Bets on the nationality of the person who made the meme?
Who built those hospitals, schools, libraries? Russians or the people of baltic countries?
I think the meme is low quality and needlessly provocative (no offense OP I guess), but the answer is likely complex. Once the republics are under the purview of the USSR, the resources and engineerong may well have come from elsewhere in the country, even if the construction crews were primarily local people.
I don’t know enough about Soviet construction to provide an actual answer, though.
The adoption of socialism in the SSRs and SFSRs did bring rapid economic growth and collaborative, planned development. Specifically, social services like healthcare, transportation, and education were a priority. I do generally agree that OP’s memes are more provacative than good agitprop should be, I tend to prefer less antagonistic methods of engaging with anticommunists, but the sentiment behind the meme isn’t incorrect.
Exactly, I pointed it out because soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country - same as in this meme, a horde of russians came and built for poor, dumb baltic people all the stuff. In reality, it’s much more complex and those constructions were built by local workers, local architects, etc. With russian money I guess but that begs the question - who should get credit for those buildings then?
soviets often try to steal all the achievements of the country
Thing is that the workers in those countries were Soviet as well. Credit goes to the labor regardless of nationality. The softening of national divisions was a great achievement of both the USSR and Yugoslavian socialist governments. It has been disastrous that those institutions weren’t able to prevail until the current day (they should have evolved instead of been abolished, but I don’t know enough to comment much further).
I don’t agree with the depiction of the USSR as an outside force that developed these countries “for them”. It was an opportunity to come together under one republic and develop.
I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries, but I think it lacks nuance to say the least.
I think the meme is attempting to disparage the “ungratefulness” of present day liberals in these FSU countries
Yes, well this is basically Russian
diplomacypropaganda 101 - “I did this and that for you and now you’re ungrateful”. Similar stuff abusing husband says to abused wife. Basically if russians helped you in any way in history, you’re supposed to be their vasal until the end of the universe, there’s no expiring date on that. It’s abusive and disgusting
