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24-11-27 Ruscia [attempting to change] Baltic Sea borders - Caspian > .
Showing posts with label Nordic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nordic. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Thursday, March 7, 2024
24-3-7 Sweden in NATO □
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24-6-20 Baltic states readying for (potential) war with Ruscia - OSW > .24-3-12 Sweden packs a small but powerful military punch - Forces > .
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
NATO 2023
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23-7-11 It's NATO Time, Jack - WunderBoomer > .
24-1-9 Ċold Ŵar 2: NATO-like alliance vs Xina in the Indo-Pacific? | DW > .23-9-23 Erdoğan's Turkey is NATO's Biggest Internal Problem - Real > .
23-9-18 South Korean Factory Churning Out Armaments for NATO | WSJ > .
23-8-20 NATO's Rearmament & Spending - NATO's R-U Response - Perun > .
23-8-11 NATO's new battle plan - Ruscia not only threat | Defence in Depth > .
23-8-6 Turkish Strategy & R-U War - Arms, Drones, Economics - Perun > . skip > .
23-7-6 NATO to Seek Concrete Actions on Xina | VOANews > .
23-7-11 > NATO is undertaking the most significant overhaul of its force structure since the end of the Cold War. Following decisions made at the NATO summit in Vilnius, Allies will keep up to 300,000 troops in a state of high readiness. This is a significant increase from the forces kept on alert as part of the NATO Response Force, which has served as the Alliance’s high-readiness force since 2003. NATO has also changed the way it conceptualises the defence of Allied territory. New Regional Plans will outline in detail how NATO forces would defend different areas of the Alliance, from specific forces and capabilities to levels of readiness required. Allied forces will then train to be able to execute these plans. When Russia launched its illegal, full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the security landscape on the continent dramatically altered. Ensuring the safety of NATO Allies requires a new framework that provides for rapid response on a larger scale, demonstrating Allied resolve to defend their territory against all aggression.
23-7-11 NATO’s new defence plans - NATO > .
23-7-11 Disappointment - Anna > .
23-7-11 Fantasy - Ukraine in NATO - 202?⏩
23-7-12 NATO Secretary General - NATO Summit in Vilnius 🇱🇹 - NATO > .
23-7-13 Zelensky's Quest for NATO Membership || Peter Zeihan > .
23-7-13 Zelensky's Quest for NATO Membership || Peter Zeihan > .
23-7-10 Ukrainian NATO membership [could] end P00’s genocidal war | Sherriff > .
23-7-8 NATO summit in Vilnius - Lithuania & Ruscian neighbor | DW Doc > .
> Europe v X >>Alliances - Principles, Geostrategic Benefits ..
23-7-8 NATO summit in Vilnius - Lithuania & Ruscian neighbor | DW Doc > .
23-7-7 NATO JEF Nuclear bunker c UK-led mini-military alliance - Forces > .
23-7-9 For our freedom and yours - NATO > .
23-7-9 For our freedom and yours - NATO > .
NATO militaries
NATO vs Xina
Asian NATO? ..
European Geostrategic Projection ..⧫ NATO ..
NATO Members' Militaries ..NATO ➾ 2022 ..
NATO Commitment ..Tuesday, April 4, 2023
23-4-4 Finland Joins NATO □
23-4-4 Finland's flag raised at NATO headquarters - BBC > .
24-6-20 Baltic states readying for (potential) war with Ruscia - OSW > .
24-4-26 How Finland Has Become [Almost] Impossible to Invade - Icarus > .
24-2-12 Alexander Stubb, C-R Former PM: Wins Finland's Presidency | CNBC > .
23-10-3 Finland's 🇫🇮 impact on NATO - NATO > .
23-9-23 Erdoğan's Turkey is NATO's Biggest Internal Problem - Real > .
23-8-31 Arming against P00tin - NATO in Baltic Sea | DW Doc > .
23-7-30 Impact of Sweden’s NATO Membership on Ruscia - VisPol > .
23-7-6 What’s Blocking Sweden’s NATO Membership? | WSJ > .
23-6-17 Finlandization - 74-year delay in Finland's joining NATO - GeoPer > .
23-6-4 Finland's NATO war preparations on new frontline with Russia > .
