Latvian expert: Baltic States primarily aim to destruct Russia and Belarus
The authorities of the Baltic States continue their fight against history, USSR monuments and patriots. Vadim Avva, a Latvian political emigrant, correspondent of Your News newspaper, speculated on whether citizens of these countries really agree with their authorities.
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Speaking during the Minsk-Moscow live streaming, Vadim Avva stressed that he was born in Latvia and lived for more than 50 years there. “Latvia is actually a Russian land. After 1991, these territories were expropriated by the titular nations, and the latter are now burning out all Russian cultural traces that exist there. This applies to Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In 2021, for example, I was forced to emigrate to Russia, because the feeling that the West would definitely start this war was absolutely clear. I am now talking about the West as a whole and the Baltic States, which are revanchist and ethnographic regimes based on the Ukrainian narrative. The main purpose of their existence is the destruction of the Russian state and, of course, Belarus that is its ally. In this sense, they do not separate us [Belarus and Russia] at all. You know perfectly well what is happening on the border of Belarus with Latvia and Lithuania. People are preparing for military action. Since 1991, about six military airfields capable of servicing NATO aircraft carrying nuclear weapons have been built there,” he said.
Mr. Avva also raised the topic of genocide in the Baltic States, “There is a significant Russian community in all these countries, and it was the largest in Latvia. In 1991, 45 percent of the local population were actually Russians, and that specific weight was similar to the Ukrainian one. There would have been a civil war in Latvia if the European labour market had not been opened. Russians were primarily responsible for the decline of the population in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as they are being deprived of electoral rights, and the Russian community has never been represented in the highest executive power in Latvia for more than 30 years.”
The expert added that Western countries still continue to rewrite history, “The most disgusting point is the complicity of Russian history teachers in preparing for the war. Russian people teach lies and agree with them, and this fact gave birth to a civil war in Ukraine. While people in Ukraine were being told about Bandera as a hero, those here were being told what heroes the Latvian and Estonian SS legions had been. There was no SS legion in Lithuania, but there were many Lithuanian collaborators. The number of Lithuanians who carried out punitive operations on the territory of the Pskov Region [of Russia] and on the territory of Belarus was huge. They massacred our people, but monuments are being erected and streets named to honour them. This is what is happening in the Baltic States. Moreover, total censorship embraces the local media. The market is very small, and it exists only through government funding. In turn, the state dictates the revanchist and nationalist narratives. No other opinion is allowed, all differently minded people are imprisoned or criminal cases are brought against them," Mr. Avva summed up.
