The head of the National Council for Electronic Media (NEPLP), Ivars Aboliņš, was asked a provocative question on Twitter/X and requested to evaluate the rude statement made by entrepreneur and volunteer Valts Dalbiņš towards Russian speakers.
Dalbiņš stated the following on Twitter/X:
"We need to expel these Russians from schools if they don’t know Latvian. It’s not our problem what happens to the degenerates of the occupiers! Let them learn Latvian for a year or five privately at the expense of their stupid parents or go to hell, we don’t care. Enough coddling degenerates."
Aboliņš could not openly evaluate Dalbiņš's statement, only noting that Dalbiņš used unfortunate vocabulary.
"Of course, the vocabulary is not okay. But I am talking about the attempt to rethink values — to present Soviet occupiers as victims and Latvians as oppressors. This is immoral and unacceptable," Aboliņš responded.
The entire discussion flared up under his publication stating that discussions about the Russian population of Latvia becoming victims of an aggressive majority cannot be allowed.
"Neither the Russians who arrived during the Soviet occupation nor simply Latvian Russians as a group are victims oppressed by the majority or Latvians.
The demolition of the monument to the occupiers, the ban on Russian-language hate channels, and the closure of Russian schools were not hasty. Quite the opposite.
All those who advocate for strengthening the role of the Latvian language are not mystical nationalists and conservatives with insults. Such a definition of people within boundaries, in my opinion, is a deliberate division of society. After all, the factions 'Harmony' and 'A/Par' also voted for strengthening the role of the Latvian language after the start of the war.
There are also those who were deported by the Soviet authorities, and I categorically cannot agree with the arguments of researcher Mārtiņš Hirss (@MHirss) (referring to the text published on the Satori portal 'Talkers do not allow Russians to love Latvia').
The notion that those who arrived during the occupation are victims and Latvians are oppressors is simply unacceptable," Aboliņš believes.
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Ne padomju okupācijas laikā iebraukušie, ne vienkārši Latvijas krievi kā grupa nav upuri, kurus apspiež vairākums jeb latvieši.
— Ivars Āboliņš (@Ivars_Abolins) October 14, 2025
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