23-4-4 Finland has joined NATO - Now what? - Baltic World > .
23-4-4 Finland has joined NATO - Now what? - Baltic World > .
> NATO Politics >>
Funding NATO ..
Sweden's NATO Question ..Happy 74th birthday, North Atlantic Treaty! The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 28 29 European and 2 North American countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.
➾ 2023 ..
➾ 2022 ..
Saturday, January 15, 2022
NATO ➾ 2022
22-1-15 Finland and Sweden consider NATO membership - Caspian > .
23-8-20 NATO's Rearmament & Spending - NATO's R-U Response - Perun > .
23-7-6 What’s Blocking Sweden’s NATO Membership? | WSJ > .
23-6-18 Procurement vs Efficacy - Requirements, R&D pitfalls - Perun > .
23-2-3 Fiona Hill - NATO = Barrier to Pooti's Imperial Ambitions - SC > .
23-1-30 Inside Polish Armored Infantry (Squad to Division) - Battle > .
23-1-26 Germany's military in dire state. Fix? | DW > .
23-1-8 War Economies - Russia and Ukraine won't collapse tomorrow - Perun > .
22-12-10 Sweden's joining NATO would crush Russian power - Caspian > .
22-11-27 Polish military modernisation & buying Korean kit - Perun > .
22-11-25 US Military's Biggest Crisis = Recruitment, Retention, Training - nwyt > .
22-10-21 Response if Russia uses a nuclear weapon in Ukraine? - J K-L > .
22-10-19 How NATO Solves Its Abandonment Problem - Spaniel > .
22-10-7 What If Pootin Nukes Ukraine? - OBF > .
22-10-1 America's Missile Defense Problem - Poly > .
22-8-6 Kaliningrad: russian thorn in NATO's side - Nova Lectio > .
22-8-6 How Many BCTs can the US Army Form for a Large Scale War? - CoCa > .
22-7-22 Poland could become strongest land force in the EU - Binkov > .
22-7-21 How the economy of Russia is dying (English subtitles) - Максим Кац > .
22-7-5 Kaliningrad Stand-Off - Lithuania vs Russia - gtbt > .
22-12-29 German Rearmament: Is it going wrong? - mah > .
22-6-30 Russia's Cyberattack on Lithuania ~ NATO's Deeper Problems - Spaniel > .
22-6-29 2022 adjusted MoD's Military Budget - UK > .
22-6-28 Jacek Bartosiak - Kaliningrad, Suwalki Gap - Ruscia, Poland, Ukraine - S&F > .
22-6-24 Russia's Kaliningrad Problem with Lithuania = Ukraine 2.0-ish - Spaniel > .
22-6-21 Kaliningrad at center of dispute between Russia and Lithuania | DW > .
22-6-21 Lithuania enforces sanctions on Ruscist shipments to Kaliningrad - Denys > .
22-12-30 Suwalki Gap: NATO's Weakest Point? | BFBS > .
Comment 22-4-18 Finnish defenses, possibility of joining NATO.
Comment 1 - 22-4-14.
Finland has made the thought of invading it incredibly costly. Finland can mobilize more than half a million trained soldiers from a population of 5,5 million. Every building above a certain size has a bomb shelter. Every bridge is designed with slots that make destroying them with explosives easy. Finland has prepared for an invasion since the second world war and has enough guns to hand every willing person a East-German AK and tell them to camp in the forest.
And what would Russia gain from invading Finland? Finland has little natural resources, there are only a few million people and Finland's location is not that strategically useful all things considered. The main philosophy behind Finnish deference is a cost benefit analysis. What would a potential invader gain and what would it cost?
The reason behind the move towards NATO is partly fear yes, but also the benefit of remaining neutral is not that great to Finland anymore. During the cold war Finland benefited from being able to trade with both east and west but now that Finland is in the EU Finland has to follow the EU sanctions. It is impossible to sit on the fence anymore.
Comment 2 - 22-4-14.
22-4-1 Russia's Invasion Of Ukraine Sparking NATO Defense Spending Spree? > .
22-3-31 The weapons Ukraine uses against Russia - CaspianReport > .
22-3-30 How will Germany spend its massive €100 billion military budget? | DW > .
