Contrary to putinoid's propaganda - films like "Nazism in Baltics" etc...
There are very few nazi supporters - mostly marginal crackpots.
Latvians generally view USSR and Nazi Germany as equal evils - and do not support their ideologies - because both of them caused only harm to our country.
9. may is not celebrated by latvians - not because we are nazi supporters (we are not),
but because right after that began 50 years long occupation by USSR - nothing to really celebrate for.
Also a lot of people were deported to Siberia by communists (including my grandparents that spent 8 years there and returned home only after Staļin's death).
All citizens here have equal rights regarless of nationality - contrary to Putin's propaganda.
Again about non-citizens - as I said - I don't know any country where you can get citizenship that easily.
After USSR collapse they were given a choice - what country they want to belong to (and some of them actually emigrated back to Russia), because everyone was a citizen of USSR
- i don't see any discrimination here - just prove that you know Latvian and get your citizenship papers.
PMLP - Citizenship - there are more about this.
Russians here are NOT oppressed in any way and except some rare cases (well, no country is completely free of idiots) there are no ethnic hate and violence
- unlike for example in Kirgyzstan, where kirgyzs are lynching uzbeks and vice versa.
I could not resist posting this after reading so much lies and misinformation about my country in Putin's controlled media.