Recently, in the Presidential Palace in Riga, Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented the book The History of Latvia: 20th Century.
Ideologically biased authors of this book have "jammed a mixture of facts, unverified information and undisguised falsities in the Procrustean bed of their own interpretations of history," the communique says.
In this book the Salaspils concentration camp, which many see as the "Latvian Auschwitz" and in which Nazis murdered about 100,000 during WWII, the camp is referred to as "a corrective labor camp."
Moscow is surprised that the Latvian president has found it appropriate to hand out the book during the mourning events at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
The communique notes that the Commission for Democracy at the American Embassy in Latvia funded its publication.
"Customarily, the Foreign Ministry does not comment on the unveiling of different historical publications. But this publication tells of events that are an integral part of the Latvian Foreign Ministry's single propaganda concept 'the true history of Latvia,' which all the countries should recognize (as propaganda),' the communique says.
The mood of historical revenge has active support in Latvia including at the top state level, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry.
