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@nitrrogen__ Barely? And thats not evidence that they didn’t hold them back. The USSR also had plenty of more negative economic effects on the Baltics beyond economics like shipping war veterans to settle in Latvia that the state would later need to take care of for instance

@nitrrogen__ Mostly for geopolitical reasons. If the Baltics never were occupied or Eastern Europeans never occupied and were allowed to voluntarily join an early EU they would be better economically than under the USSR

@nitrrogen__ Only in purchasing power and I doubt it. All of the former Eastern Bloc/Ex Soviets states underwent economic shock and it was particularly bad because the Balts decided to build themselves from the ground up instead of using existing Soviet institutions. The growth rate is larger

@nitrrogen__ None of that investment went into the Latvians Estonians or Lithuanians domestically though, atleast not to an extent that they wouldn’t be more prosperous outside of Russian rule pic.twitter.com/tOeCFJhuQO

@Q3SB34129X They didn’t really there are still Poles in the South East

Despite the territorial claims it held back Lithuanias economy pretty badly

@nitrrogen__ Do u have that video btw Im bricked rn

Its going to collapse into a series of warlord states pic.twitter.com/yuRwD7sNON x.com/SameeraKhan/st…

@nitrrogen__ Tbh that was only because Poland had a far larger population of Polish nobleman than Lithuania had of Lithuanian noblemen

Friendly reminder that the Latvians had a warsong about them getting cucked by German soldiers in the Latvian Legion (Latvian forcibly conscripted into the SS) which is a level of serfdom yet to be outmatched pic.twitter.com/fUbsFNX3o0 x.com/shamberman3/st…

Heres the aftermath is of this kind of mentality. This isn’t even including a dysgenic loss of IQ points pic.twitter.com/Sq2yA3UBI6 x.com/not_our_guy/st…

Nightmare blunt rotation pic.twitter.com/irslTMQLEt