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2:33 "weird, Gotham City-inspired terrifying lair of North Europe." You have it backwards. The railway station and similar architecture in Helsinki were used as an inspiration for Gotham City in the Batman movie from 1989.
It's among the best musical blaces. And both are "islands". Iceland, has Björk, so it "rhymes". Perkele. Finland also has one of the best churches, and stylish.
Alexander II, Alexander the Liberator, or known as "The Good Tsar" in Finland, was responsible for many liberal reforms in Russia, reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education. He promoted local self-government and encouraged Finnish nationalism, as in 1863 he re-convened the Diet of Finland and initiated several reforms increasing Finland's autonomy within the Russian Empire, including establishment of its own currency and the elevation of Finnish to a national language. Therefore, we're still glad to have his statue in the middle of our capital city.
@@overallopposites holy shit.. had no idea. I'm actually quite baffled that I've never heard of this before. And there's almost no info in Finnish about this. Thank you for telling this, at least I'm not using the term good tsar ever again. Not a huge surprise thou.. as we say in Finland "ryssä on ryssä, vaikka voissa paistais.."
@@tmaskaYoure a fucking moron for using it in the first place, evey romanov was a genocidal lunatic. If you want to look for any liberator of finland it was lenin, who ended the tsars and gave us independence
@@tmaska What a childlike way of thinking. "Holy shit some random 19th century mass killing. I will now cancel this dude who is in part responsible that my own people exist."
@@setoste Well it changed my view of this historic period. I really thought that there would have been one tsar in Russian history who didn't murder his own citizens. I'm disappointed but not surprised sadly..
6:15 There were some Lenin statues in Finland bacause he had a role in Finland becoming independent but at least most of them are moved to a warehouse or museum, considered to be more fitting place to those now. Alexander II how ever is probably the only Russian leader who we still want to honor. He abolished slavery (serfdom) in Russia and gave us Finns our own money markka. Finland was already quite independent as Grand Duchy of Russia because we had our own language, church, senate and even army but you could argue that own currency was like the nail in the coffin of Finland becoming independent some day. So having the statue of Alexander II in center of Helsinki well kept is like a reminder from us Finns to Russians what kind of Russian leaders we like here..
Funfact: Finland has had Alexandr II's statue longer than Russia has. For whatever reason completely unknown to anyone, the Communists were not happy with Russian slavery subjects getting more rights, instead of less.
we have had abhorrent times with russia such as the occupations in the 18th century and good times like post stalin ussr when trade was booming and there was even tourism and significant communist support in our country, or the grand duchy which was overall a good time for our nation, the autonomy we received in contrast to being an integral part of sweden far outweighed their meagre attempts to russify us.
Hello, a Finn here who did some small-time guided tours in Helsinki long ago providing some trivia: - the Uspenski Cathedral is the largest Orthodox church outside of Russia or East Europe, at least so I have heard. - the house you are beside at 4:50 (the small blue/grey house on the street corner between the two large yellow buildings at 7:19) is the oldest house in Helsinki named Sederholm's house, built in 1757. - Alexander II gave Finland a lot of autonomy while it was still a part of Russia, which is why his statue is in the Senate Square. It is the Senate Square because the Finnish Senate, basically the government during that autonomous period, was based there. - the bells of the Helsinki Cathedral were too heavy to place in the tower at the top, which I think Engel planned to do originally, so instead they are housed in the small white buildings at the corners. Engel also planned there to be a wall instead of the large set of stairs, but Alexander II or someone else from around there decided they wanted a massive staircase for a powerful impression. - the first yellow building you point to at 7:19 is where a Finn named Eugen Schauman shot General-Governor Nikolai Bobrikov, who was running things in Finland on behalf of the Russians. Quite an important event in the history of the independence movement. It is a government building these days but I can not recall for what exactly. - the yellow building you point to at 7:28 is the main building of the University of Helsinki. - if I recall correctly most if not all the large buildings around the Senate Square were indeed Engel's designs, he did a lot of work in Helsinki for the Russians. - buildings made out of that type of stone (granite?) as in 12:00 are a sign of the builders having a lot of money because it is very expensive; most of the city is normal red-brick walls with facades layered over them. - the square you are in at 15:10 is a prime example of the independence movement having an effect on the architecture at the time: that yellow building which is similar to those at Senate Square is from the Russian days (I think it housed soldiers/guards back then, now it is the Ministry of Defence building) - they really liked those Imperial and Greek temple looks. The other buildings around that square look very different because Finns wanted to move away from the Russian influence.
It´s a funny thing about names in Finland. The first president of independent Finland had a finnish surname, Paasikivi, but to my knowledge he was a member of the swedish speaking minority. My late wife on the other hand was born in a finnish speaking family with a swedish surname.