22-3-23 Polish citizens join army b/o Russian invasion of Ukraine - BBC > .
22-3-20 Europe's Rearming to defend itself against Russia: New era for EU? - VisPol > .
22-3-12 No-Fly Zone Ukraine - Can it be done? Is it smart? - CoCa > .
22-3-11 Sanctions, Tech-Denial, Psychology of Isolated Russia | Kotkin | New Yorker > .
22-3-10 Sweden's pro-NATO reaction to Russian aggression - Force Tech > .
22-2-24 Global Power Rivalry | Michael Buckley > .
22-2-19 Why Germany [daren't] help Ukraine (against Russia) - CaspianReport > .
22-2-11 High Resolution - Russia's Gamble in Ukraine - CSIS > .
22-2-11 Why Is it Not in Russia's Interest to Invade Ukraine? - VisPol > .
22-2-7 What Russia (Putin) wants from Ukraine - VisPol > .
22-1-28 Gravitas: Has Putin overplayed his hand? - WION > .
22-1-28 Gravitas: Has Putin overplayed his hand? - WION > .
Geostrategic Projection
European Geostrategic Projection ..Finland has made the thought of invading it incredibly costly. Finland can mobilize more than half a million trained soldiers from a population of 5,5 million. Every building above a certain size has a bomb shelter. Every bridge is designed with slots that make destroying them with explosives easy. Finland has prepared for an invasion since the second world war and has enough guns to hand every willing person a East-German AK and tell them to camp in the forest.
And what would Russia gain from invading Finland? Finland has little natural resources, there are only a few million people and Finland's location is not that strategically useful all things considered. The main philosophy behind Finnish deference is a cost benefit analysis. What would a potential invader gain and what would it cost?
The reason behind the move towards NATO is partly fear yes, but also the benefit of remaining neutral is not that great to Finland anymore. During the cold war Finland benefited from being able to trade with both east and west but now that Finland is in the EU Finland has to follow the EU sanctions. It is impossible to sit on the fence anymore.
I'm a Finnish person myself, and I have from the very moment Russia started rattling its saber against Finland that now would be the time to join the NATO. The only real consequences they could impose right now are economic ones, as they are preoccupied with killing Ukrainian civvies and could not realistically attack Finland. And so, between being threatened by Kremlin on a semi-weekly basis and seeing what happened to other countries attempting to remain neutral (although not a part of the EU), I believe that NATO membership's gotta be now or never.
Saturday, July 24, 2021
ECE - Economic Corridors - Europe
24-3-14 German-Polish Tensions - Modern > .
22-12-30 Most disappointing politicians - VisPol > .
22-10-14 HUNGARY | The West's Enemy Within? - J K-L > .
Geostrategic Projection
EU 2023 ..
The Blue Banana (also known as the European Megalopolis or the Liverpool–Milan Axis) is a discontinuous corridor of urbanization spreading over Western and Central Europe, with a population of around 111 million. The concept was developed in 1989 by RECLUS, a group of French geographers managed by Roger Brunet.
It stretches approximately from North Wales through the English Midlands across Greater London to the European Metropolis of Lille, the Benelux states and along the German Rhineland, Southern Germany, Alsace-Moselle in France in the west and Switzerland (Basel and Zürich) to Northern Italy (Milan and Turin) in the south.
The Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) is a planned network of roads, railways, airports and water infrastructure in the European Union. The TEN-T network is part of a wider system of Trans-European Networks (TENs), including a telecommunications network (eTEN) and a proposed energy network (TEN-E or Ten-Energy). The European Commission adopted the first action plans on trans-European networks in 1990.
TEN-T envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways, inland waterways, airports, seaports, inland ports and traffic management systems, providing integrated and intermodal long-distance, high-speed routes. A decision to adopt TEN-T was made by the European Parliament and Council in July 1996.[2] The EU works to promote the networks by a combination of leadership, coordination, issuance of guidelines and funding aspects of development.
These projects are technically and financially managed by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), which superseded the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency Agency (TEN-T EA) on 31 December 2013. The tenth and newest project, the Strasbourg-Danube Corridor, was announced for the 2014–2020 financial period.
