Latvia’s independence
Sir, — The “independence” celebrated by the Latvian community in Christchurch on November 18 was imposed on the Latvian workers and peasants who had, with the Russian people, in 1917 successfully overthrown the Tsarist autocratic and Provisional Government regimes, by the German and interventionist Entente forces, who on that day dragged the resisting Baltic peoples back into the imperialist fold. It was only in June, 1940, that they were finally reunited with the fraternal Soviet people. The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic exhibits none of the signs of colonial status attributed to it by J. Lusis (November 30). As a Soviet “colony” Latvia enjoys a greater measure of self-gov-ernment than either Wales or Scotland and the Latvian language relishes a viability denied both Cymric and Gaelic. Recognition of the sovereign independence of the Baltic Soviet republics must be rated one of the most enlightened policy acts of any New Zealand Government. —Yours etc.,
M. CREEL. December 2, 1978.
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