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.
The Glorious Revolution was a period of time in which intellectuals, such as John Locke, applied the ideas from the scientific method to human nature and human rights as well as government ruling. Many of these methods and ideas were used when coming up with the basis of the Enlightenment.
The united states is the country with the highest number of fortune 100 companies
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