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About thirty years ago, in a paperback book I bought used, I found a folded and relatively new-looking sheet of gummed labels. Overall it was about 8.5x11, with the labels pre-cut like postage stamps, three across, fifteen down. Starting from its left and moving right, each sticker has the Latvian flag on its side, then the expression "Latvia for Latvians" first in Latvian, then English, then French, then German, then an odd symbol to the right of the text: a bad W, or two overlapping Vs, as if someone took two very wide-mouthed Vs and overlapped them so they in effect created a W containing a third, smaller V.
Since I found this well before the disintegration of the USSR, in a part of the United States about as geographically distant from Latvia as one can possibly be and with no Latvian population of note, one supposes that these labels were printed in the West as some form of resistance talisman to sneak into Latvia. There are many other possible explanations and I don't know them all, but the key is the double V symbol. That means something, though I can't think of what.
If anyone here has knowledge of Latvian resistance, or what these stickers might be in context, I'm interested.
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