Lithuania's Dark Past 🇱🇹

Welcome back to another travel video on the channel, today we will be exploring Lithuania's Dark Past. This video I head to the ninth fort in Kaunas, Lithuania and explore Kaunas's past from the old days of the German Empire, to Imperial Russia all the way up until the second world war under Nazi and then Soviet occupation!
#lithuania #ww2 #history

[@Cornelia2255]

My grandpa was the head architect of building the monument, so I feel a really special connection to 9th fort, it's definitely a dark place, but a really important piece of history and I'm so glad you got to experience this! I hope you liked your stay in Kaunas :)

[@kastisok]

Interesting fact: I was growing up very close to the 9th fort in the 90's and early 2000's. Growing up around there for us kids 9th fort was just like a park. We used to ride bicycles, roller skates and whatever else we had on wheels. We also went sledding down the slanted museum roofs in the winter. Also went mushroom picking in the little forest area and fishing with my grandpa in the pond that was there. After I was old enough to realize the things that actually happened there I found it strangely beautiful that this horrible place from the past weirdly became such a joyful place for us kids.

[@8ievaieva8]

The 9th fort definitely has a very powerful energy. I'm a local but I never go there. It's too depressing and haunting. The awfulness people lived through has seeped into the ground there.

[@raimatat4864]

Euan, you really do a good job.

[@koceziurioboly]

I basically grew up between the 9th forth and Šilainiai (closest to fort). I know it's a place with horrible history but it feels like home for me. Lot of evenings with friends spent there.

[@PurpleDuneEfa]

9:25 Trust me It is 5°C, but because of high humidity >90% and I saw it's windy there, the "feels like" temperature is something like -2°C

[@vspecial1]

First place I went to when I first went to Kaunas. The history is compelling but thoroughly dark, horrendous and so depressingly tragic.

[@rutasl]

great video! i really enjoyed your content from my hometown Kaunas

[@MCerberis]

Interesting content. Thank you.

[@linamalinauskaite3223]

Thank you for showing this HQ captured video not only to the foreign visitors but also to the locals. It will most certainly boost the curiosity about this historical place when it's captured so nicely.

[@Cary-f9f]

Hi Jon! Thanks, interesting

[@ggarrus5355]

As a worker of the store you bought the drink from, the discount or the other price you probably saw, was with a loyalty card, we use those quite often in Lithuanian stores and its pretty much the only way to get a discount, except for some rare occasions where theres a discount without a card.

[@dainiusm5436]

Kaunas 🫡

[@tomastomastomas1521]

If you want some dark past, go to Rainiai. And then read about Dushansky. And about Israels response when Lithuania tried to prosecute him. Lots of other interesting places. Tuskulėnai, Panevėžys, Pravieniškės, Kaniūkai. People with small hats have left their bloody traces in lots of places. All before 1941. But this does not fit the agenda of everlasting victimhood of the chosen ones

[@dollywell]

👏👏👏

[@SV-yf4et]

Nereikia priešinti aukų. Ten buvo Lietuvos piliečiai žydai, kuriuos nužudė už tai kuo jie gimė. O budelius nesvarbu ar lietuvius, lenkus, vokiečius, žydus, rusus reikia pasmerkti. Lygiai taip patu reikia prisiminti visas aukas.

[@arnasa3066]

Are you still in Kaunas? It would be nice to meet you and show some interesting places for you

[@JonesTravelsss]

I’m sadly not, I’m not too far away though just landed in Riga, Latvia for a few days :))

[@danask4778]

😥

[@mariusrutkaus]

Dude! No disrespect, quite the opposite. You look like Hemorrhage from Rick and Morty mad max episode:D