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The Sound of Bullets and falling Bodies

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It is a bright middle of the day. The wind was silent and people were buzzing along the streets. It was an ordinary day in an ordinary metropolitan city. People like marionettes were spreading inside different buildings to satisfy their curiosity for new things. The person who we choose not to name wasn't an exception. He also went into a variety of stores and buildings that were built as a part of where to spend the money. Source: http://images.christianpost.com/full/79954/paris-shooting- charlie-hebdo.jpg It was a place where the product bars seemed endless. You could easily find only the exit as it was marked by big green and white signs throughout the large hallways. The sound of shoes, boots and some comfortable sandals was constantly whistling past the ears. It was possible easy to hear more heavy and lighter products falling in the big carts. The person liked to watch people buying things that they even won't need just because at that moment their brain thought t...

Latvia: Multicultural Diversity from History until Today

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The history of Baltics always has been complicated. And the same refers to today. What have left from Swedes, Germans, Russians are still here. Using public transportation and on the streets it is possible to hear different languages and it is nothing unusual. However, recently the situation has intensified. Even I trying to be liberal, felt a wish to show my conservative stance after in a train hearing some Russian saying that there smells after Latvian pigs, adding that Latvians should go to Russia and let them (Russians) live. That's the direct opposite of what usually most Latvians are saying about Russians when they complain that they are oppressed. Who is right and who is wrong? Looking back at the history as it is written in Latvian books and international sources, Latvians and Lithuanians have derived from ancestors of Indo-European (also ancestors of other Europeans) people called Balts. It happened already around 3000 BCE. Mostly they traded with amber to Rome and By...