I am simple Latvian, I see video about Lithuanian Braļukas, I press like
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed!
@snek15123 жыл бұрын
I am simple Lithuanian, I see Latvian brother , I press like
@lukealexander21353 жыл бұрын
I am a simple Estonian, I see a video about my Lithuanian brothers, I press like
@lordbonney97793 жыл бұрын
See Balkans, why can’t you be like the Baltic’s?!?
@diarradunlap93373 жыл бұрын
@@lordbonney9779 Maybe because the Ottomans never ran the Baltic? Truth be told, I have no idea.
@compatriot8523 жыл бұрын
Just a correction: The Lithuanian Forest Brother guerillas continued to fight well into the 60s. The main force was defeated, but its members still continued to be a threat to the Russians. My father even said that people were still talking about resistance activity into the 70s when he was visiting family.
@Ivarr.Bergmann.Alaska2 жыл бұрын
Ive read they were functioning until the early 80s... but who really knows. Amazing what they did. The world will need courage like that again soon, I fear..
@DYesish2 жыл бұрын
@@Ivarr.Bergmann.Alaska Very accurate, more books coming out and true is coming through, end was not nice 12 people burning themselves, its a tragedy!!!!
@vankinobis8049 Жыл бұрын
Last freedom fighter lost his live 1953 executed by nkvd
@princeofpokemon2934 Жыл бұрын
@@Ivarr.Bergmann.Alaska I think they might become active again, given the situation in Ukraine.
@Ivarr.Bergmann.Alaska Жыл бұрын
@@princeofpokemon2934 Greetings from Alaska..
@indianajones43213 жыл бұрын
NKVD: You’re not tied to a chair, this fight isn’t fair
@justbbricks3 жыл бұрын
@alpha If you see him everywhere, that means you are wherever he is, which would make you a “Mr. No Life” as well.
@APersonOnYouTubeX3 жыл бұрын
@@justbbricks oh yeah tell him that!
@Mystic_Stirling3 жыл бұрын
This quotes needs to be used more
@heyimlithuanian10032 жыл бұрын
woah nice rhimes
@Paul_Ironwolf3 жыл бұрын
The sentiment of the soviets being worse than the nazis is still alive in Lithuania to this day, make no mistake, we dont like the nazis (as the russians will tell you) we just realy realy realy hate the soviets. I mean this video tells you a good story to be honest, when people from every type of political, religious and racial background that are supposed to directly opose one another by any logic there is, cooperate with one another and fight and die on the same side, what does it speak to you about their enemy? Imagine when the "Power Of Love" AND " The Power Of Hate" are on the same side, what monster can win against that in the end?
@geoffbarney59143 жыл бұрын
Italy, France, Soviet Union, Yugoslavia: *Communist and Socialist resistance movements* Poland, Norway: *nationalist resistance movements* Lithuania: *why not both?*
@paqboii19073 жыл бұрын
some Austrian painter that just failed to get into art school: Hmmmm that sounds interesting... why dont we call it *national socialism*
@billiecruz43993 жыл бұрын
@@paqboii1907 you know as a joke
@kohwenxu3 жыл бұрын
Lithuania: Hey we are going against the Soviets! *Many different groups join*
@billiecruz43993 жыл бұрын
@T W if your political ideology cannot withstand a text from outside of the country then you have a weak political ideology. Just ask the modern russia approved conservatism
@ronmaximilian69533 жыл бұрын
There were plenty of non-communist and non-socialist resistance movements in France and Yugoslavia
@DrunkBearr-ml1jk3 жыл бұрын
All of these ideas came together to fight against a common enemy. Love this video tho
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Yay!
@nikolaradovic80673 жыл бұрын
@@TheFront something Yugoslavia didn't agree
@maxwellpeter59553 жыл бұрын
Germany: wait, that's illegal
@jessesimmons45033 жыл бұрын
I consider myself a libertarian so any authoritarians are messed up either left wing or right wing or even center.
@jorenbosmans80653 жыл бұрын
Imagine being captured by those People. The insults you'll get Will feel like the comment section of a nonnbiased political internet video
@Vagabond-lp9gp3 жыл бұрын
🤣😂lmao!
@wizzotizzo3 жыл бұрын
Lol.
@theplinkerslodge63613 жыл бұрын
So impressed by the Baltics and Finland. The way they had/have to fight for freedom against Soviets and Germans. Huge tenacity...
