The case for Latvia : : disinformation campaigns against a small nation : fourteen hard questions and straight answers about a Baltic country / / Jukka Rislakki.
What do we know about Latvia and the Latvians? A Baltic (not Balkan) nation that emerged from fifty years under the Soviet Union – interrupted by a brief but brutal Nazi-German occupation and a devastating war – now a member of the European Union and NATO. Yes, but what else? Relentless accusations...
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| Superior document: | On the boundary of two worlds ; 15 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Rodopi,, 2008. |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | On the Boundary of Two Worlds
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- Misinformation, Disinformation?
- Are minorities, especially the Russians, discriminated against in Latvia? Is it very difficult for them to become citizens? Do they have political rights?
- Are the Russians denied the right to use their language in Latvian society and in the schools?
- Were the Baltic lands a small, underdeveloped province in a far corner of Europe, to which Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Russians brought religion, culture, and well-being and where no prerequisites for independence existed?
- Did the Latvian Reds help Lenin seize power in Russia?: Did they help to murder the Russian royal family?
- Was Latvia granted independence as a present? Was the War of Independence an exaggerated myth? Was it a series of minor skirmishes that the Latvians were able to win with foreign help?
- Why did the Latvians not resist the Soviet army’s taking over their country in 1940?: Did the people carry out an anti-bourgeois, anti-fascist revolution, after which Latvia joined the Soviet Union legally, by means of elections?
- Did Latvians murder their Jews in 1941?: How anti-Semitic is and was Latvia?
- Why did tens of thousands of Latvian volunteers fight in the SS troops, and why are SS veterans still allowed to march on the streets of Rīga instead of being brought to justice?
- Did the Soviet Union occupy Latvia?: Were the Latvians victims of genocide?
- Did the Latvians succumb to Soviet power, cooperate with the Communist authorities, and start their independence movement only after the Lithuanians and Estonians had begun theirs?
- Has Latvia always belonged to Russia and benefited from it? Is it a strategically indispensable area for Russia?
- Shouldn’t Latvia be grateful for factories, houses, schools, roads, and harbors built during the Soviet era? Shouldn’t she pay compensation as well?
- Has Latvia been unwilling to establish good relations with neighboring Russia? Does Latvia champion an intransigent, hostile line toward Russia in the European Union, and did she decline a border agreement with Russia? Does she demand that Russia hand over some border areas to her?
- Have the new leaders of Latvia privatized state property for their own use and are they guilty of massive corruption while the majority of the people live in poverty?
- Acknowledgements
- Basic Facts About Latvia
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.