by Alex Miller Though the expansion of the European Union has spread throughout the continent many people still find it difficult to locate the three small Baltic members without a map. These are Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia – three former Soviet republics on the edge of the European bloc who long ago missed out on better times with the collapse of the Soviet Union; whose working class are in dire straights, on their knees like a poor man begging for some trifling hand-out to survive. Having completely lost their independence, identity and power they try to attach themselves to any strong Western power – like an annoying parasite unable to live without a master. At the same time they stand out and behave so brazenly as if they have been appointed moral overseers of the entire European Union. They give lectures to the EU on world democracy. They scold others on free speech. They demand loyalty to themselves. They berate others who do not share their reactionary and racist i...