@Mystic_Stirling3 жыл бұрын
Finland fought the Germans?
@reigoj82283 жыл бұрын
@@Mystic_Stirling its called lappland war
@Seba00PL2 жыл бұрын
Many of them happily joined the Nazis. Lithuanians supported the Nazis in killing Jews, Russians and Poles. Finland didn't participate in the Holocaust but it was Germany's ally. Estonia was also a German ally. The Serbs were better but unfortunately pro Communists. The real only independent pro-Western resistance, not tied to any axis faction was in Poland.
@dariuslaukagalis71122 жыл бұрын
@@Seba00PL pashol naxui
@anthonymanderson76713 ай бұрын
@@Mystic_StirlingYes
@Martdau2 жыл бұрын
My great grandparents hidden and fed many of those brave souls. My grandma has some pretty interesting stories. One love to Estonians and Latvian brothers from Lithuania ❤️
@treskarina Жыл бұрын
My mother's grandfather joined the Forest Brothers at age 71 in the Jurbarkas area of Lithuania. He left his wife and my mother, never to see them again. My mother and her grandmother eventually fled, mostly on foot, eventually ending up in Crimmitschau and then Berlin, in attempts to find family, after the war.
@ktheterkuceder68253 жыл бұрын
Sometimes brotherhood and blood is more important than ideas.
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Yes! We need to stick together regardless of political beliefs!
@dylanhaugen37393 жыл бұрын
Sharing a common enemy also helps.
@ktheterkuceder68253 жыл бұрын
@Jason Bonaparte Why? Missing the good old days when it had a somewhat decent opponent? Bored of "fighting" other not so strong nations?
@ktheterkuceder68253 жыл бұрын
@Jason Bonaparte How about you start manufacturing your own damn goods for a change?
@ktheterkuceder68253 жыл бұрын
@Jason Bonaparte Yes. And after you start manufacturing your own goods it will be china.
@SEEKERLT2 жыл бұрын
A couple more facts: - The last partisan who was still actively fighting, had a shootout with KGB and died by his own hand in 1965. Men had already been to space and he was still fighting this war! - There was another partisan who actually died in 1986 while still in hiding. He was living in barn for decades and coming out only at nights and still kept his pistol all these years. The interesting thing is that he was just a few years away from Lithuania's independence and, even if he had given up by 1986, he would have probably not been arrested because by then Gorbachev was in power and the Soviet Union had already been relaxed by a lot.
@giuseppenasca20913 жыл бұрын
Guys remember this thing are never going to be written in a history book Respect for this people
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
There will always be history books, but whether or not they get read is the question.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
Well, time to shove more history books for the students around the world. The ones who actually don't get all too sleepy while reading them shall become the teachers for the next generation.
@user-vn6no3ci4f3 жыл бұрын
No, it was written
@soundwavesuperior72053 жыл бұрын
It depends in witch country you live. In my books, this story took 3 pages.
@wizzotizzo3 жыл бұрын
This part of history is taught a lot in Lithuania where I live.
@CatsEyethePsycho3 жыл бұрын
I always wanted to know more about Lithuania in WW2!
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Glad we could help!
@kerstas102 жыл бұрын
Summary would be. "It was a shit show from the beggining and all the way till 1991"
@tdestroyer18823 жыл бұрын
I’m Lithuanian myself so I am proud of the brave resistence fighters who fought for Lithuania’s freedom and dropped their differences to fight against the true enemy
@bololollek92453 жыл бұрын
Proud of facists and anti-semites? Your countrys people have never understood anything.
@anthonybenash34573 жыл бұрын
Benashunas, checking in.
@bololollek92453 жыл бұрын
@Jason Bonaparte So to believe in an ideology that states that people who are not capable to provide for society should be removed does not necessary have to be a bad thing? And hating a group of people to the point of wanting to exterminate them is not a bad thing? Please stop telling people fairytales. Are you that blind to your nationalism? I have always had respect for Lithuania as my neighbor but many of you are so misguided as in my country.
@windex16133 жыл бұрын
@@bololollek9245 we are proud of them for what they did not the person.
@dannyarcher4383 жыл бұрын
@@windex1613 they executed the Jewish population even before the Germans arrived. Murdered unarmed Men, Women and children. Your "Heroes" shot infants for being of the wrong religion. If they are heroes so is ISIS members.
