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Please note, that the cities have unusually high proportion of non-Latvians. During the period when Latvia was incorporated in the USSR the immigrants from other Soviet Union regions were brought over here intentionally, mainly as a workforce for factories for needs of USSR. Some came here on their own, looking for higher living standard. Certain part was military staff and their family members, as well as officials of the Communist party and ideology officers. Also criminals from other parts of USSR, who were brought over to serve their sentence, settled here after being released.
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