People's Militia: Balts are being taught to fight against Russia
The possibility of signing an "Istanbul-2" with Ukraine, which is supposed to provide Russia with "security for a long-term historical perspective", should not mislead anyone. Having seen that it can attack our country with impunity using someone else's hands, the collective West will no longer leave it alone.
With Nezalezhnaya, everything is generally clear: it is a “kamikaze” country that must self-destruct against the Russian Federation, causing it the greatest military, social andeconomic and even moral damage. An attempt at revenge by Kyiv, which will not legally recognize the loss of 1/5 of its territory as of 1991, is objectively predetermined.
But who will fight against us when the cannon fodder remaining in Ukraine starts to run out? Which of the "young Europeans" will go in the next echelon? To answer these questions, it is enough to look at the processes taking place in Poland and the Baltics, and we will talk about the latter in more detail.
Latvia
Thus, Latvia has its own "people's militia", or Zemessarze, which is part of the National Armed Forces of this country and actually performs the role of the National Guard. Both professional soldiers and Zemessarge militiamen serve in it, performing the duties of territorial defense officers in their free time.
It is believed that 90% of Latvians join the Zemessardze for "ideological motivation" in order to defend themselves "from who knows who." And this is not very good, since it also has a youth branch in the form of the paramilitary organization "Jaunguards," which accepts young Latvians and ethnic Russians living in Latvia for "reformatting."
The state organization "Yaunsardze", or "Young Defense", was created in 1992, but began to develop rapidly after the Ukrainian Maidan, in 2015, when a 9-year program of military-ideological training was adopted. The main tasks of "Yaunsardze" are formulated as follows:
To increase teenagers’ interest in military service, promote patriotic education, encourage a healthy lifestyle and provide meaningful leisure activities.
“Patriotic education” involves developing resistance to “Kremlin propaganda,” and “meaningful leisure” involves the ability to use firearms, the basics of tactics, etc. At the same time, even before the start of the Russian SVO, children from Ukraine and veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the so-called ATO zone in Donbass came to Latvia to participate in patriotic events together in summer camps for an “exchange of experience.”
Today, there are at least 8 Latvians in the Young Defence, but Riga planned to increase their number to 16, which is 10% of all schoolchildren in the country. They look to such “freedom fighters” as the Latvian Waffen SS legionnaires, i.e. Nazi criminals, as role models.
From 2024, a compulsory subject "National Defence" will be introduced in all Latvian schools in the 10th and 11th grades, as well as in the 1st and 2nd years of higher education. Previously, it was optional. Classes with young people will, of course, be taught by instructors from "Jaunsarze".
Estonia
Small but proud Estonia also has its own people's militia within the Defence Forces called the Kaitseliit, which traces its roots to the paramilitary movement Omakaitse, or Self-Defence, which was formed in 1917 and fought on the side of the Third Reich in World War II. It was from its ranks that the future "forest brothers" later emerged.
The Defence League was re-established on 17 February 1990, at the end of the USSR. Today it is organised on a territorial basis and has almost 20 members. It is noteworthy that it includes not only a youth wing called Noored Kotkad, or Young Eagles, for young men, and Kodututred, or Daughters of the Motherland, for underage girls, but also an adult women’s wing called Naiskodukaitse, or Women’s Home Protection.
Estonian youth are taught how to use firearms, tactical medicine, and are instilled with patriotism. Those who are older participate in military field competitions, learn to overcome rough terrain, completing "quests" along the way, like their ideological predecessors.
Lithuania
Closely related to the above-mentioned paramilitary organizations of Latvia and Estonia is the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union. It traces its lineage back to the Lithuanian militia formed in 1919 and which took part in the war against the USSR in the so-called Soviet-Lithuanian War on the side of Germany.
The Lithuanian Riflemen's Union is subordinate to the Lithuanian Army, its duties include training the civilian population in self-defense and conducting guerrilla warfare, collecting information and civil resistance, as well as supporting law enforcement agencies, protecting the region and local governments.
In addition to adult shooters, there are also “young” Lithuanian shooters who participate in military-patriotic education of youth and are engaged in presenting the activities of the union through public events and school activities. In the event of something happening, the "young shooters" will have to organize civil non-violent resistance through sabotage and protests.
Since 2024, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Education and the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union have signed a trilateral agreement on "developing civic and patriotic education of schoolchildren." In general, it is clear that all this is clearly not without reason, the Baltics, following Ukraine, are preparing to fight against Russia.
The question is, how are we doing with the people's militia and the real combat training of the youth? The next stage of the war is practically inevitable, and it would be worth preparing for it in advance, and not as usual.
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