@ironwolf54533 жыл бұрын
As a Lithuanian, I can say this is very based
@dk.kapsukas21953 жыл бұрын
My man
@neofulcrum50133 жыл бұрын
The enemy of my enemy is my friend
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Sometimes.
@eamonrustom25103 жыл бұрын
Lithuania represent! Anyone else?
@anthonybenash34573 жыл бұрын
Benashunas baby!
@CBDPiggy3 жыл бұрын
Na zdrowie!
@arturasandriusaitis88323 жыл бұрын
The Everlasting Glory to Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian Partisans fallen for Freedom! The world didn't value their sacrifice properly yet. All is ahead.
@inactive8593 жыл бұрын
Makes me proud to be Lithuanian.
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Eyy!
@auregamer53 жыл бұрын
Makes me depressed to be lithuanian. This bunch of nazi collaborating bandits is somehow celebrated as freedom fighters.
@user-py9cy1sy9u3 жыл бұрын
@@auregamer5 majority of forest brothers were young people that didnt want to join Red army so instead of going to jail they went in to the forest
@Miron_Marnic3 жыл бұрын
And I am proud that our countries were one before partitions. Have a great day, from Pole :-).
@venomblizzard9993 жыл бұрын
@@auregamer5 what you forgot that these guys had initial reason to join germans of what Soviets did in first occupation, and that our commanders did everything to prevent from ss to form and after our territorial army was purged we went to Forrest fully.
@aldy97213 жыл бұрын
Now THIS is a proper United front
@Zen-rw2fz3 жыл бұрын
Drum, eins, zwei, drei
@jonathanwilliams10653 жыл бұрын
Why do Lithuanians oil their gardens? To keep their guns from rusting
@justinmiller50953 жыл бұрын
Shouldn't have to bury them in the first place
@heyimlithuanian10032 жыл бұрын
@@justinmiller5095 alright smarty mc smart face
@deividasnavickas2 жыл бұрын
@@justinmiller5095 u wot? we had to hide guns in case KGB were to raid your house........
@jamesdykes29682 жыл бұрын
They might as well keep them in their gardens...it isnt like they used them against either the Soviets in 1940 or the Germans a year later.....for the Jews it was different.
@deividasnavickas2 жыл бұрын
@@jamesdykes2968 that has be one of the most ignorant things I have read in a long time. What would a population of 2.3mil that was not military advanced do to a 194mil population world super power? and a 71mil population nation that easily took over almost all of Europe? Secondly, that saying appeared after the world wars, after which we were fighting Stalin's regime and still hold the title of the longest and the bloodiest gorilla fight in Europe's history.
@Max-lk6yi3 жыл бұрын
so a true gamer's resistance army
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
Which game?
@jonathanwilliams10653 жыл бұрын
Someone should make a game telling the story of these men
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
Could be, but I doubt its quality and overall success.
@titosyettos26893 жыл бұрын
Lithuania - the gamer naition
@yungcris52113 жыл бұрын
Cus all gamers are racist
@paulius20193 жыл бұрын
It is so unfortunate that many forget the resistance of the Baltic States and then they call us Russians.
@c.w.johnsonjr63743 жыл бұрын
The Forrest Brothers should be honored with Braveheart and Saving Private Ryan-like movies
@bololollek92453 жыл бұрын
You do not honor 9 11 terrorists and SS with such movies, so why honor these?
@c.w.johnsonjr63743 жыл бұрын
@@bololollek9245 Because they fought against Nazi and Soviet tyranny.
@motiejus88053 жыл бұрын
@@bololollek9245 Where do you see correlation between terrorists and Lithuanian partisans?
@MrShark-kb2rr3 жыл бұрын
@@motiejus8805 He must be one of Putin's trolls
@AshGamer0073 жыл бұрын
@Jason Bonaparte how can you say something so controversial yet true
@brokenbridge63163 жыл бұрын
I've heard of the Forest brothers. They were brave to have done what they did. I salute them.
@napoleonibonaparte71983 жыл бұрын
How to be effective in this melting pot? Don’t talk about what your ideologies.
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
*Everyone just stays quiet.*
@BiggsTheOwl3 жыл бұрын
*silence intensifies*
@rustym.shackelford55463 жыл бұрын
Except if you're in battle - that's when talking is important.
@danrook57572 жыл бұрын
Everyone has a plan until u get punched in the face. (Mike Tyson)
@gengarzilla16853 жыл бұрын
The Soviet Union really shouldn't have annexed the Baltic countries and parts of Finland. They made enemies out of those countries, the last things you'd want with your ideological adversary gearing up to invade you.
