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Kristo Nurmis
@KristoNurmis
Research Fellow @TallinnUni | Historian of Modern Russia and Europe | Stanford PhD ('22) @StanfordHistory @DCRES_Harvard @unitartu @TallinnHum
Sep 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
82 years ago on August 10, 1940, Stalin organized in the same St George's Hall the grand ceremony for the Soviet annexation of the Baltic States. On the photo, the three Baltic puppet presidents: Justas Paleckis, Augusts Kirhenšteins, Johannes Vares. “The entire world is looking at us,” the Latvian puppet Kirhenšteins said in his speech, “all the peoples of the world are gazing upon us, for we serve as the best role model for them [to follow] on how one must build a happier life.”
Sep 25, 2022 • 25 tweets • 8 min read
🧵 on the "referenda" in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Understandably, many people call these illegal, rigged, & a "travesty of democracy." But portraying them merely as fake democracy misrepresents and understates what Russia is actually doing. Let me explain. 1/ Image As many people, such as @Roger_Moorhouse, @reinraud, @KuldkeppMart, have already pointed out, these elections are eerily similar to Soviet elections during its expansion to Poland and the Baltic States in 1939-40. 2/