'To Believe or Not to Believe…' Religious Policy, Spiritual Life, Family, and Youth in Soviet Latvia

The article deals with life and spirituality in Soviet Latvia. Youth and children, also families - in general - formed a fragile bond between their religious environment and family and the secular, hostile world in Soviet Latvia. Soviet schools were the place where these children of faith were least protected from the atheist propaganda and could possibly be identified, but children and youth of non-religious or atheist families learned the Soviet perspective about religion. Youth and families faced with this situation had their own responses and reactions to the reality of the double Soviet life.