@Basex6933 жыл бұрын
im lithuanian and my grandgrandfather was forest brother. thx for doing this vid
@starwarzchik1123 жыл бұрын
Lithuania be like: I used the fascism to destroy the fascism.
@xwing80292 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, there was not a single antisemitic move made in Lithuania before germans came to the country and government of Smetona, before first soviet occupation was pretty much neutral.
@Matas20053 жыл бұрын
Pretty accurate video. I approve as a Lithuanian.
@crish.92773 жыл бұрын
And I thought the French resistance was a mess of Ideologies
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
LOL
@adolfasramanauskas6780 Жыл бұрын
Small correction, not that it had any influence later on: Lithuania was firstly drawn-up to be in the German sphere, until the parties agreed an exchange of an extra part of Poland for Germany in trade for Lithuania to the Soviets. Edit: Would be great to get your sources!
@FinskiePerkele3 жыл бұрын
As Indonesian who just doing research on Baltic Language, I start listening to Baltic Forest Brothers Song because it's just type of song I like to listen instead of Pop music and etc. XD Found this video make me Surprised about their fight for freedom just like us xd, tho in the end we have on our way and future. Enjoyed it :)
@glendanison30643 жыл бұрын
Fascinating episode. Another unfamiliar aspect that I now want to learn more about. Disparate people uniting in response to a desperate situation, caught between two despotic powers. And lasting 8 yrs. after the war.
@SG0033 жыл бұрын
United by hate We all saw power of love and friendship in movies and shows, it's power of hate irl
@aldy97213 жыл бұрын
Power of love for your country, and hate for those that control it.
@billiecruz43993 жыл бұрын
Uniting against an oppressor is only hateful to the oppressor
@Chikanuk3 жыл бұрын
@@aldy9721 ...like jews?
@reigoj82283 жыл бұрын
@@Chikanuk were soviets and nazis jews?
@fidenemini111 Жыл бұрын
@@reigoj8228 Were Jews Mexicans?
@yuhboijosiah80833 жыл бұрын
So it was literally r/PoliticalCompassMemes if they were all given guns
@TheFront3 жыл бұрын
Oh my. That sub is something else.
@yuhboijosiah80833 жыл бұрын
@@TheFront It was great a year ago, but has become somewhat stale
@yuhboijosiah80833 жыл бұрын
@CR Productions Cope
@rinkairiozuki72453 жыл бұрын
Sadly, fight for the freedom did not end all the way to the 1990s. I have Mad respect for people who fight in the forests, stand against Russian Tanks while holding hands for the sake of our freedom.
@bogustoast22none253 жыл бұрын
When you run an RPG campaign where all the PCs hate one another, but promise to put their hatred on hold for the near future.
@coliukedo5 ай бұрын
I am proud to be the granddaughter of Lithuanian Forest's brother. My grandfather fought in the forests for a long time, but after the death of his whole squad, he was captured and exiled to Siberia (fortunately, he survived the camp and managed to return to Lithuania), as did a large part of my family, just because they were educated or managed large farms, not everyone came back from Siberia...
@gage54843 жыл бұрын
The important thing they all had in common was they were pro-Lithuania, and against any foreign power trying to control them.
@jamesdykes29682 жыл бұрын
Like the Jewish kids they killed by bashing their heads into walls..
@saulenevalskyte58783 жыл бұрын
My grandma worked as a surgical nurse during war and after, and as bad as it sounds was in favor of germans. Yes they were against minorities, but soviets was against humans, with no respect for anything. The forest brothers or people who might know their locations were torture (beaten up, kicked, shot, needles put under nails, eyes poked etc) and than barely breathing or dead and beaten up beyond recognition drop on town squares as an example for others. People with any knowledge about forest brothers was threaten by their or their families lives. Most of intellectuals and their families deported to Siberia, leaving only the working class non threatening people to live in the country (also introduced huge problem of alcoholism that we are still fighting). My mother never celebrated Xmas as a child because my grandparents didn't want any extra attention to be drawn to their family (as a surgical nurse my grandma most likely was already watched by the regime since she was dealing with a lot of victims). She would secretly pass on little bundles of food for kids to be deported to Siberia with their families with a great knowledge that most of them won't survive event the trip in a cattle train. For many lithuanans soviet symbolic is much much more painful than nazi's, everyone knows at least one family that had someone deported, that had someone dropped in prison etc and all that is very fresh in our memory since the country was under occupation until 1990.
