American Reacts Helsinki and Tallinn: Baltic Sisters

[@krissusp3811]

Don't worry, none of us in Estonia like Russia, we are actually offended when anyone associates us with Russia. They have occupied, killed and deported thousands of Estonias and stopped our economic growth in the 1940s (our economy was actually doing better than Finlands). You should watch videos about the Singing Revolution and the Baltic Way in the 80s and early 90s to really understand what we went through all these years. I'd also like to add that Estonia looks MUCH nicer now than on that video 11 years ago. Thanks for learning about my little home country and our big brothers up in Finland 😊

[@yananasbanas]

lots of love to estonia from finland. we have always been brothers and sisters ❤

[@moonlight_yyw3923]

🇪🇪❤️🇫🇮 🇷🇺🤡

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

@@yananasbanas Yes. But Finland gave Estonian refugees back to the Soviets and this is kind of hard to forget

[@Spugedelia77]

You have learned a lot about Europe just(?) by watching videos. I'm really impressed. Greetings from Helsinki!

[@MCrue2]

Never apologize to the soviets apologists thinking you might offend someone. Greetins from Estonia!

[@Silveirias]

Exactly! Down with the tankies. Finnic people are united in this.

[@esakoivuniemi]

That what I was thinking as well. Greetings from Finland.

[@timojuustila7727]

30:45 Your reaction after seeing Stalin's portrait was priceless. You gave me the best laughs of my life! 😂 Greetings from Finland. 🇫🇮

[@FizzlNet]

I love your commentary. I love how you discuss small things I would never notice. Greetings from Finland!

[@jwkldkkqlldn]

for people in Finland Estonia will always be our closes brother nation, but for the politicians and big business etc they always want sweden to be our closest brother

[@Silveirias]

Yes, we people love Estonia and remember that Swedes are former oppressors.

[@GreatRetro]

When I was a kid I always wantod to drink coca-cola, sprite, fanta eat snikers, chips etc and i was always pissed of on my mom for not buying that to me... my mom always said that this food was bad for me and we have great and healthy food at home that she coocked!!! Now, I'm in my 30s i understand how Fing dumb I was for not appriciating my moms efforts to bee a good mom for her family! ^_^ I guess, it's the same with Estonia and Finland! Sure, buisiness, money and power is one thing, yes, an important thing...but Family... Family is the most important thing! As a last surviving Uralic people we have to look out for each other! ^_^

[@toomasargel8503]

21:21 Tallinn is older then Helsnki. First mention of history books was Tallinn 1154 year

[@henriikkak2091]

Turku/Åbo was Finland's capital until the 1800s

[@jwkldkkqlldn]

@@henriikkak2091 only 5% of the city speak swedish, so why call it "åbo"? It's Turku for everyone in the city.

[@Silveirias]

Yep! And Helsinki only really got a proper boost in the 1800s when the russians decided to move Finland's capital there, further away from Swedish influence.

[@toomasargel8503]

@@henriikkak2091 Turku is port many centuries + now university city and science center too

[@toomasargel8503]

@@jwkldkkqlldn Tllinn first name was Lindanise ..that name trhuly estonian languge. Tallinn name mind Taani linn = Denmark city . Lindanise is named by women name Linda. Other Tallinn names was Rewal and Goloban

[@Skege1000]

Former President of Finland used to go have a coffee at the market square, because the Presidents Office/Castle is next to the market. He even took the French President with him to have coffee

[@oskar6747]

He shouldn't have done that. Old Finnish people like the worst coffee in the world, Juhla Mokka, and that's probably what they sell there. It's awful. There are lots of good coffee shops close by. I wouldn't drink that marketplace coffee even if someone paid me. Only if it's the only coffee available in the middle of nowhere and I haven't had my morning coffee would I try that.

[@cinderellaandstepsisters]

​@@oskar6747 Juhlamokka is the most popular coffee in Finland. The young ppl like it too.

[@12kenbutsuri]

​@oskar6747 juhla mokka is so bad, i genuinely vomited once from the acid on my empty stomach.

[@toomasargel8503]

17:00 Baltic sea froze usual until between Liepaja to Palanga in coast ..but whole sea to Gulf of Riga nd west side Gulf of Kalmarsund

[@carleryk]

As an ethnic Estonian I would say that we are culturally and linguistically more similar to Finns than Latvians. Finns and Estonians are both Finnic nations and have common roots in every sense. We are also culturally protestant, mostly Lutheran like Sweden and other Scandinavian nations, although most people aren't active Christians. That all is also the reason why a lot of Estonians define themselves as Nordic people together with Finns and Scandinavians, not Baltic. The Soviet *Russian* occupation was terrible for Estonia in many ways. In addition to collectivization, mass deportations etc it also set Estonia back economically. GDP per capita of Estonia was roughly the same as in Finland before WWII, but now we're still catching up because of the occupation. Soviets also had Russification policy in the 1960s -1980s, which encouraged Russians to migrate to Estonia basically as colonists, although it was illegal to colonize occupied territories by international law. Some towns were almost entirely ethnically cleansed from ethnic Estonians. Even today Russians make up about 25% of all residents, and almost half in the capital Tallinn. Ethnic Estonians made up approximately 80% of all residents before WWII, the remaining 20% was comprised by small minorities of Germans, Swedes and Russians. Finland's ethnic Finnish population is still around 80% like it used to be in Estonia with Estonians.

