This is up there with assertions that bear walked the streets of Moscow during the cold war. A Russian comedy film actually popularized the 2nd notion, with the fish - where the diver’s underwear, ultimately, got hooked. Needless to say, whoever done any fishing (or hunting) in real life could see how those things would defeat the purpose and in fact insult the skill and intelligence of the fisherman/hunter. I make no excuses for what KGB was tasked to do - like any nation’s security agency, it had its proud and shameful moments. But few of the KGB officers who survived through the Stalin times to be old dogs in the milder later times in question, were dumb, or bad shots.

That said, Latvia is a beautiful and historically rich place. The sentiment in the site in question may be driven by the general hostility of many Latvians towards the former Soviet Union - regarding the heavy-handed “big brother” cultural and economic influence during soviet times as an invasion and in fact preferring the time when the Nazis came in the beginning of WWII. They now even have a museum celebrating those presumably happier times. That’s a good controversy to cover journalistically, I think. Also, Walter Zapp, the inventor of a wonderful Minox camera, is from Lativia and in fact it was manufactured in WEF, a factory in Riga. They must have amuseum - check it out!

David

For fun interesting site about Latvia:
http://www.youwontbelieveit.eu