@crazydragy4233 Жыл бұрын
Let's not forget how the red army burned down a village of innocent people because one of their soldiers got got.
@billd.iniowa22633 жыл бұрын
Thanx so much for this. Not alot of people know about what happened in the Baltic States.
@up0the0ions3 жыл бұрын
Latvia and Estonia have a similar story, please do those aswell Notably the Latvian forest brothers.
@delliveromofficielle95512 жыл бұрын
Well, Lithuanian partisan resistance was biggest in the Baltics
@aigaozolina73772 жыл бұрын
@@delliveromofficielle9551 and u know that how?
@tf2spydumbone2212 жыл бұрын
@@aigaozolina7377 in total there were 100k Lithuanian forests brother in direct combat and who provided support while Estonia and Latvia combined I think had only 80k
@crazydragy4233 Жыл бұрын
@@delliveromofficielle9551 From my limited knowledge the Lithuanian and Latvian groups were pretty close when it came to working with each other
@ralfsfilips41543 жыл бұрын
Welcome to Baltic. We do set differences aside for common goal
@kodilodinoza3 жыл бұрын
Even thouh Lithuania surrendered peacefully in 1940 Soviet Union still exiled ~20k people from Lithuania in 1941 that really enraged local population. Also when Soviets reocupied Lithuania 1944 Stalin had a plan to forcefully recruit 250k Lithuanian men in Red Army that was moving towards Berlin due to that plan many lithuanian men fled to forest and joined various parisan groups. Regardless of the Red Army was still able to recruit ~98k men in Lithuania.
@DEVOPS_R_US3 жыл бұрын
I managed to visit the Genocide Museum in Vilnius. Some of this is new to me about the Forest Brothers. I didn't know that they were made up of such a diverse group. I know that Lithuania, unlike the other Baltic states never had any SS divisions like the Estonians and Latvians that I always thought was a mistake for their nationalist cause that today Russia uses to beat them over the head with whatever their motives.
@venomblizzard9993 жыл бұрын
It’s more that we formed terrritorial army instead and prevented ss from forming and after they refused to declare loyalty to Hitler the high command was to be purged and sent to concentration camps and remnants just took the guns and equipment became part of partisans
@janpiwnik11362 жыл бұрын
What about Ponary genocide?
@TonkistLT2 жыл бұрын
@@janpiwnik1136 What about it?
@vytautassulcas6494 Жыл бұрын
@@TonkistLT he just wanted point out what Nazis has done in Paneriai, located close to Vilnius
@TonkistLT Жыл бұрын
@@vytautassulcas6494 Oh i would know that place because i live there. However, i don't see the point of him pointing out the Paneriai genocide
@spiffywolf28503 жыл бұрын
I could defiantly see how the soviets were viewed just as bad as the Nazis if not worse judging how both factions took a lot of the same actions with gulags and concentration camps and shipping people off.
@aaatlaasss3 жыл бұрын
Based braļukas🇱🇻🇱🇹
@capturedskunk76983 жыл бұрын
Thx for maakin this
@thrasherLT2 жыл бұрын
8:50 Yes, he had pet hawks. His code name was "The Hawk".
@LitNoah2 жыл бұрын
A Lithuanian living in K.Veverskis street;) People among the world should know why Soviets are same as nazis and etc.
@jovanweismiller71143 жыл бұрын
Nazis and Jews? Catholics and Marxist-Leninists? I'd say the whole thing was amazing!
@jamesdykes29682 жыл бұрын
It is also completely false.
@tiernanwearen80963 жыл бұрын
I think I would have preferred to be Robin Hood for 50 years rather than run to sweden
@Mystic_Stirling3 жыл бұрын
Final last words before being captured 2 weeks later
@tiernanwearen80963 жыл бұрын
@@Mystic_Stirling life well lived
@jed29502 жыл бұрын
I have cousins adopted from Lithuania, it's good to know a little history about their ancestral country
@rimaspazereckas274810 ай бұрын
Just remember The Forest Brothers live on via the Litho Special Forces...trained to operate like the original Forest Brothers. it seems stubbornness is strong within the Lithuanians. Proud to be a Litho
@rajonomistika2 жыл бұрын
We are called Lit-huanians for a reason
@algijura11 ай бұрын
or lit-L-aliens
@limboprime40083 жыл бұрын
When your policies are so bad, that manage to combine EVERYONE from all politacal parts
@timsvea59803 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this great video about the brave and pragmatic Lithuanian resistance. You do a wonderful job elucidating little known history. Keep up the great work, brother!
