The Baltics managed to achieve a high GDP per capita in a less direct way than the Gulf slaver states. If you just don't count poor people, then your GDP per capita is going to enormous. In case of the Baltics, those too poor to benefit the stats just happened to leave the millisecond they had the chance to.
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When our SocDem-junta decided to cancel a 400 year old holiday, our incredibly cucked unions are began talking like Rosa Luxemberg for like 3 days. It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen, even if they ultimately backed down because the SocDems promised to let them be more racist against poles and romanians.
Remember that Americans are car-brained as hell. Gas prices rising due to scarcity will lead to massive price increases in peoples cost of living, which might genuinely lead to popular revolt. Like, Americans are already getting squeezed from all sides, so any increase in un-avoidable expenses is going to have repercussions.
Blaming Germany for starting the war is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek, mostly since you can't really blame Austria-Hungary in the modern day, since the country ceased to exist after the war. And for the record, I completely agree with your last point about Germany being blamed moreso after WWII than WWI.
Spain has a couple of pensioner enclaves that are basically just retirement homes for the worst people in the richer part of Europe. Like, Danish pensioners have lived in the southern part of Spain for close to 45 years at this point, if not closer to 60, and they just flatly refuse to learn spanish or even english, so they just get drunk and sunburned and abuse the locals.
Quite a lot of childcare places have May 1st as a holiday, which means that it's more like an unofficial holiday, especially among white collar workers who just "work from home" (like I did at my previous job) while they spend time with their kids, whom they can't drop off anywhere, because most places are closed.
Did I ever mention that I fucking love how childcare in Denmark is structured?