Comments on: Donald Day: a reporter in Riga for 20 years http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/16/donald-day-a-reporter-in-riga-for-20-years/ Serpentine Percipience Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:32:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Aleks http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/16/donald-day-a-reporter-in-riga-for-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Aleks Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:02:03 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=16#comment-24 He IS anti-semitic. On other sites, I read that Jewish population of the Baltic had only two options: Stalin or Hitler. They prefered the former. At least that’s the explanation of the Jewish cheer when the Soviets arrived back in 1940. <br /> <br /> I am reserved to trust the Day’s anti-semitic statements as well as his conspiracy theories, however, I’ve no doubt that someone within the Latvian government at the time sold Latvia to the Soviets. <br /> <br /> After all, Finland ended up fighting and losing only a part of its terrirtory.<br /> <br /> I want to get back to Day’s book, once I finish it and there’s an excuse to talk about it on this site. He IS anti-semitic. On other sites, I read that Jewish population of the Baltic had only two options: Stalin or Hitler. They prefered the former. At least that’s the explanation of the Jewish cheer when the Soviets arrived back in 1940.

I am reserved to trust the Day’s anti-semitic statements as well as his conspiracy theories, however, I’ve no doubt that someone within the Latvian government at the time sold Latvia to the Soviets.

After all, Finland ended up fighting and losing only a part of its terrirtory.

I want to get back to Day’s book, once I finish it and there’s an excuse to talk about it on this site.

]]> By: Scott http://allaboutlatvia.com/article/16/donald-day-a-reporter-in-riga-for-20-years/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Scott Fri, 03 Dec 2004 04:47:04 +0000 http://allaboutlatvia.com/?p=16#comment-23 Thanks for the account.<br /> <br /> Is he anti-semitic? I’m sure some of the LGFer posters would think so. It’s hard for me to judge 50 years later. I’ve read that the extermination of the jews in Vilnius were aided and abetted by the Lithuanians, in reprisal for their cheer when the Soviets came.<br /> <br /> Given that, I guess it does make me uncomfortable, painting a broad brush over an entire ethnic group, based on one first-person account.<br /> <br /> However, William Tomingas, in “The Soviet Colonization of Estonia,” does much the same thing, describing what he saw about the local Russians when the Soviets came. But that doesn’t mean it’s right. Or wrong. Or whatever. I don’t know, I’m confusing my moral argument.<br /> <br /> I’ll have to excerpt his book when an anniversary rolls around. Thanks for the account.

Is he anti-semitic? I’m sure some of the LGFer posters would think so. It’s hard for me to judge 50 years later. I’ve read that the extermination of the jews in Vilnius were aided and abetted by the Lithuanians, in reprisal for their cheer when the Soviets came.

Given that, I guess it does make me uncomfortable, painting a broad brush over an entire ethnic group, based on one first-person account.

However, William Tomingas, in “The Soviet Colonization of Estonia,” does much the same thing, describing what he saw about the local Russians when the Soviets came. But that doesn’t mean it’s right. Or wrong. Or whatever. I don’t know, I’m confusing my moral argument.

I’ll have to excerpt his book when an anniversary rolls around.

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