August Sabbe, born in 1909, is believed to have been the last Forest Brother, surviving and remaining in hiding until the late 1970s. The KGB finally tracked him down as he was fishing on a river shore on 28 September 1978, almost exactly 40 years ago.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
According to Baltic's way of life,I think there are forest brothers still I n the forests.
@dams68294 жыл бұрын
I mean there were few hiding in forests but I don't know if all of them would be counted as Forest Brothers.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
Since the time of the crusaders when they don't let Ests to enter the towns.
@jamwri6714 жыл бұрын
Amazing never knew of this in uk
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@@jamwri671 don't have enough IRA?
@jeffreymcfadden94034 жыл бұрын
old soviet saying,, "why do Lithuanians oil their gardens?......to keep their guns from rusting."
@aleksejusovcinikovas26614 жыл бұрын
Hey, nice saying, where did you found it, couldnt find anything on the web?
@DrEdgarr4 жыл бұрын
same here, would be interested to find it
@jeffreymcfadden94034 жыл бұрын
I heard this 20 years ago,,,where I can not remember. It was not from the internet.
@Rainaman-4 жыл бұрын
Lol, good one
@viliussmproductions4 жыл бұрын
@Mike Cruickshanks Well, if the Russians found them, the whole family would be sent off to a basement at the nearest KGB headquarters and then to Siberia in a cattle car.
@napoleonibonaparte71984 жыл бұрын
“The trees speak in Estonian, Lithuanian and Latvian”
@karlisulmanis38104 жыл бұрын
Tieši tā
@Oujouj4264 жыл бұрын
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS How's the weather in Arkhangelsk?
@udenszirnis16444 жыл бұрын
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS Better dead than red
@munxcorp4 жыл бұрын
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS Because fighting a desparate war against a genocidal totalitarian regime makes someone a Nazi I guess?
@kaderpdi19824 жыл бұрын
@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS fighting for independence isnt nazism
@marijusp3 жыл бұрын
As an Lithuanian I need to explain some things: 1. Soviet terror in 1940-41 (mass arrests, deportations and killings of prisoners) alienated Baltic people against the Soviet regime. Nobody expected Soviets to be this cruel. For example, in Lithuania before 1940 Soviet Russia was perceived as a friendly state; 2. as a consequence, a lot of Latvians and Estonians join German forces in WWII and died in the war. Because of this, resistance against the Soviets in Latvia and Estonia after WWII was a little bit weaker; 3. Lithuanians were not willing to join Germans in WWII (there are many historical reasons why it went that way), therefore after the end of the War they had more manpower to resist the Soviets. Therefore in Lithuania resistance movement was the strongest and log lasting; 4. most of freedom fighters were simple men and women, there were very few officers (most of high-ranked military officers fled to Western Europe). As a consequence, many Lithuanian resistance leaders were not military officers, but teachers and etc. Still, Lithuanian resistance forces had quasi-military structure, statute and uniforms - because of this is very easy to recognize Lithuanian partisan photos; 5. the resistance was broken mainly not due direct fighting, but special intelligence operations and betrayals. It's estimated, that around 20-30 thousands of Lithuanian partisans and their supporters died in this struggle; 6. in Lithuania the armed resistance against the Soviets was important because: a) "saving the face" after impotent surrender of 1940 and showing the World that Lithuanians are not "OK" with Soviet occupation (shout out-to Finns for their timely and persistent fight for their freedom); b) It deterred Soviet colonization - Lithuania hast the lowest Russian population % in comparison to other Baltic states; 7. many of the most beautiful Lithuanian songs was written by partisans and their supporters (there was plenty of poets in this movement), and none - on the opposite side. In Soviet times and even now people sing partisan songs in Lithuania. It's a very important component of Lithuanian self-awareness, historical memory and cultural heritage.
@CarlosMartins-sp6ud3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. Great info and cheers for your people for fighting a good war.
@ImPedofinderGeneral3 жыл бұрын
@@CarlosMartins-sp6ud I recommend Hannibal Rising if you want to meet forest brothers closely. Lots of them were ex-SS exterminated jews with kids and womans. One of Baltic states still hosts SS vets parades (sic!)
@eruno_3 жыл бұрын
@Thanos 6.0 Lithuanian movies about partisans: "In the Dusk" (Sutemose) "Partizanas" "Vanago portretas" "Purpurinis rūkas" "Owl Mountain" (Pelėdų kalnas) if you want to hear partizan songs just search online "partizanų dainos".
@aasphaltmueller51783 жыл бұрын
@@ImPedofinderGeneral you will find, that the Lithuanians were the least collaborative with the Germans. Estonians were in the SS but somehow they largely managed not to soil themselves - Estonian SS were used by the Americans as guards in the Nuremberg trials. Latvia was different - thats also where the SS Vets parades are held.
@ImPedofinderGeneral3 жыл бұрын
@@aasphaltmueller5178 Yes they were guards because americans already sent most of troops home. No, they *soiled* themselves by executions of jews and pro-communist baltics . For sample - kzbin.info/www/bejne/laLGdnmkfMqNbKM .
@someoneatemybeans4 жыл бұрын
everybody gangsta till the forest starts speaking lithuanian
@hung-upear26594 жыл бұрын
or estonian or latvian
@compatriot8524 жыл бұрын
@@hung-upear2659 5:24 the majority of the fighters were Lithuanian.
@ewral67843 жыл бұрын
@@compatriot852 so we are going to erase latvian and estonian soliders?
@codenamecordon3 жыл бұрын
@@compatriot852 Lithuania also had the largest population. Forest Brothers weren’t one organisation across three countries, but rather local groups, usually max the size of a platoon or two. It was every group on their own but they did support each other where possible. Every country had their own fight and “Forest Brother” was just a name the locals gave to the partisans.
@ImPedofinderGeneral3 жыл бұрын
forest going to siberia (historical fact - almost whole nation were relocated for ~10years because of nazi simping)
@Bumbazaurs4 жыл бұрын
I am Latvian. Long story short - as far as I know somewhere between 1944 and 1948 two my grand grand dads were deported to Siberia with all families, where they lived in unbelievably bad conditions. Communists took from theme everything, one grand granddad lost his own farm and died in Siberia in unknown place, the other lost his farm, shop and house in the village (both houses he built with his own hands) We - latvians are small nation and everything we ever wanted, was to live in peace in our small country, but sadly our people destiny was decided by Nazis and Communists.
@antisoviet67864 жыл бұрын
Germany and Russia have always loved each - other to death. That is true even today - Nord stream 2. The death part of the circle has not happened yet.
@enemy11914 жыл бұрын
it really goes even before that. Russian empire times, rusification, etc.
@eldenemerald79623 жыл бұрын
I love your country Latvia
@Bumbazaurs3 жыл бұрын
@Alek Palm-Leis As I say, the truth history comes only from our grandgrandparents. This occupation destroyed thousands of lifes, peoples, dreames, hopes, homes, families and fates and there is no excuse what soever, for those who organized this occupation! Huge respect to my grandfather, who was left alone, running from deportation while he was 16 years old and his whole family was deported ..... despite that, after many years he was able to bring back all family, except his father (died in Siberia).