[@carleryk]

I also should mention that while Finland has only been ruled by the Swedish Kingdom and Russian Empire, Estonia has been ruled by the Danish Kingdom, German (Holy Roman Empire), Swedish Kingdom, Polish Kingdom and Russian Empire. Since Estonia was split to Northern and Southern part until 1917, two regions have had different rulers at times. For example Southern Estonia wasn't under Danish rule while Northern Estonia wasn't under Polish rule. There's also the case of Saaremaa/Ösel Island (the largest island of Estonia) which was under Danish Kingdom much longer than any other part of Estonia.

[@eksiarvamus]

@@carleryk Tallinn was never ruled by Poland though.

[@Mattis06]

What does culturally protestant mean?

[@eksiarvamus]

@@Mattis06 Religions have had major cultural influence on societies. Estonians were traditionally Protestant, so culturally quite distant from Russians who are traditionally Orthodox.

[@Mattis06]

@@eksiarvamus protestanism only started in the 16th century how can it be traditional if it is only 500 years old and we are mostly not religious so its effects are gone from our society.

[@tonikaihola5408]

You skirted around it but Estonia did not have good times under Soviet Russia. Hello from Finland 🎉

[@rosmu1130]

I think it's really great you took interest in and checked to see the difference in altitude. 😊 I bet it gives perspective for sure! 😄 👍🏻

[@xenotypos]

Churches are achitectural marvels. I'm not religious either but I love cathedrals, especially older ones. Just the thought that in the middle ages those were the highest human structures in the world, yet visually so detailed and intricate.

[@eksiarvamus]

That was an interesting watch. I am an Estonian and have been watching your reaction videos for years. But the video overemphasizes the Russian influence in Estonia. Some Westerners just seem to be obsessed with it and only concentrate on such aspects. But if you think you are biased about the Soviets - heck, us Estonians are the most anti-Russian/Soviet people on the planet, so really don't worry about this "bias".

[@rupsikas1950]

Eh, not that bad for a video that's 10+ years old.

[@villeharju2207]

Finns and Estonians are united in our hatred of Russia. Cheers brother / sister!

[@xenotypos]

The Gulf Stream explains why Europe isn't that cold (overall) despite how up north it is. For example New York has an average temperature close to Paris' average temperature (the extremes are just a bit more extreme in New York, a bit hotter in summer and a bit colder in winter).

[@m.p8917]

Before Helsinki the capital was Turku. More medieval/historical than Hki

[@mikorossi1959]

5.6 million people here in Finland and around 682,000 people live in the city of Helsinki and, more broadly, around 1,599,000 people live in the entire Helsinki region.

[@walkerdufault]

You did a great job! Hello from Tallinn. We moved here seven years ago. Always welcome to visit!

[@soozb15]

Those tall, columnar trees that remind you of Gladiator are cyprus trees - 'cupressus sempervirens'. They scream 'Mediterranean' to me too 🙂

[@thomash3716]

As a swede i can tell you that all of us up here around the baltic sea has a history with Russia. We had them here for some short fights over a few hundred years but the finns and the baltic nations were under their rule for long periods.But they have always been a threat to all of us. We also has been a pain for the finns every now and then unfortunately...And also i believe that most estonians consider themself more as nordic than the the other baltic countries. Because of religion and also the fact that estonian language is close to finnish. Finnish, Estonian,Hungarian and Sami languages are related. On some islands in Estonia swedish has been spoken for a long time.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Stämmer ............

[@jarimakela7307]

Dont mess Russia and Soviet Union. And it wasnt so bad time Finland when its was part of Russia. They gave us keep own language, own money, own laws, own post system and we had own parliament. These were something we never had under Sweden. And what its come to wars between Sweden and Russia I think that most cases it was Sweden which attacs against Russia.

[@rometjoearu184]

Can you also tell us how many square km of Finnish land was "confiskated" by Russians in 1940-1945?! How many finns lost their lives and homes thanks to Russian agressori?!

[@thomash3716]

@@rometjoearu184 If youré asking me i can´t... All i know about that war is that a lot of swedish people tried to help Finland... but maybe not enough. A lot of swedes went there to fight and a lot of Finnish children were taken care of in sweden. This is probably a question that has to be cleared out in some fair discussions containing the "facts" that was important to the governments at that time... The same is about our position about letting the germans transfer through sweden into Norway...At least we can say that the russians has been and is an enemy to all of us since a long time.

[@rometjoearu184]

@@thomash3716 Sorry, my questions were addressed to Jari Mäkelä 7307. He was (in my opinion) too positive towards Russians and Russian autonomy period ...

[@annekasX]

Greetings from my hometown Tallinn

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

My wife's elder sister lived in Rhode Island for some 20 years, up to just a couple of years ago, when they moved to Delaware. So we visited Rhode Island some 10 years ago, and let me tell you.... It was a REALLY worm and horn humid place, if you compare it with Helsinki or Stockholm. But I must tell you that I just LOVED Rhodes Island. She lived in a very beautiful neighborhood where the houses where very big, but very old aswell. These houses where just majestic and the whole area was so beautiful. It was a very hilly area, and if I'm not totally wrong, was it also one of the more expensive areas aswell. Must tell you that we judt loved that place. 🇫🇮🇫🇮🇫🇮🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪💪

[@saintkamikaze]

Only 5 minutes into the video and already amazed by your knowledge about our little countries, especially considering that you are from the United States, which is so far away.

