Tokens: independent
sovereign
State
,
but
to
regain
control
over
Latvia
as
one
of
the
Soviet
Socialist
Republics
.
History
teaches
us
that
such
a
situation
facilitates
conditions
of
war
where
both
powers
are
inclined
to
be
on
the
look
out
for
likely
collaborators
with
the
enemy
among
the
people
of
the
occupied
territory
and
use
their
own
criteria
–
military
,
political
or
otherwise
–
to
determine
who
should
or
should
not
be
considered
a
collaborator
,
in
accordance
with
their
own
aims
and
interests
.
However
,
from
the
Latvian
standpoint
both
powers
actions
were
based
on
an
equally
illegitimate
claim
for
control
over
their
territory
.
It
was
under
these
conditions
that
the
killings
in
Mazie
Bati
took
place
.
Put
in
this
historical
context
these
atrocities
were
inflicted
upon
Latvian
civilians
by
men
under
the
command
of
the
military
representative
of
the
Soviet
Union
,
which
was
a
hostile
occupying
power
,
not
a
liberator
,
of
Latvia
.
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