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“…The
museum, one of the main historical institutions in Latvia, is
sometimes a direct target of aggression. Nagels said his building had
to be evacuated on May 9, Russia’s Victory Day, after receiving a
bomb threat.
“To
activists on the other side of the Latvian-Russian divide, however,
the Latvian attitudes toward the past are part of a broader campaign
to marginalize the Russian-speakers who remain in the country, about
a third of Latvia’s 2 million residents. Because Latvian
citizenship requires a language test, many of the Russian-speakers
are not citizens. The high point of tensions comes every year on May
9, the celebration of the Nazi defeat.
“The
answer is always the same: You’re serving Putin if you’re
celebrating,” said Elizabete Krivcova, an ethnic Russian rights
campaigner who organized a rally tied to Victory Day this year.
“There
is a basic Russophobia,” she said. “It’s very similar to
undemocratic developments in Russia.”
“Krivcova
said that many Russian-speakers in Latvia acknowledge that the
Soviet Union took over Latvia at gunpoint — but she said that using
the word “occupation,” in many of their minds, could lead to
being stripped of their rights….”
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