Western media news reports on Lithuania's 1990 declaration of independence
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- A collage of western media news reports on Lithuania's 1990 declaration of independence and related events.
Vakaru ziniu reportazai apie Lietuvos nepriklausomybes paskelbima 1990-ais metais ir susijusius ivykius.
Internet Archive link: archive.org/de...
One can notice, that both Western journalists and Soviets more then often pointed out that Lithuania "is so small", "Kentucky-sized country" and etc... Damn, they just don't learn - a small but determined nation can show as big middle finger as anybody else
Lithuania is small but has a big culture
i think they meant that a kentucky sized country is able to resist a massive empire. a compliment
@@Cortesevasive They did but failed.
@@Cortesevasive but they didn't we are still here while Soviet union is gone
@@Cortesevasive but they tried and failed, the UK also tried to resist the indian's from gaining independence, the indians fought the same way the lithuanian's did, with pure bravery and nationalism, which gained both countries independence
Sveicieni brāļukām
Ooo braliukas! 🇱🇹🇱🇻
labas!
Soviet “union” - Soviet jail of nations*
Soviets defeated the Nazis though.
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Beautiful.. makes me proud of. What we overcame 😢😊❤ from a estonian
Dominykas, thank you for collecting & piecing this together.
I was a teenager deployed to the Mediterranean onboard a United States Warship while most of this was happening. I'm grateful to see the footage now. Lithuania 🇱🇹💪
It wasn't me that pieced this together, I got this video from my grandfather, rest in peace. It was in the form of a CD, which I believe was given to him by an American-Lithuanian friend, who may have been the one to originally record it, I'm not sure. I'm glad you find this valuable.
@@dmos62 😮😮😮
geras video, ypač kaip man, kuriam dešimtas dešimtmetis vienas įdomesnių visoj istorijoj.
These types of videos are what should be viewed in US Universities and High Schools regarding Communism..
Exactly. It is an absolute disgrace that this history is barely mentioned in public education. They just teach about the soviets stagnating, trying perestroika/glasnost, and then imploding.
And now, young edgelords completely forget this and now think of the soviets as some sort of utopia.
They are The idea that college makes you communist is just a bunch of BS pushed by Republicans
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And now, just like magic, Lithuania is highly developed and never looked back.
every european country is developed, but do people feel more equal now or in 60s 70s thats the question
@@NostalgicMem0riesif you study history, world was never equal, will never be.
The best we have is democracy
@@andrius-eth 60s 70s ussr was closest to pure equality, now we have democracy but one of biggest inequalities between poor and rich
@@NostalgicMem0ries i am from Lithuania and was born in ussr.
f..k that equality - when everyone is equaly poor and have no choice, no freedom, no voice, no future. i will choose democracy any day
@@NostalgicMem0riesbut the poorest in Europe are better then the richest in the Soviet union so acceptable
Long Live Lithuania !!!
IN MEMORIAM - 13.01.1991. From Lithuania With Love !!! One Love !!!
We'll never forget, and we'll never forgive.
...Unless Putin gets overthown, then we will forgive
Expect us
@@eigintasbaranauskas7519 Forcefully forgive XD
@@misterpotato427 Wdym by that?
@@eigintasbaranauskas7519 He'll make u guys forcefully forgive and forget if he invades
it reminds me Ukraine nowadays!!! Ukraine will prevail!! Slava Ukraine!!!
Slava Ukraini!
We hope you stay strong against Russian invaders 🇱🇹❤🇺🇦
SLAVA ukraini from lithuania
@Ahmad Hijaz What?
@Ahmad Hijaz What?
Right ear was invented in 1991
1990:
HAHAHAH
Wow, I am stunned at this informative video. Thank you for sharing.
Very interesting video, but my left ear was finished afterwards
I know right 😅
He's done so well to speak in English! well done.
found it interesting. 25:59 was not translated. The guy was saying: "we would like if England helped us more"
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I feel truly privileged to have witnessed these events in real time. It was the first serious thing I ever learned about our world.
The yellow sun above my head and green grass below my feet covers the soil soaked in Lithuanian blood.
the first Soviet Republic to become independent. A moment in history that should never be forgotten
To regain independence* The Baltic States which existed since 1918 were under an illegal occupation by the USSR. This is important as the Baltic States claim no legal continuity with the illegal Soviet Baltic SSRs.
