Criticism of Riga's Occupation Museum unfounded

Riga's Museum of the Occupation of Latvia has once more come under attack. Israeli media as well as Jewish and Russian organisations have criticised a one-sided focus on communism and too little attention to the fate of the Latvian Jews. The daily Latvijas Avīze defends the museum's approach: "First of all we must remind visitors from near and far of the theme of the museum: Latvia under Nazi and Soviet rule from 1940 to 1991. What is dealt with, consequently, is the fate of Latvia's largest population groups and minorities over half a century. ... The museum covers two entire generations, so of course the Nazi occupation cannot be the sole focus. The reporters from the Jerusalem Post, and not only they, are irritated by the equal-sized images of Hitler and Stalin that 'welcome' visitors. But the two totalitarian regimes were equally brutal, and Riga also has a public museum on the Latvian Jews and their extermination."

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