In addition, the Swedes, the Danes, etc., long ago. These people are still alive who have seen the USSR's occupation and life under the rule of the USSR. In Estonia, we have a city named Narva. Many Russian-speaking people immigrated there after the war, and there lives few Estonians. The reason is that the original Estonians were not allowed to move back to Narva before the 70s. But by that time, they had built homes elsewhere. Big saver that did not allow people into their homes for 30 years. Estonians' mistrust of Russia started before the USSR, because we were forced to live under the Russian Empire in the 18th century
@@MsThePrettiest Americanised? More like real ground events reported by Estonians at the time. Just a quick google search could lead you to how Stalin issued an ultimatum to allow Soviet troops into Estonia, in the end it was about 160 000 soldiers. Then that turned into a Moscow approved coup and voila independence gone. So what history are you reading? Only Russian and Belarusian mandated history, because surprise surprise the entire world thinks very differently.
What russians are going through resemble a lot what my parents from Portugal went through during Salazar's dictatorship. We were also at war with our African colonies, and there was a secret police called PIDE that would hunt you down if you had any opinion against the regime. So people would intentionally avoid talking about politics. As you can see in this video, whenever someone says "I'm apolitical", they most likely support Ukraine. It is not ignorance. It is not apathy. They know what is going on but they don't know what to do about it.
Нет. Просто есть два выбора: 1. Быть куколдом и поддержать Украину, на что способны не многие, мазохистов у нас мало. 2. Не поддерживать Украину, тогда либералы организуют тебе демократическую травлю.
Very insightful comment. I'm an American who lived in Portugal from 1976 to 1978. Parallels between Russia today and Portugal's Estado Novo had not occurred to me. Perhaps we should all start sending shipments of carnations to the Russian military.
Estonian here. I am positively surprised about the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the interviewees. This batch of ppl actually sounded more-less decent, I could understand some of them very well! People seemed to have doubts about the war and having more war just seems absurd, which is good. I hope these sentiments also stop the war in Ukraine. Overall, it feels a bit safer here when ordinary Russian ppl do not support any war in the Baltic region. Whew
I am originally from Latvia, born and raised there but now I live in Finland. And as a Latvian I can tell you a lot of people have hate against Soviet Union (todays Russia) because of the atrocities they did to our people. Even in schools they never really told me that SU occupied our territories but after basic history lessons anyone with half a brain understood what happened back then. Latvians very rarely will say out loud their real thoughts but after population was so decimated I am even surprised people are not full out russophobic. My generation tries to move on from the past but also not forget it. This topic really hurts and I am happy that small Baltics are protected under NATO. Jokes on me as my mother is actually Russian and father Latvian I am myself in the middle but always know where I came from and as crappy a country Latvia is it is wonderful in its own way for me.
what does your mother have to do with the USSR, given that she is Russian and found those times? why the hell are you blaming the Russian people for what the government of the USSR did (and I would not forget the governments of the Baltic countries of the 1940s, who voluntarily joined the USSR, for some reason you don’t blame all Latvians here)
@@depression18_88 volunteraly joined? 😂😂😂 did you hear your fellow compatriot in 8:03? We had an ultimatum from Moscow who threatened to invade by force if we do not “join voluntarily”. Also, how could the small Latvian army fight the Red army? And we don’t blame these days’ russians, we just want you to RECOGNIZE those facts. Most of you won’t do that.
@@depression18_88 "Voluntarily join USSR" what a liar, was an occupation. They ever wanted be part of Russia after decades of humiliation and repression, another time that russians didn't respected treaties that themselves signed. What a disaster for Europe that was and is Russia.
@@almastebele4564 after the Baltic States joined the USSR, the Baltic government was not repressed, that is, you were betrayed by your own government, which went to cooperate with the USSR
As a Latvian, I hope the majority of Russians think like most of these interviewees… at least secretly. Growing up in Riga, I’ve met and worked with so many Russians and most of them were really nice people. Never had any real problems with any. Although, it’s true that there are almost two parallel worlds living in one - Russian and Latvian. We coexist mostly peacefully. I used to work in an office where more than half of my colleagues were Russians and many of them didn’t know Latvian well or at all. Yet they all had good jobs, salary and opportunities. So no one can tell me that they are oppressed due to anything. And none of them wanted to be back in Soviet times either.
It all depends on the propaganda that they are being fed and how much they believe in it. But rest assured, Latvia, just as the other Baltic nations are part of NATO now and your future is secured. The Moscovites will never dare to touch your country.
Я как русская могу вас заверить, что я не знаю никого из моего окружения, кто бы хотел захватить вас. Это звучит как нонсенс и бред. Нам это даром не надо. Вот, честно, мы даже не думаем о вас. Вы думаете о нас больше, чем мы о вас. Мы вам не завидуем, как многие почему-то думают. Нам нет до вас никакого дела. У нас своих хватает. Вывод - простым людям в России вы неинтересны. Если у вас есть претензии к нашему правительству, ваше правительство должно вместе с нашим на дипломатическом уровне решать возникшие разногласия.
@@linamatusov9283 So why did YOU attack Georgia and Ukraine?---In RuZZian media there are many threats to take the Baltic countries!---Do you live in dreamland?--Do you lie to us? Do you lie to yourself?--Because what you same does not fit the facts!
@@leotimtom6637 young generations of Latvian Russians know Latvian language. Its not a problem for majority. But anyway, its not about a language at all. Rusophobia is a official part of ruling class politics. Unfortunately
"The republics lived in friendship & respected one another"? Why then did these same republics collapse the Soviet utopia so quickly & comprehensively once given the chance? As for "unacceptable" western values, curious as to what those might be & how they'd somehow be worse than what the world sees Russia doing daily in Ukraine.
Georgiy (12:30) seems to think that Russia has never attacked. Tsarist Russia dismembered Poland, and attacked various others countries, gaining an empire. If he includes the Soviet Union, there is Finland, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Japan and Afghanistan. Post Soviet Russia has Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine.
Honestly speaking, would like to see how russians would not be latvianphobic if latvians enslaved them, invaded them, killed them, oppressed them and did all sorts of other evil things for CENTURIES and even continued to have the same mentality now (contrary to germans, for instance). Huge respect to the man who said that if we are russophobic, then we have our reasons. Just as ukrainians have now.
Russians are not Germanphobes, Russians are not Tatarophobes, Russians are not Turkophobes, Russians are not Japanophobes. Russians don’t despise any nations at all. This is the lot of smaller, disadvantaged countries that, lacking their own culture, build their culture on phobias. And also tell me about the agreement that the Baltic countries signed with Germany in 1939.
@@allright9945 Sure. And what agreement? In 1939 Latvia was occupied by the soviet union / russia. If you want to talk about agreements, maybe recall the Molotiv-Ribentropt pact which your beloved country signed with nazis?
I can give very simple plan to Russia how to take back influence in post soviet territories without any shot and become rich country as Scandinavians atc . Russian simply needs to become liberal democracy and remove all imperealistic ambitions. That's it.
Will take many years that Russians gets liberal democracy and values! The UK and USA also needs their imperialist dreams apart too, they aren't the World police or ''World make rulers''.
I am from Latvia, raised in Russian-speaking family with generalized post-Soviet "Russian" mainstream culture, although I got Ukrainian, Polish and Finnish blood, too (high percentage of each, besides my Finnish far ancestors). But generally you can say I'm "Russian". Never ever had any pressure from native Latvians. I visit Lithuania almost every 1-2 months - same. Was in Estonia - same again. In both regular conversations and in official/state institutes people are gentle and kind, and never insulted or attacked me for being "Russian". All that cheap Russian propaganda about "fascism" in Baltic States comes from actual modern-day Fascists that don't want to adapt, accept new political reality and not going to consider other cultures as equal in general and dominant on their native lands. These people still exist in historical phantom pain and their government uses "external enemy" and "enemies around" strategy to keep people away from inner problems that now turned into very fundamental crisis in Russia. For local Baltic vatniks/ruzzists, the "Baltic Fascism" is an excuse to change nothing in their worldview and lifestyle and keep blaming natives for own life/career/social failures because they simply either don't know language or exist only in reality of "Russian Ghetto" (which means lack of communication, lack of sources of knowledge, lack of working places, work for "grey" business with constant violations of rights and laws) and don't even know what's on the other side, where normal people just co-operate, work, study and chill together no matter what nation or mother tongue they are. That's ill mentality I don't want really want to see in my life, because it's disgusting. Everything you need is just learn the language and start respecting natives. This is everything natives ask for. You are free to be whoever you want and speak whatever language in your environment. Yes, natives don't see the history and politics the way ruzzies do, yet country could have only one political and ideological vector and it definitely can't be established by the loud minority of mainly old people. Simple as that. We eventually aren't and don't want to be another Prednestovie, Osetia or DPR/LPR for Russia. And we should never be. Accept it or GTFO. Identifying myself as generalized "Western Slav", considering my bloodline and Polish surname - I see Baltic Nations as brothers. Historically and culturally. It means respecting their right to be dominant culture in their native lands, respect their language and policy. Us, Slavs, definitely got the right to be a part of Baltic society, as well as Baltic nations must always be welcomed and considered as brothers in Slavic lands. We existed toe to toe forever and hardly influenced each other cultures. This is the attitude each Russian should seek, too. At this point main enemy of both good Russians and Baltic Nations is Kremlin that ruins whole harmony and co-existence of nations that are supposed to be friends. I'm glad at least Ukrainians and Poles are our close allies now. This is how it should be. Maybe, one day, when Russia will be free and mentality of it's core nation will be rehabilitated (if it's even possible) - people from Russia, not RuZZia, will come to Baltic States with totally different attitude and see how "negative" towards others Baltic people really are. I swear to God there will be absolutely no problem. And really never was until you decide to bring back occupation or Russian Imperialism ideas.
Ukraine and Poland aren't real allies too! Ukraine killed many poles in 1942 in their sized lands of Galizia and Volyn massacres under Stepan Bandera and even Ukraine haven't paid IIWW war compensations to Poland or repatried the bodies of Poles deaths here.
Toe to toe and influenced each other? I agree with everything you said but except that one claim. We're not related, we weren't toe to toe at any point in history. We're just our own people not related to anyone, why can't people just understand that. We've been alone for thousands of years unbothered by anyone, we'd like to keep it that way.
"russia never attacked anyone." that cracked me up. russia/soviet union waged 3 wars of conquest against finland alone. first in 1808 as part of sweden, then 1939 and 1941. also after 1941 there was a continuous massive diplomatic pressure to force finland to join soviet union until 1980s and yet another war was incredibly close many times. in the last 200 years there have been exactly 2 russian/SU leaders who DIDN'T try to force finland to join russia, Lenin and Gorbachev. (whatever other bad things Lenin did, the fact is he gave finland independence WITHOUT a war.) most countries bordering russia have similar violent history with russia, and that's why none of us look positively at the STATE russia. but we do separate the people from leaders, because we've seen how they've been mislead with state propaganda for hundreds of years. they are the victims just as much as the peoples of the many countries russia has invaded, if not more.
it's just such a weird thing to say from such a gigantic country, with such a long history of various conflicts. like, absolute zero self-consciousness....... just so weird
@@Joeligma69420 It’s like someone always says „Caucasian States” instead of Georgia. It’s no respect when you divide people from each other. During the Soviet occupation Finland helped a lot to restore the indepence and Sweden hosted Estonian refugees, schools and other organizations. So it’s pretty natural to group 🇪🇪🇫🇮🇸🇪 when you say about people, culture and politics
@@Joeligma69420 Maybe just stop one day and say strong no to pro-Russian things like „Estonia”, „(Pri)baltika” in military, police, education system etc
Can you conduct the next video talking about the Wagner group and their growing influence in Russia ? Would love to see what Russians have to say about them
Come to Lithuania and ask people about their values and their beliefs and which of them are the most important to them. I am 100% sure almost all of them will include freedom / independence. Like the wise man in the 8:00 minute said, we have a right to have an unfriendly attitude towards the russians as they used to take from us something what we desire the most. Our independence.
