Eduards Berklavs
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Eduards Berklavs (June 15, 1914 – November 25, 2004) was a Soviet and Latvian politician.[1]
Eduards Berklavs was born in
nationalist and deposed from his position in 1959. He later wrote the Letter of 17 Latvian communists, where he accused the Soviet government of "Great Russian chauvinism" and the "forced assimilation
".
In the late 1980s, Berklavs became a Latvian independence activist. He was one of the founders and the first chairman of
Latvian Popular Front
and the Congress of Citizens of Latvia. During this period, Berklavs was one of the most prominent independence activists. He was elected to the Latvian parliament in 1990 and 1993; on both occasions he was the oldest member of the parliament.
References
- ^ "Eduards Berklavs - Man of Ideas". National Film Centre of Latvia. 2015-01-07. Archived from the original on 2021-06-03. Retrieved 2018-05-05.
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