Go to the moon, not because it is easy; but because it is hard.
Because it could. These countries (Baltic States) have strategic value because of their location (ports, places for airports). Also the governing ideology in the SU that time was a communism which supported a global revolution, uniting the whole world under in a communist utopia.
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Lenin’s hanging order against the kulaks was sent to commissars in Penza, about 300 miles south-east of Moscow, in August 1918: “(Send this to Penza – to Comrades Kuraev, Bosh, Minkin and other Penza communists.) Comrades!
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They didn't. It's still going on
