Reasons Lithuanians Dislike Russia & A Talk With Konstantin Of ‘INSIDE RUSSIA’

If Latvia is the best friend of Lithuania, then, it seems to me that Russia is its worst enemy. This has become quite clear during my time in the country. So why, exactly, do I think Lithuanians hate Russia? And even Russian people in general?
My huge thanks to Konstantin of @INSIDERUSSIA for his time! Check out his channel at / @insiderussia
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[@Perkunas1563]

Gerai, but the video digressed a bit. We do not hate all of them but certainly we had issues with them since medieval times and their government did horrible things to us. So many people exiled to Siberia (often inteligent, smart people that makes the core of society. What is the country without its smart elite, just a bunch of foolish slaves), where they worked hard and often died there .Lithuanian language was banned during first occupation. Respect to our heroes Knygnesiai . So many partisans tortured during second occupation, in such a cruel way ,even after the notice from russia itself to stop such cruelty towards last year of partisan resistance. How they would put our dead partisans bodies in public, put cards in their dead hands (to make fun as if they are playing poker or something) bully us in such way and wait for relatives to see. How partisans bodies would be secretly buried so that we could not worship our heroes and just melt as a nation in the end ,losing understanding of who we were and who we are. Respect to our partisans. The damage done by russian ocupations is very deep to national identity itself. In many people it ignited unmeasurable resistance but in the end it had very negative impact on our society. What would Lithuania be today without Russian aggression ? The same Ukraine would bee much more happier under Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Also Lithuania would be that main line of defense from eastern invasion which it always used to be. Phrase of the day: Lietuva buk laisva !

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Yup. Tried to smush two different topics together that were only loosely connected. I think it has left much of the audience confused about the point. Thanks for adding more historical detail!

[@rebbesichotsichot6151]

​@sxnap3480 Not enough people in Ukraine, let alone Belarus had sufficient national awareness to be able to maintain a state separate from Russia - Bolshevik or White. In their masses, Orthodox Ruthenian peasants in the Russian empire did not see themselves as a separate nation. Even intelligentsia under the end stage Russian rule did not, in its majority favor the idea of separate statehood. When did Ruthenians rise against Russia? Never. The Cossacks fought against the Polish rule and they gave themselves over to Russia. After the partitions ,various uprisings were organized but they were limited to Catholic areas of the former PLC so primarily ethnic Lithuania+Grodno+ethnic Poland. Orthodox Ruthenians wanted none of that. Pilsudski went with Petlura to Kiev but once the Poles left the petlurites lost the territory to Russia. So it is absurd to write that if Poland did not "grab land" there would be independent Belarus and Ukraine. No there would be more USSR.

[@Cortesevasive]

*What is the country without its smart elite, just a bunch of foolish slaves*-- well thats a super elitist statement all lithuanian identity originated from peasants and not from city dwellers who were either poles or /evvs. Also you are refering to Stalin who wasnt ethnic russian and ideologically communism was dominated by /evvs and not russians. Russia is just one soviet republic. Also you have to understand that these repressions happened after ww2 literally deadliest conflict ever with literal starvation everywhere, with countries like Belarus losing literally 1/4 its population. Who were sent to siberia mostly came back after Stalin demise, and its miniscule numbers its like max 150k. Meanwhile Lithuania lost like 1million since independence. Knygnesiai ,was also not so one sided issue. We have to understand that it wasnt a ban of lithuanian language, but a ban of *LATIN* alphabet. It doesnt mean anything for the language, you just use different keyboard and learn analogs for latin symbols. And it was banned because of the polish propoganda, so it was a ban of polish antigovernment propoganda and not some anti lithuanian language act. Partisans are not our heroes, nowadays they would be classified as terrorists same as Hamas. Again you just read one sided stories. In reality they were mostly bandits who attacked ethnic russian settlers and pestered civilians. Or they fled the military service or were just useful idiots. *The damage done by russian ocupations is very deep to national identity itself* -the only damage which is done to lithuanian identity is done by current neonaughtylibtard regime who destroys soviet memorials. Soviet heritage is very important and crucial part of our identity, it was one of the greatest and most innovative and progressive countries. With immense innovationa and modernisation Lithuania prospered had immense infrastructure development, new factories and even a nuclear plant a kaunas hydropower plant and overall development and de swamping of the land. It was golden age for lithuanians and everyone I know agrees that it was better living conditions and better system.The real problem is the criminals who stolen everything after the dissolution of union. *The same Ukraine would bee much more happier under Grand Duchy of Lithuania* - its kinda speculation, but we have to understand that word Lithuania* was just a formality in that construct and it, and the later lithuanian-polish union was immensilly corrupt and collapsed for a reason.

[@tnndll4294]

Video title should be "Reasons (name any country) Dislikes Russia."

[@TankandDimples]

As an American looking from the outside, seeing and hearing the stories of what Russian occupation means, it shows the humanity and kindness inside of you. It would be hard to ever forgive and say you do not hate them all after everything they have done. Kudos on you. I know I am far removed but it makes me have a bitterness and resentment towards them for the things they have done and are currently doing.

[@priedits]

Braliukai, greetings from your besties Latvians!

[@erik7999]

To give another perspective on this, look at our relations with Germany. With all the crap that went down between us and them throughout history, not just World Wars, we somehow managed to move on. Everyone has managed to move with them. And if you ever end up talking to German folks and tell them "damn your country has done a lot of awful stuff in the past" you will never hear them get back to you with "yOu ArE GeRmaNopHObIc". And that's the main difference I feel between our two biggest historic rivals on a wholistic level. Russia, even before attacking Ukraine, wasn't ready to make amends with everything that has went down in the past. If they, as a country and society cannot do that, how can their neighbours?

[@traumvonhaiti]

Germany has cast away its imperial idea. So have many other European nations. So has Turkey. So has Japan. Russia has not. Moreover, it's been actively trying to revive its empire.

