The most visible pro-Russian activists in Latvia are so-called anti-fascist leader Josifs Korens, leader of an organization named the Institute for European Studies, Aleksandrs Gaponenko, leader of the Non-Citizens Committee and the organization Law Institute Conscentia Elizabete Krivcova, organization
Perom representative Margarita Dragile and activist Bronislavs Zelcermans among others.
He argues that Germans saw their mission as to civilize the Slavs and this led to a systematic distortion of Slavic names in German sources: "Otsiuda pod
perom nemetskikh pisatelei Borisy prevrashchaiutsia v Moritsov, Vladimiry v Vol'demarov, Muzhiki v Muskan, Ezero v See, Kozle v Kosel, Zloi-Komarov v Sextenberg, Bukov v Hoheu-Bucka i t.