Guna, now that we understand the national dress that you made was made across the various countries and even here in Australia, what does that dress mean to you?
Mrs GUNA KINNE: It’s very important to me because it gives me a piece of my inheritance, of my memories from my youth, what I have seen in Latvia and what I have learnt from my parents. It’s sort of a ‘half holy’ piece of material. SYLVIE STERN: You have also worn it here in the streets of Melbourne at a rally. Mrs GUNA KINNE: Yes, because the dress represents something to me and to any other Latvian who wears a dress like that. So on one particular occasion when the Australian government acknowledged Latvia’s incorporation into the Soviet Union officially, Latvians gathered together in Melbourne and most of the women were wearing national dresses. We made a parade through the City of Melbourne through Collins Street. It was very impressive, and actually I think we won in a way. There was pressure on the government, and the Prime Minister actually cancelled the recognition of Latvia as a republic. SYLVIE STERN: Congratulations. That was Malcolm Fraser at the time. Mrs GUNA KINNE: No. W
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