Xgau, it's my understanding that at the time the Wall fell, it. was discovered that about 90% of those left in Latvia had been replaced with (more or less) ethnic Russians. Bonus rd trivia: When the U of Riga was formed in 1804(?), classes were taught in German.
Obviously just about everything I know about Latvia is based on Refugee Girl. The idea was to celebrate what Maruta had done with the book, not research or fact-check it. But given Latvia's relative power, it wouldn't surprise me at all if German was used at the university at a time much preceding the story it has to tell.
The Russians have unplugged 14 power grid lines from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithiuania in the past few weeks. All are NATO. nations. My mention of German is that this was covered as far back as c. 1990 by Thomas Sowell in his book on how diff immigrant groups to America behave. I lived briefly behind the Berln Wall in or around 1989 ;-). I was in Yugoslavia, in part, to see the so-called " 'Reporters' Trial". All over Ljubljana, I saw "U2" and "The Pretenders" spray-painted. Cool, eh?...but the Reporters' Trial...see this death list of the Top 100 the Serbs wanted dead had been published by the counter-culture. Idjits!
Is that AI doing the reading? Hopefully not! I've never clicked on this feature before. Anywho, I hope you'll get to reading this little Palestinian/Israeli novel I sent during the holidays, although I knew I shouldn't have, but cheap thrills like these are what you can do when you owe too much to strangers. I'm currently reading The Millstone at your suggestion.
Thanks, Joe. But why did Xgau delete his reply? I always welcome our small interactions, even when chaotic and unagreeable, which I often regret. Anyway, send him my thanks for giving that Habibi novel a chance.
Yeah, because the child of Latvian intellectuals as a refugee is exactly the same as infinity Somalians and 80 IQ Squatemalans. This, my friends, THIS is the mind of the modern Progressive for whom all humans are fungible widgets.
"But in a moment when immigration is under attack by the nearest thing to a fascist government this nation has ever seen"
Lol!! Good old Bob, never, ever does he fail to land on the most hysterical, bed-wetting view of politics. It's literal derangement. He's not well in the head and never has been. Oh well.
Perfect Trump Sheep reply: contemptuous, massively self-impressed, stupid.. Wish I was as impressed with your brilliant critique as you so obviously are.
Thank you. Much appreciated. Regret at Dalton early 1960s
almost nothing of European parents' sacrifices, arrivals in NYC.
Decades before connection of Warsaw Finklestein w. Falencki for examle.
I am always enriched by what you choose to cover, and by your singular writing on topics musical and beyond. Thank you!
Poignant
Thank you!
Xgau, it's my understanding that at the time the Wall fell, it. was discovered that about 90% of those left in Latvia had been replaced with (more or less) ethnic Russians. Bonus rd trivia: When the U of Riga was formed in 1804(?), classes were taught in German.
Obviously just about everything I know about Latvia is based on Refugee Girl. The idea was to celebrate what Maruta had done with the book, not research or fact-check it. But given Latvia's relative power, it wouldn't surprise me at all if German was used at the university at a time much preceding the story it has to tell.
The Russians have unplugged 14 power grid lines from Latvia, Estonia, and Lithiuania in the past few weeks. All are NATO. nations. My mention of German is that this was covered as far back as c. 1990 by Thomas Sowell in his book on how diff immigrant groups to America behave. I lived briefly behind the Berln Wall in or around 1989 ;-). I was in Yugoslavia, in part, to see the so-called " 'Reporters' Trial". All over Ljubljana, I saw "U2" and "The Pretenders" spray-painted. Cool, eh?...but the Reporters' Trial...see this death list of the Top 100 the Serbs wanted dead had been published by the counter-culture. Idjits!
Is that AI doing the reading? Hopefully not! I've never clicked on this feature before. Anywho, I hope you'll get to reading this little Palestinian/Israeli novel I sent during the holidays, although I knew I shouldn't have, but cheap thrills like these are what you can do when you owe too much to strangers. I'm currently reading The Millstone at your suggestion.
Yes. Substack now has an option to listen to posts that uses AI text-to-speech.
Thanks, Joe. But why did Xgau delete his reply? I always welcome our small interactions, even when chaotic and unagreeable, which I often regret. Anyway, send him my thanks for giving that Habibi novel a chance.
Yeah, because the child of Latvian intellectuals as a refugee is exactly the same as infinity Somalians and 80 IQ Squatemalans. This, my friends, THIS is the mind of the modern Progressive for whom all humans are fungible widgets.
"But in a moment when immigration is under attack by the nearest thing to a fascist government this nation has ever seen"
Lol!! Good old Bob, never, ever does he fail to land on the most hysterical, bed-wetting view of politics. It's literal derangement. He's not well in the head and never has been. Oh well.
Perfect Trump Sheep reply: contemptuous, massively self-impressed, stupid.. Wish I was as impressed with your brilliant critique as you so obviously are.
Perturbing you makes me feel useful. It'll probably still be a while, but the sooner you have your stroke, the better place the world will be.
Typical middle school level comment. Poor old Bob.
Naturally you totally ignored my point