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"Want to come to Canada" is not really a relevant example in this case, some of the people facing expulsion by this fascistic and ethnocentric policy have lived in Latvia for decades. It's explicitly being framed as a loyalty test.

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But honestly, citizenship is such a test. If they had the chance to become Latvian years back and chose not to, they're foreign nationals. Sucks to be them, but that's a choice they made re: integration and Russia made worse by dumping on its neighbours. Of which Latvia is one of the "formerly Russian" neighbours.

People are citizens, permanent residents or people under some kind of implicit or explicit visa. The latter two categories are "granted", and the first category can be revoked for multiple-citizenships.

What really sucks is that members of society like you think that a government nitpicking on immigration laws to justify fascist harassment of a specific group of people is actually fine. Your belief are the real issue (for us as a society) because they reveal a deep seated hatred toward a specific group of people. And history shows where that leads.

Russian or Brexiteer? My opinions aren’t relevant as I was merely pointing out how countries typically view non-citizens. While it’s not nice or fair, citizens of countries viewed as hostile are often viewed with hostility. The wars of the 20th century pointed this out multiple times. Look at the Japanese in North America and the Germans in Eastern Europe. The Middle East isn’t exactly brimming with goodwill towards its various neighbours or even its own citizens and residents.

What Russia did is save Latvia from being liquidated entirely by the Nazis.

Err, the USSR liberated Latvia in 1940 following the terms of the German-Soviet treaty that facilitated the start of ww ii. Given that it took 50 years to become un-liberated its an open question whose rule would have been less severe (outside of particular ethnic or religious groups).

> outside of particular ethnic or religious groups

lol

> following the terms of the German-Soviet treaty that facilitated the start of ww ii.

Correction: you were meant to say British-French-Polish-German treaty of 30th September 1938, that provided "legal" grounds for the German, Polish, and Hungarian annexation of pieces of land of Czechoslovakia, preceded by the United Kingdom and France "informally" asking Czechoslovakia to cede its Sudetenland territory to Germany on 20th September, which was followed by Polish territorial demands brought on 21 September and Hungarian on 22th September.

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