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Latvians Can't Escape Cold War's Divisive Legacy

Date: May 20, 2001

Author: Michael Wines

QUOTE: The native Latvians tend to see the Soviet troops as invaders and the Latvian resistance as freedom fighters. Russian Latvians tend to see their military forebears as Latvia's saviors from Nazi rule and the native Latvians who resisted them as Nazi collaborators.

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Key People:

• Nikita Khrushchev
• Joseph V. Stalin

Key Organizations:

• New York Times Company
• Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Responsibility
    • Apologies/Reparations

• Government & Politics / History
  • History (conceptual)

• Eurasia / Central Asia
  • Russia [ex-Soviet Union/USSR]

• Europe
  • Eastern/Central Europe
    • Latvia

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