@dalbajobasnxbbd3 жыл бұрын
Hi, that's a really interesting story, same thing happened to my great grandfather aswell, he was taken away to Siberia, for simply being more wealthy, his farm and house were stolen
@gabrielegriciute2963 жыл бұрын
As my grandma used to say: "better born ugly than close to the russians"
@daveporter46673 жыл бұрын
Were the rusky boots enters this follows: “In the end, they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor. This is a fact and reality in the past and today in the year 2021.
@rapaern27163 жыл бұрын
amen
@uncappedsmile64162 жыл бұрын
Good, we don't like ugly racist bitches.
@picklejuice46382 жыл бұрын
@@uncappedsmile6416 occupants are not a race
@uncappedsmile64162 жыл бұрын
@@picklejuice4638 but hating on another nationality is one of the roots of racism. Not everyone sees Russians as occupiers. Any educated person knows there's a difference between soviet russia, soviet union and Russia. People here think stalin was russian smh.
@HistoryHustle4 жыл бұрын
It is crazy how the war was over but in Poland, Ukraine and the Baltics independence fighters fought on for many years. Love the new intro by the way!
@nsms12974 жыл бұрын
Your channel is good. I subscribed to your channel
@schlymfrainkestxchieftains26234 жыл бұрын
Ukraine gang rise up
@TheDirtysouthfan4 жыл бұрын
Almost all the newly Communist countries had an Anti Communist insurgency. I know here in Bulgaria, the anti Communist insurgents even managed to take over a couple major cities before being crushed. In the Iron Curtain, any mention of these partisans was suppressed, even of anti Yugoslav partisans in Yugoslavia, so even in the modern day many don't know of them.
@TheDirtysouthfan4 жыл бұрын
@@murderouskitten2577 I know the last reports of Bulgarian anti Communist were in the 60's, but overall it may also be longer for the Ukrainians as well. The Communist regimes kept silent about these insurgencies and it's not like these guys broadcasted to the world that they were still fighting.
@takuan714 жыл бұрын
@@murderouskitten2577 , Last known Baltic (Estonian) Forest brother, August Sabbe, was killed on 28 September 1978. His private war against the Soviet occupiers lasted for 33 years. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Sabbe
@xporteris4 жыл бұрын
The last Lithuanian “ forest brother” killed himself when was surrounded in 1964 ,,,, that’s 19 years after war!!
@sargentwaag14834 жыл бұрын
Pranas Končius (code name Adomas)
@tbalciunas3334 жыл бұрын
The last partisan, Jānis Pīnups, came out of hiding in 1995 at the age of 70, hiding away for 50 years, despite Lithuania gaining independence in 1990
@Rainaman-4 жыл бұрын
@@tbalciunas333 his name is Latvian - seems like he just ended up in Lithuanian forests.
@Nameofoglon4 жыл бұрын
The last Lithuanian active partisan, Kostas Liuberskis-Žvainys, was killed in 1969 (the last Estonian partisan was killed in 1979). And legendary Pinups wasn't actually a partisan (or combatant). He was forced to Soviet army but fled, as didn't want to kill. Btw, the last Lithuanian partisan to die in Soviet era was Stasys Guiga-Tarzanas, who died in 1986 in hiding (he wasn't actively resisting, sure, at that time, but still was risking Soviet prison and maybe even death penalty if he would have been caught)
@lihtsaltkristjan73314 жыл бұрын
The last Estonian Forest Brother died in 1979.
@historysabo32084 жыл бұрын
I was in Lithuania for a school trip where we visited small towns In the country side. We stayed in this town in a heavily forested area of the country called Antilepte. In the town was a small museum where they kept the uniforms and arms of the forest brothers that operated nearby.
@someonewhosupportukraine3 жыл бұрын
partisans fought mostly in rural areas. the reason is simple. in the villages everyone knew everyone (so it was easier to find support and informers, less opportunity to infiltrate enemies). Villages close to forests, better provision of food, many homestead partisans were installed bunkers. It was almost impossible to make it unnoticed in the city, as it was difficult to leave the city. Forests in that year covered about 70% of the total territory of Lithuania. Moving through forests is easier, as are retreat routes.
@458m12 жыл бұрын
Antalieptė
@billyBoB-- Жыл бұрын
y and?
@OtterSam4 жыл бұрын
My great uncle fought and died as an Estonian forest brother. Long live the forest brothers!!!!
@Alex-qd5hy4 жыл бұрын
My great uncle was NKVD fighting against Lithuanian Forest brothers.
@ritvarsklavins21244 жыл бұрын
@les kryvko like he is responsable
@ritvarsklavins21244 жыл бұрын
@les kryvko most of them were drafted i think, so not so fast
@mchausverbot4 жыл бұрын
@les kryvkoWTH is your problem?
@mchausverbot4 жыл бұрын
@les kryvko I'm not a Russian nor a Troll, I'm just not a fan of ppl being attacked for the deeds of their ancestors
@dams68294 жыл бұрын
As a Latvian I did not expect this episode but anyways thanks for making episode for such unknown topic, not even here in Latvia people know much about it.
@karlisulmanis38104 жыл бұрын
Tāpat šeit! (same here)
@mab77274 жыл бұрын
As non-Latvians we did not expect this episode but anyways thanks.
@viliussmproductions4 жыл бұрын
Really? It's constantly talked about here in Lithuania.
@teddyboragina64374 жыл бұрын
I'm upset something like this slipped through my knowledge net until now
@dams68294 жыл бұрын
@@viliussmproductions I am not suprised since you were most organized. I mean we talk about it but not a lot.
@fratercontenduntocculta81614 жыл бұрын
I love how the Baltic States were also the first to declare independence following the collapse of the USSR.
@nikodemdyzma93304 жыл бұрын
And U love that they participated in SS troops? They could choose Wehrmahtbut they were fanatic nazis
@kasparszvirblis94704 жыл бұрын
@@nikodemdyzma9330 He didn't say that.
@cnofars13694 жыл бұрын
@@nikodemdyzma9330 They couldn't possibly join the wermacht due to the Geneve Convention, at first the SS legions were set up to fight the soviets and were purely volunteer, yes later in the war people did get consricpted into the legions but they simply fought on the front the same as the Wermacht, they were only called SS to get around the geneve convention law that you cannot use the manpower of an occupied country. At the end of the war these divisons were treated on the same level as the wermacht at the nuremberg trials as they did not particapte in Nazi warcrime, they simply stood up against the soviet ocupation to protect their country. For example the 15th Latvian waffen SS divison surrenderd to the allies and were not trialed, troops from that divison guarded Nazi war criminals at nuremberg wearing Latvian insignia. Before making outrages claims you should do some reasearch on your own.
@eksiarvamus4 жыл бұрын
@@nikodemdyzma9330 The Allies declared these SS units as not guilty of any war crimes. They even used them as guards at Nuremberg.