@@ingemarsjoo4542The first president of independent Finland was Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Paasikivi was the seventh president of Finland, and Paasikivi spoke finnish as his mother tongue and his orginal surname was Hellstén before he changed it into finnish. But regarding the language and surnames, during the age of swedish rule it was better and more useful to have a swedish surname and to speak swedish because swedish was the language of the elite, administration, and education. Speaking Swedish and adopting Swedish names provided social mobility, better job opportunities, and integration into urban or professional life. After the finnish national awakening the opposite happend, changing surnames back to finnish became a mass movement and speaking finnish became better and more useful, Finns who spoke swedish chose to teach their children finnish as their mother tongue. Because of all of this there still are many Finnish speakers who still have their swedified surname, such as myself. And there are many people who still speak swedish but their name was either never swedified or they changed their surname into finnish but not their language.
@@maxfi878 OK.I accept your correction. The great-great-grandson of Paasikivi is a quite well known military in Sweden, often on youtube analysing the war in Ukraine. His general analysis is almost epic: "Två utmattade arméer som slåss på gränsen av sin förmåga".
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Helsinki is what happens when you're first choice capital city burns down and your Russian overlord tells you to move your capital city.
I live in Finland and in my real opinion while living in pikku juntti kylä. Helsinki is same as rest of the country a pikku juntti kylä. I was born here in Finland. My both parents are Finnish and i have travelled to Helsinki many times. But i also travelled around Europe. We all live in Finland in small villages, some just do not knowledge it, i am not hating at Finland. I actually believe pikku juntti kylät are good. I just think that many need to realize that nobody is better. We are all just little village juntties on this side of the world. Today people believe that juntti is bad word. But it is not. You live in a Lintukoto Of Finland far away from the narcissist Evil World Of Dystopian City Systems.
From 2027 Danish women can be drafted as well. And about bloody time, if you ask me. We might not make the best battle soldiers, but there are still thousands of jobs to be done behind the front. At least we can cook and wash the uniforms 😉😉 and learn a lot of useful stuff, that could come in handy any day and time. Peace and love 🥰
@@ane-louisestampe7939 Conscription leads to being a soldier, but as a non-conscript in Finland I've been attending voluntary defense courses where I learn this and that about things I can do when need be. Maybe there are similar voluntary courses available in Denmark as well.
@@kv6uf Neither men nor women become battle soldiers in 6 months' service. And you can't make a good soldier out of someone who doesn't wan't to be a soldier. I know a couple of girls who've served volunteeringly in both the army and the navy; they are more compentent at LIFE SKILL, than most of the men I know.
You can be conscripted into medical services, logistics loading trucks with MREs, communications, sitting in an office and working with the general command... All kinds of things. Down to cooking food for a conscript training camp, assembling kit for those called to serve. Everyone has to put their effort into defending their nation, when disaster or an invader needs to be taken care of.
Did You hear and believe - what You heard about your hometown ? He totally missed Fortress Islands of Suomenlinna / Sveaborg - where They had more People at the time - when Helsinki was founded !
Nice to see a vid thats not trying to polish the picture of our capital ( never mind the details) But what are those animal signs for and that statue of a naked boy wtf havent seen those before 🤨
It was switched off. It pees when switched on. Now we need a similar female statue. When it's raining hard we have this saying in Finnish: It's pouring like from Esteri's ass.
13:00 His life was quite depressing. A man with failing health constantly bullied by Professor Ahlqvist who even wrote a desecration poem after his death.
I hate modern Helsinki, but it has some nice things in it, mostly its history and its writen in its walls that are destroyed all day long by modern idealism...
There's also two other exceptions to conscription: people from the Åland archipelago, and Jehva's Wittnesses. Conscientous objection is a legal option, but specifically the JW's also opposed that, and the state got tired of sending them to prison for reusing service and just gave them a blanket exception
That shite wouldn't fly in the States, we never get tired of sending people to prison! Somehow even here in California where you can have your pants off, smoking crack, and shoplifting and nobody stops you!
@@shiteguides Nice of you to call out the hypocrisy of men only conscription even if it was just meant as cheeky. It's honestly one of the most glaring equal rights issue in Finland that no one actually likes talking about, mostly because fixing it would be a mess and a half either way. Removing conscription would cripple the defense forces and introducing women to conscription would at least double the needed resources not to mention all the additional arrangements that would have to be made. I don't believe that implementing something similar to conscription for women to be realistic or smart anytime soon, but I'm also kind of pissed off that such an injustice to our fundamental values as a country is just being hushed up and ignored for the sake of convenience. I did serve my year and I have a right to be salty about it.
