[RussianBoor]

You seek to justify what the Soviets attempted to do because of what happened to American Indians?

NO!!! I think I have made my position clear enough. What Soviets did to Latvia and not only Latvia was evil and I DO NOT, never, intend to justify it. The question is how to deal with the consequences so that not to bring new evil. Nobody speaks here about any problems in neighboring Lithuania. They were clever enough to give citizenship to all people that happened to live in Lithuania in 1991. Have you ever heard about any major problems between Russia and Lithuania? And Latvia and Lithuania share the same history to a large extent.

Another question is that I absolutely disagree with the attempts to make Latvians victims of Russian aggression. Latvian and Russian peoples, as well as Ukrainians, Georgians, etc. etc. had been victims of communism. And Latvians did play a prominent role in bringing communists to power in the Russian empire, part of which they were. So were Poles, by the way. Have you ever thought about ethnicity of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of KGB?

[1rudeboy]

Lithuania is fortunate that there are not that "many" Russians that settled there during the occupation. On my travels there, it appeared that the two ethnic groups were getting-along. Latvia is in a tough spot, because it is in danger of losing its national identity, which is what the Soviets wanted all along.