Last night I was in an uber and my driver had an eastern European accent. He said he was Russian, but when I pressed he said he was Latvian but only spoke Russian.... So many thoughts came to my mind.
Why would a Latvian only speak Russian?
SO anyway we started talking and I mentioned I'm Latvian too, but that I'm Jewish and my family left there before the war. He was so intrigued and excited and started talking about hating Germans and how many people died etc. It was a great talk, but I couldn't help but think of this testimony I was watching once where the woman detailed how willing and brutal the Latvians were to assist Germans in the murdering of Jews. Here are some images of Latvia during World War 2 which I've collected this morning.