@nikodemdyzma93304 жыл бұрын
@@eksiarvamus ss galizien is most dredful unit, ss totenkopf, ss lssah, ss roland...and much more....
@Oujouj4264 жыл бұрын
Hell yeah, my grandfather and his father built a cabin in the woods and resisted for a while. My grandfather was a teen then.
@PIZZAMONEY996 ай бұрын
Respect to your grandfather, man is a legend.
@yuurrrrrrrr12 ай бұрын
my grandma and her three brothers were forest brothers when she was alive she used to tell stories about the red army capturing the forest brothers and putting them on their knees next to civilians and when they executed them if someone started crying they would die too my granma watches three of her brothers get executed and she could not cry if she did she would get killed. (sorry for broken english)
@swedandy26194 жыл бұрын
Excellent short film about a forgotten topic. Therer has been a radio program in Sweden about the Forest brothers. Nearly all Baltic countries (Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Estonia, Lettland, Polen) are very aware about Russian interventions, sadly.
@NeblogaiLT4 жыл бұрын
Sadly, Sweden was extraditing forest bothers to the Soviets..
@kraanz4 жыл бұрын
Latvia and Lettland refer to the same country. Latvia is English word for it, Lettland is German.
@ricardas163 жыл бұрын
latvia and lettland is the same thing. Lithuania in swedish and german I think is Litauen.
@Crimson199773 жыл бұрын
Latvia lettland same thing
@rosswebster78774 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video! Baltic history is so fascinating yet so over-looked.
@s4ss4 жыл бұрын
Good stuff. having served in the Estonian military (as most Estonian men) I have so much respect for the people who where able to hold out for so long in the harsh Nordic forests and swamps without any modern gear. This was a very well balanced overview of a very emotional and often misunderstood topic.
@polishherowitoldpilecki55213 жыл бұрын
Wow, wow, wow, cool it there. Estonia is not a Nordic country, I know it aspires to be one to distance themselves from their original Slavic roots due to Russophobia.
@dinozauriukas1002 жыл бұрын
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Wow you are stupid, non of the Baltic states are slavic...
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 As a Scandinavian, I'm perfectly willing to let them call themselves Nordic if they want.
@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 Жыл бұрын
@@annominous826 Not how it works, but ok.
@viliussmproductions4 жыл бұрын
The forest brothers did organize in Lithuania into the "Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters". It's still debated to this day whether this coherent organization was a strength or a weakness.
@thetreblerebel4 жыл бұрын
Real heroes of their people. Imagine taking up arms against the power that's in control. Very brave of them
@polishherowitoldpilecki55213 жыл бұрын
Especially against the red menace USSR. No thank you.
@totallynotalpharius22832 жыл бұрын
Wonder what they thought of their Jewish neighbors being rounded up and butchered
@GreatRetro4 жыл бұрын
When "Metsavendade laul" started playng in the end of the video I shed a tear... I'm Estonian.
@GreatRetro4 жыл бұрын
@@DavidGarcia-oi5nt Hah, I love you too
@Real_Eggman4 жыл бұрын
Even as a Lithuanian I shed a tear as there was a memorial for Partisans.
@matskustikee4 жыл бұрын
aamen! well i get same way little emotional
@lowqualitycontent38184 жыл бұрын
While I’m not an Estonian, Metsavendade laul is easily my favorite song.
@tiernanwearen80963 жыл бұрын
@@GreatRetro "my mother and father were shot and my sweetheart was sent to siberia and now I roam the marshes and roads and I kill Russian tibilas"
@rihardsmikas59594 жыл бұрын
Couple weeks ago I talked about this with my grandma. All the men in her family were either in the forest brothers or already shot. I'm trying not to poke her too much with this, because I see how sad she looks when we're talking about it. Truly horrid stories about death, betrayal and subjugation.
@mysticonthehill2 жыл бұрын
Really I cannot even image what it would have been like atrocity heaped upon atrocity of that era.
@pafuuu4 жыл бұрын
We had them in Bulgaria too. They were called Goriani which means forest people.
@pafuuu4 жыл бұрын
@timothy7538 ok boomer
@naponroy4 жыл бұрын
Mountain, not forest
@jsp74104 жыл бұрын
My family came from Kosovo Bulgaria in the early 1900's. I really hope to be able to visit at some point.
@pafuuu4 жыл бұрын
@@naponroy no it is forest people idk if you know Bulgarian but the name comes from гора (forest) and from this they were know as горяни (forest people). Next time look it up on internet before writing a comment
@pafuuu4 жыл бұрын
@@jsp7410 Your family came from Kosovo to Bulgaria or from Bulgaria to Kosovo
@rosswebster78774 жыл бұрын
Suggestion for a new Cold War Special: Kim Phibly Ruins Everything.
@Johntb1004 жыл бұрын
Putin is an asshole
@edusc68934 жыл бұрын
@@Johntb100 Yeah
@burtonkephart62394 жыл бұрын
Philby went to hell with Stalin too!!!
@pekkamakela25664 жыл бұрын
During ww2 there was also estonian regiment in finnish army. It was the infantry regiment 200.
@takuan714 жыл бұрын
JR200, Suomen vapauden ja Viron kunnian puolesta! For Finnish freedom and Estonian honor!
@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV3 жыл бұрын
Soome Poisid. Yes my father was in it and the predating units Valija Pajari Division.
@magnuscritikaleak50453 жыл бұрын
Estonians joined Finland and waffen ss.
@sinisterminister64784 жыл бұрын
Some times a choice is no choice at all. I remember seeing an interview with a Red Army veteran who was at Stalingrad. He said " We had a choice between two maniacs, a Russian one and a German one. Being Russian we chose the Russian one".
@caffeinatedbuffalosauce8834 жыл бұрын
Between a rock and Stalin
@etherospike39364 жыл бұрын
Stalin was Georgian !
@sinisterminister64784 жыл бұрын
@@etherospike3936 Georgia was considered at the time to be part of Russia.
@etherospike39364 жыл бұрын
@@sinisterminister6478 Here's the fact: You have no culture, and you are too stupid to admit it!
@MindMonkey69574 жыл бұрын
Wtf does that have to do with this?
@cutemedkit61284 жыл бұрын
As a Latvian thank you for talking about, fighting hard in the forests and politics while everyone is celebrating victory over Germany...
@Ragana6134 жыл бұрын
Lithuania declared independence in 1990, not 1991 (Latvia and Estonia did).
@mylintislietuva48704 жыл бұрын
Teisingai Migle, teisinga pastaba.
@BratvaTV4 жыл бұрын
youre hot.
@kybartu_veteran20053 жыл бұрын
ir žinok patys pirmi
@thatlithuanianboi68123 жыл бұрын
@@mylintislietuva4870 Tamst, čia Eglė
@fishigl3 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia: "Day of the Restoration of Latvian Independence - Wikipedia It marks, like the other Baltic republics, the restoration of the Latvian Republic by official declaration by the Supreme Soviet of the Latvian SSR on May 4, 1990." From en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Restoration_of_Latvian_Independence
@robsche51303 жыл бұрын
Greetings to our baltic brothers and friends from Germany!