It stretches approximately from North Wales through the English Midlands across Greater London to the European Metropolis of Lille, the Benelux states and along the German Rhineland, Southern Germany, Alsace-Moselle in France in the west and Switzerland (Basel and Zürich) to Northern Italy (Milan and Turin) in the south.
TEN-T envisages coordinated improvements to primary roads, railways, inland waterways, airports, seaports, inland ports and traffic management systems, providing integrated and intermodal long-distance, high-speed routes. A decision to adopt TEN-T was made by the European Parliament and Council in July 1996.[2] The EU works to promote the networks by a combination of leadership, coordination, issuance of guidelines and funding aspects of development.
These projects are technically and financially managed by the Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), which superseded the Trans-European Transport Network Executive Agency Agency (TEN-T EA) on 31 December 2013. The tenth and newest project, the Strasbourg-Danube Corridor, was announced for the 2014–2020 financial period.
In addition to the various TENs, there are ten Pan-European corridors, which are paths between major urban centres and ports, mainly in Eastern Europe, that have been identified as requiring major investment.
The international E-road network is a naming system for major roads in Europe managed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It numbers roads with a designation beginning with "E" (such as "E1").
The international E-road network is a naming system for major roads in Europe managed by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. It numbers roads with a designation beginning with "E" (such as "E1").
- Belt and Road Initiative .
- Demographics of Europe .
- Four Motors for Europe .
- Golden Banana .
- List of metropolitan areas in the European Union by GDP .
- Northeast Megalopolis Similar region in the United States .
- Berlin–Palermo railway axis .
- Messina Bridge .
- Transport in Europe .
- TRACECA .
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Monday, January 13, 2020
Petroleum - Oil's History
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Petroleum - Modern History of Oil - GeoHx > .24-8-14 History & Geopolitics of Oil - gtbt > .
24-4-3 North Sea - Geography, History, Oil - FactSpark > . skip > .
24-1-26 Saudi Arabia's Catastrophic "Iran" Problem - Hindsight > .
23-11-10 Qatar Angling to Be World’s Lead Hostage Negotiator | WSJ > .
23-8-11 Saudi Arabia's Challenging Geography - Real > .
23-7-22 Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem - Real > .
23-7-22 Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem - Real > .
23-7-25 Why US Troops Fought Wagner Mercenaries in Syria - T&P > .
23-7-22 Saudi Arabia’s Catastrophic “Everything” Problem - Real > .
23-1-2 Dutch Disease | Resource Wealth, Currency Inflation, Economy | EcExEss > .
22-12-14 Xi’s Saudi trip & Sino-Arab relations; X-¥ oil vs petrodollar - Lei > .
22-12-8 Xina seeking Saudi ties - Update > .
22-11-25 Why Saudi Arabia is Gladly Helping Russia - T&P > .22-10-11 Gulf States, "Dutch Disease", Big Dumb Mega Projects | EcEx > .
22-9-19 How Guyana Could Become Richest Country in Latin America - VisPol > .
22-7-5 How Norway Became Insanely Rich - Dodging Oil Curse - Casual Scholar > .
22-6-22 Oman (ME's Switzerland) - Guarding Gulf, Strait of Hormuz - Explore > .
22-3-26 Why Russia’s War Drove Up US Gas Prices - CNBC > .
22-3-17 Why The Middle East Won't Survive Without Oil - OBF > .
2021 Is The Earth Actually Running Out Of Oil? | Spark > .
24-8-14 History & Geopolitics of Oil - gtbt > .
Energy Crisis - CoV+ ..
Petroleum - Oil's History ..
Friday, November 1, 2019
40-4-9 Invasion of Norway & Denmark 40-6-10
What went wrong in Norway? - Some Very Norsepicious Plans - Drach > .
1940-2-17 Altmark ⤑ WW2 Battle for Norway - Animarchy > .
The Nordic Front - WW2 - SuHo >> .
The Nordic Front - WW2 - SuHo >> .
WW2 - Week by Week >> .
40-4-20 > .
40-4-27 > .
40-5-4 > .
40-5-11 > .
40-5-18 > .
40-5-25 > .
40-6-1 > .
40-6-8 > .
Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage > .
Nordic Front - Finland & Scandinavia ..
Norway ..
Invasion of Norway & Denmark ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung .
