#6A The Baltics - A counter-history with Iskolat (part 1)

An interview about the Baltics, Part one Erik and Hannes sit down with Iskolat for a counter-narrative to nationalist history of the Baltics, Esonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This first part will cover history from late tsarist time to the late socialist period and the second part will continue up until today.  For more reading on the Baltics: 1) The Baltic Riddle by Gregory Meiksins. https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/18549393.pdf 2) Latvia - Our Dream is Coming True by Vilis Lācis. https://archive.org/details/lacis_vilis__latvia__our_dream_is_coming_true/mode/2up 3) E-repository of Soviet Latvian books (in Latvian and Russian). http://padomjugramata.ucoz.com Most of the books are there classic communist texts as well as history. Most books are PDFs that support text recognition (for instance, you can machine translate). 4) Lithuania - Wonderful Deeds Ahead by A. Sumauskas. https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/overview/lithuania-wonderful-deeds-ahead.pdf 5) Anna Louise Strong. Lithuania’s New Way (aka The New Lithuania). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=wu.89017381948&seq=5 6) Estonia. Wonderful Present - Marvellous Future by A. Murisep. https://www.marxists.org/history/ussr/overview/estonia-wonderful-present-marvellous-future.pdf Also check out Actually Existing Socialism (the podcast) featuring Iskolat: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-sgheu-1d1394f5 And Prolespod: https://prolespod.libsyn.com/ep-55-red-partisans-in-latvia for more and deeper talks about Baltic History. Follow and support their work: Latvia International Solidarity: https://t.me/+LfeJVDMCqK8xM2E0 Diktatura Proletariata Youtube Channel: @DiktaturaProlet Soviet Baltics (Telegram): https://t.me/BalticSSRs Riga-Stavropol History Group (School of Scientific Communism): https://t.me/RigaHistoryGroup BalticSSRs on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BalticSSRs/ BalticSSRs on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BalticSSRs/ Latvian Socialist Party: https://t.me/socpartija Support/donations:  Card (Sberbank): 4817 7602 7585 4234 YooMoney: 4100116683130592 Payment description - "Channel Support", "Channel Donation". Crypto wallets: USDT (ERC20): 0x5eed9F285D7397BBb4b4d06De50A82efde792366 USDC (ERC20): 0x5eed9F285D7397BBb4b4d06De50A82efde792366 ETH (ERC20): 0xAb734cf6cd447836a36897e6889D1eee85A9Da1a BNB (BNB): 0xAb734cf6cd447836a36897e6889D1eee85A9Da1a