Tearing the Baltic states apart
The Baltic countries are a geopolitical term commonly applied to the three former Soviet Union countries and now independent states in north-central Europe on the eastern seashore of the Baltic Sea: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The term ‘Baltic countries’ is not used in the sense of cultural territories, national or language identification because while the preponderance of residents in Latvia and Lithuania are Baltic people, the dominance in Estonia is Finnic.
Before World War I, the Baltic countries were part of the Russian Empire. After the WWI Baltic nations became sovereign republics until their automatic inclusion in 1940 into the Soviet Union, they obtained their autonomy from the Soviet Union in 1991. Nowadays, the three Baltic nations don’t create an official association but participate in intergovernmental cooperation.
The difficult history is the cause of the cultural and religious diversity of these countries.
Six ways to divide the Baltic states
