> Baltic republics were well-represented in party structures and in Soviet elites. Name one Lithuanian or Estonian member of the Politburo in the half-century

> Baltic republics were well-represented in party structures and in Soviet elites. Name one Lithuanian or Estonian member of the Politburo in the half-century spanning 1940 to 1990. I'll save you time: there were none. Your knee-jerk reaction of trying to shift blame onto historical oddities like the Latvian Riflemen reminds me of neo-nazis pointing out that the Wehrmacht had some 150 000 Jews in its ranks, "proving" that Germans weren't all that antisemitic and that the Holocaust has been exaggerated. Same impulse.