Actually, Jehovah's Witnesses are not exempted anymore. This changed some years ago when the Court of Appeal revoked the prison sentence of a conscientious objector. He argued that Jehovah's Witnesses' exemption based on their conviction discriminates against other people with different convictions. The court agreed, the man was set free and the law was changed shortly after in a way that nobody is exempted anymore. Except Ålanders but that's a different story.
Nice Video & Well Done ! I am sure that many of Your followers - have no idea - what is fiction and what is just your pure imagination ! The main thing that there are People like you - that comes - and tries to concure IRISH WORLD - of way seeing things ! You remind my friend at Clondalkin - who came to see me in Estonia ! Keep up the Gods Good work !
Norway is also cold, but at least along the coast it's usually way milder than Finland is, except when some eastern european or russian heatwave comes to Finland, then it's usually a bit colder in coastal Norway. But.. isn't that good too?
If you don't like the weather in Finland, wait 1 hour and it will change. Usually from bad to the worst. Then wait some more and the weather will surprise you, usually with water in some form.
The peestatue was first placed in the harbour across the street from the presidents office for some years. Type: Pissaava patsas 2014 09 01 to see it working. We need a similar female statue. We have this saying in Finnish when it rains hard, that it's pouring like from Esteris as + letter s.
As a Finn thank you for this video. I live in Finland but havent seen Helsinki for years. Used to travel there many times as child and as a teen. Maybe i will travel there again soon to see it better myself. I am complete conservative and full on Finnish patriot also a Christian gun nut. But maybe i see how fast the people of Helsinki will figure that out. Maybe also after many years will see my brother who lives in a small town near Helsinki.
Didn't took much notice, to be honnest. It's probably some "statue-mentality", that many have.
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Lol, here in Oslo we have a statue of a santa looking dwarf holding some sort of bu7t plug, it's ridiculous, modern european art is about being weird and shocking it seems.
East Helsinki Central Helsinki and West Helsinki every part is completely different East Helsinki is poorer and child family part Central Helsinki is the richest part West Helsinki West Helsinki is a rich family part
The best thing for me was the mouse statue I didn’t know about! And those ugly heads at the Pohjola building have a cigarette now in one of their mouths, just took a photo of it 2 days ago! :D Hell sinki is dark and ugly but I like it’s solid no embellishment Nordic character and I am from Lisbon who came here over 2 decades ago! But yeah working in the center of Helsinki was depressing sometimes….
You could have understood Helsinki, if you had read Mika Waltari’s novel ”Isästä poikaan”, a masterpiece. Your sense of humor is superficial, sorry lad!
@bernmahan1162 Actually had a great time! Was there to do a comedy show and had a blast. Hope it doesn't come off as disrespect! Was just feeling sassy that day
😂😂👏👏👏 explains a lot about Finnish folk ... know a few and there all mental 🤦♂️
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The Finns have always had something weird about them, they're the odd ones out in the Nordic bunch lmao. But they also have weird crazy humor so they can be funny! 🤣
Alexander II was the Grand Duchy of Finland, not the tzar. Finland had autonomy and own laws. During the reign of Alexander II Finland got deeper in autonomy. Constant parlamentary meetings (sitting parliament) were started, lot of modern laws were passed. Finnish language was to made official language equal to Swedish. Finland got own currency Finnish Mark. Building of the Saimaa channel, building of the Finnis railway network. Lot of progress for autonomy and society in general. Later when Nikolai II tried to russify Finland and imposed censorship and took away many the Finnish rights Finns strated to protest by carring flowers to Alexander II statue and remembering him publicly. Nikolai II and russificators could do nothing for this protest, bacause well Alexander II had been the Grand duchy, even they understood it was protest against Nikolai II. That is symbolisim is why Alexander II statue is standing still.
The problem with Helsinki (and Finland) is increasing racism, intolerance to minorities, and huge cuts to health care and education. Things we used to be proud of are now compromised.
It's true. Racism increases as potential targets of racism move into the country, and public health care deteriorates as the number of taxpayers decreases relative to the number of beneficiaries. I know this is a simplified view, but it's true in principle...
As a foreigner living in Helsinki, I can't say I have felt any short of racism. I was aware before coming that Finns even though progressive can be quite racist. When I started living here it felt like another mission formation for the Nordic countries that everyone hates from the south. But to be fair even though I haven't faced it I can see the conditions required for a racism rhetoric to be growing. I specified Helsinki because I feel elsewhere things are worse. The cuts feel weird too, everyone seems to agree that they are bad but people still voted for the right wing party, I guess it's because of other subjects like Russia and immigration that they win but still, almost everyone, even conservative people, agree that the cuts are not a good idea.
