To my country – Denmark – WWII’s end meant a return to freedom and democracy, and we could use the rest of the 20th century to strengthen our freedom, bolstering it with affluence. But to the three Baltic countries the end of WWII led to half a century of occupation and lost opportunities.
对我的国家丹麦而言，二战的结束意味着自由和民主的回归，并且我们可以用20世纪余下的时间去强化我们的自由，并辅之以富裕。但对于这三个波罗的海国家而言，二战的结束却将它们引入了长达半个世纪的占领和机遇的丧失。