Viktor Alksnis [SEP] country of citizenship
supporter of the Soviet political system.
In 1973 Alksnis graduated from the Riga Higher Military Aviation Engineering School named for his grandfather as a qualified military radio engineer.
Alksnis's Latvian heritage was the subject of slander allegations in 2007 involving comments on the Internet.
Attitude to the breakup of the USSR.
Viktor Alksnis was a strong opponent of the breakup of the Soviet Union and of the independence of the Baltic States. He claims that the Baltic states are apartheid regimes, that the Russian population in these states suffers
Alksnis
Alksnis is the masculine form of a Latvian family name (derived from the word "alksnis" 'alder'). The feminine Latvian form of Alksnis is Alksne. Notable people with the surname include:
- Gunnar Alksnis (1931-2011), Latvian-American philosopher and theologian
- Viktor Alksnis (born 1950), ethnic Latvian former Soviet Air Force colonel, and a Russian ultranationalist politician
- Yakov Alksnis (1897–1938), commander of Red Army Air Forces from 1931 to 1937
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