The History of Latvia 

Provocateur Latvia's flag is older then Austria's flag!

LATVIA IS 1 OF THE MOST SMALES COUNTRIES UT WE HAVE DEVELOPED DRONES AND SOUER ACID AND WE HAVE SO MANY ATHLETES IT'S AMAZING WHAT WE HAVE WENT TROG!

Yes, It is

Provocateur latvian flag is one of the oldest flags in the world, that means austria needs to give our flag back...

Provocateur nt, Latvian flag is second oldest flag in the World, lol

Cheers!

Thx im from latvia

Latvia is the worst country in europe

Okay, have you been there, do you know what it has gone through (This video did not cover all the struggles), and lastly do you know what every single other European country is like?

thank you from latvia

Greetings from latvia im from latvia

Yo im from latvia ive been in estonia its cool

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Its very ugly, much better one should be built.

the puppet latvian government will remove the monument because they try punish the russians in latvia for so many years

same thing happened for my grandfather was latvian born and moved to italy after the second world war. They later moved to australia where i live now

My great grandfather came to Australia in 1949, I still don't know that much about him

Holy our great/ grandparents might have been on the same ship 🤯

Back to russia

I moved from Latvia to Canada as a kid about 8 years ago and I am so sad that my parents didn’t encourage me to practice the language and stay in touch with friends since I basically have forgotten the language and there are so many cool things I am not learning about the country.

Lazzy Troops i suggest if you ever go to Latvia, go to the forests and other nature related places because Latvia has the best nature. If you’re not a fan of regular nature walks and such you can go to some climbing parks for some adventure....

Yeah. Most people only go to Rīga and not outside of it even tho it has such amazing nature views. I hope you can visit too 💕

I may think Latvia could be popular with its forests and farms!

@@0AngelOnTheDanceFloor0 I'm also in the fandom. :0

@@Tsukasaslover 👌 Nice to hear, honestly first time because I'm the only person around where I live into it or even aware of it

If you mean the people who fought on Hitler's side - many of them didn't have a choice. My Granddads brother was called into the Soviet Union army, but my granddad, being yust 2-3 years younger, was called in the Nazi Germany's army. In the battle of "Kurzemes katls" they stood against each other. My granddad's brother died in that place, and untill his ending days my granddad wasn't shure if he shot the bullet that killed his own brother. All the people who say Nazi's are bad but Soviets just protected their country doesn't know our history at all! We were free and developing (for the last two decades during our first independancy) before Russians came in and used us to their own gain, deporting thousands of people (from our already small country) and punishing those who didn't agree with Soviet Union or expressed any willingness to gain back their own country. And many of the deported ones were somehow associated wth germans or jews. No one cared that most (I know, not all) were callled into Nazi army unwillingly and their main thought was that Germany was better than the horrors they saw in the Soviet Union, and there was even an unaccepted document at one point promising Latvians their country if they fought in this war for Germany. And even after the war many Latvians believed someone would come to their rescue, so they became partisans, hiding in the woods and waiting for help to come... We believed Americans or England will come to our aid, but it was all in vain... No one came to our aid, and we suffered long years under Ussr's governance until we almost miraculously gained our independance again. And during all this, I must mention, many people who fought under Nazi Germany's flag did it because they had no choice or they hoped Germany could make their country great again, like back where it was before the war. There, of course, were latvian Nazi soldiers who committed awful crimes, as did so many people in othe countries as well, too, of course, but they were the minority. And, in all of this, just remember that Soviet union was as bad as Nazi Germany and we should despise both of them, Not to hate one and forget about the other. Yes, Soviet Union helped to defeat the Nazi's, but at what cost??? No one's checking the winner, I guess... And it is even more visible now, when some european country's literally struggle between what is right (Final justice for opressed countries) and what is easy(economical benefits for turning a blid eye against other country's commited atroccities )... again....

@@romanski5811 The Latvian SS didnt kill jews, they were frontline soldiers only. There however was a police established by nazis that did round up jews and kill them.

That's how we remember them here in Latvia we have a whole holiday celebrating the long gone soldiers who fought for our country. Rest in peace trops your legacy and the people you protected will live on forever.❤🇱🇻❤

We had around 10 thousand soldiers when we fought against ussr and denmark surrendered against denmark. Take note that denmark had 55k active troops. This proves latvia is a brave country

ty u 2 mine friend )

Thanks i am from Latvia

Im latvian i respect you now

Thanks for the respect my Lithuanian friend 🇱🇻🤝🇱🇹

Thank goodness we are not Russians vs Ukrainians. But we should all learn more about each other.

