Latvia Ban

From MT:
"Latvia Bans Soviet Symbols"

Latvia's parliament has approved a ban on the public display of Soviet and Nazi symbols, including swastikas and the hammer and sickle, and the singing and promotion of fascist and communist anthems and ideologies. Lawmakers approved the bill 56-0, with 44 lawmakers abstaining or absent. It will become law after President Andris Berzins signs it, expected next month. The bill was partly sparked by annual pro-Soviet rallies organized by the country's large Russian-speaking populace, and frowned upon by ethnic Latvians after five decades of Soviet occupation.

^ Good for Latvia. Soviet and Nazi symbols (along with Confederate ones) should be banned in every country of the world. The Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Confederacy all ran on suppressing one or more groups of people in order to create a single, dictatorship. The Confederacy kept the blacks down so white people could be the "masters." Nazi Germany killed the Jews, homosexuals, disabled, Gypsies and many others so German Aryans would be the "master race." The Soviet Union kept and killed all non-Soviets and then all non-Russian Soviets within the USSR so the ethnic Russians would be the most powerful. No country should reward or praise what was done in these three areas. While a handful of countries ban Nazi, Soviet or both symbols (no country that I know of bans Confederate symbols) they do so half-hazardously. The Germans today ban many Nazi symbols yet allowed former Nazis to continue to work in the public sector and some even receive Government pensions. Little, if anything, as been done by the Germans to address the East German/Soviet past. A handful of former Soviet Republics (Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Moldova and to a lesser extent - Ukraine) have any laws about the display and support of Soviet things while the majority (such as Russia) see the USSR as a great and powerful force and are working to bring in its former symbols and traditions back. As I said above, no country should praise the Nazis, the Soviets or the Confederates. ^

http://www.themoscowtimes.com/news/article/latvia-bans-soviet-symbols/482086.html