[@toomasargel8503]

01:06 Yes US Alaska capital Juneau is that same north latitute then in Estonia Paide and Ancornche , Alaska is same north latitute then in Finland ... Tampere.

[@henriikkak2091]

My buddy went on a fishing trip in Anchorage, Alaska. He's from Kuusamo, Finland. He called it a trip south 😊

[@toomasargel8503]

Greating from Estonia.

[@merjakotisaari9046]

Greating from Finland

[@NordicFinEst]

I was born and raised in Tallinn. Walked through Old Town daily. The city has developed drastically in just 20+ years. I now live in Finland and even though the languages are similar, it continuously drives me nuts that so many words are identical but mean the exact opposite! F.e. the trams you talked about ... they are called "ratikka" in finnish. For me it always sounds as "radikas" which is an estonian word for a radiator. :D Trams are not much dangerous if you are cautious. You can hear them really well and they use horns a lot. I saw one incident when a man just straight walked in front of a tram, he was on his phone. He narrowly escaped because the tram was slow, coming to a stop. Sometimes cars and buses collide with trams, its more likely that they are not paying attention. Overall trams are safe and people have common sense to be careful and not to step in front of these. You should visit Helsinki and experience it. :D

[@mrsmerily]

hallitus ;) i leave that famous name not mentioned in here.

[@minaolenella869]

Finnish and Estonian are both finno ugric languages. Almost all others languages in Europe are Indo European ( except Hungarian, Sami, Livonian, that are also finno-ugric, and Basque that is proto European)

[@Silveirias]

There are other Uralic languages in Europe, too: Meänkieli, Karelian, Veps, Votic, Ludic, Seto, and Ingrian (Izhorian). And there are multiple Sámi languages.

[@butterflies655]

In the early days ppl spoke an indoeuropian language in Finland.

[@Silveirias]

Which Indo-European language?

[@butterflies655]

​@@Silveirias You can read Finland's history about it. They don't tell what the language is.

[@minaolenella869]

@@butterflies655 finno ugric languages are at least 2000 years older then Indo Europeans in Europe.

[@Masamuda]

@mcjibbin For the similarities of architectural design of orthodox Christian churches and middle-eastern/turkish designs: The eastern orthodoxy is also known as the Byzantine Christianity for a reason. Byzantine as in the Byzantine Empire.

[@mratp123]

Hey! Check out the remake of the same video:) He made a new Estonian one😊 Best wishes from Tallinn:)!

[@rupsikas1950]

I'd say that Estonians feel close to both Finns and Latvians, much less to Swedes and Lithuanians. Finns and Estonians share culture and language but have somewhat different histories. Latvia however shares more history with Estonia, although the language is from a completely different family. Sweden ruled Estonia for some time and left some of its heritage, Lithuania doesn't really have anything in common with Estonia besides the Soviet occupation. I feel like the connections that Estonia and Finland had (that were erased by the Soviet Union) are healing as time passes and that probably makes Estonians feel closer to Finns again as the Soviet occupation is slowly being forgotten. From what I have seen, young Estonians (like myself) mostly feel that Finns are the closest people to us.

[@carleryk]

For me it's Finns (a long way before anyone else of course), then Swedes, and after them Latvians. I'm from Northern Estonia where the coast used to be predominantly Swedish historically until most Swedish speakers assimilated with Estonians. Swedish culture has therefore influenced our culture a lot. The Estonian language also has a lot of Germanic loan words from Middle Low German, Swedish and Old Norse, which makes Swedish easier to understand/comprehend than Latvian which is a Balto-Slavic language. There are some words of course I could understand in Latvian but they are usually Germanic loan words. As you said we have virtually nothing in common with Lithuanians so I didn't even include them in my top.

[@rpgp6065]

@@carleryk So where would you put the russians then? Lots of loanwords in estonian comes from there too.

[@rometjoearu184]

Yes, we have loanwords from Russian (like we have loanwords from Latvian, Finnish, German languages), but please keep in mind that Russians have got a lot of loanwords from German, French, English so ...

[@rpgp6065]

@@rometjoearu184 So what? We are not talking about where modern russian got its loanwords. It has long been clear that this language in its core is essentially based on Old Church Slavonic, which is an artificial language invented for church texts, which in turn is based on Old Bulgarian.

[@butterflies655]

Finland's culture is very similar to Sweden. Finland and Sweden were the same country for over 600 years of

[@martinkoitmae6655]

Great reaction!

[@yrjo5050]

Thank you Connor.

[@ssanti66]

Cypress is the name of the tree you remember seeing in the movie The Gladiator. Quite common in Italy.

[@kirsianna383]

If you are interested there are some pretty good KZbin videos about the protestant reformation and even one short one explaining how butter (and food generally) was a reason for reformation.

