Posted on 03/27/2005 10:41:36 PM PST by jb6
That is what this comes down to. One group in Latvia had the political power to deny another group the benefits of citizenship based on racial and ethnic reasons, nothing more.
The Soviets settled Russians there to destroy the Latvian culture just as you said. Now their genocidal "diverse" empire is over and its time for them to take their "anchor babies" and go home where their true loyalties lie if they refuse to assimilate.
Yes. They now had the power to kick out the invaders who had been degrading and destroying their nation and culture. That's what happens when nations enslaved by "multicultural" alien-loving Communism are freed from tyrannical slavery. They take the fate of their nation in their own hands. There are no more Commisars of "political correctness" to tell them what to do.
This is exactly what the minorities were promised if they would vote for independence. Of course they were back stabbed ASAP after independence. Interesting that all those Latvians living in Russia, and Lithuanians, Estonians, etc, are not denied their Russian citizenship. Nor the million Georgians who migrated to Russia in the past 13 years (note the majority of these guys were the ones protesting for independence. As soon as they figured out what an economic mess they made for themselves they abandoned ship.)
This has nothing to do with multiculturalism/diversity. This has to do with a group of people who were moved to Latvia by the Soviet regime. They are not responsible for the Politburo's actions. To punish them by denying them citizenship is obscene.
The Soviets settled Russians there to destroy the Latvian culture just as you said
Sure. And the Russians who ended up at Latvia were sent there by the Soviet government. They were as much victims as the native Latvians.
Now their genocidal "diverse" empire is over and its time for them to take their "anchor babies" and go home where their true loyalties lie if they refuse to assimilate.
They have assimilated. They've lived in Latvia their entire lives. The new government has no right to demand that one group pass a citizenship test while not requiring the same of others. Maybe if the Latvian government had required this test of everyone in Latvia, I would have agreed with them. However, this is like if the US government decided to demand that everyone of Hispanic origin in the US pass a citizenship and language test. Bigotry, plain and simple.
Are you going to lead the white sheet march here in the US to get rid of the hispanics who were born in America? I've heard the exact same thing said down here in the south about Hispanics, Blacks, Irish, etc. You'd fit in with the white sheet crowd. Your racism just can't stop from spilling out.
By the way, do you feel the same way about the Russians in America? I can't see why you shouldn't, after all, to you they are all evil and subhuman, your posts prove it every time.
Your bigotry towards Russians is well-known. The Russians forced into Latvia are no more invaders than the Russians sent to gulags in Siberia are degraders and destroyers of Siberian culture.
That's what happens when nations enslaved by "multicultural" alien-loving Communism are freed from tyrannical slavery.
Bigotry and retribution towards innocent people?
They take the fate of their nation in their own hands.
Whether you like it or not, the Latvians of Russian origin are just as much a part of the new nation of Latvia as that country's other inhabitants.
There are no more Commisars of "political correctness" to tell them what to do.
In this case, the Latvians have learned well from their former Soviet masters when it comes to setting up a system where some animals are more equal than others. Stalin would be proud.
Wrong! That's what you don't get. Free nations have exactly that right.
It's not the Latvians fault that the Soviets settled Russians in their country, who REFUSE to take Latvian language tests. Now that the Latvians are free, it would be obscene for them to punish themselves by continuing imperial Soviet Russian policy.
You say the Russian who were given stolen Latvian land were as much victims of Communism? Not at all! they were the beneficiaries of a bloodthirsty and expansive genocidal RUSSIAN empire which "ethnically cleansed" and raped the Baltics and the rest of Eastern Europe. They think they can destroy other nations with rape and genetic imperialism, but their reign of terror is over!
Do I hear a dog barking?
Those who don't are called Communists.
"The Cold War is not over as long as there are comrades of yours in Russia fantasizing about the "near abroad." "
Exactly.
The people with the guns and political power have the ability to treat certain citizens worse than others, but that does not make their actions right.
It's not the Latvians fault that the Soviets settled Russians in their country, who REFUSE to take Latvian language tests.
Why should one ethnic group be subjected to certain tests and burdens that are not required of other ethnic groups?
You say the Russian who were given stolen Latvian land were as much victims of Communism?
Sure. They were relocated (under the implied threat of violence if they refused) from their homes in Russia to a distant land as part of Soviet policy. Nobody consulted them. Nobody asked them if they wanted to be uprooted from their homes and families. They were as much pawns of the Soviet regime (which included apparatchiks from every ethnic group in the USSR, by the way) as the Latvians.
They think they can destroy other nations with rape and genetic imperialism, but their reign of terror is over!
Who are "they?" The Russian peasants and factory-workers forcefully relocated at gunpoint? Or are you just making a more generally bigoted statement towards the Russian people?
Some people believe in freedom, equality and governments treating every citizen the same. Others believe in racial purity and are opposed to giving undermensch anything more than second-class citizen status.
What group do you fall into?
So if we were invaded and conquered by a foreign nation and they settled millions here, and then we regained our freedom, we'd have to grant citizenship to all them because it would only be fair and we are shaking in our boots that some bootlicking Soviet apologist commissar will call us racist?
Think again.
Why aren't you kicking the immigrants out of America? Where is your so called conviction?
Tailgunner Joe believes in such things as "Racial Purity" and the existence of ubermen. In an earlier age, he would have been railing against Italians, Irish and any other non-Western European immigrants coming to this country.
He probably believes that Germany was misunderstood during WWII.
I seem to recall similar tests of language comprehension and basic understanding of history were traditionally applauded by American conservatives. What is right in America surely is also right in Latvia. Assimilation is not an unreasonable demand.
Ivan
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