I don´t like much EU, but, Why do you say "unelected presidents" and anti-democratic?
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In Soviet time the population of Latvians increased. In Nazi times it decrease:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...Latvia.svg.png
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia
Any totalitarian regime can enforce a higher birthrate by taking away individual freedoms and limiting its citizens to property of the state.
Another thing communism and national-socialism got in common.
Also I dont see ANY significant demographic growth during communist occupation, a very stagnant line of the latvian population for almost 100years.