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large scale military drew in the arctic involving 30000 nieto troops in a defensive exercise, not far from the russian border. we didn't, i'm worried about developments in europe, or we can expect tense time i had been looking at the recording mother. there's a widening rift between east and west. something few people saw coming all this did with the war which grated from ours, mad to you a bit and you deal with which and that's why all the rationale are broken. and we don't want to return in the soviet times, the old fear of russia has returned, especially in the baltic region to could i say that nobody doubts it, because i am, you will not go to look at that dog. i live with 2nd guy, the cold war, and the iron curtain were terms i know from history last but russia's invasion of

ukraine has changed all that the old east west divided suddenly back, which makes me both angry and afraid. and then for take, just one little spark to one leesha global conflict. what do people in north eastern europe think about all this? and how are they responding to current developments? russia and the e. u share a border stretching over 2000 kilometers from the baltic states to northern finland above is the border to nieto member norway, there lies the town of cucumbers. oh, what does amelia ang alene has caught an intruder? stop down on your knees. she and her fellow border guards are

conducting a mock arrest. any one crossing the norwegian, russian border illegally is not exactly given a warm welcome. i'm if you cross that are retina reason warner. if you get any help on the russian side. yes. okay, we're gonna do a quick visitation. this is a routine exercise for the 21 year old who's doing her military service in this remote part of norway, right by the border to russia than i or is it always been important to guard the border and prevent unauthorized entry. but i personally felix especially important right now. when i look at what's happening in my craner. we're even more alert for lucas, iona and pasta dexter. part of the 2 pairs of boots. how thick snow shoot plus waterproof camouflage clothing?

emilia needs extra warm clothing for this post. several 100 kilometers north of the arctic circle. her equipment also includes an assault rifle. i'm going out, we have to be here dumping under 5 minutes. so when the alarm sounds, we 1st come here and quickly get ourselves ready. although today we have the internet time started. martin the team give their rifles of final check before heading out ah, the troops here have to be ready for action. 247. departing from their base in pacific, they'll be covering a lot of ground as they patrol the border to russia. the 2 countries are separated by a major river. when it freezes over in the winter, the border guards can patrol on snow, moves their route across the ice, takes them past the russian mining town of nico fin. mark is

a sparsely populated region where emilia rarely meets civilians. but to day pear eric torsion is an exception. also about a 62 year old has lived in his area for many years. also he tells us about how the cross border contract with russia has drastically changed all day. today you'll be in the restaurant. i work in the plumbing business or the hub and we have a lot of customers in russia. if lawyers long, well, things have gotten really difficult. are all digital communication has got a really tough for even phone calls are fair to thing. while ball til of homer, it's just sad to say, sat for on that, but also for people on the alyssa horse. although to the, for a long reform, for now. after a brief break, it's time for emilia and her unit to continue on. norway's porter to russia is just about 200 kilometers long. one thing i notice is how young the soldiers

hero norway as mandatory military service for men and women, normally lasting 12 months. amelia is glad to be doing her service up here by the border. she's even volunteered to stay on for another 6 months. her family back in oslo is not so happy. ned, i read with the alley through the group. my family thinks it isn't safe. a place, but they don't really know what i'm doing. it. of course, they also farming the war kramer when i'm so they're always asking how i'm doing that. i always tell them everything's hired. our are the out of the mac. i mean, m emilia seems remarkably composed despite the tense situation. mm.

ah, the mood is very different. a few kilometers away in qc and us. our town that is direct experience with war. it was largely destroyed during the 2nd world war to day it's home to about 3500 people at closely tied to russia. this large shipyard was built here in the 1980s. on the day we arrived, there's a trawler from more months in the main hall, the manager is in a pretty desperate situation. the sanctions on pu jeans, russia, he tells us, are also impacting his shipyard. here they have this ship is sure to, to set sail in 2 days time and then we're expecting the new on from russia found like will be for him. but i don't know if it'll work out because the customer is unable to transfer the down payment. so therefore, we monitoring the situation 247 variable greg era,

his team deal solely with russian customers over the years. genuine friendships have developed and gregory learned a lot about russia. i'll buy it from developmental built. i worked in russia myself and light eighties and still have friends in that title. somebody, lego, and i never imagined russia would invite them on. look, we suspected the kremlin wanted crimea or had looked at the whole of you crying newly a photo way law. it's impossible to say, well, that regime or do next there that i really try to help them all is us slipping into a new colleague and they can often, all, secular the shipyard has no shortage of orders. and yet it faces the threat of potential closure. many of the employees here are russians who move to kirk unless a few years ago in search of better job prospect. no one can say what the future

