finnish cities lived exclusively due to mutual tourist flow. shops, gas stations, real estate, all the infrastructure that was created with tourists in mind were depopulated. currency exchangers do not work, and border cafes and gas stations where tourists stopped are closed. of course, well, you have to be friends with your neighbors, especially with such a large country, but how can you be right next to them? and this is what a finnish lapiranta looks like on the border with russia. now the retail space is empty, the largest outlet has been built on the eve of the pandemic, it went bankrupt and thousands of finns lost their jobs. they are also suffering, everything was closed for them too, a lot of shops in finland were closed, a lot of people were left without work. the finnish economy is more dependent on russia than any other eu country. there are strong connections from soviet times , tourism and brisk trade, and most importantly geography. in eastern finland, people live

in some kind of hope that cross-border tourism will resume, economic growth has stopped, and finland is rapidly going downhill. owners finnish real estate from russia first closed the accounts from which they paid utility bills, and then tightened the entry rules as much as possible. now the houses of our compatriots are threatened with confiscation. recently , finnish police conducted a search on the island of kota saari, which belongs to russian businessman igor kisaev. it’s a catastrophic situation, it’s imperative to open the borders so that people have jobs, so that more tourists come here, everyone has a good time. the finnish authorities not only consistently tear connections, but the routes are literally fenced off . the other day, border guards reported on the construction of the first section of the fence. the lifespan of the fence is estimated at 50 years, surveillance cameras are installed every 50 m and technology will be updated every 10 years. the first 3 km are southeast. in finland

, another 260 km will be built in the next 5 years; 139 million euros have been allocated in the budget for this. in total , the finns plan to fence off the entire 1,300 km of the border. a three-meter high fence with barbed wire will be equipped with dugouts and bunkers that can withstand even a direct hit from an artillery shell. the test section of the fence has already cost the finnish budget 6 million euros. but for now it only interferes with the seasonal ones. finland does not understand at all the scale of this russophobic campaign against russia, that how it hits finland, no one replaced the russians, neither the germans, nor the italians, nor other foreigners replaced it, so naturally, tourism and trade dropped very much. the most important water trade route from finland to russia, the saimaa canal, is also today mothballed, it was built for timber trading. and trade flourished,

the finns made paper from our birch and sold it all over the world. now finnish companies are left without raw materials for their production, but we have discovered new markets for ourselves. in the border department they sorted, now they not only process the wood, but also assemble ready-made houses on a turnkey basis. we are busy for 2 months ahead, production is only growing, we will be building a second workshop. and at this woodworking enterprise, buyers they found their raw materials in china, malaysia and korea; they have to transport the wood across the whole country, but new partners compensate for logistics costs. while finnish companies that relied on russian tourism are going bankrupt, neighboring karelia, on the contrary, is experiencing an unprecedented tourism boom. we have something to show, we have the valam archipelago, this is part of it.

of our city, we have the russian canyon, insane beauty, new hotels and restaurants have appeared, new points of attraction are opening, such as the youth center serdobol on the picturesque shore of lake ladazh, the center has become a meeting place , not only boys can find something interesting for themselves , all classes are free, the center has breathed new life into the city, over the year the flow of guests has grown 10 times. kolkova and galina orlova, news of the week, russian-finnish border. well, let’s continue the finnish theme, despite the widespread wars in modern finnish historiography for the return of lost territories. historical facts suggest otherwise. the main goal of the russian the occupation policy of the finns was the creation of an ethnically pure greater finland.

the advance of the red army in 1944 and its entry into the old state border of the ussr, finland prayed for change, september 19. in 1944, in moscow, between finland, the ussr and great britain, which would have gone without it, the moscow armistice was signed, according to which finland left the war and committed itself to begin military operations against german troops. in 1948, the ussr and finland entered into an agreement on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance. so it began period committed by fins in the soviet union on. since then it has not been accepted, however, if we still turn to the frequency of relations, then at the beginning of 1941 the state information service in finland published a book, living space of finland, about the fact that after

the victory of nazi germany in the second world war, on the map of europe will appear from the gulf of finland to the white sea. with the help of the german reich, it was supposed to include not only the entire eastern karelia, the kola peninsula, a significant part of leningrad and pskov regions, but all of estonia, as well as the northeastern regions of sweden and norway. the contents of the book were approved by the ministry of propaganda and the ministry of foreign affairs of the third reich. on the recommendation of these departments , quotes from the editor-in-chief of the history tv channel alexey denisov were added to the russian narrative about the bright period of the finnish-german brotherhood and its nature, especially for the news of the week. june 4

