Well, there's a thing called purchasing power parity. In the last 20 years, regardless of what's been going on, it's been more or less doubled if not even more in pretty much everywhere in the Baltic Sea area. And I'm not including the Baltics or Poland.

Sure, the ex-dictatorship countries are lagging behind but c'mon, what did you expect? That's what conservative policies cause. Takes time and effort to fix up a fucked infrastructure.