Latvian Nokia
What is Latvian Nokia? This is a new popular expression among people living in Latvia.
Sometimes Latvians compare themselves to Fins, who have much stronger economics despite very similar history, natural resources and more or less the same mentality.
State and private companies are often hope for a miracle, basically that some of their products or services will bring Latvian economics to much higher level as once Nokia did for Finland.
P.S. this is an old Soviet public telephone with dial. Quite rare thing nowadays, though.
People Reaction (6)
Similar history? Before the similarity ended, Latvia was way ahead of Finnland in economics and living standards, not even mentioning Norway.
Yea, Latvia was far further than finland..finland just got a real good position in the last 30-40 year
but latvia was 30-40 years ago still in a deep shit (cccp)...
It would be interesting to see how finland would be thesedays after being occupied 60 years by the cccp...
What are you talking about?similar history,mentality...sorry but it is just a load of crap.
That's a fun phone to show us! I wonder how many years old it could be? Maybe now it belongs in a museum?
"similar history,mentality...sorry but it is just a load of crap."
In which way it's "just a load of crap"? As a Finn spending a lot of time in Latvia and studying Latvian history and culture I can see a lot of similarities and I would be interested in reading a different point of view.
Where can this historic item be seen? Is it in a museum?