I would say the problem is that russia always thretens it's neighbars or starts wars with them. So yeah, there is a reason why people have "russiophobia". It baffles me that russians belive that russia never started wars with it's neighbars. Sure everyone always wanted to be russian and so the bigest country was build.
@@Cortesevasive 😅😅😅 Not All Russians have short memories and do not agree with lies. Listen to the last Guy he know verry well what's the view about Russian în east European country. Listen also to Putin saying" Romania, Hungary and Poland should also recover their territories that Stalin took away from them and gave them to Ukraine".It turns out that Russia invaded neither Poland nor the Baltics nor Romania according your comments but even Putin Recognise that Russian did mistaks with others country??🧐 ... and they did invade Finaland.. oh my good.. better silence than say stupid thinks
@@Cortesevasive чел, ты угараешь? ни разу не нападала? а расширялась страна в свое время каким образом, интересно? я не говорю что мы такие плохие, а все вокруг белые и пушистые. сша тоже делов наделали и так же расширялись, за счет индейцев. у нас тоже руки в крови, не надо это отрицать.
@@Cortesevasive Yes yes, the UK also never invaded anyone trough its history. Just like Russia, the British Empire grew only trough liberations and defensive actions. Or only Russians are allowed to have a total BS history? 🤣
And what makes you think at least half of Russians do not think that way? This channel is targeted for a North American/Western European audience so they might just show one side in order to create some outrage which apparently is working.
Я латыш и мы не имеем не чего против русских которые уважают других народов. Мы нация которая очень любит и ценит свою язык и культуру. И мы рады когда их ценят и другие. Проблема том что иногда его унижают люди которые хотят здесь жить и не учится наш язык. Им так хочется чтобы к нам приехали русские танки и начали нас бомбить. Это заболевание называется БИДЛА. Дайте другим жить в мире и сами живите в мире. 🤝👍
Так а зачем ваш язык учить? С кем на нём разговаривать? Если латыш образованный он будет знать или русский или английский. А если не знает ни русского ни английского то что с ним обсуждать?
@@inatklw Не обязаны жители разговаривать с ним на русском. равно как и русский не обязан разговаривать на языке жителей! Есть международный язык - английский, на нём можно договориться с ЛЮБЫМ образованным человеком на Земле, в том числе и с латышом.Вот прямо сейчас в баре в Вильнюсе спросили на русском. Бармен не знает. Переспросили на английском - всё ок. Ну и нафиг тот литовский? Аналогично и с латышским и прочими микро-языками.Зачем учить язык который знает в Мире 1 млн если за то же самое время можно выучить язык который знает 500 млн ?
@@inatklw Это понятно. Речь о том что страну можно поменять на страну получше. И испанский с английским в этом случае пригодятся гораздо больше, а аутсайдером останется Латвия которая растеряет человеческий потенциал. В той же Финляндии шведоязычных всего 7 процентов. Тем не менее шведский - государственный. И никто из шведов не становится "аутсайдером" и не дезинтегрируется из общества. И никто не забыл шведский "через несколько поколений".😄Даже в США люди комфортно живут не зная английского. И если тратить 600 часов своего времени на изучение иностранного языка, то лучше учить внглийский, а не язык на котором говорит 1 млн человек в мире. И с чего вы решили что изучение русского или английского должно привести "к отказу от своего языка и культуры"? Какой ущерб латышу от изучения русского или английского можете пояснить?
@@flarrry Differently from Russians, Latvians willingly learn foreign languages, especially English. Obviously, there's no enthusiasm whatsoever to learn the russian language now. First, when Latvia was occupied by the Soviets, Latvians were forced rather than chose to learn russian; second, russia is waging a senseless war and committing war crimes in Ukraine, which doesn't serve as an incentive to learn the russian language and culture; third, many russian speakers living outside russia demonstrate chauvinism and entitlement, which isn't an attractive feature at all. Linkėjimai broliukams latviams iš Lietuvos!
@@uzstiklo7141 So, does anyone force you to learn Russian? The point is that learning a language spoken by 1 million people is a waste of time. It is better to learn English during this time.
Я с Эстонии. Никогда никем не притеснялся и не чувствовал себя ущербным. Эстонский язык знаю на 50%. Я чувствую страну, как свой дом. Другие национальности они, как родные. Смесь русского и эстонского менталитета, это новое продолжение истории страны. За 34 года жизни я никогда не видел конфликтов на национальной почве. Кто хотел дружить, те дружили. Сейчас в столице, вообще нету разницы, кто ты. Все дружат, общаются и работают.
что существует какая-то руссофобия это миф придуманных самыми русскими, я жил в Донецке до 2021 года и благодаря рос пропаганде начисто верил, что во Львове таких как я избивают, но потом переехал в Луцк и когда люди увидели что у меня донецкая прописка то дали скидку на жильё и я за 2 года жизни на западе Украины только позитив чувствовал, хотя на украинском говорю з ужасно(сейчас усердно учу из-за собственого желания)
@@Aaroncoppelman Россия давно разыгрывает эту карту с "русофобией" и защитой "своих" людей. Люди которые живут за границей, слышат это и на подсознании начинают верить. Ведь "вторая армия мира" помнит о них и хочет защитить! Когда еще приходилось слышать с телевизора, что кто-то помнит и тебе и так яростно хочет тебя защищать? Это знаешь, пример из жизни. Работаешь ты на заводе и слышишь, как с соседнего завода (конкуренты), директор кричит, как он обеспокоен твоими условиями труда. Как сильно он хочет тебе помочь! Но директор твоего завода "нацист/фашист/предатель", всё делает, чтоб твоя жизнь и здоровье на работе, было хуже! Ну как, ты бы начал верить директору конкурирующего завода?
@@Aaroncoppelmanам во львове рассказывали, что вы ненавидите нас и украинский язык, и хочете сделать с нас малоросов и россию 2.0 (как беларусь). Это многолетняя пропаганда)) Я это понял, когда узнал, что организовавший нацисткий марш (именно нацисткий, с зигами и кличами) организовал некий чиновник - в 2016м году на донбассе уже по другую сторону пел об ущемлении русских во львове. Это был один и тот же чиновник.
Missing the good old days where we actually assessed and believed Russia was strong and a threat. NATO have watched the incompetence of the Russian forces involving logistics, strategy and professionalism and been greatly upbeat about any outcome of further Russian expansion into NATO territory.
NATO have watched the incompetence of the Russian forces involving logistics, strategy and professionalism - so why does not NATO send troops to Ukraine ? Ukraine is begging for it.
As an American who tries to see through propaganda (from our government too) and seeks to understand the perspectives of each side, I find myself relying more on people’s behavior than what is said or written about in the media. What strikes me the most is how Putin claimed that Ukraine was “not a real country” yet they (Ukrainians) are fighting for it so vigorously. This behavior is very revealing that indeed- Ukraine is a real country that will defend itself. If Russia prevails militarily, that may be the easiest part. Winning over the hearts and minds of a nation after destroying them may be impossible.
This learning style certainly isn't the worst, but you have to acknowledge that these opinions will always be based of the knowledge of the sociaty. I recommend you to pick up on some history books. Because very little percentage of Russians are aware of the terrible things they did to any of the post USSR country citizens. For example 1949 / 1941 deportations. It was unlawful to sing/compose Latvian songs, read Latvian books, poetry, and if you did you were put in prisons and had to endure some awful interrogations. And as you can imagine many more things which come under USSR regime.
12:38 You people hunted my grandmother's family with dogs, shot their animals and burned down their farm. This was in Estonia during ww2. They had to flee across the sea. Absolutely brutal people, I will never forgive you.
It's good to see mostly reasonable Russians in this video. Your last video got my blood boiling from a bunch of Russians calling me a nazi and saying stupid things like "Russia never attacked anybody" (1 guy said that in this video). My country (USA) also fought fighting the nazis in WW2, and we demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender from them. We also provided huge amounts of aid to the Soviet Union to help them fight. Have Russians conveniently forgotten these and other things like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Stalin and Hitler shook hands and then both invaded Poland and divided that country between them and the Soviets forcibly occupied the Baltic States (1 guy in this video apparently remembers)? I don't pretend like my country never did anything wrong, and Russians have even less right than Americans to pretend like they never did anything wrong.
I am not saying Russia never did anything wrong, that is not true, but you really think the US did less bad stuff? Remember atomic bombs in Japan? Iraq wars? Afganistan? Vietnam war (hundreds of thousands dead if not millions) that's just of the top of my head.
@@roman-co1hg Yes I do believe the US has done less bad stuff than Russia. We've never had a Stalin. BTW - I have no problem with the Atomic bombs on Japan. There were conventional bombings that killed as many people. Japan committed horrible atrocities before and during World War 2. The atomic bombs ended that war. We would have lost hundreds of thousands, perhaps over 1 million, of our soldiers in a conventional land attack on Japan. Japan would have lost even more lives than were lost in the atomic bombings. And the bottom line: Japan STARTED that war just like Russia started the war in Ukraine. Am I going to apologize for using atom bombs, bringing the war that Japan started to an end, and actually saving lives on both sides by doing it? Absolutely not.
@@roman-co1hg You are correct. If you can't read and understand the totality of what I wrote and summarize it incorrectly, we have nothing to discuss. You are dishonorable.
Why is it that not a single person states the fact that these border countries are sovereign and independent countries, no longer under the tyranny of the Soviet Union or Russia?
I am Lithuanian who speaks fluently Russian and have no problem with a people still love Pushkin and other authors and artists but if you will come with Putins t-shirt ore Z letter we have a problem, I think this how the most my countryman view Russians! BTW you guys doing amazing work!
Being culturally insecure is a weakness not a strength. I see it here in the US as well. It produces flippant nationalism which allows people to quickly justify violence and histrionics as solutions to their concerns. Meanwhile that very attitude is what makes others less likely to appreciate their nation, not more likely. It exploits the base human reflex for fast and simple solutions.
Absolute nonsense. Culture is an evolving given, it never stays the same and is always searching. Static cultures only mean death, since they do not adapt to changing realities. What you have in America is a society that does not appreciate the evolving given and is chosing for static death. Quite frankly it's very Unamerican as it is the basis of your country.
Russia never attacked anyone? How do that guy think Russia expanded since foundation? Perhaps he had history lessons in Russky Mir way where all joined Russia on free will.
@@squeakycleannnn he pushed back against some of his state's propaganda while being conscious of the legal risks of speaking the truth about Russian army's failures. Looked like he is trying to avoid jail time
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Simply ask them if they should finally invade Jekaterinenburg.
Will be funny to listen to those that wann invade Jekaterinenburg cause those might also invade Moscow too once you ask.