Well it is just 8 minute long

Lachausis that is right he must make like a part 2

Yea and not a single man died. But blood stood still.

Bomārs.

pretty true

hi I'm 4 years late

This video is so wrong in everything pre 20. century.

Hi Poland! Kā iet?(How's it going?) Hi from Latvia!🇱🇻

​@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 Why are you also here you already said it once why do you say it twice!?

@@sofijast What?

Jaaaa

Lol wat nigga

BigSmokeVEVO it's in latvian

Anna Vizule no shit im latvian 2

BigSmokeVEVO soo? Tēvzemei un Brīvibai ir uz brīvibas pieminekļa

Same with my great great grandpa , he was deported to siberia and died there

And most of people still think that communism is good

We have luck now... exept there ar atleast 25% russians in all 3 countries :(

you are from Vieatnam?

Big thanks from latvia

Paldies ( thank you) 😁

As stated by the Latvian historian Andrievs Ezergailis, this was the beginning of "the greatest criminal act in the history of Latvia". From July 1941 the Jews of Latvia were also humiliated in different ways and deprived of the rights that were enjoyed by the other citizens of Latvia. Jews were strictly forbidden to leave their homes in the evening, at night and in the morning. They were allotted lower food rations, they could only shop in some special stores, and they had to wear the mark of recognition - the yellow Star of David on their clothes. It was forbidden for them to attend places where public events took place, including cinemas, athletic fields and parks.[8] They were not allowed to use trains and trams, to go to bath-houses, use pavements, attend libraries and museums or to go to schools, and they had to hand over bicycles and radios. Jewish doctors were only allowed to advise and treat Jews, and they were forbidden to run pharmacies.[9][10] Maximum norms for furniture, clothes and linen were also soon introduced for Jews. All articles above the norm were subject to confiscation for the needs of the Reich and the Latvians. All jewelry, securities, gold and silver coins had to be surrendered on demand. Anti-Semitism thus became the source of enrichment of Nazi officials and their local collaborators who confiscated Jewish property. The extermination of Jews suited the purposes of these Nazis and their Latvian allies, since nobody would remain alive to demand the return of stolen items.[11] Liepāja Edit Main article: Liepāja massacres In Liepāja the first mass killing of Jews took place on July 3 and 4, when about 400 people were shot dead, and on July 8 when 300 Jews were killed. The German group of SD and policemen did the shooting, while the Latvian members of Latvian Selbstschutz convoyed victims to the killing site.[citation needed] On July 13 the destroying of the large choral synagogue of Liepāja began. The rolls of the Scripture were spread on the Ugunsdzēsēju Square, and the Jews were forced to march across their sacred things, with watchers merrily laughing at the amusing scene. The above operations took place under the direct leadership of Erhard Grauel, commander of the Einsatzgruppe's Sonderkommando. Ventspils Edit Thereafter Grauel went to Ventspils. The killings were jointly carried out by German Ordnungspolizei and the men of the local Selbstschutz. On July 16-July 18, 300 people were shot dead in the Kaziņu Forest. In July-August the remaining 700 Jews of the town were shot dead, while the Jews of the region were killed in the autumn. The shooting was carried out by German, Latvian and Estonian SD men who had arrived by ship. Soon a poster appeared on the Kuldīga-Ventspils highway, which said that Ventspils was Judenfrei (free of Jews). Daugavpils Edit Main article: Daugavpils ghetto In Daugavpils the extermination of Jews was initially commanded by Erich Ehrlinger, chief of Einsatzkommando 1b.[12] By July 11 they had killed about 1150 people. Ehrlinger's work was continued by Joachim Hamann, who was liable for the killing of 9012 Jews in the city and in southern Latgale. The chief of the local auxiliary Latvian police Roberts Blūzmanis had rendered active assistance by ensuring the moving of the Jews to the Grīva ghetto and transporting them to the killing places. Rēzekne Edit In Rēzekne killings were carried out by a German SD group, which was helped by Selbstschutz men and Arājs murderers(Latvian people). About 2,500 people were exterminated. By October 1941, altogether about 35,000 Latvian Jews were killed. Varakļāni Edit Varakļāni, a relatively small town, had about 540 remaining Jews when the Germans and their Latvian collaboraters gained control. They were shot into graves they were forced to dig on August 4, 1941. The fate of this small town is similar to many other towns, documented by JewishGen and others.[13] See Jungfernhof concentration camp

Dude Latvians live with a parasite eating from their political scull, there’s still Russians living in my childhood apartment in Salaspils. What free… you can’t get work without speaking Russian in Riga. WHAT FREE

Yes we did🇱🇻🔪russia Latvia kill russia

Do you think you are better off now? Maybe you won your independence but you gotta admit thousands of people used to live under better life conditions during soviet era

@@denizaksoy2475 yes thousands on comunist party members, KGB personel or ocupying military personel did. But millions of native Latvians did not as we where ocupied by a barbaric beast from east.