[@mitchyoung93]

"Crap that went down between us and them" ...LOL even in the Middle Ages Lithuanians were willing accomplices to German expansion. Then it was Germany that basically created, or in the Lithuanian case recreated, the Baltic States in the aftermath of the Russian capitulation during the First World War. And then during WWII you guys were enthusiastically complicit in Nazi crimes...starting to wipe our your Jews even before the Germans took full control.

[@Raiaramis24]

Same feeling...probably germans have repressed us even more timewise, but my grandparents remember 2 world War and how the both side were behaving when they had occupied the Estonia, when they were here and they say, the difference between two sides was a rather big - german, even being regular soldiers were behaving like human beings, russian soldiers not so much.

[@andypre1667]

My ancestors came to "Prussian Lithuania" (i.e. the area south of the Nemen/Memel river roughly between Tilsit/Sovetsk and the former town of Schirwindt in today's Kaliningrad oblast) from Salzburg in 1732. The border between Prussia and Lithuania was until 1918 the longest existing border in Europe. During my genealogical studies of church records from the Pillkallen and Kussen parishes, I noticed that while the Salzburgers at first married only within "their" clique, by the late 1700's there's a lot of intermarrying between Prussians and Lithuanians, at least among the farmers; Lithuanians attended (Lutheran) baptisms of Prussian children and vice versa. For the Pillkallen parish, there was also a separate (Reformed?) Lithuanian church. They lived, loved, and worked together in the many villages that were wiped off the map after 1945. Lithuanian has left its mark on the Low Prussian dialect spoken there, with words such as Lorbass (for a young man, sometimes with ill intentions), Marjell (for a girl, young woman), Schischke (for pinecone), Schucke (for potato), Kujel (for a boar), etc. What I'm trying to say is that the regular folk seemed to have gotten along just fine for centuries sometimes (there are always exceptions). My direct ancestor left the area in 1900 at age 14 for the Ruhrgebiet before the shitstorm that was to be the 20h century unfolded. I hope to visit those places someday on a road trip of the Baltic countries. I think we have more in common than separates us.

[@_Epsilon_]

_With all the crap that went down between us and them throughout history, not just World Wars, we somehow managed to move on._ That's because your rulers are white supremacists and they are ok with German rule over you, I mean you were Nazi collaborators.

[@eugeneczerwinskyj3354]

This was a fantastic message. I am a Ukrainian Canadian living in Toronto Canada and my heart aches for Ukraine and its people. I watch Konstantin every time he gives a message, this eases my pain. This message did the same to ease my aching heart. Thankyou very much

[@tolyko9159]

I’m ethnically Russian but consider myself Lithuanian. Never felt any hatred because of that, furthermore never felt not treated as not Lithuanian

[@traumvonhaiti]

Out of curiosity, do you speak Lithuanian? Here in Kazakhstan, there's a clear distinction between those ethnic Russians who speak Kazakh and who don't: the former openly associate themselves with Kazakhstan (though there are very few of them) while many the latter secretly dream of restoration of the Russian rule over my country.

[@Kavics78]

Thast a Big Lie!

[@Blueprince224]

​@@Kavics78lol comment is such a typical Z' russians state of mind. 😂😂🤡

[@PalleRasmussen]

​@@Kavics78how do you know what he does or does not feel, Vatnik?

[@Giganfan2k1]

Looks like OP is discrediting Putin's Narrative.

[@eurolitas]

Big thanks for Konstantin and @INSIDERUSSIA Family.

[@dmitrikulkevicius9161]

I was born in Russia then parents decided to move to Lithuania in 1998 (the best decision they made I was like 5) then found out that my ancestors came from Lithuania, my great-great-grandparents were deported in 1940.

[@mitchyoung93]

@dmitrikulkevicius9161 There were an awful lot of Lithuanian Nazis, just saying.

[@ldkbudda4176]

@@mitchyoung93 Like ROA? Russian nazi army with aquefresh tricolor flag? ;)

[@matikramer9648]

Welcome home !

[@matikramer9648]

​@@mitchyoung93there were no naci lithuanians in Lithuania in 1940 yet.

[@InqvisitorMagnvs]

@@mitchyoung93Get over it.

[@RR-jz2up]

Thank you for talking about this. Greetings from LV!

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Thanks for watching!

[@wojstube9359]

Cheers from Poland - a friend of Lithuania 🙌🤝 Love to see Konstantin. Good fellow 💪

[@aivarasdarulis]

It is very nice to see that in the last 20 years there is way more sympathy between us and less and less of distaste (which is stupid considering it was caused by a small scale war back in 1920 - mind you I am ethnic Lithuanian and my grat grandfather was a Leutenant in Lithuanian Army and fought the Poles in 1920, he was capturing POW’s and eventually was captured himself by the town of Giedraičiai. He stayed in Polish POW camp for two years and said that he and his men were treated very well, same as they did treat captive Poles. He told to my father that this small war between us in regards to humane and chivalrous practices impossible to compare to WWII where everyone literally toxically hated everyone). There is so much much in common between our culture and history, so many victories and triumphs against the odds, we had arguably the greatest European nation so much ahead of it’s time in many regards (many consider Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as a proto-EU as it was a democratic, for that time, union). Oh and my girlfriend is ethnic Polish :))) She went to a Polish school and she speaks Polish with her family :) I can understand Polish really well but I cannot write in it.

[@rpse24]

I am Polish from Krakow, I always thought that we are like brothers. After emigration to the UK in 2008 O have found out about a war, and other stuff. Lithuanians hate Poles. Sometimes it's ridiculous ... good luck to you anyway.

