Comments by "Arty" (@arty5876) on "Russian Invasion of Finland - The Winter War 1939-40" video.

Emm... You know nothing about Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Putin don't have reasons to invade Finland, and this is why he didn't invaded. But Putin have reasons to invade Ukraine, and this is why he invaded Ukraine. There is no possibility of war between Russia and Finland, there is no reasons for that.
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The relations between Russia and Ukraine in period of 1991-2014 were good. Relations with Russia became bad because of the pro-Western revolution in Ukraine Finland gained independence by its own decision, while the collapse of USSR was mostly ironically provided by Russian SFSR
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@herrrotkappchen7816 Russian millitary operation in Georgia had no differences with NATO operation in Serbia. That was a peacekeeping operation. In 1999 there was a Yougoslavian war, where the genocides and kills were commited. The Albanians from Kosovo were fighting for their independence against Serbs. The Western World recognized Kosovo as an independent state, and NATO forces bombed Serbia, resulting the end of bloody war. The same thing happened in Georgia - Abkhazia and Osetia were fighting against the Georgia for their independence, people were dying. In 2008 Russia recognized Abkhazia and Osetia as an independent nations, and Russian peacekeepers entered parts of Georgia. After 5 days of fighting Georgia surrendered, and at now this countries are living in peace. Russia in 2008 made a good thing and ended a bloody war, in which Georgians were shelling civillians in Osetia by heavy artillery. The real bad guys in Russo-Georgian conflict were Georgians, while Russians in 2008 had ended the bloody war, and Abkhazia and Osetia became independent, as they wanted to be.
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@emilywatt5126 Kurils and Kaliningrad are Russian territories, they can't be German or Japanese anymore, because the Japanese Empire and Nazi Germany were agressive anti-human states, that had provided genocides and crimes. And they were defeated in WW2 by anti-Hitler coalition. And this is why these territories are Russian and must be. If you want the justicall borders, so Poland must return all western parts to Germany, Ukraine and Belarus must return their western territories to Poland. Ukraine also must return all eastern parts to Russia. America must return southern parts to Mexico. And we would have an awful World
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@emilywatt5126 you spreading BS, while I'm talking facts. Abkhazians and Osetians fought for their independence against Georgians, and Russian pecekeepers in 2008 ended the bloody war, and at now these two peoples are living in peace and without Georgians. Russia isn't treating NATO members, because both Russia and NATO are having nukes. Russia isn't trearing Japan - Japan was an agressive fashist Empire during WW2, and USSR defeated Japan, but because Japan became the American sphere of influense in the Cold war, Japan rejected a peace treaty and Japan claims Russian territories as Japanese. This is Japan treating Russia, but not opposite.
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@emilywatt5126 this is not propaganda, this is just true - the peoples want independence, and Abkhazians and Osetians were fighting against Georgians for their independence. This is just historical facts. In the 90s there was a Georgian-Abkhazian war. Russian invasion of Georgia have no differense with NATO invasion of Serbia. NATO had provided peacekeeping operation for independence of Kosovo, and Russia had provided peacekeeping operation in Georgia for independence of Abkhazia and Osetia
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@jounisuninen no
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@emilywatt5126 you are talking about the historical borders. This is bad idea, because "eye for eye and World would never see a peace". My point of view is that borders must stay just like people living on them want. This is why I'm suppourting the independence of Kosovo for example. Historical borders is a bad idea, because the America before the 16th centry was simply not populated by white people. And so, they must leave this continent? Kaliningrad and Kurils at now aren't populated by the Japanese and Germans, because these two nations-agressors were defeated in WW2. And why the territories, populated by Russians, must be German or Japanese? I'm not suppourting the war in Ukraine, and I think, that the resistance to NATO and West is a bad idea for Russia
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@emilywatt5126 those republics, who voted for independence in 1990-1991, became independent states. Siberian and Caucasian peoples voted in majority to enter Russia. Only Tatarstan became independent in 1992. The voting for independence of nations was organized by Boris Yeltsin, he once said "You can have such automony as you can eat" (c). Tatarstan was an independent in period of 1992-94, but after the coup in Moscow in 1993 Russian government became more monolithic and straight, commies were shot down by tanks, and Tatarstan, that was feeling economically bad without Russian oil, made the agreement with Russia, according to which Tatarstan became the autonomic region inside Russia. They have rights for their religion and language, there is no enmity between the Russians and Tatars.
