Quote Originally Posted by nulle View Post
Sweden was lucky - if Finland had lost the Winter War, then Soviets would probalby try to invade Sweden too.
Russia has never tried to invade Sweden PROPER. I don't think Russia has ever been interested in that territory.

Quote Originally Posted by nulle View Post
In Continuation war they simply took back territories that USSR stole from them after the end of Winter War - And refused to go further despite the fact that Hitler asked them to.
Well I am no expert but I was told that they wanted to create "Great Finland" which was larger than the traditionally Finnish speaking areas, practically all the way to St Petersburg.

radical ultranationalists Vladimir Linderman and Yevgeni Osipov
What is their agenda? Are they Russian speakers born in Latvia?


Latvian politicians should read this:

Quote Originally Posted by EU Official Document, One Family, many languages
The language we speak helps define who we are. The European Union respects this right to identity of its 450 million citizens. While committed to integration between its member states, the EU also actively promotes the freedom of its peoples to speak and write their own language. The two aims are complementary, embodying the EU’s motto of united in diversity.

In addition, the Union actively encourages its citizens to learn other European languages, both for reasons of professional and personal mobility within its single market, and as a force for cross-cultural contacts and mutual understanding. In an ever-growing and more diverse EU, it is important that its citizens can communicate with each other. The Union also promotes the use of regional or minority languages which are not official EU languages, but which are spoken by up to 50 million people in the member countries, and as such form part of our cultural heritage.