tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post3116239795761264997..comments2023-03-31T19:51:32.705+03:00Comments on Failed State Latvia?: More on the Latvian referendum and the Nisei RussiansJuris Kažahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10052208772017734513noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-6595436722445864382012-03-24T15:38:03.275+02:002012-03-24T15:38:03.275+02:00Don't know about Latvia, but there is a differ...Don't know about Latvia, but there is a different angle regarding the way things were with citizenship in neighboring Estonia when independence was restored. The Republic of Estonia continued to exist de jure the whole time, "under the surface". It never went anywhere, it was "merely" annexed and occupied by Moscow for a number of decades. Estonian citizens (including those of Russian ethnic ancestry or whatever) continued to remain Estonian citizens, never lost their Estonian citizenship, and all that transpired in the early nineties was the reissuing of passports and the filling out of other paperwork affirming and attesting to legitimately derived Estonian citizenship. We did not restore Estonian citizenship, it had been there the whole time and never went missing. To petition to be naturalized (hypothetically, not all naturalization applications need be approved) is a very different matter than for an existing citizen to apply for issuance of an ID card or a passport. Shouldn't get issuance of documents to a citizen attesting to his or her's existing citizenship mixed up with the desire of an immigrant in let's say the US or Canada to become the citizen of their new adopted country.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-37431390081950405752012-02-26T09:34:21.764+02:002012-02-26T09:34:21.764+02:00Rezo, The Riflemen helped put Lenin in power, it w...Rezo, The Riflemen helped put Lenin in power, it was the fearsome Georgian who purged most of the Latvians who had anything to do with running the USSR at the time, or who simply lived there. So any collective Karma they had generated was expressed in 1937, not now, nor in what happened after 1945.<br />To one of the anonymouses - in 1991, everyone equally lost their Soviet citizenship, which was forcibly imposed on the Latvian population in 1940 and afte 1945. Latvian citizenship was restored for citizens in 1940 and their descendants, and like most countries in the world, Latvia offers naturalization to anyone else who meets certain rules and qualifications. <br />So you are proposing that the entire civilian colonial administration of French Algeria should have been given Algerian citizenship in 1962(?) just for being there, or that Norway should have granted citizenship to the German civilians present in the country on May 9, 1945? Norway was fully occupied and administered by Germany on the day that the Nazi regime surrendered.Juris Kažahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10052208772017734513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-46828142292699379512012-02-25T23:57:09.653+02:002012-02-25T23:57:09.653+02:00Perhaps, you should have called this post "Ka...Perhaps, you should have called this post "Karma". Let us not forget who the original sovoks were -- the Latvian riflemen. So, when you write about "the fearsome Georgian", do not forget your Latvian forefathers who helped put him there.Rezonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-67175828306089854212012-02-20T23:48:33.565+02:002012-02-20T23:48:33.565+02:00I wanna play demagogy as well and I coould say tha...I wanna play demagogy as well and I coould say that the Russians were incompetent comparing to the English, because Russians were not capable of removing the native languages of the countries they colonized, unlike the English did it in the U.S., Ireland... Nowadays independent countries, but with the language of the Empire that occupied them. Can you see? It depends on the pattern you use to compare and, of course, mine it's not perfect but works as others, 'cause English and Russian, both, were imposed in many places(colonizating as well), so that's why you can find people born in Latvia or Malta using as first language the one of the the Empire, and among them, you can find people who can ONLY speak the language of the Empire...<br /><br />PS: by the way in many US states they publish the official documents in two languages or even three... And in many towns you can find all the signs in the public transport in english-spanish, english-spanish-chinese... but wait, go to Munich...and you will find explanations in the transport in several languages AS WELL... What about Latvia? Nothing. Ok, now, at least, we have those new screens and e-talons points in several languages, thanks god we have tourism! Not to mention the right to use the language what you want for your business, Can you imagine latvian legislation working in USA? No way! Impossible going against freedom of entrepreneurship in USA, but in Latvia it's ok, of course.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-42814358425508128662012-02-20T15:54:28.639+02:002012-02-20T15:54:28.639+02:00Seems the author has a first stage of Alzheimer...Seems the author has a first stage of Alzheimer's. He has forgotten that at Soviet time every Latvian speaking could get any education in mother Latvian Language. He has forgotten that at 1991 one third part of population of Latvia has lost own citizenship by own government law . He has forgotten that there wasn't any free Latvian Language courses after that time. He has forgotten that initially ultra-nationalist VL party wanted to initialize plebiscite to switch all minority education into only Latvian language... and many moreAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-52278201392426756032012-02-20T09:48:47.614+02:002012-02-20T09:48:47.614+02:00Enlightening , may gives a deeper understanding of...Enlightening , may gives a deeper understanding of the language issue.Andzvejhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03813589882819760366noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7590025.post-51578960046882279192012-02-20T03:23:30.470+02:002012-02-20T03:23:30.470+02:00Plain and simple, easily understood explanation of...Plain and simple, easily understood explanation of the current situation. Thank you.Ilze Knoreply@blogger.com