@JustinasD2 жыл бұрын
The uprising did not fight alongside the wehrmacht. Lithuania was already soviet-free when the Germans came. Lithuanians just used the opportunity. They even managed to install a provisional government. Germans did not like it. They did not trust locals, because Lithuania refused the German offer to attack Poland together in 1939.
@Ernzt83 жыл бұрын
When the enemy of your enemy is your friend amazing things can happen, but jews fighting on the same side as fascists is unbelievable
@xwing80292 жыл бұрын
To be honest there has been more non ideological fighters. A lot of young guys of age 18 went to fight to the forest even in 50's, what kind of ideology could they have at that point? People were fighting because of oppresion.
@mixlllllll4 ай бұрын
Lol, in Finland jews fought together with the Germans.
@michaelandreipalon3593 жыл бұрын
I must admit, they're basically the Rebel Alliance, what with these mixed ideologies and sides.
@zeamagogu40293 жыл бұрын
Excelent video. Try talking about the resistance in Romania. The Legionari. Just as badass. But less diverse.
@arturasandriusaitis88323 жыл бұрын
Very strange film. You made a "cocktail" and presented it like "Lithuanian". Only Lithuanian partisans (The Forest Brothers) were true fighters for Freedom in Lithuania. The Polish and soviet "partisans" were controlled from outside and can't be considered as "Lithuanian movements". The Jew partisans are the different story. They were the escapers from ghettos and didn't fight for Lithuania. Some of them were influenced by communism and had contacts with the soviets.
@totallynotalpharius22832 жыл бұрын
Care to comment on the nationalist ones being anti semites?
@GoDLiKeKakashi Жыл бұрын
@@totallynotalpharius2283 Most likely became so after the Lithuanian Jews worked with the Soviets to enforce mass arrests, killings and exiles of Lithuanians prior to the German invasion. I wonder what made those guys dislike Jews so much?
@DonIsadick-mf3gv7 ай бұрын
I'm American, Lithuanian descent. My family left lithuania well before WW2 for America and I'm damn grateful my great grandparents had the knowing something bad was around the corner and to get the hell out. And Lithuanian history of aiding the Nazis makes me kind of sick.
@johnryder17133 жыл бұрын
People who supported hate having to get on with their mortal enemies and take on a new form of hate, now theres real diversity, but as usual its justs another small country who fought back to protect themselves as they needed to
@FreaKCSGOHacker3 жыл бұрын
I got weird looks on the street when you started describing the Lithuanian Resistance because I simply could not compute the information that was being given to me.
@FreaKCSGOHacker3 жыл бұрын
On a side note, these days we see people talking about being unable to co-operate with the other side. We should start pointing them to those cheeky Lithuanian Resistance members.
@vilzupuupaa46803 жыл бұрын
You should do a video on forest brothers in general. I mean the movement in all the baltic states.
@kristapsozolins11743 жыл бұрын
Also it would be cool to see similar video about forest brothers in Latvia and Estonia. And there is also interesting history and war stories about Latvian SS and Estonian SS
@keptaduona1862 Жыл бұрын
Tevynės Labui
@zeppal62433 жыл бұрын
:O lithuanian gang here
@brokenbridge63163 жыл бұрын
The Front---I really hope you read this comment. Because I would like you to make a video on "the Russian Dunkirk." It was a real event. And something that should be touched upon by someone.
@SquidAssassin421 Жыл бұрын
All in all thanks to this fight the dream of freedom was never crushed
@pal66362 жыл бұрын
This is thoroughly researched. This was a very important part of the world to cover because of its influence in changing everything back to pre-Stalin.
@anthonykatsivalis2243 жыл бұрын
Damn bro imagine thinking that the SOVIET UNION itself wasn’t communist enough, especially under Stalin, what would that even look like? Would it look like a communist version of Oceania from the book 1984?
@Chikanuk3 жыл бұрын
Stalin before WW2 prefer to let over countries do their stuff. His motto was "lets build communism in USSR first, and then we succeed everyone will follow". Only after a war and start of NATO he choose to import communism to over countries. True hardcore communists was radicals, who was thinking what communism must be forced across the globe as fast as it possible. So yeah, Stalin was pretty moderate by their standarts. Stalin, despite popular beliefs, was an extremely pragmatic man.
