![]() ![]() Ilze notes that due to the fear of positioning oneself on the past conflict, people still try to not take a personal position, and despite the end of the authoritarian regime the one-party system never stopped existing in people's minds. This is a signal that collective healing has yet to happen, which impacts politics as people still feel that they cannot express their political opinion and get the deserved justice. They spoke about their conflicting personal and collective histories, and how Latvia still struggles to deal with its past without people feeling tremendous sorrow or becoming aggressive. Both of their families had their small acts of resistance, but they still experienced very different realities. ![]() The two Latvian panellists, Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen, Director and Scriptwriter of My Favorite War, and Kaspars Vanags, Member of Progresīvie and art critic, exchanged about their divergent past – the first coming from a farmer's family and the other from a middle-class home. While recognition of victims and perpetrators is a precondition to putting the past to rest, it is just a first step in healing collective trauma. The Singing Revolution that led to the restoration of independence of Baltic states from the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War was a non-violent revolution that overthrew a violent occupation. The USSR was formally dissolved in 1991, when Latvia gained independence. ![]() Watch now! Creating lasting peace: How countries cope with historical trauma ![]() The film is about the difficult choices she must make at a very young age and the courage she must find to finally speak out. Moreover, Ilze finds out that even the people she loves the most have opposing beliefs. Ilze lives in a clash between Soviet reality and the state propaganda which denies what people are experiencing. Then, she is faced with the horror of war threats at school. First, we meet Ilze as a little girl playing war at her grandfather's farm in Latvia. It is an exciting coming-of-age story about finding one's own identity, truth and loyalty. My Favorite War is an animated documentary recounting the personal story of its director, Ilze, who grew up in the Cold-War USSR. We featured the documentary film 'My Favorite War' (2020) and held a debate on memory politics. What is the way Latvia has been dealing with its past and what are other European examples of dealing with war crimes, repression of human rights, and ethnic cleansing? How can transitional justice bring lasting peace and security in post-conflict situations? Acknowledging this past is vital to healing historical trauma, bringing justice, and understanding societies in the region as well as the imperialistic mindset which attempts to reimagine the borders of Russia.Īs part of the Green Screen project, which engages citizens in contemporary issues through films and debates, we explored Latvia's struggle for its own independence and identity through the lens of memory politics, and how this relates to Ukraine's own fight for freedom and self-determination. The former Soviet sphere of influence, or post-communist Europe, experienced some of the worst political violence in human history in the last century – including the Holocaust, World Wars, the repression of human rights, mass deportations, and ethnic cleansing. ![]()
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