In class, on September 13, 2000, we discussed the topic of “What political biases I have.” All students have different biases, but most of them were associated with different policies, political parties (democrats and republicans), and economic and domestic problems. One of my strongest biases is against communism.
I was born in Latvia in 1980, when Latvia was a part of the USSR and was still under communist control. I was too young at that time to make my own opinions about domestic life, politics and economy. Everything was accepted the way it was. In family, school, media and all around, there was only one ideology. By the end of 80s, during the national renaissance in connection with the Soviet campaigns for glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) Latvia made its first step toward its freedom. On May 4, 1990, Latvian legislature passed the declaration on the renewal of independents. I had become older by that time; and after a couple of years I started to realize the disadvantages of communism, especially in the form that it was represented in the USSR.…
