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  1. Latvia is actually closing TWO border checkpoints as a preventative measure, Vientuļi and Pededze. Pededze is pronounced PEH-DEH-DZEH, Vientuļi is pronounced VEE-YEN-TOO-LYI, means "Lonely Ones" in Latvian, probably a surname of a family that lived on a remote solitary farm in a forest. So the name speaks for itself, this really isn't a huge checkpoint that could take hundreds of people a day. It was like a joke on Russia's part, suggesting the people should be funnelled through the tiniest and remotest border checkpoint there is.
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  2. There WERE videos of the torture. Like, five months or so, there was a video posted by Russians themselves in which they slowly beheaded a POW while he was alive. Even my toughest friends said they wished they hadn't watched the video. And a Russian soldier filmed himself while raping a toddler.
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