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.

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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    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?