Thread: Regarding Russian in the Baltic States

You definitely score 10/10 on the patriotism scale, nulle

Intersting - when I joined one Latvian nationalist forum - they called me a russophile, because I said that ideas like "deport all Russians to Russia" are nonsense.
But here my rather moderate views are called 10/10 patriotism
And there are Russian politicians that think like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbuyye3Fxa0

but Russia and Russian speakers were more equal than others. Prove.

Here we go again. Maybe in Russia it was not the case, but in occupied territories it was.

Poor little baby Linderman

Btw this "baby Linderman" is a member of Национал-большевистская партия which is banned even in Russia.
And he was its Russian branch leader for some time.
He even spent some time in Russian prison for his activities there.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Линдерман,_Владимир_Ильич

They should give you a medal for joining a Russian forum and sticking to your guns for as long as you have

There are a lot of Russians that do not like USSR - why should I?

Originally Posted by nulle

Intersting - when I joined one Latvian nationalist forum - they called me a russophile, because I said that ideas like "deport all Russians to Russia" are nonsense.

Does it mean that you simply like to troll people? (no offense, but turning your head into stone about any subject is not the best way find the truth. Besides, there are at least two different truths to any subject).

Originally Posted by nulle

When Russian tanks will come in?

Oh, you're crying wolf...

Originally Posted by nulle

Btw this "baby Linderman" is a member of Национал-большевистская партия which is banned even in Russia.
And he was its Russian branch leader for some time.
He even spent some time in Russian prison for his activities there.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Линдерман,_Владимир_Ильич

I read about Linderman. FSB kicked him out of Russia to his birthplace - Latvia.
Btw, Linderman has a medal "Defender of barricades" because he was participating in 1991 events in Riga as a journalist for the Russian version of the "Atmoda" newspaper.
I understand that there was no fighting and barricades had mainly symbolic meaning, but nevertheless Linderman participated in protests for the Latvian independence and against USSR membership among many other Latvians and Russian Latvians.

PS: Linderman is a Jew born in Riga, but Russian is his native language.
PPS: He has Lenin's first name and patronymic. It is just a coincidence I think, but very fortunate one. Apparently, he is a life-long revolutionary.

Originally Posted by nulle

but Russia and Russian speakers were more equal than others. Prove.
Here we go again. Maybe in Russia it was not the case, but in occupied territories it was.

I browsed Wikipedia and found out that leadership of the Latvian SSR was predominantly Latvian, not Russian.
While Latvian SSR existed there were 11 Latvian and 3 Russian leaders (chairmen, speakers etc.) - I tell them apart by surnames, so I may be wrong, but only slightly.
Interestingly, all leaders of the Communist party of the Latvian SSR were Latvians exclusively.
I agree that there was political dominance of Moscow and there was no democracy, but Latvian SSR was governed mostly by native Latvians.
So in which respect were Russians more equal than others in the Latvian SSR?

On the other hand, it looks like there was no economic dominance of RSFSR over the rest of SSRs.
Why RSFSR should buy those RAF vans if not to support Lavian SSR's economy? There were enough car making factories in RSFSR, but USSR's leadership strived to improve economies of all the republics, so they encouraged bilateral trade between every two SSRs.