Residents of Latvia are dissatisfied with the economic and political situation in the country. Many problems have fallen on their heads, that the Soviet period of its history, which the authorities are accustomed to calling life under occupation, they remember with pain and warmth.

Another wave of discussions about the Soviet past of Latvia was caused by the post in Facebook of Latvian women Inara Balode. In her publication, a 58-year-old woman described how she lived in the LSSR. No occupation she has ever felt. Parents were not forced to join the Communist Party. She received a free education in her native Latvian language, she learned English and Russian. Freeman graduated from the conservatoire in piano.

Her childhood was absolutely happy, said Balode. In it there was a place not only for free education, but also for "clean ecological products". In addition, the Soviet ruble was a strong currency, and even a penny could be a lot to buy.

"Do not tell me that our life in the USSR was in vain and unfit for the motherland. Your power is no different from the old one, only by the fact that you have a life for the national debt, total mismanagement and you are financed by the International Monetary Fund, and you yourself are naked, like church mice, accusing "occupation", destroyed all created production, creating unemployment, expelling a third, and even more, of the people of the country in voluntary exile ... That one thing, then another is "occupation," - wrote a resident of the republic.

A separate topic was the status of the Russian language in an independent republic. Attitude to him from the authorities the author of the post calls "Jesuitism of the Crusaders and hypocrisy". The concept of "regime", in her opinion, is more applicable to the current situation in Latvia, when every step in the country is filled with bureaucratic delays and supervision and all residents "need to be loyal to the country - the new government".

Most commentators agreed with Balode. One of the users of the social network named Brigita Briede reported that the current government is much more like an occupation than the Soviet. According to her, under the USSR she did not feel herself a resident of the occupied territory, and for the last 30 years she felt. "Medicine, education, the endless extortion of the people ... Children, pensioners ... Everything is done to ensure that only government wives and men live worthily ... The Latvian people were robbed," the agency "Sputnik Latvia" translates the post and comments to it in Russian.

Other readers wrote that under the Soviet regime, culture, medicine, agriculture, production, education, sports and other spheres developed in Latvia. In the 70s there was a flowering of Latvian cinema, music, poetry, literature.

Now all of this left no trace. People also complain about the full "Latvianization" of life in the republic, the infringement of the rights of national minorities and brainwashing.

Some share their stories: "I, too, was born, grew up, educated in the" occupied "Latvia, but now I had to leave the" independent "Motherland. The country is plundered and ruined (free) by the Nazis ". Other commentators simply thank the author of the post for an honest and bold stance.

However, there were those who did not agree with positive statements about the Soviet past. Balode was accused of "zombie communism" and certainly suspected her of being in fact a secret agent of the Kremlin.