It would be like gettin it on with a sheep, except the sheep would smell better.
Not sure I understand your disclaimer in this video: that "Russian world" is "not that serious." Perhaps you mean to use a different English word? It sounds like something that IS being taken seriously these days, especially by the Kremlin. Are you trying to say that it is not always connected to Russian imperialism?
Daniil, you should definitely charge a premium for these kinds of advertisements.
As a Lithuanian native I can say this - we don't have problems with a Russian speaker as long as he is a decent human being - if you came here and started talking how Lithuania or any other Baltic state needs to be united with the Russian World, prepare for a very negative reaction. Especially if this type of conversation would take place with a young person. We love our cultures, languages and traditions. There is a reason the Baltic states opted to join NATO, we just simply want to exist further, in peace. With no fears of another invasion. And ever since our independence we are just building our society and values again and I'm really excited to see where time will take us. And if the worst case scenario happens and Russia opts to invade our peaceful countries, I can guarantee - the resistance would be fierce and widespread.
Całkowicie się zgadzam. Pozdrawiam z Polski.
As a Swede I hope we will join Nato soon so we can fight together for your countries if that happens. Russians need to understand that it is agression and authoritarianism we are against, not the russians who respect these values.
As a Latvian guy, I could say all the same words!
Spaniard here. You are not alone in this figth, brother.
Same here. I don't understand why russians are mad at us for our ruzzophobia. You f*kers want to remove Ukraine from the map, don't give us all that bullshit about fighting nazies. You are the real evil. From the roots. And you want other countries to look at your atrocities and be like, ok, ruzzians are a bit crazy but we love them, come visit us. Yea, don't think so
I’m a russian-speaking Latvian and never had any problems, because I still communicate in Latvian when needed. And that’s how it should be. I have my culture that is a bit of both, but I absolutely respect full Latvians that do not speak Russian or don’t want to. Why tf should they? We’re in Latvia.
Aww... 👏💛
Tnx form latvian. 🙂
Is that just you or do ALL RuZZians in Latvia think that way?
@@WangAiHua No, He is an exception! Most Russians can't even say a hello in Latvian. 😆
Čau no Valmieras! Jauku dienu! :)
Be proud of both - 1 + 1 = 2 You have more to bring, in not less. As those purely imperialistic and grifting wannabe's in the Kremlin think.
"Under the Soviet Union, all the republics lived in friendship and respected each other" What a joke...
They are brainwashed 😂
Yep! They massacred Ukrainians back then.
I guess it's depends on whether you call civil war friendship. My grandfather from Talivka , on the border to ruzzia fought the tsar (Russian Empire) for independence followed by the fight against the Bolsheviks to stop the annexation into the SU. during the Holodomor he was taken to a friendship camp aka gulag for protesting against the Holodomor. My uncle was then deported aka resettled to Central Asia. All in good order, in friendship ... seriously?
Most of people in prison are also living friendly, but that doesn't mean they like to be there.
Russians considered ''friendship'' only under their domination. If one tried to disagree and to opose they were immediately anounced as ''enemy of the state'' and sent to the places where you can see only checkered skies . That soviet myth about friendship of soviet nations was and still is an absolute bul..it and used as disinformation in propaganda purposes.
''I'm not embarassed to say that on camera that I recently had a mobilized buddy come back, he told me not to believe what they tell us on TV.'' Thumbs up to this dude, not afraid of the truth.
On the other hand, this guy also assumes that Russia will now have the conquered territories of Ukraine, which means that Russia has some right to steal the territories of an independent state.
My buddy in Moscow is afraid to talk to me now on the internet. He hates Putin with a passion.
Brave of this guyto state it openly. Bravo to him. And to you for mentioning it.
@@marktuyet if so , he could sabotage russian war efforts , a Simple molotov cocktail into train repair depo or into govermental offices could go a long way
@@kkivela I understood him to say Russia's war has been waged unimpressively and that Russia has given up on its original goals and that "at best" it will stop at the borders of the "alleged" new territories .. I don't think he meant that Russia has any right to steal Ukraine's territories.
Overall one of the most reasonable sets of interviewees you've ever shown.
Propaganda hasn't started giving them crap about the nazis in the Baltics yet, so their doublethink lives without a pre-installed system about what they're supposed to think.
I agree, I was ready for some serious genocidal rants.
Because the question was ridiculous, invade the Baltics.
Yet what about the claims that ¾ of the Russians endorse the ‘special operation’? Just BS?
If true, ¾ is an extraordinary high level of danger and for me and more than good enough to nuke everybody in Russia without the slightest afterthought.
@@jasc4364 75% is probably true. Well most just assume their leaders must be doing what needs doing and are not thinking about politics much because it's fruitless and dangerous. But real opposition is probably less then 25%. It's hard to blame them given the years and years of propaganda they've heard. This is a well developed science by now.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania can count on Poland. We are together
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@@JamesGreen57447 oh yeah, I hope it will happen... it must happen!
@@JamesGreen57447 🤣🤣🤣
@@JamesGreen57447 Daydreamed. As a result, Ukraine will lose the war, China will become the new hegemon, and the NATO alliance will either start World War 3 or break up. What awaits Russia and the EU, only God knows.
@@JamesGreen57447 The problem will be if Turkey and Hungary lifts its veto to Sweden over the Kurdish question.
Poland casus belli before ww2?Not such a friendly country at all.
Lithuanian here. I'm genuinely surprised by the lack of Russians wanting us to join Russia Mir, compared to the previous Poland video. I am sorry to say that recent events in Ukraine has changed my perception of Russians. Before 2021, I only disliked the Russian government, but now, the general indifference and political apathy of perhaps 80% of Russians makes it really hard to appreciate their culture. I wish we could just live in peace, trade and live happily ever after.
Poland achieved great success after the overthrow of communism. Unlike Russia, the 1990s are viewed differently there, in Russia having a black legend. The quality of life (considered through all elements, not just wages) is incomparably higher there. Russia views such phenomena with envy and doesn't really know what to do about it. The simplest ideas come to mind...
@@Cortesevasive Read carefully what's in parentheses. In ancient Rome, it was sometimes the case that slaves were richer than their masters.
@@Cortesevasive Brainwashed.
@@Cortesevasive and how did you exactly come to the conclusion of putting the word Ukraine and n@zi together?
@@Cortesevasive And if you support Putinazis, you not a problem?
"Russia never actually attacked anyone" My grandparents would disagree with that one
there are many,many countries who would disagree with it.
Oh my ancestors wouldn't agree with u too after what u very done in karelia with finno ugrjsh population here, and hey, I am finno ugrjsh of Russia, we never can understand why u r like that
The chechens, the afghans, the ukrainians and the georgians.
I didn´t even need grandparents to remember them
Georgians born before 2005 actually remember it quite well... Since our first long term memories are formed at 3 years of age.
thats is russia, they are all the same.
As Latvian this video give me hope! If you are a good person, we do not discriminate whether you are Russian or not.The biggest problem is the Russians in our country who haven't learned a word of Latvian in 30 years and behave like pigs. It just gives a bad impression of everyone else. Practically all Russians who have entered Latvia from Russia in the last 15 years are very nice and warm people.
Latvia should expell all them. You must remain that you not are your Baltic Oblast for them anymore!
FYI, just one example, a Russian journalist and TV host, Dmitry Kiselyov, lived and worked on major TV channels in Ukraine for years; that time, he was exceptionally nice, peaceful, respectful, warm, and polite towards Ukraine and Ukrainians, after a few years in Ukraine he returned back to Moscow where he burst on daily basis with anti-Ukrainian hate speech, Russian imperial propaganda, xenophobia, chauvinism, then he incredibly actively supported Russian invasion to Ukraine in 2014!
Daudziem krieviem joprojām liekās, ka šeit ir padomju savienība un tikai jārunā krieviski.😢
You have to feel sorry for the intelligent and empathetic Russians that are surrounded by such toxic nonsense.
AGREE!
That’s most Russians, only the leaders and those in power acting like this and brainwashing others ☹️
Check out Russian media monitor channel, if you haven't, and watch the poisous garbage, lies and propaganda. It's disgusting. Translated to english,. I was amazed this video showed more intelligent open minded Russians. There's a lot the other way usually.
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You have to feel sorry for the intelligent and empathetic Russians that are surrounded by such toxic nonsense.
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You have to feel sorry for the the frog that is slow boiled until it's too late. One year on some Russians, like the frog, are only just starting to sense that all is not well. Their 3 day special invasion operation hasn't reaped the spoils they'd hoped for. They've lost so much for so little gain and nobody,that matters, wants anything to do with them.
A lot of rational, down to Earth, people in this video. It almost brings me hope
More like chained to earth.
1. It is doublethink like in Orwell. Why they can't say the same thing about Ukraine?
2. Or is it a war defeat that makes them think in civilized terms? Which means one thing... keep helping Ukraine until Crimea is liberated.
@@pawekurowski Have you forgotten that criticism of the special military operation is punishable by 15 years in prison? They can say what they say about Estonia because it's not covered by that law. They expect you as the listener to connect the dots.
Hope? No. Retribution for what Russia has done to Ukraine and to Ukrainian civilians. Yes. For generations.
@@squeakycleannnn More like enslaved by the Soviet Reunion. Russia should send mobiks from Moscow and St. Petersburg to prove its commitment.
🇪🇪 Im happy in Estonia. I wouldnt wanna live under Putins rule.
The lady with the red, white and blue beenie with glasses seems like such a good person. And she's right. Successfully leading with competency and compassion will bring people to your side. Those are the kind of people we need in power. Pretty much every person, everywhere on the planet just wants to live a comfortable life with enough food to eat, a roof over their heads and good times with those they love.
I was going to say something similar, but you beat me to it, bravo.
Russia is repellent, not attractive. The people should know this and do something to change it.
exactly what is wrong with living peacefully with your neighbours....even if they are in another country.....no one wins in war....
"Soft power" is vastly more effective at bringing people over to your side than military power. Of course, for it to be effective, you have to be selling something that people might want to buy into...It is hard to imagine that very many people want to buy into rule by corrupt oligarchs, but Q-Anon (another of Prigozhin's projects?) is doing the best that it can.
"russia never attacked" srry wtf?
I am from Latvia, I was glad to hear few reasonable people, especially 2 ladies starting at 11:14. But what me amazed is how still many mention that in Soviet time all republics lived friendly….😂 yeah so I would correct it and say lived “friendly” as we were occupied and forced to live under communist regime with no other option. I see with many people in Russia that even if they are against war in Ukraine, but the imperial mentality is very strong though!!!! We stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦 🇱🇻
It’s interesting to see all of the former Soviet countries collectively do not want to go back. Some would say it’s because of western influence but I believe it’s because they have a shared experience.
The last gentleman sounds more informed than all the generals and Putin put together. He obviously gets his news from sources other than Russian state TV. Hopefully more & more people join his ranks. Thanks Daniil!
Last "gentleman", who casually said they should stop on whatever line russia has already annexed in Ukraine, not because it's wrong, but because Ukraine (suddenly!) fights back, instead of pulling out all together out of a sovereign country?
You have really low standards.
@@noname-kf5xs Seriously, the lowered standards in this comment section speak to how indoctrinated Russians are.
