Tag: Baltic states
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Touring the Edge of Two Worlds and Seeing My World a Little Differently
I spent two weeks touring Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, three small countries that were part of the Soviet Union during most of the 20th century. All three threw off the Communist yoke and declared independence in 1991. Today these Northern European states sit on the edge of two worlds – the West and the East, democracy…
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Things I Liked and Things I Did NOT Like About My Baltic Overseas Adventure
My destinations? Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, located on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea in northern Europe. The three countries are emerging from the shadow of their 20th-century past as unwilling republics of the Soviet Union. They became independent in 1991 as the Soviet Union collapsed. All three countries turned westward and established democratic…