Latvian protest then and now

The daily Neatkariga Rita avize rejects comparisons between the riots of 13 January 2009 in Riga and the fight for independence in 1991: "Back then we were simply fighting for Latvia, as crude as the barricades were back then. At that time our state was still in its infancy, and we ourselves were also children. And at that time we could not imagine our innocent thoughts and hopes would be abused by others for unlawful gain. But are we not also guilty? When times were good we let ourselves be lulled by the European bureaucrats. We closed almost all of our factories because Europe was only interested in us as consumers. We scrapped our ships because Europe already had enough fish. And we sold our land, lured by the promise of so much money in return. Is that what we manned the barricades for in 1991?"

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