Repost from 10 Feb, 2005  

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Heavy snow storm when I left work. Today’s editorial was about the Gulag. Many people question EU’s decision to ban the swastika, but not to leave the old symbols of Communism free to use.Names of today are Anne Applebaum and Sandra Kalniete.

Applebaum is a great writer, an American journalist based for years in Poland. She is 40 years old, I keep tracing that kind of details. Sandra Kalniete was the first Latvian EU commissioner, born as her family was deported to Siberia; 53 years old. Found this article by Latvian philosopher and publisher Uldis Tirons also interesting.