ah, the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. with a large scale military drill 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. 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 hours mads to you a bit video 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 ticket. i typed that nobody doubts it because i knew that go get dog albert 2nd guy, 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 i squash divided suddenly back, which makes me both angry and to frank, it could take just one little spark to unleash a global conflict. what do people in north eastern europe think about all this? and how are they responding to current developments?

for russia and the you share a border stretching over 2000 kilometers from the baltic states to northern finland above is the border to nato member norway, there lies the town of cucumbers. oh lord walker does amelia ang alene, 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 freshener, even water. 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 in prevent unauthorized entry. but i personally feel it's especially important right now, or when i look at what's happening in my craner, we're 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 duct an under 5 minutes. so when the alarm sounds, we 1st come here and quickly get ourselves ready. although today we had to put on a time slot, 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. the 2 countries are separated by a major river. when it freezes over in the winter, the border guards can patrol on snowboards. 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 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 rogers 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 say, sat for on that, but also for people on the alyssa horse or back to the for a long reform for 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 or slow is not so happy. helena.

with the alley through the room. my family thinks it isn't safe a place, but they don't really know what i'm to learn it. of course they also farming the wall. i have a crazy mom when i'm so they're always asking how i'm doing it. i always tell them everything's hired. our hard out of the amelia seems remarkably composed to spite the tense situation in the mood is very different. a few kilometers away in kia, kansas, a town that has direct experience with war. it was largely destroyed during the 2nd world war, 2 aids 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 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. have this ship is chateau to set sail in 2 days time and then we're expecting a 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 on the variable on gregor and his team deal solely with russian customers. over the years, genuine friendships have developed and gregor's learned a lot about russia. i o by it from the minute melville. i worked in russia myself in light eighty's and still have friends in that time. b, like boy, and i never imagined russia would invite them on what we suspected the kremlin, wanted crimea or had locked that the whole if you crying newly a photo way ball,

it's impossible to say will that regime or do next there that i'm really trying to help them all is i 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. ah, many of the employees here are russians who moved to cook n. s a few years ago in search of better job prospect. no one can say what the future holds. rigor asks us not to film interviews with his staff. obviously, care from the mountain here is pretty somber. the war in ukraine is the predominant assurance 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 home now, but the boss tells us they shouldn't do so on camera. dr. ship

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 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 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 in getting and still a hoffman explored in up 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 hope it does not mean exactly. my accountant is already scratching his head. you hold on, get in touch with us. no doesn't. i'm for the aqua. pullman in mississippi who's on

hold if we need to know i s i p. so we can sort out the details on the heart of the little they've recognized the challenge is particular to our region to dance. and i'm, i'm sad and know that we're in a special situation. given the rush result, nobody at vietnam was the novel mongol that's built to mystic toville to mrs. a with there is optimism, but there is 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. were allowed to film on board to frigates, but 2 or higher. dow and the rhode island. so each some, 5000 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 norwegian navy food under sion. back when he started his military service relations with russia were friendlier than ever of a time when there were even joint exercises. we'll say that the thought and help new social or the situation is new to me as well when entering into a whole new era of european security, colorado, sunset the victory already. so it's important for nato members like no way in germany. they are to now strengthen their forces. are no stake, a ship for sure are kitchen. so we can expand maneuver and improve military cooperation of ignorance, threatening it from your assistant lopez solomon when i picked them up. why here the arctic is rich and natural resources with russia, among the countries asserting claims to the c badges, but doesn't

a joint military exercise on this scale constituted, profit, ocean, floor plan lock lane. it's been planned for a long time, along with full transparency at the lobe side of it. we even invited russian observing that thought this is a defense show her so much law, not like it's not at all a direct response to the situation in your brain. it's awful, no, you're good enough. perhaps not, but they're eager. none the less to take a visible stance because in my mind, conducting defensive exercises suggests a 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 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. nadia tells us, but she fears that might change due to the war in ukraine. for me, 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 it's very hardly on myself. and i was afraid that, that i don't want that they feel the same. we've enjoyed nadia at the local university where she meets up with some of her russian friends i. e, and i get another name and i was, and they've been helping refugees from ukraine even that they fear would mean trouble. ukrainian peoples, you always have this like threat on the back 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. they think it could have repercussions for people back home, something i found pretty wild of diffuser fi lessons. 50 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 airspace 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 their situation in russia that is starting to become a terrible and all this with the war which created from ours. mad stupid l video which and that's why all russian now are broken and we don't want to return in the soviet times, given the 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 cause. 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,

