Talk:Pērkonkrusts

message: This article requires considerable revision; even the date of Ulmanis' coup is incorrect (it took place on the night of May 15-16, 1934, not 1933). The question of Pērkonkrusts' collaboration with the Nazis is complex and is discussed in detail by Andrew Ezergailis, the author of The Holocaust in Latvia, here. The leaders of Sonderkommando Arajs were not members of Pērkonkrusts, and only about a dozen of the men under Arājs were. The relationship between the 1990s extremist group that took the name and the original group was virtually non-existent. Pērkonkrusts did not "suggest a Latvian religion" so much as look to Dievturība, a pagan revival. There is nothing "ironic" about Pērkonkrusts being anti-German; it was a virulently ethnocentric, Latvian group whilst the Nazis were devoted to German hegemony. Etc., etc. --Pēteris Cedriņš 02:07, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're an expert in the subject please do make whatever changes would improve it; what other sources can you recommend? --Stlemur 02:44, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not an expert by any means, but I read what I can find on the subject -- most of what's available is in Latvian, and that would include the highly recommended Ebreji un diktatūras Baltijā 1926-1940 (Jews and the Dictatorships in the Baltics 1926-1940) by Aivars Stranga, published in an expanded edition by the University of Latvia's Center for Judaic Studies in 2002. Parts of that work may have been translated, I believe; it focuses especially on the group's anti-Semitism but also gives background, and Stranga is a fine historian. The article by Ezergailis I linked to above (also in Latvian) details the group's attempts to collaborate with the Nazis, and the Latvian language Vikipēdija article is fair. On the 1990s copycat group, there is accurate information in English in the article "Extremism in Latvia" by Nils Muižnieks. If nobody else gets to it, I'll edit it, but I do have a slew of other articles I'm working on... --Pēteris Cedriņš 03:29, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to note that this article drawed my attention some time ago, all I could find on this organization was at Historia.lv and had english translation - latvian version of that in-depth report is pasted in latvian wikipedia (altoght maybe that article is different now) - I also noticed that somewhere in latvian wikipedia someone said that this author from Historia.lv has permited to use his writings on wikipedia (could not find that note anymore), I wasn't sure if that includes english wikipedia so I didn't do anything in the end -- Xil/talk 13:17, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Answered at User talk:Xil re historia.lv and permissions. --Pēteris Cedriņš 14:59, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The text on collaboration I linked to above, by Andrew (Andrievs) Ezergailis, is available in English as a .pdf file -- "Collaboration in German Occupied Latvia: Offered and Rejected". --Pēteris Cedriņš 11:01, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
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message: I've made it so that Ugunskrusts no longer redirects here, but is a disambiguation. Unlike pērkonkrusts, from my lessons in Latvian folklore as a lad in Toronto I seem to recall that ugunskrusts was the more common name used for the Latvian swastika ... perhaps due to it being less politically compromised? —Zalktis (talk) 09:42, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also re-worked the entry for Thunder Cross a bit. I hope this is acceptable. Note the use of lower case in some and not others instances is deliberate on my part. —Zalktis (talk) 09:55, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
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message: I've re-added some of the allegedly "disputed" material with proper sources. Generally, the article is now quite well referenced. If you have a dispute or think a reference is required, flag/tag that sentence or section, not the whole article, please! —Zalktis (talk) 16:48, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
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message: I guesed that only "forbidden symbol" far-right wing activist would use would be swatika, which shouldn't be forbidden as it is used in Latvian folklore, so I googled for Šiškins and found that the court turned down the case for having no substance (according to this blog) ~~Xil * 18:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Arrested" (in a democracy) does not necessarily mean "convicted". Even better is  this (see "Visu Latvijai! vadītāju soda par PSRS karoga sadedzināšanu"), where he wore a swastika t-shirt during the first Riga Pride—again, the cops don't do nothing, 'cause, y'see, it's just "folklore". Right. I'm sure Šiškins is also a mainstay of the Baltica folklore festivals... —Zalktis (talk) 19:33, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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message: A red swastika on a white roundel. Anything to do with this political party?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.85.2.56 (talk) 11:13, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems I was just perusing my comment above about "Nazi" biplanes. VєсrumЬа ►TALK 03:53, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
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