@rullangaar4 жыл бұрын
These guys were heroes. Still today Putin’s Russia paints them as terrorists.
@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю4 жыл бұрын
YES, such a heros. Killing young teachers girls who came to teach there people to read and wright.
@pauliussapiega40004 жыл бұрын
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю Wow, you're really doing your best in the comments section, aren't you? Ask for a raise next time you meet your boss, you russian troll.
@thesnooper14314 жыл бұрын
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю >Invade neighboring countries >Destroy their economy and feed on their production >send people to gulags >Lower quality of life for the people >Countries resist >"W-why are killing the people we sent to wipe you out :(((((" But seriously, what girls and women are you talking about? Forest brother killed the Russian partisan "hunters" who were sent to kill them. I have not heard a single time they have killed actual school teachers, because you have obviously pulled that out of your ass. Also do you actually think that people couldn't read and write before the soviet occupation in the Baltics? Do you have a room temperature IQ?
@LAZISH4 жыл бұрын
@@thesnooper1431 So true. Putin XUILO!!!!
@19639214 жыл бұрын
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю As long as they were Russians, everything is OK. By the way, you as Russian can't even understand simple fact that this people could write and read long before Russians did and you forgetting the fact that they had their own languages and writings and schools and those teachers were nothing else but part of occupying Russia . Truly Russians back then and Nazis are the same scumbags, no difference at all and you are the same.
@tnickknight4 жыл бұрын
My Lithuanian family was heavy in resistance fighters. The toll it took on my family still remains to this day.
@danrook57573 жыл бұрын
My dads 2 brothers age 19, 21 went to sign up for the police, army after ww2, never heard from them again. 75 years later iam the only one here in Canada because my father age 16, went to the west.
@GhostRaiter2 жыл бұрын
Me too...
@excitableboy70314 жыл бұрын
That new intro is sick, my dudes
@homerisLT4 жыл бұрын
I know right, actually gave me some chills. Props to the animators!
@ezitisarm4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making this video! Greetings from Latvia!
@Demospammer99874 жыл бұрын
These men and women were heroes.
@kgbfiles57134 жыл бұрын
Glory to the Baltic heroes!
@VladderGraf4 жыл бұрын
You should do an episode about Polish "Cursed Soldiers" - the last one fighting commies until his death in an ambush in 1963.
@MrHrKaidoOjamaaVKJV3 жыл бұрын
Romania also had Anti Communist Forest Brothers in the mountains.
@kraanz4 жыл бұрын
One detail - the Soviets started deporting people to Siberia as soon as they annexed the three nations (first deportations by 1941 in Latvia, for example), which was a major factor in seeing the Germans as the lesser evil and perhaps even saviors. Lots of the soldiers fighting on the German side believed their countries would be granted freedom if the Germans won. In reality, the Third Reich wanted to do what the Northern crusades had tried to achieve centuries before - to create the so-called "Lebensraum," literally meaning "living room" or "living space" for German settlers, but they were also smart enough not to suppress such beliefs among the ranks, as it helped keep up the dwindling morale and loyalty.
@jackstarr47264 жыл бұрын
Germany wouldn't have displaced the Baltic populations. Even if they had won the war there would have been few Germans to settle the vast lands of the east & plenty of sparcely populated land.
@BratvaTV4 жыл бұрын
Youre comment started out great. As Germany advanced into Russia, they were literally liberating it from communist scum. Russia is huge. There was more than enough room for Everyone. Germany believed in the sovereignty of states and respected that. It would have indeed been a liberation had Germany won. But backed the commies and you all know how that turned out. Half of europe fell behind the Iron Curtain. Good job.
@TheCol1114 жыл бұрын
@@BratvaTV ah yes the german respect for the sovereignty of Yugoslavia, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Poland etc
@BratvaTV4 жыл бұрын
@@TheCol111 aside from Poland, Germany didnt invade any of those countries until AFTER Britain and France declared war on them. Is Germany supposed to just lie down and wait to be invaded? Their actions were in defense of their country from Britain and France. They had no business. Declaring war. And Germany only invaded Poland do take back Danzig. A German city.
@JohnCamp4 жыл бұрын
Moral of the story, better dead than red!
@csm50404 жыл бұрын
F yeah!
@cuhurun4 жыл бұрын
John... I wholeheartedly agree.
@SeekerofTruths4 жыл бұрын
They got their wish.
@SeekerofTruths4 жыл бұрын
@Rafael Acosta Give it a break internet tough guy. The cold war has been over for 30 years now
@bigemage4 жыл бұрын
@@SeekerofTruths And so, we should forget what reds did and still capable to do? Are you commie yourself or something...
@dinolandia89784 жыл бұрын
I never knew such groups existed. In China there was a similar group of soldiers - Nationalists on the losing side who continued to fight a guerilla war against the Communists for decades from bases in the remote mountain areas bordering Laos, Burma, and Cambodia. They initially had a big cache of weapons from the USA but over time turned to drug smuggling and became narco lords who sold drugs to American GIs in Vietnam.
@nancybarnes293 жыл бұрын
tis true vty r
@vulpes70792 жыл бұрын
There was also Ma Bufang's insurgency in the northwest, iirc it only ended in the 1950s
@totallynotalpharius22832 жыл бұрын
And those KMT guerrillas became masters of the heroin trade
@vulpes70792 жыл бұрын
@@totallynotalpharius2283 fucking chads
@Elyseon2 жыл бұрын
Soviets: Make lots of speeches about western imperialism and colonialism. Also soviets: Carry out mass deportations of native populations and replace them with settlers, lebensraum style.
@trajanfidelis15324 жыл бұрын
Latvia is where my family is from! Glad to see those brave men resisted tyranny! 🇺🇸🤝🇱🇻
@dutyofcall76594 жыл бұрын
The Soviet union literally replaced whole nations with Soviet people but blaming Germany for "trying" to do the same.
@shinybreloom40273 жыл бұрын
1. USSR attempted, but often failed; once it splintered the postwar republics went back to their normal state of feuding. The USSR's perceived short term success only created more feuding later on as it exchanged territories to promote unity; but this had unintended consequences of causing more friction upon division. Typically, the greatest successes were in smaller territories such as Konigsberg (mass deportation/cultural genocide), but the UN could not intervene afterward as the majority was already Russian and undoing such an act would require changing the demographics again, which is also technically cultural genocide/mass deportation of the now Russian populace . 2. Germany did this - the quotation marks seem as though you are diminishing the German crimes in the war. The USSR annexing and attempting to annex and colonize peoples does not diminish the crimes of Germany during WWII.
@UtamagUta3 жыл бұрын
@@shinybreloom4027 Local people could not take better job - for example my dad was dreaming to work as an engineer in a nuclear plant - just a regular physics nerd. He had relatives working at the admition exam commission that selected students for the university. Everything's golden!!! Yeah no, they straight up said to not even try taking those exams as fail rate for local people 100% (russian decent like 25% at most) and that meant that he'd be drafted to the army or was sent to the farms for the rest of his life. He did become physician though, not nuclear one, but he did it. He still works as a programmer. Fun fact he was highly laughing at the HBO show Chernobyl for the first 3 episodes as he could not let go the belorussian nuclear physics lady - that couldn't happen.
