Truth about Lithuanian economy

In Lithuanian nationalist circles you are constantly hearing about "how in Soviet times they stole our economy". Without even getting into the fact that Lithuania never even produced aeroplanes, cars, tankers, nuclear fuel and many other things that they have now, I'd love to dwell on the fact that the Baltic states did provide fuel and raw materials *for the entire* Soviet Union.<br><br>What comes in mind immediately is cotton from Central Asia, but they also imported a lot of cotton from the Americas. Most of the lumber Soviet Union had came from Karelia. Coal came from Donbass. Lumber and coal are the two most important things in order to produce the aforementioned goods. So in other words they provided a lot of resources of relatively little importance. This is why their economy is shitting bricks every time oil/fuel prices go up. Without them they have *nothing*.<br><br>Lithuanians also love to say how "they build economy from 0 in 1991". In reality most of the productive industries were either dead by 1991 *or nationalized by Lithuanians*. The largest producer of fuel *in the entire* Soviet Union was built in Soviet times in the same fashion as the Baltic Electrical Power Plant that the Soviets were planning to build for them in the 80s. To top it off Lithuania build a nuclear plant in 80s in the same manner as the one built in Ukraine in Chernobyl. Just to recap, Lithuanians had a plant producing gasoline from grout in Soviet times, they had a large electrolysis factory also built in Soviet times, they had a nuclear power plant built in Soviet times, as well as Soviet-made automotive plant, Soviet-made sugar refineries, Soviet-made milk/fish/eggs processing plants, Soviet-made chemical plants, etc. This is why Lithuania is so proud of their nuclear plant, but I have never seen even one *Lithuanian-made* automotive or chemical plant that was built *after 1991*.<br><br>I'm not even going to go into logistics or the fact that they literally purchase the most important resource of the 21st century(Baltic wind energy) from Norway and then resell it to the EU.<br><br>Lithuanians are also always saying how "they'd be Swedes if they weren't annexed". Nationalists claim that in 1940 they had the same level of industry as Sweden, but *in reality Sweden was producing 12x more energy than Lithuania in 1940*.