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This isn’t exactly the cheeriest of posts, is it? But I can’t send you a Polly Anna vision of this part of the world when war is on the doorstep.
The video above is taken at the entrance to the new Museum of Occupation. The Museum details the last 100 years of Latvian and Baltic history: how the Soviets, under Lenin, first took over the country in 1917 during the Russian Revolution and made it part of the USSR; how a year later it was independent following WWI; how it was again occupied by Russia in 1940 as part of a Division of Europe” Pact with Hitler; how it was occupied by the Nazis in 1942 when the Nazis invaded their “ally forever” the USSR; and how the USSR retook the nation in 1944 and never left until the demise of the USSR in 1990. Whew! That’s a…
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