[@aivarasdarulis]

@@rpse24 In my 32 years I have never met anyone that hates the Polish. Our native Russians and native “Polish” (they speak more like Belorussian mixed with Russian and somewhy identify themselves as Poles but they love Stalin and hate Poland) maybe those - yes, they hate Poland. And most immigrants from Lithuania are ethnic Slavic minorities and they hate everone and probably themselves. No one here cares about Poland that much so that they would have to hate it. I know Poland is stuck in the past and has it’s own imperial ambitions and historical revisionism, but over here no one really cares. We have an actual enemy that actually is capable to cause serious concern to us (Russia) so it is a time waste to “hate” Poland. If I was to tell all my 9 years abroad about what I hear from Poles about Lithuania I could write for days, same like what I hear myself about literally every country that borders Poland (including Hungary - it is some autistic myth that Poles and Hungarians love each other, I only in 9 years heard and saw hate). But I dismiss it as they all were either alcoholics or marginals. Same like our Slavic minorities. They live here but love Belorus or Russia and hate everyone, even their own children and they drink until they shit their pants. You need to see through idiotic and paedophilic istoric revisionalism of alcoholics. With all what I have seen, I know that majority of Poles are good and decent people.

[@blackeyedlily]

I have so much respect for Konstantin.

[@petitgateaucafetv366]

Well... I just arrivied in Vilnius today.... I'm from Brazil and just quite impressed with the whole Lithuanian Strong History and all the invasions throught the years. I can understand their concerns.

[@JH-pv6rd]

As a lithuanian who is currently visiting Brazil, I hope you will have a lovely time in Lithuania ❤

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

Vilnius not Lithuania - its Stalins gift since 1945 and must giving back to Germany

[@PKowalski2009]

@@Chaldon-hl6yk What kind of Russian troll is this? Stalin handed over Vilnius, which was occupied by Poland between the wars. Thus, he did not take it away from Germany, but from Poland, which, by the way, has no territorial claims to Lithuania, and where, although one understands the occupation of Vilnius (the city itself was inhabited mainly by Poles), it considers this act illegal and recognises Lithuania's rights to that city.

[@petitgateaucafetv366]

@@JH-pv6rd Labas.... Yes! What a gorgeus place! Still in love with Lietuva! Are you in Brazil? Really? I'm from Curitiba... best regards!!!!!

[@JH-pv6rd]

@@petitgateaucafetv366 yes, I'm currently in Paraty. I hope you will have fun in Lithuania 😊

[@cookingonthego9422]

Constantyn is always welcome in lithuania. Unfortunately, i am just a random smuck and can't do much about it. It is sad to see people like that struggling to get EU viza and people in my ex workplace prazing Putin and War laughing at the system. Most people did not know i speak Russian, and o boy, you hear all sorts of things.

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

Thank you, friend!

[@manometras]

We LIKE some Russians , those who are normal people like us and understand us, but definitely not those who want to destroy our country just because they think we don’t have the right to have one because they don’t like our country and they think we are worse than them.

[@WinteressNavja]

Was literally about to leave a comment how I disagree and met a lot of really cool people from Lithuania that didn't have any problem with me at all even after start of the war.

[@traumvonhaiti]

I cannot agree stronger with your statement (Labas from Kazakhstan!). Unfortunately the second type you mentioned are the plentiful.

[@lokilaufeyson7035]

@@mickpeterson3722 mb you should stop being a clown, ivan 🤡

[@_Epsilon_]

How can anyone understand neo Nazis and white supremacists, explain? _and they think we are worse than them._ You got it backwards, white supremacist.

[@PalleRasmussen]

Sadly most Muscowites think they are better than anyone else, while still having a massive inferiority complex towards the west. Slave mentality left by becoming Mongol Wannabees after 1238.

[@shieldmea]

Hi. Russian guy in Vilnius here. I've been living here for a few years now. I basically got exiled from Russia for my political views. I didn't see any major hate towards Russian speaking people in major cities in LT. There is some tension but overall it's okay. Lithuania is a great country. And I'm glad that I'm here. Language although is very difficult to learn for me 😅 Thank you for your work and this channel!

[@yuriyl1618]

Hopefully you learn Lithuanian so your government doesn't use you as an excuse to invade Lithuania. It's dangerous for countries neighboring Ruzzia to allow immigrants from Ruzzia.

[@Pifagorass]

Hardest Indo-European ranges to learn #3 Russian #2 Lithuanian #1 Polish 😮

[@traumvonhaiti]

A Kazakh here who traveled through Vilnius a couple months ago. Although I stayed there for just a few days, I learned "Labas", "Aciu" and a few other phrases and used them when speaking to the local people. Lithuanians were very glad when I greeted or thanked them in Lithuanian. It's not only Lithuania, it works the same everywhere in the world: if you show respect to the host, the host will treat you with respect and hospitality regardless of your country of origin.

[@GeneralWinter9]

@@yuriyl1618 whats a Ruzzia? You're so racist!

[@matikramer9648]

Don't despare, please Russian speaking people same as English speaking people, they do have trouble to learn second language everywhere.. But they can do it, especially if they are gifted to it Best of lucks with it !

[@maciek_k.cichon]

That's the thing, we in Eastern Europe have a history with Muscovy in all her alterations. And there weren't many positive things in it. Here's hoping for the best to all of us.

[@mitchyoung93]

@maciek_k.cicho It's *Russia* not Muscovy, and has been since the 1300 at least.

[@GeneralWinter9]

It's Russia

[@InqvisitorMagnvs]

@@GeneralWinter9A fake name usurping the identity of an unrelated people-done by an also unrelated imported European Tsarist aristocracy who also ruled from synthetic St Petersburg and tried to pretend «Russia» was a real European country rather than descendants of Muscowy robber baron Khan vassals…until the Muscowites rose up and overthrew the Romanov Emperors anyway in 1917.

[@lokilaufeyson7035]

@@mitchyoung93 it's parasha 🤡

[@elisabethnygaard8525]

Russia is just a few cities. The rest of the country is poor slaves and prison camps.

[@thechugganaut]

Konstantin has led me to another great channel. Lithuania Explained is superb. I love the style and delivery and great guests. This is ace x

[@bobbrennan6206]

I have followed Konstantin’s Inside Russia KZbin channel since 2021, some months before Russia invaded Ukraine in Feb 2022. I believe him to be sincere, honest, very informative. I really value his perspective on the situation in Russia. Check out INSIDE RUSSIA on KZbin.

