Seda People of the Marsh

In Seda a remote peat miners town in Latvia time seems to be frozen in the Soviet era Built in 1952 and inhabited by a multiethnic workforce from different parts of the former USSR it still preserves intact the inflated style of a Stalinist shock work construction project Culturally Sedas people feel like a community apart Their lingua franca is Russian and their social life is a mixture of Soviet and Russian Orthodox traditions They dont want the European Union they want to live in their own state the Marshland