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JN > At home my parents spoke German, Latvian, Yiddish and Russian – in this order. I spoke in Latvian in Riga, (after 40 years not talking Latvian) almost fluently. Most of Shtatniks, (Russians, Latvians, Jews) speak very good Latvian still! We are Ridzinieki – it comes with it! Most of them did more for freedom in Latvia than Latvians „with heritage” of my time.And in return – they have passports of different color, second rated. Sveiks Lai Dzivo! Jack 'Hollywood' Neihausen
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This mail is sent via contact form on Shtatniki.com http://shtatniki.com
From Jack "Hollywood" to:
denise schmidt <[email protected]>
Subject: Lost cultural heritage
Message Body:
What happened to your cultural heritage ?
How many of you speak and write Latvian - it seems the Soviet brainwashing did a good job - everything about Latvia is in
Russian!
Very sad indeed.
JN > First of all – this is all what you can say about SHTATNIKI.COM???
What happened to your cultural heritage ?
JN > Cultural heritage – my cultural heritage was formed in my home, with the Best and the Worst memories about Latvia
and Latvians. Presently, if you looked deeper than negativity – I do probably more for my heritage and Riga than most,
probably than all. I cover my period – that‟s what important to me and my generation.
I give Latvian speaking Latvieshu Strelniki, Perkon Krust and legionnaires and Latvians communists to somebody else –
may be you would be interested to bring the light on this?
How many of you speak and write Latvian - it seems the Soviet brainwashing did a good job - everything about Latvia is in Russian!
JN > At home my parents spoke German, Latvian, Yiddish and Russian – in this order. I spoke in Latvian in Riga, (after 40
years not talking Latvian) almost fluently. Most of Shtatniks, (Russians, Latvians, Jews) speak very good Latvian still! We
are Ridzinieki – it comes with it! Most of them did more for freedom in Latvia than Latvians „with heritage” of my
time.And in return – they have passports of different color, second rated.
But you right about the site – and the reason is: site covers 1955-1975, I did my homework and result is – almost none
Latvian speaking people CARE about Shtatniki, and this period.
Most of readers are – (you like it or not) – read Russian, this are the people who care about period, Riga, our times there.
And they DO NOT CARE about nationalities, language and the rest of garbage.
Soviets did a good job, really! Many of us where imprisoned, all of us loved freedom, and most of us left soviet paradise!
If this site would be about Latvian History or art – Latvian & English a must. But not on this topic – this is different people
and circle.
Very sad indeed.
JN > No, it is not sad as we see it, just people see different things. I do not know anything about you. As a visitor to the site
– you see everything about me and people around me. We are happy and as mostly citizens of free world, we see what this
language and “nose in the sky” did to Latvia. Definitely not what we dreamed about and totally not like it was “Pa Veco
Laiku”. I have hundreds of e-mails with positivity, with “thanks for trip back to our golden time in Riga”.
What is your site? I would like to see it, I hope it is in Latvian – than I can forward it to Shtatniki to read it
My personal recommendation – look at Latvian papers with articles about me and Aelita in Latvian language, may be than
your horizon will get bigger!
Sveiks Lai Dzivo!
Jack 'Hollywood' Neihausen
Переводить не имеет смысла. Это недовольство в письме о том, что у нас сайт о Риге на Русском языке. Повидимому гражданин
один из тех кто так и не понял сегодняшнего мира.
Я ответил подобающе, но ОТВЕТА или ДЕБАТА - не получил.
Наверно занят гражданин изучением вопросов арийских кровей или Лачплесиса штудирует в оригинале.
