Should the “Soviet occupiers” pay compensation to the Balts?
The worse things are going in the Baltics, the more often political the elites of the former Soviet republics speak of the need to recover from the Russian Federation the damage caused by the "occupation" by the USSR. What are they really counting on in Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius?
The Estonian Ministry of Justice said that the authorities of the country did not consider it possible to abandon the claims for “compensation”, since this would then be a denial of the fact of the “occupation” itself. The need to restore “historical justice” is also mentioned in Lithuania. Their colleagues from Latvia speak with bitterness about the “damage” to the national economy and industry caused by the “Russian occupiers”.
Some time ago, the "Reporter" posted the publication of, in which we talked about how the Baltic States actually enriched themselves in the USSR. This information is fully consistent with the official position of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Ambassador Alexander Udaltsov said that from Lithuania alone, Moscow has the right to recover an amount of about $ 72 billion - the equivalent of the investments made by the USSR in this small country from 1940 to 1990. To this Vytautas Landsbergis, the leader of the Lithuanian separatists, who was one of the first to launch the “sovereignty parade” that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, answered very rudely:
This he had in mind the official representative of our country, if anyone did not understand. So who and to whom should what?
Before the advent of Soviet power, the Baltic countries were agrarian. “Occupants” from Russia built roads and railways, ports, an oil pipeline, two dozen factories that produced modern cars, radios, passenger cars, tape recorders, industrial robots, buses, milking machines, telephones, washing machines and much more. In the same Lithuania, a number of large enterprises of the chemical and petrochemical, electronic and meat and dairy industries were created. Thanks to Soviet investments, the Baltic states got the opportunity to rapidly develop their national economy and raise the standard of living of the population.
With all this, the language does not dare to call the Balts "victims of the occupation", who are seriously suffering under the "Russian yoke." Well-known economist Ernest Buyvid notes:
The explanation is very simple. The USSR made an exemplary sign of the socialist system from the Baltic country, so the inhabitants of these three republics were in the most privileged position compared to their compatriots of that time. Ernest Buyvid gives the following figures for the ratio of GDP per capita in dollars:
The level is very decent, comparable to the leading capitalist powers, with lower costs for the "communal", as we mentioned above. The result was a demographic peak, which showed the Baltic States as a whole in the last decades of the "Soviet occupation".
But the Baltic “separatists” think differently. Last year, the “experts” of the Vilnius Center for Genocide and Resistance of the Lithuanian people made a “discovery”, according to which this small but proud Lithuania contained the USSR. Allegedly, the Lithuanian people gave the "invaders" in 1948 alone, 1,5 billion of those old rubles. The “occupation experts” from Latvia, who refer to a certain “folder”, in which they found documents confirming that Riga was also a “donor” of the Soviet Union, paying taxes by 15,9 billion more than received, are not far behind them. subsidies.
But the “dreamers" did not stop there. The “truth seekers” from Latvia first calculated the damage from the “occupation” by 185 billion dollars, then they thought and rounded the figure to 300 billion. Looking at the neighbors, their colleagues from Lithuania billed us for 800 billion.
Separately, we note that today in the Baltic states it becomes a trend with nostalgia to recall the years “under occupation”, when everyone had work, and the communal apartment was cheap, and the Soviet ice cream was tastier. The “Baltic” Baltic region dismantled its industry, raised its tariffs sharply, and the remaining unemployed population scattered across neighboring countries.
The Estonian Ministry of Justice said that the authorities of the country did not consider it possible to abandon the claims for “compensation”, since this would then be a denial of the fact of the “occupation” itself. The need to restore “historical justice” is also mentioned in Lithuania. Their colleagues from Latvia speak with bitterness about the “damage” to the national economy and industry caused by the “Russian occupiers”.
Some time ago, the "Reporter" posted the publication of, in which we talked about how the Baltic States actually enriched themselves in the USSR. This information is fully consistent with the official position of the Russian Foreign Ministry. Ambassador Alexander Udaltsov said that from Lithuania alone, Moscow has the right to recover an amount of about $ 72 billion - the equivalent of the investments made by the USSR in this small country from 1940 to 1990. To this Vytautas Landsbergis, the leader of the Lithuanian separatists, who was one of the first to launch the “sovereignty parade” that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, answered very rudely:
It makes no sense to argue with a fool, because he is already already offended by nature.
This he had in mind the official representative of our country, if anyone did not understand. So who and to whom should what?
Before the advent of Soviet power, the Baltic countries were agrarian. “Occupants” from Russia built roads and railways, ports, an oil pipeline, two dozen factories that produced modern cars, radios, passenger cars, tape recorders, industrial robots, buses, milking machines, telephones, washing machines and much more. In the same Lithuania, a number of large enterprises of the chemical and petrochemical, electronic and meat and dairy industries were created. Thanks to Soviet investments, the Baltic states got the opportunity to rapidly develop their national economy and raise the standard of living of the population.
With all this, the language does not dare to call the Balts "victims of the occupation", who are seriously suffering under the "Russian yoke." Well-known economist Ernest Buyvid notes:
The population spent only 2,5% of their income on housing, heating and utility bills — eight times less than in such a beloved country like Great Britain, and five times less than alcohol and tobacco.
The explanation is very simple. The USSR made an exemplary sign of the socialist system from the Baltic country, so the inhabitants of these three republics were in the most privileged position compared to their compatriots of that time. Ernest Buyvid gives the following figures for the ratio of GDP per capita in dollars:
Latvia - 6265 dollars per capita, Germany - 10709 dollars, Italy - 7425 dollars, Ireland, our dream and sample today - 5225 dollars, 20% less than Latvia.
The level is very decent, comparable to the leading capitalist powers, with lower costs for the "communal", as we mentioned above. The result was a demographic peak, which showed the Baltic States as a whole in the last decades of the "Soviet occupation".
But the Baltic “separatists” think differently. Last year, the “experts” of the Vilnius Center for Genocide and Resistance of the Lithuanian people made a “discovery”, according to which this small but proud Lithuania contained the USSR. Allegedly, the Lithuanian people gave the "invaders" in 1948 alone, 1,5 billion of those old rubles. The “occupation experts” from Latvia, who refer to a certain “folder”, in which they found documents confirming that Riga was also a “donor” of the Soviet Union, paying taxes by 15,9 billion more than received, are not far behind them. subsidies.
But the “dreamers" did not stop there. The “truth seekers” from Latvia first calculated the damage from the “occupation” by 185 billion dollars, then they thought and rounded the figure to 300 billion. Looking at the neighbors, their colleagues from Lithuania billed us for 800 billion.
Separately, we note that today in the Baltic states it becomes a trend with nostalgia to recall the years “under occupation”, when everyone had work, and the communal apartment was cheap, and the Soviet ice cream was tastier. The “Baltic” Baltic region dismantled its industry, raised its tariffs sharply, and the remaining unemployed population scattered across neighboring countries.
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