Finland:
Soviets invade Finland ..
European theatre ..
Greenland after fall of Denmark to Nazis > .
US forces occupy Greenland > .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II .
40-4-20 > .
40-4-27 > .
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40-5-11 > .
40-5-18 > .
40-5-25 > .
40-6-1 > .
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Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage > .
Nordic Front - Finland & Scandinavia ..
Norway ..
Invasion of Norway & Denmark ..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weser%C3%BCbung .
Finland:
Soviets invade Finland ..
European theatre ..
US forces occupy Greenland > .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland_in_World_War_II .
39-11-30 Soviets invade Finland 40-3-13
Talvisota - The Winter War > .
Winter War 1939-1940 - The Setup DOCUMENTARY > .
Finnish Ski Troops of the Winter War (1939) 1/2 - Invicta > .
23-12-23 Why Poland is Divided - Present Past > .
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Quisling & Fellow Traitors
.Gallery of Global Quislings - WW2 > . [YT only, age restricted]
Self-serving wrong-wing traitors also incite insurrection against legally elected governments .....
Monday, May 27, 2019
Baltics
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The Baltic States are WAY more important than you think - Mac > .23-7-30 Impact of Sweden’s NATO Membership on Ruscia - VisPol > .23-7-31 Singing Revolution - Latvia’s forbidden songs | DW > .
24-3-6 EU Defense Union: How Far Should We Integrate? - Simple > . skip > .24-2-20 Why Europe is Reinstating Conscription - TLDR > .23-12-23 Future of EU Defense: NATO or the EU? (ft. UEF) - Simple > .BALTIC Languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, +) - Langfocus > . skip > .
22-12-30 Suwalki Gap: NATO's Weakest Point? | BFBS > .
> EuM - European Defense >> EU Army?
24-3-14 German-Polish Tensions - Modern > .
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania suffered greatly during the Second World War.
Repressions, executions and mass deportations followed after that in the Baltics. The Soviet Union attempted to Sovietize its occupied territories, by means such as deportations and instituting the Russian language as the only working language. Between 1940 and 1953, the Soviet government deported more than 200,000 people from the Baltic to remote locations in the Soviet Union. In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to Gulags. About 10% of the adult Baltic population were deported or sent to labor camps. (See June deportation, Soviet deportations from Estonia, Sovietization of the Baltic states)
The Soviet control of the Baltic states was interrupted by Nazi German invasion of this region in 1941. Initially, many Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians considered the Germans as liberators. The Baltic countries hoped for the restoration of independence, but instead the Germans established a civil administration, known as the Reichskommissariat Ostland.[citation needed] During the occupation the Germans carried out ghettoisations and mass killings of the countries' Jewish populations. Over 190,000 Lithuanian Jews, nearly 95% of Lithuania's pre-war Jewish community, and 66,000 Latvian Jews were murdered. The German occupation lasted until late 1944 (in Courland, until early 1945), when the countries were reoccupied by the Red Army and Soviet rule was re-established, with the passive agreement of the United States and Britain (see Yalta Conference and Potsdam Agreement).
The forced collectivisation of agriculture began in 1947, and was completed after the mass deportation in March 1949 (see Operation Priboi). Private farms were confiscated, and farmers were made to join the collective farms. In all three countries, Baltic partisans, known colloquially as the Forest Brothers, Latvian national partisans, and Lithuanian partisans, waged unsuccessful guerrilla warfare against the Soviet occupation for the next eight years in a bid to regain their nations' independence. The armed resistance of the anti-Soviet partisans lasted up to 1953. Although the armed resistance was defeated, the population remained anti-Soviet. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia were considered to be under Soviet occupation by the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, NATO, and many other countries and international organizations. During the Cold War, Lithuania and Latvia maintained legations in Washington DC, while Estonia had a mission in New York. Each was staffed initially by diplomats from the last governments before USSR occupation.
All three countries are members of NATO, the eurozone, the OECD, and the European Union. Estonia is also a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. All three are classified as high-income economies by the World Bank and maintain a very high Human Development Index.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_states .
EU 2023 ..
Funding NATO ..
Ruscism ..