@@noname-kf5xs if you read the translation of this guy’s commentary in the video he called the occupied territories “alleged” parts of the Russian federation which implies he does not agree with the annexation of these territories into the Russian Federation. He is pushing back on the dominant theme in Russian media that all the actions taken by Russia are legal and that the people of Ukraine welcome the invaders. I assume that he would be the kind of person that eventually will accept the return of Crimea to Ukraine along with all the other occupied territories. Let’s not be too harsh on our allies in Russia who are on the right path.
@@noname-kf5xs You seem to have a really low ability to comprehend the comments of a person who has to judge every word against the possibility that he could be thrown in jail for fifteen years for "criticizing the special military operation." In that light, I find him to be extremely sensible, moral and astute. Clearly, if it were up to him, Ruzzia would withdraw all of its forces from Ukraine tomorrow and live in peace going forward.
@@RichardTaylor1630 I'm half-russian myself & I speak fluent russian. I will dare to say I have a better ability to comprehend russians than most people from the Western side of the world.
The "allegidly Russian" wording at 15:57 is biased in translation. What he says is "на границе этих областей, которые мы заявили что теперь это территория російськой федерации".
Word to word, it translates "on the border of these regions, which we declared now that this is the territory of the Russian Federation". You can check with google translation the accuracy of the sound and translation. There is no "allegidly Russian" bit, whoever subbed this video had added that on their own.
Russians went to war with Ukraine and got stuck with it for a year, while expecting to be done in 3 days. They know they look bad to the outside world, they won't make themselves look even worse on camera. That's why pretty much all of people in this video, minus the old lady, repeat the same mantra "war bad", but once you ask them whether they WANT Baltics included in russian federation, they sure do.
This guy's argument is based on "my buddy went there, we're losing so we need to stop", not on "we invaded a sovereign peaceful country and ruined millions of lives, we need to stop".
Ask yourself what his "buddy" did in Ukraine. People in Bucha didn't shot themselves in their heads on their own, kids in Mariupol's dramtheater didn't drop the bomb onto themselves either.
Fair play to the people in this video for not leaving me in a state of existential dread like 1420 videos normally do
I've never understood what existential means - what does it mean?
Agreed. Finally found some reasonable people to interview.
@@dylanharper1274 Are you even sentient?
@@seseliuvaldovas1240 I notice you don't explain it
@@dylanharper1274if you are serious, since I know not everyone speak english fluently.
existential is just an adjective to existence, basically anything that relates to existence. and existential dread is an actual thing people have like depression, it's when someone exists in a state of despair and uncertainty.
Russkij Mir- poverty, aggression, alcoholism and hipocrisy.
In Lithuania we have a sizeable population of russians who were born here but refuse to speak Lithuanian. It's like they are waiting for the soviets to come back.
Well russians in Lithuania doesnt make up big percentage of entire population. But these so called russian-speakers are very concentrated in certain areas. In fact Lithuania is the least colonized with russians among the Baltic states.
that's why the two types of passport is the best idea
@@VitaliiThe There's only one type of passport in Lithuania -- that of the Republic of Lithuania.
Same for Estonia, and the population doing so is pretty big...
@@giedrestankeviciene34 you better know than me, I'm talking about "Non-citizens" like in Latvia and Estonia
Whenever I hear Russian propaganda talking about Russian World, I am reminded of Transnistria. 30 years of 'cooperation' with Russia has made Transnistria the poorest region in Europe. Imagine what 30 years of EU would have meant.
Yeah Russians in high places are so corrupt its insane. They funneled all the cash out of that region
It doesn't help that Русский мир translates as both Russian World and Russian Peace... and crushing dissent in order to implement culture changes can still be deemed a "peaceful" result in the long run (as was the Russian-led Soviet ethos).
Yeah I've been there and it's as depressing as it gets. Everything is either controlled by the "sheriff" or black market. Young people are especially struggling.
That's because Moldova was the poorest in Europe (2nd poorest now since the Ukraine has taken first place). Nothing to do with any Russian cooperation. It's blockaded by the rest of Moldova and isn't connected to Russia by land. Take a good look at countries like Kazakhstan or Belarus that have prospered thanks to Russian cooperation. Both countries are far ahead of pro-western Ukraine in every aspect of development. Whatever pitiful little crumbs the EU throws its vassals have to be paid back for a hundred fold with national dignity, sovereignty and independence.
@@HigherMorality Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania are all more prosperous and happy than your examples. Try again.
As a baltic person, it kinda baffled me when you said "bring ruskiy mir before western influence", we as Lithuanians drifted far away from "ruskiy mir" and keep on drifting even further. I'd like all the Russians listen to the 9th person 8:03 and understand why WE DONT WANT ANYTHING TO DO WITH RUSSIA. Also he is aware of China. The most well informed person in this video
He still thinks we were “indoctrinated”.
I think the "indoctrinated" part was just somewhat badly translated. Don't know much russian myself, so can not confirm to be the case. Though the same person speaks in at the end of the video and from the subtitles it would seem that he might think that the already occupied regions could be considered russian. That part was mentioned in a different comment thread and some other people said that what he actually used words like "alledgely russian" and other adjectives that made it clear that he in no way approved invading Ukraine, so I would rather lean towards assuming that the guy speaking was very reasonable.
Translating is hard, something will always be lost in the translation. Not trying to be negative here, this channel is great, be safe and keep doing what you are doing!
lithuania was always russia, get over it
@@georgyzhukov6409Lithuania is Lithuania. Russia is Russia.
Unfortunately, this video features only one informed and honest person with no imperial Russian arrogance or ignorance but common sense and knowledge of history!
I am always amazed at how my mood can be affected by what a random person says on the Russian streets. This was a 'good' video. Goodnight
Goodnight
Same here 😆
It's very depressing when it's just zombies.
Their biggest mistake is assumption that they are in a position to decide what's right or wrong for a sovereign country.
That is their SECOND biggest mistake. The biggest is not realizing that the Baltics are part of NATO. We will defend ALL of NATO territory
@squeakyclean didn't usa doing the same all around the world?
@@moisiewe What does it have to do with anything? You think if someone does something you're automatically entitled to do the same?
If someone is wrong, you're allowed to be wrong as well?
Childish, dumb, irresponsible and ignorant.
@@moisiewe yeah, and that was wrong too. People generally also agree over that?
@@squeakycleannnn I'm talking about double standarts, everyone is ok with 1 000 000 dead in Iraq (invaded with no reason even when UNSC said big fat "no), it's ok when usa is occupied 1/3 Syria,but everyone is complaining about Russia for some reason.
I am a Russian speaking Latvian and it was somewhat refreshing to see these people talking about us. One guy even knew about Soviet occupation of the Baltics! We don’t hate each other in Latvia, I have many Latvian friends and many families in interracial marriages. We are bilingual and we speak both languages fluently. One thing I can tell for sure that we are not Russians in a cultural way. The only common thing we have with Russians from Russia is language like British and Australians for example, but our ways of thinking, culture, traditions are very western. This could be the reason why some Russians may perceive our attitude as hostile, it is not, it is just more individualistic and liberal vs Russian conservative consciousness.
Not true at all. Russians, or slavs in general form their owns groups and rarely interact with natives here. Marriage between slavs and balts is not common, as previously mentioned, both groups form their own circle of friends, therefore relationships outside it don't happen often. Exceptions would be slav majority regions.
Let's not fool ourselves, I can tell a Latvian from a Russian in a glance. From facial features to the way they dress, it's sometimes subtle but nevertheless we are and always will be different.
I was on barricades 1991 in Riga. Doma Square. I'm now 55 but will do whatever it takes.
People Sing a song in auditorium opposite Russians 😊
Greetings from Andalusia in Spain 🇪🇸
The lady at 11:27: exactly. Instead of invading other countries, focus on making Russia a place that people WANT to go to and you'll find friends around the world.
That's exactly what Russia and Putin tried to achieve in the beginning, but the idea of strong economically and military Russia was a nightmare for USA/NATO, they always need an enemy to satisfy the needs of the MIC. Just watch the Munich meeting in 2007 and make som conclusions.
@@dmitriyivanov9854 Again, this is the exact misunderstanding between Russia and the rest of the world. Strong does not merely mean military might. Respect does not mean fear. To others, strength is found in taking care of your own people--not in invading others. Strength means working infrastructure, roads, running water to every house, old people who can heat their homes. Strength means diversified industry at home. Strength means the ability to allow diverse opinions instead of putting it all into the hands of one unchanging government leader, with no room for dissent. And also, strength means taking responsibility for one's self instead of pushing the problem off onto someone else (NATO, the US, etc.) and saying it's all their fault, or using whataboutisms to justify things.
Respect means not fear and intimidation, not control, but the ability to live peacefully with one's neighbors. To allow other sovereign nations to do their own thing in their own borders instead of deciding they aren't real countries and sending missiles at their hospitals, schools, and homes. Those actions will never create respect, but rather, the opposite. It's continually surprising to me how much Russia talks about the West/the US being "the enemy" when prior to this invasion, the West spent very little time even thinking about Russia, much less being obsessed with trying to oppress the country.
Look, I don't know the answer to how Russia can solve its problems. That's a Russian question and it's got to be solved in a Russian way. But starting an invasion of another sovereign nation is NOT the way to solve the problems inside Russia. Instead, it just kills off your bright young men, impacts your labor force, and makes other nations not want to interact with Russia anymore. Which is a really unfortunate thing for a lot of people, both in and out of Russia. It makes me sad. I still have individual Russian friends, but my opinion on the nation as a whole has definitely changed, and the respect I once had has evaporated.
@@dmitriyivanov9854 You don’t get it, do you?
@@rlcg37 same here about the USA. No respect at all for the politicians, but unlike you I still respect the people.
@@pacmanc8103 Do you? You read and understand russian as good as english?
I`m from Estonia... I salute the 9th person for understanding the world as it is.
As a Latvian, it was interesting to watch this video compared to previous multiple videos, a lot of them were very negative but I have to admit, I respect some of the responses like 8:20, its nice to see acknowledgement of Baltic States history, our so called "hatred" towards Russians didn't came with out a reason but a lot of Russians don't see that or even learn why a lot of countries are resentful towards Russia.
I was ready to see very negative attitude from people but I was wrong. It's a breath of fresh air to see logical people for a change, most of the times I see a lot of delusion and cognitive dissonance from Russians. Respect also for last dude and this lady 11:28. Also she's right about making their own lives better so neighbors are interested without invading, too bad their state uses other means.
Funny how losing in the war makes one think a bit---I wonder if those people wouldn't be cheering had RuZZia been winning!
Most Russians think this war is absurd. Don't believe what Putin (or Ukraine for that matter) tells you regarding popular support for the war. They are under a dictatorship.
The man that was in this second was looking like stereotypical Russian who is Z pro putin
But he is actually smart
"making their own lives better so neighbors are interested without invading" this is what russians will never understand. every eu country that joined nato did it willingly not by force. if i were russian i would ask myself, how come that so many slavic people turned to west instead of russia. we slavs speak the "same" language and have simmilar culture after all.
I used to live in Lithuania, lots of people speak Russian. Everyone is basically afraid of ending up like Ukraine and feel a lot of history repeating. Stalin annexed them in 1940 and they were incorporated against their will into the USSR. They want to move past that time and develop in their own way, and now they see Russia pulling the same thing with Ukraine that happened with them. That's why they've been so aggressive to Russia, they do not want 1940 to happen again, and if Ukraine falls, it's going to be either Georgia or them next.
