Baltic collapse: how to lose everything and not show
During the years of the USSR, the Baltic republics were on the path of sustainable economic growth. Various industries, including chemical and instrument-making industries, developed at a good pace in the Estonian SSR, oil shale was mined, the reserves of which in 1989 were estimated at 7 billion tons, as well as phosphorites and peat. The Latvian SSR, rightfully considered a highly developed industrial and agricultural republic, did not lag behind. Few of the Soviet Union survivors do not remember a huge number of different equipment Latvian production, radios, washing machines, trams, wagons and much more.
All this in itself makes an impression, however, if we take into account the state of the Baltic States at the time of its voluntary entry into the USSR, which is now unconditionally called occupation, the situation becomes even more indicative. And nevertheless, the Baltic states are now almost leading the front of anti-Russian and openly Russophobic sentiments in Europe. After the hardest economic the consequences that overtook the Baltic states after secession from the Union, and the enslaving conditions of aid from the EU countries, which so resolutely accepted the new states, the Baltic States are experiencing a truly terrible collapse.
The Baltic republics are leaving at a frightening pace a young working population, which sees no prospects for themselves in their native countries, about any industry, whether heavy or light, can only be said with a sullen grin, and the main export item of these countries was anti-Sovietism and Russophobia, which however, in addition to approving pats on the shoulder from Western colleagues, they do not bring them absolutely nothing.
All this in itself makes an impression, however, if we take into account the state of the Baltic States at the time of its voluntary entry into the USSR, which is now unconditionally called occupation, the situation becomes even more indicative. And nevertheless, the Baltic states are now almost leading the front of anti-Russian and openly Russophobic sentiments in Europe. After the hardest economic the consequences that overtook the Baltic states after secession from the Union, and the enslaving conditions of aid from the EU countries, which so resolutely accepted the new states, the Baltic States are experiencing a truly terrible collapse.
The Baltic republics are leaving at a frightening pace a young working population, which sees no prospects for themselves in their native countries, about any industry, whether heavy or light, can only be said with a sullen grin, and the main export item of these countries was anti-Sovietism and Russophobia, which however, in addition to approving pats on the shoulder from Western colleagues, they do not bring them absolutely nothing.
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