Historian working on the social history of war in 🇱🇻🇷🇺🇩🇪. Book: Latvian Soldiers of World War II: Fighting for the Homeland in Nazi and Soviet Service (Oxford University Press, 2026). Opinions my own, not those of my employer.
Harry C. Merritt
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Over the long weekend, I encountered an even stranger American bastardization of pronouncing Italian cured meat than "gabagool" for capocollo. In Southwestern Rhode Island, locally produced soppressata is called "suppi"/"soupy" and it is as delicious as the name feels embarrassing to say out loud.
🧵 Soviet Estonian covers of Western rock/pop music:
Tiiu Varik, "Eile veel" (1966) [The Beatles, "Yesterday" (1965)]
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On June 2, 1988, at a plenum of the Latvian Writers' Union Mavriks Vulfsons exposed the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact's secret protocols, publicly airing them for the first time in the USSR. In response, Latvian Communist Party head Boris Pugo declared, "You killed Soviet Latvia!" bsky.app/profile/harr...