But you can visit them no one cares if you speak Russian, most of the older generation speak it while the younger generation speaks English. There's a bit more nationalism now post "special military operation", particularly in Lithuania. A guy in my class when I studied there last year was Russian, and he said he didn't notice any change in hostility towards himself being a Russian. So long as you're not pro-Putin and support Ukraine, no one cares there.
i expect you lived in Vilnius
@@nate8312 I did
@@m.m.6670 that’s exactly what i wanted to say
Putin has said Moldova next, then a long range plan to absorb Belarus....
@@m.m.6670 This is similar to the situation of Afrikaans in South Africa and Namibia. Almost all the older people are able to speak it, but the younger generation whose first language is not Afrikaans tend to be reluctant to learn it as a second language due to traumatic stories from their older relatives. And of course it's not a global language, so less useful abroad.
Russophobia in baltics. Well. im latvian. You know how many times a year I'm demanded by russians to speak Russian, when they approach me and i tell em I'm not russian?
Guess the reason i have never seen all 4 of my grandparents and they took a one way trip to siberia on a train, and russians moved in their houses?
What about them trying to influence our government and push for russian as second official language, so every latvian is obligated to learn it?
When is russia going to acknowledge the horrendous war crimes it committed against us and pay for them?
We ain't visitors in our own country, yet sometimes it feels like we are.
I don't mind the russians who at least try to speak Latvian, but I've ever met only one, the rest very likely cant even put a short sentence together in our language, yet have lived here for decades or even born here.
@@cu6upckuu48 no, but they are there for a short time, these Russians live there,And act rude when you say that you dont speak russian.
Same thing in Georgia. Most ruzzians automatically start speaking in ruzzian which is very annoying and disrespectful, especially from younger ones
@@cu6upckuu48again , why not comment on the reply. The difference is the American tourist and short term visitors are here temporary whilst the discussion is about Russians who live in said countries and refuse learn. Yes any other nationality that plans to live long term in any country is expected to learn the language
@@cu6upckuu48 which ex soviet country you live so I know where these overlords are that are permanent and don't learn the language. You do understand just cause troops are signed to a country doesn't mean they don't rotate them like in every 6 months aka no one is gonna or is expected to learn the language. And the difference between them and Russians is that they could do it but they don't, but russia sure has tried multiple times.
@@cu6upckuu48 sure , only exsisted 10k years , Russians will merge with globalism as well. But you never replied, which ex soviet country are you from ?
Invading a Nato country would be really crazy. Putin has enough grief trying to deal with his stupid decision to invade Ukraine.
Putin is strong man, like Stalin. Putin not weak.
@@cinnaminson0653 a strong man does not have to lie to justify his actions, a strong man is able to admit mistakes, a strong man does not have to put tens of thousands fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, children, toddlers and babys to an early grave just to get his way.
@@cinnaminson0653biggest mistake putin made, was to start world war 3.. that was the end of russia
“The soviet republics were friendly”? As far as I remember, Russians viewed themselves as superior and called the caucas’ region dark skinned people “churki” (a racist slang) and all the rest of nations as Moscow’s slaves. As a Latvian I can say we don’t have a problem with Russian speakers, they just have to respect our language and culture which many of them don’t. They’ve maintained their historical syndrome of superiority. Indeed, the guy in 8:03 knows actual history many russian speakers here will deny.
absolutely correct !💯
I’m constantly reminded that the soviet states have a very different recollection of the USSR than the Russians have. And the gap has widened since these countries joined the western world and our ‘propaganda’ 😁.
One example during the times when Lithuania was occupied by the soviets russians who moved here were telling to lithuanians to "speak in human". It seems that lithuanian language to the russians it's not human language and lithuanians aren't humans...
@@aleksandraslisauskas2871 their superiority syndrome at its finest…
"called"? that should be in present tense cause i hear that slur thrown around a lot. ESPECIALLY from my (slavic) family that actually live in the caucas region in the south, which is pretty much a melting pot of different cultures. truly brainrot.
as a Lithuanian i was surprised by the answers
Why would Baltic countries would like to join with fascist-Russia?
We would not want to join russia even if it was democratic
@@kaur9384The need at least 170 years to have a democracy in their country
@@closeup6263They dont need democracy, they need competent and pragmatic leadership. Singapore is a de facto dictatorship yet its a prosperous country
@@u2beuser714I don't think you can apply an example of a city-state to any other country. It's like saying that any country can be as rich as Monaco.
@@kaur9384 Russia also does not want to annex the Baltic states. The time of communist ideas is gone forever.
Guy from 8:03 is the only one so far who knew their history. Its not his fault, bjt it is wise to know the dark history of once country. Great guy.
As a German I agree that one should always know your country's history and that it's very important to acknowledge your dark past. In Russia many people don't seem to really know how bad Stalin was or how Russia opressed all its neighbours. It has to do with the law that forbids "spreading disinformation about the Great Patriotic War" (It prohibits telling the truth in most cases). I mean imagine such a law in Germany...
@@wol06fi89 Germany is such a great example of what good it can do. USA Credit for having literally a black history month (ofc a lot of improvments must still be done).
He seemed like not having a healthy sense of how tragic the whole operation has been though. Despite the historical facts he had apparently learned at some point so kinda sus.
@@squeakycleannnn cant really tell as of the tone, but at least he understands thay they were to blame and at the ens he gave the good analogy of people not liking anything (Russia in this case) if it is forced
@@wol06fi89 So, Russia does not honestly analyze its history. The Memorial started an investigation into Stalin's crimes, but Putin's administration stopped it and made Stalin a hero. The current regime in Russia is a Nazi regime.
Do you know what they mean by "Baltics are friendly"? They come to our countries and demand the Russian language everywhere they go- as if they never left Russia. That's what "friendship" is for them. I can't imagine walking into a Moscow cafe and expecting the waitress to understand my orders in Latvian. But for some reason, Russians expect this and call it "friendliness" :) Even after they have lived here for a long time, they don't speak the language, because "we understand Russian anyway, so why bother learning an useless language?". Nobody else does that, Estonians, Swedes, Chinese- all learn the language. But not these people, that's why they call us "friendly" :)
It is call chauvinism!
there are lots of ethnical russians living even nowadays in Turkmenistan and they do not speak Turkmen, the state official language of the country. But we still try to display them some tolerance even though we are not supposed to do them any favour.
@@meylishydyrov4382 EXACTLY
Constantly makes me crazy how Russians who live all their lives in Latvia are unable to learn even basic Latvian, it's such disrespect and then they wonder why Latvians don't like them, because they are selfish. They think world spins around them! I have meet only couple of people would do their best to learn and speak Latvian and I respect that, because it's not easy language, but they trying. I myself am half Russian and speak in all three languages, yet most millennials and gen z don't even bother learning Latvian, because their selfish parents told them to not bother learning language. I wish all those people just moved back to Russia, as they keep complaining how everything here is terrible and how Russia is such amazing country.
@@alise4041 I've experienced a Russian person who even didn't understand any latin letter eveh she lived here more than 50 years. It is just an attitude issue.
Seems like Russians are getting tired of the war whether they’d like to admit it or not. If it’s taking them this long to take Bakhmut then there’s no realistic scenario for which they reach Kyiv.
@Dennis Wilson snail 😄🤣😆
Wow. As a estonian. I am speechless. So many adequat people in this video. Wow.
I think he filtered out the people with hardline view. The other day daniil was complaining about how some people used some clips of his video which favoured war while leaving out people who are negative about the war
I sympathize with all the people who found themselves in the occupied territories of Ukraine. They had their happy life and one day they were invaded by deceit their life has turned into a nightmare and now they have to live with their tormentors
The occupier will be destroyed.
I really hope you stay safe. Russia needs people like you for a decent future.
And some of the people in this video, too.
It will be a very long time before Russia decides not to bring its brand of death, destruction and misery to a neighboring country. It has to be contained.
No 💩. I've been here from the beginning and can't believe what he does.
@@cathjj840 Russia has no decent future. Or decency.
My wife’s Estonian. Her grandmother was deported to Siberia twice. Her mother was born there in the tundra. Let it be said that the people of the Baltics are among the most socially tolerant on god’s green earth. They do in fact co-exist well with the Russian speaking populations of the three tiny states. Strange considering the hell Russia put these small republics through. The Russian minorities are actually quite prosperous there. Such a high level of social integration is rare. Some might resent the ethnic Russians but do that in such a subtle manner that it’s hardly noticeable. Those interviewed were pretty liberal. Which is a great relief.
then how come the baltics opened their arms wide for the nazis and helped kill off their jewish population?
I'm Canadian and to me Russia looks like a depressing place to live. Nothing ever improves it only goes backwards.
Obviously you’ve never been in a re-education camp from 1989 to 91. In eastern russia
You’re wrong. I’ve lived here almost all my life and things go improve. And it’s not depressing. It’s just like any other county. Maybe you should stop listening to what your media tells you.
@@God_Like_666where exactly do you live in Russia? I have friends all over Russia, young and old. None of them say that anything moves forward. Russia regresses by day.
I am Russian from Saint Petersburg but now I live abroad. A have not traveled Russia a lot, but from my prospective yes, most parts of the country seem to be depressing, that’s true, but Moscow and Saint Petersburg were very nice places to live, especially if you have a good salary. Saint P is very beautiful, public transportation is very nice, taxi is cheap, lots of bars, coffee shops, many interesting museums. It used to be easy to travel to Finland and Estonia for a weekend, it was really easy to get a Finnish visa, especially before the pandemic. It’s a safe city, safer and cleaner than many places in Europe. The average wage isn’t impressive but it’s more than possible to earn a decent amount of money. Sadly Putin destroyed everything and now it’s defo better to leave Russia.
But for the war, that would be a joyful place to live. Come visit once Putin is imprisoned, you’ll like it for sure
@@God_Like_666
I visited Russia in Soviet times - utterly depressing. I guess nowadays the big metro centres are rather better, but I'll bet out in the boonies nothing has changed. Even in the metro centres, there's a crunch coming when the monetary reserves run out sometime this year - then it's back to 1990.
Try not to be condescending toward people. It's one of the more distasteful of Russian characteristics. You don't know on what basis people form their opinions. People have brains, and some people use them.
11:24 "We need to make a life for ourselves, and then our neighbors will be drawn to us without invading"
"Peace at home, peace in the world" -Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Estonian here. Russians have done unimaginably terrible things to my family in the past. But we don't hate Russians. Only when they start to think that Estonians and Russians are the same, we will stand our ground. Russians are not our brothers, never have been. We just want peace and let our culture finally flourish after so many years under occupation.
"Russians have done unimaginably terrible things to my family" - yeah, right, as Stalin (georgian), Beria (georgian), Hruschev (ukrainian), Brezhnev (ukrainian) are all russians. facepalm. A lot of people mix words russian and soviet - which is a total nonsence, as Russia was occupied by Soviet government (during the civil war of 1918-1922) same as any of the Baltics countries.
@@RivieraByBuick Yet things have not changet. Hitler was Austrian, so Germans are innocent. Unbreakable logic.
@@RavetsU exactly. nazi politics is the one to blaim, not german es a nation. Although germany polulation during holocaust was A LOT more homogenous than USSR population. Try to beat it.
