Balts and Russians. (Baltic States) (Editorial)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: September 26, 1992 | Copyright information

The Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are anxious to reassert their ethnic heritage after almost 50 years of Soviet domination. They may want to oppress the remaining Russians in turn but there are more positive ways to invigorate the national culture.

The Baltic states can still choose the better way

"ETHNIC cleansing on a grand scale" would be one way to describe what the Soviet Union attempted in the Baltic states; "slow cultural genocide" would do just as...

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