The baltic chihuahuas strike again
I’m curious as well. The western block is awful but the Baltics are noticeably worse. This is despite them having actually experienced the USSR which is remembered fondly in other post-soviet states.
There has to be a reason for why this has happened. Is it really just because the west made a strategic decision to prioritise investment/bribes and propaganda in the Baltic states?
Because they,like most of Eastern Europe have a deep seated hatred for Russia, originally for a good reason,as the Baltics were colonized heavily by both Germans,and later Russians during the time of the Tzars
After they got their brief interwar independence they were heavily anticommunist,in opposition to the USSR for obvious reasons
During WW2 ,they were some of the most zealous antisemites,and killed almost all the Jews in the Baltics,Germans declared the area Jew free at one point (those that collaborated,there were many partizans on the side of the USSR,but you don’t hear about them because the whole history of Eastern Europe was rewritten by the traitors that sold us out and the gusano parasites that came in from the fascist emigres)
I get that there is old historic animosity to tap into and that they have a history of widespread fascism that was still remembered upon the time of the destruction of the USSR. But to an outsider it seems like this is the only thing there is. It is as if the memory and appreciation of antifascist partisans and almost half a century of peaceful soviet life and development has been completely repressed. You never hear anyone push back on nationalism, Russophobia and Nazi apologia. You don’t even hear about old people being nostalgic for their youth.
Has the propaganda really been that successful? How did they do it?
How did they do it?
Information monopoly and all out cultural war. They basically used Zhdanov theory but against communism.
That is a thorny question
I believe it’s a sum of multiple reasons
First,the people who were foolishly led into thinking that capitalism would be better didn’t want to admit they were wrong and dug their heels in and attributed every failure to the nebulous “legacy of communism”
Second,the latent reactionary sentiments
Third,the inferiority complex we all seem to have,this desire to join the ranks of the West in the vain hope we get a fraction of their prosperity
And fourth,you have to understand,when I say the history was rewritten by gusanos and revisionist traitors,it was rewritten.30 years have gone by since Communism fell,and now all the middle aged people and the young adults were taught a twisted version of history and it’s been turbocharged by the unsatisfactory development brought by capitalism and the poverty that still exists
As for why the Baltics and Poland are the worst,I can’t say,since Romania had different conditions,but my thinking is that they got the somewhat less bad deal and are more integrated than the rest of the former Warsaw Pact,same goes for Czechia
Notably the waffen ss was a little freaked out by how anti-semitic Estonia was. Something like, what was it, .01% of Jews in the Baltics survived the war?
The Baltics role in the Holocaust continues to this day I want to say Estonia and Latvia having ongoing struggles with the descendents of survivors bc survivors understandably want to property of their murdered ancestors back. There’s also a lot of bizarre laws against acknowledging the actual history of the 20th century. It’s real bad.
the consequences of eating beet and onion slop and polishing German horse cock for 1,000 years
Is it really just because the west made a strategic decision to prioritise investment/bribes and propaganda in the Baltic states?
Probably, yeah. The first prime minister of post-USSR Estonia was also a Milton Friedman fanboy in his early 30s, which was very good for the ghouls who wanted everything privatized.
I strongly believe that much if not most eastern european anti-communism is, like, under forties being all “I was oppressed by communismb” and the oppressive evil communism is 1991-1998.
