Latvia's independence
Sir, — Nothing in my previous letter suggests that Germany and the Entente powers waged war on the same side in World War I, but subsequent to Germany’s surrender on November 11, 1918, they did, against the
young Soviet Republic, when the Latvians were wrenched from the fraternal Soviet people by the interventionist Entente powers and their German mercenaries in the disgraceful expedition to overthrow Soviet power. Latvia's troubles were compounded by a coup in 1934 by Ulmanis’s fascist clique. Ulmanis was overthrown by a popular revolt in June, 1940. On July 21, 1940, the National Diet proclaimed the restoration of Soviet power in Latvia. Subsequently, it asked the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet to accept Latvia inter the U.S.S.R. The request was granted on August 5, 1940. L. Lusis is grossly in error when he states that, “the Russians annexed it unasked,” and the case he makes for Latvia's “colonial status” is pathetically flimsy. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. December 14, 1978.
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