Nato forces deployed to Latvia amid fears of Russian aggression - BBC News 

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Who are you to tell where he can celebrate, his ancestors fought for our freedom he can celebrate wherever he likes that doesn't mean he wants to occupy your country dum**ss. Grow up cupcakes.

Would be same as being in Poland and waving a swastika in support of Hitler. Putler and the 4th Reich are no different. They use a Z or V as a swastika. Being proud you are Russian is one thing, but supporting Putler and the atrocities his forces have committed is offensive and no doubt will draw hostility from civilised people.

I presume you would prefer to celebrate German Nazi takeover.

Yeah yet you can have literal nazi parades in your country celebrating the waffen ss? We know who Latvians really are, and the real reason why you hate Russians. Sad thing is tho ur people wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for Russia. You’d be expelled past the Urals to make room for Germanic settlers.

Yea, they portraid them as a innocent people here... disinformation.

But arrest someone for waving a flag? Fascism isn't cool, regardless of the nationality. Just ignore the idiot.

I really don't have a problem with this story. Your criticism of it is exactly the conversation that needs to be had. My money says there people are not merely supporters of Russia, but in actual fact paid social engineers.

LetThem go to the Russian Mir the same way they arrived. By trains.. these people were deported from their homes by the state. Let them worship the state and submit to deportation again. .. to their homes ❤️ from 🇧🇻 to our suffering neighbor . We don't want any more questions on who occupied who. And everyone knows at what cost..

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Thank you Dmitry! This is what I'm talking about! Be a human and you will be honored everywhere.

@@basilmagnanimous7011 I wouldn't blame them. Propaganda is a very, very powerful tool (on _all_ sides), combined with how Putin did a lot of good stuff before turning into this monster that he is now, it's understandable why they believe what they do. I hope things get better and, sometime in the future, we all see eye to eye and know the full story of what goes on. Maybe then this "symbol of unity" can really be that, and people aren't sent to conquer their neighbouring countries for their Tsar anymore.

​@@basilmagnanimous7011 For sure, he did awful stuff, but the world didn't really react to it and aside from Chechnya and Georgia he was at least pretending to build relations rather than raising tensions with the wider world. It doesn't excuse what he did obviously, but the point is that, internationally, he more or less kept his head down and didn't derail Russia. It's comparable to the USA's invasions - I'm not saying that justifies it (and, obviously, Russia's treatment of Chechens was criminal compared to the USA's treatment of the citizens of the countries they invaded), just that it doesn't immediately derail a country internationally with how he handled it. And yeah the gas prices rose, but he also got rid of a leader who basically sold Russia out for all it was worth - if that person was still in power, Russia wouldn't see _any_ of the profits from those price increases. He also named a successor in the party and, outwardly, showed that he was ready to back off. It looked very much like someone who took over a shit situation and, while needlessly brutal, pulled his country out of a hole and was ready to leave and rest on his laurels, leaving his country to a more liberal leader. My own country, while not as friendly with Russia as we were with the EU, saw a relatively bright future ahead with Russia and a potential end to the centuries-long tensions. That alone has to mean something, right? But then he stayed in power, went after the free media more and more and crushed protests, started to threaten us instead of building ties, and now invaded a brother nation in much the same way he handled the Chechen crisis he inherited, except here it's he created the problem himself. I don't know what happened, maybe he always had awful ambitions and just put them in the future and now fears he won't achieve them before the end? Or maybe he always planned to build relations and then cut them off, for some reason. Maybe he didn't plan anything and just lose his senses.

@@basilmagnanimous7011 Just because I think you think I'm Pro-putin - no, I despise him. But I think it's not unreasonable for Russians at home to not hate him given how the country was before him and how it became after he came into power, and how powerful propaganda can be. I mean for god's sake, people genuinely believe the world is flat after reading Facebook posts - it's far, far easier to convince them with government media that the country next door with a _slight_ history of Nazism is actually still full Nazis, and the big defensive alliance is actually there to attack them.

