ABSTRACT
It seemed as though he was even a little insulted that he got permission to leave the Motherland so quickly. What else could have displeased 21-year-old Roland Silaraups, who had grown up in Soviet Latvia and who had first made his noise as a participant in the so-called Latvian human rights group “Helsinki 86”? The views of this ten-person group all come to the same thing—to separate Latvia from the Soviet Union.
