So I'm pole from Poland and I'm interested in Polish minority in Latvia. They are not particuarly large, so my question is aimed at people from Daugavpils/Dyneburg. What are their attitudes towards citizenship law? What they think about removal of soviet status? Are they pro-putin? I'm interested because many poles in Lithuania hold pro-russian attitudes

by Byrtek

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  1. Greetings from Daugavpils, it depends on age, when family arrived and how strongly was russified(with some exceptions)
    Citizenship: all poles and their descendants what I know has citizenship by birth(families lived here before soviets)
    Political views of family: even with disagreements with some ethnic latvians, family strongly hates putler and his soviet heritage (it’s quite easy when some family members got 10-15yrs in cold eastern regions of ussr)

  3. I think many poles in latvia only have their ethnicity as polish in the passport and speak either latvian or russian as their first language. I think I had like 4 guys in my grade who had polish surnames but considered themselves latvian and their family spoke only latvian.

    Its a shame, really, bc theres no good place to eat żurek in Riga 😭😭😭

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