[@FinnishedThirdMusic]

Helsinki is the second most northern Capital after Reykjavik in the world

[@Janie_Morrison]

Very good video I enjoyed it

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

Estonia and Finland are so close, that these both countries have the same National Anthem 😊... The same melody, that is... But it's cool nontheless

[@jarmopaakkonen2045]

Plenty of lakes,but those lakes have islands in them. So who knows we're the most islands😅

[@KantslerOlaf]

@McJibbin So yes, estonians are probably a mix of both because we're culturally more close to the Finns, but we're genetically only like 1/3-1/5 viking, depending on where in Estonia you're from. The Onion-tops of the churches is a Russian thing, yes. Also Correct.

[@BorderGuardJaegerFinlandia]

That cannon didn't have anything built to tak up the energy of the round with some pneumatic system...

[@forgottenmusic1]

The Orthodox Church came to Russia from Greece, and so did the architects who built the first churches. Later, the local architects followed the same style. Btw, a similar thing happened with Turkey - when they conquered what became Turkey, they put the Greeks to design the mosques (the mosques in Arab countries follow a very different style). So - what can be associated with Oriental, has actually Greek roots. Estonia and Latvia have pretty much of shared history, so despite of the completely different language, there are many similarities in culture. I'd say that the original video is presented quite poorly. F.e. while Finland has "Swedish" past, the Estonian past is "German" (the Baltic German upper class succeeded to keep their dominant position under any regime nearly until the WWI). The Kadriorg Palace is not an example of the Russian architecture, the architect came from Italy (and so did a lot of architects designing in St. Petersburg or even Moscow as well, including the Kremlin itself). Due to the Soviet migration, the ethnic Russians are not a quarter, but a third of the population in Tallinn (and including the other Russified Soviets, 40%). The building showed as a Commie Bloc is renovated and except the shape looks quite different from the original. The suitcases in the museum do not symbolize not just those who fled the country, but even more those who were deported to Siberia or Kazakhstan. Etc.

[@carleryk]

Most German noble families that ruled Estonia and Latvia were also very much active in Sweden, Finland and Russia. The ruling class was therefore almost always 'German' in all of these countries. Southern Estonia and Latvia do have some shared culture, like a few dances, music and cuisine, but due to very different languages it wasn't as broad as some people think. I would compare it to Austria and Hungary since they also share a common history, well at least a big chunk of it, but are still very distinct from each other culturally and linguistically.

[@forgottenmusic1]

@@carleryk You are messing the situations where Germans played some, even if significant role, and where they were absolutely dominant. in Estonia and Latvia, the Baltic German nobility absorbed all the nobles of any other origin. Besides, unlike in Sweden and Finland, the peasants were serfs, not having any regular contacts with other institutions than the manor and the church (and the pastors were German as well). Any Estonian or Latvian who succeeded to rise in social hierarchy became Germanized, while the Finns became Swedicized. Also, until the Russification in the 1880's, German was the official language in the Baltic provinces, while in Finland, the primary official language was Swedish. It is easy to follow, that for Estonian and Latvian, German used to be the main contact language, being the source for most of the borrowings, while for Finns it was clearly Swedish. Latvians have mixed roots, they have assimilated almost completely a Finnic people, Livonians; it is estimated that at least a third of Latvians have partial Livonian ancestry. There have also been population exchanges caused by the Livonan and Great Northern Wars, as well as by the serf owners. Genetically, Estonians and Latvians have become very similar, while Finns are not just clearly distant from the others, but in their North and South between themselves as well. Besides that, both Estonians and Latvians have notable German influence. Even the Baltic singing festivals have actually German roots. Finding similarities in Estonian and Latvian cultures is clearly easier, than finding them in Estonian and Finnish.

[@JohnResalb]

Hi Jibby I visited Estonia in the years shortly after the end of the Soviet Union. I saw fairy-tale houses often totally abandoned with their doors and windows all left open to the elements.! I haven't been to Finland but their language is mutually comprehendable. When I was in Hungary, I asked my Hungarian girlfriend if she could understand Estonian - she said no.

[@Silveirias]

Finnish and Estonian are not mutually comprehensible. Take it from a native Finnish speaker. I can understand some Estonian, but not enough to, say, follow the news. Some South-Western dialect speakers can probably understand Estonian a little better than I, a South-Eastern dialect speaker can. Meänkieli, Karelian, and Ingrian are more or less mutually comprehensible to Finnish, but someone speaking a Western dialect will have an easier time with Meänkieli and someone speaking an Eastern dialect is more likely to understand Karelian and Ingrian. Hungarian is pretty far removed from Estonian and Finnish. Finnish and Estonian are from the Finnic branch of Uralic languages and Hungarian is from the Ugric branch.

[@butterflies655]

​@@SilveiriasHungary is a very different country. Different culture. Different food and different music and dance. Very different and in a good way.

[@Silveirias]

@@butterflies655 Yes, but it's still part of the same Uralic family as Finland and Estonia are. The Samojeds are very different people, too, but they are still in the same Uralic family.

[@minaolenella869]

gulf stream warms most of Europe. On another hand, Yagutsk, some call it the coldest city, is only 62N, and it is so cold mostly cause of position towards mountains and being away from large bodies of water, not cause it is way up north.

[@HelenGolovina-y9h]

You are right, these islands were Sweden. But Finland doe have a lot of islands, but in a different region on Finland, not so much at Helsinki harbour

[@Skerrry]

I also find the latitudes interesting. New York City is around the same latitude as southern Spain, Italy, Greece and Turkey. You would never guess that by looking at the climates of those places.