I am finnish, and estonians are not our brothers either. You are baltic, not nordic.
@@reinoeiole9666 finland is on the baltic sea as well. So finnish are Baltics.
8:18 finally a Russian person who understands why Russia's neighbours hate russia so much
Doesn't take a lot for some to fall out of their chairs. Oh wow, a sane person, lordy!
@@squeakycleannnn in Russia it's very rare to find such a person
@@MiSt3300 rather rare to find a Russian who can freely tell the truth while getting interviewed. folks seeing clearly what's going on avoid street polls in authoritarian and especially totalitarian states, keep their mouths shut. it's fact that too few brave people are ready to express their real opinion on camera. there was an incident where Russians told their point of view for the poll by DW were found by the police and got in trouble afterwards. the majority is scared to death, while brainwashed people supporting their governments feel completely comfortable knowing that they won't encounter ramifications. that's why you cannot trust any results of the opinion polls in countries with severe regimes. sociology doesn't work in countries alike as it's way too distorted.
@@cheezed6897 no, but I live in a different neighour to russia
Just like half of Africa and East Asia hates UK, Netherlands and France and most of the world dislikes US.
Soon, we will add China to this list, when they start "liberating" neighboring countries.
Daniil, Recently Russian politicians, including consul of Russia in Kazakhstan, were claiming that northern part of Kazakhstan was “gifted to Kazakhs”, and that Kazakhstan “might have growing number of nazis just like in Ukraine”. Could you make a video where you ask people in Russia what they think of Kazakhstan and Kazakh people in general, and should Russia take their northern cities back?
I am really interested in what they think about that.
Thanks.
"Criminal Code of the Russian Federation"
Public calls for unleashing a war of aggression -
committed with the use of mass media are punishable by imprisonment for up to five years
Me too… from Almaty. Asked the same question on recently video. And got reply from Russian in Almaty - he was upset and said that we can’t imagine how many Russians who are citizens of Kazakhstan support putin and this horrible war.
My sister in law is Kazakh Russian and she is supporting the war 😢 My brother too, he is not even from Russia but from Western Europe🙃
Before they were against the Russian gov, but have been turned by propaganda. Russian propaganda reaches wide and far...
@@rogierfrederiks8420 we have sooo many Kazakh Russians who was born here in Kazakhstan but support putin. When we Kazakh asked them directly what they will do if Russia attacks Kazakhstan we hear nothing. So my neighbours, my Kazakh Russian colleague - all of them are separatists inside my country. It was a real shock for me.
fortunately not all Kazakh russians think like that. But we can feel the hidden split in society.
This could be interesting also to ask them how the Russians came from in Kazakchstan.
Daniil, a lot of older people seem to think that under the Soviet Union all peoples were respected and lived in peace and harmony with each other. But in ex Soviet republics, historians talk about mass deportations to Siberia, bringing in their place Russian speakers that held all command positions and never bothered to learn the local language, assimetrical development, territory exchanges between republics to divide and control. So it was a period in which Russians where first among peers and had a lot of advantages, but they fail to see the imbalance?
You forgot to mention the Holodomor!
@@WangAiHua This is specific to Ukraine. I was discussing ex-Soviet republics in general.
The idea of Russki mir died hard when the baltics joined NATO lol.
From Russian pov yes. From Baltics pov it died when they joined EU.
Such thing as russian peace never existed in the 1st place.
Georgia and ukriane should join NATO too
@@badass6954 First they must expell the Russian forces from their ocupated lands and their russian population too.
The Baltics quickly joined to NATO after US invaded Iraq ilegally in 2003, and they realize that Russia as UNSC with veto power could done the same to them, and prove right after that Georgia got attacked in 2008 and Crimea got sized in 2014.
8:06 finally a russian who knows history and tried to put himself in our shoes. hats off, thank you
Literally the only russian who I saw speaking from our shoes 😂
Yes, he was very reasonable and honest
That would be considered normal for most nations but our bar for Russians is lower than anyone else.
Someone knows the history of their country: A round of applause!
Someone feels empathy:
Aww
That last guy spoke his mind .some of the returning Russian soldiers are telling how it is in Ukraine currently .
The idea of returning Russian soldiers isn't even mentioned in western media. Seems like everything I'm shown says they're either surrendering, defecting, or dying.
Seems like russia has to choose smaller target to abuse😀
@@OlegHooH что не на фронте ?
Конечно рассказывают. Например то что каждый носит с собой гранату, чтобы не сдаваться в плен, поскольку нацисты нарушают все возможные конвенции.
@@Русскийорк-у1м Мнооого пленних www.youtube.com/@VolodymyrZolkin
Great job; Daniil. It's good to hear from regular people in the street.
As an Estonian, I am grateful that there are men in Russia like the one who speaks on 8.10.
Estonians have nothing against those Russians who admit that Russia has occupied us in history and accept our freedom. The problem is with the Russians, who claim that they have saved us and that we voluntarily joined the USSR. Our forefathers have shared memories of how Russian soldiers deported our people to Siberia and killed and raped them. Knowing the history, people can be a little hostile towards the Russians. It's not Russianphobia; it's the fear of history repeating itself.
I never understood why solders rape people. Why does this happen? Do they feel impunity and do everything they've wanted but haven't been allowed to?
The problem with your knowledge of history is that you think Russia occupied you, while in fact it was the whole USSR with it's native Georgian leader. And how you describing this got me thinking that you history classes are super americanised oversimplified version of reality where USSR is a synonym of Russia and all it's political elits are ethnically Russian. Which BS for sure and it will not take you long to learn what ethnicities were featured in the Soviet elits.
@@MsThePrettiest Estonia was occupied for the first time in 1918 when Lenin was in charge, not the Georgian Stalin. The second and third time it was Stalin in 1940 and 1944. Georgia was not included in the original USSR agreement. It joined later. In addition, the capital of the USSR was Moscow.
As for Americans, most of them know nothing about Baltic history. Maybe superficially.
Our knowledge of history still comes from our ancestors-my grandfather, who was in Siberia for a long time. He never blamed Georgia for that. My father-in-law shared a story about his ancestor who the Russians raped on his son's dead body. These stories do not come from a history textbook but from our own lives. No teacher shares these terrible things with us. In that class, we only learned the annual accounts of who occupied us. Sometimes the Germans, and sometimes, the Russians. In addition, the Swedes, the Danes, etc., long ago.
These people are still alive who have seen the USSR's occupation and life under the rule of the USSR.
In Estonia, we have a city named Narva. Many Russian-speaking people immigrated there after the war, and there lives few Estonians. The reason is that the original Estonians were not allowed to move back to Narva before the 70s. But by that time, they had built homes elsewhere. Big saver that did not allow people into their homes for 30 years.
Estonians' mistrust of Russia started before the USSR, because we were forced to live under the Russian Empire in the 18th century
@@paulm6529 War turns man into a monster.
@@MsThePrettiest Americanised? More like real ground events reported by Estonians at the time. Just a quick google search could lead you to how Stalin issued an ultimatum to allow Soviet troops into Estonia, in the end it was about 160 000 soldiers. Then that turned into a Moscow approved coup and voila independence gone. So what history are you reading? Only Russian and Belarusian mandated history, because surprise surprise the entire world thinks very differently.
What russians are going through resemble a lot what my parents from Portugal went through during Salazar's dictatorship.
We were also at war with our African colonies, and there was a secret police called PIDE that would hunt you down if you had any opinion against the regime. So people would intentionally avoid talking about politics.
As you can see in this video, whenever someone says "I'm apolitical", they most likely support Ukraine.
It is not ignorance. It is not apathy. They know what is going on but they don't know what to do about it.
Нет. Просто есть два выбора:
1. Быть куколдом и поддержать Украину, на что способны не многие, мазохистов у нас мало.
2. Не поддерживать Украину, тогда либералы организуют тебе демократическую травлю.
@@Русскийорк-у1м нацик.
Very insightful comment. I'm an American who lived in Portugal from 1976 to 1978. Parallels between Russia today and Portugal's Estado Novo had not occurred to me. Perhaps we should all start sending shipments of carnations to the Russian military.
@@davidfifer4729 Salazar was already dead by the time of the revolution.
No, saying "apolitical" doesn't mean they support Ukraine. They're either neutral or support Russia, trust me. I know.
Estonian here. I am positively surprised about the lack of enthusiasm on the part of the interviewees. This batch of ppl actually sounded more-less decent, I could understand some of them very well! People seemed to have doubts about the war and having more war just seems absurd, which is good. I hope these sentiments also stop the war in Ukraine. Overall, it feels a bit safer here when ordinary Russian ppl do not support any war in the Baltic region. Whew
Советую не верить. Он не выкладывает часовой стрим где опрашивает людей.
I am originally from Latvia, born and raised there but now I live in Finland. And as a Latvian I can tell you a lot of people have hate against Soviet Union (todays Russia) because of the atrocities they did to our people. Even in schools they never really told me that SU occupied our territories but after basic history lessons anyone with half a brain understood what happened back then. Latvians very rarely will say out loud their real thoughts but after population was so decimated I am even surprised people are not full out russophobic. My generation tries to move on from the past but also not forget it. This topic really hurts and I am happy that small Baltics are protected under NATO. Jokes on me as my mother is actually Russian and father Latvian I am myself in the middle but always know where I came from and as crappy a country Latvia is it is wonderful in its own way for me.
what does your mother have to do with the USSR, given that she is Russian and found those times? why the hell are you blaming the Russian people for what the government of the USSR did (and I would not forget the governments of the Baltic countries of the 1940s, who voluntarily joined the USSR, for some reason you don’t blame all Latvians here)
crappy ??? are you ok
@@depression18_88 volunteraly joined? 😂😂😂 did you hear your fellow compatriot in 8:03? We had an ultimatum from Moscow who threatened to invade by force if we do not “join voluntarily”. Also, how could the small Latvian army fight the Red army? And we don’t blame these days’ russians, we just want you to RECOGNIZE those facts. Most of you won’t do that.
@@depression18_88 "Voluntarily join USSR" what a liar, was an occupation. They ever wanted be part of Russia after decades of humiliation and repression, another time that russians didn't respected treaties that themselves signed. What a disaster for Europe that was and is Russia.
@@almastebele4564 after the Baltic States joined the USSR, the Baltic government was not repressed, that is, you were betrayed by your own government, which went to cooperate with the USSR
As a Latvian, I hope the majority of Russians think like most of these interviewees… at least secretly. Growing up in Riga, I’ve met and worked with so many Russians and most of them were really nice people. Never had any real problems with any. Although, it’s true that there are almost two parallel worlds living in one - Russian and Latvian. We coexist mostly peacefully. I used to work in an office where more than half of my colleagues were Russians and many of them didn’t know Latvian well or at all. Yet they all had good jobs, salary and opportunities. So no one can tell me that they are oppressed due to anything. And none of them wanted to be back in Soviet times either.
It all depends on the propaganda that they are being fed and how much they believe in it. But rest assured, Latvia, just as the other Baltic nations are part of NATO now and your future is secured. The Moscovites will never dare to touch your country.
