The Baltic Tragedy - Nazi and Soviet occupation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

The Baltic Tragedy - Bloody Soviet occupation in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania

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[LTpolitician]

@cinesimonj for your sake fuck off and shut the fuck up comunist ass hole ! you know nothing ! and you dare to say such bullshit ! you are fucking filthy comunist russian ! wtf would you know about LT, LV and EST history, as far as i know russians are the biggest cowards of the all ! not too mention all the lies and disrespect, so dont you come here and say shit like that ! you know nothing what your stupid country did to balts ! 50 years of rusification !!!! we lost 50 years because of ussr

[chickenwretch]

@LTpolitician this imbecile isn't interested in facts, only in re-writing them. they understand the Soviet legacy can't be justified in the light of day, this is why they insist in using dark, muddled semantics or outright lies. this laddybuck probably gets his education from a drunk Uncle Vanya anyway, reminicing about the good old days of forced collectives, Chernobyl, purges, ecocide, Gulags, and everyones favorite, Koba the Terrible. If you live in the Baltics you've cause to be uneasy.

[BENNYSIEGEL90]

They should not be compared. Germans only hated communists. Sure they saw finns and balts as just right above slavs but who cares. German army did not cowardly loot or deport estonian families for instance. Russians and the JEWS did that.

[chickenwretch]

A measure of how bad the Soviet occupation of the Baltics is the fact that the Germans were welcomed as liberators. And so they were, in the sense of getting the NKVD off their backs. It is well documented what those same Germans did to their ethnic enemies. I appreciate this documentary for making the rest of us aware of what the Soviets did to their class enemies. A bit troubling when modern politicians bait the economics of class; this was also the spearhead Lenin employed and it still works.

[23Henrich]

Excellent video. It would be awesome if the public knew more about the Holocaust committed under Communism. Unfortunately, all we get are tired reruns of the Jewish Holocaust in which Jews are portrayed as the only (and exceptional) victims of WW2.We know that would never happen b/c 1) about half of the communists under Stalin were Jews (making them look bad) and 2) it would compete with Zionist agenda. I doubt that Steven Spielberg will be doing a movie about these victims! Anybody want a bet?

[zilvinas1980]

Thanks for posting this video, it's great that there are people who try to repulse all the waves of dirty lies and provocations against our small nations and their tragic history. The ones who deny the facts are either ineducated/deliberately misinformed persons or just simply imperialist chauvinist trolls who always supported the bloody politics of Cremlin.

[PiretBCN]

@evilrobottolhurst When I first saw the footage of Germans marching in Tallinn with people really happy about it, I couldn't breathe well and wanted to jump out of the window. It was bad!!! But then I realized that if I had been alive in 1941, I would have been happy as well. Probably there with flowers, jumping into the arms of some German (okay, now the image is getting really disturbing). Only because Stalin had been really brutal before.

[PiretBCN]

@evilrobottolhurst The Germans wouldn't have been welcomed at all if they had arrived in independent countries. They arrived in countries that had suffered Soviet massacres and the 1941 deportations to Siberia. So if instead of Germans had arrived the lizards from the American TV-series V, they would have also been welcomed with flowers (and alive rats maybe?). No need to change to human form...

[evilrobottolhurst]

Oh yes(!) - I appreciate this is a very long film with old footage, but all the sound is on the left channel and my laptop (like many others) has only a right speaker so I have to listen to this with headphones. Maybe if you do us the favour of uploading any further historical film you can get the sound to come out of both speakers... Thanks for doing this.

[evilrobottolhurst]

The "Warner-Kaserne" at the film's end is now the Ernst-von-Bergmann Kaserne in northern Munich, the Wall has come down, Eastern Europe has finally been liberated from Communism and we can all come together on YouTube to share videos and poke fun at war so that it never happens again.

[evilrobottolhurst]

...see the women with flowers for the soldiers in Tallinn around 1;26 and the banjo playing.

The cynicism of the totalitarian tyrant is seen when the comment is made that "now Germans are supporting the Finns" when the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact signed large tracts of Eastern Europe over to Stalin's control.

The evacuations by ship when the war was already lost are a dark period in European history - just look at the Wilhelm Güstloff.

[evilrobottolhurst]

Watching this video is very sad - particularly watching the Nazi propaganda or the advance towards Russia, we know the death and destruction will be repeated in only three years - and we see homes going up in smoke and being blown up with wheat growing in the foreground. Squashed between two cynical totalitarian governments, the Baltic states are most unfortunate indeed - although the eyewitness accounts I have heard from German soldiers are that the Germans were welcomed...