@Cortesevasive3 жыл бұрын
@@UtamagUta fake news your papa just had shit exams
@cska51823 жыл бұрын
@@UtamagUta well... When my mom and dad came here from Latvia, in 1979, father had no problemmo with work, but Mother she had technical university diplomma, and when she came to the factory 4 work, all papers and documentstion was in estonian language, that she dont understand... And one more though about your father: nuclear plant was top secret area, whole nuclear science was top secret area, of cause you cant put estonian anywhere near, it was not enough to be a russian to get there, in those times... Estonians have forest brothers, you guys support germans way more than russians, you got independent after 1st world war, of cause there is a lack of trust... That exactly the same reason why Estonian, Latvia, Lithuanian young guys never were near of missile objects or radars... Lack of trust... That why russian language Will never becomes second country language in the baltic states...history is such bitch if you are the russian😆😆😆🤟...
@tectany62063 жыл бұрын
Not Soviet Union but Russians
@yuriloukianov6444 жыл бұрын
in belarus we had anticommunst fighters as well. last action was recorded in 1956
@albaruthenia58244 жыл бұрын
yuri loukianov but there was no organization resistance, rather individual fighters
@compatriot8524 жыл бұрын
Except that most Belarusians actually help the Russians in enthic cleansing Lithuania. That why the Vilnius region looks so weird, because the other half was stolen by Belarus
@polishherowitoldpilecki55213 жыл бұрын
@@compatriot852 Belarus also stole a lot of land from Poland and forces poles through brutal beatings and genocide to leave the region.
@rk41382 жыл бұрын
Gave em hell’ 🇱🇻🇱🇹🇪🇪✊
@Mai3534 жыл бұрын
That was really touching. I pay my deepest respects to those Balt Forest brothers who fought, exiled or perished for their culture, their land and their sovereignty. (As far as I know, In the ancient times they called themselves "The Balts" which means "The Heros" or "The Champions".) It's a very valuable act from The Cold War channel to inform the world about the deeds of those unsung heroes. I wish the channel make the same video about the poor Ukrainians who did the same.
@Slezyy4 жыл бұрын
Balta is white in our language. Baltic sea - white sea.
@vladtf55814 жыл бұрын
Make a video about romanian anti communist guerilla war, the last fighters were captured in the 70's
@GarfieldRex4 жыл бұрын
Never heard about this, is very interesting, thank you! Also, nice format, graphics, drawing, hoi4 music, all perfect 👌
@gunarsmiezis93214 жыл бұрын
"Never heard about this" But of course not the allied propoganda media would never let you know that we saw The German Empire as liberators for the boļševiks.
@greengiant10174 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was enslaved for work in siberia. She used to work with wood for many years but she got back and she is still alive today.my grandmother's mother russians tried to take but she ran away in to forrest. Russians were doing a lot of killing up until 1991 when their army left. My country (Lithuania)fought against them for many decades as partizans and many of my people were enslaved for work in siberia and most died there(biggest portion are burried under road that they were making to east Russia)
@compatriot8524 жыл бұрын
9:50 correction, in the case of Lithuania, Forest Brothers were much more connected and Jonas Zemaitas was considered one of the main resistance leaders.
@jamesdykes29685 ай бұрын
Zemaitas was a Holocaust perpetrator.
@SanitysVoid4 жыл бұрын
The MOLE who betrayed them to the NKVD should be rotting in hell for that if there is justice.
@johndoe54324 жыл бұрын
My thoughts exactly, absolute scum of the earth.
@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю4 жыл бұрын
Maybe, he just hated nazi collaborators?
@1992bfitz4 жыл бұрын
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю fuck off you commie.
@johndoe54324 жыл бұрын
@@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю Get in the helicopter.
@ТОЛЯН-ц3ю4 жыл бұрын
@@1992bfitz What? Truth is painful?
@UtamagUta3 жыл бұрын
Thank You for making this and spreading their story to broader audiences. This means a lot for us. For hardcore fans of them, we have preserved few bunkers and they can be visited with tourist groups.
@konfunable3 жыл бұрын
9:45 - not really true. In Lithuania there were top leaders, there were meetings of regional commands to coordinate the activities in the early resistance.
@John-un3lj4 жыл бұрын
"...mercy of Joseph Stalin..." - That's something you don't hear every day.
@sophiam20953 жыл бұрын
Oh if you watch World War II in real time you hear it or equivs a lot. It's depressing.
@ОлександрМиколайович-у1б4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the video! It would be great to hear about Ukrainian resistance to the soviets.
@elmerofairo4 жыл бұрын
Why don't we know about this in western countries? It's fascinating.
@danrook57573 жыл бұрын
If u care u would know
@elmerofairo3 жыл бұрын
@@danrook5757 alright chief
@VM-hl8ms3 жыл бұрын
it's actually very dark and complicated subject. apart from some heroic episodes, most stories from those times are about torture, persecutions, betrayal and sheer malevolence... like holocaust, it's definitely not for all ages.
@nicknickbon222 жыл бұрын
Many don’t know where the baltic states are located and think they are sorta Russia, it’s probably too much for the average Western European or American to know about their history.
@GirlScoutC00kiez420 Жыл бұрын
A Lithuanian friend got me interested in her country, researched much, found the "Forest Brothers" thought it was a really interesting and revealing journey, Baltic People are tough and smart.
@adriang.40864 жыл бұрын
There's quite a few inaccuracies in this video. Like claim that Forest Brothers never organized. They did organize in Lithuania . Also claim that they were lead by former commanders of Soviet units or foreign leaders is simply false.
@Lomochrome2 жыл бұрын
People, this is why you arm you arm yourselves and stay armed. Si vis pacem Para bellum.
@paulk80728 ай бұрын
God bless the Forest Brothers.
@artur22774 жыл бұрын
Good episode, as an Estonian, I recommend it!
@gilangranggap8304 жыл бұрын
Baltic boyz have some guts ... Sadly USSR just too strong at that times
@stonecold0074 жыл бұрын
The USSR just outnumbered them.
@jonstainerr53404 жыл бұрын
Baltic states have nothing in common with slavic eastern Europe and never had. All of them belong to northern Europe.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
It is what they are thinking .But nobody wants poor relatives.
@GeneratorOfDarkness4 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п That's what you want to think. Top investor in all Baltic states is Sweden, followed by other Northern Europe countries like Netherlands, Finland and Germany. The larger Russian influence is only in Latvia.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@@GeneratorOfDarkness investments doesn't make them Europians or something else.
@GeneratorOfDarkness4 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п It shows what countries are cooperating with Baltics in exchange of political, economical, cultural and even military relationships. That makes them European - not the houses, cars or infrastructure of those countries. The most important thing is the attitude and mentality of people, which gets even more noticeable when you cross anywhere outside the EU.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@@GeneratorOfDarkness in this case all Europians must be Chinese now. And Balts pretends to be "Nord Europeans" because it is a side which pays. We(Russia) don't want to waste money anymore..
