The baltics have a collective population smaller than Houston. The entire former USSR is almost 300 million people. They also are unique because they didn't join the USSR until after WW2, and they are the only ones in NATO and the EU. So this is an extreme case, and none of the other former soviet republics are anything like the baltics.
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i'm not defending capitalism obv, but the reverse happened for some former soviet republics, so imo such a conclusion should be drawn by comparing quality of life not of individual former soviet republics, but rather from all of them as a collection
gun@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 years ago
It's telling that people focus on places like Lithuania or Estonia where the west poured capital to create a bulwark against Russia. Why don't you take a look at what life is like in places like Georgia or Kazakhstan instead.