and the things have been on guard ever since. we had underground deep below the streets east, helsinki, to visit of all things of 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. empty is call one day or 2 days. so they would be price. is there gonna be people who are gonna be 4 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 like

with pretty massive. yeah. the 1st door doors 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 as i 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 as a shelter, a se. i thought more this bunker system is massive in scale. and modern to a giant function system has been expanded underneath helsinki since the cold war,

it could house more than 650000 people and the fence thought of everything electricity bearing 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 saw an collier rock and i'm in an article, so i michelle. salty and i got those in march. the 1st shelters were billions i rock at the image recycled, lower cabinet to my than move were added during the cold war. rosco. collecting available,

autopsy. i. yup. womach. then there were fees of radiation exposure and trammel has come up to the rock and thomas darn done. on at 10 o'clock, so he kept on building right up to 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. ah, on this day several 100 residents have gathered outside the russian embassy, but also they have many have brought along their own placards to protest against the invasion of our grain natively. it is not,

nor is it no more than about the good of that with the good that nobody doubts it. lithuania will be neg hasn't had let dog albert 2nd to remember that it's really worrying with this aggression 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 young how got there? yes. black in french. oh. 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 the ship answer wound some one from temple when some found it on. you mentioned kitten before kennedy's o dot in the saw academy brooks. each los gatos community afford not alden sidon, delicious and been any good him on slanting fun. pants on you bolt. so darn, she isn't any minute. as get daughter,

untroubled at 14 people were killed in this confrontation in january 1991 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 night. in the shadow of the g, v. shower, we charge, stunner, ravages, shows us the spot where the photo was taken. but we heard short form and the air weather deal with smuggling as though then the tanks came up this hill forward. you can still see where is north america. 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 much . ok this it was when it turned around and left her that i realized i'd want to corporate that we'd all one authentic effort is what happened back then is

something we must never forget which are not. and it must never be repeated or vocal, and yet we see it happening again right now. in ukraine or graham ad hole, we charge us shows the photo to friends from ukraine, whom he and his wife crashing. i have taken an ogre of god, sorta is alena, and osi fled their home and chief of you for 2 couples, have known each other for many years. i could hardly come to chill as when, when the war began. as we panicked, a chardonnay any regina sent us a letter? yes it is. and it is this hotel there for, for the rough who that the, for that i feel the tip is 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 lifetime. 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 with the human massages and yet must fully awesome. i never thought something like this could happen. gossum pussy, educate mazda, sir. okay, master law, i always talk about the 21st century in terms of what we owe, which he was handsome, that were tolerant and innovative. the what did they leave us? a walk and now this is more breaks out. not in information, we're out of 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. little walk there to preston. or shoes, something that's changed on the one side. we have this way, the 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 you leave iraq. your mother. yeah. ah, you did. so i'm a given the immediate us with us. yeah. they're so close to the border and that they can see it from their house yet if you, they are really worried. yeah. okay,

go. so when we talk on the phone, i try to avoid that subject and instead talk about nice or funny things you don't to cheer them up, whistles of your day going way more to use it. and if rita is concerned over in vilnius, 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. today, 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 without knowing and regarding little village doors revealing, but they run out of certain things to, 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 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 you go mushroom for a jake? and on another 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 border and it feels as if we've lost ferrara. they you live right next door, but i can't go picking mushrooms and i'm just going out 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 gave or as good it was or best. 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, 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 protein which offers a ray of hope of that east and west will reconsider to them. the bridges to make that possible were visible on my journey along the russian border, except at right now there eerily empty. flo

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