About Waffen SS:
Nuremberg tribunal (which USSR also was a part of) decided that Waffen SS is a criminal organization EXCEPT Latvian and Estonian Legions.
They were conscripted illegally (against...
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About Waffen SS:
Nuremberg tribunal (which USSR also was a part of) decided that Waffen SS is a criminal organization EXCEPT Latvian and Estonian Legions.
They were conscripted illegally (against...
There is a nice Russian word to describe it - показухa.
The real leaders were in Moscow.
Not Russians, but Russian speaking migrants from the rest of the USSR.
Because Latvia and other Baltic...
"Kremlin's historian" Dyukov - please - no one takes him seriously...
That is if you think like in Orwell's "1984".
I choose not to believe falsified history,
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...
And Hanna - your post looks like:
If you said this to some woman after she was raped:
"Well, you are not the only woman that was raped. And you probably enjoyed this a little bit, didn't you. And...
No one is forbidding them to do that - Russian speakers can and do provide service to other Russian speakers in a language they prefer - no one is punished for that.
In some shops employees have...
Я не против русский язык.
I do not like chauvinists who apparently don't know what country they are living in.
Most of the people who went to this referendum and voted against - know Russian - but...
Of course not - совки - Soviet people without nationality and with common language - Russian - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Sovieticus
Every citizen can vote - does not matter what his nationality is.
Everyone else is free to naturalize and get citizenship at any time - ~150k already did.
(and of course everyone can also get...
I actually was surprised about the results - didn't think that turnout and votes against would be so high.
Yes - there might be a change - now people are considering to stop state-funded education...
В центре событий с Анной Прохоровой 29.01.2012 - YouTube
I'm not surprised anymore that people like mishau think that we in Latvia are idolizing Nazis...
Nils Ušakovs - is Latvianized form which is written in his passport and all official documents.
Many foreign names and surnames are changed like that.
Expulsion of Germans from Czechoslovakia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not from Latvia.
Place where I live feels almost like Russia - you can meet Russians everywhere - they do not want to...
Unlike Russia - Latvia is democratic. Election rigging like in Russia is simply unthinkable here.
And if there is ethnical dictatorship - why Russians better stay here and not move to Russia? (even...
There are free language courses (and in Russian schools 60% of lessons should be in Latvian).
The problem is with the biggest carrot - Russia and its propaganda:
"Latvia is a failed state",
...
Actually I haven't met any Latvian that don't understand at least one of them.
Everyone that works in IT industry in Latvia know English.
And I don't really care about localized versions - a lot...
That's true - many people who got power right after USSR collapse were real crooks and treated inexperienced voters like idiots. (Pretty much the same like Putin treats his voters now: "I and...
TVNET :: Политика - В Евросоюзе соберут подписи за русский язык как официальный
LOL
Taking part in NATO missions allows Latvia to have smaller military budget than required by NATO.
And NATO also provides security to Baltic airspace - Baltic Air Policing - Wikipedia, the free...
At least in Latvia there were two options - spend (recklessly) as previous government (unsustainable in long term) or cut spending (austerity) to keep the debt at reasonable level.
It is...
Yes - if they inform our government - but many choose not to.
So - problems caused by reckless spending should be fixed with even more reckless spending?
Only this time it was our decision to join the EU - they did not send tanks here.
Of course -...
Latvians were force-fed all this commie bullshit long enough - and reality shows that communism DOES NOT WORK.
How? There are no privileged migrants from USA, Americans do not deport or execute...
Mishau - looks like you do not like Putin - but you are repeating his propaganda here...
Maybe in Russia it was not true (russian speakers were "master race" after all).
But in occupied territories it was like that.
Soviet long term goal was to make russian speaking "soviet nation"....
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