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1.5 thousand*
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Stalin wasn't concerned of Finland - he was trying to spread the World recolution. Stalin didn't prepared defenses, because he wanted to attack Germany first
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Russians had invaded Ukraine without numerical superiority, while Ukraine is the largest land millitary in Europe after Russia. Ukraine have far more tanks, than Germany, Poland, Britain or France. Russian and Ukrainian armies have the same level of training, logistics and equipment, but Ukraine have worser economy and equal life standarts, than Russia. So, Ukraine have lower ammount of economical resources per every soldier, having lesser soldiers, than Russia. Even after sanctions Russian economy is still more effective. If the quality of troops is equal, according to the law of millitary science attacking side is suffering more casualities. Ukraine isn't lesser corrupt than Russia, Ukrainian army isn't really better trained, than Russian army, despite the fact that Ukrainians were trained by NATO officers - Ukraine don't had economical resources to organize millitary exercizes, and (my opinion) if Ukrainian army is better trained than Russian, I don't think that the differense is huge. Probably the fighting capability of an Ukrainian is ~125% of Russian + the advantage of defensive side in casualities. Also, Ukrainians have drones and modern Western AT weapons. The only 2 reasons, why Russian invasion had failed in first few weeks: 1) Russian soldiers aren't motivated to fight against brother Slavic people, a lot of Russians have relatives in Ukraine, probably some Russian soldiers have relarives in Ukraine, and war is totally unpopular in Russia. Russian soldiers are mentally and morally supressed, they don't want to fight against brother Slavic people. Opposite - Ukrainians have moral boom, they are fighting for their homeland. Also, civillian deaths would demoralize Russians and rise the morale of Ukrainians. 2) Russian command probably believed in its own propaganda, and commanders in Kremlin were thinking, that they would take all of Ukraine in 3 days without resistance, and Russian troops would be met with flowers. And Russian command simply didn't prepared for a war - Russians didn't planned, that they would face the resistance, they thought that they would take all of Ukraine in 3 days, and this is why Russians at now have poor logistics and preparation. Russia have a population of 146 million people, while Ukraine have the population of 40 million. The life standarts, economy, corruption, level of training in the army, logistics and millitary productions in the Russia and Ukraine are in the same level. But Ukrainians have the morale boom, while Russians are supressed, and Russians weren't prepared for the real war, they were thinking that they would be met with flowers by Ukrainians. I think that the corruption isn't the real reason of Russian failure, because Ukraine is also very corrupt country. Before the war Ukraine was economically more poor than Russia (in terms of currensy and international trade, but life standarts were +- equal) and Ukrainian government isn't lesser corrupt, than Russian. So, the corruption couldn't be the reason of Russian failure, because Ukrainian millitary also was very corrupt before the war.
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The negotiations with Stalin were useless - Russian defense ministry opened secret documents, at now everything is clear. Stalin wanted the spread of the World revolution, and he used negotiations only as an istrument. Factually, Soviet command wanted to occupy all Finland in 2 weeks
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@vesakaitera2831 I think Putin is liar, and "NATO expansion threat" is also lie. I think that Putin invaded Ukraine to not allow Ukraine to enter European Union and Wetsern sphere of influence, because Russian oligarchs would lose Ukraine as their cake, and also Ukraine by enetering the European Union, from one of the poorest countries of Europe, even more poor than Russia, would become the good place to live, probably better than Russia, and Putin's dictatorship don't need the rich country of European Union near the Russian borders. Finland already a part of European Union, also Finland have good economic relations with Russia, and Finland stays neutral in question between NATO and Russia, so, there is zero possibility that Russia would attack Finland, there is no rivalry in media between Russia and Finland. Also, Putin need war for popularity. Putin always was providing his rating by war - for example in 1999, during the Chechen war, Putin was Russian prime minister. in Russia power is arranged so that president is transfering power to prime minister, something like the monarchy, and when sick Yeltsin resigned, Putin temporarily became the president of Russia. This is symbolically happened on New Year, 31 december 1999. Russian population didn't had any trust to him, people were thinking, that coup against Yeltsin had happened. Putin became the ruler during the terrorist attacks - Chechen Islamic terrorists, known for their cruelty since 1991, attacked the Dagestan region of Russia. Also, dozens of blasts in the residental buildings had happened all