Comments by "Вячеслав Скопюк" (@user-yj8vj3sq6j) on "The Courland Pocket WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 2 The Baltic Tragedy" video.

  1. Latvian SS Divisions partially consisted of Latvian Schutzmannschaft batallions(those guys, who actually killed Jews, Russians, Belorussians, Ukrainians, etc). So, I don't quite understand that part about ''only part of Victor Arajs unit committed crimes'. Also, looks like you didn't noticed what Glant's said about young man forced to choose between labor and military service. For me it doesn't look like they were forced to take arms
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  2. ​ @raceris7309  >It looks like you're trying to put as much dirt on Lithuania as possible Maybe it looks like that to you, because you are Lithuanian. I really do not differentiate between Baltic states in that case, they all had they share of atrocities committed. >Coincidentally, I don't know a single story about minorities getting harrased by Lithuanians maybe you didn't looked good enough? >On the other hand, it tells us that Jews were the most respected minority out of others. Sorry, I lost you. What exactly tells us that Jews were the most respected minority out of others? >Do you really expect them to have a positive opinion on USSR after such event happened? Again, I lost you. How USSR was connected to mass killing of Jews in Lithuania, which began even before Germans took over?
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  3.  @vascotank5033  >only fought on the Eastern Front, no secriuty duties or bandit hunting lolwut? Schutzmannschaft batallions weren't army troops. They were the forces, assigned to hunt 'bandits' and perform 'security' duties. What "Eastern Front fighting" they did in Belorussia in 1942? Cease that bullshit, please >can you explain more on how it doesn't look like they where forced? They had a choice. Military service or labor
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  4.  @crabyman3555  >if you were in their place you would swear allegiance to Hitler too. i'm not that predisposed to killing Jews, Russians, Belorussians, Ukrainians and getting paid for that
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  5.  @vascotank5033  >I didn't say only the eastern front at all, "ONLY fought on the Eastern Front" -you wrote that > also it being a schuma battlion dosen't mean they where made to do anti-partsian work yep. They could be made to support Einsatzgruppe (and they were made) > but even still in such operations, they where placed in inactive sectors O'rly? If memory serves me, they got they share of KIA in Belorussia
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  6.  @vascotank5033  >for the 16th,18th,19th,21st,24th and 26th Schutzmannschaft batallions. you said that they only fought on the Eastern Front > i didn't say for all only those battlions really? Quite a short memory you have. "most of the other 20 or so Schutzmannschaft batallions too only fought on the eastern front" - that's your words  >also i didn't captlized the whole word only at all. I personally capitalized that word. To emphasize that you wrote that said battalions only fought on the Eastern Front and didn't participated in police duties >you didn't specifie that you where talking about that, so thats on you not me. I talked about bullshit you wrote in your first comment, so that's on you not me
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  7.  @raceris7309  >The thing is, 7.5% of 1930's Lithuania's population were Jews. which, incidentally, tells us nothing about anti-semitism level >so you saying that Lithuania were hateful against Jews is just plain wrong Nope. Fact that " first Lithuanian bicyclist had Jewish blood" only tells us that there were (probably) no state anti-semitism in Lithuania >not all Lithuanians participated in the Holocaust not all, that's true. But those, who participated... Man, they were so enthusiastic about that. AFAIR, mass-killings in Lithuania started from the first days of war. That's not a common thing
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  8.  @JohnHenryEden2277  > Don't you think that if Lithuanians truly were so antisemitic they would have expelled or exterminated their Jewish population during the two decades of independence? I don't think so. Such deeds take a lot of effort.
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  9.  @raceris7309  >The story explains it well why Baltics colaborated more with Germans than the Allies there is a collaboration and there is a collaboration >The point is, you're looking at lithuanians as serial killers and nothing else! nope >We do not glorify the ones who commited those crimes really? No glory for the Shuma veterans or guys from Lietuvos Aktyvistų Frontas? >And I have no clue where you got the information about the death of Jews before German occupation It's quite common knowledge. I got mine from Alexander Dyukov books and talks, you can start from article in Wikipedia about Holocaust in Lithuania and get the sources from there
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  10.  @raceris7309  It has nothing to do with 'amount of battles'. It's amount of the resources USSR provided to baltic states that matters
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  11.  @armands3153  actually, not. Do you know something about so called "supply categories" in USSR?
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  12.  @armands3153  категории снабжения
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  13.  @armands3153  >what do you mean by "resources USSR provided to the Baltic States"? food, clothes, household appliances, cars, etc. Anything you associate with quality of life >any resources given to the Baltic States were USSR's self-funding. yep. Funding mouths and bellies of Lithuanians, for example :D >Overall 16.5% of the Baltic State income went to USSR's budget and was never seen again. what "income", lol? You forgot that USSR didn't have a real economy? >You won't convince me otherwise. Again - there were so called "supply categories". Baltic states, along with Moscow, Leningrad and some other USSR republics, like Georgia, had the highest supply category. So, they were supplied with substantially more food and manufactured goods, than the other parts of USSR. There is yours "never seen again"
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  14.  @armands3153  nope. I'm talking about USSR from 1945 to 1989
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  15.  @armands3153  you really don't know anything about USSR times, do you? ;)
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  16. >Before the war, Latvia was actually one of the wealthiest and fastest growing economies in Europe ROFLMAO
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  17. > it strikes an extremely eerie resemblance with recent events in Ukraine and the Caucusus how so?
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  18.  @zombieguyproducion  sorry, but I don't see "an extremely eerie resemblance" here. Could you elaborate?
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  19.  @zombieguyproducion  Baltic states weren't occupied military, you should remember that. Georgia wasn't occupied at all.
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  20.  @zombieguyproducion  yes, Baltic States were occupied. But there were no initial military intervention. >As for Georgia, Russia literally INVADED Georgia 2008 for couple of days, yes. Without any further political consequences. I'm failing to see resemblance with events in the Ukraine or Baltic States here
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  21.  @zombieguyproducion  >Military occupation. Which is what I said... no resemblance to Crimean events, though. Except, maybe, referendum >And how lucky Georgia has control of Abkhazia Georgia had no control over Abkhazia since 1992. How it relates to Crimea and occupation of Baltic states?
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  22.  @zombieguyproducion  >definetly not similar. we were talking about 'eerie resemblance', remember? And what about Georgia?
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