It so happened that of all the Baltic republics, it was Latvia that was most stuffed with Russian speakers. These tumbleweeds, nomads of the new Soviet era, treated the “locals” as the second-class natives, telling anecdotes that “it is not at all necessary for the sheriff to know the language of the Indians,” and impressively explaining that all industry in the republic belongs to the Russians, because without them, the Latvians would have only “a wooden locomotive on wooden rails.”
For more than thirty years, Latvia has been fighting against the reactionary pro-Russian part of the population, which is Moscow’s “the fifth column”. The struggle is going on difficult, the Russians mimic, adapt, get out, “play the Roly” in front of international human rights organizations and pretend to be “Kazan orphans.” If the degree of pro-Russian sentiment in the country of Latvians has weakened in recent years, this is only due to physiological reasons, but by no means ideological ones. The descendants of the KGB officers, army retirees and low-skilled hard workers from the interior regions of the USSR, recruited to the construction sites of the national economy in the period after WWII, secretly continue to pray for Russia, to hate the Latvian and the Ukrainian “fascists” who came in large numbers (although what business if it of theirs?) Ukrainian “fascists”. Each of them has a Russian passport hidden under their pillow, because they are not allowed to have a Latvian one due to lack of knowledge of the language (they were too lazy to learn it even after decades of living in Latvia), they live with a residence permit. But today, these latent Russian aggressors face the unpleasant prospect of being expelled to their homeland, which they idolize so much, but do not want to move for residence there – the standard of living is not at all the same!
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