The Latvians reckon that they are getting a worse economic deal than their neighbours in Lithuania and Estonia. because too much of the state farm output is exported to the rest of the Soviet Union. In Lithuania. the food that is grown there is eaten by the locals. At weekends many Latvians make the twohour drive south. to the town of Siauliai in Lithuania. to stock up on sausages. Nationalism in Latvia has been revivingpartly because the Latvians are in danger of becoming a national minority in their own country. The success of Latvias industrial development has attracted immigrants from the rest of the Soviet Union. so that some 45 percent of its population is now nonLatvian. Riga is full of Armenians. Georgians.
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