[@TSZatoichi]

Konstantine is great, I've always found him to be honest and as straight forward as it was prudent to be at the time (there used to be a lot of "reading between the lines" in his commentary). Because of his age and background his channel offers a unique perspective on what's happening in Russia that you don't get to see from other Russian channels run by younger more liberal creators.

[@RE-ec7iz]

I have followed konatintin before 2/24 since he went to a Texas bbq place, I find him to be a very sincere person and a true family man. A person who’s views are able to evolve and change and admit when he makes a mistake or was wrong, that’s a rare thing to find now a days.

[@live_free_or_perish]

I've never been more thankful that my ancestors left Eastern Europe. They have been in conflict with Russia for centuries.

[@zmeu_md3831]

I'm from Moldova, living in Romania since 2015 (studied here) , in Moldova many of people remember the dark days under Stalin, famine, deportations, executions, replacing natives with russians and rusification ...we still have a considerable chunk of russian speakers which are pro russian , they live here since 1945 but still didn't learn the language ...speaks a lot about their disrespect for our culture and country , also their superiority complex.

[@yurik8468]

@@russiasvechenaya58 they got along so well that before the Georgian and Ukrainian wars there were 3 Russian wars, several wars in Central Asia, and the Azerbaijan-Armenian war.

[@yurik8468]

@@russiasvechenaya58 In the middle ages? When was feudalism? Good, although Russia still has feudalism.

[@Cotictimmy]

Love Konstantin & his channel. 😊

[@nanniebb]

Informative and interesting video, I'm a longtime Inside Russia subscriber and have great respect for Konstantin and have learned and understand more about Russia and russian mentality. I'm also a fellow 🇨🇦 and a new subscriber, I love learning about different cultures. Thanks for sharing.

[@bron-sconcess.10]

I enjoyed and learned from this; I even forgot you promised to interview Konstantin, I was so engrossed. Loved the graphics and presentation • creative!

[@justinwolf7490]

It’s hate toward Russias Leaders not really Russians.

[@OKEAHKPACA-pd1gl]

There's plenty of nasty Russians who are not leaders. Just like there's a lot of nasty people in every nation...

[@epickzalpha8273]

Towards both.

[@Zappexe]

This video gives too much spotlight on the russian perspective and opinion. I don't have empathy left for them. They must atone for the sins of their dozens of generations of cruelty

[@TeurastajaNexus]

Exactly.

[@user-yt2vd9gz8y]

You cannot blame for sins of fathers, that is woke thinking, very thoughtless.and unproductive, we need unity of the peoples not more division, that's how politicians take control of people, we must rise above political bs or there is no progress for people.

[@user-yt2vd9gz8y]

Aciu👍

[@TeurastajaNexus]

@@user-yt2vd9gz8y We will see if or when the russians stand up to their criminal government.

[@Zappexe]

@@user-yt2vd9gz8y it’s not political, it’s personal

[@Derek032789]

Sweden and Finland joining NATO greatly increases the security situation of the Baltic states.

[@juliegale3863]

i am an elderlyEnglish lady who follows Inside Russia every day because Konstantine explains it all so well.

[@spondoolie6450]

When was the last time you visited Gambia?

[@GloryToUkrainianPeople]

Thank you! Yes! I am glad there are still people who can tell the true stories and or remember their grandparents stories!

[@user-fc7is6jo2e]

Very interesting topic! Thank you for sharing this.

[@traumvonhaiti]

Basically, Russia is a colonial empire. Very similar to pre-WW1 Austria-Hungary and Ottoman Empires which both collapsed 100 years ago. Russia did not though. And it's actively trying to restore its imperial power. Now, which nation (and Lithuanians are a full blown European nation) would like to be conquered, subdued, colonized? None. And that is the answer to the question you posed in the video's title.

[@calvin8677]

I'm just trying to learn about Russia..you say Russia is actively seeking to be an empire builder..why?what have they done to prove that?

[@_Epsilon_]

Nationalists are crying when Russia calls then out on their far-right BS.

[@karlikuris]

Are you from the new bot farm? Looks fancy so far

[@Vault96]

@@calvin8677 I like studying International Relations and Geopolitics, and from what I studied there is a consensus that countries seek power, as it is the best way to survive in the world, as there is inherent competition between great powers, and if a country is not a great power, If a country does not have power, this country is potentially a victim of a great power trying to increase its own power. Russia is a great power, and there are others like the US and China, so it is natural to conclude that Russia, like the US, China and every other great power in history seeks to accumulate and maintain power. NOTE: I'm not villainizing Russia, the USA or China, just describing how the world works, great powers are right to seek more power and those who suffer from this are right to have resentment.

[@calvin8677]

@Vault96 thanks, I understand..the one thing that's always left out considering Russia is NATO expansion &Russia's steadfast warnings against it..Putin said he's been at war with the west since the US backed coup in 2014..wisely,he's been quiet,re opened weapon industries &stockpiled in preparation

[@aivarasdarulis]

We really, really do not hate Russians or anyone for that matter. There is small minority of them here and they even have their own schools that are all paid for by out tax money and only marginals have a problem with this. Since 2022 and even prior to full scale invasion Lithuania became a sanctuary for those fleeing repressions in Russia. I would say majority of Russian opposition are based in Lithuania like Navalny’s people, Khodorskovites and so on. I actually have a close friend of very similar nationalist views that is a political refugee here - he crossed Ukrainain border, on foot, Belorussian border, on foot, and then our border - again on foot. And there are many people like that and we accept them. There is for sure Fifth Column in Lithuania and I would say we are too acceptive of everyone and because of this saboteurs do fall through the cracks. Our security services constantly locate such individuals and work on this issue. It is certainly that it’s real annoying if people malliciously do not learn our language and malliciously do not integrate, but these are old people mainly and you kinda cannot blame them, and people do speak Russian with them if they themselves know Russian (it lost it’s actuallity lately and less and less people learn the language). But we always did and do differentiate between the regimes of the past and present. Everyone is welcome but if you are a peadophilic putinist - don’t even try to get close to us.

