Thread: Почему распался Советский Союз? Что происходит в Прибалтике, и немного истории

Also, all the Soviet SSRs were run by local people in practically all important places, weren't they? It was not like Russians from Moscow came in and took over the country. Lots of local people joined the communist party and generally participated in the socialist state.

Actually it was - if someone wanted to do something that Moscow disapproved, they immediately sent tanks inside.
Google "Prague Spring" or "Budapest 1956" and these countries weren't even part of Soviet Union.

"it's all the Russians fault"

I do not blame Russians, I blame communists and their defective by design ideology.

Why don't you let the past be the past and look to the future?

Because as I said - Russia does not want to abandon and deal with its past - it is constantly glorifying it - just like in Soviet times.
If Russia's official propaganda constantly says that USSR liberated us - what should we do - simply agree with them?
Do you think that Lithuania should simply forgive bastards like Golovatov and let him walk free after what he did?

Estonians were able to go to Finland on holiday during this time.

All "holidayer" groups were infiltrated by KGB agents that watched after any potential "stayers".

Originally Posted by nulle

I do not blame Russians

Ok, that's a good thing because nobody here is responsible for it and they probably feel bad that the USSR time is so disliked in the Baltic states.

Since most people on the forum are Russians and all this is already known to them, perhaps we should just leave the topic.

Nobody here has defended Stalin's idea to incorporate the Baltic states or deport civilians.

Personally I like Russian culture and I think that Russian people are among the nicest and most sincere & fun Europeans. It's a pity that all the USSR legacy is preventing many people from seeing what is really a beautiful and interesting country with fundamentally friendly and fun people.

Perhaps you should get yourself a visa and check it out Nulle? Just go against the stream a bit. That doesn't mean that you agree with anything that Stalin did etc - just that look to the future and not the past. Btw, being trilingual with Latvian, Russian and English is very impressive in the eyes of most people. After all, Russian is a language spoken by over 200 million people.
Or go to Belarus or Ukraine (don't need a visa for Ukraine).