@@denizaksoy2475 Ah yes, glory to the Soviet regime who took over the Russian empires mantle of literal ethnic cleansing of the Baltics. Obviously, Siberia was just a nice vacation. It wasn't even that good to the people you seem to think it was good to... Also not to mention the general degradation of society that took place in all of Soviet union.

Viesturs Vikse Ussr were way better even though socialist implementations weren’t executed according to the book.Ussr had been making great strides in every aspects of life until stalin died and then revisionists like khrushchev took over the communist party and then ussr began to regress and the reason of the downfall was because of the policies carried out by the traitors like gorbachev and yakovlev.And yet you people were fooled by west propanda sources and you thought you would get wealthy but as a consequence only small part of baltics and other former soviet citizens became wealthy and majority of the people either has remained same or go broke and thousands faced unemployment and anxiety of future and after the downfall all the wealth ussr were divided into a couple of oligarchs and russia started being governed by oligarchs and baltic countries are governed in accordance with cia and nato rules.

Did you know Dr. Doom😏

Idc

@strawberry_shortcake4life Flanders is a region of Belgium 🇧🇪

How are u 25% Latvian?

suппч If your parent is 50% Flemish and 50% Latvian, then you will be 25% of each.

le 56% 😂

ljuc yes ikr....i want to see like a part 2

Sweden never banned Latvian language. They build first schools for Latvian peasants in Latvian language. What Ulmanis repressions jailing communists and far right activists :D

lolikususs peasants srsly just because you don't like us doesn't mean you have to use these words I don't believe that you couldn't find a better one

Well, i think you were very young at that time then.

Hey, i'm from Latvia! Keep it safe in Poland.

Nē tu nedābūsi sešsimtsešdesmitsešus abonumentus

Poland - Lithuania Commonwealth occupied most of Latvia, including Riga, the capital!

Lol 😂

Most, if not all countries gained independence after they were occupied at some point in history...

Yeah, watching the Baltic Road makes you tear up. A thing to be proud of for us in the Baltics!

everyone knows, that winter war was won by ussr. finland proposed a treaty to ussr and lost some territories. these territories were the reason of this war, and before it, there were long negotiations, but finland refused them. ussr wanted to move finnish border out from leningrad, because finland was nazi puppet, and ussr was preparing for war with germany. i dont hope that fucktard like you will be interested in real history, but you just can read some fucking wikipedia at least. here you are, my incompitent brainwashed friend - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_War . red army broke mannerheims line and was advancing into finland, when finns decided to make an agreement and give territories to ussr.

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gues what we are not independet any more ,...

Because it is the whole point of the video... I was disappointed too, it didn't say anything about Tobago Island. Nobody even knows about this.

And no mentioning of good old times, when Curonians ruled the Baltic see. Even one of viking capitals - Upsala ir named in latvian and literally means "Island in river" and Upsala was located on islands in river delta where Stockholm is located now.

Adix Max it's very complicated, it could be it's own video, most of it would be about Lithuania vs the Teutonic Knights

He thought that Jews were more important than Latvian history...

Because of Western propaganda.

super boy :D

thevengeous es nepipeeju es dirsu legaalo

Alpaca Mag Beidz izkropļot savu valodu, raksti normāli.

A Potato es rakstu

nav ko te stavet kad beha lido!

I haven't seen a video on Latvia ain a while, also I live in latvis

ImageSounds Yeah's that's awesome, my grandfather and grandmother were a part of the chain.

im only partially descended from baltic people but i got real emotional too

My grandfater too. :)

This was our best thing that happened in our country

Vaine

Почему по-корейски ник ?

@Krabis ja потому что он меня понимает и так . Возможно

@@zamanium7517 tas, ja viņš vai viņa ir no latvijas, nenozīmē, ka viņš/viņa saprot krievu valodu. Jūs, krievi, vienmēr gribat lai mēs zinan jūsu valodu, taču mums viņa nav jāsaprot, jo mums pašiem ir sava valoda :)

@@Dana-ey2cz Я ж написал "возможно" . То есть возможно и понимает . Если молодежь то наверняка не понимает а вдруг ему больше 40 ? То есть у меня есть шансы что меня поняли .