And that should be "felt oppressed here " russian trolls should know this. You have no best friends. The world hates russia and vladolf . The pox on everthing russian. Have a bad day

Awesome 😎

I feel like a king 🤴 now in 600 sqf apartment, I could never live in Hong Kong under those conditions 😐. Poor people, the government should change their policies.

yes, agreed

These is,nt good in the sense that it ends up affecting civilians financially in different angles of life

We see complains here and there on social media ,from different people in different parts all around the world

LOL ???

Nice scapegoat, but there is a valid point to be made. Russia we already know doesn't have freedom of speech, NATO countries claim to...they should back it up, should they not?

Exactly.

@@SmiIeyyXD 😆 🤣 😂

Another lie, no one will send you to hard labor for the Ukrainian flag in Russia.

Good point. But it is a hell to be putins dog.

White on white crime= entertainment

Exactly what Ukraine is doing. Protecting there loved ones. SLAVA UKRAINI 🇺🇦 SLAVA LATVIA 🇱🇻

@@ryucartel351 what’s evil?

@@DeezN1892 what Russia is doing is evil. Raping pillaging targeting civilians hospitals children babies and willfull destruction. Lies propaganda force control. Genocide. Nuclear blackmail.

I think Latvia will survive all it has a small Russian speaking population in the east everyone knows the Russians are their own worst enemy.

@@jeromebano1125 as a Latvian you are completely wrong more than 90% of the Latvian population can speak fluently in Russian (also taught in schools) you can walk into any shop and speak Russian if you believe that latvia has a "small Russian speaking population" than you have either never been to Latvia or are completely dumb its the same way in moldova basically everyone in moldova can speak fluent Russian

@@YoungStrongAndCrazy bro i literally have a Latvian passport and spent over 5 years there currently live in Ireland but realistically 60-70% of Latvians speak Russian the rest like you said probably know a few words but you can go into any Latvian shop for example Maxima is a really popular Eastern European shopping centre but in Latvia you can go there and start speaking Russian and most will understand

@@YoungStrongAndCrazy me and my family are from Jurmala and idk the last time i was there everyone spoke Russian

@@YoungStrongAndCrazy why is it a bad thing? I know Russian bcz of my parents how is it a bad thing to know a language other people don’t tf 💀

Respecting sovereignty and culture does not mean giving up your own culture and language. Respect works both ways.

@@insi4547 But there hasn't been respect from a lot of people, including this kid. Instead of being ashamed for what Russia did to Latvia in the past and is doing now, a lot of russians are celebrating and wishing Putin would come to "save" them and occupy The Baltics once again. This war cult is truly a disease.

@@insi4547 yes. No one is saying to the Russians they can't be Russians.

@@insi4547 get back to ruskia orc

@@insi4547 Finnaly someone with the point here.

They don't even know Latvian? Deport 'em, and if they riot, give them the WW2 treatment

What Latvian culture? LoL.

Facts. Latvia is being slowly encroached upon by the Russians, and has been for a long time. It’s very frustrating when a Russian walks up to me and speaks Russian. I don’t know Russian, you should know Latvian if you live here. I’m not Russian and I’m not gunna learn the language. Especially now.

@@Akela25 you clearly haven’t travelled much. The Latvian culture is more rich than Russian culture could ever be.

@@Akela25 Ok Jewshevik

You want war in Latvia? You'll get it, and NATO wouldn't save you from a civil war with ethnic Russians..

I hear you, it's so hypocritical of these people. I fear they've been fed propaganda all of their lives and don't know a thing of their own history. But I don't think many of them are willing to learn the truth.

Your country openly collaborated with N. Germany during WWII. Save it.