Foreign people living abbroad can`t wote in Finland, so lay of that Leftist parties and Green party propaganda... ;) It is getting boring even in Finland.
the thing about the Winter War though, you gotta see who was funding and helping arm and train the Finns vs the Soviets. and like maybe take a look at the decals and roundels that the Finns put on their tanks and planes during the war...
@autoklashkinov I was planning that the next time I'm back in Finland to maybe delve into the meth problems the Finnish army had after the nazis flooded the military with drugs
@@shiteguides I have to say, im not surprices irish gypsy would be a on the gremlin payroll. Seeing how IRA and the government have both sucked communist cock like a lollipop. I got your CRN. Do not worry, well get in the bottom of this.
Yeah, dunno if this was attempted humour, but Finns weren't aligned to Germany during the Winter War, as Germany was in good terms with the Soviets at the time, y'know having the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty still in place and mutually respected.
Funding and helping train the Finns? In the Winter War? Finland was in neutral and somewhat hostile relations with Germany in 1939. Germany was allied to the Russians and provided the Russians with industrial know-how, materials, more specific things like marksman's rifle's optics and tanker's optics etc. Finland's roundels originate from one of the first companies to deliver aircraft to Finland. They had a svastika as part of the brand. It predates the NSDAP by well over a decade in that context. Note how they're not angled. Now shoo, tankie.
I will say my Man you are a LEGEND and keep doing you if I do not get to say before Christmas have a good one appreciate you....Thank you for the shout out....🫡👍🫶
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@shiteguides As soon as Christmas is behind us I will pay it forward put my money where my mouth is and help ya my Man...🫡🇬🇧🫶
Yeww keep em coming broz 🤙
2:33 "weird, Gotham City-inspired terrifying lair of North Europe." You have it backwards. The railway station and similar architecture in Helsinki were used as an inspiration for Gotham City in the Batman movie from 1989.
As an irishman who lives in finland all i can say is....his general optimisim and mood throughout this vid is fitting for an irishman in finland.
It's among the best musical blaces.
And both are "islands".
Iceland, has Björk, so it "rhymes".
Perkele.
Finland also has one of the best churches, and stylish.
@@tehokotkat every second word out of my mouth..."Vitu"
😂😂😂
Do You know HIM from Ireland ? IS He an Stand Up - or known comedian ? He has surely - too much money...
@@holoholopainen1627 I am an unknown comedian who barely makes enough money to pay tax
Alexander II, Alexander the Liberator, or known as "The Good Tsar" in Finland, was responsible for many liberal reforms in Russia, reorganizing the judicial system, setting up elected local judges, abolishing corporal punishment, ending some privileges of the nobility, and promoting university education. He promoted local self-government and encouraged Finnish nationalism, as in 1863 he re-convened the Diet of Finland and initiated several reforms increasing Finland's autonomy within the Russian Empire, including establishment of its own currency and the elevation of Finnish to a national language. Therefore, we're still glad to have his statue in the middle of our capital city.
Lookup Cicassian geno side
@@overallopposites holy shit.. had no idea. I'm actually quite baffled that I've never heard of this before. And there's almost no info in Finnish about this. Thank you for telling this, at least I'm not using the term good tsar ever again. Not a huge surprise thou.. as we say in Finland "ryssä on ryssä, vaikka voissa paistais.."
@@tmaskaYoure a fucking moron for using it in the first place, evey romanov was a genocidal lunatic. If you want to look for any liberator of finland it was lenin, who ended the tsars and gave us independence
@@tmaska What a childlike way of thinking. "Holy shit some random 19th century mass killing. I will now cancel this dude who is in part responsible that my own people exist."
@@setoste Well it changed my view of this historic period. I really thought that there would have been one tsar in Russian history who didn't murder his own citizens. I'm disappointed but not surprised sadly..
6:15 There were some Lenin statues in Finland bacause he had a role in Finland becoming independent but at least most of them are moved to a warehouse or museum, considered to be more fitting place to those now. Alexander II how ever is probably the only Russian leader who we still want to honor. He abolished slavery (serfdom) in Russia and gave us Finns our own money markka.
Finland was already quite independent as Grand Duchy of Russia because we had our own language, church, senate and even army but you could argue that own currency was like the nail in the coffin of Finland becoming independent some day. So having the statue of Alexander II in center of Helsinki well kept is like a reminder from us Finns to Russians what kind of Russian leaders we like here..
Funfact: Finland has had Alexandr II's statue longer than Russia has. For whatever reason completely unknown to anyone, the Communists were not happy with Russian slavery subjects getting more rights, instead of less.
we have had abhorrent times with russia such as the occupations in the 18th century and good times like post stalin ussr when trade was booming and there was even tourism and significant communist support in our country, or the grand duchy which was overall a good time for our nation, the autonomy we received in contrast to being an integral part of sweden far outweighed their meagre attempts to russify us.