[@katyroseable]

You may be thinking of Cypress trees.

[@thomash3716]

And those in the video are a maple ( Populus tremula Erecta)

[@mantailuaa]

@@thomash3716 They are not maples, they are aspen trees. Maple would be Acer pseudoplatanus.

[@thomash3716]

@@mantailuaa You are right - i made the wrong translation! 👍

[@newsnowsweden1661]

13:35 Yes, the big thing with Protestantism is about separate from means of power, but they themselves became means of power after a while. Martin Luther, who started the Protestantism, didn't want to separate from the Catholics church, but his followers did want this.

[@likingraccoons]

Some people say that protestant reform started because the reformers wanted people to really know the gospel. That meant a few things: - the Bible needed to be translated - people needed to be taught how to write and read - the church got rid of latin as an official language and started to preach in the language the people

[@finnishculturalchannel]

Everything's relative. Around 1,247 million people live in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The regional capital of Northern Finland and the place of Santa's office in Finnish Lapland on the Arctic Circle, Rovaniemi, is around 820 km north from Helsinki. Relating to the US, Santa built his place of operations around The Roosevelt Cabin, which was built in 1950 when Eleanor Roosevelt's wanted to visit the Arctic Circle during her visit to Finland. A video: "Rooseveltin maja | Napapiirin ensimmäinen maja". Some other notable Finnish built cabins of possible interest include Queen's log cabin (1970) at Balmoral Estate and C. A. Nothnagle Log House (1643) in New Jersey. There are different king of columnar trees, which suit specific use in parks and green areas. I think Swedish Columnar Aspen is one, which is commonly used in Finland. Maybe this will chance your opinion about trams: "A tram with a pub onboard? AMAZING FIND - Helsinki for our last day". The Finnish Pavilion was the talk of the town in the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Finland was trying to establish itself as a nation among nations, so world probably didn't seem that far away: "Esa-Pekka Salonen on Sibelius & Finland’s Independence Movement". This was also the period of greater emigration of Finns to the US. E.g. the architect Eliel Saarinen, who designed The Helsinki Central Rail Station, was also about the make his mark in the US: "Tribune Tower: A Groundbreaking Competition", "The Cranbrook Academy of Art: A legacy of discovery - Imagine a Place" and "A Cranbrook Conversation: Eero Saarinen & the Cradle of American Modernism - Roundtable". Also: "AALTO - Official Trailer", "Interview with Kenneth Frampton on Alvar Aalto" and "Artek “A chair is not just a seat"". Couple of videos about the Cold War era and the connection between Helsinki and Tallinn. It's said that the Finnish grocery store chain Kesko's K-Store TV commercials played a part in the Soviet Union's collapse and especially Väinö "Väiski" Purje and his meat counter in those commercials. Väiski become an idol of-a-sort for Soviet Estonians. The Soviet Estonian officials claimed that Väiski was a CIA agent and that the meat he displayed was made out of plastic: "Original Sokos Hotel Viru - check into the legend", "GoldSpinners Goldspinners trailer 720p mp4", "K-Kaupan mainos - Väiskin lihatiski " and "Icarus Films Disco and Atomic War - Trailer", About the Baltic cruises history and the connection to Caribbean cruises. Some of the Caribbean cruise ships have been and are being build in Turku, the former capital of Finland: "Hyvää matkaa! - Silja Linen aikamatka 1957-2007", "The Cruise Industry Was Changed FOREVER by a $750 Million Dollar Ferry", "Icon of the Seas - Vesillelasku", "ICON OF THE SEAS | The World's BIGGEST cruise ship departing Meyer Turku shipyard 29.11.2023", "ICON OF THE SEAS | Royal Caribbean ship crossed the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark during snowfall" and "An Iconic Crossing: The Great Belt Bridge". A relating peacetime naval disaster: "MS ESTONIA - Onboard video camera footage from 1994", "M/S Estonia Mayday Call With Subtitles, Tribute", "Räddningsinsatsen vid Estonias förlisning 1994" and "HD | Jan-Tore Thörnroos interview about M/S Estonia". To bring things to the Cold War, Eleanor Roosevelt's visit and Santa: ""Soomepoiste laul" - Anthem of The Estonian Volunteers to Finland", "Kaleva - 14.06.1940", "The Forgotten Story of the Red Army's Insane 'Soviet DUNKIRK in WW2", "Lappland War fighting filmed in Tornio", "Secret Of The Nazi U-Boat U-745", "Forest Brothers - anti-Soviet Guerilla War in the Baltics - THE COLD WAR" and "Forest Brothers - Fight for the Baltics". And to current situation: "99stories: "Terve Ukraina" - Finland's 100 year old prophecy about Ukraine, by Eino Leino" and "Kekkonens Nightmare". On that language subject. Even the languages spoken today don't entire follow the Nordic country borders: "Rock Art of the White Sea - Exhibition at Ulsan Museum ", "Who Built these Mysterious GIANT'S CHURCHES - short history documentary", "Bronze Age Burial Site of Sammallahdenmäki - UNESCO World Heritage Site", "The ski-going people - Early history" and "The Seal Hunters - the linguistic traces of ancient Scandinavia". Also: "Know your language: PU" and "Before Indo-European (The Indo-Uralic Hypothesis) Part ONE".

