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As others have mentioned there are many internal reasons why the Baltics (and the rest of the Reddit belt) turned fascist after the counterrevolutions of the 1990's. I also suspect there were powerful external factors at play. American leaders as well as their European vassals were heavily invested in wrestling the Soviet republics or if the Russian sphere of influence andplacing the Soviet out them under American dominance. Doing so would not only give them access to new markets and a highly skilled low wage workforce, it would also contain Russia and fortify American rule over Europe.
I would not the the least surprised if an investigation of the funding behind media, political campaigns, culture and education in that period revealed heavy footprints from western imperialist forces.