Il 17 giugno 1940 (85 anni fa) l’Unione Sovietica invase la Lettonia e iniziò l’occupazione illegale di essa, la Lettonia essendo lo stato baltico finale per essere invaso dall’Unione Sovietica dopo Lituania e Estonia. Duratura di 50 anni e portando a brutali oppressione, russificazione e lettoni all’orlo dell’estinzione
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di -jdn_
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Russia’s legacy in the world is war and violence, whether we talked about the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or Russia of today.
That is why, 85 years from that moment, we have to yell: F*** Russia !
Well, so called “red latvian riflemen”, who were doing some dirty jobs for reds after the Revolution(for instance, suppressing of different uprisings) and were known for extreme cruelty, were obviously happy.
Btw, first Gulag commander were Latvian former “red rifleman”.
What is going on in the picture? What street is this? I see what looks like two tanks by the tram. Is there any footage from this day?
There will never be peace with a war mongering and blood hungry nation like Russia
The Russian society is brainwashed and willingly believes their superiority and Dominance over other nations is a fact, that they deserve to be a ruling power and that Europe is a part of their sphere of influence
Russia never accepted the the rule of law and sovereignty
If you are a smaller country you deserve to be dominated by Russia
They live in their own nationalistic fantasy and won’t be an actor of peace any time soon
Rather they will strengthen their standpoint of facistic ideology and look to start a war with other countries in Europe
That’s why Europe needs to unite, rearm and fugt against the hybrid warfare/ influencing in our democracies
Deterrence is our only hope of peace in Europe
More on impact of Soviet occupation of Baltic states:
[Study on revenue ](https://www.va.lv/sites/default/files/lv_psrs_norekini2016_final_eng_final.pdf)Soviets extracted from the Baltic states or shorter [article](https://eng.lsm.lv/article/economy/economy/research-challenges-ussr-investment-claim.a207958/) on it.
Crash course [article ](https://www.britannica.com/place/Baltic-states/Soviet-republics)on the Soviet occupation on the Baltics, [on Soviet colonialism](https://dom.lndb.lv/data/obj/file/31096495.pdf)
Though it should be noted in regards to urbanization and industrialization of Latvia and Estonia that it was happening at a slower and manageble rate without USSR and the way it was implemented in USSR was direct cause of the many issues afflicting Baltics even today.
On Soviet warcrimes in the Baltics: [deporations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_deportations_from_Latvia), [KGB terror](https://okupacijasmuzejs.lv/en/kgb-building) ect.
There’s more to add, but I’d suggest reading more into this on your own and avoid any clearly biased artciles arguing it “didn’t happen” or “wasn’t so bad”
If Russia is not attacking it is preparing to attack.
So in June 17th 1940 Latvia was ruled by Latvians?
Boohoo, a rural and poor latvia was made into one of the highest life quality republic of ussr.
Literally a big village on the coast of Baltic sea got modernised and whines about it.
Never again!
Did I read about russians or cancer? Can’t make a difference between both.
There is also https://deportetie.kartes.lv/lv/ which tries to show how many, names, surnames, and ages at which people were forcibly deported to Siberia in dirty cargo trains. Many died on the way and in Siberia, only some got back to Latvia. And then they started importing russians to forcibly russify the country.
The map doesn’t even account for the people died during the war or later killed by the the USSR.
“The [German–Estonian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Estonian_Non-Aggression_Pact) and German–Latvian Non-aggression pacts were signed in Berlin on 7 June 1939 by Latvian foreign minister [Vilhelms Munters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelms_Munters) and [Joachim von Ribbentrop](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_von_Ribbentrop). On the next day [Adolf Hitler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler) received the Estonian and Latvian envoys, and in course of these interviews stressed maintaining and strengthening commercial links between Germany and Baltic states.”
So the choice was soviet union or literal nazi germany? Seems like an important thing to mention
And since joining the EU, the latvian population has fallen by 20%. Seems like EU economic opportunity is doing a better job of driving Latvians to extinction than soviet repression.
How funny. All you have was built either by Germans (Levonic order and barons under Russian empire) or by Russians. USSR built all the industrial facilities during the ‘occupation’. And just in a several years after ‘liberation’ most of Latvians fled to EU. Guess who remains? Right, non-citizens (the elderly people who weren’t able to learn Latvian). Unimaginable level of hypocrisy. But who cares, die off already.
Latvia pop in 1990: 2670k ppl
Latvia pop in 2025: 1853k ppl
They definitely are at the brink of extintion