Quote Originally Posted by joysof
Why, yes. But today I'm not going to play your well-worn 'contradict my statement' game - it's a punt at sophistry in your part. Rather, I'll approach the matter as I see fit, thanking you kindly.
As you please, my dear fellow, as you please.

We do like to discuss things on our own terms, don't we?
And who does not, who does not!

In essence - because I'm sick of this - there is a difference between sanctioned persecution and the bastardry, to coin a phrase, of circumstance. Ethnic Russians in Latvia bear the brunt of the latter, not the former. German Jews - a whole 'nother story. No fish.
Not quite so. Take the "trials" on whom they call "Soviet occupants"; they surely will qualify for your "sanctioned persecution". It could be 'nother story, but not wholly.