Baltic countries are a huge success story. If we weren’t occupied we would be per capita as rich as Sweden and Finland, no doubt about that. For example before WW2 Estonia’s GDP per capita was on par with Denmark’s GDP per capita.
Funny how the further you’re away from russian influence, the more your country thrives XD
I don’t want to be a party pooper, I really don’t. But there is a horror story behind all this also – most of the fancy stuff you see in Baltics is foregin money (Swedish and Danish banks etc). To add insult to the injury, Danske Bank was laundering Russian money in Estonia in totally epic proportions. So at one hand I really agree that it is a success story, on the other hand… well. Not so much, to be honest. Estonia is totally lagging behind by now (one of the highest inflations in the whole Europe!). Reason? Old communists and their children are still at the helm. These Soviet dynasties will just not give up the power.
Warsaw copycats /s
Many infrastructure projects in Lithuania were built using fundings from Brussels. Dotations or subsidy from EU.
Step 1: Give out permits to build massive towers that employ thousands of people
Step 2: Cry about traffic and pollution in the center
Step 3: Put “climate protection” taxes in place that do nothing but wring people out for money
It’s definitely not worse than the fucking russian rats, but the government has no idea what the fuck it’s doing and it shows.
Honestly not a huge fan of this type of architecture but it makes me happy to see our Eastern bros growing so fast
Skyscrapers are not the flex people think they are. I know that on the surface level they exhume prosperity but more often than not all they signify is massive wealth inequality.
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*restoration of independence ffs…
Our countries declared independence in 1918 and we were never part of the Soviet Union, but illegally occupied by it.
Different spot and angle. The newer photo is done in Tauras hill in Naujamiestis, and the old one in what is now Konstitucijos pr. in Šnipiškės.
The ‘same spot’ is separated by a kilometre.
Was posted by the same OP 8 months ago in this sub:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/15270q1/vilnius_lithuania_before_and_after_20_years_apart/](https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/15270q1/vilnius_lithuania_before_and_after_20_years_apart/)
That sentence does not make sense
Not Russia, USSR.
Baltic countries are a huge success story. If we weren’t occupied we would be per capita as rich as Sweden and Finland, no doubt about that. For example before WW2 Estonia’s GDP per capita was on par with Denmark’s GDP per capita.
Funny how the further you’re away from russian influence, the more your country thrives XD
I don’t want to be a party pooper, I really don’t. But there is a horror story behind all this also – most of the fancy stuff you see in Baltics is foregin money (Swedish and Danish banks etc). To add insult to the injury, Danske Bank was laundering Russian money in Estonia in totally epic proportions. So at one hand I really agree that it is a success story, on the other hand… well. Not so much, to be honest. Estonia is totally lagging behind by now (one of the highest inflations in the whole Europe!). Reason? Old communists and their children are still at the helm. These Soviet dynasties will just not give up the power.
Warsaw copycats /s
Many infrastructure projects in Lithuania were built using fundings from Brussels. Dotations or subsidy from EU.
Step 1: Give out permits to build massive towers that employ thousands of people
Step 2: Cry about traffic and pollution in the center
Step 3: Put “climate protection” taxes in place that do nothing but wring people out for money
It’s definitely not worse than the fucking russian rats, but the government has no idea what the fuck it’s doing and it shows.
Honestly not a huge fan of this type of architecture but it makes me happy to see our Eastern bros growing so fast
Skyscrapers are not the flex people think they are. I know that on the surface level they exhume prosperity but more often than not all they signify is massive wealth inequality.