@anthonykatsivalis2243 жыл бұрын
@@Chikanuk yeah I understand that, trotsky on the other hand wanted a world revolution
@gnas18973 жыл бұрын
Everyone here is missing something. The Soviet Union never was communist
@anthonykatsivalis2243 жыл бұрын
@@gnas1897 what
@gnas18973 жыл бұрын
@@anthonykatsivalis224 it simply wasn't, it was socialist but not yet communist
@darianvaldez40443 жыл бұрын
Dang, not a monarchist party? Fighting for a king or queen is up my alley.
@ronmaximilian69533 жыл бұрын
Which Lithuanian monarch would they be fighting for? The Grand duchy of Lithuania ended in 1795.
@darianvaldez40443 жыл бұрын
@@ronmaximilian6953 rip, then a decedent from the royal family would do then.
@auregamer53 жыл бұрын
@@ronmaximilian6953- there was a plan to set up independent lithuania as a monarchy. Prince Wilhelm of Urach was elected as king of lithuania as "Mindaugas II", though moments later everybody suddenly realized that is a stupid idea and that did not go anywhere. Darian Valdez - Even then, polish lithuanian commonwealth was elective monarchy, going over Swedish, German and other monarchs. You could take a prince from anywhere, restore the commonwealth law and it would fit. And theres people crazy enough to fight for a king or queen when doing that is so very obviously bad for themselves. ..Though support for forming a democratic republic is always far more significant.
@crazydragy4233 Жыл бұрын
@@ronmaximilian6953 Also idk but i feel like there hadn't been a lithuanian Lithuanian monarch for so long people probably would have had a different allegiance if they were into monarchy.
@skydivingcomrade16483 жыл бұрын
Not surprised that they thought the communists worse.
@DanielGrabarek7 ай бұрын
There was yet another strong resistance group within that landscape. In Vilnius and in the area around Vilnius also Polish Home Army had a very strong presence to the extend, that soon after capture of Vilnius, Soviets and Polish Home Army together were policing Lithuanian capital. Very soon however Polish Home Army members were prosecuted by Soviets.
@everettseay8505 Жыл бұрын
"Rise Up You Fallen,Fighters Rise and Take Stand Again" For He Who Fights and Runs Away' Live to Fight Another Day! True Warriors👍👌☮️ -Bob Marley
@theeternal27343 жыл бұрын
EVERY EXTREME IS ON THE SAME TEAM
@Habibas7773 жыл бұрын
Csgo matchmaking be like:
@Mystic_Stirling3 жыл бұрын
This needs more coverage. Please elaborate. Any other YT Channel’s who have covered this btw?
@skeetskeet7041 Жыл бұрын
FPO: so, we’re not doing the “enemy of my enemy” thing anymore? LAF: *look in hindsight Barbarossa should have been a red flag*
@soggydonut29173 жыл бұрын
🇱🇹 🇱🇹
@dallastheheister27652 жыл бұрын
the sad thing is the lithuanians never stood a chance
@crabLT2 жыл бұрын
Didn't stop them from fighting.
@GiedriusVejas Жыл бұрын
Well we are here, aren't we?
@raclark27303 жыл бұрын
8:47 Rifle, grenade, anti soviet attack hawks, ready for battle.
@deividaszubLT3 жыл бұрын
Reminds me halwk from assassin's creed :D
@Crazyman124576 ай бұрын
They just hated everyone else more than they hated each other.
@RedMan-zt6mk3 жыл бұрын
Hey I get along with anyone regardless their political view if they help me stay alive.
@dCD3213 жыл бұрын
great video as always
@vilzupuupaa46803 жыл бұрын
8:23 Suomi perkele!
@Shruple5 ай бұрын
Wait is this narrator the same guy as Geetsly?
@deinemudda10492 жыл бұрын
I said we're done when I'm done
@alexfeder93283 жыл бұрын
Comments surprisingly tame tbf
@jensjensen90353 жыл бұрын
4:48 wow really I couldn’t have imagined that
@willpgarrett29403 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!
@deividasnavickas2 жыл бұрын
Facts like these annoys me when Lithuania is called communist...
@reiancanoy43943 жыл бұрын
How all ideologies come together to fight one common enemy the soviet union
@warrpcentral59733 жыл бұрын
Can you talk about the latvian and estonian resistances to?