crazy shit goes down here...
Crazy shit goes down here
294m
highest """"mountain""""""
lmao
nothing ever happens here
don't talk about us don't think about us don't remember about us
estonia even gets the highest mountain
it's not fair bros...
My neighbours :)
I guess seeing a proper mountain must be mystical experience for a Balt
Do they still think about us, or are we forgotten a long time ago?
I went to Slovakia to see mountains as a kid. We drove through Polish hills and we laughed at how they're just little cope mounds compared to the actual mountains.
norway tried gifting us a mountain for the 100th anniversary of our independence day but due to some legal autism they couldnt do it
mountain
at least in Latvia the difference between "Swedish part" and "Polish" part is still noticeable
every time I pull out my debit card I get reminded of your country's existence :(
Slovak mountains are the same like ours
they are big and have rocks and snow while yours are round and have trees on them, very sad.
Really? You got any pics
Sorry, i know our companies are doing colonization out towards east
the two biggest banks in latvia
swedbank
seb (Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken)
they are big and have rocks and snow while yours are round and have trees on them
uhhhh i think you didn't realize where the border is....
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I was there. It was in Slovakia.
Really? You got any pics
it's mostly about predominant religion (protestantism vs catholicism) + the Swedish part is more developed and less slavicized
They go to Poland for that.
those Slovaks must have released fake border maps again...why do they do it to us???
only latgale was catholic
everyone's atheist now
muh statistics
people just report whatever religion their grandma told them they are, nobody goes to church except like 1-5% of weirdos who've joined new age cults from america
only latgale was catholic
yes, and that was exactly the polish part
everyone's atheist now
whatever, even if nowadays religion is just about belonging to a certain cultural sphere rather than actual faith, it is still there
courland & semigallia was also in the polish part but it retained autonomy and never got counterreformed
yes, but that's why I don't really count it as "Polish", it was basically an independent entity and they even wuz conquistadors n shieet, their aristocracy was 100% German (not even Swedish)
Isnt that more to do with the Hanseatic stuff
no, Hansa was an association of cities and barely had any impact on rural areas, while the difference I'm talking about encompassed all of Latvia's territory
it was just mostly about the economic and political system the Swedes introduced in their parts
the teutonic order switched to protestantism in 1525
poland took a chunk of the country in the 1580s, but part of it remained under local rule by the prot germans. then they tortured, raped and burned everyone who refused to go back to being catholic so latgale went back to being catholic.
then they tortured, raped and burned everyone who refused to go back to being catholic so latgale went back to being catholic.
*then they tortured, raped and burned everyone who refused to go back to being catholic IN THE OTHER PART
well that's skipping a bit poland actually took the whole country but then they lost half of it to sweden including Riga in the early 1600s which is why half of that half that got tortured into being catholic was allowed to go back to not being catholic again.
then they tortured, raped and burned everyone who refused to go back to being catholic
meme and prottie propaganda
inquisition was never a big thing in Poland, Polish Jesuits usually used "soft power" instead, so they built beautiful baroque churches to make peasants impressed with the power of the catholic church or founded schools (for example Polish Jesuits founded the school in Tartu which then evolved into the university)
This. Literally nothing ever happens the craziest thing I have witness is a man taking a piss at the train station.
What are some cool and interesting facts about these countries?
Do they kiss?
they cannot be called "Pribaltika"
The first rule of Anon Babble
DO NOT make threads about Lithuania
What are some other terms you can use foe these three specifically while excluding all other Baltic countries?
Estonia and Latvia always blend together in my mind.
Lithuania is memorable because they got dicked hard and unfairly by pollacks and krauts.
It's different for me. Estonians are related to Finns. Lithuanians used to rule Da Slavs. While when i think of Latvia nothing really comes to mind. Well, Riga was a prominent port during the middle ages but that's it
that man? me.
With Latvia I think of their Nazi collaborators, but I also do that with Estonia, too.
The only thing that sets Estonia apart is the "I WANT ONLY FOR LAWYER" mushroom merchant, but he had his freakout in Finland.
in Poland
well, it was here
the polish counterreformation is remembered as an exceptionally brutal part of our history. and that's saying a lot considering it comes right after ivan the terrible got done deliberately laying waste to much of the country and exterminating whole parishes
Near-Baltic states seems neutral
well, it was here
...which was part of Poland back then
the polish counterreformation is remembered
it is "remembered" like it was described in German- and Swedish-printed books and it is obvious why they described it like that
what else, do you believe in Anglo propaganda about Spaniards genociding South America in the name of Catholicism too?
when you think of latvia you should think of being the biggest shithole in the EU bar none
we've somehow managed to fall behind everyone else in our region and let even all the balkanoids overtake us in every success and goodness metric
we're the only one of the three baltic states that is behind russia in terms of development
no, it's remembered like that in latgale which was ruled by the polish elites until very late in the russian empire.
post cool latvian music itt
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You aren't Hungary.
they are richer and more developed than us.
it's remembered like that in latgale
i am pretty sure it isnt, otherwise these people wouldn't stay catholic if they knew what way it was imposed upon them
more like it was what they "learnt" from German books
god didn't put any high places in Lithuania so they couldn't jump off them
Also here's the Estonian mushroom merchant I was talking about
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at least you have a MILFy PM
Yet they're still more of a shithole.