Maybe you shouldn't have collaborated with Nazi Germany and be traitors? That would help to avoid deportation. And don't forget Russians also suffered during Stalin's rule, also being opressed and imprisoned. So what it has to do with them?! Stalin himself was a Georgian by ethnicity

@@JB-dn8cl Or maybe the Soviets were worse than Nazis and so the Baltic States, Finland, and Poland were left with the impossible choice of choosing the lesser of two evils? Go Ahead and consider that: Russians were considered WORSE than Nazis. Because they were. Take all the time you need to mull it over, you don't seem to be a quick thinker. I also love how whenever Stalin is brought up, he is Georgian when it is negative and Russian when it's positive. Who was it who let him be in charge of Russia or the Soviet Union if he was a Georgian? Weren't RUSSIANS in charge of the Soviet Union? The truth is Stalin didn't make Russia... Russia made Stalin. That's "Russkiy Mir" for you. Back to Novosibirsk Ferma Trolley, Komrade. Your BS won't fly here.

why would they move from their homeland? they can identify as Russians, Poles, Indians whoever culturally - it is allowed in democratic societies.

At that age it is hard to have a clear view of the picture. But indeed it was a stupid thing, I think I would burn the flag and ask for citizenship if my country acted like Russia did.

How trumpian of him

@@visnevskiscom ........really?....... I always thought we should outlaw being an idiot. Dumb-asses inevitably screw up everyone else's hard work somehow.

He must be the village idiot.

It was not wise to have a Russian flag at such a tense time, but five years in prison for flying a Russian flag during Victory Day celebrations is a draconian punishment, and Latvia has sunk to the level of Putin's Russia. This is like if, after the US invasion of Iraq, which left hundreds of thousands dead, an American was arrested in Istanbul for carrying an American flag during the 4th of July celebrations.

Exactly.

Why does it matter? Latvia is not a belligerent in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Why shouldn't an ethnic Russian support Russia?

That makes too much logically sense, bud. Doesn't compute in the cultish minds.

@@JA-pn4ji all good just do it in Russia, Latvia took them in and they can leave via the same door.

Rusophobia is disgusing. Europe needs Russia, not USA or Latvia !!!

If you say "Slava Ukraine" or "for Ukraine" does that mean you should go and fight in the battle against Russia thats by your own logic

Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians can go to other EU countries. Probably, however, Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians do not want a foreign aggressor to influence their choice of residence.

@@ettoreatalan8303 Yes, but it wont be their motherland. It is like I came to your house and say it is mine now, you are free to go to neighbors house now.

@@ATRestoration That's the way nationalist Russians think.

@@ettoreatalan8303 Russians living in Pskov should actually leave and move to the urals, since it was originally Latvian territory, innit?

@@DogeickBateman Is Pskov claimed by Latvia?

Kosovo??

You must give their part of land, if you kicked them out its called ethnic cleansing...

MR Choudhury: No Mr. India, it is not the same thing as dividing India and Pakistan. When you are a member of a nation at war you make a choice. With which side will you stand? That’s where you go.

Because russia is a sh!t hole where you get like €120 per month so they stay in Latvia but keep pushing their russian way of life.

@@mrchoudhury6611 To the russian boy and his mother, hey little boy , just pick-up your ass and go live in russia, stop disrespecting latvians and russians that like to live in Latvia. That is not ethnic cleansing, you can have your culture but you cannot disrespect the country where you live.

Not only did they increase the number of Russians by introducing military personell to that territory, they actually reduced the native population through executions, imprisonment and forced deportation. The Russians introduced where not mainly military personell, but the Russian civilians were encouraged to relocate to Baltic territory and often rewarded they homes and property of previous natives that were terminated. It's a tragic history.

@@PipMane you are absolutely right Thor, first the Nazis decimated the populations, next the West couldn't and wouldn't stop Stalin etc doing the same.

They have not regained their independence, they have found a new owner who makes them bark and bite the old one, who previously loved them and invested more than himself.

@@tanusha6145 agreed Tanusha, the various artificilly created nations have suffered and still suffer the neo-colonial policies by Western governments and companies, recently joined by the Japanese and Chinese primarily. I was presenting an argument against the reasoning of Ghon Bon. I want him or her to read a bit of history and think for himself...

Conquered in 1940*

Hey how are you doing...?

Yes it was

What if country for which by loyalty you are against Putin-yet government of your country outcasts you because of being "culturally" russian, what should you do then? Oh wait, answer is to emmigrate to Russia, is it? And it's definately not gonna be a confusion between ethnicity and loyalty.

If you think like Nazi you should emigrate to Ukraine.

