The birth of the Baltic States at the end of the First World War

[@nonamesplease6288]

Pritt never disappoints. This channel is getting off to a flying start.

[@meddy833]

Prit Buttar is one of my go-to authors when reading and learning about the Eastern Front without the Western bias we must suffer with others. All Mr. Buttar's work is worth reading and studying. Thanks for every time you have this man on.

[@philbosworth3789]

Prit did an excellent job explaining a very complex subject. Critical information regarding what happened later come up here.

[@garyaugust1953]

Pritt is so knowledgeable, so engaging, you simply cannot not be captivated by his presentations. Another big up for Woody, for providing us with such great content, on both WW1 & WW2TV

[@deanmurphy5735]

Be nice. Spot on Woody.

[@silentotto5099]

Prit Buttar need not worry. His presentation was very interesting. I learned a great deal and I'm looking forward to him teaching me a great deal more. The only thing he's missing is an epic mustache.

[@WW1TVchannel]

Well said!

[@davidlavigne207]

Fascinating lecture from a person who is well qualified to speak about it. I never knew about the Royal Navy being so involved in the fighting in Estonia. One can clearly see how these nations had such a great influence on events in WW2.

[@mammuchan8923]

Such an excellent show, I am going to need to rewatch to catch all the information⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@garethpowell1520]

Such a complex history - thank you for making my understanding of this area better

[@normagraham149]

Another wonderful presentation by Prit Buttar. Sorry I missed it live, but glad to catch up now.

[@joeyj6808]

Fascinating stuff. I've come to expect learning a few things when Prit is speaking. Thanks for having him!

[@PurpleCat9794]

Thank Woody for your hard work. It was a glorious day listening to both WW1 and WW2TV. Love to see Prit again soon.

[@garymiller_85]

An absolute Tour de Force by Prit Buttar. Fantastic guest.

[@georgewnewman3201]

When watching this on Wednesday, I did not realize then that I had acquired an audio book version of Prit Buttar's book Shattered Empires just a few days before.

[@patrickgrove2645]

Captivating presentation. Pritt did an excellent job describing the birth of the Baltic states. WW1tv is doing a super job. Great topics and lecturers.

[@WW1TVchannel]

Thank you kindly!

[@scottgrimwood8868]

An incredibly indepth presentation. I will need to watch this many times to pull out and understand all the details. Prit is an excellent speaker.

[@christopherridle7670]

I may have to watch this a 2nd or 3rd time, and I'll have to take notes. The Baltic States are complex.

[@bwda666]

Yes they are incredibly complex aren't they? So many factions,& they're ALL "having a go"!? Fascinating......

[@chemicalqueen5460]

Great start to the channel, fantastic knowledge, keep up the good work!

[@WW1TVchannel]

Thanks, will do!

[@Vegas_Des]

Pritt is my fave!!

[@abrahamoyevaar2226]

Very interesting couple of presentations over the last couple of days Prit. Thanks to you and Paul.

[@jrooney58]

Very enlightening discussion, as always, by Prit. A lot of this, plus the Polish- Ukrainian border disputes, is covered in Prit’s third volume of his WW1 trilogy , “Russia’s Last Gasp.”

[@georgewnewman3201]

and Lenin would try to take over the Second Polish Republic during the interwar period in the Polish-Soviet War (1919-1921). He would ultimately fail.

[@jrooney58]

I was wrong about the title of the volume that Buttar covered the Baltic states. It was titled “Splintered Empires.”

[@MiguelGLD]

Excellent presentation, just the facts and a very complicated situation made understandable. I can only second the recommendation to visit the Baltics, it's the hidden gem of Europe.

[@JFB-Haninge]

Great stuff.. 👍👍👍👍😊😊😊😊

[@marks_sparks1]

Great presentation by Prit, explaining the complicated 3 wars of liberation that were started by a World War , which then became part of a civil war that involved most of the great powers coming out of the world war. Yes, 1917-21 on the Eastern Front is such a minefield of contradictions & divided loyalties. I've subscribed today.

[@EEX97623]

Estonia is my adopted home, the wilderness and nature across the country is incredible. Estonian is Finno-Ugric language group, along with FInland, Hungary, Mordovia.

[@markmelvin299]

Great presentation. Thanks very much. I was taken with your reference to the train system in the region being pretty much the same then as now for my grandfather, an ethnic Pole born in Lithuania, was a wheelwright for carriages on the main road between Grodno and Wilno (as Vilnius was then called) and went out of business in 1891 when the first railway arrived in the region. He took his family to Siberia to work on the Trans Siberian railway while his brother went south to live in what was then called the Borderlands which became even more of a mess in later years... And sorry Woody your comment about farmers not really noticing regime change in their day to day life, not a chance. The Soviets rounded up and either killed or deported all of them in 1939-41. Just what they did to the Kulaks in Ukraine a decade earlier. Still a great presentation guys. Many thanks.