[@heimomoilanen9654]

The minorrites are always the loudest. Pathetic.

[@VanGuard600]

The title of the video does not really make much sense when you look at the content. This might as well could have been an Interview video.

[@LithuaniaExplained]

You raise a good point. The video is somewhat two different topics with a loose connection/overlap. I adjusted the title - although maybe this should have been two separate videos. I still hope you found it interesting…

[@chuckkottke]

A friend of mine, a member of the Lithuanian aristocracy who lived on an estate, said that when the Russians arrived, Stalin had sent along peasants who ransacked and literally tore down the estate, looted the art and furniture, then built rough hovels to live in and stash their loot. The Soviets couldn't get them to work because they were living off selling the art treasures, and only after they were short on cash would they work. Then the Russians were given all the good positions, and many people had to flee the country because it was too dangerous to live there under Soviet occupation. I don't think much has changed with the looting and invading mentality of many in the Russian military and the so-called Z patriots. Art treasures yesterday, washing machines today, and total barbarism towards the Ukrainian people. Konstantin has been a constant beacon of hope, reminding us of the truth inside Russia, and that there are many sane, rational, intelligent, caring people who are living in Russia, and many who have fled, so there is hope for the future. Thank you for producing this documentary, and for bringing to light some of the reasons why Lithuanians oppose Russia so vehemently. Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦🗽🇱🇹 Victory for Freedom!! 🎆

[@manometras]

There is also a type of Russians Lithuanians don’t like called vatnikai or vata, vatniks (ватники). You can google about it.

[@Raiaramis24]

I estonian the same word is "tibla", but similar word to lituanian is "vanka", but this is not that much as a insult. But tibla is a russian, who is still "homo sovieticus" and desires Soviet Union back.

[@joanofarc6402]

Excellent Q & A !

[@ltitsspituks3368]

Also Lithuanian-Muscovite wars

[@LevanoTipe]

And Lithuania also had been for long occupied by the Russian Empire, since Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ceased to exist.

[@Orc-icide]

Also Russians were sent to Lithuania to dilute the population and then would - become, disappeared

[@mitchyoung93]

ltitsspituks3368 Lithuanian-Russian wars. 'Moscovite' is a fake exonym.

[@mitchyoung93]

@@LevanoTipe It ceased to exist because it was constantly attacking Russian land.

[@GeneralWinter9]

What's a muscovite? You racist woke lib.

[@Heater-v1.0.0]

There is something ironic about an American living in Lithuania interviewing a Russian as to why Lithuanians have a dislike of Russia. Thing is, unlike Germany after WWII Russia never became a civilised state, never acknowledged the evils it had committed. And some how it managed to present itself as a reasonable civilised state the world can deal with. And somehow the world, outside of Eastern European states, fell for the ruse. So I can imagine Americans found it a bit odd that Eastern European states still had a wariness of Russia. Even now I find it amazing that western leaders seem to approach Russia as just another modern state to negotiate with. It is not. None of which is to bash on all or any Russian in particular of course. Many fine people come from Russia and likely are still in Russia. Konstantin is a good example. Mind you, I gather from what he has said his family history is quite much Ukrainian. Rostov on Dom was part of Ukraine at the beginning of last century.

[@Alonz3]

Proud to be a lithuanian 💪🇱🇹❤

[@user-mo5sd1bq3f]

Good work, thak you 🎉

[@dianetourje1359]

Great clip!

[@krisradjpaul278]

This is the first time I’ve seen your channel great collaboration Inside Russia is always worth a watch.

[@KoRntech]

Im glad to see your channel, I've wanted to understand part of my family's past history, my dads grandparents came over in 1897.

[@stevenjohns-savage7024]

Great information 😊. Thanks. Stand strong 🔱👍💪

[@StasysJasas]

also, the invasion of lithuania during the soviet union still leaves a mark today, for some reason these horrible russian flats are still scattered around the bit, and if you look at somewhere less affected by the sovits (e.g. palanga) you will see they are way more beautiful.

[@jimmyhoffa6192]

Your best work yet!

[@ugnikalnis]

I'm Proud Baltic Son I don't give a f where are you from if you act as human being I'll respect that n I'll give in return same.

[@wunderlol]

This!

[@snapdragon6601]

Great video. 👍

[@Mariuslt1]

We like all freedom loving people no matter the country,.

[@Xnoob545]

Lithuanian here: I do not automatically judge people based on ethnicity or gender or anything. Most Russians did nothing wrong. I hate the Russian government, but not the people.

[@Hanekin]

Important thing a lot of people don't understand, Russia is a nation of 140 million people and obviously most of them are not bad, but their government is.

[@JohnSmith-fv3zg]

@@Hanekin I agree with you, but mostly are indifferent.

[@martynasbendikas2546]

​@@Hanekinexactly! A country ofna 140million people can't arrange a protest bigger of couple thousand people?! Even 10% of them going to fight their government would be massive. But noooo, they stays silent until it's their turn to go and terrorize Ukrainians...

[@alexbayer2365]

@@martynasbendikas2546our real population is lesser than in Germany. Even some opposition says about that. Around 80 million.

[@alexbayer2365]

@@martynasbendikas2546and I don’t see any protests in occupied territories too. I don’t see any protests in Crimea. For example. But I don’t blame then for that

[@radidov5333]

the bit where he talks about the third type of new russians the "in a bubble one"..hurts a lot and I know from personal experience..many russians friends whom from the beginning of the war I asked them how they are doing and just general opinions, and til this day, like nothing ever happened ..absolutely purposely avoiding reality. When I know and they know..they're trying hard to look the other way... I feel sad about them coz I know eventually the sun will be to close to their face, burning them before they finally take courage to look the other way and face it. Million of russians are going to go absolutely mentally ill that day

[@INSIDERUSSIA]

I think so also

[@dominykasbudrys1011]

Epic video, I think you should make second video on this topic!

