I can understand why they feel that way. What I cannot understand is why they not only not fight that feeling but endorse it and use it as a banner. Your weakness is not something that you should commemorate. And Baltic SS thingy is high point of their weakness because not only they were failed to defend themselves against one oppressor but they also fought for the other. Soviets did horrible things to them. Germans forced them to do horrible things to other. Who is worse? A person who is hurting you or a person who forced you to hurt the other? For me there is a clear answer to that question.



And I must point out that for all the speeches about how Latvians, Lithuanians and Estonians greeted the Germans with open arms as liberators from Soviet horror it still was a sheer stupidity on their parts. Why? Because they are still exist after 60 years of Soviet rule. And there would be only Germans in the Baltic states after one generation in the Greater Reich. Yeah, plenty of the Balts were deemed worthy of being called Arians. But it only meant that they would be 'converted' into the proper Germans and nothing more.



So this is what perplexing for me. Their nationalists have plenty of reasons to hate the Soviets or maybe even Russians. But Nazies were literal death of their small nations and they still consider them a better alternative. It is a self-delusion in its purest form.