@lmyrski83854 жыл бұрын
There is one glaring distortion in this video. It makes it out as though the people of the Baltics hated the Soviets and Germans equally. They did not. They hated the Soviets more, and they had good reason to. That is not to say they loved the Nazis and wanted to join the Reich. They did not. The Soviets had been there longer and had caused more misery. That is why when the Germans arrived the people of the Baltics were already under arms attacking the retreating soviets (conveniently left out of this clip). Although the Germans did do some bad things, for the most part they were a lot better behaved in the Baltics than they were elsewhere, and certainly better behaved towards the population for the most part than the Soviets were in 1940 and 1941. The overwhelming number of people in the Baltics were clueless about Nazi atrocities since they weren't occurring in their neighborhood and neither the Germans or the allies advertised them until the war was practically over (The Soviet atrocities on the other hand had been witnessed by the people of the Baltics in their own towns and villages). Many of the so called Baltic soldiers that fought for the USSR were either men the Soviets had deported to gulags (where many saw friends die), and as a result they had good reason to defect to the Germans. The ones who remained were largely communists who had been forced to flee their homelands, along with some who could not find a convenient time to defect. The Soviets then restaffed these units with people who had largely never been to the Baltics, but were of Baltic descent. The soldiers who joined the Germans were for the most part not drafted, but volunteers and previous anti-Soviet fighters encouraged by the Estonian leadership to defend Estonia Latvia, and Lithuania in national units, not fight for national socialism. The reason they ended up in the SS is after they had been serving for a while Hitler ordered all foreign anti-communist volunteers transferred to the SS, and so it was not voluntary (the western allies acknowledged this, and did not place these men under the same restrictions as other former SS men). When their countries were overrun many deserted the German units, a small number even took up arms against both the Germans and Soviets hoping to regain control, and Hitler allowed a great many to be released from serving with German forces to go home and fight the Soviets. The Germans intentionally let them take weapons home. There were units of Baltic troops, however, that continued to fight on the German side until the very end in places like Czechoslovakia, but few were "Nazis."
@stevenhaas96224 жыл бұрын
Tell that to the more than 300,000 Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian jews murdered by men like Victors Arajs who actively collaborated with the German Einzatzgruppen to whip up the local population into murderous anti-semitic mobs.
@jtns28454 жыл бұрын
regarding the purge of baltic jews...murder is murder and cannot be condoned but the baltic killers were relatively few in number. furthermore the baltic states experienced significant jewish collaboration with the soviet occupiers in the 1940-41 red terror despite having lived a charmed life there pre 1940. truth has many sides and not all victims are always innocent.
@melluzi4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenhaas9622 Name a country where there were no collaborationists during the occupation. There were also Latvians working for KGB, killing and deporting other Latvians, how about that? Jews had lived happily in Latvia for centuries and you can't blame the whole nation for what certain individuals did at that time. That's about ideology, not nationality. Neither all Germans were Nazis, before and during the war.
@DerDop4 жыл бұрын
everyone in eastern europe hates the russian more than the germans. even the poles.
@DerDop4 жыл бұрын
@@stevenhaas9622 blaaa blaaaa. even the soviets killed jews. 1953 doctor's plot, various progroms. antisemitism was rampant everywhere in the world till 1945 and to say that people who fought against the soviets were nazis is a form of low iq.
@alin_ilies4 жыл бұрын
In romania there was a similar movement, but reduce in scale. Hope to see this subject covered in the next future
@sergius9934 жыл бұрын
Also in Bessarabia, the part of Romania occupied by the Soviets.
@МаксимБромберг4 жыл бұрын
@@sergius993 Bessarabia was part of the Russian empire a long before the kingdom of Romania was created.
@sergius9934 жыл бұрын
@@МаксимБромберг Venice was a part of the Austrian Empire long before Italy was created. Your argument makes no sense.
@МаксимБромберг4 жыл бұрын
@@sergius993 Sounds great. But Bessarabia is a part of Moldova, not Romania.
@sergius9934 жыл бұрын
@@МаксимБромберг I meant that Bessarabia was a part of Romania until 1944, when it was occupied by the Soviet Union.
@Decurion4AI4 жыл бұрын
I have also i great respect for the people who fought against the antihuman comunist occupation. I know that the forest brothers were very succesefull, but you had it also in Romania or Ucraine people fought till and after 1953 for their familys and their freedom. Thank you for this video.
@chrisleonard20664 жыл бұрын
Y’all should read about Philby, he never faced formal justice because he fled to Moscow in utter disgrace. It’s a ln interesting read
@nicknickbon222 жыл бұрын
There’s a Rory Gallagher’s song about him too.
@TheLemminkainen3 жыл бұрын
Some of forest brothers in Estonia were volunteers of finnish army. They left finnish army to prevent Soviet to push in into Estonia. After collapse they became forest brothers.
@dainiskarklins8233 жыл бұрын
there were Forest brothers, aka Meža brāļi, hiding like 400 meters from my home, in the 40s, and it was so well kept secret, that this secret came out only decades after, there is still a wooden, rock basement/barn, where they were hiding, its in the midle of a medaow atm
@edvinas61133 жыл бұрын
9:51 long story short, Lithuanian forest brothers was organized at 1949 and had their leader Jonas Žemaitis Vytautas, who now acknowledged as a President of Lithuania! 🇱🇹 For the sake of Homeland
@VladVlad-ul1io4 жыл бұрын
Can you make a video about the Anti Communist Armed Resistance in Romania, Bulgaria and Other countries?
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
Maybe about a Holocaust in Odessa performed by Romanian army?
@dmitrikaljuznoi13234 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п Молодец, 5 рублей заработал)
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@@dmitrikaljuznoi1323 По сути возразить нечего,украинец?Вот и сдрысни
@mariosefardi-casella27304 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п батенька, Вьі дурак? Речь идет о вооруженном анти-большицком сопротивлении местного населения до 62 года. Причем здесь Холокост в Венгрии и Румьінии и на оккупированньіх ими территориях??
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@Draugr What about Katyn?Movie by Andzhei Vaida(??) exists.It was one of Stalin's crimes,no more ,no less. But Poland prefer to keep silent about the other side,as we were the only evil.Because other side is the major member of the EU...
@daveallentown68683 жыл бұрын
My father told me that his Lithuanian relatives ceased correspondence in 1940. Forever. A neighbor who was a young woman in Estonia at the time, now deceased, would say "under the Nazis you had to fear what you said, but under the Soviets you had to fear what you thought."
@SPSSkals4 жыл бұрын
Being from Latvia I didn't know much about the subject - thank you for the video. It's a sad subject, even today you can see the remnants of this war in a lot of places. I went mushroom picking a few months ago in a forest near Liepāja and I ran across a few trenches and scraps of metal here and there, that's a common sight.
