From Alternative History

Latvia comprises, more or less, OTL Latvia.

[edit] History

In June 16, 1940, the Soviet Union invaded Latvia and replaced the leadership. Under the occupation Latvia voluntarily joined the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union begun a series of deportations of anti-Soviet elements.

Latvia was occupied by the Third Reich in the summer of 1942. The entire Jewish and Gypsy population was annihilated, as well as communist leaders, and other Nazi opposition. Latvia was incorporated as part of the Ostland occupation territory of the Reich, and suffered a process of Germanification.

In 1952, the third Reich granted independence of Latvia and Lithuania as Axis nations. This was merely a nominal independence, as Latvia was a puppet state of the Reich, and the Reich military would suppress any pro-Liberal manifestation as they indeed did in 1955 and 1968.

In 1981, a pro-Liberal fraction attempted to seize power and succeeded. The German Civil War prevented a new suppression of the situation, and Estonia and Finland rushed to gave the new Latvian government a support.

The Liberal democracy did not last long. The new liberties soon mined the camp for Organized Crime and were unable to provide population with better life standards. In 1988, the Latvian National Party (successor of the banned Latvian National-Socialist Party) won the elections and begun a series of reforms suppressing Liberal freedoms and baning any other political party.