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by watersb
27 days ago
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My hot tale on the ground in 1990 was that Russia treated Estonia like an imperial colony. Forced mass relocation of Russian citizens into the country after World War II, all children taught a Russian curriculum in the (public, free, Soviet) schools. The doctrine of cultural assimilation was at that time understood to be incorporation into a larger Russian society. "The Singing Revolution" tells an Estonian side of this dynamic. https://youtu.be/Ny8uCgJX_-g?is=dvTndU6nCx4LsIqz |
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You mean extracting resources, not developing local industry, especially heavy industry, and forcing to buy all the staff from metropolis?