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forward slash plan. Greetings, comrades, and today I have a treat for you. It's a special one. I haven't speaking about our independent struggles before in the age of Atmode, reawakening, but right now

I'm interviewing a person who was directly involved in these events straight from the top-up,

a person who was personally voting for independence and then, you know, very responsible for running the country in the early years,

Mr. Edmunds Krastinge.

So, hello, Edmunds.

Hello.

It's an honor to be here, and the first question is, so.

We all know about, like, all the hopes and dreams that every common Latvian had at the time,

that, you know, we wanted our our own independence but we really didn't know

what independence actually looked like and what capitalism was you were in our higher

council so I guess you must have had some view on what's going to happen next what

were you thinking would happen after we would we had gained independence and if you could, in short, explain how you managed to get in this voting

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