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Send all the pro Putin Russians back to Russia.They think they own land that a small percentage of Russians live in.Send them back

Same for Ukraine)

And who occupied you before? That's right....THE NAZI! and now Western imperialism who's occupied you...the difference is they give some delusional thing call "Freedom".

we need to nuke russia

More made up crap. Learn history fools

Though some of the facts and your arguments make sense but why would everyone else in the world accept what the US said or sided with? US has always been biased against the Russia and therefore it makes it even more suspicious when the US is taking someone’s side - the US’s history is not so bright when it comes to such things. shows the US

Lmfao, what do you call mass immigration to Europe?

Exactly what they are doing in Ukraine now, and have done in Ukraine in the past. If these people love Russia and identify as Russian, why don't they go live in Russia?

Thanks, I appreciate the history lesson! 🙂

I recently saw Putin giving a talk to young Russian entrepreneurs where he was telling them that Russia would be doing Riga a favour by taking it over. He’s a maniacal tyrant.

Learning the official language of the country you live in should be a given no matter where you are living. It some bs entitlement to think otherwise.

@@newperspective5918 to be fair my teacher only lived in Latvia a few years and since so many people there know Russian and English it’s easy to get by but she is trying

@@newperspective5918 no one owes you anything. hundred thousands of ppl live in the US and only speak Spanish or Chinese. people are free to speak, learn or to refuse to learn a language in a democratic society. They might be losing work/business /other opportunities if they choose not to learn the language, however, they can never be forced to. Unless we are talking about a state with repressive mechanisms of governance, which as far as i know, Latvia is far from (yet).

@@insi4547 In Sweden we have whole societies that can only speak Arabic, the signs are even in Arabic. They been living here for 20 years and can’t say a word in Swedish 🤣 it’s their children who learn to speak from a young age, but this is total disrespect, the first thing I do even when I travel to a new country is to learn a few words and sentences to get by

The problem with Russians is that they have no empathy towards smaller nations. I suggest to that boy to take the Ukrainian flag and go on the Red Square and see what will happen to him.

Isn't Latvia a fascist state? 20% of citizens of Latvia doesn't have right to vote for their representatives, all current elites are children of old elites. Also massive political repressions and discrimination. Latvia has all signs of fascist state.

If he wants to wave a flag of the terrorist Country he should move to Russia

I don't feel sorry, I hope those threats won't remain just threats. They are enemy combatants and need to be dealt with as such! Surround their house, pick up stones and sticks and then set their house on fire! if they come out, death thru rocks and sticks! this is what those dogs deserve! You act like rabies dog and you get treated like one! that's my point of view, not only about russkaia dogs, but anyone who acts like rabies animal, should get treated like one and be put down.

I still remember 2014 when everyone was trying to bring light to the fallen soviet union vs the live on. Just before the union died and the iron curtain was done all they wanted was reform and change, and the true soviet who wasn't marred by the blood of war woukd be disappointed with Russia today just as they were sad when Tienman happened

When in Rome, do as the Romans.

Exactly.

Tell that to all ukrainians in Poland who behave so badly. When in Poland ,do as the Polish!

Exactly. The Russians have only entered the country after it was absorbed by the Russians after WW II. If they keep on insisting being Russians, they should move back to where they came from.

They didn't "choose" to be born there. And even if they chose to move there. They're citizens that deserve full and equal rights.

Due to the algorithm, I have no idea if you saw it; but in my feed, your comment was directly below a Latvian pointing out this kid is pro-Poohtin and that means he wants Russians to invade and take over Latvia, something that WW2 victory day also stands for, since Latvia was invade by the USSR.

There will be no ladyfolk left in your country if Putin launches a special millitary operation there

Rusophobia is disgusing. Europe needs Russia, not USA or Latvia !!!

russian people support russian leadership, otherwise there will not war

People claiming they are neutral are lying. They have loyalties. They better choose a side and make peace with their choice. Glory to Democracy! Glory to the people. (The dictators can go to hell.)

Europe is racist, and they are telling others they are not while acting otherwise.

