Latvian and Baltic history

Soviet and Russian propaganda

• "Russia Today""Russia Today", A. Benenson, The Ottawa Citizen, 1931—Canadian émigré A. Benenson expresses alarm over Polish armaments and sorrow over Latvia's post-WWI de-industrialization in a letter to the editior from his new homeland.
• Is War Inevitable?J. Stalin — Is War Inevitable?, Roy W. Howard (interviewer), Stalin, Friends of the Soviet Union, 1936—"The Full Text of the Famous Stalin—Howard Interview" of March 1st, 1936, originally carried in U.S. and Soviet news media and subsequently published by the Friends of the Soviet Union for Western consumption. Reading between the lines and redaction by the Chief Censor of the Soviet Union, Stalin admits to not achieving Communism and resorts to memory lapses and protestations of absurdity when confronted with the USSR's failure to comply with its commitment to respect the U.S.
• Soviet War NewsThe Soviet Union, Finland, and the Baltic States, Soviet War News, Soviet Information Bureau, 1941—In a monograph published after the Winter War and toward the end of its first occupation of the Baltic states, the Soviet Union blames the Finns and Balts for their troubles, only the Soviets have consistently engaged in "neighbourly relations," rebuffed by its neighbors at every turn. A classic study in Stalinist propaganda and a version of history still familiar in official Russian rhetoric.
• Polish–Soviet BreakBehind the Polish–Soviet Break, Alter Brody, introduced by Corliss Lamont, Soviet Russia Today, New York, 1943—After the Poles rightfully blamed the Katyn massacre on the Soviets, the USSR denounced (Molotov's letter, included) the accusation as a "Hitlerite slanderous fake." Within two weeks the USSR severed relations with the Polish Government-in-Exile. Beyond alleging Polish lies, Alter Brody's monograph goes on to characterize the Polish people as an ungrateful scourge upon history—portending the post-WWII portrayal of anti-Soviet Eastern European nationalists as fascists.
• Soviet EstoniaEstonia, Wonderful Present—Marvellous Future, Aleksei Müürisepp, Soviet Booklets, London, 1959—Career apparatchik and then soon-to-be 5th Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian SSR Aleksey Aleksandrovich Myurisepp waxes eloquently of life under the U.S.S.R., one of a series of propaganda booklets produced about each of the fifteen Soviet Republics.
• Soviet LatviaLatvia—Our Dream is Coming True, Vilis Lācis, Soviet Booklets, London, 1959—Popular author during Latvia's pre-WWII independence and Soviet sympathizer signing deportation orders sending families to frosty death, Vilis Lācis writes of the materialization of Latvian dreams under the U.S.S.R., one of a series of propaganda booklets produced about each of the fifteen Soviet Republics.
• 1945 Literary Almanac1945 Literary Almanac (LATVIAN, Literatūras Gada Grāmata), E. Damburs, ed., VAPP Fine Literature Publisher, 1945—Still at war, Latvian Communists serving the Soviet cause declare literary Russification an enrichment of Latvian culture.