@ArchOfficial communists love an underclass don't they
There were some Lenin statues in Finland because of finlandization.
There still is a Lenin park in Helsinki
"Lutherans of course are the followers of Lex Luthor, Superman's nemesis"
I actually chortled a bit out loud
Can you prove that wrong tho? 🦹🏻♂️
Possibly the best traveling video made of my home town!! Great work!! 😂😂
There used to be a circus in the place of the parliament. Circus went but the clowns stayed. 😝
Hello, a Finn here who did some small-time guided tours in Helsinki long ago providing some trivia:
- the Uspenski Cathedral is the largest Orthodox church outside of Russia or East Europe, at least so I have heard.
- the house you are beside at 4:50 (the small blue/grey house on the street corner between the two large yellow buildings at 7:19) is the oldest house in Helsinki named Sederholm's house, built in 1757.
- Alexander II gave Finland a lot of autonomy while it was still a part of Russia, which is why his statue is in the Senate Square. It is the Senate Square because the Finnish Senate, basically the government during that autonomous period, was based there.
- the bells of the Helsinki Cathedral were too heavy to place in the tower at the top, which I think Engel planned to do originally, so instead they are housed in the small white buildings at the corners. Engel also planned there to be a wall instead of the large set of stairs, but Alexander II or someone else from around there decided they wanted a massive staircase for a powerful impression.
- the first yellow building you point to at 7:19 is where a Finn named Eugen Schauman shot General-Governor Nikolai Bobrikov, who was running things in Finland on behalf of the Russians. Quite an important event in the history of the independence movement. It is a government building these days but I can not recall for what exactly.
- the yellow building you point to at 7:28 is the main building of the University of Helsinki.
- if I recall correctly most if not all the large buildings around the Senate Square were indeed Engel's designs, he did a lot of work in Helsinki for the Russians.
- buildings made out of that type of stone (granite?) as in 12:00 are a sign of the builders having a lot of money because it is very expensive; most of the city is normal red-brick walls with facades layered over them.
- the square you are in at 15:10 is a prime example of the independence movement having an effect on the architecture at the time: that yellow building which is similar to those at Senate Square is from the Russian days (I think it housed soldiers/guards back then, now it is the Ministry of Defence building) - they really liked those Imperial and Greek temple looks. The other buildings around that square look very different because Finns wanted to move away from the Russian influence.
Thank you for the info
It´s a funny thing about names in Finland. The first president of independent Finland had a finnish surname, Paasikivi, but to my knowledge he was a member of the swedish speaking minority. My late wife on the other hand was born in a finnish speaking family with a swedish surname.
@@ingemarsjoo4542The first president of independent Finland was Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg, Paasikivi was the seventh president of Finland, and Paasikivi spoke finnish as his mother tongue and his orginal surname was Hellstén before he changed it into finnish. But regarding the language and surnames, during the age of swedish rule it was better and more useful to have a swedish surname and to speak swedish because swedish was the language of the elite, administration, and education. Speaking Swedish and adopting Swedish names provided social mobility, better job opportunities, and integration into urban or professional life. After the finnish national awakening the opposite happend, changing surnames back to finnish became a mass movement and speaking finnish became better and more useful, Finns who spoke swedish chose to teach their children finnish as their mother tongue. Because of all of this there still are many Finnish speakers who still have their swedified surname, such as myself. And there are many people who still speak swedish but their name was either never swedified or they changed their surname into finnish but not their language.
@@ingemarsjoo4542 The first Finnish president was K.J. Ståhlberg, who had a Swedish surname. J.K. Paasikivi was the seventh president.
@@maxfi878 OK.I accept your correction. The great-great-grandson of Paasikivi is a quite well known military in Sweden, often on youtube analysing the war in Ukraine. His general analysis is almost epic: "Två utmattade arméer som slåss på gränsen av sin förmåga".
Helsinki is what happens when you're first choice capital city burns down and your Russian overlord tells you to move your capital city.
Aleksis Kivi being honored for inventing depression kinda weirdly isn't far off 😂
As a finn sometimes it feels like helsinki isnt apart of Finland, so many foreigners and out of touch blue hair lesbians
Translation, there are more people that would disagree with you on several things, therefore they in your mind can't be "real Fins".
I live in Finland and in my real opinion while living in pikku juntti kylä. Helsinki is same as rest of the country a pikku juntti kylä. I was born here in Finland. My both parents are Finnish and i have travelled to Helsinki many times. But i also travelled around Europe. We all live in Finland in small villages, some just do not knowledge it, i am not hating at Finland. I actually believe pikku juntti kylät are good. I just think that many need to realize that nobody is better. We are all just little village juntties on this side of the world. Today people believe that juntti is bad word. But it is not. You live in a Lintukoto Of Finland far away from the narcissist Evil World Of Dystopian City Systems.
