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Rewriting History Has Never Been Easier
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Thursday February 17, 2005 19:01 by Maria mariaoleinik at hotmail dot com 087 6985722
Latvia rewrites its history by erasing its Soviet past. Latvia rewrites its history by erasing its Soviet past. Rewriting History Has Never Been Easier |
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Jump To Comment: 2 1Latvians do not have to be grateful to the Russians. Irish are not grateful to the English. But at least they do not deny their past. It's called "get over it". What Latvia is doing now is a 'nice' continuation from their human rights violations: closing down Russian schools (with 40% of the total population being Russian). Some of them do not even speak Latvian. This is nasty politics.
If Russia was doing the same towards Latvia: the EU, the US and whatever else is there, would have already come up with statements of criticism. But with Latvia, no one could be bothered. This is just cheap.
People living these days are not responsible for mistakes of the past.
Generations seem to have "apres moi, le deluge" policy.
Stalin had a great ideology "If your enemy is weak, destroy him completely!". Unfortunately many people do not understand a different language. The same with the Ukraine. If the unfortunate Yushenko was poisoned 'all the way', there would have been no 'orange protesters'. Word 'revolution' has much more to it than just a bunch of people protesting in the street. But for many it is more comfortable to call it revolution.
Perhaps people forget thet Stalin did a deal with Hitler and Poland and the Baltic countries were the pawns. In time the Latvians will see that the USA is a false friend. But telling them that they should be grateful for the Russian occupation will not help promote this clarification. Like the Kurds many fall for the false dictum that the enemy of my enemy is my friend.Even here some Republicans blinded by their opposition to English rule in the North did not see the Nazis as probably an even worse enemy.