Right? :D

This is a tactic to make Putin " Come and save Russians who are being discriminated ". These people in Latvia wants to turn that country into Russia

The same can be said about anti Putin Russians - they are free to immigrate. However you call Russia automatic nation and you don't call that Latvia.

The Russians built Latvia. Why should they leave?

The national front in England a racist group had the same thoughts about foreign Muslims during the Iraq afghan wars marching through there areas back then crazy how racism against Russians is acceptable by the mainstream

Forced mass deportation

I remember this fascism has happened before, a kind of ethnic cleansing, xenophobia.... Oh yeah. There was some guy called Hitler from almost 100 years ago 🤦🏾‍♂️

exactly .problem solved....

Will Latvia and Ukraine be sending the Russian speakers to concentration camps. We know them two countries are hero worshippers of the waffen SS.

Lol you don't know nothing about the situation here. The fault is the Latvian government all together.

@@seiwarriors nope, all is Russias fauly

program of nazism?

Fck nato evil pact, we need a European Eastern Alliance of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia

And who saved you from the nazis

@@redshanksbolshevikempire Unfortunately, Soviet atrocities we’re just as evil as what the. nazis did. The day you acknowledge the sins of your pasts, only then Russia can evolve and move on to elect better leaders than ruthless tyrants like Putin you seem to prefer..

@@redshanksbolshevikempire swapping one genocidal invader for another. Or are we choosing to forget that all mentioned countries were invaded by the Soviets in the early years of WW2?

NATO stand for “ No Action Talks Only” Glory to Russia 🇷🇺. Putin you may have long live to stand agains that bad West

He should have waved the Latvian flag, not the Russian.

Russian propaganda has successfully dumbed down Russians.

Americans tend to be more tolerant and embrace diversity than most other countries - however…. Waving an ethnic flag at a soccer match is one thing.. Someone should ask the kid if waving Nazi flag at a holocaust memorial is “ethnic” repression.

Agreed he is a wise man. I hope he doesn't face difficult choices re: loyalties in the near future

But are they Russian, or are they Latvian? Which?

@@salyluz6535 Latvian or go home to mother Putler and serve on frontline.

@@salyluz6535 They are Russians living in Latvia. They originally moved there to eradicate the Latvian culture. Many don't really integrate to well with the new Latvian society.

@@telebubba5527 The exact same thing that is happening to the Uyghur's in Xinjiang, China today. The Russians and the Chinese really do sing from the same hymn sheet.

They support putin by their blood whether you like it or not.

We have no balls, we will act innocent and run to other countries when Russia comes Tho it doesn't have to come, aftermath of those sanctions is already killing us

Embarrassed? How? An underarmy consisting of unprofessional soldiers? They even have nothing to fight with, because they gave everything they had to the Ukrainians.🤣🤣🤣

do you understand the difference between ethnicity and citizenship? Ethnic Russians that are Latvian citizens have nothing to be ashamed of. Their country is not in a war with Ukraine.

So why then Russian flag in this case?

Does he need your 'wise' advice where and why to move from baltic states ?

@@alexrockstone9035 the Latvians also doesnt need those leeches

@@alexrockstone9035 yes, he does!

So much tolerance from these EU citizens! I am astounded.

@@EL20078 we don't tolerate those who hate us and what we stand for what a shock

I'm not taking Russia's side here but every invading country claims to be a liberator. How many countries does the US claim it has liberated in the middle east?

@@stevec6427 Your right but he's not wrong

@@basilmagnanimous7011 Many countries are guilty of colonisation and absorbing threw military force over the centuries.. Actual countries themselves were born through this. The USA is no different, They started as colonies themselves and then went on to sweep through a huge part of the American continent and beyond.. taking/bribing/fighting their way to build an empire.. To grow the newly formed United States.

