[never4get]

RusIvan, your profile page includes a very interesting read as to the history of the Soviet Union. While I will never appreciate what the Soviet Union stood for and represented, certainly, your writing detailing the history is very interesting. I like the fact that you can read such things being this website involves many people around the world much like yourself.

Spasiba, Uvidimsia!

[vader69]

Don't be misled by his 101 on Russian history. I am not going to attempt to debunk anything he has written on his profile page except what concerns my country of origin.

He writes:

For example the praetorian guards of Bolsheviks who protected their government was Latvian Rifle Division. Few of Latvians was in highest positions in Bolshevik government. One Latvian was deputy of Felix Dzervinskii who in turn was pole by nationality and father founder and first head of CheKA then OGPU (the soviet secret police). Later their help in Bolshevik victory "paid off" when Stalin decided to bring their home countries (Baltic states) into Soviet Union. Considering that their own people helped Reds to take power one may say that they brought mishap on themselves.

This is totally twisted depiction of the history. To suggest that because some commie sympathizers were joining the Bolsheviks and infiltrating the local governments is a legitimate excuse for a 50 year Soviet occupation is ridiculous.

After the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact when Germany and Russia divided Poland and Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fell in the Soviet zone, the Soviets started pressuring Finland and the Baltic States to accept it's military forces in their soil. Reluctantly the Baltic States signed a "mutual assistance" package. Finland refused to sign it which in 1940 resulted in a Winter War where Soviet Union tried to invade Finland and ultimately was defeated.

In 1939 the Soviet Army occupied the Baltics and immediately started cleaning the countries from "anti-soviet" elements. A direct aggression against the Baltic States happened in June of 1940 when the rest of the world was busy watching Hitler parading around in Paris.

Soviet Union accused the Baltics of violating the terms of the mutual assistance pact and conspiracy.

Moscow with a help of a handful of local traitors organized a mock elections where all non-communist candidates were disqualified. The results were printed in the media a day before the polls even closed.

Now with the communists ruling the Parliament the "voluntary" entry to the Soviet Union was inevitable.

To say that the Baltics brought mishap on themselves is nothing but another insult from the supporters of the aggressors and occupiers.