Claim: The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic was a state of the Soviet Union.
Evidence: The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic -LRB- Latvian SSR ; Latvijas Padomju Sociālistiskā Republika Латвийская Советская Социалистическая Республика , Latviyskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika -RRB- , also known as Soviet Latvia or Latvia , was a republic of the Soviet Union.
The Republics of the Soviet Union or the Union Republics -LRB- союзные республики , soyuznye respubliki -RRB- of the Soviet Union were ethnically based administrative units that were subordinated directly to the Government of the Soviet Union.