, 1942. a german film magazine reports: adolf hitler is heading to finland for a one-day visit. he wants in person congratulate. chief of the wehrmacht high command general field marshal wilhelm keitel. there are only a few weeks left before the german troops attack stalingrad and the caucasus. on the eve of the decisive battles in the east, hitler decided to show his finnish allies what he valued. with soviet russia. at the imalo airfield, hitler was warmly greeted by finnish president ris tajuti. after the attack on the ussr, he joyfully

told the germans that his main dream was the destruction of leningrad. ryti even prepared the speech that was planned voiced on the radio on the day of the fall, other leaders of finland were well aware of hitler’s plans to wipe leningrad off the face of the earth, manarheim met hitler on the cape of the island of saimaa, a train with two carriages was delivered here. in which the tables were set for the festive dinner. at the request of the fuhrer, only vegetarian dishes were prepared for him, asparagus soup, vegetable pudding and fruit salad. as a gift, hitler brought

the birthday boy a large gold cross of the order of merit of the german eagle. congratulating manner happy birthday to game, hitler said he admires it. finnish soldiers and glad that such brave people are fighting on the side of germany. thanking the fuhrer for the honor, manarheim replied that he, for his part, was shocked by the power of german weapons, and added: i hope that such powerful weapons will be provided to us this year, in the name of a good goal, to neutralize the plague and barbaric herd of the bolsheviks. after the banquet , hitler had an informal conversation with mamannheim. the fuhrur traditionally complained about the terrible the russian climate and the ability of the russians to produce a huge number of tanks. they met people. and the main plot of their conversation

was that they could not understand why they could not defeat the soviet union. game's manner was completely shared. hitler's views on the future of russia. it had to disappear as a single independent state under the blows of a united europe. liberated lands. it was supposed to be settled by germans and peoples friendly to them. already in the forty-first year, samoner gave the order to create special concentration camps for the russian population in the finnish-occupied territories of the ussr. here are rare newsreels. they were filmed in karelia shortly after her liberation. occupiers, this is one of the many concentration camps created

by the finns on soviet territory. on july 8 , 1941, manerheim gave his troops an order that stated: the russian population should be taken into custody and transported to concentration camps. on the lands cleared of slavs, it was planned to create an ethnically pure state, the great finland. the exact number of soviet citizens exterminated by the finnish occupiers in karelia is still unknown. according to the state commission, more than 7,000 people were killed in six concentration camps in petrozavodsk alone. in finland they really don’t like to remember. heinous crimes committed by the finnish army in the occupied soviet territories during the second world

war. one of the main myths of finnish historiography says that the alliance with hitler was needed only in order to return the lands lost during the winter war, but historical facts and documents indicate the opposite. finland was a full-fledged and devoted ally of nazi germany, which pursued in this war with russia the seizure of ancestral russian lands in the north for their inclusion in greater finland. close contacts with the leaders of the third reich. he developed a particularly trusting relationship with reich marshal hermann gerring. these shots were filmed in 1942 in germany. by order of gerring, looted valuables from

all over europe were brought here to his estate. giving mannerheim a box of the best french champagne, the hospitable owner boasted that another 35,000 bottles are stored in the cellars of his estate. therefore, he will not be bored for the rest of his life. together they hunted and discussed military cooperation. there was intensity in this. in june 1939, the head of german military intelligence, admiral canaris, secretly visited finland. the visit resulted in the signing of an agreement on the opening of an intelligence center on finnish territory. abwehr center. following him, the chief

of the general staff of the german ground forces came to finland, general polkopty along the soviet border, where demonstration artillery firing was carried out especially for him. at this time, the finnish border was only 32 km from the center of leningrad. understanding what this threatens. they didn’t go, this led to the winter war, they lost their choice and the entire korel isthmus , all around ladoga, stalin’s decision to move the border away from leningrad turned out to be very timely. 1940. agreed to the deployment of german troops in finland. march 1