@@karliskokorevics6902 Omg u neek, everybody knows what I meant
Lithuania existed since 1009...
Įdomu pamatyti iš kitos perspektyvos
🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹🇱🇹 Never forgive
Great video. Thanks for making it.
Wow, ačiū!
"who likes separatists?". Russia in 20 years...
Geriausias video dėkoju brolau , su meile iš Lithuania . Dar kart dekoju.
worshiping to "western media" XD
Bye bye Rusia🎉
🇱🇹♥️🇱🇹
Faina…
5:16 She's beautiful.
Those generals making demands should have been seized and placed under arrest.
Yay!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you 🎉
30:00 Soviet princess Leia
Kentucky-sized country )))7&7
So?
Vytautas Landsbergis is still about I was in Lithuania in October I have been going there since 2001 . the Russian sent in the special forces .
Still around. He turned 91 two weeks ago.
President Landsbergis!
Nah
@@silverplays871 yeah
mmmm no.... he still talking about russia to this day, we've said our gratitudes and help in achieving independace, but it wasnt just him, its was everyone that made it happen, he needs to stop expecting praise like the rescued us from the russians, he helped but didnt do it single handedly like the makes it out
He lead us from the occupation and was actual head of state at that moment. You are misinformed. Nobody is seeking any praise. Just facts
@@gralgirdas1 he didn't the people of lithuania let the independence, he was in front but he was not the catalyst that gave us the independence, it was the people who died in the streets that need the recognition not him or his current clan now days
what if all of the world attacked Russia? even places in it, like Lithuania and Latvia? / jeigu visos šalys karą pradėjo prieš Rusija? net ir vietos kaip Lietuva ir Latvija?
Rusai to nenusipelne, cia reiketu pulti valdzia Rusijos
In Russia lives many good people, its just there is still lots of soviet older soviet thinkers left, mostly it's
government that needs to be changed. I think people's eyes and fingers should be pointed at China more this time then Russia.
@@theotter3635 Ne visi, bet nusipelnė. Valdžia - tautos veidas.
Putiną ir jo gaują, gali kaltinti, kiek nori, bet ne jis su automatu laksto, ne jis birkas per prievartą kiša, ne jis šlovina civilių žudymą...
@@theotter3635 Do you still think same today?
@@ertitnoli9538 ye
30+ years later and communism trying to make a comeback through the World Economic Forum and Klaus Schwab
So they want capital to be shared instead of staying couple percentof richest worlds people?
4:56 "president Landsbergis" bruh
Ikrrr LMFAOAOAOAOA
Even they knew, whereas local vatniks would have you believe nowadays that to call him president is somehow illegitimate.
that was the closest tittle to Chairman of Lithuanian Republic highest council
Does anyone else notice someone talking in the background?
🇬🇧 STRANGE THAT THEY CALLED LANDSBERGIS A PRESIDENT OF LITHUANIA
🇱🇹 KEISTA KAD JIE PAVADINO LANDSBERGI PRESIDENTU
nu
tikrai presidentas ne sajudi ikurejas
@@tcobragaming1707 ??
@@dominykasborsak6388 kas
@@tcobragaming1707 nepagaunu ka pasakei
@@dominykasborsak6388 kad lansbergis sajudžio įkūrėjas o ne prezidentas
Truth
La
cant wait till Dixie does this
I den tiden som Litauen var okuperat Lanzbergis var profesor och reste utomlads utan problemet det var ful kontrol of KGB
it is never a good option to destroy a country. so much pepole died and buisnessmans became rich cannibalizing the USSR. barbarians fasting with the remaining of a fallen civilization they killed. what a shame.
USSR was never a country it was, as the name suggest, a union, a coercive one for most of the republics, but a union non the less. Before the buisnessmen cannibalized USSR it was the "leaders" that killed it. Calling it a "fallen civilization" is a stretch. You wouldn't call UK a "fallen civilization" and it has changed way more culturally then russia.
@@raimundasgriskaitis1140 yes because Uk is not fallen. come back in your cave liberal.
So why russians destroyed Baltic countries by occupying, murderring, torturing, committing genocides?
