Just because one option was bad and the other option was worse, doesn’t make the first option good.
Tell me how Lithuania would have avoided being ethnically cleansed and enslaved if it weren’t for the Soviets.
We were ethnically cleansed and enslaved. By the Soviets, yes.
Finland is now with a far right government, and in this past year they’ve put hundreds of thousands of people into poverty through austerity policy.
They still fit your definition though. A non-communist country that industrialized.
The trend of European nations is downwards, and it has been since the USSR stopped being the beacon of worker rights that it was. Now that we don’t need some shiny microstates as examples of social democracy against communism, we can happily let them rot!
The trend downwards was caused by the Russian state actors meddling in our information space, but it sure is convenient to ignore that.
Just because one option was bad and the other option was worse, doesn’t make the first option good.
We were ethnically cleansed and enslaved. By the Soviets, yes.
They still fit your definition though. A non-communist country that industrialized.
The trend downwards was caused by the Russian state actors meddling in our information space, but it sure is convenient to ignore that.