@@stevec6427 That's true, but it doesn't really have much to do with is conflict. I think the main difference is just how many people in the US/UK were against those wars and learned about the awful things that their soldiers did. Contrast it to Russia - all Russians I've spoken to about this still say that Russia liberated places in WWII and never committed any atrocities. It's just not taught even all this time later, and that's absolutely inexcusable and evil when compared to what their country did, as it explains almost all the reasons for why countries try to move away from Russian influence - and so, makes absolutely all Russian claims of fearing this or expansion that invalid, because it's 100% all their own doing. Of course, maybe I was talking to troll accounts who never intended to do more than spread propaganda and Russians are in fact aware of this. If that is the case, I do apologise for the assumptios.

I am a latvian and my grandfather fought in world war 2 for the soviets along side other latvians and other people from the baltics while half of the population fought for the nazis and burned their own people who were gypsy or jewish like my grandads sister who was burned by her own people at the age of 14 thats why alot of latvians see it as liberation and thats why there was opposition for knocking down soviet memorials because our people fought in that war but our goverment just wants to look good in the eyes of the west

As Russia has become a fascist country, their nationalist inhabitants are used to denigrate other countries and tell tall tales about them. The West must take a much tougher line toward Russia and Russian culture.

I do agree, seems BBC's let Oksana do whether she wants just because she works in a regional office. Friendship over factual check.

And of course the pro-Soviet fanatics here will twist the facts saying that Latvian people were ‘willingly joining’ the nazi army during WW2, while actually they were not given a chance to opt out and were drafted by both sides as conscripts during the war.(sure there were attrocities commited, but IT GOES FOR BOTH SIDES, the current generation can learn so much about the history, as to not repeat it EVER) As far as Latvian history goes, the complexity of the 20th century shows that current Russia is glorifying its’ predecessor state in a way that negates any wrongdoing whatsoever and the people in Baltics want to stay far away from whatever history ties us with the USSR/Nazi Germany. Whether it’s banning ‘Legion marches’ or destroying Soviet monuments - the latter seems to only upset our slavic minority, which is given enough privilege and respect to leave the country they deem ‘discriminatory’, when it sees fit. (absolute BS anyways, but sure, we’re so fascist and bad we even teach Russian in schools.. lol)

@@burloneicb yes, BBS story that advocates a guy with a 🇷🇺 flag. An absurdity.

Illegal to show support for Russia is just ridiculous. I don't agree with the Russian war, but for fucks sake. That is retarded.

Dude, you and me know the reality. Ukraine is losing really fast. So, Ukraine has next to nothing of a chance to completely push off Russians. A ceasefire most likely will happen where Ukraine will lose the Eastern Ukraine.

@@subhankarbaral9236 Russia will go the way of Nazi Germany. Conquered, partitioned, and finally disappeared into history. I wonder where the future Ukraine-Kazakh and Finnish-Chinese borders will be drawn?

@@subhankarbaral9236 say again? They are winning and Russia is losing more in days than they gained in months.

😂😂🤡🤡🤡

@@IBTU: what would you call putin threatening the freedom of sovereign nations?

NATO will defend the Baltics with the same heroic stance it took in Kabul when total panic ensued as the goat herders, the Taliban, strolled into town. NATO, with its electric tanks and diversity in recruitment, is just a pathetic joke.

With American Imperialism... Jeez, wake the phuck up!

@@duncansmith7562 Change the script shill, start flapping ur gunz like a Putin butt feeder, when you say Taliban you mean Taliban Iran China Ru against USA, common knowledge like the shill two month bank with subs you hide behind.

Yes, Maj Derjugins (as is the proper spelling of his name) sounds like an excellent officer.

Nato, eu ,world economic forum are evil child killers

Speak to hundred thousands of US citizens whose parents have lived in the US for decades and speak nothing but Chinese or Spanish. Tell them about how big of a disgrace that is 😁 you don't learn the language - you lose on the opportunities, job offers (though not always, plenty of jobs in Spanish/Chinese communities do not require English). You can't force a language on anyone. Not learning it or not being able to learn it might set up limitations to your own living/career/communication but you have the right to NOT learn it. That's how it is in democracies.🎉

As Lithuanian you yearly organised NASI marches in Vilnius.Lithuania joined to Nazi Germany in 1939.Like Finland.Lithuanians are killed 100 000 Poles and Jews in Ponary ethnic cleansing.Like did UPA/Bandera in Vohynia 1943-45 ethnic cleansing.Shame of you son of murders.