@etherospike39364 жыл бұрын
The Romanian anti-communist resistance lasted the longest, with armed groups resisting in the Carpathian mountains as far as 1976 ! That's 31 years after the war's end !
@tacowilco75154 жыл бұрын
I think the reason for this was the distance from the Russian border. Baltic states are unfortunate to have Russia as a neighboring country.
@etherospike39364 жыл бұрын
@@tacowilco7515 You attended geography courses with the sport teacher ! The soviet Union and Romania Shared an 800 Kilometers (500 miles) border ,and parts of Romania had been annexed by USSR and re branded as "Moldova" in the same time USSR annexed The Baltic states , namely when USSR had their pact with Nazi Germany called the Ribbentrop=Molotov agreement , there was no problem for the soviets to ally themselves with the Nazi in order to steal territories and to destroy entire populations ! P.S. Romania during communist era had the worst type of Stalinist terror installed in an European communist country , a regime that needed a bloody revolution to fall . And still the majority of the power (economical and political) nowadays is held by the communist turned overnight capitalist !
@tacowilco75154 жыл бұрын
@@etherospike3936 0 miles with Russia USSR is not Russia
@etherospike39364 жыл бұрын
Then why Russia inherited all the nuclear arsenal , the space program, and the external debt of USSR ? Because USSR Was Russia ! Ukraine or Belarus never stopped soviet tanks to get to Czechoslovakia in '68 or Hungary in '56 ! The USSR fell because Russia kept the other republics captive and didn't let them go !
@germangonzalez61054 жыл бұрын
@Etherospike They din’t,Ukraine had 5000,more than half or Russia’s arsenal,neither the Space Program which was in Kazakhstan.And yes they did do that,Ukrainian and Belorussian troops took part in putting down the Hungarian Uprising as part of the Warsaw Pact and the Prague Spring.And how exactly,Stalin was Georgian,Khrushchev was Ukrainian,and so was Brezhnev, Andrei Gromyko was Belorussian.That is because the USSR was a federation not a unitary republic to begin with.In fact that is why it broke up in the first place,because under Soviet Laws the Republics could break away,and they did.Ukraine as such inhereted its nuclear and military arsenal,which it gave away to Russia,and Kazakhstan gave access to Russia to continue their space program.
@Thaumazo834 жыл бұрын
Gladly enough, these countries are today independent and members of the EU.
@SteelScream884 жыл бұрын
Sest me ei saa ! Ei või ! Ei taha ! Ei taha tiblat teenida. (Because we can't ! We may not ! Don't want to ! Don't want to serve the (tibla = derogative term for a Russian) Thank you ! Greetings from Estonia.
@GoViking9334 жыл бұрын
This is the best documentary yet I've seen about the Forest Brothers armed resistance to the Soviet Occupation. Good job, and I'm looking forwards to more of your content.
@lauramontsegur77824 жыл бұрын
what's with the maps guys??? they are incredibly wrong!
@TotalRookie_LV4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, they got stuck in 1944 situation for the rest of the video, quite annoying, isn't it? XD
@Rainaman-4 жыл бұрын
@@TotalRookie_LV funny enough at some point the map was correct again. It was stuck at 45 btw
@patryk41984 жыл бұрын
Please do episode about Cursed Soldiers in Poland.
@piotr52704 жыл бұрын
zolnierze przekleci?
@Artur_M.4 жыл бұрын
@@piotr5270 It's "wyklęci" actually, it has slightly less negative connotation than "przeklęci". It's hard to translate to English, but it's something between "cursed" and "casted out/excommunicated". Referencing how the Communist authority tried to either vilify or remove them from the collective memory. I think they were mentioned in one of previous episodes, the one covering the beginning of Communist rule in Poland. Edit: nope, I remembered wrong. The episode about the sovietization of Poland mentions the persecution of the former members of the Home Army, but doesn't cover how some of them (and others) continued the guerrilla fight.
@AmarFox64 жыл бұрын
@@Artur_M. bandits steling and killing - not only soviets
@Artur_M.4 жыл бұрын
@@AmarFox6 The issue of the Cursed Soldiers is certainly a complex one. Maybe one day it won't be so damn politicized and we'll be able to have some more balanced view, instead of trying to shove them all into one of two extremely opposite simplified narratives of either heroes or villains. For starters, I think that each unit and its commander should be judged individually and I'm certainly against glorifying, for example, Romuald Rajs "Bury".
@Yezu6664 жыл бұрын
It's definitely an interesting topic to talk about... But right now, it's better to stay away.
@tbalciunas3334 жыл бұрын
13:00 Actually, the Russians only lost 12,921 soldiers and 6000 supporters. The Baltics lost 20,103 partisans and 10,000 supporters. 33 percent survived. A further 20,000 were arrested by the Russians. Another 600,000 citizens were sent to concentration camps and as many as 100,000 died. During the Russian occupation of the second world war, 1944-1945, over 600,000 Baltic citizens were killed in conflict. This adds up to a minimum of 730,000 Baltic casualties in nine years from 1944-1953. For comparison, 630,562 Americans died in the Price Of Freedom wars from the years 1775 to 2001, 217 years more than the Baltics. And you people say that America had a tough fight for freedom.
@westvisual Жыл бұрын
Thank You from Latvia for telling our story. My both great- grandfathers were deported.
@WhiskyandBacon10 ай бұрын
3:15 soldiers from the Finnish Volunteer Corps (4000 men) arriving in Reval (Tallinn) Estonia in january 1919.They liberated Narva in a daring raid during the Estonian Liberation War 1919.The man to the far left in the thumbnail is Juozas Luksa 1921-1951.He was a dedicated Lithuanian catholic,patriot,and fiercly anti-communist.He lead units of the Forest Brothers in furious guerilla battles against Soviet troops 1945-51.He was killed in action 1951.The photo is taken in 1950.
@girininkasable4 жыл бұрын
I am from Lithuania. Big thanks to The Cold War team for objectively portraying our struggles for freedom!
@antonbatura83853 жыл бұрын
You have to do an episode on the Ukrainian resistance, which kept up the fight until 1955.
@MultiPetercool3 жыл бұрын
My Grandfather was one of the Forest Brothers.
@arnasg223010 ай бұрын
❤ This is why there is a saying, that the lithuanian flag colors mean : Yellow is the sun in the sky. Green are the majestic forests. And red is the blood that lies in the soil underneith the forests. 🇱🇹
@Србскихајдук4 жыл бұрын
Here in Serbia we had Chetniks. My great-grandfather himself fought communists in the mountains of Dalmatia until 1946. Many of them fought until the mid-50s.
