My Hungarian friends who lived through 1956 will be happy to hear that.https://twitter.com/NinaByzantina/status/862059154856435713 …
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Estonian is a half-fake nationality invented post-1918, like Latvian & Ukrainian. Estonia came from combining Esthonia with half of Livonia.pic.twitter.com/y5yUBMm2T3
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Livonia was its own language and nation at one point, but it didn't make it through the post WWI sausage making process.
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The modern peasant tongues of the Baltics were primarily spread, formalized (and Germanized) by the Lutheran Church for Catechism purposes.
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If you see medieval maps you'll note an absence of Latvians & Estonians. Ethno-linguistic history itself is complex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_language …pic.twitter.com/UTM7DXjkrJ
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That's because the region was completely dominated by Germans and Russians, who on several occasions attempted to germanize/russophize...
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You do realize that historically, Russians were so inept at ruling that they had to import leaders?
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And you do realize that most of these Russians came during Soviet Union? In 1934, Narva was only 30% Russian, today its over 80.
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