@@riku3716 Immigrants are not real finns, also so many "woke" people
@@HyperdimensionalHypnosis-w7q You have not been into real juntti kylät if you think helsinki people are similiar.
@ViceMightBeTaken Ok. Thats okei to me. Maybe more live in a small town that is so called turistirysäpaikkakunta.
There is actually a citizen's initiative to make conscription mandatory for women as well gathering votes right now in Finland.
From 2027 Danish women can be drafted as well. And about bloody time, if you ask me.
We might not make the best battle soldiers, but there are still thousands of jobs to be done behind the front. At least we can cook and wash the uniforms 😉😉 and learn a lot of useful stuff, that could come in handy any day and time.
Peace and love 🥰
Truth however is yes men are disposable, worked like it for millenias
@@ane-louisestampe7939 Conscription leads to being a soldier, but as a non-conscript in Finland I've been attending voluntary defense courses where I learn this and that about things I can do when need be. Maybe there are similar voluntary courses available in Denmark as well.
@@kv6uf Neither men nor women become battle soldiers in 6 months' service.
And you can't make a good soldier out of someone who doesn't wan't to be a soldier.
I know a couple of girls who've served volunteeringly in both the army and the navy; they are more compentent at LIFE SKILL, than most of the men I know.
You can be conscripted into medical services, logistics loading trucks with MREs, communications, sitting in an office and working with the general command... All kinds of things. Down to cooking food for a conscript training camp, assembling kit for those called to serve.
Everyone has to put their effort into defending their nation, when disaster or an invader needs to be taken care of.
Huge ornate Cathedral: Meh
Tiny Stone mouse: 😱
Let me tell you something.
With that attitude you blend in perfectly with the locals 😂
Helsinki is defienetly not an example how normal finnish people live.
yeah, mäntsälä potato farmers are real finns
/s
I must have been abnormal Savonian when I lived half and half of my life in Helsinki for 10 years and did not notice lot of difference.
@@Oliverii mäntsälä=masennus
helsingis on kaikki robotit
This is by far the most accurate depiction of my home town. Helsinki, -have to see it to believe it.
Did You hear and believe - what You heard about your hometown ? He totally missed Fortress Islands of Suomenlinna / Sveaborg - where They had more People at the time - when Helsinki was founded !
I think the foreign occupier's statue at senate square should be replaced with a statue of Eugen Schauman.
You might be the first UA-camr to explain Lutheranism succinctly.
I live 30min away from HKI and i wanna go steal that unicorn sign now :/ We'll see. Maybe next time i'm drunk it'll magically disappear off the wall
😅👍 Greetings from Finland! And a better new year!☺
Nice to see a vid thats not trying to polish the picture of our capital ( never mind the details) But what are those animal signs for and that statue of a naked boy wtf havent seen those before 🤨
5:55 tearing down ussr stuff not stuff from imperial times. Estonia had good relationship with russia, compered to present times. So did finns i guess
This pii-statue here in Helsinki is a shame of course.
It was switched off. It pees when switched on. Now we need a similar female statue. When it's raining hard we have this saying in Finnish: It's pouring like from Esteri's ass.
That intro was dope, like the old school vibe 🔥
13:00 His life was quite depressing. A man with failing health constantly bullied by Professor Ahlqvist who even wrote a desecration poem after his death.
Instant like for that intro😂
"Center" is carbage concrete center, like in most cities="come here tourist to consume"=looped boredom
No hand holding zone 😂😂 Sounds pretty accurate
"which showcases just how regular and normal Finnish people are" -at that moment I knew
I guess that statue is a mirror for all the drunk people pissing around the harbor after the boat arrives...
I hate modern Helsinki, but it has some nice things in it, mostly its history and its writen in its walls that are destroyed all day long by modern idealism...
"Modern "non-culturalism" of just "mostly straight boring lines".
There's also two other exceptions to conscription: people from the Åland archipelago, and Jehva's Wittnesses. Conscientous objection is a legal option, but specifically the JW's also opposed that, and the state got tired of sending them to prison for reusing service and just gave them a blanket exception
Oh cool! Love me some extra facts in the comments. Aland area looks wild!
That shite wouldn't fly in the States, we never get tired of sending people to prison! Somehow even here in California where you can have your pants off, smoking crack, and shoplifting and nobody stops you!
@@shiteguides Nice of you to call out the hypocrisy of men only conscription even if it was just meant as cheeky. It's honestly one of the most glaring equal rights issue in Finland that no one actually likes talking about, mostly because fixing it would be a mess and a half either way. Removing conscription would cripple the defense forces and introducing women to conscription would at least double the needed resources not to mention all the additional arrangements that would have to be made.
