#the baltics

[cbsxreader]

Do you want to know how easy it was to entertain a latvian child?

No? Well you're about to find out because I want to rant a bit about this.

So, there's this market chain in the Baltics, Poland and Bulgaria, Maxima, right? And some years ago, they kept a fish tank with live fish (most likely carp) if the store was big enough.

It may seem a little unethical to squeeze them together like that in a small space but GODDAYUM YOU COULD LEAVE YOUR KIDS THERE LIKE AT A DAYCARE

I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING I REMEMBER ASKING MY AUNT IF MY COUSIN AND I COULD GO WATCH THEM SWIM AROUND AND FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN ON TIKTOK OTHER PEOPLE HAVE DONE IT AS WELL

[leeenuu]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Robert Auer (Croation, 1873 - 1952) The temptation of Saint Anthony, 1917

[pierdutaintimpsispatiu]

eastern european parents don't apologize. they start to act all nice and sweet all of a suden

[nationsoftheworldtournament]

interact with this post in some way for me to randomly* assign you a country, territory, autonomous zone, or other region to research and follow current events for in 2024

Some clarifications before we get started

I'm using a random list generator to come up with these assignments so micronations won't be included

Everyone SHOULD be learning what they can about the genocide being inflicted against Palestinians and the Israel vs Palestine conflict more broadly, so for that reason I want everyone to treat Palestine as another country to learn more about in addition to the one I assign

interacting with this post in any way will be treated as an invitation to given you an assignment, this includes interacting exclusively to tell me NOT to do so

There's no set deadlines for turning anything in; if you wanna send new findings each week you're welcome to do that but you can also submit them monthly or even compile them to release at the end of 2024

Multiple interactions via the same blog won't lead to multiple assignments unless you explicitly ask for more

While I'm not going to explicitly require or forbid you to use specific sources I'd encourage you to look at sources both from within your assigned nation as well as from those outside of it, and in general be aware of fact checking and whatnot

*and some clarification: this won't be entirely at random because I'm going to generally try to avoid assigning anybody their own country...but like if you don't have it in your bio I'm not gonna ask what it is I'll just not worry about it when giving you your assignment

[nowhererat111]

Lithuanian vibezz :}

[swamp-cats-den]

Babe, wake up, new sexualities have just dropped

[febrvarymoon]

[gwydionmisha]

Let's talk about Russia, the Baltics, and balance....

[allthingseurope]

Tallinn, Estonia (by Julia)

[expressions-of-nature]

Baltic Coast by Konrad

[leeenuu]

Mežviets presses his palms together and dispassionately lists the bullet points of Latvian counterintelligence’s strategic assessment. Russia will not conquer Ukraine. Putin’s mentality will begin to shift, but no one can say when. It depends not only on himself or Russia, but on the West’s level of activity. Here, Mežviets briefly pauses. „Nevertheless, Russia’s mentality will not change,“ he concludes. „Not even Putin’s death will change anything. To our region, Russia will always be a threat, and not only because of its leaders.“ The directors of all three Baltic counterintelligence agencies perceive that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine did not herald a change in the former, but it certainly did in the West. Now, Western politicians are gradually starting to comprehend that Russia cannot be treated the same way as other states, though it is a very fine line to tread. People still refer to „Putin’s war“. They emphasize that „ordinary Russians“ should not be persecuted. They assert that we must remain humanist and understanding, for otherwise we would not be European. It’s a contradictory cocktail that requires, in the name of Western values, convincing ourselves that Ukrainian corpses are merely the act of a crazed war-waging fanatic, not the outcome of a much broader, tenacious mindset that has gone unpunished for centuries. Many are prepared to allow Putin to save face, no matter that the cost is Ukrainian bodies with nooses tied around their necks and their faces removed.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Nicolas de Largillière [French. 1656 - 1746] Portrait of a Woman and an Enslaved Servant. 1696 - The notion that there were no slaves in France was readily extrapolated from the legal code promoted by the minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, whose portrait hangs in this gallery. But exceptions abounded, particularly for families with wealth derived from the slave trade between France and its colonies. This portrait is an explicit document of the reality of a societal structure based on theories of pseudoscientific racism formulated in government-sanctioned academies: a white woman clad in resplendent silk dominates, her scale and placement constructed to inspire reverential admiration, while a Black child wearing a hinged metal slave collar is positioned subserviently to her side. His pictorial equation with the dog, a symbol of fidelity, alludes to enslavers’ fantasy of a natural order of racialized hierarchy.

[pierdutaintimpsispatiu]

normal ppl rushing to the hospital: feel sick very badly -> goes to the doctor

eastern europeans rushing to the hospital: feel sick very badly -> tries remedies paased down from our ancestors -> call left and right until someone is or knows a doctor/pharmacist to tell us what pills/medicine to take -> tries curing it with alcohol -> tries the cleansing against the evil eye -> goes to a small doctor's office that won't sent us to the hospital right away -> we end up not going to the hospital after all "our ppl survived worse in the past, i shall see this trhough" placebo shit that works 🤷‍♀️

[blackmetalnature]

"The Hill Of crosses / Kryžių" in Northern Lithuania.

[ketrindoll]

Russian colonization of Latvia graph