[@mathewkelly9968]

Great episode by Prit as usual ......... Agar deserves a crossover episode with Drac

[@PorqueNoLosDos]

My God that was great!

[@bwda666]

Ur NOT WRONG m8!?

[@jimwatts914]

Howdy folks learned much in this show from Dr Buttar about a situation I had the barest knowledge of. He explained it all. Depth of info that he has of this region is impressive.

[@websterdds]

Excellent Channel!

[@TheVigilant109]

Fantastic presentation by Prit as usual. Learned a lot. Look forward to seeing Prit again. Many thanks

[@susanyu6507]

Prit is a wonderful and knowledgeable speaker and listening to him is like putting the pieces together in a complicated puzzle. I had a question that didn't get answered, or maybe it was in the summary. It seems that this area of the world seems to be in a cycle of war and peace. The Baltics, Eastern Europe, Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, etc. Why does anyone suppose it is? Is it the differences in the countries is just enough that people can divide them based on religion, nationality or something else? Like the Montagues and the Capulets? Maybe a naive question, and obvious to others, but I really don't know.

[@WW1TVchannel]

I don't know either Susan, although you could extend that "warlike" tendency to the Balkans, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Western Europe too

[@susanyu6507]

@@WW1TVchannel Good point! Good thing to research. Probably a lot written about commonalities and solutions. No magic potions though.

[@AdamMisnik]

If anyone wants a still more detailed description of the founding of the Baltic Republics you should read Pritt Buttar's "The Splintered Empires", the fourth and concluding book of his WWI on the Eastern Front series. Thanks for an excellent talk.

[@crhu319]

49:30 temporarily occupied #WilnoPoland which only is Lithuanian because of Russian gifting of it twice in history (1919, 1940).

[@bwda666]

I believe that ,BETWEEN THE WARS, WILNO/VILNO was considered (1 of the 6?) centres of. . . . POLISH culture!? At least a VERY important Polish city!? Think L'vov/Lviv/Lemberg was another one? It's sooooo mixed up "out there? All brought about from demise of Polish-Lithuania Commonwealth?? Fascinating!???

[@silvermikeGA]

I won the lottery when my great grandparents left Lithuania and grandparents Poland in the 1890s and 1920s respectively.

[@georgewnewman3201]

Casimir Pulaski, hero of the US Revolutionary War, was a Polish cavalry officer and was educated and trained in one of the Poiish-Lithuania Commonweath periods, around the 1750s.

[@davidlavigne207]

Interesting fact. Thanks for the information.

[@worldoftone]

Very engaging. Real world spy stuff had me on the edge of my seat!! 👍

[@joanofarc6402]

Hello Sir, would you mind following your other YT account WW2 from this account Because it makes it easier for followers to flip back & forth and finding these accounts. Excellent work. I really enjoy these historical discussions!! From 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@WW1TVchannel]

I don't know what you mean by follow from the WW2TV account? Sorry. They are two separate channels. PW

[@johanlaidoner122]

a very british view of the estonian independence war

[@WW1TVchannel]

A Brit who reads and writes Russian and German. But tell me, what did he get wrong

[@johanlaidoner122]

@@WW1TVchannel not saying its wrong just saying its a british view he mostly talks about the british fleet in the baltic

[@WW1TVchannel]

Sure, but given that our audience is predominantly English speaking, it was a great way of keeping their interest in a period of history few people are aware of

[@bwda666]

That's probably something to do with us being British!? & let's face it, The Royal Navy is OBVIOUSLY the MOST IMPORTANT PART of the struggle for Estonian Independence!? OBVIOUSLY!!!!! Hahahaha (a very British view).... ;)

[@bwda666]

I believe the most common language spoken in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was....... Byelo-Russian? & that the Treaty of Novogrudek(that formed the Commonwealth) was written in Byelo-Russian? Is this true or have I been "fed" nonsense???

[@alganhar1]

I may have joined the WW2 TV Channel but unlike most of your audience WWI is and always has been where my real interest lies. WWII is interesting yes, but WWI is unique in human warfare, at least until late 1917 going on into 1918. None of the tactics used in WWII were unique. All had been used before, what made the difference was technology, and that is what makes WWI unique, because that tech did not exist in 1914, hell much of it, like vehicle mounted radios (unless you were a ship) did not exist even in 1918.... But the seeds of the so called 'Blitzkrieg' were sown in the tactics of the German Stosstruppen of 1918, its just in 1939, they were mechanised, and had radio comms.... In 1918 they were foot infantry, and relied on pigeons or runners.....

[@torbenjohansen6955]

No Estonian and Finish are Not related to any Scandinavian Languages at all!!! they are Uralic languages. Scandinavian languages are Germanic in Origen. So Indo European Languages. They ( Estonian and Finish ) are somewhat related to Hungarien. A way better historian than linguist. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@mathewkelly9968]

Boo freikorps

[@InternetDarkLord]

The depressing thing is how much of this talk of ethnic groups and national borders applies to Ukraine and Israel right now.