I don't believe that implementing something similar to conscription for women to be realistic or smart anytime soon, but I'm also kind of pissed off that such an injustice to our fundamental values as a country is just being hushed up and ignored for the sake of convenience. I did serve my year and I have a right to be salty about it.
Jehovas witnesses have not been exceptions in years. Was abolished a few years back in 2019.
Actually, Jehovah's Witnesses are not exempted anymore. This changed some years ago when the Court of Appeal revoked the prison sentence of a conscientious objector. He argued that Jehovah's Witnesses' exemption based on their conviction discriminates against other people with different convictions. The court agreed, the man was set free and the law was changed shortly after in a way that nobody is exempted anymore.
Except Ålanders but that's a different story.
As a Finn I haven't been to Helsinki for 6 years now and if I can avoid it until the end of my days I'll die a happy man.
This! Been wondering for decades what it is that people like about Hellsinki bc there is absolutely nothing to like.
Nice Video & Well Done ! I am sure that many of Your followers - have no idea - what is fiction and what is just your pure imagination ! The main thing that there are People like you - that comes - and tries to concure IRISH WORLD - of way seeing things ! You remind my friend at Clondalkin - who came to see me in Estonia ! Keep up the Gods Good work !
The lantern bearers look exactly like the Cerberus from the game Ultra Kill. In the game they throw the lantern at you.
only problem is: weather
Norway is also cold, but at least along the coast it's usually way milder than Finland is, except when some eastern european or russian heatwave comes to Finland, then it's usually a bit colder in coastal Norway. But.. isn't that good too?
I wouldn't mind the cold and snow, but here in coastal Finland it's just rainy and windy
@@pippastin yeah I live in southern Finland and it is like that
If you don't like the weather in Finland, wait 1 hour and it will change. Usually from bad to the worst. Then wait some more and the weather will surprise you, usually with water in some form.
@@vili5000 well that is true
The peestatue was first placed in the harbour across the street from the presidents office for some years. Type: Pissaava patsas 2014 09 01 to see it working. We need a similar female statue. We have this saying in Finnish when it rains hard, that it's pouring like from Esteris as + letter s.
Even though it's checklist once again, it's much more amusing than a tourist video. At least you didn't record yourself slurping salmon soup.
As a Finn thank you for this video. I live in Finland but havent seen Helsinki for years. Used to travel there many times as child and as a teen. Maybe i will travel there again soon to see it better myself. I am complete conservative and full on Finnish patriot also a Christian gun nut. But maybe i see how fast the people of Helsinki will figure that out. Maybe also after many years will see my brother who lives in a small town near Helsinki.
hey mate is tallinn estonia coming on?
brilliant!
dope theme song
this was great 10/10 ty for reviewing my city
That statue is fkin terrifying
Don't worry, the people in Helsinki are worse.
Didn't took much notice, to be honnest.
It's probably some "statue-mentality", that many have.
Lol, here in Oslo we have a statue of a santa looking dwarf holding some sort of bu7t plug, it's ridiculous, modern european art is about being weird and shocking it seems.
They have a similar one in Rotterdam. Same artist
@ dude needs investigating
I love that intro :D
East Helsinki Central Helsinki and West Helsinki every part is completely different East Helsinki is poorer and child family part Central Helsinki is the richest part West Helsinki West Helsinki is a rich family part
But east Helsinki has nice culture, with South people also.
Espoo... has also, ideas and things.
Helsinki way around, has best.
Helsinki is communist. Fkn hoes.
7:51 Cheers! Maybe one day we will see a world where churches are taxed, just like they should be.
cheers m8
Let`s go away. How about entering to Uspenski Cathedral, it is amazing church.
The best thing for me was the mouse statue I didn’t know about! And those ugly heads at the Pohjola building have a cigarette now in one of their mouths, just took a photo of it 2 days ago! :D Hell sinki is dark and ugly but I like it’s solid no embellishment Nordic character and I am from Lisbon who came here over 2 decades ago! But yeah working in the center of Helsinki was depressing sometimes….
Savage lad
Why EVERY TIME cros-country skiing is documented THERE ARE NO SNOW! Because cameramen s cannot move in high snow?
that was plain silly, not offended
Darude Sandstorm building :O
A city of W-anchors maybe 🤔😉😁
That's not giant........ 😅
You silly tnuc just earned a subscription
I think is hilarious
Ei se hiiri.
P*ska kommentti hyi yäk.
You could have understood Helsinki, if you had read Mika Waltari’s novel ”Isästä poikaan”, a masterpiece. Your sense of humor is superficial, sorry lad!