[@vpacas285]

Man, you are so Canadian ! :)

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

Konstantin is a rare breed. A Russian with critical thinking skills and a conscience.

[@editorrbr2107]

That is the most self-aware, introspective Russian I think I’ve ever heard

[@richardfinlayson1524]

Yeah I went out with a girl of Latvian heritage, and if we walked through Melbourne she would invariably point out Latvian and Lithuanian people she knew, " see that girl ,she's Lithuanian" it happened quite a lot, her dad had come out after the war, he didn't like Russians at all.

[@Blueprince224]

Stay FREE Baltic countries❤❤❤ heres to your bravery 🍻

[@asfafasdad384]

Thanks

[@bloodtypena]

Latvia is more than a best friend to Lithuania. Latvia is our sister. We are sisters and brothers we are together forever ❤ We are the only baltics left we have to lookout for one another and supporst each other.

[@asfafasdad384]

You forgot to mention they burned our books spilled glue in our mouth so we wouldnt speak Lithuanian language.

[@Asbestos_]

Ironically, you just demonstrated the small country effect. The title is about Lithuania and its grievances. However, the content of the video shines the spotlight on russia. In my opinion, they do not, and they will not do enough to fix themselves, and therefore, it's fruitless to talk about them.

[@martavdz4972]

Exactly. I'm a Baltic Studies expert from Czechia and I'm sick and tired of this. Even our news only speak about the Baltics in relation to Russia. So I founded a project called News from the Baltics, where I publish news and interesting trivia about the countries themselves.

[@Okastu]

Make a video about lithuania being the most happy country in the world for under 30s!

[@cbcteaser7587]

G'DAY KONSTANTIN. I WATCHED THE STREAM @ LITHUANIA EXPLAINED 🇱🇹. THIS IS A CHANNEL WITH VITAL INFORMATION. YOUR COMMENTS KONSTANTIN WERE INTERESTING AND INSIGHTFUL. YOU NEVER FAIL IN YOUR TEACHING US ABOUT RUSSIA AND SLAVIC AND PEOPLE OF THE BALTICS. GOD BLESS YOU K. ❤and 🙏 for 🇱🇹 and 🌎 from 🇨🇦 !!! LARRY BARTH. 🇨🇦

[@zackhighland7287]

Konstantin is a true hero!

[@rokasb9441]

When i listen to Konstamtin i feel like i'm listening to my granpa. Thank you for inviting him!

[@tomparatube6506]

Bravo Lithuania for standing up for your rights 💪💪💪

[@SamT304]

I have family and friends in Estonia; and many people there are very concerned about the war, or at least some big disruption of their life. I am worried too, even living far away from Estonia 🇪🇪

[@melissawilliamson8871]

Konstantin is a great guy. I've been subscribed to his channel for 2 years.

[@vaidotast]

Good interview, nice collab!

[@NielsPoulsen]

I am a 43 year old from Denmark 🇩🇰 As i get older, I am honest about the beliefs I held in the past. As a child I was always told of family members shot by the Germans for sabotage. In my teens, I had a girlfriend who was adopted from Sri Lanka. One day Nazi grafitti was on her parents mailboks. In the 80ies and 90ies Denmark had a legitimate National Socialist movement. It finalt imploded arond 2010. Well, I took it personal and joined the original Antifa. Back then it ment throwing rocks and bottles at Neonazis marching with banners in the street. I joined a rebel Communist youth movement. My ideals were EastcGerman and Soviet Russian. I was drafted to the military three months before 9/11. I had joined in the hopes of learning skills for a future possible battle of the Classes. Well, my time there changed my perception of the world and its People. I eventually deployed to Kosovo with NATO in pride. There I saw the look of what was left of the “Glorious Red Army”. A couple of Russian snotty kids manning a checkpoint for peanuts. Lets just say that the NATO experience is a little different. But, I still had a soft spot for Russia. I guess I bought the Russian propaganda once again. I argued for Russias rights. I even argued that it was ok for Russia to annex Crimea. Of course Russia had the right to secure Sevastopol with its glorious past. Luckily, this war has been an antidote to my sympathetic feelings for Russia. I now consider myself a centrist humanitarian democrat and support Ukraine fully. 🇺🇦🇩🇰 I even bought stocks in Rheinmetall as a way to say Sorry 🤷‍♂️ I now reject far left policies. I do not identify with a green haired, nose pierced teen who tell me to speak different and forget basic Biology. F you to the moon. I am to old for this sjit 😂 SLAVA UKRAINE🇺🇦 I really hope the people of Russia will one day wake up.

[@alexbayer2365]

Far left at least not warmongers. Supporting peace negotiations over war.

[@gintasvilkelis2544]

@@alexbayer2365 Far left are basically advocating that Ukraine should surrender to Russia. Territorial concessions were tried in the late 1930s. How did that end?

[@Sofus.]

In my region, many people from the German-speaking minority stood with small Nazi flags and waved along the road on the day of Nazi Germany's invasion of my country. In the decades leading up to the invasion, the German minority did not want to learn Danish and stuck to German.

[@Chaldon-hl6yk]

If you hate sovietism - give Vilnus and Klaipeda back to Germany

[@manometras]

@@Chaldon-hl6yk , you are a Russian,so don't speak about Germany. Germany did not demand Lithuania to give anything back to Germany, only the Russian chauvinists did. I lived in the USSR, and I hated it. My older rekatives hated it even more. Some of them, including my granddad, had been deported to Siberia and tortured there.

[@greeneyeswideopen774]

I stumbled on Inside Russia just after the invasion of Ukraine. I have followed him ever since. Great channel.

[@user-pp6mc4jm2r]

Konstantin is a very bright light in a very dark room.

[@user-ph3mj6jy5u]

There are good Russians like Constantine and others. I've been following him and he tells the truth. These are the messages to those non- Russians who are not Russian but support Putin:s Regime. Great Lithuania.

