[Tailgunner Joe]

I also seem to remember that you support those Russians who Stalin sent to the Baltics to eradicate their native culture. These poor Russians found themselves no longer conquerers, but unwelcome illegal immigrants when the Soviet Union fell (the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century).

I guess you just support Stalin's resettlement of the Russian ubermensch, but not the "sub-human" Georgians.

[jb6]

I support them only in so much as they should have equal citizenship rights not in any territorial claims. If they tried to erradicate the Baltic culture and were then pushed out for it, then it would serve them right. Sorry, no bite on that one.

These poor Russians found themselves no longer conquerers, but unwelcome illegal immigrants when the Soviet Union fell (the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century

Conquerers? I hardly find people forced out of their cities and villages by an paranoid dictator and pushed into other areas as conquerers. At the same time, especially in Estonia, there were Russians living there for 400+ years and in some areas as far back as Ruric's time, 1200 years ago.

[A. Pole]

I also seem to remember that you support those Russians who Stalin sent to the Baltics to eradicate their native culture.

Just a reminder. It was Russians (not under Stalin but before) who SAVED Baltics nations from assimilation/eradication by Germans and Swedes. If for example Latvia had remained under German rule, Latvians would be today where Baltic Pruses and Polabians are (together with Tasmanians in the land of everlasting hunting ).

Second a significant parts of Estonia and Latvia were ethnically Russian for centuries.

Third, Estonians were part of Russia from the beginning, before MOST of Russians. They were one of the four founding tribes of oldest Rus (together with one Finnish tribe and two northern Slavic tribes) united by the fifth tribe of Scandinavian Ruses.