The costs of the crisis were put on the shoulders of ordinary Latvians.
危机的代价落在了普通拉脱维亚人的肩上。
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Latvians learned Russian as part of their curriculum, but Russians hardly bothered with Latvian.
拉脱维亚人学习俄语作为他们课程的一部分,但俄罗斯人几乎不在意拉脱维亚语。
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Latvians are frank about the reason: Russia's brutal war on Ukraine.
拉脱维亚人坦率地说出原因:俄罗斯对乌克兰的残酷战争。
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So while Greeks were out in the streets, Latvians swallowed the toad, and many tens of thousands emigrated, which is another way of taking responsibility.
Latvians observe that the world now knows what it and the other Baltic republics have long been saying—that Russia will kill to get its old imperial possessions back.
Latvians (Latvian:latvieši; Livonian:leţlizt) are a Baltic ethnic group, native to what is modern-day Latvia and the immediate geographical region. They are also known as Letts, although this term is obsolescent. The Latvian people share a common Latvian language.