@stovyklasvajone2 жыл бұрын
There was one mistake in the video. The fighters in Lithuania actually organised under central leadership in the beginning of 1949. They called themselves The Movement of Lithuanian Freedom Fights. On 16th February 1949 the Movement issued a Declaration. It is a unique legal act in the global post-war context - no other European nation in the post-World War II resistance to totalitarianism has ever declared its goals, aspirations and values so clearly in any other document. The Declaration is a testimony to the fact that the Lithuanian nation, even during the brutal Soviet occupation, did not give up its state, fought for it, and remained a part of the Western political civilisation. The document politically legitimised the guerrilla movement throughout Lithuania and gave the guerrilla leadership the status of the Provisional Council of the Lithuanian Nation, representing the entire resisting nation. The Council consisted of all leaders of The Forest Brothers. The chairman was Jonas Žemaitis-Vytautas. In 12 March 2009 Lithuanian Parliament recognised Jonas Žemaitis as the Head of State of Lithuania fighting the occupation, and as the de facto President of the Republic. His title - The President of Fighting Lithuania.
@clovergrass94392 жыл бұрын
There several inaccurate descriptions. Things that are too honest will be banned from you tube.
@Dilley_G452 жыл бұрын
Glory to the Forest Brothers. Glory to Ukraine. Free Karelia, Free South Ossetia, free Dagestan!
@caykovskilyic7712 Жыл бұрын
Glory to Soviet Union, Glory to Ukraine's Soviet Socialist Republic, Glory to Red Army, Glory to Worker class
@Dilley_G45 Жыл бұрын
@@caykovskilyic7712 no glory to rapists and murderers
@dmitrikulkevicius91613 жыл бұрын
My great great grandfather was a Lithuanian officer who fought against Bolshevik plague but after 41 he was deported to Gulag he died there, his wife from starvation but her son and daughter survived in hard Siberian conditions, they returned to their homeland.
@oheissk10 ай бұрын
My friends and I found one of the dogouts of Forest Brothers in Estonia when we were kids. It was so well done and well preserved. Though I truly wonder how anyone could survive there through 9 months of rain, snow and piercing cold. True warriors and patriots of their country who bravely fought for freedom.
@FreeFallingAir4 жыл бұрын
So glad I found this channel!! This part of our history isn't nearly discussed enough.
@SKYcry3213 жыл бұрын
My grandfather wanted to join the partisans in Lithuania when he was only 14 yrs old. They turned him down due to age. However, he thought it was because he had no gun. Thus, he went and stole a kalashnikov from a drunk Russian solider. Needless to say, they still turned him down, even with a gun.
@nesbistrampol3 жыл бұрын
geras lol
@Lawrance_of_Albania4 жыл бұрын
This reminds on yugoslav partisans "In forests and mountains of our proud nation,regiments of partisans are marching forward"
@Lawrance_of_Albania4 жыл бұрын
@@Tom-uk2ow ali kraljevina nije imala grb uopste,samo trobojka
@Lawrance_of_Albania4 жыл бұрын
@@Tom-uk2ow Znam,sto je najgore ove budale ih rehabilituju XD
@albinkohls8884 жыл бұрын
England ,USA betrayed them inJalta .
@Tekisasubakani4 жыл бұрын
@Stephen JenkinsYou are correct, neither was allied to the Baltic nations.
@S3l3ct1ve3 жыл бұрын
they were only after information, but they never considered sending aid :/
@TheLovescream4 жыл бұрын
Will you do an epsiode on Operation Gladio? Its a topic that needs to be discussed way more in historical media. Maybe it would fit in a broader episode about NATO contingency plans in case of the Soviets overrunning Europe. By the way great work as always. This channel is a true gem.
@mylintislietuva48704 жыл бұрын
Proud to be Lithuanian! #TheColdWar thanks for video, but few incorect things. We Lithuania got back Independence in 1990-03-11 from USSR! Fighters was partisans (LT partizanai), not many people called them forest brothers. In resistance was iteracting aswell Lithuanian Christian priests, many of them was deported in Siberia. In total to Siberia deported 132'000 people, 70% of them women and children, because most of mens was fighing in forests. Aswell 156'000 was deported and imprisoned in Russia teritories, total ~300'000 ! And they was elite Lithuanians, most educated, most patriotic Lithuanians. Parisans aswell had leaders, commanders in chief everything was organised, ofcourse not in military precision. Jonas Žemaitis - code name Vytautas ; Adolfas Ramanauskas - code name Vanagas (his body was found in 2018), he was shot in 1957. Last partisan Antanas Kraujelis code name Siaubūnas, was shot in 1965. Funeral of Lithuania resistance commander in chief, and underground country leader "Adolfas Ramanauskas - Vanagas" kzbin.info/www/bejne/boSwlHeefNysp6s&app=desktop about 8-10 thousand people came to give last respect to hero! One more video from funeral: kzbin.info/www/bejne/boSwlHeefNysp6s&app=desktop
@ultonian633 жыл бұрын
Forest brothers is the Estonian term, I think?
@mchausverbot4 жыл бұрын
Really a topic that should be talked about more often.
@deanbuss16784 жыл бұрын
I never knew any of this. Down right inspirational ! 👍
@arunassilkas32074 жыл бұрын
Hey, HBO (or Netflix), if you look closer at this war - it is a perfect basis for the new series. Thousands of thrilling battles, spy games (including MI6, CIA and NKVD), love stories, tragedies etc. Not comparable to "Chernobyl"...
@gunarsmiezis93214 жыл бұрын
NO no no no, get your degenerate marxists, zionist HBO (or Netflix) out of our history, we dont need it rewriten. Better read a book by people who lived there at that time and documented their expieriences.
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
Oh,yes,history rewritten by Nazis looks much better?
@gunarsmiezis93214 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п Bože moj, .... Please do name a nazi film studio just one will do. The companies he named would 100% not make a realistic truthful story, they would add diversity quotas, strong femail characters Mary Sue style, inapropriate cloathing and weapons, .......
@ИванКоромысло-о1п4 жыл бұрын
@@gunarsmiezis9321 as I was taught at school, the author of a work of art has a right to show things as he(she) wants.Because it is not a historical work. Then you want to learn history,read a lot of thick and hardly-understandable books. Easy way not always a right way.
@gunarsmiezis93214 жыл бұрын
@@ИванКоромысло-о1п As responcible people we must make sure that we do not influence others the wrong way. We must be a good influence on those arround us and shield them form the bad one they do not recondise. We rewire eachothers branes all the time just by talking to one another. For to comunicate we for a while try to see the world trough the eyes of people we are listening to, and if we like their world view we take some of it with us after the confersation is over. So one of our efforsts should be making shure that the media produced and consumed by others is good. The fastest way to destroy a people is to make them forget their past and who they are, the easyest way to rule them is to make them not care about politics and economics. With all the supper complex and boring jargon modern sciences are full of few actually take the time to learn things that are very important. So we must help guide people to propoer education and knowlage even if it is just trough very historicaly accurate films.
@cya74822 жыл бұрын
Im from Lithuania and all I can say that the siberian camps were very dangerous and scary most of the times the people while deporting or in the siberia would die of starvation or other things such as soviets and cold climate. they were like little slaves to russian farming food and doing other stuff suffering from a lot of pain. my grand grandma was deported and survived the siberian camps allthough all of her family was executed and she also died shortly after. (Sorry for my bad English, hope you understand everything :) )
@ivantsolov64594 жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see a similar episode about these movements in Bulgaria, Poland, Romania, etc.