Comment b: As a Russian from Latvia, I don't see non-citizenship as an issue. Most of Russians I know are citizens, others either are planning to apply for it or don't really care about it. And none of my friends think highly of current state of Russia. Yet, I must admit, Putin's propoganda is strong with older people, especially those who couldn't adapt to free market economy or live by Russian border.
Comment e (edited): Russia won't try anything against the Baltics because the Baltics are apart of NATO and direct confrontation with a NATO state means nuclear war. Even if NATO didn't respond with nukes, you'd have to be extremely foolish to risk that. It's the nuclear umbrella that keeps these states safe, not conventional military projection. Without it, the Baltics would have ended up like Ukraine, who desperately wished they joined NATO before Russia fucked them up. Nonetheless, the only threat Russia carries which keeps them relevant in geopolitics is the fact they stockpiled more nuclear weapons than anyone on Earth. Their military force without the nukes is indeed quite strong in concentrated areas near Russia, but it's projection capability is not even close to that of the U.S which most people fail to understand. Military conflict is much more about logistics, tech, and influence, not just statistics.
Comment a: Most of the Russians in the Baltic countries are migrants or descendants of these m. who came to the Baltic countries during the Soviet occupation (illegal migrants) against the will of the native Baltic peoples. Russians who were born in the Baltic countries after the Soviet occupation are given citizenships by birth. Migrants who came during the Soviet occupation must pass language and other citizenship tests to get citizenship of the country they are in. Claims that Russians suffer discrimination in the Baltic countries are propagandistic lies by the Russian government and Russian trolls.
Comment c: The situation in Ukraine in the Baltic States will not arise. At least the Russians here know that life in Estonia is much better. The main reason for the uprising in Ukraine was the poor economic situation. If Russia turned to the path of communism, there would be more nostalgics in the Baltics. No one wants to exchange capitalism for authoritarian capitalism.
Comment d: It could perhaps have done with a little more emphasis on the historical background. For example, I think it is important to emphasise that even though the Baltic states were part Soviet Union, they were never considered by most of the West to be legitimate Soviet republics. Instead, they were regarded as occupied states. They had been fully independent states in the interwar period. And the Russian presence there was the product of deliberate demographic engineering under Soviet rule to integrate them into the USSR.
As an Lithuanian I need to explain some things:
1. Soviet terror in 1940-41 (mass arrests, deportations and killings of prisoners) alienated Baltic people against the Soviet regime. Nobody expected Soviets to be this cruel. For example, in Lithuania before 1940 Soviet Russia was perceived as a friendly state;
2. as a consequence, a lot of Latvians and Estonians join German forces in WWII and died in the war. Because of this, resistance against the Soviets in Latvia and Estonia after WWII was a little bit weaker;
3. Lithuanians were not willing to join Germans in WWII (there are many historical reasons why it went that way), therefore after the end of the War they had more manpower to resist the Soviets. Therefore in Lithuania resistance movement was the strongest and log lasting;
4. most of freedom fighters were simple men and women, there were very few officers (most of high-ranked military officers fled to Western Europe). As a consequence, many Lithuanian resistance leaders were not military officers, but teachers and etc. Still, Lithuanian resistance forces had quasi-military structure, statute and uniforms - because of this is very easy to recognize Lithuanian partisan photos;
5. the resistance was broken mainly not due direct fighting, but special intelligence operations and betrayals. It's estimated, that around 20-30 thousands of Lithuanian partisans and their supporters died in this struggle;
6. in Lithuania the armed resistance against the Soviets was important because: a) "saving the face" after impotent surrender of 1940 and showing the World that Lithuanians are not "OK" with Soviet occupation (shout out-to Finns for their timely and persistent fight for their freedom); b) It deterred Soviet colonization - Lithuania hast the lowest Russian population % in comparison to other Baltic states;
7. many of the most beautiful Lithuanian songs was written by partisans and their supporters (there was plenty of poets in this movement), and none - on the opposite side. In Soviet times and even now people sing partisan songs in Lithuania. It's a very important component of Lithuanian self-awareness, historical memory and cultural heritage.
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sī vīs pācem, parā bellum
igitur quī dēsīderat pācem praeparet bellum therefore, he who desires peace, let him prepare for war sī vīs pācem, parā bellum if you wan...
