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  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Eh. The Baltics are very small countries with… what’s the nice way to say this… Fascist collaborationist governments that have worked hard to control the narrative, erase the crimes of the 30s and 40s, and create a questionable view of 20th century history. It’s like any other country - Shitheads, none shitheads, and regular people in between. The official government line and the views of many citizens are hard right-wing, holocaust denial, and support for Nazi collaborators. You’re going to run in to a lot of fash and fash-adjacent assholes.

    Edited bc I realized I’ve been saying Balkans instead of Baltics all day.

    • TheLepidopterists [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I think you mean Baltic.

      Just gonna also throw out that a ton of the world’s stateless people live in the Baltic countries because they denied ethnic minorities citizenship after the fall of the USSR unlike every other former Soviet country. IIRC Lithuania isn’t involved in that at least, I think just Estonia and Latvia.

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          I believe most countries have signed an agreement never to create a stateless person due to how vulnerable they are to abuse.

          That’s a why, for example, the ukkk claims that Shamina Begum was a Bangladeshi citizen when they revoked her citizenship.

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            I remember that. That was really fucked. Political exiles in the democracy loving freedom of speech west? Hardly surprising but very against the marketing. I still don’t entirely understand what their purpose is with that. Is it a way to reinforce anti-immigrant rhetoric in preparation for some kind of V for Vendetta more fascist Britain thing?

      • NoGodsNoMasters [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        Yeah it’s pretty bad. You could conceivably have had parents born in the country and been born in the country yourself and still be denied citizenship in 1991 because they refused to recognise anything Soviet