Can /Baltics/ into /Nordic/?

>unlike Finland and Estonia, and Latvia
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but Finland was pretty relevant for a few years during WW2 while you were just another occupied land
If Finnish leadership wanted to do so, St. Petersburg could have been starved to death entirely and not just partially.

Balts are honorary nordics!

>shadow economy.
Well yeah, but that's government fault anyway. In reality, because of the shadow economy, Lithuanians are even richer than in normal statistics.
I remember the post from German that visited Vilnius last year. He said basically that prices are almost the same, in Vilnius there is more luxurious and new cars than in his home city which is comparable to Vilnius ( Essen), and he didn't understand how is it possible.
We literally officially earn 1/3 of what westerners earn, yet we walk in expensive clothes, everyone uses iphones and drives good cars. At least, it is like that in Vilnius.

thank you Denmark

Yes, but Russian definitely have this 'language of occupant' stigma in Baltic countries.

>but Finland was pretty relevant for a few years during WW2 while you were just another occupied land
Can't argue with that. Though, at least on part of Lithuania, it was incompetent politicians fault. Back then Lithuania had better economy than Finland, better military (and even better than nowadays Lithuania) and alliance with all baltic states (Latvia, Estonia, Finland), and yet our government went into exile instead of fighting back. Nazi Germany would've probably helped us too, as Lithuania were first assigned to their influence zone and there is some accounts that they planned to have Lithuania as buffer state.

Aминь бpaт. He зaбyдь пpo мoю ипoтeкy.

Reckon the UK is more Nordic than the Baltics

Yes, though if you are working in service industry or for certain degrees (law for example), you more often than not learn Russian because you have to work with them.

Funny thing is, this is Swedish - Lithuanian concept from the interwar
>The Baltoscandian Confederation or Baltoscandia is a geopolitical concept of a Baltic–Scandinavian union (consisting of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).[1] The idea was proposed by a Swedish professor Sten de Geer (1886–1933) in the journal Geografiska Annaler in 1928 and further developed by Professor Kazys Pakštas [lt; ru][2] (1893–1960), a Lithuanian scientist in the field of geography and geopolitics.