How much to blame are Stalin's purges and Collaboration with Nazis for the situation in the Baltic and Ukraine?

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Kiltmanenator

Keith Lowe's book on the chaos in Europe after the formal end of combat operations between Allied and Axis forces called Savage Continent is a good read. The chapters devoted to the Polish-Ukrainian conflict and the Baltic Partisans do a fairly good job of establishing historical context for current relations between those countries and Russia.