[@tamasgyorffy1]

Konstantin is a good guy, and an economist. This limits his imagination regarding russian agression ways to Baltics, That can very well be "little green men", from private military companies (there are 40some of them in russia, like Wagner). hybrid war is war too, you dont only mean full-fledged invasion like UA. russia will want to test Article 5, e.g. sending small unidentified groups of armed men, who leave after an attack. ... then what does NATO do? nothing? again? ... ok, then we go further, and further. you must understand what putin knows well: russia is NOT an apex predator, but an opportunistic one, going for the weak, the sick, the cowards, the lonely, etc. russia cannot take on the military T-rex that NATO is. NATO would beat russia within a few weeks of conventional war. that country is just terrorussia.

[@critsal490]

Geras video!

[@Mendogology]

That was very interesting video! Loved the interview with Konstantin!

[@vaidasdimsa681]

🇱🇹👍

[@pamelajaye]

When I was a teenager in Boston we had an exposition, it was called the Whole World Celebration. It was filled with food and things to buy, crafts and singing and dancing. I don't know how many years we had it but I think I went three times. It's very difficult now to find any sign that it ever existed but I did find one. When I was there it was the late '70s early '80s and I came across the booths for Latvia and Estonia. I had never heard of them (Just like in '84 when a friend told me her ancestors were from Serbia). So I'm sure someone explained it to me. However they didn't have to explain the booth for Lithuania. I didn't know really anything about the country, but in Brockton Massachusetts the Lithuanian had a club and it was my father's favorite place to go for pizza, of all things. I really don't understand the connection between Lithuania and pizza but hey at least we got to go to have pizza sometimes. My father was rather precise in what he did and did not like. And it was about 40 minutes from our house to this place, by car. And we rarely went out to eat. If we wanted Chinese food, we had to go to five corners, I think it was in Braintree. But it might have been Quincy. Apparently we were quite fond of the South Shore. Years later we knew some people in church whose last name was Kondrotas, But I believe it was truncated from something else. And I went to school with a girl whose name was -I am going to misspell this - Spakevicius. Honestly I didn't know she was Lithuanian because at the time I did not recognize Lithuanian names. I do now. Most of the time... I believe she went to Harvard or Yale or possibly both and then probably got some really important job. I really didn't stay in touch with the people I went to school with. And I only saw them again when I arrived on Facebook. I really don't remember meeting any people from the Lithuanian Club. Apparently we were just there for the pizza. I don't know. I was a kid. It seems to me, despite the freak outs of Russia the first time it was suspected their aircraft were over Poland, that they actually were briefly recently and the whole thing seemed a whole lot calmer. I find this worrisome. We really don't want to encourage this kind of thing. Obviously. I should probably go look that up and make sure I'm not wrong.

[@martavdz4972]

Kondrotas is an existing Lithuanian surname, I think it wasn't truncated 🙂

[@5ufo]

You should ask Lithuanians about why they dislike something, not Russians

[@danielmcinnes20]

Konstantine is excellent!! 👍👌🇨🇦

[@mickymantle3233]

I love Lithuania. Definitely worth a visit.

[@eddybrevet6816]

An impossible conjecture, wt if all maga moved to Russia, fleeing Russians here, who wud be more moral then, biblical wars wud go on forever

[@daniellarson3068]

It's pretty amazing that the Russians can live in Lithuania for generations and not learn the language. In the US, the first generation may have some trouble, but their kids learn the language. (They also learn their parent's language.) I bet folks in Lithuania would be happy to help these Russians living in Lithuania to learn the language.

[@PKowalski2009]

Lithuania was not an independent state and a Russian could feel at home in the USSR. So it is difficult to talk seriously about 'generations' here. PS. I am also reminded of references to Jews, Poles or Lithuanians living for generations in pre-war Vilnius and not knowing each other's languages. At least the Poles and Jews stayed exclusively to their languages.

[@mitrogulf4073]

A bunch of Slavs lived on these lands, the period of the Kingdoms or Rus and Empires plus the USSR was able to instill in the Russians the opinion that they could calmly do this because the only thing that separates the living Lithuanians from being history is that the Russians simply did not commit genocide on them although they could do this a couple of times.

[@daniellarson3068]

@@mitrogulf4073Makes sense - a feeling of superiority. They seem to demonstrate that attitude to the present times.

[@iljenshumilin467]

​@@daniellarson3068depends what country it is because as a Russian living in China i see China as a superior nation to others because they have a rich history amazing food beautiful nature and architecture and I'm now learning Chinese but what does Lithuania have they don't have anything special

[@daniellarson3068]

@@iljenshumilin467They have THEIR land and THEIR country. They have the language the people of that country have decided is the language of the land and the people should be respected. The selfish desires of Russian invaders and their descendants are not to be respected. You show respect for China in learning their language and culture.

[@yamaneko-ex8fy]

Thank you for your interest of your new home country.

[@janhanchenmichelsen2627]

In a string of treaties signed in 1920, USSR guaranteed the Baltic states independence and sovereignty. In 1939/40 Moscow broke all these treaties after the Molotov-Rippentrop deal with Nazi-Germany. Enter the usual Stalin-style mass murders, deportations and eradication of national culture and customs. The Kremlin criminals still regard all deals as temporary obstacles. But the Russian-Baltic population of today cannot be blamed for the atrocities in the past and must be treated as recognized national minorities. Still, for this to really work, the minorities at large should accept that the Baltic states are sovereign nations and that Putin‘s dreams of a new empire will cause a major war. Even WW3.

