about here is not only disorganized violence, it's not only terrorism. it's politics. founded over 150 years ago. it's repeatedly died out, but always been resurrected. the ku klux klan starts may 11th on d. w. a large scale military drew in the arctic involving 30000 nieto troops in a defensive exercise. not far from the russian border. with i'm worried about developments in europe. well, we can expect tense time has been lucky that we go to mother. there's a widening rift between east and west. something few people saw coming all these did with the war which created from i was mad to you

a bit and you deal with who tim? that's why all the russian now 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. they could, i thought that nobody doubts it because i knew that girls get dog i live with 2nd k, the cold war and the iron curtain were terms i knew from history class, but rushes invasion of ukraine has changed all that the old highest west divide is suddenly back, which makes me both angry and afraid. they take just one little spark to one leesha global conflict. what do people in northeastern 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 north in finland. above is the border to nato member norway. there lies the town of cucumbers. oh, why does amelia angeline has caught an intruder? stop down on your knee. she and her fellow border guards are conducting a mock arrest. anyone crossing the norwegian russian border illegally is not exactly given a warm welcome i'm if you cross that are retina reason border 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 if they've always been important to guard

the border and prevent unauthorized entry. but i personally feel it's especially important right now when i look at what's happening in my brain, where even more alert for lucas iona composite extra 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 gear dumped in under 5 minutes. so when the alarm sounds, we 1st come here and quickly get ourselves ready. although today we have the tournament time slots, even hotter the teen 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. that you 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 at a pair, eric torrison is an exception. also about a 62 year old has lived in this 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 whole band. we have a lot of customers in russia. if all your long, well things have gotten really difficult are all digital communication has got really tough for even phone calls. all fair to thing, while ball til of homer,

it's just sad to see, sat for on that, but also for people on the alyssa horse or back 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 puerto 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. lynette. i read with the alley through the group. my family thinks it

isn't safe a period, but they don't really know what i'm to learn it. of course, they also farming the war mccrae on when i'm so they're always asking how i'm doing it. i always tell them everything's hired. our are the out of the mac and mean m emilia seems remarkably composed despite the tense situation. mm hm. in ah, the mood is very different. a few kilometers away in qc and us. our town that is direct experience with ward. it was largely destroyed during the 2nd world war to day it's home to about 3500 people and closely tied to russia. this large shipyard was built here in the 1980s. on the day we arrived there is a trawler for 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 to 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 jager and 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 development 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 locked the whole of you crying newly a photo y law. it's impossible to say will that regime or do next there that i

really try to help them all is i slipping into a new colleague and they can often all pick it up. 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 see what the future holds. rigger asks us not to film interviews with his staff as a speaker from the men 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 to tell me 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 investor stock st. paul, horning speaking to business leaders, he defends the sanctions against russia lacking just knowing they affect everyone in his audience, including gregor and the shipyard. i came to see the late office by the go all full . if y'all down in the dumb off, the situation is dramatic. but they companies, he make a large part of their sales from russian client, l 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 and philip met extraordinary local miscarriage in 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 will they

recognize the challenge is particular to our region today i'm gonna, i'm said another we're in a special situation given the russia was all neighbor. vietnam was the novel mongol that's built to mystic soviet. to mr. arnold with there is optimism, but there's concern to we're still in norway, but about 1000 kilometers further west. we're nato exercise is taking place off the coast of the low for 10 archipelago. were allowed to film on board to frigates, but 2 or higher, dow and the rolled alman, so each some, $5000.00 tons. with 120 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, fully understand what the back when he started his military service relations with russia were friendlier than ever a time when they were even joint exercises. so the thought and help 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. they are to now strengthen their forces, her loss, take a shape for sheila or 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 provocation. floor plan lock

lang. it's been planned for a long time, along with full transparency. antelopes are better, we even invited russian observer the thought this is a defense show. so smart 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 bayne 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 items 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, not he 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 intern independent use channels were blocked, there was very strong censor. korea. i'd 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, dea 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 association 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 be in 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 part and co 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 for how they think it could have repercussions for people back home, something i found pretty wild of diffuser filess once with 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 russian 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's their situation in russia that is starting to become a terrible and all this with the war which created from hours mad to you get and video which and that's why we'll rush an hour broken. and 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 uses. shortly afterwards, the st. petersburg to helsinki, rails, if this 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 street east, helsinki to visit of all things of swimming pool. ola jaqueline is in charge of the is dekessa who swimming hall. he explains the history of the facility and why it still exists. empty is for one day or 2 days. so there would be a price. is there gonna be people who are gonna be full of people? sleeping once drained, 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 was secured by 2 impervious iron doors. so with no it's pretty massive. yeah. the 1st door

