The Archive · 1941

Delegation to Moscow

Afterwards a delegation was sent to Moscow with a most humble request to be accepted in the folds of USSR. To distract working classes various meetings, sports. Communistic lectures are arranged with forced attendance. Speed production was introduced.

After the arrival of the delegation another stage performance was undertaken by calling meetings so that Latvia's humble "request" was accepted and for the time being Latvia is part and parcel of Soviet Russia, but not for long.

Russian soldiers were told that people abroad were starving and only Russia has bread and salt enough. In the Baltic States they saw for themselves that the population was well dressed and fed even better and the infiltration of this news began into Rassia.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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