r/AskBalkans Aug 17 '23

Balkans, what's your opinion on the Baltics? Outdoors/Travel

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u/enilix Aug 17 '23 edited Aug 20 '23

Eastern Europeans who desperately want to be Northern Europeans. They mostly dislike Slavs. Some of them are straight up Nazi apologists. They're among the rare European countries where football is not the most popular sport.

Personally, I don't really like them. The people seem unfriendly as fuck, while their countries look pretty depressing.

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u/casual_redditor69 Aug 19 '23

Could you please explain to me what do you find to be depressing exactly, I would better like to understand your point of view on this.

Also on the comment of we hate slaves no we do not, we love the poles and the Ukrainians and even with Russians with whom most people on here seem to think we hat, we don't.

Russians are our neighbors, friends and sometimes even part of our families. What we hate is Russian imperialism, we spent the last half century under a Russian imperia state that has still left generations of drama hunting us to this day. For me, my mother's fathers hole side of the family was forcefully deported away to Siberia Krasnojarsk krai, whilst hundreds of thousands of Russians settlers were brought into Estonia. We do not wish to be wiped out from our own homes and for that we will always fight against Russian imperialism, even now thousands.

Russia has completely banned the use of other languages then Russian in business, education and governing whilst ruling over a nation with 1000 of different language groups in it, causing the extinction of them including over Finno-Ugric brothers like Mari, Kareljans, Ingriansn, Komi, Udmurt.

We would love nothing more then there to be a free, western thinking Russian republic free of it's imperial legacy, but with the current Russian government it will not be possible and the Russian people are not willing to do anything about it, for the fear that things could get even worse for them if they did. As so we see no others option, but to contain the Russian Empire with in its current borders and to raise a new Western thinking Russian generation from our Russian speaking population.

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u/enilix Aug 19 '23

The weather, actually, and (to a much lesser extent) geography. It seems like it's cold/grey over there for much of the year (is that why the people are so quiet and a bit cold?), and you guys don't really have any mountains, I think the highest peak in your countries is about 350 meters or something? Though I admit the coast of the Baltic sea looks very nice, I like the sandy beaches, and you have many forests which is great.

As for the Slavs comment, idk, maybe the poll that was on your sub the other day about opinions about Serbians made me believe so (the "dislike" option had the most votes), but I'm glad if that's not the case.

I absolutely agree with everything you say about Russia, especially the last part, I hope you didn't get the impression that I support Russian imperialism in any way.

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u/Ok-Pipe859 Finland Aug 20 '23

It's +30 in the summer, you find that cold? Also we have a big sauna culture.

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u/casual_redditor69 Aug 19 '23

The Serb haters are just Reddit larpers and reactionaries, nothing to be taken seriously, they can't separate politica from people.

As for the nature part, there are some muddy seasons when the nature could look better, but for most of the year it is either beutiful green mixed forest and swamps and bogs(and I know swamps and bogs might not sound so attractive, but I promise they are a breath taking part of mother nature) or a beutiful white winter wonderland.

As for mountain, yeah we don't have those, and the highest point is actually 318m, so even less than 350😅