@@raimundasgriskaitis1140 I would but that's just 'cause I'm from the UK.
@@deepseaserenity5552 Pretty sure the Baltic countries were the ones doing the murdering, torturing, and genocides, since they literally sided with the Nazis during WWII.
Lithuania was once a great country. We had our currency, we had our freedom, life was nice. Then 2015 happened and everything since then was a total shit show. I know because I live there. Euro currency was the dagger in the back of every citizen here. me and my wife we earn 2000 euros together. that would have been 7500 litas (our currency before euro) It would be a huge salary. After all taxes we are left 1300. We live in a tiny 300 square foot home with my mom and her mom too. We don't have kids. A liter of gas is 1.5 euro as of lately. It was two months ago 1.15 euro. Our car is a 20 year old Honda, breaking down almost monthly. Our salaries are not rising but food, taxes, communications, gas prices are. One trip to mall and a small bag of essential groceries and maybe a pack of chips is 30 euros almost. 200 grams of butter is 2 euros. Its insanity. Couple that with our government that doesn't know jack shit about how to properly take care of its people, and the president who is inexistent and doesn't have a firm ground to stand on, and life is pretty miserable. Everything is extremely expensive, yet salaries do not grow. half of the nation is at poverty breach, but somehow manages. Its depressing really. Also the country is filled with pomophobic people who have no remorse. Everyone acts like they are about to murder your face if you say one word to them. People here are disgusting, boomers, millennials, gen z, everyone. I am of course not saying all of this with no purpose. What is truth is truth and can not be denied. Some people say to me when I open my mouth "hey you imbecile, stop complaining, life is good, eat grain and you will have money" or "you little jerk, just go and get a degree and go to politics and show them your ideas instead of complaining you total idiot". Noone cares about your well being. Noone cares about your suffering, because everyone here suffers. I will regret my words as soon as the government starts to care for its people, like it did once before. Our country was managing quite well when we had Grybauskaite as our president. She made our nation work, because she cared for its people. Of course many people would say I am talking shit right now, but what is TRUTH is TRUTH. Our country was living well when we had our currency. But it was brutally ripped from our hands and replaced with euro. It is ruining us, every one of us.
That's not how economics works. You wouldn't have gotten 7500 litas if litas remained the currency(by the way direct conversion from EUR to LTL would say it would've been 6900, not 7500). Not even close. It was only after the introduction of the euro that wages started a meteoric rise and there is always some link between the value of wages in a country with certain goods. Gas prices are not tied to usage of a currency. Look up prices of 200g of butter say even both outside the EU, not only eurozone. Let's say in Russia. The price for butter - almost identical, yet the people there earn A LOT less money. Salaries in Lithuania are growing and very rapidly. If for some reason your entire sector is so stagnant - time to look for a new job. Work is in VERY high demand now across many sectors.
You're complaining about prices shooting up, which is happening on an almost global scale, due to covid plus increased demand in certain natural resources and a housing bubble which will burst in a few more years.
Newsflash, the LTL was pegged to the dollar since the mid 1990s. In 2002 it was pegged to the euro. Luckily moving on to the eurozone afterwards made Lithuania pass requirements of reducing it's inflation. Also, the value of the euro has been rising faster than that of the dollar. Put it shortly, you would be paying a LARGER PERCENTAGE of your current wage on things like butter, gasoline and whatever, than you are now if we were still using the litas(i don't even want to think about what Venezuelan nightmare we might be in if we had a 100% independent currency in a small country). By the way, if we were to convert current euro prices to litas, 200g stick of butter today would be 7.80LTL. Just like it is right now about 180 rubles in Russia. Dairy product prices have spiked around the world, due to current market/resource conditions.
How is the euro ruining you? Or what's more important, what exactly is the government supposed to do to provide you with happiness and salvation?
Prices are going up everywhere in the world it has literally nothing to do with the euro. I'm sorry you are struggling but if you struggle in Lithuania you'd struggle anywhere else. I live in the UK and I don't even buy butter or drive a car because that's expensive :)
I appreciate your insight and sharing of everyday life in Lithuania
30:05 Ukraine. (1990) - (2024) UA 🔵🟡
24:17 😅😅😅
Žyvie Litva!Žyvie Biełaruś!