• M137
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    -51 month ago

    Really? wildly waves hands at history

    You gotta be extremely ignorant of even basic history to not see why.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      Maybe you’re right. I know very little about the history of the baltics, it never came up even once at school. Also news coverage about it is lackluster at best.

      Do you have any specific events/timeperiods I should look into?

      • @[email protected]
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        71 month ago

        Try looking up the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Baltic countries were doing great* before that shit.

        *Well, pretty good and a place like Riga was flourishing

      • Gabrial
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        1 month ago

        Idk, maybe the collapse of Yugoslavia? Perhaps the Ottoman rule and aftermath. Different religions tied to different cultures as a deviding factor seem to stand out to me

        Edit: I can’t read apparently, disregard my comment.

        • @gcheliotis
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          81 month ago

          The Baltics have nothing to do with Yugoslavia or the Ottoman Empire. This surprised me too and I have no ready explanation.