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This user refutes post-Soviet Stalinist propaganda by rigorous application of fact. |
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This user loves rasols and buys столичный at his local Russian deli. |
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This user consumes mass quantities of coffee. |
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This user uses the editing tool wikEd |
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Pēters is busy in real life and may not respond swiftly to queries. |
[edit] Wikisignatures
These signatures (over time) are me:
- Pēters
- Pēters J. Vecrumba
- PētersV
[edit] Wikipedia Interests
- Baltics
- all topics Baltic, including
- history of and personalities through history
- occupations of the Baltic states
- history of minorities in Latvia
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Moldova (whose independence movement was once closely tied to that in the Baltics), Romania
- More generally, formerly Warsaw Pact countries
- Post Soviet Russian geopolitical activities in the "frozen conflict zone" territories, particularly Transnistria and the Baltic OMON as represented by Vladimir Antyufeyev and others (a less noble association with Latvia)
[edit] Qualifications
- On Latvia and the Baltics— Own parents Latvian from Latvia, wife's parents Latvian from Latvia. An "A" student all throughout Latvian school (history, geography, literature,...) growing up. Bibliophile collecting (rare) Latvian-related materials using own web site, LATVIANS.COM, to bring them to a wider audience. More generally, a long time student of history. The best quote about me and Latvia came from my first wife, now quite (!) a few years ago... "I don't see you passionate about anything except Latvia." (Alas, perhaps not as positive a comment on personal priorities as I thought at the time!)
- On Post-Soviet geopolitics — Russia's holding to official positions in direct contradiction to incontrovertible fact—and then leveraging those lies to its advantage with a great flourish of posturing and "righteous" diplomatic indignation—is far from limited to the Baltics. That behavior extends throughout its own territory to the borders of the "former states of the Soviet Union" and beyond, where debunking Soviet myth is regularly denounced as "historical revisionism."
- On Indo-European culture/language — Having been inculcated from an early age that Lithuanian and Latvian are the oldest living European survivors of the Indo-European language tree, it's been a topic of a fair amount of reading and yet another enabler for my bibliomania affliction.
[edit] Articles created and work progress
[edit] Brief CV
Pēters Jānis Vecrumba
- Born, raised, living in Brooklyn, New York
- Ņujorkiets, Rīdzinieks, un Kuldīdznieks
- Parents both from Latvia, father graduated Latvian Academy of Art, mother was assistant postmaster in Talsi
- Graduated Cooper Union in New York (degree in science/engineering)
- Career in information technology
- Taught structured programming at Cooper Union as adjunct professor
- Calligraphy teaching assistant at Cooper Union to Don Kunz, protegé of Lloyd Reynolds
- Web design and implementation as both avocation and business
- Currently working in the Program Management Office at Pearson
- And happily married to a fellow Latvian
[edit] Interests
- Latvia
- Music
- Art
- Photography
- Web
[edit] Come Visit!
[edit] Not a Blog
[edit] 2007 August 5
== Russophobe Latvian Supremacist ==
I am in fact a Russophobe Latvian and Baltic Supremacist. I hate all Russians. It doesn't matter who you are, even if you are good person, I hate you, because I am ignorant.
It took 24.87.7.43 (March 31, 2007) numerous tries, e.g. [1], amid vigilant reverts on the part of others, to successfully delete my anti-Stalinism user box. Yet another person who, like (at least the officially stated position of) the Russian government, confuses Being Stalinist with Being Russian and Defending Stalinism with Defending Mother Russia. So sad. I will continue to enjoy Russian company, Russian culture, and Russian food—especially our locally produced stolichny salad.
Nevertheless, I suppose it's some sort of back-handed compliment that I've been deemed worthy of vandalism!
