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Vike-Freiberga, Latvia??€™s first female president and a Spring 2008 fellow at the Institute of Politics, said that after years of subjugation at the hands of the Soviet Union, Latvians have come to cherish their independence...
...speech in Latvia??€™s capital, Riga, on Saturday, Bush expressed regret for America’s complicity in the 1945 Yalta pact that divided Europe into spheres of influence between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. The president even went so far as to compare the deal, struck by Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin, to the appeasement of Adolf Hitler by western governments before the World War II, and to the 1939 Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact...