There's been a growing trend in media to question the legitimacy of some of the former soviet republics - usually Ukraine and the baltics. Haven't heard this language used on the likes of Kazakhstan though. Of course the same media never raises the question of legitimacy of the current Russian Federation, which is also very much not USSR.
I’m curious as to why he called Latvia “non-existent.”
Why not? The Baltics are not real countries. They are oversized NATO bases with occasional SS parades.
cause its objectively funny
There's been a growing trend in media to question the legitimacy of some of the former soviet republics - usually Ukraine and the baltics. Haven't heard this language used on the likes of Kazakhstan though. Of course the same media never raises the question of legitimacy of the current Russian Federation, which is also very much not USSR.
Great-Russian nationalism.
This shit wouldn't fly in the USSR any more than Latvian SS parades.
I believe he is specifically referring to the collaborator regime in the early 40s