the world ah, the mess movies have returned to the coast of the island of saint home. the many success stories, fashion of biodiversity, and own stores may 20th on d. w. 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 the 10th time slot 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 graded from i was mad to you a bit and you deal with him as white old 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 ticket. i thought that nobody doubts it, because i knew that go to look at that dog. i live with 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 watch divided suddenly back, which makes me both angry and afraid. month 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?

for russia and the u. share of 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 organ. * oh, what 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 bresner even 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, oh no authorized 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 forwarded or, you know, and pasta lester, 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 geared up in under 5 minutes. saw when the alarm sounds. we 1st come here and quickly get ourselves ready. over today we had the damage time started when 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 and 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 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

a really tough of even phone calls. all fair to thing. while ball til of homer, it's just sad to say, sat for that, but also for people on the alyssa horse or that 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. hi lynette. i read

with the alley through the group. my family thinks it isn't safe. a plug in, 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 it. i always tell them everything's hired our hard out of the i mean m emilia seems remarkably composed despite the chance situation in ah, the mood is very different. a few kilometers away in qc in us. a town that is direct experience with war. it was largely destroyed during the 2nd world war to aids 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 to have this ship is shed to, 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 variability gregory, his team deal solely with russian customers. over the years. genuine friendships have developed and gregory learned a lot about russia i. oh boy, it from the minute of your i worked in russia myself and light eighties and still have friends in that time somebody, lego and i never imagined russia would invite them on. look, we suspected the criminal wanted crimea or had locked, but the whole of you crying,

you your photo way law. it's impossible to say, well, that regime or do next there that i really try to tell them all is slipping into a new college and they can offer an old 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 kill, kill us 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 phone, 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 home. but the boss tells us they shouldn't do so on camera. dr. shut the norwegian

minister of trade and industry will be coming by later today. 35 year old young christian restaurant stock. saint paul horning speaking to business leaders. he defends the sanctions against russia. yakking just knowing they affect every one in his audience, including gregor and the shipyard. yakking to see the 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 rushing 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 and still help make stored 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 hope it does not mean exactly. my counselor is already scratching his head too hard to get in touch with us. no doesn't. i'm from oklahoma

in mississippi on home and we need to know i s i p. so we can sort out the details of what they had something before they recognized the challenge is particular one region today i'm just gonna, i'm said another we're in a special situation given the russia is unable to be anonymous. a novel mumbo that's built to mystic obvious to mr. arnold with there is optimism, but there's concern to we're still in norway, but about 1000 kilometers further west were nato exercise is taking place of the coast of the low for 10 archipelago. were allowed to film on board to frigates, but 2 or higher. dow and the road. armand 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 low region navy pool under ocean. 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 health new syndrome, ah, the situation is new to me as well for away 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 ship for sheila or kitchen. so we can expand maneuver and improve military cooperation venue, threatening it from your assistant lopez solomon for an effective model. why here the arctic is rich in natural resources, with russia, among the countries asserting claims to the c bed, but doesn't

a joint military exercise on this scale constituted provocation. floor plan lock darling. 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 show. so smart flaw. not like it's not at all a direct response to the situation in ukraine policy thoughtful, know, could 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 is 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 in defendant used 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 to your tells us . but she fears that might change due to the war 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 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. flavin that they fear and should 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. but some assistance. my uncle 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 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 aerospace 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 ours. mad, stupid, and 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 fuzz. shortly afterwards, the st. petersburg to helsinki rails, 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 of 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 the pool one day or 2 days. so the school would be nice if there were gonna 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 was secured by 2 impervious iron doors. so like

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 fish. 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 quiet not fill the pool underground and a sub shelter unless the same time. so we have many sports facilities which is built like this, which works not a shelter, se i, michaela. this bunker system is massive in scale. and modern to a giant bunker system has been expanded underneath helsinki since the cold war. it

could house more than 650000 people and the fins thought of everything, electricity status 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. you saw in collier iraq and i'm in an article to amazon york shulty and icon toes in march. the 1st shelters were built iraq at the image or 2nd old lock on it to my then move were added during the cold war roscoe been acting severely by. gotcha.

yup. well then there were fees of radiation exposure and china has gone up to the arkansas miss barnett done on at 10 o'clock. so we 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 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 crane native. nor

is it the model of all the good about the good that nobody doubts it. lithuania will be neg, hasn't had lapdog, 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. we're allowed young. how got there? yes, the why don't you 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 one, some one from tim. come on, some found it on the dimension kitten, the fork on andes, or darden lists or academy books. it's los gatos military for not alden. so in division, been an exam on slanting fun. pants on you bolt. so that and she's in a minute as get daughter on for wounded 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 light. in the shadow of the g, v. shower, re charleston ravages shows us the spot where the photo was taken. there we heard short a scraper and the air working with smouldering as though then the tanks came up. this hill for 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 my ciocca this. it was when it turned around and left her that i realized i'd want to corporate that we'd owe 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 grammar ad hole. we chart shows the photo to friends from ukraine, whom he and his wife garage. and i have taken an order of kozora's alena and oversee fled their home. and chief for 2 couples, have known each other for many years. i could hardly come to less when, when the war began. as we panicked. a chatter. danny regina sent us a letter. yeah, it is, and it is this photo there for, for paris, who did the with that i feel the tip, his face with the, the fer pressure can 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 winter, as with the humor massages and get more or less and i never thought something like this could have been gossum pussy. educate messer ok master. let. i always talk about the 21st century in terms of what we owe. a shield is awesome. that we're tolerant and innovative the what did i leave us a walk and now this is more breaks out. it's not an information. we're out of real one in 4 months like we know from the history books or eucharist. carlos docs of

your khaki most gave it. see the hard to wrap your head around. it is to re louison cool. the russell walked over to preston. oh sure something that's changed. on the one side. we have the 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, reaches parents live 170 kilometers away from the lithuanian capital right by the border to bellows, which is why reach and now phones are mom ynez more often than usual? think julissa. oh yeah. yeah, sure. yeah. so ah, you live so i may give an immediate loss with us. yeah. they're so close to the border that they can see it from their house. yes. they've you,

they're really worried. yeah. go go. 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 day going where most you 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. 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 with but they run out of certain things g to deliver issues or what a day or so he night is good. you know, there is no those old guys, little 35 kilometer drive to the next town to get salt and flower while out walking her dog, not far from the puerto,

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 forehead loud, where will usually who go naturally for a jake. and on the other 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 border. and it feels as if we've lost ferrara, that you live right next door. but i can't go picking mushrooms and i'm just going out galle. 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 gabriel 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 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 90s. many will remind you not all russians support protein, which offers a ray of hope that east and west will reconsider to them. the bridges to make that possible were visible on my journey among the russian border. except that right now, they're equally empty. we

are in so kilometers have low income countries are more likely to a few years problem holes early pregnant? is it normal in the media to have somebody who's significantly older than you go like $25.00. what do you mean a fresh fruits guys also proud of themselves? maybe 15 years of agenda, something like that. do to play the around for different people in 1st. why live for tenant the 77 percent, including on do w. he only has a little bit of time left. bill reynolds life was taken by cancer after the u. s. nuclear weapons test in nevada. during the fifty's and sixty's, let his story serve as a warning to others about nuclear weapons and their devastating consequences.

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