Latvia bans Nazi, Soviet symbols at public events

[Manuel]

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Victim of the Zionist conspiracy to silence the immaculate scholarship of holocaust deniers?

I think so.

Seriously though, censorship is quite damaging...

[Inti]

Latvia’s Parliament has approved a ban on the public display of Soviet and Nazi symbols, including swastikas and the hammer and sickle, and the singing and promotion of fascist and communist anthems and ideologies.

The army of 80,000 soldiers consisting of Latvians mostly (Latviešu strēlnieki) supported the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. Latvians helped the Reds to build a socialist state with the communist party in power, while people of other ethnicities battled the Reds.

SS-legion (Latviešu leģion) consisting of Latvian conscripts was formed during WWII. Latvians supported the Nazis during WWII.

I wonder if the symbol of EU will be banned by Latvian politicians should the union fail in 50-70 years ?

I am sarcastic. I think it's good Latvians banned the symbols. But it seems to me that Latvian politicians are focusing on issues that are controversial but in reality have little or no effect on people in order to divert attention from more important issues they can't deal with such as economy and better living standards for people.

[Pure ja]

The army of 80,000 soldiers consisting of Latvians mostly (Latviešu strēlnieki) supported the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. Latvians helped the Reds to build a socialist state with the communist party in power, while people of other ethnicities battled the Reds.

SS-legion (Latviešu leģion) consisting of Latvian conscripts was formed during WWII. Latvians supported the Nazis during WWII.

I wonder if the symbol of EU will be banned by Latvian politicians should the union fail in 50-70 years ?

I am sarcastic. I think it's good Latvians banned the symbols. But it seems to me that Latvian politicians are focusing on issues that are controversial but in reality have little or no effect on people in order to divert attention from more important issues they can't deal with such as economy and better living standards for people.

There is a very simple reason - because Russia has started to slide back to its soviet / derzhavist past again and fuels conflicts within the former parts of the Russian Empire/USSR. It is high time to treat both nazi and soviet criminal regimes as equally criminal, to put a stop to this.

Those russians in Latvia / Estonia are actually even more bizzare when hoisting both the soviet flags and also carrying Georgi ribbons - the soviet regime annihilated the Russian Empire, but to many russians in the Baltics and in Russia itself both represent the glory of Derzhavist Russian Empire. USSR was just a little bit different kind of empire, but still derzhavist, it seems. One should remember that it all started with Soviet Russia.

[Pure ja]

The army of 80,000 soldiers consisting of Latvians mostly (Latviešu strēlnieki) supported the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. Latvians helped the Reds to build a socialist state with the communist party in power, while people of other ethnicities battled the Reds.

Nothing is black and white.
Since the start of 1918, most of the Latvian Red Rifles wanted to fight for independent noncommunist Latvia, but they could do that only by deserting from the ranks in battles. And against the Estonian national troops in 1919, they did desert and many of them started to fight against the Reds.