“Most Russian-speakers see the Red Army as having liberated the country from the Nazis in 1944; most Latvian-speakers view that “liberation” as involving nothing less than the German occupation being replaced by a Russian one that lasted until independence was gained in 1991.”

With this glib assertion, Mark MacKinnon suggests that these are equally valid "views" and that there is room for debate in this matter of “liberation.” 

Let’s be clear. There is no debate about the fact that Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian sovereignty was violated illegally and maliciously by strident use of military force throughout the Soviet period. Only a person deluded by Russian disinformation and revisionist history could think otherwise.

Canadian forces and NATO must be applauded for defending freedom and democracy in the Baltics.