across Russia, and Putin blamed the Chechens in organizing this blasts, from which hundreeds of people died. Russian army provided the operation in Dagestan and Chechnya, defeating the Islamists and occupying the region. This is exactly what Russian army didn't achieved in thr first Chechen war of 1994-96, when Chechen terrorists and killers had won the war. Putin gained rating from millitary victory over the terrorism, and he won the presidential elections of 2000. But Chechens continued rebel fighting, and terracts were happening in Russia up to ~2008. Some people are also believing, that some terracts and blasts of 1999 were organized by Putin himself. Also, there was a massive blast in Moscow metro in 2010, when the entire station with train was destroyed, this station was closed for repair for few years. Probably this blast was organized by Putin to keep the picture of foreign threat. In 2008, when Russia defended Abkhazians and Osetians from Georgian agression, Putin also gained rating, and in 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea, his popularity grew from 40% to 80%. Crimea was a Ukrainian-controlled territory, that is populated by Russians. Nikita Hrushew, the ruler of USSR (1954-1964) was Ukrainian by nationality, and he transferred Crimea from Russian SFSR to Ukrainian SR in 1956. And people in Russia always wanted Crimea back, Russians really cared by this question for 70 years. And Putin, that wanted the growth of his popularity, annexed Crimea. If we are talking about this war - Putin's rating is also growing. Ukraine isn't saint country in Russo-Ukrainian conflict. in 2014 the Donbass region, Eastern Ukraine, had rebelled against the Kyiv rule. Donbass region is highly populated by Russians, and these Russians standed against the nationalistic-democratic revolution in Ukraine, and they wanted to enter Russia. Putin isn't lying, when he is saying, thet Ukraine have naz%s in the government. This is true. Ukraine is a nationalistic government, and Ukrainian forces were fighting against Russians is the Donbass region since 2014. 14 thousand people had died as a result of Donbass war (2014-2022). Little ammount of people in Russia at now are standing against this war, and even I am neutral to the war, because Ukrainian side isn't saint, as Western propaganda is saying. Ukrainian forces for 8 years were killing the Russians in the Donbass, and this is true that Ukrainian government and media even before the war of 2022 were rusophobic naz%s, so these people deserved the war, their current fate. Let's hope Zelensky would stop useless resistance and would surrender, because Russian army had retreated from Kyiv region, so this means that Russian command rejected its first plan, and occupying all Ukraine isn't the target of war anymore. So, there is no reasons of Ukrainian resistance at now, because Russia isn't targeting the occupation of all Ukraine, but only Donbass region, highly populated by Russians, that were fighting against Ukrainians for their independence for 8 years since 2014. And the fact, that war still going since the 5th of April is completely Ukrainian fault, because there is no reasons for Ukraine to continue to fight.
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@herrrotkappchen7816 Russia isn't treating Japan lol. During the WW2 Japan was an agressive and bloody empire, that was defeated by the Allies and USSR. Russia and Japan didn't made the peace threaty only because the Japanese after the war became the American sphere of influence and the Cold war had started, and because of the Cold war Japanese hadn't recognized that they were defeated in WW2 by the Soviets, and Japan don't recognizes the Russian control over the Kurils. This is Japan treating Russia, but not Russia treating Japan
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@herrrotkappchen7816 Russia isn't treating Poland, because Poland is a NATO member, and NATO is much stronger than Russia. Also, both NATO and Russia have nukes, so both NATO and Russia aren't treats to each others. The same could be said about the Baltics
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@emilywatt5126 Dagestan, Ingushetia and Tatarstan weren't fighting for their independence. I agree with you about the Chechnya - it would be economically and culturally better for Russia, if Caucasus would have be independent. But other peoples, except Chechens, weren't rebelling. Tatarstan is Russian for so long time, that it couldn't be independent. Genetically Tatars and Russians simply mixed and we are living in good relations together. My grandpa is Tatar. The Tatars have no demand for independence. Bashkirya and other Siberian peoples aren't wanting the independence - they see Russians as a "white civilizators". I was in the lake Baikal and Buryatia, and I never saw such friendly people. We existing together with Siberian peoples in harmony. Many peoples in the Russian Federation have autonomic budget, leaders of their nationality, rights to learn their language. And opposite situation in the nationalistic Ukraine - Ukrainian government for example made a language reform in 2018, when Russian language was banned in TV, media, shcools, supermarkets and governmental buildings. That law was a madness, because the Russian is a second language in Ukraine, and there are many Russians in Ukraine, and the