“They didn’t discover anybody who spoke Latvian,” that is how their consultant Lauris Salins recollects the surroundings of emigrants within the USA on the pages of Kultūras Diena.
“I used to be a hippie… Within the Latvian camps you might possibly discover like-minded folks from totally different elements of the world.”
“The primary time I used to be in Latvia was in 1982 with a bunch of North American theologians. It was such a particular threshold. It appeared that there have been nonetheless deep occasions of stagnation. The adjustments began very quietly. Since there was solely a Latvian within the group, the Individuals needed me to go along with them to the submit workplace to ship a letter to America. On the submit workplace they didn’t discover a single one who may converse Latvian. We had been doing higher with English. Intourist guides on the Freedom Monument informed us that the folks constructed the monument in gratitude for the truth that Latvia was accepted into the Soviet Union. I may instantly inform a special model…”
His peer Laila Salina talks regarding life within the USA: “We spoke solely Latvian at house, however we went to an American faculty. One trainer referred to as our mom and stated that we should always not converse this overseas language. Even then, as a baby, I believed – properly, this story is so difficult – with the Germans, with the Nazis, with the Russians – and so they additionally ask you as a baby – what sort of language is that this?”
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