Would rather live in the Latvian woods than anywhere in Hungary.
Eesti stands out for me. cousins of Finns
Latvians and Lithuanians are very similar to me, main association is Latvians with Teutonic Order and Germans, Lithuanians with PLC and Polish influence
stupid take. hungary is better in every way.
she doesn't put out for me so what good is she
Nah. Absolutely not.
You're like a pollack yearning for Belarus. It looks pathetic to everyone else.
stuck between russia, belarus and russia
My condolences
she's pure sex and that's enough to love your little country and protect it at all cost
Belarus is more developed than Latvia unironically. If not for forex shenanigans they'd be richer than us too.
Hehe, Finland isnt so flat now isnt it.
1 323m we are basicly Sherpas
Unironically gigagrim
It still doesnt make sense why Latvia is poorer than Lithuania despite being further north
Are you starting to see how being more developed doesn't make a country less of a shithole?
i want to hug and kiss baltic men!
bro stop it
or at least leave Maskacka
finland getting the best things goes without saying, you're so cool you even graduated from our club into the nordicks
I'd take smooth asphalt over MILF politicians any day of the week.
Siliņas massive tits don't pay for repairs on my 26 year old BMW
I am also BULLTIC by the way. I live in Kaliningrad
It still doesnt make sense why Latvia is poorer than Lithuania despite being further north
It has a lot to do with being closer to Russia tho
my idea is just to declare Riga a city-state and all the Latvians from the province should be resettled into Riga, then turn it into the Singapore of eastern Europe
latvian has a balto-finnic substrate and the country's political history more resembles that of estonia
Minsk is firstie paradise compared to r*ga
Their pavement is smooth as a baby's bottom
Estonia is even closer then
but Finland's influence mitigates shit-Midas' impact on them
balto-finnic substrate
a what? lithuania-finland forms an autosomal DNA continuum and the dominant haplogroups are also the same. we all share the same CWC x fingol genetics and our languages have had lots of intermingling too in terms of loanwords
хвaтит лизaть жoпy pycнявым, хoть нaвepнo ты и caм pycня
Siliņas massive tits don't pay for repairs on my 26 year old BMW
Bro your entire country's basically the same size as West Virginia. 24,034 square miles to 24,087.
Get a mountain bike.
This guy crossed your country in a unicycle
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riga has the worst roads.
Get a mountain bike.
I have one. I also have several other bicycles, and a couple of motorcycles. But when I do need to drive my car suffers from the quality of these roads.
do you still have that corrupt Russian mayor there?
corrupt
yes
russian
no, he got kneecapped politically by his daddy's decision to embark on a certain 3 day adventure down south, which ended up forcing all the russian politicians to either sell out their voter base or get canceled
Latvia is home to the words largest wind chime ensemble
so you mean you don't have any Russians in politics right now? how does it even work when your country is 40% Russian
we do have russians in politics. but their party got gimped and splintered because you can't get your hands on any EU money to steal if you don't denounce Putin, but you can't win any votes if you do. so they've split between a couple of corrupt cross-ethnic opposition parties and a permanently unelectable hardliner russian party
It's crazy that they are in schengen, with the feral monkeys around them
Now this is cool. I've never seen such extensive wind chimes
vote for the russians in the next election
around them
hahaha yeah.. don't ask my cousin where you car went, Luigi
finnic languages have had a more fundamental influence on latvian that goes beyond loanwords, like mandatory world initial stress
Sorry since the first of january my car is going in romania
I'm sure your cunt is not romania tier though
The Latvian girls were super cute during Eurovision. I knew they were hiding something..
yes romania is richer and more developed than us
they overtook us several years ago
mandatory world initial stress
that's the sort of thing that shifts every couple of centuries, nbd
drunk and suicide
languages are actually quite resistant to change absent population upheavals or the influence of institutions, which is precisely the point: the apparently finnic features of the latvian language imply the balticization of a previously finnic speaking population somewhere in the history of the latvians
but it's the exact opposite. the substrate of the population is baltic in both the baltic and finnic states. the invader stratum is finnic.
the baltic speakers did subsume the livonians, who were essentially an estonian group living in modern day latvia. but that's a very recent development, german conquest onwards.
Latvia is the best Baltic country
stop listening to him, he spews the most nonsensical pseudo historical garbage here, he's known autist incel with no life.
say something that contradicts poolish propaganda
suddenly you're some boogeyman
you don't even know where my country is on the map, pszek