> have a very bad history with russia  explain. this is repeated as nauseam but never backed up. they don't actually. the russian empire was extremely lenient , all the "le bad history with russia" is actually just communism which was bought about by baltics themselves, see for example latvian riflemen, lenin's personal guard. lenin didn't hire russians because he knew russians would dome him. with stalin the tables turned and baltics got btfo when they tried to collaborate with germans during ww2 the bad history has nothing to do with russia, it's all revisionist seethe equating russia with soviet union.
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