holds. gregor asks us not to film interviews with his staff. as a speaker from the my in here is pretty somber. the war in ukraine is the predominant issue to the many people here are from russia and have families and ties back home . they're willing to express their opinions when we're not tell me how much, what the boss tells us they shouldn't do so on camera. takesha the norwegian minister of trade and industry will be coming by later today. 35 year old young christian vesta starts to talk warning. speaking to business leaders, he defends the sanctions against russia, knowing they affect every one in his audience, including gregor and the shipyard yaki, to see the leg office by the go. all full. if y'all don't amended them off, the situation is dramatic, but they companies, he make

a large part of their sales from russian clients, e keep long jobs, and people in the region is also important from a security perspective. again, another reason why the government agreed on extraordinary financial assistance with adding am still off max thought in there who miss garrett hill talk, it should be easier for gregor and the others to get loans now. but gregor still has questions. i got up to you. i mean, exactly, my counselor is already scratching his head too hard to get in touch with us. no doesn't. i'm for the oklahoma in mississippi on home. if we need to know i s i p. so we can sort out the details of the heart of the little they recognize the challenge is particularly one region. today i'm gonna, i'm said another we're in a special situation given the russia is all neighbor. vietnam was the novel mongol that's built to mystic all the ultimate i don't

there is optimism, but there's concern to we're still in norway, but about 1000 kilometers further west, where we're nato exercise is taking place off the coast of the low for 10 archipelago. we're allowed to film on board to frigates, but to our higher dow and the rolled alman, so each some, $5000.00 tons, with $120.00 crew members. they're part of cold response, or nato maneuver, incorporating some 30000 troops on board. we meet the head of the low region, navy pool under ocean, or the back when he started his military service relations with russia were friendlier than ever a time when they were even joint exercises. the thought and held new syndrome. ah, the situation is new to me as well for where entering into a whole new era of european security, paula sunset,

the vic theory. so it's important for nato members like no way in germany, there to now strengthen their forces or no stake, a shape for sure. are kitchen so we can expand maneuver and improve military cooperation of ero, threatening it from your assistant lopez solomon. when i picked them up, why here? the arctic is rich in natural resources, with russia among the countries asserting claimed to the sea bed, but doesn't a joint military exercise on this scale constituted profit, ocean floor plan lock lang. it's been planned for a long time, along with full transparency, antelopes i better. we even invited rush in observing the thought, this is a defense true versus mark law. not like it's not at all a direct response to the situation in ukraine policy thoughtful. no. can i not, perhaps not, but they're eager. none the less to take a visible stance because in my mind, conducting defensive exercises suggests of feeling of being under threat.

norway, as a founding member of data neighboring finland has yet to join the military alliance . finland has a longer border with russia than any other member of the e. u. 1300 kilometers from north to south. our next stop is la bane run. it's a popular resort town. russians have long been coming here some on vacation, others for shopping trips. and there are a growing number of permanent residents here who are originally from across the border such as nadia. she moved here from moscow a few years ago. after meeting her future husband euclid was studying their 2 children are bilingual. nadia felt it was important for us getting olivia to learn russian. nadia talks on the phone with her mother in moscow. almost every day.

marianna, it changed quite radically. i would say when the internet independent use channels were blocked, there was very strong censor. korea like on what you can say, what we cannot say. and then she was afraid anymore to talk that openly. we accompany the family on their way to the local by national school. whether pupils had russian or finish roots was never an issue. now do you tells us, but she fears that might change due to the war in ukraine, or more the most important been here was to why to explain to kids also political situation so that they understand that it's not their fault. that was for me that the highest priority that they don't give themselves because i felt very hardly on myself. and i was afraid that,

that i don't want that they feel the same leaves enjoying nadia at the local university where she meets up with some of her russian friends i. e. and i get another name and i will. and they've been helping refugees from ukraine, even that they fear could mean trouble. ukrainian peoples, you always have this like threat on the bank ground that what might be the consequences? not necessarily maybe for me, but maybe for my relatives who leave they on the other side of the border. and nadia was never really interested in politics. but that changed with the war and ukraine was hundreds versus parental concurrent. is that i was really impressed sitting with that group just now. i could have kept talking with them for hours and they asked me beforehand who we worked for. and also asked us not to mention their names and due to having friends and family in russia holding. so despite living in the e, u and finland, some of them for many years now,

