Yeah, how dare they not get along with the former colonizing immigrants who largely refuse to integrate and still swallow Russia’s imperialistic propaganda…
I mean….what did you expect would happen when Russia literally invades our neighbor and Russian people support it, even local ethnic Russians in Latvia were somewhat supportive of it (at first, before they understood what it meant , now they conveniently stopped talking about it and went quiet).
An inspiring effort that should be mimicked all over Europe.
Nationalism? Rather self-preservation instinct;) People really should start looking at Russia in terms of colonialism.
So ukrainian nazis influenced latvian nazis
I am finding most annoyning that russians population do not want talk about why this happening. Lot of russians still areinsulting us and not try to communicating with us. I have lost all hope about intergation and assimilate them our society. Now simply screw them.
This sort of cultural Suicide and abortion of cultural Influence is somewhat impressive.Reminds me of Germany after WWII.
Here’s hoping Russia finds a similar fate as we did.Loss of Territory very much included.
Colonisers and migrants should always be integrated, I really don’t see why there would be an exception here. These people moved to Latvia generations ago, they will either become Latvian and stay in Latvia or stay Russian and move to Russia
It’s not nationalism, it’s justice. Russia represents the worst in humanity, and this century is when that’s realized and acted upon.
I want them off my planet.
Citizens should not be discriminated against. As for everybody else – every country has the right to determine it’s migration policy however they see fit.
Considering the language problem I’d say that every attempt to say that Putin and Russia somehow holds monopoly on Russian language only plays in their hands. It’s native and preferable language for many Ukrainians and Kazakhs for example. In Kazakhstan Russian is an official language and the north of the country is predominantly Russian speaking. Many Kazakhs I know hate Russia and support Ukraine but don’t want to speak other language in their families. Moreover my close relatives in Lviv speak Russian within family. Discriminating against them is like telling citizens of Peru not to speak Spanish as it’s the language of the colonial empire.
As for those who openly supports Putin these states can deport them if they are non citizens. If they are citizens on the other hand it becomes a hard question. Is there any kind of legal consequences of supporting the war there?
Baltics are getting more and more based with each day. I wish Germany would be more eager to follow the good example.
Good!
Yup. Latvia has become more nationalistic, all that we can hope for now is that this nationalism doesn’t turn into something worse.
I feel like this person either doesn’t understand that things can have different meanings or symbolisms or is being deliberately blind for the nuances. Eastern European history is very complicated; things and situations very a lot; things have different meanings; people’s feelings and emotions can be multi-layered.
In her first article, she wrote that whilst she heard the language of Tolstoy and saw bohemians, the Georgians were worried and heard the language of Tsars. I mean… is it that hard for her to understand that the language is both the language of Tolstoy AND the Tsars? Just because great literature has been written in it does not mean the same language hasn’t been used to express violence and hatred and to carry out crimes.
Maybe it’s because the author is from Quebec or maybe it’s because she lived in Moscow and now carries some kind of an eternal love for Russia, like so many expats who have lived in russia and looked at us from the Moscow perspective, but I feel like her reporting is in no way nuanced and there’s a negative undercurrent towards countries formerly under Moscow’s sphere of influence. Like the words she uses – they’re technically correct; but the way she serves things… she wrote about Georgia and Georgians’ fears – all true in nature – but she made it almost sound like they’re nuts for having these fears; like there is no rationale for having those fears.
I get the same in this article. She said that “every Russian citizen in Latvia is living on an ejection seat” and maybe I really am very very biased, but no foreign citizen of a different country has an INHERENT right for residency in another state, especially if their state is currently the one massacring and killing civilians and innocents just some thousand km away. At the very least, a state has the right to choose not to keep such people in their country. And she makes it sound like it’s a dirty-dirty thing to even remotely entertain the idea that Latvians don’t maybe want Russians with pro-Russian ideas in their country.
Idk, but this reporter’s two articles come off as REALLY weird to me. I rarely say that maybe it’s because English is a second language to me but maybe this time I’m missing some language intricacies or nuances. Something is really off the way she writes about Latvia and Georgia and I cannot put my finger on it.
