Re:A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter
by ptaipale on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:03PM
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Well, an orderly transition of power and a functional government are clearly a requirement for forming any new country, peacefully or violently. If you didn't set up a government, you've got no country because you have no way of managing anything.
As I said, with Baltics I was specifically referring to 1991 which was largely non-violent. Yes, not entirely without violence, but these modern countries were not forged by military power, they were forged by the will of the nation.
Re:A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter
by madaxe_again on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:27PM
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So, the war of independence was non-violent? Honestly, learn history beyond the last 25 years before you shoot your mouth off. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latvian_War_of_Independence
Re:A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter
by ptaipale on Monday November 14, 2016 @12:53PM
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Would you please read my post and notice I was referring to the formation of the current Latvian independence, and events of 1991? Not the wars of 1918-1920 of which I am quite well aware, thank you. (I even have some distant family members who were fighting in the related, similar war in neighbouring Estonia at that time.)
Re:A man who created a tiny country he can no longer enter
by madaxe_again on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @11:24AM
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Yet none of those would today exist as independent states if not for the earlier conflict - they would have been Russia.
To say there was no violence in the Baltics is highly disingenuous - Latvia gained independence through bloodshed, lost it through bloodshed, gained it again through bloodshed, lost it through bloodshed, then finally glastnost - which was largely non-violent. I was quite literally at their independence memorial today in Riga.