Я как русская могу вас заверить, что я не знаю никого из моего окружения, кто бы хотел захватить вас. Это звучит как нонсенс и бред. Нам это даром не надо. Вот, честно, мы даже не думаем о вас. Вы думаете о нас больше, чем мы о вас. Мы вам не завидуем, как многие почему-то думают. Нам нет до вас никакого дела. У нас своих хватает. Вывод - простым людям в России вы неинтересны. Если у вас есть претензии к нашему правительству, ваше правительство должно вместе с нашим на дипломатическом уровне решать возникшие разногласия.
So what stopped them from learning Latvian language? Velikij ruskij shovinism?
@@linamatusov9283
So why did YOU attack Georgia and Ukraine?---In RuZZian media there are many threats to take the Baltic countries!---Do you live in dreamland?--Do you lie to us? Do you lie to yourself?--Because what you same does not fit the facts!
@@leotimtom6637 young generations of Latvian Russians know Latvian language. Its not a problem for majority. But anyway, its not about a language at all. Rusophobia is a official part of ruling class politics. Unfortunately
"The republics lived in friendship & respected one another"? Why then did these same republics collapse the Soviet utopia so quickly & comprehensively once given the chance? As for "unacceptable" western values, curious as to what those might be & how they'd somehow be worse than what the world sees Russia doing daily in Ukraine.
That’s the smartest sample of people you’ve spoken with yet.
Georgiy (12:30) seems to think that Russia has never attacked. Tsarist Russia dismembered Poland, and attacked various others countries, gaining an empire. If he includes the Soviet Union, there is Finland, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Japan and Afghanistan. Post Soviet Russia has Chechnya, Georgia and Ukraine.
You forgot China in 1945
@@marin4311 I also forgot Romania (annexing the Bessarabia, Northern Bukovina and Hertsa regions).
Honestly speaking, would like to see how russians would not be latvianphobic if latvians enslaved them, invaded them, killed them, oppressed them and did all sorts of other evil things for CENTURIES and even continued to have the same mentality now (contrary to germans, for instance). Huge respect to the man who said that if we are russophobic, then we have our reasons. Just as ukrainians have now.
Russians are not Germanphobes,
Russians are not Tatarophobes,
Russians are not Turkophobes,
Russians are not Japanophobes.
Russians don’t despise any nations at all.
This is the lot of smaller, disadvantaged countries that, lacking their own culture, build their culture on phobias.
And also tell me about the agreement that the Baltic countries signed with Germany in 1939.
@@allright9945 Sure. And what agreement? In 1939 Latvia was occupied by the soviet union / russia. If you want to talk about agreements, maybe recall the Molotiv-Ribentropt pact which your beloved country signed with nazis?
Now the expression "Ukraine is the shield and sword of Europe" means more and more meaning
+ bread busket for Africa, Asia
Long live Ukraine, fck Russia.
@@OlegHooH so ? russia is a petrol station for the world...
@@perfectmazda3538 kind of, discounter for China
What do you mean? I didn't hear much desire to invade the rest of Europe in this video
I can give very simple plan to Russia how to take back influence in post soviet territories without any shot and become rich country as Scandinavians atc . Russian simply needs to become liberal democracy and remove all imperealistic ambitions. That's it.
Democracy yes, liberal - no.
You see how liberals lead to socialism?
Will take many years that Russians gets liberal democracy and values! The UK and USA also needs their imperialist dreams apart too, they aren't the World police or ''World make rulers''.
I am from Latvia, raised in Russian-speaking family with generalized post-Soviet "Russian" mainstream culture, although I got Ukrainian, Polish and Finnish blood, too (high percentage of each, besides my Finnish far ancestors). But generally you can say I'm "Russian".
Never ever had any pressure from native Latvians. I visit Lithuania almost every 1-2 months - same. Was in Estonia - same again. In both regular conversations and in official/state institutes people are gentle and kind, and never insulted or attacked me for being "Russian".
All that cheap Russian propaganda about "fascism" in Baltic States comes from actual modern-day Fascists that don't want to adapt, accept new political reality and not going to consider other cultures as equal in general and dominant on their native lands. These people still exist in historical phantom pain and their government uses "external enemy" and "enemies around" strategy to keep people away from inner problems that now turned into very fundamental crisis in Russia.
For local Baltic vatniks/ruzzists, the "Baltic Fascism" is an excuse to change nothing in their worldview and lifestyle and keep blaming natives for own life/career/social failures because they simply either don't know language or exist only in reality of "Russian Ghetto" (which means lack of communication, lack of sources of knowledge, lack of working places, work for "grey" business with constant violations of rights and laws) and don't even know what's on the other side, where normal people just co-operate, work, study and chill together no matter what nation or mother tongue they are.
That's ill mentality I don't want really want to see in my life, because it's disgusting. Everything you need is just learn the language and start respecting natives. This is everything natives ask for. You are free to be whoever you want and speak whatever language in your environment. Yes, natives don't see the history and politics the way ruzzies do, yet country could have only one political and ideological vector and it definitely can't be established by the loud minority of mainly old people. Simple as that. We eventually aren't and don't want to be another Prednestovie, Osetia or DPR/LPR for Russia. And we should never be. Accept it or GTFO.
Identifying myself as generalized "Western Slav", considering my bloodline and Polish surname - I see Baltic Nations as brothers. Historically and culturally. It means respecting their right to be dominant culture in their native lands, respect their language and policy. Us, Slavs, definitely got the right to be a part of Baltic society, as well as Baltic nations must always be welcomed and considered as brothers in Slavic lands. We existed toe to toe forever and hardly influenced each other cultures. This is the attitude each Russian should seek, too. At this point main enemy of both good Russians and Baltic Nations is Kremlin that ruins whole harmony and co-existence of nations that are supposed to be friends.
I'm glad at least Ukrainians and Poles are our close allies now. This is how it should be. Maybe, one day, when Russia will be free and mentality of it's core nation will be rehabilitated (if it's even possible) - people from Russia, not RuZZia, will come to Baltic States with totally different attitude and see how "negative" towards others Baltic people really are. I swear to God there will be absolutely no problem. And really never was until you decide to bring back occupation or Russian Imperialism ideas.
Ukraine and Poland aren't real allies too! Ukraine killed many poles in 1942 in their sized lands of Galizia and Volyn massacres under Stepan Bandera and even Ukraine haven't paid IIWW war compensations to Poland or repatried the bodies of Poles deaths here.
Ypu are a good man who speaks truth, thank you.
There is no such thing as finnish far ancestors, finland is 100years old.
@@NjoyMoney yeah, Russian Federation exists for 30 years, thus Russian person can't be Russian, right?
Toe to toe and influenced each other? I agree with everything you said but except that one claim. We're not related, we weren't toe to toe at any point in history. We're just our own people not related to anyone, why can't people just understand that. We've been alone for thousands of years unbothered by anyone, we'd like to keep it that way.
"russia never attacked anyone." that cracked me up.
russia/soviet union waged 3 wars of conquest against finland alone. first in 1808 as part of sweden, then 1939 and 1941. also after 1941 there was a continuous massive diplomatic pressure to force finland to join soviet union until 1980s and yet another war was incredibly close many times. in the last 200 years there have been exactly 2 russian/SU leaders who DIDN'T try to force finland to join russia, Lenin and Gorbachev. (whatever other bad things Lenin did, the fact is he gave finland independence WITHOUT a war.)
most countries bordering russia have similar violent history with russia, and that's why none of us look positively at the STATE russia. but we do separate the people from leaders, because we've seen how they've been mislead with state propaganda for hundreds of years. they are the victims just as much as the peoples of the many countries russia has invaded, if not more.
thank you
it's just such a weird thing to say from such a gigantic country, with such a long history of various conflicts. like, absolute zero self-consciousness....... just so weird
I'll give you 1808 and 1939 but including 1941 in that list is kinda cheating
Excellent video! Very well done. Thanks for all the hard work!!! -Carey from Michigan
Big respect from Georgia to our brothers from Baltic countries 🇪🇪🇱🇹🇱🇻❤🇬🇪
Sending love back from Estonia
Love from Lithuania ❤️
@@Joeligma69420 It’s like someone always says „Caucasian States” instead of Georgia. It’s no respect when you divide people from each other. During the Soviet occupation Finland helped a lot to restore the indepence and Sweden hosted Estonian refugees, schools and other organizations. So it’s pretty natural to group 🇪🇪🇫🇮🇸🇪 when you say about people, culture and politics
@@Joeligma69420 Maybe just stop one day and say strong no to pro-Russian things like „Estonia”, „(Pri)baltika” in military, police, education system etc
Can you conduct the next video talking about the Wagner group and their growing influence in Russia ? Would love to see what Russians have to say about them
mother of mine with the azov flag with the nazi symbol on the coat of arms, shame on me.
@@LeyronGames Slava Azov
@@raoufrachedi8903 you sure enjoy that black sun on their symbol, don't you?
@@FrOsTIIDeAtH yes.
What do they think of the fact that a modern version of the SS Dirlewanger Brigade exists in Russia?
The man at 8 mins was exactly right. An educated man in history.
Poland will always defend our brothers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia!
You can count Finns in !!
A surprisingly sane amount of commentators today 👏👏👏👏👏bravo!
not so many tv1 watchers in this bunch. keep up the good work, Daniil.
Thank you for your outstanding and brave work.
This channel is gold! Thank you ✌️
When you asked the lady at the end about the war, you could just sense how angry she was.
Come to Lithuania and ask people about their values and their beliefs and which of them are the most important to them. I am 100% sure almost all of them will include freedom / independence. Like the wise man in the 8:00 minute said, we have a right to have an unfriendly attitude towards the russians as they used to take from us something what we desire the most. Our independence.
I would say the problem is that russia always thretens it's neighbars or starts wars with them. So yeah, there is a reason why people have "russiophobia". It baffles me that russians belive that russia never started wars with it's neighbars. Sure everyone always wanted to be russian and so the bigest country was build.
@@Cortesevasive 😅😅😅 Not All Russians have short memories and do not agree with lies. Listen to the last Guy he know verry well what's the view about Russian în east European country.
Listen also to Putin saying" Romania, Hungary and Poland should also recover their territories that Stalin took away from them and gave them to Ukraine".It turns out that Russia invaded neither Poland nor the Baltics nor Romania according your comments but even Putin Recognise that Russian did mistaks with others country??🧐 ... and they did invade Finaland.. oh my good.. better silence than say stupid thinks
@@Cortesevasive чел, ты угараешь? ни разу не нападала? а расширялась страна в свое время каким образом, интересно? я не говорю что мы такие плохие, а все вокруг белые и пушистые. сша тоже делов наделали и так же расширялись, за счет индейцев. у нас тоже руки в крови, не надо это отрицать.
@@Cortesevasive Yes yes, the UK also never invaded anyone trough its history. Just like Russia, the British Empire grew only trough liberations and defensive actions.
Or only Russians are allowed to have a total BS history? 🤣
@@dajdasdq Sorry mate, I dont speak Orc.
@@Cortesevasive that's some mental gymnastics then, i rest my case
Well, the last lady and gentleman give me some hope that there might be some opinions changing in Russia. Hope there's more of that kind of thought.
I kept waiting for her to turn into Magda Goebbels, but then she didn't. It was weird. I bet she's not even russian.
And what makes you think at least half of Russians do not think that way? This channel is targeted for a North American/Western European audience so they might just show one side in order to create some outrage which apparently is working.
