Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
The main example of this is the Baltic States where native Russian speakers are treated in a way that is totally unworthy of the EU, and nobody seems to care.
If you compare the situation there with the situation in Finland which is very close to the Baltic States, is a farily "new" country and has not really had an easy ride either.... yet they are handling the situation tremendously much better than the Baltics. In Finland, the bilingual situation is mostly considered to be something positive.

There are two sides to this story as you well know.
Yes and ONE OTHER side of the story might be that Russia/Soviet never managed to conquer/occupy/rape Finland like they did almost all of those "other"Baltic states.

Those people have a VERY GOOD reason to treat "ethnic Russian speakers" differently - they are a legacy of illegal occupation of the Soviet.

When are you Russian's gonna get it? People do not forget the occupation and systematic raping of their country by the Soviet - and the imposition of the Russian language along with the commie dogma. Not for a long time to come.

The "Allies" (read that USA, UK, Canada, et al) left Europe after four years - the Russian's left after 50 years!

Why is it not a surprise for you that Baltic states like Lithuania, Estonia not only flock to the EU but treat their "indigenous Russian speakers" ill? It is because there were NO or very few"indigenous" Russian speakers until Stalin and Russia invaded and raped their country!

Of course - perhaps you have a different version of the "history"?