​@@franekkonopka4831 Thanks for shaming me even though no members of my family ever participated in a genocide. In fact, some of them got exhiled to Siberia and lived under very harsh conditions there. Lithuania did not "side" with Nazi Germany, like Finland as you say. We were invaded by the Soviet Union in 1940. The Nazis came in 1941 (in 1939 they occupied only the Klaipėda region) and occupied Lithuania after the Soviet occupation, and one reason why local people cooperated with them more willingly than with the Soviets is that the Nazis treated Lithuanians much less harshly than the Soviets. The Nazis did slaughter the Lithuanian Jews, and yes there were locals who aided them, but Lithuania has admitted this and attoned for it, unlike Russia with its GULAG "project".

@@insi4547 The U.S. is a different case. Many Russians were settled in the Baltic States during the Soviet occupation to effectively colonize the territory. They treated the locals as second-rate citizens, and did not bother to learn the local languages. The Spanish and Chinese citizens in the U.S. may not know English, but surely they don't expect government officials or public workers to speak Spanish or Chinese. Which is exactly what the Russians did expect, and some older Russians still expect locals to know Russian 30 years (!) after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and they still don't speak the local language. This is complacency and disrespect. Even in European countries with a high proportion of the population speaking English as a second language, you will be frowned upon if you live in a country for a long period of time and don't know at least the basics of the local language. And rightly so, as learning the local language demonstrates your respect for the local culture and your willingness to integrate into it.

Good you made that distinction.

It bacame sattelite state with Estonia and Lithuania of Soviet Union as Baltic Soviet Socialistic Republics. Throughout the years of occupation since liberation from Nazis, there was a long period of sovietisation programm which was working like American melting pot. Governmental apparatus at that period representing the occupied states were consistent with ideologically communist, diverse ethnicity(russians in majority), loyal to Head Chairman of Soviet Union people. Basically speaking-Latvia was not part of Soviet Union, but a country with minimal autonomy manipulated while occupied.

buy rope and .......

Or they can at least volunteer at the frontlines. Their mother russia badly needs volunteers right now.

​@@kingthranduil8807 nah stop listening to the propaganda russia ain't losing

@@awfawsfasgsfasdawfa i agree! Only lots of accidents, right?

Dude i see these diranged questions too much. This is insane. How would you propose them to leave? What? they would just up and leave everything they own? House, job ect? Its so stupid, its more stupid than to say to a bum "dude just buy a house, DUH!" Or put a mentally disabled person in harvard university or trying to make a salad with a dish washer or using binoculars in hopes you could hear what he is talking there 500m away

@@siasurveillancevan8112 is only logic if you know what that is,and the only stupid thing is that they want to impone or demand to live like russians in a foreign country,that's what`s stupid, DUH! 🙄

And riga to moscow is just an 11hour drive. So easy for them to their real love for mother russia. Better yet, little alexander here can volunteer at crimeas frontlines, putin needs him badly there.

I agree

Ever thought that they are Russians who have been living there for hundreds of years just like they have been in Ukraine? Like how low does your IQ have to be to not know that Russians have been settling all around the Russian empire starting many centuries ago. Just like the case of Riga, Latvia. A western nazi like you supports the deaths of 12,000 Russian Ukrainian civilians in Donbas. You have no complaints of the annual waffen ss celebration in Riga, Latvia.

Xenophobia

Or pick up arms supplied by Russia. After all in Kosovo did NATO tell Albanians to go home before they handed Serb territory to Albanians? You want war in Latvia? You'll get it.

@@radicaIarchitect Why? If they love Russia, go and live there, they got more than enough room for them.

Including middle east and Africa?? Human inhabited there too

The west are evil. WWI, WWII, Napoleonic wars, colonialism, and more

You mean NATO pushing into Russian sphere?

... after we Nuremberg putin and his generals, family, entourage and special services

Poo Tin and Zelensky don't want peace. Civilian men in Ukraine could take a trip to Poland and live in peace. Guess what, they're not allowed by their own state.