they're wary of talking openly stuff, what they think it could have repercussions for people back home, something i found pretty wild of diffuser filess consisted. kasicoda. similar fears have been driving russians to find a new home in the finish capital helsinki. by the time we shot this film in march, finland had already closed its air space to rush and plains, but there was still a train running from st. petersburg. many of those on board were russians with just a couple of suitcases, having left their country where they'd been afraid to speak their minds. i would just come about that their situation in russia that is starting to become a terrible and all this with the war which created from ours. mad, stupid and video which and that's why old russian, our broken and the we don't want to return in the soviet times, given a sticker on your backpack can be a reason for you to go to jail or to be like,

oh yes, stopped by the police so it's, it's, it's not even a small chance to express your, your thoughts. shortly afterwards, the st. petersburg to helsinki rails service was halted. russia's invasion of ukraine has put finland under pressure. finland and russia have a long and troubled history. in 1939. the soviets invaded their neighbor in what became known as the winter war. the things have been on guard ever since. we had underground deep below the streets of east houses to visit of all things a swimming pool. ola jaqueline is in charge of the 80 cascoo swimming hall. he explains the history of the facility and why it still exists because it is full about one day or 2 days. so they would be advised that there we were going to be

people who are gonna be 4 people. the b one strained the pool, could provide emergency shelter for nearly 4000 people. what lies beneath the pools is a labyrinth of tunnels blasted and carved out of the bedrock deep under the city the entrance to the bunker as secured by 2 impervious iron doors. so what are these they go pretty massive. yeah, for the 1st hour. noise, like a pressure or for the bomb. and the 2nd is for the gas. so their pitch. yeah. so basically like, so my thoughts in a nuclear bomb. my do you really say it's good that fingers prepared? i really scared of something. not, not really, but i think just as this is just smart, like building stuff like we need to build

a pool anyway. we don't have space for it's quite not played fill the pool underground and it's of children the same time. so we have many sports facilities which is built like this, which works as a shelter the same time. like more like this bunker system is massive in scale. and modern to a giant bunch of system has been expanded underneath helsinki since the cold war. it could house more than 650000 people and the fence thought of everything, electricity medicine and even toilet, at least toilets of the bucket variety. there's also a ventilation system large enough to supply people with fresh air for days on end. oxygen is already a much needed commodity down here. various bunkers are used as sports halls. this

section of the bunker is the responsibility of the civil defense officer yardi martin, and he's been working here for almost 30 years now. he showing collier rock and thumbing and of course one mr. york guilty and icon told him on march. the 1st shelters were built. i rock at the image or 2nd old lock on it to my grandmother were added during the cold war oscar but acting available. gotcha. yup, well then there were fees of radiation exposure and china has gone up to the arkansas mr. barnett done on at 10 o'clock. so we kept on building right up to today. i court in aust down. finland invests a lot of money in civil defense. it's the kind of protection people in the baltic nations would like to have as well right now. our journey takes us further south along the eas, external border from finland. down to lithuania,

the country borders the russian enclave of colleen and rug to the west and bell roost to the east. people in the capital vilnius are becoming increasingly nervous . on this day, several 100 residents have gathered outside the russian embassy. many have brought along their own placards to protest against the invasion of our cranes natively. i have not noticed it to the model of our good about the good that nobody doubts it. lithuania will be next. doesn't look at la dog. albert 2nd. sure. none of the, it's really worrying with this. aggression is so close to us. i can still remember when we were attacked before here who i was just a kid and hid under the covers. we're, we're allowed young. how got the yes. the way from job it's been just over 30 years since lithuanian struggle for independence. it was the

