Sandra kalniete autobiography template
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Līga Horgana is back with another literature review, this time Sandra Kalniete's Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos, translated into English as With Dance Shoes in Siberian Snows by Margita Gailītis.
June 14, 1941 was a night when more than 15,400 men, women, children, infants and elderly of occupied Latvia got arrested, taken from their homes, loaded into cattle cars, and exiled to distant regions of the Soviet Union for being "enemies of the people." Many of them did not survive this journey that lasted for weeks. Many died in Siberia. A second mass deportation was carried out in 1949 during the second Soviet occupation. In a few days from March 25 to 28, more than 42,000 people were deported. In the summary of her novel Ar balles kurpēm Sibīrijas sniegos (2001), author Sandra Kalniete writes that there is no family in Latvia which does not have its own story about Siberia and their relatives who never came back from there.And reading the novel, I felt not only the suffering of the Kalnietis and Dreifelds families and the pain of the whole Latvian nation, but also the tragedy of my own great grandfather who never returned.
The book was originally written in order to be translated into French and to teach the Western world about Stalin
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Lasīšanas ilgums: 17minūtes
The adoption of the Declaration of Independence on 4 May 1990 was extremely moving. There was an air of utter euphoria both inside the plenary hall and outside the building of the Supreme Council. In our ecstatic joy, we felt as if the whole world was rejoicing along with us, and that, come tomorrow, our friends in Europe and the US would tell Moscow: ‘we want to make right the betrayal that we permitted at Yalta1, and you no longer have any right to keep Latvia in Soviet captivity’.
Soon enough, just like Lithuanians and Estonians, we found out the extent to which the principles of international law differ from the realpolitik that dominates international relations, which no one wanted to change and risk damaging the relationship that had been created over the years with the USSR nuclear superpower – Mikhail Gorbachev had at this time brought hope for change both in its foreign and domestic policies. These changes gave the West a chance to improve the global security situation, whilst also softening the regime in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union itself. Therefore, the Baltic issue was being resolved far beyond the borders of Latvia, in the political and diplomatic offices of the capitals of Europe and the US, with the events going on there
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