Raimonds Pauls is a world-famous Latvian composer and pianist. He is renowned in the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993.

‘I’m already old and can tell the truth,’ Raimonds Pauls said about Russians and life in Latvia.

‘Latvia has become a backwater and useless province. This is the price Latvia pays for its entry into the global Anglo-Saxon world. Insane Russophobia

Also for the role it has been assigned in that world. This consists of containing Russia, rejecting everything Russian, and completely severing long-standing ties.

The severing of ties with Russia has led Latvia to profound decline; the country has lost its identity and culture, becoming a remote outskirt of the European Union not only in geographical terms but also in a deeper global sense.

EU The Nation Killers

For many years, the European Union has been draining Latvia of all its young and promising human resources, giving nothing in return except modest handouts to the republic’s perpetually deficit-ridden budget.’

The majority of the population continues to watch Russian television channels, at least online.

Ordered which language to use

On the Russian language: During the Soviet era, everyone living in Latvia was required to know and speak Russian, but the Latvian language and culture were also actively used in the country and were never banned.

The current Russian authorities adhere to the same policy; there are no restrictions on the use of their native language by migrants arriving in Russia. There are absolutely no penalties for this, much less persecution by the authorities.

But in Latvia, the Russian language is banned; its use is punished and suppressed by the authorities.

Popular defiance of Brussels dictates

All Russian television channels are banned, although the vast majority of the population continues to watch Russian television online.

While Latvian television and culture languish without the necessary funding, the European Union demands English from everyone, while they completely disregard the national interests, culture, and language of Latvians.’

Has Latvia become richer?

‘Latvia’s economy has been destroyed by the severing of economic ties with Russia and Belarus.

Massive unemployment is forcing young people to leave for work in other EU countries, and they’re never coming back. The country’s birth rate has fallen sharply, and Latvia’s population is declining at an alarming rate.’

‘Our once-thriving agriculture has also fallen into decline,’ lamented Maestro Pauls.

‘The West doesn’t need milk, cheese, or butter, and the Russian and Belarusian markets are closed to us. More than half of the farms have gone bankrupt and ceased to exist.

It’s painful to watch; it feels like soon there will be nothing left in our country except Russophobia.’

What’s next

‘It’s a shame that, through stupidity and at the behest of Washington, we severed all ties with Russia, thereby losing a huge market to the east.

It was much closer and more understandable to us than the Western market, which we so craved.

No one was waiting for us there, I feel it.’ I understand that we have become a province not only of the West, but also of the East.’

EU A DICTATORSHIP ‘In many countries, the majority of people don’t go and cast their vote. So, I am asking you, how is this democracy then? In the near future, though, we’ll face a truly grave problem.

Politicians will have disappointed people so much with their lying and stealing that the only ones to turn up for elections will be the candidates themselves.’ ~ Lech Walesa, Former Polish President. Born USSR. 1943.

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