1st baltic nation to break away from the soviet union. moscow responded by sending in the army. so we had to ship answer ones, and one from symptom on some found it on dimension kinda for kennedy's or darden lists or cotton brooks. it's los gatos military for not alden, so condition been any good him on. slanting fun. pants on you bolt. so that and she isn't any minute as keep daughter on 1214 people were killed in this confrontation in january 1990. 1 more than 1000 were injured. at one point, a young man stood defiantly in front of an advancing soviet tag. in a tense encounter, lasting several minutes. we need that man more than 30 years after that light. in the shadow of the g. v. shower, which artist on ravages,

shows us the spot where the photo was taken. but we heard short escape um and the air. well, the thing with smouldering as though then the tanks came up. this hill food you can still see where is more liquor the charters can no longer explain what he was thinking when he stood in front of the church. only that it felt right. curse for much. ok, this, it was when it turned around and left her that i realized i had one of horrible that we'd all one authentic. if it is what happened back then is something we must never forget is not and it must never be repeated or vocal. and yet we see it happening again right now in ukraine or at whole. we chart shows the photo to friends from ukraine, whom he and his wife garage. and i have taken an ogre of kozora's alena and oversee fled their home. and chief, for 2 couples, have known each other for many years. i can totally commercialize when,

when the war began. as we panicked, a chart of diana graziano sent us a letter ill. i'm it is and is this photo with it for, for petra, who did the with that i feel the tip, his face with the, the fer pressure that gave us courage and strength of the bullet which he seated i . e at her. and alanna charla. i never imagined i'd seen russia attacking a country in the middle of europe in my life time. and now i was sitting with these 2 people who'd fled the war just a few days earlier. not osi says that russia intends to strip ukraine of its independence in a bid to restore its former glory. the war in ukraine has left many lithuanians, deeply worried. liter chapel lay, a taxi driver, sees a lot of vilnius and its people every day. she too, was afraid that the baltic nations will be the next to come under threat. we go to

the russian embassy, where the protests were held just a few days prior. the with her as with the human massages and get more or less. and i never thought something like this can happen. gossum pussy, educate mazda, sir. okay, master law, i always talk about the 21st century in terms of what we, which he was awesome that were tolerant and innovative. the, what did they leave us? a walk and now this is more breaks out. not an information war, but a real one in 4 months like we know from the history books or eucharist car of dogs of your khaki most gave it see the hard to wrap your head around. oh, it's the grill. always some guilty, russell. walk there to preston. oh sure. something that's changed on the one side. we have this way in police. and because we're standing in front of the russian embassy were being watched the whole time by a little camera. the protests continue year nonetheless. meanwhile,

rita's parents live 170 kilometers away from the lithuanian capital right by the border to bellows, which is why region now phones are mom ynez more often than usual. think julissa. yeah, yeah. i yeah. you did. so i'm a given the maybe it off with us. yeah. they're so close to the border that they can see it from their house yet. they view. they're really worried. yeah. okay, cool. so when we talk on the phone, i try to avoid that subject and instead talk about nice or funny things to cheer them up with some of your take him one more to use it. and if rita is concerned over in vo knows how to her parents via innocent vetoes chipley have lived in the border town of very chose for more than 30 years v t as used to drive buses across the soviet union to day. the 2 are watching news

reports on both lithuanian and russian tv. they tell us about their fears. nobody knows what to expect. we feel uneasy. he says no, he in regarding matter a village door is revealing with but they run out of certain things g to deliver issues or what a day or so he night is good news. there is no salt. it's a 35 kilometer drive to the nearest town. to get salt and flower while al, walking her dog not far from the border, even as his mind often turns to the past. during soviet times they were free to travel back and forth. oh bit is the birch forest log way. will you see who go naturally for a change? and on the other side, there's an old oak for a hot dog, which was also full of wild mushrooms out. we used to cross country many, i'm in a bogus shadow. now it's the boulder and it feels as if we've lost ferrara. they,

if you live right next door, but i can't go picking mushrooms in one hour galley. things that seem so close are further away than ever before. here it's as if the cold war has returned an alarming feeling, especially for people who lived through it before gabriel, as gabriel was open, when i hear an unfamiliar noise, even over there, monday i get old tense. yes, i told provide symbolic security. but how would it be in reality? god forbid it comes to that ah deny. there are various reactions to this new cold war, but people in the baltic, which i seem especially sensitive, because they remembered their struggle for independence in the ninety's. many will

remind you not all russian support protein which offers a ray of hope that east and west read reconstructs is on the bridges to make that possible. were visible on my journey among the russian border, except at right now, they're equally empty. making raring to re if there is any erotic events between them, you'd have to find it between the lines g w literature. 100 german must reads. sometimes a seed is all you need to allow big ideas to grow. we're bringing environmental

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leaving behind death and destruction.