Why do the three Baltic countries hate Russia so much?

The reasons for the disintegration of the Soviet Union are extremely diverse and complex.

But it is certain that the intricate ethnic issues are one of the fuses that ignited its collapse.

When it comes to the ethnic issues of the Soviet Union, we have to focus on the “Baltic Three Countries” represented by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

So the question is, why do the three Baltic countries hate the Soviet Union so much?

1) The three Baltic countries (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia) and Russia

1) The “forced annexation” of the three Baltic countries by the Soviet Union

After entering the 13th century, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in the Baltic region. They successively established their own nation-states.

Especially Lithuania, in the hundreds of years after its founding, has always been a force that cannot be ignored in Europe.

However, with the strong expansion of Tsarist Russia, by the 19th century, the three countries were all incorporated into the territory of Tsarist Russia.

Time flies, and with the outbreak of the “October Revolution (1917)”, the three Baltic countries successively established Soviet regimes.

However, under the interference of foreign armed forces, in 1920, the Soviet government was forced to sign peace treaties with the three countries one after another and “abandon its sovereignty claims.”

At the same time, after independence, the three Baltic countries also successively launched a series of bourgeois reforms in the fields of politics, economy, culture, and society.

In the late 1930s, in order to “maintain national security”, the Soviet Union established a large “buffer zone” at the border with the three countries.

On June 14, 1940, the Soviet Union sent a statement to the three governments in the form of an ultimatum, accusing them of “violating the mutual assistance treaty signed with…