I notice you’re not going after OP for his vague title with picture, but I’m fair game.
To make it abundantly clear (which you can infer from the other chart posted in the thread), the population change was mostly non-Latvians entering before the USSR splintered and leaving afterwards. I made a reference to habits in that region of wiping out locals and replacing them with ethnic “russians” to rebut the vague sarcastic “the decline was after the USSR splintered so communism=good” title.
I notice you’re not going after OP for his vague title with picture, but I’m fair game.
OP is just noting that “under communism” the population was increasing and aftetwards it was decreasing. And making a joke about some anticommunist orgs. Easy to understand for the intended audience. Happy to explain more if you don’t understand.
To make it abundantly clear (which you can infer from the other chart posted in the thread), the population change was mostly non-Latvians entering before the USSR splintered and leaving afterwards.
Yes someone posted a graph from Wikipedia. It refers to ethnicity. And it does not discriminate between entering, leaving, or having children / dying, though a lot is likely migration.
This was your point? It seems like a pointless fact.
I made a reference to habits in that region of wiping out locals and replacing them with ethnic “russians” to rebut the vague sarcastic “the decline was after the USSR splintered so communism=good” title.
Oh? Is that what the graphs are showing? Tell me about the ethnic cleansing of Latvians from 1970-1990.
Or were you saying something that has nothing to do with either graphic? Are you confused about timelines or are you confused about events? It’s one or the other.
Was that clear enough?
Well I still don’t see any coherent point so I’m going to go with no. You also ignored everything I said in my reply. So I think you should consider working on your communication skills.
And I was noting that the USSR had a tendency to shift their ethnic populations around to wipe out (still don’t understand how you took that term to mean anything other than killing local populations, it’s “wipe out” as in “erase”) other local ethnic populations. We saw the numbers increase until the USSR splintered and then fall off because there was no longer a system to support that shifting of ethnic populations.
This crowd should know about it unless they only believe in or talk about the beneficial parts of communism and ignore the ugly parts that regularly get implemented.
I notice you’re not going after OP for his vague title with picture, but I’m fair game.
To make it abundantly clear (which you can infer from the other chart posted in the thread), the population change was mostly non-Latvians entering before the USSR splintered and leaving afterwards. I made a reference to habits in that region of wiping out locals and replacing them with ethnic “russians” to rebut the vague sarcastic “the decline was after the USSR splintered so communism=good” title.
Was that clear enough?
OP is just noting that “under communism” the population was increasing and aftetwards it was decreasing. And making a joke about some anticommunist orgs. Easy to understand for the intended audience. Happy to explain more if you don’t understand.
Yes someone posted a graph from Wikipedia. It refers to ethnicity. And it does not discriminate between entering, leaving, or having children / dying, though a lot is likely migration.
This was your point? It seems like a pointless fact.
Oh? Is that what the graphs are showing? Tell me about the ethnic cleansing of Latvians from 1970-1990.
Or were you saying something that has nothing to do with either graphic? Are you confused about timelines or are you confused about events? It’s one or the other.
Well I still don’t see any coherent point so I’m going to go with no. You also ignored everything I said in my reply. So I think you should consider working on your communication skills.
And I was noting that the USSR had a tendency to shift their ethnic populations around to wipe out (still don’t understand how you took that term to mean anything other than killing local populations, it’s “wipe out” as in “erase”) other local ethnic populations. We saw the numbers increase until the USSR splintered and then fall off because there was no longer a system to support that shifting of ethnic populations. This crowd should know about it unless they only believe in or talk about the beneficial parts of communism and ignore the ugly parts that regularly get implemented.