What I mean is, why are they so reactionary?
They were once part of the Soviet Union, and while I am aware of the fact that after the USSR fell pretty much every country that was part of it fell into ruin (some bounced back), but there’s something about the Baltics that makes them stand out the most.
Besides Ukraine, they seem to be the most rabidly anti-communist/Russian and claim to have been colonized by the Soviets. I am very confused by all this and wanted to ask before I forgot.
What the fuck happened to the Baltics that made them like this? It’s like every time I see a Lithuania, Latvian, or Estonian flag on socials it is always paired with the most fascist shit I have ever seen.
Edit: added “socials” to be more specific.
Korenizatsiya begs to differ.
Yes because in the minds of Nazis they are one and the same. Because russophobia and anti-communism both serve the agenda of the capitalist oligarchy to prevent the working class from organizing again and taking back the power.
Citation needed. Before the communists industrialized that region they had no notable industry and their societies were largely agrarian.
Talk about projection. This is demonstrably untrue if you simply look at supply priority maps of the Soviet Republics. The western republics received heavy preference in priority of development investment and goods supply.
Demonstrably false again, look at GDP and compare Soviet times with the pre-Soviet period. It is absolutely impossible to claim that the standard of living was not vastly better in 1989 than it was in 1939. It’s not even a contest, it’s worlds apart in terms of how people lived.
It’s an ideology that benefits and helps everyone except the exploiters and those who would like to live in luxury at the expense of the suffering and poverty of others.
Once again, provably untrue. The most highly developed regions after Moscow were all in the western republics of the Union. They were the heartland. Certainly nothing east of the Volga got anywhere close to the amount of development that places like Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltics did.
It is also quite funny to see Kazakhstan mentioned because while it is indeed true that Kazakhstan greatly benefited from being in the Union, having virtually its entire modern agriculture, industry, infrastructure and urban areas built up during the Soviet times, it’s interesting to see you admit this. Because Central Asian anti-communists will frequently cite the same kinds of false claims that you do with respect to the Baltics, complaining how they were supposedly held back and exploited by the Soviet Union while completely ignoring the historical reality of what those regions looked like before the Soviets developed them.
Is that why even to this day most of the infrastructure, roads, rails, power plants, cities, etc. in Eastern Europe are from Soviet times? If getting nuclear power plants, hydroelectric dams and factories, as well as having extensive infrastructure for electricity, water and gas supply built is “getting screwed” then you and i have a very different definition of that term.
Doesn’t look that way when you see who they decide to hold parades for and elevate as national heroes (hint: they were involved with the SS and took part in pogroms and mass murders). “Liberal capitalism” is not at all mutually exclusive with fascism.