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The first half of the nineties, up to and including Bank Baltija collapse, there was a time of great hopes and activity in Latvia, but at the same time it was quite harsh. Belief in tomorrow and the United States of America was much greater than today, and therefore the courage was greater, even though the Russian army was still in Latvia at the beginning of 1994 and the movement towards NATO was there, but no one was going to put their head in a pledge that it would really happen at some point . People, except for pensioners whose coffin money had rapidly devalued, endured the hardships of life without complaining, because the last years in the Soviet Union were not much better either, shop counters were empty as if they had been swept away, and the majority of Latvians in Latvia did not believe that they would be destined to experience the collapse of the USSR . But it happened, the borders, so the whole wide world was finally open, even with visas to Europe, but still.
The one who used the new opportunities excessively and recklessly could meet a bad end. News of businessmen being shot or blown up was commonplace. Here, on the morning of March 17, 1994, according to Jānis Dombur, it was special For days the reader of the newspaper found out that a businessman was shot with two shots the previous evening around 8:30 p.m.
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