Ukrainian government simply banned the Russian language. The workers in supermarkets of Ukraine had problems with Ukrainian police, because they spoke Russian. Putin wasn't lying, when he was talking about the nationalism in Ukraine. For example in the Western part of Ukraine there is a city of Lviv. And these city have a monument of division SS Galizia - Ukrainian nazis, that served to Hitler's Nazi Germany in WW2. Ukrainians have a monuments of Nazi WW2 criminals in their cities. There are also many of monuments to Stephan Bandera - Ukrainian WW2 era nationalist, that provided the genocide of Russians during the WW2. Ukrainians have monuments of him in many cities. This is not wonderful, that Russia had invaded. If your historical "heroes" are nazis, that were providing genocide of Russians, if you have nazi monuments in cities, if you have nationalist laws against Russian language, there is no wonderful, that Russians would came to you. Russia had invaded Ukraine, because UKR was trying to join NATO, and RUS considers NATO as a military threat. Good parallel - Cuban missile crisis. When USSR provided Cuba by nukes, America was concerned, and Cuba at now is still isolated. And no one in UN had said that "Cuba is an independent nation, that have rights to provide its defense by any means", like they are talking at now about the Ukraine, that "Ukraine had rights to join NATO". Or Iraq. America was concerned about (non-existed) Iraqish nuclear programm. And America had invaded Iraq because America was afraid about the Iraqish nukes. And no one in the UN said bad about America, no one sanctioned America, like they at now sanctioning Russia. The Western media wasn't showing how civillians were suffering in the Iraq, like they are showing at now the civillian suffering in Ukraine. Double standarts and hypocrisity. America have rights to invade other countries, because they "are threating America by nukes", and no one would sanction or say anything bad, but when evil Russia would do the same thing, everyone would blow up with emotions. If America was concerned about the Iraqish and Cuban rockets, so, why Russia don't have rights to be concerned about the NATO and the American nukes in Ukraine? Double standarts.
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@emilywatt5126 Kurils and Kaliningrad are Russian territories. If Japanese would invade, we would burn these narrow-eyed "samuraes" into the nuclear dust, like Americans did it. Two nuclear strikes would made the mad heads calm. I'm joking, don't take serious
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@emilywatt5126 Russia wouldn't collapse, there are no reasons to such process. Economically Russia answered to sanctions by starting to trade gaz for roubles. In 2021 we have a dollar for 75 roubles, after the war, in late february - 130, and in march we started to trade gaz for roubles, and and at now (31st of march, 2022) we have dollar for 83.41 and euro for 93.49 roubles, and its price still falling by 1-3 roubles per day. Investements in the Russian economy are growing for the last two weeks, while in the late february there was a collapse. And Russia is trading only gaz for roubles. What would happen, if Russia would start to trade oil and coal for roubles? China would provide Russia by technological products. Also, Russia isn't North Korea, that was uncapable to do anything. Russia is able to produce something by itself in case of full isolation - good example is USSR, that was producing vaccum cleaners and elevisions by itself. The our own production would open to us a way for development. We would have a chance to produce something by our hands while there would be a low competition only with Chinese, but not bying imports.
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@emilywatt5126 a lot of countries were the agressors up to the 50s. Britain and France were colonial Empires, USA were attacking all countries of Central America in the 19th and the first half of 20th century. Before the 20th century colonization and agression wasn't a crime, everyone was doing that. You can't blame Russia in any expansion, that was commited before the 50s, because before the 50s the expansion was a normal thing
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@emilywatt5126 if you want the justical borders - so, all white people from USA must evacuate from USA, because before 16th century there were no white people in the America. Also, all Latinos nations must must be evacuated from their countries - let's the red-skinned people live in their countries. Also, Jewish must evacuate from Arabic lands. Poles must return their territories to Germany, Ukraine and Belarus must return western parts to Poland, Ukraine must return eastern parts to Russia and Belarus would become a part of Russia. You want the historical borders? Don't you worried, that in these territories, that were Finnish someday, Finns at now aren't living? And these borders, that existed before the 1939, were changing in the past. You talking the complete nonsence
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The Soviet-Polish war was a war between two imperialiatic countries, the old enemies. Poland wanted to restore the borders of Rech Pospolitaya, while Soviet Russia wanted to spread the World revolution
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