, 194, head of the main department of the sss gotlep berger officially proposed that the finnish authorities begin to form national military units of the sss. this idea was warmly supported by mannerheim by the entire leadership of soomi, including the president and prime minister. thus, finland became the only state in the world that... not only voluntarily allowed german troops into her territory, but of her own free will began to form ss military units. one of the most famous finnish sss saboteurs, lauri törni is buried at the famous arlington military cemetery in washington. during the war he carried out sabotage in the soviet rear. in 1944 , terne transferred service to the germans. for

his distinction in battles against the red army, he was awarded the iron cross, second class. after the war, he fled to the united states, where, under the name larry thorne, he joined the american special forces. died in an operation in 1965, today he is the only member of the armed forces awarded the honor of lying next to american presidents, military personnel, and astronauts at arlington national cemetery. in 2004, according to the results of voting by finnish television viewers, the former sss council slauri törni, ranked fifty-second in the list of the 100 greatest finns.

how refugees changed the face of old europe, what are the dangers of... uncontrolled migration against the backdrop of the arab-israeli conflict, why many countries, for example, japan, do not accept refugees. tucker carlson discussed these issues with british politician nigel farage. our joint project with the carlson tv youtube channel is on air right now. of all the consequences of the current conflict in the middle east, one thing we can be sure of is that there will be many. refugees, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, where should they go, this is the pressing question , and if you say, well, why shouldn’t israel accept them, this is their war, the reaction to this will be immediate, it will be aggressive, they will tell you, of course not, this is madness, these people are dangerous, if they ended up in israel it would destabilize

this country, and that's probably true, that's probably true, but what's interesting is that the same people who... would answer you like that? they are now pushing to send these refugees west to the english-speaking countries, scotland, great britain and yes, the united states. calls for this come from the left, predictably, but also from the so-called right. these refugees should be accepted. what is the matter here, is anyone trying to resist this? nigel farage is trying, he is the head of the uk independence party. he joins us now to update us on the state of this debate. nigel, thanks so much for coming. it is a little strange that the same people who admit that this would be a serious threat to israel, they are absolutely right, by the way, i am not calling for israel to accept these refugees, but the same people say that the uk, usa and scotland need to accept them, what is their logic? we have an extensive history of accepting refugees in the uk, you can go back 300 years to the protestants in france being burned at

the stake, and we took in large numbers of french protestants, the huguinotots as they were called, who were very, very successful in trade, finance and the military. case in our country, the same applies to the jewish people: we accepted jews from russia after the pogroms at the beginning of the 20th century century. we received jews from germany and austria in 1930, and also, if you think back to the seventies, we received quite a large number of people from uganda, where idi amin threatened to destroy the asian population, again, this was a group that came into the country, assimilated and... for those who really need it, we believe that we should try to help people, but remember that the duty of any government, its main responsibility, is maintaining the integrity of its own country, its citizens, over the past

years, we have accepted more than half a million legal refugees coming to us from hong kong, our former colony, they came from afghanistan, they came from syria, they came , of course, from ukraine, the big problem here is that hamas is a terrorist group, hamas, although the bbc will never call them terrorists , but hamas are the ones who carried out these terrible barbaric attacks on everyone, even babies, the seventh. in october, they have significant support in gaza, in fact in the last elections that took place in gaza several years ago, hamas, a number of people from gaza. hamas, and

given the protests we've seen on the streets of london last week and before , one might wonder if we already have enough problems in the country, and i, you know, we're seeing more and more waves of islamic terrorism on our streets. an investigation is currently underway into the case of a man who was killed a couple of weeks ago. the authorities are doing everything possible to suppress such stories and my argument, and i am largely alone in this, if we take the people from gaza, they will represent, some of these, a sufficient number pose a threat to our national or the saudis, shouldn’t their co-religionists in that part of the country accept them? and how interesting it is that saudi arabia did not accept a single person from syria because they were worried about how it would affect saudi society.

