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In 1918, only 45% of Latvia made up of ethnic Latvians. But there was a huge class of Baltic Germans who held control

Persons 16 to 60 are being registered by the German Labor Office so they may be put to "suitable employment." Those suspected of being anti-German cannot get food. Detailed information must be submitted regarding shoes, rub-bers, furs, hides, soap, toothpaste, paints, chemicals and clothes in hand, and strict rationing has been established.

Bricklayers, carpenters, tinsmiths, glaziers and electricians have been ordered to register for work under the Germans. All persons who work on farms must remain upon them. All farms smaller than twenty acres are prohibited from obtaining farmhands or horses; they must be incorporated with larger units.

The Jews of the Baltic States, according to these advices, are as badly treated as were those in Poland, where the German advance was contested.

Life really sucked.

…was not setting up a massive campaign of rehabilitation camps and re-education facilities for the rest of Eastern Europe. China did the Cultural Revolution, and Vietnam conducted rehabilitation camps for south Vietnamese citizens. China and Vietnam were extremely successful.

Poland, Ukraine and Hungary became defenders of fascism today because the USSR didn’t educate them enough as well as American propaganda dominates the place. It doesn’t look like the communist government of Poland did a good job in educating its youth though if you judge by the political opinions of Polish boomers nowadays either.

These so-called boomers (an ill-fitting americanism) remember only the shortage economy that was typical for the 1980s. Then, in the 90s, while the country was almost collapsing and only survived due to the EU and the US essentially seizing the economy to gain a compliant, cheap workforce. This meant that there was a glut of easy opportunity to join the new comprador or petite-bourgeoisie classes. The people who got lucky were the generation born between 1960 and 1980. These people have a material interest in demonizing socialism while upholding all sorts of liberal ideology.