noise like a pression or for the bomb. and the 2nd is for the gas. so there are dish. yeah. so basically like somewhere close to new nuclear bomb. my do you really say it's good that finish this 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 dont have space for its quite not fill the pool underground and a sup children of the same time. so we have many sports facilities which is built like this, which works not a shelter. i think more this bunker system is massive in scale. and modern to a giant bunker system has been expanded underneath helsinki since the cold war. he could house more than 650000 people and the things 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 hauls. this section of the bunker is the responsibility of the civil defense officer yardi martin. he's been working here for almost 30 years now. he saw an collier rock anthem in an article to amazon york shulty and icon toes in march. the 1st shelters were billions. i rock at the image or 2nd gold, lower cabinet to my than more were ada during the cold war. oscar acting available, autopsy. i yup. womach. then there were fees of radiation exposure and trammel has gone up to the rock and on ms. barnett done on at 10 o'clock,

so we kept on building right up to it. today. i go in austin. 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 grog to the west, and bella 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. also, they have many have brought along their own placards to protest against the invasion of our grain make if they have not noticed it to the modern about the good of that book. 6 the good that nobody doubts it. lithuania

will be neg hilton with good la dog albert 2nd to remember that it's really worrying with this. aggression is so close to us. i can still remember when we were attacked before we assume i was just a kid and hid under the covers whale would allow the cargo cover? yes, yes. the right in front 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 unsold loans and one from temple when some found it on. dimension kit and of wilco lindy's o'donelly's. so academy books. each los gatos media for not alden sergeant really shouldn't been any. good him on. slanting fun. pants on you bolt. so that and she isn't any minute as get daughter untroubled. the 14 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 change. in a tense encounter, lasting several minutes. we need that man more than 30 years after that light in the shadow of the tv shower, we charge stunner ravages shows us the spot where the photo was taken. we heard short form and the air working with smouldering us. then the tanks came up. this hill for what you can still see where is more liquor the charges can no longer explain what he was thinking when he stood in front of the tank. only that it felt right curse for my choker. this it was when it turned around and left her that i realized i'd one corporal that we'd owe 130. if it is what happened back then is something we must never forget is not. and it must never be repeated article,

and yet we see it happening again right now in ukraine or at home. we charge us shows the photo to friends from ukraine, whom he and his wife garage. and i have taken an ogre of categories alena and oversee, fled their home and gave you the 2 couples, have known each other for many years. i could totally come to less when, when the war began. as we panicked, a char diane trevino sent us a letter ill. i'm it is and it is this photo there for, for the, for the, for that i filled with his face with the different i took. and 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. 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 lithuanian steeply worried reader, chapel lay a taxi driver. she's a lot of vilnius and its people every day. she too, is 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. though with her as a musician, but her messengers and get miss polly awesome, i never thought something like this could have been gaston pussy, educate mazda sir. okay, master law, i always talk about the 21st century in terms of what we owe a shield assassin that we're tolerant and innovative. the what did they leave us a walk and now this is more breaks out, not an information. we're out of real one in 4 months, like we know from the history books or the eucharist car of dogs of your khaki most gave it see the hard to wrap your head around. oh,

it's the re louison cathedral. so walked over to preston. oh, sure, something that's changed on the one side. we have this weight 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 rita now phones are mom ynez more often than usual . think julissa. yeah, yeah. i yeah. you did. so i mean, given the immediate us with us, yeah, they're so close to the border and 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 taken one more to use it. and if reaches concerned over in vo news, how to her parents via innocent vito's 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, uneasy. nobody knows what to expect. we feel uneasy. he says no he in regarding a village door is revealing, but they've run out of certain things to, to deliver issues or what a day or so united is good. yeah, there is no result. it's a 35 kilometer drive to the nearest town to get salt and flour. well out, 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 loud, where will usually who go naturally for a jake and on another side there's an old oak for a hot dog which was also full of wild mushrooms by 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 live right next door, but i can't go picking mushrooms in this by now. gully. things that seem so close are further away than ever before. here it's as if the cold war as returned an alarming feeling, especially for people who lived through it before gabriel, as give show, was open. when i hear an unfamiliar noise, even over there, monday i get old tense, faster. yes,

i told provide symbolic security, but how would it be in reality, god forbid it comes to that ah, the noise 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 totin, which offers a ray of hope that east and west read reconsider to them. the bridges to make that possible were visible on my journey among the russian border except that right now there eerily empty.

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