PPN: | 420662707  |
Titel: | The case for Latvia : disinformation campaigns against a small nation : fourteen hard questions and straight answers about a Baltic country / Jukka Rislakki |
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Erschienen: | Amsterdam [u.a.] : Rodopi, 2008 |
Vertrieb: | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc. |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (295 pages) : Illustrations |
Serie: | On the boundary of two worlds ; 15 |
Anmerkung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-4356-7768-5 ; 1-4356-7768-4 ; 90-420-2424-0 ; 978-90-420-2424-3 ; 978-94-012-0605-1 ; 94-012-0605-8 ; 90-420-2423-2 |
Abstract: | What do we know about Latvia and the Latvians? A Baltic (not Balkan) nation that emerged from fifty years under the Soviet Union - interrupted by a brief but brutal Nazi-German occupation and a devastating war - now a member of the European Union and NATO. Yes, but what else? Relentless accusations keep appearing, especially in Russian media, often repeated in the West: "Latvian soldiers single-handedly saved Lenin's revolution in 1917", "Latvians killed Tsar Nikolai II and the Royal family", "Latvia was a thoroughly anti-Semitic country and Latvians started killing Jews even before the German. |
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