Primitive tribal mentality is encouraged and rewarded in a fascist klepto dictatorship like Russia.

The Russian people have been oppressed for so long that they see freedom as anarchy. I don't know how you fix that!

Putin doesn’t realize that times have changed. We’re moving forward into the future. But he wants to keep living in the past,hence his desire to bring back the Soviet empire!!

Oh really? 🕵 Suwalki gap? 😐

Because they can identify themselves as they wish and live wherever they want, it's a basic human right, you nationalist idiot

That's why Mexicans moving to USA 😅

Ever thought that they are Russians who have been living there for hundreds of years just like they have been in Ukraine? Like how low does your IQ have to be to not know that Russians have been settling all around the Russian empire starting many centuries ago. Just like the case of Riga- Latvia.

Why should they? Russians live in US too. They should give up their identities? It’s Nazi ideology to discriminate based on ethnicity.

I guess you would like to move them to Russia whether they like it or not. If they refuse to move.. we all know what happens.

It was soviet union before, when there was no Latvia. It's their ground! Why should they move to Russia? They ve been living there for centuries.

They can identify themselves as they want and live wherever they want, it's a basic human right, you nationalist idiot

who 'they' were sent? You realize you are talking about 3rd and 4th generation Latvians of Russian origin? They are citizens of Latvia, where should they ''go'? Latvia is now their country. Too bad nationalists treat them like second class, but hey - Latvia is a very young democracy, they will get there...in 20-30 years maybe.

I am really glad that the Baltic countries and Poland signed up and were accepted into NATO when they did. I don't have any doubts that Russia wants them all back. If Ukraine hadn't turned out so badly for them so far and bogged them down they would already be attempting to invade and annex those countries + Transnistria (Moldova) in the South.

Its been quite clear American/NATO weapons >>>> Russian/Chinese

Well that is a load of Rubbish USA and Nato started this 💩 show. Your advanced weapons 😄 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VO-Qo5qw4U0.html Himar New Atlas. Ukraine is Fubar every one knows it but you.

It seems you haven’t yet realised what Putin means by demilitarisation, which is one of his key reasons for the conflict. Demilitarisation is accomplished by eliminating Ukraine’s military capabilities, not necessarily by taking huge swathes of land. Russia’s strategy is to eliminate the professional army, with around 30-35 battalions trained by NATO, and to eliminate the materiel supplied to Ukraine. The leaked Ukrainian documents last week confirmed 80% of Ukraine’s initial 200,000 professional force are either dead or incapacitated and unable to return to the front. Ukraine did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked documents or the figures quoted. That’s why civilians are being “trained” in the UK…shopkeepers and web designers are no match for artillery, and this is criminally irresponsible of the UK to provide such “support”. As for destruction of equipment and facilities, all NATO training bases have been eliminated (hence the need to “train” civilians offshore), the howitzers and Caesar’s have had no material impact and the majority have been destroyed already (indeed even the NYT has run articles noting that only 30% of weapons shipments make the front line due to corruption and destruction), and there is evidence that 7 of the 16 HIMARS have been destroyed, corroborated by satellite imagery and data showing a significant decline in the use of artillery by Ukraine. Don’t naively assume Russia is failing purely on the basis of territory seized, because since phase 2 commenced Russia has pursued a war of attrition and the main objective is the demilitarisation of Ukraine - it has been very successful at this. When Ukrainian resistance has been ground down sufficiently Russia will take territory, and as we are already seeing significantly reduced supply of weapons and munitions from the US due to their own well documented supply constraints (again reported in both NYT and Washington Post) the time when Ukraine is effectively demilitarised is looming closer. These are the private fears of the intelligence community. Russia is in no hurry, the slower the better, and the recent reliance by Ukraine on pinpoint attacks by small drones on Russian ammunition depots merely highlights that their resistance has been severely depleted.

@@ronanrogers4127 The reason for invasion keeps changing. Just admit it. Putin wanted Ukraine, but he had to settle for parts of the East because his military was incompetant and Western weapons are tearing his invaders a new one every week