Ooh harsh! You could at least have had a decent coffee or chatted to some death metal fans (they call the ones in corpse paint "penguins" in Finland).
@bernmahan1162 Actually had a great time! Was there to do a comedy show and had a blast. Hope it doesn't come off as disrespect! Was just feeling sassy that day
@@shiteguides Fair enough chap. Look forward to more. And you did like the little mouse statue!
What is wrong with YOU?
After 4 beers pissing happen
is that an irish republican flag pin your flatcap?
@venkkooo It's an Easter lily, a symbol of remembrance for the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland.
Hey hey hey my town! extremely boring innit but gave it a good go anyway, here have coffee for yer troubles!
Thanks a million comrade! Was in your town to do a comedy show and will hopefully be back again soon.
so funny!! 🤣
😂😂👏👏👏 explains a lot about Finnish folk ... know a few and there all mental 🤦♂️
The Finns have always had something weird about them, they're the odd ones out in the Nordic bunch lmao.
But they also have weird crazy humor so they can be funny! 🤣
Alexander II was the Grand Duchy of Finland, not the tzar. Finland had autonomy and own laws. During the reign of Alexander II Finland got deeper in autonomy. Constant parlamentary meetings (sitting parliament) were started, lot of modern laws were passed. Finnish language was to made official language equal to Swedish. Finland got own currency Finnish Mark. Building of the Saimaa channel, building of the Finnis railway network. Lot of progress for autonomy and society in general.
Later when Nikolai II tried to russify Finland and imposed censorship and took away many the Finnish rights Finns strated to protest by carring flowers to Alexander II statue and remembering him publicly. Nikolai II and russificators could do nothing for this protest, bacause well Alexander II had been the Grand duchy, even they understood it was protest against Nikolai II. That is symbolisim is why Alexander II statue is standing still.
Finland was a Grand duchy. Alexander was The tzar. Vittu, lue ja opi poju
Venäjän Keisari ja Suomen Suuriruhtinas
The problem with Helsinki (and Finland) is increasing racism, intolerance to minorities, and huge cuts to health care and education. Things we used to be proud of are now compromised.
Icreased raicsm? For what reason. Did the minorities not act nicely?
It's true. Racism increases as potential targets of racism move into the country, and public health care deteriorates as the number of taxpayers decreases relative to the number of beneficiaries. I know this is a simplified view, but it's true in principle...
As a foreigner living in Helsinki, I can't say I have felt any short of racism. I was aware before coming that Finns even though progressive can be quite racist. When I started living here it felt like another mission formation for the Nordic countries that everyone hates from the south. But to be fair even though I haven't faced it I can see the conditions required for a racism rhetoric to be growing.
I specified Helsinki because I feel elsewhere things are worse. The cuts feel weird too, everyone seems to agree that they are bad but people still voted for the right wing party, I guess it's because of other subjects like Russia and immigration that they win but still, almost everyone, even conservative people, agree that the cuts are not a good idea.
Foreign people living abbroad can`t wote in Finland, so lay of that Leftist parties and Green party propaganda... ;) It is getting boring even in Finland.
Not true. They use that racism narrative against normal people. Freedom of speech is in danger.
the thing about the Winter War though, you gotta see who was funding and helping arm and train the Finns vs the Soviets. and like maybe take a look at the decals and roundels that the Finns put on their tanks and planes during the war...
@autoklashkinov I was planning that the next time I'm back in Finland to maybe delve into the meth problems the Finnish army had after the nazis flooded the military with drugs
@@shiteguides I have to say, im not surprices irish gypsy would be a on the gremlin payroll. Seeing how IRA and the government have both sucked communist cock like a lollipop. I got your CRN. Do not worry, well get in the bottom of this.
@@shiteguides Ohh, you are uneducated russian troll too. Count your days.
Yeah, dunno if this was attempted humour, but Finns weren't aligned to Germany during the Winter War, as Germany was in good terms with the Soviets at the time, y'know having the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty still in place and mutually respected.
Funding and helping train the Finns? In the Winter War? Finland was in neutral and somewhat hostile relations with Germany in 1939. Germany was allied to the Russians and provided the Russians with industrial know-how, materials, more specific things like marksman's rifle's optics and tanker's optics etc.
Finland's roundels originate from one of the first companies to deliver aircraft to Finland. They had a svastika as part of the brand. It predates the NSDAP by well over a decade in that context. Note how they're not angled.
Now shoo, tankie.
I will say my Man you are a LEGEND and keep doing you if I do not get to say before Christmas have a good one appreciate you....Thank you for the shout out....🫡👍🫶
@@deandunbar5159 cheers for supporting the channel!!!!!!!!!!!
The city has a lot of neegeri and boom boom people