I have a Latvian acquaintance and everytime we spoke about politics she would rib me. At the time I did not know much about the Latvian fascist movement at the time or the class struggle in the Baltic nations (or even the apartheid system of hundreds of thousands of ethnic russians who essentially nonpeoples in todays Baltic states without the ability to vote or hold office)

Non-citizens in Latvia: Is it a Real Problem? Following the restoration of independence in 1991, Latvia has introduced restrictive citizenship strategy involving citizenship only to those who had it before the Soviet occupation, and to their descendants. As a result, about one-third of the population in Latvia – the former citizens of the Soviet Union who had immigrated to Latvia during the Soviet period—received the status of ‘non-citizen’. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321938488_Non-citizens_in_Latvia_Is_it_a_Real_Problem

Incidentally Phillip Farr wrote a good short book on this struggle in 1944 and what we see instead is an immense class struggle of fascists liquidating leftists in the inter-war period, Communists liquidating fascists with Soviet annexation, Nazi occupation liquidating leftists, and then communists liquidating holocaust collaborators when they came under protection of Soviet Union. The final image here is one of immense and bitter class struggle

https://archive.org/details/SovietRussiaAndTheBalticRepublics

But anyway back to my point. After years of ribbing me about how free market economics is a beauitful thing, communism was worse than anything etc. etc. I find out her grandfather fought for the Werhmacht in ww2