Я латыш и мы не имеем не чего против русских которые уважают других народов. Мы нация которая очень любит и ценит свою язык и культуру. И мы рады когда их ценят и другие. Проблема том что иногда его унижают люди которые хотят здесь жить и не учится наш язык. Им так хочется чтобы к нам приехали русские танки и начали нас бомбить. Это заболевание называется БИДЛА. Дайте другим жить в мире и сами живите в мире. 🤝👍
Так а зачем ваш язык учить? С кем на нём разговаривать? Если латыш образованный он будет знать или русский или английский. А если не знает ни русского ни английского то что с ним обсуждать?
@@inatklw Не обязаны жители разговаривать с ним на русском. равно как и русский не обязан разговаривать на языке жителей! Есть международный язык - английский, на нём можно договориться с ЛЮБЫМ образованным человеком на Земле, в том числе и с латышом.Вот прямо сейчас в баре в Вильнюсе спросили на русском. Бармен не знает. Переспросили на английском - всё ок. Ну и нафиг тот литовский? Аналогично и с латышским и прочими микро-языками.Зачем учить язык который знает в Мире 1 млн если за то же самое время можно выучить язык который знает 500 млн ?
@@inatklw Это понятно. Речь о том что страну можно поменять на страну получше. И испанский с английским в этом случае пригодятся гораздо больше, а аутсайдером останется Латвия которая растеряет человеческий потенциал. В той же Финляндии шведоязычных всего 7 процентов. Тем не менее шведский - государственный. И никто из шведов не становится "аутсайдером" и не дезинтегрируется из общества. И никто не забыл шведский "через несколько поколений".😄Даже в США люди комфортно живут не зная английского. И если тратить 600 часов своего времени на изучение иностранного языка, то лучше учить внглийский, а не язык на котором говорит 1 млн человек в мире. И с чего вы решили что изучение русского или английского должно привести "к отказу от своего языка и культуры"? Какой ущерб латышу от изучения русского или английского можете пояснить?
@@flarrry Differently from Russians, Latvians willingly learn foreign languages, especially English. Obviously, there's no enthusiasm whatsoever to learn the russian language now. First, when Latvia was occupied by the Soviets, Latvians were forced rather than chose to learn russian; second, russia is waging a senseless war and committing war crimes in Ukraine, which doesn't serve as an incentive to learn the russian language and culture; third, many russian speakers living outside russia demonstrate chauvinism and entitlement, which isn't an attractive feature at all. Linkėjimai broliukams latviams iš Lietuvos!
@@uzstiklo7141 So, does anyone force you to learn Russian? The point is that learning a language spoken by 1 million people is a waste of time. It is better to learn English during this time.
Russians are starting to think with their brains. Nice to hear that. Wake up people
In a backwards, cold country like russia things begin with stomach. And it takes a while until it reaches the brain, if ever.
Я с Эстонии. Никогда никем не притеснялся и не чувствовал себя ущербным. Эстонский язык знаю на 50%. Я чувствую страну, как свой дом. Другие национальности они, как родные. Смесь русского и эстонского менталитета, это новое продолжение истории страны. За 34 года жизни я никогда не видел конфликтов на национальной почве. Кто хотел дружить, те дружили. Сейчас в столице, вообще нету разницы, кто ты. Все дружат, общаются и работают.
что существует какая-то руссофобия это миф придуманных самыми русскими, я жил в Донецке до 2021 года и благодаря рос пропаганде начисто верил, что во Львове таких как я избивают, но потом переехал в Луцк и когда люди увидели что у меня донецкая прописка то дали скидку на жильё и я за 2 года жизни на западе Украины только позитив чувствовал, хотя на украинском говорю з ужасно(сейчас усердно учу из-за собственого желания)
@@Aaroncoppelman Россия давно разыгрывает эту карту с "русофобией" и защитой "своих" людей. Люди которые живут за границей, слышат это и на подсознании начинают верить. Ведь "вторая армия мира" помнит о них и хочет защитить! Когда еще приходилось слышать с телевизора, что кто-то помнит и тебе и так яростно хочет тебя защищать? Это знаешь, пример из жизни. Работаешь ты на заводе и слышишь, как с соседнего завода (конкуренты), директор кричит, как он обеспокоен твоими условиями труда. Как сильно он хочет тебе помочь! Но директор твоего завода "нацист/фашист/предатель", всё делает, чтоб твоя жизнь и здоровье на работе, было хуже! Ну как, ты бы начал верить директору конкурирующего завода?
@@Aaroncoppelmanам во львове рассказывали, что вы ненавидите нас и украинский язык, и хочете сделать с нас малоросов и россию 2.0 (как беларусь).
Это многолетняя пропаганда))
Я это понял, когда узнал, что организовавший нацисткий марш (именно нацисткий, с зигами и кличами) организовал некий чиновник - в 2016м году на донбассе уже по другую сторону пел об ущемлении русских во львове. Это был один и тот же чиновник.
you're great at forging these questions!
Love how the guy mentioned china, it’s crazy to me that Russians think china has good intentions with them for the future
Missing the good old days where we actually assessed and believed Russia was strong and a threat. NATO have watched the incompetence of the Russian forces involving logistics, strategy and professionalism and been greatly upbeat about any outcome of further Russian expansion into NATO territory.
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As incompetent as Russia is, they still have nukes.
If Russia actually invaded Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia, it will be the end of modern Russia.
NATO have watched the incompetence of the Russian forces involving logistics, strategy and professionalism - so why does not NATO send troops to Ukraine ? Ukraine is begging for it.
@@johnadam2885 They are not NATO, sadly. And that means everything!
Baltic’s will fight back 😅
Of course with the help of its friends from NATO. So Russia wouldn’t survive longer than 2 weeks. 😎🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇪🇱🇹🌻😁
The way russia has fought in Ukraine, they wouldn't even last a week against the Yanks. Two weeks is being generous lol
u forgot LV in 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇪🇪🇱🇹
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@@Szymusz +🇪🇦
As an American who tries to see through propaganda (from our government too) and seeks to understand the perspectives of each side, I find myself relying more on people’s behavior than what is said or written about in the media. What strikes me the most is how Putin claimed that Ukraine was “not a real country” yet they (Ukrainians) are fighting for it so vigorously. This behavior is very revealing that indeed- Ukraine is a real country that will defend itself. If Russia prevails militarily, that may be the easiest part. Winning over the hearts and minds of a nation after destroying them may be impossible.
This learning style certainly isn't the worst, but you have to acknowledge that these opinions will always be based of the knowledge of the sociaty. I recommend you to pick up on some history books. Because very little percentage of Russians are aware of the terrible things they did to any of the post USSR country citizens. For example 1949 / 1941 deportations. It was unlawful to sing/compose Latvian songs, read Latvian books, poetry, and if you did you were put in prisons and had to endure some awful interrogations. And as you can imagine many more things which come under USSR regime.
Thank you Daniil! For anyone interested, check out the link in the description and let us know if you have any questions.
You (the company and employees) should be super proud of how far you’ve come in the past year!
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You people hunted my grandmother's family with dogs, shot their animals and burned down their farm. This was in Estonia during ww2. They had to flee across the sea. Absolutely brutal people, I will never forgive you.
I never ceased to learn and be impressed by your videos. ❤❤❤❤ You floor me.
It's good to see mostly reasonable Russians in this video. Your last video got my blood boiling from a bunch of Russians calling me a nazi and saying stupid things like "Russia never attacked anybody" (1 guy said that in this video). My country (USA) also fought fighting the nazis in WW2, and we demanded nothing less than unconditional surrender from them. We also provided huge amounts of aid to the Soviet Union to help them fight. Have Russians conveniently forgotten these and other things like the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Stalin and Hitler shook hands and then both invaded Poland and divided that country between them and the Soviets forcibly occupied the Baltic States (1 guy in this video apparently remembers)? I don't pretend like my country never did anything wrong, and Russians have even less right than Americans to pretend like they never did anything wrong.
I am not saying Russia never did anything wrong, that is not true, but you really think the US did less bad stuff? Remember atomic bombs in Japan? Iraq wars? Afganistan? Vietnam war (hundreds of thousands dead if not millions) that's just of the top of my head.
@@roman-co1hg Yes I do believe the US has done less bad stuff than Russia. We've never had a Stalin. BTW - I have no problem with the Atomic bombs on Japan. There were conventional bombings that killed as many people. Japan committed horrible atrocities before and during World War 2. The atomic bombs ended that war. We would have lost hundreds of thousands, perhaps over 1 million, of our soldiers in a conventional land attack on Japan. Japan would have lost even more lives than were lost in the atomic bombings. And the bottom line: Japan STARTED that war just like Russia started the war in Ukraine. Am I going to apologize for using atom bombs, bringing the war that Japan started to an end, and actually saving lives on both sides by doing it? Absolutely not.
@@KawaTony1964 if you don’t see a problem with 2 bombings killing hundreds of thousands of civilians then there is nothing to talk about further
@@KawaTony1964 Too true, the 2 atom bombs dropped on Japan saved countless lives, probably losses into the millions were avoided.
@@roman-co1hg You are correct. If you can't read and understand the totality of what I wrote and summarize it incorrectly, we have nothing to discuss. You are dishonorable.
Is it just Poland they dislike cause all of the answers have been pretty chill since that video 😂
they dislike pretty much every democratic country
@@helivesforever7312 Poland is not democratic :D
@@reinoeiole9666 Poland is top democracy compared to russia
Good work bro, here in Argentina you and your peaceful lads can come
Why is it that not a single person states the fact that these border countries are sovereign and independent countries, no longer under the tyranny of the Soviet Union or Russia?
I am Lithuanian who speaks fluently Russian and have no problem with a people still love Pushkin and other authors and artists but if you will come with Putins t-shirt ore Z letter we have a problem, I think this how the most my countryman view Russians! BTW you guys doing amazing work!
Being culturally insecure is a weakness not a strength. I see it here in the US as well. It produces flippant nationalism which allows people to quickly justify violence and histrionics as solutions to their concerns. Meanwhile that very attitude is what makes others less likely to appreciate their nation, not more likely. It exploits the base human reflex for fast and simple solutions.
Absolute nonsense. Culture is an evolving given, it never stays the same and is always searching. Static cultures only mean death, since they do not adapt to changing realities. What you have in America is a society that does not appreciate the evolving given and is chosing for static death. Quite frankly it's very Unamerican as it is the basis of your country.
@Dave Bieleveld it has nothing to do with the video actually.
Russia never attacked anyone? How do that guy think Russia expanded since foundation? Perhaps he had history lessons in Russky Mir way where all joined Russia on free will.
Aren’t they NATO Countries? An attack on one, is an attack on all, don’t forget this. It is very important.
8:03 that guy knows his nation's real history and the reasons behind the apprehension its neighbours feel!
His reaction to the war in Ukraine was kinda sus though, not a word about how tragic and catastrophic it really is.
@@squeakycleannnn he pushed back against some of his state's propaganda while being conscious of the legal risks of speaking the truth about Russian army's failures. Looked like he is trying to avoid jail time
@@squeakycleannnn what he did was actually very professional and knowledgeable he pushed the interview to the absolute limit while avoiding prison
''All the benefits and discounts they get should be blocked'' xD what
yeah, thought the same, seems like he is stuck in 1980.
@@Tosse901 Sounds like September 1939
8:40 speaks a guy who knows the history. Good bless to him❤
I always love to see those who are knowledgeable about history, always brings a smile to my face.