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The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You have to keep in mind that citizens of these countries were significantly worse off as (involuntarily) being part of the USSR than the countries that were not in the Eastern Bloc

Which citizens? Migrants have been flooding out of the Eastern Bloc for decades.

And what does "voluntary" membership in the EU look like when you've got five years of riots that can only be quelled by tanks in the streets?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you sure you are on the right server? I think Lemmy.ml is probably more your bubble.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Petty much the view that Russia's neighbours see when looking across the border. And the Russians wonder why nobody wants be friends...