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I can speak a bit to the Baltics. First off, while they border Russia, culturally they were much closer to Germanic/Nordic cultures than Slavic cultures. Add to that them being folded into the USSR during WWII, after having been independent from Russia during the interwar, created a feeling of their occupation being an opportunistic one by Russia. That it was about their resources, namely the ports on the Baltic Sea, being exploited by an other.
However, there’s also the 800 lb gorilla in the room that during the latter interwar period, they were ruled by authoritarian, fascist or fascist aligned dictators, and then of course the Nazi occupation. Which, while the raw numbers weren’t as great as in other Nazi territories, had some of the most brutal oppression of Jews during the Nazi regime, some of which was perpetrated by the natives (including pogroms in Lithuania). So there’s both that sort of socio-political undercurrent, and when the Baltics got independence there was a nationalist rehabilitation of those leaders as victims of Russian expansion.