[@Pataassa]

Finland and Estonia has always been democracy countries and people. Probably other Baltic countries as well. Nobody ever wanted to be part of Russia / soviet but only Finn's had a chance to fight back for their freedom in the winter war time. Finland and Estonia has always been part of west. And because Finland was under swedish rule over 600 years, we defenetly have always been part of west. But the influence of soviet shows in Helsinki because of the 100 year time that we had to be under Russian rule. But Helsinki is the only place in Finland where it shows. For example we don't have those Russian style onion church anywhere else in Finland. Or at least I have ever seen it.

[@Pataassa]

And about Americans. Isn't your history mostly in Europe as well? So if you want to see old time "American buildings", you will have to travel in Europe. Make a DNA test to know which country of Europe is part of your family history. 😊

[@h0mo3rectus69]

Tampereella ainakin oli yks ortodoksi kirkko

[@Silveirias]

As much as we want to say we've always been part of the West, than is not true. The world has seen us as part of the west only since the 90s after the fall of the Soviet Union and since we joined the EU. We certainly have western values and already before our independence there were efforts to be seen as part of the western world, though.

[@Riippumatonkaveri]

In case someone doesn't know: the Orthodox Church of Finland is the second official state religion right after the Evangelical Lutheran Church. There are lots of Orthodox churches around Finland. By the way, the shape of the cupola represents the flame of a votive candle.

[@butterflies655]

Finland was never a part of the Soviet union. Finland was an autonomous grand duchy of Russia's Empire of tsar 100 years.

[@rikulappi9664]

Finland has more lakes AND islands than Sweden. The gun barrels are thicker at the breach end and get progressively thinner as the pressure inside the barrel decreases. The barrels are solid tubes.

[@dmoomd1023]

Greetings from Tallinn 😃

[@Fincoolman68]

The term Baltic Sisters included Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania,not Helsinki and Tallinn,after World War II (1939-1945) the term has been used to group the three countries that were occupied by the Soviet Union until 1991: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania,Finland also was one of the Baltic Sisters (for different reason) but later became grouped among the Nordic countries instead,and a big brother of Estonia. :O)

[@merjakotisaari9046]

- Lutheranism does not form a single administrative and hierarchical entity (i.e. a single church) like Catholicism, but consists of separate regional or national churches. Lutheranism also does not have a single leader, unlike Catholicism, whose supreme spiritual leader is the Pope. - According to Lutheranism, man gets salvation by grace and faith, without man's own merits. Catholicism also emphasizes the influence of a person's own actions or morals on salvation. - Lutheranism emphasizes the individual's personal faith and direct and immediate relationship with God, while Catholicism emphasizes the role of the church (ie clergy and saints) as mediator between the individual and God. - Churches also have a different number of sacraments, i.e. holy ordinances: Catholicism has seven (baptism, communion, confirmation or myrrh anointing, penance or the sacrament of penance, consecration to marriage, priesthood and anointing of the sick) and Lutheranism has two (baptism and communion). - Unlike their Catholic brethren, Lutheran priests can be married and do not have to take a vow of celibacy. - Unlike the Catholic Church, some Lutheran churches have also opened the priesthood to women.

[@mil-fpv4931]

Populus tremula 'Erecta'. The trees at the Esplanadi.

[@edheldude]

The difference between European cities and US cities is in the zoning. Europe has mixed use real estate - and that's the key to having tax positive and walkable towns.

[@stevenkendall3092]

You should react to Futurology channels "Finland's Plans for a Tunnel to Estonia" video. It's really interesting.

[@Carl_Gustav_Häyhä]

Sadly there are recent signs that the Golf Stream is possibly dying. If so, our climate will in future be like in Norther Siberia.

[@LTS79]

Most islands: 1.Sweden, 2.Norway, 3.Finland.

[@Fincoolman68]

But the largest Archipelago Sea is in Finland,it comprise island on Turku and Åland,most largest archipellago r in Indonesia,but it has less island than finlands archipellago sea,just saying,lol

[@LTS79]

@@Fincoolman68 Kyllä mä sen tiedän.

[@Fincoolman68]

@@LTS79 väittikö joku että et tietäisi,toi kommentti oli vain huomio kommenttiisi

[@Fincoolman68]

@@LTS79 riippune laskentatavasta,suomi on toisena saarien määrässä ruottin jälkeen,ja se useimmissa tilastoissa faktana pidetty asia

[@LTS79]

@@Fincoolman68 Se että onko Suomi 2. vai 3. riippuu siitä että minkä kokoiset läntit lasketaan saariksi. Toi ei kyllä pidä paikkaansa että Suomi olis useimpien tilastojen mukaan 2. ja sitä pidettäisiin faktana. Kyllä Norjassa on enemmän useimpien tilastojen mukaan ja se on fakta.

[@ThePhantomMajor]

can I try this (takes one before being given permission to ..... so annoying!) at least he bought a punnet.

[@Caesarianus9]

Orthodox churches got their shapes from Byzantian churhes, 4-15 centures, as well as most churches in Bavaria, Germany. Byzantian influence also tou can see in muslim culture.

