“While the war in Ukraine touched the whole world, it affected those in the post-Soviet countries the hardest. It evoked decades-long collective trauma in both those who lived under oppression and the generation who only knew freedom. The immediate fear was changed by existential questions. The biggest test to our collective security of our generation made many wonder: Would NATO — an alliance that we idealized since our childhood — really come to help the small vulnerable Baltic countries in the case of a Russian attack?” – Asks Monika Bickauskaite-Aleliune in her latest opinion piece for Stars and Stripes.

https://www.stripes.com/opinion/2024-04-09/ukraine-war-changes-post-soviet-generation-13518016.html