The Case for Latvia. Disinformation Campaigns Against a Small Nation Fourteen Hard Questions and Straight Answers about a Baltic Country
"The best book written on Latvia by a foreigner: incisive, well-informed, and persuasive""Edward Lucas, The EconomistWhat 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 Naz...
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Misinformation, Disinformation?; Questions and Answers; 1. Are minorities, especially the Russians, discriminated against inLatvia? Is it very difficult for them to become citizens? Do theyhave political rights?; 2. Are the Russians denied the right to use their language in Latviansociety and in the schools?; 3. Were the Baltic lands a small, underdeveloped province in a farcorner of Europe, to which Germans, Swedes, Poles, and Russiansbrought religion, culture, and well-being and where noprerequisites for independence existed?
- 4. Did the Latvian Reds help Lenin seize power in Russia? Did theyhelp to murder the Russian royal family?5. Was Latvia granted independence as a present? Was the War ofIndependence an exaggerated myth? Was it a series of minorskirmishes that the Latvians were able to win with foreign help?; 6. Why did the Latvians not resist the Soviet army's taking over theircountry in 1940? Did the people carry out an anti-bourgeois, antifascistrevolution, after which Latvia joined the Soviet Unionlegally, by means of elections?; 7. Did Latvians murder their Jews in 1941? How anti-Semitic is andwas Latvia?
- 8. Why did tens of thousands of Latvian volunteers fight in the SStroops, and why are SS veterans still allowed to march on thestreets of Rīga instead of being brought to justice?9. Did the Soviet Union occupy Latvia? Were the Latvians victims ofgenocide?; 10. Did the Latvians succumb to Soviet power, cooperate with theCommunist authorities, and start their independence movementonly after the Lithuanians and Estonians had begun theirs?; 11. Has Latvia always belonged to Russia and benefited from it? Is it astrategically indispensable area for Russia?
- 12. Shouldn't Latvia be grateful for factories, houses, schools, roads, and harbors built during the Soviet era? Shouldn't it paycompensation as well?13. Has Latvia been unwilling to establish good relations withneighboring Russia? Does Latvia champion an intransigent, hostileline toward Russia in the European Union, and did it decline aborder agreement with Russia? Does it demand that Russia handover some border areas to it?; 14. Have the new leaders of Latvia privatized state property for theirown use and are they guilty of massive corruption while themajority of the people live in poverty?
- 15. Soft Power, Pressure and Disinformation. Epilogue 2014Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
