Beware of the Russians!

"I'm not trying to scare you, but you should be careful with the nazi punks and the dunken russians.. we have quite a lot of these around here!"

That's all i hear of around here.. well, thanks mate.. now i'm scared!

Anyway, for the little story, after visiting the occupation museum in Riga and talking to the locals here and there, i learned a lot about the situation in these baltic states..
After about a hundred years or so of German occupation, they finally got there independance in the 20's.. for about 20 years, it worked out pretty well.. but!
But then came the communist russians.. occupation again, nationalisation of all companies.. loss of property..
Then barely one year later, bang! Germans again! Kicking some russian asses, so the locals were pretty happy at first, since the Germans gave back some of their property.. (the small stuff at least, they kept the bigger ones!) But soon they discovered the Nazi ideology, propaganda and other killing of jews.. not mentioning that the Germans were not just freeing the locals from the Russians, they were occupying themselves...
So that was it for the time of the second world war.. and the people here (that i keep calling "the locals to avoid saying "the Lithuanians, the Latvians and the Estonians"!) were even forced to enroll in the German army, to help colonise their own country.. pretty fucked up mess..
A few years later, end of the war, the Russians come back, super angry, to kick some German ass.. and they do!.. So the Germans loose, the two giants split the world, and our poor locals become Russian again... new occupation, new nationalisation.. and for 50 years the Russians kept sending new settlers..

Only in the 90's did the baltic states gain their independance again.. the russian settlers got to choose wether they wanted the local nationality or not, and most of them, probably thinking it wouldn't last refused it.. yet they were not granted the Russian nationality either! So they became official "non citizens"! (with a passeport that says so!) And now about half the population of these countries are actualy non citizen russians!

So anyway, that's the story.. but it helps understand the people here.. and also the whole nazi punks/drunken russians mess.. From what i hear, the russian non-citizens are pretty frustrated with the whole situation.. and now (i leave it to you to make a proper correlation!) their favorite activity is to get drunk and start up fights for no reason..

So beware of the drunken Russian!

I thought these works i found at the Tallinn museum express the nazi/russian thing pretty well..