Странам Балтии всю промышленность, медицину, науку и образование построил СССР, вливая огромные ресурсы. До него прибалты сидели по деревням и питались подножным кормом. Какая-то часть получило образование в Российской Империи. В городах разговаривали по русски и по польски.

New NAEP results are out and it’s clear the bottom has fallen out for our lowest performing math students: The bottom 10% of students performed worse than any cohort of students on the history of the test going all the way back to the 1970s

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People keep asking what the Soviet occupation actually cost the Baltic states. You don't have to imagine it. There's a control group, and it's sitting right across the gulf. In 1938 — the last full year before the war — Estonia and Finland had essentially the same GDP per capita. Two small nations, same sea, neighboring languages, the same starting line. By some rankings Estonia was even slightly ahead. Heritage FoundationX Then history split in two. Finland fought the Winter War and kept its independence. Estonia was occupied, annexed, and folded into a planned economy. Same decade, opposite roads. Fifty years later: 🇫🇮 Finland — ~$24,000 per person (1992) 🇪🇪 Estonia — ~$2,800 An eightfold gap — from an identical starting point. Not because Finns worked harder. Not because Estonians were less capable. One country was free to build. The other was told what to build, for whom, and at what loss. The wages say it even more cleanly: in 1938 Estonian purchasing power was just 4% below Finland's; by 1988 it was 42% below. That cliff is the occupation, drawn in numbers. And here's the part that ends the argument. Set free for a single generation, Estonia has already clawed back to roughly four-fifths of Finnish income. A gap that took 50 years to open is closing in 30. That's the proof it was never about us — it was the system imposed on us. There's a cost that never shows up in GDP, either. No occupation means no cattle cars to Siberia. No murdered and exiled intelligentsia. No decades of settlers moved in to outnumber the natives — which means the very "Russian-speaking minority" Moscow is now parading before the ICJ wouldn't exist at anything like that scale. The grievance Russia is litigating is one it manufactured itself. So no — we don't wonder what we lost. We can see it from the ferry. And free at last, it's what we're finally becoming again. 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

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