Literally when I first started my journey through Leftism, I assumed as an American of Slavic descent who is slightly lefty, that the actual Slavs in Baltics would be much more lefty and I had to get yelled at by like 8 latvians and 4 lithuanians (all born in 80s and 90s lmao) online before I realized that place is more anti-comm than anywhere in Europe
Yes, you can see what is up with those people just by reading comments on internet, if ever take a step in any of 3 Baltic countries, I would get impaled on wooden stick in seconds lol.
It was tough to reckon with at first because I genuinely thought I was doubting the life experience of people who actually experienced the socialism that I had been a proponent of. Then I realized that they were influenced by the anti-comm society that came up as a response to the illegal dissolution of the USSR, that even my Republican Belarusian бабушка had more nuanced takes on the USSR than them
Literally when I first started my journey through Leftism, I assumed as an American of Slavic descent who is slightly lefty, that the actual Slavs in Baltics would be much more lefty and I had to get yelled at by like 8 latvians and 4 lithuanians (all born in 80s and 90s lmao) online before I realized that place is more anti-comm than anywhere in Europe
Yes, you can see what is up with those people just by reading comments on internet, if ever take a step in any of 3 Baltic countries, I would get impaled on wooden stick in seconds lol.
It was tough to reckon with at first because I genuinely thought I was doubting the life experience of people who actually experienced the socialism that I had been a proponent of. Then I realized that they were influenced by the anti-comm society that came up as a response to the illegal dissolution of the USSR, that even my Republican Belarusian бабушка had more nuanced takes on the USSR than them