[@easterbunnygreen8561]

1st Lithuanians do not hate Russians. However, there is grate degree of trauma past preset and risk of future that makes Lithuanians less tolerant to russians. However, if you do support Putin and the war... there may be a varying degrees negative reactions. Starting from silent disappointment and pity to the victim of propaganda all the way of openly displayed disgust manifesting in things like calls to "Go to Russia if you love it so much!" and some stronger language. I agree with what Konstantin said: "I am in part responsible for not doing much to oppose regime before and there is price to pay for it" I view it very much the same. As Lithuanian I do not hate individual russians but I do hold them responsible for the dereliction of duty of governing your own country. Because of that I am not sorry for sanctions that impact ordinary russians. I would advocate for more. 2nd My parents are older they do not speak English. When traveling they were... ashamed to speak Russian to not be viewed as russian's. That is not entirely because of negative sentiment towards russians by them but also... they were not them and they wanted that to not defined them. Think rape victim on date having to mention it. 3rd Russian immigrants... that immigrated during soviet era were basically told without them Lithuania has no statehood. Basically devaluing Lithuanians as people and as nation. A similar but more extreme dynamic would be how settlers of America viewed Indian tribes. This resulted in some of those immigrants being... disproportionately horrible humans. So apart from institutional oppression individual experience of many older people of how russians act is likely disproportionately negative to say the leat.

[@martavdz4972]

"Think rape victim on a date having to mention it" - very good simile IMO.

[@mitrogulf4073]

​ @Hanekin My grandfather (Belorussian), a colonel, who served in E Gearmany and settled in Kazakhstan, together with my grandmother (shes German), went to a friend in Estonia and ordered soup in a restaurant with black bread, they brought them white bread, and when my grandmother just asked to replace the bread (because it is difficult for her to digest millet), they were told “Russian pigs” in broken Russian. Is this normal according to you? Or is it like it was a long time ago and there is no such thing now? Or is this just an invention to annoy the Balts?! Or maybe the Baltic complex of some kind of inferiority is due to some of its own grievances in history? And what the hell are you talking about? In the USSR, the most money flowed into the Baltic states because this is one of the windows to Europe and the Baltic Sea, ports. In the USSR, the languages of other republics were imposed. In each republic they elected an ethnic chairman; in Kazakhstan, they essentially reinvented Kazakh and made films, made textbooks in this language, and had separate Kazakh schools. It is many Kazakh adults who lived in the USSR who know both Kazakh and Russian, unlike the younger generation of 90s ans 2000s.

[@johnwolfen4243]

As an American to my Russian friend welcome to the party. On a deeper note, I was very upset and sad when Putin's Russia went into Ukraine. I've known many Russians and Ukrainians. I know they merry between the two counties and have families on both side. It was like watching two brothers fight. Nothing good will come of it.

[@restitvtororbis5330]

The issue that the Baltic states have with Russian speakers isn't just frustration. The population of Russian speakers with little or no ability to understand the local language will almost exclusively be consuming Russian media, meaning that the country they live in has little ability to counter narratives and disinformation that has the objective of destabilizing. The Russian speaking populations of the Baltic states are prime targets for Russian disinformation campaigns with the goal of alienating them and making them feel persecuted by country they live in while making them identify more strongly with Russia. This is almost exactly the same process that led to the initial Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Make Russian speakers feel persecuted for speaking only Russian, then use that as a justification for direct military intervention. the Baltic states were worried about their Russian speaking populations before 2014, but after they saw Ukraine invaded and realized Russia could destabilize them in the same ways, they naturally became suspicious and even resentful of the citizens who refused to learn the local languages.

[@allenhill1223]

You can't move to Russia unless you have knowledge of the language. So Russians should speak Lithuanian.in Lithuanian.

[@GeneralWinter9]

never! Russian all the way.

[@bron-sconcess.10]

to@allenhill1223 😏 I guess you could be waiting a long time to see this happen 😅!

[@kacperdudenko6828]

May our Lithunia bros be safe! From Poland 🇵🇱🤝🇱🇹

[@jcdisci]

Why did Lithuanian's seem to hate Russia? Have you seen Russia's history lately?

[@captainseadog7600]

Konstantin man of common sense …

[@drlegendre]

".. Russians living in Lithuania who won't learn or speak the Lithuanian language." Imagine that. So just to be clear, it's OK for the Lithuanians to dislike Russians for this reason - but if native-born Americans dislike Mexican and other Latino migrants for the same reasons, it makes Americans a bunch of xenophobic racists?

[@skiedros]

The social and economic influence of the soviet past may be very well seen in the Berlin night photos from space: even after all this time one may easily find where the Berlin wall was. The thing to note here is that Germany is richest country in Europe: what is there to expect for others.

[@user-je5do6jn2f]

This makes me think of the old Polish-Lithuanian Alliance.

[@wolo1738]

weird video, seems like it was more about Konstantin

[@EastFame]

Lithuania is so lucky to have only 10% of their population consisting of these country-disloyal putinists. Latvia have a much larger 5th colony, who hate the country they live in, but somehow don't want to emigrate to their motherland either.

[@Gooddeeds023]

👍

[@ivetapau]

I'm a little disapointed. Feels like you had 1min of info about the the topic and the rest is Constantin filling in about not even related things. Btw i love his channel, it just shoud've been a different video. And I feel there is so much history left untouched why we dislike russians. If you make a video about all of us, make sure you do it right

[@LithuaniaExplained]

Yes I agree this all could have been done better. Thanks for the feedback.

[@monikabooth4347]

@@LithuaniaExplained There is a surplus of history between the countries of that region. Canadian mind cannot comprehend this. 🙂

[@martavdz4972]

​@@LithuaniaExplainedFrom a Baltic Studies expert - it's simply wrong to do a video on Lithuania, its problems with Russia, and to only interview a Russian, even when he's as wonderful as Konstantin. This is a huge and extremely sensitive topic. Imagine USA saying Canada is just the second US, banning French and hockey and maple leaves, torturing millions of Canadians and you spending your life desperately trying to convince the world that you exist. As an English-speaking person, you're heard. As someone from a small European country, you often feel like screaming to a room of deaf people. Please bear that in mind, dive deep into it and make a new video, or better still - a playlist 🙂

[@fifty2x]

Konstantin the goat

[@oskarmatzerath3233]

putnikin the mouse

[@manometras]

Ruzzian the troll. Get a real and honest job.

[@krisradjpaul278]

@@manometrasGOAT means Greatest of all times.