[@rasmusjansson9665]

Protestants believed that the Church had become corrupt mainly criticizing the selling of indulgences (payments for forgiveness of sins) and the idea that salvation could be earned through works rather than faith alone. This led to a split from the Catholic Church, forming new Christian denominations that focused on individual faith, reading the Bible in one's own language, and rejecting the central authority of the Pope.

[@Finkele1]

you could but oil industry didn't like the idea in usa. So you have to drive now everywhere...I live in Tampere and i sold my car bc it cost more to have one to just stand there as i might need it like never...

[@Finkele1]

Cruisers are called "poor man vacation" where anything can happen...

[@mil-fpv4931]

Martin Luther began criticizing the Catholic Church and called for its reformation. Luther believed that too much power had been concentrated in the hands of the Pope. He criticized the Church's practice of selling indulgences and the trade of fake relics.

[@sunshinereggae417]

you are so cute:) greetings from Finland:))

[@Mojova1]

Saying that Finnish is not a Nordic language is like saying that Moroccan Berber is not a Mediterranean language because it is different from Italian, Greek and Spanish. Finnish is a Nordic language because Finland is a Nordic nation.

[@Silveirias]

Exactly. Nordic is not even a linguistic term, it's more of a political alliance. Most languages within the Nordic countries are Scandinavian, but we also have Uralic languages (Finnic and Sámi languages) and Greenlandic. These are all Nordic languages because they are spoken within the Nordic countries.

[@uikonimi]

​@@Silveirias North Germanic and Finnic languages

[@Silveirias]

@@uikonimi True, but they get called Scandinavian a lot and the subcategories include West and East Scandinavian languages.

[@carleryk]

It is very confusing though. For example I wouldn't consider Estonian a Baltic language although I've heard some foreigners say that. It's a Finnic language like Finnish, so why would you call Finnish a 'Nordic' language in the first place? There are Scandinavian languages, Finnic languages (+ Uralic Sami) and Baltic languages spoken natively in Northern Europe. Linguistically speaking there's no such thing as 'Nordic language'.

[@Silveirias]

@@carleryk Agreed, it gets a little confusing. Nordic is indeed not a linguistic term, it's a political alliance, but you can call a language Nordic if it's a language from a Nordic country because it's under the Nordic general umbrella. Kinda like Basque, Polish, and Finnish are all European languages, but are all from different language families. Baltic is both a linguistic and geopolitical term. Estonia is geographically Baltic and politically Baltic, but not linguistically Baltic (since it is a Finnic language and Finnic culture, too).

[@mrsmerily]

Russians did not invent the Orthodox Church. It is the oldest of them all, originating in Greece, so it is 7 centuries older than any possible influence from Aladdin. In fact, it is more likely that the influence went the other way. Estonia, which was forced to adopt Christianity during the Northern Crusades, has always been Catholic. After being under German aristocratic rule, it became Protestant. Before the occupation, there were only a small number of Russians living in Estonia, so there weren't many Russian churches. However, different Russian leaders have tried to Russify Estonia repeatedly. I hope this answers your question.

[@ralfhaggstrom9862]

Because we like our space= nature ..............

[@mil-fpv4931]

It's funny the movies and the art in general in Soviets are seen as a propaganda, which it was, of course, when here in west we don't consider, or at least the vast majority doesn't, our popular culture or any other artform as propaganda, which it obviously is. Not forced, perse, but only certain kind of art pays, so it kind of is. Life in Estonia during the Soviet years wasn't as bad as the image let passed through to our eyes and ears. During and after the collapse, for many years, things were pretty wild. Lot of the people from ex-Soviet countries would love to have their old leaders back, and the system as well. It's the propaganda here which pictures the life in ex-Soviets bad and something to not want for. You know. The so called freedoms we have are tied to money. No money, no freedom. Can't buy anything. Can't travel. Lot of people with no jobs. No housing. And so on. In Soviet countries all the necessities were taken care of by the commune, society. Everybody participated. Everybody had a job, free schooling, housing. Which system is better? I'm not sure. Lean to the left, though.

[@anttikalpio4577]

You’re saying America never got along with Russia. You could say Finland had a slight disagreement with Stalin also 🤣

[@markmuller7962]

Oslo is literally in Alaska lol

[@yorkaturr]

The fundamental difference between protestantism and catholicism is that protestants think their relationship with God is a personal matter and not tied to the clergy as a middle man or indeed the church as an institution. Therefore lutheran churches are not adorned as much.

[@vpuik]

Vihta!!!

[@JohannesN91]

Looool what are those snowy mountains.... We don't have mountains in Finland or in Estonia. Both countries are very flat...

[@helirium]

Se lienee vain koneen taustakuva?

[@torpmorp1324]

Those buildings are designed by Johan Carl Ludvig Engel from Berlin, Germany, not the Russians, but whatever…

[@Hardi-ch7op]

where is danish okupation?

[@torpmorp1324]

Well, it’s Finland, not Sweden anyway. There are about 187,000 lakes in Finland

[@Finkele1]

It's finn-ugrian language as is estonian.

[@FXGreggan.]

