Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "Reconquest of Estonia: The Courland Pocket 1944 WW2 History Documentary BATTLESTORM Part 5" video.

  1. "Liberating" and "Red Army" adds up to a sort of oxymoron, at least in the context of territories that were under Soviet-Nazi-Soviet occupation like is the case here. As far as I know, one of my grandfathers - a Sovieg officer, participated in the "liberation" of Riga, while my wife's grandfather (he was a private and as scout) got into "meatgrinder" in Jelgava, that bloodshed is also known as "the Baltic Stalingrad", he survived and later took part in he assault on Kenigsberg. Ond of my other relatives, only 17 then, got "volunteered" through a concentration camp, where he got put for "a tour of persuation", into Latvian SS Legion. Soon he was injured, taken to hospital in Germany, then sent back and captured by Soviets in Courland and... enlisted into Soviet army. Common, both sides needed cannonfodder, so few cared where it came from.
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  2. You butchered pretty much each and every Latvian and Russian name, except Valmiera. XD But that's OK, even Russians find Latvian omewhat hard (there are some sounds not present in most other languages), despite Baltic and Slavic languages being pretty closely related. Well, you know, like German and English also are related, but.... P.S. Sigulda and Kuldīga were also good.
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