Comments by "Sergey Bebenin" (@sergeybebenin) on "The Baltics and Russia: A Long Divorce" video.

@siux94 Many of them are literally people that moved there to replace deported locals that were shipped in train cars to Siberia. The rest are children of those same people. So give me a break.
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@RockSmithStudio No worries. 300k army with modern weapons will make sure Russia won't take another inch. We are way past 2014 disarray and confusion.
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Ukraine is too important to russian chauvinists empire. Unfortunately only through war but Ukraine has no choice but to succeed
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@siux94 Then move to Russia
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@Kyuutai I'm sorry but just because you are born in a country that you don't "relate to" culturally doesn't give you a right to demand aborigines accept your culture and learn your language. This nonsense has limits and gotta stop at some point... Otherwise a lot of European countries will lose identities forever. And it's irrelevant whether it's people from Africa or Russia. Learn the local language and shut up. Don't like it? Move to the country where your language is the primary language
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Baltic states are so lucky to be completely separated from chauvinist russian empire. And best thing they did was the Resident Status
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@mjevgeni "In the first year of Soviet occupation, from June 1940 to June 1941, the number confirmed executed, conscripted, or deported is estimated at a minimum of 124,467: 59,732 in Estonia, 34,250 in Latvia, and 30,485 in Lithuania. More than 200,000 people are estimated to have been deported from the Baltic in 1940–1953. In addition, at least 75,000 were sent to Gulag. 10 percent of the entire adult Baltic population was deported or sent to labor camps, effectively breaking the back of the insurgency." Truth hurts, especially hurts descendents of occupants that are responsible for this.
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@mjevgeni Wt f are you talking about? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ USSR occupied Baltics and deported/killed hundreds of thousands. Learn history and then speak up. Jesus! Where do people like you come from?!!
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@mjevgeni 🤦‍♂️ Dude you can claim anything you want but info is open for anyone to see. So to that anyone who's interested, instead of listening to his nonsense, literally just Google "sovietization of Baltic states" and/or "russification of Baltic states". Simple as that. And I'm sure most educated people already know but just in case also Google "molotov ribbentrop pakt". I'm done here. My job is done, you cannot rewrite history in 2021.😂
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@mjevgeni And what exactly are you trying to prove here with this? That ONE of the deportation events even has a name? 🤦‍♂️
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@mjevgeni Oh yeah. As always "you are lying" response. And you honestly think this works? 🤣
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"As part of the goal to more fully integrate Baltic countries into the Soviet Union, mass deportations were concluded in the Baltic countries and the policy of encouraging Soviet immigration to the Baltic states continued." THIS^ is called artificial ethnic/cultural dilution. And you have a nerve to demand Russian language rights? I'm so happy people get to see your responses here
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@alexstorm2749 Your bs nonsense is so bad that there's no reason to even trying to disprove it. I mean, I've never even heard such lunacy before 😂
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@Kyuutai Um, no. Just google "Baltics russification". Before WW2 russians represented a tiny tiny minority there. Latvia and Estonia had the highest at 10%. Lithuania below 3%. When Soviets occupied Baltics, they deported (or killed) local ethnic people to Siberia and instead relocated Russians to Baltic states. It's a historic fact. So no, they don't deserve this right. This didn't happen 300 years ago or even 100 years ago. It happened middle of last century and many of those occupants are still alive. If anything, this should be a great lesson to occupants around the world.
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@Kyuutai 10% is enough for what? Making it a second official language and not requiring learning national language? You gotta be kidding me. You can paint entire Europe with the same brush and every country will have at least 10 official languages. No, just no. And it doesn't matter if children of occupants (not just descendants, literally children or literally same people that were in their 20s back then) had no choice. Like I said, an occupant is an occupant. Giving birth to a child doesn't erase the status. Learn the damn language and shut up. Don't want to learn it? Move back to your occupant country and speak russian all you want.
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@Kyuutai What does recognized even mean? As far and I'm aware, Russian language isn't illegal in Baltic states. Of course it's recognized but to become a citizen obviously you must learn national language.
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Ага... выФсеВрети 🤣
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@JohnSmith-uy4wo Self defence is the logic. What do you do to/with someone that doesn't recognize you and wants to destroy your country/culture? You do everything possible to defend yourself. Common sense. I recognize Russia as a country and russian culture. They, on the other hand, defacto don't recognize many neighboring countries/cultures.
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@JohnSmith-uy4wo 1. Moronic comparison. Stalin murdered and repressed harmless (as in, without imperialist chauvinist ambitions) nationalities that either had a potential to unite for independence OR... nations that "collaborated" against soviets. In this case, like I said, Baltic states are simply defending own nations against (ironically) nation/people that in majority idolize Stalin and don't recognize neighbors. If you still don't get it, I can't help you. 2. I'm Ukrainian. My last name is passed on from my grandfather born in Russia. What difference does it make?
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@mjevgeni Dude🤦‍♂️. 1. It's you said that "you are lying". 2. Can't change the history, sorry. Facts are facts.
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@mjevgeni What facts? Wiki specifically gives a number of 200K deported... With sources. What else do you want?
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@forestmanzpedia chauvinism plays a big part in russian culture
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@UCuWmkDvYaaoNSYJ-R1aKd7g I want to be clear, I never said Russian "culture" doesn't belong there. European continent is intertwined with different cultures and it's perfectly normal and of course I'm not against it. What I'm against is making Russian language a second official language. This is it. The reason is simple actually and it's more of a defensive mechanism than anything, but also makes it easier for every citizen to have the same opportunities. Defence: Russian has always been and still is an empire with imperialists views on neighbors. It's an indisputable fact. Just listen to Russian leaders and watch what they did in Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine. Russia is currently giving away Russian passports in occupied Ukraine specifically to have an excuse to "defend russians". They even changed the law to grant passport not on ethnicity but on just on on how you deem yourself. You (not your specifically, just an example) feel Russian? Great - he's a passport for you. Anyway, Russia is always claiming that they have the right to defend Russian speaking in any part of the world. It's their weapon - Russian language. So if it was Sweden or Finland instead of Russia, I'm sure there wouldn't even be this conversation but context makes all the difference. Equal opportunity: Everyone should be able to work in any position. This means government, hospitality, etc. It's unfair to local ethnic groups to learn Russian just because it would also be required to get gov. job, etc. It just makes no sense. Everyone must learn national language and then everyone has equal opportunity
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