It's pretty much the same story for Lithuania just that we have a lot less russians living in Lithuania thankfully, just 4.8% They would also add the bloody 13th of January.

That's if you ignore the fact that Lithuania had what was basically a pagan empire in eastern Europe in the 14-16th century

It's mostly "recent" history which was really similar in both countries. The period till russian occupation is kinda just mentioned and it falls out of the context of how a country was formed.

Rokas Gr. Pagan?, what do you mean by pagan, the polish-lithuanian commonwealth was not pagan at all, in fact they were one of the most fanatic countries against the Ottomans along with Spain and Austria

Well, Lithuania converted to christianity in the year 1385, but by that point they already held most of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus.

Wool step are you Latvian i am

Not to interpret that in a sexual way or anything... But yeah ty!

Old Rīga truly is beautiful. as a Latvian, I'm proud of that place.

U could go to Cesis too its an beatfull place too

Who would give a shit about them anyways

Antonio Valeri Pimonov Russians or latvians because I'm latvian

MTmerm Latvian based videos don't get many views.

@@user-dz8pg5sw6s and who wold give a shit about you

@@cowpow5327 me to!

lostalongtheway are you trying to be sarcastic about my country?

Samuel here

Čau:)

The Baltics are both Eastern and Northern European countries.

Labai stipriai priklauso nuo to kur gyveni. Yra vietų kur be rusų kalbos tavęs į parduotuvę nepriimtų dirbt, nes ten gyvena daug rusakalbių. Lietuvoj turim tokių miestelių, kuriuose didžioji dalis populiacijos yra rusakalbiai.

As a Latvian, who's been to Lithuania many times, I can confirm that only people who work in cafes, shops, etc. can speak Russian, all though not all of them.

Do you genuinely fear or you fear because the media tells you to?

Edvinas Ceilytka no, because our memory is good and 1991 wasn't too long ago

thank you bro

speak for yourself, especially when was born in >1992. I have no bad memories about being as a part of USSR, moreover Lithuanian never was as poor, destroyed and empty as it is now. Majority of well educated people left the county long ago, those who was capable of thinking not only about their pocket, but about wealth and health of others. We are the only county that managed to sell it legacy by someone who never owned it! just deal with it, there is no pride or honor in a sentence "I am Lithuanian.

+Aleksandr Kotikov Yeah, yeah, whatever (yawns) "Играй шарма-а-а-анка-а-а!"

Wanna find some allies,little ukrainian?Your country dont have allies

Silly Billy, your comment is silly. Poland and Lithuania - our allies

Ivan how does it feel that ur goverment is killing ur ukrianian brothers and bomming danmask? and latvia was smart maybe but now we dont eaven own our contury because some idiot sold about half of it.

Ivan Alekseichuk specialy for u. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GQQrB3jhzWs.html . Latvian about how it was and how it is. I asume u know russian. Video has subtitles.

We Lithuanians and also Poland also Canada are with You wonderful Ukrainian people. I traveled a lot in my life already, and one of the most amazing and brave people are Ukrainians

tevi arī

Maira Ratniece same

baigi labi!

tiešām?

Es arī

Es ārī

Salaspils was operational almost up until the war ended. The fuck are you talking about?

Someone's got a bias. The legion divisions were part of the SS. Even if the divisions had conscripted men, there were certainly made up of volunteers coming from the police battalions. And to deny that any SS unit never committed war-crimes, no matter how big or small, is just mad.

So you're saying that Latvian Legion did make war crimes during WW2. Okay. Show me proof. Official documents (check in the wikipedia for Latvian Legion. The sources are also shown there) have stated that Latvian Legion has not been recorded to commit war crimes nor has anything to do with the holocaust. If you can prove me wrong, do it. Show me an official statement where it says that the Latvian Legion has commited ANY war crimes or taken part in the holocaust. There were about 1000 Latvian Legion soldiers in the Nuremberg trial guarding the nazi officials. It has also been stated that the Waffen SS is a criminal organization, with the exception being the Latvian and Estonian Legions because of the reasons I mentioned previously. People wearing nazi uniforms because somebody made them to does not make them nazis

r0lt0ns Red army or Soviet army, not Russian. It is very complicated to explan the diffirence between the Soviet Union and Russian Federation.

Latvian Legion was Nazi and collaborator. But i understand complexity of the situation

There's barely any history in this video.

Lachausis Recent history.

Yes! I'm planning a trip there this summer - and then I'll do a similar video about the netherlands :)