Tag #148490 - Interview #78035 (marina sineokaya)

I had the same attitude towards the annexation of the Baltic countries [see occupation of the Baltic Republics] [21] to the USSR as I thought that those countries didn’t have very good living standards and were constantly suppressed and that we were the ones who gave them the freedom and the chance for a better living. Now I understand that the citizens of those countries treated us as occupants, though at that time I thought that we were doing good things by liberating those countries and widening our borders to the west.