true, and it's the same with egypt, so if they don't accept them, why should we suddenly risk national security. and i want to go back to what you said at the beginning, that the british like that they do because it is a christian country, it is still officially considered a christian country, although it is clearly not, but technically , a christian country, they like that they are showing christian charity by accepting all these refugees, but has this policy made england a better place, has it become a more united happy country than 40 years ago, it is not at all like that, no , you know, we have here now, we have now, we have people on the streets of london, recently they shouted jihad, people carried banners of a banned terrorist organization, from palestine to sea, excuse me, from the river to the sea, palestine will be free, that is, israel must be

literally wiped off the face of the earth, now the policies of other countries are being carried out on our streets because of who we let in, this group of people did not assimilate, they did not integrate , why make the problem worse? historically the practice was. but in this day and age it is dividing our society, it is threatening our way of life, it is threatening our freedom of speech, it is happening here, or look at germany, look at germany, can you believe that in germany, from of all countries, last week stars of david were painted on the doors of jewish houses in berlin, we see that throughout the west, this is a huge problem, and america is also not immune from it. it's interesting that no one ever says: well, china has the fastest growing economy in the world, they have an obligation to accept millions of refugees from other countries,

no one says that, no one says that about the gulf countries, only christian countries have this obligation, and i think it clearly destroyed these countries, germany, rapes on the streets of germany began long before the hamas attack on october 7, this is a long time ago. why is this so, do you think , why do the prosperous christian countries of the west bear this obligation, while all other countries, india, china, saudi arabia, do not , what is the matter? yes, let's take japan, japan is a full-fledged modern democracy, but japan, of course, accepts almost no one, and even regarding legal immigration, in japan everything is very strict and tough, because they want to protect the integrity of their culture. countries, why is it wrong with us, partly due to guilt, i think my colonial past, but also, wait, japan was one of the most

aggressive colonial powers in history, but no one, no one puts pressure on them, why? i mean, i'm not a conspiracy nut, but it does seem to me like this is an attempt to destroy certain countries, and of course it works, yeah, why not just... say it, we've allowed the virus of marxism from our history, they say that we have institutional racism, we are told that we suffer from our own biases, and we indoctrinate all of this into our schoolchildren, and the reason that this neo-marxist agenda has become so entrenched in britain, in europe and also in much of america, is not really the left. and because of the conservatives, i noticed in these countries that didn't have the courage to stand up to this, look at my country, we are told

that we should. you know, we spent almost 50 years using the royal navy at enormous expense, eradicating slavery, stopping the spread of slavery to the rest of europe, but no one ever talks about it, the cowardice of the conservatives in media politics is largely to blame for this, but britain has also put an end to the transatlantic , there is a moment of awakening that your prime minister, although from the conservative party, clearly shows... no interest in the country , which he seems to be running, for example, and it's quite obvious to an american looking at britain, his new priority has become stopping tobacco use in a country with a huge drug problem, a huge refugee problem and an economic problem. built around banks that is falling apart, why is he focused on tobacco, i am confused, please don't make the mistake of thinking that the party that is

now in power has an attitude towards conservatism, it is not so. we have the highest tax burden since 1951, when we were busy paying off wartime debts . we are seeing the rise of a surveillance society that punishes the innocent and never the real criminals. legislation allows you to control people's lives at all levels. we just raised the tax on company profit. we still haven't lifted the regulatory burden, which, of course, supports large corporations, but harms entrepreneurs and when the sun, a year before the election, decides that its main priority is to ensure that no one younger than 2009 can buy cigarettes, while

we have huge, huge short term damage to our youth, oh and one more thing, he's messing around with the aaivel exams that pass 85 priorities for just about anyone in our country, which is why we 're going to have a huge, huge collapse in support next year conservatives in the general election, and you know they won't just lose the election, they deserve to lose, yeah, i'd support someone on the far left who actually cared about... england, rather than sunak, who clearly despises the country, who governs, but i want to elaborate on the issue, cannabis has serious side effects, it does not help the country at all and we are going to gradually wean ourselves off it, but tobacco use, which has long-term negative health effects, yes, but also increases the level of testosterone, it's a threat , what's the threat, but the market for tobacco is much broader, yes you 're right, tobacco causes long term potential problems, but it doesn't cause

problems... in the short term. drugs cause psychological, short-term problems. they are incredibly harmful to the younger generation. but he sidestepped the big problem, deciding to tackle a simpler one. and look, everywhere we see the rise of big government that wants to control every aspect of our lives. yes, none of this matters. you know our national debt, our debt payments are huge, just like in the us.