I have no idea how similar estonian and finnish is in writing, but they do sound very similar as a non-speaker, they also have some cultural similiarities.... Also speaking of the roads - doesn't the US have an extensive railroad network? Here in the nordic countries perhaps we invested more town designs to incorporate roads instead - maybe as we are quite sparsely populated and tracks makes less sense for us? I have no idea :)

[@Kari-qv1wn]

A lot of the basic vocabulary is almost identical since they date back to when they were the same language they've diverged a lot since then so mutual intelligebility is fairly low

[@carleryk]

Finnish and Estonian are believed to be as close to each other as Spanish and Italian, so not fully mutually intelligible but basics in language are virtually the same (for example numbers, most animal names, words about nature). It's also the easiest language to learn for both.

[@lexluthor6497]

You need to travel man. Just do it now when you are young and hungry for knowledge. Yes the money is always a problem but just do it.

[@uikonimi]

Turku used to be Finland's capital under the Swedish rule. It is not known when it was founded, but it is first mentioned in 1229 by the Pope Gregory IX. Helsinki was originally founded as a competitor for Tallinn in 1550 and became the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland in 1812 and then in 1917 the capital of the Republic of Finland.

[@Hardi-ch7op]

700 years cermans is nothing?

[@hextatik_sound]

Finland has 5.6 million inhabitants. 1.3 million inhabitants live in the Greater Helsinki area. Its area (1500 sq. km) is bit over 1/4 the size of Rhode Island (4000 sq. km). Also, Finland has the third most islands in the world. Sweden has the most and Norway the second.

[@filipohman7277]

Awesome Work Bro, Thanks!!! 😎👍👍👍 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

[@torpmorp1324]

Of course Finnish is a Nordic language.

[@oleolsen1073]

Go and find some meditation on youtube , i promise your brain will work better after clearly there are so many things to remedie these problems of speaking coherently ❤❤❤

[@mikkohapponen5728]

Finno ugri

[@torpmorp1324]

Well, they’re not Baltic cousins because Helsinki isn’t Baltic…

[@thepreviousguy]

Hating russia and the soviet union is very common and historic in the region, it's not only the americans who had issues with them. But we have had no other options but to learn to live with them, also the historical monuments and statues are functional reminders about the lessons of history. You should never sever a connection to your history just becouse it was painful. To be honest though all of the major imperial powers in the world historically have done similar things and still do. Just look at the current conflicts with any objective critique and u realise that its all the same garbage.

[@mango2005]

I think Greece has the most islands.

[@lexluthor6497]

Wrong. we have a shitload of them up here between sweden and finland.

[@kovoseptinta9948]

Baltic sisters? I don't think finns want to be called baltic

[@ristusnotta1653]

think he ment baltic sea

[@henriikkak2091]

Estonians aren't Balts either. They're Finnic. We are all at the Baltic Sea, though.

[@carleryk]

Finnic sisters would have been less confusing 🙂

[@Silveirias]

Baltic in this context refers to the Baltic Sea because both Helsinki and Tallinn are on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Calling the citites Baltic sisters does not mean Finland is a Baltic country. But, the term Baltic states actually did originally refer to Finland as well, but Finland has been included in the Nordics instead post WW2. Estonians themselves are also Finnic like Finns are (so not Baltic like Lithuanns and Latvians are), but they are geographically Baltic. I'm Finnish and I take way more issue with being called Scandinavian than Baltic. :D

[@butterflies655]

Finland 🇫🇮 is a Nordic and western country with Sweden 🇸🇪 Norway 🇸🇯 Denmark 🇩🇰 and Iceland 🇮🇸 culturally, politically, economically, religiously and geographically. They are all members of the Nordic council and are prosperous countries with a high standard of living. Main religion in Finland is Lutheran church. It has been said, that Finland is the most Lutheran country in the world. None if the Nordic countries were never parts of the Soviet union. Never under communism and never eastern bloc countries Finland was ranked the best country 2019 by World economic Forum conference in Switzerland Davos and the happiest country seven times in a row by World happiness index report and UN. Finland is at the top in almost every category. All the other Nordic countries are among the ten best and happiest countries This proves how Nordic and western country Finland is.

[@jarimakela7307]

Finland is not Balticc and never will be. Do you stydy.

[@torpmorp1324]

Helsinki is all Russian because Carl Ludvig Engel was German? I can’t watch this bs…

[@rasehorn]

Finland and Estonia should become more like one country without becoming actually a one country. Like a smoll United Nordic states.

[@kucnimajstor2901]

Finnish and Hungarian languages are similar..

[@Cronin_]

Weeell. I don't really agree. There are certain aspects that are similar, but the languages as a whole aren't similar at all. Finnish and Estonian are much more similar, and even they aren't THAT similar. Karelian however, is the language most similar to Finnish

[@RyanRyzzo]

They're from the same family, but more distant. It's a bit like English and Lithuanian - for comparison.

[@ingridvals8266]

not at all

[@henriikkak2091]

Only in the sense that they belong to the same language group. They're actually in the far ends of that group. So you could also say that English and Sanskrit are similar.

[@henriikkak2091]

​@@RyanRyzzo That's right, although I'd say that they're even further. Hungarian language's closest linguistic relatives are located behind the Ural mountains. Finnish has approximately 30 relatives in Europe, west of the Ural mountains.

[@minaolenella869]

gulf stream warms most of Europe. On another hand, Yagutsk, some call it the coldest city, is only 62N, and it is so cold mostly cause of position towards mountains and being away from large bodies of water, not cause it is way up north.