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Yeah, how dare they not get along with the former colonizing immigrants who largely refuse to integrate and still swallow Russia’s imperialistic propaganda…
I mean….what did you expect would happen when Russia literally invades our neighbor and Russian people support it, even local ethnic Russians in Latvia were somewhat supportive of it (at first, before they understood what it meant , now they conveniently stopped talking about it and went quiet).
An inspiring effort that should be mimicked all over Europe.
Nationalism? Rather self-preservation instinct;) People really should start looking at Russia in terms of colonialism.
So ukrainian nazis influenced latvian nazis
I am finding most annoyning that russians population do not want talk about why this happening. Lot of russians still areinsulting us and not try to communicating with us. I have lost all hope about intergation and assimilate them our society. Now simply screw them.
This sort of cultural Suicide and abortion of cultural Influence is somewhat impressive.Reminds me of Germany after WWII.
Here’s hoping Russia finds a similar fate as we did.Loss of Territory very much included.
Colonisers and migrants should always be integrated, I really don’t see why there would be an exception here. These people moved to Latvia generations ago, they will either become Latvian and stay in Latvia or stay Russian and move to Russia
It’s not nationalism, it’s justice. Russia represents the worst in humanity, and this century is when that’s realized and acted upon.
I want them off my planet.
Citizens should not be discriminated against. As for everybody else – every country has the right to determine it’s migration policy however they see fit.
Considering the language problem I’d say that every attempt to say that Putin and Russia somehow holds monopoly on Russian language only plays in their hands. It’s native and preferable language for many Ukrainians and Kazakhs for example. In Kazakhstan Russian is an official language and the north of the country is predominantly Russian speaking. Many Kazakhs I know hate Russia and support Ukraine but don’t want to speak other language in their families. Moreover my close relatives in Lviv speak Russian within family. Discriminating against them is like telling citizens of Peru not to speak Spanish as it’s the language of the colonial empire.
As for those who openly supports Putin these states can deport them if they are non citizens. If they are citizens on the other hand it becomes a hard question. Is there any kind of legal consequences of supporting the war there?
Baltics are getting more and more based with each day. I wish Germany would be more eager to follow the good example.
Good!
Yup. Latvia has become more nationalistic, all that we can hope for now is that this nationalism doesn’t turn into something worse.
I feel like this person either doesn’t understand that things can have different meanings or symbolisms or is being deliberately blind for the nuances. Eastern European history is very complicated; things and situations very a lot; things have different meanings; people’s feelings and emotions can be multi-layered.
In her first article, she wrote that whilst she heard the language of Tolstoy and saw bohemians, the Georgians were worried and heard the language of Tsars. I mean… is it that hard for her to understand that the language is both the language of Tolstoy AND the Tsars? Just because great literature has been written in it does not mean the same language hasn’t been used to express violence and hatred and to carry out crimes.
Maybe it’s because the author is from Quebec or maybe it’s because she lived in Moscow and now carries some kind of an eternal love for Russia, like so many expats who have lived in russia and looked at us from the Moscow perspective, but I feel like her reporting is in no way nuanced and there’s a negative undercurrent towards countries formerly under Moscow’s sphere of influence. Like the words she uses – they’re technically correct; but the way she serves things… she wrote about Georgia and Georgians’ fears – all true in nature – but she made it almost sound like they’re nuts for having these fears; like there is no rationale for having those fears.
I get the same in this article. She said that “every Russian citizen in Latvia is living on an ejection seat” and maybe I really am very very biased, but no foreign citizen of a different country has an INHERENT right for residency in another state, especially if their state is currently the one massacring and killing civilians and innocents just some thousand km away. At the very least, a state has the right to choose not to keep such people in their country. And she makes it sound like it’s a dirty-dirty thing to even remotely entertain the idea that Latvians don’t maybe want Russians with pro-Russian ideas in their country.
Idk, but this reporter’s two articles come off as REALLY weird to me. I rarely say that maybe it’s because English is a second language to me but maybe this time I’m missing some language intricacies or nuances. Something is really off the way she writes about Latvia and Georgia and I cannot put my finger on it.