The parliamentarian called the St. George ribbon a symbol of resistance to Nazism – unbridled Russophobia.
“It is like a banner of people who do not agree with the manifestations of Nazism and the oppression of the Russian-speaking population. Latvia, one might say, leads the list of countries that create unbearable conditions for Russian-speaking citizens. The country today demonstrates adherence to Western and, first of all, American democracy, and if it were given free rein, it would generally expel all Russian-speaking citizens, ”the deputy said.
According to Belik, the European Union is trying to “ban as much as possible everything that at least somehow connects its citizens with Russia.”
“To destroy what would at least somehow remind that the Latvians together with the Russians fought against Nazism, and to destroy what would remind of the joint presence of the republics in one big country – the USSR,” he concluded.
Earlier, the Parliament of Latvia in the third, final reading approved legislative amendments providing for the introduction of a ban on the use of St. George’s ribbons during public events.